From: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
To: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mchauras@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>,
Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/entry: Fix double accounting of user time on interrupt entry
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 10:36:28 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260902050628.2553909-1-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
Since the switch to generic entry, an interrupt taken from user mode
accounts user time twice: once in arch_interrupt_enter_prepare() and
again in arch_enter_from_user_mode(), which irqentry_enter() invokes
for the same interrupt:
arch_interrupt_enter_prepare()
account_cpu_user_entry()
irqentry_enter()
arch_enter_from_user_mode()
account_cpu_user_entry()
account_cpu_user_entry() accumulates the time spent in user mode
since the last return to user space, so the second call charges the
same interval again.
With CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE=y this roughly doubles the
reported user time of any workload that takes interrupts. On a
pseries LPAR, ps/top show ~200% CPU for a single-threaded CPU-bound
loop, and time(1) reports user time about twice the elapsed time.
Remove the accounting from arch_interrupt_enter_prepare() and rely on
arch_enter_from_user_mode(), which runs for both syscalls and
interrupts. The duplicate account_stolen_time() call is removed the
same way.
Fixes: bee25f97ad24 ("powerpc: Enable GENERIC_ENTRY feature")
Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
---
Verified on a pseries LPAR (CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE=y),
7.3.0-rc1, single-threaded CPU-bound loop:
Before:
$ python3 -c 'while True: pass' &
$ sleep 3; ps -p $! -o pid,etime,time,pcpu
PID ELAPSED TIME %CPU
4980 00:03 00:00:06 210
After:
$ python3 -c 'while True: pass' &
$ sleep 3; ps -p $! -o pid,etime,time,pcpu
PID ELAPSED TIME %CPU
4951 00:03 00:00:03 105
arch/powerpc/include/asm/entry-common.h | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/entry-common.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/entry-common.h
index c5adb5006361..984294e62568 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/entry-common.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/entry-common.h
@@ -222,8 +222,6 @@ static inline void arch_interrupt_enter_prepare(struct pt_regs *regs)
if (user_mode(regs)) {
kuap_lock();
- account_cpu_user_entry();
- account_stolen_time();
} else {
kuap_save_and_lock(regs);
/*
@@ -426,6 +424,10 @@ static __always_inline void arch_enter_from_user_mode(struct pt_regs *regs)
#endif
kuap_assert_locked();
booke_restore_dbcr0();
+ /*
+ * User and stolen time is accounted here for every entry from
+ * user mode. The interrupt prepare hooks must not account again.
+ */
account_cpu_user_entry();
account_stolen_time();
base-commit: fb442a6673ff1046bf67754957d95880fdb394b5
--
2.54.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-02 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-02 5:06 Aboorva Devarajan [this message]
2026-09-02 5:31 ` Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya
2026-09-02 17:45 ` Aboorva Devarajan
2026-09-02 5:36 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-09-02 19:44 ` Aboorva Devarajan
2026-09-03 4:51 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-09-02 7:07 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-09-02 20:14 ` Aboorva Devarajan
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