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Brandon reports sporadic, non-sensical spikes in cumulative pressure time (total=) when reading cpu.pressure at a high rate. This is due to a race condition between reader aggregation and tasks changing states. While it affects all states and all resources captured by PSI, in practice it most likely triggers with CPU pressure, since scheduling events are so frequent compared to other resource events. The race context is the live snooping of ongoing stalls during a pressure read. The read aggregates per-cpu records for stalls that have concluded, but will also incorporate ad-hoc the duration of any active state that hasn't been recorded yet. This is important to get timely measurements of ongoing stalls. Those ad-hoc samples are calculated on-the-fly up to the current time on that CPU; since the stall hasn't concluded, it's expected that this is the minimum amount of stall time that will enter the per-cpu records once it does. The problem is that the path that concludes the state uses a CPU clock read that is not synchronized against aggregators; the clock is read outside of the seqlock protection. This allows aggregators to race and snoop a stall with a longer duration than will actually be recorded. With the recorded stall time being less than the last snapshot remembered by the aggregator, a subsequent sample will underflow and observe a bogus delta value, resulting in an erratic jump in pressure. Fix this by moving the clock read of the state change into the seqlock protection. This ensures no aggregation can snoop live stalls past the time that's recorded when the state concludes. Reported-by: Brandon Duffany <brandon@buildbuddy.io> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219194 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240827121851.GB438928@cmpxchg.org/ Fixes: df77430639c9 ("psi: Reduce calls to sched_clock() in psi") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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