The following commit has been merged into the timers/nohz branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     6199f9999a9b62b2b84a1bf5b52a9fd0bb8de5af
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/6199f9999a9b62b2b84a1bf5b52a9fd0bb8de5af
Author:        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
AuthorDate:    Fri, 08 May 2026 15:16:47 +02:00
Committer:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
CommitterDate: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:27:26 +02:00

sched/cputime: Handle dyntick-idle steal time correctly

The dyntick-idle steal time is currently accounted when the tick restarts
but the stolen idle time is not subtracted from the idle time that was
already accounted. This is to avoid observing the idle time going backward
as the dyntick-idle cputime accessors can't reliably know in advance the
stolen idle time.

In order to maintain a forward progressing idle cputime while subtracting
idle steal time from it, keep track of the previously accounted idle stolen
time and substract it from _later_ idle cputime accounting.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508131647.43868-16-frederic@kernel.org
---
 include/linux/kernel_stat.h |  1 +
 kernel/sched/cputime.c      | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel_stat.h b/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
index 512104b..fce1392 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ struct kernel_cpustat {
 	bool		idle_elapse;
 	seqcount_t	idle_sleeptime_seq;
 	u64		idle_entrytime;
+	u64		idle_stealtime[2];
 #endif
 	u64		cpustat[NR_STATS];
 };
diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
index 94be22a..244b574 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
@@ -425,19 +425,32 @@ static inline void irqtime_account_process_tick(struct task_struct *p, int user_
 static void kcpustat_idle_stop(struct kernel_cpustat *kc, u64 now)
 {
 	u64 *cpustat = kc->cpustat;
-	u64 delta;
+	u64 delta, steal, steal_delta;
+	int iowait;
 
 	if (!kc->idle_elapse)
 		return;
 
+	iowait = nr_iowait_cpu(smp_processor_id()) > 0;
 	delta = now - kc->idle_entrytime;
+	steal = steal_account_process_time(delta);
 
+	/*
+	 * Record the idle time after substracting the steal time from
+	 * previous update sequence. Don't substract the steal time from
+	 * the current update sequence to avoid readers moving backward.
+	 */
 	write_seqcount_begin(&kc->idle_sleeptime_seq);
-	if (nr_iowait_cpu(smp_processor_id()) > 0)
+	steal_delta = min_t(u64, kc->idle_stealtime[iowait], delta);
+	delta -= steal_delta;
+	kc->idle_stealtime[iowait] -= steal_delta;
+
+	if (iowait)
 		cpustat[CPUTIME_IOWAIT] += delta;
 	else
 		cpustat[CPUTIME_IDLE] += delta;
 
+	kc->idle_stealtime[iowait] += steal;
 	kc->idle_entrytime = now;
 	kc->idle_elapse = false;
 	write_seqcount_end(&kc->idle_sleeptime_seq);
@@ -464,7 +477,6 @@ void kcpustat_dyntick_stop(u64 now)
 		kcpustat_idle_stop(kc, now);
 		kc->idle_dyntick = false;
 		vtime_dyntick_stop();
-		steal_account_process_time(ULONG_MAX);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -508,6 +520,7 @@ static u64 kcpustat_field_dyntick(int cpu, enum cpu_usage_stat idx,
 				  bool compute_delta, u64 now)
 {
 	struct kernel_cpustat *kc = &kcpustat_cpu(cpu);
+	int iowait = idx == CPUTIME_IOWAIT;
 	u64 *cpustat = kc->cpustat;
 	unsigned int seq;
 	u64 idle;
@@ -516,8 +529,13 @@ static u64 kcpustat_field_dyntick(int cpu, enum cpu_usage_stat idx,
 		seq = read_seqcount_begin(&kc->idle_sleeptime_seq);
 
 		idle = cpustat[idx];
-		if (kc->idle_elapse && compute_delta && now > kc->idle_entrytime)
-			idle += (now - kc->idle_entrytime);
+
+		if (kc->idle_elapse && compute_delta && now > kc->idle_entrytime) {
+			u64 delta = now - kc->idle_entrytime;
+
+			delta -= min_t(u64, kc->idle_stealtime[iowait], delta);
+			idle += delta;
+		}
 	} while (read_seqcount_retry(&kc->idle_sleeptime_seq, seq));
 
 	return idle;