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Shrikanth Hegde cbecc9fcbb powerpc/pseries: fix accuracy of stolen time
powerVM hypervisor updates the VPA fields with stolen time data.
It currently reports enqueue_dispatch_tb and ready_enqueue_tb for
this purpose. In linux these two fields are used to report the stolen time.

The VPA fields are updated at the TB frequency. On powerPC its mostly
set at 512Mhz. Hence this needs a conversion to ns when reporting it
back as rest of the kernel timings are in ns. This conversion is already
handled in tb_to_ns function. So use that function to report accurate
stolen time.

Observed this issue and used an Capped Shared Processor LPAR(SPLPAR) to
simplify the experiments. In all these cases, 100% VP Load is run using
stress-ng workload. Values of stolen time is in percentages as reported
by mpstat. With the patch values are close to expected.

		6.8.rc1		+Patch
12EC/12VP	   0.0		   0.0
12EC/24VP	  25.7		  50.2
12EC/36VP	  37.3		  69.2
12EC/48VP	  38.5		  78.3

Fixes: 0e8a631328 ("powerpc/pseries: Implement CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.1+
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240213052635.231597-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
2024-02-14 14:24:06 +11:00
arch powerpc/pseries: fix accuracy of stolen time 2024-02-14 14:24:06 +11:00
block block: Fix WARNING in _copy_from_iter 2024-01-23 08:56:55 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto crypto: scomp - fix req->dst buffer overflow 2023-12-29 11:25:56 +08:00
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ipc shm: Slim down dependencies 2023-12-20 19:26:31 -05:00
kernel - Prevent an inconsistent futex operation leading to stale state 2024-01-28 10:38:16 -08:00
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CREDITS Including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2024-01-18 17:33:50 -08:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.