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/proc/uptime reports idle time by reading the CPUTIME_IDLE field from
the per-cpu kcpustats. However, on NO_HZ systems, idle time is not
continually updated on idle cpus, leading this value to appear
incorrectly small.
/proc/stat performs an accounting update when reading idle time; we
can use the same approach for uptime.
With this patch, /proc/stat and /proc/uptime now agree on idle time.
Additionally, the following shows idle time tick up consistently on an
idle machine:
(while true; do cat /proc/uptime; sleep 1; done) | awk '{print $2-prev; prev=$2}'
Reported-by: Luigi Rizzo <lrizzo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210827165438.3280779-1-joshdon@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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