Re: [PATCH] powerpc/vtime: Initialize starttime at boot for native accounting
From: Shrikanth Hegde <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-05 03:03:23
Hi Christophe. Thanks for taking a look and review. On 6/4/26 8:42 PM, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) wrote:
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Also, does this warrant Fixes tag? I found these two likely candidates. Likely this issues exists since beginning. c223c90386bc powerpc32: provide VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTINGYou say system has 240 CPU so I suppose this is not ppc32. That commit wsa not supposed to change anything for ppc64, did you identify anything special in that commit related to ppc64 ?
Yes. this was ppc64.
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b38a181c11d0 powerpc/time: isolate scaled cputime accounting in dedicated functions.This one is also pure code re-organisation, unless you've been able to spot a particular issue ?Maybe commit cf9efce0ce31 ("powerpc: Account time using timebase rather than PURR") It removed snapshot_timebases() and I can't see anything to replace it.
Yes. But this patch is dependent on Frederic's series. backporting that is going to be difficult. So i am thinking to avoid putting Fixes tag.
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arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c index 3460d1a5a97c..11145c40183d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c@@ -377,7 +377,6 @@ void vtime_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev)} } -#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON /** * vtime_reset - Fast forward vtime entry clocks *@@ -394,6 +393,7 @@ void vtime_reset(void)#endif } +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON /** * vtime_dyntick_start - Inform vtime about entry to idle-dynticks *@@ -933,6 +933,7 @@ static void __init set_decrementer_max(void)static void __init init_decrementer_clockevent(void) { register_decrementer_clockevent(smp_processor_id()); + vtime_reset(); } void secondary_cpu_time_init(void)@@ -948,6 +949,7 @@ void secondary_cpu_time_init(void)/* FIME: Should make unrelated change to move snapshot_timebase * call here ! */ register_decrementer_clockevent(smp_processor_id()); + vtime_reset(); } /*
Sorry i should have put this earlier, But this applies on top of tip/timers/nohz at 6199f9999a9b (origin/timers/nohz) sched/cputime: Handle dyntick-idle steal time correctly (In case anyone tried applying on powerpc tree, it would fail)