On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 12:40:04PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:

cpuacct has 2 different ways of accounting and showing user
and system times.

The first one uses cpuacct_account_field() to account times
and cpuacct.stat file to expose them. And this one seems to work ok.

The second one is uses cpuacct_charge() function for accounting and
set of cpuacct.usage* files to show times. Despite some attempts to
fix it in the past it still doesn't work. Sometimes while running KVM
guest the cpuacct_charge() accounts most of the guest time as
system time. This doesn't match with user&system times shown in
cpuacct.stat or proc/<pid>/stat.

Demonstration:
 # git clone https://github.com/aryabinin/kvmsample
 # make
 # mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct/test
 # echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct/test/tasks
 # ./kvmsample &
 # for i in {1..5}; do cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct/test/cpuacct.usage_sys; sleep 1; done
 1976535645
 2979839428
 3979832704
 4983603153
 5983604157

Thanks for expanding on this, and fixing broken cpuacct_charge.

For the series,
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>