Hi, Anton and Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Zijlstra [mailto:pet...@infradead.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 7:08 PM
> To: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>; Srikar Dronamraju
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> Subject: Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/cpuacct: Split usage accounting into
> user_usage and sys_usage
> 
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 08:32:19PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > > >  void cpuacct_charge(struct task_struct *tsk, u64 cputime)
> > > > >  {
> > > > >       struct cpuacct *ca;
> > > > > +     int index;
> > > > > +
> > > > > +     if (user_mode(task_pt_regs(tsk)))
> > > > > +             index = CPUACCT_USAGE_USER;
> > > > > +     else
> > > > > +             index = CPUACCT_USAGE_SYSTEM;
> >
> > This is oopsing because PowerPC task_pt_regs() returns NULL for
> > kernel threads.
> 
Thanks for notice it.

> Ah, so sometihng like:
> 
>       struct pt_regs *regs = task_pt_regs();
>       int index = CPUACCT_USAGE_SYSTEM;
> 
>       if (regs && user_mode(regs))
>               index = CPUACCT_USAGE_USER;
> 
> should work, right?
> 
Thanks, I'll confirm it in a Power7 VM from buildroot.
(maybe need some hours or till tomorrow in a poor pc...)

Btw, I reproduced this bug in above vm.

Thanks
Zhaolei


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