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Shrikanth Hegde 406141d506 powerpc/vtime: Initialize starttime at boot for native accounting
[ Upstream commit c1c1ffa490 ]

It was observed that /proc/stat had very large value for one ore more
CPUs. It was more visible after recent code simplifications around
cpustats.

System has 240 CPUs.

cat /proc/uptime;
194.18 46500.55
cat /proc/stat
cpu  5966 39 837032887 4650070 164 185 100 0 0 0
cpu0 108 0 837030890 19109 24 4 23 0 0 0

Since uptime is 194s, system time of each CPU can't be more than 19400.
Sum of system time  of all CPUs can't be more than 19400*240 4656000.
In fact huge value is close to mftb(). Note mftb doesn't reset on powerVM
when the LPAR restart. It only resets when whole system resets. The same
issue exists for kexec too.

This happens since starttime is not setup at init time. Once it is set
then subsequent vtime_delta will return the right delta.

Fix it by initializing the starttime during CPU initialization. This
fixes the large times seen.

cat /proc/uptime; cat /proc/stat
15.78 3694.63
cpu  6035 35 1347 369479 23 144 49 0 0 0
cpu0 19 0 38 1508 0 1 14 0 0 0

Now, system time is reported as expected.

Fixes: cf9efce0ce ("powerpc: Account time using timebase rather  than PURR")
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605124329.377533-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2026-08-19 17:13:54 +02:00
arch powerpc/vtime: Initialize starttime at boot for native accounting 2026-08-19 17:13:54 +02:00
block partitions: aix: bound the pp_count scan to the ppe array 2026-07-24 15:51:24 +02:00
certs X.509: Fix validation of ASN.1 certificate header 2026-07-24 15:51:59 +02:00
crypto crypto: rng - Free default RNG on module exit 2026-07-24 15:51:35 +02:00
Documentation PCI: Move Resizable BAR code to rebar.c 2026-07-24 15:51:58 +02:00
drivers drm/i915/gt: use correct selftest config symbol 2026-08-19 17:13:54 +02:00
fs smb/client: handle overlapping allocated ranges in fallocate 2026-08-19 17:13:54 +02:00
include powerpc/time: Prepare to stop elapsing in dynticks-idle 2026-08-19 17:13:54 +02:00
init randomize_kstack: Maintain kstack_offset per task 2026-06-19 13:33:41 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/io-wq: re-check IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT for each linked work item 2026-07-24 15:51:21 +02:00
ipc ipc/shm: serialize orphan cleanup with shm_nattch updates 2026-06-19 13:33:38 +02:00
kernel sched/vtime: Get rid of generic vtime_task_switch() implementation 2026-08-19 17:13:54 +02:00
lib lib/test_meminit: use && for bools 2026-07-24 15:51:32 +02:00
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mm mm/huge_memory: update file PMD counter before folio_put() 2026-06-19 13:33:49 +02:00
net net/iucv: take a reference on the socket found in afiucv_hs_rcv() 2026-08-19 17:13:53 +02:00
samples tracing/events: Fix to check the simple_tsk_fn creation 2026-07-24 15:51:42 +02:00
scripts kconfig: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in conf_askvalue 2026-07-24 15:51:28 +02:00
security apparmor: fix label can not be immediately before a declaration 2026-07-24 15:51:39 +02:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Skip DSD quirk for Musical Fidelity M6s DAC 2026-08-19 17:13:54 +02:00
tools bitops: make BYTES_TO_BITS() treewide-available 2026-07-24 15:51:56 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-06-27 11:05:22 +01:00
virt KVM: Move kvm_io_bus_get_dev() locking responsibilities to callers 2026-07-24 15:52:02 +02:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext 2025-12-07 06:09:36 +09:00
Makefile Linux 5.15.215 2026-08-07 08:07:31 +02:00
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