timers/nohz: Protect idle/iowait sleep time under seqcount
Reading idle/IO sleep time (eg: from /proc/stat) can race with idle exit updates because the state machine handling the stats is not atomic and requires a coherent read batch. As a result reading the sleep time may report irrelevant or backward values. Fix this with protecting the simple state machine within a seqcount. This is expected to be cheap enough not to add measurable performance impact on the idle path. Note this only fixes reader VS writer condition partitially. A race remains that involves remote updates of the CPU iowait task counter. It can hardly be fixed. Reported-by: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230222144649.624380-4-frederic@kernel.org
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