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The commite6fe3f422b("sched: Make multiple runqueue task counters 32-bit") changed nr_uninterruptible to an unsigned int. But the nr_uninterruptible values for each of the CPU runqueues can grow to large numbers, sometimes exceeding INT_MAX. This is valid, if, over time, a large number of tasks are migrated off of one CPU after going into an uninterruptible state. Only the sum of all nr_interruptible values across all CPUs yields the correct result, as explained in a comment in kernel/sched/loadavg.c. Change the type of nr_uninterruptible back to unsigned long to prevent overflows, and thus the miscalculation of load average. Fixes:e6fe3f422b("sched: Make multiple runqueue task counters 32-bit") Signed-off-by: Aruna Ramakrishna <aruna.ramakrishna@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250709173328.606794-1-aruna.ramakrishna@oracle.com
Linux kernel
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