linux/kernel/events
Peter Zijlstra 1d54ad9440 perf/core: Fix perf_event_disable_inatomic() race
Thomas-Mich Richter reported he triggered a WARN()ing from event_function_local()
on his s390. The problem boils down to:

	CPU-A				CPU-B

	perf_event_overflow()
	  perf_event_disable_inatomic()
	    @pending_disable = 1
	    irq_work_queue();

	sched-out
	  event_sched_out()
	    @pending_disable = 0

					sched-in
					perf_event_overflow()
					  perf_event_disable_inatomic()
					    @pending_disable = 1;
					    irq_work_queue(); // FAILS

	irq_work_run()
	  perf_pending_event()
	    if (@pending_disable)
	      perf_event_disable_local(); // WHOOPS

The problem exists in generic, but s390 is particularly sensitive
because it doesn't implement arch_irq_work_raise(), nor does it call
irq_work_run() from it's PMU interrupt handler (nor would that be
sufficient in this case, because s390 also generates
perf_event_overflow() from pmu::stop). Add to that the fact that s390
is a virtual architecture and (virtual) CPU-A can stall long enough
for the above race to happen, even if it would self-IPI.

Adding a irq_work_sync() to event_sched_in() would work for all hardare
PMUs that properly use irq_work_run() but fails for software PMUs.

Instead encode the CPU number in @pending_disable, such that we can
tell which CPU requested the disable. This then allows us to detect
the above scenario and even redirect the IPI to make up for the failed
queue.

Reported-by: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-04-12 08:55:55 +02:00
..
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
callchain.c perf/core: Convert to SPDX license identifiers 2019-02-04 08:46:11 +01:00
core.c perf/core: Fix perf_event_disable_inatomic() race 2019-04-12 08:55:55 +02:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf/hw_breakpoints: Convert to SPDX license identifier 2019-02-04 08:46:13 +01:00
internal.h perf/ring_buffer: Convert ring_buffer.aux_refcount to refcount_t 2019-02-04 08:46:17 +01:00
ring_buffer.c perf/core: Fix perf_event_disable_inatomic() race 2019-04-12 08:55:55 +02:00
uprobes.c The biggest change for this release is in the histogram code. 2019-03-11 17:01:32 -07:00