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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>2013-08-24 16:45:54 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-09-02 08:13:24 +0200
commitae23bff1d71f8b416ed740bc458df67355c77c92 (patch)
tree043d3a94d5a37eca399a04c58d388d28f3210f8d /kernel
parent41615e811b3031728a003da077005e8dcf9d71cc (diff)
perf: Prevent race in unthrottling code
The current throttling code triggers WARN below via following workload (only hit on AMD machine with 48 CPUs): # while [ 1 ]; do perf record perf bench sched messaging; done WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c:1054 x86_pmu_start+0xc6/0x100() SNIP Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff815f62d6>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8105f531>] warn_slowpath_common+0x61/0x80 [<ffffffff8105f60a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff810213a6>] x86_pmu_start+0xc6/0x100 [<ffffffff81129dd2>] perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context.part.75+0x182/0x1a0 [<ffffffff8112a058>] perf_event_task_tick+0xc8/0xf0 [<ffffffff81093221>] scheduler_tick+0xd1/0x140 [<ffffffff81070176>] update_process_times+0x66/0x80 [<ffffffff810b9565>] tick_sched_handle.isra.15+0x25/0x60 [<ffffffff810b95e1>] tick_sched_timer+0x41/0x60 [<ffffffff81087c24>] __run_hrtimer+0x74/0x1d0 [<ffffffff810b95a0>] ? tick_sched_handle.isra.15+0x60/0x60 [<ffffffff81088407>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xf7/0x240 [<ffffffff81606829>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x69/0x9c [<ffffffff8160569d>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80 <EOI> [<ffffffff81129f74>] ? __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x184/0x1a0 [<ffffffff814dd937>] ? kfree_skbmem+0x37/0x90 [<ffffffff815f2c47>] ? __slab_free+0x1ac/0x30f [<ffffffff8118143d>] ? kfree+0xfd/0x130 [<ffffffff81181622>] kmem_cache_free+0x1b2/0x1d0 [<ffffffff814dd937>] kfree_skbmem+0x37/0x90 [<ffffffff814e03c4>] consume_skb+0x34/0x80 [<ffffffff8158b057>] unix_stream_recvmsg+0x4e7/0x820 [<ffffffff814d5546>] sock_aio_read.part.7+0x116/0x130 [<ffffffff8112c10c>] ? __perf_sw_event+0x19c/0x1e0 [<ffffffff814d5581>] sock_aio_read+0x21/0x30 [<ffffffff8119a5d0>] do_sync_read+0x80/0xb0 [<ffffffff8119ac85>] vfs_read+0x145/0x170 [<ffffffff8119b699>] SyS_read+0x49/0xa0 [<ffffffff810df516>] ? __audit_syscall_exit+0x1f6/0x2a0 [<ffffffff81604a19>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b ---[ end trace 622b7e226c4a766a ]--- The reason is a race in perf_event_task_tick() throttling code. The race flow (simplified code): - perf_throttled_count is per cpu variable and is CPU throttling flag, here starting with 0 - perf_throttled_seq is sequence/domain for allowed count of interrupts within the tick, gets increased each tick on single CPU (CPU bounded event): ... workload perf_event_task_tick: | | T0 inc(perf_throttled_seq) | T1 needs_unthr = xchg(perf_throttled_count, 0) == 0 tick gets interrupted: ... event gets throttled under new seq ... T2 last NMI comes, event is throttled - inc(perf_throttled_count) back to tick: | perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context: | | T3 unthrottling is skiped for event (needs_unthr == 0) | T4 event is stop and started via freq adjustment | tick ends ... workload ... no sample is hit for event ... perf_event_task_tick: | | T5 needs_unthr = xchg(perf_throttled_count, 0) != 0 (from T2) | T6 unthrottling is done on event (interrupts == MAX_INTERRUPTS) | event is already started (from T4) -> WARN Fixing this by not checking needs_unthr again and thus check all events for unthrottling. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377355554-8934-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index f86599e8c12..258eaaffe95 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -2712,7 +2712,7 @@ static void perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context(struct perf_event_context *ctx,
hwc = &event->hw;
- if (needs_unthr && hwc->interrupts == MAX_INTERRUPTS) {
+ if (hwc->interrupts == MAX_INTERRUPTS) {
hwc->interrupts = 0;
perf_log_throttle(event, 1);
event->pmu->start(event, 0);