Re: perf: odd event scheduling issue

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 03:52:09PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:28:42AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>  
> > ---
> > 
> > c02cdbf60b51b8d98a49185535f5d527a2965142 is the first bad commit
> > commit c02cdbf60b51b8d98a49185535f5d527a2965142
> > Author: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
> > Date:   Mon Nov 17 20:07:02 2014 +0100
> > 
> >     perf/x86/intel: Limit to half counters when the HT workaround is enabled, to avoid exclusive mode starvation
> >     
> >     This patch limits the number of counters available to each CPU when
> >     the HT bug workaround is enabled.
> >     
> >     This is necessary to avoid situation of counter starvation. Such can
> >     arise from configuration where one HT thread, HT0, is using all 4 counters
> >     with corrupting events which require exclusion the the sibling HT, HT1.
> >     
> >     In such case, HT1 would not be able to schedule any event until HT0
> >     is done. To mitigate this problem, this patch artificially limits
> >     the number of counters to 2.
> >     
> >     That way, we can gurantee that at least 2 counters are not in exclusive
> >     mode and therefore allow the sibling thread to schedule events of the
> >     same type (system vs. per-thread). The 2 counters are not determined
> >     in advance. We simply set the limit to two events per HT.
> >     
> >     This helps mitigate starvation in case of events with specific counter
> >     constraints such a PREC_DIST.
> >     
> >     Note that this does not elimintate the starvation is all cases. But
> >     it is better than not having it.
> >     
> >     (Solution suggested by Peter Zjilstra.)
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> >     Cc: bp@alien8.de
> >     Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
> >     Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
> >     Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com
> >     Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1416251225-17721-11-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
> >     Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> 
> OK, so if you have the watchdog enabled, that's 1 event, and having a
> max of 2 GP events, adding another 2 events is fail.
> 
> Jiri, did you SNB have the watchdog disabled?

watchdog was enabled

jirka