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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>,
	Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>,
	James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>,
	coresight@lists.linaro.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 01/12] perf/core: Add aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 13:10:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZcaUw4xQT0VcC7IO@tassilo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d53ef26d-a7e6-4b3b-b593-be75425c0e77@intel.com>

> The writes to rb->aux_in_pause_resume must be done
> only once.  It might be possible to get away without
> WRITE_ONCE(), but really the compiler should be informed
> not to make assumptions.

What stops the NMI from firing here?

> >> +  if (READ_ONCE(rb->aux_in_pause_resume))
> >> +	/* Guard against NMI, NMI loses here */
> >> +          goto out_restore;
<----------------------- NMI
> >> +  WRITE_ONCE(rb->aux_in_pause_resume, 1);


Even if it isn't racy it needs a clear comment.

-Andi



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-02-09 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-08 11:31 [PATCH V5 00/12] perf/core: Add ability for an event to "pause" or "resume" AUX area tracing Adrian Hunter
2024-02-08 11:31 ` [PATCH V5 01/12] perf/core: Add aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused Adrian Hunter
2024-02-09  0:13   ` Andi Kleen
2024-02-09  8:14     ` Adrian Hunter
2024-02-09  9:49       ` Andi Kleen
2024-02-09 21:10       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2024-02-12  6:43         ` Adrian Hunter
2024-02-16  9:31           ` [PATCH V6] " Adrian Hunter
2024-02-08 11:31 ` [PATCH V5 02/12] perf/x86/intel/pt: Add support for pause / resume Adrian Hunter
2024-02-08 11:31 ` [PATCH V5 03/12] perf/x86/intel: Do not enable large PEBS for events with aux actions or aux sampling Adrian Hunter
2024-02-08 11:31 ` [PATCH V5 04/12] perf tools: Enable evsel__is_aux_event() to work for ARM/ARM64 Adrian Hunter
2024-02-08 11:31 ` [PATCH V5 05/12] perf tools: Enable evsel__is_aux_event() to work for S390_CPUMSF Adrian Hunter
2024-02-08 11:31 ` [PATCH V5 06/12] perf tools: Add aux_start_paused, aux_pause and aux_resume Adrian Hunter
2024-02-08 11:31 ` [PATCH V5 07/12] perf tools: Add aux-action config term Adrian Hunter
2024-02-08 11:31 ` [PATCH V5 08/12] perf tools: Parse aux-action Adrian Hunter
2024-02-08 11:31 ` [PATCH V5 09/12] perf tools: Add missing_features for aux_start_paused, aux_pause, aux_resume Adrian Hunter
2024-02-08 11:31 ` [PATCH V5 10/12] perf intel-pt: Improve man page format Adrian Hunter
2024-02-08 11:31 ` [PATCH V5 11/12] perf intel-pt: Add documentation for pause / resume Adrian Hunter
2024-02-08 11:31 ` [PATCH V5 12/12] perf intel-pt: Add a test " Adrian Hunter
2024-02-09  0:16   ` Andi Kleen
2024-04-11 12:02 ` [PATCH V5 00/12] perf/core: Add ability for an event to "pause" or "resume" AUX area tracing Adrian Hunter
2024-04-24 10:39   ` Adrian Hunter
2024-05-15 12:34     ` Adrian Hunter

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