Re: powerpc/perf: Fix for core/nest imc call trace on cpuhotplug

[Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>]

On Wed, 2017-10-04 at 06:50:52 UTC, Anju T Sudhakar wrote:
> Nest/core pmu units are enabled only when it is used. A reference count is      
> maintained for the events which uses the nest/core pmu units. Currently in      
> *_imc_counters_release function a WARN() is used for notification of any        
> underflow of ref count.                                                         
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> The case where event ref count hit a negative value is, when perf session is    
> started, followed by offlining of all cpus in a given core.                     
> i.e. in cpuhotplug offline path ppc_core_imc_cpu_offline() function set the     
> ref->count to zero, if the current cpu which is about to offline is the last    
> cpu in a given core and make an OPAL call to disable the engine in that core.   
> And on perf session termination, perf->destroy (core_imc_counters_release) will 
> first decrement the ref->count for this core and based on the ref->count value  
> an opal call is made to disable the core-imc engine.                            
> Now, since cpuhotplug path already clears the ref->count for core and disabled  
> the engine, perf->destroy() decrementing again at event termination make it     
> negative which in turn fires the WARN_ON. The same happens for nest units.      
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> Add a check to see if the reference count is alreday zero, before decrementing  
> the count, so that the ref count will not hit a negative value.                 
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> Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/0d923820c6db1644c27c2d0a5af892

cheers