[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 14/49] perf/ring_buffer: Add ordering to rb->nest increment

Sasha Levin
2019-06-08T11:43:31Z

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

[ Upstream commit 3f9fbe9bd86c534eba2faf5d840fd44c6049f50e ]

Similar to how decrementing rb->next too early can cause data_head to
(temporarily) be observed to go backward, so too can this happen when
we increment too late.

This barrier() ensures the rb->head load happens after the increment,
both the one in the 'goto again' path, as the one from
perf_output_get_handle() -- albeit very unlikely to matter for the
latter.

Suggested-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
Cc: namhyung@kernel.org
Fixes: ef60777c9abd ("perf: Optimize the perf_output() path by removing IRQ-disables")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517115418.309516009@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index 31edf1f39cca..d32b9375ec0e 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -49,6 +49,15 @@ static void perf_output_put_handle(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
unsigned long head;

again:
+ /*
+ * In order to avoid publishing a head value that goes backwards,
+ * we must ensure the load of @rb->head happens after we've
+ * incremented @rb->nest.
+ *
+ * Otherwise we can observe a @rb->head value before one published
+ * by an IRQ/NMI happening between the load and the increment.
+ */
+ barrier();
head = local_read(&rb->head);

/*
--
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