Patch "perf/x86/intel: Account interrupts for PEBS errors" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf/x86/intel: Account interrupts for PEBS errors

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-x86-intel-account-interrupts-for-pebs-errors.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Dec  6 17:39:55 CET 2017
From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:31:03 +0100
Subject: perf/x86/intel: Account interrupts for PEBS errors

From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>


[ Upstream commit 475113d937adfd150eb82b5e2c5507125a68e7af ]

It's possible to set up PEBS events to get only errors and not
any data, like on SNB-X (model 45) and IVB-EP (model 62)
via 2 perf commands running simultaneously:

    taskset -c 1 ./perf record -c 4 -e branches:pp -j any -C 10

This leads to a soft lock up, because the error path of the
intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm() does not account event->hw.interrupt
for error PEBS interrupts, so in case you're getting ONLY
errors you don't have a way to stop the event when it's over
the max_samples_per_tick limit:

  NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#22 stuck for 22s! [perf_fuzzer:5816]
  ...
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81159232>]  [<ffffffff81159232>] smp_call_function_single+0xe2/0x140
  ...
  Call Trace:
   ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xf5/0x1b0
   ? perf_cgroup_attach+0x70/0x70
   perf_install_in_context+0x199/0x1b0
   ? ctx_resched+0x90/0x90
   SYSC_perf_event_open+0x641/0xf90
   SyS_perf_event_open+0x9/0x10
   do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x1f0
   entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25

Add perf_event_account_interrupt() which does the interrupt
and frequency checks and call it from intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm()'s
error path.

We keep the pending_kill and pending_wakeup logic only in the
__perf_event_overflow() path, because they make sense only if
there's any data to deliver.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
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 <vince@deater.net>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482931866-6018-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c |    6 ++++-
 include/linux/perf_event.h |    1 
 kernel/events/core.c       |   47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
@@ -1389,9 +1389,13 @@ static void intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm(str
 			continue;
 
 		/* log dropped samples number */
-		if (error[bit])
+		if (error[bit]) {
 			perf_log_lost_samples(event, error[bit]);
 
+			if (perf_event_account_interrupt(event))
+				x86_pmu_stop(event, 0);
+		}
+
 		if (counts[bit]) {
 			__intel_pmu_pebs_event(event, iregs, base,
 					       top, bit, counts[bit]);
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -1259,6 +1259,7 @@ extern void perf_event_disable(struct pe
 extern void perf_event_disable_local(struct perf_event *event);
 extern void perf_event_disable_inatomic(struct perf_event *event);
 extern void perf_event_task_tick(void);
+extern int perf_event_account_interrupt(struct perf_event *event);
 #else /* !CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS: */
 static inline void *
 perf_aux_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7088,25 +7088,12 @@ static void perf_log_itrace_start(struct
 	perf_output_end(&handle);
 }
 
-/*
- * Generic event overflow handling, sampling.
- */
-
-static int __perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event,
-				   int throttle, struct perf_sample_data *data,
-				   struct pt_regs *regs)
+static int
+__perf_event_account_interrupt(struct perf_event *event, int throttle)
 {
-	int events = atomic_read(&event->event_limit);
 	struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
-	u64 seq;
 	int ret = 0;
-
-	/*
-	 * Non-sampling counters might still use the PMI to fold short
-	 * hardware counters, ignore those.
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(!is_sampling_event(event)))
-		return 0;
+	u64 seq;
 
 	seq = __this_cpu_read(perf_throttled_seq);
 	if (seq != hwc->interrupts_seq) {
@@ -7134,6 +7121,34 @@ static int __perf_event_overflow(struct
 			perf_adjust_period(event, delta, hwc->last_period, true);
 	}
 
+	return ret;
+}
+
+int perf_event_account_interrupt(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+	return __perf_event_account_interrupt(event, 1);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Generic event overflow handling, sampling.
+ */
+
+static int __perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event,
+				   int throttle, struct perf_sample_data *data,
+				   struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	int events = atomic_read(&event->event_limit);
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * Non-sampling counters might still use the PMI to fold short
+	 * hardware counters, ignore those.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(!is_sampling_event(event)))
+		return 0;
+
+	ret = __perf_event_account_interrupt(event, throttle);
+
 	/*
 	 * XXX event_limit might not quite work as expected on inherited
 	 * events


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jolsa@kernel.org are

queue-4.9/perf-test-attr-fix-ignored-test-case-result.patch
queue-4.9/perf-x86-intel-account-interrupts-for-pebs-errors.patch
queue-4.9/tools-include-do-not-use-poison-with-c.patch