linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c, branch v4.2.7

x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous

2015-07-31T08:23:23+00:00

modify_ldt() has questionable locking and does not synchronize
threads.  Improve it: redesign the locking and synchronize all
threads' LDTs using an IPI on all modifications.

This will dramatically slow down modify_ldt in multithreaded
programs, but there shouldn't be any multithreaded programs that
care about modify_ldt's performance in the first place.

This fixes some fallout from the CVE-2015-5157 fixes.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andrew Cooper 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Jan Beulich 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sasha Levin 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: security@kernel.org 
Cc: 
Cc: xen-devel 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c6978476782160600471bd865b318db34c7b628.1438291540.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/x86: Fix 'active_events' imbalance

2015-06-30T11:08:46+00:00

Commit 1b7b938f1817 ("perf/x86/intel: Fix PMI handling for Intel PT") conditionally
increments active_events in x86_add_exclusive() but unconditionally decrements in
x86_del_exclusive().

These extra decrements can lead to the situation where
active_events is zero and thus the PMI handler is 'disabled'
while we have active events on the PMU generating PMIs.

This leads to a truckload of:

  Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 21 on CPU 28.
  Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
  Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

messages and generally messes up perf.

Remove the condition on the increment, double increment balanced
by a double decrement is perfectly fine.

Restructure the code a little bit to make the unconditional inc
a bit more natural.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: brgerst@gmail.com
Cc: dvlasenk@redhat.com
Cc: luto@amacapital.net
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Fixes: 1b7b938f1817 ("perf/x86/intel: Fix PMI handling for Intel PT")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150624144750.GJ18673@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2015-06-22T22:45:41+00:00

Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "These are the left over fixes from the v4.1 cycle"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf tools: Fix build breakage if prefix= is specified
  perf/x86: Honor the architectural performance monitoring version
  perf/x86/intel: Fix PMI handling for Intel PT
  perf/x86/intel/bts: Fix DS area sharing with x86_pmu events
  perf/x86: Add more Broadwell model numbers
  perf: Fix ring_buffer_attach() RCU sync, again

perf/x86/intel: Fix PMI handling for Intel PT

2015-06-19T07:38:47+00:00

Intel PT is a separate PMU and it is not using any of the x86_pmu
code paths, which means in particular that the active_events counter
remains intact when new PT events are created.

However, PT uses the generic x86_pmu PMI handler for its PMI handling needs.

The problem here is that the latter checks active_events and in case of it
being zero, exits without calling the actual x86_pmu.handle_nmi(), which
results in unknown NMI errors and massive data loss for PT.

The effect is not visible if there are other perf events in the system
at the same time that keep active_events counter non-zero, for instance
if the NMI watchdog is running, so one needs to disable it to reproduce
the problem.

At the same time, the active_events counter besides doing what the name
suggests also implicitly serves as a PMC hardware and DS area reference
counter.

This patch adds a separate reference counter for the PMC hardware, leaving
active_events for actually counting the events and makes sure it also
counts PT and BTS events.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87k2v92t0s.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/x86/intel/bts: Fix DS area sharing with x86_pmu events

2015-06-19T07:38:47+00:00

Currently, the intel_bts driver relies on the DS area allocated by the x86_pmu
code in its event_init() path, which is a bug: creating a BTS event while
no x86_pmu events are present results in a NULL pointer dereference.

The same DS area is also used by PEBS sampling, which makes it quite a bit
trickier to have a separate one for intel_bts' purposes.

This patch makes intel_bts driver use the same DS allocation and reference
counting code as x86_pmu to make sure it is always present when either
intel_bts or x86_pmu need it.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434024837-9916-2-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/x86/intel: Use the PEBS auto reload mechanism when possible

2015-06-07T14:08:35+00:00

When a fixed period is specified, this patch makes perf use the PEBS
auto reload mechanism. This makes normal profiling faster, because
it avoids one costly MSR write in the PMI handler.

However, the reset value will be loaded by hardware assist. There is a
small delay compared to the previous non-auto-reload mechanism. The
delay time is arbitrary, but very small. The assist cost is 400-800
cycles, assuming common cases with everything cached. The minimum period
the patch currently uses is 10000. In that extreme case it can be ~10%
if cycles are used.

Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng 
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430940834-8964-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/x86: Simplify the x86_schedule_events() logic

2015-05-27T07:17:45+00:00

	!x && y == ! (x || !y)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/x86/intel: Remove intel_excl_states::init_state

2015-05-27T07:17:45+00:00

For some obscure reason intel_{start,stop}_scheduling() copy the HT
state to an intermediate array. This would make sense if we ever were
to make changes to it which we'd have to discard.

Except we don't. By the time we call intel_commit_scheduling() we're;
as the name implies; committed to them. We'll never back out.

A further hint its pointless is that stop_scheduling() unconditionally
publishes the state.

So the intermediate array is pointless, modify the state in place and
kill the extra array.

And remove the pointless array initialization: INTEL_EXCL_UNUSED == 0.

Note; all is serialized by intel_excl_cntr::lock.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/x86: Tweak broken BIOS rules during check_hw_exists()

2015-05-27T07:16:20+00:00

I stumbled upon an AMD box that had the BIOS using a hardware performance
counter. Instead of printing out a warning and continuing, it failed and
blocked further perf counter usage.

Looking through the history, I found this commit:

  a5ebe0ba3dff ("perf/x86: Check all MSRs before passing hw check")

which tweaked the rules for a Xen guest on an almost identical box and now
changed the behaviour.

Unfortunately the rules were tweaked incorrectly and will always lead to
MSR failures even though the MSRs are completely fine.

What happens now is in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c::check_hw_exists():


        for (i = 0; i < x86_pmu.num_counters; i++) {
                reg = x86_pmu_config_addr(i);
                ret = rdmsrl_safe(reg, &val);
                if (ret)
                        goto msr_fail;
                if (val & ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE) {
                        bios_fail = 1;
                        val_fail = val;
                        reg_fail = reg;
                }
        }


        /*
         * Read the current value, change it and read it back to see if it
         * matches, this is needed to detect certain hardware emulators
         * (qemu/kvm) that don't trap on the MSR access and always return 0s.
         */
        reg = x86_pmu_event_addr(0);
				^^^^

if the first perf counter is enabled, then this routine will always fail
because the counter is running. :-(

        if (rdmsrl_safe(reg, &val))
                goto msr_fail;
        val ^= 0xffffUL;
        ret = wrmsrl_safe(reg, val);
        ret |= rdmsrl_safe(reg, &val_new);
        if (ret || val != val_new)
                goto msr_fail;

The above bios_fail used to be a 'goto' which is why it worked in the past.

Further, most vendors have migrated to using fixed counters to hide their
evilness hence this problem rarely shows up now days except on a few old boxes.

I fixed my problem and kept the spirit of the original Xen fix, by recording a
safe non-enable register to be used safely for the reading/writing check.
Because it is not enabled, this passes on bare metal boxes (like metal), but
should continue to throw an msr_fail on Xen guests because the register isn't
emulated yet.

Now I get a proper bios_fail error message and Xen should still see their
msr_fail message (untested).

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431976608-56970-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/x86: Improve HT workaround GP counter constraint

2015-05-27T07:16:03+00:00

The (SNB/IVB/HSW) HT bug only affects events that can be programmed
onto GP counters, therefore we should only limit the number of GP
counters that can be used per cpu -- iow we should not constrain the
FP counters.

Furthermore, we should only enfore such a limit when there are in fact
exclusive events being scheduled on either sibling.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
[ Fixed build fail for the !CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL case. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar