linux-toradex.git/kernel/events/core.c, branch v3.14.19

perf: Do not allow optimized switch for non-cloned events

2014-07-28T15:06:02+00:00

commit 1f9a7268c67f0290837aada443d28fd953ddca90 upstream.

The context check in perf_event_context_sched_out allows
non-cloned context to be part of the optimized schedule
out switch.

This could move non-cloned context into another workload
child. Once this child exits, the context is closed and
leaves all original (parent) events in closed state.

Any other new cloned event will have closed state and not
measure anything. And probably causing other odd bugs.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403598026-2310-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf: Fix race in removing an event

2014-06-11T18:54:08+00:00

commit 46ce0fe97a6be7532ce6126bb26ce89fed81528c upstream.

When removing a (sibling) event we do:

	raw_spin_lock_irq(&ctx->lock);
	perf_group_detach(event);
	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);

	

	perf_remove_from_context(event);
		raw_spin_lock_irq(&ctx->lock);
		...
		raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);

Now, assuming the event is a sibling, it will be 'unreachable' for
things like ctx_sched_out() because that iterates the
groups->siblings, and we just unhooked the sibling.

So, if during  we get ctx_sched_out(), it will miss the event
and not call event_sched_out() on it, leaving it programmed on the
PMU.

The subsequent perf_remove_from_context() call will find the ctx is
inactive and only call list_del_event() to remove the event from all
other lists.

Hereafter we can proceed to free the event; while still programmed!

Close this hole by moving perf_group_detach() inside the same
ctx->lock region(s) perf_remove_from_context() has.

The condition on inherited events only in __perf_event_exit_task() is
likely complete crap because non-inherited events are part of groups
too and we're tearing down just the same. But leave that for another
patch.

Most-likely-Fixes: e03a9a55b4e ("perf: Change close() semantics for group events")
Reported-by: Vince Weaver 
Tested-by: Vince Weaver 
Much-staring-at-traces-by: Vince Weaver 
Much-staring-at-traces-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140505093124.GN17778@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf: Limit perf_event_attr::sample_period to 63 bits

2014-06-11T18:54:08+00:00

commit 0819b2e30ccb93edf04876237b6205eef84ec8d2 upstream.

Vince reported that using a large sample_period (one with bit 63 set)
results in wreckage since while the sample_period is fundamentally
unsigned (negative periods don't make sense) the way we implement
things very much rely on signed logic.

So limit sample_period to 63 bits to avoid tripping over this.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-p25fhunibl4y3qi0zuqmyf4b@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf: Prevent false warning in perf_swevent_add

2014-06-11T18:54:08+00:00

commit 39af6b1678afa5880dda7e375cf3f9d395087f6d upstream.

The perf cpu offline callback takes down all cpu context
events and releases swhash->swevent_hlist.

This could race with task context software event being just
scheduled on this cpu via perf_swevent_add while cpu hotplug
code already cleaned up event's data.

The race happens in the gap between the cpu notifier code
and the cpu being actually taken down. Note that only cpu
ctx events are terminated in the perf cpu hotplug code.

It's easily reproduced with:
  $ perf record -e faults perf bench sched pipe

while putting one of the cpus offline:
  # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online

Console emits following warning:
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2845 at kernel/events/core.c:5672 perf_swevent_add+0x18d/0x1a0()
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 PID: 2845 Comm: sched-pipe Tainted: G        W    3.14.0+ #256
  Hardware name: Intel Corporation Montevina platform/To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS AMVACRB1.86C.0066.B00.0805070703 05/07/2008
   0000000000000009 ffff880077233ab8 ffffffff81665a23 0000000000200005
   0000000000000000 ffff880077233af8 ffffffff8104732c 0000000000000046
   ffff88007467c800 0000000000000002 ffff88007a9cf2a0 0000000000000001
  Call Trace:
   [] dump_stack+0x4f/0x7c
   [] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0
   [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
   [] perf_swevent_add+0x18d/0x1a0
   [] event_sched_in.isra.75+0x9e/0x1f0
   [] group_sched_in+0x6a/0x1f0
   [] ? sched_clock_local+0x25/0xa0
   [] ctx_sched_in+0x1f6/0x450
   [] perf_event_sched_in+0x6b/0xa0
   [] perf_event_context_sched_in+0x7b/0xc0
   [] __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x43e/0x460
   [] ? put_lock_stats.isra.18+0xe/0x30
   [] finish_task_switch+0xb8/0x100
   [] __schedule+0x30e/0xad0
   [] ? pipe_read+0x3e2/0x560
   [] ? preempt_schedule_irq+0x3e/0x70
   [] ? preempt_schedule_irq+0x3e/0x70
   [] preempt_schedule_irq+0x44/0x70
   [] retint_kernel+0x20/0x30
   [] ? lockdep_sys_exit+0x1a/0x90
   [] lockdep_sys_exit_thunk+0x35/0x67
   [] ? sysret_check+0x5/0x56

Fixing this by tracking the cpu hotplug state and displaying
the WARN only if current cpu is initialized properly.

Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1396861448-10097-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf: Fix hotplug splat

2014-02-27T11:38:03+00:00

Drew Richardson reported that he could make the kernel go *boom* when hotplugging
while having perf events active.

It turned out that when you have a group event, the code in
__perf_event_exit_context() fails to remove the group siblings from
the context.

We then proceed with destroying and freeing the event, and when you
re-plug the CPU and try and add another event to that CPU, things go
*boom* because you've still got dead entries there.

Reported-by: Drew Richardson 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-k6v5wundvusvcseqj1si0oz0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core

2014-01-16T08:33:30+00:00

Pick up the latest fixes, refresh the development tree.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Introduce a flag to enable close-on-exec in perf_event_open()

2014-01-12T09:16:59+00:00

Unlike recent modern userspace API such as:

  epoll_create1 (EPOLL_CLOEXEC), eventfd (EFD_CLOEXEC),
  fanotify_init (FAN_CLOEXEC), inotify_init1 (IN_CLOEXEC),
  signalfd (SFD_CLOEXEC), timerfd_create (TFD_CLOEXEC),
  or the venerable general purpose open (O_CLOEXEC),

perf_event_open() syscall lack a flag to atomically set FD_CLOEXEC
(eg. close-on-exec) flag on file descriptor it returns to userspace.

The present patch adds a PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC flag to allow
perf_event_open() syscall to atomically set close-on-exec.

Having this flag will enable userspace to remove the file descriptor
from the list of file descriptors being inherited across exec,
without the need to call fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) and the
associated race condition between the current thread and another
thread calling fork(2) then execve(2).

Links:

 - Secure File Descriptor Handling (Ulrich Drepper, 2008)
   http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20407.html

 - Excuse me son, but your code is leaking !!! (Dan Walsh, March 2012)
   http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/53603.html

 - Notes in DMA buffer sharing: leak and security hole
   http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt?id=v3.13-rc3#n428

Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8c03f54e1598b1727c19706f3af03f98685d9fe6.1388952061.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/x86: Fix active_entry initialization

2014-01-12T09:16:07+00:00

This patch fixes a problem with the initialization of the
struct perf_event active_entry field. It is defined inside
an anonymous union and was initialized in perf_event_alloc()
using INIT_LIST_HEAD(). However at that time, we do not know
whether the event is going to use active_entry or hlist_entry (SW).
Or at last, we don't want to make that determination there.
The problem is that hlist and list_head are not initialized
the same way. One is okay with NULL (from kzmalloc), the other
needs to pointers to point to self.

This patch resolves this problem by dropping the union.
This will avoid problems later on, if someone starts using
active_entry or hlist_entry without verifying that they
actually overlap. This also solves the initialization
problem.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: vincent.weaver@maine.edu
Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389176153-3128-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD to force-reset the period

2013-12-17T14:21:33+00:00

Vince Weaver reports that, on all architectures apart from ARM,
PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD doesn't actually update the period until the next
event fires. This is counter-intuitive behaviour and is better dealt
with in the core code.

This patch ensures that the period is forcefully reset when dealing with
such a request in the core code. A subsequent patch removes the
equivalent hack from the ARM back-end.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1385560479-11014-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Disable all pmus on unthrottling and rescheduling

2013-12-17T14:04:00+00:00

Currently, only one PMU in a context gets disabled during unthrottling
and event_sched_{out,in}(), however, events in one context may belong to
different pmus, which results in PMUs being reprogrammed while they are
still enabled.

This means that mixed PMU use [which is rare in itself] resulted in
potentially completely unreliable results: corrupted events, bogus
results, etc.

This patch temporarily disables PMUs that correspond to
each event in the context while these events are being modified.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387196256-8030-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar