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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>perf/aux: Fix pending disable flow when the AUX ring buffer overruns</title>
<updated>2025-06-26T08:50:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leo Yan</name>
<email>leo.yan@arm.com</email>
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<published>2025-06-25T17:07:37+00:00</published>
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If an AUX event overruns, the event core layer intends to disable the
event by setting the 'pending_disable' flag. Unfortunately, the event
is not actually disabled afterwards.

In commit:

  ca6c21327c6a ("perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPs")

the 'pending_disable' flag was changed to a boolean. However, the
AUX event code was not updated accordingly. The flag ends up holding a
CPU number. If this number is zero, the flag is taken as false and the
IRQ work is never triggered.

Later, with commit:

  2b84def990d3 ("perf: Split __perf_pending_irq() out of perf_pending_irq()")

a new IRQ work 'pending_disable_irq' was introduced to handle event
disabling. The AUX event path was not updated to kick off the work queue.

To fix this bug, when an AUX ring buffer overrun is detected, call
perf_event_disable_inatomic() to initiate the pending disable flow.

Also update the outdated comment for setting the flag, to reflect the
boolean values (0 or 1).

Fixes: 2b84def990d3 ("perf: Split __perf_pending_irq() out of perf_pending_irq()")
Fixes: ca6c21327c6a ("perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPs")
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Liang Kan &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625170737.2918295-1-leo.yan@arm.com
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If an AUX event overruns, the event core layer intends to disable the
event by setting the 'pending_disable' flag. Unfortunately, the event
is not actually disabled afterwards.

In commit:

  ca6c21327c6a ("perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPs")

the 'pending_disable' flag was changed to a boolean. However, the
AUX event code was not updated accordingly. The flag ends up holding a
CPU number. If this number is zero, the flag is taken as false and the
IRQ work is never triggered.

Later, with commit:

  2b84def990d3 ("perf: Split __perf_pending_irq() out of perf_pending_irq()")

a new IRQ work 'pending_disable_irq' was introduced to handle event
disabling. The AUX event path was not updated to kick off the work queue.

To fix this bug, when an AUX ring buffer overrun is detected, call
perf_event_disable_inatomic() to initiate the pending disable flow.

Also update the outdated comment for setting the flag, to reflect the
boolean values (0 or 1).

Fixes: 2b84def990d3 ("perf: Split __perf_pending_irq() out of perf_pending_irq()")
Fixes: ca6c21327c6a ("perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPs")
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Liang Kan &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625170737.2918295-1-leo.yan@arm.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf_urgent_for_v6.16_rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-06-22T17:11:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-22T17:11:45+00:00</published>
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Pull perf fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Avoid a crash on a heterogeneous machine where not all cores support
   the same hw events features

 - Avoid a deadlock when throttling events

 - Document the perf event states more

 - Make sure a number of perf paths switching off or rescheduling events
   call perf_cgroup_event_disable()

 - Make sure perf does task sampling before its userspace mapping is
   torn down, and not after

* tag 'perf_urgent_for_v6.16_rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86/intel: Fix crash in icl_update_topdown_event()
  perf: Fix the throttle error of some clock events
  perf: Add comment to enum perf_event_state
  perf/core: Fix WARN in perf_cgroup_switch()
  perf: Fix dangling cgroup pointer in cpuctx
  perf: Fix cgroup state vs ERROR
  perf: Fix sample vs do_exit()
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Pull perf fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Avoid a crash on a heterogeneous machine where not all cores support
   the same hw events features

 - Avoid a deadlock when throttling events

 - Document the perf event states more

 - Make sure a number of perf paths switching off or rescheduling events
   call perf_cgroup_event_disable()

 - Make sure perf does task sampling before its userspace mapping is
   torn down, and not after

* tag 'perf_urgent_for_v6.16_rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86/intel: Fix crash in icl_update_topdown_event()
  perf: Fix the throttle error of some clock events
  perf: Add comment to enum perf_event_state
  perf/core: Fix WARN in perf_cgroup_switch()
  perf: Fix dangling cgroup pointer in cpuctx
  perf: Fix cgroup state vs ERROR
  perf: Fix sample vs do_exit()
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<entry>
<title>perf: Fix the throttle error of some clock events</title>
<updated>2025-06-11T12:05:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kan Liang</name>
<email>kan.liang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-06T19:25:46+00:00</published>
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Both ARM and IBM CI reports RCU stall, which can be reproduced by the
below perf command.
  perf record -a -e cpu-clock -- sleep 2

The issue is introduced by the generic throttle patch set, which
unconditionally invoke the event_stop() when throttle is triggered.

The cpu-clock and task-clock are two special SW events, which rely on
the hrtimer. The throttle is invoked in the hrtimer handler. The
event_stop()-&gt;hrtimer_cancel() waits for the handler to finish, which is
a deadlock. Instead of invoking the stop(), the HRTIMER_NORESTART should
be used to stop the timer.

There may be two ways to fix it:
 - Introduce a PMU flag to track the case. Avoid the event_stop in
   perf_event_throttle() if the flag is detected.
   It has been implemented in the
   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250528175832.2999139-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com/
   The new flag was thought to be an overkill for the issue.
 - Add a check in the event_stop. Return immediately if the throttle is
   invoked in the hrtimer handler. Rely on the existing HRTIMER_NORESTART
   method to stop the timer.

The latter is implemented here.

Move event-&gt;hw.interrupts = MAX_INTERRUPTS before the stop(). It makes
the order the same as perf_event_unthrottle(). Except the patch, no one
checks the hw.interrupts in the stop(). There is no impact from the
order change.

When stops in the throttle, the event should not be updated,
stop(event, 0). But the cpu_clock_event_stop() doesn't handle the flag.
In logic, it's wrong. But it didn't bring any problems with the old
code, because the stop() was not invoked when handling the throttle.
Checking the flag before updating the event.

Fixes: 9734e25fbf5a ("perf: Fix the throttle logic for a group")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250527161656.GJ2566836@e132581.arm.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/djxlh5fx326gcenwrr52ry3pk4wxmugu4jccdjysza7tlc5fef@ktp4rffawgcw/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8e8f51d8-af64-4d9e-934b-c0ee9f131293@linux.ibm.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4ce106d0-950c-aadc-0b6a-f0215cd39913@maine.edu/
Reported-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Aishwarya TCV &lt;aishwarya.tcv@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250606192546.915765-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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Both ARM and IBM CI reports RCU stall, which can be reproduced by the
below perf command.
  perf record -a -e cpu-clock -- sleep 2

The issue is introduced by the generic throttle patch set, which
unconditionally invoke the event_stop() when throttle is triggered.

The cpu-clock and task-clock are two special SW events, which rely on
the hrtimer. The throttle is invoked in the hrtimer handler. The
event_stop()-&gt;hrtimer_cancel() waits for the handler to finish, which is
a deadlock. Instead of invoking the stop(), the HRTIMER_NORESTART should
be used to stop the timer.

There may be two ways to fix it:
 - Introduce a PMU flag to track the case. Avoid the event_stop in
   perf_event_throttle() if the flag is detected.
   It has been implemented in the
   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250528175832.2999139-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com/
   The new flag was thought to be an overkill for the issue.
 - Add a check in the event_stop. Return immediately if the throttle is
   invoked in the hrtimer handler. Rely on the existing HRTIMER_NORESTART
   method to stop the timer.

The latter is implemented here.

Move event-&gt;hw.interrupts = MAX_INTERRUPTS before the stop(). It makes
the order the same as perf_event_unthrottle(). Except the patch, no one
checks the hw.interrupts in the stop(). There is no impact from the
order change.

When stops in the throttle, the event should not be updated,
stop(event, 0). But the cpu_clock_event_stop() doesn't handle the flag.
In logic, it's wrong. But it didn't bring any problems with the old
code, because the stop() was not invoked when handling the throttle.
Checking the flag before updating the event.

Fixes: 9734e25fbf5a ("perf: Fix the throttle logic for a group")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250527161656.GJ2566836@e132581.arm.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/djxlh5fx326gcenwrr52ry3pk4wxmugu4jccdjysza7tlc5fef@ktp4rffawgcw/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8e8f51d8-af64-4d9e-934b-c0ee9f131293@linux.ibm.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4ce106d0-950c-aadc-0b6a-f0215cd39913@maine.edu/
Reported-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Aishwarya TCV &lt;aishwarya.tcv@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250606192546.915765-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix WARN in perf_cgroup_switch()</title>
<updated>2025-06-05T12:37:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luo Gengkun</name>
<email>luogengkun@huaweicloud.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-04T03:39:24+00:00</published>
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There may be concurrency between perf_cgroup_switch and
perf_cgroup_event_disable. Consider the following scenario: after a new
perf cgroup event is created on CPU0, the new event may not trigger
a reprogramming, causing ctx-&gt;is_active to be 0. In this case, when CPU1
disables this perf event, it executes __perf_remove_from_context-&gt;
list _del_event-&gt;perf_cgroup_event_disable on CPU1, which causes a race
with perf_cgroup_switch running on CPU0.

The following describes the details of this concurrency scenario:

CPU0						CPU1

perf_cgroup_switch:
   ...
   # cpuctx-&gt;cgrp is not NULL here
   if (READ_ONCE(cpuctx-&gt;cgrp) == NULL)
   	return;

						perf_remove_from_context:
						   ...
						   raw_spin_lock_irq(&amp;ctx-&gt;lock);
						   ...
						   # ctx-&gt;is_active == 0 because reprogramm is not
						   # tigger, so CPU1 can do __perf_remove_from_context
						   # for CPU0
						   __perf_remove_from_context:
						         perf_cgroup_event_disable:
							    ...
							    if (--ctx-&gt;nr_cgroups)
							    ...

   # this warning will happened because CPU1 changed
   # ctx.nr_cgroups to 0.
   WARN_ON_ONCE(cpuctx-&gt;ctx.nr_cgroups == 0);

[peterz: use guard instead of goto unlock]
Fixes: db4a835601b7 ("perf/core: Set cgroup in CPU contexts for new cgroup events")
Signed-off-by: Luo Gengkun &lt;luogengkun@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250604033924.3914647-3-luogengkun@huaweicloud.com
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There may be concurrency between perf_cgroup_switch and
perf_cgroup_event_disable. Consider the following scenario: after a new
perf cgroup event is created on CPU0, the new event may not trigger
a reprogramming, causing ctx-&gt;is_active to be 0. In this case, when CPU1
disables this perf event, it executes __perf_remove_from_context-&gt;
list _del_event-&gt;perf_cgroup_event_disable on CPU1, which causes a race
with perf_cgroup_switch running on CPU0.

The following describes the details of this concurrency scenario:

CPU0						CPU1

perf_cgroup_switch:
   ...
   # cpuctx-&gt;cgrp is not NULL here
   if (READ_ONCE(cpuctx-&gt;cgrp) == NULL)
   	return;

						perf_remove_from_context:
						   ...
						   raw_spin_lock_irq(&amp;ctx-&gt;lock);
						   ...
						   # ctx-&gt;is_active == 0 because reprogramm is not
						   # tigger, so CPU1 can do __perf_remove_from_context
						   # for CPU0
						   __perf_remove_from_context:
						         perf_cgroup_event_disable:
							    ...
							    if (--ctx-&gt;nr_cgroups)
							    ...

   # this warning will happened because CPU1 changed
   # ctx.nr_cgroups to 0.
   WARN_ON_ONCE(cpuctx-&gt;ctx.nr_cgroups == 0);

[peterz: use guard instead of goto unlock]
Fixes: db4a835601b7 ("perf/core: Set cgroup in CPU contexts for new cgroup events")
Signed-off-by: Luo Gengkun &lt;luogengkun@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250604033924.3914647-3-luogengkun@huaweicloud.com
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<entry>
<title>perf: Fix dangling cgroup pointer in cpuctx</title>
<updated>2025-06-05T12:37:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yeoreum Yun</name>
<email>yeoreum.yun@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-02T18:40:49+00:00</published>
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Commit a3c3c6667("perf/core: Fix child_total_time_enabled accounting
bug at task exit") moves the event-&gt;state update to before
list_del_event(). This makes the event-&gt;state test in list_del_event()
always false; never calling perf_cgroup_event_disable().

As a result, cpuctx-&gt;cgrp won't be cleared properly; causing havoc.

Fixes: a3c3c6667("perf/core: Fix child_total_time_enabled accounting bug at task exit")
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: David Wang &lt;00107082@163.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aD2TspKH%2F7yvfYoO@e129823.arm.com/
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Commit a3c3c6667("perf/core: Fix child_total_time_enabled accounting
bug at task exit") moves the event-&gt;state update to before
list_del_event(). This makes the event-&gt;state test in list_del_event()
always false; never calling perf_cgroup_event_disable().

As a result, cpuctx-&gt;cgrp won't be cleared properly; causing havoc.

Fixes: a3c3c6667("perf/core: Fix child_total_time_enabled accounting bug at task exit")
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: David Wang &lt;00107082@163.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aD2TspKH%2F7yvfYoO@e129823.arm.com/
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Fix cgroup state vs ERROR</title>
<updated>2025-06-05T12:37:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-05T10:37:11+00:00</published>
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While chasing down a missing perf_cgroup_event_disable() elsewhere,
Leo Yan found that both perf_put_aux_event() and
perf_remove_sibling_event() were also missing one.

Specifically, the rule is that events that switch to OFF,ERROR need to
call perf_cgroup_event_disable().

Unify the disable paths to ensure this.

Fixes: ab43762ef010 ("perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data")
Fixes: 9f0c4fa111dc ("perf/core: Add a new PERF_EV_CAP_SIBLING event capability")
Reported-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605123343.GD35970@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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While chasing down a missing perf_cgroup_event_disable() elsewhere,
Leo Yan found that both perf_put_aux_event() and
perf_remove_sibling_event() were also missing one.

Specifically, the rule is that events that switch to OFF,ERROR need to
call perf_cgroup_event_disable().

Unify the disable paths to ensure this.

Fixes: ab43762ef010 ("perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data")
Fixes: 9f0c4fa111dc ("perf/core: Add a new PERF_EV_CAP_SIBLING event capability")
Reported-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605123343.GD35970@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Fix sample vs do_exit()</title>
<updated>2025-06-05T12:37:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-05T10:31:45+00:00</published>
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Baisheng Gao reported an ARM64 crash, which Mark decoded as being a
synchronous external abort -- most likely due to trying to access
MMIO in bad ways.

The crash further shows perf trying to do a user stack sample while in
exit_mmap()'s tlb_finish_mmu() -- i.e. while tearing down the address
space it is trying to access.

It turns out that we stop perf after we tear down the userspace mm; a
receipie for disaster, since perf likes to access userspace for
various reasons.

Flip this order by moving up where we stop perf in do_exit().

Additionally, harden PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER
to abort when the current task does not have an mm (exit_mm() makes
sure to set current-&gt;mm = NULL; before commencing with the actual
teardown). Such that CPU wide events don't trip on this same problem.

Fixes: c5ebcedb566e ("perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample")
Reported-by: Baisheng Gao &lt;baisheng.gao@unisoc.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605110815.GQ39944@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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<pre>
Baisheng Gao reported an ARM64 crash, which Mark decoded as being a
synchronous external abort -- most likely due to trying to access
MMIO in bad ways.

The crash further shows perf trying to do a user stack sample while in
exit_mmap()'s tlb_finish_mmu() -- i.e. while tearing down the address
space it is trying to access.

It turns out that we stop perf after we tear down the userspace mm; a
receipie for disaster, since perf likes to access userspace for
various reasons.

Flip this order by moving up where we stop perf in do_exit().

Additionally, harden PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER
to abort when the current task does not have an mm (exit_mm() makes
sure to set current-&gt;mm = NULL; before commencing with the actual
teardown). Such that CPU wide events don't trip on this same problem.

Fixes: c5ebcedb566e ("perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample")
Reported-by: Baisheng Gao &lt;baisheng.gao@unisoc.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605110815.GQ39944@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-05-31T22:44:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-31T22:44:16+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of
   creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces
   the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide
   this.

 - "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of
   largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up
   and better prepare us for future work.

 - "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory
   Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical
   memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory
   block size.

 - "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from
   Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more
   sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive
   compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's
   memory consumption was dramatic.

 - "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng
   Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to
   this part of our swap handling code.

 - "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin
   adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this
   time we can alter only "system call information that are used by
   strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall
   arguments, and syscall return value.

   This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
   branch, but I goofed.

 - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from
   Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl
   against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get
   at the info about guard regions.

 - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan
   implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because
   validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.

 - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David
   Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current
   decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of
   using more current facilities.

 - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman
   Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping
   code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are
   enabled for ARM.

 - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky
   ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as
   it already is for user pgtables.

   This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks
   to protect page tables". This change does result in various
   architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where
   it is anticipated to occur.

 - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice
   Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures.

 - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've
   been missing for 15 years.

 - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from
   SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing.

   Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we
   batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
   was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
   load this particular operation.

 - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from
   Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
   preallocation.

   stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and
   the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly
   reduced.

 - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes
   a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code.

 - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave"
   from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory
   management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory
   leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug
   support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit.

 - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory"
   from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which
   eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON
   for memory tiering.

 - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He
   provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan
   found via code inspection.

 - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price
   changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when
   possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores
   cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
   settings to violated.

   This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from
   certain classes of memory more consistently.

 - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio
   pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains
   in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.

 - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache
   for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization.

 - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from
   Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument
   for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen.

   This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios
   rather than file-backed folios.

 - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the
   first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing
   VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this
   time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.

 - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides
   and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping
   ranges of invalid pfns.

 - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via
   cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning
   when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode.

   Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.

 - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank
   Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when
   using JFS.

 - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more
   appropriate mm/vma.c.

 - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song
   provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index()
   function.

 - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that.

 - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long
   addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the
   test_memcontrol selftest.

 - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor
   of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare().

   The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with
   things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging.

 - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples
   the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one.

   This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
   NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.

 - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and
   documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous
   DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and
   documents.

 - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg
   stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg
   charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.

 - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio
   instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the
   hugetlb code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits)
  mm: pcp: increase pcp-&gt;free_count threshold to trigger free_high
  mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range()
  mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private()
  memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling
  memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug
  memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated
  memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs
  mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse
  selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages
  alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init
  Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order
  mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject()
  mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat()
  mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of
   creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces
   the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide
   this.

 - "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of
   largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up
   and better prepare us for future work.

 - "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory
   Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical
   memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory
   block size.

 - "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from
   Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more
   sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive
   compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's
   memory consumption was dramatic.

 - "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng
   Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to
   this part of our swap handling code.

 - "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin
   adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this
   time we can alter only "system call information that are used by
   strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall
   arguments, and syscall return value.

   This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
   branch, but I goofed.

 - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from
   Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl
   against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get
   at the info about guard regions.

 - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan
   implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because
   validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.

 - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David
   Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current
   decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of
   using more current facilities.

 - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman
   Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping
   code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are
   enabled for ARM.

 - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky
   ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as
   it already is for user pgtables.

   This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks
   to protect page tables". This change does result in various
   architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where
   it is anticipated to occur.

 - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice
   Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures.

 - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've
   been missing for 15 years.

 - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from
   SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing.

   Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we
   batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
   was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
   load this particular operation.

 - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from
   Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
   preallocation.

   stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and
   the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly
   reduced.

 - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes
   a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code.

 - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave"
   from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory
   management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory
   leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug
   support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit.

 - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory"
   from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which
   eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON
   for memory tiering.

 - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He
   provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan
   found via code inspection.

 - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price
   changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when
   possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores
   cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
   settings to violated.

   This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from
   certain classes of memory more consistently.

 - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio
   pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains
   in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.

 - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache
   for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization.

 - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from
   Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument
   for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen.

   This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios
   rather than file-backed folios.

 - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the
   first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing
   VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this
   time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.

 - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides
   and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping
   ranges of invalid pfns.

 - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via
   cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning
   when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode.

   Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.

 - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank
   Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when
   using JFS.

 - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more
   appropriate mm/vma.c.

 - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song
   provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index()
   function.

 - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that.

 - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long
   addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the
   test_memcontrol selftest.

 - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor
   of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare().

   The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with
   things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging.

 - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples
   the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one.

   This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
   NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.

 - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and
   documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous
   DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and
   documents.

 - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg
   stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg
   charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.

 - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio
   instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the
   hugetlb code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits)
  mm: pcp: increase pcp-&gt;free_count threshold to trigger free_high
  mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range()
  mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private()
  memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling
  memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug
  memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated
  memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs
  mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse
  selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages
  alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init
  Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order
  mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject()
  mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat()
  mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs
  ...
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Only dump the throttle log for the leader</title>
<updated>2025-05-21T11:57:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kan Liang</name>
<email>kan.liang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-20T18:16:30+00:00</published>
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The PERF_RECORD_THROTTLE records are dumped for all throttled events.
It's not necessary for group events, which are throttled altogether.

Optimize it by only dump the throttle log for the leader.

The sample right after the THROTTLE record must be generated by the
actual target event. It is good enough for the perf tool to locate the
actual target event.

Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520181644.2673067-3-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
</content>
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<pre>
The PERF_RECORD_THROTTLE records are dumped for all throttled events.
It's not necessary for group events, which are throttled altogether.

Optimize it by only dump the throttle log for the leader.

The sample right after the THROTTLE record must be generated by the
actual target event. It is good enough for the perf tool to locate the
actual target event.

Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520181644.2673067-3-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Fix the throttle logic for a group</title>
<updated>2025-05-21T11:57:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kan Liang</name>
<email>kan.liang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-20T18:16:29+00:00</published>
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The current throttle logic doesn't work well with a group, e.g., the
following sampling-read case.

$ perf record -e "{cycles,cycles}:S" ...

$ perf report -D | grep THROTTLE | tail -2
            THROTTLE events:        426  ( 9.0%)
          UNTHROTTLE events:        425  ( 9.0%)

$ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE -a4 | tail -n 5
0 1020120874009167 0x74970 [0x68]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x1):
... sample_read:
.... group nr 2
..... id 0000000000000327, value 000000000cbb993a, lost 0
..... id 0000000000000328, value 00000002211c26df, lost 0

The second cycles event has a much larger value than the first cycles
event in the same group.

The current throttle logic in the generic code only logs the THROTTLE
event. It relies on the specific driver implementation to disable
events. For all ARCHs, the implementation is similar. Only the event is
disabled, rather than the group.

The logic to disable the group should be generic for all ARCHs. Add the
logic in the generic code. The following patch will remove the buggy
driver-specific implementation.

The throttle only happens when an event is overflowed. Stop the entire
group when any event in the group triggers the throttle.
The MAX_INTERRUPTS is set to all throttle events.

The unthrottled could happen in 3 places.
- event/group sched. All events in the group are scheduled one by one.
  All of them will be unthrottled eventually. Nothing needs to be
  changed.
- The perf_adjust_freq_unthr_events for each tick. Needs to restart the
  group altogether.
- The __perf_event_period(). The whole group needs to be restarted
  altogether as well.

With the fix,
$ sudo perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE -a4 | tail -n 5
0 3573470770332 0x12f5f8 [0x70]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x2):
... sample_read:
.... group nr 2
..... id 0000000000000a28, value 00000004fd3dfd8f, lost 0
..... id 0000000000000a29, value 00000004fd3dfd8f, lost 0

Suggested-by: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520181644.2673067-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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The current throttle logic doesn't work well with a group, e.g., the
following sampling-read case.

$ perf record -e "{cycles,cycles}:S" ...

$ perf report -D | grep THROTTLE | tail -2
            THROTTLE events:        426  ( 9.0%)
          UNTHROTTLE events:        425  ( 9.0%)

$ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE -a4 | tail -n 5
0 1020120874009167 0x74970 [0x68]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x1):
... sample_read:
.... group nr 2
..... id 0000000000000327, value 000000000cbb993a, lost 0
..... id 0000000000000328, value 00000002211c26df, lost 0

The second cycles event has a much larger value than the first cycles
event in the same group.

The current throttle logic in the generic code only logs the THROTTLE
event. It relies on the specific driver implementation to disable
events. For all ARCHs, the implementation is similar. Only the event is
disabled, rather than the group.

The logic to disable the group should be generic for all ARCHs. Add the
logic in the generic code. The following patch will remove the buggy
driver-specific implementation.

The throttle only happens when an event is overflowed. Stop the entire
group when any event in the group triggers the throttle.
The MAX_INTERRUPTS is set to all throttle events.

The unthrottled could happen in 3 places.
- event/group sched. All events in the group are scheduled one by one.
  All of them will be unthrottled eventually. Nothing needs to be
  changed.
- The perf_adjust_freq_unthr_events for each tick. Needs to restart the
  group altogether.
- The __perf_event_period(). The whole group needs to be restarted
  altogether as well.

With the fix,
$ sudo perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE -a4 | tail -n 5
0 3573470770332 0x12f5f8 [0x70]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x2):
... sample_read:
.... group nr 2
..... id 0000000000000a28, value 00000004fd3dfd8f, lost 0
..... id 0000000000000a29, value 00000004fd3dfd8f, lost 0

Suggested-by: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520181644.2673067-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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