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<title>rcu: Fix soft lockup for rcu_nocb_kthread</title>
<updated>2016-12-08T06:15:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ding Tianhong</name>
<email>dingtianhong@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-15T07:27:36+00:00</published>
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commit bedc1969150d480c462cdac320fa944b694a7162 upstream.

Carrying out the following steps results in a softlockup in the
RCU callback-offload (rcuo) kthreads:

1. Connect to ixgbevf, and set the speed to 10Gb/s.
2. Use ifconfig to bring the nic up and down repeatedly.

[  317.005148] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth2: link becomes ready
[  368.106005] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s! [rcuos/1:15]
[  368.106005] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[  368.106005] task: ffff88057dd8a220 ti: ffff88057dd9c000 task.ti: ffff88057dd9c000
[  368.106005] RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81579e04&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81579e04&gt;] fib_table_lookup+0x14/0x390
[  368.106005] RSP: 0018:ffff88061fc83ce8  EFLAGS: 00000286
[  368.106005] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 00000000020155c0 RCX: 0000000000000001
[  368.106005] RDX: ffff88061fc83d50 RSI: ffff88061fc83d70 RDI: ffff880036d11a00
[  368.106005] RBP: ffff88061fc83d08 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
[  368.106005] R10: ffff880036d11a00 R11: ffffffff819e0900 R12: ffff88061fc83c58
[  368.106005] R13: ffffffff816154dd R14: ffff88061fc83d08 R15: 00000000020155c0
[  368.106005] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88061fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  368.106005] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  368.106005] CR2: 00007f8c2aee9c40 CR3: 000000057b222000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
[  368.106005] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  368.106005] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  368.106005] Stack:
[  368.106005]  00000000010000c0 ffff88057b766000 ffff8802e380b000 ffff88057af03e00
[  368.106005]  ffff88061fc83dc0 ffffffff815349a6 ffff88061fc83d40 ffffffff814ee146
[  368.106005]  ffff8802e380af00 00000000e380af00 ffffffff819e0900 020155c0010000c0
[  368.106005] Call Trace:
[  368.106005]  &lt;IRQ&gt;
[  368.106005]
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff815349a6&gt;] ip_route_input_noref+0x516/0xbd0
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff814ee146&gt;] ? skb_release_data+0xd6/0x110
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff814ee20a&gt;] ? kfree_skb+0x3a/0xa0
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff8153698f&gt;] ip_rcv_finish+0x29f/0x350
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff81537034&gt;] ip_rcv+0x234/0x380
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff814fd656&gt;] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x676/0x870
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff814fd868&gt;] __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff814fe4de&gt;] process_backlog+0xae/0x180
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff814fdcb2&gt;] net_rx_action+0x152/0x240
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff81077b3f&gt;] __do_softirq+0xef/0x280
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff8161619c&gt;] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[  368.106005]  &lt;EOI&gt;
[  368.106005]
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff81015d95&gt;] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff81077174&gt;] local_bh_enable+0x94/0xa0
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff81114922&gt;] rcu_nocb_kthread+0x232/0x370
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff81098250&gt;] ? wake_up_bit+0x30/0x30
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff811146f0&gt;] ? rcu_start_gp+0x40/0x40
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff8109728f&gt;] kthread+0xcf/0xe0
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff810971c0&gt;] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff816147d8&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff810971c0&gt;] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140

==================================cut here==============================

It turns out that the rcuos callback-offload kthread is busy processing
a very large quantity of RCU callbacks, and it is not reliquishing the
CPU while doing so.  This commit therefore adds an cond_resched_rcu_qs()
within the loop to allow other tasks to run.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
[ paulmck: Substituted cond_resched_rcu_qs for cond_resched. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dhaval Giani &lt;dhaval.giani@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit bedc1969150d480c462cdac320fa944b694a7162 upstream.

Carrying out the following steps results in a softlockup in the
RCU callback-offload (rcuo) kthreads:

1. Connect to ixgbevf, and set the speed to 10Gb/s.
2. Use ifconfig to bring the nic up and down repeatedly.

[  317.005148] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth2: link becomes ready
[  368.106005] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s! [rcuos/1:15]
[  368.106005] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[  368.106005] task: ffff88057dd8a220 ti: ffff88057dd9c000 task.ti: ffff88057dd9c000
[  368.106005] RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81579e04&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81579e04&gt;] fib_table_lookup+0x14/0x390
[  368.106005] RSP: 0018:ffff88061fc83ce8  EFLAGS: 00000286
[  368.106005] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 00000000020155c0 RCX: 0000000000000001
[  368.106005] RDX: ffff88061fc83d50 RSI: ffff88061fc83d70 RDI: ffff880036d11a00
[  368.106005] RBP: ffff88061fc83d08 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
[  368.106005] R10: ffff880036d11a00 R11: ffffffff819e0900 R12: ffff88061fc83c58
[  368.106005] R13: ffffffff816154dd R14: ffff88061fc83d08 R15: 00000000020155c0
[  368.106005] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88061fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  368.106005] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  368.106005] CR2: 00007f8c2aee9c40 CR3: 000000057b222000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
[  368.106005] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  368.106005] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  368.106005] Stack:
[  368.106005]  00000000010000c0 ffff88057b766000 ffff8802e380b000 ffff88057af03e00
[  368.106005]  ffff88061fc83dc0 ffffffff815349a6 ffff88061fc83d40 ffffffff814ee146
[  368.106005]  ffff8802e380af00 00000000e380af00 ffffffff819e0900 020155c0010000c0
[  368.106005] Call Trace:
[  368.106005]  &lt;IRQ&gt;
[  368.106005]
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff815349a6&gt;] ip_route_input_noref+0x516/0xbd0
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff814ee146&gt;] ? skb_release_data+0xd6/0x110
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff814ee20a&gt;] ? kfree_skb+0x3a/0xa0
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff8153698f&gt;] ip_rcv_finish+0x29f/0x350
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff81537034&gt;] ip_rcv+0x234/0x380
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff814fd656&gt;] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x676/0x870
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff814fd868&gt;] __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff814fe4de&gt;] process_backlog+0xae/0x180
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff814fdcb2&gt;] net_rx_action+0x152/0x240
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff81077b3f&gt;] __do_softirq+0xef/0x280
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff8161619c&gt;] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[  368.106005]  &lt;EOI&gt;
[  368.106005]
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff81015d95&gt;] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff81077174&gt;] local_bh_enable+0x94/0xa0
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff81114922&gt;] rcu_nocb_kthread+0x232/0x370
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff81098250&gt;] ? wake_up_bit+0x30/0x30
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff811146f0&gt;] ? rcu_start_gp+0x40/0x40
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff8109728f&gt;] kthread+0xcf/0xe0
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff810971c0&gt;] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff816147d8&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
[  368.106005]  [&lt;ffffffff810971c0&gt;] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140

==================================cut here==============================

It turns out that the rcuos callback-offload kthread is busy processing
a very large quantity of RCU callbacks, and it is not reliquishing the
CPU while doing so.  This commit therefore adds an cond_resched_rcu_qs()
within the loop to allow other tasks to run.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
[ paulmck: Substituted cond_resched_rcu_qs for cond_resched. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dhaval Giani &lt;dhaval.giani@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM / sleep: fix device reference leak in test_suspend</title>
<updated>2016-11-26T08:54:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johan Hovold</name>
<email>johan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-01T10:49:56+00:00</published>
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commit ceb75787bc75d0a7b88519ab8a68067ac690f55a upstream.

Make sure to drop the reference taken by class_find_device() after
opening the RTC device.

Fixes: 77437fd4e61f (pm: boot time suspend selftest)
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ceb75787bc75d0a7b88519ab8a68067ac690f55a upstream.

Make sure to drop the reference taken by class_find_device() after
opening the RTC device.

Fixes: 77437fd4e61f (pm: boot time suspend selftest)
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cgroup: avoid false positive gcc-6 warning</title>
<updated>2016-11-10T15:36:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-14T23:21:06+00:00</published>
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commit cfe02a8a973e7e5f66926b8ae38dfce404b19e29 upstream.

When all subsystems are disabled, gcc notices that cgroup_subsys_enabled_key
is a zero-length array and that any access to it must be out of bounds:

In file included from ../include/linux/cgroup.h:19:0,
                 from ../kernel/cgroup.c:31:
../kernel/cgroup.c: In function 'cgroup_add_cftypes':
../kernel/cgroup.c:261:53: error: array subscript is above array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
  return static_key_enabled(cgroup_subsys_enabled_key[ssid]);
                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~
../include/linux/jump_label.h:271:40: note: in definition of macro 'static_key_enabled'
  static_key_count((struct static_key *)x) &gt; 0;    \
                                        ^

We should never call the function in this particular case, so this is
not a bug. In order to silence the warning, this adds an explicit check
for the CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT==0 case.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit cfe02a8a973e7e5f66926b8ae38dfce404b19e29 upstream.

When all subsystems are disabled, gcc notices that cgroup_subsys_enabled_key
is a zero-length array and that any access to it must be out of bounds:

In file included from ../include/linux/cgroup.h:19:0,
                 from ../kernel/cgroup.c:31:
../kernel/cgroup.c: In function 'cgroup_add_cftypes':
../kernel/cgroup.c:261:53: error: array subscript is above array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
  return static_key_enabled(cgroup_subsys_enabled_key[ssid]);
                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~
../include/linux/jump_label.h:271:40: note: in definition of macro 'static_key_enabled'
  static_key_count((struct static_key *)x) &gt; 0;    \
                                        ^

We should never call the function in this particular case, so this is
not a bug. In order to silence the warning, this adds an explicit check
for the CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT==0 case.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq/generic_chip: Add irq_unmap callback</title>
<updated>2016-10-31T10:13:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Frias</name>
<email>sf84@laposte.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-01T14:27:38+00:00</published>
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commit ee26c013cdee0b947e29d6cadfb9ff3341c69ff9 upstream.

Without this patch irq_domain_disassociate() cannot properly release the
interrupt. In fact, irq_map_generic_chip() checks a bit on 'gc-&gt;installed'
but said bit is never cleared, only set.

Commit 088f40b7b027 ("genirq: Generic chip: Add linear irq domain support")
added irq_map_generic_chip() function and also stated "This lacks a removal
function for now".

This commit provides an implementation of an unmap function that can be
called by irq_domain_disassociate().

[ tglx: Made the function static and removed the export as we have neither
  	a prototype nor a modular user. ]

Fixes: 088f40b7b027 ("genirq: Generic chip: Add linear irq domain support")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Frias &lt;sf84@laposte.net&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mason &lt;slash.tmp@free.fr&gt;
Cc: Jason Cooper &lt;jason@lakedaemon.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/579F5C5A.2070507@laposte.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ee26c013cdee0b947e29d6cadfb9ff3341c69ff9 upstream.

Without this patch irq_domain_disassociate() cannot properly release the
interrupt. In fact, irq_map_generic_chip() checks a bit on 'gc-&gt;installed'
but said bit is never cleared, only set.

Commit 088f40b7b027 ("genirq: Generic chip: Add linear irq domain support")
added irq_map_generic_chip() function and also stated "This lacks a removal
function for now".

This commit provides an implementation of an unmap function that can be
called by irq_domain_disassociate().

[ tglx: Made the function static and removed the export as we have neither
  	a prototype nor a modular user. ]

Fixes: 088f40b7b027 ("genirq: Generic chip: Add linear irq domain support")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Frias &lt;sf84@laposte.net&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mason &lt;slash.tmp@free.fr&gt;
Cc: Jason Cooper &lt;jason@lakedaemon.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/579F5C5A.2070507@laposte.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Fix __ktime_get_fast_ns() regression</title>
<updated>2016-10-16T15:36:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-05T02:55:48+00:00</published>
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commit 58bfea9532552d422bde7afa207e1a0f08dffa7d upstream.

In commit 27727df240c7 ("Avoid taking lock in NMI path with
CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"), I changed the logic to open-code
the timekeeping_get_ns() function, but I forgot to include
the unit conversion from cycles to nanoseconds, breaking the
function's output, which impacts users like perf.

This results in bogus perf timestamps like:
 swapper     0 [000]   253.427536:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426573:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426687:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426800:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426905:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427022:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427127:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427239:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427346:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427463:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   255.426572:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])

Instead of more reasonable expected timestamps like:
 swapper     0 [000]    39.953768:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.064839:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.175956:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.287103:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.398217:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.509324:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.620437:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.731546:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.842654:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.953772:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    41.064881:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])

Add the proper use of timekeeping_delta_to_ns() to convert
the cycle delta to nanoseconds as needed.

Thanks to Brendan and Alexei for finding this quickly after
the v4.8 release. Unfortunately the problematic commit has
landed in some -stable trees so they'll need this fix as
well.

Many apologies for this mistake. I'll be looking to add a
perf-clock sanity test to the kselftest timers tests soon.

Fixes: 27727df240c7 "timekeeping: Avoid taking lock in NMI path with CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"
Reported-by: Brendan Gregg &lt;bgregg@netflix.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-and-reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475636148-26539-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 58bfea9532552d422bde7afa207e1a0f08dffa7d upstream.

In commit 27727df240c7 ("Avoid taking lock in NMI path with
CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"), I changed the logic to open-code
the timekeeping_get_ns() function, but I forgot to include
the unit conversion from cycles to nanoseconds, breaking the
function's output, which impacts users like perf.

This results in bogus perf timestamps like:
 swapper     0 [000]   253.427536:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426573:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426687:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426800:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426905:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427022:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427127:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427239:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427346:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427463:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   255.426572:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])

Instead of more reasonable expected timestamps like:
 swapper     0 [000]    39.953768:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.064839:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.175956:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.287103:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.398217:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.509324:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.620437:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.731546:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.842654:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.953772:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    41.064881:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])

Add the proper use of timekeeping_delta_to_ns() to convert
the cycle delta to nanoseconds as needed.

Thanks to Brendan and Alexei for finding this quickly after
the v4.8 release. Unfortunately the problematic commit has
landed in some -stable trees so they'll need this fix as
well.

Many apologies for this mistake. I'll be looking to add a
perf-clock sanity test to the kselftest timers tests soon.

Fixes: 27727df240c7 "timekeeping: Avoid taking lock in NMI path with CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"
Reported-by: Brendan Gregg &lt;bgregg@netflix.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-and-reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475636148-26539-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Add cycles to nanoseconds translation</title>
<updated>2016-10-16T15:36:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christopher S. Hall</name>
<email>christopher.s.hall@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-22T11:15:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=9b57d91c03054030f30be75c6e19c65b5f108ef3'/>
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commit 6bd58f09e1d8cc6c50a824c00bf0d617919986a1 upstream.

The timekeeping code does not currently provide a way to translate
externally provided clocksource cycles to system time. The cycle count
is always provided by the result clocksource read() method internal to
the timekeeping code. The added function timekeeping_cycles_to_ns()
calculated a nanosecond value from a cycle count that can be added to
tk_read_base.base value yielding the current system time. This allows
clocksource cycle values external to the timekeeping code to provide a
cycle count that can be transformed to system time.

Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: kevin.b.stanton@intel.com
Cc: kevin.j.clarke@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christopher S. Hall &lt;christopher.s.hall@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6bd58f09e1d8cc6c50a824c00bf0d617919986a1 upstream.

The timekeeping code does not currently provide a way to translate
externally provided clocksource cycles to system time. The cycle count
is always provided by the result clocksource read() method internal to
the timekeeping code. The added function timekeeping_cycles_to_ns()
calculated a nanosecond value from a cycle count that can be added to
tk_read_base.base value yielding the current system time. This allows
clocksource cycle values external to the timekeeping code to provide a
cycle count that can be transformed to system time.

Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: kevin.b.stanton@intel.com
Cc: kevin.j.clarke@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christopher S. Hall &lt;christopher.s.hall@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/fork: fix CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID regression in nscd</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T13:23:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-01T23:15:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=82b7839a4063855b666f5bd2d309871cbbe21eff'/>
<id>82b7839a4063855b666f5bd2d309871cbbe21eff</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 735f2770a770156100f534646158cb58cb8b2939 upstream.

Commit fec1d0115240 ("[PATCH] Disable CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID for abnormal
exit") has caused a subtle regression in nscd which uses
CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID to clear the nscd_certainly_running flag in the
shared databases, so that the clients are notified when nscd is
restarted.  Now, when nscd uses a non-persistent database, clients that
have it mapped keep thinking the database is being updated by nscd, when
in fact nscd has created a new (anonymous) one (for non-persistent
databases it uses an unlinked file as backend).

The original proposal for the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID change claimed
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/25/233):

: The NPTL library uses the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID flag on clone() syscalls
: on behalf of pthread_create() library calls.  This feature is used to
: request that the kernel clear the thread-id in user space (at an address
: provided in the syscall) when the thread disassociates itself from the
: address space, which is done in mm_release().
:
: Unfortunately, when a multi-threaded process incurs a core dump (such as
: from a SIGSEGV), the core-dumping thread sends SIGKILL signals to all of
: the other threads, which then proceed to clear their user-space tids
: before synchronizing in exit_mm() with the start of core dumping.  This
: misrepresents the state of process's address space at the time of the
: SIGSEGV and makes it more difficult for someone to debug NPTL and glibc
: problems (misleading him/her to conclude that the threads had gone away
: before the fault).
:
: The fix below is to simply avoid the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID action if a
: core dump has been initiated.

The resulting patch from Roland (https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/26/269)
seems to have a larger scope than the original patch asked for.  It
seems that limitting the scope of the check to core dumping should work
for SIGSEGV issue describe above.

[Changelog partly based on Andreas' description]
Fixes: fec1d0115240 ("[PATCH] Disable CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID for abnormal exit")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471968749-26173-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: William Preston &lt;wpreston@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@hack.frob.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<pre>
commit 735f2770a770156100f534646158cb58cb8b2939 upstream.

Commit fec1d0115240 ("[PATCH] Disable CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID for abnormal
exit") has caused a subtle regression in nscd which uses
CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID to clear the nscd_certainly_running flag in the
shared databases, so that the clients are notified when nscd is
restarted.  Now, when nscd uses a non-persistent database, clients that
have it mapped keep thinking the database is being updated by nscd, when
in fact nscd has created a new (anonymous) one (for non-persistent
databases it uses an unlinked file as backend).

The original proposal for the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID change claimed
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/25/233):

: The NPTL library uses the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID flag on clone() syscalls
: on behalf of pthread_create() library calls.  This feature is used to
: request that the kernel clear the thread-id in user space (at an address
: provided in the syscall) when the thread disassociates itself from the
: address space, which is done in mm_release().
:
: Unfortunately, when a multi-threaded process incurs a core dump (such as
: from a SIGSEGV), the core-dumping thread sends SIGKILL signals to all of
: the other threads, which then proceed to clear their user-space tids
: before synchronizing in exit_mm() with the start of core dumping.  This
: misrepresents the state of process's address space at the time of the
: SIGSEGV and makes it more difficult for someone to debug NPTL and glibc
: problems (misleading him/her to conclude that the threads had gone away
: before the fault).
:
: The fix below is to simply avoid the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID action if a
: core dump has been initiated.

The resulting patch from Roland (https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/26/269)
seems to have a larger scope than the original patch asked for.  It
seems that limitting the scope of the check to core dumping should work
for SIGSEGV issue describe above.

[Changelog partly based on Andreas' description]
Fixes: fec1d0115240 ("[PATCH] Disable CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID for abnormal exit")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471968749-26173-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: William Preston &lt;wpreston@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@hack.frob.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T13:23:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan</name>
<email>subashab@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-25T22:16:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=70cd763eb1574cac07138be91f474a661e02d694'/>
<id>70cd763eb1574cac07138be91f474a661e02d694</id>
<content type='text'>
commit e7d316a02f683864a12389f8808570e37fb90aa3 upstream.

We have scripts which write to certain fields on 3.18 kernels but this
seems to be failing on 4.4 kernels.  An entry which we write to here is
xfrm_aevent_rseqth which is u32.

  echo 4294967295  &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_aevent_rseqth

Commit 230633d109e3 ("kernel/sysctl.c: detect overflows when converting
to int") prevented writing to sysctl entries when integer overflow
occurs.  However, this does not apply to unsigned integers.

Heinrich suggested that we introduce a new option to handle 64 bit
limits and set min as 0 and max as UINT_MAX.  This might not work as it
leads to issues similar to __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax.  Alternatively,
we would need to change the datatype of the entry to 64 bit.

  static int __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(void *data, struct ctl_table
  {
      i = (unsigned long *) data;   //This cast is causing to read beyond the size of data (u32)
      vleft = table-&gt;maxlen / sizeof(unsigned long); //vleft is 0 because maxlen is sizeof(u32) which is lesser than sizeof(unsigned long) on x86_64.

Introduce a new proc handler proc_douintvec.  Individual proc entries
will need to be updated to use the new handler.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Fixes: 230633d109e3 ("kernel/sysctl.c:detect overflows when converting to int")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471479806-5252-1-git-send-email-subashab@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e7d316a02f683864a12389f8808570e37fb90aa3 upstream.

We have scripts which write to certain fields on 3.18 kernels but this
seems to be failing on 4.4 kernels.  An entry which we write to here is
xfrm_aevent_rseqth which is u32.

  echo 4294967295  &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_aevent_rseqth

Commit 230633d109e3 ("kernel/sysctl.c: detect overflows when converting
to int") prevented writing to sysctl entries when integer overflow
occurs.  However, this does not apply to unsigned integers.

Heinrich suggested that we introduce a new option to handle 64 bit
limits and set min as 0 and max as UINT_MAX.  This might not work as it
leads to issues similar to __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax.  Alternatively,
we would need to change the datatype of the entry to 64 bit.

  static int __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(void *data, struct ctl_table
  {
      i = (unsigned long *) data;   //This cast is causing to read beyond the size of data (u32)
      vleft = table-&gt;maxlen / sizeof(unsigned long); //vleft is 0 because maxlen is sizeof(u32) which is lesser than sizeof(unsigned long) on x86_64.

Introduce a new proc handler proc_douintvec.  Individual proc entries
will need to be updated to use the new handler.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Fixes: 230633d109e3 ("kernel/sysctl.c:detect overflows when converting to int")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471479806-5252-1-git-send-email-subashab@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: fix parsing of "brl=" option</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T13:23:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Iooss</name>
<email>nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-25T22:17:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=6b502c1d73b49bd425f363765330da7fd7d46a20'/>
<id>6b502c1d73b49bd425f363765330da7fd7d46a20</id>
<content type='text'>
commit ae6c33ba6e37eea3012fe2640b22400ef3f2d0f3 upstream.

Commit bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into separate
braille.[ch] files") moved the parsing of braille-related options into
_braille_console_setup(), changing the type of variable str from char*
to char**.  In this commit, memcmp(str, "brl,", 4) was correctly updated
to memcmp(*str, "brl,", 4) but not memcmp(str, "brl=", 4).

Update the code to make "brl=" option work again and replace memcmp()
with strncmp() to make the compiler able to detect such an issue.

Fixes: bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] files")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160823165700.28952-1-nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss &lt;nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
commit ae6c33ba6e37eea3012fe2640b22400ef3f2d0f3 upstream.

Commit bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into separate
braille.[ch] files") moved the parsing of braille-related options into
_braille_console_setup(), changing the type of variable str from char*
to char**.  In this commit, memcmp(str, "brl,", 4) was correctly updated
to memcmp(*str, "brl,", 4) but not memcmp(str, "brl=", 4).

Update the code to make "brl=" option work again and replace memcmp()
with strncmp() to make the compiler able to detect such an issue.

Fixes: bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] files")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160823165700.28952-1-nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss &lt;nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix pmu::filter_match for SW-led groups</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T13:23:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-14T15:10:41+00:00</published>
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commit 2c81a6477081966fe80b8c6daa68459bca896774 upstream.

The following commit:

  66eb579e66ec ("perf: allow for PMU-specific event filtering")

added the pmu::filter_match() callback. This was intended to
avoid HW constraints on events from resulting in extremely
pessimistic scheduling.

However, pmu::filter_match() is only called for the leader of each event
group. When the leader is a SW event, we do not filter the groups, and
may fail at pmu::add() time, and when this happens we'll give up on
scheduling any event groups later in the list until they are rotated
ahead of the failing group.

This can result in extremely sub-optimal event scheduling behaviour,
e.g. if running the following on a big.LITTLE platform:

$ taskset -c 0 ./perf stat \
 -e 'a57{context-switches,armv8_cortex_a57/config=0x11/}' \
 -e 'a53{context-switches,armv8_cortex_a53/config=0x11/}' \
 ls

     &lt;not counted&gt;      context-switches                                              (0.00%)
     &lt;not counted&gt;      armv8_cortex_a57/config=0x11/                                 (0.00%)
                24      context-switches                                              (37.36%)
          57589154      armv8_cortex_a53/config=0x11/                                 (37.36%)

Here the 'a53' event group was always eligible to be scheduled, but
the 'a57' group never eligible to be scheduled, as the task was always
affine to a Cortex-A53 CPU. The SW (group leader) event in the 'a57'
group was eligible, but the HW event failed at pmu::add() time,
resulting in ctx_flexible_sched_in giving up on scheduling further
groups with HW events.

One way of avoiding this is to check pmu::filter_match() on siblings
as well as the group leader. If any of these fail their
pmu::filter_match() call, we must skip the entire group before
attempting to add any events.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 66eb579e66ec ("perf: allow for PMU-specific event filtering")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465917041-15339-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
[ Small readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2c81a6477081966fe80b8c6daa68459bca896774 upstream.

The following commit:

  66eb579e66ec ("perf: allow for PMU-specific event filtering")

added the pmu::filter_match() callback. This was intended to
avoid HW constraints on events from resulting in extremely
pessimistic scheduling.

However, pmu::filter_match() is only called for the leader of each event
group. When the leader is a SW event, we do not filter the groups, and
may fail at pmu::add() time, and when this happens we'll give up on
scheduling any event groups later in the list until they are rotated
ahead of the failing group.

This can result in extremely sub-optimal event scheduling behaviour,
e.g. if running the following on a big.LITTLE platform:

$ taskset -c 0 ./perf stat \
 -e 'a57{context-switches,armv8_cortex_a57/config=0x11/}' \
 -e 'a53{context-switches,armv8_cortex_a53/config=0x11/}' \
 ls

     &lt;not counted&gt;      context-switches                                              (0.00%)
     &lt;not counted&gt;      armv8_cortex_a57/config=0x11/                                 (0.00%)
                24      context-switches                                              (37.36%)
          57589154      armv8_cortex_a53/config=0x11/                                 (37.36%)

Here the 'a53' event group was always eligible to be scheduled, but
the 'a57' group never eligible to be scheduled, as the task was always
affine to a Cortex-A53 CPU. The SW (group leader) event in the 'a57'
group was eligible, but the HW event failed at pmu::add() time,
resulting in ctx_flexible_sched_in giving up on scheduling further
groups with HW events.

One way of avoiding this is to check pmu::filter_match() on siblings
as well as the group leader. If any of these fail their
pmu::filter_match() call, we must skip the entire group before
attempting to add any events.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 66eb579e66ec ("perf: allow for PMU-specific event filtering")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465917041-15339-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
[ Small readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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