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author | 2016-03-21 11:47:52 +0100 | |
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committer | 2016-03-31 09:54:08 +0200 | |
commit | 85dc600263c2291cea33bffa90038808ee64198b (patch) | |
tree | 60f88040994fa72a9f24641e575f6241eadae7dd /arch/x86 | |
parent | perf/core: Don't leak event in the syscall error path (diff) | |
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perf/x86/amd/ibs: Fix pmu::stop() nesting
Patch 5a50f5291701 ("perf/x86/ibs: Fix race with IBS_STARTING state")
closed a big hole while opening another, smaller hole.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Fixes: 5a50f5291701 ("perf/x86/ibs: Fix race with IBS_STARTING state")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c | 52 |
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c index 3ea25c3917c0..feb90f6730e8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c @@ -28,10 +28,46 @@ static u32 ibs_caps; #define IBS_FETCH_CONFIG_MASK (IBS_FETCH_RAND_EN | IBS_FETCH_MAX_CNT) #define IBS_OP_CONFIG_MASK IBS_OP_MAX_CNT + +/* + * IBS states: + * + * ENABLED; tracks the pmu::add(), pmu::del() state, when set the counter is taken + * and any further add()s must fail. + * + * STARTED/STOPPING/STOPPED; deal with pmu::start(), pmu::stop() state but are + * complicated by the fact that the IBS hardware can send late NMIs (ie. after + * we've cleared the EN bit). + * + * In order to consume these late NMIs we have the STOPPED state, any NMI that + * happens after we've cleared the EN state will clear this bit and report the + * NMI handled (this is fundamentally racy in the face or multiple NMI sources, + * someone else can consume our BIT and our NMI will go unhandled). + * + * And since we cannot set/clear this separate bit together with the EN bit, + * there are races; if we cleared STARTED early, an NMI could land in + * between clearing STARTED and clearing the EN bit (in fact multiple NMIs + * could happen if the period is small enough), and consume our STOPPED bit + * and trigger streams of unhandled NMIs. + * + * If, however, we clear STARTED late, an NMI can hit between clearing the + * EN bit and clearing STARTED, still see STARTED set and process the event. + * If this event will have the VALID bit clear, we bail properly, but this + * is not a given. With VALID set we can end up calling pmu::stop() again + * (the throttle logic) and trigger the WARNs in there. + * + * So what we do is set STOPPING before clearing EN to avoid the pmu::stop() + * nesting, and clear STARTED late, so that we have a well defined state over + * the clearing of the EN bit. + * + * XXX: we could probably be using !atomic bitops for all this. + */ + enum ibs_states { IBS_ENABLED = 0, IBS_STARTED = 1, IBS_STOPPING = 2, + IBS_STOPPED = 3, IBS_MAX_STATES, }; @@ -377,11 +413,10 @@ static void perf_ibs_start(struct perf_event *event, int flags) perf_ibs_set_period(perf_ibs, hwc, &period); /* - * Set STARTED before enabling the hardware, such that - * a subsequent NMI must observe it. Then clear STOPPING - * such that we don't consume NMIs by accident. + * Set STARTED before enabling the hardware, such that a subsequent NMI + * must observe it. */ - set_bit(IBS_STARTED, pcpu->state); + set_bit(IBS_STARTED, pcpu->state); clear_bit(IBS_STOPPING, pcpu->state); perf_ibs_enable_event(perf_ibs, hwc, period >> 4); @@ -396,6 +431,9 @@ static void perf_ibs_stop(struct perf_event *event, int flags) u64 config; int stopping; + if (test_and_set_bit(IBS_STOPPING, pcpu->state)) + return; + stopping = test_bit(IBS_STARTED, pcpu->state); if (!stopping && (hwc->state & PERF_HES_UPTODATE)) @@ -405,12 +443,12 @@ static void perf_ibs_stop(struct perf_event *event, int flags) if (stopping) { /* - * Set STOPPING before disabling the hardware, such that it + * Set STOPPED before disabling the hardware, such that it * must be visible to NMIs the moment we clear the EN bit, * at which point we can generate an !VALID sample which * we need to consume. */ - set_bit(IBS_STOPPING, pcpu->state); + set_bit(IBS_STOPPED, pcpu->state); perf_ibs_disable_event(perf_ibs, hwc, config); /* * Clear STARTED after disabling the hardware; if it were @@ -556,7 +594,7 @@ fail: * with samples that even have the valid bit cleared. * Mark all this NMIs as handled. */ - if (test_and_clear_bit(IBS_STOPPING, pcpu->state)) + if (test_and_clear_bit(IBS_STOPPED, pcpu->state)) return 1; return 0; |