[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "perf: Clone child context from parent context pmu" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Jul 24 09:11:45 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    perf: Clone child context from parent context pmu

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 3c9544a2a95d3f75336dcc86a24b269d21c0ef69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 17:44:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] perf: Clone child context from parent context pmu

commit 734df5ab549ca44f40de0f07af1c8803856dfb18 upstream.

Currently when the child context for inherited events is
created, it's based on the pmu object of the first event
of the parent context.

This is wrong for the following scenario:

  - HW context having HW and SW event
  - HW event got removed (closed)
  - SW event stays in HW context as the only event
    and its pmu is used to clone the child context

The issue starts when the cpu context object is touched
based on the pmu context object (__get_cpu_context). In
this case the HW context will work with SW cpu context
ending up with following WARN below.

Fixing this by using parent context pmu object to clone
from child context.

Addresses the following warning reported by Vince Weaver:

[ 2716.472065] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 2716.476035] WARNING: at kernel/events/core.c:2122 task_ctx_sched_out+0x3c/0x)
[ 2716.476035] Modules linked in: nfsd auth_rpcgss oid_registry nfs_acl nfs locn
[ 2716.476035] CPU: 0 PID: 3164 Comm: perf_fuzzer Not tainted 3.10.0-rc4 #2
[ 2716.476035] Hardware name: AOpen   DE7000/nMCP7ALPx-DE R1.06 Oct.19.2012, BI2
[ 2716.476035]  0000000000000000 ffffffff8102e215 0000000000000000 ffff88011fc18
[ 2716.476035]  ffff8801175557f0 0000000000000000 ffff880119fda88c ffffffff810ad
[ 2716.476035]  ffff880119fda880 ffffffff810af02a 0000000000000009 ffff880117550
[ 2716.476035] Call Trace:
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff8102e215>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x5b/0x70
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff810ab2bd>] ? task_ctx_sched_out+0x3c/0x5f
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff810af02a>] ? perf_event_exit_task+0xbf/0x194
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff81032a37>] ? do_exit+0x3e7/0x90c
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff810cd5ab>] ? __do_fault+0x359/0x394
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff81032fe6>] ? do_group_exit+0x66/0x98
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff8103dbcd>] ? get_signal_to_deliver+0x479/0x4ad
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff810ac05c>] ? __perf_event_task_sched_out+0x230/0x2d1
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff8100205d>] ? do_signal+0x3c/0x432
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff810abbf9>] ? ctx_sched_in+0x43/0x141
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff810ac2ca>] ? perf_event_context_sched_in+0x7a/0x90
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff810ac311>] ? __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x31/0x118
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff81050dd9>] ? mmdrop+0xd/0x1c
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff81051a39>] ? finish_task_switch+0x7d/0xa6
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff81002473>] ? do_notify_resume+0x20/0x5d
[ 2716.476035]  [<ffffffff813654f5>] ? retint_signal+0x3d/0x78
[ 2716.476035] ---[ end trace 827178d8a5966c3d ]---

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver at maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373384651-6109-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index f5505f7..b373584 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -6936,7 +6936,7 @@ inherit_task_group(struct perf_event *event, struct task_struct *parent,
 		 * child.
 		 */

-		child_ctx = alloc_perf_context(event->pmu, child);
+		child_ctx = alloc_perf_context(parent_ctx->pmu, child);
 		if (!child_ctx)
 			return -ENOMEM;

--
1.8.1.2





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