[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "perf, x86: fix kernel crash with PEBS/BTS after suspend/resume" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Mar 20 10:43:55 UTC 2013
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
perf,x86: fix kernel crash with PEBS/BTS after suspend/resume
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 a27090150fb7e7389840d4666f227db5e19e0ac2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephane Eranian <eranian at google.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:26:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] perf,x86: fix kernel crash with PEBS/BTS after suspend/resume
commit 1d9d8639c063caf6efc2447f5f26aa637f844ff6 upstream.
This patch fixes a kernel crash when using precise sampling (PEBS)
after a suspend/resume. Turns out the CPU notifier code is not invoked
on CPU0 (BP). Therefore, the DS_AREA (used by PEBS) is not restored properly
by the kernel and keeps it power-on/resume value of 0 causing any PEBS
measurement to crash when running on CPU0.
The workaround is to add a hook in the actual resume code to restore
the DS Area MSR value. It is invoked for all CPUS. So for all but CPU0,
the DS_AREA will be restored twice but this is harmless.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c | 8 ++++++++
arch/x86/power/cpu.c | 2 ++
include/linux/perf_event.h | 2 ++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
index 35e2192..9a9be1e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
@@ -714,3 +714,11 @@ void intel_ds_init(void)
}
}
}
+
+void perf_restore_debug_store(void)
+{
+ if (!x86_pmu.bts && !x86_pmu.pebs)
+ return;
+
+ init_debug_store_on_cpu(smp_processor_id());
+}
diff --git a/arch/x86/power/cpu.c b/arch/x86/power/cpu.c
index 218cdb1..fcbaac60 100644
--- a/arch/x86/power/cpu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/power/cpu.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <linux/suspend.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/perf_event.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/proto.h>
@@ -227,6 +228,7 @@ static void __restore_processor_state(struct saved_context *ctxt)
do_fpu_end();
x86_platform.restore_sched_clock_state();
mtrr_bp_restore();
+ perf_restore_debug_store();
}
/* Needed by apm.c */
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index c3c98a6..1d56bf6 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -1295,6 +1295,7 @@ extern void perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(int rctx);
extern void perf_event_enable(struct perf_event *event);
extern void perf_event_disable(struct perf_event *event);
extern void perf_event_task_tick(void);
+extern void perf_restore_debug_store(void);
#else
static inline void
perf_event_task_sched_in(struct task_struct *prev,
@@ -1333,6 +1334,7 @@ static inline void perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(int rctx) { }
static inline void perf_event_enable(struct perf_event *event) { }
static inline void perf_event_disable(struct perf_event *event) { }
static inline void perf_event_task_tick(void) { }
+static inline void perf_restore_debug_store(void) { }
#endif
#define perf_output_put(handle, x) perf_output_copy((handle), &(x), sizeof(x))
--
1.8.1.2
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