[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "perf: Fix irq_work 'tail' recursion" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    perf: Fix irq_work 'tail' recursion

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt10.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:03:11 +0100
Subject: perf: Fix irq_work 'tail' recursion

commit d525211f9d1be8b523ec7633f080f2116f5ea536 upstream.

Vince reported a watchdog lockup like:

	[<ffffffff8115e114>] perf_tp_event+0xc4/0x210
	[<ffffffff810b4f8a>] perf_trace_lock+0x12a/0x160
	[<ffffffff810b7f10>] lock_release+0x130/0x260
	[<ffffffff816c7474>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x24/0x40
	[<ffffffff8107bb4d>] do_send_sig_info+0x5d/0x80
	[<ffffffff811f69df>] send_sigio_to_task+0x12f/0x1a0
	[<ffffffff811f71ce>] send_sigio+0xae/0x100
	[<ffffffff811f72b7>] kill_fasync+0x97/0xf0
	[<ffffffff8115d0b4>] perf_event_wakeup+0xd4/0xf0
	[<ffffffff8115d103>] perf_pending_event+0x33/0x60
	[<ffffffff8114e3fc>] irq_work_run_list+0x4c/0x80
	[<ffffffff8114e448>] irq_work_run+0x18/0x40
	[<ffffffff810196af>] smp_trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x3f/0xc0
	[<ffffffff816c99bd>] trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x6d/0x80

Which is caused by an irq_work generating new irq_work and therefore
not allowing forward progress.

This happens because processing the perf irq_work triggers another
perf event (tracepoint stuff) which in turn generates an irq_work ad
infinitum.

Avoid this by raising the recursion counter in the irq_work -- which
effectively disables all software events (including tracepoints) from
actually triggering again.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver at maine.edu>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver at maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150219170311.GH21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 5a84ca5165ae..92320781b140 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -4299,6 +4299,13 @@ static void perf_pending_event(struct irq_work *entry)
 {
 	struct perf_event *event = container_of(entry,
 			struct perf_event, pending);
+	int rctx;
+
+	rctx = perf_swevent_get_recursion_context();
+	/*
+	 * If we 'fail' here, that's OK, it means recursion is already disabled
+	 * and we won't recurse 'further'.
+	 */

 	if (event->pending_disable) {
 		event->pending_disable = 0;
@@ -4309,6 +4316,9 @@ static void perf_pending_event(struct irq_work *entry)
 		event->pending_wakeup = 0;
 		perf_event_wakeup(event);
 	}
+
+	if (rctx >= 0)
+		perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(rctx);
 }

 /*