[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "perf/core: Disable the event on a truncated AUX record" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    perf/core: Disable the event on a truncated AUX record

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt11.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 16:18:33 +0300
Subject: perf/core: Disable the event on a truncated AUX record

commit 9f448cd3cbcec8995935e60b27802ae56aac8cc0 upstream.

When the PMU driver reports a truncated AUX record, it effectively means
that there is no more usable room in the event's AUX buffer (even though
there may still be some room, so that perf_aux_output_begin() doesn't take
action). At this point the consumer still has to be woken up and the event
has to be disabled, otherwise the event will just keep spinning between
perf_aux_output_begin() and perf_aux_output_end() until its context gets
unscheduled.

Again, for cpu-wide events this means never, so once in this condition,
they will be forever losing data.

Fix this by disabling the event and waking up the consumer in case of a
truncated AUX record.

Reported-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian at google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver at maine.edu>
Cc: vince at deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462886313-13660-3-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index c8aa3f7..6676592 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ void perf_aux_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle, unsigned long size,
 			 bool truncated)
 {
 	struct ring_buffer *rb = handle->rb;
+	bool wakeup = truncated;
 	unsigned long aux_head;
 	u64 flags = 0;

@@ -375,9 +376,16 @@ void perf_aux_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle, unsigned long size,
 	aux_head = rb->user_page->aux_head = local_read(&rb->aux_head);

 	if (aux_head - local_read(&rb->aux_wakeup) >= rb->aux_watermark) {
-		perf_output_wakeup(handle);
+		wakeup = true;
 		local_add(rb->aux_watermark, &rb->aux_wakeup);
 	}
+
+	if (wakeup) {
+		if (truncated)
+			handle->event->pending_disable = 1;
+		perf_output_wakeup(handle);
+	}
+
 	handle->event = NULL;

 	local_set(&rb->aux_nest, 0);
--
2.7.4