linux/kernel
Mark Rutland 2fde4f94e0 perf: Decouple unthrottling and rotating
Currently the adjusments made as part of perf_event_task_tick() use the
percpu rotation lists to iterate over any active PMU contexts, but these
are not used by the context rotation code, having been replaced by
separate (per-context) hrtimer callbacks. However, some manipulation of
the rotation lists (i.e. removal of contexts) has remained in
perf_rotate_context(). This leads to the following issues:

* Contexts are not always removed from the rotation lists. Removal of
  PMUs which have been placed in rotation lists, but have not been
  removed by a hrtimer callback can result in corruption of the rotation
  lists (when memory backing the context is freed).

  This has been observed to result in hangs when PMU drivers built as
  modules are inserted and removed around the creation of events for
  said PMUs.

* Contexts which do not require rotation may be removed from the
  rotation lists as a result of a hrtimer, and will not be considered by
  the unthrottling code in perf_event_task_tick.

This patch fixes the issue by updating the rotation ist when events are
scheduled in/out, ensuring that each rotation list stays in sync with
the HW state. As each event holds a refcount on the module of its PMU,
this ensures that when a PMU module is unloaded none of its CPU contexts
can be in a rotation list. By maintaining a list of perf_event_contexts
rather than perf_event_cpu_contexts, we don't need separate paths to
handle the cpu and task contexts, which also makes the code a little
simpler.

As the rotation_list variables are not used for rotation, these are
renamed to active_ctx_list, which better matches their current function.
perf_pmu_rotate_{start,stop} are renamed to
perf_pmu_ctx_{activate,deactivate}.

Reported-by: Johannes Jensen <johannes.jensen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150129134511.GR17721@leverpostej
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-04 08:07:16 +01:00
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bpf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-01-27 13:55:36 -08:00
configs
debug Surprising number of fixes this merge window :( 2015-01-23 06:40:36 +12:00
events perf: Decouple unthrottling and rotating 2015-02-04 08:07:16 +01:00
gcov gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL from ARCH Kconfigs 2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00
irq genirq: Prevent proc race against freeing of irq descriptors 2014-12-13 13:33:07 +01:00
locking mutex: Always clear owner field upon mutex_unlock() 2015-01-09 11:20:39 +01:00
power PM: Eliminate CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME 2014-12-19 22:55:06 +01:00
printk This code is a fork from the trace-3.19 pull as it needed the trace_seq 2014-12-13 14:04:41 -08:00
rcu Merge branches 'torture.2014.11.03a', 'cpu.2014.11.03a', 'doc.2014.11.13a', 'fixes.2014.11.13a', 'signal.2014.10.29a' and 'rt.2014.10.29a' into HEAD 2014-11-13 10:39:04 -08:00
sched Linux 3.19-rc7 2015-02-04 07:58:29 +01:00
time Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-01-25 17:47:34 -08:00
trace Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes 2015-01-28 15:42:56 +01:00
.gitignore
acct.c acct: eliminate compile warning 2014-10-09 22:26:04 -04:00
async.c kernel/async.c: switch to pr_foo() 2014-10-09 22:26:04 -04:00
audit_tree.c fsnotify: unify inode and mount marks handling 2014-12-13 12:42:53 -08:00
audit_watch.c
audit.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-12-30 10:45:47 -08:00
audit.h
auditfilter.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2014-12-23 18:13:16 -08:00
auditsc.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2014-12-31 14:52:18 -08:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup_freezer.c
cgroup.c cgroup: prevent mount hang due to memory controller lifetime 2015-01-22 10:26:43 -05:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c sched: stop the unbound recursion in preempt_schedule_context() 2014-10-28 10:46:05 +01:00
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c cpu: Avoid puts_pending overflow 2014-11-03 19:21:01 -08:00
cpuset.c Merge branch 'for-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2014-12-11 18:57:19 -08:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c exit: fix race between wait_consider_task() and wait_task_zombie() 2015-01-08 15:10:51 -08:00
extable.c ftrace/x86/extable: Add is_ftrace_trampoline() function 2014-11-19 15:25:26 -05:00
fork.c mm: use new helper functions around the i_mmap_mutex 2014-12-13 12:42:45 -08:00
freezer.c freezer: remove obsolete comments in __thaw_task() 2014-10-21 23:44:20 +02:00
futex_compat.c
futex.c futex: Fix a race condition between REQUEUE_PI and task death 2014-10-26 16:16:18 +01:00
groups.c userns: Don't allow setgroups until a gid mapping has been setablished 2014-12-09 16:58:40 -06:00
hung_task.c
irq_work.c percpu: Convert remaining __get_cpu_var uses in 3.18-rcX 2014-10-29 11:18:18 -04:00
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c kernel/kallsyms.c: use __seq_open_private() 2014-10-14 02:18:16 +02:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: remove unnecessary KERN_ERR from kexec.c 2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00
kmod.c usermodehelper: kill the kmod_thread_locker logic 2014-12-10 17:41:17 -08:00
kprobes.c module: remove mod arg from module_free, rename module_memfree(). 2015-01-20 11:38:33 +10:30
ksysfs.c
kthread.c kernel/kthread.c: partial revert of 81c98869fa ("kthread: ensure locality of task_struct allocations") 2014-10-09 22:25:51 -04:00
latencytop.c
Makefile kernel: res_counter: remove the unused API 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
module_signing.c
module-internal.h
module.c module: make module_refcount() a signed integer. 2015-01-22 11:15:54 +10:30
notifier.c
nsproxy.c bury struct proc_ns in fs/proc 2014-12-04 14:34:54 -05:00
padata.c
panic.c kernel: add panic_on_warn 2014-12-10 17:41:10 -08:00
params.c param: fix uninitialized read with CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 2015-01-20 11:38:31 +10:30
pid_namespace.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-12-16 15:53:03 -08:00
pid.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-12-16 15:53:03 -08:00
profile.c
ptrace.c exit: ptrace: shift "reap dead" code from exit_ptrace() to forget_original_parent() 2014-12-10 17:41:10 -08:00
range.c kernel: avoid overflow in cmp_range 2015-01-17 10:02:23 +13:00
reboot.c
relay.c
resource.c x86: optimize resource lookups for ioremap 2014-10-14 02:18:22 +02:00
seccomp.c Merge branch 'x86-seccomp-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-14 02:27:06 +02:00
signal.c Merge branch 'x86-mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-12-10 09:34:43 -08:00
smp.c Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
smpboot.c sched, smp: Correctly deal with nested sleeps 2014-10-28 10:56:24 +01:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_note_context_switch() 2014-11-03 19:20:34 -08:00
stacktrace.c stacktrace: introduce snprint_stack_trace for buffer output 2014-12-13 12:42:48 -08:00
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c syscalls: implement execveat() system call 2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00
sys.c x86, mpx: Strictly enforce empty prctl() args 2015-01-22 21:11:06 +01:00
sysctl_binary.c kernel: add panic_on_warn 2014-12-10 17:41:10 -08:00
sysctl.c As the merge window is still open, and this code was not as complex 2014-12-16 12:53:59 -08:00
system_certificates.S
system_keyring.c
task_work.c
taskstats.c kill f_dentry uses 2014-11-19 13:01:25 -05:00
test_kprobes.c
torture.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c groups: Consolidate the setgroups permission checks 2014-12-05 17:19:27 -06:00
up.c
user_namespace.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2014-12-17 12:31:40 -08:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2014-12-17 12:31:40 -08:00
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c copy address of proc_ns_ops into ns_common 2014-12-04 14:34:47 -05:00
watchdog.c Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c workqueue: fix subtle pool management issue which can stall whole worker_pool 2015-01-16 14:21:16 -05:00