perf/x86/intel: Use PAGE_SIZE for PEBS buffer size on Core2
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tue, 1 Mar 2016 19:03:52 +0000 (20:03 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 8 Mar 2016 11:18:32 +0000 (12:18 +0100)
Using PAGE_SIZE buffers makes the WRMSR to PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL in
intel_pmu_enable_all() mysteriously hang on Core2. As a workaround, we
don't do this.

The hard lockup is easily triggered by running 'perf test attr'
repeatedly. Most of the time it gets stuck on sample session with
small periods.

  # perf test attr -vv
  14: struct perf_event_attr setup                             :
  --- start ---
  ...
    'PERF_TEST_ATTR=/tmp/tmpuEKz3B /usr/bin/perf record -o /tmp/tmpuEKz3B/perf.data -c 123 kill >/dev/null 2>&1' ret 1

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160301190352.GA8355@krava.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
arch/x86/events/perf_event.h

index c8a243d6fc82fc996a92b6a90f5d0fdfd74f306d..22ece02d01b6b186063620721ee7b909c50230a2 100644 (file)
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static int alloc_pebs_buffer(int cpu)
        if (!x86_pmu.pebs)
                return 0;
 
-       buffer = kzalloc_node(PEBS_BUFFER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, node);
+       buffer = kzalloc_node(x86_pmu.pebs_buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL, node);
        if (unlikely(!buffer))
                return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ static int alloc_pebs_buffer(int cpu)
                per_cpu(insn_buffer, cpu) = ibuffer;
        }
 
-       max = PEBS_BUFFER_SIZE / x86_pmu.pebs_record_size;
+       max = x86_pmu.pebs_buffer_size / x86_pmu.pebs_record_size;
 
        ds->pebs_buffer_base = (u64)(unsigned long)buffer;
        ds->pebs_index = ds->pebs_buffer_base;
@@ -1319,6 +1319,7 @@ void __init intel_ds_init(void)
 
        x86_pmu.bts  = boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_BTS);
        x86_pmu.pebs = boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PEBS);
+       x86_pmu.pebs_buffer_size = PEBS_BUFFER_SIZE;
        if (x86_pmu.pebs) {
                char pebs_type = x86_pmu.intel_cap.pebs_trap ?  '+' : '-';
                int format = x86_pmu.intel_cap.pebs_format;
@@ -1327,6 +1328,14 @@ void __init intel_ds_init(void)
                case 0:
                        pr_cont("PEBS fmt0%c, ", pebs_type);
                        x86_pmu.pebs_record_size = sizeof(struct pebs_record_core);
+                       /*
+                        * Using >PAGE_SIZE buffers makes the WRMSR to
+                        * PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL in intel_pmu_enable_all()
+                        * mysteriously hang on Core2.
+                        *
+                        * As a workaround, we don't do this.
+                        */
+                       x86_pmu.pebs_buffer_size = PAGE_SIZE;
                        x86_pmu.drain_pebs = intel_pmu_drain_pebs_core;
                        break;
 
index 7bb61e32fb29fdb5ba579005140c0884f1b93754..1ab6279fed1d3bf9b7e0787b14aa275dfa1ddf14 100644 (file)
@@ -586,6 +586,7 @@ struct x86_pmu {
                        pebs_broken     :1,
                        pebs_prec_dist  :1;
        int             pebs_record_size;
+       int             pebs_buffer_size;
        void            (*drain_pebs)(struct pt_regs *regs);
        struct event_constraint *pebs_constraints;
        void            (*pebs_aliases)(struct perf_event *event);