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perf/core: Fix hardlockup failure caused by perf throttle
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commit e050e3f ("perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling")
introduces a change in throttling threshold judgment. Before this,
compare hwc->interrupts and max_samples_per_tick, then increase
hwc->interrupts by 1, but this commit reverses order of these two
behaviors, causing the semantics of max_samples_per_tick to change.
In literal sense of "max_samples_per_tick", if hwc->interrupts ==
max_samples_per_tick, it should not be throttled, therefore, the judgment
condition should be changed to "hwc->interrupts > max_samples_per_tick".

In fact, this may cause the hardlockup to fail, The minimum value of
max_samples_per_tick may be 1, in this case, the return value of
__perf_event_account_interrupt function is 1.
As a result, nmi_watchdog gets throttled, which would stop PMU (Use x86
architecture as an example, see x86_pmu_handle_irq).

Fixes: e050e3f ("perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling")
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227023508.102230-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com
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Yang Jihong authored and Peter Zijlstra committed Apr 14, 2023
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions kernel/events/core.c
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Expand Up @@ -9433,8 +9433,8 @@ __perf_event_account_interrupt(struct perf_event *event, int throttle)
hwc->interrupts = 1;
} else {
hwc->interrupts++;
if (unlikely(throttle
&& hwc->interrupts >= max_samples_per_tick)) {
if (unlikely(throttle &&
hwc->interrupts > max_samples_per_tick)) {
__this_cpu_inc(perf_throttled_count);
tick_dep_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), TICK_DEP_BIT_PERF_EVENTS);
hwc->interrupts = MAX_INTERRUPTS;
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