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perf/x86/intel: Use PAGE_SIZE for PEBS buffer size on Core2
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commit e72daf3 upstream.

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: 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>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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Jiri Olsa authored and Jiri Slaby committed Apr 11, 2016
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
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Expand Up @@ -430,6 +430,7 @@ struct x86_pmu {
pebs_active :1,
pebs_broken :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);
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13 changes: 11 additions & 2 deletions arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
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Expand Up @@ -224,11 +224,11 @@ 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;

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;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1020,6 +1020,7 @@ void 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;
Expand All @@ -1028,6 +1029,14 @@ void intel_ds_init(void)
case 0:
printk(KERN_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;

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