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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-20 20:13:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-20 20:12:54 +0200 |
| commit | 34adc8062227f41b04ade0ff3fbd1dbe3002669e (patch) | |
| tree | 9af82847422445f838dbe6a8850f456352922910 /kernel | |
| parent | afedadf23a2c90f3ba0d963282cbe6a6be129494 (diff) | |
| download | linux-34adc8062227f41b04ade0ff3fbd1dbe3002669e.tar.bz2 | |
perf_counter: Fix context removal deadlock
Disable the PMU globally before removing a counter from a
context. This fixes the following lockup:
[22081.741922] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[22081.746668] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c:803 intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x9b/0x24e()
[22081.755624] Hardware name: X8DTN
[22081.758903] perfcounters: irq loop stuck!
[22081.762985] Modules linked in:
[22081.766136] Pid: 11082, comm: perf Not tainted 2.6.30-rc6-tip #226
[22081.772432] Call Trace:
[22081.774940] <NMI> [<ffffffff81019aed>] ? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x9b/0x24e
[22081.781993] [<ffffffff81019aed>] ? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x9b/0x24e
[22081.788368] [<ffffffff8104505c>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xa3
[22081.794649] [<ffffffff810450d3>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x40/0x45
[22081.800696] [<ffffffff81019aed>] ? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x9b/0x24e
[22081.807080] [<ffffffff814d1a72>] ? perf_counter_nmi_handler+0x3f/0x4a
[22081.813751] [<ffffffff814d2d09>] ? notifier_call_chain+0x58/0x86
[22081.819951] [<ffffffff8105b250>] ? notify_die+0x2d/0x32
[22081.825392] [<ffffffff814d1414>] ? do_nmi+0x8e/0x242
[22081.830538] [<ffffffff814d0f0a>] ? nmi+0x1a/0x20
[22081.835342] [<ffffffff8117e102>] ? selinux_file_free_security+0x0/0x1a
[22081.842105] [<ffffffff81018793>] ? x86_pmu_disable_counter+0x15/0x41
[22081.848673] <<EOE>> [<ffffffff81018f3d>] ? x86_pmu_disable+0x86/0x103
[22081.855512] [<ffffffff8108fedd>] ? __perf_counter_remove_from_context+0x0/0xfe
[22081.862926] [<ffffffff8108fcbc>] ? counter_sched_out+0x30/0xce
[22081.868909] [<ffffffff8108ff36>] ? __perf_counter_remove_from_context+0x59/0xfe
[22081.876382] [<ffffffff8106808a>] ? smp_call_function_single+0x6c/0xe6
[22081.882955] [<ffffffff81091b96>] ? perf_release+0x86/0x14c
[22081.888600] [<ffffffff810c4c84>] ? __fput+0xe7/0x195
[22081.893718] [<ffffffff810c213e>] ? filp_close+0x5b/0x62
[22081.899107] [<ffffffff81046a70>] ? put_files_struct+0x64/0xc2
[22081.905031] [<ffffffff8104841a>] ? do_exit+0x1e2/0x6ef
[22081.910360] [<ffffffff814d0a60>] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0xe
[22081.916292] [<ffffffff8104898e>] ? do_group_exit+0x67/0x93
[22081.921953] [<ffffffff810489cc>] ? sys_exit_group+0x12/0x16
[22081.927759] [<ffffffff8100baab>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[22081.934076] ---[ end trace 3a3936ce3e1b4505 ]---
And could potentially also fix the lockup reported by Marcelo Tosatti.
Also, print more debug info in case of a detected lockup.
[ Impact: fix lockup ]
Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/perf_counter.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c index 69d4de815963..08584c16049f 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_counter.c +++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c @@ -208,18 +208,17 @@ static void __perf_counter_remove_from_context(void *info) return; spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->lock, flags); + /* + * Protect the list operation against NMI by disabling the + * counters on a global level. + */ + perf_disable(); counter_sched_out(counter, cpuctx, ctx); counter->task = NULL; - /* - * Protect the list operation against NMI by disabling the - * counters on a global level. NOP for non NMI based counters. - */ - perf_disable(); list_del_counter(counter, ctx); - perf_enable(); if (!ctx->task) { /* @@ -231,6 +230,7 @@ static void __perf_counter_remove_from_context(void *info) perf_max_counters - perf_reserved_percpu); } + perf_enable(); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->lock, flags); } |