[PATCH] perf: Prevent race in unthrottling code

[Jiri Olsa]

The current throttling code triggers WARN below via following
workload (only hit on AMD machine with 48 CPUs):

  # while [ 1 ]; do perf record perf bench sched messaging; done

  WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c:1054 x86_pmu_start+0xc6/0x100()
  SNIP
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>  [<ffffffff815f62d6>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
   [<ffffffff8105f531>] warn_slowpath_common+0x61/0x80
   [<ffffffff8105f60a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
   [<ffffffff810213a6>] x86_pmu_start+0xc6/0x100
   [<ffffffff81129dd2>] perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context.part.75+0x182/0x1a0
   [<ffffffff8112a058>] perf_event_task_tick+0xc8/0xf0
   [<ffffffff81093221>] scheduler_tick+0xd1/0x140
   [<ffffffff81070176>] update_process_times+0x66/0x80
   [<ffffffff810b9565>] tick_sched_handle.isra.15+0x25/0x60
   [<ffffffff810b95e1>] tick_sched_timer+0x41/0x60
   [<ffffffff81087c24>] __run_hrtimer+0x74/0x1d0
   [<ffffffff810b95a0>] ? tick_sched_handle.isra.15+0x60/0x60
   [<ffffffff81088407>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xf7/0x240
   [<ffffffff81606829>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x69/0x9c
   [<ffffffff8160569d>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80
   <EOI>  [<ffffffff81129f74>] ? __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x184/0x1a0
   [<ffffffff814dd937>] ? kfree_skbmem+0x37/0x90
   [<ffffffff815f2c47>] ? __slab_free+0x1ac/0x30f
   [<ffffffff8118143d>] ? kfree+0xfd/0x130
   [<ffffffff81181622>] kmem_cache_free+0x1b2/0x1d0
   [<ffffffff814dd937>] kfree_skbmem+0x37/0x90
   [<ffffffff814e03c4>] consume_skb+0x34/0x80
   [<ffffffff8158b057>] unix_stream_recvmsg+0x4e7/0x820
   [<ffffffff814d5546>] sock_aio_read.part.7+0x116/0x130
   [<ffffffff8112c10c>] ? __perf_sw_event+0x19c/0x1e0
   [<ffffffff814d5581>] sock_aio_read+0x21/0x30
   [<ffffffff8119a5d0>] do_sync_read+0x80/0xb0
   [<ffffffff8119ac85>] vfs_read+0x145/0x170
   [<ffffffff8119b699>] SyS_read+0x49/0xa0
   [<ffffffff810df516>] ? __audit_syscall_exit+0x1f6/0x2a0
   [<ffffffff81604a19>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  ---[ end trace 622b7e226c4a766a ]---

The reason is race in perf_event_task_tick throttling code.
The race flow (simplified code):

  - perf_throttled_count is per cpu variable and is
    CPU throttling flag, here starting with 0
  - perf_throttled_seq is sequence/domain for allowed
    count of interrupts within the tick, gets increased
    each tick

    on single CPU (CPU bounded event):

      ... workload

    perf_event_task_tick:
    |
    | T0    inc(perf_throttled_seq)
    | T1    needs_unthr = xchg(perf_throttled_count, 0) == 0
     tick gets interrupted:

            ... event gets throttled under new seq ...

      T2    last NMI comes, event is throttled - inc(perf_throttled_count)

     back to tick:
    | perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context:
    |
    | T3    unthrottling is skiped for event (needs_unthr == 0)
    | T4    event is stop and started via freq adjustment
    |
    tick ends

      ... workload
      ... no sample is hit for event ...

    perf_event_task_tick:
    |
    | T5    needs_unthr = xchg(perf_throttled_count, 0) != 0 (from T2)
    | T6    unthrottling is done on event (interrupts == MAX_INTERRUPTS)
    |       event is already started (from T4) -> WARN

Fixing this by not checking needs_unthr again and thus
check all events for unthrottling.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 928fae7..299d1f1 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -2709,7 +2709,7 @@ static void perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context(struct perf_event_context *ctx,
 
 		hwc = &event->hw;
 
-		if (needs_unthr && hwc->interrupts == MAX_INTERRUPTS) {
+		if (hwc->interrupts == MAX_INTERRUPTS) {
 			hwc->interrupts = 0;
 			perf_log_throttle(event, 1);
 			event->pmu->start(event, 0);
-- 
1.7.11.7

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