[PATCH 1/2] perf/poweprc/hv-24x7: Use per-cpu page buffer

[Sukadev Bhattiprolu]

The 24x7 counters are continuously running and not updated on an interrupt.
So we record the event counts when stopping the event or deleting it.

But to "read" a single counter in 24x7, we allocate a page and pass it
into the hypervisor (The HV returns the page full of counters from which
we extract the specific counter for this event).

We allocate a page using GFP_USER and when deleting the event, we end up
with the following warning because we are blocking in interrupt context.

	[  698.641709] BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0/0x10010000

We could use GFP_ATOMIC but that could result in failures. Pre-allocate
a buffer so we don't have to allocate in interrupt context. Further as
Michael Ellerman suggested, use Per-CPU buffer so we only need to allocate
once per CPU.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c | 21 +++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c
index dba3408..18e1f49 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c
@@ -217,11 +217,14 @@ static bool is_physical_domain(int domain)
 		domain == HV_24X7_PERF_DOMAIN_PHYSICAL_CORE;
 }
 
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(char, hv_24x7_reqb[4096]);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(char, hv_24x7_resb[4096]);
+
 static unsigned long single_24x7_request(u8 domain, u32 offset, u16 ix,
 					 u16 lpar, u64 *res,
 					 bool success_expected)
 {
-	unsigned long ret = -ENOMEM;
+	unsigned long ret;
 
 	/*
 	 * request_buffer and result_buffer are not required to be 4k aligned,
@@ -243,13 +246,11 @@ static unsigned long single_24x7_request(u8 domain, u32 offset, u16 ix,
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*request_buffer) > 4096);
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*result_buffer) > 4096);
 
-	request_buffer = kmem_cache_zalloc(hv_page_cache, GFP_USER);
-	if (!request_buffer)
-		goto out;
+	request_buffer = (void *)get_cpu_var(hv_24x7_reqb);
+	result_buffer = (void *)get_cpu_var(hv_24x7_resb);
 
-	result_buffer = kmem_cache_zalloc(hv_page_cache, GFP_USER);
-	if (!result_buffer)
-		goto out_free_request_buffer;
+	memset(request_buffer, 0, 4096);
+	memset(result_buffer, 0, 4096);
 
 	*request_buffer = (struct reqb) {
 		.buf = {
@@ -278,15 +279,11 @@ static unsigned long single_24x7_request(u8 domain, u32 offset, u16 ix,
 				domain, offset, ix, lpar, ret, ret,
 				result_buffer->buf.detailed_rc,
 				result_buffer->buf.failing_request_ix);
-		goto out_free_result_buffer;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	*res = be64_to_cpu(result_buffer->result);
 
-out_free_result_buffer:
-	kfree(result_buffer);
-out_free_request_buffer:
-	kfree(request_buffer);
 out:
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
1.8.3.1

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