Re: [PATCH] perf/core: generate overflow signal when samples are dropped (WAS: Re: [REGRESSION] perf/core: PMU interrupts dropped if we entered the kernel in the "skid" region)

[Kyle Huey]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Kyle Huey <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> * Kyle Huey <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 3:21 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >> Should any of those be moved into the "should be dropped" pile?
>>> >
>>> > Why not be conservative and clear every sample you're not sure about?
>>> >
>>> > We'd appreciate a fix sooner rather than later here, since rr is
>>> > currently broken on every stable Linux kernel and our attempts to
>>> > implement a workaround have failed.
>>> >
>>> > (We have separate "interrupt" and "measure" counters, and I thought we
>>> > might work around this regression by programming the "interrupt"
>>> > counter to count kernel events as well as user events (interrupting
>>> > early is OK), but that caused our (completely separate) "measure"
>>> > counter to report off-by-one results (!), which seems to be a
>>> > different bug present on a range of older kernels.)
>>>
>>> This seems to have stalled out here unfortunately.
>>>
>>> Can we get a consensus (from ingo or peterz?) on Mark's question?  Or,
>>> alternatively, can we move the patch at the top of this thread forward
>>> on the stable branches until we do reach an answer to that question?
>>>
>>> We've abandoned hope of working around this problem in rr and are
>>> currently broken for all of our users with an up-to-date kernel, so
>>> the situation for us is rather dire at the moment I'm afraid.
>>
>> Sorry about that - I've queued up a revert for the original commit and will send
>> the fix to Linus later today. I've added a -stable tag as well so it can be
>> forwarded to Greg the moment it hits upstream.
>
> Great, thank you.
>
> - Kyle

Hi again,

I saw that the revert landed on perf/urgent but it doesn't look like
that got pulled by Linus in time for 4.13-rc1.  Consider this a gentle
poke to please get this merged :)

- Kyle