[PATCH v2] perf/x86/amd: Warn only on new bits set

From: Breno Leitao
Date: Wed Jul 31 2024 - 11:47:17 EST


Warning at every leaking bits can cause a flood of message, triggering
vairous stall-warning mechanisms to fire, including CSD locks, which
makes the machine to be unusable.

Track the bits that are being leaked, and only warn when a new bit is
set.

That said, this patch will help with the following issues:

1) It will tell us which bits are being set, so, it is easy to
communicate it back to vendor, and to do a root-cause analyzes.

2) It avoid the machine to be unusable, because, worst case
scenario, the user gets less than 60 WARNs (one per unhandled bit).

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changelog:
v2:
* Improved the patch description, getting the benefits in words.

v1:
* https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240524141021.3889002-1-leitao@xxxxxxxxxx/


arch/x86/events/amd/core.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
index 920e3a640cad..577158d0c324 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
@@ -943,11 +943,12 @@ static int amd_pmu_v2_snapshot_branch_stack(struct perf_branch_entry *entries, u
static int amd_pmu_v2_handle_irq(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events);
+ static atomic64_t status_warned = ATOMIC64_INIT(0);
+ u64 reserved, status, mask, new_bits;
struct perf_sample_data data;
struct hw_perf_event *hwc;
struct perf_event *event;
int handled = 0, idx;
- u64 reserved, status, mask;
bool pmu_enabled;

/*
@@ -1012,7 +1013,11 @@ static int amd_pmu_v2_handle_irq(struct pt_regs *regs)
* the corresponding PMCs are expected to be inactive according to the
* active_mask
*/
- WARN_ON(status > 0);
+ if (status > 0) {
+ new_bits = atomic64_fetch_or(status, &status_warned) ^ atomic64_read(&status_warned);
+ // A new bit was set for the very first time.
+ WARN(new_bits, "New overflows for inactive PMCs: %llx\n", new_bits);
+ }

/* Clear overflow and freeze bits */
amd_pmu_ack_global_status(~status);
--
2.43.0