[PATCH kernel] powerpc/perf: Stop crashing with generic_compat_pmu

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Tue Feb 16 12:06:31 AEDT 2021



On 03/12/2020 16:27, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> On 12/2/20 8:31 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> Hi Maddy,
>>
>> I just noticed that I still have "powerpc/perf: Add checks for 
>> reserved values" in my pile (pushed here 
>> https://github.com/aik/linux/commit/61e1bc3f2e19d450e2e2d39174d422160b21957b 
>> ), do we still need it? The lockups I saw were fixed by 
>> https://github.com/aik/linux/commit/17899eaf88d689 but it is hardly a 
>> replacement. Thanks,
> 
> sorry missed this. Will look at this again. Since we will need 
> generation specific checks for the reserve field.


So any luck with this? Cheers,




> 
> Maddy
> 
>>
>>
>> On 04/06/2020 02:34, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/2/20 8:26 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>> The bhrb_filter_map ("The  Branch History  Rolling  Buffer") 
>>>> callback is
>>>> only defined in raw CPUs' power_pmu structs. The "architected" CPUs use
>>>> generic_compat_pmu which does not have this callback and crashed occur.
>>>>
>>>> This add a NULL pointer check for bhrb_filter_map() which behaves as if
>>>> the callback returned an error.
>>>>
>>>> This does not add the same check for config_bhrb() as the only caller
>>>> checks for cpuhw->bhrb_users which remains zero if bhrb_filter_map==0.
>>>
>>> Changes looks fine.
>>> Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.ibm.com>
>>>
>>> The commit be80e758d0c2e ('powerpc/perf: Add generic compat mode pmu 
>>> driver')
>>> which introduced generic_compat_pmu was merged in v5.2.  So we need to
>>> CC stable starting from 5.2 :( .  My bad,  sorry.
>>>
>>> Maddy
>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
>>>> ---
>>>>   arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
>>>>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c 
>>>> b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
>>>> index 3dcfecf858f3..36870569bf9c 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
>>>> @@ -1515,9 +1515,16 @@ static int power_pmu_add(struct perf_event 
>>>> *event, int ef_flags)
>>>>       ret = 0;
>>>>    out:
>>>>       if (has_branch_stack(event)) {
>>>> -        power_pmu_bhrb_enable(event);
>>>> -        cpuhw->bhrb_filter = ppmu->bhrb_filter_map(
>>>> -                    event->attr.branch_sample_type);
>>>> +        u64 bhrb_filter = -1;
>>>> +
>>>> +        if (ppmu->bhrb_filter_map)
>>>> +            bhrb_filter = ppmu->bhrb_filter_map(
>>>> +                event->attr.branch_sample_type);
>>>> +
>>>> +        if (bhrb_filter != -1) {
>>>> +            cpuhw->bhrb_filter = bhrb_filter;
>>>> +            power_pmu_bhrb_enable(event); /* Does bhrb_users++ */
>>>> +        }
>>>>       }
>>>>
>>>>       perf_pmu_enable(event->pmu);
>>>> @@ -1839,7 +1846,6 @@ static int power_pmu_event_init(struct 
>>>> perf_event *event)
>>>>       int n;
>>>>       int err;
>>>>       struct cpu_hw_events *cpuhw;
>>>> -    u64 bhrb_filter;
>>>>
>>>>       if (!ppmu)
>>>>           return -ENOENT;
>>>> @@ -1945,7 +1951,10 @@ static int power_pmu_event_init(struct 
>>>> perf_event *event)
>>>>       err = power_check_constraints(cpuhw, events, cflags, n + 1);
>>>>
>>>>       if (has_branch_stack(event)) {
>>>> -        bhrb_filter = ppmu->bhrb_filter_map(
>>>> +        u64 bhrb_filter = -1;
>>>> +
>>>> +        if (ppmu->bhrb_filter_map)
>>>> +            bhrb_filter = ppmu->bhrb_filter_map(
>>>>                       event->attr.branch_sample_type);
>>>>
>>>>           if (bhrb_filter == -1) {
>>>
>>

-- 
Alexey


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