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<title>perf: Fix events installation during moving group</title>
<updated>2015-01-16T14:59:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2014-12-10T20:23:51Z</published>
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commit 9fc81d87420d0d3fd62d5e5529972c0ad9eab9cc upstream.

We allow PMU driver to change the cpu on which the event
should be installed to. This happened in patch:

  e2d37cd213dc ("perf: Allow the PMU driver to choose the CPU on which to install events")

This patch also forces all the group members to follow
the currently opened events cpu if the group happened
to be moved.

This and the change of event-&gt;cpu in perf_install_in_context()
function introduced in:

  0cda4c023132 ("perf: Introduce perf_pmu_migrate_context()")

forces group members to change their event-&gt;cpu,
if the currently-opened-event's PMU changed the cpu
and there is a group move.

Above behaviour causes problem for breakpoint events,
which uses event-&gt;cpu to touch cpu specific data for
breakpoints accounting. By changing event-&gt;cpu, some
breakpoints slots were wrongly accounted for given
cpu.

Vinces's perf fuzzer hit this issue and caused following
WARN on my setup:

   WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 20214 at arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:119 arch_install_hw_breakpoint+0x142/0x150()
   Can't find any breakpoint slot
   [...]

This patch changes the group moving code to keep the event's
original cpu.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vince@deater.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vince@deater.net&gt;
Cc: Yan, Zheng &lt;zheng.z.yan@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1418243031-20367-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>uprobes, x86: Fix _TIF_UPROBE vs _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME</title>
<updated>2014-12-06T23:05:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-21T21:26:07Z</published>
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commit 82975bc6a6df743b9a01810fb32cb65d0ec5d60b upstream.

x86 call do_notify_resume on paranoid returns if TIF_UPROBE is set but
not on non-paranoid returns.  I suspect that this is a mistake and that
the code only works because int3 is paranoid.

Setting _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME in the uprobe code was probably a workaround
for the x86 bug.  With that bug fixed, we can remove _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
from the uprobes code.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>perf: Handle compat ioctl</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:22:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Pawel Moll</name>
<email>pawel.moll@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-13T15:03:32Z</published>
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commit b3f207855f57b9c8f43a547a801340bb5cbc59e5 upstream.

When running a 32-bit userspace on a 64-bit kernel (eg. i386
application on x86_64 kernel or 32-bit arm userspace on arm64
kernel) some of the perf ioctls must be treated with special
care, as they have a pointer size encoded in the command.

For example, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID in 32-bit world will be encoded
as 0x80042407, but 64-bit kernel will expect 0x80082407. In
result the ioctl will fail returning -ENOTTY.

This patch solves the problem by adding code fixing up the
size as compat_ioctl file operation.

Reported-by: Drew Richardson &lt;drew.richardson@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll &lt;pawel.moll@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402671812-9078-1-git-send-email-pawel.moll@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;daahern@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>perf: fix perf bug in fork()</title>
<updated>2014-10-09T19:18:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-02T23:17:02Z</published>
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commit 6c72e3501d0d62fc064d3680e5234f3463ec5a86 upstream.

Oleg noticed that a cleanup by Sylvain actually uncovered a bug; by
calling perf_event_free_task() when failing sched_fork() we will not yet
have done the memset() on -&gt;perf_event_ctxp[] and will therefore try and
'free' the inherited contexts, which are still in use by the parent
process.  This is bad..

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sylvain 'ythier' Hitier &lt;sylvain.hitier@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>perf: Fix a race condition in perf_remove_from_context()</title>
<updated>2014-10-05T21:54:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Cong Wang</name>
<email>cwang@twopensource.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-02T22:27:20Z</published>
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commit 3577af70a2ce4853d58e57d832e687d739281479 upstream.

We saw a kernel soft lockup in perf_remove_from_context(),
it looks like the `perf` process, when exiting, could not go
out of the retry loop. Meanwhile, the target process was forking
a child. So either the target process should execute the smp
function call to deactive the event (if it was running) or it should
do a context switch which deactives the event.

It seems we optimize out a context switch in perf_event_context_sched_out(),
and what's more important, we still test an obsolete task pointer when
retrying, so no one actually would deactive that event in this situation.
Fix it directly by reloading the task pointer in perf_remove_from_context().

This should cure the above soft lockup.

Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;cwang@twopensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1409696840-843-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T19:03:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Knut Petersen</name>
<email>Knut_Petersen@t-online.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-25T12:29:37Z</published>
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commit 723478c8a471403c53cf144999701f6e0c4bbd11 upstream.

/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate will accept
negative values as well as 0.

Negative values are unreasonable, and 0 causes a
divide by zero exception in perf_proc_update_handler.

This patch enforces a lower limit of 1.

Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen &lt;Knut_Petersen@t-online.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5242DB0C.4070005@t-online.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Weng Meiling &lt;wengmeiling.weng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>perf: Fix interrupt handler timing harness</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T19:03:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-04T22:30:11Z</published>
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commit e5302920da9ef23f9d19d4e9ac85704cc25bee7a upstream.

This patch fixes a serious bug in:

  14c63f17b1fd perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow

There was an misunderstanding on the API of the do_div()
macro. It returns the remainder of the division and this
was not what the function expected leading to disabling the
interrupt latency watchdog.

This patch also remove a duplicate assignment in
perf_sample_event_took().

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130704223010.GA30625@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Weng Meiling &lt;wengmeiling.weng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T19:03:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave.hansen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-21T15:51:36Z</published>
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commit 14c63f17b1fde5a575a28e96547a22b451c71fb5 upstream.

This patch keeps track of how long perf's NMI handler is taking,
and also calculates how many samples perf can take a second.  If
the sample length times the expected max number of samples
exceeds a configurable threshold, it drops the sample rate.

This way, we don't have a runaway sampling process eating up the
CPU.

This patch can tend to drop the sample rate down to level where
perf doesn't work very well.  *BUT* the alternative is that my
system hangs because it spends all of its time handling NMIs.

I'll take a busted performance tool over an entire system that's
busted and undebuggable any day.

BTW, my suspicion is that there's still an underlying bug here.
Using the HPET instead of the TSC is definitely a contributing
factor, but I suspect there are some other things going on.
But, I can't go dig down on a bug like that with my machine
hanging all the time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
[ Prettified it a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Weng Meiling &lt;wengmeiling.weng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>perf: Fix race in removing an event</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T19:03:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-02T14:56:01Z</published>
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commit 46ce0fe97a6be7532ce6126bb26ce89fed81528c upstream.

When removing a (sibling) event we do:

	raw_spin_lock_irq(&amp;ctx-&gt;lock);
	perf_group_detach(event);
	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&amp;ctx-&gt;lock);

	&lt;hole&gt;

	perf_remove_from_context(event);
		raw_spin_lock_irq(&amp;ctx-&gt;lock);
		...
		raw_spin_unlock_irq(&amp;ctx-&gt;lock);

Now, assuming the event is a sibling, it will be 'unreachable' for
things like ctx_sched_out() because that iterates the
groups-&gt;siblings, and we just unhooked the sibling.

So, if during &lt;hole&gt; we get ctx_sched_out(), it will miss the event
and not call event_sched_out() on it, leaving it programmed on the
PMU.

The subsequent perf_remove_from_context() call will find the ctx is
inactive and only call list_del_event() to remove the event from all
other lists.

Hereafter we can proceed to free the event; while still programmed!

Close this hole by moving perf_group_detach() inside the same
ctx-&gt;lock region(s) perf_remove_from_context() has.

The condition on inherited events only in __perf_event_exit_task() is
likely complete crap because non-inherited events are part of groups
too and we're tearing down just the same. But leave that for another
patch.

Most-likely-Fixes: e03a9a55b4e ("perf: Change close() semantics for group events")
Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Much-staring-at-traces-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Much-staring-at-traces-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140505093124.GN17778@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>perf: Limit perf_event_attr::sample_period to 63 bits</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T19:03:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-15T18:23:48Z</published>
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commit 0819b2e30ccb93edf04876237b6205eef84ec8d2 upstream.

Vince reported that using a large sample_period (one with bit 63 set)
results in wreckage since while the sample_period is fundamentally
unsigned (negative periods don't make sense) the way we implement
things very much rely on signed logic.

So limit sample_period to 63 bits to avoid tripping over this.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-p25fhunibl4y3qi0zuqmyf4b@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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