Perf can hang while freeing a sigtrap event if a related deferred
signal hadn't managed to be sent before the file got closed:
perf_event_overflow()
task_work_add(perf_pending_task)
fput()
task_work_add(____fput())
task_work_run()
____fput()
perf_release()
perf_event_release_kernel()
_free_event()
perf_pending_task_sync()
task_work_cancel() -> FAILED
rcuwait_wait_event()
Once task_work_run() is running, the list of pending callbacks is
removed from the task_struct and from this point on task_work_cancel()
can't remove any pending and not yet started work items, hence the
task_work_cancel() failure and the hang on rcuwait_wait_event().
Task work could be changed to remove one work at a time, so a work
running on the current task can always cancel a pending one, however
the wait / wake design is still subject to inverted dependencies when
remote targets are involved, as pictured by Oleg:
T1 T2
fd = perf_event_open(pid => T2->pid); fd = perf_event_open(pid => T1->pid);
close(fd) close(fd)
<IRQ> <IRQ>
perf_event_overflow() perf_event_overflow()
task_work_add(perf_pending_task) task_work_add(perf_pending_task)
</IRQ> </IRQ>
fput() fput()
task_work_add(____fput()) task_work_add(____fput())
task_work_run() task_work_run()
____fput() ____fput()
perf_release() perf_release()
perf_event_release_kernel() perf_event_release_kernel()
_free_event() _free_event()
perf_pending_task_sync() perf_pending_task_sync()
rcuwait_wait_event() rcuwait_wait_event()
Therefore the only option left is to acquire the event reference count
upon queueing the perf task work and release it from the task work, just
like it was done before 3a5465418f ("perf: Fix event leak upon exec and file release")
but without the leaks it fixed.
Some adjustments are necessary to make it work:
* A child event might dereference its parent upon freeing. Care must be
taken to release the parent last.
* Some places assuming the event doesn't have any reference held and
therefore can be freed right away must instead put the reference and
let the reference counting to its job.
Reported-by: "Yi Lai" <yi1.lai@linux.intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Zx9Losv4YcJowaP%2F@ly-workstation/
Reported-by: syzbot+3c4321e10eea460eb606@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/673adf75.050a0220.87769.0024.GAE@google.com/
Fixes: 3a5465418f ("perf: Fix event leak upon exec and file release")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250304135446.18905-1-frederic@kernel.org
Move the get_ctx(child_ctx) call and the child_event->ctx assignment to
occur immediately after the child event is allocated. Ensure that
child_event->ctx is non-NULL before any subsequent error path within
inherit_event calls free_event(), satisfying the assumptions of the
cleanup code.
Details:
There's no clear Fixes tag, because this bug is a side-effect of
multiple interacting commits over time (up to 15 years old), not
a single regression.
The code initially incremented refcount then assigned context
immediately after the child_event was created. Later, an early
validity check for child_event was added before the
refcount/assignment. Even later, a WARN_ON_ONCE() cleanup check was
added, assuming event->ctx is valid if the pmu_ctx is valid.
The problem is that the WARN_ON_ONCE() could trigger after the initial
check passed but before child_event->ctx was assigned, violating its
precondition. The solution is to assign child_event->ctx right after
its initial validation. This ensures the context exists for any
subsequent checks or cleanup routines, resolving the WARN_ON_ONCE().
To resolve it, defer the refcount update and child_event->ctx assignment
directly after child_event->pmu_ctx is set but before checking if the
parent event is orphaned. The cleanup routine depends on
event->pmu_ctx being non-NULL before it verifies event->ctx is
non-NULL. This also maintains the author's original intent of passing
in child_ctx to find_get_pmu_context before its refcount/assignment.
[ mingo: Expanded the changelog from another email by Gabriel Shahrouzi. ]
Reported-by: syzbot+ff3aa851d46ab82953a3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Shahrouzi <gshahrouzi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250405203036.582721-1-gshahrouzi@gmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ff3aa851d46ab82953a3
The perf events code fails to account for total_time_enabled of
inactive events.
Here is a failure case for accounting total_time_enabled for
CPU PMU events:
sudo ./perf stat -vvv -e armv8_pmuv3_0/event=0x08/ -e armv8_pmuv3_1/event=0x08/ -- stress-ng --pthread=2 -t 2s
...
armv8_pmuv3_0/event=0x08/: 1138698008 2289429840 2174835740
armv8_pmuv3_1/event=0x08/: 1826791390 1950025700 847648440
` ` `
` ` > total_time_running with child
` > total_time_enabled with child
> count with child
Performance counter stats for 'stress-ng --pthread=2 -t 2s':
1,138,698,008 armv8_pmuv3_0/event=0x08/ (94.99%)
1,826,791,390 armv8_pmuv3_1/event=0x08/ (43.47%)
The two events above are opened on two different CPU PMUs, for example,
each event is opened for a cluster in an Arm big.LITTLE system, they
will never run on the same CPU. In theory, the total enabled time should
be same for both events, as two events are opened and closed together.
As the result show, the two events' total enabled time including
child event is different (2289429840 vs 1950025700).
This is because child events are not accounted properly
if a event is INACTIVE state when the task exits:
perf_event_exit_event()
`> perf_remove_from_context()
`> __perf_remove_from_context()
`> perf_child_detach() -> Accumulate child_total_time_enabled
`> list_del_event() -> Update child event's time
The problem is the time accumulation happens prior to child event's
time updating. Thus, it misses to account the last period's time when
the event exits.
The perf core layer follows the rule that timekeeping is tied to state
change. To address the issue, make __perf_remove_from_context()
handle the task exit case by passing 'DETACH_EXIT' to it and
invoke perf_event_state() for state alongside with accounting the time.
Then, perf_child_detach() populates the time into the parent's time metrics.
After this patch, the bug is fixed:
sudo ./perf stat -vvv -e armv8_pmuv3_0/event=0x08/ -e armv8_pmuv3_1/event=0x08/ -- stress-ng --pthread=2 -t 10s
...
armv8_pmuv3_0/event=0x08/: 15396770398 32157963940 21898169000
armv8_pmuv3_1/event=0x08/: 22428964974 32157963940 10259794940
Performance counter stats for 'stress-ng --pthread=2 -t 10s':
15,396,770,398 armv8_pmuv3_0/event=0x08/ (68.10%)
22,428,964,974 armv8_pmuv3_1/event=0x08/ (31.90%)
[ mingo: Clarified the changelog. ]
Fixes: ef54c1a476 ("perf: Rework perf_event_exit_event()")
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250326082003.1630986-1-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Pull lsm updates from Paul Moore:
- Various minor updates to the LSM Rust bindings
Changes include marking trivial Rust bindings as inlines and comment
tweaks to better reflect the LSM hooks.
- Add LSM/SELinux access controls to io_uring_allowed()
Similar to the io_uring_disabled sysctl, add a LSM hook to
io_uring_allowed() to enable LSMs a simple way to enforce security
policy on the use of io_uring. This pull request includes SELinux
support for this new control using the io_uring/allowed permission.
- Remove an unused parameter from the security_perf_event_open() hook
The perf_event_attr struct parameter was not used by any currently
supported LSMs, remove it from the hook.
- Add an explicit MAINTAINERS entry for the credentials code
We've seen problems in the past where patches to the credentials code
sent by non-maintainers would often languish on the lists for
multiple months as there was no one explicitly tasked with the
responsibility of reviewing and/or merging credentials related code.
Considering that most of the code under security/ has a vested
interest in ensuring that the credentials code is well maintained,
I'm volunteering to look after the credentials code and Serge Hallyn
has also volunteered to step up as an official reviewer. I posted the
MAINTAINERS update as a RFC to LKML in hopes that someone else would
jump up with an "I'll do it!", but beyond Serge it was all crickets.
- Update Stephen Smalley's old email address to prevent confusion
This includes a corresponding update to the mailmap file.
* tag 'lsm-pr-20250323' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm:
mailmap: map Stephen Smalley's old email addresses
lsm: remove old email address for Stephen Smalley
MAINTAINERS: add Serge Hallyn as a credentials reviewer
MAINTAINERS: add an explicit credentials entry
cred,rust: mark Credential methods inline
lsm,rust: reword "destroy" -> "release" in SecurityCtx
lsm,rust: mark SecurityCtx methods inline
perf: Remove unnecessary parameter of security check
lsm: fix a missing security_uring_allowed() prototype
io_uring,lsm,selinux: add LSM hooks for io_uring_setup()
io_uring: refactor io_uring_allowed()
Pull timer cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"A treewide hrtimer timer cleanup
hrtimers are initialized with hrtimer_init() and a subsequent store to
the callback pointer. This turned out to be suboptimal for the
upcoming Rust integration and is obviously a silly implementation to
begin with.
This cleanup replaces the hrtimer_init(T); T->function = cb; sequence
with hrtimer_setup(T, cb);
The conversion was done with Coccinelle and a few manual fixups.
Once the conversion has completely landed in mainline, hrtimer_init()
will be removed and the hrtimer::function becomes a private member"
* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (100 commits)
wifi: rt2x00: Switch to use hrtimer_update_function()
io_uring: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
serial: xilinx_uartps: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
ASoC: fsl: imx-pcm-fiq: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
RDMA: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
virtio: mem: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/vmwgfx: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/xe/oa: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/vkms: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/msm: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/request: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/uncore: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/pmu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/perf: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/gvt: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/huc: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/amdgpu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
stm class: heartbeat: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
i2c: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
iio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
...
To save/restore LBR call stack data in system-wide mode, the task_struct
information is required.
Extend the parameters of sched_task() to supply task_struct information.
When schedule in, the LBR call stack data for new task will be restored.
When schedule out, the LBR call stack data for old task will be saved.
Only need to pass the required task_struct information.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314172700.438923-4-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
The LBR call stack data has to be saved/restored during context switch
to fix the shorter LBRs call stacks issue in the system-wide mode.
Allocate PMU specific data and attach them to the corresponding
task_struct during LBR call stack monitoring.
When a LBR call stack event is accounted, the perf_ctx_data for the
related tasks will be allocated/attached by attach_perf_ctx_data().
When a LBR call stack event is unaccounted, the perf_ctx_data for
related tasks will be detached/freed by detach_perf_ctx_data().
The LBR call stack event could be a per-task event or a system-wide
event.
- For a per-task event, perf only allocates the perf_ctx_data for the
current task. If the allocation fails, perf will error out.
- For a system-wide event, perf has to allocate the perf_ctx_data for
both the existing tasks and the upcoming tasks.
The allocation for the existing tasks is done in perf_event_alloc().
If any allocation fails, perf will error out.
The allocation for the new tasks will be done in perf_event_fork().
A global reader/writer semaphore, global_ctx_data_rwsem, is added to
address the global race.
- The perf_ctx_data only be freed by the last LBR call stack event.
The number of the per-task events is tracked by refcount of each task.
Since the system-wide events impact all tasks, it's not practical to
go through the whole task list to update the refcount for each
system-wide event. The number of system-wide events is tracked by a
global variable global_ctx_data_ref.
Suggested-by: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314172700.438923-3-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Some PMU specific data has to be saved/restored during context switch,
e.g. LBR call stack data. Currently, the data is saved in event context
structure, but only for per-process event. For system-wide event,
because of missing the LBR call stack data after context switch, LBR
callstacks are always shorter in comparison to per-process mode.
For example,
Per-process mode:
$perf record --call-graph lbr -- taskset -c 0 ./tchain_edit
- 99.90% 99.86% tchain_edit tchain_edit [.] f3
99.86% _start
__libc_start_main
generic_start_main
main
f1
- f2
f3
System-wide mode:
$perf record --call-graph lbr -a -- taskset -c 0 ./tchain_edit
- 99.88% 99.82% tchain_edit tchain_edit [.] f3
- 62.02% main
f1
f2
f3
- 28.83% f1
- f2
f3
- 28.83% f1
- f2
f3
- 8.88% generic_start_main
main
f1
f2
f3
It isn't practical to simply allocate the data for system-wide event in
CPU context structure for all tasks. We have no idea which CPU a task
will be scheduled to. The duplicated LBR data has to be maintained on
every CPU context structure. That's a huge waste. Otherwise, the LBR
data still lost if the task is scheduled to another CPU.
Save the pmu specific data in task_struct. The size of pmu specific data
is 788 bytes for LBR call stack. Usually, the overall amount of threads
doesn't exceed a few thousands. For 10K threads, keeping LBR data would
consume additional ~8MB. The additional space will only be allocated
during LBR call stack monitoring. It will be released when the
monitoring is finished.
Furthermore, moving task_ctx_data from perf_event_context to task_struct
can reduce complexity and make things clearer. E.g. perf doesn't need to
swap task_ctx_data on optimized context switch path.
This patch set is just the first step. There could be other
optimization/extension on top of this patch set. E.g. for cgroup
profiling, perf just needs to save/store the LBR call stack information
for tasks in specific cgroup. That could reduce the additional space.
Also, the LBR call stack can be available for software events, or allow
even debugging use cases, like LBRs on crash later.
Because of the alignment requirement of Intel Arch LBR, the Kmem cache
is used to allocate the PMU specific data. It's required when child task
allocates the space. Save it in struct perf_ctx_data.
The refcount in struct perf_ctx_data is used to track the users of pmu
specific data.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314172700.438923-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Pinned performance events can enter an error state when they fail to be
scheduled in the context due to a failed constraint or some other conflict
or condition.
In error state these events won't generate any samples anymore and are
silently ignored until they are recovered by PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE,
or the condition can also change so that they can be scheduled in.
Tooling should be allowed to know about the state change, but
currently there's no mechanism to notify tooling when events enter
an error state.
One way to do this is to issue a POLLHUP event to poll(2) to handle this.
Reading events in an error state would return 0 (EOF) and it matches to
the behavior of POLLHUP according to the man page.
Tooling should remove the fd of the event from pollfd after getting
POLLHUP, otherwise it'll be returned repeatedly.
[ mingo: Clarified the changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250317061745.1777584-1-namhyung@kernel.org
The 'size' parameter is optional and strscpy() automatically determines
the length of the destination buffer using sizeof() if the argument is
omitted. This makes the explicit sizeof() calls unnecessary.
Furthermore, KSYM_NAME_LEN is equal to sizeof(name) and can also be
removed. Remove them to shorten and simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310192336.442994-1-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
In prepration for being able to unregister a PMU with existing events,
it becomes important to detach struct perf_cpu_pmu_context lifetimes
from that of struct pmu.
Notably struct perf_cpu_pmu_context embeds a struct perf_event_pmu_context
that can stay referenced until the last event goes.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241104135518.760214287@infradead.org
AFAICT there is no actual benefit from the mutex drop on re-try. The
'worst' case scenario is that we instantly re-gain the mutex without
perf_mmap_close() getting it. So might as well make that the normal
case.
Reflow the code to make the ring buffer detach case naturally flow
into the no ring buffer case.
[ mingo: Forward ported it ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241104135519.463607258@infradead.org
Replace _free_event()'s use of perf_addr_filters_splice()s use with an
explicit perf_free_addr_filters() with the explicit propery that it is
able to be called a second time without ill effect.
Most notable, referencing event->pmu must be avoided when there are no
filters left (from eg a previous call).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241104135518.868460518@infradead.org
There is a fairly obvious race between perf_init_event() doing
idr_find() and perf_pmu_register() doing idr_alloc() with an
incompletely initialized PMU pointer.
Avoid by doing idr_alloc() on a NULL pointer to register the id, and
swizzling the real struct pmu pointer at the end using idr_replace().
Also making sure to not set struct pmu members after publishing
the struct pmu, duh.
[ introduce idr_cmpxchg() in order to better handle the idr_replace()
error case -- if it were to return an unexpected pointer, it will
already have replaced the value and there is no going back. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241104135517.858805880@infradead.org
Commit a63fbed776 ("perf/tracing/cpuhotplug: Fix locking order")
placed pmus_lock inside pmus_srcu, this makes perf_pmu_unregister()
trip lockdep.
Move the locking about such that only pmu_idr and pmus (list) are
modified while holding pmus_lock. This avoids doing synchronize_srcu()
while holding pmus_lock and all is well again.
Fixes: a63fbed776 ("perf/tracing/cpuhotplug: Fix locking order")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241104135517.679556858@infradead.org
It seems that the attr parameter was never been used in security
checks since it was first introduced by:
commit da97e18458 ("perf_event: Add support for LSM and SELinux checks")
so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Luo Gengkun <luogengkun@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Syskaller triggers a warning due to prev_epc->pmu != next_epc->pmu in
perf_event_swap_task_ctx_data(). vmcore shows that two lists have the same
perf_event_pmu_context, but not in the same order.
The problem is that the order of pmu_ctx_list for the parent is impacted by
the time when an event/PMU is added. While the order for a child is
impacted by the event order in the pinned_groups and flexible_groups. So
the order of pmu_ctx_list in the parent and child may be different.
To fix this problem, insert the perf_event_pmu_context to its proper place
after iteration of the pmu_ctx_list.
The follow testcase can trigger above warning:
# perf record -e cycles --call-graph lbr -- taskset -c 3 ./a.out &
# perf stat -e cpu-clock,cs -p xxx // xxx is the pid of a.out
test.c
void main() {
int count = 0;
pid_t pid;
printf("%d running\n", getpid());
sleep(30);
printf("running\n");
pid = fork();
if (pid == -1) {
printf("fork error\n");
return;
}
if (pid == 0) {
while (1) {
count++;
}
} else {
while (1) {
count++;
}
}
}
The testcase first opens an LBR event, so it will allocate task_ctx_data,
and then open tracepoint and software events, so the parent context will
have 3 different perf_event_pmu_contexts. On inheritance, child ctx will
insert the perf_event_pmu_context in another order and the warning will
trigger.
[ mingo: Tidied up the changelog. ]
Fixes: bd27568117 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling")
Signed-off-by: Luo Gengkun <luogengkun@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250122073356.1824736-1-luogengkun@huaweicloud.com
The perf_iterate_ctx() function performs RCU list traversal but
currently lacks RCU read lock protection. This causes lockdep warnings
when running perf probe with unshare(1) under CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST=y:
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
kernel/events/core.c:8168 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
Call Trace:
lockdep_rcu_suspicious
? perf_event_addr_filters_apply
perf_iterate_ctx
perf_event_exec
begin_new_exec
? load_elf_phdrs
load_elf_binary
? lock_acquire
? find_held_lock
? bprm_execve
bprm_execve
do_execveat_common.isra.0
__x64_sys_execve
do_syscall_64
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
This protection was previously present but was removed in commit
bd27568117 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling"). Add back the
necessary rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pair around
perf_iterate_ctx() call in perf_event_exec().
[ mingo: Use scoped_guard() as suggested by Peter ]
Fixes: bd27568117 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250117-fix_perf_rcu-v1-1-13cb9210fc6a@debian.org
Move ctl tables to two files:
- perf_event_{paranoid,mlock_kb,max_sample_rate} and
perf_cpu_time_max_percent into kernel/events/core.c
- perf_event_max_{stack,context_per_stack} into
kernel/events/callchain.c
Make static variables and functions that are fully contained in core.c
and callchain.cand remove them from include/linux/perf_event.h.
Additionally six_hundred_forty_kb is moved to callchain.c.
Two new sysctl tables are added ({callchain,events_core}_sysctl_table)
with their respective sysctl registration functions.
This is part of a greater effort to move ctl tables into their
respective subsystems which will reduce the merge conflicts in
kerenel/sysctl.c.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250218-jag-mv_ctltables-v1-5-cd3698ab8d29@kernel.org
The event may have been updated in the PMU-specific implementation,
e.g., Intel PEBS counters snapshotting. The common code should not
read and overwrite the value.
The PERF_SAMPLE_READ in the data->sample_type can be used to detect
whether the PMU-specific value is available. If yes, avoid the
pmu->read() in the common code. Add a new flag, skip_read, to track the
case.
Factor out a perf_pmu_read() to clean up the code.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250121152303.3128733-3-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
We are adjusting struct page to make it smaller, removing unneeded fields
which correctly belong to struct folio.
Two of those fields are page->index and page->mapping. Perf is currently
making use of both of these. This is unnecessary. This patch eliminates
this.
Perf establishes its own internally controlled memory-mapped pages using
vm_ops hooks. The first page in the mapping is the read/write user control
page, and the rest of the mapping consists of read-only pages.
The VMA is backed by kernel memory either from the buddy allocator or
vmalloc depending on configuration. It is intended to be mapped read/write,
but because it has a page_mkwrite() hook, vma_wants_writenotify() indicates
that it should be mapped read-only.
When a write fault occurs, the provided page_mkwrite() hook,
perf_mmap_fault() (doing double duty handing faults as well) uses the
vmf->pgoff field to determine if this is the first page, allowing for the
desired read/write first page, read-only rest mapping.
For this to work the implementation has to carefully work around faulting
logic. When a page is write-faulted, the fault() hook is called first, then
its page_mkwrite() hook is called (to allow for dirty tracking in file
systems).
On fault we set the folio's mapping in perf_mmap_fault(), this is because
when do_page_mkwrite() is subsequently invoked, it treats a missing mapping
as an indicator that the fault should be retried.
We also set the folio's index so, given the folio is being treated as faux
user memory, it correctly references its offset within the VMA.
This explains why the mapping and index fields are used - but it's not
necessary.
We preallocate pages when perf_mmap() is called for the first time via
rb_alloc(), and further allocate auxiliary pages via rb_aux_alloc() as
needed if the mapping requires it.
This allocation is done in the f_ops->mmap() hook provided in perf_mmap(),
and so we can instead simply map all the memory right away here - there's
no point in handling (read) page faults when we don't demand page nor need
to be notified about them (perf does not).
This patch therefore changes this logic to map everything when the mmap()
hook is called, establishing a PFN map. It implements vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite()
to provide the required read/write vs. read-only behaviour, which does not
require the previously implemented workarounds.
While it is not ideal to use a VM_PFNMAP here, doing anything else will
result in the page_mkwrite() hook need to be provided, which requires the
same page->mapping hack this patch seeks to undo.
It will also result in the pages being treated as folios and placed on the
rmap, which really does not make sense for these mappings.
Semantically it makes sense to establish this as some kind of special
mapping, as the pages are managed by perf and are not strictly user pages,
but currently the only means by which we can do so functionally while
maintaining the required R/W and R/O behaviour is a PFN map.
There should be no change to actual functionality as a result of this
change.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103153151.124163-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko
performs some cleanups in the resource management code
- The series "Improve the copy of task comm" from Yafang Shao addresses
possible race-induced overflows in the management of
task_struct.comm[]
- The series "Remove unnecessary header includes from
{tools/}lib/list_sort.c" from Kuan-Wei Chiu adds some cleanups and a
small fix to the list_sort library code and to its selftest
- The series "Enhance min heap API with non-inline functions and
optimizations" also from Kuan-Wei Chiu optimizes and cleans up the
min_heap library code
- The series "nilfs2: Finish folio conversion" from Ryusuke Konishi
finishes off nilfs2's folioification
- The series "add detect count for hung tasks" from Lance Yang adds
more userspace visibility into the hung-task detector's activity
- Apart from that, singelton patches in many places - please see the
individual changelogs for details
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-11-24-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits)
gdb: lx-symbols: do not error out on monolithic build
kernel/reboot: replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit()
lib: util_macros_kunit: add kunit test for util_macros.h
util_macros.h: fix/rework find_closest() macros
Improve consistency of '#error' directive messages
ocfs2: fix uninitialized value in ocfs2_file_read_iter()
hung_task: add docs for hung_task_detect_count
hung_task: add detect count for hung tasks
dma-buf: use atomic64_inc_return() in dma_buf_getfile()
fs/proc/kcore.c: fix coccinelle reported ERROR instances
resource: avoid unnecessary resource tree walking in __region_intersects()
ocfs2: remove unused errmsg function and table
ocfs2: cluster: fix a typo
lib/scatterlist: use sg_phys() helper
checkpatch: always parse orig_commit in fixes tag
nilfs2: convert metadata aops from writepage to writepages
nilfs2: convert nilfs_recovery_copy_block() to take a folio
nilfs2: convert nilfs_page_count_clean_buffers() to take a folio
nilfs2: remove nilfs_writepage
nilfs2: convert checkpoint file to be folio-based
...
Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Uprobes:
- Add BPF session support (Jiri Olsa)
- Switch to RCU Tasks Trace flavor for better performance (Andrii
Nakryiko)
- Massively increase uretprobe SMP scalability by SRCU-protecting
the uretprobe lifetime (Andrii Nakryiko)
- Kill xol_area->slot_count (Oleg Nesterov)
Core facilities:
- Implement targeted high-frequency profiling by adding the ability
for an event to "pause" or "resume" AUX area tracing (Adrian
Hunter)
VM profiling/sampling:
- Correct perf sampling with guest VMs (Colton Lewis)
New hardware support:
- x86/intel: Add PMU support for Intel ArrowLake-H CPUs (Dapeng Mi)
Misc fixes and enhancements:
- x86/intel/pt: Fix buffer full but size is 0 case (Adrian Hunter)
- x86/amd: Warn only on new bits set (Breno Leitao)
- x86/amd/uncore: Avoid a false positive warning about snprintf
truncation in amd_uncore_umc_ctx_init (Jean Delvare)
- uprobes: Re-order struct uprobe_task to save some space
(Christophe JAILLET)
- x86/rapl: Move the pmu allocation out of CPU hotplug (Kan Liang)
- x86/rapl: Clean up cpumask and hotplug (Kan Liang)
- uprobes: Deuglify xol_get_insn_slot/xol_free_insn_slot paths (Oleg
Nesterov)"
* tag 'perf-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
perf/core: Correct perf sampling with guest VMs
perf/x86: Refactor misc flag assignments
perf/powerpc: Use perf_arch_instruction_pointer()
perf/core: Hoist perf_instruction_pointer() and perf_misc_flags()
perf/arm: Drop unused functions
uprobes: Re-order struct uprobe_task to save some space
perf/x86/amd/uncore: Avoid a false positive warning about snprintf truncation in amd_uncore_umc_ctx_init
perf/x86/intel: Do not enable large PEBS for events with aux actions or aux sampling
perf/x86/intel/pt: Add support for pause / resume
perf/core: Add aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused
perf/x86/intel/pt: Fix buffer full but size is 0 case
uprobes: SRCU-protect uretprobe lifetime (with timeout)
uprobes: allow put_uprobe() from non-sleepable softirq context
perf/x86/rapl: Clean up cpumask and hotplug
perf/x86/rapl: Move the pmu allocation out of CPU hotplug
uprobe: Add support for session consumer
uprobe: Add data pointer to consumer handlers
perf/x86/amd: Warn only on new bits set
uprobes: fold xol_take_insn_slot() into xol_get_insn_slot()
uprobes: kill xol_area->slot_count
...
Currently, space for raw sample data is always allocated within sample
records for both BPF output and tracepoint events. This leads to unused
space in sample records when raw sample data is not requested.
This patch enforces checking sample type of an event in
perf_sample_save_raw_data(). So raw sample data will only be saved if
explicitly requested, reducing overhead when it is not needed.
Fixes: 0a9081cf0a ("perf/core: Add perf_sample_save_raw_data() helper")
Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240515193610.2350456-2-yabinc@google.com
Pull 'struct fd' class updates from Al Viro:
"The bulk of struct fd memory safety stuff
Making sure that struct fd instances are destroyed in the same scope
where they'd been created, getting rid of reassignments and passing
them by reference, converting to CLASS(fd{,_pos,_raw}).
We are getting very close to having the memory safety of that stuff
trivial to verify"
* tag 'pull-fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
deal with the last remaing boolean uses of fd_file()
css_set_fork(): switch to CLASS(fd_raw, ...)
memcg_write_event_control(): switch to CLASS(fd)
assorted variants of irqfd setup: convert to CLASS(fd)
do_pollfd(): convert to CLASS(fd)
convert do_select()
convert vfs_dedupe_file_range().
convert cifs_ioctl_copychunk()
convert media_request_get_by_fd()
convert spu_run(2)
switch spufs_calls_{get,put}() to CLASS() use
convert cachestat(2)
convert do_preadv()/do_pwritev()
fdget(), more trivial conversions
fdget(), trivial conversions
privcmd_ioeventfd_assign(): don't open-code eventfd_ctx_fdget()
o2hb_region_dev_store(): avoid goto around fdget()/fdput()
introduce "fd_pos" class, convert fdget_pos() users to it.
fdget_raw() users: switch to CLASS(fd_raw)
convert vmsplice() to CLASS(fd)
...
Previously any PMU overflow interrupt that fired while a VCPU was
loaded was recorded as a guest event whether it truly was or not. This
resulted in nonsense perf recordings that did not honor
perf_event_attr.exclude_guest and recorded guest IPs where it should
have recorded host IPs.
Rework the sampling logic to only record guest samples for events with
exclude_guest = 0. This way any host-only events with exclude_guest
set will never see unexpected guest samples. The behaviour of events
with exclude_guest = 0 is unchanged.
Note that events configured to sample both host and guest may still
misattribute a PMI that arrived in the host as a guest event depending
on KVM arch and vendor behavior.
Signed-off-by: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113190156.2145593-6-coltonlewis@google.com
