Patch "perf/core: Fix pmu::filter_match for SW-led groups" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "perf/core: Fix pmu::filter_match for SW-led groups" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf/core: Fix pmu::filter_match for SW-led groups

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-core-fix-pmu-filter_match-for-sw-led-groups.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 2c81a6477081966fe80b8c6daa68459bca896774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:10:41 +0100
Subject: perf/core: Fix pmu::filter_match for SW-led groups

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

commit 2c81a6477081966fe80b8c6daa68459bca896774 upstream.

The following commit:

  66eb579e66ec ("perf: allow for PMU-specific event filtering")

added the pmu::filter_match() callback. This was intended to
avoid HW constraints on events from resulting in extremely
pessimistic scheduling.

However, pmu::filter_match() is only called for the leader of each event
group. When the leader is a SW event, we do not filter the groups, and
may fail at pmu::add() time, and when this happens we'll give up on
scheduling any event groups later in the list until they are rotated
ahead of the failing group.

This can result in extremely sub-optimal event scheduling behaviour,
e.g. if running the following on a big.LITTLE platform:

$ taskset -c 0 ./perf stat \
 -e 'a57{context-switches,armv8_cortex_a57/config=0x11/}' \
 -e 'a53{context-switches,armv8_cortex_a53/config=0x11/}' \
 ls

     <not counted>      context-switches                                              (0.00%)
     <not counted>      armv8_cortex_a57/config=0x11/                                 (0.00%)
                24      context-switches                                              (37.36%)
          57589154      armv8_cortex_a53/config=0x11/                                 (37.36%)

Here the 'a53' event group was always eligible to be scheduled, but
the 'a57' group never eligible to be scheduled, as the task was always
affine to a Cortex-A53 CPU. The SW (group leader) event in the 'a57'
group was eligible, but the HW event failed at pmu::add() time,
resulting in ctx_flexible_sched_in giving up on scheduling further
groups with HW events.

One way of avoiding this is to check pmu::filter_match() on siblings
as well as the group leader. If any of these fail their
pmu::filter_match() call, we must skip the entire group before
attempting to add any events.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fixes: 66eb579e66ec ("perf: allow for PMU-specific event filtering")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465917041-15339-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
[ Small readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/events/core.c |   23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -1539,12 +1539,33 @@ static int __init perf_workqueue_init(vo
 
 core_initcall(perf_workqueue_init);
 
-static inline int pmu_filter_match(struct perf_event *event)
+static inline int __pmu_filter_match(struct perf_event *event)
 {
 	struct pmu *pmu = event->pmu;
 	return pmu->filter_match ? pmu->filter_match(event) : 1;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Check whether we should attempt to schedule an event group based on
+ * PMU-specific filtering. An event group can consist of HW and SW events,
+ * potentially with a SW leader, so we must check all the filters, to
+ * determine whether a group is schedulable:
+ */
+static inline int pmu_filter_match(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+	struct perf_event *child;
+
+	if (!__pmu_filter_match(event))
+		return 0;
+
+	list_for_each_entry(child, &event->sibling_list, group_entry) {
+		if (!__pmu_filter_match(child))
+			return 0;
+	}
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
 static inline int
 event_filter_match(struct perf_event *event)
 {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mark.rutland@arm.com are

queue-4.4/perf-core-fix-pmu-filter_match-for-sw-led-groups.patch