Re: Regression: starting powertop crashes my machine hard since 838d9bb62d13 ("perf: Use sample_flags for raw_data")

[Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>]

On 25.10.22 20:40, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi! Since 838d9bb62d13 ("perf: Use sample_flags for raw_data") starting
> powertop makes my machine crash hard: keyboard is dead, Sysrq does not
> work, and most of the time there is not even a error message on the
> screen; only once in maybe ~20 cases I got the line "kernel NULL pointer
> dereference, address: 0000000000000010", but nothing else.

Boris on another channel asked me to test "perf: Fix missing raw data on
tracepoint events" (
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git/commit/?h=perf/urgent&id=d6e63577059a8207df764404f1c55a19ca0d8e24
) which I somehow missed when search lore an hour ago
(https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221012143857.48198-1-james.clark@arm.com/
). Sorry.

That patches fixes the problem for me. Thx everyone.

Ciao, Thorsten

> This is on a Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen1 (AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U) running
> Fedora 37 with a vanilla kernel. Master as of a six hours ago shows the
> problem (IOW: 21da7472a040 didn't fix this). Reverting 838d9bb62d13 on
> top of master makes the problem go away. Applying
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221020070657.21571-2-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com/
> (another fix for 838d9bb62d13) didn't help. My config file is based on
> the one from Fedora's 6.0.3 kernel, but stripped down with localmodconfig.
> 
> Apparently I'm not the only one hitting this problem:
> https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop/issues/109
> 
> Ciao, Thorsten.
> 
> P.S.: From /proc/cpuinfo
> 
>> processor       : 0
>> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
>> cpu family      : 23
>> model           : 96
>> model name      : AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U with Radeon Graphics
>> stepping        : 1
>> microcode       : 0x8600106
>> cpu MHz         : 1397.267
>> cache size      : 512 KB
>> physical id     : 0
>> siblings        : 12
>> core id         : 0
>> cpu cores       : 6
>> apicid          : 0
>> initial apicid  : 0
>> fpu             : yes
>> fpu_exception   : yes
>> cpuid level     : 16
>> wp              : yes
>> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
>> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext
>> fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid
>> extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1
>> sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm
>> extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit
>> wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb
>> cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1
>> avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsaveopt
>> xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local
>> clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd cppc arat npt lbrv svm_lock
>> nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter
>> pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid
>> overflow_recov succor smca
>>
>> bugs            : sysret_ss_attrs spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass retbleed
>> bogomips        : 4191.92
>> TLB size        : 3072 4K pages
>> clflush size    : 64
>> cache_alignment : 64
>> address sizes   : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
>> power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14]
> 
> Bisect log:
> 
>> git bisect start
>> # status: waiting for both good and bad commits
>> # bad: [1a2dcbdde82e3a5f1db9b2f4c48aa1aeba534fb2] scsi: mpt3sas: re-do lost mpt3sas DMA mask fix
>> git bisect bad 1a2dcbdde82e3a5f1db9b2f4c48aa1aeba534fb2
>> # status: waiting for good commit(s), bad commit known
>> # good: [4fe89d07dcc2804c8b562f6c7896a45643d34b2f] Linux 6.0
>> git bisect good 4fe89d07dcc2804c8b562f6c7896a45643d34b2f
>> # good: [76e45035348c247a70ed50eb29a9906657e4444f] Merge tag 'for-6.1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux
>> git bisect good 76e45035348c247a70ed50eb29a9906657e4444f
>> # bad: [52abb27abfff8c5ddf44eef4d759f3d1e9f166c5] Merge tag 'slab-for-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab
>> git bisect bad 52abb27abfff8c5ddf44eef4d759f3d1e9f166c5
>> # good: [e8bc52cb8df80c31c73c726ab58ea9746e9ff734] Merge tag 'driver-core-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
>> git bisect good e8bc52cb8df80c31c73c726ab58ea9746e9ff734
>> # good: [f01603979a4afaad7504a728918b678d572cda9e] Merge tag 'gpio-updates-for-v6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux
>> git bisect good f01603979a4afaad7504a728918b678d572cda9e
>> # good: [2e64066dab157ffcd0e9ec2ff631862e6e222876] Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.1-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
>> git bisect good 2e64066dab157ffcd0e9ec2ff631862e6e222876
>> # good: [376b3275c19f83d373e841e9af2d7658693190b9] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix stack frame regs marker
>> git bisect good 376b3275c19f83d373e841e9af2d7658693190b9
>> # bad: [3871d93b82a4a6c1f4308064f046a544f16ada21] Merge tag 'perf-core-2022-10-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
>> git bisect bad 3871d93b82a4a6c1f4308064f046a544f16ada21
>> # bad: [7be51cc1c68dfa180ef84e71bcb4204237bb5620] perf: Fix pmu_filter_match()
>> git bisect bad 7be51cc1c68dfa180ef84e71bcb4204237bb5620
>> # good: [ee9db0e14b0575aa827579dc2471a29ec5fc6877] perf: Use sample_flags for txn
>> git bisect good ee9db0e14b0575aa827579dc2471a29ec5fc6877
>> # good: [7b084630153152239d84990ac4540c2dd360186f] perf: Use sample_flags for addr
>> git bisect good 7b084630153152239d84990ac4540c2dd360186f
>> # bad: [ee3e88dfec23153d0675b5d00522297b9adf657c] perf/mem: Introduce PERF_MEM_LVLNUM_{EXTN_MEM|IO}
>> git bisect bad ee3e88dfec23153d0675b5d00522297b9adf657c
>> # bad: [a1ebcd59430236b336428bbf8e1da16fb87d56e4] Merge branch 'v6.0-rc7'
>> git bisect bad a1ebcd59430236b336428bbf8e1da16fb87d56e4
>> # bad: [4674ffe2fcad45a9b164401cc0794115702326cf] perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix use-after-free if perf_event_open() fails
>> git bisect bad 4674ffe2fcad45a9b164401cc0794115702326cf
>> # bad: [838d9bb62d132ec3baf1b5aba2e95ef9a7a9a3cd] perf: Use sample_flags for raw_data
>> git bisect bad 838d9bb62d132ec3baf1b5aba2e95ef9a7a9a3cd
>> # first bad commit: [838d9bb62d132ec3baf1b5aba2e95ef9a7a9a3cd] perf: Use sample_flags for raw_data
> 
> For regzbot:
> 
> #regzbot introduced 838d9bb62d13
> #regzbot title perf: starting powertop crashes machines
> #regzbot link: https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop/issues/109
> 
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