From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742F2C4360C for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2019 19:09:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F16222BE for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2019 19:09:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729565AbfJBTJJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Oct 2019 15:09:09 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:36120 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729382AbfJBTIW (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Oct 2019 15:08:22 -0400 Received: from [192.168.4.242] (helo=deadeye) by shadbolt.decadent.org.uk with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iFjyo-00035t-BQ; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:08:06 +0100 Received: from ben by deadeye with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFjyn-0003br-NA; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:08:05 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov , "Alexander Shishkin" , "Vince Weaver" , namhyung@kernel.org, acme@kernel.org, "Jiri Olsa" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Thomas Gleixner" , "Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" , "Stephane Eranian" , "Ingo Molnar" , mark.rutland@arm.com, "Peter Zijlstra" , "Yabin Cui" Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:06:51 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Subject: [PATCH 3.16 25/87] perf/ring_buffer: Add ordering to rb->nest increment In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.242 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.75-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Peter Zijlstra commit 3f9fbe9bd86c534eba2faf5d840fd44c6049f50e upstream. Similar to how decrementing rb->next too early can cause data_head to (temporarily) be observed to go backward, so too can this happen when we increment too late. This barrier() ensures the rb->head load happens after the increment, both the one in the 'goto again' path, as the one from perf_output_get_handle() -- albeit very unlikely to matter for the latter. Suggested-by: Yabin Cui Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com Cc: namhyung@kernel.org Fixes: ef60777c9abd ("perf: Optimize the perf_output() path by removing IRQ-disables") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517115418.309516009@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -47,6 +47,15 @@ static void perf_output_put_handle(struc unsigned long head; again: + /* + * In order to avoid publishing a head value that goes backwards, + * we must ensure the load of @rb->head happens after we've + * incremented @rb->nest. + * + * Otherwise we can observe a @rb->head value before one published + * by an IRQ/NMI happening between the load and the increment. + */ + barrier(); head = local_read(&rb->head); /*