From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-by2nam01on0110.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([104.47.34.110]:2593 "EHLO NAM01-BY2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932537AbeDIAe7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Apr 2018 20:34:59 -0400 From: Sasha Levin To: "stable@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" CC: Peter Zijlstra , Alexander Shishkin , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , Linus Torvalds , Stephane Eranian , Thomas Gleixner , Vince Weaver , Ingo Molnar , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.4 003/162] perf/core: Correct event creation with PERF_FORMAT_GROUP Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 00:27:45 +0000 Message-ID: <20180409002738.163941-3-alexander.levin@microsoft.com> References: <20180409002738.163941-1-alexander.levin@microsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20180409002738.163941-1-alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Peter Zijlstra [ Upstream commit ba5213ae6b88fb170c4771fef6553f759c7d8cdd ] Andi was asking about PERF_FORMAT_GROUP vs inherited events, which led to the discovery of a bug from commit: 3dab77fb1bf8 ("perf: Rework/fix the whole read vs group stuff") - PERF_SAMPLE_GROUP =3D 1U << 4, + PERF_SAMPLE_READ =3D 1U << 4, - if (attr->inherit && (attr->sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_GROUP)) + if (attr->inherit && (attr->read_format & PERF_FORMAT_GROUP)) is a clear fail :/ While this changes user visible behaviour; it was previously possible to create an inherited event with PERF_SAMPLE_READ; this is deemed acceptible because its results were always incorrect. Reported-by: Andi Kleen 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 Fixes: 3dab77fb1bf8 ("perf: Rework/fix the whole read vs group stuff") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530094512.dy2nljns2uq7qa3j@hirez.progra= mming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- kernel/events/core.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 8f75386e61a7..835ac4d9f349 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -5271,9 +5271,6 @@ static void perf_output_read_one(struct perf_output_h= andle *handle, __output_copy(handle, values, n * sizeof(u64)); } =20 -/* - * XXX PERF_FORMAT_GROUP vs inherited events seems difficult. - */ static void perf_output_read_group(struct perf_output_handle *handle, struct perf_event *event, u64 enabled, u64 running) @@ -5318,6 +5315,13 @@ static void perf_output_read_group(struct perf_outpu= t_handle *handle, #define PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIMES (PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|\ PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING) =20 +/* + * XXX PERF_SAMPLE_READ vs inherited events seems difficult. + * + * The problem is that its both hard and excessively expensive to iterate = the + * child list, not to mention that its impossible to IPI the children runn= ing + * on another CPU, from interrupt/NMI context. + */ static void perf_output_read(struct perf_output_handle *handle, struct perf_event *event) { @@ -7958,9 +7962,10 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int c= pu, local64_set(&hwc->period_left, hwc->sample_period); =20 /* - * we currently do not support PERF_FORMAT_GROUP on inherited events + * We currently do not support PERF_SAMPLE_READ on inherited events. + * See perf_output_read(). */ - if (attr->inherit && (attr->read_format & PERF_FORMAT_GROUP)) + if (attr->inherit && (attr->sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_READ)) goto err_ns; =20 if (!has_branch_stack(event)) --=20 2.15.1