This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARC: dw2 unwind: Remove falllback linear search thru FDE entries to the 3.10-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: arc-dw2-unwind-remove-falllback-linear-search-thru-fde-entries.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2e22502c080f27afeab5e6f11e618fb7bc7aea53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:32:51 +0530 Subject: ARC: dw2 unwind: Remove falllback linear search thru FDE entries From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 2e22502c080f27afeab5e6f11e618fb7bc7aea53 upstream. Fixes STAR 9000953410: "perf callgraph profiling causing RCU stalls" | perf record -g -c 15000 -e cycles /sbin/hackbench | | INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU | 1: (1 GPs behind) idle=609/140000000000002/0 softirq=2914/2915 fqs=603 | Task dump for CPU 1: in-kernel dwarf unwinder has a fast binary lookup and a fallback linear search (which iterates thru each of ~11K entries) thus takes 2 orders of magnitude longer (~3 million cycles vs. 2000). Routines written in hand assembler lack dwarf info (as we don't support assembler CFI pseudo-ops yet) fail the unwinder binary lookup, hit linear search, failing nevertheless in the end. However the linear search is pointless as binary lookup tables are created from it in first place. It is impossible to have binary lookup fail while succeed the linear search. It is pure waste of cycles thus removed by this patch. This manifested as RCU stalls / NMI watchdog splat when running hackbench under perf with callgraph profiling. The triggering condition was perf counter overflowing in routine lacking dwarf info (like memset) leading to patheic 3 million cycle unwinder slow path and by the time it returned new interrupts were already pending (Timer, IPI) and taken rightaway. The original memset didn't make forward progress, system kept accruing more interrupts and more unwinder delayes in a vicious feedback loop, ultimately triggering the NMI diagnostic. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arc/kernel/unwind.c | 37 ++++--------------------------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arc/kernel/unwind.c +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/unwind.c @@ -984,42 +984,13 @@ int arc_unwind(struct unwind_frame_info (const u8 *)(fde + 1) + *fde, ptrType); - if (pc >= endLoc) + if (pc >= endLoc) { fde = NULL; - } else - fde = NULL; - } - if (fde == NULL) { - for (fde = table->address, tableSize = table->size; - cie = NULL, tableSize > sizeof(*fde) - && tableSize - sizeof(*fde) >= *fde; - tableSize -= sizeof(*fde) + *fde, - fde += 1 + *fde / sizeof(*fde)) { - cie = cie_for_fde(fde, table); - if (cie == &bad_cie) { cie = NULL; - break; } - if (cie == NULL - || cie == ¬_fde - || (ptrType = fde_pointer_type(cie)) < 0) - continue; - ptr = (const u8 *)(fde + 2); - startLoc = read_pointer(&ptr, - (const u8 *)(fde + 1) + - *fde, ptrType); - if (!startLoc) - continue; - if (!(ptrType & DW_EH_PE_indirect)) - ptrType &= - DW_EH_PE_FORM | DW_EH_PE_signed; - endLoc = - startLoc + read_pointer(&ptr, - (const u8 *)(fde + - 1) + - *fde, ptrType); - if (pc >= startLoc && pc < endLoc) - break; + } else { + fde = NULL; + cie = NULL; } } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/arc-dw2-unwind-remove-falllback-linear-search-thru-fde-entries.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html