This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf/core: Disable the event on a truncated AUX record to the 4.5-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-disable-the-event-on-a-truncated-aux-record.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9f448cd3cbcec8995935e60b27802ae56aac8cc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 16:18:33 +0300 Subject: perf/core: Disable the event on a truncated AUX record From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 9f448cd3cbcec8995935e60b27802ae56aac8cc0 upstream. When the PMU driver reports a truncated AUX record, it effectively means that there is no more usable room in the event's AUX buffer (even though there may still be some room, so that perf_aux_output_begin() doesn't take action). At this point the consumer still has to be woken up and the event has to be disabled, otherwise the event will just keep spinning between perf_aux_output_begin() and perf_aux_output_end() until its context gets unscheduled. Again, for cpu-wide events this means never, so once in this condition, they will be forever losing data. Fix this by disabling the event and waking up the consumer in case of a truncated AUX record. Reported-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: vince@xxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462886313-13660-3-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ void perf_aux_output_end(struct perf_out bool truncated) { struct ring_buffer *rb = handle->rb; + bool wakeup = truncated; unsigned long aux_head; u64 flags = 0; @@ -375,9 +376,16 @@ void perf_aux_output_end(struct perf_out aux_head = rb->user_page->aux_head = local_read(&rb->aux_head); if (aux_head - local_read(&rb->aux_wakeup) >= rb->aux_watermark) { - perf_output_wakeup(handle); + wakeup = true; local_add(rb->aux_watermark, &rb->aux_wakeup); } + + if (wakeup) { + if (truncated) + handle->event->pending_disable = 1; + perf_output_wakeup(handle); + } + handle->event = NULL; local_set(&rb->aux_nest, 0); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/perf-core-disable-the-event-on-a-truncated-aux-record.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