This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf/core: Fix ctx_event_type in ctx_resched()
to the 4.14-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-fix-ctx_event_type-in-ctx_resched.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From bd903afeb504db5655a45bb4cf86f38be5b1bf62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 21:55:04 -0800
Subject: perf/core: Fix ctx_event_type in ctx_resched()
From: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
commit bd903afeb504db5655a45bb4cf86f38be5b1bf62 upstream.
In ctx_resched(), EVENT_FLEXIBLE should be sched_out when EVENT_PINNED is
added. However, ctx_resched() calculates ctx_event_type before checking
this condition. As a result, pinned events will NOT get higher priority
than flexible events.
The following shows this issue on an Intel CPU (where ref-cycles can
only use one hardware counter).
1. First start:
perf stat -C 0 -e ref-cycles -I 1000
2. Then, in the second console, run:
perf stat -C 0 -e ref-cycles:D -I 1000
The second perf uses pinned events, which is expected to have higher
priority. However, because it failed in ctx_resched(). It is never
run.
This patch fixes this by calculating ctx_event_type after re-evaluating
event_type.
Reported-by: Ephraim Park <ephiepark@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <kernel-team@xxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 487f05e18aa4 ("perf/core: Optimize event rescheduling on active contexts")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180306055504.3283731-1-songliubraving@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -2322,7 +2322,7 @@ static void ctx_resched(struct perf_cpu_
struct perf_event_context *task_ctx,
enum event_type_t event_type)
{
- enum event_type_t ctx_event_type = event_type & EVENT_ALL;
+ enum event_type_t ctx_event_type;
bool cpu_event = !!(event_type & EVENT_CPU);
/*
@@ -2332,6 +2332,8 @@ static void ctx_resched(struct perf_cpu_
if (event_type & EVENT_PINNED)
event_type |= EVENT_FLEXIBLE;
+ ctx_event_type = event_type & EVENT_ALL;
+
perf_pmu_disable(cpuctx->ctx.pmu);
if (task_ctx)
task_ctx_sched_out(cpuctx, task_ctx, event_type);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from songliubraving@xxxxxx are
queue-4.14/perf-core-fix-ctx_event_type-in-ctx_resched.patch