From: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 15def34e2635ab7e0e96f1bc32e1b69609f14942 ]
commit e050e3f0a71bf ("perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling")
introduces a change in throttling threshold judgment. Before this,
compare hwc->interrupts and max_samples_per_tick, then increase
hwc->interrupts by 1, but this commit reverses order of these two
behaviors, causing the semantics of max_samples_per_tick to change.
In literal sense of "max_samples_per_tick", if hwc->interrupts ==
max_samples_per_tick, it should not be throttled, therefore, the judgment
condition should be changed to "hwc->interrupts > max_samples_per_tick".
In fact, this may cause the hardlockup to fail, The minimum value of
max_samples_per_tick may be 1, in this case, the return value of
__perf_event_account_interrupt function is 1.
As a result, nmi_watchdog gets throttled, which would stop PMU (Use x86
architecture as an example, see x86_pmu_handle_irq).
Fixes: e050e3f0a71b ("perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling")
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227023508.102230-1-yangjihong1@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index daecb8c9126b0..2290d67ade41d 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -9408,8 +9408,8 @@ __perf_event_account_interrupt(struct perf_event *event, int throttle)
hwc->interrupts = 1;
} else {
hwc->interrupts++;
- if (unlikely(throttle
- && hwc->interrupts >= max_samples_per_tick)) {
+ if (unlikely(throttle &&
+ hwc->interrupts > max_samples_per_tick)) {
__this_cpu_inc(perf_throttled_count);
tick_dep_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), TICK_DEP_BIT_PERF_EVENTS);
hwc->interrupts = MAX_INTERRUPTS;
--
2.39.2
