[PATCH -fixes] drivers: perf: Do not broadcast to other cpus when starting a counter

Alexandre Ghiti alexghiti at rivosinc.com
Thu Oct 26 00:27:15 PDT 2023


Hi Peter Lin,

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 3:42 AM Yu-Chien Peter Lin
<peterlin at andestech.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 04:42:20PM +0200, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> > This command:
> >
> > $ perf record -e cycles:k -e instructions:k -c 10000 -m 64M dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=1000
> >
> > gives rise to this kernel warning:
> >
> > [  444.364395] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 104 at kernel/smp.c:775 smp_call_function_many_cond+0x42c/0x436
> > [  444.364515] Modules linked in:
> > [  444.364657] CPU: 0 PID: 104 Comm: perf-exec Not tainted 6.6.0-rc6-00051-g391df82e8ec3-dirty #73
> > [  444.364771] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
> > [  444.364868] epc : smp_call_function_many_cond+0x42c/0x436
> > [  444.364917]  ra : on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x20/0x32
> > [  444.364948] epc : ffffffff8009f9e0 ra : ffffffff8009fa5a sp : ff20000000003800
> > [  444.364966]  gp : ffffffff81500aa0 tp : ff60000002b83000 t0 : ff200000000038c0
> > [  444.364982]  t1 : ffffffff815021f0 t2 : 000000000000001f s0 : ff200000000038b0
> > [  444.364998]  s1 : ff60000002c54d98 a0 : ff60000002a73940 a1 : 0000000000000000
> > [  444.365013]  a2 : 0000000000000000 a3 : 0000000000000003 a4 : 0000000000000100
> > [  444.365029]  a5 : 0000000000010100 a6 : 0000000000f00000 a7 : 0000000000000000
> > [  444.365044]  s2 : 0000000000000000 s3 : ffffffffffffffff s4 : ff60000002c54d98
> > [  444.365060]  s5 : ffffffff81539610 s6 : ffffffff80c20c48 s7 : 0000000000000000
> > [  444.365075]  s8 : 0000000000000000 s9 : 0000000000000001 s10: 0000000000000001
> > [  444.365090]  s11: ffffffff80099394 t3 : 0000000000000003 t4 : 00000000eac0c6e6
> > [  444.365104]  t5 : 0000000400000000 t6 : ff60000002e010d0
> > [  444.365120] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 0000000000000003
> > [  444.365226] [<ffffffff8009f9e0>] smp_call_function_many_cond+0x42c/0x436
> > [  444.365295] [<ffffffff8009fa5a>] on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x20/0x32
> > [  444.365311] [<ffffffff806e90dc>] pmu_sbi_ctr_start+0x7a/0xaa
> > [  444.365327] [<ffffffff806e880c>] riscv_pmu_start+0x48/0x66
> > [  444.365339] [<ffffffff8012111a>] perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context+0x196/0x1ac
> > [  444.365356] [<ffffffff801237aa>] perf_event_task_tick+0x78/0x8c
> > [  444.365368] [<ffffffff8003faf4>] scheduler_tick+0xe6/0x25e
> > [  444.365383] [<ffffffff8008a042>] update_process_times+0x80/0x96
> > [  444.365398] [<ffffffff800991ec>] tick_sched_handle+0x26/0x52
> > [  444.365410] [<ffffffff800993e4>] tick_sched_timer+0x50/0x98
> > [  444.365422] [<ffffffff8008a6aa>] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x126/0x18a
> > [  444.365433] [<ffffffff8008b350>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xce/0x1da
> > [  444.365444] [<ffffffff806cdc60>] riscv_timer_interrupt+0x30/0x3a
> > [  444.365457] [<ffffffff8006afa6>] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x80/0x114
> > [  444.365470] [<ffffffff80065b82>] generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x2a
> > [  444.365483] [<ffffffff8045faec>] riscv_intc_irq+0x2e/0x46
> > [  444.365497] [<ffffffff808a9c62>] handle_riscv_irq+0x4a/0x74
> > [  444.365521] [<ffffffff808aa760>] do_irq+0x7c/0x7e
> > [  444.365796] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> >
> > That's because the fix in commit 3fec323339a4 ("drivers: perf: Fix panic
> > in riscv SBI mmap support") was wrong since there is no need to broadcast
> > to other cpus when starting a counter, that's only needed in mmap when
> > the counters could have already been started on other cpus, so simply
> > remove this broadcast.
> >
> > Fixes: 3fec323339a4 ("drivers: perf: Fix panic in riscv SBI mmap support")
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti at rivosinc.com>
> > Tested-by: Clément Léger <cleger at rivosinc.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c | 6 ++----
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
> > index 96c7f670c8f0..439da49dd0a9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
> > @@ -543,8 +543,7 @@ static void pmu_sbi_ctr_start(struct perf_event *event, u64 ival)
> >
> >       if ((hwc->flags & PERF_EVENT_FLAG_USER_ACCESS) &&
> >           (hwc->flags & PERF_EVENT_FLAG_USER_READ_CNT))
> > -             on_each_cpu_mask(mm_cpumask(event->owner->mm),
> > -                              pmu_sbi_set_scounteren, (void *)event, 1);
> > +             pmu_sbi_set_scounteren((void *)event);
> >  }
> >
> >  static void pmu_sbi_ctr_stop(struct perf_event *event, unsigned long flag)
> > @@ -554,8 +553,7 @@ static void pmu_sbi_ctr_stop(struct perf_event *event, unsigned long flag)
> >
> >       if ((hwc->flags & PERF_EVENT_FLAG_USER_ACCESS) &&
> >           (hwc->flags & PERF_EVENT_FLAG_USER_READ_CNT))
> > -             on_each_cpu_mask(mm_cpumask(event->owner->mm),
> > -                              pmu_sbi_reset_scounteren, (void *)event, 1);
> > +             pmu_sbi_set_scounteren((void *)event);

Oh my, fortunately you noticed it, thank you very much!

>
> reset here? so the CY/IR bits can be cleared.
>
> Thanks for the patch, fixed the warning seen on my boards.
>
> Tested-by: Yu Chien Peter Lin <peterlin at andestech.com>

Perfect, thank you again, I send a new version right now.

Alex

>
> Best regards,
> Peter Lin
>
> >
> >       ret = sbi_ecall(SBI_EXT_PMU, SBI_EXT_PMU_COUNTER_STOP, hwc->idx, 1, flag, 0, 0, 0);
> >       if (ret.error && (ret.error != SBI_ERR_ALREADY_STOPPED) &&



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