linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf_counter: Fix lockup with interrupting counters

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Message-ID: <18984.33964.21541.743096@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2009 12:36:28 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] perf_counter: Fix lockup with interrupting counters

Commit 8e3747c1 ("perf_counter: Change data head from u32 to u64")
changed the type of 'head' in struct perf_mmap_data from atomic_t
to atomic_long_t, but missed converting one use of atomic_read on
it to atomic_long_read.  The effect of using atomic_read rather than
atomic_long_read on powerpc (and other big-endian architectures) is
that we get the high half of the 64-bit quantity, resulting in the
cmpxchg retry loop in perf_output_begin spinning forever as soon as
data->head becomes non-zero.  On little-endian architectures such as
x86 we would get the low half, resulting in a lockup once data->head
becomes greater than 4G.

This fixes it by using atomic_long_read rather than atomic_read.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
---
 kernel/perf_counter.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index 195712e..a5d3e2a 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -2234,7 +2234,7 @@ static int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 	perf_output_lock(handle);

 	do {
-		offset = head = atomic_read(&data->head);
+		offset = head = atomic_long_read(&data->head);
 		head += size;
 	} while (atomic_long_cmpxchg(&data->head, offset, head) != offset);

-- 
1.6.0.4

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