Steven reported | | I'm getting: | | Pid: 3477, comm: perf Not tainted 2.6.34-rc6 #2727 | Call Trace: | [] debug_smp_processor_id+0xd5/0xf0 | [] p4_hw_config+0x2b/0x15c | [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12b/0x14f | [] hw_perf_event_init+0x468/0x7be | [] ? debug_mutex_init+0x31/0x3c | [] T.850+0x273/0x42e | [] sys_perf_event_open+0x23e/0x3f1 | [] ? sysret_check+0x2e/0x69 | [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b | | When running perf record in latest tip/perf/core | Due to the fact that p4 counters are shared between HT threads we synthetically divide the whole set of counters into two non-intersected subsets. And while we're "borrowing" counters from these subsets we should not be preempted (well, strictly speaking in p4_hw_config we just pre-set reference to the subset which allow to save some cycles in schedule routine if it happens on the same cpu). So use get_cpu/put_cpu pair. Also p4_pmu_schedule_events should use smp_processor_id rather than raw_ version. This allow us to catch up preemption issue (if there will ever be). Reported-by: Steven Rostedt CC: Steven Rostedt CC: Peter Zijlstra CC: Ingo Molnar CC: Frederic Weisbecker CC: Lin Ming Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov --- Note: I've removed Steven's Tested-by tag, since due to commit 9d0fcba67e47ff398a6fa86476d4884d472dc98a the former patch Steven were testing is not applicable anymore. arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c ===================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c +++ linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c @@ -421,7 +421,8 @@ static u64 p4_pmu_event_map(int hw_event static int p4_hw_config(struct perf_event *event) { - int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id(); + int cpu = get_cpu(); + int rc = 0; u32 escr, cccr; /* @@ -454,7 +455,10 @@ static int p4_hw_config(struct perf_even p4_config_pack_cccr(P4_CCCR_MASK_HT)); } - return x86_setup_perfctr(event); + rc = x86_setup_perfctr(event); + put_cpu(); + + return rc; } static inline void p4_pmu_clear_cccr_ovf(struct hw_perf_event *hwc) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/