linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf, intel: Don't touch MSR_IA32

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Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:36:24 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mingo@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf, intel: Don't touch MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR
	from NMI context

On 09/12, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Oleg and Sebastian found that touching MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR from NMI
> context is problematic since the only way to change the various
> unrelated bits in there is:
>
>   debugctl = get_debugctlmsr()
>   /* frob flags in debugctl */
>   update_debugctlmsr(debugctl);
>
> Which is entirely unsafe if we prod at the MSR from NMI context.
>
> In particular the path that is responsible is:
>
>   x86_pmu_handle_irq() (NMI handler)
>     x86_pmu_stop()
>       x86_pmu.disable -> intel_pmu_disable_event()
>         intel_pmu_lbr_disable()
>           __intel_pmu_lbr_disable()
>             wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR,... );

Not only.

x86_pmu_handle_irq() does intel_pmu_disable_all() and intel_pmu_enable_all(),
this leads to intel_pmu_enable_bts() and intel_pmu_disable_bts().

And those intel_pmu_*_bts() are also called by intel_pmu_disable_event()
and intel_pmu_enable_event(), the latter is probably fine.

Oleg.

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