linux-kernel - Re: Crashes in perf_event_ctx_lock

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Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:11:07 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Crashes in perf_event_ctx_lock_nested

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:32:00PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

[ ...] 

> So we have to revert
> 
> a33d44843d45 ("watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Simplify deferred event destroy")
> 
> Patch attached.
> 

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>

There is still a problem. When running

echo 6 > /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh
echo 5 > /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh

repeatedly, the message

NMI watchdog: Enabled. Permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.

stops after a while (after ~10-30 iterations, with fluctuations).
After adding trace messages into hardlockup_detector_perf_disable()
and hardlockup_detector_perf_enable(), I see:

hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(0): Number of CPUs: 3
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(1): Number of CPUs: 2
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(2): Number of CPUs: 1
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(3): Number of CPUs: 0
...
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(0): Number of CPUs: 2
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(1): Number of CPUs: 1
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(2): Number of CPUs: 0
hardlockup_detector_perf_disable: disable(3): Number of CPUs: -1
...
hardlockup_detector_perf_enable: enable(1): Number of CPUs: -6
hardlockup_detector_perf_enable: enable(3): Number of CPUs: -5
hardlockup_detector_perf_enable: enable(2): Number of CPUs: -4
hardlockup_detector_perf_enable: enable(0): Number of CPUs: -3

Maybe watchdog_cpus needs to be atomic ?

Guenter