linux-kernel - Re: WARN_ON_ONCE() hit at kernel/events/core.c:330

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Message-ID: <87pnpsd9v1.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:06:42 +0300
From:   Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, acme@...hat.com,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>, jolsa@...hat.com,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: WARN_ON_ONCE() hit at kernel/events/core.c:330

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 03:51:24PM +0200, Thomas-Mich Richter wrote:
>> Thanks for the fix with commit id 86071b11317550d994b55ce5e31aa06bcad783b5.
>> 
>> However doing an fgrep on the pending_disable member of struct perf_event
>> reveals two more hits in file kernel/events/ringbuffer.c when events
>> have auxiliary data.
>> 
>> Not sure if this needs to be addresses too, just wanted to let you know.
>
> *groan* indeed, and yes that would need fixing too. I completely missed
> the AUX stuff using that too.
>
> I think we can simply do the below on top, Alexander?

Looks good. FWIW, renaming pending_disable in the first place to match
the fact that it's a cpu# now, would have probably caught all these.

> ---
>  kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
> index 678ccec60d8f..ab2b7b38adc5 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
> @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ void *perf_aux_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
>  		 * store that will be enabled on successful return
>  		 */
>  		if (!handle->size) { /* A, matches D */
> -			event->pending_disable = 1;
> +			event->pending_disable = smp_processor_id();
>  			perf_output_wakeup(handle);
>  			local_set(&rb->aux_nest, 0);
>  			goto err_put;
> @@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ void perf_aux_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle, unsigned long size)
>
>  	if (wakeup) {
>  		if (handle->aux_flags & PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED)
> -			handle->event->pending_disable = 1;
> +			handle->event->pending_disable = smp_processor_id();
>  		perf_output_wakeup(handle);
>  	}

Thanks,
--
Alex