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Date:   Tue, 23 Mar 2021 16:56:27 -0400
From:   "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Like Xu <like.xu@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 RESEND 3/5] perf/x86/lbr: Move cpuc->lbr_xsave
 allocation out of sleeping region



On 3/22/2021 2:06 AM, Like Xu wrote:
> If the kernel is compiled with the CONFIG_LOCKDEP option, the conditional
> might_sleep_if() deep in kmem_cache_alloc() will generate the following
> trace, and potentially cause a deadlock when another LBR event is added:
> 
> [  243.115549] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:196
> [  243.117576] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 839, name: perf
> [  243.119326] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
> [  243.120249] irq event stamp: 0
> [  243.120967] hardirqs last  enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
> [  243.122415] hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<ffffffff810d9bf5>] copy_process+0xa45/0x1dc0
> [  243.124302] softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<ffffffff810d9bf5>] copy_process+0xa45/0x1dc0
> [  243.126255] softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
> [  243.128119] CPU: 0 PID: 839 Comm: perf Not tainted 5.11.0-rc4-guest+ #8
> [  243.129654] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
> [  243.131520] Call Trace:
> [  243.132112]  dump_stack+0x8d/0xb5
> [  243.132896]  ___might_sleep.cold.106+0xb3/0xc3
> [  243.133984]  slab_pre_alloc_hook.constprop.85+0x96/0xd0
> [  243.135208]  ? intel_pmu_lbr_add+0x152/0x170
> [  243.136207]  kmem_cache_alloc+0x36/0x250
> [  243.137126]  intel_pmu_lbr_add+0x152/0x170
> [  243.138088]  x86_pmu_add+0x83/0xd0
> [  243.138889]  ? lock_acquire+0x158/0x350
> [  243.139791]  ? lock_acquire+0x158/0x350
> [  243.140694]  ? lock_acquire+0x158/0x350
> [  243.141625]  ? lock_acquired+0x1e3/0x360
> [  243.142544]  ? lock_release+0x1bf/0x340
> [  243.143726]  ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x1a/0xd0
> [  243.144823]  ? lock_acquired+0x1e3/0x360
> [  243.145742]  ? lock_release+0x1bf/0x340
> [  243.147107]  ? __slab_free+0x49/0x540
> [  243.147966]  ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x1a/0xd0
> [  243.148924]  event_sched_in.isra.129+0xf8/0x2a0
> [  243.149989]  merge_sched_in+0x261/0x3e0
> [  243.150889]  ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x1a/0xd0
> [  243.151869]  visit_groups_merge.constprop.135+0x130/0x4a0
> [  243.153122]  ? sched_clock_cpu+0xc/0xb0
> [  243.154023]  ctx_sched_in+0x101/0x210
> [  243.154884]  ctx_resched+0x6f/0xc0
> [  243.155686]  perf_event_exec+0x21e/0x2e0
> [  243.156641]  begin_new_exec+0x5e5/0xbd0
> [  243.157540]  load_elf_binary+0x6af/0x1770
> [  243.158478]  ? __kernel_read+0x19d/0x2b0
> [  243.159977]  ? lock_acquire+0x158/0x350
> [  243.160876]  ? __kernel_read+0x19d/0x2b0
> [  243.161796]  bprm_execve+0x3c8/0x840
> [  243.162638]  do_execveat_common.isra.38+0x1a5/0x1c0
> [  243.163776]  __x64_sys_execve+0x32/0x40
> [  243.164676]  do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
> [  243.165514]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
> [  243.166746] RIP: 0033:0x7f6180a26feb
> [  243.167590] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0x7f6180a26fc1.
> [  243.169097] RSP: 002b:00007ffc6558ce18 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000003b
> [  243.170844] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc65592d30 RCX: 00007f6180a26feb
> [  243.172514] RDX: 000055657f408dc0 RSI: 00007ffc65592410 RDI: 00007ffc65592d30
> [  243.174162] RBP: 00007ffc6558ce80 R08: 00007ffc6558cde0 R09: 0000000000000000
> [  243.176042] R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffc65592410
> [  243.177696] R13: 000055657f408dc0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00007ffc65592410
> 
> One of the solution is to use GFP_ATOMIC, but it will make the code less
> reliable under memory pressue. Let's move the memory allocation out of
> the sleeping region and put it into the x86_reserve_hardware().
> 
> The disadvantage of this fix is that the cpuc->lbr_xsave memory
> will be allocated for each cpu like the legacy ds_buffer.
> 
> Fixes: c085fb8774 ("perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support XSAVES for arch LBR read")
> Suggested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@...ux.intel.com>

I observed the same issue when I did LBR test on an ADL machine. This 
patch fixes the issue.

Tested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>

Thanks,
Kan
> ---
>   arch/x86/events/core.c       |  8 +++++---
>   arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c  |  2 +-
>   arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c  | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
>   arch/x86/events/perf_event.h |  8 +++++++-
>   4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c
> index 18df17129695..a4ce669cc78d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
> @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ set_ext_hw_attr(struct hw_perf_event *hwc, struct perf_event *event)
>   	return x86_pmu_extra_regs(val, event);
>   }
>   
> -int x86_reserve_hardware(void)
> +int x86_reserve_hardware(struct perf_event *event)
>   {
>   	int err = 0;
>   
> @@ -382,8 +382,10 @@ int x86_reserve_hardware(void)
>   		if (atomic_read(&pmc_refcount) == 0) {
>   			if (!reserve_pmc_hardware())
>   				err = -EBUSY;
> -			else
> +			else {
>   				reserve_ds_buffers();
> +				reserve_lbr_buffers(event);
> +			}
>   		}
>   		if (!err)
>   			atomic_inc(&pmc_refcount);
> @@ -634,7 +636,7 @@ static int __x86_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
>   	if (!x86_pmu_initialized())
>   		return -ENODEV;
>   
> -	err = x86_reserve_hardware();
> +	err = x86_reserve_hardware(event);
>   	if (err)
>   		return err;
>   
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c
> index 731dd8d0dbb1..057bb2f761a9 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c
> @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ static int bts_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
>   	if (x86_add_exclusive(x86_lbr_exclusive_bts))
>   		return -EBUSY;
>   
> -	ret = x86_reserve_hardware();
> +	ret = x86_reserve_hardware(event);
>   	if (ret) {
>   		x86_del_exclusive(x86_lbr_exclusive_bts);
>   		return ret;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
> index 355ea70f1879..237876733e12 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
> @@ -658,7 +658,6 @@ static inline bool branch_user_callstack(unsigned br_sel)
>   
>   void intel_pmu_lbr_add(struct perf_event *event)
>   {
> -	struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache = event->pmu->task_ctx_cache;
>   	struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events);
>   
>   	if (!x86_pmu.lbr_nr)
> @@ -696,11 +695,6 @@ void intel_pmu_lbr_add(struct perf_event *event)
>   	perf_sched_cb_inc(event->ctx->pmu);
>   	if (!cpuc->lbr_users++ && !event->total_time_running)
>   		intel_pmu_lbr_reset();
> -
> -	if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_LBR) &&
> -	    kmem_cache && !cpuc->lbr_xsave &&
> -	    (cpuc->lbr_users != cpuc->lbr_pebs_users))
> -		cpuc->lbr_xsave = kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
>   }
>   
>   void release_lbr_buffers(void)
> @@ -721,6 +715,22 @@ void release_lbr_buffers(void)
>   	}
>   }
>   
> +void reserve_lbr_buffers(struct perf_event *event)
> +{
> +	struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache = x86_get_pmu()->task_ctx_cache;
> +	struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc;
> +	int cpu;
> +
> +	if (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_LBR))
> +		return;
> +
> +	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> +		cpuc = per_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events, cpu);
> +		if (kmem_cache && !cpuc->lbr_xsave && !event->attr.precise_ip)
> +			cpuc->lbr_xsave = kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	}
> +}
> +
>   void intel_pmu_lbr_del(struct perf_event *event)
>   {
>   	struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h b/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
> index 53b2b5fc23bc..2fe77d3a98d6 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
> @@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ int x86_add_exclusive(unsigned int what);
>   
>   void x86_del_exclusive(unsigned int what);
>   
> -int x86_reserve_hardware(void);
> +int x86_reserve_hardware(struct perf_event *event);
>   
>   void x86_release_hardware(void);
>   
> @@ -1135,6 +1135,8 @@ void reserve_ds_buffers(void);
>   
>   void release_lbr_buffers(void);
>   
> +void reserve_lbr_buffers(struct perf_event *event);
> +
>   extern struct event_constraint bts_constraint;
>   extern struct event_constraint vlbr_constraint;
>   
> @@ -1282,6 +1284,10 @@ static inline void release_lbr_buffers(void)
>   {
>   }
>   
> +static inline void reserve_lbr_buffers(struct perf_event *event)
> +{
> +}
> +
>   static inline int intel_pmu_init(void)
>   {
>   	return 0;
> 

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