linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf/x86: Reset destroy callback on event init failure

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Date:   Wed, 29 Sep 2021 17:04:21 +1000
From:   Anand K Mistry <amistry@...gle.com>
To:     linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Anand K Mistry <amistry@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH] perf/x86: Reset destroy callback on event init failure

perf_init_event tries multiple init callbacks and does not reset the
event state between tries. When x86_pmu_event_init runs, it
unconditionally sets the destroy callback to hw_perf_event_destroy. On
the next init attempt after x86_pmu_event_init, in perf_try_init_event,
if the pmu's capabilities includes PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE, the destroy
callback will be run. However, if the next init didn't set the destroy
callback, hw_perf_event_destroy will be run (since the callback wasn't
reset).

Looking at other pmu init functions, the common pattern is to only set
the destroy callback on a successful init. Resetting the callback on
failure tries to replicate that pattern.

This was discovered after commit f11dd0d80555 ("perf/x86/amd/ibs: Extend
PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE to IBS Op") when the second (and only second)
run of the perf tool after a reboot results in 0 samples being
generated. The extra run of hw_perf_event_destroy results in
active_events having an extra decrement on each perf run. The second run
has active_events == 0 and every subsequent run has active_events < 0.
When active_events == 0, the NMI handler will early-out and not record
any samples.

Signed-off-by: Anand K Mistry <amistry@...gle.com>
---

 arch/x86/events/core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c
index e6db1a1f22d7..1f5d96ba4866 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
@@ -2284,6 +2284,7 @@ static int x86_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 	if (err) {
 		if (event->destroy)
 			event->destroy(event);
+		event->destroy = NULL;
 	}

 	if (READ_ONCE(x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc) &&
-- 
2.33.0.800.g4c38ced690-goog