linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf/core: Add pmu stop before unthrottling to prevent WARNING

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Message-Id: <20230602094841.1225-1-eric.lin@sifive.com>
Date:   Fri,  2 Jun 2023 09:48:41 +0000
From:   Eric Lin <eric.lin@...ive.com>
To:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, acme@...nel.org,
        mark.rutland@....com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        jolsa@...nel.org, namhyung@...nel.org, irogers@...gle.com,
        adrian.hunter@...el.com, paul.walmsley@...ive.com,
        palmer@...belt.com, aou@...s.berkeley.edu,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     greentime.hu@...ive.com, vincent.chen@...ive.com,
        Eric Lin <eric.lin@...ive.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf/core: Add pmu stop before unthrottling to prevent WARNING

Currently, during the perf sampling, if the perf interrupt takes too long,
perf framework will lower the perf_event_max_sample_rate. This will limit
the number of samples per timer tick (max_samples_per_tick) and set hwc->interrupts
to MAX_INTERRUPTS within the __perf_event_account_interrupt() function.

Afterward, the perf framework will unthrottle the event in the timer interrupt
handler, which triggers the driver's *_pmu_start() function. Most of the driver's
*_pmu_start() functions will check the event->hw.state to determine whether this
event has stopped. If the event has not stopped, a WARN_ON_ONCE() warning
will be triggered as shown below:

[ 2110.224723] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 2110.224851] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 240 at drivers/perf/riscv_pmu.c:184 riscv_pmu_start+0x7c/0x8e
[ 2110.225242] Modules linked in:
[ 2110.225380] CPU: 0 PID: 240 Comm: ls Not tainted 6.4-rc4-g19d0788e9ef2 #1
[ 2110.225574] Hardware name: SiFive (DT)
[ 2110.225657] epc : riscv_pmu_start+0x7c/0x8e
[ 2110.225834]  ra : riscv_pmu_start+0x28/0x8e
[ 2110.225998] epc : ffffffff80aef864 ra : ffffffff80aef810 sp : ffff8f80004db6f0
[ 2110.226135]  gp : ffffffff81c83750 tp : ffffaf80069f9bc0 t0 : ffff8f80004db6c0
[ 2110.226245]  t1 : 0000000000000000 t2 : 000000000000001f s0 : ffff8f80004db720
[ 2110.226367]  s1 : ffffaf8008ca1068 a0 : 0000ffffffffffff a1 : 0000000000000000
[ 2110.226488]  a2 : 0000000000000001 a3 : 0000000000000870 a4 : 0000000000000000
[ 2110.226605]  a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000000840 a7 : 0000000000000030
[ 2110.226721]  s2 : 0000000000000000 s3 : ffffaf8005165800 s4 : ffffaf800424da00
[ 2110.226838]  s5 : ffffffffffffffff s6 : ffffffff81cc7590 s7 : 0000000000000000
[ 2110.226955]  s8 : 0000000000000006 s9 : 0000000000000001 s10: ffffaf807efbc340
[ 2110.227064]  s11: ffffaf807efbbf00 t3 : ffffaf8006a16028 t4 : 00000000dbfbb796
[ 2110.227180]  t5 : 0000000700000000 t6 : ffffaf8005269870
[ 2110.227277] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 0000000000000003
[ 2110.227407] [<ffffffff80aef864>] riscv_pmu_start+0x7c/0x8e
[ 2110.227622] [<ffffffff80185b56>] perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context+0x15e/0x174
[ 2110.227961] [<ffffffff80188642>] perf_event_task_tick+0x88/0x9c
[ 2110.228235] [<ffffffff800626a8>] scheduler_tick+0xfe/0x27c
[ 2110.228463] [<ffffffff800b5640>] update_process_times+0x9a/0xba
[ 2110.228690] [<ffffffff800c5bd4>] tick_sched_handle+0x32/0x66
[ 2110.229007] [<ffffffff800c5e0c>] tick_sched_timer+0x64/0xb0
[ 2110.229253] [<ffffffff800b5e50>] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x156/0x2f4
[ 2110.229446] [<ffffffff800b6bdc>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xe2/0x1fe
[ 2110.229637] [<ffffffff80acc9e8>] riscv_timer_interrupt+0x38/0x42
[ 2110.229984] [<ffffffff80090a16>] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x90/0x1d2
[ 2110.230162] [<ffffffff8008a9f4>] generic_handle_domain_irq+0x28/0x36

To prevent this warning, we should call the driver's *_pmu_stop() function before unthrottling

Signed-off-by: Eric Lin <eric.lin@...ive.com>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index db016e418931..098c875abe88 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -4128,6 +4128,7 @@ perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context(struct perf_event_context *ctx, bool unthrottle)
 
 		if (hwc->interrupts == MAX_INTERRUPTS) {
 			hwc->interrupts = 0;
+			event->pmu->stop(event, 0);
 			perf_log_throttle(event, 1);
 			event->pmu->start(event, 0);
 		}
-- 
2.17.1