Re: [PATCH v4] arm: perf: Directly handle SMP platforms with one SPI

On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 04:16:10PM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote:

Some ARM platforms mux the PMU interrupt of every core into a single SPI. On such platforms if the PMU of any core except 0 raises an interrupt then it cannot be serviced and eventually, if you are lucky, the spurious irq detection might forcefully disable the interrupt.

On these SoCs it is not possible to determine which core raised the interrupt so workaround this issue by queuing irqwork on the other cores whenever the primary interrupt handler is unable to service the interrupt.

The u8500 platform has an alternative workaround that dynamically alters the affinity of the PMU interrupt. This workaround logic is no longer required so the original code is removed as is the hook it relied upon.

Tested on imx6q (which has fours cores/PMUs all muxed to a single SPI).

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diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c index f7c65adaa428..e5c537b57f94 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -299,8 +299,6 @@ validate_group(struct perf_event *event) static irqreturn_t armpmu_dispatch_irq(int irq, void *dev) { struct arm_pmu *armpmu;

•   struct platform_device *plat_device;
  

•   struct arm_pmu_platdata *plat;
    int ret;
    u64 start_clock, finish_clock;
  
  

@@ -311,14 +309,9 @@ static irqreturn_t armpmu_dispatch_irq(int irq, void *dev) * dereference. */ armpmu = *(void **)dev;

•   plat_device = armpmu->plat_device;
  

•   plat = dev_get_platdata(&plat_device->dev);
  
    start_clock = sched_clock();
  

•   if (plat && plat->handle_irq)
  

•           ret = plat->handle_irq(irq, armpmu, armpmu->handle_irq);
  

•   else
  

•           ret = armpmu->handle_irq(irq, armpmu);
  

•   ret = armpmu->handle_irq(irq, armpmu);
    finish_clock = sched_clock();
  
    perf_sample_event_took(finish_clock - start_clock);
  

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c index dd9acc95ebc0..76227484baa9 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c @@ -59,6 +59,142 @@ int perf_num_counters(void) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_num_counters);

+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP +/*

• • Workaround logic that is distributed to all cores if the PMU has only
• • a single IRQ and the CPU receiving that IRQ cannot handle it. Its
• • job is to try to service the interrupt on the current CPU. It will
• • also enable the IRQ again if all the other CPUs have already tried to
• • service it.
• */

+static void cpu_pmu_do_percpu_work(struct irq_work *w) +{

•   struct pmu_hw_events *hw_events =
  

•       container_of(w, struct pmu_hw_events, work);
  

•   struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu = hw_events->percpu_pmu;
  

•   /* Ignore the return code, we can do nothing useful with it */
  

•   cpu_pmu->handle_irq(0, cpu_pmu);
  

•   if (atomic_dec_and_test(&cpu_pmu->remaining_irq_work))
  

•           enable_irq(cpu_pmu->muxed_spi_workaround_irq);
  

+}

+/*

• • Issue work to the other CPUs. Must be called whilst we own the
• • hotplug locks.
• */

+static void cpu_pmu_queue_percpu_work(struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu) +{

•   int cpu;
  

•   atomic_add(num_online_cpus() - 1, &cpu_pmu->remaining_irq_work);
  

•   for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
  

•           struct pmu_hw_events *hw_events =
  

•               per_cpu_ptr(cpu_pmu->hw_events, cpu);
  

•           if (cpu == smp_processor_id())
  

•                   continue;
  

•           /*
  

•            * We assume that the IPI within irq_work_queue_on()
  

•            * implies a full memory barrier making the value of
  

•            * cpu_pmu->remaining_irq_work visible to the target.
  

•            */
  

•           if (!irq_work_queue_on(&hw_events->work, cpu))
  

•                   if (atomic_dec_and_test(&cpu_pmu->remaining_irq_work))
  

•                           enable_irq(cpu_pmu->muxed_spi_workaround_irq);
  

•   }
  

+}

+void cpu_pmu_muxed_spi_workaround_worker(struct work_struct *work) +{

•   struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu =
  

•       container_of(work, struct arm_pmu, muxed_spi_workaround_work);
  

•   get_online_cpus();
  

•   cpu_pmu_queue_percpu_work(cpu_pmu);
  

•   put_online_cpus();
  

+}

+/*

• • Called when the main interrupt handler cannot determine the source
• • of interrupt. It will deploy a workaround if we are running on an SMP
• • platform with only a single muxed SPI.
• • The workaround disables the interrupt and distributes irqwork to all
• • other processors in the system. Hopefully one of them will clear the
• • interrupt...
• */

+static irqreturn_t cpu_pmu_handle_irq_none(int irq_num, struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu) +{

•   if (irq_num != cpu_pmu->muxed_spi_workaround_irq)
  

•           return IRQ_NONE;
  

•   disable_irq_nosync(cpu_pmu->muxed_spi_workaround_irq);
  

•   if (try_get_online_cpus()) {
  

It's not safe to call this from interrupt context (it takes a mutex).

Can you try enabling a bunch of the debug options under "Kernel Hacking" for things like detecting sleeping whilst atomic and then run Vince's perf fuzzer to see what crops up please?

https://github.com/deater/perf_event_tests/tree/master/fuzzer

Will