5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com
[ Upstream commit dcca27bc1eccb9abc2552aab950b18a9742fb8e7 ]
Currently armpmu_add() tries to handle a newly-allocated counter having a stale associated event, but this should not be possible, and if this were to happen the current mitigation is insufficient and potentially expensive. It would be better to warn if we encounter the impossible case.
Calls to pmu::add() and pmu::del() are serialized by the core perf code, and armpmu_del() clears the relevant slot in pmu_hw_events::events[] before clearing the bit in pmu_hw_events::used_mask such that the counter can be reallocated. Thus when armpmu_add() allocates a counter index from pmu_hw_events::used_mask, it should not be possible to observe a stale even in pmu_hw_events::events[] unless either pmu_hw_events::used_mask or pmu_hw_events::events[] have been corrupted.
If this were to happen, we'd end up with two events with the same event->hw.idx, which would clash with each other during reprogramming, deletion, etc, and produce bogus results. Add a WARN_ON_ONCE() for this case so that we can detect if this ever occurs in practice.
That possiblity aside, there's no need to call arm_pmu::disable(event) for the new event. The PMU reset code initialises the counter in a disabled state, and armpmu_del() will disable the counter before it can be reused. Remove the redundant disable.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) robh@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual@arm.com Tested-by: James Clark james.clark@linaro.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250218-arm-brbe-v19-v20-2-4e9922fc2e8e@kernel.or... Signed-off-by: Will Deacon will@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c index b377872a8f9d6..558ee5401ea89 100644 --- a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c @@ -262,12 +262,10 @@ armpmu_add(struct perf_event *event, int flags) if (idx < 0) return idx;
- /* - * If there is an event in the counter we are going to use then make - * sure it is disabled. - */ + /* The newly-allocated counter should be empty */ + WARN_ON_ONCE(hw_events->events[idx]); + event->hw.idx = idx; - armpmu->disable(event); hw_events->events[idx] = event;
hwc->state = PERF_HES_STOPPED | PERF_HES_UPTODATE;