3.16.75-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org
commit 3f9fbe9bd86c534eba2faf5d840fd44c6049f50e upstream.
Similar to how decrementing rb->next too early can cause data_head to (temporarily) be observed to go backward, so too can this happen when we increment too late.
This barrier() ensures the rb->head load happens after the increment, both the one in the 'goto again' path, as the one from perf_output_get_handle() -- albeit very unlikely to matter for the latter.
Suggested-by: Yabin Cui yabinc@google.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Cc: Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Cc: Jiri Olsa jolsa@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Stephane Eranian eranian@google.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Vince Weaver vincent.weaver@maine.edu Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com Cc: namhyung@kernel.org Fixes: ef60777c9abd ("perf: Optimize the perf_output() path by removing IRQ-disables") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517115418.309516009@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -47,6 +47,15 @@ static void perf_output_put_handle(struc unsigned long head;
again: + /* + * In order to avoid publishing a head value that goes backwards, + * we must ensure the load of @rb->head happens after we've + * incremented @rb->nest. + * + * Otherwise we can observe a @rb->head value before one published + * by an IRQ/NMI happening between the load and the increment. + */ + barrier(); head = local_read(&rb->head);
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