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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2015-07-15 14:35:46 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-08-04 10:17:01 +0200
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perf/x86/intel/pebs: Robustify PEBS buffer drain
Vince Weaver and Stephane Eranian reported warnings in the PEBS code when running the perf fuzzer. Stephane wrote: > I can reproduce the problem on my HSW running the fuzzer. > > I can see why this could be happening if you are mixing PEBS and non PEBS events > in the bottom 4 counters. I suspect: > for (bit = 0; bit < x86_pmu.max_pebs_events; bit++) { > if ((counts[bit] == 0) && (error[bit] == 0)) > continue; > > This test is not correct when you have non-PEBS events mixed with > PEBS events and they overflow at the same time. They will have > counts[i] != 0 but error[i] == 0, and thus you fall thru the loop > and hit the assert. Or it is something along those lines. The only way I can make this work is if ->status only has !PEBS events set, because if it has both set we'll take that slow path which masks out the !PEBS bits. After masking there are 3 options: - there is one bit set, and its @bit, we increment counts[bit]. - there are multiple bits set, we increment error[] for each set bit, we do not increment counts[]. - there are no bits set, we do nothing. The intent was to never increment counts[] for !PEBS events. Now if we start out with only a single !PEBS event set, we'll pass the test and increment counts[] for a !PEBS and hit the warn. Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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