Commit 2ed6edd33a21 ("perf: Add cond_resched() to task_function_call()")
added assignment of ret value as -EAGAIN in case function
call to 'smp_call_function_single' fails.
For non-zero ret value, it did
'ret = !ret ? data.ret : -EAGAIN;', which always
assign -EAGAIN to ret and make second if condition useless.
In scenarios like when executing a perf stat with --per-thread option, and
if any of the monitoring cpu goes offline, the 'smp_call_function_single'
function could return -ENXIO, and with the above check,
task_function_call hung and increases CPU
usage (because of repeated 'smp_call_function_single()')
Recration scenario:
# perf stat -a --per-thread && (offline a CPU )
Patch here removes the tertiary condition added as part of that
commit and added a check for NULL and -EAGAIN.
Fixes: 2ed6edd33a21("perf: Add cond_resched() to task_function_call()")
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kj...@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <sri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Barret Rhoden <b...@google.com>
Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <sri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Changelog:
- Remove RFC tag
- Resolve some nits issues like space after if and
added -ENXIO in comment msg of function 'task_function_call'
as suggested by Barret Rhoden.
Link to the RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/26/896
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 5bfe8e3c6e44..cef646084198 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static void remote_function(void *data)
* retry due to any failures in smp_call_function_single(), such as if the
* task_cpu() goes offline concurrently.
*
- * returns @func return value or -ESRCH when the process isn't running
+ * returns @func return value or -ESRCH or -ENXIO when the process isn't
running
*/
static int
task_function_call(struct task_struct *p, remote_function_f func, void *info)
@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ task_function_call(struct task_struct *p, remote_function_f
func, void *info)
for (;;) {
ret = smp_call_function_single(task_cpu(p), remote_function,
&data, 1);
- ret = !ret ? data.ret : -EAGAIN;
+ if (!ret)
+ ret = data.ret;
if (ret != -EAGAIN)
break;
--
2.26.2
