Please find v2 of the patch from Prasad, based on Peter Zijlstra's feedback. This applies on top of v3.5-rc7. This has been tested and found to work fine by Edjunior.
Regards, Naveen ______ From: K.Prasad <prasad.krish...@gmail.com> While debugging a warning message on PowerPC while using hardware breakpoints, it was discovered that when perf_event_disable is invoked through hw_breakpoint_handler function with interrupts disabled, a subsequent IPI in the code path would trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE message in smp_call_function_single function. This patch calls __perf_event_disable() when interrupts are already disabled, instead of perf_event_disable(). Reported-by: Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emach...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad.krish...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n....@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 2 ++ kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 10 +++++++++- 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index 45db49f..c289ba0 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -1292,6 +1292,7 @@ extern int perf_swevent_get_recursion_context(void); extern void perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(int rctx); extern void perf_event_enable(struct perf_event *event); extern void perf_event_disable(struct perf_event *event); +extern int __perf_event_disable(void *info); extern void perf_event_task_tick(void); #else static inline void @@ -1330,6 +1331,7 @@ static inline int perf_swevent_get_recursion_context(void) { return -1; } static inline void perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(int rctx) { } static inline void perf_event_enable(struct perf_event *event) { } static inline void perf_event_disable(struct perf_event *event) { } +static inline int __perf_event_disable(void *info) { } static inline void perf_event_task_tick(void) { } #endif diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index d7d71d6..0ad0fc9 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -1253,7 +1253,7 @@ retry: /* * Cross CPU call to disable a performance event */ -static int __perf_event_disable(void *info) +int __perf_event_disable(void *info) { struct perf_event *event = info; struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx; diff --git a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c index bb38c4d..483f14a 100644 --- a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c +++ b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c @@ -453,7 +453,15 @@ int modify_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp, struct perf_event_attr *att int old_type = bp->attr.bp_type; int err = 0; - perf_event_disable(bp); + /* + * modify_user_hw_breakpoint can be invoked with IRQs disabled and hence it + * will not be possible to raise IPIs that invoke __perf_event_disable. + * So call the function directly. + */ + if (irqs_disabled()) + __perf_event_disable(bp); + else + perf_event_disable(bp); bp->attr.bp_addr = attr->bp_addr; bp->attr.bp_type = attr->bp_type; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/