linux.git/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c, branch v6.12.80

perf: Avoid the read if the count is already updated

2025-05-29T09:03:02+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8ce939a0fa194939cc1f92dbd8bc1a7806e7d40a ]

The event may have been updated in the PMU-specific implementation,
e.g., Intel PEBS counters snapshotting. The common code should not
read and overwrite the value.

The PERF_SAMPLE_READ in the data->sample_type can be used to detect
whether the PMU-specific value is available. If yes, avoid the
pmu->read() in the common code. Add a new flag, skip_read, to track the
case.

Factor out a perf_pmu_read() to clean up the code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250121152303.3128733-3-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf/ring_buffer: Allow the EPOLLRDNORM flag for poll

2025-04-10T12:39:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit c96fff391c095c11dc87dab35be72dee7d217cde ]

The poll man page says POLLRDNORM is equivalent to POLLIN. For poll(),
it seems that if user sets pollfd with POLLRDNORM in userspace, perf_poll
will not return until timeout even if perf_output_wakeup called,
whereas POLLIN returns.

Fixes: 76369139ceb9 ("perf: Split up buffer handling from core code")
Signed-off-by: Tao Chen 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314030036.2543180-1-chen.dylane@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf/aux: Fix AUX buffer serialization

2024-09-04T16:22:56+00:00

Ole reported that event->mmap_mutex is strictly insufficient to
serialize the AUX buffer, add a per RB mutex to fully serialize it.

Note that in the lock order comment the perf_event::mmap_mutex order
was already wrong, that is, it nesting under mmap_lock is not new with
this patch.

Fixes: 45bfb2e50471 ("perf: Add AUX area to ring buffer for raw data streams")
Reported-by: Ole 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Make rb_alloc_aux() return an error immediately if nr_pages <= 0

2024-07-04T14:00:23+00:00

rb_alloc_aux() should not be called with nr_pages <= 0. Make it more robust
and readable by returning an error immediately in that case.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624201101.60186-8-adrian.hunter@intel.com

perf: Fix default aux_watermark calculation

2024-07-04T14:00:23+00:00

The default aux_watermark is half the AUX area buffer size. In general,
on a 64-bit architecture, the AUX area buffer size could be a bigger than
fits in a 32-bit type, but the calculation does not allow for that
possibility.

However the aux_watermark value is recorded in a u32, so should not be
more than U32_MAX either.

Fix by doing the calculation in a correctly sized type, and limiting the
result to U32_MAX.

Fixes: d68e6799a5c8 ("perf: Cap allocation order at aux_watermark")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624201101.60186-7-adrian.hunter@intel.com

perf/ring_buffer: Trigger IO signals for watermark_wakeup

2024-04-14T20:26:32+00:00

perf_output_wakeup() already marks the perf event fd available for polling.
Trigger IO signals with FASYNC too.

Signed-off-by: Kyle Huey 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240413141618.4160-3-khuey@kylehuey.com

mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER

2024-01-08T23:27:15+00:00

commit 23baf831a32c ("mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely") has
changed the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive.  This has caused
issues with code that was not yet upstream and depended on the previous
definition.

To draw attention to the altered meaning of the define, rename MAX_ORDER
to MAX_PAGE_ORDER.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231228144704.14033-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

perf/core: Bail out early if the request AUX area is out of bound

2023-09-12T15:46:31+00:00

When perf-record with a large AUX area, e.g 4GB, it fails with:

    #perf record -C 0 -m ,4G -e arm_spe_0// -- sleep 1
    failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)

and it reveals a WARNING with __alloc_pages():

	------------[ cut here ]------------
	WARNING: CPU: 44 PID: 17573 at mm/page_alloc.c:5568 __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x248
	Call trace:
	 __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x248
	 __kmalloc_large_node+0xc0/0x1f8
	 __kmalloc_node+0x134/0x1e8
	 rb_alloc_aux+0xe0/0x298
	 perf_mmap+0x440/0x660
	 mmap_region+0x308/0x8a8
	 do_mmap+0x3c0/0x528
	 vm_mmap_pgoff+0xf4/0x1b8
	 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x18c/0x218
	 __arm64_sys_mmap+0x38/0x58
	 invoke_syscall+0x50/0x128
	 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x58/0x188
	 do_el0_svc+0x34/0x50
	 el0_svc+0x34/0x108
	 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
	 el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8

'rb->aux_pages' allocated by kcalloc() is a pointer array which is used to
maintains AUX trace pages. The allocated page for this array is physically
contiguous (and virtually contiguous) with an order of 0..MAX_ORDER. If the
size of pointer array crosses the limitation set by MAX_ORDER, it reveals a
WARNING.

So bail out early with -ENOMEM if the request AUX area is out of bound,
e.g.:

    #perf record -C 0 -m ,4G -e arm_spe_0// -- sleep 1
    failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)

Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/ring_buffer: Use local_try_cmpxchg in __perf_output_begin

2023-07-10T07:52:36+00:00

Use local_try_cmpxchg instead of local_cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old
in __perf_output_begin.  x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF
flag, so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg (and related move
instruction in front of cmpxchg).

Also, try_cmpxchg implicitly assigns old *ptr value to "old" when cmpxchg
fails. There is no need to re-read the value in the loop.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230708090048.63046-2-ubizjak@gmail.com

mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely

2023-04-06T02:42:46+00:00

MAX_ORDER currently defined as number of orders page allocator supports:
user can ask buddy allocator for page order between 0 and MAX_ORDER-1.

This definition is counter-intuitive and lead to number of bugs all over
the kernel.

Change the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive: the range of orders
user can ask from buddy allocator is 0..MAX_ORDER now.

[kirill@shutemov.name: fix min() warning]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315153800.32wib3n5rickolvh@box
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another min_t warning]
[kirill@shutemov.name: fixups per Zi Yan]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316232144.b7ic4cif4kjiabws@box.shutemov.name
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix underlining in docs]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202303191025.VRCTk6mP-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315113133.11326-11-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman 	[powerpc]
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Zi Yan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton