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13 daysMerge tag 'mm-stable-2026-10-19-21-33' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "selftests/mm: improve khugepaged coverage" (Kiryl Shutsemau): Give khugepaged a proper workout. Extend the tests to all supported mTHP orders, check exactly which windows collapsed, and make scan completion deterministic. Race collapse against faults, pinning, fork and remap; verify that the contents survive. Add coverage for whole-page-table zaps and memory pressure too. - "selftests/mm: separate GUP microbenchmarking from functional testing" (Sarthak Sharma): Untangle GUP benchmarking from correctness testing. Move the benchmark into tools/mm, add a standalone harness-based GUP selftest, and move shared helpers into tools/lib/mm. Give each tool one job instead of mixing timing measurements with correctness checks. Cover the mapping, pinning and batch-size combinations explicitly. - "mm: Switch device DAX to section-based vmemmap optimization" (Muchun Song): Apply section-based vmemmap optimization to device DAX. Rework the backing metadata layout to save memory while preserving the handling of device memory hotplug and its different alignment and lifetime requirements. - "mm: Introduce section-based vmemmap optimization for HugeTLB" (Muchun Song): Cut the memory consumed by HugeTLB's struct page array with section-based vmemmap optimization. Arrange the metadata so large huge pages need fewer backing pages, while keeping initialization, teardown and the various hugepage configurations straight. - "mm/huge_memory: clean up and decouple the anon and file split helpers" (Kairui Song): Separate anonymous and file-backed folio splitting, which have rather different locking and bookkeeping requirements. Move the work into separate helpers, drop dead checks and tidy swap-cache handling. Fix error paths, including one that could leave a folio frozen. Keep the swap cache cases separate from file-cache splitting. - "mm: Unconditional per-VMA locks and cleanups" (Dave Hansen): Make per-VMA locking unconditional and clean up the old conditional code around it. This removes configuration-dependent plumbing and lets callers depend on one locking model rather than carrying both cases along. - "memcg: remove the v1 soft limit" (Shakeel Butt): Remove the old cgroup v1 memory soft-limit machinery. This has long since been superseded by the newer memory-control interfaces; hauling around a separate reclaim scheme for it no longer buys us much. - "read proc/pid/smaps_rollup under per-vma lock" (Suren Baghdasaryan): Read /proc/PID/smaps_rollup using per-VMA locks where possible, rather than holding mmap_lock across the entire walk. Retain the contention fallback and add tearing tests. This considerably reduces latency when another thread is busy changing its mappings. - "mm/damon: introduce data access-as-a-data attribute" (SJ Park): Teach DAMON to expose memory access observations as data attributes, making them available to the probe and filtering machinery. Extend the interfaces, documentation and tests so the new information can be used rather than merely collected. - "Remove PG_private by using page/folio->private checks instead" (Zi Yan): Get rid of PG_private and use the folio's private pointer to say whether private data is attached. Convert the filesystem users, including erofs, f2fs and md, and clean up the old accessors and flags. There are a few special cases, notably swapcache and hugetlb, which need explicit care. - "mm: make userland page table freeing RCU-safe" (Lorenzo Stoakes): Make freeing userspace page tables safe against RCU readers. Sort out the page-table lifetime and locking rules so walkers cannot stumble over freed tables while mappings are being torn down. - "make unused huge shrinker memcg aware" (Qi Zheng): Make shmem's unused-huge-folio shrinker aware of memory cgroups, so reclaim can find those folios under the right memcg. Wire up the per-memcg tracking and its lifetime rules, and give the shrinklist its own lockdep class to avoid spurious dependency reports. - "mm: Drop pxd_ERROR()" (Anshuman Khandual): Remove the old pxd_ERROR() page-table checks and their architecture-specific baggage. Simplify the common page-table interfaces and callers now that these checks no longer serve a useful purpose. - "memcg: group struct fields by access pattern" (Shakeel Butt): Rearrange memcg's hot and cold fields according to how they're actually accessed. Keep frequently updated counters and their neighboring state from fighting over cachelines and reduce needless cacheline traffic. - "mm/damon/core: fix the size charged for a filter-trimmed region" (Donggeun Yoo): Fix DAMOS quota accounting when a filter trims a monitoring region. Charge only the part left after filtering, not the original region, and add KUnit coverage. Previously the excluded memory could eat into the quota and make schemes run more slowly than requested. - "mm/damon: add kunit and selftests for probes and probe weights" (SJ Park): Add more tests for DAMON probes and their weights, including validation and the results reported to userspace. This is mostly about catching regressions in the newer probe infrastructure before they become harder to diagnose. - "mm: memcontrol: constify the read side of the read side of the memcg API" (Tal Zussman): Mark the read-only parts of the memcg interface const, from folio and lruvec accessors to counters and swap helpers. Most of this is mechanical, but it makes the contracts clearer and lets the compiler catch accidental writes. - "mm/damon/vaddr: support {prep,apply}_probes" (SJ Park): Support the new prepare/apply probe operations in DAMON's virtual-address backend. This brings vaddr monitoring into line with the probe infrastructure and makes the added probe types useful there too. - "mm/mglru: clean up folio counters and flag usage" (Kairui Song): Simplify MGLRU's folio counters and flag handling. Remove redundant accounting paths and make the state transitions easier to follow without changing the intended reclaim policy. - "arch, mm/execmem: resolve confusion about set_direct_map_valid_noflush()" (Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)): Clarify and straighten out the set_direct_map_valid_noflush() interface across architectures and execmem. Make the requested mapping changes and the callers' expectations agree, rather than relying on subtly different architecture behavior. - "mm: zswap: free cold writeback folios promptly" (Alexandre Ghiti): Free zswap writeback folios as soon as their disk write completes. They are cold temporary buffers, so putting them on the LRU only makes reclaim rediscover them later. Extend swap-cache dropbehind and let zswap keep these folios off the LRU altogether. - "mm: gup: cleanup gup_fast call chain" (Aristeu Rozanski): Clean up the GUP-fast call chain and simplify how the fast-path helpers pass their arguments and results around. Keep the page-pin behavior the same while making the call sequence easier to maintain. - "mm: optimize zone-device memmap initialization" (Li Zhe): Speed up initialization of zone-device struct pages. Avoid redundant work when setting up large device-memory ranges, where touching every descriptor can get expensive. - "mm/zswap: shrink zswap_entry via a pool id" (Jianyue Wu): Reduce the size of zswap_entry by storing a compact pool identifier instead of a full pointer. Keep the pool lookup and lifetime handling correct while saving per-entry metadata. - "mm/damon: support access monitoring of hugetlb-backed memory" (Krishna Iyer): Let DAMON monitor hugetlb-backed memory too. Extend the relevant access checks and add coverage so those mappings no longer fall through a hole in the monitoring machinery. - "mm/execmem: fixes and cleanups for the ROX cache" (Mike Rapoport): Tidy execmem's read-only-executable cache and fix its handling of the awkward allocation and release cases. The aim is to make the cache's ownership and permission transitions more predictable. - "zsmallc: remove old object read API" (Sergey Senozhatsky): Drop zsmalloc's old object-read API and move its remaining users to the supported access mechanism. This removes a duplicate interface which we no longer need. - "mm/mempolicy: stop copying state in the interleave paths" (Gregory Price): Stop copying mempolicy state in the interleave paths when a reference to the existing policy will do. This avoids extra work and makes the ownership rules less obscure. - "mm/mglru: speed up inc_min_seq() and fix cold/hot inversions" (Barry Song): Make MGLRU's generation advancement cheaper and fix cases where cold and hot folios end up in the wrong order. Adjust the counter and list handling so reclaim doesn't keep passing over the better eviction candidates. - "mm: Fix MF_DELAYED handling on memory failure" (Lisa Wang): Treat MF_DELAYED as a partially completed memory-failure operation, not an outright failure. Propagate that result correctly through shmem and the generic handler, fix the extra-reference accounting, and add tests for the resulting SIGBUS behavior. - "tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix --sort, add module filter, improve usage" (Ye Liu): Fix page_owner_sort's --sort handling, add module-based filtering and make the usage output more helpful. This makes the tool less frustrating when tracking down who is holding on to pages. - "mm/damon: move damos filter range arguments validation to core" (SJ Park): Move DAMOS filter range validation into the core, where all callers can share it. Also close the sysfs read-twice races which could pass inconsistent ranges, and add tests for invalid input. - "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (Zenghui Yu): Clean up a collection of small DAMON rough edges in the core, interfaces and tests. No large behavior change here, just simpler code and fewer opportunities for confusion. - "mm/damon: cleanup code, add test cases, and update guidances in docs" (SJ Park): Clean up DAMON's core and interfaces, add missing test cases and bring the documentation into line with the code. These changes should make the newer facilities easier to understand and maintain. - "mm/damon: introduce hugepage_size probe filter" (SJ Park): Add a DAMON probe filter for hugepage size. Let users select a range of folio sizes through sysfs, validate the range and document the new interface, so monitoring can concentrate on memory backed by the desired hugepage sizes. - "selftests/mm: pagemap_ioctl test fixes and cleanups" (Zenghui Yu): Fix some pagemap ioctl test assumptions and clean up their setup and reporting. Make failures point to the operation that went wrong rather than to test harness bookkeeping. - "mm: avoid large folio splits when swap is unavailable" (Johannes Weiner): Avoid splitting large folios merely to attempt swap when no swap space is available. There is little point paying for an expensive split when reclaim cannot actually swap the resulting pages out. - "mm: workingset: fix the shadow node budget under MGLRU" (Hui Zhu): Fix the workingset shadow-node budget with MGLRU enabled. Keep the shadow entries within the intended limits so refault tracking does not quietly consume more metadata than it should. - "selftests/mm: TAP output and global-state fixes" (Song Hu): Fix selftests which produce misleading TAP output or fail to restore global settings after a run. A test ought to leave the system as it found it, particularly when a whole suite follows behind. - "mm: remove page_swap_entry()" (Tal Zussman): Remove page_swap_entry() and convert its remaining users to the folio and swap-entry helpers. Lose an old page-level interface and make the swap paths a little more consistent. - "mm: refactor zonelist constructors and iterators" (Gregory Price): Refactor the zonelist construction and walk helpers to reduce duplicated logic. Keep the allocation ordering rules intact while making it clearer how zones are selected. - "mm: kmemleak: batch the struct page scan" (Breno Leitao): Scan adjacent struct pages in batches instead of taking kmemleak_lock once for every single page. This preserves scan coverage and the lock-hold bound, while cutting overhead substantially on debug kernels. - "mm/damon: misc improvements in tests and documents" (Zenghui Yu): Fix some DAMON selftests which leave kdamond running or fail under Python safe-path mode, and improve the KUnit coverage and documentation. Nothing especially glamorous, but these are worth doing. - "mm/damon: introduce probe_hits_wsum DAMOS core filter" (SJ Park): Add a DAMOS core filter using weighted probe-hit counts. This gives schemes another way to select regions based on what the monitoring probes observed. - "mm/mglru: fix ineffective memory protection for non-kswapd reclaim" (Ridong Chen): Fix MGLRU's memory protection handling for reclaim outside kswapd. The protection settings weren't having the intended effect in these paths, leaving protected memory more exposed than requested. - "mm/damon: improve readability, clarity and test coverage" (SJ Park): Simplify a handful of DAMON core helpers, clarify their behavior and expand test coverage. There are no intended userspace-visible changes in this batch. - "mm: replace PF_KCOMPACTD/PF_KSWAPD with kthread_func()" (Kefeng Wang): Stop identifying reclaim and compaction workers through the PF_KSWAPD and PF_KCOMPACTD task flags. Use their kthread functions instead and remove the redundant flag plumbing. - "mm/hugetlb: fix surplus accounting and availability checks during demotion" (Longlong Xia): Fix HugeTLB surplus accounting and availability checks when demoting huge pages. Keep the counters and reservation decisions consistent as one huge page turns into several smaller ones. - "mm/damon: add kunit tests for probe_hits handling and probe params validation" (Jason Angelov): Add KUnit tests for DAMON probe-hit handling and invalid probe parameters. These cover edge cases that were too easy to miss in ordinary monitoring tests. - "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in kunit, quota goals and sysfs refresh_ms" (SJ Park): Fix a few DAMON bugs in KUnit tests, quota-goal handling and the sysfs refresh interval. Small fixes, but the incorrect results and control behavior were real. - "mm: zswap: optimize zswap invalidate and store" (Kefeng Wang): Simplify zswap's invalidate and store paths to avoid avoidable lookups and work. Keep the entry lifetime rules intact while making those frequent operations cheaper. - "mm: replace custom ratelimiting logic" (Pedro Falcato): Replace hand-rolled MM rate limiting with the common kernel helpers. There is no need to maintain another local version of the same mechanism. - "mm/vmalloc: minor cleanups" (Ye Liu): Tidy some vmalloc initialization and reporting code, and pull duplicated vmap-area insertion work into a helper. No functional changes are intended. - "mm/mglru: clean up isolate_folios for readability and clarity" (Ridong Chen): Clean up MGLRU's isolate_folios() so the decisions are easier to read and verify. Keep reclaim behavior unchanged while removing unnecessary twists in the control flow. - "Catch automatic storage in IDA and Maple Tree definitions" (Yury Norov): Catch IDA and maple-tree definitions placed in automatic storage where the lifetime rules are wrong or easy to get wrong. Add checks so such mistakes are harder to slip through unnoticed. - "mm, swap: some random fixes and cleanups" (Kemeng Shi): Fix and simplify a few unrelated swap paths, removing redundant work and tidying up error handling. A small collection of things which were better fixed than left lying around. - "mm/page_io: folio conversion cleanups" (Tal Zussman): Finish some page-to-folio conversions in swap I/O, removing obsolete wrappers and using folio operations consistently. The I/O behavior is intended to remain the same. - "mm/swap: skip empty clusters in the swapoff scan" (Youngjun Park): Skip empty swap clusters during swapoff instead of walking slots which have nothing to release. This avoids pointless work on sparsely used swap devices. - "mm: trace: decode architecture-specific VMA flags" (Meijing Zhao): Teach the VMA trace output to decode architecture-specific flags, rather than leaving them as unexplained bits. That should make tracing a good deal more useful when debugging unusual mappings. - "mm, swap: don't spin on a bad swap entry" (Breno Leitao): Stop repeatedly retrying a swap entry which is already known to be bad. Make the error path terminate cleanly instead of wasting CPU chasing an entry that cannot be used. - "mm/page_isolation: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds in isolate_single_pageblock" (Qi Xi): Fix an out-of-range shift in isolate_single_pageblock() and tighten its associated boundary handling. UBSAN found the issue; the result should be more robust pageblock isolation. - "mm: khugepaged: fix tracepoint UAF" (Vernon Yang): Fix a use-after-free in khugepaged tracepoint handling. Make sure the information recorded by tracing stays valid for as long as the trace event needs it. - "mm/damon: fix DAMOS bugs in core, paddr and vaddr" (SJ Park): Fix several DAMOS problems across the core and physical- and virtual-address backends. The changes close error cases and bring the implementations back into agreement. - "mm/hugetlb_cgroup: move the per-node usage along with the folio" (Hongfu Li): Move HugeTLB per-node usage accounting when folios migrate between nodes or are reparented to another cgroup. Otherwise numa_stat can retain stale charges and even underflow when the folio is freed. - "docs/core-api: memory-allocation: add k[mz]alloc_obj() and clarify kmalloc" (Mike Rapoport): Document the typed k[mz]alloc_obj() allocation helpers and clear up some kmalloc guidance. Make it easier for callers to choose the right interface. - "selftests/mm: Validate selections and scope memfd_secret setup" (Tianyi Chen): Check selftest selections before running and confine memfd_secret setup to the cases that actually need it. Avoid confusing failures caused by the test harness itself. - "mm/damon: move zero damos quota target_value handling to the core layer" (SJ Park): Handle a zero DAMOS quota goal target in the core rather than making each user of the interface invent its own rule. Keep quota decisions consistent across callers. - "mm/damon: Introduce a huge page collapsing mechanism using auto tuning" (Asier Gutierrez): Add an auto-tuned DAMON mechanism for collapsing huge pages. Use monitoring feedback to decide when collapse is worthwhile rather than forcing one fixed policy onto every workload. - "kmemleak: fix stale documentation and raise the verbose default" (Breno Leitao): Bring the kmemleak documentation up to date and require a third confirming scan before verbose kernels print a suspected leak. The extra scan helps suppress transient false positives in noisy debug builds. - "mm/memory: improve insert_pages() error handling" (Avi Weiss): Tighten insert_pages() error handling so partial failures are reported and cleaned up consistently. The caller should not have to guess how far the operation got. - "mm/damon: allow NULL or unstarted damon_ctx parameter for damon_call()" (SJ Park): Make damon_call() handle NULL and not-yet-started contexts safely. Simplify the rules for callers and avoid an indefinite wait on an invalid state. - "mm/damon: introduce pgidle_set probe filter type" (SJ Park): Add a pgidle_set DAMON probe filter, giving monitoring users another way to select pages by their idle-tracking state. Wire it through the filter interfaces and tests. - "mm/damon/core: remove unused helper functions" (Cheng-Han Wu): Remove DAMON core helpers which no longer have callers. Keep the API surface smaller rather than retaining dead code just in case. - "mm: stop calling pmd_folio() on special PMDs" (Gregory Price): Avoid calling pmd_folio() on special PMD mappings that have no struct page. The old assumption could fault in procfs walkers; use the normal-folio checks and handle those mappings properly. - "mm: remove three unused helpers from mm.h" (Tal Zussman): Remove three unused helpers from mm.h. Fewer obsolete interfaces for the next person to stumble over. - "mm/damon: improvements in efficiency, error handling, documents" (Liew Rui Yan): Skip needless DAMOS quota work once the quota is full, propagate a missing sysfs error and tidy a couple of comments. The ignored error could make a monitoring-start request appear successful when it wasn't. - "docs/mm/damon/design: add explanation of nr_snapshots" (Liew Rui Yan): Explain DAMON's nr_snapshots accounting in the design documentation and straighten out the associated terminology. Make it clearer what users should expect from that counter. - "selftests/cgroup: fixes for test_zswap on single core VM" (Wilson Felipe Pereira): Fix two test_zswap failures on single-CPU VMs. Wait for the exiting child's cgroup to become unpopulated before reconfiguring it, and avoid another test assumption which breaks under constrained scheduling. - "docs/ksm: fix advisor documentation and comment" (Jinjiang Tu): Correct the KSM advisor documentation and a misleading code comment. Keep the description aligned with how the advisor actually works. - "Fix bugs in HugeTLB allocation when mem_cgroup_charge_hugetlb() fails" (Ackerley Tng): Fix HugeTLB allocation cleanup when the memcg charge fails. Make sure failure exits undo what was allocated rather than leaving stale accounting or resources behind. - "mm, memcg: fix memory.peak reset clobbering other fds' watermark" (Ridong Chen): Fix memory.peak reset handling so resetting one file descriptor doesn't overwrite the watermark kept for another. Keep those per-open measurements independent as intended. - "mm: reject zone device folios in more folio walkers" (Gregory Price): Reject zone-device folios in page walkers that cannot safely handle them. Extend the existing checks rather than assuming every folio has ordinary system-memory backing. - "percpu: remove code with no effect" (Sang-Heon Jeon): Remove a few pieces of percpu code which no longer do anything. There is no reason to keep maintaining dead paths. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-10-19-21-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (539 commits) mm: shmem: assign a lock class to the unused huge shrinklist mm: vmscan: put rotation-missed folios at the LRU tail mm: kmemleak: scan the struct page array in MAX_SCAN_SIZE batches mm: kmemleak: move the struct page scan into a helper mm/damon: document that a zero sample_interval is accepted mm/damon: fix typos in comments mm/damon/sysfs: propagate damon_call() error in turn_damon_on mm/damon/core: skip quota score setup when the quota is full mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: test the size charged for a filter-trimmed region mm/damon/core: charge only the part of a region the filter left mm: disallow raw PFN mappings of huge/shared zeropage selftests/mm: zap whole PTE tables in the khugepaged race harness selftests/mm: add memory-pressure threads to the khugepaged race harness selftests/mm: race the collapse of windows with holes selftests/mm: add khugepaged race harness selftests/mm: check that one khugepaged pass collapses one window selftests/mm: run every supported collapse order by default selftests/mm: cover a shared-source collapse write race selftests/mm: parameterize the mixed-source collapse case by source order selftests/mm: add order-parameterized khugepaged collapse cases ...
2026-10-08perf/ring_buffer: stop using PG_private as AUX page high-order markerZi Yan
A high-order AUX page sets PG_private on its first page and stores the order in first_page->private. Stop using PG_private and check first_page->private for AUX page order only in the ring buffer and its users. This is fine because page->private is 0 for order-0 AUX pages, matching the page order. It prepares for a future commit that remove PG_private. No functional change intended. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260920-remove-pg_private-v5-2-bb68b6a21869@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Assisted-by: LLM Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
2026-10-01perf: Replace perf_event_header__init_id with full header initIan Rogers
perf_iterate_sb() invokes its callback for each matching perf_event on the CPU and task context, passing a shared caller-allocated event structure. perf_event_header__init_id() mutated header->size in place by adding event->id_header_size, requiring sideband output callbacks to save and restore header fields across iterations. Three sideband callbacks failed to save and restore header.size around perf_event_header__init_id(): - perf_event_ksymbol_output() - perf_event_bpf_output() - perf_event_text_poke_output() When multiple events with attr.ksymbol, attr.bpf_event, or attr.text_poke and sample_id_all are active on the same CPU, each subsequent event receives a record whose header.size is inflated by all preceding events' id_header_size values while only a single id_sample is written, leaving uninitialized ring-buffer bytes at the end of the record and causing userspace perf to fail with -EFAULT ("Bad address") when parsing the sample_id trailer. Similarly, perf_event_mmap_output() set PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_BUILD_ID in mmap_event->event_id.header.misc when event->attr.build_id was enabled, but only saved and restored header.size and header.type. If an event with attr.build_id was followed by an event with attr.mmap2 and !attr.build_id, the second event received PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_BUILD_ID in header.misc while its payload contained maj/min/ino/ino_generation instead of a build ID. Rather than splitting header initialization between callers and output callbacks and saving/restoring mutated header fields, replace perf_event_header__init_id() with perf_event_header__init(), which initializes header->type, header->misc, and header->size alongside the sample_id fields on each invocation. Fixes: 76193a94522f ("perf, bpf: Introduce PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL") Fixes: 6ee52e2a3fe4 ("perf, bpf: Introduce PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT") Fixes: e17d43b93e54 ("perf: Add perf text poke event") Fixes: 88a16a130933 ("perf: Add build id data in mmap2 event") Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.1-pro Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260929222332.973435-1-irogers@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2026-09-02perf/core: Skip empty AUX records with only format flagsLeo Yan
perf_aux_output_end() emits a PERF_RECORD_AUX when the recorded size is nonzero or when any flag other than PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE is set. PMU format flags describe how an AUX payload is encoded. TRBE driver sets PERF_AUX_FLAG_CORESIGHT_FORMAT_RAW for raw trace buffers, causing an AUX record to be emitted even when no trace data. This is noticeable when tracing a task with strace. Ptrace stops repeatedly end empty AUX transactions, producing many zero-sized PERF_RECORD_AUX records. For example: perf record -e cs_etm//u -m,128M -- strace ls perf script -D 2>&1 | awk '/PERF_RECORD_AUX offset/ { for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) if ($i == "size:" && $(i + 1) == "0") count++ } END { print count }' 165 This recording contains 165 zero-sized AUX records which provide no useful information to userspace. Ignore PERF_AUX_FLAG_PMU_FORMAT_TYPE_MASK, together with PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE, when deciding whether an empty AUX record is useful. Zero-sized records carrying TRUNCATED, PARTIAL or COLLISION are still emitted. Fixes: 547b60988e63 ("perf: aux: Add flags for the buffer format") Reported-by: Tamas Petz <tamas.petz@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260825-perf_core_fix_zero_aux_records-v1-1-23b95e8d5df3@arm.com
2026-05-05perf/core: Fix deadlock in perf_mmap() failure pathPeter Zijlstra
Ian noted that commit 77de62ad3de3 ("perf/core: Fix refcount bug and potential UAF in perf_mmap") would cause a deadlock due to event->mmap_mutex recursion. This happens because we're now calling perf_mmap_close() under mmap_mutex, while that function itself can also take mmap_mutex. Solve this by noting that perf_mmap_close() is far more complicated than we need at this particular point, since it deals with scenarios that cannot happen in this particular case. Replace the call to perf_mmap_close() with a very narrow undo for the case of first-exposure. If this is not the first mmap(), there is no race and it is fine to drop the lock and call perf_mmap_close() to handle to more complicated scenarios. Note: move the rb->mmap_user (namespace) handling into the rb init/free code such that it does not complicate the mmap handling. Fixes: 77de62ad3de3 ("perf/core: Fix refcount bug and potential UAF in perf_mmap") Reported-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Closes: https://patch.msgid.link/CAP-5%3DfVJyVMZw%3DDqP53Kxg58nUmJ_0bxoaeOKAbC03BVc11HaA%40mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326112821.GK3738786@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
2026-01-11treewide: Update email addressThomas Gleixner
In a vain attempt to consolidate the email zoo switch everything to the kernel.org account. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2025-08-15perf: Convert mmap() refcounts to refcount_tThomas Gleixner
The recently fixed reference count leaks could have been detected by using refcount_t and refcount_t would have mitigated the potential overflow at least. Now that the code is properly structured, convert the mmap() related mmap_count variants over to refcount_t. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250812104020.071507932@infradead.org
2025-06-26perf/aux: Fix pending disable flow when the AUX ring buffer overrunsLeo Yan
If an AUX event overruns, the event core layer intends to disable the event by setting the 'pending_disable' flag. Unfortunately, the event is not actually disabled afterwards. In commit: ca6c21327c6a ("perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPs") the 'pending_disable' flag was changed to a boolean. However, the AUX event code was not updated accordingly. The flag ends up holding a CPU number. If this number is zero, the flag is taken as false and the IRQ work is never triggered. Later, with commit: 2b84def990d3 ("perf: Split __perf_pending_irq() out of perf_pending_irq()") a new IRQ work 'pending_disable_irq' was introduced to handle event disabling. The AUX event path was not updated to kick off the work queue. To fix this bug, when an AUX ring buffer overrun is detected, call perf_event_disable_inatomic() to initiate the pending disable flow. Also update the outdated comment for setting the flag, to reflect the boolean values (0 or 1). Fixes: 2b84def990d3 ("perf: Split __perf_pending_irq() out of perf_pending_irq()") Fixes: ca6c21327c6a ("perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPs") Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Liang Kan <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625170737.2918295-1-leo.yan@arm.com
2025-05-15perf/aux: Allocate non-contiguous AUX pages by defaultYabin Cui
perf always allocates contiguous AUX pages based on aux_watermark. However, this contiguous allocation doesn't benefit all PMUs. For instance, ARM SPE and TRBE operate with virtual pages, and Coresight ETR allocates a separate buffer. For these PMUs, allocating contiguous AUX pages unnecessarily exacerbates memory fragmentation. This fragmentation can prevent their use on long-running devices. This patch modifies the perf driver to be memory-friendly by default, by allocating non-contiguous AUX pages. For PMUs requiring contiguous pages (Intel BTS and some Intel PT), the existing PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG capability can be used. For PMUs that don't require but can benefit from contiguous pages (some Intel PT), a new capability, PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_PREFER_LARGE, is added to maintain their existing behavior. Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508232642.148767-1-yabinc@google.com
2025-03-17perf/ring_buffer: Allow the EPOLLRDNORM flag for pollTao Chen
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 <chen.dylane@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314030036.2543180-1-chen.dylane@linux.dev
2025-02-05perf: Avoid the read if the count is already updatedPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
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) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250121152303.3128733-3-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
2025-01-10perf: map pages in advanceLorenzo Stoakes
We are adjusting struct page to make it smaller, removing unneeded fields which correctly belong to struct folio. Two of those fields are page->index and page->mapping. Perf is currently making use of both of these. This is unnecessary. This patch eliminates this. Perf establishes its own internally controlled memory-mapped pages using vm_ops hooks. The first page in the mapping is the read/write user control page, and the rest of the mapping consists of read-only pages. The VMA is backed by kernel memory either from the buddy allocator or vmalloc depending on configuration. It is intended to be mapped read/write, but because it has a page_mkwrite() hook, vma_wants_writenotify() indicates that it should be mapped read-only. When a write fault occurs, the provided page_mkwrite() hook, perf_mmap_fault() (doing double duty handing faults as well) uses the vmf->pgoff field to determine if this is the first page, allowing for the desired read/write first page, read-only rest mapping. For this to work the implementation has to carefully work around faulting logic. When a page is write-faulted, the fault() hook is called first, then its page_mkwrite() hook is called (to allow for dirty tracking in file systems). On fault we set the folio's mapping in perf_mmap_fault(), this is because when do_page_mkwrite() is subsequently invoked, it treats a missing mapping as an indicator that the fault should be retried. We also set the folio's index so, given the folio is being treated as faux user memory, it correctly references its offset within the VMA. This explains why the mapping and index fields are used - but it's not necessary. We preallocate pages when perf_mmap() is called for the first time via rb_alloc(), and further allocate auxiliary pages via rb_aux_alloc() as needed if the mapping requires it. This allocation is done in the f_ops->mmap() hook provided in perf_mmap(), and so we can instead simply map all the memory right away here - there's no point in handling (read) page faults when we don't demand page nor need to be notified about them (perf does not). This patch therefore changes this logic to map everything when the mmap() hook is called, establishing a PFN map. It implements vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite() to provide the required read/write vs. read-only behaviour, which does not require the previously implemented workarounds. While it is not ideal to use a VM_PFNMAP here, doing anything else will result in the page_mkwrite() hook need to be provided, which requires the same page->mapping hack this patch seeks to undo. It will also result in the pages being treated as folios and placed on the rmap, which really does not make sense for these mappings. Semantically it makes sense to establish this as some kind of special mapping, as the pages are managed by perf and are not strictly user pages, but currently the only means by which we can do so functionally while maintaining the required R/W and R/O behaviour is a PFN map. There should be no change to actual functionality as a result of this change. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103153151.124163-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
2024-09-04perf/aux: Fix AUX buffer serializationPeter Zijlstra
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 <ole@binarygecko.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2024-07-04perf: Make rb_alloc_aux() return an error immediately if nr_pages <= 0Adrian Hunter
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 <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624201101.60186-8-adrian.hunter@intel.com
2024-07-04perf: Fix default aux_watermark calculationAdrian Hunter
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 <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624201101.60186-7-adrian.hunter@intel.com
2024-04-14perf/ring_buffer: Trigger IO signals for watermark_wakeupKyle Huey
perf_output_wakeup() already marks the perf event fd available for polling. Trigger IO signals with FASYNC too. Signed-off-by: Kyle Huey <khuey@kylehuey.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240413141618.4160-3-khuey@kylehuey.com
2024-01-08mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDERKirill A. Shutemov
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 <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-09-12perf/core: Bail out early if the request AUX area is out of boundShuai Xue
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 <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-07-10perf/ring_buffer: Use local_try_cmpxchg in __perf_output_beginUros Bizjak
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 <ubizjak@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230708090048.63046-2-ubizjak@gmail.com
2023-04-05mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanelyKirill A. Shutemov
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 <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> [powerpc] Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-05perf/core: fix MAX_ORDER usage in rb_alloc_aux_page()Kirill A. Shutemov
MAX_ORDER is not inclusive: the maximum allocation order buddy allocator can deliver is MAX_ORDER-1. Fix MAX_ORDER usage in rb_alloc_aux_page(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315113133.11326-7-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-17perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPsPeter Zijlstra
Marco reported: Due to the implementation of how SIGTRAP are delivered if perf_event_attr::sigtrap is set, we've noticed 3 issues: 1. Missing SIGTRAP due to a race with event_sched_out() (more details below). 2. Hardware PMU events being disabled due to returning 1 from perf_event_overflow(). The only way to re-enable the event is for user space to first "properly" disable the event and then re-enable it. 3. The inability to automatically disable an event after a specified number of overflows via PERF_EVENT_IOC_REFRESH. The worst of the 3 issues is problem (1), which occurs when a pending_disable is "consumed" by a racing event_sched_out(), observed as follows: CPU0 | CPU1 --------------------------------+--------------------------- __perf_event_overflow() | perf_event_disable_inatomic() | pending_disable = CPU0 | ... | _perf_event_enable() | event_function_call() | task_function_call() | /* sends IPI to CPU0 */ <IPI> | ... __perf_event_enable() +--------------------------- ctx_resched() task_ctx_sched_out() ctx_sched_out() group_sched_out() event_sched_out() pending_disable = -1 </IPI> <IRQ-work> perf_pending_event() perf_pending_event_disable() /* Fails to send SIGTRAP because no pending_disable! */ </IRQ-work> In the above case, not only is that particular SIGTRAP missed, but also all future SIGTRAPs because 'event_limit' is not reset back to 1. To fix, rework pending delivery of SIGTRAP via IRQ-work by introduction of a separate 'pending_sigtrap', no longer using 'event_limit' and 'pending_disable' for its delivery. Additionally; and different to Marco's proposed patch: - recognise that pending_disable effectively duplicates oncpu for the case where it is set. As such, change the irq_work handler to use ->oncpu to target the event and use pending_* as boolean toggles. - observe that SIGTRAP targets the ctx->task, so the context switch optimization that carries contexts between tasks is invalid. If the irq_work were delayed enough to hit after a context switch the SIGTRAP would be delivered to the wrong task. - observe that if the event gets scheduled out (rotation/migration/context-switch/...) the irq-work would be insufficient to deliver the SIGTRAP when the event gets scheduled back in (the irq-work might still be pending on the old CPU). Therefore have event_sched_out() convert the pending sigtrap into a task_work which will deliver the signal at return_to_user. Fixes: 97ba62b27867 ("perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events") Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Debugged-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reported-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Debugged-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
2022-06-28perf/core: Add a new read format to get a number of lost samplesNamhyung Kim
Sometimes we want to know an accurate number of samples even if it's lost. Currenlty PERF_RECORD_LOST is generated for a ring-buffer which might be shared with other events. So it's hard to know per-event lost count. Add event->lost_samples field and PERF_FORMAT_LOST to retrieve it from userspace. Original-patch-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220616180623.1358843-1-namhyung@kernel.org
2022-04-19perf/core: Fix perf_mmap fail when CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC enabledZhipeng Xie
This problem can be reproduced with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC enabled on both x86_64 and aarch64 arch when using sysdig -B(using ebpf)[1]. sysdig -B works fine after rebuilding the kernel with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC disabled. I tracked it down to the if condition event->rb->nr_pages != nr_pages in perf_mmap is true when CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC is enabled where event->rb->nr_pages = 1 and nr_pages = 2048 resulting perf_mmap to return -EINVAL. This is because when CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC is enabled, rb->nr_pages is always equal to 1. Arch with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC enabled by default: arc/arm/csky/mips/sh/sparc/xtensa Arch with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC disabled by default: x86_64/aarch64/... Fix this problem by using data_page_nr() [1] https://github.com/draios/sysdig Fixes: 906010b2134e ("perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing") Signed-off-by: Zhipeng Xie <xiezhipeng1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220209145417.6495-1-xiezhipeng1@huawei.com
2021-04-16perf: Cap allocation order at aux_watermarkAlexander Shishkin
Currently, we start allocating AUX pages half the size of the total requested AUX buffer size, ignoring the attr.aux_watermark setting. This, in turn, makes intel_pt driver disregard the watermark also, as it uses page order for its SG (ToPA) configuration. Now, this can be fixed in the intel_pt PMU driver, but seeing as it's the only one currently making use of high order allocations, there is no reason not to fix the allocator instead. This way, any other driver wishing to add this support would not have to worry about this. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210414154955.49603-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
2021-03-16perf core: Allocate perf_buffer in the target node memoryNamhyung Kim
I found the ring buffer pages are allocated in the node but the ring buffer itself is not. Let's convert it to use kzalloc_node() too. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210315033436.682438-1-namhyung@kernel.org
2020-11-09perf: Reduce stack usage of perf_output_begin()Peter Zijlstra
__perf_output_begin() has an on-stack struct perf_sample_data in the unlikely case it needs to generate a LOST record. However, every call to perf_output_begin() must already have a perf_sample_data on-stack. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201030151954.985416146@infradead.org
2020-01-13perf: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguousSteven Rostedt (VMware)
eBPF requires needing to know the size of the perf ring buffer structure. But it unfortunately has the same name as the generic ring buffer used by tracing and oprofile. To make it less ambiguous, rename the perf ring buffer structure to "perf_buffer". As other parts of the ring buffer code has "perf_" as the prefix, it only makes sense to give the ring buffer the "perf_" prefix as well. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213153553.GE20583@krava Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-11-13perf/aux: Allow using AUX data in perf samplesAlexander Shishkin
AUX data can be used to annotate perf events such as performance counters or tracepoints/breakpoints by including it in sample records when PERF_SAMPLE_AUX flag is set. Such samples would be instrumental in debugging and profiling by providing, for example, a history of instruction flow leading up to the event's overflow. The implementation makes use of grouping an AUX event with all the events that wish to take samples of the AUX data, such that the former is the group leader. The samplees should also specify the desired size of the AUX sample via attr.aux_sample_size. AUX capable PMUs need to explicitly add support for sampling, because it relies on a new callback to take a snapshot of the buffer without touching the event states. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191025140835.53665-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-10-17perf/ring_buffer: Matching the memory allocate and free, in rb_alloc()Yunfeng Ye
Currently perf_mmap_alloc_page() is used to allocate memory in rb_alloc(), but using free_page() to free memory in the failure path. It's better to use perf_mmap_free_page() instead. Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <jolsa@redhat.co> Cc: <acme@kernel.org> Cc: <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/575c7e8c-90c7-4e3a-b41d-f894d8cdbd7f@huawei.com
2019-10-17perf/ring_buffer: Modify the parameter type of perf_mmap_free_page()Yunfeng Ye
In perf_mmap_free_page(), the unsigned long type is converted to the pointer type, but where the call is made, the pointer type is converted to the unsigned long type. There is no need to do these operations. Modify the parameter type of perf_mmap_free_page() to pointer type. Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <jolsa@redhat.co> Cc: <acme@kernel.org> Cc: <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e6ae3f0c-d04c-50f9-544a-aee3b30330cd@huawei.com
2019-05-24perf/ring-buffer: Use regular variables for nestingPeter Zijlstra
While the IRQ/NMI will nest, the nest-count will be invariant over the actual exception, since it will decrement equal to increment. This means we can -- carefully -- use a regular variable since the typical LOAD-STORE race doesn't exist (similar to preempt_count). This optimizes the ring-buffer for all LOAD-STORE architectures, since they need to use atomic ops to implement local_t. Suggested-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> 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 Cc: yabinc@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517115418.481392777@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-05-24perf/ring-buffer: Always use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() for rb->user_page dataPeter Zijlstra
We must use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() on rb->user_page data such that concurrent usage will see whole values. A few key sites were missing this. 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: 7b732a750477 ("perf_counter: new output ABI - part 1") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517115418.394192145@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-05-24perf/ring_buffer: Add ordering to rb->nest incrementPeter Zijlstra
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>
2019-05-24perf/ring_buffer: Fix exposing a temporarily decreased data_headYabin Cui
In perf_output_put_handle(), an IRQ/NMI can happen in below location and write records to the same ring buffer: ... local_dec_and_test(&rb->nest) ... <-- an IRQ/NMI can happen here rb->user_page->data_head = head; ... In this case, a value A is written to data_head in the IRQ, then a value B is written to data_head after the IRQ. And A > B. As a result, data_head is temporarily decreased from A to B. And a reader may see data_head < data_tail if it read the buffer frequently enough, which creates unexpected behaviors. This can be fixed by moving dec(&rb->nest) to after updating data_head, which prevents the IRQ/NMI above from updating data_head. [ Split up by peterz. ] Signed-off-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@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.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: mark.rutland@arm.com Fixes: ef60777c9abd ("perf: Optimize the perf_output() path by removing IRQ-disables") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517115418.224478157@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-05-03perf/ring_buffer: Fix AUX software double bufferingAlexander Shishkin
This recent commit: 5768402fd9c6e87 ("perf/ring_buffer: Use high order allocations for AUX buffers optimistically") overlooked the fact that the previous one page granularity of the AUX buffer provided an implicit double buffering capability to the PMU driver, which went away when the entire buffer became one high-order page. Always make the full-trace mode AUX allocation at least two-part to preserve the previous behavior and allow the implicit double buffering to continue. Reported-by: Ammy Yi <ammy.yi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Fixes: 5768402fd9c6e87 ("perf/ring_buffer: Use high order allocations for AUX buffers optimistically") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190503085536.24119-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-04-16perf/ring_buffer: Fix AUX record suppressionAlexander Shishkin
The following commit: 1627314fb54a33e ("perf: Suppress AUX/OVERWRITE records") has an unintended side-effect of also suppressing all AUX records with no flags and non-zero size, so all the regular records in the full trace mode. This breaks some use cases for people. Fix this by restoring "regular" AUX records. Reported-by: Ben Gainey <Ben.Gainey@arm.com> Tested-by: Ben Gainey <Ben.Gainey@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> 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> Fixes: 1627314fb54a33e ("perf: Suppress AUX/OVERWRITE records") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190329091338.29999-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-04-12perf/core: Fix perf_event_disable_inatomic() racePeter Zijlstra
Thomas-Mich Richter reported he triggered a WARN()ing from event_function_local() on his s390. The problem boils down to: CPU-A CPU-B perf_event_overflow() perf_event_disable_inatomic() @pending_disable = 1 irq_work_queue(); sched-out event_sched_out() @pending_disable = 0 sched-in perf_event_overflow() perf_event_disable_inatomic() @pending_disable = 1; irq_work_queue(); // FAILS irq_work_run() perf_pending_event() if (@pending_disable) perf_event_disable_local(); // WHOOPS The problem exists in generic, but s390 is particularly sensitive because it doesn't implement arch_irq_work_raise(), nor does it call irq_work_run() from it's PMU interrupt handler (nor would that be sufficient in this case, because s390 also generates perf_event_overflow() from pmu::stop). Add to that the fact that s390 is a virtual architecture and (virtual) CPU-A can stall long enough for the above race to happen, even if it would self-IPI. Adding a irq_work_sync() to event_sched_in() would work for all hardare PMUs that properly use irq_work_run() but fails for software PMUs. Instead encode the CPU number in @pending_disable, such that we can tell which CPU requested the disable. This then allows us to detect the above scenario and even redirect the IPI to make up for the failed queue. Reported-by: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-03-09perf/ring_buffer: Use high order allocations for AUX buffers optimisticallyAlexander Shishkin
Currently, the AUX buffer allocator will use high-order allocations for PMUs that don't support hardware scatter-gather chaining to ensure large contiguous blocks of pages, and always use an array of single pages otherwise. There is, however, a tangible performance benefit in using larger chunks of contiguous memory even in the latter case, that comes from not having to fetch the next page's address at every page boundary. In particular, a task running under Intel PT on an Atom CPU shows 1.5%-2% less runtime penalty with a single multi-page output region in snapshot mode (no PMI) than with multiple single-page output regions, from ~6% down to ~4%. For the snapshot mode it does make a difference as it is intended to run over long periods of time. For this reason, change the allocation policy to always optimistically start with the highest possible order when allocating pages for the AUX buffer, desceding until the allocation succeeds or order zero allocation fails. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190215114727.62648-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-02-28Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to pick up fixesIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-02-13perf/core: Fix impossible ring-buffer sizes warningIngo Molnar
The following commit: 9dff0aa95a32 ("perf/core: Don't WARN() for impossible ring-buffer sizes") results in perf recording failures with larger mmap areas: root@skl:/tmp# perf record -g -a failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory) The root cause is that the following condition is buggy: if (order_base_2(size) >= MAX_ORDER) goto fail; The problem is that @size is in bytes and MAX_ORDER is in pages, so the right test is: if (order_base_2(size) >= PAGE_SHIFT+MAX_ORDER) goto fail; Fix it. Reported-by: "Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Bisected-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Analyzed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> 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: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Fixes: 9dff0aa95a32 ("perf/core: Don't WARN() for impossible ring-buffer sizes") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-02-06perf/aux: Make perf_event accessible to setup_aux()Mathieu Poirier
When pmu::setup_aux() is called the coresight PMU needs to know which sink to use for the session by looking up the information in the event's attr::config2 field. As such simply replace the cpu information by the complete perf_event structure and change all affected customers. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190131184714.20388-2-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-02-04perf/ring_buffer: Convert ring_buffer.aux_refcount to refcount_tElena Reshetova
atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference counters with the following properties: - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set() - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero - once counter reaches zero, its further increments aren't allowed - counter schema uses basic atomic operations (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.) Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable. The variable ring_buffer.aux_refcount is used as pure reference counter. Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations. ** Important note for maintainers: Some functions from refcount_t API defined in lib/refcount.c have different memory ordering guarantees than their atomic counterparts. Please check Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst for more information. Normally the differences should not matter since refcount_t provides enough guarantees to satisfy the refcounting use cases, but in some rare cases it might matter. Please double check that you don't have some undocumented memory guarantees for this variable usage. For the ring_buffer.aux_refcount it might make a difference in following places: - perf_aux_output_begin(): increment in refcount_inc_not_zero() only guarantees control dependency on success vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart - rb_free_aux(): decrement in refcount_dec_and_test() only provides RELEASE ordering and ACQUIRE ordering + control dependency on success vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com> 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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: namhyung@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548678448-24458-4-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-02-04perf/ring_buffer: Convert ring_buffer.refcount to refcount_tElena Reshetova
atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference counters with the following properties: - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set() - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero - once counter reaches zero, its further increments aren't allowed - counter schema uses basic atomic operations (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.) Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable. The variable ring_buffer.refcount is used as pure reference counter. Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations. ** Important note for maintainers: Some functions from refcount_t API defined in lib/refcount.c have different memory ordering guarantees than their atomic counterparts. Please check Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst for more information. Normally the differences should not matter since refcount_t provides enough guarantees to satisfy the refcounting use cases, but in some rare cases it might matter. Please double check that you don't have some undocumented memory guarantees for this variable usage. For the ring_buffer.refcount it might make a difference in following places: - ring_buffer_get(): increment in refcount_inc_not_zero() only guarantees control dependency on success vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart - ring_buffer_put(): decrement in refcount_dec_and_test() only provides RELEASE ordering and ACQUIRE ordering + control dependency on success vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com> 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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: namhyung@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548678448-24458-3-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-02-04perf/core: Convert to SPDX license identifiersThomas Gleixner
Use proper SPDX license identifiers instead of the bogus reference to kernel-base/COPYING. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190116111308.012666937@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-02-04perf/core: Don't WARN() for impossible ring-buffer sizesMark Rutland
The perf tool uses /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb to determine how large its ringbuffer mmap should be. This can be configured to arbitrary values, which can be larger than the maximum possible allocation from kmalloc. When this is configured to a suitably large value (e.g. thanks to the perf fuzzer), attempting to use perf record triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE() in __alloc_pages_nodemask(): WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 5666 at mm/page_alloc.c:4511 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3f8/0xbc8 Let's avoid this by checking that the requested allocation is possible before calling kzalloc. Reported-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> 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: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190110142745.25495-1-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-09-18perf: Suppress AUX/OVERWRITE recordsAlexander Shishkin
It has been pointed out to me many times that it is useful to be able to switch off AUX records to save the bandwidth for records that actually matter, for example, in AUX overwrite mode. The usefulness of PERF_RECORD_AUX is in some of its flags, like the TRUNCATED flag that tells the decoder where exactly gaps in the trace are. The OVERWRITE flag, on the other hand will be set on every single record in overwrite mode. However, a PERF_RECORD_AUX[flags=OVERWRITE] is generated on every target task's sched_out, which over time adds up to a lot of useless information. If any folks out there have userspace that depends on a constant stream of OVERWRITE records for a good reason, they'll have to let us know. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Markus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180404145323.28651-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-06-24Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "A pile of perf updates: Kernel side: - Remove an incorrect warning in uprobe_init_insn() when insn_get_length() fails. The error return code is handled at the call site. - Move the inline keyword to the right place in the perf ringbuffer code to address a W=1 build warning. Tooling: perf stat: - Fix metric column header display alignment - Improve error messages for default attributes, providing better output for error in command line. - Add --interval-clear option, to provide a 'watch' like printing perf script: - Show hw-cache events too perf c2c: - Fix data dependency problem in layout of 'struct c2c_hist_entry' Core: - Do not blindly assume that 'struct perf_evsel' can be obtained via a straight forward container_of() as there are call sites which hand in a plain 'struct hist' which is not part of a container. - Fix error index in the PMU event parser, so that error messages can point to the problematic token" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf/core: Move the inline keyword at the beginning of the function declaration uprobes/x86: Remove incorrect WARN_ON() in uprobe_init_insn() perf script: Show hw-cache events perf c2c: Keep struct hist_entry at the end of struct c2c_hist_entry perf stat: Add event parsing error handling to add_default_attributes perf stat: Allow to specify specific metric column len perf stat: Fix metric column header display alignment perf stat: Use only color_fprintf call in print_metric_only perf stat: Add --interval-clear option perf tools: Fix error index for pmu event parser perf hists: Reimplement hists__has_callchains() perf hists browser gtk: Use hist_entry__has_callchains() perf hists: Make hist_entry__has_callchains() work with 'perf c2c' perf hists: Save the callchain_size in struct hist_entry
2018-06-22perf/core: Move the inline keyword at the beginning of the function declarationMathieu Malaterre
When building perf with W=1 the following warning triggers: CC kernel/events/ring_buffer.o kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:105:1: warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declaration [-Wold-style-declaration] static bool __always_inline ^~~~~~ ... Move the inline keyword to the beginning of the function declaration. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: trival@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180308202856.9378-1-malat@debian.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-06-12treewide: kzalloc_node() -> kcalloc_node()Kees Cook
The kzalloc_node() function has a 2-factor argument form, kcalloc_node(). This patch replaces cases of: kzalloc_node(a * b, gfp, node) with: kcalloc_node(a * b, gfp, node) as well as handling cases of: kzalloc_node(a * b * c, gfp, node) with: kzalloc_node(array3_size(a, b, c), gfp, node) as it's slightly less ugly than: kcalloc_node(array_size(a, b), c, gfp, node) This does, however, attempt to ignore constant size factors like: kzalloc_node(4 * 1024, gfp, node) though any constants defined via macros get caught up in the conversion. Any factors with a sizeof() of "unsigned char", "char", and "u8" were dropped, since they're redundant. The Coccinelle script used for this was: // Fix redundant parens around sizeof(). @@ type TYPE; expression THING, E; @@ ( kzalloc_node( - (sizeof(TYPE)) * E + sizeof(TYPE) * E , ...) | kzalloc_node( - (sizeof(THING)) * E + sizeof(THING) * E , ...) ) // Drop single-byte sizes and redundant parens. @@ expression COUNT; typedef u8; typedef __u8; @@ ( kzalloc_node( - sizeof(u8) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(__u8) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(char) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(unsigned char) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(u8) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(__u8) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(char) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(unsigned char) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) ) // 2-factor product with sizeof(type/expression) and identifier or constant. @@ type TYPE; expression THING; identifier COUNT_ID; constant COUNT_CONST; @@ ( - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_ID) + COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_ID + COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_CONST) + COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_CONST + COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_ID) + COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT_ID + COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_CONST) + COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT_CONST + COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING) , ...) ) // 2-factor product, only identifiers. @@ identifier SIZE, COUNT; @@ - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - SIZE * COUNT + COUNT, SIZE , ...) // 3-factor product with 1 sizeof(type) or sizeof(expression), with // redundant parens removed. @@ expression THING; identifier STRIDE, COUNT; type TYPE; @@ ( kzalloc_node( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) ) // 3-factor product with 2 sizeof(variable), with redundant parens removed. @@ expression THING1, THING2; identifier COUNT; type TYPE1, TYPE2; @@ ( kzalloc_node( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(TYPE2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2)) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2)) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) ) // 3-factor product, only identifiers, with redundant parens removed. @@ identifier STRIDE, SIZE, COUNT; @@ ( kzalloc_node( - (COUNT) * STRIDE * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - COUNT * (STRIDE) * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - COUNT * STRIDE * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - (COUNT) * (STRIDE) * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - COUNT * (STRIDE) * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - (COUNT) * STRIDE * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - (COUNT) * (STRIDE) * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - COUNT * STRIDE * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) ) // Any remaining multi-factor products, first at least 3-factor products, // when they're not all constants... @@ expression E1, E2, E3; constant C1, C2, C3; @@ ( kzalloc_node(C1 * C2 * C3, ...) | kzalloc_node( - (E1) * E2 * E3 + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - (E1) * (E2) * E3 + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - (E1) * (E2) * (E3) + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) | kzalloc_node( - E1 * E2 * E3 + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) ) // And then all remaining 2 factors products when they're not all constants, // keeping sizeof() as the second factor argument. @@ expression THING, E1, E2; type TYPE; constant C1, C2, C3; @@ ( kzalloc_node(sizeof(THING) * C2, ...) | kzalloc_node(sizeof(TYPE) * C2, ...) | kzalloc_node(C1 * C2 * C3, ...) | kzalloc_node(C1 * C2, ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - sizeof(TYPE) * (E2) + E2, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - sizeof(TYPE) * E2 + E2, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - sizeof(THING) * (E2) + E2, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - sizeof(THING) * E2 + E2, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - (E1) * E2 + E1, E2 , ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - (E1) * (E2) + E1, E2 , ...) | - kzalloc_node + kcalloc_node ( - E1 * E2 + E1, E2 , ...) ) Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>