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x86, perf: P4 PMU -- protect sensible procedures from preemption
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Steven reported:

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| I'm getting:
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| Pid: 3477, comm: perf Not tainted 2.6.34-rc6 #2727
| Call Trace:
|  [<ffffffff811c7565>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xd5/0xf0
|  [<ffffffff81019874>] p4_hw_config+0x2b/0x15c
|  [<ffffffff8107acbc>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12b/0x14f
|  [<ffffffff81019143>] hw_perf_event_init+0x468/0x7be
|  [<ffffffff810782fd>] ? debug_mutex_init+0x31/0x3c
|  [<ffffffff810c68b2>] T.850+0x273/0x42e
|  [<ffffffff810c6cab>] sys_perf_event_open+0x23e/0x3f1
|  [<ffffffff81009e6a>] ? sysret_check+0x2e/0x69
|  [<ffffffff81009e32>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
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| When running perf record in latest tip/perf/core
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Due to the fact that p4 counters are shared between HT threads
we synthetically divide the whole set of counters into two
non-intersected subsets. And while we're "borrowing" counters
from these subsets we should not be preempted (well, strictly
speaking in p4_hw_config we just pre-set reference to the
subset which allow to save some cycles in schedule routine
if it happens on the same cpu). So use get_cpu/put_cpu pair.

Also p4_pmu_schedule_events should use smp_processor_id rather
than raw_ version. This allow us to catch up preemption issue
(if there will ever be).

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100508112716.963478928@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored and Ingo Molnar committed May 8, 2010
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8 changes: 6 additions & 2 deletions arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c
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Expand Up @@ -421,7 +421,8 @@ static u64 p4_pmu_event_map(int hw_event)

static int p4_hw_config(struct perf_event *event)
{
int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
int cpu = get_cpu();
int rc = 0;
u32 escr, cccr;

/*
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p4_config_pack_cccr(P4_CCCR_MASK_HT));
}

return x86_setup_perfctr(event);
rc = x86_setup_perfctr(event);
put_cpu();

return rc;
}

static inline void p4_pmu_clear_cccr_ovf(struct hw_perf_event *hwc)
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