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<title>bpf, perf: delay release of BPF prog after grace period</title>
<updated>2016-07-11T16:30:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-27T19:38:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ceb56070359b7329b5678b5d95a376fcb24767be ]

Commit dead9f29ddcc ("perf: Fix race in BPF program unregister") moved
destruction of BPF program from free_event_rcu() callback to __free_event(),
which is problematic if used with tail calls: if prog A is attached as
trace event directly, but at the same time present in a tail call map used
by another trace event program elsewhere, then we need to delay destruction
via RCU grace period since it can still be in use by the program doing the
tail call (the prog first needs to be dropped from the tail call map, then
trace event with prog A attached destroyed, so we get immediate destruction).

Fixes: dead9f29ddcc ("perf: Fix race in BPF program unregister")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ceb56070359b7329b5678b5d95a376fcb24767be ]

Commit dead9f29ddcc ("perf: Fix race in BPF program unregister") moved
destruction of BPF program from free_event_rcu() callback to __free_event(),
which is problematic if used with tail calls: if prog A is attached as
trace event directly, but at the same time present in a tail call map used
by another trace event program elsewhere, then we need to delay destruction
via RCU grace period since it can still be in use by the program doing the
tail call (the prog first needs to be dropped from the tail call map, then
trace event with prog A attached destroyed, so we get immediate destruction).

Fixes: dead9f29ddcc ("perf: Fix race in BPF program unregister")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Change the default paranoia level to 2</title>
<updated>2016-05-10T00:57:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-09T22:48:51+00:00</published>
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Allowing unprivileged kernel profiling lets any user dump follow kernel
control flow and dump kernel registers.  This most likely allows trivial
kASLR bypassing, and it may allow other mischief as well.  (Off the top
of my head, the PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR output during /dev/urandom reads
could be quite interesting.)

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Allowing unprivileged kernel profiling lets any user dump follow kernel
control flow and dump kernel registers.  This most likely allows trivial
kASLR bypassing, and it may allow other mischief as well.  (Off the top
of my head, the PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR output during /dev/urandom reads
could be quite interesting.)

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix perf_event_open() vs. execve() race</title>
<updated>2016-04-28T08:32:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-26T09:36:53+00:00</published>
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Jann reported that the ptrace_may_access() check in
find_lively_task_by_vpid() is racy against exec().

Specifically:

  perf_event_open()		execve()

  ptrace_may_access()
				commit_creds()
  ...				if (get_dumpable() != SUID_DUMP_USER)
				  perf_event_exit_task();
  perf_install_in_context()

would result in installing a counter across the creds boundary.

Fix this by wrapping lots of perf_event_open() in cred_guard_mutex.
This should be fine as perf_event_exit_task() is already called with
cred_guard_mutex held, so all perf locks already nest inside it.

Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Jann reported that the ptrace_may_access() check in
find_lively_task_by_vpid() is racy against exec().

Specifically:

  perf_event_open()		execve()

  ptrace_may_access()
				commit_creds()
  ...				if (get_dumpable() != SUID_DUMP_USER)
				  perf_event_exit_task();
  perf_install_in_context()

would result in installing a counter across the creds boundary.

Fix this by wrapping lots of perf_event_open() in cred_guard_mutex.
This should be fine as perf_event_exit_task() is already called with
cred_guard_mutex held, so all perf locks already nest inside it.

Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Make sysctl_perf_cpu_time_max_percent conform to documentation</title>
<updated>2016-04-23T11:47:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-04T07:57:40+00:00</published>
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Markus reported that 0 should also disable the throttling we per
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf &lt;markus@trippelsdorf.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Fixes: 91a612eea9a3 ("perf/core: Fix dynamic interrupt throttle")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Markus reported that 0 should also disable the throttling we per
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf &lt;markus@trippelsdorf.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Fixes: 91a612eea9a3 ("perf/core: Fix dynamic interrupt throttle")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Don't leak event in the syscall error path</title>
<updated>2016-03-31T07:54:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Shishkin</name>
<email>alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-21T08:02:42+00:00</published>
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In the error path, event_file not being NULL is used to determine
whether the event itself still needs to be free'd, so fix it up to
avoid leaking.

Reported-by: Leon Yu &lt;chianglungyu@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Fixes: 130056275ade ("perf: Do not double free")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87twk06yxp.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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In the error path, event_file not being NULL is used to determine
whether the event itself still needs to be free'd, so fix it up to
avoid leaking.

Reported-by: Leon Yu &lt;chianglungyu@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Fixes: 130056275ade ("perf: Do not double free")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87twk06yxp.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix time tracking bug with multiplexing</title>
<updated>2016-03-31T07:54:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-29T07:26:44+00:00</published>
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Stephane reported that commit:

  3cbaa5906967 ("perf: Fix ctx time tracking by introducing EVENT_TIME")

introduced a regression wrt. time tracking, as easily observed by:

&gt; This patch introduce a bug in the time tracking of events when
&gt; multiplexing is used.
&gt;
&gt; The issue is easily reproducible with the following perf run:
&gt;
&gt;  $ perf stat -a -C 0 -e branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,branches -I 1000
&gt;      1.000730239            652,394      branches   (66.41%)
&gt;      1.000730239            597,809      branches   (66.41%)
&gt;      1.000730239            593,870      branches   (66.63%)
&gt;      1.000730239            651,440      branches   (67.03%)
&gt;      1.000730239            656,725      branches   (66.96%)
&gt;      1.000730239      &lt;not counted&gt;      branches
&gt;
&gt; One branches event is shown as not having run. Yet, with
&gt; multiplexing, all events should run especially with a 1s (-I 1000)
&gt; interval. The delta for time_running comes out to 0. Yet, the event
&gt; has run because the kernel is actually multiplexing the events. The
&gt; problem is that the time tracking is the kernel and especially in
&gt; ctx_sched_out() is wrong now.
&gt;
&gt; The problem is that in case that the kernel enters ctx_sched_out() with the
&gt; following state:
&gt;    ctx-&gt;is_active=0x7 event_type=0x1
&gt;    Call Trace:
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff813ddd41&gt;] dump_stack+0x63/0x82
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff81182bdc&gt;] ctx_sched_out+0x2bc/0x2d0
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff81183896&gt;] perf_mux_hrtimer_handler+0xf6/0x2c0
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff811837a0&gt;] ? __perf_install_in_context+0x130/0x130
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff810f5818&gt;] __hrtimer_run_queues+0xf8/0x2f0
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff810f6097&gt;] hrtimer_interrupt+0xb7/0x1d0
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff810509a8&gt;] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x38/0x60
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff8175ca9d&gt;] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x3d/0x50
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff8175ac7c&gt;] apic_timer_interrupt+0x8c/0xa0
&gt;
&gt; In that case, the test:
&gt;       if (is_active &amp; EVENT_TIME)
&gt;
&gt; will be false and the time will not be updated. Time must always be updated on
&gt; sched out.

Fix this by always updating time if EVENT_TIME was set, as opposed to
only updating time when EVENT_TIME changed.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: namhyung@kernel.org
Fixes: 3cbaa5906967 ("perf: Fix ctx time tracking by introducing EVENT_TIME")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160329072644.GB3408@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Stephane reported that commit:

  3cbaa5906967 ("perf: Fix ctx time tracking by introducing EVENT_TIME")

introduced a regression wrt. time tracking, as easily observed by:

&gt; This patch introduce a bug in the time tracking of events when
&gt; multiplexing is used.
&gt;
&gt; The issue is easily reproducible with the following perf run:
&gt;
&gt;  $ perf stat -a -C 0 -e branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,branches -I 1000
&gt;      1.000730239            652,394      branches   (66.41%)
&gt;      1.000730239            597,809      branches   (66.41%)
&gt;      1.000730239            593,870      branches   (66.63%)
&gt;      1.000730239            651,440      branches   (67.03%)
&gt;      1.000730239            656,725      branches   (66.96%)
&gt;      1.000730239      &lt;not counted&gt;      branches
&gt;
&gt; One branches event is shown as not having run. Yet, with
&gt; multiplexing, all events should run especially with a 1s (-I 1000)
&gt; interval. The delta for time_running comes out to 0. Yet, the event
&gt; has run because the kernel is actually multiplexing the events. The
&gt; problem is that the time tracking is the kernel and especially in
&gt; ctx_sched_out() is wrong now.
&gt;
&gt; The problem is that in case that the kernel enters ctx_sched_out() with the
&gt; following state:
&gt;    ctx-&gt;is_active=0x7 event_type=0x1
&gt;    Call Trace:
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff813ddd41&gt;] dump_stack+0x63/0x82
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff81182bdc&gt;] ctx_sched_out+0x2bc/0x2d0
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff81183896&gt;] perf_mux_hrtimer_handler+0xf6/0x2c0
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff811837a0&gt;] ? __perf_install_in_context+0x130/0x130
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff810f5818&gt;] __hrtimer_run_queues+0xf8/0x2f0
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff810f6097&gt;] hrtimer_interrupt+0xb7/0x1d0
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff810509a8&gt;] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x38/0x60
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff8175ca9d&gt;] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x3d/0x50
&gt;     [&lt;ffffffff8175ac7c&gt;] apic_timer_interrupt+0x8c/0xa0
&gt;
&gt; In that case, the test:
&gt;       if (is_active &amp; EVENT_TIME)
&gt;
&gt; will be false and the time will not be updated. Time must always be updated on
&gt; sched out.

Fix this by always updating time if EVENT_TIME was set, as opposed to
only updating time when EVENT_TIME changed.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: namhyung@kernel.org
Fixes: 3cbaa5906967 ("perf: Fix ctx time tracking by introducing EVENT_TIME")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160329072644.GB3408@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Document some hotplug bits</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T08:35:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-08T16:56:05+00:00</published>
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Document some of the hotplug notifier usage.

Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Document some of the hotplug notifier usage.

Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix dynamic interrupt throttle</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T08:08:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-17T14:17:35+00:00</published>
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There were two problems with the dynamic interrupt throttle mechanism,
both triggered by the same action.

When you (or perf_fuzzer) write a huge value into
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate the computed
perf_sample_allowed_ns becomes 0. This effectively disables the whole
dynamic throttle.

This is fixed by ensuring update_perf_cpu_limits() never sets the
value to 0. However, we allow disabling of the dynamic throttle by
writing 100 to /proc/sys/kernel/perf_cpu_time_max_percent. This will
generate a warning in dmesg.

The second problem is that by setting the max_sample_rate to a huge
number, the adaptive process can take a few tries, since it halfs the
limit each time. Change that to directly compute a new value based on
the observed duration.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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There were two problems with the dynamic interrupt throttle mechanism,
both triggered by the same action.

When you (or perf_fuzzer) write a huge value into
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate the computed
perf_sample_allowed_ns becomes 0. This effectively disables the whole
dynamic throttle.

This is fixed by ensuring update_perf_cpu_limits() never sets the
value to 0. However, we allow disabling of the dynamic throttle by
writing 100 to /proc/sys/kernel/perf_cpu_time_max_percent. This will
generate a warning in dmesg.

The second problem is that by setting the max_sample_rate to a huge
number, the adaptive process can take a few tries, since it halfs the
limit each time. Change that to directly compute a new value based on
the observed duration.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix the unthrottle logic</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T08:08:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-10T14:39:24+00:00</published>
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Its possible to IOC_PERIOD while the event is throttled, this would
re-start the event and the next tick would then try to unthrottle it,
and find the event wasn't actually stopped anymore.

This would tickle a WARN in the x86-pmu code which isn't expecting to
start a !stopped event.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160310143924.GR6356@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Its possible to IOC_PERIOD while the event is throttled, this would
re-start the event and the next tick would then try to unthrottle it,
and find the event wasn't actually stopped anymore.

This would tickle a WARN in the x86-pmu code which isn't expecting to
start a !stopped event.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160310143924.GR6356@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-15T02:44:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-15T02:44:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e23604edac2a7be6a8808a5d13fac6b9df4eb9a8'/>
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Pull NOHZ updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "NOHZ enhancements, by Frederic Weisbecker, which reorganizes/refactors
  the NOHZ 'can the tick be stopped?' infrastructure and related code to
  be data driven, and harmonizes the naming and handling of all the
  various properties"

[ This makes the ugly "fetch_or()" macro that the scheduler used
  internally a new generic helper, and does a bad job at it.

  I'm pulling it, but I've asked Ingo and Frederic to get this
  fixed up ]

* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched-clock: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model
  posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model
  sched: Migrate sched to use new tick dependency mask model
  sched: Account rr tasks
  perf: Migrate perf to use new tick dependency mask model
  nohz: Use enum code for tick stop failure tracing message
  nohz: New tick dependency mask
  nohz: Implement wide kick on top of irq work
  atomic: Export fetch_or()
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Pull NOHZ updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "NOHZ enhancements, by Frederic Weisbecker, which reorganizes/refactors
  the NOHZ 'can the tick be stopped?' infrastructure and related code to
  be data driven, and harmonizes the naming and handling of all the
  various properties"

[ This makes the ugly "fetch_or()" macro that the scheduler used
  internally a new generic helper, and does a bad job at it.

  I'm pulling it, but I've asked Ingo and Frederic to get this
  fixed up ]

* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched-clock: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model
  posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model
  sched: Migrate sched to use new tick dependency mask model
  sched: Account rr tasks
  perf: Migrate perf to use new tick dependency mask model
  nohz: Use enum code for tick stop failure tracing message
  nohz: New tick dependency mask
  nohz: Implement wide kick on top of irq work
  atomic: Export fetch_or()
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