Re: [BUG] lock issue in perf cgroup with jump label enabled

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Mar 03 2011 - 05:05:11 EST


On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 16:31 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> With CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL enabled:
>
> # mount -t cgroup -o perf_event xxx /mnt
> # mkdir /mnt/test
> # ./perf stat -B -a -e cycles:u -G test -- sleep 1
>
> lockdep warning will be triggered immediately, and the machine
> will become unresponsive.
>
> I guess this is the culprit?
>
> In the "perf cgroup support" patch:
>
> @@ -419,6 +781,17 @@ list_add_event(struct perf_event *event, struct perf_event_con
> list_add_tail(&event->group_entry, list);
> }
>
> + if (is_cgroup_event(event)) {
> + ctx->nr_cgroups++;
> + /*
> + * one more event:
> + * - that has cgroup constraint on event->cpu
> + * - that may need work on context switch
> + */
> + atomic_inc(&per_cpu(perf_cgroup_events, event->cpu));
> + jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events);
> + }
>
> list_add_event() is called with spin lock ctl->lock held, while
> jump_label_inc() will acquire jump_label_mutex..

I think something like the below ought to cure that.

---
kernel/perf_event.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 64a018e..6bc69a4 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -817,16 +817,8 @@ list_add_event(struct perf_event *event, struct perf_event_context *ctx)
list_add_tail(&event->group_entry, list);
}

- if (is_cgroup_event(event)) {
+ if (is_cgroup_event(event))
ctx->nr_cgroups++;
- /*
- * one more event:
- * - that has cgroup constraint on event->cpu
- * - that may need work on context switch
- */
- atomic_inc(&per_cpu(perf_cgroup_events, event->cpu));
- jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events);
- }

list_add_rcu(&event->event_entry, &ctx->event_list);
if (!ctx->nr_events)
@@ -6553,6 +6545,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
goto err_context;
}

+ if (is_cgroup_event(event)) {
+ /*
+ * one more event:
+ * - that has cgroup constraint on event->cpu
+ * - that may need work on context switch
+ */
+ atomic_inc(&per_cpu(perf_cgroup_events, event->cpu));
+ jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events);
+ }
+
if (move_group) {
struct perf_event_context *gctx = group_leader->ctx;



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