[PATCH v2 4/5] perf/x86/intel/bts: Fix BTS PMI detection

From: Alexander Shishkin
Date: Tue Sep 06 2016 - 09:32:59 EST


Since BTS doesn't have a dedicated PMI status bit, the driver needs to
take extra care to check for the condition that triggers it to avoid
spurious NMI warnings.

Regardless of the local BTS context state, the only way of knowing that
the NMI is ours is to compare the write pointer against the interrupt
threshold.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c
index 61e1d713b1..9233edf993 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c
@@ -446,26 +446,37 @@ bts_buffer_reset(struct bts_buffer *buf, struct perf_output_handle *handle)

int intel_bts_interrupt(void)
{
+ struct debug_store *ds = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events)->ds;
struct bts_ctx *bts = this_cpu_ptr(&bts_ctx);
struct perf_event *event = bts->handle.event;
struct bts_buffer *buf;
s64 old_head;
- int err = -ENOSPC;
+ int err = -ENOSPC, handled = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * The only surefire way of knowing if this NMI is ours is by checking
+ * the write ptr against the PMI threshold.
+ */
+ if (ds->bts_index >= ds->bts_interrupt_threshold)
+ handled = 1;

/*
* this is wrapped in intel_bts_enable_local/intel_bts_disable_local,
* so we can only be INACTIVE or STOPPED
*/
if (READ_ONCE(bts->state) == BTS_STATE_STOPPED)
- return 0;
+ return handled;

buf = perf_get_aux(&bts->handle);
+ if (!buf)
+ return handled;
+
/*
* Skip snapshot counters: they don't use the interrupt, but
* there's no other way of telling, because the pointer will
* keep moving
*/
- if (!buf || buf->snapshot)
+ if (buf->snapshot)
return 0;

old_head = local_read(&buf->head);
@@ -473,7 +484,7 @@ int intel_bts_interrupt(void)

/* no new data */
if (old_head == local_read(&buf->head))
- return 0;
+ return handled;

perf_aux_output_end(&bts->handle, local_xchg(&buf->data_size, 0),
!!local_xchg(&buf->lost, 0));
--
2.9.3