Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754480AbaFEE6n (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2014 00:58:43 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43929 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752572AbaFEEUl (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2014 00:20:41 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Victor Kaplansky , Peter Zijlstra , Mathieu Desnoyers , Paul McKenney , Michael Neuling , Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , Ben Hutchings , Rui Xiang , michael@ellerman.id.au, anton@samba.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org Subject: [PATCH 3.4 079/214] perf: Fix perf ring buffer memory ordering Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 21:17:22 -0700 Message-Id: <20140605041650.190495293@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.0.0 In-Reply-To: <20140605041639.638675216@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140605041639.638675216@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Peter Zijlstra commit bf378d341e4873ed928dc3c636252e6895a21f50 upstream. The PPC64 people noticed a missing memory barrier and crufty old comments in the perf ring buffer code. So update all the comments and add the missing barrier. When the architecture implements local_t using atomic_long_t there will be double barriers issued; but short of introducing more conditional barrier primitives this is the best we can do. Reported-by: Victor Kaplansky Tested-by: Victor Kaplansky Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: michael@ellerman.id.au Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Michael Neuling Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: anton@samba.org Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131025173749.GG19466@laptop.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Cc: Rui Xiang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 12 +++++++----- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -391,13 +391,15 @@ struct perf_event_mmap_page { /* * Control data for the mmap() data buffer. * - * User-space reading the @data_head value should issue an rmb(), on - * SMP capable platforms, after reading this value -- see - * perf_event_wakeup(). + * User-space reading the @data_head value should issue an smp_rmb(), + * after reading this value. * * When the mapping is PROT_WRITE the @data_tail value should be - * written by userspace to reflect the last read data. In this case - * the kernel will not over-write unread data. + * written by userspace to reflect the last read data, after issueing + * an smp_mb() to separate the data read from the ->data_tail store. + * In this case the kernel will not over-write unread data. + * + * See perf_output_put_handle() for the data ordering. */ __u64 data_head; /* head in the data section */ __u64 data_tail; /* user-space written tail */ --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -75,10 +75,31 @@ again: goto out; /* - * Publish the known good head. Rely on the full barrier implied - * by atomic_dec_and_test() order the rb->head read and this - * write. + * Since the mmap() consumer (userspace) can run on a different CPU: + * + * kernel user + * + * READ ->data_tail READ ->data_head + * smp_mb() (A) smp_rmb() (C) + * WRITE $data READ $data + * smp_wmb() (B) smp_mb() (D) + * STORE ->data_head WRITE ->data_tail + * + * Where A pairs with D, and B pairs with C. + * + * I don't think A needs to be a full barrier because we won't in fact + * write data until we see the store from userspace. So we simply don't + * issue the data WRITE until we observe it. Be conservative for now. + * + * OTOH, D needs to be a full barrier since it separates the data READ + * from the tail WRITE. + * + * For B a WMB is sufficient since it separates two WRITEs, and for C + * an RMB is sufficient since it separates two READs. + * + * See perf_output_begin(). */ + smp_wmb(); rb->user_page->data_head = head; /* @@ -142,9 +163,11 @@ int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output * Userspace could choose to issue a mb() before updating the * tail pointer. So that all reads will be completed before the * write is issued. + * + * See perf_output_put_handle(). */ tail = ACCESS_ONCE(rb->user_page->data_tail); - smp_rmb(); + smp_mb(); offset = head = local_read(&rb->head); head += size; if (unlikely(!perf_output_space(rb, tail, offset, head))) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/