Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752695AbbEAHCd (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2015 03:02:33 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]:37156 "EHLO mail-wi0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750843AbbEAHCc (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2015 03:02:32 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 09:02:26 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Vince Weaver Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , Ingo Molnar , Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: perf: WARNING perfevents: irq loop stuck! Message-ID: <20150501070226.GB18957@gmail.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2687 Lines: 73 * Vince Weaver wrote: > So this is just a warning, and I've reported it before, but the > perf_fuzzer triggers this fairly regularly on my Haswell system. > > It looks like fixed counter 0 (retired instructions) being set to > 0000fffffffffffe occasionally causes an irq loop storm and gets > stuck until the PMU state is cleared. So 0000fffffffffffe corresponds to 2 events left until overflow, right? And on Haswell we don't set x86_pmu.limit_period AFAICS, so we allow these super short periods. Maybe like on Broadwell we need a quirk on Nehalem/Haswell as well, one similar to bdw_limit_period()? Something like the patch below? Totally untested and such. I picked 128 because of Broadwell, but lower values might work as well. You could try to increase it to 3 and upwards and see which one stops triggering stuck NMI loops? Thanks, Ingo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c index 960e85de13fb..26b13ea8299c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c @@ -2479,6 +2479,15 @@ hsw_get_event_constraints(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc, int idx, return c; } +/* + * Really short periods might create infinite PMC NMI loops on Haswell, + * so limit them to 128. There's no official erratum for this AFAIK. + */ +static unsigned int hsw_limit_period(struct perf_event *event, unsigned int left) +{ + return max(left, 128U); +} + /* * Broadwell: @@ -2495,7 +2504,7 @@ hsw_get_event_constraints(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc, int idx, * Therefore the effective (average) period matches the requested period, * despite coarser hardware granularity. */ -static unsigned bdw_limit_period(struct perf_event *event, unsigned left) +static unsigned int bdw_limit_period(struct perf_event *event, unsigned left) { if ((event->hw.config & INTEL_ARCH_EVENT_MASK) == X86_CONFIG(.event=0xc0, .umask=0x01)) { @@ -3265,6 +3274,7 @@ __init int intel_pmu_init(void) x86_pmu.hw_config = hsw_hw_config; x86_pmu.get_event_constraints = hsw_get_event_constraints; x86_pmu.cpu_events = hsw_events_attrs; + x86_pmu.limit_period = hsw_limit_period; x86_pmu.lbr_double_abort = true; pr_cont("Haswell events, "); break; -- 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/