Re: [BUG] uncore_pmu_event_init: using smp_processor_id() in preemptiblecore

From: Yan, Zheng
Date: Tue Sep 17 2013 - 00:58:51 EST


On 09/16/2013 05:21 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Trinity just triggered this:
>
> [ 595.847438] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: trinity-child28/2674
> [ 595.857378] caller is uncore_pmu_event_init+0x114/0x270
> [ 595.863262] CPU: 11 PID: 2674 Comm: trinity-child28 Tainted: G W 3.11.0+ #365
> [ 595.872146] Hardware name: Supermicro X8DTN/X8DTN, BIOS 4.6.3 01/08/2010
> [ 595.879656] 000000000000000b ffff880433e09d98 ffffffff81642eb8 ffff880433e09fd8
> [ 595.888430] ffff880433e09dc0 ffffffff81367d1e ffff880373621000 ffff880435bacc00
> [ 595.897330] 0000000000000000 ffff880433e09df8 ffffffff81068394 ffffffff81068285
> [ 595.906252] Call Trace:
> [ 595.909127] [<ffffffff81642eb8>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x82
> [ 595.914925] [<ffffffff81367d1e>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xde/0x100
> [ 595.921903] [<ffffffff81068394>] uncore_pmu_event_init+0x114/0x270
> [ 595.928907] [<ffffffff81068285>] ? uncore_pmu_event_init+0x5/0x270
> [ 595.935806] [<ffffffff8114d18c>] perf_init_event+0xcc/0x190
>
> That's in uncore_validate_group() where we allocate the fake_box().
>
> I'm thinking we might as well use raw_smp_processor_id() since it really
> doesn't matter where the fake box lives.
>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c
> index 8ed4458..63c8913 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c
> @@ -3031,7 +3031,7 @@ static int uncore_validate_group(struct intel_uncore_pmu *pmu,
> struct intel_uncore_box *fake_box;
> int ret = -EINVAL, n;
>
> - fake_box = uncore_alloc_box(pmu->type, smp_processor_id());
> + fake_box = uncore_alloc_box(pmu->type, raw_smp_processor_id());
> if (!fake_box)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
>

how about using kzalloc() in this case.

---
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c
index fd8011e..a12a22f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c
@@ -2713,7 +2713,10 @@ struct intel_uncore_box *uncore_alloc_box(struct intel_uncore_type *type, int cp

size = sizeof(*box) + type->num_shared_regs * sizeof(struct intel_uncore_extra_reg);

- box = kzalloc_node(size, GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
+ if (cpu < 0)
+ box = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ else
+ box = kzalloc_node(size, GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
if (!box)
return NULL;

@@ -3031,7 +3034,7 @@ static int uncore_validate_group(struct intel_uncore_pmu *pmu,
struct intel_uncore_box *fake_box;
int ret = -EINVAL, n;

- fake_box = uncore_alloc_box(pmu->type, smp_processor_id());
+ fake_box = uncore_alloc_box(pmu->type, -1);
if (!fake_box)
return -ENOMEM;

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