Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/uncore: Allow single pmu/box within events group

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Nov 18 2016 - 07:54:09 EST


On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:33:25PM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:28:50PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:15:28AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > Current uncore_validate_group code expects all events within
> > > the group to have same pmu.
> > >
> > > This leads to constraint code using wrong boxes which leads
> > > in my case to touching uninitialized spinlocks, but could
> > > be probably worse.. depends on type and box details.
> > >
> > > I get lockdep warning below for following perf stat:
> > > # perf stat -vv -e '{uncore_cbox_0/config=0x0334/,uncore_qpi_0/event=1/}' -a sleep 1
> >
> > Hurm, we shouldn't be allowing that in the first place I think.
> >
> >
> > Let me stare at the generic group code, the intent was to only allow
> > software events to mix with hw events, nothing else.
>
> yep, that's what's happening now.. but after the event_init callback

Ah yes indeed. Its the is_uncore_event() test in uncore_collect_event()
that's too lenient, that allows us to mix events from various uncore
boxes.

Would something like so fix things too? Because that is the point of
is_uncore_event() in collect(), to only collect events for _that_ pmu.

---
arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c
index efca2685d876..7b1b34576886 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c
@@ -319,9 +319,9 @@ static struct intel_uncore_box *uncore_alloc_box(struct intel_uncore_type *type,
*/
static int uncore_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event);

-static bool is_uncore_event(struct perf_event *event)
+static bool is_box_event(struct intel_uncore_box *box, struct perf_event *event)
{
- return event->pmu->event_init == uncore_pmu_event_init;
+ return box->pmu == event->pmu;
}

static int
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ uncore_collect_events(struct intel_uncore_box *box, struct perf_event *leader,

n = box->n_events;

- if (is_uncore_event(leader)) {
+ if (is_box_event(box, leader)) {
box->event_list[n] = leader;
n++;
}
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ uncore_collect_events(struct intel_uncore_box *box, struct perf_event *leader,
return n;

list_for_each_entry(event, &leader->sibling_list, group_entry) {
- if (!is_uncore_event(event) ||
+ if (!is_box_event(box, event) ||
event->state <= PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF)
continue;