Re: [PATCH] perf cgroups: Don't rotate events for cgroups unnecessarily

[Peter Zijlstra]

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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A: Top-posting.
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On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 04:13:46PM +0530, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:

> We are seeing regression with our uncore perf driver(Marvell's
> ThunderX2, ARM64 server platform) on 5.3-Rc1.
> After bisecting, it turned out to be this patch causing the issue.

Funnily enough; the email you replied to didn't contain a patch.

> Test case:
> Load module and run perf for more than 4 events( we have 4 counters,
> event multiplexing takes place for more than 4 events), then unload
> module.
> With this sequence of testing, the system hangs(soft lockup) after 2
> or 3 iterations. Same test runs for hours on 5.2.
> 
> while [ 1 ]
> do
>         rmmod thunderx2_pmu
>         modprobe thunderx2_pmu
>         perf stat -a -e \
>         uncore_dmc_0/cnt_cycles/,\
>         uncore_dmc_0/data_transfers/,\
>         uncore_dmc_0/read_txns/,\
>         uncore_dmc_0/config=0xE/,\
>         uncore_dmc_0/write_txns/ sleep 1
>         sleep 2
> done

Can you reproduce without the module load+unload? I don't think people
routinely unload modules.