Re: [PATCH] perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPs

From: Marco Elver
Date: Mon Oct 10 2022 - 16:52:23 EST


On Sat, Oct 08, 2022 at 02:41PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2022 at 10:41:28AM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> > The below patch to the sigtrap_threads test can repro the issue (when
> > run lots of them concurrently again). It also illustrates the original
> > problem we're trying to solve, where the event never gets rearmed again
> > and the test times out (doesn't happen with the almost-working fix).
>
> Excellent, that helps. Also, I'm an idiot ;-)
>
> The below seems to fix it for me.
>
> ---
> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> @@ -3441,7 +3448,8 @@ static void perf_event_context_sched_out
> perf_pmu_disable(pmu);
>
> /* PMIs are disabled; ctx->nr_pending is stable. */
> - if (local_read(&ctx->nr_pending)) {
> + if (local_read(&ctx->nr_pending) ||
> + local_read(&next_ctx->nr_pending)) {
> /*
> * Must not swap out ctx when there's pending
> * events that rely on the ctx->task relation.

Yup, that fixes it.

Can you send a v2 with all the fixups? Just to make sure I've tested the
right thing.

I'll also send the patch for the selftest addition once I gave it a good
spin.

Thanks,
-- Marco