Re: [Patch v4 07/13] perf/x86/intel: Allocate arch-PEBS buffer and initialize PEBS_BASE MSR

[Mi, Dapeng]

On 6/21/2025 5:20 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:39:03AM +0000, Dapeng Mi wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
>> index b6eface4dccd..72b925b8c482 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
>> @@ -625,13 +625,22 @@ static int alloc_pebs_buffer(int cpu)
>>  	int max, node = cpu_to_node(cpu);
>>  	void *buffer, *insn_buff, *cea;
>>  
>> -	if (!x86_pmu.ds_pebs)
>> +	if (!intel_pmu_has_pebs())
>>  		return 0;
>>  
>> -	buffer = dsalloc_pages(bsiz, GFP_KERNEL, cpu);
>> +	/*
>> +	 * alloc_pebs_buffer() could be called by init_arch_pebs_buf_on_cpu()
>> +	 * which is in atomic context.
>> +	 */
>> +	buffer = dsalloc_pages(bsiz, preemptible() ? GFP_KERNEL : GFP_ATOMIC, cpu);
>>  	if (unlikely(!buffer))
>>  		return -ENOMEM;
> Here we go again.. that is CPU_STARTING context, that has IRQs disabled
> and as such no allocation is allowed. Not even GFP_ATOMIC -- this will
> break PREEMPT_RT.

Thanks. So we could have to follow what current legacy PEBS does and defer
the PEBS buffer allocation until creating perf events
(x86_reserve_hardware()).