Re: [patch V2 RESEND 4/6] perf/core: Split out AUX buffer allocation

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 02:21:08PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 02:36:35PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > The code logic in perf_mmap() is incomprehensible and has been source of
> > subtle bugs in the past. It makes it impossible to convert the atomic_t
> > reference counts to refcount_t.
> >
> > There is not really much, which is shared between the ringbuffer and AUX
> > buffer allocation code since the mlock limit calculation and the
> > accounting has been split out into helper functions.
> >
> > Move the AUX buffer allocation code out and integrate the call with a
> > momentary workaround to allow skipping the remaining ringbuffer related
> > code completely. That workaround will be removed once the ringbuffer
> > allocation is moved to its own function as well.
> >
> > No functional change.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> git range-diff made this much easier :)
> 
> I see you have also rearranged the ordering of the event->state <=
> PERF_EVENT_STATE_REVOKED check and the data_page_nr() check as well, which
> comparing to the original, seems to be a correct thing to do (I guess maybe
> we'd just have a different error message than anticipated at worst from
> having them in the 'wrong' order).
> 
> Overall this LGTM, thanks for getting this respun quickly!!
> 
> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Well, there's still that problem below. That was a goto unlock and would
pass through the perf_mmap_account() and atomic_inc(mmap_count), where
now it does not.

Arguably it should not do the perf_mmap_account(), but lets keep the
code functionally equivalent for now.

Anyway, I've re-done these two break-out patches in a more fine grained
fashion and will post a new series in a few.

> > ---
> > V2: Fixup invers condition and add the dropped flags setup back - Lorenzo
> >     Fixup subject line to match the content
> > ---
> >  kernel/events/core.c |  137 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> >  1 file changed, 78 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
> >
> > --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> > @@ -6970,12 +6970,79 @@ static void perf_mmap_account(struct vm_
> >  	atomic64_add(extra, &vma->vm_mm->pinned_vm);
> >  }
> >
> > +static int perf_mmap_aux(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct perf_event *event,
> > +			 unsigned long nr_pages)
> > +{
> > +	long user_extra = nr_pages, extra = 0;
> > +	struct perf_buffer *rb = event->rb;
> > +	u64 aux_offset, aux_size;
> > +	int ret, rb_flags = 0;
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * AUX area mapping: if rb->aux_nr_pages != 0, it's already
> > +	 * mapped, all subsequent mappings should have the same size
> > +	 * and offset. Must be above the normal perf buffer.
> > +	 */
> > +	aux_offset = READ_ONCE(rb->user_page->aux_offset);
> > +	aux_size = READ_ONCE(rb->user_page->aux_size);
> > +
> > +	if (aux_offset < perf_data_size(rb) + PAGE_SIZE)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	if (aux_offset != vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	/* Already mapped with a different offset */
> > +	if (rb_has_aux(rb) && rb->aux_pgoff != vma->vm_pgoff)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	if (aux_size != nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	/* Already mapped with a different size */
> > +	if (rb_has_aux(rb) && rb->aux_nr_pages != nr_pages)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	if (!is_power_of_2(nr_pages))
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	/* If this succeeds, subsequent failures have to undo it */
> > +	if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&rb->mmap_count))
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	/* If mapped, attach to it */
> > +	if (rb_has_aux(rb)) {
> > +		atomic_inc(&rb->aux_mmap_count);
> > +		return 0;

here, the return 0 should've been a goto to...

> > +	}
> > +
> > +	if (!perf_mmap_calc_limits(vma, &user_extra, &extra)) {
> > +		atomic_dec(&rb->mmap_count);
> > +		return -EPERM;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
> > +		rb_flags |= RING_BUFFER_WRITABLE;
> > +
> > +	ret = rb_alloc_aux(rb, event, vma->vm_pgoff, nr_pages,
> > +			   event->attr.aux_watermark, rb_flags);
> > +	if (ret) {
> > +		atomic_dec(&rb->mmap_count);
> > +		return ret;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	atomic_set(&rb->aux_mmap_count, 1);
> > +	rb->aux_mmap_locked = extra;

here:

> > +	perf_mmap_account(vma, user_extra, extra);
> > +	atomic_inc(&event->mmap_count);
> > +	return 0;
> > +}