linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/powerpc
David Ahern b59a1bfcc2 powerpc/perf: Disable pagefaults during callchain stack read
Panic observed on an older kernel when collecting call chains for
the context-switch software event:

 [<b0180e00>]rb_erase+0x1b4/0x3e8
 [<b00430f4>]__dequeue_entity+0x50/0xe8
 [<b0043304>]set_next_entity+0x178/0x1bc
 [<b0043440>]pick_next_task_fair+0xb0/0x118
 [<b02ada80>]schedule+0x500/0x614
 [<b02afaa8>]rwsem_down_failed_common+0xf0/0x264
 [<b02afca0>]rwsem_down_read_failed+0x34/0x54
 [<b02aed4c>]down_read+0x3c/0x54
 [<b0023b58>]do_page_fault+0x114/0x5e8
 [<b001e350>]handle_page_fault+0xc/0x80
 [<b0022dec>]perf_callchain+0x224/0x31c
 [<b009ba70>]perf_prepare_sample+0x240/0x2fc
 [<b009d760>]__perf_event_overflow+0x280/0x398
 [<b009d914>]perf_swevent_overflow+0x9c/0x10c
 [<b009db54>]perf_swevent_ctx_event+0x1d0/0x230
 [<b009dc38>]do_perf_sw_event+0x84/0xe4
 [<b009dde8>]perf_sw_event_context_switch+0x150/0x1b4
 [<b009de90>]perf_event_task_sched_out+0x44/0x2d4
 [<b02ad840>]schedule+0x2c0/0x614
 [<b0047dc0>]__cond_resched+0x34/0x90
 [<b02adcc8>]_cond_resched+0x4c/0x68
 [<b00bccf8>]move_page_tables+0xb0/0x418
 [<b00d7ee0>]setup_arg_pages+0x184/0x2a0
 [<b0110914>]load_elf_binary+0x394/0x1208
 [<b00d6e28>]search_binary_handler+0xe0/0x2c4
 [<b00d834c>]do_execve+0x1bc/0x268
 [<b0015394>]sys_execve+0x84/0xc8
 [<b001df10>]ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x3c

A page fault occurred walking the callchain while creating a perf
sample for the context-switch event. To handle the page fault the
mmap_sem is needed, but it is currently held by setup_arg_pages.
(setup_arg_pages calls shift_arg_pages with the mmap_sem held.
shift_arg_pages then calls move_page_tables which has a cond_resched
at the top of its for loop - hitting that cond_resched is what caused
the context switch.)

This is an extension of Anton's proposed patch:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/24/151
adding case for 32-bit ppc.

Tested on the system that first generated the panic and then again
with latest kernel using a PPC VM. I am not able to test the 64-bit
path - I do not have H/W for it and 64-bit PPC VMs (qemu on Intel)
is horribly slow.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-08-05 14:47:56 +10:00
..
boot Merge remote-tracking branch 'jwb/next' into next 2011-07-22 13:16:41 +10:00
configs Merge remote-tracking branch 'jwb/next' into next 2011-07-22 13:16:41 +10:00
include/asm ppc: Remove duplicate definition of PV_POWER7 2011-08-05 14:47:55 +10:00
kernel powerpc/perf: Disable pagefaults during callchain stack read 2011-08-05 14:47:56 +10:00
kvm Merge branch 'kvm-updates/3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2011-07-24 09:07:03 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2011-05-20 13:28:01 -07:00
math-emu powerpc/85xx: Fix SPE float to integer conversion failure 2011-03-15 13:48:15 -05:00
mm Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2011-07-25 22:59:39 -07:00
net net: filter: BPF 'JIT' compiler for PPC64 2011-07-21 12:38:32 -07:00
oprofile powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing 2011-05-26 13:38:57 +10:00
platforms powerpc: pseries: Fix kexec on machines with more than 4TB of RAM 2011-08-05 14:47:55 +10:00
sysdev Merge branch 'next/cross-platform' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/linux-arm-soc 2011-07-26 17:12:10 -07:00
xmon powerpc: Remove call sites of MSG_ALL_BUT_SELF 2011-05-19 14:30:46 +10:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'apei' into apei-release 2011-08-03 11:30:42 -04:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc/pseries: Re-implement HVSI as part of hvc_vio 2011-06-29 17:48:35 +10:00
Makefile Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2011-07-25 22:59:39 -07:00
relocs_check.pl powerpc: Check for unsupported relocs when using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE 2009-09-24 15:31:40 +10:00