perf/ring_buffer: Add ordering to rb->nest increment

Similar to how decrementing rb->next too early can cause data_head to
(temporarily) be observed to go backward, so too can this happen when
we increment too late.

This barrier() ensures the rb->head load happens after the increment,
both the one in the 'goto again' path, as the one from
perf_output_get_handle() -- albeit very unlikely to matter for the
latter.

Suggested-by: Yabin Cui <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: ef60777c9abd ("perf: Optimize the perf_output() path by removing IRQ-disables")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index 009467a60578..4b5f8d932400 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ static void perf_output_put_handle(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
 	unsigned long head;
 
 again:
+	/*
+	 * In order to avoid publishing a head value that goes backwards,
+	 * we must ensure the load of @rb->head happens after we've
+	 * incremented @rb->nest.
+	 *
+	 * Otherwise we can observe a @rb->head value before one published
+	 * by an IRQ/NMI happening between the load and the increment.
+	 */
+	barrier();
 	head = local_read(&rb->head);
 
 	/*