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author | Yabin Cui <[email protected]> | 2019-05-17 13:52:31 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2019-05-24 09:00:10 +0200 |
commit | 1b038c6e05ff70a1e66e3e571c2e6106bdb75f53 (patch) | |
tree | b9ca314ab80b10593d6392ea7946b5db8c648769 /tools/perf/scripts/python/compaction-times.py | |
parent | 23e3983a466cd540ffdd2bbc6e0c51e31934f941 (diff) |
perf/ring_buffer: Fix exposing a temporarily decreased data_head
In perf_output_put_handle(), an IRQ/NMI can happen in below location and
write records to the same ring buffer:
...
local_dec_and_test(&rb->nest)
... <-- an IRQ/NMI can happen here
rb->user_page->data_head = head;
...
In this case, a value A is written to data_head in the IRQ, then a value
B is written to data_head after the IRQ. And A > B. As a result,
data_head is temporarily decreased from A to B. And a reader may see
data_head < data_tail if it read the buffer frequently enough, which
creates unexpected behaviors.
This can be fixed by moving dec(&rb->nest) to after updating data_head,
which prevents the IRQ/NMI above from updating data_head.
[ Split up by peterz. ]
Signed-off-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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[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]
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]>
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