From 45c815f06b80031659c63d7b93e580015d6024dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Shishkin Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:14:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Synchronously free aux pages in case of allocation failure We are currently using asynchronous deallocation in the error path in AUX mmap code, which is unnecessary and also presents a problem for users that wish to probe for the biggest possible buffer size they can get: they'll get -EINVAL on all subsequent attemts to allocate a smaller buffer before the asynchronous deallocation callback frees up the pages from the previous unsuccessful attempt. Currently, gdb does that for allocating AUX buffers for Intel PT traces. More specifically, overwrite mode of AUX pmus that don't support hardware sg (some implementations of Intel PT, for instance) is limited to only one contiguous high order allocation for its buffer and there is no way of knowing its size without trying. This patch changes error path freeing to be synchronous as there won't be any contenders for the AUX pages at that point. Reported-by: Markus Metzger Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453216469-9509-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index adfdc0536117..1faad2cfdb9e 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -459,6 +459,25 @@ static void rb_free_aux_page(struct ring_buffer *rb, int idx) __free_page(page); } +static void __rb_free_aux(struct ring_buffer *rb) +{ + int pg; + + if (rb->aux_priv) { + rb->free_aux(rb->aux_priv); + rb->free_aux = NULL; + rb->aux_priv = NULL; + } + + if (rb->aux_nr_pages) { + for (pg = 0; pg < rb->aux_nr_pages; pg++) + rb_free_aux_page(rb, pg); + + kfree(rb->aux_pages); + rb->aux_nr_pages = 0; + } +} + int rb_alloc_aux(struct ring_buffer *rb, struct perf_event *event, pgoff_t pgoff, int nr_pages, long watermark, int flags) { @@ -547,30 +566,11 @@ out: if (!ret) rb->aux_pgoff = pgoff; else - rb_free_aux(rb); + __rb_free_aux(rb); return ret; } -static void __rb_free_aux(struct ring_buffer *rb) -{ - int pg; - - if (rb->aux_priv) { - rb->free_aux(rb->aux_priv); - rb->free_aux = NULL; - rb->aux_priv = NULL; - } - - if (rb->aux_nr_pages) { - for (pg = 0; pg < rb->aux_nr_pages; pg++) - rb_free_aux_page(rb, pg); - - kfree(rb->aux_pages); - rb->aux_nr_pages = 0; - } -} - void rb_free_aux(struct ring_buffer *rb) { if (atomic_dec_and_test(&rb->aux_refcount))