From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] perf fixes
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:09:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPqkBR2HeDmuTVg5RA=5D0xXJbXxqSxMDf7MW0iCGnurQb7jw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFziwaP21NVyVb_UP3okiX7fXoo4DQ7zudhxAwPM10_Tuw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > And to make things interesting, I seem to be able to only reproduce
> > this *after* a suspend cycle. That may be just happenstance, since it
> > seemed to be hard to replicate and most of the time it has happened
> > under X with no messages visible at all, but that *seems* to be the
> > pattern.
> >
> > And the one time I got it to happen on the text console, things
> > scrolled off (watchdog warnings due to lockups), but I did get a NULL
> > pointer dereference in intel_pmu_enable_all().
> >
> > I'll try to reproduce it and get a picture,
>
> Theory more or less confirmed.
>
> It does need a suspend/resume cycle, and I have a picture. The oops
> happens immediately when trying to do any perf work after the first
> suspend, before suspending I seem to be able to reliably use perf. It
> could still be just random flakiness, but I don't think so.
>
Could be related to suspend/resume. But were you running perf across
that resume/suspend cycle?
But still don't see how a wrmsrl could corrupt a cpuc.
>
> The NULL pointer dereference is at intel_pmu_enable_all+0x4d/0xa0 for
> me, which seems to be the load of the
>
> if (test_bit(INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_BTS, cpuc->active_mask))
>
> thing. It says
>
> BUG: unable to handle NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
>
> But that error makes no sense. The code at that EIP is
>
> 48 8b 83 00 02 00 00 mov 0x200(%rbx),%rax <-- trapping instruction
>
> and the value printed out for %rbx is 0xffff80014f20b8e0, so it should
> *not* be a NULL pointer dereference (and "cpuc" was also used just
> before the wrmsrl).
>
> So I suspect that the "wrmsrl" that was just before that instruction
> does something odd, and the PMU is in some odd state, so that the NULL
> pointer dereference actually has something to do with *that*, rather
> than the instruction itself.
>
> The callchain looks normal. It's
>
> finish_task_switch ->
> __perf_event_task_sched_in ->
> perf_event_context_sched_in ->
> perf_pmu_enable ->
> x86_pmu_enable ->
> intel_pmu_enable_all()
>
> The immediately preceding wrmsrl was done with rax=0xf, rdx=0x7,
> rcx=0x38f according to the register dump (but the picture isn't great,
> so the numbers aren't 100% reliable).
>
Value 0x38f for GLOBAL_CTRL is valid. And 0x70000000f is valid too
for the counter bitmask (4 generic counters + 3 fixed counters).
Let's see if we can reproduce the problem on the same ChromeBook you
have. Don't have one myself.
> Does this give any clues?
>
> Linus
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2013-02-26 7:02 [GIT PULL] perf fixes Ingo Molnar
2013-03-14 20:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-14 21:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-14 22:09 ` Stephane Eranian [this message]
2013-03-14 22:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-14 22:19 ` Stephane Eranian
2013-03-14 22:42 ` Stephane Eranian
2013-03-14 22:53 ` Stephane Eranian
2013-03-14 23:11 ` Stephane Eranian
2013-03-15 0:24 ` Stephane Eranian
2013-03-15 1:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-15 8:01 ` Stephane Eranian
2013-03-15 10:50 ` Stephane Eranian
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2011-01-24 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-24 21:25 ` Ingo Molnar
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2010-02-22 17:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-02-22 17:15 ` Frederic Weisbecker
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2009-09-22 7:51 Ingo Molnar
2009-09-22 14:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-22 14:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-22 15:13 ` Linus Torvalds
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