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perf: Tighten (and fix) the grouping condition
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The fix from 9fc81d8 ("perf: Fix events installation during
moving group") was incomplete in that it failed to recognise that
creating a group with events for different CPUs is semantically
broken -- they cannot be co-scheduled.

Furthermore, it leads to real breakage where, when we create an event
for CPU Y and then migrate it to form a group on CPU X, the code gets
confused where the counter is programmed -- triggered in practice
as well by me via the perf fuzzer.

Fix this by tightening the rules for creating groups. Only allow
grouping of counters that can be co-scheduled in the same context.
This means for the same task and/or the same cpu.

Fixes: 9fc81d8 ("perf: Fix events installation during moving group")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150123125834.090683288@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Peter Zijlstra authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jan 28, 2015
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6 changes: 0 additions & 6 deletions include/linux/perf_event.h
Expand Up @@ -450,19 +450,13 @@ struct perf_event {
#endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */
};

enum perf_event_context_type {
task_context,
cpu_context,
};

/**
* struct perf_event_context - event context structure
*
* Used as a container for task events and CPU events as well:
*/
struct perf_event_context {
struct pmu *pmu;
enum perf_event_context_type type;
/*
* Protect the states of the events in the list,
* nr_active, and the list:
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15 changes: 13 additions & 2 deletions kernel/events/core.c
Expand Up @@ -6776,7 +6776,6 @@ int perf_pmu_register(struct pmu *pmu, const char *name, int type)
__perf_event_init_context(&cpuctx->ctx);
lockdep_set_class(&cpuctx->ctx.mutex, &cpuctx_mutex);
lockdep_set_class(&cpuctx->ctx.lock, &cpuctx_lock);
cpuctx->ctx.type = cpu_context;
cpuctx->ctx.pmu = pmu;

__perf_cpu_hrtimer_init(cpuctx, cpu);
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* task or CPU context:
*/
if (move_group) {
if (group_leader->ctx->type != ctx->type)
/*
* Make sure we're both on the same task, or both
* per-cpu events.
*/
if (group_leader->ctx->task != ctx->task)
goto err_context;

/*
* Make sure we're both events for the same CPU;
* grouping events for different CPUs is broken; since
* you can never concurrently schedule them anyhow.
*/
if (group_leader->cpu != event->cpu)
goto err_context;
} else {
if (group_leader->ctx != ctx)
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