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Performance monitor interrupt handler checks if any counter has overflown and calls record_and_restart() in core-book3s which invokes perf_event_overflow() to record the sample information. Apart from creating sample, perf_event_overflow() also does the interrupt and period checks via perf_event_account_interrupt(). Currently we record information only if the SIAR (Sampled Instruction Address Register) valid bit is set (using siar_valid() check) and hence the interrupt check. But it is possible that we do sampling for some events that are not generating valid SIAR, and hence there is no chance to disable the event if interrupts are more than max_samples_per_tick. This leads to soft lockup. Fix this by adding perf_event_account_interrupt() in the invalid SIAR code path for a sampling event. ie if SIAR is invalid, just do interrupt check and don't record the sample information. Reported-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1596717992-7321-1-git-send-email-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.