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Thomas Richter 5e6c3c7b1e perf/aux: Fix tracking of auxiliary trace buffer allocation 
The following commit from the v5.4 merge window:

  d44248a413 ("perf/core: Rework memory accounting in perf_mmap()")

... breaks auxiliary trace buffer tracking.

If I run command 'perf record -e rbd000' to record samples and saving
them in the **auxiliary** trace buffer then the value of 'locked_vm' becomes
negative after all trace buffers have been allocated and released:

During allocation the values increase:

  [52.250027] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x87 pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
  [52.250115] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x107 pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
  [52.250251] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x188 pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
  [52.250326] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x208 pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
  [52.250441] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x289 pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
  [52.250498] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x309 pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
  [52.250613] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x38a pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
  [52.250715] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x2 ret:0
  [52.250834] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x83 ret:0
  [52.250915] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x103 ret:0
  [52.251061] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x184 ret:0
  [52.251146] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x204 ret:0
  [52.251299] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x285 ret:0
  [52.251383] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x305 ret:0
  [52.251544] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x386 ret:0
  [52.251634] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x406 ret:0
  [52.253018] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x487 ret:0
  [52.253197] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x508 ret:0
  [52.253374] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x589 ret:0
  [52.253550] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x60a ret:0
  [52.253726] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x68b ret:0
  [52.253903] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x70c ret:0
  [52.254084] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x78d ret:0
  [52.254263] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x80e ret:0

The value of user->locked_vm increases to a limit then the memory
is tracked by pinned_vm.

During deallocation the size is subtracted from pinned_vm until
it hits a limit. Then a larger value is subtracted from locked_vm
leading to a large number (because of type unsigned):

  [64.267797] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x78d
  [64.267826] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x70c
  [64.267848] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x68b
  [64.267869] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x60a
  [64.267891] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x589
  [64.267911] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x508
  [64.267933] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x487
  [64.267952] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x406
  [64.268883] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x307 pinned_vm:0x406
  [64.269117] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x206 pinned_vm:0x406
  [64.269433] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x105 pinned_vm:0x406
  [64.269536] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x4 pinned_vm:0x404
  [64.269797] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0xffffffffffffff84 pinned_vm:0x303
  [64.270105] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0xffffffffffffff04 pinned_vm:0x202
  [64.270374] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0xfffffffffffffe84 pinned_vm:0x101
  [64.270628] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0xfffffffffffffe04 pinned_vm:0x0

This value sticks for the user until system is rebooted, causing
follow-on system calls using locked_vm resource limit to fail.

Note: There is no issue using the normal trace buffer.

In fact the issue is in perf_mmap_close(). During allocation auxiliary
trace buffer memory is either traced as 'extra' and added to 'pinned_vm'
or trace as 'user_extra' and added to 'locked_vm'. This applies for
normal trace buffers and auxiliary trace buffer.

However in function perf_mmap_close() all auxiliary trace buffer is
subtraced from 'locked_vm' and never from 'pinned_vm'. This breaks the
ballance.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: gor@linux.ibm.com
Cc: hechaol@fb.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: songliubraving@fb.com
Fixes: d44248a413 ("perf/core: Rework memory accounting in perf_mmap()")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191021083354.67868-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
[ Minor readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-10-21 11:31:24 +02:00
..
callchain.c perf/core: Convert to SPDX license identifiers 2019-02-04 08:46:11 +01:00
core.c perf/aux: Fix tracking of auxiliary trace buffer allocation 2019-10-21 11:31:24 +02:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf/hw_breakpoint: Fix arch_hw_breakpoint use-before-initialization 2019-09-06 08:24:01 +02:00
internal.h perf/ring-buffer: Use regular variables for nesting 2019-05-24 09:00:11 +02:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
ring_buffer.c perf/ring-buffer: Use regular variables for nesting 2019-05-24 09:00:11 +02:00
uprobes.c uprobe: collapse THP pmd after removing all uprobes 2019-09-24 15:54:11 -07:00