powerpc/perf: Fix deadlock caused by calling printk() in PMU exception
authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:58:20 +0000 (17:58 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:49:28 +0000 (10:49 -0700)
commit878aac71d99971e7b79361b173f3ad14d3abf02b
treeda0aa78f7f67218a6bc665eeed1c74db98e1c1bd
parent9dc9f5e35b518c61ddff7226ee7de09b841831ff
powerpc/perf: Fix deadlock caused by calling printk() in PMU exception

commit 6772faa1ba22eba18d087c2459030a683b65be57 upstream.

In commit bc09c21 "Fix finding overflowed PMC in interrupt" we added
a printk() to the PMU exception handler. Unfortunately that is not safe.

The problem is that the PMU exception may run even when interrupts are
soft disabled, aka NMI context. We do this so that we can profile parts
of the kernel that have interrupts soft-disabled.

But by calling printk() from the exception handler, we can potentially
deadlock in the printk code on logbuf_lock, eg:

  [c00000038ba575c0c000000000081928 .vprintk_emit+0xa8/0x540
  [c00000038ba576a0c0000000007bcde8 .printk+0x48/0x58
  [c00000038ba57710c000000000076504 .perf_event_interrupt+0x2d4/0x490
  [c00000038ba57810c00000000001f6f8 .performance_monitor_exception+0x48/0x60
  [c00000038ba57880c0000000000032cc performance_monitor_common+0x14c/0x180
  --- Exception: f01 (Performance Monitor) at c0000000007b25d4 ._raw_spin_lock_irq
  +0x64/0xc0
  [c00000038ba57bf0c00000000007ed90 .devkmsg_read+0xd0/0x5a0
  [c00000038ba57d00c0000000001c2934 .vfs_read+0xc4/0x1e0
  [c00000038ba57d90c0000000001c2cd8 .SyS_read+0x58/0xd0
  [c00000038ba57e30c000000000009d54 syscall_exit+0x0/0x98
  --- Exception: c01 (System Call) at 00001fffffbf6f7c
  SP (3ffff6d4de10) is in userspace

Fix it by making sure we only call printk() when we are not in NMI
context.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c