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Pull intel drm build fix from Rodrigo Vivi:
"Our 'dim' flow has a problem with fixes of fixes getting missed. We
need to take a look on that later.
Meanwhile, please allow me to quickly propagate this fix for the
32-bit build issue here upstream"
* tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2022-07-17' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel:
drm/i915/ttm: fix 32b build
Pull perf tools fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Fix SIGSEGV when processing syscall args in perf.data files in 'perf
trace'
- Sync kvm, msr-index and cpufeatures headers with the kernel sources
- Fix 'convert perf time to TSC' 'perf test':
- No need to open events twice
- Fix finding correct event on hybrid systems
* tag 'perf-tools-fixes-for-v5.19-2022-07-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux:
perf trace: Fix SIGSEGV when processing syscall args
perf tests: Fix Convert perf time to TSC test for hybrid
perf tests: Stop Convert perf time to TSC test opening events twice
tools arch x86: Sync the msr-index.h copy with the kernel sources
tools headers cpufeatures: Sync with the kernel sources
tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/kvm.h with the kernel sources
Since segment_pages is no longer a compile time constant, it looks the
DIV_ROUND_UP(node->size, segment_pages) breaks the 32b build. Simplest
is just to use the ULL variant, but really we should need not need more
than u32 for the page alignment (also we are limited by that due to the
sg->length type), so also make it all u32.
Reported-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: aff1e0b09b54 ("drm/i915/ttm: fix sg_table construction")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: Nirmoy Das <nirmoy.das@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nirmoy Das <nirmoy.das@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220712174050.592550-1-matthew.auld@intel.com
(cherry picked from commit 9306b2b2dfce6931241ef804783692cee526599c)
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Pull perf fix from Borislav Petkov:
- A single data race fix on the perf event cleanup path to avoid
endless loops due to insufficient locking
* tag 'perf_urgent_for_v5.19_rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/core: Fix data race between perf_event_set_output() and perf_mmap_close()
On powerpc, 'perf trace' is crashing with a SIGSEGV when trying to
process a perf.data file created with 'perf trace record -p':
#0 0x00000001225b8988 in syscall_arg__scnprintf_augmented_string <snip> at builtin-trace.c:1492
#1 syscall_arg__scnprintf_filename <snip> at builtin-trace.c:1492
#2 syscall_arg__scnprintf_filename <snip> at builtin-trace.c:1486
#3 0x00000001225bdd9c in syscall_arg_fmt__scnprintf_val <snip> at builtin-trace.c:1973
#4 syscall__scnprintf_args <snip> at builtin-trace.c:2041
#5 0x00000001225bff04 in trace__sys_enter <snip> at builtin-trace.c:2319
That points to the below code in tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:
/*
* If this is raw_syscalls.sys_enter, then it always comes with the 6 possible
* arguments, even if the syscall being handled, say "openat", uses only 4 arguments
* this breaks syscall__augmented_args() check for augmented args, as we calculate
* syscall->args_size using each syscalls:sys_enter_NAME tracefs format file,
* so when handling, say the openat syscall, we end up getting 6 args for the
* raw_syscalls:sys_enter event, when we expected just 4, we end up mistakenly
* thinking that the extra 2 u64 args are the augmented filename, so just check
* here and avoid using augmented syscalls when the evsel is the raw_syscalls one.
*/
if (evsel != trace->syscalls.events.sys_enter)
augmented_args = syscall__augmented_args(sc, sample, &augmented_args_size, trace->raw_augmented_syscalls_args_size);
As the comment points out, we should not be trying to augment the args
for raw_syscalls. However, when processing a perf.data file, we are not
initializing those properly. Fix the same.
Reported-by: Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220707090900.572584-1-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
On some machines hole_end can be small enough to cause subtraction
overflow. On the other side (addr + 2 * min_alignment) can overflow
in case of mock tests. This patch should handle both cases.
Fixes: e1c5f754067b59 ("drm/i915: Avoid overflow in computing pot_hole loop termination")
Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/3674
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220624113528.2159210-1-andrzej.hajda@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit ab3edc679c552a466e4bf0b11af3666008bd65a2)
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Pull x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:
- Improve the check whether the kernel supports WP mappings so that it
can accomodate a XenPV guest due to how the latter is setting up the
PAT machinery
- Now that the retbleed nightmare is public, here's the first round of
fallout fixes:
* Fix a build failure on 32-bit due to missing include
* Remove an untraining point in espfix64 return path
* other small cleanups
* tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.19_rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/bugs: Remove apostrophe typo
um: Add missing apply_returns()
x86/entry: Remove UNTRAIN_RET from native_irq_return_ldt
x86/bugs: Mark retbleed_strings static
x86/pat: Fix x86_has_pat_wp()
x86/asm/32: Fix ANNOTATE_UNRET_SAFE use on 32-bit
Yang Jihing reported a race between perf_event_set_output() and
perf_mmap_close():
CPU1 CPU2
perf_mmap_close(e2)
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&e2->rb->mmap_count)) // 1 - > 0
detach_rest = true
ioctl(e1, IOC_SET_OUTPUT, e2)
perf_event_set_output(e1, e2)
...
list_for_each_entry_rcu(e, &e2->rb->event_list, rb_entry)
ring_buffer_attach(e, NULL);
// e1 isn't yet added and
// therefore not detached
ring_buffer_attach(e1, e2->rb)
list_add_rcu(&e1->rb_entry,
&e2->rb->event_list)
After this; e1 is attached to an unmapped rb and a subsequent
perf_mmap() will loop forever more:
again:
mutex_lock(&e->mmap_mutex);
if (event->rb) {
...
if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&e->rb->mmap_count)) {
...
mutex_unlock(&e->mmap_mutex);
goto again;
}
}
The loop in perf_mmap_close() holds e2->mmap_mutex, while the attach
in perf_event_set_output() holds e1->mmap_mutex. As such there is no
serialization to avoid this race.
Change perf_event_set_output() to take both e1->mmap_mutex and
e2->mmap_mutex to alleviate that problem. Additionally, have the loop
in perf_mmap() detach the rb directly, this avoids having to wait for
the concurrent perf_mmap_close() to get around to doing it to make
progress.
Fixes: 9bb5d40cd93c ("perf: Fix mmap() accounting hole")
Reported-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YsQ3jm2GR38SW7uD@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net
The test does not always correctly determine the number of events for
hybrids, nor allow for more than 1 evsel when parsing.
Fix by iterating the events actually created and getting the correct
evsel for the events processed.
Fixes: d9da6f70eb235110 ("perf tests: Support 'Convert perf time to TSC' test for hybrid")
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220713123459.24145-3-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We employ a "waitboost" heuristic to detect when userspace is stalled
waiting for results from earlier execution. Under latency sensitive work
mixed between the gpu/cpu, the GPU is typically under-utilised and so
RPS sees that low utilisation as a reason to downclock the frequency,
causing longer stalls and lower throughput. The user left waiting for
the results is not impressed.
On applying commit 047a1b877ed4 ("dma-buf & drm/amdgpu: remove dma_resv
workaround") it was observed that deinterlacing h264 on Haswell
performance dropped by 2-5x. The reason being that the natural workload
was not intense enough to trigger RPS (using HW evaluation intervals) to
upclock, and so it was depending on waitboosting for the throughput.
Commit 047a1b877ed4 ("dma-buf & drm/amdgpu: remove dma_resv workaround")
changes the composition of dma-resv from keeping a single write fence +
multiple read fences, to a single array of multiple write and read
fences (a maximum of one pair of write/read fences per context). The
iteration order was also changed implicitly from all-read fences then
the single write fence, to a mix of write fences followed by read
fences. It is that ordering change that belied the fragility of
waitboosting.
Currently, a waitboost is inspected at the point of waiting on an
outstanding fence. If the GPU is backlogged such that we haven't yet
stated the request we need to wait on, we force the GPU to upclock until
the completion of that request. By changing the order in which we waited
upon requests, we ended up waiting on those requests in sequence and as
such we saw that each request was already started and so not a suitable
candidate for waitboosting.
Instead of asking whether to boost each fence in turn, we can look at
whether boosting is required for the dma-resv ensemble prior to waiting
on any fence, making the heuristic more robust to the order in which
fences are stored in the dma-resv.
Reported-by: Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/6284
Fixes: 047a1b877ed4 ("dma-buf & drm/amdgpu: remove dma_resv workaround")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Karolina Drobnik <karolina.drobnik@intel.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/07e05518d9f6620d20cc1101ec1849203fe973f9.1657289332.git.karolina.drobnik@intel.com
(cherry picked from commit 394e2b57a989113de494c52d4683444bcb02d4e1)
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Pull gpio fix from Bartosz Golaszewski:
- fix a configfs attribute of the gpio-sim module
* tag 'gpio-fixes-for-v5.19-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux:
gpio: sim: fix the chip_name configfs item
Remove a superfluous ' in the mitigation string.
Fixes: e8ec1b6e08a2 ("x86/bugs: Enable STIBP for JMP2RET")
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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