From 0c7296cad651a3a40286d70ff37e73bd6fa4e4da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 21:23:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf/core: Fix ctx::mutex deadlock Lockdep noticed the following 3-way lockup scenario: sys_perf_event_open() perf_event_alloc() perf_try_init_event() #0 ctx = perf_event_ctx_lock_nested(1) perf_swevent_init() swevent_hlist_get() #1 mutex_lock(&pmus_lock) perf_event_init_cpu() #1 mutex_lock(&pmus_lock) #2 mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex) sys_perf_event_open() mutex_lock_double() #2 mutex_lock() #0 mutex_lock_nested() And while we need that perf_event_ctx_lock_nested() for HW PMUs such that they can iterate the sibling list, trying to match it to the available counters, the software PMUs need do no such thing. Exclude them. In particular the swevent triggers the above invertion, while the tpevent PMU triggers a more elaborate one through their event_mutex. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 816f83d..5d8f403 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -9199,7 +9199,13 @@ static int perf_try_init_event(struct pmu *pmu, struct perf_event *event) if (!try_module_get(pmu->module)) return -ENODEV; - if (event->group_leader != event) { + /* + * A number of pmu->event_init() methods iterate the sibling_list to, + * for example, validate if the group fits on the PMU. Therefore, + * if this is a sibling event, acquire the ctx->mutex to protect + * the sibling_list. + */ + if (event->group_leader != event && pmu->task_ctx_nr != perf_sw_context) { /* * This ctx->mutex can nest when we're called through * inheritance. See the perf_event_ctx_lock_nested() comment. -- 2.7.4