Under perf, the fp unwinding scheme requires access to user space memory
and can provoke a pagefault via call to __copy_from_user_inatomic from
user_backtrace. This unwinding can take place in response to an interrupt
(__perf_event_overflow). This is undesirable as we may already have
mmap_sem held for write. One example being a process that calls mprotect
just as a the PMU counters overflow.
An example that can provoke this behaviour:
perf record -e event:tocapture --call-graph fp ./application_to_test
This patch addresses this issue by disabling pagefaults briefly in
user_backtrace (as is done in the other architectures: ARM64, x86, Sparc etc.).
Without the patch a deadlock occurs when __perf_event_overflow is called
while reading the data from the user space:
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
3.16.0-rc2-00038-g0ed7ff6 #46 Not tainted
---------------------------------------------
stress/1634 is trying to acquire lock:
(&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<c001dc04>] do_page_fault+0xa8/0x428
but task is already holding lock:
(&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<c00f4098>] SyS_mprotect+0xa8/0x1c8
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
*** DEADLOCK ***
May be due to missing lock nesting notation
2 locks held by stress/1634:
#0: (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<c00f4098>] SyS_mprotect+0xa8/0x1c8
#1: (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<c00c29dc>] __perf_event_overflow+0x120/0x294
stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 PID: 1634 Comm: stress Not tainted 3.16.0-rc2-00038-g0ed7ff6 #46
[<c0017c8c>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0012eec>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24)
[<c0012eec>] (show_stack) from [<c04de914>] (dump_stack+0x7c/0x98)
[<c04de914>] (dump_stack) from [<c006a360>] (__lock_acquire+0x1484/0x1cf0)
[<c006a360>] (__lock_acquire) from [<c006b14c>] (lock_acquire+0xa4/0x11c)
[<c006b14c>] (lock_acquire) from [<c04e3880>] (down_read+0x40/0x7c)
[<c04e3880>] (down_read) from [<c001dc04>] (do_page_fault+0xa8/0x428)
[<c001dc04>] (do_page_fault) from [<c00084ec>] (do_DataAbort+0x44/0xa8)
[<c00084ec>] (do_DataAbort) from [<c0013a1c>] (__dabt_svc+0x3c/0x60)
Exception stack(0xed7c5ae0 to 0xed7c5b28)
5ae0: ed7c5b5c b6dadff4 ffffffec 00000000 b6dadff4 ebc08000 00000000 ebc08000
5b00: 0000007e 00000000 ed7c4000 ed7c5b94 00000014 ed7c5b2c c001a438 c0236c60
5b20: 00000013 ffffffff
[<c0013a1c>] (__dabt_svc) from [<c0236c60>] (__copy_from_user+0xa4/0x3a4)
Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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