powerpc/perf: Invoke per-CPU variable access with disabled interrupts

The power_pmu_event_init() callback access per-cpu variable
(cpu_hw_events) to check for event constraints and Branch Stack
(BHRB). Current usage is to disable preemption when accessing the
per-cpu variable, but this does not prevent timer callback from
interrupting event_init. Fix this by using 'local_irq_save/restore'
to make sure the code path is invoked with disabled interrupts.

This change is tested in mambo simulator to ensure that, if a timer
interrupt comes in during the per-cpu access in event_init, it will be
soft masked and replayed later. For testing purpose, introduced a
udelay() in power_pmu_event_init() to make sure a timer interrupt arrives
while in per-cpu variable access code between local_irq_save/resore.
As expected the timer interrupt was replayed later during local_irq_restore
called from power_pmu_event_init. This was confirmed by adding
breakpoint in mambo and checking the backtrace when timer_interrupt
was hit.

Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1606814880-1720-1-git-send-email-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
index 8e20ef6252e1..6e224650b3c9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -1912,7 +1912,7 @@ static bool is_event_blacklisted(u64 ev)
 static int power_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 {
 	u64 ev;
-	unsigned long flags;
+	unsigned long flags, irq_flags;
 	struct perf_event *ctrs[MAX_HWEVENTS];
 	u64 events[MAX_HWEVENTS];
 	unsigned int cflags[MAX_HWEVENTS];
@@ -2020,7 +2020,9 @@ static int power_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 	if (check_excludes(ctrs, cflags, n, 1))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	cpuhw = &get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);
+	local_irq_save(irq_flags);
+	cpuhw = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events);
+
 	err = power_check_constraints(cpuhw, events, cflags, n + 1);
 
 	if (has_branch_stack(event)) {
@@ -2031,13 +2033,13 @@ static int power_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 					event->attr.branch_sample_type);
 
 		if (bhrb_filter == -1) {
-			put_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);
+			local_irq_restore(irq_flags);
 			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 		}
 		cpuhw->bhrb_filter = bhrb_filter;
 	}
 
-	put_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);
+	local_irq_restore(irq_flags);
 	if (err)
 		return -EINVAL;