Hi, I just ran the following on -rc4 with the latest pending sparc pull request manually merged (no -tip bits): perf record -a -f -g sleep 5 And I got this warning: [ 2235.846071] =================================================== [ 2235.857419] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] [ 2235.863127] --------------------------------------------------- [ 2235.868734] kernel/perf_event.c:2232 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! [ 2235.879843] [ 2235.879848] other info that might help us debug this: [ 2235.879855] [ 2235.895659] [ 2235.895663] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 [ 2235.905505] 1 lock held by swapper/0: [ 2235.910333] #0: (&ctx->lock){-.....}, at: [<00000000004d9e00>] __perf_event_enable+0x60/0x1e8 [ 2235.920430] [ 2235.920434] stack backtrace: [ 2235.929691] Call Trace: [ 2235.934143] [000000000049fca0] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x88/0x98 [ 2235.938700] [00000000004d9304] perf_event_update_userpage+0x74/0x16c [ 2235.943221] [000000000044c148] sparc_perf_event_set_period+0xb4/0xc4 [ 2235.947593] [000000000044c238] perf_event_nmi_handler+0xe0/0x190 [ 2235.951801] [0000000000494924] notifier_call_chain+0x2c/0x84 [ 2235.956112] [0000000000495008] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x54/0x9c [ 2235.960493] [0000000000495070] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x20/0x34 [ 2235.964830] [00000000004950a8] notify_die+0x24/0x38 [ 2235.969175] [000000000043a650] perfctr_irq+0xa4/0x3f4 [ 2235.973493] [00000000004209f4] tl0_irq15+0x14/0x20 [ 2235.977744] [0000000000406920] sun4v_niagara2_setperf+0x8/0x28 [ 2235.982265] [000000000044c448] hw_perf_enable+0x160/0x170 [ 2235.986494] [00000000004d89b4] perf_enable+0x3c/0x4c [ 2235.990513] [00000000004d9f2c] __perf_event_enable+0x18c/0x1e8 [ 2235.994665] [00000000004aad5c] generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x114/0x16c [ 2236.002975] [0000000000764770] smp_call_function_single_client+0x20/0x30 This is weird as everything looks fine there, it seems we have a well matching rcu_read_lock/rcu_dereference couple: void perf_event_update_userpage(struct perf_event *event) { struct perf_event_mmap_page *userpg; struct perf_mmap_data *data; rcu_read_lock(); data = rcu_dereference(event->data); if (!data) goto unlock; userpg = data->user_page; [...] I've attached the config in case someone has an idea. Thanks.