Re: [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86/intel/pt: Generate PMI in the STOP region as well

[Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>]

tip-bot for Alexander Shishkin <tipbot@zytor.com> writes:

> Commit-ID:  ab92b232ae05c382c3df0e3d6a5c6d16b639ac8c
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ab92b232ae05c382c3df0e3d6a5c6d16b639ac8c
> Author:     Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> AuthorDate: Tue, 10 May 2016 16:18:32 +0300
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> CommitDate: Thu, 12 May 2016 14:45:59 +0200
>
> perf/x86/intel/pt: Generate PMI in the STOP region as well
>
> Currently, the PT driver always sets the PMI bit one region (page) before
> the STOP region so that we can wake up the consumer before we run out of
> room in the buffer and have to disable the event. However, we also need
> an interrupt in the last output region, so that we actually get to disable
> the event (if no more room from new data is available at that point),
> otherwise hardware just quietly refuses to start, but the event is
> scheduled in and we end up losing trace data till the event gets removed.
>
> For a cpu-wide event it is even worse since there may not be any
> re-scheduling at all and no chance for the ring buffer code to notice
> that its buffer is filled up and the event needs to be disabled (so that
> the consumer can re-enable it when it finishes reading the data out). In
> other words, all the trace data will be lost after the buffer gets filled
> up.
>
> This patch makes PT also generate a PMI when the last output region is
> full.
>
> Reported-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>

Can we also have this one queued up for stable 4.4 and 4.5?

Thanks,
--
Alex