From bf378d341e4873ed928dc3c636252e6895a21f50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:55:29 +0100 Subject: perf: Fix perf ring buffer memory ordering The PPC64 people noticed a missing memory barrier and crufty old comments in the perf ring buffer code. So update all the comments and add the missing barrier. When the architecture implements local_t using atomic_long_t there will be double barriers issued; but short of introducing more conditional barrier primitives this is the best we can do. Reported-by: Victor Kaplansky Tested-by: Victor Kaplansky Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: michael@ellerman.id.au Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Michael Neuling Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: anton@samba.org Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131025173749.GG19466@laptop.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index 009a655a5d35..2fc1602e23bb 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -456,13 +456,15 @@ struct perf_event_mmap_page { /* * Control data for the mmap() data buffer. * - * User-space reading the @data_head value should issue an rmb(), on - * SMP capable platforms, after reading this value -- see - * perf_event_wakeup(). + * User-space reading the @data_head value should issue an smp_rmb(), + * after reading this value. * * When the mapping is PROT_WRITE the @data_tail value should be - * written by userspace to reflect the last read data. In this case - * the kernel will not over-write unread data. + * written by userspace to reflect the last read data, after issueing + * an smp_mb() to separate the data read from the ->data_tail store. + * In this case the kernel will not over-write unread data. + * + * See perf_output_put_handle() for the data ordering. */ __u64 data_head; /* head in the data section */ __u64 data_tail; /* user-space written tail */ -- cgit v1.2.3