From 60490e7966659b26d74bf1fa4aa8693d9a94ca88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhipeng Xie Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 09:54:17 -0500 Subject: perf/core: Fix perf_mmap fail when CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC enabled This problem can be reproduced with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC enabled on both x86_64 and aarch64 arch when using sysdig -B(using ebpf)[1]. sysdig -B works fine after rebuilding the kernel with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC disabled. I tracked it down to the if condition event->rb->nr_pages != nr_pages in perf_mmap is true when CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC is enabled where event->rb->nr_pages = 1 and nr_pages = 2048 resulting perf_mmap to return -EINVAL. This is because when CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC is enabled, rb->nr_pages is always equal to 1. Arch with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC enabled by default: arc/arm/csky/mips/sh/sparc/xtensa Arch with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC disabled by default: x86_64/aarch64/... Fix this problem by using data_page_nr() [1] https://github.com/draios/sysdig Fixes: 906010b2134e ("perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing") Signed-off-by: Zhipeng Xie Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220209145417.6495-1-xiezhipeng1@huawei.com --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/events/ring_buffer.c') diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index 52868716ec35..fb35b926024c 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -859,11 +859,6 @@ void rb_free(struct perf_buffer *rb) } #else -static int data_page_nr(struct perf_buffer *rb) -{ - return rb->nr_pages << page_order(rb); -} - static struct page * __perf_mmap_to_page(struct perf_buffer *rb, unsigned long pgoff) { -- cgit v1.2.3