Commit
8169842ecb4a ("arm64: perf: Add userspace counter access disable
switch") introduced a new 'perf_user_access' sysctl file to enable and
disable direct userspace access to the PMU counters. Sadly, Geert
reports that on his big.LITTLE SoC ('Renesas Salvator-XS w/ R-Car H3'),
the file is created for each PMU type probed, resulting in a splat
during boot:
| hw perfevents: enabled with armv8_cortex_a53 PMU driver, 7 counters available
| sysctl duplicate entry: /kernel//perf_user_access
| CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
5.16.0-rc3-arm64-renesas-00003-ge2012600810c #1420
| Hardware name: Renesas Salvator-X 2nd version board based on r8a77951 (DT)
| Call trace:
| dump_backtrace+0x0/0x190
| show_stack+0x14/0x20
| dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xb0
| dump_stack+0x14/0x2c
| __register_sysctl_table+0x384/0x818
| register_sysctl+0x20/0x28
| armv8_pmu_init.constprop.0+0x118/0x150
| armv8_a57_pmu_init+0x1c/0x28
| arm_pmu_device_probe+0x1b4/0x558
| armv8_pmu_device_probe+0x18/0x20
| platform_probe+0x64/0xd0
| hw perfevents: enabled with armv8_cortex_a57 PMU driver, 7 counters available
Introduce a state variable to track creation of the sysctl file and
ensure that it is only created once.
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Fixes: 8169842ecb4a ("arm64: perf: Add userspace counter access disable switch")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdVcDxR9sGzc5pcnORiotonERBgc6dsXZXMd6wTvLGA9iw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
{ }
};
+static void armv8_pmu_register_sysctl_table(void)
+{
+ static u32 tbl_registered = 0;
+
+ if (!cmpxchg_relaxed(&tbl_registered, 0, 1))
+ register_sysctl("kernel", armv8_pmu_sysctl_table);
+}
+
static int armv8_pmu_init(struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu, char *name,
int (*map_event)(struct perf_event *event),
const struct attribute_group *events,
cpu_pmu->attr_groups[ARMPMU_ATTR_GROUP_CAPS] = caps ?
caps : &armv8_pmuv3_caps_attr_group;
- register_sysctl("kernel", armv8_pmu_sysctl_table);
-
+ armv8_pmu_register_sysctl_table();
return 0;
}