perf/x86: Warn to early_printk() in case irq_work is too slow

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:45:16AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> The reason I coded this up was that NMIs were firing off so fast that
> nothing else was getting a chance to run.  With this patch, at least the
> printk() would come out and I'd have some idea what was going on.

It will start spewing to early_printk() (which is a lot nicer to use
from NMI context too) when it fails to queue the IRQ-work because its
already enqueued.

It does have the false-positive for when two CPUs trigger the warn
concurrently, but that should be rare and some extra clutter on the
early printk shouldn't be a problem.

Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: dzickus@redhat.com
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org
Fixes: 6a02ad66b2c4 ("perf/x86: Push the duration-logging printk() to IRQ context")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140211150116.GO27965@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/irq_work.c b/kernel/irq_work.c
index 55fcce6065cf..a82170e2fa78 100644
--- a/kernel/irq_work.c
+++ b/kernel/irq_work.c
@@ -61,11 +61,11 @@ void __weak arch_irq_work_raise(void)
  *
  * Can be re-enqueued while the callback is still in progress.
  */
-void irq_work_queue(struct irq_work *work)
+bool irq_work_queue(struct irq_work *work)
 {
         /* Only queue if not already pending */
         if (!irq_work_claim(work))
-                return;
+                return false;
 
         /* Queue the entry and raise the IPI if needed. */
         preempt_disable();
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ void irq_work_queue(struct irq_work *work)
         }
 
         preempt_enable();
+
+        return true;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_work_queue);