perf/core: Fix hardlockup failure caused by perf throttle

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commit e050e3f0a7 ("perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling")
introduces a change in throttling threshold judgment. Before this,
compare hwc->interrupts and max_samples_per_tick, then increase
hwc->interrupts by 1, but this commit reverses order of these two
behaviors, causing the semantics of max_samples_per_tick to change.
In literal sense of "max_samples_per_tick", if hwc->interrupts ==
max_samples_per_tick, it should not be throttled, therefore, the judgment
condition should be changed to "hwc->interrupts > max_samples_per_tick".

In fact, this may cause the hardlockup to fail, The minimum value of
max_samples_per_tick may be 1, in this case, the return value of
__perf_event_account_interrupt function is 1.
As a result, nmi_watchdog gets throttled, which would stop PMU (Use x86
architecture as an example, see x86_pmu_handle_irq).

Fixes: e050e3f0a7 ("perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling")
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227023508.102230-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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Yang Jihong 2023-02-27 10:35:08 +08:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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