3.16.7-ckt10 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

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From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>

commit d525211f9d1be8b523ec7633f080f2116f5ea536 upstream.

Vince reported a watchdog lockup like:

        [<ffffffff8115e114>] perf_tp_event+0xc4/0x210
        [<ffffffff810b4f8a>] perf_trace_lock+0x12a/0x160
        [<ffffffff810b7f10>] lock_release+0x130/0x260
        [<ffffffff816c7474>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x24/0x40
        [<ffffffff8107bb4d>] do_send_sig_info+0x5d/0x80
        [<ffffffff811f69df>] send_sigio_to_task+0x12f/0x1a0
        [<ffffffff811f71ce>] send_sigio+0xae/0x100
        [<ffffffff811f72b7>] kill_fasync+0x97/0xf0
        [<ffffffff8115d0b4>] perf_event_wakeup+0xd4/0xf0
        [<ffffffff8115d103>] perf_pending_event+0x33/0x60
        [<ffffffff8114e3fc>] irq_work_run_list+0x4c/0x80
        [<ffffffff8114e448>] irq_work_run+0x18/0x40
        [<ffffffff810196af>] smp_trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x3f/0xc0
        [<ffffffff816c99bd>] trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x6d/0x80

Which is caused by an irq_work generating new irq_work and therefore
not allowing forward progress.

This happens because processing the perf irq_work triggers another
perf event (tracepoint stuff) which in turn generates an irq_work ad
infinitum.

Avoid this by raising the recursion counter in the irq_work -- which
effectively disables all software events (including tracepoints) from
actually triggering again.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.wea...@maine.edu>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.wea...@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150219170311.gh21...@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriq...@canonical.com>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 5a84ca5165ae..92320781b140 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -4299,6 +4299,13 @@ static void perf_pending_event(struct irq_work *entry)
 {
        struct perf_event *event = container_of(entry,
                        struct perf_event, pending);
+       int rctx;
+
+       rctx = perf_swevent_get_recursion_context();
+       /*
+        * If we 'fail' here, that's OK, it means recursion is already disabled
+        * and we won't recurse 'further'.
+        */
 
        if (event->pending_disable) {
                event->pending_disable = 0;
@@ -4309,6 +4316,9 @@ static void perf_pending_event(struct irq_work *entry)
                event->pending_wakeup = 0;
                perf_event_wakeup(event);
        }
+
+       if (rctx >= 0)
+               perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(rctx);
 }
 
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