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Linus Torvalds
e0972916e8 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Features:

   - Add "uretprobes" - an optimization to uprobes, like kretprobes are
     an optimization to kprobes.  "perf probe -x file sym%return" now
     works like kretprobes.  By Oleg Nesterov.

   - Introduce per core aggregation in 'perf stat', from Stephane
     Eranian.

   - Add memory profiling via PEBS, from Stephane Eranian.

   - Event group view for 'annotate' in --stdio, --tui and --gtk, from
     Namhyung Kim.

   - Add support for AMD NB and L2I "uncore" counters, by Jacob Shin.

   - Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore support, by Zheng Yan

   - IBM zEnterprise EC12 oprofile support patchlet from Robert Richter.

   - Add perf test entries for checking breakpoint overflow signal
     handler issues, from Jiri Olsa.

   - Add perf test entry for for checking number of EXIT events, from
     Namhyung Kim.

   - Add perf test entries for checking --cpu in record and stat, from
     Jiri Olsa.

   - Introduce perf stat --repeat forever, from Frederik Deweerdt.

   - Add --no-demangle to report/top, from Namhyung Kim.

   - PowerPC fixes plus a couple of cleanups/optimizations in uprobes
     and trace_uprobes, by Oleg Nesterov.

  Various fixes and refactorings:

   - Fix dependency of the python binding wrt libtraceevent, from
     Naohiro Aota.

   - Simplify some perf_evlist methods and to allow 'stat' to share code
     with 'record' and 'trace', by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

   - Remove dead code in related to libtraceevent integration, from
     Namhyung Kim.

   - Revert "perf sched: Handle PERF_RECORD_EXIT events" to get 'perf
     sched lat' back working, by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

   - We don't use Newt anymore, just plain libslang, by Arnaldo Carvalho
     de Melo.

   - Kill a bunch of die() calls, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Fix build on non-glibc systems due to libio.h absence, from Cody P
     Schafer.

   - Remove some perf_session and tracing dead code, from David Ahern.

   - Honor parallel jobs, fix from Borislav Petkov

   - Introduce tools/lib/lk library, initially just removing duplication
     among tools/perf and tools/vm.  from Borislav Petkov

  ... and many more I missed to list, see the shortlog and git log for
  more details."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (136 commits)
  perf/x86/intel/P4: Robistify P4 PMU types
  perf/x86/amd: Fix AMD NB and L2I "uncore" support
  perf/x86/amd: Remove old-style NB counter support from perf_event_amd.c
  perf/x86: Check all MSRs before passing hw check
  perf/x86/amd: Add support for AMD NB and L2I "uncore" counters
  perf/x86/intel: Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore support
  perf/x86/intel: Fix SNB-EP CBO and PCU uncore PMU filter management
  perf/x86: Avoid kfree() in CPU_{STARTING,DYING}
  uprobes/perf: Avoid perf_trace_buf_prepare/submit if ->perf_events is empty
  uprobes/tracing: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
  uprobes/tracing: Change create_trace_uprobe() to support uretprobes
  uprobes/tracing: Make seq_printf() code uretprobe-friendly
  uprobes/tracing: Make register_uprobe_event() paths uretprobe-friendly
  uprobes/tracing: Make uprobe_{trace,perf}_print() uretprobe-friendly
  uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_ret_probe() and uretprobe_dispatcher()
  uprobes/tracing: Introduce uprobe_{trace,perf}_print() helpers
  uprobes/tracing: Generalize struct uprobe_trace_entry_head
  uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless local_save_flags/preempt_count calls
  uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless seq_print_ip_sym() call
  uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless task_pt_regs() calls
  ...
2013-04-30 07:41:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
191a712090 Merge branch 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - Fixes and a lot of cleanups.  Locking cleanup is finally complete.
   cgroup_mutex is no longer exposed to individual controlelrs which
   used to cause nasty deadlock issues.  Li fixed and cleaned up quite a
   bit including long standing ones like racy cgroup_path().

 - device cgroup now supports proper hierarchy thanks to Aristeu.

 - perf_event cgroup now supports proper hierarchy.

 - A new mount option "__DEVEL__sane_behavior" is added.  As indicated
   by the name, this option is to be used for development only at this
   point and generates a warning message when used.  Unfortunately,
   cgroup interface currently has too many brekages and inconsistencies
   to implement a consistent and unified hierarchy on top.  The new flag
   is used to collect the behavior changes which are necessary to
   implement consistent unified hierarchy.  It's likely that this flag
   won't be used verbatim when it becomes ready but will be enabled
   implicitly along with unified hierarchy.

   The option currently disables some of broken behaviors in cgroup core
   and also .use_hierarchy switch in memcg (will be routed through -mm),
   which can be used to make very unusual hierarchy where nesting is
   partially honored.  It will also be used to implement hierarchy
   support for blk-throttle which would be impossible otherwise without
   introducing a full separate set of control knobs.

   This is essentially versioning of interface which isn't very nice but
   at this point I can't see any other options which would allow keeping
   the interface the same while moving towards hierarchy behavior which
   is at least somewhat sane.  The planned unified hierarchy is likely
   to require some level of adaptation from userland anyway, so I think
   it'd be best to take the chance and update the interface such that
   it's supportable in the long term.

   Maintaining the existing interface does complicate cgroup core but
   shouldn't put too much strain on individual controllers and I think
   it'd be manageable for the foreseeable future.  Maybe we'll be able
   to drop it in a decade.

Fix up conflicts (including a semantic one adding a new #include to ppc
that was uncovered by header the file changes) as per Tejun.

* 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (45 commits)
  cpuset: fix compile warning when CONFIG_SMP=n
  cpuset: fix cpu hotplug vs rebuild_sched_domains() race
  cpuset: use rebuild_sched_domains() in cpuset_hotplug_workfn()
  cgroup: restore the call to eventfd->poll()
  cgroup: fix use-after-free when umounting cgroupfs
  cgroup: fix broken file xattrs
  devcg: remove parent_cgroup.
  memcg: force use_hierarchy if sane_behavior
  cgroup: remove cgrp->top_cgroup
  cgroup: introduce sane_behavior mount option
  move cgroupfs_root to include/linux/cgroup.h
  cgroup: convert cgroupfs_root flag bits to masks and add CGRP_ prefix
  cgroup: make cgroup_path() not print double slashes
  Revert "cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys."
  perf: make perf_event cgroup hierarchical
  cgroup: implement cgroup_is_descendant()
  cgroup: make sure parent won't be destroyed before its children
  cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys.
  devcg: remove broken_hierarchy tag
  cgroup: remove cgroup_lock_is_held()
  ...
2013-04-29 19:14:20 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
c79aa0d965 events: Protect access via task_subsys_state_check()
The following RCU splat indicates lack of RCU protection:

[  953.267649] ===============================
[  953.267652] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[  953.267657] 3.9.0-0.rc6.git2.4.fc19.ppc64p7 #1 Not tainted
[  953.267661] -------------------------------
[  953.267664] include/linux/cgroup.h:534 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[  953.267669]
[  953.267669] other info that might help us debug this:
[  953.267669]
[  953.267675]
[  953.267675] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[  953.267680] 1 lock held by glxgears/1289:
[  953.267683]  #0:  (&sig->cred_guard_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c00000000027f884>] .prepare_bprm_creds+0x34/0xa0
[  953.267700]
[  953.267700] stack backtrace:
[  953.267704] Call Trace:
[  953.267709] [c0000001f0d1b6e0] [c000000000016e30] .show_stack+0x130/0x200 (unreliable)
[  953.267717] [c0000001f0d1b7b0] [c0000000001267f8] .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x138/0x180
[  953.267724] [c0000001f0d1b840] [c0000000001d43a4] .perf_event_comm+0x4c4/0x690
[  953.267731] [c0000001f0d1b950] [c00000000027f6e4] .set_task_comm+0x84/0x1f0
[  953.267737] [c0000001f0d1b9f0] [c000000000280414] .setup_new_exec+0x94/0x220
[  953.267744] [c0000001f0d1ba70] [c0000000002f665c] .load_elf_binary+0x58c/0x19b0
...

This commit therefore adds the required RCU read-side critical
section to perf_event_comm().

Reported-by: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130419190124.GA8638@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gusld@br.ibm.com>
2013-04-21 11:21:39 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
73e21ce28d Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c

Merge in the latest fixes before applying new patches, resolve the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-21 10:57:33 +02:00
Tommi Rantala
8176cced70 perf: Treat attr.config as u64 in perf_swevent_init()
Trinity discovered that we fail to check all 64 bits of
attr.config passed by user space, resulting to out-of-bounds
access of the perf_swevent_enabled array in
sw_perf_event_destroy().

Introduced in commit b0a873ebb ("perf: Register PMU
implementations").

Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: davej@redhat.com
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365882554-30259-1-git-send-email-tt.rantala@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-15 11:42:12 +02:00
Anton Arapov
a0d60aef4b uretprobes: Remove -ENOSYS as return probes implemented
Enclose return probes implementation.

Signed-off-by: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2013-04-13 15:31:58 +02:00
Anton Arapov
ded49c5530 uretprobes: Limit the depth of return probe nestedness
Unlike the kretprobes we can't trust userspace, thus must have
protection from user space attacks. User-space have  "unlimited"
stack, and this patch limits the return probes nestedness as a
simple remedy for it.

Note that this implementation leaks return_instance on siglongjmp
until exit()/exec().

The intention is to have KISS and bare minimum solution for the
initial implementation in order to not complicate the uretprobes
code.

In the future we may come up with more sophisticated solution that
remove this depth limitation. It is not easy task and lays beyond
this patchset.

Signed-off-by: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2013-04-13 15:31:58 +02:00
Anton Arapov
fec8898d86 uretprobes: Return probe exit, invoke handlers
Uretprobe handlers are invoked when the trampoline is hit, on completion
the trampoline is replaced with the saved return address and the uretprobe
instance deleted.

TODO: handle_trampoline() assumes that ->return_instances is always valid.
We should teach it to handle longjmp() which can invalidate the pending
return_instance's. This is nontrivial, we will try to do this in a separate
series.

Signed-off-by: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2013-04-13 15:31:57 +02:00
Anton Arapov
0dfd0eb8e4 uretprobes: Return probe entry, prepare_uretprobe()
When a uprobe with return probe consumer is hit, prepare_uretprobe()
function is invoked. It creates return_instance, hijacks return address
and replaces it with the trampoline.

* Return instances are kept as stack per uprobed task.
* Return instance is chained, when the original return address is
  trampoline's page vaddr (e.g. recursive call of the probed function).

Signed-off-by: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2013-04-13 15:31:57 +02:00
Anton Arapov
e78aebfd27 uretprobes: Reserve the first slot in xol_vma for trampoline
Allocate trampoline page, as the very first one in uprobed
task xol area, and fill it with breakpoint opcode.

Also introduce get_trampoline_vaddr() helper, to wrap the
trampoline address extraction from area->vaddr. That removes
confusion and eases the debug experience in case ->vaddr
notion will be changed.

Signed-off-by: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2013-04-13 15:31:54 +02:00
Anton Arapov
ea024870cf uretprobes: Introduce uprobe_consumer->ret_handler()
Enclose return probes implementation, introduce ->ret_handler() and update
existing code to rely on ->handler() *and* ->ret_handler() for uprobe and
uretprobe respectively.

Signed-off-by: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2013-04-13 15:31:53 +02:00
Wei Yongjun
c481420248 perf: Fix error return code
Fix to return -ENOMEM in the allocation error case instead of 0
(if pmu_bus_running == 1), as done elsewhere in this function.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAPgLHd8j_fWcgqe%3DKLWjpBj%2B%3Do0Pw6Z-SEq%3DNTPU08c2w1tngQ@mail.gmail.com
[ Tweaked the error code setting placement and the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-12 06:33:56 +02:00
Tejun Heo
ef824fa129 perf: make perf_event cgroup hierarchical
perf_event is one of a couple remaining cgroup controllers with broken
hierarchy support.  Converting it to support hierarchy is almost
trivial.  The only thing necessary is to consider a task belonging to
a descendant cgroup as a match.  IOW, if the cgroup of the currently
executing task (@cpuctx->cgrp) equals or is a descendant of the
event's cgroup (@event->cgrp), then the event should be enabled.

Implement hierarchy support and remove .broken_hierarchy tag along
with the incorrect comment on what needs to be done for hierarchy
support.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
2013-04-10 11:07:16 -07:00
Chen Gang
c97847d2f0 perf: Fix strncpy() use, always make sure it's NUL terminated
For NUL terminated string, always make sure that there's '\0' at the end.

In our case we need a return value, so still use strncpy() and
fix up the tail explicitly.

(strlcpy() returns the size, not the pointer)

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51623E0B.7070101@asianux.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-08 13:26:55 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
3f47107c5c uprobes: Change write_opcode() to use copy_*page()
Change write_opcode() to use copy_highpage() + copy_to_page()
and simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-04-04 13:57:06 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
5669ccee21 uprobes: Introduce copy_to_page()
Extract the kmap_atomic/memcpy/kunmap_atomic code from
xol_get_insn_slot() into the new simple helper, copy_to_page().
It will have more users soon.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-04-04 13:57:05 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
98763a1bb1 uprobes: Kill the unnecesary filp != NULL check in __copy_insn()
__copy_insn(filp) can only be called after valid_vma() returns T,
vma->vm_file passed as "filp" can not be NULL.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-04-04 13:57:05 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
2edb7b5574 uprobes: Change __copy_insn() to use copy_from_page()
Change __copy_insn() to use copy_from_page() and simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-04-04 13:57:05 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
ab0d805c7b uprobes: Turn copy_opcode() into copy_from_page()
No functional changes. Rename copy_opcode() into copy_from_page() and
add the new "int len" argument to make it more more generic for the
new users.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-04-04 13:57:04 +02:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
0908ad6e56 uprobes: Add trap variant helper
Some architectures like powerpc have multiple variants of the trap
instruction. Introduce an additional helper is_trap_insn() for run-time
handling of non-uprobe traps on such architectures.

While there, change is_swbp_at_addr() to is_trap_at_addr() for reading
clarity.

With this change, the uprobe registration path will supercede any trap
instruction inserted at the requested location, while taking care of
delivering the SIGTRAP for cases where the trap notification came in
for an address without a uprobe. See [1] for a more detailed explanation.

[1] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2013-March/104771.html

This change was suggested by Oleg Nesterov.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2013-04-04 13:57:04 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
f281769e81 uprobes: Use file_inode()
Cleanup. Now that we have f_inode/file_inode() we can use it instead
of vm_file->f_mapping->host.

This should not make any difference for uprobes, but in theory this
change is more correct. We use this inode as a key, to compare it
with uprobe->inode set by uprobe_register(inode), and the caller uses
d_inode.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-04-04 13:57:03 +02:00
Stephane Eranian
2fe85427e3 perf: Add PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA to RECORD_MMAP
Type of mapping was lost and made it hard for a tool
to distinguish code vs. data mmaps. Perf has the ability
to distinguish the two.

Use a bit in the header->misc bitmask to keep track of
the mmap type. If PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA is set then
the mapping is not executable (!VM_EXEC). If not set, then
the mapping is executable.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-16-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-04-01 12:19:02 -03:00
Stephane Eranian
d6be9ad6c9 perf: Add generic memory sampling interface
This patch adds PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC.

PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC collects the data source, i.e., where
did the data associated with the sampled instruction
come from. Information is stored in a perf_mem_data_src
structure. It contains opcode, mem level, tlb, snoop,
lock information, subject to availability in hardware.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-8-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-04-01 12:15:59 -03:00
Andi Kleen
c3feedf2aa perf/core: Add weighted samples
For some events it's useful to weight sample with a hardware
provided number. This expresses how expensive the action the
sample represent was.  This allows the profiler to scale
the samples to be more informative to the programmer.

There is already the period which is used similarly, but it
means something different, so I chose to not overload it.
Instead a new sample type for WEIGHT is added.

Can be used for multiple things. Initially it is used for TSX
abort costs and profiling by memory latencies (so to make
expensive load appear higher up in the histograms). The concept
is quite generic and can be extended to many other kinds of
events or architectures, as long as the hardware provides
suitable auxillary values. In principle it could be also used
for software tracepoints.

This adds the generic glue. A new optional sample format for a
64-bit weight value.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-5-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-04-01 12:15:44 -03:00
Stephane Eranian
dd9c086d9f perf: Fix ring_buffer perf_output_space() boundary calculation
This patch fixes a flaw in perf_output_space(). In case the size
of the space needed is bigger than the actual buffer size, there
may be situations where the function would return true (i.e.,
there is space) when it should not. head > offset due to
rounding of the masking logic.

The problem can be tested by activating BTS on Intel processors.
A BTS record can be as big as 16 pages. The following command
fails:

  $ perf record -m 4 -c 1 -e branches:u my_test_program

You will get a buffer corruption with this. Perf report won't be
able to parse the perf.data.

The fix is to first check that the requested space is smaller
than the buffer size. If so, then the masking logic will work
fine. If not, then there is no chance the record can be saved
and it will be gracefully handled by upper code layers.

[ In v2, we also make the logic for the writable more explicit by
  renaming it to rb->overwrite because it tells whether or not the
  buffer can overwrite its tail (suggested by PeterZ). ]

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130318133327.GA3056@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-21 12:04:35 +01:00