Currently, the PT driver zeroes out the status register every time before
starting the event. However, all the writable bits are already taken care
of in pt_handle_status() function, except the new PacketByteCnt field,
which in new versions of PT contains the number of packet bytes written
since the last sync (PSB) packet. Zeroing it out before enabling PT forces
a sync packet to be written. This means that, with the existing code, a
sync packet (PSB and PSBEND, 18 bytes in total) will be generated every
time a PT event is scheduled in.
To avoid these unnecessary syncs and save a WRMSR in the fast path, this
patch changes the default behavior to not clear PacketByteCnt field, so
that the sync packets will be generated with the period specified as
"psb_period" attribute config field. This has little impact on the trace
data as the other packets that are normally sent within PSB+ (between PSB
and PSBEND) have their own generation scenarios which do not depend on the
sync packets.
One exception where we do need to force PSB like this when tracing starts,
so that the decoder has a clear sync point in the trace. For this purpose
we aready have hw::itrace_started flag, which we are currently using to
output PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START. This patch moves setting itrace_started
from perf core to the pmu::start, where it should still be 0 on the very
first run.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438264104-16189-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The previous change documents that cleanup_return_instances()
can't always detect the dead frames, the stack can grow. But
there is one special case which imho worth fixing:
arch_uretprobe_is_alive() can return true when the stack didn't
actually grow, but the next "call" insn uses the already
invalidated frame.
Test-case:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <setjmp.h>
jmp_buf jmp;
int nr = 1024;
void func_2(void)
{
if (--nr == 0)
return;
longjmp(jmp, 1);
}
void func_1(void)
{
setjmp(jmp);
func_2();
}
int main(void)
{
func_1();
return 0;
}
If you ret-probe func_1() and func_2() prepare_uretprobe() hits
the MAX_URETPROBE_DEPTH limit and "return" from func_2() is not
reported.
When we know that the new call is not chained, we can do the
more strict check. In this case "sp" points to the new ret-addr,
so every frame which uses the same "sp" must be dead. The only
complication is that arch_uretprobe_is_alive() needs to know was
it chained or not, so we add the new RP_CHECK_CHAIN_CALL enum
and change prepare_uretprobe() to pass RP_CHECK_CALL only if
!chained.
Note: arch_uretprobe_is_alive() could also re-read *sp and check
if this word is still trampoline_vaddr. This could obviously
improve the logic, but I would like to avoid another
copy_from_user() especially in the case when we can't avoid the
false "alive == T" positives.
Tested-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anton Arapov <arapov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150721134028.GA4786@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Test-case:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <setjmp.h>
jmp_buf jmp;
void func_2(void)
{
longjmp(jmp, 1);
}
void func_1(void)
{
if (setjmp(jmp))
return;
func_2();
printf("ERR!! I am running on the caller's stack\n");
}
int main(void)
{
func_1();
return 0;
}
fails if you probe func_1() and func_2() because
handle_trampoline() assumes that the probed function should must
return and hit the bp installed be prepare_uretprobe(). But in
this case func_2() does not return, so when func_1() returns the
kernel uses the no longer valid return_instance of func_2().
Change handle_trampoline() to unwind ->return_instances until we
know that the next chain is alive or NULL, this ensures that the
current chain is the last we need to report and free.
Alternatively, every return_instance could use unique
trampoline_vaddr, in this case we could use it as a key. And
this could solve the problem with sigaltstack() automatically.
But this approach needs more changes, and it puts the "hard"
limit on MAX_URETPROBE_DEPTH. Plus it can not solve another
problem partially fixed by the next patch.
Note: this change has no effect on !x86, the arch-agnostic
version of arch_uretprobe_is_alive() just returns "true".
TODO: as documented by the previous change, arch_uretprobe_is_alive()
can be fooled by sigaltstack/etc.
Tested-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anton Arapov <arapov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150721134021.GA4773@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add the x86 specific version of arch_uretprobe_is_alive()
helper. It returns true if the stack frame mangled by
prepare_uretprobe() is still on stack. So if it returns false,
we know that the probed function has already returned.
We add the new return_instance->stack member and change the
generic code to initialize it in prepare_uretprobe, but it
should be equally useful for other architectures.
TODO: this assumes that the probed application can't use
multiple stacks (say sigaltstack). We will try to improve
this logic later.
Tested-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anton Arapov <arapov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150721134018.GA4766@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
No functional changes, preparation.
Add the new helper, find_next_ret_chain(), which finds the first
!chained entry and returns its ->next. Yes, it is suboptimal. We
probably want to turn ->chained into ->start_of_this_chain
pointer and avoid another loop. But this needs the boring
changes in dup_utask(), so lets do this later.
Change the main loop in handle_trampoline() to unwind the stack
until ri is equal to the pointer returned by this new helper.
Tested-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anton Arapov <arapov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150721134013.GA4755@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
A recent fix to the shadow timestamp inadvertly broke the running time
accounting.
We must not update the running timestamp if we fail to schedule the
event, the event will not have ran. This can (and did) result in
negative total runtime because the stopped timestamp was before the
running timestamp (we 'started' but never stopped the event -- because
it never really started we didn't have to stop it either).
Reported-and-Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Fixes: 72f669c008 ("perf: Update shadow timestamp before add event")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"This update contains:
- the manual revert of the SYSCALL32 changes which caused a
regression
- a fix for the MPX vma handling
- three fixes for the ioremap 'is ram' checks.
- PAT warning fixes
- a trivial fix for the size calculation of TLB tracepoints
- handle old EFI structures gracefully
This also contains a PAT fix from Jan plus a revert thereof. Toshi
explained why the code is correct"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm/pat: Revert 'Adjust default caching mode translation tables'
x86/asm/entry/32: Revert 'Do not use R9 in SYSCALL32' commit
x86/mm: Fix newly introduced printk format warnings
mm: Fix bugs in region_is_ram()
x86/mm: Remove region_is_ram() call from ioremap
x86/mm: Move warning from __ioremap_check_ram() to the call site
x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: Move the PAT warning and replace WARN() with pr_warn()
x86/mm/pat, drivers/infiniband/ipath: Replace WARN() with pr_warn()
x86/mm/pat: Adjust default caching mode translation tables
x86/fpu: Disable dependent CPU features on "noxsave"
x86/mpx: Do not set ->vm_ops on MPX VMAs
x86/mm: Add parenthesis for TLB tracepoint size calculation
efi: Handle memory error structures produced based on old versions of standard
Pull ftrace fix from Steven Rostedt:
"Back in 3.16 the ftrace code was redesigned and cleaned up to remove
the double iteration list (one for registered ftrace ops, and one for
registered "global" ops), to just use one list. That simplified the
code but also broke the function tracing filtering on pid.
This updates the code to handle the filtering again with the new
logic"
* tag 'trace-v4.2-rc2-fix3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
ftrace: Fix breakage of set_ftrace_pid
Commit 4104d326b6 ("ftrace: Remove global function list and call function
directly") simplified the ftrace code by removing the global_ops list with a
new design. But this cleanup also broke the filtering of PIDs that are added
to the set_ftrace_pid file.
Add back the proper hooks to have pid filtering working once again.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There are already two events for context switches, namely the tracepoint
sched:sched_switch and the software event context_switches.
Unfortunately neither are suitable for use by non-privileged users for
the purpose of synchronizing hardware trace data (e.g. Intel PT) to the
context switch.
Tracepoints are no good at all for non-privileged users because they
need either CAP_SYS_ADMIN or /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid <= -1.
On the other hand, kernel software events need either CAP_SYS_ADMIN or
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid <= 1.
Now many distributions do default perf_event_paranoid to 1 making
context_switches a contender, except it has another problem (which is
also shared with sched:sched_switch) which is that it happens before
perf schedules events out instead of after perf schedules events in.
Whereas a privileged user can see all the events anyway, a
non-privileged user only sees events for their own processes, in other
words they see when their process was scheduled out not when it was
scheduled in. That presents two problems to use the event:
1. the information comes too late, so tools have to look ahead in the
event stream to find out what the current state is
2. if they are unlucky tracing might have stopped before the
context-switches event is recorded.
This new PERF_RECORD_SWITCH event does not have those problems
and it also has a couple of other small advantages.
It is easier to use because it is an auxiliary event (like mmap, comm
and task events) which can be enabled by setting a single bit. It is
smaller than sched:sched_switch and easier to parse.
To make the event useful for privileged users also, if the
context is cpu-wide then the event record will be
PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE which is the same as
PERF_RECORD_SWITCH except it also provides the next or
previous pid/tid.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437471846-26995-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two families of fixes:
- Fix an FPU context related boot crash on newer x86 hardware with
larger context sizes than what most people test. To fix this
without ugly kludges or extensive reverts we had to touch core task
allocator, to allow x86 to determine the task size dynamically, at
boot time.
I've tested it on a number of x86 platforms, and I cross-built it
to a handful of architectures:
(warns) (warns)
testing x86-64: -git: pass ( 0), -tip: pass ( 0)
testing x86-32: -git: pass ( 0), -tip: pass ( 0)
testing arm: -git: pass ( 1359), -tip: pass ( 1359)
testing cris: -git: pass ( 1031), -tip: pass ( 1031)
testing m32r: -git: pass ( 1135), -tip: pass ( 1135)
testing m68k: -git: pass ( 1471), -tip: pass ( 1471)
testing mips: -git: pass ( 1162), -tip: pass ( 1162)
testing mn10300: -git: pass ( 1058), -tip: pass ( 1058)
testing parisc: -git: pass ( 1846), -tip: pass ( 1846)
testing sparc: -git: pass ( 1185), -tip: pass ( 1185)
... so I hope the cross-arch impact 'none', as intended.
(by Dave Hansen)
- Fix various NMI handling related bugs unearthed by the big asm code
rewrite and generally make the NMI code more robust and more
maintainable while at it. These changes are a bit late in the
cycle, I hope they are still acceptable.
(by Andy Lutomirski)"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/fpu, sched: Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT and use it on x86
x86/fpu, sched: Dynamically allocate 'struct fpu'
x86/entry/64, x86/nmi/64: Add CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY NMI testing code
x86/nmi/64: Make the "NMI executing" variable more consistent
x86/nmi/64: Minor asm simplification
x86/nmi/64: Use DF to avoid userspace RSP confusing nested NMI detection
x86/nmi/64: Reorder nested NMI checks
x86/nmi/64: Improve nested NMI comments
x86/nmi/64: Switch stacks on userspace NMI entry
x86/nmi/64: Remove asm code that saves CR2
x86/nmi: Enable nested do_nmi() handling for 64-bit kernels
