Vince reported a crash in the BTS flush code when touching the callchain
data, which was supposed to be initialized as an 'early' callchain,
but intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer() does not do that:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
...
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer+0x151/0x220
? intel_get_event_constraints+0x219/0x360
? perf_assign_events+0xe2/0x2a0
? select_idle_sibling+0x22/0x3a0
? __update_load_avg_se+0x1ec/0x270
? enqueue_task_fair+0x377/0xdd0
? cpumask_next_and+0x19/0x20
? load_balance+0x134/0x950
? check_preempt_curr+0x7a/0x90
? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x19/0x140
x86_pmu_stop+0x3b/0x90
x86_pmu_del+0x57/0x160
event_sched_out.isra.106+0x81/0x170
group_sched_out.part.108+0x51/0xc0
__perf_event_disable+0x7f/0x160
event_function+0x8c/0xd0
remote_function+0x3c/0x50
flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x35/0xe0
smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x3a/0xd0
call_function_single_interrupt+0xf/0x20
</IRQ>
It was triggered by fuzzer but can be easily reproduced by:
# perf record -e cpu/branch-instructions/pu -g -c 1
Peter suggested not to allow branch tracing for precise events:
> Now arguably, this is really stupid behaviour. Who in his right mind
> wants callchain output on BTS entries. And even if they do, BTS +
> precise_ip is nonsensical.
>
> So in my mind disallowing precise_ip on BTS would be the simplest fix.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 6cbc304f2f ("perf/x86/intel: Fix unwind errors from PEBS entries (mk-II)")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181121101612.16272-3-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 cpu updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Add support for the "Dhyana" x86 CPUs by Hygon: these are licensed
based on the AMD Zen architecture, and are built and sold in China,
for domestic datacenter use. The code is pretty close to AMD
support, mostly with a few quirks and enumeration differences. (Pu
Wen)
- Enable CPUID support on Cyrix 6x86/6x86L processors"
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tools/cpupower: Add Hygon Dhyana support
cpufreq: Add Hygon Dhyana support
ACPI: Add Hygon Dhyana support
x86/xen: Add Hygon Dhyana support to Xen
x86/kvm: Add Hygon Dhyana support to KVM
x86/mce: Add Hygon Dhyana support to the MCA infrastructure
x86/bugs: Add Hygon Dhyana to the respective mitigation machinery
x86/apic: Add Hygon Dhyana support
x86/pci, x86/amd_nb: Add Hygon Dhyana support to PCI and northbridge
x86/amd_nb: Check vendor in AMD-only functions
x86/alternative: Init ideal_nops for Hygon Dhyana
x86/events: Add Hygon Dhyana support to PMU infrastructure
x86/smpboot: Do not use BSP INIT delay and MWAIT to idle on Dhyana
x86/cpu/mtrr: Support TOP_MEM2 and get MTRR number
x86/cpu: Get cache info and setup cache cpumap for Hygon Dhyana
x86/cpu: Create Hygon Dhyana architecture support file
x86/CPU: Change query logic so CPUID is enabled before testing
x86/CPU: Use correct macros for Cyrix calls
Going primarily by:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Atom_microprocessors
with additional information gleaned from other related pages; notably:
- Bonnell shrink was called Saltwell
- Moorefield is the Merriefield refresh which makes it Airmont
The general naming scheme is: FAM6_ATOM_UARCH_SOCTYPE
for i in `git grep -l FAM6_ATOM` ; do
sed -i -e 's/ATOM_PINEVIEW/ATOM_BONNELL/g' \
-e 's/ATOM_LINCROFT/ATOM_BONNELL_MID/' \
-e 's/ATOM_PENWELL/ATOM_SALTWELL_MID/g' \
-e 's/ATOM_CLOVERVIEW/ATOM_SALTWELL_TABLET/g' \
-e 's/ATOM_CEDARVIEW/ATOM_SALTWELL/g' \
-e 's/ATOM_SILVERMONT1/ATOM_SILVERMONT/g' \
-e 's/ATOM_SILVERMONT2/ATOM_SILVERMONT_X/g' \
-e 's/ATOM_MERRIFIELD/ATOM_SILVERMONT_MID/g' \
-e 's/ATOM_MOOREFIELD/ATOM_AIRMONT_MID/g' \
-e 's/ATOM_DENVERTON/ATOM_GOLDMONT_X/g' \
-e 's/ATOM_GEMINI_LAKE/ATOM_GOLDMONT_PLUS/g' ${i}
done
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Implements counter freezing for Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and
newer). This allows to speed up the PMI handler by avoiding
unnecessary MSR writes and make it more accurate.
The Arch Perfmon v4 PMI handler is substantially different than
the older PMI handler.
Differences to the old handler:
- It relies on counter freezing, which eliminates several MSR
writes from the PMI handler and lowers the overhead significantly.
It makes the PMI handler more accurate, as all counters get
frozen atomically as soon as any counter overflows. So there is
much less counting of the PMI handler itself.
With the freezing we don't need to disable or enable counters or
PEBS. Only BTS which does not support auto-freezing still needs to
be explicitly managed.
- The PMU acking is done at the end, not the beginning.
This makes it possible to avoid manual enabling/disabling
of the PMU, instead we just rely on the freezing/acking.
- The APIC is acked before reenabling the PMU, which avoids
problems with LBRs occasionally not getting unfreezed on Skylake.
- Looping is only needed to workaround a corner case which several PMIs
are very close to each other. For common cases, the counters are freezed
during PMI handler. It doesn't need to do re-check.
This patch:
- Adds code to enable v4 counter freezing
- Fork <=v3 and >=v4 PMI handlers into separate functions.
- Add kernel parameter to disable counter freezing. It took some time to
debug counter freezing, so in case there are new problems we added an
option to turn it off. Would not expect this to be used until there
are new bugs.
- Only for big core. The patch for small core will be posted later
separately.
Performance:
When profiling a kernel build on Kabylake with different perf options,
measuring the length of all NMI handlers using the nmi handler
trace point:
V3 is without counter freezing.
V4 is with counter freezing.
The value is the average cost of the PMI handler.
(lower is better)
perf options ` V3(ns) V4(ns) delta
-c 100000 1088 894 -18%
-g -c 100000 1862 1646 -12%
--call-graph lbr -c 100000 3649 3367 -8%
--c.g. dwarf -c 100000 2248 1982 -12%
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533712328-2834-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Problem: perf did not show branch predicted/mispredicted bit in brstack.
Output of perf -F brstack for profile collected
Before:
0x4fdbcd/0x4fdc03/-/-/-/0
0x45f4c1/0x4fdba0/-/-/-/0
0x45f544/0x45f4bb/-/-/-/0
0x45f555/0x45f53c/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc24b/0x45f555/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc22e/0x7f66901cc23d/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1ff/0x7f66901cc20f/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1e8/0x7f66901cc1fc/-/-/-/0
After:
0x4fdbcd/0x4fdc03/P/-/-/0
0x45f4c1/0x4fdba0/P/-/-/0
0x45f544/0x45f4bb/P/-/-/0
0x45f555/0x45f53c/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc24b/0x45f555/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc22e/0x7f66901cc23d/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1ff/0x7f66901cc20f/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1e8/0x7f66901cc1fc/P/-/-/0
Cause:
As mentioned in Software Development Manual vol 3, 17.4.8.1,
IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES[5:0] indicates the format of the address that is
stored in the LBR stack. Knights Landing reports 1 (LBR_FORMAT_LIP) as
its format. Despite that, registers containing FROM address of the branch,
do have MISPREDICT bit but because of the format indicated in
IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES[5:0], LBR did not read MISPREDICT bit.
Solution:
Teach LBR about above Knights Landing quirk and make it read MISPREDICT bit.
Signed-off-by: Jacek Tomaka <jacek.tomaka@poczta.fm>
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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802013830.10600-1-jacekt@dugeo.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Jiri Olsa
Peter Zijlstra
Kan Liang
Jordan Borgner
Linus Torvalds
Jiri Olsa
Andi Kleen
Ingo Molnar
Natarajan, Janakarajan
Masayoshi Mizuma
Reinette Chatre
Pu Wen
Zubin Mithra
Jacek Tomaka
Andy Lutomirski