ptwrite is an Intel x86 instruction that writes arbitrary values into an
Intel PT trace. It is not supported on all hardware, so provide an
alternative that makes use of TNT packets to convey the payload data.
TNT packets encode Taken/Not-taken conditional branch information, so
taking branches based on the payload value will encode the value into
the TNT packet. Refer to the changes to the documentation file
perf-intel-pt.txt in this patch for an example.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220509152400.376613-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
As of Intel SDM (https://www.intel.com/sdm) version 076, there is a new
Intel PT feature called Event Trace which requires 2 new packets CFE
(Control Flow Event) and EVD (Event Data).
Each Event Trace event is represented by a CFE packet that is preceded
by zero or more EVD packets. It may be bound to a following FUP (Flow
Update) packet that provides the IP.
Event Trace exposes details about asynchronous events. The CFE packet
contains a type field to identify one of the following:
1 INTR interrupt, fault, exception, NMI
2 IRET interrupt return
3 SMI system management interrupt
4 RSM resume from system management mode
5 SIPI startup interprocessor interrupt
6 INIT INIT signal
7 VMENTRY VM-Entry
8 VMEXIT VM-Entry
9 VMEXIT_INTR VM-Exit due to interrupt
10 SHUTDOWN Shutdown
For more details, refer to the Intel SDM, Intel Processor Trace chapter.
Add processing to the decoder for the new packets.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220124084201.2699795-8-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
As of Intel SDM (https://www.intel.com/sdm) version 076, there is a new
Intel PT feature called Event Trace which requires 2 new packets CFE and
EVD. Add them to the packet decoder and packet decoder test.
Committer notes:
I got the "Intel® 64 and IA-32 architectures software developer’s manual
combined volumes: 1, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, and 4" PDF at:
https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/671200
And these new packets are described in page 3951:
<quote>
32.2.4
Event Trace is a capability that exposes details about the asynchronous
events, when they are generated, and when their corresponding software
event handler completes execution. These include:
o Interrupts, including NMI and SMI, including the interrupt vector when
defined.
o Faults, exceptions including the fault vector.
— Page faults additionally include the page fault address, when in context.
o Event handler returns, including IRET and RSM.
o VM exits and VM entries.¹
— VM exits include the values written to the “exit reason” and “exit qualification” VMCS fields.
INIT and SIPI events.
o TSX aborts, including the abort status returned for the RTM instructions.
o Shutdown.
Additionally, it provides indication of the status of the Interrupt Flag
(IF), to indicate when interrupts are masked.
</quote>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220124084201.2699795-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
An overflow (OVF packet) is treated as an error because it represents a
loss of trace data, but there is no loss of synchronization, so the packet
state should be INTEL_PT_STATE_IN_SYNC not INTEL_PT_STATE_ERR_RESYNC.
To support that, some additional variables must be reset, and the FUP
packet that may follow OVF is treated as an FUP event.
Fixes: f4aa081949 ("perf tools: Add Intel PT decoder")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.15+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211210162303.2288710-5-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To pick up some tools/perf/ patches that went via tip/perf/core, such
as:
tools/perf: Add mem_hops field in perf_mem_data_src structure
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Normally, for cycle-acccurate mode, IPC values are an exact number of
instructions and cycles. Due to the granularity of timestamps, that happens
only when a CYC packet correlates to the event.
Support the itrace 'A' option, to use instead, the number of cycles
associated with the current timestamp. This provides IPC information for
every change of timestamp, but at the expense of accuracy. Due to the
granularity of timestamps, the actual number of cycles increases even
though the cycles reported does not. The number of instructions is known,
but if IPC is reported, cycles can be too low and so IPC is too high. Note
that inaccuracy decreases as the period of sampling increases i.e. if the
number of cycles is too low by a small amount, that becomes less
significant if the number of cycles is large.
Furthermore, it can be used in conjunction with dlfilter-show-cycles.so
to provide higher granularity cycle information.
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211027080334.365596-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Use get_unaligned() instead of memcpy() to access potentially unaligned
memory, which, when accessed through a pointer, leads to undefined
behavior. get_unaligned() describes much better what is happening there
anyway even if memcpy() does the job.
In addition, since perf tool builds with -Werror, it would fire with:
util/intel-pt-decoder/../../../arch/x86/lib/insn.c: In function '__insn_get_emulate_prefix':
tools/include/../include/asm-generic/unaligned.h:10:15: error: packed attribute is unnecessary [-Werror=packed]
10 | const struct { type x; } __packed *__pptr = (typeof(__pptr))(ptr); \
because -Werror=packed would complain if the packed attribute would have
no effect on the layout of the structure.
In this case, that is intentional so disable the warning only for that
compilation unit.
That part is Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
No functional changes.
Fixes: 5ba1071f75 ("x86/insn, tools/x86: Fix undefined behavior due to potential unaligned accesses")
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YVSsIkj9Z29TyUjE@zn.tnic
The Intel PT decoder limits the number of unconditional branches (e.g.
jmps) decoded without consuming any trace packets. Generally, a loop
needs a conditional branch which generates a TNT packet, whereas a "ret"
instruction will generate a TIP or TNT packet. So exceeding the limit is
assumed to be a never-ending loop, which can happen if there has been a
decoding error putting the decoder at the wrong place in the code.
Up until now, the limit of 10000 has been enough but some analytic
purposes have been reported to exceed that.
Increase the limit to 100000, and make it configurable via perf config
intel-pt.max-loops. Also amend the "Never-ending loop" message to
mention the configuration entry.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210701175132.3977-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
VM Time Correlation means determining if each TSC packet belongs to a VM
Guest or the Host. When the trace is "in context" that is indicated by
the NR flag in the PIP packet. However, when tracing kernel-only,
userspace only, or using address filters, the trace can be "out of context"
in which case timing packets are produced but not PIP packets.
Nevertheless, it is very unlikely the VM Guest timestamps will be in
the same range as the Host timestamps. Host time ranges are established
by a starting side-band event timestamp, and subsequently by the buffer
timestamp, written when the buffer is copied to the perf.data file.
This patch supports updating the VM Guest timestamp packets, assuming an
unchanging (during perf record) VMX TSC Offset and no VMX TSC scaling.
Furthermore, it is possible to determine what the VMX TSC Offset is,
although not necessarily at the start. The dry-run option lets that
information be determined so that the user can pass it to a subsequent
run. For more detail, refer to the example in the Intel PT documentation
in a subsequent patch.
VM Time Correlation is also performed on the TSC value in PEBs-via-PT
records.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210430070309.17624-12-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Even when VMX TSC Offset is not changing (during perf record), different
virtual machines can have different TSC Offsets. There is a Virtual Machine
Control Structure (VMCS) for each virtual CPU, the address of which is
reported to Intel PT in the VMCS packet. We do not know which VMCS belongs
to which virtual machine, so use a tree to keep track of VMCS information.
Then the decoder will be able to use the current VMCS value to look up the
current TSC Offset.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210430070309.17624-9-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
