linux_dsm_epyc7002/tools/perf
Stephane Eranian 4ec8d98489 perf record: Fix priv level with branch sampling for paranoid=2
Now that the default perf_events paranoid level is set to 2, a regular
user cannot monitor kernel level activity anymore. As such, with the
following cmdline:

  $ perf record -e cycles date

The perf tool first tries cycles:uk but then falls back to cycles:u as
can be seen in the perf report --header-only output:

  cmdline : /export/hda3/tmp/perf.tip record -e cycles ls
  event : name = cycles:u, , id = { 436186, ... }

This is okay as long as there is way to learn the priv level was changed
internally by the tool.

But consider a similar example:

  $ perf record -b -e cycles date
  Error:
  You may not have permission to collect stats.

Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid,
which controls use of the performance events system by
unprivileged users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN).
...

Why is that treated differently given that the branch sampling inherits the
priv level of the first event in this case, i.e., cycles:u? It turns out
that the branch sampling code is more picky and also checks exclude_hv.

In the fallback path, perf record is setting exclude_kernel = 1, but it
does not change exclude_hv. This does not seem to match the restriction
imposed by paranoid = 2.

This patch fixes the problem by forcing exclude_hv = 1 in the fallback
for paranoid=2. With this in place:

  $ perf record -b -e cycles date
    cmdline : /export/hda3/tmp/perf.tip record -b -e cycles ls
    event : name = cycles:u, , id = { 436847, ... }

And the command succeeds as expected.

V2 fix a white space.

Committer testing:

After aplying the patch we get:

  [acme@quaco ~]$ perf record -b -e cycles date
  WARNING: Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) are restricted,
  check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict and /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.

  Samples in kernel functions may not be resolved if a suitable vmlinux
  file is not found in the buildid cache or in the vmlinux path.

  Samples in kernel modules won't be resolved at all.

  If some relocation was applied (e.g. kexec) symbols may be misresolved
  even with a suitable vmlinux or kallsyms file.

  Mon 23 Sep 2019 11:00:59 AM -03
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.005 MB perf.data (14 samples) ]
  [acme@quaco ~]$ perf evlist -v
  cycles:u: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD|BRANCH_STACK, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, exclude_kernel: 1, exclude_hv: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1, branch_sample_type: ANY
  [acme@quaco ~]$

That warning about restricted kernel maps will be suppressed in a follow
up patch, as perf_event_attr.exclude_kernel is set, i.e. no samples for
the kernel will be taken and thus no need for those maps.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190920230356.41420-1-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-09-23 11:15:46 -03:00
..
arch perf/core improvements and fixes: 2019-09-20 18:16:42 +02:00
bench perf env: Remove needless cpumap.h header 2019-09-20 09:19:21 -03:00
Documentation perf report: Add --switch-on/--switch-off events 2019-08-16 12:14:33 -03:00
examples/bpf perf augmented_raw_syscalls: Reduce perf_event_output() boilerplate 2019-08-26 11:58:29 -03:00
include/bpf perf include bpf: Add bpf_tail_call() prototype 2019-07-29 18:34:40 -03:00
jvmti perf jvmti: Link against tools/lib/string.o to have weak strlcpy() 2019-09-20 09:18:45 -03:00
lib libperf: Adopt perf_cpu_map__max() function 2019-09-10 14:33:32 +01:00
pmu-events perf tools: Add PMU event JSON files for ARM Cortex-A76 and, Neoverse N1. 2019-09-20 09:19:20 -03:00
python treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 407 2019-06-05 17:37:14 +02:00
scripts perf tools: Remove perf.h from source files not needing it 2019-08-29 17:38:32 -03:00
tests perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
trace perf trace beauty ioctl: Fix off-by-one error in cmd->string table 2019-08-26 11:58:29 -03:00
ui perf tools: Move event synthesizing routines to separate header 2019-09-20 09:19:22 -03:00
util perf record: Fix priv level with branch sampling for paranoid=2 2019-09-23 11:15:46 -03:00
.gitignore perf: Update .gitignore file 2019-08-31 22:27:52 -03:00
Build perf tools: Rename build libperf to perf 2019-02-14 15:18:08 -03:00
builtin-annotate.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-bench.c perf tools: Remove perf.h from source files not needing it 2019-08-29 17:38:32 -03:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-c2c.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-config.c perf tools: Remove util.h from where it is not needed 2019-09-20 09:19:20 -03:00
builtin-data.c perf debug: Remove needless include directives from debug.h 2019-08-31 19:10:19 -03:00
builtin-diff.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-evlist.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-ftrace.c perf auxtrace: Uninline functions that touch perf_session 2019-08-31 22:24:10 -03:00
builtin-help.c perf debug: Remove needless include directives from debug.h 2019-08-31 19:10:19 -03:00
builtin-inject.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-kallsyms.c perf dsos: Move the dsos struct and its methods to separate source files 2019-08-31 22:24:10 -03:00
builtin-kmem.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-kvm.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-list.c perf tools: Remove needless evlist.h include directives 2019-08-31 22:24:10 -03:00
builtin-lock.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-mem.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-probe.c perf probe: No need for symbol.h, symbol_conf is enough 2019-08-31 22:24:10 -03:00
builtin-record.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-report.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-sched.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-script.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-stat.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-timechart.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-top.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-trace.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-version.c perf symbols: Move mem_info and branch_info out of symbol.h 2019-08-31 22:27:48 -03:00
builtin.h perf tools: Remove needless util.h include from builtin.h 2019-08-28 17:19:34 -03:00
check-headers.sh perf build: Ignore intentional differences for the x86 insn decoder 2019-08-31 22:27:52 -03:00
command-list.txt perf help: Add missing subcommand version 2018-09-19 14:53:36 -03:00
CREDITS
design.txt perf/doc: Update design.txt for exclude_{host|guest} flags 2019-01-21 11:01:18 +01:00
Makefile perf tools: Disable parallelism for 'make clean' 2018-08-20 08:54:58 -03:00
Makefile.config Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-09-16 17:06:21 -07:00
Makefile.perf perf python: Add missing python/perf.so dependency for libperf 2019-09-10 14:33:32 +01:00
MANIFEST tools lib: Adopt zalloc()/zfree() from tools/perf 2019-07-09 10:13:26 -03:00
perf-archive.sh License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
perf-completion.sh perf tools: Auto-complete for events with ':' 2017-12-27 12:16:00 -03:00
perf-read-vdso.c perf tools: Make find_vdso_map() more modular 2019-01-08 13:28:13 -03:00
perf-sys.h perf tools: Move everything related to sys_perf_event_open() to perf-sys.h 2019-08-29 17:38:32 -03:00
perf-with-kcore.sh Merge branch 'x86/cpu' into perf/core, to pick up dependent changes 2019-06-17 12:29:16 +02:00
perf.c perf tools: Remove util.h from where it is not needed 2019-09-20 09:19:20 -03:00
perf.h perf time-utils: Adopt rdclock() from perf.h 2019-08-29 17:38:32 -03:00