linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/x86
Stephane Eranian 71eb9ee959 perf/x86/intel: Fix linear IP of PEBS real_ip on Haswell and later CPUs
this patch fix a bug in how the pebs->real_ip is handled in the PEBS
handler. real_ip only exists in Haswell and later processor. It is
actually the eventing IP, i.e., where the event occurred. As opposed
to the pebs->ip which is the PEBS interrupt IP which is always off
by one.

The problem is that the real_ip just like the IP needs to be fixed up
because PEBS does not record all the machine state registers, and
in particular the code segement (cs). This is why we have the set_linear_ip()
function. The problem was that set_linear_ip() was only used on the pebs->ip
and not the pebs->real_ip.

We have profiles which ran into invalid callstacks because of this.
Here is an example:

 .....  0: ffffffffffffff80 recent entry, marker kernel v
 .....  1: 000000000040044d <= user address in kernel space!
 .....  2: fffffffffffffe00 marker enter user v
 .....  3: 000000000040044d
 .....  4: 00000000004004b6 oldest entry

Debugging output in get_perf_callchain():

 [  857.769909] CALLCHAIN: CPU8 ip=40044d regs->cs=10 user_mode(regs)=0

The problem is that the kernel entry in 1: points to a user level
address. How can that be?

The reason is that with PEBS sampling the instruction that caused the event
to occur and the instruction where the CPU was when the interrupt was posted
may be far apart. And sometime during that time window, the privilege level may
change. This happens, for instance, when the PEBS sample is taken close to a
kernel entry point. Here PEBS, eventing IP (real_ip) captured a user level
instruction. But by the time the PMU interrupt fired, the processor had already
entered kernel space. This is why the debug output shows a user address with
user_mode() false.

The problem comes from PEBS not recording the code segment (cs) register.
The register is used in x86_64 to determine if executing in kernel vs user
space. This is okay because the kernel has a software workaround called
set_linear_ip(). But the issue in setup_pebs_sample_data() is that
set_linear_ip() is never called on the real_ip value when it is available
(Haswell and later) and precise_ip > 1.

This patch fixes this problem and eliminates the callchain discrepancy.

The patch restructures the code around set_linear_ip() to minimize the number
of times the IP has to be set.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521788507-10231-1-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-03-27 08:27:27 +02:00
..
boot Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:36:02 -10:00
configs x86/unwind: Rename unwinder config options to 'CONFIG_UNWINDER_*' 2017-10-14 10:12:12 +02:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-02-12 08:57:21 -08:00
entry Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:36:02 -10:00
events perf/x86/intel: Fix linear IP of PEBS real_ip on Haswell and later CPUs 2018-03-27 08:27:27 +02:00
hyperv KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
ia32 x86/entry: Do not special-case clone(2) in compat entry 2018-03-07 07:57:31 +01:00
include Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:36:02 -10:00
kernel Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:36:02 -10:00
kvm kvm/x86: fix icebp instruction handling 2018-03-20 14:58:34 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-26 09:34:21 -08:00
math-emu License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-03-22 18:48:43 -07:00
net bpf, x64: increase number of passes 2018-03-07 14:47:24 -08:00
oprofile x86/oprofile: Fix bogus GCC-8 warning in nmi_setup() 2018-02-21 09:54:17 +01:00
pci pci-v4.16-changes 2018-02-06 09:59:40 -08:00
platform Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:36:02 -10:00
power x86: hibernate: fix swsusp_arch_resume() prototype 2018-02-07 12:18:23 +01:00
purgatory License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
ras License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
realmode x86-64/realmode: Add instruction suffix 2018-02-20 09:33:41 +01:00
tools x86: Treat R_X86_64_PLT32 as R_X86_64_PC32 2018-02-22 09:01:10 -08:00
um x86/cpu: Remove the CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE=y quirk 2018-03-20 10:01:05 +01:00
video
xen Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-04 11:40:16 -08:00
.gitignore x86/build: Add arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test to .gitignore 2018-02-13 14:10:29 +01:00
Kbuild Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-07 09:25:15 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-11 14:59:23 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:36:02 -10:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-01-30 13:01:09 -08:00
Makefile x86/build/64: Force the linker to use 2MB page size 2018-03-20 08:03:03 +01:00
Makefile_32.cpu License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Makefile.um License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00