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This is a fix for another instance of the skid problem Milian recently
found [1]
The LBRs don't freeze at the exact same time as the PMI is triggered.
The perf script brstackinsn code that dumps LBR assembler assumes that
the last branch in the LBR leads to the sample point. But with skid
it's possible that the CPU executes one or more branches before the
sample, but which do not appear in the LBR.
What happens then is either that the sample point is before the last LBR
branch. In this case the dumper sees a negative length and ignores it.
Or it the sample point is long after the last branch. Then the dumper
sees a very long block and dumps it upto its block limit (16k bytes),
which is noise in the output.
On typical sample session this can happen regularly.
This patch tries to detect and handle the situation. On the last block
that is dumped by the LBR dumper we always stop on the first branch. If
the block length is negative just scan forward to the first branch.
Otherwise scan until a branch is found.
The PT decoder already has a function that uses the instruction decoder
to detect branches, so we can just reuse it here.
Then when a terminating branch is found print an indication and stop
dumping. This might miss a few instructions, but at least shows no
runaway blocks.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120050617.4119-1-andi@firstfloor.org
[ Resolved conflict with dd2e18e9ac20 ("perf tools: Support 'srccode' output") ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
New features:
- Add 'brstackinsn' field in 'perf script' to reuse the x86 instruction
decoder used in the Intel PT code to study hot paths to samples (Andi Kleen)
Kernel changes:
- Default UPROBES_EVENTS to Y (Alexei Starovoitov)
- Fix check for kretprobe offset within function entry (Naveen N. Rao)
Infrastructure changes:
- Introduce util func is_sdt_event() (Ravi Bangoria)
- Make perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events() scale on older kernels where
reading /proc/pid/maps is way slower than reading /proc/pid/task/pid/maps (Stephane Eranian)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Implement printing instruction sequences as hex dump for branch stacks.
This relies on the x86 instruction decoder used by the PT decoder to
find the lengths of instructions to dump them individually.
This is good enough for pattern matching.
This allows to study hot paths for individual samples, together with
branch misprediction and cycle count / IPC information if available (on
Skylake systems).
% perf record -b ...
% perf script -F brstackinsn
...
read_hpet+67:
ffffffff9905b843 insn: 74 ea # PRED
ffffffff9905b82f insn: 85 c9
ffffffff9905b831 insn: 74 12
ffffffff9905b833 insn: f3 90
ffffffff9905b835 insn: 48 8b 0f
ffffffff9905b838 insn: 48 89 ca
ffffffff9905b83b insn: 48 c1 ea 20
ffffffff9905b83f insn: 39 f2
ffffffff9905b841 insn: 89 d0
ffffffff9905b843 insn: 74 ea # PRED
Only works when no special branch filters are specified.
Occasionally the path does not reach up to the sample IP, as the LBRs
may be frozen before executing a final jump. In this case we print a
special message.
The instruction dumper piggy backs on the existing infrastructure from
the IP PT decoder.
An earlier iteration of this patch relied on a disassembler, but this
version only uses the existing instruction decoder.
Committer note:
Added hint about how to get suitable perf.data files for use with
'-F brstackinsm':
$ perf record usleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.018 MB perf.data (8 samples) ]
$
$ perf script -F brstackinsn
Display of branch stack assembler requested, but non all-branch filter set
Hint: run 'perf record -b ...'
$
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170223234634.583-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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$ perf test decoder
57: x86 instruction decoder - new instructions : FAILED!
$
Failed to decode 'rel' value (0xfffffffc vs expected 0): 0f 1b 80 78 56 34 12 bndstx %bnd0,0x12345678(%rax)
Failed to decode 'rel' value (0xfffffffc vs expected 0): 0f 1b 85 78 56 34 12 bndstx %bnd0,0x12345678(%rbp)
Failed to decode 'rel' value (0xfffffffc vs expected 0): 0f 1b 84 01 78 56 34 12 bndstx %bnd0,0x12345678(%rcx,%rax,1)
Failed to decode 'rel' value (0xfffffffc vs expected 0): 0f 1b 84 05 78 56 34 12 bndstx %bnd0,0x12345678(%rbp,%rax,1)
Failed to decode 'rel' value (0xfffffffc vs expected 0): 0f 1b 84 08 78 56 34 12 bndstx %bnd0,0x12345678(%rax,%rcx,1)
There is missing initialization. It only affects the test because it is
checking 'rel' even in cases where there is no value.
Fix it.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/08c6ad07-7994-3e56-b20e-d75727ca7765@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Update to the new file paths, remove them from introductory comments.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170218113140.8051-1-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Change Intel PT and BTS to pass up the length and the instruction
bytes of the decoded or sampled instruction in the perf sample.
The decoder already knows this information, we just need to pass it
up. Since it is only a couple of movs it is not very expensive.
Handle instruction cache too. Make sure ilen is always initialized.
Used in the next patch.
[Adrian: re-base on top (and adjust for) instruction buffer size tidy-up]
[Adrian: add BTS support and adjust commit message accordingly]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475847747-30994-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Tidy instruction buffer size usage in preparation for copying the
instruction bytes onto samples.
The instruction buffer is presently used for debugging, so rename its
size macro from INTEL_PT_INSN_DBG_BUF_SZ to INTEL_PT_INSN_BUF_SZ, and
use it everywhere.
Note that the maximum instruction size is 15 which is a less efficient size
to copy than 16, which is why a separate buffer size is used.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475847747-30994-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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It is theoretically possible to process perf.data files created on x86
and that contain Intel PT or Intel BTS data, on any other architecture,
which is why it is possible for there to be build errors on powerpc
caused by pt/bts.
The errors were:
util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.c: In function ‘intel_pt_insn_decoder’:
util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.c:138:3: error: switch missing default case [-Werror=switch-default]
switch (insn->immediate.nbytes) {
^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
linux-acme.git/tools/perf/perf-obj/libperf.a(libperf-in.o): In function `intel_pt_synth_branch_sample':
sources/linux-acme.git/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c:871: undefined reference to `tsc_to_perf_time'
linux-acme.git/tools/perf/perf-obj/libperf.a(libperf-in.o): In function `intel_pt_sample':
sources/linux-acme.git/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c:915: undefined reference to `tsc_to_perf_time'
sources/linux-acme.git/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c:962: undefined reference to `tsc_to_perf_time'
linux-acme.git/tools/perf/perf-obj/libperf.a(libperf-in.o): In function `intel_pt_process_event':
sources/linux-acme.git/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c:1454: undefined reference to `perf_time_to_tsc'
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441046384-28663-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Fix some include paths and add missing inat_types.h.
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55D77696.60102@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Add support for decoding instructions for Intel Processor Trace. The
kernel x86 instruction decoder is copied for this.
This essentially provides intel_pt_get_insn() which takes a binary
buffer, uses the kernel's x86 instruction decoder to get details of the
instruction and then categorizes it for consumption by an Intel PT
decoder.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439450095-30122-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Andi Kleen
Ingo Molnar
Adrian Hunter
Borislav Petkov