4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Kan Liang kan.liang@linux.intel.com
[ Upstream commit 0592e57b24e7e05ec1f4c50b9666c013abff7017 ]
LBR has a limited stack size. If a task has a deeper call stack than LBR's stack size, only the overflowed part is reported. A complete call stack may not be reconstructed by perf tool.
Current code doesn't access all LBR registers. It only read the ones below the TOS. The LBR registers above the TOS will be discarded unconditionally.
When a CALL is captured, the TOS is incremented by 1 , modulo max LBR stack size. The LBR HW only records the call stack information to the register which the TOS points to. It will not touch other LBR registers. So the registers above the TOS probably still store the valid call stack information for an overflowed call stack, which need to be reported.
To retrieve complete call stack information, we need to start from TOS, read all LBR registers until an invalid entry is detected. 0s can be used to detect the invalid entry, because:
- When a RET is captured, the HW zeros the LBR register which TOS points to, then decreases the TOS. - The LBR registers are reset to 0 when adding a new LBR event or scheduling an existing LBR event. - A taken branch at IP 0 is not expected
The context switch code is also modified to save/restore all valid LBR registers. Furthermore, the LBR registers, which don't have valid call stack information, need to be reset in restore, because they may be polluted while swapped out.
Here is a small test program, tchain_deep. Its call stack is deeper than 32.
noinline void f33(void) { int i;
for (i = 0; i < 10000000;) { if (i%2) i++; else i++; } }
noinline void f32(void) { f33(); }
noinline void f31(void) { f32(); }
... ...
noinline void f1(void) { f2(); }
int main() { f1(); }
Here is the test result on SKX. The max stack size of SKX is 32.
Without the patch:
$ perf record -e cycles --call-graph lbr -- ./tchain_deep $ perf report --stdio # # Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ........ ........... ................ ................. # 100.00% 99.99% tchain_deep tchain_deep [.] f33 | --99.99%--f30 f31 f32 f33
With the patch:
$ perf record -e cycles --call-graph lbr -- ./tchain_deep $ perf report --stdio # Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ........ ........... ................ .................. # 99.99% 0.00% tchain_deep tchain_deep [.] f1 | ---f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 f10 f11 f12 f13 f14 f15 f16 f17 f18 f19 f20 f21 f22 f23 f24 f25 f26 f27 f28 f29 f30 f31 f32 f33
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang kan.liang@linux.intel.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Cc: Jiri Olsa jolsa@redhat.com Cc: Stephane Eranian eranian@google.com Cc: Vince Weaver vincent.weaver@maine.edu Cc: Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: eranian@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1528213126-4312-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@linu... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ static void __intel_pmu_lbr_restore(stru
mask = x86_pmu.lbr_nr - 1; tos = task_ctx->tos; - for (i = 0; i < tos; i++) { + for (i = 0; i < task_ctx->valid_lbrs; i++) { lbr_idx = (tos - i) & mask; wrlbr_from(lbr_idx, task_ctx->lbr_from[i]); wrlbr_to (lbr_idx, task_ctx->lbr_to[i]); @@ -350,6 +350,15 @@ static void __intel_pmu_lbr_restore(stru if (x86_pmu.intel_cap.lbr_format == LBR_FORMAT_INFO) wrmsrl(MSR_LBR_INFO_0 + lbr_idx, task_ctx->lbr_info[i]); } + + for (; i < x86_pmu.lbr_nr; i++) { + lbr_idx = (tos - i) & mask; + wrlbr_from(lbr_idx, 0); + wrlbr_to(lbr_idx, 0); + if (x86_pmu.intel_cap.lbr_format == LBR_FORMAT_INFO) + wrmsrl(MSR_LBR_INFO_0 + lbr_idx, 0); + } + wrmsrl(x86_pmu.lbr_tos, tos); task_ctx->lbr_stack_state = LBR_NONE; } @@ -357,7 +366,7 @@ static void __intel_pmu_lbr_restore(stru static void __intel_pmu_lbr_save(struct x86_perf_task_context *task_ctx) { unsigned lbr_idx, mask; - u64 tos; + u64 tos, from; int i;
if (task_ctx->lbr_callstack_users == 0) { @@ -367,13 +376,17 @@ static void __intel_pmu_lbr_save(struct
mask = x86_pmu.lbr_nr - 1; tos = intel_pmu_lbr_tos(); - for (i = 0; i < tos; i++) { + for (i = 0; i < x86_pmu.lbr_nr; i++) { lbr_idx = (tos - i) & mask; - task_ctx->lbr_from[i] = rdlbr_from(lbr_idx); + from = rdlbr_from(lbr_idx); + if (!from) + break; + task_ctx->lbr_from[i] = from; task_ctx->lbr_to[i] = rdlbr_to(lbr_idx); if (x86_pmu.intel_cap.lbr_format == LBR_FORMAT_INFO) rdmsrl(MSR_LBR_INFO_0 + lbr_idx, task_ctx->lbr_info[i]); } + task_ctx->valid_lbrs = i; task_ctx->tos = tos; task_ctx->lbr_stack_state = LBR_VALID; } @@ -522,7 +535,7 @@ static void intel_pmu_lbr_read_32(struct */ static void intel_pmu_lbr_read_64(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc) { - bool need_info = false; + bool need_info = false, call_stack = false; unsigned long mask = x86_pmu.lbr_nr - 1; int lbr_format = x86_pmu.intel_cap.lbr_format; u64 tos = intel_pmu_lbr_tos(); @@ -533,7 +546,7 @@ static void intel_pmu_lbr_read_64(struct if (cpuc->lbr_sel) { need_info = !(cpuc->lbr_sel->config & LBR_NO_INFO); if (cpuc->lbr_sel->config & LBR_CALL_STACK) - num = tos; + call_stack = true; }
for (i = 0; i < num; i++) { @@ -546,6 +559,13 @@ static void intel_pmu_lbr_read_64(struct from = rdlbr_from(lbr_idx); to = rdlbr_to(lbr_idx);
+ /* + * Read LBR call stack entries + * until invalid entry (0s) is detected. + */ + if (call_stack && !from) + break; + if (lbr_format == LBR_FORMAT_INFO && need_info) { u64 info;
--- a/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h +++ b/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h @@ -633,6 +633,7 @@ struct x86_perf_task_context { u64 lbr_to[MAX_LBR_ENTRIES]; u64 lbr_info[MAX_LBR_ENTRIES]; int tos; + int valid_lbrs; int lbr_callstack_users; int lbr_stack_state; };