Add quirk for context switch to save/restore the value of
MSR_LAST_BRANCH_FROM_x when LBR is enabled and there is potential for
kernel addresses to be in the lbr_from register.
To test this patch, use a perf tool and kernel with the patch
next in this series. That patch removes the work around that masked
the hw bug:
$ ./lbr_perf record --call-graph lbr -e cycles:k sleep 1
where lbr_perf is the patched perf tool, that allows to specify :k
on lbr mode. The above command will trigger a #GPF :
WARNING: CPU: 28 PID: 14096 at arch/x86/mm/extable.c:65 ex_handler_wrmsr_unsafe+0x70/0x80
unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x681 (tried to write 0x1fffffff81010794)
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8167af49>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x63
[<ffffffff810b9b15>] __warn+0xe5/0x100
[<ffffffff810b9be9>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x49/0x50
[<ffffffff810abb40>] ex_handler_wrmsr_unsafe+0x70/0x80
[<ffffffff810abc42>] fixup_exception+0x42/0x50
[<ffffffff81079d1a>] do_general_protection+0x8a/0x160
[<ffffffff81684ec2>] general_protection+0x22/0x30
[<ffffffff810101b9>] ? intel_pmu_lbr_sched_task+0xc9/0x380
[<ffffffff81009d7c>] intel_pmu_sched_task+0x3c/0x60
[<ffffffff81003a2b>] x86_pmu_sched_task+0x1b/0x20
[<ffffffff81192a5b>] perf_pmu_sched_task+0x6b/0xb0
[<ffffffff8119746d>] __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x7d/0x150
[<ffffffff810dd9dc>] finish_task_switch+0x15c/0x200
[<ffffffff8167f894>] __schedule+0x274/0x6cc
[<ffffffff8167fdd9>] schedule+0x39/0x90
[<ffffffff81675398>] exit_to_usermode_loop+0x39/0x89
[<ffffffff810028ce>] prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x2e/0x30
[<ffffffff81683c1b>] retint_user+0x8/0x10
Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466533874-52003-5-git-send-email-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Intel's SDM states that bits 61:62 in MSR_LAST_BRANCH_FROM_x are the
TSX flags for formats with LBR_TSX flags (i.e. LBR_FORMAT_EIP_EFLAGS2).
However, when the CPU has TSX support deactivated, bits 61:62 actually
behave as follows:
- For wrmsr(), bits 61:62 are considered part of the sign extension.
- When capturing branches, the LBR hw will always clear bits 61:62.
regardless of the sign extension.
Therefore, if:
1) LBR has TSX format.
2) CPU has no TSX support enabled.
... then any value passed to wrmsr() must be sign extended to 63 bits
and any value from rdmsr() must be converted to have a sign extension
of 61 bits, ignoring the values at TSX flags.
This bug was masked by the work-around to the Intel's CPU bug:
BJ94. "LBR May Contain Incorrect Information When Using FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI"
in Document Number: 324643-037US.
The aforementioned work-around uses hw flags to filter out all kernel
branches, limiting LBR callstack to user level execution only.
Since user addresses are not sign extended, they do not trigger the wrmsr()
bug in MSR_LAST_BRANCH_FROM_x when saved/restored at context switch.
To verify the hw bug:
$ perf record -b -e cycles sleep 1
$ rdmsr -p 0 0x680
0x1fffffffb0b9b0cc
$ wrmsr -p 0 0x680 0x1fffffffb0b9b0cc
write(): Input/output error
The quirk for LBR_FROM_ MSRs is required before calls to wrmsrl() and
after rdmsrl().
This patch introduces it for wrmsrl()'s done for testing LBR support.
Future patch in series adds the quirk for context switch, that would
be required if LBR callstack is to be enabled for ring 0.
Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466533874-52003-3-git-send-email-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add declarations for the events needed for topdown to the
Intel big core CPUs starting with Sandy Bridge. We need
to report different values if HyperThreading is on or off.
The only thing this patch does is to export some events
in sysfs.
topdown level 1 uses a set of abstracted metrics which
are generic to out of order CPU cores (although some
CPUs may not implement all of them):
topdown-total-slots Available slots in the pipeline
topdown-slots-issued Slots issued into the pipeline
topdown-slots-retired Slots successfully retired
topdown-fetch-bubbles Pipeline gaps in the frontend
topdown-recovery-bubbles Pipeline gaps during recovery
from misspeculation
A slot is a single operation in the CPU pipe line.
These metrics then allow to compute four useful metrics:
FrontendBound, BackendBound, Retiring, BadSpeculation.
The formulas to compute the metrics are generic, they
only change based on the availability on the abstracted
input values.
The kernel declares the events supported by the current
CPU and their scaling factors (such as the pipeline width)
and perf stat then computes the formulas based on the
available metrics. This is similar how existing
perf metrics, such as TSC metrics or IPC, are implemented.
This abstracts all CPU pipe line specific knowledge in the
kernel driver, but still avoids the need for larger scale perf
interface changes.
For HyperThreading the any bit is needed to get accurate
values when both threads are executing. This implies that
the events can only be collected as root or with
perf_event_paranoid=-1 for now.
The basic scheme is based on the following paper:
Yasin, A Top Down Method for Performance analysis and Counter architecture ISPASS14 (pdf available via google)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: jolsa@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463703002-19686-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
User visible changes:
- Honour the kernel.perf_event_max_stack knob more precisely by not counting
PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER} when deciding when to stop adding entries to
the perf_sample->ip_callchain[] array (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Fix identation of 'stalled-backend-cycles' in 'perf stat' (Namhyung Kim)
- Update runtime using 'cpu-clock' event in 'perf stat' (Namhyung Kim)
- Use 'cpu-clock' for cpu targets in 'perf stat' (Namhyung Kim)
- Avoid fractional digits for integer scales in 'perf stat' (Andi Kleen)
- Store vdso buildid unconditionally, as it appears in callchains and
we're not checking those when creating the build-id table, so we
end up not being able to resolve VDSO symbols when doing analysis
on a different machine than the one where recording was done, possibly
of a different arch even (arm -> x86_64) (He Kuang)
Infrastructure changes:
- Generalize max_stack sysctl handler, will be used for configuring
multiple kernel knobs related to callchains (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Cleanups:
- Introduce DSO__NAME_KALLSYMS and DSO__NAME_KCORE, to stop using
open coded strings (Masami Hiramatsu)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When booting with nr_cpus=1, uncore_pci_probe tries to init the PCI/uncore
also for the other packages and fails with warning when they are not found.
The warning is bogus because it's correct to fail here for packages which are
not initialized. Remove it and return silently.
Fixes: cf6d445f68 "perf/x86/uncore: Track packages, not per CPU data"
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We will use it to count how many addresses are in the entry->ip[] array,
excluding PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc} entries, so that we can really
return the number of entries specified by the user via the relevant
sysctl, kernel.perf_event_max_contexts, or via the per event
perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack knob.
This way we keep the perf_sample->ip_callchain->nr meaning, that is the
number of entries, be it real addresses or PERF_CONTEXT_ entries, while
honouring the max_stack knobs, i.e. the end result will be max_stack
entries if we have at least that many entries in a given stack trace.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-s8teto51tdqvlfhefndtat9r@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- MSR access API fixes and enhancements (Andy Lutomirski)
- early exception handling improvements (Andy Lutomirski)
- user-space FS/GS prctl usage fixes and improvements (Andy
Lutomirski)
- Remove the cpu_has_*() APIs and replace them with equivalents
(Borislav Petkov)
- task switch micro-optimization (Brian Gerst)
- 32-bit entry code simplification (Denys Vlasenko)
- enhance PAT handling in enumated CPUs (Toshi Kani)
... and lots of other cleanups/fixlets"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits)
x86/arch_prctl/64: Restore accidentally removed put_cpu() in ARCH_SET_GS
x86/entry/32: Remove asmlinkage_protect()
x86/entry/32: Remove GET_THREAD_INFO() from entry code
x86/entry, sched/x86: Don't save/restore EFLAGS on task switch
x86/asm/entry/32: Simplify pushes of zeroed pt_regs->REGs
selftests/x86/ldt_gdt: Test set_thread_area() deletion of an active segment
x86/tls: Synchronize segment registers in set_thread_area()
x86/asm/64: Rename thread_struct's fs and gs to fsbase and gsbase
x86/arch_prctl/64: Remove FSBASE/GSBASE < 4G optimization
x86/segments/64: When load_gs_index fails, clear the base
x86/segments/64: When loadsegment(fs, ...) fails, clear the base
x86/asm: Make asm/alternative.h safe from assembly
x86/asm: Stop depending on ptrace.h in alternative.h
x86/entry: Rename is_{ia32,x32}_task() to in_{ia32,x32}_syscall()
x86/asm: Make sure verify_cpu() has a good stack
x86/extable: Add a comment about early exception handlers
x86/msr: Set the return value to zero when native_rdmsr_safe() fails
x86/paravirt: Make "unsafe" MSR accesses unsafe even if PARAVIRT=y
x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr()
x86/msr: Carry on after a non-"safe" MSR access fails
...
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
- massive CPU hotplug rework (Thomas Gleixner)
- improve migration fairness (Peter Zijlstra)
- CPU load calculation updates/cleanups (Yuyang Du)
- cpufreq updates (Steve Muckle)
- nohz optimizations (Frederic Weisbecker)
- switch_mm() micro-optimization on x86 (Andy Lutomirski)
- ... lots of other enhancements, fixes and cleanups.
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (66 commits)
ARM: Hide finish_arch_post_lock_switch() from modules
sched/core: Provide a tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() helper
sched/core: Use tsk_cpus_allowed() instead of accessing ->cpus_allowed
sched/loadavg: Fix loadavg artifacts on fully idle and on fully loaded systems
sched/fair: Correct unit of load_above_capacity
sched/fair: Clean up scale confusion
sched/nohz: Fix affine unpinned timers mess
sched/fair: Fix fairness issue on migration
sched/core: Kill sched_class::task_waking to clean up the migration logic
sched/fair: Prepare to fix fairness problems on migration
sched/fair: Move record_wakee()
sched/core: Fix comment typo in wake_q_add()
sched/core: Remove unused variable
sched: Make hrtick_notifier an explicit call
sched/fair: Make ilb_notifier an explicit call
sched/hotplug: Make activate() the last hotplug step
sched/hotplug: Move migration CPU_DYING to sched_cpu_dying()
sched/migration: Move CPU_ONLINE into scheduler state
sched/migration: Move calc_load_migrate() into CPU_DYING
sched/migration: Move prepare transition to SCHED_STARTING state
...
Currently, the PT driver always sets the PMI bit one region (page) before
the STOP region so that we can wake up the consumer before we run out of
room in the buffer and have to disable the event. However, we also need
an interrupt in the last output region, so that we actually get to disable
the event (if no more room from new data is available at that point),
otherwise hardware just quietly refuses to start, but the event is
scheduled in and we end up losing trace data till the event gets removed.
For a cpu-wide event it is even worse since there may not be any
re-scheduling at all and no chance for the ring buffer code to notice
that its buffer is filled up and the event needs to be disabled (so that
the consumer can re-enable it when it finishes reading the data out). In
other words, all the trace data will be lost after the buffer gets filled
up.
This patch makes PT also generate a PMI when the last output region is
full.
Reported-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462886313-13660-2-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
