We found that a panic can occur when a vsyscall is made while LBR sampling
is active. If the vsyscall is interrupted (NMI) for perf sampling, this
call sequence can occur (most recent at top):
__insn_get_emulate_prefix()
insn_get_emulate_prefix()
insn_get_prefixes()
insn_get_opcode()
decode_branch_type()
get_branch_type()
intel_pmu_lbr_filter()
intel_pmu_handle_irq()
perf_event_nmi_handler()
Within __insn_get_emulate_prefix() at frame 0, a macro is called:
peek_nbyte_next(insn_byte_t, insn, i)
Within this macro, this dereference occurs:
(insn)->next_byte
Inspecting registers at this point, the value of the next_byte field is the
address of the vsyscall made, for example the location of the vsyscall
version of gettimeofday() at 0xffffffffff600000. The access to an address
in the vsyscall region will trigger an oops due to an unhandled page fault.
To fix the bug, filtering for vsyscalls can be done when
determining the branch type. This patch will return
a "none" branch if a kernel address if found to lie in the
vsyscall region.
Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn <inwardvessel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
offset is passed as a pointer and on certain call path is not set by the
function. If the caller does not re-initialize offset between calls, value
could be inherited between calls. Prevent this by initializing offset on each
call.
This impacts the code in amd_pmu_lbr_filter() which does:
for(i=0; ...) {
ret = get_branch_type_fused(..., &offset);
if (offset)
lbr_entries[i].from += offset;
}
Fixes: df3e9612f7 ("perf/x86: Make branch classifier fusion-aware")
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220928184043.408364-2-eranian@google.com
This expands generic branch type classification by adding two more entries
there in i.e system error and not in transaction. This also updates the x86
implementation to process X86_BR_NO_TX records as appropriate. This changes
branch types reported to user space on x86 platform but it should not be a
problem. The possible scenarios and impacts are enumerated here.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| kernel | perf tool | Impact |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| old | old | Works as before |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| old | new | PERF_BR_UNKNOWN is processed |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| new | old | PERF_BR_NO_TX is blocked via old PERF_BR_MAX |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| new | new | PERF_BR_NO_TX is recognized |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
When PERF_BR_NO_TX is blocked via old PERF_BR_MAX (new kernel with old perf
tool) the user space might throw up an warning complaining about an
unrecognized branch types being reported, but it's expected. PERF_BR_SERROR
& PERF_BR_NO_TX branch types will be used for BRBE implementation on arm64
platform.
PERF_BR_NO_TX complements 'abort' and 'in_tx' elements in perf_branch_entry
which represent other transaction states for a given branch record. Because
this completes the transaction state classification.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220824044822.70230-2-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
With branch fusion and other optimizations, branch sampling hardware in
some processors can report a branch from address that points to an
instruction preceding the actual branch by several bytes.
In such cases, the classifier cannot determine the branch type which leads
to failures such as with the recently added test from commit b55878c90a
("perf test: Add test for branch stack sampling"). Branch information is
also easier to consume and annotate if branch from addresses always point
to branch instructions.
Add a new variant of the branch classifier that can account for instruction
fusion. If fusion is expected and the current branch from address does not
point to a branch instruction, it attempts to find the first branch within
the next (MAX_INSN_SIZE - 1) bytes and if found, additionally provides the
offset between the reported branch from address and the address of the
expected branch instruction.
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b6bb0abaa8a54c0b6d716344700ee11a1793d709.1660211399.git.sandipan.das@amd.com
Commit 3e702ff6d1 ("perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel
CPUs") introduces a software branch filter which complements the hardware
branch filter and adds an x86 branch classifier.
Move the branch classifier to arch/x86/events/ so that it can be utilized
by other vendors for branch record filtering.
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bae5b95470d6bd49f40954bd379f414f5afcb965.1660211399.git.sandipan.das@amd.com
