[tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86_64: Improve user regs sampling

From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Jan 09 2015 - 07:33:19 EST


Commit-ID: 86c269fea37334687b1c0789e6444be0d750e8a6
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/86c269fea37334687b1c0789e6444be0d750e8a6
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 10:36:20 -0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 11:12:29 +0100

perf/x86_64: Improve user regs sampling

Perf reports user regs for kernel-mode samples so that samples can
be backtraced through user code. The old code was very broken in
syscall context, resulting in useless backtraces.

The new code, in contrast, is still dangerously racy, but it should
at least work most of the time.

Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: chenggang.qcg@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/243560c26ff0f739978e2459e203f6515367634d.1420396372.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c
index 3bbbb1a..781861c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/perf_regs.c
@@ -115,7 +115,81 @@ void perf_get_regs_user(struct perf_regs *regs_user,
struct pt_regs *regs,
struct pt_regs *regs_user_copy)
{
- regs_user->regs = task_pt_regs(current);
- regs_user->abi = perf_reg_abi(current);
+ struct pt_regs *user_regs = task_pt_regs(current);
+
+ /*
+ * If we're in an NMI that interrupted task_pt_regs setup, then
+ * we can't sample user regs at all. This check isn't really
+ * sufficient, though, as we could be in an NMI inside an interrupt
+ * that happened during task_pt_regs setup.
+ */
+ if (regs->sp > (unsigned long)&user_regs->r11 &&
+ regs->sp <= (unsigned long)(user_regs + 1)) {
+ regs_user->abi = PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_ABI_NONE;
+ regs_user->regs = NULL;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * RIP, flags, and the argument registers are usually saved.
+ * orig_ax is probably okay, too.
+ */
+ regs_user_copy->ip = user_regs->ip;
+ regs_user_copy->cx = user_regs->cx;
+ regs_user_copy->dx = user_regs->dx;
+ regs_user_copy->si = user_regs->si;
+ regs_user_copy->di = user_regs->di;
+ regs_user_copy->r8 = user_regs->r8;
+ regs_user_copy->r9 = user_regs->r9;
+ regs_user_copy->r10 = user_regs->r10;
+ regs_user_copy->r11 = user_regs->r11;
+ regs_user_copy->orig_ax = user_regs->orig_ax;
+ regs_user_copy->flags = user_regs->flags;
+
+ /*
+ * Don't even try to report the "rest" regs.
+ */
+ regs_user_copy->bx = -1;
+ regs_user_copy->bp = -1;
+ regs_user_copy->r12 = -1;
+ regs_user_copy->r13 = -1;
+ regs_user_copy->r14 = -1;
+ regs_user_copy->r15 = -1;
+
+ /*
+ * For this to be at all useful, we need a reasonable guess for
+ * sp and the ABI. Be careful: we're in NMI context, and we're
+ * considering current to be the current task, so we should
+ * be careful not to look at any other percpu variables that might
+ * change during context switches.
+ */
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION) &&
+ task_thread_info(current)->status & TS_COMPAT) {
+ /* Easy case: we're in a compat syscall. */
+ regs_user->abi = PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_ABI_32;
+ regs_user_copy->sp = user_regs->sp;
+ regs_user_copy->cs = user_regs->cs;
+ regs_user_copy->ss = user_regs->ss;
+ } else if (user_regs->orig_ax != -1) {
+ /*
+ * We're probably in a 64-bit syscall.
+ * Warning: this code is severely racy. At least it's better
+ * than just blindly copying user_regs.
+ */
+ regs_user->abi = PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_ABI_64;
+ regs_user_copy->sp = this_cpu_read(old_rsp);
+ regs_user_copy->cs = __USER_CS;
+ regs_user_copy->ss = __USER_DS;
+ regs_user_copy->cx = -1; /* usually contains garbage */
+ } else {
+ /* We're probably in an interrupt or exception. */
+ regs_user->abi = user_64bit_mode(user_regs) ?
+ PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_ABI_64 : PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_ABI_32;
+ regs_user_copy->sp = user_regs->sp;
+ regs_user_copy->cs = user_regs->cs;
+ regs_user_copy->ss = user_regs->ss;
+ }
+
+ regs_user->regs = regs_user_copy;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
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