[PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 207/293] perf evsel: Set attr.exclude_kernel when probing max attr.precise_ip

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sun Apr 08 2018 - 21:59:37 EST


From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 97365e81366f5ca16a9ce66cff4dd4c5b0d9f4db ]

We should set attr.exclude_kernel when probing for attr.precise_ip
level, otherwise !CAP_SYS_ADMIN users will not default to skidless
samples in capable hardware.

The increase in the paranoid level in commit 0161028b7c8a ("perf/core:
Change the default paranoia level to 2") broke this, fix it by excluding
kernel samples when probing.

Before:

$ perf record usleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.018 MB perf.data (6 samples) ]
$ perf evlist -v
cycles:u: sample_freq: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, exclude_kernel: 1

After:

$ 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 evlist -v
cycles:ppp: sample_freq: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, exclude_kernel: 1, precise_ip: 3
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
$

To further clarify: we always set .exclude_kernel when non !CAP_SYS_ADMIN
users profile, its just on the attr.precise_ip probing that we weren't doing
so, fix it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 7f8d1ade1b19 ("perf tools: By default use the most precise "cycles" hw counter available")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-t2qttwhbnua62o5gt75cueml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 97fe0c80ff02..1c1291afd6a6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ struct perf_evsel *perf_evsel__new_cycles(void)
struct perf_event_attr attr = {
.type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
.config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
+ .exclude_kernel = 1,
};
struct perf_evsel *evsel;

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