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Kan Liang 66f2f9f277 perf/x86/lbr: Enable the branch type for the Arch LBR by default
commit 32ba156df1 upstream.

On the platform with Arch LBR, the HW raw branch type encoding may leak
to the perf tool when the SAVE_TYPE option is not set.

In the intel_pmu_store_lbr(), the HW raw branch type is stored in
lbr_entries[].type. If the SAVE_TYPE option is set, the
lbr_entries[].type will be converted into the generic PERF_BR_* type
in the intel_pmu_lbr_filter() and exposed to the user tools.
But if the SAVE_TYPE option is NOT set by the user, the current perf
kernel doesn't clear the field. The HW raw branch type leaks.

There are two solutions to fix the issue for the Arch LBR.
One is to clear the field if the SAVE_TYPE option is NOT set.
The other solution is to unconditionally convert the branch type and
expose the generic type to the user tools.

The latter is implemented here, because
- The branch type is valuable information. I don't see a case where
  you would not benefit from the branch type. (Stephane Eranian)
- Not having the branch type DOES NOT save any space in the
  branch record (Stephane Eranian)
- The Arch LBR HW can retrieve the common branch types from the
  LBR_INFO. It doesn't require the high overhead SW disassemble.

Fixes: 47125db27e ("perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support Architectural LBR")
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220816125612.2042397-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2022-08-31 17:18:13 +02:00
arch perf/x86/lbr: Enable the branch type for the Arch LBR by default 2022-08-31 17:18:13 +02:00
block blk-mq: run queue no matter whether the request is the last request 2022-08-25 11:45:36 +02:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on x509 parser 2022-07-24 12:53:55 -07:00
crypto KEYS: asymmetric: enforce SM2 signature use pkey algo 2022-08-17 15:16:17 +02:00
Documentation net: Fix data-races around netdev_max_backlog. 2022-08-31 17:18:08 +02:00
drivers net: lantiq_xrx200: restore buffer if memory allocation failed 2022-08-31 17:18:12 +02:00
fs btrfs: update generation of hole file extent item when merging holes 2022-08-31 17:18:13 +02:00
include net: Fix a data-race around gro_normal_batch. 2022-08-31 17:18:10 +02:00
init stack: Declare {randomize_,}kstack_offset to fix Sparse warnings 2022-08-17 15:14:14 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: mem-account pbuf buckets 2022-08-17 15:16:21 +02:00
ipc ipc: Free mq_sysctls if ipc namespace creation failed 2022-06-22 17:47:41 -05:00
kernel kprobes: don't call disarm_kprobe() for disabled kprobes 2022-08-31 17:18:00 +02:00
lib ratelimit: Fix data-races in ___ratelimit(). 2022-08-31 17:18:08 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm/hugetlb: support write-faults in shared mappings 2022-08-31 17:18:00 +02:00
net rxrpc: Fix locking in rxrpc's sendmsg 2022-08-31 17:18:11 +02:00
samples sample: bpf: xdp_router_ipv4: Allow the kernel to send arp requests 2022-08-17 15:14:25 +02:00
scripts kbuild: dummy-tools: avoid tmpdir leak in dummy gcc 2022-08-29 11:07:58 +02:00
security apparmor: Fix memleak in aa_simple_write_to_buffer() 2022-08-25 11:45:11 +02:00
sound Revert "ALSA: hda: Fix page fault in snd_hda_codec_shutdown()" 2022-08-25 11:45:54 +02:00
tools selftests/kprobe: Do not test for GRP/ without event failures 2022-08-25 11:45:46 +02:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: Unconditionally get a ref to /dev/kvm module when creating a VM 2022-08-25 11:45:05 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Fix space after for_each macros 2022-05-20 19:27:16 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes for 5.19, part 4 2022-07-27 09:43:07 -07:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: mark ARM/PALM TREO SUPPORT orphan 2022-07-07 15:17:00 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS io_uring: move to separate directory 2022-08-17 15:14:20 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.19.5 2022-08-29 11:18:05 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.