linux/arch/powerpc
Anton Blanchard 404e5e8a32 powerpc/perf: Fix book3s kernel to userspace backtraces
[ Upstream commit 72e349f112 ]

When we take a PMU exception or a software event we call
perf_read_regs(). This overloads regs->result with a boolean that
describes if we should use the sampled instruction address register
(SIAR) or the regs.

If the exception is in kernel, we start with the kernel regs and
backtrace through the kernel stack. At this point we switch to the
userspace regs and backtrace the user stack with perf_callchain_user().

Unfortunately these regs have not got the perf_read_regs() treatment,
so regs->result could be anything. If it is non zero,
perf_instruction_pointer() decides to use the SIAR, and we get issues
like this:

0.11%  qemu-system-ppc  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
       |
       ---_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
          |
          |--52.35%-- 0
          |          |
          |          |--46.39%-- __hrtimer_start_range_ns
          |          |          kvmppc_run_core
          |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv
          |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run
          |          |          kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
          |          |          kvm_vcpu_ioctl
          |          |          do_vfs_ioctl
          |          |          sys_ioctl
          |          |          system_call
          |          |          |
          |          |          |--67.08%-- _raw_spin_lock_irqsave <--- hi mum
          |          |          |          |
          |          |          |           --100.00%-- 0x7e714
          |          |          |                     0x7e714

Notice the bogus _raw_spin_irqsave when we transition from kernel
(system_call) to userspace (0x7e714). We inserted what was in the SIAR.

Add a check in regs_use_siar() to check that the regs in question
are from a PMU exception. With this fix the backtrace makes sense:

     0.47%  qemu-system-ppc  [kernel.vmlinux]         [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
            |
            ---_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
               |
               |--53.83%-- 0
               |          |
               |          |--44.73%-- hrtimer_try_to_cancel
               |          |          kvmppc_start_thread
               |          |          kvmppc_run_core
               |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv
               |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run
               |          |          kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
               |          |          kvm_vcpu_ioctl
               |          |          do_vfs_ioctl
               |          |          sys_ioctl
               |          |          system_call
               |          |          __ioctl
               |          |          0x7e714
               |          |          0x7e714

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
History 2015-07-03 23:02:22 -04:00
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boot powerpc/mpc85xx: Add ranges to etsec2 nodes 2015-04-16 20:13:18 -04:00
configs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux 2014-10-21 07:48:56 -07:00
crypto crypto: add missing crypto module aliases 2015-01-29 17:40:46 -08:00
include powerpc: Re-enable dynticks 2015-04-23 14:58:28 -04:00
kernel powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes 2015-06-10 13:42:21 -04:00
kvm Fixes and features for 3.18. 2014-10-08 05:27:39 -04:00
lib powerpc: Implement emulation of string loads and stores 2014-09-25 23:14:52 +10:00
math-emu powerpc: Correct emulated mtfsf instruction 2014-04-07 10:33:11 +10:00
mm mm/hugetlb: use pmd_page() in follow_huge_pmd() 2015-05-17 19:12:31 -04:00
net net: bpf: be friendly to kmemcheck 2014-09-09 16:58:56 -07:00
oprofile powerpc: Ensure global functions include their prototype 2014-09-25 23:14:42 +10:00
perf powerpc/perf: Fix book3s kernel to userspace backtraces 2015-07-03 23:02:22 -04:00
platforms powerpc/cell: Fix cell iommu after it_page_shift changes 2015-05-17 19:12:14 -04:00
sysdev axonram: Fix bug in direct_access 2015-03-06 14:52:59 -08:00
xmon powerpc/xmon: Fix another endiannes issue in RTAS call from xmon 2015-02-05 22:36:03 -08:00
Kconfig powerpc/cell: Move spu_handle_mm_fault() out of cell platform 2014-10-08 20:14:54 +11:00
Kconfig.debug Patch queue for ppc - 2014-08-01 2014-08-05 09:58:11 +02:00
Makefile powerpc: Add POWER8 CPU selection 2014-09-25 23:14:49 +10:00
relocs_check.pl Fix warning typo "CONFIG_RELCOATABLE" 2013-05-29 15:11:30 +02:00