From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Olsa Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/core: fast breakpoint modification via _IOC_MODIFY_BREAKPOINT Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 08:52:41 +0100 Message-ID: <20171109074658.GC14419@krava> References: <20171106092305.GA16382@krava> <20171108141522.GA6320@krava> <20171108151218.GA11018@krava> <20171108155741.GA12627@krava> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Milind Chabbi Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Alexander Shishkin , Namhyung Kim , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Michael Kerrisk-manpages , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Michael Ellerman , Andi Kleen , Kan Liang , Hari Bathini , Sukadev Bhattiprolu , Jin Yao List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 08:59:22AM -0800, Milind Chabbi wrote: > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:51:10AM -0800, Milind Chabbi wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote: > >> > >> > > I am not able to fully understand your concern. > >> > > Can you point to a code file and line related to your observation? > >> > > The patch is modeled after the existing modify_user_hw_breakpoint() function > >> > > present in events/hw_breakpoint.c; don't you see this problem in that code? > >> > > >> > the reserve_bp_slot/release_bp_slot functions manage > >> > counts for current breakpoints based on its type > >> > > >> > those counts are cumulated in here: > >> > static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct bp_cpuinfo, bp_cpuinfo[TYPE_MAX]); > >> > > >> > you allow to change the breakpoint type, so I'd expect > >> > to see some code that release slot count for old type > >> > and take new one (if it's available) > >> > > >> > jirka > >> > >> > >> Why is this not a concern for modify_user_hw_breakpoint() function? > > > > I don't know ;-) > > > > jirka > > > Jirka, > > I carefully looked at bp_cpuinfo[] and nr_slots[] data structures. > nr_slots[] is an array of length two (one slot of TYPE_INST and > another for TYPE_DATA). > The accounting "thinks" that there is one limit on the number of > instruction breakpoints and another limit on the number of data > breakpoints. > The assumption is clearly broken; for example, on x86 there exists a > limit on the *total* number of all breakpoints disregarding their kind > and the code has failed to capture this aspect. there's the CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS that puts DATA and INST under one count on x86.. but that seems to be the enabled only for: arch/sh/Kconfig: select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS arch/x86/Kconfig: select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS > > As such, modify_user_hw_breakpoint() makes no attempt to keep the > counts correct. Instead, it simply tries to change and install a new > breakpoint and fails if the hardware disallows. > This can lead to a situation where, say on x86, someone creates 4 > TYPE_DATA breakpoints, then changes one of them to TYPE_INS via > modify_user_hw_breakpoint() and then releases the TYPE_INS breakpoint. > Since the accounting still thinks that there are four TYPE_DATA > breakpoints, it will disallow creating a new TYPE_DATA breakpoint, > although there is place for one TYPE_DATA breakpoint. > > This convinces me that the problem and the solution are outside of > this current patch. > Do you agree? I'll leave this decision to maintainer ;-) but seems better to fix the interface before we add any new dependent function calls jirka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html