Re: perf bpf: Reworked fix endianness problem when loading parameters in prologue

["Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com>]

Hi Thomas,

Your patch looks good to me. I've tested in my environment and it works.
Please resend it to lkml and let Arnaldo to collect it.

Thank you.

On 2017/8/14 17:47, Thomas Richter wrote:
> Perf BPF prologue generator unconditionally fetches 8 bytes for function
> parameters, which causes problem on big endian machine. Thomas gives a
> detail analysis for this problem:
>
>   http://lkml.kernel.org/r/968ebda5-abe4-8830-8d69-49f62529d151@linux.vnet.ibm.com
>
> This patch parses the type of each argument and converts data from
> memory to expected type.
>
> Now the test runs successfully on 4.13.0-rc5:
> [root@s8360046 perf]# ./perf test  bpf
> 38: BPF filter                                 :
> 38.1: Basic BPF filtering                      : Ok
> 38.2: BPF pinning                              : Ok
> 38.3: BPF prologue generation                  : Ok
> 38.4: BPF relocation checker                   : Ok
> [root@s8360046 perf]#
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
> Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
> ---
>   tools/perf/util/bpf-prologue.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf-prologue.c b/tools/perf/util/bpf-prologue.c
> index 1356220..827f914 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/bpf-prologue.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf-prologue.c
> @@ -58,6 +58,46 @@ check_pos(struct bpf_insn_pos *pos)
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> +/*
> + * Convert type string (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64 ..., see
> + * Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt) to size field of BPF_LDX_MEM
> + * instruction (BPF_{B,H,W,DW}).
> + */
> +static int
> +argtype_to_ldx_size(const char *type)
> +{
> +	int arg_size = type ? atoi(&type[1]) : 64;
> +
> +	switch (arg_size) {
> +	case 8:
> +		return BPF_B;
> +	case 16:
> +		return BPF_H;
> +	case 32:
> +		return BPF_W;
> +	case 64:
> +	default:
> +		return BPF_DW;
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +static const char *
> +insn_sz_to_str(int insn_sz)
> +{
> +	switch (insn_sz) {
> +	case BPF_B:
> +		return "BPF_B";
> +	case BPF_H:
> +		return "BPF_H";
> +	case BPF_W:
> +		return "BPF_W";
> +	case BPF_DW:
> +		return "BPF_DW";
> +	default:
> +		return "UNKNOWN";
> +	}
> +}
> +
>   /* Give it a shorter name */
>   #define ins(i, p) append_insn((i), (p))
>   
> @@ -258,9 +298,14 @@ gen_prologue_slowpath(struct bpf_insn_pos *pos,
>   	}
>   
>   	/* Final pass: read to registers */
> -	for (i = 0; i < nargs; i++)
> -		ins(BPF_LDX_MEM(BPF_DW, BPF_PROLOGUE_START_ARG_REG + i,
> +	for (i = 0; i < nargs; i++) {
> +		int insn_sz = (args[i].ref) ? argtype_to_ldx_size(args[i].type) : BPF_DW;
> +
> +		pr_debug("prologue: load arg %d, insn_sz is %s\n",
> +			 i, insn_sz_to_str(insn_sz));
> +		ins(BPF_LDX_MEM(insn_sz, BPF_PROLOGUE_START_ARG_REG + i,
>   				BPF_REG_FP, -BPF_REG_SIZE * (i + 1)), pos);
> +	}
>   
>   	ins(BPF_JMP_IMM(BPF_JA, BPF_REG_0, 0, JMP_TO_SUCCESS_CODE), pos);
>