[PATCH 4.0 41/55] powerpc/perf: Fix book3s kernel to userspace backtraces

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-07-08T08:02:35Z

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

commit 72e349f1124a114435e599479c9b8d14bfd1ebcd upstream.

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

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -131,7 +131,16 @@ static void pmao_restore_workaround(bool

static bool regs_use_siar(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- return !!regs->result;
+ /*
+ * When we take a performance monitor exception the regs are setup
+ * using perf_read_regs() which overloads some fields, in particular
+ * regs->result to tell us whether to use SIAR.
+ *
+ * However if the regs are from another exception, eg. a syscall, then
+ * they have not been setup using perf_read_regs() and so regs->result
+ * is something random.
+ */
+ return ((TRAP(regs) == 0xf00) && regs->result);
}

/*