[PATCH 5.12 025/296] perf intel-pt: Fix sample instruction bytes

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-31T16:07:06Z

From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>

commit c954eb72b31a9dc56c99b450253ec5b121add320 upstream.

The decoder reports the current instruction if it was decoded. In some
cases the current instruction is not decoded, in which case the instruction
bytes length must be set to zero. Ensure that is always done.

Note perf script can anyway get the instruction bytes for any samples where
they are not present.

Also note, that there is a redundant "ptq->insn_len = 0" statement which is
not removed until a subsequent patch in order to make this patch apply
cleanly to stable branches.

Example:

A machne that supports TSX is required. It will have flag "rtm". Kernel
parameter tsx=on may be required.

# for w in `cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -m1 flags `;do echo $w | grep rtm ; done
rtm

Test program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <immintrin.h>

int main()
{
int x = 0;

if (_xbegin() == _XBEGIN_STARTED) {
x = 1;
_xabort(1);
} else {
printf("x = %d\n", x);
}
return 0;
}

Compile with -mrtm i.e.

gcc -Wall -Wextra -mrtm xabort.c -o xabort

Record:

perf record -e intel_pt/cyc/u --filter 'filter main @ ./xabort' ./xabort

Before:

# perf script --itrace=xe -F+flags,+insn,-period --xed --ns
xabort 1478 [007] 92161.431348581: transactions: x 400b81 main+0x14 (/root/xabort) mov $0xffffffff, %eax
xabort 1478 [007] 92161.431348624: transactions: tx abrt 400b93 main+0x26 (/root/xabort) mov $0xffffffff, %eax

After:

# perf script --itrace=xe -F+flags,+insn,-period --xed --ns
xabort 1478 [007] 92161.431348581: transactions: x 400b81 main+0x14 (/root/xabort) xbegin 0x6
xabort 1478 [007] 92161.431348624: transactions: tx abrt 400b93 main+0x26 (/root/xabort) xabort $0x1

Fixes: faaa87680b25d ("perf intel-pt/bts: Report instruction bytes and length in sample")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210519074515.9262-3-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
@@ -707,8 +707,10 @@ static int intel_pt_walk_next_insn(struc

*ip += intel_pt_insn->length;

- if (to_ip && *ip == to_ip)
+ if (to_ip && *ip == to_ip) {
+ intel_pt_insn->length = 0;
goto out_no_cache;
+ }

if (*ip >= al.map->end)
break;
@@ -1198,6 +1200,7 @@ static void intel_pt_set_pid_tid_cpu(str

static void intel_pt_sample_flags(struct intel_pt_queue *ptq)
{
+ ptq->insn_len = 0;
if (ptq->state->flags & INTEL_PT_ABORT_TX) {
ptq->flags = PERF_IP_FLAG_BRANCH | PERF_IP_FLAG_TX_ABORT;
} else if (ptq->state->flags & INTEL_PT_ASYNC) {