On 05/08/2014 03:24 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> > I noticed on some of my systems that page fault tracing doesn't work:
>> > 
>> > 	cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
>> > 	echo 1 > events/exceptions/enable
>> > 	cat trace;
>> > 	# nothing shows up
>> > 
>> > I eventually traced it down to CONFIG_KVM_GUEST.  At least in a KVM VM,
>> > enabling that option breaks page fault tracing, and disabling fixes it.
>> >  I tried on some old kernels and this does not appear to be a
>> > regression: it never worked.
>> > 
>> > Anybody have any theories about what is going on?

Looks like the KVM code calls do_page_fault() directly:

> dotraplinkage void __kprobes
> do_async_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
> {
>         enum ctx_state prev_state;
> 
>         switch (kvm_read_and_reset_pf_reason()) {
>         default:
>                 do_page_fault(regs, error_code);
>                 break;
>         case KVM_PV_REASON_PAGE_NOT_PRESENT:

That seems to explain my problems in a VM.  Any objections to doing
something like the attached patch?