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authorColton Lewis <[email protected]>2024-11-13 19:01:55 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2024-11-14 10:40:01 +0100
commit2c47e7a74f445426d156278e339b7abb259e50de (patch)
tree79794357b4d4ad9e9ced2172d508b30259946734
parentbaff01f3d75ff3948a0465853dcaa71c394c5c46 (diff)
perf/core: Correct perf sampling with guest VMs
Previously any PMU overflow interrupt that fired while a VCPU was loaded was recorded as a guest event whether it truly was or not. This resulted in nonsense perf recordings that did not honor perf_event_attr.exclude_guest and recorded guest IPs where it should have recorded host IPs. Rework the sampling logic to only record guest samples for events with exclude_guest = 0. This way any host-only events with exclude_guest set will never see unexpected guest samples. The behaviour of events with exclude_guest = 0 is unchanged. Note that events configured to sample both host and guest may still misattribute a PMI that arrived in the host as a guest event depending on KVM arch and vendor behavior. Signed-off-by: Colton Lewis <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <[email protected]> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> Acked-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h4
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/perf_callchain.c28
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/events/core.c3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_event.h21
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c21
5 files changed, 36 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h
index 31a5584ed423..ee45b4e77347 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h
@@ -10,10 +10,6 @@
#include <asm/ptrace.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
-struct pt_regs;
-extern unsigned long perf_arch_instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs);
-extern unsigned long perf_arch_misc_flags(struct pt_regs *regs);
-#define perf_arch_misc_flags(regs) perf_misc_flags(regs)
#define perf_arch_bpf_user_pt_regs(regs) &regs->user_regs
#endif
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_callchain.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_callchain.c
index 01a9d08fc009..9b7f26b128b5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_callchain.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_callchain.c
@@ -38,31 +38,3 @@ void perf_callchain_kernel(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry,
arch_stack_walk(callchain_trace, entry, current, regs);
}
-
-unsigned long perf_arch_instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
-{
- if (perf_guest_state())
- return perf_guest_get_ip();
-
- return instruction_pointer(regs);
-}
-
-unsigned long perf_arch_misc_flags(struct pt_regs *regs)
-{
- unsigned int guest_state = perf_guest_state();
- int misc = 0;
-
- if (guest_state) {
- if (guest_state & PERF_GUEST_USER)
- misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_USER;
- else
- misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL;
- } else {
- if (user_mode(regs))
- misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER;
- else
- misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL;
- }
-
- return misc;
-}
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c
index bfc0a35fe399..c75c482d4c52 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
@@ -3005,9 +3005,6 @@ static unsigned long code_segment_base(struct pt_regs *regs)
unsigned long perf_arch_instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- if (perf_guest_state())
- return perf_guest_get_ip();
-
return regs->ip + code_segment_base(regs);
}
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 3b4bf5e329f6..cb99ec8c9e96 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -1676,8 +1676,9 @@ extern void perf_tp_event(u16 event_type, u64 count, void *record,
struct task_struct *task);
extern void perf_bp_event(struct perf_event *event, void *data);
-extern unsigned long perf_misc_flags(struct pt_regs *regs);
-extern unsigned long perf_instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs);
+extern unsigned long perf_misc_flags(struct perf_event *event, struct pt_regs *regs);
+extern unsigned long perf_instruction_pointer(struct perf_event *event,
+ struct pt_regs *regs);
#ifndef perf_arch_misc_flags
# define perf_arch_misc_flags(regs) \
@@ -1688,6 +1689,22 @@ extern unsigned long perf_instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs);
# define perf_arch_bpf_user_pt_regs(regs) regs
#endif
+#ifndef perf_arch_guest_misc_flags
+static inline unsigned long perf_arch_guest_misc_flags(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ unsigned long guest_state = perf_guest_state();
+
+ if (!(guest_state & PERF_GUEST_ACTIVE))
+ return 0;
+
+ if (guest_state & PERF_GUEST_USER)
+ return PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_USER;
+ else
+ return PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL;
+}
+# define perf_arch_guest_misc_flags(regs) perf_arch_guest_misc_flags(regs)
+#endif
+
static inline bool has_branch_stack(struct perf_event *event)
{
return event->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK;
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 6050ce033ead..1869164a4e99 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7026,13 +7026,26 @@ void perf_unregister_guest_info_callbacks(struct perf_guest_info_callbacks *cbs)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_unregister_guest_info_callbacks);
#endif
-unsigned long perf_misc_flags(struct pt_regs *regs)
+static bool should_sample_guest(struct perf_event *event)
{
+ return !event->attr.exclude_guest && perf_guest_state();
+}
+
+unsigned long perf_misc_flags(struct perf_event *event,
+ struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ if (should_sample_guest(event))
+ return perf_arch_guest_misc_flags(regs);
+
return perf_arch_misc_flags(regs);
}
-unsigned long perf_instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
+unsigned long perf_instruction_pointer(struct perf_event *event,
+ struct pt_regs *regs)
{
+ if (should_sample_guest(event))
+ return perf_guest_get_ip();
+
return perf_arch_instruction_pointer(regs);
}
@@ -7853,7 +7866,7 @@ void perf_prepare_sample(struct perf_sample_data *data,
__perf_event_header__init_id(data, event, filtered_sample_type);
if (filtered_sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_IP) {
- data->ip = perf_instruction_pointer(regs);
+ data->ip = perf_instruction_pointer(event, regs);
data->sample_flags |= PERF_SAMPLE_IP;
}
@@ -8017,7 +8030,7 @@ void perf_prepare_header(struct perf_event_header *header,
{
header->type = PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE;
header->size = perf_sample_data_size(data, event);
- header->misc = perf_misc_flags(regs);
+ header->misc = perf_misc_flags(event, regs);
/*
* If you're adding more sample types here, you likely need to do