Boot code changes:
- A large series of changes to reorganize the x86 boot code into a better isolated
and easier to maintain base of PIC early startup code in arch/x86/boot/startup/,
by Ard Biesheuvel.
Motivation & background:
| Since commit
|
| c88d71508e ("x86/boot/64: Rewrite startup_64() in C")
|
| dated Jun 6 2017, we have been using C code on the boot path in a way
| that is not supported by the toolchain, i.e., to execute non-PIC C
| code from a mapping of memory that is different from the one provided
| to the linker. It should have been obvious at the time that this was a
| bad idea, given the need to sprinkle fixup_pointer() calls left and
| right to manipulate global variables (including non-pointer variables)
| without crashing.
|
| This C startup code has been expanding, and in particular, the SEV-SNP
| startup code has been expanding over the past couple of years, and
| grown many of these warts, where the C code needs to use special
| annotations or helpers to access global objects.
This tree includes the first phase of this work-in-progress x86 boot code
reorganization.
Scalability enhancements and micro-optimizations:
- Improve code-patching scalability (Eric Dumazet)
- Remove MFENCEs for X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR (Andrew Cooper)
CPU features enumeration updates:
- Thorough reorganization and cleanup of CPUID parsing APIs (Ahmed S. Darwish)
- Fix, refactor and clean up the cacheinfo code (Ahmed S. Darwish, Thomas Gleixner)
- Update CPUID bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v2.3 (Ahmed S. Darwish)
Memory management changes:
- Allow temporary MMs when IRQs are on (Andy Lutomirski)
- Opt-in to IRQs-off activate_mm() (Andy Lutomirski)
- Simplify choose_new_asid() and generate better code (Borislav Petkov)
- Simplify 32-bit PAE page table handling (Dave Hansen)
- Always use dynamic memory layout (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Make 5-level paging support unconditional (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Stop prefetching current->mm->mmap_lock on page faults (Mateusz Guzik)
- Predict valid_user_address() returning true (Mateusz Guzik)
- Consolidate initmem_init() (Mike Rapoport)
FPU support and vector computing:
- Enable Intel APX support (Chang S. Bae)
- Reorgnize and clean up the xstate code (Chang S. Bae)
- Make task_struct::thread constant size (Ingo Molnar)
- Restore fpu_thread_struct_whitelist() to fix CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y
(Kees Cook)
- Simplify the switch_fpu_prepare() + switch_fpu_finish() logic (Oleg Nesterov)
- Always preserve non-user xfeatures/flags in __state_perm (Sean Christopherson)
Microcode loader changes:
- Help users notice when running old Intel microcode (Dave Hansen)
- AMD: Do not return error when microcode update is not necessary (Annie Li)
- AMD: Clean the cache if update did not load microcode (Boris Ostrovsky)
Code patching (alternatives) changes:
- Simplify, reorganize and clean up the x86 text-patching code (Ingo Molnar)
- Make smp_text_poke_batch_process() subsume smp_text_poke_batch_finish()
(Nikolay Borisov)
- Refactor the {,un}use_temporary_mm() code (Peter Zijlstra)
Debugging support:
- Add early IDT and GDT loading to debug relocate_kernel() bugs (David Woodhouse)
- Print the reason for the last reset on modern AMD CPUs (Yazen Ghannam)
- Add AMD Zen debugging document (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix opcode map (!REX2) superscript tags (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Stop decoding i64 instructions in x86-64 mode at opcode (Masami Hiramatsu)
CPU bugs and bug mitigations:
- Remove X86_BUG_MMIO_UNKNOWN (Borislav Petkov)
- Fix SRSO reporting on Zen1/2 with SMT disabled (Borislav Petkov)
- Restructure and harmonize the various CPU bug mitigation methods
(David Kaplan)
- Fix spectre_v2 mitigation default on Intel (Pawan Gupta)
MSR API:
- Large MSR code and API cleanup (Xin Li)
- In-kernel MSR API type cleanups and renames (Ingo Molnar)
PKEYS:
- Simplify PKRU update in signal frame (Chang S. Bae)
NMI handling code:
- Clean up, refactor and simplify the NMI handling code (Sohil Mehta)
- Improve NMI duration console printouts (Sohil Mehta)
Paravirt guests interface:
- Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only (Kirill A. Shutemov)
SEV support:
- Share the sev_secrets_pa value again (Tom Lendacky)
x86 platform changes:
- Introduce the <asm/amd/> header namespace (Ingo Molnar)
- i2c: piix4, x86/platform: Move the SB800 PIIX4 FCH definitions to <asm/amd/fch.h>
(Mario Limonciello)
Fixes and cleanups:
- x86 assembly code cleanups and fixes (Uros Bizjak)
- Misc fixes and cleanups (Andi Kleen, Andy Lutomirski, Andy Shevchenko,
Ard Biesheuvel, Bagas Sanjaya, Baoquan He, Borislav Petkov, Chang S. Bae,
Chao Gao, Dan Williams, Dave Hansen, David Kaplan, David Woodhouse,
Eric Biggers, Ingo Molnar, Josh Poimboeuf, Juergen Gross, Malaya Kumar Rout,
Mario Limonciello, Nathan Chancellor, Oleg Nesterov, Pawan Gupta,
Peter Zijlstra, Shivank Garg, Sohil Mehta, Thomas Gleixner, Uros Bizjak,
Xin Li)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'x86-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Boot code changes:
- A large series of changes to reorganize the x86 boot code into a
better isolated and easier to maintain base of PIC early startup
code in arch/x86/boot/startup/, by Ard Biesheuvel.
Motivation & background:
| Since commit
|
| c88d71508e ("x86/boot/64: Rewrite startup_64() in C")
|
| dated Jun 6 2017, we have been using C code on the boot path in a way
| that is not supported by the toolchain, i.e., to execute non-PIC C
| code from a mapping of memory that is different from the one provided
| to the linker. It should have been obvious at the time that this was a
| bad idea, given the need to sprinkle fixup_pointer() calls left and
| right to manipulate global variables (including non-pointer variables)
| without crashing.
|
| This C startup code has been expanding, and in particular, the SEV-SNP
| startup code has been expanding over the past couple of years, and
| grown many of these warts, where the C code needs to use special
| annotations or helpers to access global objects.
This tree includes the first phase of this work-in-progress x86
boot code reorganization.
Scalability enhancements and micro-optimizations:
- Improve code-patching scalability (Eric Dumazet)
- Remove MFENCEs for X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR (Andrew Cooper)
CPU features enumeration updates:
- Thorough reorganization and cleanup of CPUID parsing APIs (Ahmed S.
Darwish)
- Fix, refactor and clean up the cacheinfo code (Ahmed S. Darwish,
Thomas Gleixner)
- Update CPUID bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v2.3 (Ahmed S. Darwish)
Memory management changes:
- Allow temporary MMs when IRQs are on (Andy Lutomirski)
- Opt-in to IRQs-off activate_mm() (Andy Lutomirski)
- Simplify choose_new_asid() and generate better code (Borislav
Petkov)
- Simplify 32-bit PAE page table handling (Dave Hansen)
- Always use dynamic memory layout (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Make 5-level paging support unconditional (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Stop prefetching current->mm->mmap_lock on page faults (Mateusz
Guzik)
- Predict valid_user_address() returning true (Mateusz Guzik)
- Consolidate initmem_init() (Mike Rapoport)
FPU support and vector computing:
- Enable Intel APX support (Chang S. Bae)
- Reorgnize and clean up the xstate code (Chang S. Bae)
- Make task_struct::thread constant size (Ingo Molnar)
- Restore fpu_thread_struct_whitelist() to fix
CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y (Kees Cook)
- Simplify the switch_fpu_prepare() + switch_fpu_finish() logic (Oleg
Nesterov)
- Always preserve non-user xfeatures/flags in __state_perm (Sean
Christopherson)
Microcode loader changes:
- Help users notice when running old Intel microcode (Dave Hansen)
- AMD: Do not return error when microcode update is not necessary
(Annie Li)
- AMD: Clean the cache if update did not load microcode (Boris
Ostrovsky)
Code patching (alternatives) changes:
- Simplify, reorganize and clean up the x86 text-patching code (Ingo
Molnar)
- Make smp_text_poke_batch_process() subsume
smp_text_poke_batch_finish() (Nikolay Borisov)
- Refactor the {,un}use_temporary_mm() code (Peter Zijlstra)
Debugging support:
- Add early IDT and GDT loading to debug relocate_kernel() bugs
(David Woodhouse)
- Print the reason for the last reset on modern AMD CPUs (Yazen
Ghannam)
- Add AMD Zen debugging document (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix opcode map (!REX2) superscript tags (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Stop decoding i64 instructions in x86-64 mode at opcode (Masami
Hiramatsu)
CPU bugs and bug mitigations:
- Remove X86_BUG_MMIO_UNKNOWN (Borislav Petkov)
- Fix SRSO reporting on Zen1/2 with SMT disabled (Borislav Petkov)
- Restructure and harmonize the various CPU bug mitigation methods
(David Kaplan)
- Fix spectre_v2 mitigation default on Intel (Pawan Gupta)
MSR API:
- Large MSR code and API cleanup (Xin Li)
- In-kernel MSR API type cleanups and renames (Ingo Molnar)
PKEYS:
- Simplify PKRU update in signal frame (Chang S. Bae)
NMI handling code:
- Clean up, refactor and simplify the NMI handling code (Sohil Mehta)
- Improve NMI duration console printouts (Sohil Mehta)
Paravirt guests interface:
- Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only (Kirill A. Shutemov)
SEV support:
- Share the sev_secrets_pa value again (Tom Lendacky)
x86 platform changes:
- Introduce the <asm/amd/> header namespace (Ingo Molnar)
- i2c: piix4, x86/platform: Move the SB800 PIIX4 FCH definitions to
<asm/amd/fch.h> (Mario Limonciello)
Fixes and cleanups:
- x86 assembly code cleanups and fixes (Uros Bizjak)
- Misc fixes and cleanups (Andi Kleen, Andy Lutomirski, Andy
Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel, Bagas Sanjaya, Baoquan He, Borislav
Petkov, Chang S. Bae, Chao Gao, Dan Williams, Dave Hansen, David
Kaplan, David Woodhouse, Eric Biggers, Ingo Molnar, Josh Poimboeuf,
Juergen Gross, Malaya Kumar Rout, Mario Limonciello, Nathan
Chancellor, Oleg Nesterov, Pawan Gupta, Peter Zijlstra, Shivank
Garg, Sohil Mehta, Thomas Gleixner, Uros Bizjak, Xin Li)"
* tag 'x86-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (331 commits)
x86/bugs: Fix spectre_v2 mitigation default on Intel
x86/bugs: Restructure ITS mitigation
x86/xen/msr: Fix uninitialized variable 'err'
x86/msr: Remove a superfluous inclusion of <asm/asm.h>
x86/paravirt: Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only
x86/mm/64: Make 5-level paging support unconditional
x86/mm/64: Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model
x86/mm/64: Always use dynamic memory layout
x86/bugs: Fix indentation due to ITS merge
x86/cpuid: Rename hypervisor_cpuid_base()/for_each_possible_hypervisor_cpuid_base() to cpuid_base_hypervisor()/for_each_possible_cpuid_base_hypervisor()
x86/cpu/intel: Rename CPUID(0x2) descriptors iterator parameter
x86/cacheinfo: Rename CPUID(0x2) descriptors iterator parameter
x86/cpuid: Rename cpuid_get_leaf_0x2_regs() to cpuid_leaf_0x2()
x86/cpuid: Rename have_cpuid_p() to cpuid_feature()
x86/cpuid: Set <asm/cpuid/api.h> as the main CPUID header
x86/cpuid: Move CPUID(0x2) APIs into <cpuid/api.h>
x86/msr: Add rdmsrl_on_cpu() compatibility wrapper
x86/mm: Fix kernel-doc descriptions of various pgtable methods
x86/asm-offsets: Export certain 'struct cpuinfo_x86' fields for 64-bit asm use too
x86/boot: Defer initialization of VM space related global variables
...
The throttle support has been added in the generic code. Remove
the driver-specific throttle support.
Besides the throttle, perf_event_overflow may return true because of
event_limit. It already does an inatomic event disable. The pmu->stop
is not required either.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520181644.2673067-4-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Prepare to resolve conflicts with an upstream series of fixes that conflict
with pending x86 changes:
6f5bf947ba Merge tag 'its-for-linus-20250509' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Functions offer type safety and better readability compared to macros.
Additionally, always inline functions can match the performance of
macros. Converting the rdpmc() macro into an always inline function
is simple and straightforward, so just make the change.
Moreover, the read result is now the returned value, further enhancing
readability.
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250427092027.1598740-6-xin@zytor.com
For historic reasons there are some TSC-related functions in the
<asm/msr.h> header, even though there's an <asm/tsc.h> header.
To facilitate the relocation of rdtsc{,_ordered}() from <asm/msr.h>
to <asm/tsc.h> and to eventually eliminate the inclusion of
<asm/msr.h> in <asm/tsc.h>, add an explicit <asm/msr.h> dependency
to the source files that reference definitions from <asm/msr.h>.
[ mingo: Clarified the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250501054241.1245648-1-xin@zytor.com
The current is_x86_event has to go through the hybrid_pmus list to find
the matched pmu, then check if it's a X86 PMU and a X86 event. It's not
necessary.
The X86 PMU has a unique type ID on a non-hybrid machine, and a unique
capability type. They are good enough to do the check.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250424134718.311934-5-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
A warning in intel_pmu_lbr_counters_reorder() may be triggered by below
perf command.
perf record -e "{cpu-clock,cycles/call-graph="lbr"/}" -- sleep 1
It's because the group is mistakenly treated as a branch counter group.
The hw.flags of the leader are used to determine whether a group is a
branch counters group. However, the hw.flags is only available for a
hardware event. The field to store the flags is a union type. For a
software event, it's a hrtimer. The corresponding bit may be set if the
leader is a software event.
For a branch counter group and other groups that have a group flag
(e.g., topdown, PEBS counters snapshotting, and ACR), the leader must
be a X86 event. Check the X86 event before checking the flag.
The patch only fixes the issue for the branch counter group.
The following patch will fix the other groups.
There may be an alternative way to fix the issue by moving the hw.flags
out of the union type. It should work for now. But it's still possible
that the flags will be used by other types of events later. As long as
that type of event is used as a leader, a similar issue will be
triggered. So the alternative way is dropped.
Fixes: 3374491619 ("perf/x86/intel: Support branch counters logging")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250412091423.1839809-1-luogengkun@huaweicloud.com/
Reported-by: Luo Gengkun <luogengkun@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250424134718.311934-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Perf doesn't work at perf stat for hardware events on certain x86 platforms:
$perf stat -- sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
16.44 msec task-clock # 0.016 CPUs utilized
2 context-switches # 121.691 /sec
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 /sec
54 page-faults # 3.286 K/sec
<not supported> cycles
<not supported> instructions
<not supported> branches
<not supported> branch-misses
The reason is that the check in x86_pmu_hw_config() for sampling events is
unexpectedly applied to counting events as well.
It should only impact x86 platforms with limit_period used for non-PEBS
events. For Intel platforms, it should only impact some older platforms,
e.g., HSW, BDW and NHM.
Fixes: 88ec7eedbb ("perf/x86: Fix low freqency setting issue")
Signed-off-by: Luo Gengkun <luogengkun@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250423064724.3716211-1-luogengkun@huaweicloud.com
Arch-PEBS retires IA32_PEBS_ENABLE and MSR_PEBS_DATA_CFG MSRs, so
intel_pmu_pebs_enable/disable() and intel_pmu_pebs_enable/disable_all()
are not needed to call for ach-PEBS.
To make the code cleaner, introduce static calls
x86_pmu_pebs_enable/disable() and x86_pmu_pebs_enable/disable_all()
instead of adding "x86_pmu.arch_pebs" check directly in these helpers.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250415114428.341182-7-dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com
When decoding an instruction or handling a perf event that references an
LDT segment, if we don't have a valid user context, trying to access the
LDT by any means other than SLDT is racy. Certainly, using
current->active_mm is wrong, as active_mm can point to a real user mm when
CR3 and LDTR no longer reference that mm.
Clean up the code. If nmi_uaccess_okay() says we don't have a valid
context, just fail. Otherwise use current->mm.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402094540.3586683-3-mingo@kernel.org
This change alters the PowerPC and x86 driver implementations to record
the last sample period before the event is updated for the next period.
A common pattern in PMU driver implementations is to have a
"*_event_set_period" function which takes care of updating the various
period-related fields in a perf_event structure. In most cases, the
drivers choose to call this function after initializing a sample data
structure with perf_sample_data_init. The x86 and PowerPC drivers
deviate from this, choosing to update the period before initializing the
sample data. When using an event with an alternate sample period, this
causes an incorrect period to be written to the sample data that gets
reported to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Mark Barnett <mark.barnett@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250408171530.140858-2-mark.barnett@arm.com
The relative rates among two or more events are useful for performance
analysis, e.g., a high branch miss rate may indicate a performance
issue. Usually, the samples with a relative rate that exceeds some
threshold are more useful. However, the traditional sampling takes
samples of events separately. To get the relative rates among two or
more events, a high sample rate is required, which can bring high
overhead. Many samples taken in the non-hotspot area are also dropped
(useless) in the post-process.
The auto counter reload (ACR) feature takes samples when the relative
rate of two or more events exceeds some threshold, which provides the
fine-grained information at a low cost.
To support the feature, two sets of MSRs are introduced. For a given
counter IA32_PMC_GPn_CTR/IA32_PMC_FXm_CTR, bit fields in the
IA32_PMC_GPn_CFG_B/IA32_PMC_FXm_CFG_B MSR indicate which counter(s)
can cause a reload of that counter. The reload value is stored in the
IA32_PMC_GPn_CFG_C/IA32_PMC_FXm_CFG_C.
The details can be found at Intel SDM (085), Volume 3, 21.9.11 Auto
Counter Reload.
In the hw_config(), an ACR event is specially configured, because the
cause/reloadable counter mask has to be applied to the dyn_constraint.
Besides the HW limit, e.g., not support perf metrics, PDist and etc, a
SW limit is applied as well. ACR events in a group must be contiguous.
It facilitates the later conversion from the event idx to the counter
idx. Otherwise, the intel_pmu_acr_late_setup() has to traverse the whole
event list again to find the "cause" event.
Also, add a new flag PERF_X86_EVENT_ACR to indicate an ACR group, which
is set to the group leader.
The late setup() is also required for an ACR group. It's to convert the
event idx to the counter idx, and saved it in hw.config1.
The ACR configuration MSRs are only updated in the enable_event().
The disable_event() doesn't clear the ACR CFG register.
Add acr_cfg_b/acr_cfg_c in the struct cpu_hw_events to cache the MSR
values. It can avoid a MSR write if the value is not changed.
Expose an acr_mask to the sysfs. The perf tool can utilize the new
format to configure the relation of events in the group. The bit
sequence of the acr_mask follows the events enabled order of the group.
Example:
Here is the snippet of the mispredict.c. Since the array has a random
numbers, jumps are random and often mispredicted.
The mispredicted rate depends on the compared value.
For the Loop1, ~11% of all branches are mispredicted.
For the Loop2, ~21% of all branches are mispredicted.
main()
{
...
for (i = 0; i < N; i++)
data[i] = rand() % 256;
...
/* Loop 1 */
for (k = 0; k < 50; k++)
for (i = 0; i < N; i++)
if (data[i] >= 64)
sum += data[i];
...
...
/* Loop 2 */
for (k = 0; k < 50; k++)
for (i = 0; i < N; i++)
if (data[i] >= 128)
sum += data[i];
...
}
Usually, a code with a high branch miss rate means a bad performance.
To understand the branch miss rate of the codes, the traditional method
usually samples both branches and branch-misses events. E.g.,
perf record -e "{cpu_atom/branch-misses/ppu, cpu_atom/branch-instructions/u}"
-c 1000000 -- ./mispredict
[ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.925 MB perf.data (5106 samples) ]
The 5106 samples are from both events and spread in both Loops.
In the post-process stage, a user can know that the Loop 2 has a 21%
branch miss rate. Then they can focus on the samples of branch-misses
events for the Loop 2.
With this patch, the user can generate the samples only when the branch
miss rate > 20%. For example,
perf record -e "{cpu_atom/branch-misses,period=200000,acr_mask=0x2/ppu,
cpu_atom/branch-instructions,period=1000000,acr_mask=0x3/u}"
-- ./mispredict
(Two different periods are applied to branch-misses and
branch-instructions. The ratio is set to 20%.
If the branch-instructions is overflowed first, the branch-miss
rate < 20%. No samples should be generated. All counters should be
automatically reloaded.
If the branch-misses is overflowed first, the branch-miss rate > 20%.
A sample triggered by the branch-misses event should be
generated. Just the counter of the branch-instructions should be
automatically reloaded.
The branch-misses event should only be automatically reloaded when
the branch-instructions is overflowed. So the "cause" event is the
branch-instructions event. The acr_mask is set to 0x2, since the
event index in the group of branch-instructions is 1.
The branch-instructions event is automatically reloaded no matter which
events are overflowed. So the "cause" events are the branch-misses
and the branch-instructions event. The acr_mask should be set to 0x3.)
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.098 MB perf.data (2498 samples) ]
$perf report
Percent │154: movl $0x0,-0x14(%rbp)
│ ↓ jmp 1af
│ for (i = j; i < N; i++)
│15d: mov -0x10(%rbp),%eax
│ mov %eax,-0x18(%rbp)
│ ↓ jmp 1a2
│ if (data[i] >= 128)
│165: mov -0x18(%rbp),%eax
│ cltq
│ lea 0x0(,%rax,4),%rdx
│ mov -0x8(%rbp),%rax
│ add %rdx,%rax
│ mov (%rax),%eax
│ ┌──cmp $0x7f,%eax
100.00 0.00 │ ├──jle 19e
│ │sum += data[i];
The 2498 samples are all from the branch-misses events for the Loop 2.
The number of samples and overhead is significantly reduced without
losing any information.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250327195217.2683619-6-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
More and more features require a dynamic event constraint, e.g., branch
counter logging, auto counter reload, Arch PEBS, etc.
Add a generic flag, PMU_FL_DYN_CONSTRAINT, to indicate the case. It
avoids keeping adding the individual flag in intel_cpuc_prepare().
Add a variable dyn_constraint in the struct hw_perf_event to track the
dynamic constraint of the event. Apply it if it's updated.
Apply the generic dynamic constraint for branch counter logging.
Many features on and after V6 require dynamic constraint. So
unconditionally set the flag for V6+.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250327195217.2683619-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
two locking commits in the locking tree,
part of the locking-core-2025-03-22 pull request. ]
x86 CPU features support:
- Generate the <asm/cpufeaturemasks.h> header based on build config
(H. Peter Anvin, Xin Li)
- x86 CPUID parsing updates and fixes (Ahmed S. Darwish)
- Introduce the 'setcpuid=' boot parameter (Brendan Jackman)
- Enable modifying CPU bug flags with '{clear,set}puid='
(Brendan Jackman)
- Utilize CPU-type for CPU matching (Pawan Gupta)
- Warn about unmet CPU feature dependencies (Sohil Mehta)
- Prepare for new Intel Family numbers (Sohil Mehta)
Percpu code:
- Standardize & reorganize the x86 percpu layout and
related cleanups (Brian Gerst)
- Convert the stackprotector canary to a regular percpu
variable (Brian Gerst)
- Add a percpu subsection for cache hot data (Brian Gerst)
- Unify __pcpu_op{1,2}_N() macros to __pcpu_op_N() (Uros Bizjak)
- Construct __percpu_seg_override from __percpu_seg (Uros Bizjak)
MM:
- Add support for broadcast TLB invalidation using AMD's INVLPGB instruction
(Rik van Riel)
- Rework ROX cache to avoid writable copy (Mike Rapoport)
- PAT: restore large ROX pages after fragmentation
(Kirill A. Shutemov, Mike Rapoport)
- Make memremap(MEMREMAP_WB) map memory as encrypted by default
(Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Robustify page table initialization (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs (Jann Horn)
- Clear _PAGE_DIRTY for kernel mappings when we clear _PAGE_RW
(Matthew Wilcox)
KASLR:
- x86/kaslr: Reduce KASLR entropy on most x86 systems,
to support PCI BAR space beyond the 10TiB region
(CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA=y) (Balbir Singh)
CPU bugs:
- Implement FineIBT-BHI mitigation (Peter Zijlstra)
- speculation: Simplify and make CALL_NOSPEC consistent (Pawan Gupta)
- speculation: Add a conditional CS prefix to CALL_NOSPEC (Pawan Gupta)
- RFDS: Exclude P-only parts from the RFDS affected list (Pawan Gupta)
System calls:
- Break up entry/common.c (Brian Gerst)
- Move sysctls into arch/x86 (Joel Granados)
Intel LAM support updates: (Maciej Wieczor-Retman)
- selftests/lam: Move cpu_has_la57() to use cpuinfo flag
- selftests/lam: Skip test if LAM is disabled
- selftests/lam: Test get_user() LAM pointer handling
AMD SMN access updates:
- Add SMN offsets to exclusive region access (Mario Limonciello)
- Add support for debugfs access to SMN registers (Mario Limonciello)
- Have HSMP use SMN through AMD_NODE (Yazen Ghannam)
Power management updates: (Patryk Wlazlyn)
- Allow calling mwait_play_dead with an arbitrary hint
- ACPI/processor_idle: Add FFH state handling
- intel_idle: Provide the default enter_dead() handler
- Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()
Bootup:
Build system:
- Raise the minimum GCC version to 8.1 (Brian Gerst)
- Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0
(Nathan Chancellor)
Kconfig: (Arnd Bergmann)
- Add cmpxchg8b support back to Geode CPUs
- Drop 32-bit "bigsmp" machine support
- Rework CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU compiler flags
- Drop configuration options for early 64-bit CPUs
- Remove CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G support
- Drop CONFIG_SWIOTLB for PAE
- Drop support for CONFIG_HIGHPTE
- Document CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MID as 64-bit-only
- Remove old STA2x11 support
- Only allow CONFIG_EISA for 32-bit
Headers:
- Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI and non-UAPI headers
(Thomas Huth)
Assembly code & machine code patching:
- x86/alternatives: Simplify alternative_call() interface (Josh Poimboeuf)
- x86/alternatives: Simplify callthunk patching (Peter Zijlstra)
- KVM: VMX: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
- x86/hyperv: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
- x86/traps: Cleanup and robustify decode_bug() (Peter Zijlstra)
- x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from <asm/asm.h>
(Uros Bizjak)
- Use named operands in inline asm (Uros Bizjak)
- Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking instructions
(Uros Bizjak)
Earlyprintk:
- Harden early_serial (Peter Zijlstra)
NMI handler:
- Add an emergency handler in nmi_desc & use it in nmi_shootdown_cpus()
(Waiman Long)
Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups:
- by Ahmed S. Darwish, Andy Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel,
Artem Bityutskiy, Borislav Petkov, Brendan Jackman, Brian Gerst,
Dan Carpenter, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, H. Peter Anvin,
Ingo Molnar, Josh Poimboeuf, Kevin Brodsky, Mike Rapoport,
Lukas Bulwahn, Maciej Wieczor-Retman, Max Grobecker,
Patryk Wlazlyn, Pawan Gupta, Peter Zijlstra,
Philip Redkin, Qasim Ijaz, Rik van Riel, Thomas Gleixner,
Thorsten Blum, Tom Lendacky, Tony Luck, Uros Bizjak,
Vitaly Kuznetsov, Xin Li, liuye.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'x86-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
"x86 CPU features support:
- Generate the <asm/cpufeaturemasks.h> header based on build config
(H. Peter Anvin, Xin Li)
- x86 CPUID parsing updates and fixes (Ahmed S. Darwish)
- Introduce the 'setcpuid=' boot parameter (Brendan Jackman)
- Enable modifying CPU bug flags with '{clear,set}puid=' (Brendan
Jackman)
- Utilize CPU-type for CPU matching (Pawan Gupta)
- Warn about unmet CPU feature dependencies (Sohil Mehta)
- Prepare for new Intel Family numbers (Sohil Mehta)
Percpu code:
- Standardize & reorganize the x86 percpu layout and related cleanups
(Brian Gerst)
- Convert the stackprotector canary to a regular percpu variable
(Brian Gerst)
- Add a percpu subsection for cache hot data (Brian Gerst)
- Unify __pcpu_op{1,2}_N() macros to __pcpu_op_N() (Uros Bizjak)
- Construct __percpu_seg_override from __percpu_seg (Uros Bizjak)
MM:
- Add support for broadcast TLB invalidation using AMD's INVLPGB
instruction (Rik van Riel)
- Rework ROX cache to avoid writable copy (Mike Rapoport)
- PAT: restore large ROX pages after fragmentation (Kirill A.
Shutemov, Mike Rapoport)
- Make memremap(MEMREMAP_WB) map memory as encrypted by default
(Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Robustify page table initialization (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs (Jann Horn)
- Clear _PAGE_DIRTY for kernel mappings when we clear _PAGE_RW
(Matthew Wilcox)
KASLR:
- x86/kaslr: Reduce KASLR entropy on most x86 systems, to support PCI
BAR space beyond the 10TiB region (CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA=y) (Balbir
Singh)
CPU bugs:
- Implement FineIBT-BHI mitigation (Peter Zijlstra)
- speculation: Simplify and make CALL_NOSPEC consistent (Pawan Gupta)
- speculation: Add a conditional CS prefix to CALL_NOSPEC (Pawan
Gupta)
- RFDS: Exclude P-only parts from the RFDS affected list (Pawan
Gupta)
System calls:
- Break up entry/common.c (Brian Gerst)
- Move sysctls into arch/x86 (Joel Granados)
Intel LAM support updates: (Maciej Wieczor-Retman)
- selftests/lam: Move cpu_has_la57() to use cpuinfo flag
- selftests/lam: Skip test if LAM is disabled
- selftests/lam: Test get_user() LAM pointer handling
AMD SMN access updates:
- Add SMN offsets to exclusive region access (Mario Limonciello)
- Add support for debugfs access to SMN registers (Mario Limonciello)
- Have HSMP use SMN through AMD_NODE (Yazen Ghannam)
Power management updates: (Patryk Wlazlyn)
- Allow calling mwait_play_dead with an arbitrary hint
- ACPI/processor_idle: Add FFH state handling
- intel_idle: Provide the default enter_dead() handler
- Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()
Build system:
- Raise the minimum GCC version to 8.1 (Brian Gerst)
- Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0 (Nathan Chancellor)
Kconfig: (Arnd Bergmann)
- Add cmpxchg8b support back to Geode CPUs
- Drop 32-bit "bigsmp" machine support
- Rework CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU compiler flags
- Drop configuration options for early 64-bit CPUs
- Remove CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G support
- Drop CONFIG_SWIOTLB for PAE
- Drop support for CONFIG_HIGHPTE
- Document CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MID as 64-bit-only
- Remove old STA2x11 support
- Only allow CONFIG_EISA for 32-bit
Headers:
- Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI and non-UAPI
headers (Thomas Huth)
Assembly code & machine code patching:
- x86/alternatives: Simplify alternative_call() interface (Josh
Poimboeuf)
- x86/alternatives: Simplify callthunk patching (Peter Zijlstra)
- KVM: VMX: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
- x86/hyperv: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
- x86/traps: Cleanup and robustify decode_bug() (Peter Zijlstra)
- x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from
<asm/asm.h> (Uros Bizjak)
- Use named operands in inline asm (Uros Bizjak)
- Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking
instructions (Uros Bizjak)
Earlyprintk:
- Harden early_serial (Peter Zijlstra)
NMI handler:
- Add an emergency handler in nmi_desc & use it in
nmi_shootdown_cpus() (Waiman Long)
Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups:
- by Ahmed S. Darwish, Andy Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel, Artem
Bityutskiy, Borislav Petkov, Brendan Jackman, Brian Gerst, Dan
Carpenter, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, H. Peter Anvin, Ingo Molnar,
Josh Poimboeuf, Kevin Brodsky, Mike Rapoport, Lukas Bulwahn, Maciej
Wieczor-Retman, Max Grobecker, Patryk Wlazlyn, Pawan Gupta, Peter
Zijlstra, Philip Redkin, Qasim Ijaz, Rik van Riel, Thomas Gleixner,
Thorsten Blum, Tom Lendacky, Tony Luck, Uros Bizjak, Vitaly
Kuznetsov, Xin Li, liuye"
* tag 'x86-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (211 commits)
zstd: Increase DYNAMIC_BMI2 GCC version cutoff from 4.8 to 11.0 to work around compiler segfault
x86/asm: Make asm export of __ref_stack_chk_guard unconditional
x86/mm: Only do broadcast flush from reclaim if pages were unmapped
perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Replace Pentium 4 model checks with VFM ones
perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Simplify Intel PMU initialization
x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-UAPI headers
x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI headers
x86/locking/atomic: Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking instructions
x86/asm: Use asm_inline() instead of asm() in clwb()
x86/asm: Use CLFLUSHOPT and CLWB mnemonics in <asm/special_insns.h>
x86/hweight: Use asm_inline() instead of asm()
x86/hweight: Use ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT in inline asm()
x86/hweight: Use named operands in inline asm()
x86/stackprotector/64: Only export __ref_stack_chk_guard on CONFIG_SMP
x86/head/64: Avoid Clang < 17 stack protector in startup code
x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from <asm/asm.h>
x86/runtime-const: Add the RUNTIME_CONST_PTR assembly macro
x86/cpu/intel: Limit the non-architectural constant_tsc model checks
x86/mm/pat: Replace Intel x86_model checks with VFM ones
x86/cpu/intel: Fix fast string initialization for extended Families
...
The pmu specific data is saved in task_struct now. It doesn't need to
swap between context.
Remove swap_task_ctx() support.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314172700.438923-6-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
To save/restore LBR call stack data in system-wide mode, the task_struct
information is required.
Extend the parameters of sched_task() to supply task_struct information.
When schedule in, the LBR call stack data for new task will be restored.
When schedule out, the LBR call stack data for old task will be saved.
Only need to pass the required task_struct information.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314172700.438923-4-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Perf doesn't work at low frequencies:
$ perf record -e cpu_core/instructions/ppp -F 120
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument)
for event (cpu_core/instructions/ppp).
"dmesg | grep -i perf" may provide additional information.
The limit_period() check avoids a low sampling period on a counter. It
doesn't intend to limit the frequency.
The check in the x86_pmu_hw_config() should be limited to non-freq mode.
The attr.sample_period and attr.sample_freq are union. The
attr.sample_period should not be used to indicate the frequency mode.
Fixes: c46e665f03 ("perf/x86: Add INST_RETIRED.ALL workarounds")
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250117151913.3043942-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250115154949.3147-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com/
Pretty much every caller of is_endbr() actually wants to test something at an
address and ends up doing get_kernel_nofault(). Fold the lot into a more
convenient helper.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250207122546.181367417@infradead.org
The counters snapshotting is a new adaptive PEBS extension, which can
capture programmable counters, fixed-function counters, and performance
metrics in a PEBS record. The feature is available in the PEBS format
V6.
The target counters can be configured in the new fields of MSR_PEBS_CFG.
Then the PEBS HW will generate the bit mask of counters (Counters Group
Header) followed by the content of all the requested counters into a
PEBS record.
The current Linux perf sample read feature can read all events in the
group when any event in the group is overflowed. But the rdpmc in the
NMI/overflow handler has a small gap from overflow. Also, there is some
overhead for each rdpmc read. The counters snapshotting feature can be
used as an accurate and low-overhead replacement.
Extend intel_update_topdown_event() to accept the value from PEBS
records.
Add a new PEBS_CNTR flag to indicate a sample read group that utilizes
the counters snapshotting feature. When the group is scheduled, the
PEBS configure can be updated accordingly.
To prevent the case that a PEBS record value might be in the past
relative to what is already in the event, perf always stops the PMU and
drains the PEBS buffer before updating the corresponding event->count.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250121152303.3128733-4-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Check sample_type in perf_sample_save_brstack() to prevent
saving branch stack data when it isn't required.
Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240515193610.2350456-4-yabinc@google.com
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 <coltonlewis@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113190156.2145593-6-coltonlewis@google.com
Break the assignment logic for misc flags into their own respective
functions to reduce the complexity of the nested logic.
Signed-off-by: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113190156.2145593-5-coltonlewis@google.com
For clarity, rename the arch-specific definitions of these functions
to perf_arch_* to denote they are arch-specifc. Define the
generic-named functions in one place where they can call the
arch-specific ones as needed.
Signed-off-by: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113190156.2145593-3-coltonlewis@google.com
When tracing user functions with uprobe functionality, it's common to
install the probe (e.g., a BPF program) at the first instruction of the
function. This is often going to be `push %rbp` instruction in function
preamble, which means that within that function frame pointer hasn't
been established yet. This leads to consistently missing an actual
caller of the traced function, because perf_callchain_user() only
records current IP (capturing traced function) and then following frame
pointer chain (which would be caller's frame, containing the address of
caller's caller).
So when we have target_1 -> target_2 -> target_3 call chain and we are
tracing an entry to target_3, captured stack trace will report
target_1 -> target_3 call chain, which is wrong and confusing.
This patch proposes a x86-64-specific heuristic to detect `push %rbp`
(`push %ebp` on 32-bit architecture) instruction being traced. Given
entire kernel implementation of user space stack trace capturing works
under assumption that user space code was compiled with frame pointer
register (%rbp/%ebp) preservation, it seems pretty reasonable to use
this instruction as a strong indicator that this is the entry to the
function. In that case, return address is still pointed to by %rsp/%esp,
so we fetch it and add to stack trace before proceeding to unwind the
rest using frame pointer-based logic.
We also check for `endbr64` (for 64-bit modes) as another common pattern
for function entry, as suggested by Josh Poimboeuf. Even if we get this
wrong sometimes for uprobes attached not at the function entry, it's OK
because stack trace will still be overall meaningful, just with one
extra bogus entry. If we don't detect this, we end up with guaranteed to
be missing caller function entry in the stack trace, which is worse
overall.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240729175223.23914-1-andrii@kernel.org
The following bug was triggered on a system built with
CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y:
# echo p > /proc/sysrq-trigger
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: sh/117
caller is perf_event_print_debug+0x1a/0x4c0
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 117 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.11.0-rc1 #109
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x4f/0x60
check_preemption_disabled+0xc8/0xd0
perf_event_print_debug+0x1a/0x4c0
__handle_sysrq+0x140/0x180
write_sysrq_trigger+0x61/0x70
proc_reg_write+0x4e/0x70
vfs_write+0xd0/0x430
? handle_mm_fault+0xc8/0x240
ksys_write+0x9c/0xd0
do_syscall_64+0x96/0x190
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
This is because the commit d4b294bf84 ("perf/x86: Hybrid PMU support
for counters") took smp_processor_id() outside the irq critical section.
If a preemption occurs in perf_event_print_debug() and the task is
migrated to another cpu, we may get incorrect pmu debug information.
Move smp_processor_id() back inside the irq critical section to fix this
issue.
Fixes: d4b294bf84 ("perf/x86: Hybrid PMU support for counters")
Signed-off-by: Li Huafei <lihuafei1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240729220928.325449-1-lihuafei1@huawei.com
- Intel PT support enhancements & fixes
- Fix leaked SIGTRAP events
- Improve and fix the Intel uncore driver
- Add support for Intel HBM and CXL uncore counters
- Add Intel Lake and Arrow Lake support
- AMD uncore driver fixes
- Make SIGTRAP and __perf_pending_irq() work on RT
- Micro-optimizations
- Misc cleanups and fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-2024-07-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Intel PT support enhancements & fixes
- Fix leaked SIGTRAP events
- Improve and fix the Intel uncore driver
- Add support for Intel HBM and CXL uncore counters
- Add Intel Lake and Arrow Lake support
- AMD uncore driver fixes
- Make SIGTRAP and __perf_pending_irq() work on RT
- Micro-optimizations
- Misc cleanups and fixes
* tag 'perf-core-2024-07-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
perf/x86/intel: Add a distinct name for Granite Rapids
perf/x86/intel/ds: Fix non 0 retire latency on Raptorlake
perf/x86/intel: Hide Topdown metrics events if the feature is not enumerated
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix the bits of the CHA extended umask for SPR
perf: Split __perf_pending_irq() out of perf_pending_irq()
perf: Don't disable preemption in perf_pending_task().
perf: Move swevent_htable::recursion into task_struct.
perf: Shrink the size of the recursion counter.
perf: Enqueue SIGTRAP always via task_work.
task_work: Add TWA_NMI_CURRENT as an additional notify mode.
perf: Move irq_work_queue() where the event is prepared.
perf: Fix event leak upon exec and file release
perf: Fix event leak upon exit
task_work: Introduce task_work_cancel() again
task_work: s/task_work_cancel()/task_work_cancel_func()/
perf/x86/amd/uncore: Fix DF and UMC domain identification
perf/x86/amd/uncore: Avoid PMU registration if counters are unavailable
perf/x86/intel: Support Perfmon MSRs aliasing
perf/x86/intel: Support PERFEVTSEL extension
perf/x86: Add config_mask to represent EVENTSEL bitmask
...
The architectural performance monitoring V6 supports a new range of
counters' MSRs in the 19xxH address range. They include all the GP
counter MSRs, the GP control MSRs, and the fixed counter MSRs.
The step between each sibling counter is 4. Add intel_pmu_addr_offset()
to calculate the correct offset.
Add fixedctr in struct x86_pmu to store the address of the fixed counter
0. It can be used to calculate the rest of the fixed counters.
The MSR address of the fixed counter control is not changed.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626143545.480761-9-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Different vendors may support different fields in EVENTSEL MSR, such as
Intel would introduce new fields umask2 and eq bits in EVENTSEL MSR
since Perfmon version 6. However, a fixed mask X86_RAW_EVENT_MASK is
used to filter the attr.config.
Introduce a new config_mask to record the real supported EVENTSEL
bitmask.
Only apply it to the existing code now. No functional change.
Co-developed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626143545.480761-7-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
The current perf assumes that both GP and fixed counters are contiguous.
But it's not guaranteed on newer Intel platforms or in a virtualization
environment.
Use the counter mask to replace the number of counters for both GP and
the fixed counters. For the other ARCHs or old platforms which don't
support a counter mask, using GENMASK_ULL(num_counter - 1, 0) to
replace. There is no functional change for them.
The interface to KVM is not changed. The number of counters still be
passed to KVM. It can be updated later separately.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626143545.480761-3-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Yue and Xingwei reported a jump label failure. It's caused by the lack of
serialization in set_attr_rdpmc():
CPU0 CPU1
Assume: x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc == 0
if (val != x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc) {
if (val == 0)
...
else if (x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc == 0)
static_branch_dec(&rdpmc_never_available_key);
if (val != x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc) {
if (val == 0)
...
else if (x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc == 0)
FAIL, due to imbalance ---> static_branch_dec(&rdpmc_never_available_key);
The reported BUG() is a consequence of the above and of another bug in the
jump label core code. The core code needs a separate fix, but that cannot
prevent the imbalance problem caused by set_attr_rdpmc().
Prevent this by serializing set_attr_rdpmc() locally.
Fixes: a66734297f ("perf/x86: Add /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 to allow rdpmc for all tasks")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAEkJfYNzfW1vG=ZTMdz_Weoo=RXY1NDunbxnDaLyj8R4kEoE_w@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Yue Sun <samsun1006219@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xingwei Lee <xrivendell7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240610124406.359476013@linutronix.de
On x86 each struct cpu_hw_events maintains a table for counter assignment but
it missed to update one for the deleted event in x86_pmu_del(). This
can make perf_clear_dirty_counters() reset used counter if it's called
before event scheduling or enabling. Then it would return out of range
data which doesn't make sense.
The following code can reproduce the problem.
$ cat repro.c
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
struct perf_event_attr attr = {
.type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
.config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
.disabled = 1,
};
void *worker(void *arg)
{
int cpu = (long)arg;
int fd1 = syscall(SYS_perf_event_open, &attr, -1, cpu, -1, 0);
int fd2 = syscall(SYS_perf_event_open, &attr, -1, cpu, -1, 0);
void *p;
do {
ioctl(fd1, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0);
p = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd1, 0);
ioctl(fd2, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0);
ioctl(fd2, PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE, 0);
munmap(p, 4096);
ioctl(fd1, PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE, 0);
} while (1);
return NULL;
}
int main(void)
{
int i;
int n = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
pthread_t *th = calloc(n, sizeof(*th));
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
pthread_create(&th[i], NULL, worker, (void *)(long)i);
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
pthread_join(th[i], NULL);
free(th);
return 0;
}
And you can see the out of range data using perf stat like this.
Probably it'd be easier to see on a large machine.
$ gcc -o repro repro.c -pthread
$ ./repro &
$ sudo perf stat -A -I 1000 2>&1 | awk '{ if (length($3) > 15) print }'
1.001028462 CPU6 196,719,295,683,763 cycles # 194290.996 GHz (71.54%)
1.001028462 CPU3 396,077,485,787,730 branch-misses # 15804359784.80% of all branches (71.07%)
1.001028462 CPU17 197,608,350,727,877 branch-misses # 14594186554.56% of all branches (71.22%)
2.020064073 CPU4 198,372,472,612,140 cycles # 194681.113 GHz (70.95%)
2.020064073 CPU6 199,419,277,896,696 cycles # 195720.007 GHz (70.57%)
2.020064073 CPU20 198,147,174,025,639 cycles # 194474.654 GHz (71.03%)
2.020064073 CPU20 198,421,240,580,145 stalled-cycles-frontend # 100.14% frontend cycles idle (70.93%)
3.037443155 CPU4 197,382,689,923,416 cycles # 194043.065 GHz (71.30%)
3.037443155 CPU20 196,324,797,879,414 cycles # 193003.773 GHz (71.69%)
3.037443155 CPU5 197,679,956,608,205 stalled-cycles-backend # 1315606428.66% backend cycles idle (71.19%)
3.037443155 CPU5 198,571,860,474,851 instructions # 13215422.58 insn per cycle
It should move the contents in the cpuc->assign as well.
Fixes: 5471eea5d3 ("perf/x86: Reset the dirty counter to prevent the leak for an RDPMC task")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240306061003.1894224-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Add a helper function to check call stack sample type.
The later patch will invoke the function in several places.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231025201626.3000228-3-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Currently, the additional information of a branch entry is stored in a
u64 space. With more and more information added, the space is running
out. For example, the information of occurrences of events will be added
for each branch.
Two places were suggested to append the counters.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230802215814.GH231007@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
One place is right after the flags of each branch entry. It changes the
existing struct perf_branch_entry. The later ARCH specific
implementation has to be really careful to consistently pick
the right struct.
The other place is right after the entire struct perf_branch_stack.
The disadvantage is that the pointer of the extra space has to be
recorded. The common interface perf_sample_save_brstack() has to be
updated.
The latter is much straightforward, and should be easily understood and
maintained. It is implemented in the patch.
Add a new branch sample type, PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COUNTERS, to indicate
the event which is recorded in the branch info.
The "u64 counters" may store the occurrences of several events. The
information regarding the number of events/counters and the width of
each counter should be exposed via sysfs as a reference for the perf
tool. Define the branch_counter_nr and branch_counter_width ABI here.
The support will be implemented later in the Intel-specific patch.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231025201626.3000228-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
There is a fairly long list of grievances about the current code. The
main beefs:
1. hybrid_big_small assumes that the *HARDWARE* (CPUID) provided
core types are a bitmap. They are not. If Intel happened to
make a core type of 0xff, hilarity would ensue.
2. adl_get_hybrid_cpu_type() utterly inscrutable. There are
precisely zero comments and zero changelog about what it is
attempting to do.
According to Kan, the adl_get_hybrid_cpu_type() is there because some
Alder Lake (ADL) CPUs can do some silly things. Some ADL models are
*supposed* to be hybrid CPUs with big and little cores, but there are
some SKUs that only have big cores. CPUID(0x1a) on those CPUs does
not say that the CPUs are big cores. It apparently just returns 0x0.
It confuses perf because it expects to see either 0x40 (Core) or
0x20 (Atom).
The perf workaround for this is to watch for a CPU core saying it is
type 0x0. If that happens on an Alder Lake, it calls
x86_pmu.get_hybrid_cpu_type() and just assumes that the core is a
Core (0x40) CPU.
To fix up the mess, separate out the CPU types and the 'pmu' types.
This allows 'hybrid_pmu_type' bitmaps without worrying that some
future CPU type will set multiple bits.
Since the types are now separate, add a function to glue them back
together again. Actual comment on the situation in the glue
function (find_hybrid_pmu_for_cpu()).
Also, give ->get_hybrid_cpu_type() a real return type and make it
clear that it is overriding the *CPU* type, not the PMU type.
Rename cpu_type to pmu_type in the struct x86_hybrid_pmu to reflect the
change.
Originally-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230829125806.3016082-6-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Since commit bd27568117 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling") the
relationship between perf_event_context and PMUs has changed so that
the error scenario that PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS originally
silenced no longer exists.
Remove the capability to avoid confusion that it actually influences
any perf core behavior. This change should be a no-op.
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230724134500.970496-3-james.clark@arm.com
Use local64_try_cmpxchg instead of local64_cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old.
x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF flag, so this change saves a
compare after cmpxchg (and related move instruction in front of cmpxchg).
Also, try_cmpxchg implicitly assigns old *ptr value to "old" when cmpxchg
fails. There is no need to re-read the value in the loop.
No functional change intended.
Cc. "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230706141720.2672-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
It missed to convert a PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK user to call the new
perf_sample_save_brstack() helper in order to update the dyn_size.
This affects AMD Zen3 machines with the branch-brs event.
Fixes: eb55b455ef ("perf/core: Add perf_sample_save_brstack() helper")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230427030527.580841-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Now that KVM disables vPMU support on hybrid CPUs, WARN and return zeros
if perf_get_x86_pmu_capability() is invoked on a hybrid CPU. The helper
doesn't provide an accurate accounting of the PMU capabilities for hybrid
CPUs and needs to be enhanced if KVM, or anything else outside of perf,
wants to act on the PMU capabilities.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220818181530.2355034-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20230208204230.1360502-3-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
