perf, x86: use LBR for PEBS IP+1 fixup

Use the LBR to fix up the PEBS IP+1 issue.

As said, PEBS reports the next instruction, here we use the LBR to find
the last branch and from that construct the actual IP. If the IP matches
the LBR-TO, we use LBR-FROM, otherwise we use the LBR-TO address as the
beginning of the last basic block and decode forward.

Once we find a match to the current IP, we use the previous location.

This patch introduces a new ABI element: PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT, which
conveys that the reported IP (PERF_SAMPLE_IP) is the exact instruction
that caused the event (barring CPU errata).

The fixup can fail due to various reasons:

 1) LBR contains invalid data (quite possible)
 2) part of the basic block got paged out
 3) the reported IP isn't part of the basic block (see 1)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.619375431@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 35 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index 1badff6b6b2..5cb4e8dcee4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -29,6 +29,41 @@
 #include <asm/stacktrace.h>
 #include <asm/nmi.h>
 
+/*
+ * best effort, GUP based copy_from_user() that assumes IRQ or NMI context
+ */
+static unsigned long
+copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
+{
+	unsigned long offset, addr = (unsigned long)from;
+	int type = in_nmi() ? KM_NMI : KM_IRQ0;
+	unsigned long size, len = 0;
+	struct page *page;
+	void *map;
+	int ret;
+
+	do {
+		ret = __get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, 0, &page);
+		if (!ret)
+			break;
+
+		offset = addr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
+		size = min(PAGE_SIZE - offset, n - len);
+
+		map = kmap_atomic(page, type);
+		memcpy(to, map+offset, size);
+		kunmap_atomic(map, type);
+		put_page(page);
+
+		len  += size;
+		to   += size;
+		addr += size;
+
+	} while (len < n);
+
+	return len;
+}
+
 static u64 perf_event_mask __read_mostly;
 
 struct event_constraint {
@@ -1550,41 +1585,6 @@ perf_callchain_kernel(struct pt_regs *regs, struct perf_callchain_entry *entry)
 	dump_trace(NULL, regs, NULL, regs->bp, &backtrace_ops, entry);
 }
 
-/*
- * best effort, GUP based copy_from_user() that assumes IRQ or NMI context
- */
-static unsigned long
-copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
-{
-	unsigned long offset, addr = (unsigned long)from;
-	int type = in_nmi() ? KM_NMI : KM_IRQ0;
-	unsigned long size, len = 0;
-	struct page *page;
-	void *map;
-	int ret;
-
-	do {
-		ret = __get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, 0, &page);
-		if (!ret)
-			break;
-
-		offset = addr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
-		size = min(PAGE_SIZE - offset, n - len);
-
-		map = kmap_atomic(page, type);
-		memcpy(to, map+offset, size);
-		kunmap_atomic(map, type);
-		put_page(page);
-
-		len  += size;
-		to   += size;
-		addr += size;
-
-	} while (len < n);
-
-	return len;
-}
-
 static int copy_stack_frame(const void __user *fp, struct stack_frame *frame)
 {
 	unsigned long bytes;