From 778141e3cf0bf29f91cd3cb5c314ea477b9402a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Namhyung Kim Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:41:46 +0900 Subject: perf: Reset hwc->last_period on sw clock events When cpu/task clock events are initialized, their sampling frequencies are converted to have a fixed value. However it missed to update the hwc->last_period which was set to 1 for initial sampling frequency calibration. Because this hwc->last_period value is used as a period in perf_swevent_ hrtime(), every recorded sample will have an incorrected period of 1. $ perf record -e task-clock noploop 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.158 MB perf.data (~6919 samples) ] $ perf report -n --show-total-period --stdio # Samples: 4K of event 'task-clock' # Event count (approx.): 4000 # # Overhead Samples Period Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............ ............ ....... ............. .................. # 99.95% 3998 3998 noploop noploop [.] main 0.03% 1 1 noploop libc-2.15.so [.] init_cacheinfo 0.03% 1 1 noploop ld-2.15.so [.] open_verify Note that it doesn't affect the non-sampling event so that the perf stat still gets correct value with or without this patch. $ perf stat -e task-clock noploop 1 Performance counter stats for 'noploop 1': 1000.272525 task-clock # 1.000 CPUs utilized 1.000560605 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363574507-18808-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/events') diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index b0cd86501c3..fa79c377d65 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -5647,6 +5647,7 @@ static void perf_swevent_init_hrtimer(struct perf_event *event) event->attr.sample_period = NSEC_PER_SEC / freq; hwc->sample_period = event->attr.sample_period; local64_set(&hwc->period_left, hwc->sample_period); + hwc->last_period = hwc->sample_period; event->attr.freq = 0; } } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2 From d610d98b5de6860feb21539726e9af7c9094151c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Namhyung Kim Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:27:13 +0900 Subject: perf: Generate EXIT event only once per task context perf_event_task_event() iterates pmu list and generate events for each eligible pmu context. But if task_event has task_ctx like in EXIT it'll generate events even though the pmu doesn't have an eligible one. Fix it by moving the code to proper places. Before this patch: $ perf record -n true [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.006 MB perf.data (~248 samples) ] $ perf report -D | tail Aggregated stats: TOTAL events: 73 MMAP events: 67 COMM events: 2 EXIT events: 4 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 73 MMAP events: 67 COMM events: 2 EXIT events: 4 After this patch: $ perf report -D | tail Aggregated stats: TOTAL events: 70 MMAP events: 67 COMM events: 2 EXIT events: 1 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 70 MMAP events: 67 COMM events: 2 EXIT events: 1 Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363332433-7637-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/events') diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index fa79c377d65..59412d037ee 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -4434,12 +4434,15 @@ static void perf_event_task_event(struct perf_task_event *task_event) if (ctxn < 0) goto next; ctx = rcu_dereference(current->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]); + if (ctx) + perf_event_task_ctx(ctx, task_event); } - if (ctx) - perf_event_task_ctx(ctx, task_event); next: put_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context); } + if (task_event->task_ctx) + perf_event_task_ctx(task_event->task_ctx, task_event); + rcu_read_unlock(); } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2 From dd9c086d9f507d02d5ba4d7c5eef4bb9518088b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephane Eranian Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:33:28 +0100 Subject: perf: Fix ring_buffer perf_output_space() boundary calculation This patch fixes a flaw in perf_output_space(). In case the size of the space needed is bigger than the actual buffer size, there may be situations where the function would return true (i.e., there is space) when it should not. head > offset due to rounding of the masking logic. The problem can be tested by activating BTS on Intel processors. A BTS record can be as big as 16 pages. The following command fails: $ perf record -m 4 -c 1 -e branches:u my_test_program You will get a buffer corruption with this. Perf report won't be able to parse the perf.data. The fix is to first check that the requested space is smaller than the buffer size. If so, then the masking logic will work fine. If not, then there is no chance the record can be saved and it will be gracefully handled by upper code layers. [ In v2, we also make the logic for the writable more explicit by renaming it to rb->overwrite because it tells whether or not the buffer can overwrite its tail (suggested by PeterZ). ] Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130318133327.GA3056@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/internal.h | 2 +- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/events') diff --git a/kernel/events/internal.h b/kernel/events/internal.h index d56a64c99a8..eb675c4d59d 100644 --- a/kernel/events/internal.h +++ b/kernel/events/internal.h @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ struct ring_buffer { int page_order; /* allocation order */ #endif int nr_pages; /* nr of data pages */ - int writable; /* are we writable */ + int overwrite; /* can overwrite itself */ atomic_t poll; /* POLL_ for wakeups */ diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index 23cb34ff397..97fddb09762 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -18,12 +18,24 @@ static bool perf_output_space(struct ring_buffer *rb, unsigned long tail, unsigned long offset, unsigned long head) { - unsigned long mask; + unsigned long sz = perf_data_size(rb); + unsigned long mask = sz - 1; - if (!rb->writable) + /* + * check if user-writable + * overwrite : over-write its own tail + * !overwrite: buffer possibly drops events. + */ + if (rb->overwrite) return true; - mask = perf_data_size(rb) - 1; + /* + * verify that payload is not bigger than buffer + * otherwise masking logic may fail to detect + * the "not enough space" condition + */ + if ((head - offset) > sz) + return false; offset = (offset - tail) & mask; head = (head - tail) & mask; @@ -212,7 +224,9 @@ ring_buffer_init(struct ring_buffer *rb, long watermark, int flags) rb->watermark = max_size / 2; if (flags & RING_BUFFER_WRITABLE) - rb->writable = 1; + rb->overwrite = 0; + else + rb->overwrite = 1; atomic_set(&rb->refcount, 1); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2 From c97847d2f0eb77c806e650e04d9bbcf79fa05730 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chen Gang Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 11:48:27 +0800 Subject: perf: Fix strncpy() use, always make sure it's NUL terminated For NUL terminated string, always make sure that there's '\0' at the end. In our case we need a return value, so still use strncpy() and fix up the tail explicitly. (strlcpy() returns the size, not the pointer) Signed-off-by: Chen Gang Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51623E0B.7070101@asianux.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/events') diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 59412d037ee..7f0d67ea3f4 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -4737,7 +4737,8 @@ static void perf_event_mmap_event(struct perf_mmap_event *mmap_event) } else { if (arch_vma_name(mmap_event->vma)) { name = strncpy(tmp, arch_vma_name(mmap_event->vma), - sizeof(tmp)); + sizeof(tmp) - 1); + tmp[sizeof(tmp) - 1] = '\0'; goto got_name; } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2 From c481420248c6730246d2a1b1773d5d7007ae0835 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Yongjun Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:05:54 +0800 Subject: perf: Fix error return code Fix to return -ENOMEM in the allocation error case instead of 0 (if pmu_bus_running == 1), as done elsewhere in this function. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAPgLHd8j_fWcgqe%3DKLWjpBj%2B%3Do0Pw6Z-SEq%3DNTPU08c2w1tngQ@mail.gmail.com [ Tweaked the error code setting placement and the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/events') diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 7f0d67ea3f4..7e0962ed7f8 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -5987,6 +5987,7 @@ skip_type: if (pmu->pmu_cpu_context) goto got_cpu_context; + ret = -ENOMEM; pmu->pmu_cpu_context = alloc_percpu(struct perf_cpu_context); if (!pmu->pmu_cpu_context) goto free_dev; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2 From 8176cced706b5e5d15887584150764894e94e02f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tommi Rantala Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:49:14 +0300 Subject: perf: Treat attr.config as u64 in perf_swevent_init() Trinity discovered that we fail to check all 64 bits of attr.config passed by user space, resulting to out-of-bounds access of the perf_swevent_enabled array in sw_perf_event_destroy(). Introduced in commit b0a873ebb ("perf: Register PMU implementations"). Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: davej@redhat.com Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365882554-30259-1-git-send-email-tt.rantala@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/events') diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 7e0962ed7f8..4d3124b3927 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -5331,7 +5331,7 @@ static void sw_perf_event_destroy(struct perf_event *event) static int perf_swevent_init(struct perf_event *event) { - int event_id = event->attr.config; + u64 event_id = event->attr.config; if (event->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE) return -ENOENT; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2