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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2010-03-05 16:29:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-03-10 13:23:35 +0100 |
| commit | a562b1871f7f7d2f3a835c3c1e07fa58d473cfb7 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e86700841691eb86b2ec41ca7f9bc1e29588a42 /arch | |
| parent | 74846d35b24b6efd61bb88a0a750b6bb257e6e78 (diff) | |
perf, x86: Robustify PEBS fixup
It turns out the LBR is massively unreliable on certain CPUs, so code the
fixup a little more defensive to avoid crashing the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100305154129.042271287@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c index a67fff14475..e7ac51770d4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c @@ -399,10 +399,23 @@ static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struct pt_regs *regs) if (!x86_pmu.intel_cap.pebs_trap) return 1; + /* + * No LBR entry, no basic block, no rewinding + */ if (!cpuc->lbr_stack.nr || !from || !to) return 0; - if (ip < to) + /* + * Basic blocks should never cross user/kernel boundaries + */ + if (kernel_ip(ip) != kernel_ip(to)) + return 0; + + /* + * unsigned math, either ip is before the start (impossible) or + * the basic block is larger than 1 page (sanity) + */ + if ((ip - to) > PAGE_SIZE) return 0; /* @@ -420,7 +433,7 @@ static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struct pt_regs *regs) old_to = to; if (!kernel_ip(ip)) { - int bytes, size = min_t(int, MAX_INSN_SIZE, ip - to); + int bytes, size = MAX_INSN_SIZE; bytes = copy_from_user_nmi(buf, (void __user *)to, size); if (bytes != size) @@ -440,6 +453,10 @@ static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struct pt_regs *regs) return 1; } + /* + * Even though we decoded the basic block, the instruction stream + * never matched the given IP, either the TO or the IP got corrupted. + */ return 0; } |