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From: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
	"john.fastabend@gmail.com" <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
	"kpsingh@chromium.org" <kpsingh@chromium.org>,
	"brouer@redhat.com" <brouer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 1/2] bpf: separate bpf_get_[stack|stackid] for perf events BPF
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:49:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1BF0973C-E2E5-49E3-B3F9-80FF7D6727B2@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200722154010.GO10769@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>



> On Jul 22, 2020, at 8:40 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:40:19PM +0000, Song Liu wrote:
> 
>> We only need to block precise_ip >= 2. precise_ip == 1 is OK. 
> 
> Uuuh, how? Anything PEBS would have the same problem. Sure, precise_ip
> == 1 will not correct the IP, but the stack will not match regardless.
> 
> You need IP,SP(,BP) to be a consistent set _AND_ have it match the
> current stack, PEBS simply cannot do that, because the regs get recorded
> (much) earlier than the PMI and the stack can have changed in the
> meantime.
> 

By "OK", I meant unwinder will not report error (in my tests). For 
accurate stack, we should do the same for precise_ip == 1. 

Thanks,
Song

      reply	other threads:[~2020-07-22 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-16 22:59 [PATCH v3 bpf-next 0/2] bpf: fix stackmap on perf_events with PEBS Song Liu
2020-07-16 22:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 1/2] bpf: separate bpf_get_[stack|stackid] for perf events BPF Song Liu
2020-07-21 19:10   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-07-21 22:40     ` Song Liu
2020-07-21 22:43       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-07-21 22:51         ` Song Liu
2020-07-22 15:40       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-22 16:49         ` Song Liu [this message]

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