From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>,
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>,
"Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, kan.liang@intel.com,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
"Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/core: generate overflow signal when samples are dropped (WAS: Re: [REGRESSION] perf/core: PMU interrupts dropped if we entered the kernel in the "skid" region)
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 10:33:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170704093345.GB19649@leverpostej> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170704090313.xyb5lntyy55ga7dm@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 11:03:13AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 03:55:07PM -0700, Kyle Huey wrote:
>
> > > Having thought about this some more, I think Vince does make a good
> > > point that throwing away samples is liable to break stuff, e.g. that
> > > which only relies on (non-sensitive) samples.
> > >
> > > It still seems wrong to make up data, though.
>
> It is something we do in other places as well though. For example the
> printk() %pK thing fakes NULL pointers when kptr_restrict is set.
It looks like I'm outnumbered on that, then. :)
I'd still argue it's worth somehow indicating which samples were thrown
away, so that (updated) userspace can choose to ignore them, but I guess
that can come later.
> Faking data gets a wee bit tricky in how much data we need to clear
> through, its not only IP, pretty much everything we get from the
> interrupt context, like the branch stack and registers is also suspect.
Indeed. I'll take a run through __perf_event_output() and callees, and
see what we need to drop.
> > > Maybe for exclude_kernel && !exclude_user events we can always generate
> > > samples from the user regs, rather than the exception regs. That's going
> > > to be closer to what the user wants, regardless. I'll take a look
> > > tomorrow.
> >
> > I'm not very familiar with the kernel internals, but the reason I
> > didn't suggest this originally is it seems like it will be difficult
> > to determine what the "correct" userspace registers are. For example,
> > what happens if a performance counter is fixed to a given tid, the
> > interrupt fires during a context switch from that task to another that
> > is not being monitored, and the kernel is far enough along in the
> > context switch that the current task struct has been switched out?
> > Reporting the new task's registers seems as bad as reporting the
> > kernel's registers. But maybe this is easier than I imagine for
> > whatever reason.
>
> If the counter is fixed to a task then its scheduled along with the
> task. We'll schedule out the event before doing the actual task switch
> and switch in the new event after.
>
> That said, with a per-cpu event the TID sample value is indeed subject
> to skid like you describe.
For per-cpu events, does that matter? Those don't have TID filters in
the first place, no?
Thanks,
Mark.
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2017-06-28 1:01 ` [REGRESSION] perf/core: PMU interrupts dropped if we entered the kernel in the "skid" region Kyle Huey
2017-06-28 2:09 ` Jin, Yao
2017-06-28 4:51 ` Kyle Huey
2017-06-28 5:35 ` Jin, Yao
2017-06-28 7:30 ` Kyle Huey
2017-06-28 10:12 ` Mark Rutland
2017-06-28 10:56 ` [PATCH] perf/core: generate overflow signal when samples are dropped (WAS: Re: [REGRESSION] perf/core: PMU interrupts dropped if we entered the kernel in the "skid" region) Mark Rutland
2017-06-28 12:40 ` Vince Weaver
2017-06-28 13:07 ` Mark Rutland
2017-06-29 8:13 ` Alexey Budankov
2017-06-29 8:25 ` Alexey Budankov
2017-06-28 16:48 ` Kyle Huey
2017-06-28 17:49 ` Mark Rutland
2017-06-28 22:55 ` Kyle Huey
2017-06-29 0:27 ` Jin, Yao
2017-06-30 17:44 ` Kyle Huey
2017-07-04 9:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-04 9:33 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2017-07-04 9:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-04 10:21 ` Mark Rutland
2017-07-06 5:07 ` Robert O'Callahan
2017-07-11 2:03 ` Kyle Huey
2017-07-11 9:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-11 13:07 ` Jin, Yao
2017-07-12 7:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-11 14:26 ` Mark Rutland
2017-07-11 15:32 ` Kyle Huey
2017-07-18 0:07 ` Kyle Huey
2017-06-29 8:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-04 9:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-04 10:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-11 9:03 ` [tip:perf/urgent] Revert "perf/core: Drop kernel samples even though :u is specified" tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2017-06-28 16:46 ` [REGRESSION] perf/core: PMU interrupts dropped if we entered the kernel in the "skid" region Kyle Huey
2017-06-28 17:19 ` Mark Rutland
2017-06-28 17:36 ` Kyle Huey
2017-06-28 17:52 ` Mark Rutland
2017-06-28 17:48 ` Robert O'Callahan
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