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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 11:21:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170704102159.GB20062@leverpostej> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170704093345.GB19649@leverpostej>

On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 10:33:45AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 11:03:13AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 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.

Looking at perf_event_sample_format in uapi/linux/perf_event.h, there
are samples that are obviously sensitive, and should be dropped:

* PERF_SAMPLE_IP
* PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN
* PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
* PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR

... samples that look benign:

* PERF_SAMPLE_TID
* PERF_SAMPLE_TIME
* PERF_SAMPLE_CPU
* PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD
* PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER
* PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER
* PERF_SAMPLE_READ
* PERF_SAMPLE_ID
* PERF_SAMPLE_STREAM_ID
* PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER

.. and samples that I have no idea about:

* PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR
* PERF_SAMPLE_RAW
* PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT
* PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC
* PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION

Should any of those be moved into the "should be dropped" pile?

Thanks,
Mark.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-04 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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
2017-07-04  9:46                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-04 10:21                     ` Mark Rutland [this message]
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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