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* [perf] perf_event_open() sometimes returning 0
@ 2020-01-02 18:55 Vince Weaver
  2020-01-02 19:22 ` Vince Weaver
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Vince Weaver @ 2020-01-02 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo,
	Mark Rutland, Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Kim

Hello

so I was tracking down some odd behavior in the perf_fuzzer which turns 
out to be because perf_even_open() sometimes returns 0 (indicating a file 
descriptor of 0) even though as far as I can tell stdin is still open.

Before I waste too much time trying to track this down, is this a known 
issue?

Some sample strace output:

perf_event_open({type=PERF_TYPE_RAW, size=0x78 /* PERF_ATTR_SIZE_??? */, config=0x1313, ...}, 0, 3, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP) = 0
perf_event_open({type=PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, size=0x78 /* PERF_ATTR_SIZE_??? */, config=PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY, ...}, -1, 3, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP|PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT) = 0
perf_event_open({type=PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, size=0x78 /* PERF_ATTR_SIZE_??? */, config=PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MIN, ...}, 158266, 2, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
perf_event_open({type=PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE, size=0x78 /* PERF_ATTR_SIZE_??? */, config=PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_DTLB|PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_OP_READ<<8|PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_RESULT_MISS<<16, ...}, 0, 4, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP|PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
perf_event_open({type=PERF_TYPE_RAW, size=0x78 /* PERF_ATTR_SIZE_??? */, config=0, ...}, -1, 0, -1, PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT|PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC) = 0

On my Haswell system (running current git) I can reproduce things with a 
single call:

	memset(&pe[0],0,sizeof(struct perf_event_attr));
	pe[0].type=PERF_TYPE_RAW;
	pe[0].size=120;
	pe[0].config=0x0ULL;
	pe[0].sample_period=0x4777c3ULL;
	pe[0].sample_type=PERF_SAMPLE_STREAM_ID; /* 200 */
	pe[0].read_format=PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING|PERF_FORMAT_ID|PERF_FORMAT_GROUP; /* e */
	pe[0].inherit=1;
	pe[0].exclude_hv=1;
	pe[0].exclude_idle=1;
	pe[0].enable_on_exec=1;
	pe[0].watermark=1;
	pe[0].precise_ip=0; /* arbitrary skid */
	pe[0].mmap_data=1;
	pe[0].exclude_guest=1;
	pe[0].exclude_callchain_kernel=1;
	pe[0].mmap2=1;
	pe[0].comm_exec=1;
	pe[0].context_switch=1;
	pe[0].bpf_event=1;
	pe[0].wakeup_watermark=47545;
	pe[0].bp_type=HW_BREAKPOINT_EMPTY;
	pe[0].branch_sample_type=PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL|PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY_RETURN|PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND|0x800ULL;
	pe[0].sample_regs_user=42ULL;
	pe[0].sample_stack_user=0xfffffffd;
	pe[0].aux_watermark=25443;
	pe[0].aux_sample_size=8192;

	fd[0]=perf_event_open(&pe[0],
				-1, /* current thread */
				0, /* Only cpu 0 */
				-1, /* New Group Leader */
				PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT|PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC /*a*/ );


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2020-01-02 18:55 [perf] perf_event_open() sometimes returning 0 Vince Weaver
2020-01-02 19:22 ` Vince Weaver
2020-01-06 12:03   ` [PATCH] perf: correctly handle failed perf_get_aux_event() (was: Re: [perf] perf_event_open() sometimes returning 0) Mark Rutland
2020-01-06 18:09     ` Vince Weaver
2020-01-16 16:45       ` Vince Weaver
2020-01-18 18:05         ` [PATCH, v5.4] perf: Correctly handle failed perf_get_aux_event() Ingo Molnar
2020-01-19 13:28           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-01-07  7:39     ` [PATCH] perf: correctly handle failed perf_get_aux_event() (was: Re: [perf] perf_event_open() sometimes returning 0) Alexander Shishkin

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