Commit d15d3568 authored Apr 23, 2019 by Kairui Song Committed by Ingo Molnar Apr 29, 2019

perf/x86: Make perf callchains work without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER



Currently perf callchain doesn't work well with ORC unwinder
when sampling from trace point. We'll get useless in kernel callchain
like this:

perf  6429 [000]    22.498450:             kmem:mm_page_alloc: page=0x176a17 pfn=1534487 order=0 migratetype=0 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL
    ffffffffbe23e32e __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x22e (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
	7efdf7f7d3e8 __poll+0x18 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so)
	5651468729c1 [unknown] (/usr/bin/perf)
	5651467ee82a main+0x69a (/usr/bin/perf)
	7efdf7eaf413 __libc_start_main+0xf3 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so)
    5541f689495641d7 [unknown] ([unknown])

The root cause is that, for trace point events, it doesn't provide a
real snapshot of the hardware registers. Instead perf tries to get
required caller's registers and compose a fake register snapshot
which suppose to contain enough information for start a unwinding.
However without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, if failed to get caller's BP as the
frame pointer, so current frame pointer is returned instead. We get
a invalid register combination which confuse the unwinder, and end the
stacktrace early.

So in such case just don't try dump BP, and let the unwinder start
directly when the register is not a real snapshot. Use SP
as the skip mark, unwinder will skip all the frames until it meet
the frame of the trace point caller.

Tested with frame pointer unwinder and ORC unwinder, this makes perf
callchain get the full kernel space stacktrace again like this:

perf  6503 [000]  1567.570191:             kmem:mm_page_alloc: page=0x16c904 pfn=1493252 order=0 migratetype=0 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL
    ffffffffb523e2ae __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x22e (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
    ffffffffb52383bd __get_free_pages+0xd (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
    ffffffffb52fd28a __pollwait+0x8a (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
    ffffffffb521426f perf_poll+0x2f (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
    ffffffffb52fe3e2 do_sys_poll+0x252 (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
    ffffffffb52ff027 __x64_sys_poll+0x37 (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
    ffffffffb500418b do_syscall_64+0x5b (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
    ffffffffb5a0008c entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44 (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
	7f71e92d03e8 __poll+0x18 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so)
	55a22960d9c1 [unknown] (/usr/bin/perf)
	55a22958982a main+0x69a (/usr/bin/perf)
	7f71e9202413 __libc_start_main+0xf3 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so)
    5541f689495641d7 [unknown] ([unknown])

Co-developed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190422162652.15483-1-kasong@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

parent 76e15524

arch/x86/events/core.c

+17 −4

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2382,6 +2382,15 @@ void arch_perf_update_userpage(struct perf_event *event,
		cyc2ns_read_end();
		}

		/*
		* Determine whether the regs were taken from an irq/exception handler rather
		* than from perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs().
		*/
		static bool perf_hw_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
		{
		return regs->flags & X86_EFLAGS_FIXED;
		}

		void
		perf_callchain_kernel(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx entry, struct pt_regs regs)
		{
		@@ -2393,11 +2402,15 @@ perf_callchain_kernel(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx entry, struct pt_regs re
		return;
		}

		if (perf_hw_regs(regs)) {
		if (perf_callchain_store(entry, regs->ip))
		return;
		unwind_start(&state, current, regs, NULL);
		} else {
		unwind_start(&state, current, NULL, (void *)regs->sp);
		}

		for (unwind_start(&state, current, regs, NULL); !unwind_done(&state);
		unwind_next_frame(&state)) {
		for (; !unwind_done(&state); unwind_next_frame(&state)) {
		addr = unwind_get_return_address(&state);
		if (!addr \|\| perf_callchain_store(entry, addr))
		return;

arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h

+1 −6

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		@@ -308,14 +308,9 @@ extern unsigned long perf_misc_flags(struct pt_regs *regs);
		*/
		#define perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs(regs, __ip) { \
		(regs)->ip = (__ip); \
		(regs)->bp = caller_frame_pointer(); \
		(regs)->sp = (unsigned long)__builtin_frame_address(0); \
		(regs)->cs = __KERNEL_CS; \
		regs->flags = 0; \
		asm volatile( \
		_ASM_MOV "%%"_ASM_SP ", %0\n" \
		: "=m" ((regs)->sp) \
		:: "memory" \
		); \
		}

		struct perf_guest_switch_msr {

arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h

+0 −13

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -98,19 +98,6 @@ struct stack_frame_ia32 {
		u32 return_address;
		};

		static inline unsigned long caller_frame_pointer(void)
		{
		struct stack_frame *frame;

		frame = __builtin_frame_address(0);

		#ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
		frame = frame->next_frame;
		#endif

		return (unsigned long)frame;
		}

		void show_opcodes(struct pt_regs regs, const char loglvl);
		void show_ip(struct pt_regs regs, const char loglvl);
		#endif /* _ASM_X86_STACKTRACE_H */

include/linux/perf_event.h

+10 −4

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1058,12 +1058,18 @@ static inline void perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned lo
		#endif

		/*
		* Take a snapshot of the regs. Skip ip and frame pointer to
		* the nth caller. We only need a few of the regs:
		* When generating a perf sample in-line, instead of from an interrupt /
		* exception, we lack a pt_regs. This is typically used from software events
		* like: SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES, SW_MIGRATIONS and the tie-in with tracepoints.
		*
		* We typically don't need a full set, but (for x86) do require:
		* - ip for PERF_SAMPLE_IP
		* - cs for user_mode() tests
		* - bp for callchains
		* - eflags, for future purposes, just in case
		* - sp for PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN
		* - eflags for MISC bits and CALLCHAIN (see: perf_hw_regs())
		*
		* NOTE: assumes @regs is otherwise already 0 filled; this is important for
		* things like PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR.
		*/
		static inline void perf_fetch_caller_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
		{

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