[PATCH 5.8 093/186] perf intel-pt: Fix corrupt data after perf inject from

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Sep 8 11:23:55 EDT 2020


From: Al Grant <al.grant at arm.com>

[ Upstream commit a347306fbec5dcaf7c276777b11d530eab6a4526 ]

Commit 42bbabed09ce6208 ("perf tools: Add hw_idx in struct branch_stack")
changed the format of branch stacks in perf samples. When samples use
this new format, a flag must be set in the corresponding event.

Synthesized branch stacks generated from Intel PT were using the new
format, but not setting the event attribute, leading to consumers
seeing corrupt data. This patch fixes the issue by setting the event
attribute to indicate use of the new format.

Fixes: 42bbabed09ce6208 ("perf tools: Add hw_idx in struct branch_stack")
Signed-off-by: Al Grant <al.grant at arm.com>
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200819084751.17686-2-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
index cb3c1e569a2db..9357b5f62c273 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
@@ -2913,8 +2913,15 @@ static int intel_pt_synth_events(struct intel_pt *pt,
 
 	if (pt->synth_opts.callchain)
 		attr.sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN;
-	if (pt->synth_opts.last_branch)
+	if (pt->synth_opts.last_branch) {
 		attr.sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK;
+		/*
+		 * We don't use the hardware index, but the sample generation
+		 * code uses the new format branch_stack with this field,
+		 * so the event attributes must indicate that it's present.
+		 */
+		attr.branch_sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX;
+	}
 
 	if (pt->synth_opts.instructions) {
 		attr.config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS;
-- 
2.25.1






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