[PATCH v3 4/5] perf kvm: Support sampling guest callchains

Tianyi Liu i.pear at outlook.com
Sun Dec 10 00:15:48 PST 2023


This patch provides support for sampling guests' callchains.

The signature of `get_perf_callchain` has been modified to explicitly
specify whether it needs to sample the host or guest callchain. Based on
the context, `get_perf_callchain` will distribute each sampling request
to one of `perf_callchain_user`, `perf_callchain_kernel`,
or `perf_callchain_guest`.

The reason for separately implementing `perf_callchain_user` and
`perf_callchain_kernel` is that the kernel may utilize special unwinders
like `ORC`. However, for the guest, we only support stackframe-based
unwinding, so the implementation is generic and only needs to be
separately implemented for 32-bit and 64-bit.

Signed-off-by: Tianyi Liu <i.pear at outlook.com>
---
 arch/x86/events/core.c     | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 include/linux/perf_event.h |  3 +-
 kernel/bpf/stackmap.c      |  8 ++---
 kernel/events/callchain.c  | 27 +++++++++++++++-
 kernel/events/core.c       |  7 ++++-
 5 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c
index 40ad1425ffa2..4ff412225217 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
@@ -2758,11 +2758,6 @@ perf_callchain_kernel(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry, struct pt_regs *re
 	struct unwind_state state;
 	unsigned long addr;
 
-	if (perf_guest_state()) {
-		/* TODO: We don't support guest os callchain now */
-		return;
-	}
-
 	if (perf_callchain_store(entry, regs->ip))
 		return;
 
@@ -2778,6 +2773,59 @@ perf_callchain_kernel(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry, struct pt_regs *re
 	}
 }
 
+static inline void
+perf_callchain_guest32(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry,
+		       const struct perf_kvm_guest_unwind_info *unwind_info)
+{
+	unsigned long ss_base, cs_base;
+	struct stack_frame_ia32 frame;
+	const struct stack_frame_ia32 *fp;
+
+	cs_base = unwind_info->segment_cs_base;
+	ss_base = unwind_info->segment_ss_base;
+
+	fp = (void *)(ss_base + unwind_info->frame_pointer);
+	while (fp && entry->nr < entry->max_stack) {
+		if (!perf_guest_read_virt((unsigned long)&fp->next_frame,
+					  &frame.next_frame, sizeof(frame.next_frame)))
+			break;
+		if (!perf_guest_read_virt((unsigned long)&fp->return_address,
+					  &frame.return_address, sizeof(frame.return_address)))
+			break;
+		perf_callchain_store(entry, cs_base + frame.return_address);
+		fp = (void *)(ss_base + frame.next_frame);
+	}
+}
+
+void
+perf_callchain_guest(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry)
+{
+	struct stack_frame frame;
+	const struct stack_frame *fp;
+	struct perf_kvm_guest_unwind_info unwind_info;
+
+	if (!perf_guest_get_unwind_info(&unwind_info))
+		return;
+
+	perf_callchain_store(entry, unwind_info.ip_pointer);
+
+	if (unwind_info.is_guest_64bit) {
+		fp = (void *)unwind_info.frame_pointer;
+		while (fp && entry->nr < entry->max_stack) {
+			if (!perf_guest_read_virt((unsigned long)&fp->next_frame,
+				&frame.next_frame, sizeof(frame.next_frame)))
+				break;
+			if (!perf_guest_read_virt((unsigned long)&fp->return_address,
+				&frame.return_address, sizeof(frame.return_address)))
+				break;
+			perf_callchain_store(entry, frame.return_address);
+			fp = (void *)frame.next_frame;
+		}
+	} else {
+		perf_callchain_guest32(entry, &unwind_info);
+	}
+}
+
 static inline int
 valid_user_frame(const void __user *fp, unsigned long size)
 {
@@ -2861,11 +2909,6 @@ perf_callchain_user(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry, struct pt_regs *regs
 	struct stack_frame frame;
 	const struct stack_frame __user *fp;
 
-	if (perf_guest_state()) {
-		/* TODO: We don't support guest os callchain now */
-		return;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * We don't know what to do with VM86 stacks.. ignore them for now.
 	 */
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index dacc1623dcaa..483578672868 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -1552,9 +1552,10 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct perf_callchain_entry, perf_callchain_entry);
 
 extern void perf_callchain_user(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry, struct pt_regs *regs);
 extern void perf_callchain_kernel(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry, struct pt_regs *regs);
+extern void perf_callchain_guest(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry);
 extern struct perf_callchain_entry *
 get_perf_callchain(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 init_nr, bool kernel, bool user,
-		   u32 max_stack, bool crosstask, bool add_mark);
+		   bool host, bool guest, u32 max_stack, bool crosstask, bool add_mark);
 extern int get_callchain_buffers(int max_stack);
 extern void put_callchain_buffers(void);
 extern struct perf_callchain_entry *get_callchain_entry(int *rctx);
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/stackmap.c b/kernel/bpf/stackmap.c
index d6b277482085..5ca41ca08d8a 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/stackmap.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/stackmap.c
@@ -294,8 +294,8 @@ BPF_CALL_3(bpf_get_stackid, struct pt_regs *, regs, struct bpf_map *, map,
 	if (max_depth > sysctl_perf_event_max_stack)
 		max_depth = sysctl_perf_event_max_stack;
 
-	trace = get_perf_callchain(regs, 0, kernel, user, max_depth,
-				   false, false);
+	trace = get_perf_callchain(regs, 0, kernel, user, true, false,
+				   max_depth, false, false);
 
 	if (unlikely(!trace))
 		/* couldn't fetch the stack trace */
@@ -420,8 +420,8 @@ static long __bpf_get_stack(struct pt_regs *regs, struct task_struct *task,
 	else if (kernel && task)
 		trace = get_callchain_entry_for_task(task, max_depth);
 	else
-		trace = get_perf_callchain(regs, 0, kernel, user, max_depth,
-					   false, false);
+		trace = get_perf_callchain(regs, 0, kernel, user, true, false,
+					   max_depth, false, false);
 	if (unlikely(!trace))
 		goto err_fault;
 
diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c
index 1273be84392c..7e80729e95d0 100644
--- a/kernel/events/callchain.c
+++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ __weak void perf_callchain_user(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry,
 {
 }
 
+__weak void perf_callchain_guest(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry)
+{
+}
+
 static void release_callchain_buffers_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
 {
 	struct callchain_cpus_entries *entries;
@@ -178,11 +182,12 @@ put_callchain_entry(int rctx)
 
 struct perf_callchain_entry *
 get_perf_callchain(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 init_nr, bool kernel, bool user,
-		   u32 max_stack, bool crosstask, bool add_mark)
+		   bool host, bool guest, u32 max_stack, bool crosstask, bool add_mark)
 {
 	struct perf_callchain_entry *entry;
 	struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx ctx;
 	int rctx;
+	unsigned int guest_state;
 
 	entry = get_callchain_entry(&rctx);
 	if (!entry)
@@ -194,6 +199,26 @@ get_perf_callchain(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 init_nr, bool kernel, bool user,
 	ctx.contexts       = 0;
 	ctx.contexts_maxed = false;
 
+	guest_state = perf_guest_state();
+	if (guest_state) {
+		if (!guest)
+			goto exit_put;
+		if (user && (guest_state & PERF_GUEST_USER)) {
+			if (add_mark)
+				perf_callchain_store_context(&ctx, PERF_CONTEXT_GUEST_USER);
+			perf_callchain_guest(&ctx);
+		}
+		if (kernel && !(guest_state & PERF_GUEST_USER)) {
+			if (add_mark)
+				perf_callchain_store_context(&ctx, PERF_CONTEXT_GUEST_KERNEL);
+			perf_callchain_guest(&ctx);
+		}
+		goto exit_put;
+	}
+
+	if (unlikely(!host))
+		goto exit_put;
+
 	if (kernel && !user_mode(regs)) {
 		if (add_mark)
 			perf_callchain_store_context(&ctx, PERF_CONTEXT_KERNEL);
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 4c5e35006217..3dea3fe840e6 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7607,6 +7607,8 @@ perf_callchain(struct perf_event *event, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	bool kernel = !event->attr.exclude_callchain_kernel;
 	bool user   = !event->attr.exclude_callchain_user;
+	bool host   = !event->attr.exclude_host;
+	bool guest  = !event->attr.exclude_guest;
 	/* Disallow cross-task user callchains. */
 	bool crosstask = event->ctx->task && event->ctx->task != current;
 	const u32 max_stack = event->attr.sample_max_stack;
@@ -7615,7 +7617,10 @@ perf_callchain(struct perf_event *event, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	if (!kernel && !user)
 		return &__empty_callchain;
 
-	callchain = get_perf_callchain(regs, 0, kernel, user,
+	if (!host && !guest)
+		return &__empty_callchain;
+
+	callchain = get_perf_callchain(regs, 0, kernel, user, host, guest,
 				       max_stack, crosstask, true);
 	return callchain ?: &__empty_callchain;
 }
-- 
2.34.1




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