[PATCH 5.8 092/186] perf cs-etm: Fix corrupt data after perf inject from

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Sep 8 11:23:54 EDT 2020


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

[ Upstream commit f5f8e7e55fbdb4fdddec73518e23c48083108fbb ]

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 CoreSight ETM trace 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>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Brunato <andrea.brunato at arm.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter at intel.com>
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: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
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
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200819084751.17686-1-leo.yan@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/cs-etm.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
index c283223fb31f2..a2a369e2fbb67 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
@@ -1344,8 +1344,15 @@ static int cs_etm__synth_events(struct cs_etm_auxtrace *etm,
 		attr.sample_type &= ~(u64)PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR;
 	}
 
-	if (etm->synth_opts.last_branch)
+	if (etm->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 (etm->synth_opts.instructions) {
 		attr.config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS;
-- 
2.25.1






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