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perf/x86/intel: Allow to update user space GPRs from PEBS records
commit 71dcc11c2cd9e434c34a63154ecadca21c135ddd upstream.
Currently when a user samples user space GPRs (--user-regs option) with
PEBS, the user space GPRs actually always come from software PMI
instead of from PEBS hardware. This leads to the sampled GPRs to
possibly be inaccurate for single PEBS record case because of the
skid between counter overflow and GPRs sampling on PMI.
For the large PEBS case, it is even worse. If user sets the
exclude_kernel attribute, large PEBS would be used to sample user space
GPRs, but since PEBS GPRs group is not really enabled, it leads to all
samples in the large PEBS record to share the same piece of user space
GPRs, like this reproducer shows:
$ perf record -e branches:pu --user-regs=ip,ax -c 100000 ./foo
$ perf report -D | grep "AX"
.... AX 0x000000003a0d4ead
.... AX 0x000000003a0d4ead
.... AX 0x000000003a0d4ead
.... AX 0x000000003a0d4ead
.... AX 0x000000003a0d4ead
.... AX 0x000000003a0d4ead
.... AX 0x000000003a0d4ead
.... AX 0x000000003a0d4ead
.... AX 0x000000003a0d4ead
.... AX 0x000000003a0d4ead
.... AX 0x000000003a0d4ead
So enable GPRs group for user space GPRs sampling and prioritize reading
GPRs from PEBS. If the PEBS sampled GPRs is not user space GPRs (single
PEBS record case), perf_sample_regs_user() modifies them to user space
GPRs.
[ mingo: Clarified the changelog. ]
Fixes: c22497f ("perf/x86/intel: Support adaptive PEBS v4")
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit b55b385b3938c28185e4ce9eae81fd6e25655057)
Signed-off-by: Vijayendra Suman <[email protected]>
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