linux.git/kernel/events/core.c, branch v5.0-rc2

Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function

2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00

Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-12-26T22:45:18+00:00

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle on the kernel side:

   - rework kprobes blacklist handling (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - misc cleanups

  on the tooling side these areas were the main focus:

   - 'perf trace'     enhancements (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - 'perf bench'     enhancements (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - 'perf record'    enhancements (Alexey Budankov)

   - 'perf annotate'  enhancements (Jin Yao)

   - 'perf top'       enhancements (Jiri Olsa)

   - Intel hw tracing enhancements (Adrian Hunter)

   - ARM hw tracing   enhancements (Leo Yan, Mathieu Poirier)

   - ... plus lots of other enhancements, cleanups and fixes"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (171 commits)
  tools uapi asm: Update asm-generic/unistd.h copy
  perf symbols: Relax checks on perf-PID.map ownership
  perf trace: Wire up the fadvise 'advice' table generator
  perf beauty: Add generator for fadvise64's 'advice' arg constants
  tools headers uapi: Grab a copy of fadvise.h
  perf beauty mmap: Print mmap's 'offset' arg in hexadecimal
  perf beauty mmap: Print PROT_READ before PROT_EXEC to match strace output
  perf trace beauty: Beautify arch_prctl()'s arguments
  perf trace: When showing string prefixes show prefix + ??? for unknown entries
  perf trace: Move strarrays to beauty.h for further reuse
  perf beauty: Wire up the x86_arch prctl code table generator
  perf beauty: Add a string table generator for x86's 'arch_prctl' codes
  tools include arch: Grab a copy of x86's prctl.h
  perf trace: Show NULL when syscall pointer args are 0
  perf trace: Enclose the errno strings with ()
  perf augmented_raw_syscalls: Copy 'access' arg as well
  perf trace: Add alignment spaces after the closing parens
  perf trace beauty: Print O_RDONLY when (flags & O_ACCMODE) == 0
  perf trace: Allow asking for not suppressing common string prefixes
  perf trace: Add a prefix member to the strarray class
  ...

perf: Fix typos in comments

2018-12-03T10:22:32+00:00

Fix two typos in kernel/events/*.

No change in functionality intended.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

events: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu()

2018-11-27T17:21:44+00:00

Now that synchronize_rcu() waits for preempt-disable regions of code
as well as RCU read-side critical sections, synchronize_sched() can be
replaced by synchronize_rcu().  This commit therefore makes this change.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim

Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-11-04T01:13:43+00:00

Pull perf updates and fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "These are almost all tooling updates: 'perf top', 'perf trace' and
  'perf script' fixes and updates, an UAPI header sync with the merge
  window versions, license marker updates, much improved Sparc support
  from David Miller, and a number of fixes"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (66 commits)
  perf intel-pt/bts: Calculate cpumode for synthesized samples
  perf intel-pt: Insert callchain context into synthesized callchains
  perf tools: Don't clone maps from parent when synthesizing forks
  perf top: Start display thread earlier
  tools headers uapi: Update linux/if_link.h header copy
  tools headers uapi: Update linux/netlink.h header copy
  tools headers: Sync the various kvm.h header copies
  tools include uapi: Update linux/mmap.h copy
  perf trace beauty: Use the mmap flags table generated from headers
  perf beauty: Wire up the mmap flags table generator to the Makefile
  perf beauty: Add a generator for MAP_ mmap's flag constants
  tools include uapi: Update asound.h copy
  tools arch uapi: Update asm-generic/unistd.h and arm64 unistd.h copies
  tools include uapi: Update linux/fs.h copy
  perf callchain: Honour the ordering of PERF_CONTEXT_{USER,KERNEL,etc}
  perf cs-etm: Correct CPU mode for samples
  perf unwind: Take pgoff into account when reporting elf to libdwfl
  perf top: Do not use overwrite mode by default
  perf top: Allow disabling the overwrite mode
  perf trace: Beautify mount's first pathname arg
  ...

Merge tag 'trace-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2018-10-30T16:49:56+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The biggest change here is the updates to kprobes

  Back in January I posted patches to create function based events.
  These were the events that you suggested I make to allow developers to
  easily create events in code where no trace event exists. After
  posting those changes for review, it was suggested that we implement
  this instead with kprobes.

  The problem with kprobes is that the interface is too complex and
  needs to be simplified. Masami Hiramatsu posted patches in March and
  I've been playing with them a bit. There's been a bit of clean up in
  the kprobe code that was inspired by the function based event patches,
  and a couple of enhancements to the kprobe event interface.

   - If the arch supports it (we added support for x86), you can place a
     kprobe event at the start of a function and use $arg1, $arg2, etc
     to reference the arguments of a function. (Before you needed to
     know what register or where on the stack the argument was).

   - The second is a way to see array of events. For example, if you
     reference a mac address, you can add:

	echo 'p:mac ip_rcv perm_addr=+574($arg2):x8[6]' > kprobe_events

     And this will produce:

	mac: (ip_rcv+0x0/0x140) perm_addr={0x52,0x54,0x0,0xc0,0x76,0xec}

  Other changes include

   - Exporting trace_dump_stack to modules

   - Have the stack tracer trace the entire stack (stop trying to remove
     tracing itself, as we keep removing too much).

   - Added support for SDT in uprobes"

[ SDT - "Statically Defined Tracing" are userspace markers for tracing.
  Let's not use random TLA's in explanations unless they are fairly
  well-established as generic (at least for kernel people) - Linus ]

* tag 'trace-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (24 commits)
  tracing: Have stack tracer trace full stack
  tracing: Export trace_dump_stack to modules
  tracing: probeevent: Fix uninitialized used of offset in parse args
  tracing/kprobes: Allow kprobe-events to record module symbol
  tracing/kprobes: Check the probe on unloaded module correctly
  tracing/uprobes: Fix to return -EFAULT if copy_from_user failed
  tracing: probeevent: Add $argN for accessing function args
  x86: ptrace: Add function argument access API
  tracing: probeevent: Add array type support
  tracing: probeevent: Add symbol type
  tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch_insn processing common part
  tracing: probeevent: Append traceprobe_ for exported function
  tracing: probeevent: Return consumed bytes of dynamic area
  tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch type tables
  tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument fetching code
  tracing: probeevent: Remove NOKPROBE_SYMBOL from print functions
  tracing: probeevent: Cleanup argument field definition
  tracing: probeevent: Cleanup print argument functions
  trace_uprobe: support reference counter in fd-based uprobe
  perf probe: Support SDT markers having reference counter (semaphore)
  ...

perf/core: Clean up inconsisent indentation

2018-10-30T08:51:58+00:00

Replace a bunch of spaces with tab, cleans up indentation

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181029233211.21475-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

trace_uprobe: support reference counter in fd-based uprobe

2018-10-11T02:14:17+00:00

This patch enables uprobes with reference counter in fd-based uprobe.
Highest 32 bits of perf_event_attr.config is used to stored offset
of the reference count (semaphore).

Format information in /sys/bus/event_source/devices/uprobe/format/ is
updated to reflect this new feature.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181002053636.1896903-1-songliubraving@fb.com

Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Ravi Bangoria 
Signed-off-by: Song Liu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

perf/ring_buffer: Prevent concurent ring buffer access

2018-10-02T07:37:59+00:00

Some of the scheduling tracepoints allow the perf_tp_event
code to write to ring buffer under different cpu than the
code is running on.

This results in corrupted ring buffer data demonstrated in
following perf commands:

  # perf record -e 'sched:sched_switch,sched:sched_wakeup' perf bench sched messaging
  # Running 'sched/messaging' benchmark:
  # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
  # 10 groups == 400 processes run

       Total time: 0.383 [sec]
  [ perf record: Woken up 8 times to write data ]
  0x42b890 [0]: failed to process type: -1765585640
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.825 MB perf.data (29669 samples) ]

  # perf report --stdio
  0x42b890 [0]: failed to process type: -1765585640

The reason for the corruption are some of the scheduling tracepoints,
that have __perf_task dfined and thus allow to store data to another
cpu ring buffer:

  sched_waking
  sched_wakeup
  sched_wakeup_new
  sched_stat_wait
  sched_stat_sleep
  sched_stat_iowait
  sched_stat_blocked

The perf_tp_event function first store samples for current cpu
related events defined for tracepoint:

    hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(event, head, hlist_entry)
      perf_swevent_event(event, count, &data, regs);

And then iterates events of the 'task' and store the sample
for any task's event that passes tracepoint checks:

  ctx = rcu_dereference(task->perf_event_ctxp[perf_sw_context]);

  list_for_each_entry_rcu(event, &ctx->event_list, event_entry) {
    if (event->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT)
      continue;
    if (event->attr.config != entry->type)
      continue;

    perf_swevent_event(event, count, &data, regs);
  }

Above code can race with same code running on another cpu,
ending up with 2 cpus trying to store under the same ring
buffer, which is specifically not allowed.

This patch prevents the problem, by allowing only events with the same
current cpu to receive the event.

NOTE: this requires the use of (per-task-)per-cpu buffers for this
feature to work; perf-record does this.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
[peterz: small edits to Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andrew Vagin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Fixes: e6dab5ffab59 ("perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180923161343.GB15054@krava
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/core: Fix perf_pmu_unregister() locking

2018-10-02T07:37:56+00:00

When we unregister a PMU, we fail to serialize the @pmu_idr properly.
Fix that by doing the entire thing under pmu_lock.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Fixes: 2e80a82a49c4 ("perf: Dynamic pmu types")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar