From 61f611593f2c90547cb09c0bf6977414454a27e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:06:17 -0800 Subject: perf script: Fix LBR skid dump problems in brstackinsn This is a fix for another instance of the skid problem Milian recently found [1] The LBRs don't freeze at the exact same time as the PMI is triggered. The perf script brstackinsn code that dumps LBR assembler assumes that the last branch in the LBR leads to the sample point. But with skid it's possible that the CPU executes one or more branches before the sample, but which do not appear in the LBR. What happens then is either that the sample point is before the last LBR branch. In this case the dumper sees a negative length and ignores it. Or it the sample point is long after the last branch. Then the dumper sees a very long block and dumps it upto its block limit (16k bytes), which is noise in the output. On typical sample session this can happen regularly. This patch tries to detect and handle the situation. On the last block that is dumped by the LBR dumper we always stop on the first branch. If the block length is negative just scan forward to the first branch. Otherwise scan until a branch is found. The PT decoder already has a function that uses the instruction decoder to detect branches, so we can just reuse it here. Then when a terminating branch is found print an indication and stop dumping. This might miss a few instructions, but at least shows no runaway blocks. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Milian Wolff Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120050617.4119-1-andi@firstfloor.org [ Resolved conflict with dd2e18e9ac20 ("perf tools: Support 'srccode' output") ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder') diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.c index 54818828023b..1c0e289f01e6 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-insn-decoder.c @@ -180,6 +180,14 @@ int intel_pt_get_insn(const unsigned char *buf, size_t len, int x86_64, return 0; } +int arch_is_branch(const unsigned char *buf, size_t len, int x86_64) +{ + struct intel_pt_insn in; + if (intel_pt_get_insn(buf, len, x86_64, &in) < 0) + return -1; + return in.branch != INTEL_PT_BR_NO_BRANCH; +} + const char *dump_insn(struct perf_insn *x, uint64_t ip __maybe_unused, u8 *inbuf, int inlen, int *lenp) { -- cgit v1.2.3