linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/52] perf tools: Fix jump label always changing during tracing

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:00:34 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/52] perf tools: Fix jump label always changing during
 tracing

Em Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 04:17:10PM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
> Intel PT decoding walks the object code to reconstruct
> the trace.  A jump label change during tracing causes
> decoding errors.
> 
> The "Enable close-on-exec flag on perf file descriptor"
> patch caused there to be always a jump label change.
> 
> It was found that using a per-cpu context instead of a
> per-thread context for the probe of the close-on-exec
> feature, made the problem go away.

And it is ok for our purposes, as this code just needs to figure out if
PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC is present, but I wonder when this kind of thing
will hit again...

Anyway, I'll take this patch.

- Arnaldo
 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/cloexec.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cloexec.c b/tools/perf/util/cloexec.c
> index c5d05ec..6a37be5 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/cloexec.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/cloexec.c
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +#include <sched.h>
>  #include "util.h"
>  #include "../perf.h"
>  #include "cloexec.h"
> @@ -14,9 +15,13 @@ static int perf_flag_probe(void)
>  	};
>  	int fd;
>  	int err;
> +	int cpu = sched_getcpu();
> +
> +	if (cpu < 0)
> +		cpu = 0;
>  
>  	/* check cloexec flag */
> -	fd = sys_perf_event_open(&attr, 0, -1, -1,
> +	fd = sys_perf_event_open(&attr, -1, cpu, -1,
>  				 PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC);
>  	err = errno;
>  
> @@ -30,7 +35,7 @@ static int perf_flag_probe(void)
>  		  err, strerror(err));
>  
>  	/* not supported, confirm error related to PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC */
> -	fd = sys_perf_event_open(&attr, 0, -1, -1, 0);
> +	fd = sys_perf_event_open(&attr, -1, cpu, -1, 0);
>  	err = errno;
>  
>  	if (WARN_ONCE(fd < 0,
> -- 
> 1.8.3.2
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