linux-kernel - Re: [BUG REPORT] perf tools: x86_64: Broken calllchain when sampling taken at 'callq' instruction

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Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:43:14 +0800
From:	"Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@...wei.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CC:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@...b.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, pi3orama <pi3orama@....com>,
	lizefan 00213767 <lizefan@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG REPORT] perf tools: x86_64: Broken calllchain when sampling
 taken at 'callq' instruction



On 2015/11/19 18:23, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Wangnan (F) <wangnan0@...wei.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2015/11/19 14:37, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> * Wangnan (F) <wangnan0@...wei.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> perf cmdline is
>>>>>
>>>>> # ./pref record  -g -F 9 --call-graph dwarf ./test_dwarf_unwind
>>>>>
>>>>> Use default events, precise_ip == 2 so uses PEBS.
>>>>>
>>>> Testetd 'cycles', 'cycles:p' and 'cycles:pp'. Only 'cycles:pp' captures
>>>> sample at callq. So maybe a PEBS problem?
>>> Well, that's how our PEBS sampling works: we roll back the instruction pointer to
>>> point at the instruction generating the sample. The state itself is
>>> post-instruction.
>> Just for curiosity:
>>
>> how the interrupted process continue to execute, when the PC
>> saved in pt_regs still pointed to 'callq' but SP and stack has
>> already changes? Do we fix it in kernel, or by hardware?
> PEBS is an asynchronous hardware tracing mechanism, when batched PEBS is used it
> might not even result in any interruption of execution. The 'pt_regs' does not
> necessarily correspond to an interrupted, restartable context - we take the RIP
> from the PEBS machinery and also use LBR and disassembly to determine the previous
> instruction, before reporting it to user-space.

You mean __intel_pmu_pebs_event(), which generates many perf_events?
Then their output are based on a same user stack, and could be error,
because the instruction has finished, and user stack could be modified.
Right?

Also, why not fixing rsp in kernel if that instruction is a 'callq'?
For avoiding instruction decoding?

Thank you.

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