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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:42:17 -0700
From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
To: "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@...el.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"ak@...ux.intel.com" <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4] perf: Add PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 8:51 AM, <kan.liang@...el.com> wrote:
> From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>
>
> For understanding how the workload maps to memory channels and hardware
> behavior, it's very important to collect address maps with physical
> addresses. For example, 3D XPoint access can only be found by filtering
> the physical address.
> However, perf doesn't collect physical address information in sampling.
>
> The load latency/DLA information in PEBS can be used to calculate the
> physical address.
> For kernel direct mapping addresses, virt_to_phys is used to convert the
> virtual addresses from DLA to physical address.
> For user virtual addresses, __get_user_pages_fast is used to walk the
> pages tables for user physical address.
> This does not work for vmalloc addresses. Right now these are not
> resolved, but code to do that could be added.
> For security, the physical address can only be exposed to root or
> privileged user.
> A new sample type PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR is introduced to expose the
> physical addresses.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>
> ---
>
> This patch is kernel patch.
> The user space patch will be sent out later separately.
>
> Changes since V3
> - Move the code dla->phys to separate function (Stephane)
> - Correct PHYS_ADDR misplacement in header file (Stephane)
>
> Changes since V2
> - Only the kernel patch
> - Add example in changelog
> - Include a perf_paranoid_kernel() test (PeterZ)
> - Fix minor complier warning
>
>
> arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 2 +-
> include/linux/perf_event.h | 3 +++
> include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 4 +++-
> kernel/events/core.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
> index a322fed..f0e8d9c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
> @@ -1065,6 +1065,35 @@ static inline u64 intel_hsw_transaction(struct pebs_record_skl *pebs)
> return txn;
> }
>
> +static u64 dla_to_phys(u64 dla)
> +{
> + u64 phys_addr = 0;
> + struct page *p = NULL;
> +
> + if (dla >= TASK_SIZE) {
> + /* If it's vmalloc()d memory, leave phys_addr as 0 */
> + if (virt_addr_valid(dla) &&
> + !(dla >= VMALLOC_START && dla < VMALLOC_END))
> + phys_addr = (u64)virt_to_phys((void *)(uintptr_t)dla);
> + } else {
> + /*
> + * Walking the pages tables for user address.
> + * Interrupts are disabled, so it prevents any tear down
> + * of the page tables.
> + * Try IRQ-safe __get_user_pages_fast first.
> + * If failed, leave phys_addr as 0.
> + */
> + if ((current->mm != NULL) &&
> + (__get_user_pages_fast(dla, 1, 0, &p) == 1))
> + phys_addr = page_to_phys(p) + dla % PAGE_SIZE;
> +
> + if (p)
> + put_page(p);
> + }
> +
> + return phys_addr;
> +}
> +
> static void setup_pebs_sample_data(struct perf_event *event,
> struct pt_regs *iregs, void *__pebs,
> struct perf_sample_data *data,
> @@ -1179,6 +1208,9 @@ static void setup_pebs_sample_data(struct perf_event *event,
> x86_pmu.intel_cap.pebs_format >= 1)
> data->addr = pebs->dla;
>
> + if ((sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR) && (data->addr != 0))
> + data->phys_addr = dla_to_phys(data->addr);
> +
> if (x86_pmu.intel_cap.pebs_format >= 2) {
> /* Only set the TSX weight when no memory weight. */
> if ((sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT) && !fll)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h b/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
> index 476aec3..65bb91e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ struct amd_nb {
> (PERF_SAMPLE_IP | PERF_SAMPLE_TID | PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR | \
> PERF_SAMPLE_ID | PERF_SAMPLE_CPU | PERF_SAMPLE_STREAM_ID | \
> PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC | PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER | \
> - PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION)
> + PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION | PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR)
>
> /*
> * A debug store configuration.
> diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> index a3b873f..6783c69 100644
> --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -944,6 +944,8 @@ struct perf_sample_data {
>
> struct perf_regs regs_intr;
> u64 stack_user_size;
> +
> + u64 phys_addr;
> } ____cacheline_aligned;
>
> /* default value for data source */
> @@ -964,6 +966,7 @@ static inline void perf_sample_data_init(struct perf_sample_data *data,
> data->weight = 0;
> data->data_src.val = PERF_MEM_NA;
> data->txn = 0;
> + data->phys_addr = 0;
> }
>
> extern void perf_output_sample(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> index 642db5f..cbea02f 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -139,8 +139,9 @@ enum perf_event_sample_format {
> PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER = 1U << 16,
> PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION = 1U << 17,
> PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR = 1U << 18,
> + PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR = 1U << 19,
>
> - PERF_SAMPLE_MAX = 1U << 19, /* non-ABI */
> + PERF_SAMPLE_MAX = 1U << 20, /* non-ABI */
> };
>
> /*
> @@ -814,6 +815,7 @@ enum perf_event_type {
> * { u64 transaction; } && PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION
> * { u64 abi; # enum perf_sample_regs_abi
> * u64 regs[weight(mask)]; } && PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR
> + * { u64 phys_addr;} && PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR
> * };
> */
> PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE = 9,
> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
> index 426c2ff..c842498 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> @@ -1570,6 +1570,9 @@ static void __perf_event_header_size(struct perf_event *event, u64 sample_type)
> if (sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION)
> size += sizeof(data->txn);
>
> + if (sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR)
> + size += sizeof(data->phys_addr);
> +
> event->header_size = size;
> }
>
> @@ -5955,6 +5958,9 @@ void perf_output_sample(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
> if (sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION)
> perf_output_put(handle, data->txn);
>
> + if (sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR)
> + perf_output_put(handle, data->phys_addr);
> +
No. That would be breaking backward compatibility with measurements
using SAMPLE_TRANSACTION and REGS_INTR. They would expect
the two fields to be laid out next to each other in the buffer.
SAMPLE_PHYS has to be the last one pushed out just like you correctly indicated
in the header file.
> if (sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR) {
> u64 abi = data->regs_intr.abi;
> /*
> @@ -9852,6 +9858,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> + /* Only privileged users can get kernel addresses */
> + if ((attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR) &&
> + perf_paranoid_kernel() &&
> + !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> + return -EACCES;
> +
> if (!attr.sample_max_stack)
> attr.sample_max_stack = sysctl_perf_event_max_stack;
>
> --
> 2.4.3
>
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