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Date:   Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:15:00 +0800
From:   "Du, Changbin" <changbin.du@...el.com>
To:     "Du, Changbin" <changbin.du@...el.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, peterz@...radead.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jolsa@...nel.org
Subject: Re: Does perf-annotate work correctly?

Hi Jiri,
Sorry, missed you (but get_maintainer.pl doesn't list you). Here is ealier email.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/9/12/158

Do you think if this is a real issue?

btw, is their a dedicated mailist for perf? Thanks.

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 05:14:09PM +0800, Du, Changbin wrote:
> 
> Here is another example which may be easy to analyse. I beleve that something wrong
> in parsing objdump output.
> 
> The 'test   %esi,%esi' is not of 'if (unlikely(error))', but 'if (!idtv_info_valid)'.
> 
> 
> perf annotate of function vmx_complete_interrupts():
> vmx_complete_interrupts  /lib/modules/4.13.0+/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
> Percent│      mov    0x4590(%rdi),%esi                                                           ▒
>        │    vmx_cancel_injection():                                                              ▒
>        │                                      vmcs_read32(VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD),             ▒
>        │                                      VM_ENTRY_INSTRUCTION_LEN,                          ▒
>        │                                      VM_ENTRY_EXCEPTION_ERROR_CODE);                    ▒
>        │                                                                                         ▒
>        │            vmcs_write32(VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD, 0);                                   ▒
>        │    }                                                                                    ▒
>        │      movb   $0x0,0x32c8(%rdi)                                                           ▒
>        │    __vmx_complete_interrupts():                                                         ▒
>        │      movb   $0x0,0x1a7c(%rdi)                                                           ▒
>        │      movb   $0x0,0x1a88(%rdi)                                                           ▒
>        │    __vmcs_writel():                                                                     ▒
>        │            u8 error;                                                                    ▒
>        │                                                                                         ▒
>        │            asm volatile (__ex(ASM_VMX_VMWRITE_RAX_RDX) "; setna %0"                     ▒
>        │                           : "=q"(error) : "a"(value), "d"(field) : "cc");               ▒
>        │            if (unlikely(error))                                                         ▒
>        │                    vmwrite_error(field, value);                                         ▒
>   0.02 │      test   %esi,%esi                                                                   ▒
>        │    ↓ js     25                                                                          ▒
>  99.98 │    ← retq                                                                               ▒
>        │25:   push   %rbp                                                                        ▒
>        │      mov    $0x440a,%ecx                                                                ▒
>        │      mov    $0x440c,%edx                                                                ▒
>        │    vmx_complete_interrupts():                                                           ◆
>        │                    break;                                                               ▒
>        │            }                                                                            ▒
>        │    }                                                                                    ▒
>        │                                                                                         ▒
>        │    static void vmx_complete_interrupts(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)                            ▒
>        │    {                                                                                    ▒
>        │      mov    %rsp,%rbp                                                                   ▒
>        │    → callq  __vmx_complete_interrupts.part.64                                           ▒
>        │            __vmx_complete_interrupts(&vmx->vcpu, vmx->idt_vectoring_info,               ▒
>        │      pop    %rbp                                                                        ▒
>        │    ← retq                                                                               ▒
> 
> 
> 
> 
> GDB disassable:
> (gdb) disassemble /s vmx_complete_interrupts
> Dump of assembler code for function vmx_complete_interrupts:
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:
> 8917    {
>    0x0000000000007110 <+0>:     callq  0x7115 <vmx_complete_interrupts+5>
> 
> 8918            __vmx_complete_interrupts(&vmx->vcpu, vmx->idt_vectoring_info,
>    0x0000000000007115 <+5>:     mov    0x4590(%rdi),%esi
> 
> 8873            vcpu->arch.nmi_injected = false;
>    0x000000000000711b <+11>:    movb   $0x0,0x32c8(%rdi)
> 
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.h:
> 14              vcpu->arch.exception.pending = false;
>    0x0000000000007122 <+18>:    movb   $0x0,0x1a7c(%rdi)
> 
> 15      }
> 16
> 17      static inline void kvm_queue_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u8 vector,
> 18              bool soft)
> 19      {
> 20              vcpu->arch.interrupt.pending = true;
> 21              vcpu->arch.interrupt.soft = soft;
> 22              vcpu->arch.interrupt.nr = vector;
> 23      }
> 24
> 25      static inline void kvm_clear_interrupt_queue(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> 26      {
> 27              vcpu->arch.interrupt.pending = false;
>    0x0000000000007129 <+25>:    movb   $0x0,0x1a88(%rdi)
> 
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:
> 8877            if (!idtv_info_valid)
>    0x0000000000007130 <+32>:    test   %esi,%esi
>    0x0000000000007132 <+34>:    js     0x7135 <vmx_complete_interrupts+37>
> 
> 8919                                      VM_EXIT_INSTRUCTION_LEN,
> 8920                                      IDT_VECTORING_ERROR_CODE);
> 8921    }
>    0x0000000000007134 <+36>:    retq
> 
> 8917    {
>    0x0000000000007135 <+37>:    push   %rbp
>    0x0000000000007136 <+38>:    mov    $0x440a,%ecx
>    0x000000000000713b <+43>:    mov    $0x440c,%edx
> ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
>    0x0000000000007140 <+48>:    mov    %rsp,%rbp
>    0x0000000000007143 <+51>:    callq  0x7000 <__vmx_complete_interrupts>
> 
> 8919                                      VM_EXIT_INSTRUCTION_LEN,
> 8920                                      IDT_VECTORING_ERROR_CODE);
> 8921    }
> 



-- 
Thanks,
Changbin Du

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