linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 07/19] perf tools: Workaround missing maps for x86

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Date:   Mon, 14 May 2018 16:02:38 +0300
From:   Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 07/19] perf tools: Workaround missing maps for x86_64
 KPTI entry trampolines

On 11/05/18 17:45, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Fri, May 11, 2018 at 02:18:01PM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
>> On 10/05/18 23:47, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>>> Em Thu, May 10, 2018 at 05:19:22PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
>>>> Em Thu, May 10, 2018 at 05:15:42PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
>>>>> Em Thu, May 10, 2018 at 07:08:37PM +0000, Hunter, Adrian escreveu:
>>>>>> Let me know if you want me to post the workaround patches separately,
>>>>>> otherwise I will wait a bit before sending the patches again.
>>>
>>>>> I'll see if I went thru all of the patches already...
>>>  
>>>> So I looked at the patches posted and one comment is about the terse
>>>> commit logs for some of the kcore_copy patches, for instance:
>>>  
>>>> --------------------
>>>>  In preparation to add more program headers, get rid of kernel_map and
>>>> modules_map.
>>>> --------------------
>>>  
>>>> Can't this be made a bit more verbose? Lemme re-read the patch...
>>>
>>> So you had just one pointers to the kernel map and a module_maps, and
>>> then this is replaced by kcore_copy__map() that instead of populating
>>> those fields that are being removed:
>>>
>>> -       struct phdr_data kernel_map;
>>> -       struct phdr_data modules_map;
>>>
>>> Will allocate and add "struct phdr_data" instances to the
>>> kcore_copy_info->phdrs list, so I propose, to follow convention used
>>> elsewhere in tools/perf/ that you rename kcore_copy__map() to
>>>
>>>   kcore_copy_info__addnew(kci, fields)
>>>
>>> I would do it as:
>>>
>>> struct phdr_data *phdr_data__new(fields)
>>> {
>>> 	return  zalloc() + init fields;
>>> }
>>>
>>> struct phdr_data *kcore_copy_info__addnew(kci, fields)
>>> {
>>> 	struct phdr_data *pd = phdr_data__new(fields);
>>>
>>> 	if (pd)
>>> 		list_add(&pd->list, &kci->phdrs)
>>> }
>>>
>>> Also please rename pd->list to pd->node, to clarify that it is a node in
>>> some list, not a list.
>>>
>>> The commit log list then could reflect that somehow, with something
>>> around:
>>>
>>> ----------------------
>>>
>>> Move ->kernel_map and ->modules_map to newly allocated entries in the
>>> ->phdrs list.
>>>
>>> ----------------------
>>>
>>> wdyt?
>>
>> I have done the changes but still have kcore_copy__map() calling
>> kcore_copy_info__addnew().  The changes have been pushed to the same branch.
> 
> Thanks! I'll process a perf/urgent round and then go over your updated
> tree to get it tested on a skylake machine and merged to perf/core,

I changed some terminology 'x86_64 KPTI' -> 'x86 PTI' as requested by Ingo,
and pushed to a new branch perf-tools-kpti-v0.

	http://git.infradead.org/users/ahunter/linux-perf.git/shortlog/refs/heads/perf-tools-kpti-v0