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Message-ID: <20180618104149.GH2458@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:41:49 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@...el.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
"yao.jin@...ux.intel.com" <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
"me@...ehuey.com" <me@...ehuey.com>,
LKML <Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, "Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] perf/core: Use sysctl to turn on/off dropping
leaked kernel samples
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 01:31:34PM +0000, Liang, Kan wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:02:53PM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 7:10 PM Jin Yao <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > > + /*
> > > > + * Due to interrupt latency (AKA "skid"), we may enter the
> > > > + * kernel before taking an overflow, even if the PMU is only
> > > > + * counting user events.
> > > > + * To avoid leaking information to userspace, we must always
> > > > + * reject kernel samples when exclude_kernel is set.
> > > > + */
> > > > + if (event->attr.exclude_kernel && !user_mode(regs))
> > > > + return false;
> > > > +
> > > And how does that filter PEBS or LBR records?
> >
> > I suspect the user_mode() thing actually covers PEBS, but yes LBR might need
> > additional filtering.
>
> I think the large PEBS still need to be specially handled.
large pebs should be fine too, all pebs stuff eventually calls
perf_event_output() with a synthesized register set.
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