linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/events/intel/ds: Fix bts_interrupt

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1807141248290.1614@eggly.anvils>
Date:   Sat, 14 Jul 2018 12:58:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@...el.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        "Shishkin, Alexander" <alexander.shishkin@...el.com>,
        "Kleen, Andi" <andi.kleen@...el.com>,
        "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86/events/intel/ds: Fix bts_interrupt_threshold alignment

Markus reported that BTS is sporadically missing the tail of the trace
in the perf_event data buffer: [decode error (1): instruction overflow]
shown in GDB; and bisected it to the conversion of debug_store to PTI.

A little "optimization" crept into alloc_bts_buffer(), which mistakenly
placed bts_interrupt_threshold away from the 24-byte record boundary.
Intel SDM Vol 3B 17.4.9 says "This address must point to an offset from
the BTS buffer base that is a multiple of the BTS record size."

Revert "max" from a byte count to a record count, to calculate the
bts_interrupt_threshold correctly: which turns out to fix problem seen.

Fixes: c1961a4631da ("x86/events/intel/ds: Map debug buffers in cpu_entry_area")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Markus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@...el.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # v4.14+
---
Sorry for the spam: I missed out [PATCH] and x86@...nel.org yesterday.

 arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- 4.18-rc4/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c	2018-06-03 14:15:21.000000000 -0700
+++ linux/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c	2018-07-12 17:38:28.471378616 -0700
@@ -408,9 +408,11 @@ static int alloc_bts_buffer(int cpu)
 	ds->bts_buffer_base = (unsigned long) cea;
 	ds_update_cea(cea, buffer, BTS_BUFFER_SIZE, PAGE_KERNEL);
 	ds->bts_index = ds->bts_buffer_base;
-	max = BTS_RECORD_SIZE * (BTS_BUFFER_SIZE / BTS_RECORD_SIZE);
-	ds->bts_absolute_maximum = ds->bts_buffer_base + max;
-	ds->bts_interrupt_threshold = ds->bts_absolute_maximum - (max / 16);
+	max = BTS_BUFFER_SIZE / BTS_RECORD_SIZE;
+	ds->bts_absolute_maximum = ds->bts_buffer_base +
+					max * BTS_RECORD_SIZE;
+	ds->bts_interrupt_threshold = ds->bts_absolute_maximum -
+					(max / 16) * BTS_RECORD_SIZE;
 	return 0;
 }