linux-kernel - Re: Getting empty callchain from perf_callchain

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Message-ID: <8C814E68-B0B6-47E4-BDD6-917B01EC62D0@fb.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 May 2019 18:40:42 +0000
From:   Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:     Kairui Song <kasong@...hat.com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "bpf@...r.kernel.org" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Getting empty callchain from perf_callchain_kernel() 

+Alexei, Daniel, and bpf

> On May 17, 2019, at 2:10 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 04:15:39PM +0800, Kairui Song wrote:
>> Hi, I think the actual problem is that bpf_get_stackid_tp (and maybe
>> some other bfp functions) is now broken, or, strating an unwind
>> directly inside a bpf program will end up strangely. It have following
>> kernel message:
> 
> Urgh, what is that bpf_get_stackid_tp() doing to get the regs? I can't
> follow.

I guess we need something like the following? (we should be able to 
optimize the PER_CPU stuff). 

Thanks,
Song


diff --git i/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c w/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
index f92d6ad5e080..c525149028a7 100644
--- i/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
+++ w/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
@@ -696,11 +696,13 @@ static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_perf_event_output_proto_tp = {
        .arg5_type      = ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO,
 };

+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct pt_regs, bpf_stackid_tp_regs);
 BPF_CALL_3(bpf_get_stackid_tp, void *, tp_buff, struct bpf_map *, map,
           u64, flags)
 {
-       struct pt_regs *regs = *(struct pt_regs **)tp_buff;
+       struct pt_regs *regs = this_cpu_ptr(&bpf_stackid_tp_regs);

+       perf_fetch_caller_regs(regs);
        /*
         * Same comment as in bpf_perf_event_output_tp(), only that this time
         * the other helper's function body cannot be inlined due to being
@@ -719,10 +721,13 @@ static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_get_stackid_proto_tp = {
        .arg3_type      = ARG_ANYTHING,
 };

+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct pt_regs, bpf_stack_tp_regs);
 BPF_CALL_4(bpf_get_stack_tp, void *, tp_buff, void *, buf, u32, size,
           u64, flags)
 {
-       struct pt_regs *regs = *(struct pt_regs **)tp_buff;
+       struct pt_regs *regs = this_cpu_ptr(&bpf_stack_tp_regs);
+
+       perf_fetch_caller_regs(regs);

        return bpf_get_stack((unsigned long) regs, (unsigned long) buf,
                             (unsigned long) size, flags, 0);