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Date:   Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:07:24 +0200
From:   Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 00/13] perf/x86: Add perf text poke events

On 4/03/20 11:06 am, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Here are patches to add a text poke event to record changes to kernel text
> (i.e. self-modifying code) in order to support tracers like Intel PT
> decoding through jump labels, kprobes and ftrace trampolines.
> 
> The first 8 patches make the kernel changes and the subsequent patches are
> tools changes.
> 
> The next 4 patches add support for updating perf tools' data cache
> with the changed bytes.
> 
> The last patch is an Intel PT specific tools change.
> 
> Patches also here:
> 
> 	git://git.infradead.org/users/ahunter/linux-perf.git text_poke

Any comments?

> 
> 
> Changes in V4
> 
>   kprobes: Add symbols for kprobe insn pages
> 
> 	Change "module name" from kprobe to __builtin__kprobes
> 	Added comment about "module name" use
> 
>   ftrace: Add symbols for ftrace trampolines
> 	
> 	Change "module name" from ftrace to __builtin__ftrace
> 	Move calls of ftrace_add_trampoline_to_kallsyms() and
> 	ftrace_remove_trampoline_from_kallsyms() into
> 	kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> 	Added comment about "module name" use
> 
>   ftrace: Add perf ksymbol events for ftrace trampolines
> 
> 	Move changes into kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> 
>   ftrace: Add perf text poke events for ftrace trampolines
> 
> 	Move changes into kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> 
> Changes in V3:
> 
>   perf: Add perf text poke event
> 
> 	To prevent warning, cast pointer to (unsigned long) not (u64)
> 
>   kprobes: Add symbols for kprobe insn pages
> 
> 	Expand commit message
> 	Remove un-needed declarations of kprobe_cache_get_kallsym() and arch_kprobe_get_kallsym() when !CONFIG_KPROBES
> 
>   ftrace: Add symbols for ftrace trampolines
> 
> 	Expand commit message
> 	Make ftrace_get_trampoline_kallsym() static
> 
> Changes in V2:
> 
>   perf: Add perf text poke event
> 
> 	Separate out x86 changes
> 	The text poke event now has old len and new len
> 	Revised commit message
> 
>   perf/x86: Add support for perf text poke event for text_poke_bp_batch() callers
> 
> 	New patch containing x86 changes from original first patch
> 
>   kprobes: Add symbols for kprobe insn pages
>   kprobes: Add perf ksymbol events for kprobe insn pages
>   perf/x86: Add perf text poke events for kprobes
>   ftrace: Add symbols for ftrace trampolines
>   ftrace: Add perf ksymbol events for ftrace trampolines
>   ftrace: Add perf text poke events for ftrace trampolines
>   perf kcore_copy: Fix module map when there are no modules loaded
>   perf evlist: Disable 'immediate' events last
> 
> 	New patches
> 
>   perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE
> 
> 	The text poke event now has old len and new len
> 	Also select ksymbol events with text poke events
> 
>   perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL_TYPE_OOL
> 
> 	New patch
> 
>   perf intel-pt: Add support for text poke events
> 
> 	The text poke event now has old len and new len
> 	Allow for the address not having a map yet
> 
> 
> Changes since RFC:
> 
>   Dropped 'flags' from the new event.  The consensus seemed to be that text
>   pokes should employ a scheme similar to x86's INT3 method instead.
> 
>   dropped tools patches already applied.
> 
> 
> Example:
> 
>   For jump labels, the kernel needs
> 	CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y
>   and also an easy to flip jump label is in sysctl_schedstats() which needs
> 	CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y
> 	CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=y
> 	CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y
> 
>   Also note the 'sudo perf record' is put into the background which, as
>   written, needs sudo credential caching (otherwise the background task
>   will stop awaiting the sudo password), hence the 'sudo echo' to start.
> 
> Before:
> 
>   $ sudo echo
>   $ sudo perf record -o perf.data.before --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M &
>   [1] 1640
>   $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>   0
>   $ sudo bash -c 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats'
>   $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>   1
>   $ sudo bash -c 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats'
>   $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>   0
>   $ sudo kill 1640
>   [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 16.635 MB perf.data.before ]
>   $ perf script -i perf.data.before --itrace=e >/dev/null
>   Warning:
>   1946 instruction trace errors
> 
> After:
> 
>   $ sudo echo
>   $ sudo perf record -o perf.data.after --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M &
>   [1] 1882
>   $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>   0
>   $ sudo bash -c 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats'
>   $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>   1
>   $ sudo bash -c 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats'
>   $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>   0
>   $ sudo kill 1882
>   [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 10.893 MB perf.data.after ]
>   $ perf script -i perf.data.after --itrace=e
>   $
> 
> 
> Adrian Hunter (13):
>       perf: Add perf text poke event
>       perf/x86: Add support for perf text poke event for text_poke_bp_batch() callers
>       kprobes: Add symbols for kprobe insn pages
>       kprobes: Add perf ksymbol events for kprobe insn pages
>       perf/x86: Add perf text poke events for kprobes
>       ftrace: Add symbols for ftrace trampolines
>       ftrace: Add perf ksymbol events for ftrace trampolines
>       ftrace: Add perf text poke events for ftrace trampolines
>       perf kcore_copy: Fix module map when there are no modules loaded
>       perf evlist: Disable 'immediate' events last
>       perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE
>       perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL_TYPE_OOL
>       perf intel-pt: Add support for text poke events
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kprobes.h            |   4 ++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h      |   2 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c             |  70 +++++++++++++++++----
>  arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c            |   7 +++
>  arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c             |  18 +++++-
>  include/linux/ftrace.h                    |  12 ++--
>  include/linux/kprobes.h                   |  15 +++++
>  include/linux/perf_event.h                |   8 +++
>  include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h           |  26 +++++++-
>  kernel/events/core.c                      |  90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  kernel/kallsyms.c                         |  42 +++++++++++--
>  kernel/kprobes.c                          |  57 +++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/trace/ftrace.c                     | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h     |  26 +++++++-
>  tools/lib/perf/include/perf/event.h       |   9 +++
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c       |   4 ++
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c               |  45 +++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/dso.c                     |   3 +
>  tools/perf/util/dso.h                     |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/event.c                   |  40 ++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/event.h                   |   5 ++
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.c                  |  31 ++++++---
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.h                  |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c                   |   7 ++-
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c                |  75 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/machine.c                 |  49 +++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/machine.h                 |   3 +
>  tools/perf/util/map.c                     |   5 ++
>  tools/perf/util/map.h                     |   3 +-
>  tools/perf/util/perf_event_attr_fprintf.c |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/record.c                  |  10 +++
>  tools/perf/util/record.h                  |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/session.c                 |  23 +++++++
>  tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c              |   7 +++
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.c                  |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/tool.h                    |   3 +-
>  36 files changed, 765 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> Regards
> Adrian
> 

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