linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V6 13/15] perf intel-pt: Add support for text poke events

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Message-ID: <20200421125050.GG809467@krava>
Date:   Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:50:50 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        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>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 13/15] perf intel-pt: Add support for text poke events

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 11:13:25PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> Select text poke events when available and the kernel is being traced.
> Process text poke events to invalidate entries in Intel PT's instruction
> cache.
> 
> Example:
> 
>   The example requires kernel config:
>     CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=y
>     CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y
>     CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y
> 
>   Before:
> 
>     # perf record -o perf.data.before --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M &
>     # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>     0
>     # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>     # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>     1
>     # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>     # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>     0
>     # kill %1
>     [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>     [ perf record: Captured and wrote 3.341 MB perf.data.before ]
>     [1]+  Terminated                 perf record -o perf.data.before --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M
>     # perf script -i perf.data.before --itrace=e >/dev/null
>     Warning:
>     474 instruction trace errors
> 
>   After:
> 
>     # perf record -o perf.data.after --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M &
>     # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>     0
>     # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>     # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>     1
>     # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>     # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>     0
>     # kill %1
>     [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>     [ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.646 MB perf.data.after ]
>     [1]+  Terminated                 perf record -o perf.data.after --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M
>     # perf script -i perf.data.after --itrace=e >/dev/null


I'm still seeing some, probably I'm missing some CONFIG, will check

	# ./perf record -o perf.data.after --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M &
	[1] 5880
	# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
	0
	# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
	# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
	1
	# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
	# kill %1
	# [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
	[ perf record: Captured and wrote 6.181 MB perf.data.after ]
	[1]+  Terminated              ./perf record -o perf.data.after --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M
	# ./perf script --itrace=e -i perf.data.after > /dev/null
	Warning:
	18837 instruction trace errors

	# ./perf script --itrace=e -i perf.data.after | head
	instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.420582345 cpu 9 pid 845 tid 845 ip 0xffffffff814e6cf2 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
	instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422229726 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffffa030a320 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
	instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422231972 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffffa0315c1c code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
	instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422236141 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffff81143263 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
	instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422237424 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffff8115c388 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
	instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422239028 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffff811428c9 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
	instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422239028 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffffa13279fb code 5: Failed to get instruction
	instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422242556 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffff814e9c73 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
	instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422258915 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffff810d7da2 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
	instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422258915 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffffa030a0b2 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction

jirka