linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 01/16] perf/x86/intel: Add x86_pmu.pebs

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:10:47 +0800
From:   Liuxiangdong <liuxiangdong5@...wei.com>
To:     Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:     Like Xu <like.xu@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Fangyi (Eric)" <eric.fangyi@...wei.com>,
        Xiexiangyou <xiexiangyou@...wei.com>,
        <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <wei.w.wang@...el.com>,
        <x86@...nel.org>, "Xu, Like" <like.xu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/16] perf/x86/intel: Add x86_pmu.pebs_vmx for Ice
 Lake Servers

On 2021/4/12 23:25, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> The reason why soft lockup happens may be the unmapped EPT pages. So, do we
>> have a way to map all gpa
>> before we use pebs on Skylake?
> Can you configure a VT-d device, that will implicitly pin all pages for the
> IOMMU. I *think* that should be enough for testing.
>
> -Andi

Thanks!
But,  it doesn't seem to work because host still soft lockup when I 
configure a SR-IOV direct network card for vm.

Besides, I have tried to configure 1G-hugepages for 2G-mem vm.  Each of 
guest numa nodes has 1G mem.
When I use pebs (perf record -e cycles:pp) in guest, there are 
successful pebs samples on skylake just for a while and
then I cannot get pebs sample. Host doesn't soft lockup in this process.

Is this method effective?   Are there something wrong on skylake for we 
can only get a few samples ?  Maybe IRQ?