linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf arm-spe: Parse more SPE fields and store source

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]

Message-ID: <7eca7a1d-a5a2-2aab-b3cf-5d83cb8ccf4f@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:31:40 +0000
From:   German Gomez <german.gomez@....com>
To:     Ali Saidi <alisaidi@...zon.com>, leo.yan@...aro.org
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        andrew.kilroy@....com, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
        james.clark@....com, john.garry@...wei.com, jolsa@...hat.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        mathieu.poirier@...aro.org, mingo@...hat.com, namhyung@...nel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, will@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf arm-spe: Parse more SPE fields and store source

Hi Ali,

On 28/01/2022 21:02, Ali Saidi wrote:
> Hi German,
>
> On 28/01/2022 19:20, German Gomez wrote:
>> Hi Ali,
>>
>> [...]
>>>  };
>>>  
>>>  enum arm_spe_op_type {
>>>  	ARM_SPE_LD		= 1 << 0,
>>>  	ARM_SPE_ST		= 1 << 1,
>>> +	ARM_SPE_LDST_EXCL	= 1 << 2,
>>> +	ARM_SPE_LDST_ATOMIC	= 1 << 3,
>>> +	ARM_SPE_LDST_ACQREL	= 1 << 4,

Wondering if we can store this in perf_sample->flags. The values are
defined in "util/event.h" (PERF_IP_*). Maybe we can extend it to allow
doing "sample->flags = PERF_LDST_FLAG_LD | PERF_LDST_FLAG_ATOMIC" and
such.

@Leo do you think that could work?

>>> +	ARM_SPE_BR		= 1 << 5,
>>> +	ARM_SPE_BR_COND		= 1 << 6,
>>> +	ARM_SPE_BR_IND		= 1 << 7,

Seems like we can store BR_COND in the existing "branch-miss" event
(--itrace=b) with:

  sample->flags = PERF_IP_FLAG_BRANCH;
  sample->flags |= PERF_IP_FLAG_CONDITIONAL;
and/or
  sample->flags |= PERF_IP_FLAG_INDIRECT;

PERF_IP_FLAG_INDIRECT doesn't exist yet but we can probably add it.