Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf script: Fix invalid LBR/binary mismatch error

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Nov 27 2019 - 10:18:58 EST


Em Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:56:31AM +0200, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
> The 'len' returned by grab_bb() includes an extra MAXINSN bytes to allow
> for the last instruction, so the the final 'offs' will not be 'len'.
> Fix the error condition logic accordingly.
>
> Before:
>
> $ perf record -e '{intel_pt//,cpu/mem_inst_retired.all_loads,aux-sample-size=8192/pp}:u' grep -rqs jhgjhg /boot
> [ perf record: Woken up 19 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.274 MB perf.data ]
> $ perf script -F +brstackinsn --xed --itrace=i1usl100 | head
> grep 13759 [002] 8091.310257: 1862 instructions:uH: 5641d58069eb bmexec+0x86b (/bin/grep)
> bmexec+2485:
> 00005641d5806b35 jnz 0x5641d5806bd0 # MISPRED
> 00005641d5806bd0 movzxb (%r13,%rdx,1), %eax
> 00005641d5806bd6 add %rdi, %rax
> 00005641d5806bd9 movzxb -0x1(%rax), %edx
> 00005641d5806bdd cmp %rax, %r14
> 00005641d5806be0 jnb 0x5641d58069c0 # MISPRED
> mismatch of LBR data and executable
> 00005641d58069c0 movzxb (%r13,%rdx,1), %edi
>
> After:
>
> $ perf script -F +brstackinsn --xed --itrace=i1usl100 | head
> grep 13759 [002] 8091.310257: 1862 instructions:uH: 5641d58069eb bmexec+0x86b (/bin/grep)
> bmexec+2485:
> 00005641d5806b35 jnz 0x5641d5806bd0 # MISPRED
> 00005641d5806bd0 movzxb (%r13,%rdx,1), %eax
> 00005641d5806bd6 add %rdi, %rax
> 00005641d5806bd9 movzxb -0x1(%rax), %edx
> 00005641d5806bdd cmp %rax, %r14
> 00005641d5806be0 jnb 0x5641d58069c0 # MISPRED
> 00005641d58069c0 movzxb (%r13,%rdx,1), %edi
> 00005641d58069c6 add %rax, %rdi

Thanks, applied,

- Arnaldo

> Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: e98df280bc2a ("perf script brstackinsn: Fix recovery from LBR/binary mismatch")
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
> index e8db26b9b29e..e2406b291c1c 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
> @@ -1126,7 +1126,7 @@ static int perf_sample__fprintf_brstackinsn(struct perf_sample *sample,
> insn++;
> }
> }
> - if (off != (unsigned)len)
> + if (off != end - start)
> printed += fprintf(fp, "\tmismatch of LBR data and executable\n");
> }
>
> --
> 2.17.1

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- Arnaldo