[PATCH v2] perf/x86/amd: support capturing LBR from software events

From: Andrii Nakryiko
Date: Thu Mar 28 2024 - 09:34:31 EST


[0] added ability to capture LBR (Last Branch Records) on Intel CPUs
from inside BPF program at pretty much any arbitrary point. This is
extremely useful capability that allows to figure out otherwise
hard-to-debug problems, because LBR is now available based on some
application-defined conditions, not just hardware-supported events.

retsnoop ([1]) is one such tool that takes a huge advantage of this
functionality and has proved to be an extremely useful tool in
practice.

Now, AMD Zen4 CPUs got support for similar LBR functionality, but
necessary wiring inside the kernel is not yet setup. This patch seeks to
rectify this and follows a similar approach to the original patch [0]
for Intel CPUs.

Given LBR can be set up to capture any indirect jumps, it's critical to
minimize indirect jumps on the way to requesting LBR from BPF program,
so we split amd_pmu_lbr_disable_all() into a wrapper with some generic
conditions vs always-inlined __amd_pmu_lbr_disable() called directly
from BPF subsystem (through perf_snapshot_branch_stack static call).

Now that it's possible to capture LBR on AMD CPU from BPF at arbitrary
point, there is no reason to artificially limit this feature to sampling
events. So corresponding check is removed. AFAIU, there is no
correctness implications of doing this (and it was possible to bypass
this check by just setting perf_event's sample_period to 1 anyways, so
it doesn't guard all that much).

This was tested on AMD Bergamo CPU and worked well when utilized from
the aforementioned retsnoop tool.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210910183352.3151445-2-songliubraving@xxxxxx/
[1] https://github.com/anakryiko/retsnoop

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/events/amd/core.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
arch/x86/events/amd/lbr.c | 11 +----------
arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 11 +++++++++++
3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
index aec16e581f5b..88f6d0701342 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ static void amd_pmu_cpu_dead(int cpu)
}
}

-static inline void amd_pmu_set_global_ctl(u64 ctl)
+static __always_inline void amd_pmu_set_global_ctl(u64 ctl)
{
wrmsrl(MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_CTL, ctl);
}
@@ -878,6 +878,29 @@ static int amd_pmu_handle_irq(struct pt_regs *regs)
return amd_pmu_adjust_nmi_window(handled);
}

+static int amd_pmu_v2_snapshot_branch_stack(struct perf_branch_entry *entries, unsigned int cnt)
+{
+ struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ /* must not have branches... */
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ amd_pmu_core_disable_all();
+ __amd_pmu_lbr_disable();
+ /* ... until here */
+
+ cpuc = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events);
+
+ amd_pmu_lbr_read();
+ cnt = min_t(unsigned int, cnt, x86_pmu.lbr_nr);
+ memcpy(entries, cpuc->lbr_entries, sizeof(struct perf_branch_entry) * cnt);
+
+ amd_pmu_v2_enable_all(0);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+
+ return cnt;
+}
+
static int amd_pmu_v2_handle_irq(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events);
@@ -1414,6 +1437,10 @@ static int __init amd_core_pmu_init(void)
static_call_update(amd_pmu_branch_reset, amd_pmu_lbr_reset);
static_call_update(amd_pmu_branch_add, amd_pmu_lbr_add);
static_call_update(amd_pmu_branch_del, amd_pmu_lbr_del);
+
+ /* only support branch_stack snapshot on perfmon v2 */
+ if (x86_pmu.handle_irq == amd_pmu_v2_handle_irq)
+ static_call_update(perf_snapshot_branch_stack, amd_pmu_v2_snapshot_branch_stack);
} else if (!amd_brs_init()) {
/*
* BRS requires special event constraints and flushing on ctxsw.
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/lbr.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/lbr.c
index 4a1e600314d5..75920f895d67 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/amd/lbr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/lbr.c
@@ -310,10 +310,6 @@ int amd_pmu_lbr_hw_config(struct perf_event *event)
{
int ret = 0;

- /* LBR is not recommended in counting mode */
- if (!is_sampling_event(event))
- return -EINVAL;
-
ret = amd_pmu_lbr_setup_filter(event);
if (!ret)
event->attach_state |= PERF_ATTACH_SCHED_CB;
@@ -412,16 +408,11 @@ void amd_pmu_lbr_enable_all(void)
void amd_pmu_lbr_disable_all(void)
{
struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events);
- u64 dbg_ctl, dbg_extn_cfg;

if (!cpuc->lbr_users || !x86_pmu.lbr_nr)
return;

- rdmsrl(MSR_AMD_DBG_EXTN_CFG, dbg_extn_cfg);
- rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, dbg_ctl);
-
- wrmsrl(MSR_AMD_DBG_EXTN_CFG, dbg_extn_cfg & ~DBG_EXTN_CFG_LBRV2EN);
- wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, dbg_ctl & ~DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI);
+ __amd_pmu_lbr_disable();
}

__init int amd_pmu_lbr_init(void)
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h b/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
index fb56518356ec..4dddf0a7e81e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
@@ -1329,6 +1329,17 @@ void amd_pmu_lbr_enable_all(void);
void amd_pmu_lbr_disable_all(void);
int amd_pmu_lbr_hw_config(struct perf_event *event);

+static __always_inline void __amd_pmu_lbr_disable(void)
+{
+ u64 dbg_ctl, dbg_extn_cfg;
+
+ rdmsrl(MSR_AMD_DBG_EXTN_CFG, dbg_extn_cfg);
+ rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, dbg_ctl);
+
+ wrmsrl(MSR_AMD_DBG_EXTN_CFG, dbg_extn_cfg & ~DBG_EXTN_CFG_LBRV2EN);
+ wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, dbg_ctl & ~DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI);
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_AMD_BRS

#define AMD_FAM19H_BRS_EVENT 0xc4 /* RETIRED_TAKEN_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS */
--
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