From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup•eu>,
Kajol Jain <kjain@linux•ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Cc: atrajeev@linux•vnet.ibm.com, maddy@linux•ibm.com, rnsastry@linux•ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/perf: Return regs->nip as instruction pointer value when SIAR is 0
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 22:25:10 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dgomcwp.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95fc0f78-51d0-82f6-c9d6-de101fec445c@csgroup.eu>
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup•eu> writes:
> Le 13/08/2021 à 10:24, Kajol Jain a écrit :
>> Incase of random sampling, there can be scenarios where SIAR is not
>> latching sample address and results in 0 value. Since current code
>> directly returning the siar value, we could see multiple instruction
>> pointer values as 0 in perf report.
>> Patch resolves this issue by adding a ternary condition to return
>> regs->nip incase SIAR is 0.
>>
>> Fixes: 75382aa72f06 ("powerpc/perf: Move code to select SIAR or pt_regs
>> into perf_read_regs")
>> Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux•ibm.com>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
>> index 1b464aad29c4..aeecaaf6810f 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
>> @@ -2260,7 +2260,7 @@ unsigned long perf_instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
>> else
>> return regs->nip;
>> } else if (use_siar && siar_valid(regs))
>> - return siar + perf_ip_adjust(regs);
>> + return siar ? siar + perf_ip_adjust(regs) : regs->nip;
>
> Why bother about returning SIAR at all if regs->nip is ok ? Why not just return regs->nip all the time ?
Same answer as last time :)
https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/87r1prxd9e.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au/
ie. SIAR can point into interrupts-off code, whereas regs->nip will
point to where we re-enabled interrupts.
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-14 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-13 8:24 [PATCH v2 1/2] powerpc/perf: Use stack siar instead of mfspr Kajol Jain
2021-08-13 8:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/perf: Return regs->nip as instruction pointer value when SIAR is 0 Kajol Jain
2021-08-13 9:29 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-08-14 12:25 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2021-08-13 9:34 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-08-14 12:44 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-08-16 6:44 ` kajoljain
2021-08-16 6:56 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-08-17 5:37 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2021-08-17 8:29 ` kajoljain
2021-08-17 12:49 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-08-16 6:46 ` kajoljain
2021-08-13 8:29 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] powerpc/perf: Use stack siar instead of mfspr kajoljain
2021-08-13 9:23 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-08-14 12:30 ` Michael Ellerman
2021-08-16 5:58 ` kajoljain
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