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Commit 13449616 authored by Adrian Hunter's avatar Adrian Hunter Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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perf thread-stack: Fix thread stack return from kernel for kernel-only case

commit 97860b48 upstream.

Commit f08046cb ("perf thread-stack: Represent jmps to the start of a
different symbol") had the side-effect of introducing more stack entries
before return from kernel space.

When user space is also traced, those entries are popped before entry to
user space, but when user space is not traced, they get stuck at the
bottom of the stack, making the stack grow progressively larger.

Fix by detecting a return-from-kernel branch type, and popping kernel
addresses from the stack then.

Note, the problem and fix affect the exported Call Graph / Tree but not
the callindent option used by "perf script --call-trace".

Example:

  perf-with-kcore record example -e intel_pt//k -- ls
  perf-with-kcore script example --itrace=bep -s ~/libexec/perf-core/scripts/python/export-to-sqlite.py example.db branches calls
  ~/libexec/perf-core/scripts/python/exported-sql-viewer.py example.db

  Menu option: Reports -> Context-Sensitive Call Graph

  Before: (showing Call Path column only)

    Call Path
     perf
    ▼ ls
      ▼ 12111:12111
         setup_new_exec
         __task_pid_nr_ns
         perf_event_pid_type
         perf_event_comm_output
         perf_iterate_ctx
         perf_iterate_sb
         perf_event_comm
         __set_task_comm
         load_elf_binary
         search_binary_handler
         __do_execve_file.isra.41
         __x64_sys_execve
         do_syscall_64
        ▼ entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
          ▼ swapgs_restore_regs_and_return_to_usermode
            ▼ native_iret
               error_entry
               do_page_fault
              ▼ error_exit
                ▼ retint_user
                   prepare_exit_to_usermode
                  ▼ native_iret
                     error_entry
                     do_page_fault
                    ▼ error_exit
                      ▼ retint_user
                         prepare_exit_to_usermode
                        ▼ native_iret
                           error_entry
                           do_page_fault
                          ▼ error_exit
                            ▼ retint_user
                               prepare_exit_to_usermode
                               native_iret

  After: (showing Call Path column only)

    Call Path
     perf
    ▼ ls
      ▼ 12111:12111
         setup_new_exec
         __task_pid_nr_ns
         perf_event_pid_type
         perf_event_comm_output
         perf_iterate_ctx
         perf_iterate_sb
         perf_event_comm
         __set_task_comm
         load_elf_binary
         search_binary_handler
         __do_execve_file.isra.41
         __x64_sys_execve
         do_syscall_64
         entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
         page_fault
        ▼ entry_SYSCALL_64
          ▼ do_syscall_64
             __x64_sys_brk
             __x64_sys_access
             __x64_sys_openat
             __x64_sys_newfstat
             __x64_sys_mmap
             __x64_sys_close
             __x64_sys_read
             __x64_sys_mprotect
             __x64_sys_arch_prctl
             __x64_sys_munmap
             exit_to_usermode_loop
             __x64_sys_set_tid_address
             __x64_sys_set_robust_list
             __x64_sys_rt_sigaction
             __x64_sys_rt_sigprocmask
             __x64_sys_prlimit64
             __x64_sys_statfs
             __x64_sys_ioctl
             __x64_sys_getdents64
             __x64_sys_write
            

 __x64_sys_exit_group

Committer notes:

The first arg to the perf-with-kcore needs to be the same for the
'record' and 'script' lines, otherwise we'll record the perf.data file
and kcore_dir/ files in one directory ('example') to then try to use it
from the 'bep' directory, fix the instructions above it so that both use
'example'.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f08046cb

 ("perf thread-stack: Represent jmps to the start of a different symbol")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190619064429.14940-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 286c71f1
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