Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:07:26 GMT | | From | tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <> | | Subject | [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: x86: Fix call-chain support to use NMI-safe methods |
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Commit-ID: 74193ef0ecab92535c8517f082f1f50504526c9b Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/74193ef0ecab92535c8517f082f1f50504526c9b Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> AuthorDate: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:07:24 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CommitDate: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:57:53 +0200
perf_counter: x86: Fix call-chain support to use NMI-safe methods
__copy_from_user_inatomic() isn't NMI safe in that it can trigger the page fault handler which is another trap and its return path invokes IRET which will also close the NMI context.
Therefore use a GUP based approach to copy the stack frames over.
We tried an alternative solution as well: we used a forward ported version of Mathieu Desnoyers's "NMI safe INT3 and Page Fault" patch that modifies the exception return path to use an open-coded IRET with explicit stack unrolling and TF checking.
This didnt work as it interacted with faulting user-space instructions, causing them not to restart properly, which corrupts user-space registers.
Solving that would probably involve disassembling those instructions and backtracing the RIP. But even without that, the code was deemed rather complex to the already non-trivial x86 entry assembly code, so instead we went for this GUP based method that does a software-walk of the pagetables.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
--- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c index 6d5e7cf..e8c68a5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ #include <linux/kdebug.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> +#include <linux/highmem.h> #include <asm/apic.h> #include <asm/stacktrace.h> @@ -1617,20 +1618,48 @@ perf_callchain_kernel(struct pt_regs *regs, struct perf_callchain_entry *entry) entry->kernel = entry->nr - nr; } -static int copy_stack_frame(const void __user *fp, struct stack_frame *frame) +/* + * best effort, GUP based copy_from_user() that assumes IRQ or NMI context + */ +static unsigned long +copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n) { + unsigned long offset, addr = (unsigned long)from; + int type = in_nmi() ? KM_NMI : KM_IRQ0; + unsigned long size, len = 0; + struct page *page; + void *map; int ret; - if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, fp, sizeof(*frame))) - return 0; + do { + ret = __get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, 0, &page); + if (!ret) + break; - ret = 1; - pagefault_disable(); - if (__copy_from_user_inatomic(frame, fp, sizeof(*frame))) - ret = 0; - pagefault_enable(); + offset = addr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1); + size = min(PAGE_SIZE - offset, n - len); - return ret; + map = kmap_atomic(page, type); + memcpy(to, map+offset, size); + kunmap_atomic(map, type); + put_page(page); + + len += size; + to += size; + addr += size; + + } while (len < n); + + return len; +} + +static int copy_stack_frame(const void __user *fp, struct stack_frame *frame) +{ + unsigned long bytes; + + bytes = copy_from_user_nmi(frame, fp, sizeof(*frame)); + + return bytes == sizeof(*frame); } static void @@ -1643,7 +1672,7 @@ perf_callchain_user(struct pt_regs *regs, struct perf_callchain_entry *entry) if (!user_mode(regs)) regs = task_pt_regs(current); - fp = (void __user *)regs->bp; + fp = (void __user *)regs->bp; callchain_store(entry, regs->ip);
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