Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:47:00 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs |
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:55:46AM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote: > this is the perf breakpoint address: > 000000000045b260 <test_function>: > > this is trace_printk output for NEW microcode 0x6000832: > > DEBUG EX > perf-893 [003] d... 1358.053633: sync_regs: sync_regs eregs ffff88012ecc7f58, regs ffff8800c9f1bf58 > perf-893 [003] d... 1358.053635: do_debug: do_debug-1 regs ffff8800c9f1bf58, eflags 217, rip 45b260 > perf-893 [003] d.h. 1358.053641: do_debug: do_debug-2 eflags 10217, rip 45b260 > perf-893 [003] d... 1358.053642: prepare_exit_to_usermode: prepare_exit_to_usermode1 regs ffff8800c9f1bf58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260 > perf-893 [003] d... 1358.053643: prepare_exit_to_usermode: prepare_exit_to_usermode3 regs ffff8800c9f1bf58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260
Yikes!
Something cleared EFLAGS.RF here. And the same thing doesn't happen with the older ucode version. Are you sure nothing happens in-between prepare_exit_to_usermode() and smp_irq_work_interrupt()?
It looks like nothing does because the timestamps are really close.
> WORK_IRQ > ---> perf-893 [003] d... 1358.053645: smp_irq_work_interrupt: smp_irq_work_interrupt1 regs ffff8800c9f1bf58, eflags 217, rip 45b260 > perf-893 [003] d.h. 1358.053650: perf_event_wakeup: irq_work SIGIO > perf-893 [003] d... 1358.053651: smp_irq_work_interrupt: smp_irq_work_interrupt2 regs ffff8800c9f1bf58, eflags 217, rip 45b260 > > perf-893 [003] d... 1358.053652: prepare_exit_to_usermode: prepare_exit_to_usermode1 regs ffff8800c9f1bf58, eflags 217, rip 45b260 > > > this is trace_printk output for OLD microcode 0x6000822: > > DEBUG EX > perf-898 [005] d... 87.098816: sync_regs: sync_regs eregs ffff88012ed47f58, regs ffff8800c9c8ff58 > perf-898 [005] d... 87.098817: do_debug: do_debug-1 regs ffff8800c9c8ff58, eflags 217, rip 45b260 > perf-898 [005] d.h. 87.098823: do_debug: do_debug-2 eflags 10217, rip 45b260 > perf-898 [005] d... 87.098824: prepare_exit_to_usermode: prepare_exit_to_usermode1 regs ffff8800c9c8ff58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260 > perf-898 [005] d... 87.098825: prepare_exit_to_usermode: prepare_exit_to_usermode3 regs ffff8800c9c8ff58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260 > > WORK_IRQ > ---> perf-898 [005] d... 87.098827: smp_irq_work_interrupt: smp_irq_work_interrupt1 regs ffff8800c9c8ff58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260 > perf-898 [005] d.h. 87.098832: perf_event_wakeup: irq_work SIGIO > perf-898 [005] d... 87.098833: smp_irq_work_interrupt: smp_irq_work_interrupt2 regs ffff8800c9c8ff58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260 > > perf-898 [005] d... 87.098833: prepare_exit_to_usermode: prepare_exit_to_usermode1 regs ffff8800c9c8ff58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260
Thanks.
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