[GIT PULL] perf fixes, leftover from the v3.18 cycle

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Dec 09 2014 - 06:02:21 EST


Linus,

Please pull the latest perf-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git perf-urgent-for-linus

# HEAD: 201e7deb9062bb9a8a5bc113e36457c3ff55b226 Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent

Two perf fixes left over from the previous cycle.

Thanks,

Ingo

------------------>
Andy Lutomirski (1):
x86/asm/traps: Disable tracing and kprobes in fixup_bad_iret and sync_regs

Jiri Olsa (1):
perf session: Do not fail on processing out of order event


arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 5 +++--
tools/perf/util/event.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/session.c | 11 +++++------
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index de801f22128a..07ab8e9733c5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(do_int3);
* for scheduling or signal handling. The actual stack switch is done in
* entry.S
*/
-asmlinkage __visible struct pt_regs *sync_regs(struct pt_regs *eregs)
+asmlinkage __visible notrace struct pt_regs *sync_regs(struct pt_regs *eregs)
{
struct pt_regs *regs = eregs;
/* Did already sync */
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ struct bad_iret_stack {
struct pt_regs regs;
};

-asmlinkage __visible
+asmlinkage __visible notrace
struct bad_iret_stack *fixup_bad_iret(struct bad_iret_stack *s)
{
/*
@@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ struct bad_iret_stack *fixup_bad_iret(struct bad_iret_stack *s)
BUG_ON(!user_mode_vm(&new_stack->regs));
return new_stack;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(fixup_bad_iret);
#endif

/*
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.h b/tools/perf/util/event.h
index 5699e7e2a790..50a7b115698c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/event.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/event.h
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ struct events_stats {
u32 nr_invalid_chains;
u32 nr_unknown_id;
u32 nr_unprocessable_samples;
+ u32 nr_unordered_events;
};

struct attr_event {
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 6702ac28754b..80dbba095f30 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -521,15 +521,11 @@ int perf_session_queue_event(struct perf_session *s, union perf_event *event,
return -ETIME;

if (timestamp < oe->last_flush) {
- WARN_ONCE(1, "Timestamp below last timeslice flush\n");
-
- pr_oe_time(timestamp, "out of order event");
+ pr_oe_time(timestamp, "out of order event\n");
pr_oe_time(oe->last_flush, "last flush, last_flush_type %d\n",
oe->last_flush_type);

- /* We could get out of order messages after forced flush. */
- if (oe->last_flush_type != OE_FLUSH__HALF)
- return -EINVAL;
+ s->stats.nr_unordered_events++;
}

new = ordered_events__new(oe, timestamp, event);
@@ -1057,6 +1053,9 @@ static void perf_session__warn_about_errors(const struct perf_session *session,
"Do you have a KVM guest running and not using 'perf kvm'?\n",
session->stats.nr_unprocessable_samples);
}
+
+ if (session->stats.nr_unordered_events != 0)
+ ui__warning("%u out of order events recorded.\n", session->stats.nr_unordered_events);
}

volatile int session_done;
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