Re: [PATCH V6 13/15] perf intel-pt: Add support for text poke events

From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Tue Apr 21 2020 - 09:03:14 EST


On 21/04/20 3:50 pm, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 11:13:25PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>> Select text poke events when available and the kernel is being traced.
>> Process text poke events to invalidate entries in Intel PT's instruction
>> cache.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> The example requires kernel config:
>> CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=y
>> CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y
>> CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y
>>
>> Before:
>>
>> # perf record -o perf.data.before --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M &
>> # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>> 0
>> # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>> # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>> 1
>> # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>> # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>> 0
>> # kill %1
>> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 3.341 MB perf.data.before ]
>> [1]+ Terminated perf record -o perf.data.before --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M
>> # perf script -i perf.data.before --itrace=e >/dev/null
>> Warning:
>> 474 instruction trace errors
>>
>> After:
>>
>> # perf record -o perf.data.after --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M &
>> # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>> 0
>> # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>> # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>> 1
>> # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>> # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
>> 0
>> # kill %1
>> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.646 MB perf.data.after ]
>> [1]+ Terminated perf record -o perf.data.after --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M
>> # perf script -i perf.data.after --itrace=e >/dev/null
>
>
> I'm still seeing some, probably I'm missing some CONFIG, will check
>
> # ./perf record -o perf.data.after --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M &
> [1] 5880
> # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
> 0
> # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
> # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
> 1
> # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats
> # kill %1
> # [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 6.181 MB perf.data.after ]
> [1]+ Terminated ./perf record -o perf.data.after --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -m,64M
> # ./perf script --itrace=e -i perf.data.after > /dev/null
> Warning:
> 18837 instruction trace errors
>
> # ./perf script --itrace=e -i perf.data.after | head
> instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.420582345 cpu 9 pid 845 tid 845 ip 0xffffffff814e6cf2 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
> instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422229726 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffffa030a320 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
> instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422231972 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffffa0315c1c code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
> instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422236141 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffff81143263 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
> instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422237424 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffff8115c388 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
> instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422239028 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffff811428c9 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
> instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422239028 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffffa13279fb code 5: Failed to get instruction
> instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422242556 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffff814e9c73 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
> instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422258915 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffff810d7da2 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction
> instruction trace error type 1 time 9274.422258915 cpu 39 pid 5880 tid 5880 ip 0xffffffffa030a0b2 code 6: Trace doesn't match instruction

I don't think it can be CONFIG. Can you share the branch you are using?
Then I can test it.