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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Fix MMCRA corruption by bhrb_filter</title>
<updated>2019-10-05T15:19:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ravi Bangoria</name>
<email>ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-11T02:42:17+00:00</published>
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commit 3202e35ec1c8fc19cea24253ff83edf702a60a02 upstream.

Consider a scenario where user creates two events:

  1st event:
    attr.sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK;
    attr.branch_sample_type = PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY;
    fd = perf_event_open(attr, 0, 1, -1, 0);

  This sets cpuhw-&gt;bhrb_filter to 0 and returns valid fd.

  2nd event:
    attr.sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK;
    attr.branch_sample_type = PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL;
    fd = perf_event_open(attr, 0, 1, -1, 0);

  It overrides cpuhw-&gt;bhrb_filter to -1 and returns with error.

Now if power_pmu_enable() gets called by any path other than
power_pmu_add(), ppmu-&gt;config_bhrb(-1) will set MMCRA to -1.

Fixes: 3925f46bb590 ("powerpc/perf: Enable branch stack sampling framework")
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: drop changes in power9-pmu.c]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: add missing put_cpu_var in power_pmu_event_init</title>
<updated>2019-10-05T15:19:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Stancek</name>
<email>jstancek@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-24T12:33:22+00:00</published>
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commit 68de8867ea5d99127e836c23f6bccf4d44859623 upstream.

One path in power_pmu_event_init() calls get_cpu_var(), but is
missing matching call to put_cpu_var(), which causes preemption
imbalance and crash in user-space:

  Page fault in user mode with in_atomic() = 1 mm = c000001fefa5a280
  NIP = 3fff9bf2cae0  MSR = 900000014280f032
  Oops: Weird page fault, sig: 11 [#23]
  SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
  Modules linked in: &lt;snip&gt;
  CPU: 43 PID: 10285 Comm: a.out Tainted: G      D         4.0.0-rc5+ #1
  task: c000001fe82c9200 ti: c000001fe835c000 task.ti: c000001fe835c000
  NIP: 00003fff9bf2cae0 LR: 00003fff9bee4898 CTR: 00003fff9bf2cae0
  REGS: c000001fe835fea0 TRAP: 0401   Tainted: G      D          (4.0.0-rc5+)
  MSR: 900000014280f032 &lt;SF,HV,VEC,VSX,EE,PR,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI&gt;  CR: 22000028  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: 00003fff9bee4894 SOFTE: 1
   GPR00: 00003fff9bee494c 00003fffe01c2ee0 00003fff9c084410 0000000010020068
   GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 0000000000000008 0000000000000001
   GPR08: 0000000000000001 00003fff9c074a30 00003fff9bf2cae0 00003fff9bf2cd70
   GPR12: 0000000052000022 00003fff9c10b700
  NIP [00003fff9bf2cae0] 0x3fff9bf2cae0
  LR [00003fff9bee4898] 0x3fff9bee4898
  Call Trace:
  ---[ end trace 5d3d952b5d4185d4 ]---

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:41
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 10285, name: a.out
  INFO: lockdep is turned off.
  CPU: 43 PID: 10285 Comm: a.out Tainted: G      D         4.0.0-rc5+ #1
  Call Trace:
  [c000001fe835f990] [c00000000089c014] .dump_stack+0x98/0xd4 (unreliable)
  [c000001fe835fa10] [c0000000000e4138] .___might_sleep+0x1d8/0x2e0
  [c000001fe835faa0] [c000000000888da8] .down_read+0x38/0x110
  [c000001fe835fb30] [c0000000000bf2f4] .exit_signals+0x24/0x160
  [c000001fe835fbc0] [c0000000000abde0] .do_exit+0xd0/0xe70
  [c000001fe835fcb0] [c00000000001f4c4] .die+0x304/0x450
  [c000001fe835fd60] [c00000000088e1f4] .do_page_fault+0x2d4/0x900
  [c000001fe835fe30] [c000000000008664] handle_page_fault+0x10/0x30
  note: a.out[10285] exited with preempt_count 1

Reproducer:
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
  #include &lt;syscall.h&gt;
  #include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
  #include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
  #include &lt;linux/perf_event.h&gt;
  #include &lt;linux/hw_breakpoint.h&gt;

  static struct perf_event_attr event = {
          .type = PERF_TYPE_RAW,
          .size = sizeof(struct perf_event_attr),
          .sample_type = PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK,
          .branch_sample_type = PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY_RETURN,
  };

  int main()
  {
          syscall(__NR_perf_event_open, &amp;event, 0, -1, -1, 0);
  }

Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Dereference BHRB entries safely</title>
<updated>2018-03-03T15:51:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ravi Bangoria</name>
<email>ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-12T12:29:15+00:00</published>
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commit f41d84dddc66b164ac16acf3f584c276146f1c48 upstream.

It's theoretically possible that branch instructions recorded in
BHRB (Branch History Rolling Buffer) entries have already been
unmapped before they are processed by the kernel. Hence, trying to
dereference such memory location will result in a crash. eg:

    Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xd000000019c41764
    Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000084a14
    NIP [c000000000084a14] branch_target+0x4/0x70
    LR [c0000000000eb828] record_and_restart+0x568/0x5c0
    Call Trace:
    [c0000000000eb3b4] record_and_restart+0xf4/0x5c0 (unreliable)
    [c0000000000ec378] perf_event_interrupt+0x298/0x460
    [c000000000027964] performance_monitor_exception+0x54/0x70
    [c000000000009ba4] performance_monitor_common+0x114/0x120

Fix it by deferefencing the addresses safely.

Fixes: 691231846ceb ("powerpc/perf: Fix setting of "to" addresses for BHRB")
Suggested-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Use probe_kernel_read() which is clearer, tweak change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/sysrq: Fix oops whem ppmu is not registered</title>
<updated>2018-01-01T20:51:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ravi Bangoria</name>
<email>ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-19T06:17:06+00:00</published>
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commit 4917fcb58cc73f6b81455e3c5f960144809ddf1a upstream.

Kernel crashes if power pmu is not registered and user tries to dump
regs with 'echo p &gt; /proc/sysrq-trigger'. Sample log:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000008
  Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000000d52f0

  NIP [c0000000000d52f0] perf_event_print_debug+0x10/0x230
  LR [c00000000058a938] sysrq_handle_showregs+0x38/0x50
  Call Trace:
   printk+0x38/0x4c (unreliable)
   __handle_sysrq+0xe4/0x270
   write_sysrq_trigger+0x64/0x80
   proc_reg_write+0x80/0xd0
   __vfs_write+0x40/0x200
   vfs_write+0xc8/0x240
   SyS_write+0x60/0x110
   system_call+0x58/0x6c

Fixes: 5f6d0380c640 ("powerpc/perf: Define perf_event_print_debug() to print PMU register values")
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Remove PPMU_HAS_SSLOT flag for Power8</title>
<updated>2016-02-17T10:22:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Madhavan Srinivasan</name>
<email>maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-25T08:33:46+00:00</published>
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commit 370f06c88528b3988fe24a372c10e1303bb94cf6 upstream.

Commit 7a7868326d77 ("powerpc/perf: Add an explict flag indicating
presence of SLOT field") introduced the PPMU_HAS_SSLOT flag to remove
the assumption that MMCRA[SLOT] was present when PPMU_ALT_SIPR was not
set.

That commit's changelog also mentions that Power8 does not support
MMCRA[SLOT]. However when the Power8 PMU support was merged, it
errnoeously included the PPMU_HAS_SSLOT flag.

So remove PPMU_HAS_SSLOT from the Power8 flags.

mpe: On systems where MMCRA[SLOT] exists, the field occupies bits 37:39
(IBM numbering). On Power8 bit 37 is reserved, and 38:39 overlap with
the high bits of the Threshold Event Counter Mantissa. I am not aware of
any published events which use the threshold counting mechanism, which
would cause the mantissa bits to be set. So in practice this bug is
unlikely to trigger.

Fixes: e05b9b9e5c10 ("powerpc/perf: Power8 PMU support")
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Fix book3s kernel to userspace backtraces</title>
<updated>2015-07-15T09:00:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-26T05:10:24+00:00</published>
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commit 72e349f1124a114435e599479c9b8d14bfd1ebcd upstream.

When we take a PMU exception or a software event we call
perf_read_regs(). This overloads regs-&gt;result with a boolean that
describes if we should use the sampled instruction address register
(SIAR) or the regs.

If the exception is in kernel, we start with the kernel regs and
backtrace through the kernel stack. At this point we switch to the
userspace regs and backtrace the user stack with perf_callchain_user().

Unfortunately these regs have not got the perf_read_regs() treatment,
so regs-&gt;result could be anything. If it is non zero,
perf_instruction_pointer() decides to use the SIAR, and we get issues
like this:

0.11%  qemu-system-ppc  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
       |
       ---_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
          |
          |--52.35%-- 0
          |          |
          |          |--46.39%-- __hrtimer_start_range_ns
          |          |          kvmppc_run_core
          |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv
          |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run
          |          |          kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
          |          |          kvm_vcpu_ioctl
          |          |          do_vfs_ioctl
          |          |          sys_ioctl
          |          |          system_call
          |          |          |
          |          |          |--67.08%-- _raw_spin_lock_irqsave &lt;--- hi mum
          |          |          |          |
          |          |          |           --100.00%-- 0x7e714
          |          |          |                     0x7e714

Notice the bogus _raw_spin_irqsave when we transition from kernel
(system_call) to userspace (0x7e714). We inserted what was in the SIAR.

Add a check in regs_use_siar() to check that the regs in question
are from a PMU exception. With this fix the backtrace makes sense:

     0.47%  qemu-system-ppc  [kernel.vmlinux]         [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
            |
            ---_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
               |
               |--53.83%-- 0
               |          |
               |          |--44.73%-- hrtimer_try_to_cancel
               |          |          kvmppc_start_thread
               |          |          kvmppc_run_core
               |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv
               |          |          kvmppc_vcpu_run
               |          |          kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
               |          |          kvm_vcpu_ioctl
               |          |          do_vfs_ioctl
               |          |          sys_ioctl
               |          |          system_call
               |          |          __ioctl
               |          |          0x7e714
               |          |          0x7e714

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T09:24:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-13T21:51:03+00:00</published>
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commit 9a5cbce421a283e6aea3c4007f141735bf9da8c3 upstream.

We cap 32bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH
(currently 127), but we forgot to do the same for 64bit backtraces.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Fix ABIv2 kernel backtraces</title>
<updated>2014-10-05T20:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-26T02:44:15+00:00</published>
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commit 85101af13bb854a6572fa540df7c7201958624b9 upstream.

ABIv2 kernels are failing to backtrace through the kernel. An example:

39.30%  readseek2_proce  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] find_get_entry
            |
            --- find_get_entry
               __GI___libc_read

The problem is in valid_next_sp() where we check that the new stack
pointer is at least STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD below the previous one.

ABIv1 has a minimum stack frame size of 112 bytes consisting of 48 bytes
and 64 bytes of parameter save area. ABIv2 changes that to 32 bytes
with no paramter save area.

STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD is in theory the minimum stack frame size,
but we over 240 uses of it, some of which assume that it includes
space for the parameter area.

We need to work through all our stack defines and rationalise them
but let's fix perf now by creating STACK_FRAME_MIN_SIZE and using
in valid_next_sp(). This fixes the issue:

30.64%  readseek2_proce  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] find_get_entry
            |
            --- find_get_entry
               pagecache_get_page
               generic_file_read_iter
               new_sync_read
               vfs_read
               sys_read
               syscall_exit
               __GI___libc_read

Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Fix MMCR2 handling for EBB</title>
<updated>2014-07-23T07:16:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-23T07:20:04+00:00</published>
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In the recent commit b50a6c584bb4 "Clear MMCR2 when enabling PMU", I
screwed up the handling of MMCR2 for tasks using EBB.

We must make sure we set MMCR2 *before* ebb_switch_in(), otherwise we
overwrite the value of MMCR2 that userspace may have written. That
potentially breaks a task that uses EBB and manually uses MMCR2 for
event freezing.

Fixes: b50a6c584bb4 ("powerpc/perf: Clear MMCR2 when enabling PMU")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Never program book3s PMCs with values &gt;= 0x80000000</title>
<updated>2014-07-11T03:50:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-28T22:15:38+00:00</published>
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We are seeing a lot of PMU warnings on POWER8:

    Can't find PMC that caused IRQ

Looking closer, the active PMC is 0 at this point and we took a PMU
exception on the transition from negative to 0. Some versions of POWER8
have an issue where they edge detect and not level detect PMC overflows.

A number of places program the PMC with (0x80000000 - period_left),
where period_left can be negative. We can either fix all of these or
just ensure that period_left is always &gt;= 1.

This patch takes the second option.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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