On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:02:53PM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 7:10 PM Jin Yao <yao....@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > + /* > > + * Due to interrupt latency (AKA "skid"), we may enter the > > + * kernel before taking an overflow, even if the PMU is only > > + * counting user events. > > + * To avoid leaking information to userspace, we must always > > + * reject kernel samples when exclude_kernel is set. > > + */ > > + if (event->attr.exclude_kernel && !user_mode(regs)) > > + return false; > > + > And how does that filter PEBS or LBR records?
I suspect the user_mode() thing actually covers PEBS, but yes LBR might need additional filtering.
