On systems without any platform specific PMU driver support registered or
Generic Compat PMU support registered, running 'perf record' with
—intr-regs will crash ( perf record -I <workload> ).
The relevant portion from crash logs and Call Trace:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000068
Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000013eb18
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
CPU: 2 PID: 13435 Comm: kill Kdump: loaded Not tainted 4.18.0-193.el8.ppc64le #1
NIP: c00000000013eb18 LR: c000000000139f2c CTR: c000000000393d80
REGS: c0000004a07ab4f0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (4.18.0-193.el8.ppc64le)
NIP [c00000000013eb18] is_sier_available+0x18/0x30
LR [c000000000139f2c] perf_reg_value+0x6c/0xb0
Call Trace:
[c0000004a07ab770] [c0000004a07ab7c8] 0xc0000004a07ab7c8 (unreliable)
[c0000004a07ab7a0] [c0000000003aa77c] perf_output_sample+0x60c/0xac0
[c0000004a07ab840] [c0000000003ab3f0] perf_event_output_forward+0x70/0xb0
[c0000004a07ab8c0] [c00000000039e208] __perf_event_overflow+0x88/0x1a0
[c0000004a07ab910] [c00000000039e42c] perf_swevent_hrtimer+0x10c/0x1d0
[c0000004a07abc50] [c000000000228b9c] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x17c/0x480
[c0000004a07abcf0] [c00000000022aaf4] hrtimer_interrupt+0x144/0x520
[c0000004a07abdd0] [c00000000002a864] timer_interrupt+0x104/0x2f0
[c0000004a07abe30] [c0000000000091c4] decrementer_common+0x114/0x120
When perf record session started with "-I" option, capture registers
via intr-regs, on each sample ‘is_sier_available()'i is called to check
for the SIER ( Sample Instruction Event Register) availability in the
platform. This function in core-book3s access 'ppmu->flags'. If platform
specific pmu driver is not registered, ppmu is set to null and accessing
its members results in crash. Patch fixes this by returning false in
'is_sier_available()' if 'ppmu' is not set.
Fixes: 333804dc3b7a ("powerpc/perf: Update perf_regs structure to include SIER")
Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sach...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atraj...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
index 08643cb..1de4770 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ static void pmao_restore_workaround(bool ebb) { }
bool is_sier_available(void)
{
+ if (!ppmu)
+ return false;
+
if (ppmu->flags & PPMU_HAS_SIER)
return true;
--
1.8.3.1
