On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 08:11:26PM +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:
commit 5b590160d2cf776b304eb054afafea2bd55e3620 upstream.
If the trace data buffer becomes full, a truncated flag [T] is reported in PERF_RECORD_AUX. In some cases, the size reported is 0, even though data must have been added to make the buffer full.
That happens when the buffer fills up from empty to full before the Intel PT driver has updated the buffer position. Then the driver calculates the new buffer position before calculating the data size. If the old and new positions are the same, the data size is reported as 0, even though it is really the whole buffer size.
Fix by detecting when the buffer position is wrapped, and adjust the data size calculation accordingly.
Example
Use a very small buffer size (8K) and observe the size of truncated [T] data. Before the fix, it is possible to see records of 0 size.
Before:
$ perf record -m,8K -e intel_pt// uname Linux [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.105 MB perf.data ] $ perf script -D --no-itrace | grep AUX | grep -F '[T]' Warning: AUX data lost 2 times out of 3! 5 19462712368111 0x19710 [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_AUX offset: 0 size: 0 flags: 0x1 [T] 5 19462712700046 0x19ba8 [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_AUX offset: 0x170 size: 0xe90 flags: 0x1 [T]After:
$ perf record -m,8K -e intel_pt// uname Linux [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.040 MB perf.data ] $ perf script -D --no-itrace | grep AUX | grep -F '[T]' Warning: AUX data lost 2 times out of 3! 1 113720802995 0x4948 [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_AUX offset: 0 size: 0x2000 flags: 0x1 [T] 1 113720979812 0x6b10 [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_AUX offset: 0x2000 size: 0x2000 flags: 0x1 [T]Fixes: 52ca9ced3f70 ("perf/x86/intel/pt: Add Intel PT PMU driver") Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241022155920.17511-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com
arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c | 11 ++++++++--- arch/x86/events/intel/pt.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Sorry, but 4.19.y is now end-of-life.