Commit-ID: 99a9dc98ba52267ce5e062b52de88ea1f1b2a7d8
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/99a9dc98ba52267ce5e062b52de88ea1f1b2a7d8
Author: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
AuthorDate: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:27:13 +0100
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
CommitDate: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:42:10 +0100
x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI
The intel_bts driver does not use the 'normal' BTS buffer which is exposed
through the cpu_entry_area but instead uses the memory allocated for the
perf AUX buffer.
This obviously comes apart when using PTI because then the kernel mapping;
which includes that AUX buffer memory; disappears. Fixing this requires to
expose a mapping which is visible in all context and that's not trivial.
As a quick fix disable this driver when PTI is enabled to prevent
malfunction.
Fixes: 385ce0ea4c07 ("x86/mm/pti: Add Kconfig")
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.wea...@maine.edu>
Reported-by: Robert Święcki <rob...@swiecki.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shish...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: g...@kroah.com
Cc: hu...@google.com
Cc: l...@amacapital.net
Cc: Vince Weaver <vi...@deater.net>
Cc: torva...@linux-foundation.org
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Link:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180114102713.gb6...@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net
---
arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c
index 141e07b..24ffa1e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c
@@ -582,6 +582,24 @@ static __init int bts_init(void)
if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_DTES64) || !x86_pmu.bts)
return -ENODEV;
+ if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PTI)) {
+ /*
+ * BTS hardware writes through a virtual memory map we must
+ * either use the kernel physical map, or the user mapping of
+ * the AUX buffer.
+ *
+ * However, since this driver supports per-CPU and per-task
inherit
+ * we cannot use the user mapping since it will not be availble
+ * if we're not running the owning process.
+ *
+ * With PTI we can't use the kernal map either, because its not
+ * there when we run userspace.
+ *
+ * For now, disable this driver when using PTI.
+ */
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+
bts_pmu.capabilities = PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG | PERF_PMU_CAP_ITRACE |
PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUSIVE;
bts_pmu.task_ctx_nr = perf_sw_context;
