[PATCH 2/2] powerpc/perf: Fix setting of "to" addresses for BHRB

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Thu May 9 11:46:49 EST 2013


Currently we only set the "to" address in the branch stack when the CPU
explicitly gives us a value.  Unfortunately it only does this for XL form
branches (eg blr, bctr, bctar) and not I and B form branches (eg b, bc).

Fortunately if we read the instruction from memory we can extract the offset of
a branch and calculate the target address.

This adds a function power_pmu_bhrb_to() to calculate the target/to address of
the corresponding I and B form branches.  It handles branches in both user and
kernel spaces.  It also plumbs this into the perf brhb reading code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
index 2d81372..37f652f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -13,11 +13,13 @@
 #include <linux/perf_event.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <linux/hardirq.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/reg.h>
 #include <asm/pmc.h>
 #include <asm/machdep.h>
 #include <asm/firmware.h>
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
+#include <asm/code-patching.h>
 
 #define BHRB_MAX_ENTRIES	32
 #define BHRB_TARGET		0x0000000000000002
@@ -1458,6 +1460,33 @@ struct pmu power_pmu = {
 	.flush_branch_stack = power_pmu_flush_branch_stack,
 };
 
+/* Calculate the to address for a branch */
+static __u64 power_pmu_bhrb_to(u64 addr)
+{
+	unsigned int instr;
+	int ret;
+	__u64 target;
+
+	if (is_kernel_addr(addr))
+		return branch_target((unsigned int *)addr);
+
+	/* Userspace: need copy instruction here then translate it */
+	pagefault_disable();
+	ret = __get_user_inatomic(instr, (unsigned int *)addr);
+	if (ret) {
+		pagefault_enable();
+		return 0;
+	}
+	pagefault_enable();
+
+	target = branch_target(&instr);
+	if ((!target) || (instr & BRANCH_ABSOLUTE))
+		return target;
+
+	/* Translate relative branch target from kernel to user address */
+	return target - (unsigned long)&instr + addr;
+}
+
 /* Processing BHRB entries */
 void power_pmu_bhrb_read(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuhw)
 {
@@ -1521,7 +1550,8 @@ void power_pmu_bhrb_read(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuhw)
 				/* Branches to immediate field 
 				   (ie I or B form) */
 				cpuhw->bhrb_entries[u_index].from = addr;
-				cpuhw->bhrb_entries[u_index].to = 0;
+				cpuhw->bhrb_entries[u_index].to =
+					power_pmu_bhrb_to(addr);
 				cpuhw->bhrb_entries[u_index].mispred = pred;
 				cpuhw->bhrb_entries[u_index].predicted = ~pred;
 			}
-- 
1.7.10.4



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