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Commit 88bc63d0 authored by Namhyung Kim's avatar Namhyung Kim
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perf tools: Do not set exclude_guest for precise_ip



It seems perf sets the exclude_guest bit because of Intel PEBS
implementation which uses a virtual address.  IIUC now kernel disables
PEBS when it goes to the guest mode regardless of this bit so we don't
need to set it explicitly.  At least for the other archs/vendors.

I found the commit 1342798c set the exclude_guest for precise_ip
in the tool and the commit 20b279dd added kernel side enforcement
which was reverted by commit a706d965 later.

Actually it doesn't set the exclude_guest for the default event
(cycles:P) already.

  $ grep -m1 vendor /proc/cpuinfo
  vendor_id	: GenuineIntel

  $ perf record -e cycles:P true
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB perf.data (9 samples) ]

  $ perf evlist -v | tr ',' '\n' | grep -e exclude -e precise
   precise_ip: 3

But having lower 'p' modifier set the bit for some reason.

  $ perf record -e cycles:pp true
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB perf.data (9 samples) ]

  $ perf evlist -v | tr ',' '\n' | grep -e exclude -e precise
   precise_ip: 2
   exclude_guest: 1

Actually AMD IBS suffers from this because it doesn't support excludes
and having this bit effectively disables new features in the current
implementation (due to the missing feature check).

  $ grep -m1 vendor /proc/cpuinfo
  vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD

  $ perf record -W -e cycles:p -vv true 2>&1 | grep switching
  switching off PERF_FORMAT_LOST support
  switching off weight struct support
  switching off bpf_event
  switching off ksymbol
  switching off cloexec flag
  switching off mmap2
  switching off exclude_guest, exclude_host

By not setting exclude_guest, we can fix this inconsistency and the
troubles.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers's avatarIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: james-c-linaro's avatarJames Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>
Cc: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016062359.264929-5-namhyung@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
parent d9e0970f
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