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Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs

From Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs
Date 2015-08-19 17:50 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:55:46AM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> this is the perf breakpoint address:
>   000000000045b260 <test_function>:
> 
> this is trace_printk output for NEW microcode 0x6000832:
> 
> DEBUG EX
>             perf-893   [003] d...  1358.053633: sync_regs: sync_regs eregs ffff88012ecc7f58, regs ffff8800c9f1bf58
>             perf-893   [003] d...  1358.053635: do_debug: do_debug-1 regs ffff8800c9f1bf58, eflags 217, rip 45b260
>             perf-893   [003] d.h.  1358.053641: do_debug: do_debug-2 eflags 10217, rip 45b260
>             perf-893   [003] d...  1358.053642: prepare_exit_to_usermode: prepare_exit_to_usermode1 regs ffff8800c9f1bf58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260
>             perf-893   [003] d...  1358.053643: prepare_exit_to_usermode: prepare_exit_to_usermode3 regs ffff8800c9f1bf58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260

Yikes!

Something cleared EFLAGS.RF here. And the same thing doesn't happen with
the older ucode version. Are you sure nothing happens in-between
prepare_exit_to_usermode() and smp_irq_work_interrupt()?

It looks like nothing does because the timestamps are really close.

> WORK_IRQ
>  --->       perf-893   [003] d...  1358.053645: smp_irq_work_interrupt: smp_irq_work_interrupt1 regs ffff8800c9f1bf58, eflags 217, rip 45b260
>             perf-893   [003] d.h.  1358.053650: perf_event_wakeup: irq_work SIGIO
>             perf-893   [003] d...  1358.053651: smp_irq_work_interrupt: smp_irq_work_interrupt2 regs ffff8800c9f1bf58, eflags 217, rip 45b260
> 
>             perf-893   [003] d...  1358.053652: prepare_exit_to_usermode: prepare_exit_to_usermode1 regs ffff8800c9f1bf58, eflags 217, rip 45b260
> 
> 
> this is trace_printk output for OLD microcode 0x6000822:
> 
> DEBUG EX
>             perf-898   [005] d...    87.098816: sync_regs: sync_regs eregs ffff88012ed47f58, regs ffff8800c9c8ff58
>             perf-898   [005] d...    87.098817: do_debug: do_debug-1 regs ffff8800c9c8ff58, eflags 217, rip 45b260
>             perf-898   [005] d.h.    87.098823: do_debug: do_debug-2 eflags 10217, rip 45b260
>             perf-898   [005] d...    87.098824: prepare_exit_to_usermode: prepare_exit_to_usermode1 regs ffff8800c9c8ff58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260
>             perf-898   [005] d...    87.098825: prepare_exit_to_usermode: prepare_exit_to_usermode3 regs ffff8800c9c8ff58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260
> 
> WORK_IRQ
>  --->       perf-898   [005] d...    87.098827: smp_irq_work_interrupt: smp_irq_work_interrupt1 regs ffff8800c9c8ff58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260
>             perf-898   [005] d.h.    87.098832: perf_event_wakeup: irq_work SIGIO
>             perf-898   [005] d...    87.098833: smp_irq_work_interrupt: smp_irq_work_interrupt2 regs ffff8800c9c8ff58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260
> 
>             perf-898   [005] d...    87.098833: prepare_exit_to_usermode: prepare_exit_to_usermode1 regs ffff8800c9c8ff58, eflags 10217, rip 45b260

Thanks.

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    Boris.

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[BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2015-08-17 00:40 +0200
  Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2015-08-17 06:40 +0200
    Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2015-08-17 09:40 +0200
    Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-17 18:10 +0200
      Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2015-08-18 11:00 +0200
      Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2015-08-18 12:20 +0200
        Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2015-08-19 06:00 +0200
          Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2015-08-19 11:00 +0200
            Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2015-08-19 17:50 +0200
              Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2015-08-19 18:00 +0200
                Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2015-08-19 18:20 +0200
                Re: [BUG/RFC] perf test fails on AMD CPUs Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> - 2015-08-21 09:50 +0200

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