linux/kernel/events
Kan Liang 24d3ae2f37 perf/core: Fix the same task check in perf_event_set_output
The same task check in perf_event_set_output has some potential issues
for some usages.

For the current perf code, there is a problem if using of
perf_event_open() to have multiple samples getting into the same mmap’d
memory when they are both attached to the same process.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/92645262-D319-4068-9C44-2409EF44888E@gmail.com/
Because the event->ctx is not ready when the perf_event_set_output() is
invoked in the perf_event_open().

Besides the above issue, before the commit bd27568117 ("perf: Rewrite
core context handling"), perf record can errors out when sampling with
a hardware event and a software event as below.
 $ perf record -e cycles,dummy --per-thread ls
 failed to mmap with 22 (Invalid argument)
That's because that prior to the commit a hardware event and a software
event are from different task context.

The problem should be a long time issue since commit c3f00c7027
("perk: Separate find_get_context() from event initialization").

The task struct is stored in the event->hw.target for each per-thread
event. It is a more reliable way to determine whether two events are
attached to the same task.

The event->hw.target was also introduced several years ago by the
commit 50f16a8bf9 ("perf: Remove type specific target pointers"). It
can not only be used to fix the issue with the current code, but also
back port to fix the issues with an older kernel.

Note: The event->hw.target was introduced later than commit
c3f00c7027. The patch may cannot be applied between the commit
c3f00c7027 and commit 50f16a8bf9. Anybody that wants to back-port
this at that period may have to find other solutions.

Fixes: c3f00c7027 ("perf: Separate find_get_context() from event initialization")
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhengjun Xing <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230322202449.512091-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
2023-04-05 09:58:46 +02:00
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callchain.c uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
core.c perf/core: Fix the same task check in perf_event_set_output 2023-04-05 09:58:46 +02:00
hw_breakpoint_test.c perf/hw_breakpoint: test: Skip the test if dependencies unmet 2022-11-02 12:22:05 +01:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf/hw_breakpoint: Annotate tsk->perf_event_mutex vs ctx->mutex 2022-10-04 13:32:09 +02:00
internal.h perf/core: Fix perf_mmap fail when CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC enabled 2022-04-19 21:15:42 +02:00
Makefile perf/hw_breakpoint: Add KUnit test for constraints accounting 2022-08-30 10:56:20 +02:00
ring_buffer.c perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPs 2022-10-17 16:32:05 +02:00
uprobes.c mm/mmap: remove __vma_adjust() 2023-02-09 16:51:38 -08:00