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When doing sampling, for example:
perf record -e cycles:u ...
On workloads that do a lot of kernel entry/exits we see kernel
samples, even though :u is specified. This is due to skid existing.
This might be a security issue because it can leak kernel addresses even
though kernel sampling support is disabled.
The patch drops the kernel samples if exclude_kernel is specified.
For example, test on Haswell desktop:
perf record -e cycles:u <mgen>
perf report --stdio
Before patch applied:
99.77% mgen mgen [.] buf_read
0.20% mgen mgen [.] rand_buf_init
0.01% mgen [kernel.vmlinux] [k] apic_timer_interrupt
0.00% mgen mgen [.] last_free_elem
0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] __random_r
0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] _int_malloc
0.00% mgen mgen [.] rand_array_init
0.00% mgen [kernel.vmlinux] [k] page_fault
0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] __random
0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] __strcasestr
0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] strcmp
0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] _dl_start
0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] sched_setaffinity@@GLIBC_2.3.4
0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] _start
We can see kernel symbols apic_timer_interrupt and page_fault.
After patch applied:
99.79% mgen mgen [.] buf_read
0.19% mgen mgen [.] rand_buf_init
0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] __random_r
0.00% mgen mgen [.] rand_array_init
0.00% mgen mgen [.] last_free_elem
0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] vfprintf
0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] rand
0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] __random
0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] _int_malloc
0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] _IO_doallocbuf
0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] do_lookup_x
0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] open_verify.constprop.7
0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] _dl_important_hwcaps
0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] sched_setaffinity@@GLIBC_2.3.4
0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] _start
There are only userspace symbols.
Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: jolsa@kernel.org
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: yao.jin@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495706947-3744-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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