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authorRob Gardner <rob.gardner@oracle.com>2015-12-22 21:16:06 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-12-24 12:10:29 -0500
commit3f74306ac84cf7f2da2fdc87014fc455f5e67bad (patch)
tree84ca393a2bf06e0d8fdc085689c663697dc01e30 /arch/sparc/lib/GENbzero.S
parent1ca04a4ce0d5131471c5a1fac76899dc2d9d3f36 (diff)
sparc64: Ensure perf can access user stacks
When an interrupt (such as a perf counter interrupt) is delivered while executing in user space, the trap entry code puts ASI_AIUS in %asi so that copy_from_user() and copy_to_user() will access the correct memory. But if a perf counter interrupt is delivered while the cpu is already executing in kernel space, then the trap entry code will put ASI_P in %asi, and this will prevent copy_from_user() from reading any useful stack data in either of the perf_callchain_user_X functions, and thus no user callgraph data will be collected for this sample period. An additional problem is that a fault is guaranteed to occur, and though it will be silently covered up, it wastes time and could perturb state. In perf_callchain_user(), we ensure that %asi contains ASI_AIUS because we know for a fact that the subsequent calls to copy_from_user() are intended to read the user's stack. [ Use get_fs()/set_fs() -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Rob Gardner <rob.gardner@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Aldridge <david.j.aldridge@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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