Re: tracing child threads with address filtering using intel_pt in perf

[Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>]

Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> writes:

> "Alharthi, Mansour A" <mansourah@gatech.edu> writes:
>
>> Hello all,
>
> Hi,
>
>> Assume this test code:
>>
>> thread_start(){
>> ...
>> test();
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> test(){
>> printf("test");
>> }
>>
>> main(){
>> ...
>> pthread_create(......, thread_start,....);
>> }
>
> Can you include the complete test case code?
>
>> Tracing the above program with the following command:
>> perf record -v -m 512,10000 -e intel_pt//u -T --switch-events --filter
>> 'filter * @ ./test' -- ./test
>
> Can you run it with -vvv and also include its output?

Scratch that. Instead, can you try the below patch and see if it works
for you?

Thanks,
--
Alex

From 029a726b63ed6ebef527393704c83dab9c76fb9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 17:16:30 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] perf: Copy parent's address filter offsets on clone

When a child event is allocated in the inherit_event() path, the VMA
based filter offsets are not copied from the parent, even though the
address space mapping of the new task remains the same, which leads
to no trace for the new task until exec.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index c80549bf82c6..8cecbd61cd90 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -1254,6 +1254,7 @@ static void put_ctx(struct perf_event_context *ctx)
  *	      perf_event_context::lock
  *	    perf_event::mmap_mutex
  *	    mmap_sem
+ *	      perf_addr_filters_head::lock
  *
  *    cpu_hotplug_lock
  *      pmus_lock
@@ -10058,6 +10059,20 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
 			goto err_per_task;
 		}
 
+		/*
+		 * Clone the parent's vma offsets: they are valid until exec()
+		 * even if the mm is not shared with the parent.
+		 */
+		if (event->parent) {
+			struct perf_addr_filters_head *ifh = perf_event_addr_filters(event);
+
+			raw_spin_lock_irq(&ifh->lock);
+			memcpy(event->addr_filters_offs,
+			       event->parent->addr_filters_offs,
+			       pmu->nr_addr_filters * sizeof(unsigned long));
+			raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ifh->lock);
+		}
+
 		/* force hw sync on the address filters */
 		event->addr_filters_gen = 1;
 	}
-- 
2.19.0