Hugh Dickins
2c991e408d
Markus reported that BTS is sporadically missing the tail of the trace
in the perf_event data buffer: [decode error (1): instruction overflow]
shown in GDB; and bisected it to the conversion of debug_store to PTI.
A little "optimization" crept into alloc_bts_buffer(), which mistakenly
placed bts_interrupt_threshold away from the 24-byte record boundary.
Intel SDM Vol 3B 17.4.9 says "This address must point to an offset from
the BTS buffer base that is a multiple of the BTS record size."
Revert "max" from a byte count to a record count, to calculate the
bts_interrupt_threshold correctly: which turns out to fix problem seen.
Fixes: c1961a4631 ("x86/events/intel/ds: Map debug buffers in cpu_entry_area")
Reported-and-tested-by: Markus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1807141248290.1614@eggly.anvils
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.