perf/x86/intel/ds: Work around BTS leaking kernel addresses
BTS leaks kernel addresses even in userspace-only mode due to imprecise IP sampling, so sometimes syscall entry points or page fault handler addresses end up in a userspace trace. Since this driver uses a relatively small buffer for BTS records and it has to iterate through them anyway, it can also take on the additional job of filtering out the records that contain kernel addresses when kernel space tracing is not enabled. This patch changes the bts code to skip the offending records from perf output. In order to request the exact amount of space on the ring buffer, we need to do an extra pass through the records to know how many there are of the valid ones, but considering the small size of the buffer, this extra pass adds very little overhead to the nmi handler. This way we won't end up with awkward IP samples with zero IPs in the perf stream. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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: hpa@zytor.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441030168-6853-2-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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