Commit 99a9dc98 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Thomas Gleixner

x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI

The intel_bts driver does not use the 'normal' BTS buffer which is exposed
through the cpu_entry_area but instead uses the memory allocated for the
perf AUX buffer.

This obviously comes apart when using PTI because then the kernel mapping;
which includes that AUX buffer memory; disappears. Fixing this requires to
expose a mapping which is visible in all context and that's not trivial.

As a quick fix disable this driver when PTI is enabled to prevent
malfunction.

Fixes: 385ce0ea ("x86/mm/pti: Add Kconfig")
Reported-by: default avatarVince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Reported-by: default avatarRobert Święcki <robert@swiecki.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: greg@kroah.com
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: luto@amacapital.net
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180114102713.GB6166@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net
parent a237f762
......@@ -582,6 +582,24 @@ static __init int bts_init(void)
if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_DTES64) || !x86_pmu.bts)
return -ENODEV;
if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PTI)) {
/*
* BTS hardware writes through a virtual memory map we must
* either use the kernel physical map, or the user mapping of
* the AUX buffer.
*
* However, since this driver supports per-CPU and per-task inherit
* we cannot use the user mapping since it will not be availble
* if we're not running the owning process.
*
* With PTI we can't use the kernal map either, because its not
* there when we run userspace.
*
* For now, disable this driver when using PTI.
*/
return -ENODEV;
}
bts_pmu.capabilities = PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG | PERF_PMU_CAP_ITRACE |
PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUSIVE;
bts_pmu.task_ctx_nr = perf_sw_context;
......
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