From fa7315871046b9a4c48627905691dbde57e51033 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:16:42 +0200 Subject: perf: Fix capabilities bitfield compatibility in 'struct perf_event_mmap_page' Solve the problems around the broken definition of perf_event_mmap_page:: cap_usr_time and cap_usr_rdpmc fields which used to overlap, partially fixed by: 860f085b74e9 ("perf: Fix broken union in 'struct perf_event_mmap_page'") The problem with the fix (merged in v3.12-rc1 and not yet released officially), noticed by Vince Weaver is that the new behavior is not detectable by new user-space, and that due to the reuse of the field names it's easy to mis-compile a binary if old headers are used on a new kernel or new headers are used on an old kernel. To solve all that make this change explicit, detectable and self-contained, by iterating the ABI the following way: - Always clear bit 0, and rename it to usrpage->cap_bit0, to at least not confuse old user-space binaries. RDPMC will be marked as unavailable to old binaries but that's within the ABI, this is a capability bit. - Rename bit 1 to ->cap_bit0_is_deprecated and always set it to 1, so new libraries can reliably detect that bit 0 is deprecated and perma-zero without having to check the kernel version. - Use bits 2, 3, 4 for the newly defined, correct functionality: cap_user_rdpmc : 1, /* The RDPMC instruction can be used to read counts */ cap_user_time : 1, /* The time_* fields are used */ cap_user_time_zero : 1, /* The time_zero field is used */ - Rename all the bitfield names in perf_event.h to be different from the old names, to make sure it's not possible to mis-compile it accidentally with old assumptions. The 'size' field can then be used in the future to add new fields and it will act as a natural ABI version indicator as well. Also adjust tools/perf/ userspace for the new definitions, noticed by Adrian Hunter. Reported-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Also-Fixed-by: Adrian Hunter Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zr03yxjrpXesOzzupszqglbv@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index dd236b66ca3..cb4238e85b3 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -3660,6 +3660,26 @@ static void calc_timer_values(struct perf_event *event, *running = ctx_time - event->tstamp_running; } +static void perf_event_init_userpage(struct perf_event *event) +{ + struct perf_event_mmap_page *userpg; + struct ring_buffer *rb; + + rcu_read_lock(); + rb = rcu_dereference(event->rb); + if (!rb) + goto unlock; + + userpg = rb->user_page; + + /* Allow new userspace to detect that bit 0 is deprecated */ + userpg->cap_bit0_is_deprecated = 1; + userpg->size = offsetof(struct perf_event_mmap_page, __reserved); + +unlock: + rcu_read_unlock(); +} + void __weak arch_perf_update_userpage(struct perf_event_mmap_page *userpg, u64 now) { } @@ -4044,6 +4064,7 @@ again: ring_buffer_attach(event, rb); rcu_assign_pointer(event->rb, rb); + perf_event_init_userpage(event); perf_event_update_userpage(event); unlock: -- cgit v1.2.3