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perf/x86: Fix PEBS instruction unwind 

Masami spotted that we always try to decode the instruction stream as
64bit instructions when running a 64bit kernel, this doesn't work for
ia32-compat proglets.

Use TIF_IA32 to detect if we need to use the 32bit instruction
decoder.

Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra 2011-10-07 13:36:40 +02:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 7f80850d3f
commit 57d1c0c03c
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
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@ -493,6 +493,7 @@ static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struct pt_regs *regs)
unsigned long from = cpuc->lbr_entries[0].from;
unsigned long old_to, to = cpuc->lbr_entries[0].to;
unsigned long ip = regs->ip;
int is_64bit = 0;
/*
* We don't need to fixup if the PEBS assist is fault like
@ -544,7 +545,10 @@ static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struct pt_regs *regs)
} else
kaddr = (void *)to;
kernel_insn_init(&insn, kaddr);
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
is_64bit = kernel_ip(to) || !test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32);
#endif
insn_init(&insn, kaddr, is_64bit);
insn_get_length(&insn);
to += insn.length;
} while (to < ip);