perf top: populate PMU capabilities data in perf_env
authorThomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:36:59 +0000 (11:36 -0500)
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:51:40 +0000 (10:51 -0700)
commitc72bf82f96019216bb0a291d39c244977603661f
treeea3d6edca43f178531b1968a1a9cc8920f6fa968
parentac871873bac736edd3945ade222d2902c0b10ac2
perf top: populate PMU capabilities data in perf_env

Calling perf top with branch filters enabled on Intel CPU's
with branch counters logging (A.K.A LBR event logging [1]) support
results in a segfault.

$ perf top  -e '{cpu_core/cpu-cycles/,cpu_core/event=0xc6,umask=0x3,frontend=0x11,name=frontend_retired_dsb_miss/}' -j any,counter
...
Thread 27 "perf" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffafff76c0 (LWP 949003)]
perf_env__find_br_cntr_info (env=0xf66dc0 <perf_env>, nr=0x0, width=0x7fffafff62c0) at util/env.c:653
653 *width = env->cpu_pmu_caps ? env->br_cntr_width :
(gdb) bt
 #0  perf_env__find_br_cntr_info (env=0xf66dc0 <perf_env>, nr=0x0, width=0x7fffafff62c0) at util/env.c:653
 #1  0x00000000005b1599 in symbol__account_br_cntr (branch=0x7fffcc3db580, evsel=0xfea2d0, offset=12, br_cntr=8) at util/annotate.c:345
 #2  0x00000000005b17fb in symbol__account_cycles (addr=5658172, start=5658160, sym=0x7fffcc0ee420, cycles=539, evsel=0xfea2d0, br_cntr=8) at util/annotate.c:389
 #3  0x00000000005b1976 in addr_map_symbol__account_cycles (ams=0x7fffcd7b01d0, start=0x7fffcd7b02b0, cycles=539, evsel=0xfea2d0, br_cntr=8) at util/annotate.c:422
 #4  0x000000000068d57f in hist__account_cycles (bs=0x110d288, al=0x7fffafff6540, sample=0x7fffafff6760, nonany_branch_mode=false, total_cycles=0x0, evsel=0xfea2d0) at util/hist.c:2850
 #5  0x0000000000446216 in hist_iter__top_callback (iter=0x7fffafff6590, al=0x7fffafff6540, single=true, arg=0x7fffffff9e00) at builtin-top.c:737
 #6  0x0000000000689787 in hist_entry_iter__add (iter=0x7fffafff6590, al=0x7fffafff6540, max_stack_depth=127, arg=0x7fffffff9e00) at util/hist.c:1359
 #7  0x0000000000446710 in perf_event__process_sample (tool=0x7fffffff9e00, event=0x110d250, evsel=0xfea2d0, sample=0x7fffafff6760, machine=0x108c968) at builtin-top.c:845
 #8  0x0000000000447735 in deliver_event (qe=0x7fffffffa120, qevent=0x10fc200) at builtin-top.c:1211
 #9  0x000000000064ccae in do_flush (oe=0x7fffffffa120, show_progress=false) at util/ordered-events.c:245
 #10 0x000000000064d005 in __ordered_events__flush (oe=0x7fffffffa120, how=OE_FLUSH__TOP, timestamp=0) at util/ordered-events.c:324
 #11 0x000000000064d0ef in ordered_events__flush (oe=0x7fffffffa120, how=OE_FLUSH__TOP) at util/ordered-events.c:342
 #12 0x00000000004472a9 in process_thread (arg=0x7fffffff9e00) at builtin-top.c:1120
 #13 0x00007ffff6e7dba8 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at pthread_create.c:448
 #14 0x00007ffff6f01b8c in __GI___clone3 () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:78

The cause is that perf_env__find_br_cntr_info tries to access a
null pointer pmu_caps in the perf_env struct. A similar issue exists
for homogeneous core systems which use the cpu_pmu_caps structure.

Fix this by populating cpu_pmu_caps and pmu_caps structures with
values from sysfs when calling perf top with branch stack sampling
enabled.

[1], LBR event logging introduced here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231025201626.3000228-5-kan.liang@linux.intel.com/

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612163659.1357950-2-thomas.falcon@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
tools/perf/builtin-top.c
tools/perf/util/env.c
tools/perf/util/env.h