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Date:   Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:45:48 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     "Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] perf/core: Fake regs for leaked kernel samples
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 04:31:10PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On 8/11/2020 3:59 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 03:50:43PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
> > > Could I post v2 which basically refers to your patch but removes some
> > > conditions since I see some issues in test if we use these conditions.
> > > 
> > >   1. Remove '!event->attr.exclude_hv || !event->attr.exclude_host ||
> > >      !event->attr.exclude_guest' at the entry of sanitize_sample_regs().
> > > 
> > >   2. Remove '!attr.exclude_hv || !attr.exclude_host || !attr.exclude_guest'
> > >      at the perf_event_open syscall entry.
> > 
> > exclude_host, maybe -- due to the dodgy semantics of it, but the others
> > should definitely be there.
> > 
> 
> exclude_guest and exclude_hv are tricky too.
> 
> If we do 'perf record -e cycles:u' in both host and guest, we can see:
> 
> event->attr.exclude_guest = 0
> 
> thus sanitize_sample_regs() returns regs directly even if exclude_kernel = 1.
> 
> And in guest, exclude_hv = 0, it's out of my expectation too.

I'm confused, how can 'perf record -e cycles:u' _ever_ have
exclude_guest=0, exclude_hv=0 ? That simply makes no sense and is utterly
broken.

You explicitly ask for userspace-only, reporting hypervisor or guest
events is a straight up bug.