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commit2c991e408dupstream. Markus reported that BTS is sporadically missing the tail of the trace in the perf_event data buffer: [decode error (1): instruction overflow] shown in GDB; and bisected it to the conversion of debug_store to PTI. A little "optimization" crept into alloc_bts_buffer(), which mistakenly placed bts_interrupt_threshold away from the 24-byte record boundary. Intel SDM Vol 3B 17.4.9 says "This address must point to an offset from the BTS buffer base that is a multiple of the BTS record size." Revert "max" from a byte count to a record count, to calculate the bts_interrupt_threshold correctly: which turns out to fix problem seen. Fixes:c1961a4631("x86/events/intel/ds: Map debug buffers in cpu_entry_area") Reported-and-tested-by: Markus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1807141248290.1614@eggly.anvils Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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