perf/x86/intel/pt: Relax address filter validation
authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 07:24:49 +0000 (09:24 +0200)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 2 Feb 2022 12:11:42 +0000 (13:11 +0100)
commitc243cecb58e3905baeace8827201c14df8481e2a
tree9f6d5738021e9c70ceec1c35c7801763d262f2e5
parent26291c54e111ff6ba87a164d85d4a4e134b7315c
perf/x86/intel/pt: Relax address filter validation

The requirement for 64-bit address filters is that they are canonical
addresses. In other respects any address range is allowed which would
include user space addresses.

That can be useful for tracing virtual machine guests because address
filtering can be used to advantage in place of current privilege level
(CPL) filtering.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220131072453.2839535-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c