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25-Oct-2023 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Add branch_sample_call_stack Add a helper function to check call stack sample type. The later patch will invoke the function in several places. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231025201626.3000228-3-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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25-Oct-2023 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Add branch stack counters Currently, the additional information of a branch entry is stored in a u64 space. With more and more information added, the space is running out. For example, the information of occurrences of events will be added for each branch. Two places were suggested to append the counters. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230802215814.GH231007@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/ One place is right after the flags of each branch entry. It changes the existing struct perf_branch_entry. The later ARCH specific implementation has to be really careful to consistently pick the right struct. The other place is right after the entire struct perf_branch_stack. The disadvantage is that the pointer of the extra space has to be recorded. The common interface perf_sample_save_brstack() has to be updated. The latter is much straightforward, and should be easily understood and maintained. It is implemented in the patch. Add a new branch sample type, PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COUNTERS, to indicate the event which is recorded in the branch info. The "u64 counters" may store the occurrences of several events. The information regarding the number of events/counters and the width of each counter should be exposed via sysfs as a reference for the perf tool. Define the branch_counter_nr and branch_counter_width ABI here. The support will be implemented later in the Intel-specific patch. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231025201626.3000228-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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08-Jun-2023 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf/core: Fix cpuctx refcounting Audit of the refcounting turned up that perf_pmu_migrate_context() fails to migrate the ctx refcount. Fixes: bd2756811766 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612093539.085862001@infradead.org Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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09-Oct-2023 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Optimize perf_cgroup_switch() Namhyung reported that bd2756811766 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling") regresses context switch overhead when perf-cgroup is in use together with 'slow' PMUs like uncore. Specifically, perf_cgroup_switch()'s perf_ctx_disable() / ctx_sched_out() etc.. all iterate the full list of active PMUs for that CPU, even if they don't have cgroup events. Previously there was cgrp_cpuctx_list which linked the relevant PMUs together, but that got lost in the rework. Instead of re-instruducing a similar list, let the perf_event_pmu_context iteration skip those that do not have cgroup events. This avoids growing multiple versions of the perf_event_pmu_context iteration. Measured performance (on a slightly different patch): Before) $ taskset -c 0 ./perf bench sched pipe -l 10000 -G AAA,BBB # Running 'sched/pipe' benchmark: # Executed 10000 pipe operations between two processes Total time: 0.901 [sec] 90.128700 usecs/op 11095 ops/sec After) $ taskset -c 0 ./perf bench sched pipe -l 10000 -G AAA,BBB # Running 'sched/pipe' benchmark: # Executed 10000 pipe operations between two processes Total time: 0.065 [sec] 6.560100 usecs/op 152436 ops/sec Fixes: bd2756811766 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling") Reported-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Debugged-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231009210425.GC6307@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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21-Jul-2023 |
Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com> |
perf/core: Rename perf_proc_update_handler() -> perf_event_max_sample_rate_handler(), for readability Follow the naming pattern of the other sysctl handlers in perf. Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230721090607.172002-1-xiujianfeng@huawei.com
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18-Oct-2023 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Disallow mis-matched inherited group reads Because group consistency is non-atomic between parent (filedesc) and children (inherited) events, it is possible for PERF_FORMAT_GROUP read() to try and sum non-matching counter groups -- with non-sensical results. Add group_generation to distinguish the case where a parent group removes and adds an event and thus has the same number, but a different configuration of events as inherited groups. This became a problem when commit fa8c269353d5 ("perf/core: Invert perf_read_group() loops") flipped the order of child_list and sibling_list. Previously it would iterate the group (sibling_list) first, and for each sibling traverse the child_list. In this order, only the group composition of the parent is relevant. By flipping the order the group composition of the child (inherited) events becomes an issue and the mis-match in group composition becomes evident. That said; even prior to this commit, while reading of a group that is not equally inherited was not broken, it still made no sense. (Ab)use ECHILD as error return to indicate issues with child process group composition. Fixes: fa8c269353d5 ("perf/core: Invert perf_read_group() loops") Reported-by: Budimir Markovic <markovicbudimir@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231018115654.GK33217@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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02-Aug-2023 |
Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> |
perf: Fix wrong comment about default event_idx Since commit c719f56092ad ("perf: Fix and clean up initialization of pmu::event_idx"), event_idx default implementation has returned 0, not idx + 1, so fix the comment that can be misleading. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
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20-Jun-2023 |
Tomislav Novak <tnovak@fb.com> |
ARM: 9316/1: hw_breakpoint: fix single-stepping when using bpf_overflow_handler Arm platforms use is_default_overflow_handler() to determine if the hw_breakpoint code should single-step over the breakpoint trigger or let the custom handler deal with it. Since bpf_overflow_handler() currently isn't recognized as a default handler, attaching a BPF program to a PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT event causes it to keep firing (the instruction triggering the data abort exception is never skipped). For example: # bpftrace -e 'watchpoint:0x10000:4:w { print("hit") }' -c ./test Attaching 1 probe... hit hit [...] ^C (./test performs a single 4-byte store to 0x10000) This patch replaces the check with uses_default_overflow_handler(), which accounts for the bpf_overflow_handler() case by also testing if one of the perf_event_output functions gets invoked indirectly, via orig_default_handler. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220923203644.2731604-1-tnovak@fb.com/ Signed-off-by: Tomislav Novak <tnovak@fb.com> Tested-by: Samuel Gosselin <sgosselin@google.com> # arm64 Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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05-Jun-2023 |
Tomislav Novak <tnovak@meta.com> |
hw_breakpoint: fix single-stepping when using bpf_overflow_handler Arm platforms use is_default_overflow_handler() to determine if the hw_breakpoint code should single-step over the breakpoint trigger or let the custom handler deal with it. Since bpf_overflow_handler() currently isn't recognized as a default handler, attaching a BPF program to a PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT event causes it to keep firing (the instruction triggering the data abort exception is never skipped). For example: # bpftrace -e 'watchpoint:0x10000:4:w { print("hit") }' -c ./test Attaching 1 probe... hit hit [...] ^C (./test performs a single 4-byte store to 0x10000) This patch replaces the check with uses_default_overflow_handler(), which accounts for the bpf_overflow_handler() case by also testing if one of the perf_event_output functions gets invoked indirectly, via orig_default_handler. Signed-off-by: Tomislav Novak <tnovak@meta.com> Tested-by: Samuel Gosselin <sgosselin@google.com> # arm64 Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220923203644.2731604-1-tnovak@fb.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605191923.1219974-1-tnovak@meta.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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25-Jul-2023 |
YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> |
perf: Remove unused extern declaration arch_perf_get_page_size() commit 8af26be06272 ("perf/core: Fix arch_perf_get_page_size()") left behind this. Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230725135038.25060-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com
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24-Jul-2023 |
James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> |
perf: Remove unused PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS capability Since commit bd2756811766 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling") the relationship between perf_event_context and PMUs has changed so that the error scenario that PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS originally silenced no longer exists. Remove the capability to avoid confusion that it actually influences any perf core behavior and shift down the following capability bits to fill in the unused space. This change should be a no-op. Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230724134500.970496-5-james.clark@arm.com
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25-Jul-2023 |
Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> |
perf/mem: Add PERF_MEM_LVLNUM_NA to PERF_MEM_NA Add PERF_MEM_LVLNUM_NA wherever PERF_MEM_NA is used to set default values. Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230725150206.184-3-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
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26-May-2023 |
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> |
perf: Allow a PMU to have a parent Some PMUs have well defined parents such as PCI devices. As the device_initialize() and device_add() are all within pmu_dev_alloc() which is called from perf_pmu_register() there is no opportunity to set the parent from within a driver. Add a struct device *parent field to struct pmu and use that to set the parent. Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230526095824.16336-2-Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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15-Jun-2023 |
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> |
perf/core: Drop __weak attribute from arch_perf_update_userpage() prototype Reiji reports that the arm64 implementation of arch_perf_update_userpage() is now ignored and replaced by the dummy stub in core code. This seems to happen since the PMUv3 driver was moved to driver/perf. As it turns out, dropping the __weak attribute from the *prototype* of the function solves the problem. You're right, this doesn't seem to make much sense. And yet... It appears that both symbols get flagged as weak, and that the first one to appear in the link order wins: $ nm drivers/perf/arm_pmuv3.o|grep arch_perf_update_userpage 0000000000001db0 W arch_perf_update_userpage Dropping the attribute from the prototype restores the expected behaviour, and arm64 is able to enjoy arch_perf_update_userpage() again. Fixes: 7755cec63ade ("arm64: perf: Move PMUv3 driver to drivers/perf") Fixes: f1ec3a517b43 ("kernel/events: Add a missing prototype for arch_perf_update_userpage()") Reported-by: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230616114831.3186980-1-maz@kernel.org
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04-May-2023 |
Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> |
perf/core: Rework forwarding of {task|cpu}-clock events Currently, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE is treated specially since task-clock and cpu-clock events are interfaced through it but internally gets forwarded to their own pmus. Rework this by overwriting event->attr.type in perf_swevent_init() which will cause perf_init_event() to retry with updated type and event will automatically get forwarded to right pmu. With the change, SW pmu no longer needs to be treated specially and can be included in 'pmu_idr' list. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230504110003.2548-2-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
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17-Jan-2023 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> |
perf/core: Introduce perf_prepare_header() Factor out perf_prepare_header() so that it can call perf_prepare_sample() without a header if not needed. Also it checks the filtered_sample_type to avoid duplicate work when perf_prepare_sample() is called twice (or more). Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstr <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230118060559.615653-8-namhyung@kernel.org
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17-Jan-2023 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> |
perf/core: Add perf_sample_save_brstack() helper When we saves the branch stack to the perf sample data, we needs to update the sample flags and the dynamic size. To make sure this is done consistently, add the perf_sample_save_brstack() helper and convert all call sites. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230118060559.615653-5-namhyung@kernel.org
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17-Jan-2023 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> |
perf/core: Add perf_sample_save_raw_data() helper When we save the raw_data to the perf sample data, we need to update the sample flags and the dynamic size. To make sure this is done consistently, add the perf_sample_save_raw_data() helper and convert all call sites. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230118060559.615653-4-namhyung@kernel.org
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17-Jan-2023 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> |
perf/core: Add perf_sample_save_callchain() helper When we save the callchain to the perf sample data, we need to update the sample flags and the dynamic size. To ensure this is done consistently, add the perf_sample_save_callchain() helper and convert all call sites. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230118060559.615653-3-namhyung@kernel.org
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17-Jan-2023 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> |
perf/core: Save the dynamic parts of sample data size The perf sample data can be divided into parts. The event->header_size and event->id_header_size keep the static part of the sample data which is determined by the sample_type flags. But other parts like CALLCHAIN and BRANCH_STACK are changing dynamically so it needs to see the actual data. In preparation of handling repeated calls for perf_prepare_sample(), it can save the dynamic size to the perf sample data to avoid the duplicate work. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230118060559.615653-2-namhyung@kernel.org
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29-Dec-2022 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> |
perf/core: Change the layout of perf_sample_data The layout of perf_sample_data is designed to minimize cache-line access. The perf_sample_data_init() used to initialize a couple of fields unconditionally so they were placed together at the head. But it's changed now to set the fields according to the actual sample_type flags. The main user (the perf tools) sets the IP, TID, TIME, PERIOD always. Also group relevant fields like addr, phys_addr and data_page_size. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221229204101.1099430-1-namhyung@kernel.org
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04-Jan-2023 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Add PMU_FORMAT_ATTR_SHOW The macro PMU_FORMAT_ATTR facilitates the definition of both the "show" function and "format_attr". But it only works for a non-hybrid platform. For a hybrid platform, the name "format_attr_hybrid_" is used. The definition of the "show" function can be shared between a non-hybrid platform and a hybrid platform. Add a new macro PMU_FORMAT_ATTR_SHOW. No functional change. The PMU_FORMAT_ATTR_SHOW will be used in the following patch. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230104201349.1451191-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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08-Oct-2022 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Rewrite core context handling There have been various issues and limitations with the way perf uses (task) contexts to track events. Most notable is the single hardware PMU task context, which has resulted in a number of yucky things (both proposed and merged). Notably: - HW breakpoint PMU - ARM big.little PMU / Intel ADL PMU - Intel Branch Monitoring PMU - AMD IBS PMU - S390 cpum_cf PMU - PowerPC trace_imc PMU *Current design:* Currently we have a per task and per cpu perf_event_contexts: task_struct::perf_events_ctxp[] <-> perf_event_context <-> perf_cpu_context ^ | ^ | ^ `---------------------------------' | `--> pmu ---' v ^ perf_event ------' Each task has an array of pointers to a perf_event_context. Each perf_event_context has a direct relation to a PMU and a group of events for that PMU. The task related perf_event_context's have a pointer back to that task. Each PMU has a per-cpu pointer to a per-cpu perf_cpu_context, which includes a perf_event_context, which again has a direct relation to that PMU, and a group of events for that PMU. The perf_cpu_context also tracks which task context is currently associated with that CPU and includes a few other things like the hrtimer for rotation etc. Each perf_event is then associated with its PMU and one perf_event_context. *Proposed design:* New design proposed by this patch reduce to a single task context and a single CPU context but adds some intermediate data-structures: task_struct::perf_event_ctxp -> perf_event_context <- perf_cpu_context ^ | ^ ^ `---------------------------' | | | | perf_cpu_pmu_context <--. | `----. ^ | | | | | | v v | | ,--> perf_event_pmu_context | | | | | | | v v | perf_event ---> pmu ----------------' With the new design, perf_event_context will hold all events for all pmus in the (respective pinned/flexible) rbtrees. This can be achieved by adding pmu to rbtree key: {cpu, pmu, cgroup, group_index} Each perf_event_context carries a list of perf_event_pmu_context which is used to hold per-pmu-per-context state. For example, it keeps track of currently active events for that pmu, a pmu specific task_ctx_data, a flag to tell whether rotation is required or not etc. Additionally, perf_cpu_pmu_context is used to hold per-pmu-per-cpu state like hrtimer details to drive the event rotation, a pointer to perf_event_pmu_context of currently running task and some other ancillary information. Each perf_event is associated to it's pmu, perf_event_context and perf_event_pmu_context. Further optimizations to current implementation are possible. For example, ctx_resched() can be optimized to reschedule only single pmu events. Much thanks to Ravi for picking this up and pushing it towards completion. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Co-developed-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221008062424.313-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
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06-Oct-2022 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPs Marco reported: Due to the implementation of how SIGTRAP are delivered if perf_event_attr::sigtrap is set, we've noticed 3 issues: 1. Missing SIGTRAP due to a race with event_sched_out() (more details below). 2. Hardware PMU events being disabled due to returning 1 from perf_event_overflow(). The only way to re-enable the event is for user space to first "properly" disable the event and then re-enable it. 3. The inability to automatically disable an event after a specified number of overflows via PERF_EVENT_IOC_REFRESH. The worst of the 3 issues is problem (1), which occurs when a pending_disable is "consumed" by a racing event_sched_out(), observed as follows: CPU0 | CPU1 --------------------------------+--------------------------- __perf_event_overflow() | perf_event_disable_inatomic() | pending_disable = CPU0 | ... | _perf_event_enable() | event_function_call() | task_function_call() | /* sends IPI to CPU0 */ <IPI> | ... __perf_event_enable() +--------------------------- ctx_resched() task_ctx_sched_out() ctx_sched_out() group_sched_out() event_sched_out() pending_disable = -1 </IPI> <IRQ-work> perf_pending_event() perf_pending_event_disable() /* Fails to send SIGTRAP because no pending_disable! */ </IRQ-work> In the above case, not only is that particular SIGTRAP missed, but also all future SIGTRAPs because 'event_limit' is not reset back to 1. To fix, rework pending delivery of SIGTRAP via IRQ-work by introduction of a separate 'pending_sigtrap', no longer using 'event_limit' and 'pending_disable' for its delivery. Additionally; and different to Marco's proposed patch: - recognise that pending_disable effectively duplicates oncpu for the case where it is set. As such, change the irq_work handler to use ->oncpu to target the event and use pending_* as boolean toggles. - observe that SIGTRAP targets the ctx->task, so the context switch optimization that carries contexts between tasks is invalid. If the irq_work were delayed enough to hit after a context switch the SIGTRAP would be delivered to the wrong task. - observe that if the event gets scheduled out (rotation/migration/context-switch/...) the irq-work would be insufficient to deliver the SIGTRAP when the event gets scheduled back in (the irq-work might still be pending on the old CPU). Therefore have event_sched_out() convert the pending sigtrap into a task_work which will deliver the signal at return_to_user. Fixes: 97ba62b27867 ("perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events") Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Debugged-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reported-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Debugged-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
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04-Oct-2022 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix lockdep_assert_event_ctx() I'm a flamin' moron; because even after Mark told me it should be '&&' I still got it wrong in the final commit. Fixes: f3c0eba28704 ("perf: Add a few assertions") Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YvvIWmDBWdIUCMZj@FVFF77S0Q05N
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21-Sep-2022 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> |
perf: Use sample_flags for raw_data Use the new sample_flags to indicate whether the raw data field is filled by the PMU driver. Although it could check with the NULL, follow the same rule with other fields. Remove the raw field from the perf_sample_data_init() to minimize the number of cache lines touched. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220921220032.2858517-2-namhyung@kernel.org
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21-Sep-2022 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> |
perf: Use sample_flags for addr Use the new sample_flags to indicate whether the addr field is filled by the PMU driver. As most PMU drivers pass 0, it can set the flag only if it has a non-zero value. And use 0 in perf_sample_output() if it's not filled already. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220921220032.2858517-1-namhyung@kernel.org
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02-Sep-2022 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Add a few assertions While auditing 6b959ba22d34 ("perf/core: Fix reentry problem in perf_output_read_group()") a few spots were found that wanted assertions. Notable for_each_sibling_event() relies on exclusion from modification. This would normally be holding either ctx->lock or ctx->mutex, however due to how things are constructed disabling IRQs is a valid and sufficient substitute for ctx->lock. Another possible site to add assertions would be the various pmu::{add,del,read,..}() methods, but that's not trivially expressable in C -- the best option is wrappers, but those are easy enough to forget. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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07-Sep-2022 |
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> |
perf/core: Assert PERF_EVENT_FLAG_ARCH does not overlap with generic flags This just ensures that PERF_EVENT_FLAG_ARCH does not overlap with generic hardware event flags. Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220907091924.439193-3-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
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07-Sep-2022 |
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> |
perf/core: Expand PERF_EVENT_FLAG_ARCH Two hardware event flags on x86 platform has overshot PERF_EVENT_FLAG_ARCH (0x0000ffff). These flags are PERF_X86_EVENT_PEBS_LAT_HYBRID (0x20000) and PERF_X86_EVENT_AMD_BRS (0x10000). Lets expand PERF_EVENT_FLAG_ARCH mask to accommodate those flags, and also create room for two more in the future. Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220907091924.439193-2-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
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06-Sep-2022 |
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> |
perf: Consolidate branch sample filter helpers Besides the branch type filtering requests, 'event.attr.branch_sample_type' also contains various flags indicating which additional information should be captured, along with the base branch record. These flags help configure the underlying hardware, and capture the branch records appropriately when required e.g after PMU interrupt. But first, this moves an existing helper perf_sample_save_hw_index() into the header before adding some more helpers for other branch sample filter flags. Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906084414.396220-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
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01-Sep-2022 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Use sample_flags for txn Use the new sample_flags to indicate whether the txn field is filled by the PMU driver. Remove the txn field from the perf_sample_data_init() to minimize the number of cache lines touched. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901130959.1285717-7-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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01-Sep-2022 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Use sample_flags for data_src Use the new sample_flags to indicate whether the data_src field is filled by the PMU driver. Remove the data_src field from the perf_sample_data_init() to minimize the number of cache lines touched. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901130959.1285717-6-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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01-Sep-2022 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Use sample_flags for weight Use the new sample_flags to indicate whether the weight field is filled by the PMU driver. Remove the weight field from the perf_sample_data_init() to minimize the number of cache lines touched. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901130959.1285717-5-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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01-Sep-2022 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Use sample_flags for branch stack Use the new sample_flags to indicate whether the branch stack is filled by the PMU driver. Remove the br_stack from the perf_sample_data_init() to minimize the number of cache lines touched. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901130959.1285717-4-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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01-Sep-2022 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Add sample_flags to indicate the PMU-filled sample data On some platforms, some data e.g., timestamps, can be retrieved from the PMU driver. Usually, the data from the PMU driver is more accurate. The current perf kernel should output the PMU-filled sample data if it's available. To check the availability of the PMU-filled sample data, the current perf kernel initializes the related fields in the perf_sample_data_init(). When outputting a sample, the perf checks whether the field is updated by the PMU driver. If yes, the updated value will be output. If not, the perf uses an SW way to calculate the value or just outputs the initialized value if an SW way is unavailable either. With more and more data being provided by the PMU driver, more fields has to be initialized in the perf_sample_data_init(). That will increase the number of cache lines touched in perf_sample_data_init() and be harmful to the performance. Add new "sample_flags" to indicate the PMU-filled sample data. The PMU driver should set the corresponding PERF_SAMPLE_ flag when the field is updated. The initialization of the corresponding field is not required anymore. The following patches will make use of it and remove the corresponding fields from the perf_sample_data_init(), which will further minimize the number of cache lines touched. Only clear the sample flags that have already been done by the PMU driver in the perf_prepare_sample() for the PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE. For the other PERF_RECORD_ event type, the sample data is not available. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901130959.1285717-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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29-Aug-2022 |
Marco Elver <elver@google.com> |
perf/hw_breakpoint: Optimize list of per-task breakpoints On a machine with 256 CPUs, running the recently added perf breakpoint benchmark results in: | $> perf bench -r 30 breakpoint thread -b 4 -p 64 -t 64 | # Running 'breakpoint/thread' benchmark: | # Created/joined 30 threads with 4 breakpoints and 64 parallelism | Total time: 236.418 [sec] | | 123134.794271 usecs/op | 7880626.833333 usecs/op/cpu The benchmark tests inherited breakpoint perf events across many threads. Looking at a perf profile, we can see that the majority of the time is spent in various hw_breakpoint.c functions, which execute within the 'nr_bp_mutex' critical sections which then results in contention on that mutex as well: 37.27% [kernel] [k] osq_lock 34.92% [kernel] [k] mutex_spin_on_owner 12.15% [kernel] [k] toggle_bp_slot 11.90% [kernel] [k] __reserve_bp_slot The culprit here is task_bp_pinned(), which has a runtime complexity of O(#tasks) due to storing all task breakpoints in the same list and iterating through that list looking for a matching task. Clearly, this does not scale to thousands of tasks. Instead, make use of the "rhashtable" variant "rhltable" which stores multiple items with the same key in a list. This results in average runtime complexity of O(1) for task_bp_pinned(). With the optimization, the benchmark shows: | $> perf bench -r 30 breakpoint thread -b 4 -p 64 -t 64 | # Running 'breakpoint/thread' benchmark: | # Created/joined 30 threads with 4 breakpoints and 64 parallelism | Total time: 0.208 [sec] | | 108.422396 usecs/op | 6939.033333 usecs/op/cpu On this particular setup that's a speedup of ~1135x. While one option would be to make task_struct a breakpoint list node, this would only further bloat task_struct for infrequently used data. Furthermore, after all optimizations in this series, there's no evidence it would result in better performance: later optimizations make the time spent looking up entries in the hash table negligible (we'll reach the theoretical ideal performance i.e. no constraints). Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829124719.675715-5-elver@google.com
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11-Aug-2022 |
Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com> |
perf/core: Add speculation info to branch entries Add a new "spec" bitfield to branch entries for providing speculation information. This will be populated using hints provided by branch sampling features on supported hardware. The following cases are covered: * No branch speculation information is available * Branch is speculative but taken on the wrong path * Branch is non-speculative but taken on the correct path * Branch is speculative and taken on the correct path Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/834088c302faf21c7b665031dd111f424e509a64.1660211399.git.sandipan.das@amd.com
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16-Jun-2022 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> |
perf/core: Add a new read format to get a number of lost samples Sometimes we want to know an accurate number of samples even if it's lost. Currenlty PERF_RECORD_LOST is generated for a ring-buffer which might be shared with other events. So it's hard to know per-event lost count. Add event->lost_samples field and PERF_FORMAT_LOST to retrieve it from userspace. Original-patch-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220616180623.1358843-1-namhyung@kernel.org
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22-Mar-2022 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
ACPI: Add perf low power callback Add an optional callback needed by some PMU features, e.g., AMD BRS, to give a chance to the perf_events code to change its state before a CPU goes to low power and after it comes back. The callback is void when the PERF_NEEDS_LOPWR_CB flag is not set. This flag must be set in arch specific perf_event.h header whenever needed. When not set, there is no impact on the ACPI code. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [peterz: build fix] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220322221517.2510440-9-eranian@google.com
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22-Mar-2022 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf/core: Add perf_clear_branch_entry_bitfields() helper Make it simpler to reset all the info fields on the perf_branch_entry by adding a helper inline function. The goal is to centralize the initialization to avoid missing a field in case more are added. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220322221517.2510440-2-eranian@google.com
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27-Jan-2022 |
Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com> |
perf: Fix wrong name in comment for struct perf_cpu_context Commit 0793a61d4df8 ("performance counters: core code") added the perf subsystem (then called Performance Counters) to Linux, creating the struct perf_cpu_context. The comment for the struct referred to it as a "struct perf_counter_cpu_context". Commit cdd6c482c9ff ("perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events") changed the comment to refer to a "struct perf_event_cpu_context", which was still the wrong name for the struct. Change the comment to say "struct perf_cpu_context". CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127161759.53553-3-alexandru.elisei@arm.com
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20-Dec-2021 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix perf_event_read_local() time Time readers that cannot take locks (due to NMI etc..) currently make use of perf_event::shadow_ctx_time, which, for that event gives: time' = now + (time - timestamp) or, alternatively arranged: time' = time + (now - timestamp) IOW, the progression of time since the last time the shadow_ctx_time was updated. There's problems with this: A) the shadow_ctx_time is per-event, even though the ctx_time it reflects is obviously per context. The direct concequence of this is that the context needs to iterate all events all the time to keep the shadow_ctx_time in sync. B) even with the prior point, the context itself might not be active meaning its time should not advance to begin with. C) shadow_ctx_time isn't consistently updated when ctx_time is There are 3 users of this stuff, that suffer differently from this: - calc_timer_values() - perf_output_read() - perf_event_update_userpage() /* A */ - perf_event_read_local() /* A,B */ In particular, perf_output_read() doesn't suffer at all, because it's sample driven and hence only relevant when the event is actually running. This same was supposed to be true for perf_event_update_userpage(), after all self-monitoring implies the context is active *HOWEVER*, as per commit f79256532682 ("perf/core: fix userpage->time_enabled of inactive events") this goes wrong when combined with counter overcommit, in that case those events that do not get scheduled when the context becomes active (task events typically) miss out on the EVENT_TIME update and ENABLED time is inflated (for a little while) with the time the context was inactive. Once the event gets rotated in, this gets corrected, leading to a non-monotonic timeflow. perf_event_read_local() made things even worse, it can request time at any point, suffering all the problems perf_event_update_userpage() does and more. Because while perf_event_update_userpage() is limited by the context being active, perf_event_read_local() users have no such constraint. Therefore, completely overhaul things and do away with perf_event::shadow_ctx_time. Instead have regular context time updates keep track of this offset directly and provide perf_event_time_now() to complement perf_event_time(). perf_event_time_now() will, in adition to being context wide, also take into account if the context is active. For inactive context, it will not advance time. This latter property means the cgroup perf_cgroup_info context needs to grow addition state to track this. Additionally, since all this is strictly per-cpu, we can use barrier() to order context activity vs context time. Fixes: 7d9285e82db5 ("perf/bpf: Extend the perf_event_read_local() interface, a.k.a. "bpf: perf event change needed for subsequent bpf helpers"") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Tested-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YcB06DasOBtU0b00@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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10-Nov-2021 |
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> |
perf: Drop guest callback (un)register stubs Drop perf's stubs for (un)registering guest callbacks now that KVM registration of callbacks is hidden behind GUEST_PERF_EVENTS=y. The only other user is x86 XEN_PV, and x86 unconditionally selects PERF_EVENTS. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111020738.2512932-18-seanjc@google.com
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10-Nov-2021 |
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> |
perf/core: Use static_call to optimize perf_guest_info_callbacks Use static_call to optimize perf's guest callbacks on arm64 and x86, which are now the only architectures that define the callbacks. Use DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_RET0 as the default/NULL for all guest callbacks, as the callback semantics are that a return value '0' means "not in guest". static_call obviously avoids the overhead of CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y, but is also advantageous versus other solutions, e.g. per-cpu callbacks, in that a per-cpu memory load is not needed to detect the !guest case. Based on code from Peter and Like. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111020738.2512932-10-seanjc@google.com
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10-Nov-2021 |
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> |
perf: Force architectures to opt-in to guest callbacks Introduce GUEST_PERF_EVENTS and require architectures to select it to allow registering and using guest callbacks in perf. This will hopefully make it more difficult for new architectures to add useless "support" for guest callbacks, e.g. via copy+paste. Stubbing out the helpers has the happy bonus of avoiding a load of perf_guest_cbs when GUEST_PERF_EVENTS=n on arm64/x86. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111020738.2512932-9-seanjc@google.com
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10-Nov-2021 |
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> |
perf: Add wrappers for invoking guest callbacks Add helpers for the guest callbacks to prepare for burying the callbacks behind a Kconfig (it's a lot easier to provide a few stubs than to #ifdef piles of code), and also to prepare for converting the callbacks to static_call(). perf_instruction_pointer() in particular will have subtle semantics with static_call(), as the "no callbacks" case will return 0 if the callbacks are unregistered between querying guest state and getting the IP. Implement the change now to avoid a functional change when adding static_call() support, and because the new helper needs to return _something_ in this case. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111020738.2512932-8-seanjc@google.com
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10-Nov-2021 |
Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Rework guest callbacks to prepare for static_call support To prepare for using static_calls to optimize perf's guest callbacks, replace ->is_in_guest and ->is_user_mode with a new multiplexed hook ->state, tweak ->handle_intel_pt_intr to play nice with being called when there is no active guest, and drop "guest" from ->get_guest_ip. Return '0' from ->state and ->handle_intel_pt_intr to indicate "not in guest" so that DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_RET0 can be used to define the static calls, i.e. no callback == !guest. [sean: extracted from static_call patch, fixed get_ip() bug, wrote changelog] Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Originally-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <lingshan.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111020738.2512932-7-seanjc@google.com
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10-Nov-2021 |
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> |
perf: Stop pretending that perf can handle multiple guest callbacks Drop the 'int' return value from the perf (un)register callbacks helpers and stop pretending perf can support multiple callbacks. The 'int' returns are not future proofing anything as none of the callers take action on an error. It's also not obvious that there will ever be co-tenant hypervisors, and if there are, that allowing multiple callbacks to be registered is desirable or even correct. Opportunistically rename callbacks=>cbs in the affected declarations to match their definitions. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111020738.2512932-5-seanjc@google.com
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10-Nov-2021 |
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> |
perf: Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU to fix multiple possible errors. Luckily, all paths that read perf_guest_cbs already require RCU protection, e.g. to protect the callback chains, so only the direct perf_guest_cbs touchpoints need to be modified. Bug #1 is a simple lack of WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE behavior to ensure perf_guest_cbs isn't reloaded between a !NULL check and a dereference. Fixed via the READ_ONCE() in rcu_dereference(). Bug #2 is that on weakly-ordered architectures, updates to the callbacks themselves are not guaranteed to be visible before the pointer is made visible to readers. Fixed by the smp_store_release() in rcu_assign_pointer() when the new pointer is non-NULL. Bug #3 is that, because the callbacks are global, it's possible for readers to run in parallel with an unregisters, and thus a module implementing the callbacks can be unloaded while readers are in flight, resulting in a use-after-free. Fixed by a synchronize_rcu() call when unregistering callbacks. Bug #1 escaped notice because it's extremely unlikely a compiler will reload perf_guest_cbs in this sequence. perf_guest_cbs does get reloaded for future derefs, e.g. for ->is_user_mode(), but the ->is_in_guest() guard all but guarantees the consumer will win the race, e.g. to nullify perf_guest_cbs, KVM has to completely exit the guest and teardown down all VMs before KVM start its module unload / unregister sequence. This also makes it all but impossible to encounter bug #3. Bug #2 has not been a problem because all architectures that register callbacks are strongly ordered and/or have a static set of callbacks. But with help, unloading kvm_intel can trigger bug #1 e.g. wrapping perf_guest_cbs with READ_ONCE in perf_misc_flags() while spamming kvm_intel module load/unload leads to: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU: 6 PID: 1825 Comm: stress Not tainted 5.14.0-rc2+ #459 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:perf_misc_flags+0x1c/0x70 Call Trace: perf_prepare_sample+0x53/0x6b0 perf_event_output_forward+0x67/0x160 __perf_event_overflow+0x52/0xf0 handle_pmi_common+0x207/0x300 intel_pmu_handle_irq+0xcf/0x410 perf_event_nmi_handler+0x28/0x50 nmi_handle+0xc7/0x260 default_do_nmi+0x6b/0x170 exc_nmi+0x103/0x130 asm_exc_nmi+0x76/0xbf Fixes: 39447b386c84 ("perf: Enhance perf to allow for guest statistic collection from host") Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111020738.2512932-2-seanjc@google.com
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15-Dec-2021 |
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
add includes masked by cgroup -> bpf dependency cgroup pulls in BPF which pulls in a lot of includes. We're about to break that chain so fix those who were depending on it. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211216025538.1649516-2-kuba@kernel.org
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08-Dec-2021 |
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> |
perf: Add a counter for number of user access events in context On arm64, user space counter access will be controlled differently compared to x86. On x86, access in the strictest mode is enabled for all tasks in an MM when any event is mmap'ed. For arm64, access is explicitly requested for an event and only enabled when the event's context is active. This avoids hooks into the arch context switch code and gives better control of when access is enabled. In order to configure user space access when the PMU is enabled, it is necessary to know if any event (currently active or not) in the current context has user space accessed enabled. Add a counter similar to other counters in the context to avoid walking the event list every time. Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208201124.310740-3-robh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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08-Dec-2021 |
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> |
x86: perf: Move RDPMC event flag to a common definition In preparation to enable user counter access on arm64 and to move some of the user access handling to perf core, create a common event flag for user counter access and convert x86 to use it. Since the architecture specific flags start at the LSB, starting at the MSB for common flags. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208201124.310740-2-robh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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10-Sep-2021 |
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> |
perf: Enable branch record for software events The typical way to access branch record (e.g. Intel LBR) is via hardware perf_event. For CPUs with FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI support, PMI could capture reliable LBR. On the other hand, LBR could also be useful in non-PMI scenario. For example, in kretprobe or bpf fexit program, LBR could provide a lot of information on what happened with the function. Add API to use branch record for software use. Note that, when the software event triggers, it is necessary to stop the branch record hardware asap. Therefore, static_call is used to remove some branch instructions in this process. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210910183352.3151445-2-songliubraving@fb.com
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07-Sep-2021 |
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> |
perf/x86: Add new event for AUX output counter index PEBS-via-PT records contain a mask of applicable counters. To identify which event belongs to which counter, a side-band event is needed. Until now, there has been no side-band event, and consequently users were limited to using a single event. Add such a side-band event. Note the event is optimised to output only when the counter index changes for an event. That works only so long as all PEBS-via-PT events are scheduled together, which they are for a recording session because they are in a single group. Also no attribute bit is used to select the new event, so a new kernel is not compatible with older perf tools. The assumption being that PEBS-via-PT is sufficiently esoteric that users will not be troubled by this. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210907163903.11820-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
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29-Sep-2021 |
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> |
perf/core: fix userpage->time_enabled of inactive events Users of rdpmc rely on the mmapped user page to calculate accurate time_enabled. Currently, userpage->time_enabled is only updated when the event is added to the pmu. As a result, inactive event (due to counter multiplexing) does not have accurate userpage->time_enabled. This can be reproduced with something like: /* open 20 task perf_event "cycles", to create multiplexing */ fd = perf_event_open(); /* open task perf_event "cycles" */ userpage = mmap(fd); /* use mmap and rdmpc */ while (true) { time_enabled_mmap = xxx; /* use logic in perf_event_mmap_page */ time_enabled_read = read(fd).time_enabled; if (time_enabled_mmap > time_enabled_read) BUG(); } Fix this by updating userpage for inactive events in merge_sched_in. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reported-and-tested-by: Lucian Grijincu <lucian@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210929194313.2398474-1-songliubraving@fb.com
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15-Aug-2021 |
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> |
bpf: Allow to specify user-provided bpf_cookie for BPF perf links Add ability for users to specify custom u64 value (bpf_cookie) when creating BPF link for perf_event-backed BPF programs (kprobe/uprobe, perf_event, tracepoints). This is useful for cases when the same BPF program is used for attaching and processing invocation of different tracepoints/kprobes/uprobes in a generic fashion, but such that each invocation is distinguished from each other (e.g., BPF program can look up additional information associated with a specific kernel function without having to rely on function IP lookups). This enables new use cases to be implemented simply and efficiently that previously were possible only through code generation (and thus multiple instances of almost identical BPF program) or compilation at runtime (BCC-style) on target hosts (even more expensive resource-wise). For uprobes it is not even possible in some cases to know function IP before hand (e.g., when attaching to shared library without PID filtering, in which case base load address is not known for a library). This is done by storing u64 bpf_cookie in struct bpf_prog_array_item, corresponding to each attached and run BPF program. Given cgroup BPF programs already use two 8-byte pointers for their needs and cgroup BPF programs don't have (yet?) support for bpf_cookie, reuse that space through union of cgroup_storage and new bpf_cookie field. Make it available to kprobe/tracepoint BPF programs through bpf_trace_run_ctx. This is set by BPF_PROG_RUN_ARRAY, used by kprobe/uprobe/tracepoint BPF program execution code, which luckily is now also split from BPF_PROG_RUN_ARRAY_CG. This run context will be utilized by a new BPF helper giving access to this user-provided cookie value from inside a BPF program. Generic perf_event BPF programs will access this value from perf_event itself through passed in BPF program context. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210815070609.987780-6-andrii@kernel.org
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09-Jun-2021 |
Qi Liu <liuqi115@huawei.com> |
perf: Add EVENT_ATTR_ID to simplify event attributes Similar EVENT_ATTR macros are defined in many PMU drivers, like Arm PMU driver, Arm SMMU PMU driver. So add a generic macro to simplify code. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Qi Liu <liuqi115@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1623220863-58233-2-git-send-email-liuqi115@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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14-Apr-2021 |
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> |
perf: Get rid of oprofile leftovers perf_pmu_name() and perf_num_counters() are unused. Drop them. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210414134409.1266357-6-maz@kernel.org
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12-Apr-2021 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Extend PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE Current Hardware events and Hardware cache events have special perf types, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE. The two types don't pass the PMU type in the user interface. For a hybrid system, the perf subsystem doesn't know which PMU the events belong to. The first capable PMU will always be assigned to the events. The events never get a chance to run on the other capable PMUs. Extend the two types to become PMU aware types. The PMU type ID is stored at attr.config[63:32]. Add a new PMU capability, PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_HW_TYPE, to indicate a PMU which supports the extended PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE. The PMU type is only required when searching a specific PMU. The PMU specific codes will only be interested in the 'real' config value, which is stored in the low 32 bit of the event->attr.config. Update the event->attr.config in the generic code, so the PMU specific codes don't need to calculate it separately. If a user specifies a PMU type, but the PMU doesn't support the extended type, error out. If an event cannot be initialized in a PMU specified by a user, error out immediately. Perf should not try to open it on other PMUs. The new PMU capability is only set for the X86 hybrid PMUs for now. Other architectures, e.g., ARM, may need it as well. The support on ARM may be implemented later separately. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1618237865-33448-22-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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12-Apr-2021 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf/x86: Add structures for the attributes of Hybrid PMUs Hybrid PMUs have different events and formats. In theory, Hybrid PMU specific attributes should be maintained in the dedicated struct x86_hybrid_pmu, but it wastes space because the events and formats are similar among Hybrid PMUs. To reduce duplication, all hybrid PMUs will share a group of attributes in the following patch. To distinguish an attribute from different Hybrid PMUs, a PMU aware attribute structure is introduced. A PMU type is required for the attribute structure. The type is internal usage. It is not visible in the sysfs API. Hybrid PMUs may support the same event name, but with different event encoding, e.g., the mem-loads event on an Atom PMU has different event encoding from a Core PMU. It brings issue if two attributes are created for them. Current sysfs_update_group finds an attribute by searching the attr name (aka event name). If two attributes have the same event name, the first attribute will be replaced. To address the issue, only one attribute is created for the event. The event_str is extended and stores event encodings from all Hybrid PMUs. Each event encoding is divided by ";". The order of the event encodings must follow the order of the hybrid PMU index. The event_str is internal usage as well. When a user wants to show the attribute of a Hybrid PMU, only the corresponding part of the string is displayed. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1618237865-33448-18-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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10-Feb-2021 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> |
perf core: Add PERF_COUNT_SW_CGROUP_SWITCHES event This patch adds a new software event to count context switches involving cgroup switches. So it's counted only if cgroups of previous and next tasks are different. Note that it only checks the cgroups in the perf_event subsystem. For cgroup v2, it shouldn't matter anyway. One can argue that we can do this by using existing sched_switch event with eBPF. But some systems might not have eBPF for some reason so I'd like to add this as a simple way. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210210083327.22726-2-namhyung@kernel.org
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10-Feb-2021 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> |
perf core: Factor out __perf_sw_event_sched In some cases, we need to check more than whether the software event is enabled. So split the condition check and the actual event handling. This is a preparation for the next change. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210210083327.22726-1-namhyung@kernel.org
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07-Apr-2021 |
Marco Elver <elver@google.com> |
perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events Adds bit perf_event_attr::sigtrap, which can be set to cause events to send SIGTRAP (with si_code TRAP_PERF) to the task where the event occurred. The primary motivation is to support synchronous signals on perf events in the task where an event (such as breakpoints) triggered. To distinguish perf events based on the event type, the type is set in si_errno. For events that are associated with an address, si_addr is copied from perf_sample_data. The new field perf_event_attr::sig_data is copied to si_perf, which allows user space to disambiguate which event (of the same type) triggered the signal. For example, user space could encode the relevant information it cares about in sig_data. We note that the choice of an opaque u64 provides the simplest and most flexible option. Alternatives where a reference to some user space data is passed back suffer from the problem that modification of referenced data (be it the event fd, or the perf_event_attr) can race with the signal being delivered (of course, the same caveat applies if user space decides to store a pointer in sig_data, but the ABI explicitly avoids prescribing such a design). Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YBv3rAT566k+6zjg@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
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07-Apr-2021 |
Marco Elver <elver@google.com> |
perf: Support only inheriting events if cloned with CLONE_THREAD Adds bit perf_event_attr::inherit_thread, to restricting inheriting events only if the child was cloned with CLONE_THREAD. This option supports the case where an event is supposed to be process-wide only (including subthreads), but should not propagate beyond the current process's shared environment. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YBvj6eJR%2FDY2TsEB@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
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07-Apr-2021 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Rework perf_event_exit_event() Make perf_event_exit_event() more robust, such that we can use it from other contexts. Specifically the up and coming remove_on_exec. For this to work we need to address a few issues. Remove_on_exec will not destroy the entire context, so we cannot rely on TASK_TOMBSTONE to disable event_function_call() and we thus have to use perf_remove_from_context(). When using perf_remove_from_context(), there's two races to consider. The first is against close(), where we can have concurrent tear-down of the event. The second is against child_list iteration, which should not find a half baked event. To address this, teach perf_remove_from_context() to special case !ctx->is_active and about DETACH_CHILD. [ elver@google.com: fix racing parent/child exit in sync_child_event(). ] Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210408103605.1676875-2-elver@google.com
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30-Nov-2020 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Flush PMU internal buffers for per-CPU events Sometimes the PMU internal buffers have to be flushed for per-CPU events during a context switch, e.g., large PEBS. Otherwise, the perf tool may report samples in locations that do not belong to the process where the samples are processed in, because PEBS does not tag samples with PID/TID. The current code only flush the buffers for a per-task event. It doesn't check a per-CPU event. Add a new event state flag, PERF_ATTACH_SCHED_CB, to indicate that the PMU internal buffers have to be flushed for this event during a context switch. Add sched_cb_entry and perf_sched_cb_usages back to track the PMU/cpuctx which is required to be flushed. Only need to invoke the sched_task() for per-CPU events in this patch. The per-task events have been handled in perf_event_context_sched_in/out already. Fixes: 9c964efa4330 ("perf/x86/intel: Drain the PEBS buffer during context switches") Reported-by: Gabriel Marin <gmx@google.com> Originally-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201130193842.10569-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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28-Jan-2021 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Add PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT Current PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type is very useful to expresses the cost of an action represented by the sample. This allows the profiler to scale the samples to be more informative to the programmer. It could also help to locate a hotspot, e.g., when profiling by memory latencies, the expensive load appear higher up in the histograms. But current PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type is solely determined by one factor. This could be a problem, if users want two or more factors to contribute to the weight. For example, Golden Cove core PMU can provide both the instruction latency and the cache Latency information as factors for the memory profiling. For current X86 platforms, although meminfo::latency is defined as a u64, only the lower 32 bits include the valid data in practice (No memory access could last than 4G cycles). The higher 32 bits can be used to store new factors. Add a new sample type, PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT, to indicate the new sample weight structure. It shares the same space as the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type. Users can apply either the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type or the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT sample type to retrieve the sample weight, but they cannot apply both sample types simultaneously. Currently, only X86 and PowerPC use the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type. - For PowerPC, there is nothing changed for the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type. There is no effect for the new PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT sample type. PowerPC can re-struct the weight field similarly later. - For X86, the same value will be dumped for the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type or the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT sample type for now. The following patches will apply the new factors for the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT sample type. The field in the union perf_sample_weight should be shared among different architectures. A generic name is required, but it's hard to abstract a name that applies to all architectures. For example, on X86, the fields are to store all kinds of latency. While on PowerPC, it stores MMCRA[TECX/TECM], which should not be latency. So a general name prefix 'var$NUM' is used here. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611873611-156687-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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29-Oct-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf/arch: Remove perf_sample_data::regs_user_copy struct perf_sample_data lives on-stack, we should be careful about it's size. Furthermore, the pt_regs copy in there is only because x86_64 is a trainwreck, solve it differently. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201030151955.258178461@infradead.org
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30-Oct-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Reduce stack usage of perf_output_begin() __perf_output_begin() has an on-stack struct perf_sample_data in the unlikely case it needs to generate a LOST record. However, every call to perf_output_begin() must already have a perf_sample_data on-stack. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201030151954.985416146@infradead.org
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09-Oct-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf,mm: Handle non-page-table-aligned hugetlbfs A limited nunmber of architectures support hugetlbfs sizes that do not align with the page-tables (ARM64, Power, Sparc64). Add support for this to the generic perf_get_page_size() implementation, and also allow an architecture to override this implementation. This latter is only needed when it uses non-page-table aligned huge pages in its kernel map. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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01-Oct-2020 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf/core: Add support for PERF_SAMPLE_CODE_PAGE_SIZE When studying code layout, it is useful to capture the page size of the sampled code address. Add a new sample type for code page size. The new sample type requires collecting the ip. The code page size can be calculated from the NMI-safe perf_get_page_size(). For large PEBS, it's very unlikely that the mapping is gone for the earlier PEBS records. Enable the feature for the large PEBS. The worst case is that page-size '0' is returned. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201001135749.2804-5-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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01-Oct-2020 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Add PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_PAGE_SIZE Current perf can report both virtual addresses and physical addresses, but not the MMU page size. Without the MMU page size information of the utilized page, users cannot decide whether to promote/demote large pages to optimize memory usage. Add a new sample type for the data MMU page size. Current perf already has a facility to collect data virtual addresses. A page walker is required to walk the pages tables and calculate the MMU page size from a given virtual address. On some platforms, e.g., X86, the page walker is invoked in an NMI handler. So the page walker must be NMI-safe and low overhead. Besides, the page walker should work for both user and kernel virtual address. The existing generic page walker, e.g., walk_page_range_novma(), is a little bit complex and doesn't guarantee the NMI-safe. The follow_page() is only for user-virtual address. Add a new function perf_get_page_size() to walk the page tables and calculate the MMU page size. In the function: - Interrupts have to be disabled to prevent any teardown of the page tables. - For user space threads, the current->mm is used for the page walker. For kernel threads and the like, the current->mm is NULL. The init_mm is used for the page walker. The active_mm is not used here, because it can be NULL. Quote from Peter Zijlstra, "context_switch() can set prev->active_mm to NULL when it transfers it to @next. It does this before @current is updated. So an NMI that comes in between this active_mm swizzling and updating @current will see !active_mm." - The MMU page size is calculated from the page table level. The method should work for all architectures, but it has only been verified on X86. Should there be some architectures, which support perf, where the method doesn't work, it can be fixed later separately. Reporting the wrong page size would not be fatal for the architecture. Some under discussion features may impact the method in the future. Quote from Dave Hansen, "There are lots of weird things folks are trying to do with the page tables, like Address Space Isolation. For instance, if you get a perf NMI when running userspace, current->mm->pgd is *different* than the PGD that was in use when userspace was running. It's close enough today, but it might not stay that way." If the case happens later, lots of consecutive page walk errors will happen. The worst case is that lots of page-size '0' are returned, which would not be fatal. In the perf tool, a check is implemented to detect this case. Once it happens, a kernel patch could be implemented accordingly then. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201001135749.2804-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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21-Aug-2020 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Pull pmu::sched_task() into perf_event_context_sched_out() The pmu::sched_task() is a context switch callback. It passes the cpuctx->task_ctx as a parameter to the lower code. To find the cpuctx->task_ctx, the current code iterates a cpuctx list. The same context will iterated in perf_event_context_sched_out() soon. Share the cpuctx->task_ctx can avoid the unnecessary iteration of the cpuctx list. The pmu::sched_task() is also required for the optimization case for equivalent contexts. The task_ctx_sched_out() will eventually disable and reenable the PMU when schedule out events. Add perf_pmu_disable() and perf_pmu_enable() around task_ctx_sched_out() don't break anything. Drop the cpuctx->ctx.lock for the pmu::sched_task(). The lock is for per-CPU context, which is not necessary for the per-task context schedule. No one uses sched_cb_entry, perf_sched_cb_usages, sched_cb_list, and perf_pmu_sched_task() any more. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200821195754.20159-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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23-Jul-2020 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf/x86/intel: Support per-thread RDPMC TopDown metrics Starts from Ice Lake, the TopDown metrics are directly available as fixed counters and do not require generic counters. Also, the TopDown metrics can be collected per thread. Extend the RDPMC usage to support per-thread TopDown metrics. The RDPMC index of the PERF_METRICS will be output if RDPMC users ask for the RDPMC index of the metrics events. To support per thread RDPMC TopDown, the metrics and slots counters have to be saved/restored during the context switching. The last_period and period_left are not used in the counting mode. Use the fields for saved_metric and saved_slots. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200723171117.9918-12-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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23-Jul-2020 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Add a new PERF_EV_CAP_SIBLING event capability Current perf assumes that events in a group are independent. Close an event doesn't impact the value of the other events in the same group. If the closed event is a member, after the event closure, other events are still running like a group. If the closed event is a leader, other events are running as singleton events. Add PERF_EV_CAP_SIBLING to allow events to indicate they require being part of a group, and when the leader dies they cannot exist independently. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200723171117.9918-8-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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18-Jul-2020 |
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> |
perf: <linux/perf_event.h>: drop a duplicated word Drop the repeated word "the" in a comment. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200719003027.20798-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
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03-Jul-2020 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf/x86: Remove task_ctx_size A new kmem_cache method has replaced the kzalloc() to allocate the PMU specific data. The task_ctx_size is not required anymore. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1593780569-62993-19-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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03-Jul-2020 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Use kmem_cache to allocate the PMU specific data Currently, the PMU specific data task_ctx_data is allocated by the function kzalloc() in the perf generic code. When there is no specific alignment requirement for the task_ctx_data, the method works well for now. However, there will be a problem once a specific alignment requirement is introduced in future features, e.g., the Architecture LBR XSAVE feature requires 64-byte alignment. If the specific alignment requirement is not fulfilled, the XSAVE family of instructions will fail to save/restore the xstate to/from the task_ctx_data. The function kzalloc() itself only guarantees a natural alignment. A new method to allocate the task_ctx_data has to be introduced, which has to meet the requirements as below: - must be a generic method can be used by different architectures, because the allocation of the task_ctx_data is implemented in the perf generic code; - must be an alignment-guarantee method (The alignment requirement is not changed after the boot); - must be able to allocate/free a buffer (smaller than a page size) dynamically; - should not cause extra CPU overhead or space overhead. Several options were considered as below: - One option is to allocate a larger buffer for task_ctx_data. E.g., ptr = kmalloc(size + alignment, GFP_KERNEL); ptr &= ~(alignment - 1); This option causes space overhead. - Another option is to allocate the task_ctx_data in the PMU specific code. To do so, several function pointers have to be added. As a result, both the generic structure and the PMU specific structure will become bigger. Besides, extra function calls are added when allocating/freeing the buffer. This option will increase both the space overhead and CPU overhead. - The third option is to use a kmem_cache to allocate a buffer for the task_ctx_data. The kmem_cache can be created with a specific alignment requirement by the PMU at boot time. A new pointer for kmem_cache has to be added in the generic struct pmu, which would be used to dynamically allocate a buffer for the task_ctx_data at run time. Although the new pointer is added to the struct pmu, the existing variable task_ctx_size is not required anymore. The size of the generic structure is kept the same. The third option which meets all the aforementioned requirements is used to replace kzalloc() for the PMU specific data allocation. A later patch will remove the kzalloc() method and the related variables. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1593780569-62993-17-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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30-Jun-2020 |
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> |
perf: Expose get/put_callchain_entry() Sanitize and expose get/put_callchain_entry(). This would be used by bpf stack map. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200630062846.664389-2-songliubraving@fb.com
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12-May-2020 |
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> |
perf: Add perf text poke event Record (single instruction) changes to the kernel text (i.e. self-modifying code) in order to support tracers like Intel PT and ARM CoreSight. A copy of the running kernel code is needed as a reference point (e.g. from /proc/kcore). The text poke event records the old bytes and the new bytes so that the event can be processed forwards or backwards. The basic problem is recording the modified instruction in an unambiguous manner given SMP instruction cache (in)coherence. That is, when modifying an instruction concurrently any solution with one or multiple timestamps is not sufficient: CPU0 CPU1 0 1 write insn A 2 execute insn A 3 sync-I$ 4 Due to I$, CPU1 might execute either the old or new A. No matter where we record tracepoints on CPU0, one simply cannot tell what CPU1 will have observed, except that at 0 it must be the old one and at 4 it must be the new one. To solve this, take inspiration from x86 text poking, which has to solve this exact problem due to variable length instruction encoding and I-fetch windows. 1) overwrite the instruction with a breakpoint and sync I$ This guarantees that that code flow will never hit the target instruction anymore, on any CPU (or rather, it will cause an exception). 2) issue the TEXT_POKE event 3) overwrite the breakpoint with the new instruction and sync I$ Now we know that any execution after the TEXT_POKE event will either observe the breakpoint (and hit the exception) or the new instruction. So by guarding the TEXT_POKE event with an exception on either side; we can now tell, without doubt, which instruction another CPU will have observed. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200512121922.8997-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
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11-May-2020 |
Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> |
perf/core: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues. This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200511201227.GA14041@embeddedor
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24-Apr-2020 |
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |
sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and from userspace in common code. This also means that the strings are always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit safer. As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers a lot of the changes are mechnical. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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02-Apr-2020 |
Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Open access to the core for CAP_PERFMON privileged process Open access to monitoring of kernel code, CPUs, tracepoints and namespaces data for a CAP_PERFMON privileged process. Providing the access under CAP_PERFMON capability singly, without the rest of CAP_SYS_ADMIN credentials, excludes chances to misuse the credentials and makes operation more secure. CAP_PERFMON implements the principle of least privilege for performance monitoring and observability operations (POSIX IEEE 1003.1e 2.2.2.39 principle of least privilege: A security design principle that states that a process or program be granted only those privileges (e.g., capabilities) necessary to accomplish its legitimate function, and only for the time that such privileges are actually required) For backward compatibility reasons the access to perf_events subsystem remains open for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN usage for secure perf_events monitoring is discouraged with respect to CAP_PERFMON capability. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/471acaef-bb8a-5ce2-923f-90606b78eef9@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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25-Mar-2020 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> |
perf/core: Add PERF_SAMPLE_CGROUP feature The PERF_SAMPLE_CGROUP bit is to save (perf_event) cgroup information in the sample. It will add a 64-bit id to identify current cgroup and it's the file handle in the cgroup file system. Userspace should use this information with PERF_RECORD_CGROUP event to match which cgroup it belongs. I put it before PERF_SAMPLE_AUX for simplicity since it just needs a 64-bit word. But if we want bigger samples, I can work on that direction too. Committer testing: $ pahole perf_sample_data | grep -w cgroup -B5 -A5 /* --- cacheline 4 boundary (256 bytes) was 56 bytes ago --- */ struct perf_regs regs_intr; /* 312 16 */ /* --- cacheline 5 boundary (320 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */ u64 stack_user_size; /* 328 8 */ u64 phys_addr; /* 336 8 */ u64 cgroup; /* 344 8 */ /* size: 384, cachelines: 6, members: 22 */ /* padding: 32 */ }; $ Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200325124536.2800725-3-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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14-Feb-2020 |
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> |
perf/core: Add per perf_cpu_context min_heap storage The storage required for visit_groups_merge's min heap needs to vary in order to support more iterators, such as when multiple nested cgroups' events are being visited. This change allows for 2 iterators and doesn't support growth. Based-on-work-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200214075133.181299-5-irogers@google.com
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27-Jan-2020 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Add new branch sample type for HW index of raw branch records The low level index is the index in the underlying hardware buffer of the most recently captured taken branch which is always saved in branch_entries[0]. It is very useful for reconstructing the call stack. For example, in Intel LBR call stack mode, the depth of reconstructed LBR call stack limits to the number of LBR registers. With the low level index information, perf tool may stitch the stacks of two samples. The reconstructed LBR call stack can break the HW limitation. Add a new branch sample type to retrieve low level index of raw branch records. The low level index is between -1 (unknown) and max depth which can be retrieved in /sys/devices/cpu/caps/branches. Only when the new branch sample type is set, the low level index information is dumped into the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK output. Perf tool should check the attr.branch_sample_type, and apply the corresponding format for PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK samples. Otherwise, some user case may be broken. For example, users may parse a perf.data, which include the new branch sample type, with an old version perf tool (without the check). Users probably get incorrect information without any warning. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200127165355.27495-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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09-Jan-2020 |
Benjamin Thiel <b.thiel@posteo.de> |
kernel/events: Add a missing prototype for arch_perf_update_userpage() ... in order to fix a -Wmissing-prototype warning. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thiel <b.thiel@posteo.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200109131351.9468-1-b.thiel@posteo.de
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13-Dec-2019 |
Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
perf: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous eBPF requires needing to know the size of the perf ring buffer structure. But it unfortunately has the same name as the generic ring buffer used by tracing and oprofile. To make it less ambiguous, rename the perf ring buffer structure to "perf_buffer". As other parts of the ring buffer code has "perf_" as the prefix, it only makes sense to give the ring buffer the "perf_" prefix as well. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213153553.GE20583@krava Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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27-Oct-2019 |
Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Provide a kernel-internal interface to pause perf_event Exporting perf_event_pause() as an external accessor for kernel users (such as KVM) who may do both disable perf_event and read count with just one time to hold perf_event_ctx_lock. Also the value could be reset optionally. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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27-Oct-2019 |
Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Provide a kernel-internal interface to recalibrate event period Currently, perf_event_period() is used by user tools via ioctl. Based on naming convention, exporting perf_event_period() for kernel users (such as KVM) who may recalibrate the event period for their assigned counter according to their requirements. The perf_event_period() is an external accessor, just like the perf_event_{en,dis}able() and should thus use perf_event_ctx_lock(). Suggested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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25-Oct-2019 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf/aux: Allow using AUX data in perf samples AUX data can be used to annotate perf events such as performance counters or tracepoints/breakpoints by including it in sample records when PERF_SAMPLE_AUX flag is set. Such samples would be instrumental in debugging and profiling by providing, for example, a history of instruction flow leading up to the event's overflow. The implementation makes use of grouping an AUX event with all the events that wish to take samples of the AUX data, such that the former is the group leader. The samplees should also specify the desired size of the AUX sample via attr.aux_sample_size. AUX capable PMUs need to explicitly add support for sampling, because it relies on a new callback to take a snapshot of the buffer without touching the event states. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191025140835.53665-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Oct-2019 |
Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core, perf/x86: Introduce swap_task_ctx() method at 'struct pmu' Declare swap_task_ctx() methods at the generic and x86 specific pmu types to bridge calls to platform specific PMU code on optimized context switch path between equivalent task perf event contexts. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9a0aa84a-f062-9b64-3133-373658550c4b@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-Oct-2019 |
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> |
perf/headers: Fix spelling s/EACCESS/EACCES/, s/privilidge/privilege/ As per POSIX, the correct spelling of the error code is EACCES: include/uapi/asm-generic/errno-base.h:#define EACCES 13 /* Permission denied */ Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191024122904.12463-1-geert+renesas@glider.be Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Oct-2019 |
Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> |
perf_event: Add support for LSM and SELinux checks In current mainline, the degree of access to perf_event_open(2) system call depends on the perf_event_paranoid sysctl. This has a number of limitations: 1. The sysctl is only a single value. Many types of accesses are controlled based on the single value thus making the control very limited and coarse grained. 2. The sysctl is global, so if the sysctl is changed, then that means all processes get access to perf_event_open(2) opening the door to security issues. This patch adds LSM and SELinux access checking which will be used in Android to access perf_event_open(2) for the purposes of attaching BPF programs to tracepoints, perf profiling and other operations from userspace. These operations are intended for production systems. 5 new LSM hooks are added: 1. perf_event_open: This controls access during the perf_event_open(2) syscall itself. The hook is called from all the places that the perf_event_paranoid sysctl is checked to keep it consistent with the systctl. The hook gets passed a 'type' argument which controls CPU, kernel and tracepoint accesses (in this context, CPU, kernel and tracepoint have the same semantics as the perf_event_paranoid sysctl). Additionally, I added an 'open' type which is similar to perf_event_paranoid sysctl == 3 patch carried in Android and several other distros but was rejected in mainline [1] in 2016. 2. perf_event_alloc: This allocates a new security object for the event which stores the current SID within the event. It will be useful when the perf event's FD is passed through IPC to another process which may try to read the FD. Appropriate security checks will limit access. 3. perf_event_free: Called when the event is closed. 4. perf_event_read: Called from the read(2) and mmap(2) syscalls for the event. 5. perf_event_write: Called from the ioctl(2) syscalls for the event. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/696240/ Since Peter had suggest LSM hooks in 2016 [1], I am adding his Suggested-by tag below. To use this patch, we set the perf_event_paranoid sysctl to -1 and then apply selinux checking as appropriate (default deny everything, and then add policy rules to give access to domains that need it). In the future we can remove the perf_event_paranoid sysctl altogether. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Co-developed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: jeffv@google.com Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: primiano@google.com Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: rsavitski@google.com Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthewgarrett@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191014170308.70668-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
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06-Aug-2019 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data In some cases, ordinary (non-AUX) events can generate data for AUX events. For example, PEBS events can come out as records in the Intel PT stream instead of their usual DS records, if configured to do so. One requirement for such events is to consistently schedule together, to ensure that the data from the "AUX output" events isn't lost while their corresponding AUX event is not scheduled. We use grouping to provide this guarantee: an "AUX output" event can be added to a group where an AUX event is a group leader, and provided that the former supports writing to the latter. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: kan.liang@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806084606.4021-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
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01-Jul-2019 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Fix exclusive events' grouping So far, we tried to disallow grouping exclusive events for the fear of complications they would cause with moving between contexts. Specifically, moving a software group to a hardware context would violate the exclusivity rules if both groups contain matching exclusive events. This attempt was, however, unsuccessful: the check that we have in the perf_event_open() syscall is both wrong (looks at wrong PMU) and insufficient (group leader may still be exclusive), as can be illustrated by running: $ perf record -e '{intel_pt//,cycles}' uname $ perf record -e '{cycles,intel_pt//}' uname ultimately successfully. Furthermore, we are completely free to trigger the exclusivity violation by: perf -e '{cycles,intel_pt//}' -e '{intel_pt//,instructions}' even though the helpful perf record will not allow that, the ABI will. The warning later in the perf_event_open() path will also not trigger, because it's also wrong. Fix all this by validating the original group before moving, getting rid of broken safeguards and placing a useful one to perf_install_in_context(). Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Fixes: bed5b25ad9c8a ("perf: Add a pmu capability for "exclusive" events") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190701110755.24646-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Jun-2019 |
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> |
perf/cgroups: Don't rotate events for cgroups unnecessarily Currently perf_rotate_context assumes that if the context's nr_events != nr_active a rotation is necessary for perf event multiplexing. With cgroups, nr_events is the total count of events for all cgroups and nr_active will not include events in a cgroup other than the current task's. This makes rotation appear necessary for cgroups when it is not. Add a perf_event_context flag that is set when rotation is necessary. Clear the flag during sched_out and set it when a flexible sched_in fails due to resources. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190601082722.44543-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-May-2019 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> |
perf/x86: Disable extended registers for non-supported PMUs The perf fuzzer caused Skylake machine to crash: [ 9680.085831] Call Trace: [ 9680.088301] <IRQ> [ 9680.090363] perf_output_sample_regs+0x43/0xa0 [ 9680.094928] perf_output_sample+0x3aa/0x7a0 [ 9680.099181] perf_event_output_forward+0x53/0x80 [ 9680.103917] __perf_event_overflow+0x52/0xf0 [ 9680.108266] ? perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0xc0/0xc0 [ 9680.113108] perf_swevent_hrtimer+0xe2/0x150 [ 9680.117475] ? check_preempt_wakeup+0x181/0x230 [ 9680.122091] ? check_preempt_curr+0x62/0x90 [ 9680.126361] ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x19/0x140 [ 9680.130355] ? try_to_wake_up+0x54/0x460 [ 9680.134366] ? reweight_entity+0x15b/0x1a0 [ 9680.138559] ? __queue_work+0x103/0x3f0 [ 9680.142472] ? update_dl_rq_load_avg+0x1cd/0x270 [ 9680.147194] ? timerqueue_del+0x1e/0x40 [ 9680.151092] ? __remove_hrtimer+0x35/0x70 [ 9680.155191] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x100/0x280 [ 9680.159658] hrtimer_interrupt+0x100/0x220 [ 9680.163835] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x140 [ 9680.168555] apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 [ 9680.172756] </IRQ> The XMM registers can only be collected by PEBS hardware events on the platforms with PEBS baseline support, e.g. Icelake, not software/probe events. Add capabilities flag PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_REGS to indicate the PMU which support extended registers. For X86, the extended registers are XMM registers. Add has_extended_regs() to check if extended registers are applied. The generic code define the mask of extended registers as 0 if arch headers haven't overridden it. Originally-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 878068ea270e ("perf/x86: Support outputting XMM registers") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1559081314-9714-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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12-May-2019 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> |
perf/core: Add attr_groups_update into struct pmu Adding attr_update attribute group into pmu, to allow having multiple attribute groups for same group name. This will allow us to update "events" or "format" directories with attributes that depend on various HW conditions. For example having group_format_extra group that updates "format" directory only if pmu version is 2 and higher: static umode_t exra_is_visible(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr, int i) { return x86_pmu.version >= 2 ? attr->mode : 0; } static struct attribute_group group_format_extra = { .name = "format", .is_visible = exra_is_visible, }; Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190512155518.21468-3-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-May-2019 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf/x86/intel/pt: Remove software double buffering PMU capability Now that all AUX allocations are high-order by default, the software double buffering PMU capability doesn't make sense any more, get rid of it. In case some PMUs choose to opt out, we can re-introduce it. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190503085536.24119-3-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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18-Feb-2019 |
Luwei Kang <luwei.kang@intel.com> |
KVM: x86: Inject PMI for KVM guest Inject a PMI for KVM guest when Intel PT working in Host-Guest mode and Guest ToPA entry memory buffer was completely filled. Signed-off-by: Luwei Kang <luwei.kang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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22-Apr-2019 |
Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com> |
perf/x86: Make perf callchains work without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER Currently perf callchain doesn't work well with ORC unwinder when sampling from trace point. We'll get useless in kernel callchain like this: perf 6429 [000] 22.498450: kmem:mm_page_alloc: page=0x176a17 pfn=1534487 order=0 migratetype=0 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL ffffffffbe23e32e __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x22e (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) 7efdf7f7d3e8 __poll+0x18 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so) 5651468729c1 [unknown] (/usr/bin/perf) 5651467ee82a main+0x69a (/usr/bin/perf) 7efdf7eaf413 __libc_start_main+0xf3 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so) 5541f689495641d7 [unknown] ([unknown]) The root cause is that, for trace point events, it doesn't provide a real snapshot of the hardware registers. Instead perf tries to get required caller's registers and compose a fake register snapshot which suppose to contain enough information for start a unwinding. However without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, if failed to get caller's BP as the frame pointer, so current frame pointer is returned instead. We get a invalid register combination which confuse the unwinder, and end the stacktrace early. So in such case just don't try dump BP, and let the unwinder start directly when the register is not a real snapshot. Use SP as the skip mark, unwinder will skip all the frames until it meet the frame of the trace point caller. Tested with frame pointer unwinder and ORC unwinder, this makes perf callchain get the full kernel space stacktrace again like this: perf 6503 [000] 1567.570191: kmem:mm_page_alloc: page=0x16c904 pfn=1493252 order=0 migratetype=0 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL ffffffffb523e2ae __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x22e (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) ffffffffb52383bd __get_free_pages+0xd (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) ffffffffb52fd28a __pollwait+0x8a (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) ffffffffb521426f perf_poll+0x2f (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) ffffffffb52fe3e2 do_sys_poll+0x252 (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) ffffffffb52ff027 __x64_sys_poll+0x37 (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) ffffffffb500418b do_syscall_64+0x5b (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) ffffffffb5a0008c entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44 (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) 7f71e92d03e8 __poll+0x18 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so) 55a22960d9c1 [unknown] (/usr/bin/perf) 55a22958982a main+0x69a (/usr/bin/perf) 7f71e9202413 __libc_start_main+0xf3 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so) 5541f689495641d7 [unknown] ([unknown]) Co-developed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190422162652.15483-1-kasong@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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08-Apr-2019 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf/core: Add perf_pmu_resched() as global function This patch add perf_pmu_resched() a global function that can be called to force rescheduling of events for a given PMU. The function locks both cpuctx and task_ctx internally. This will be used by a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ Simplified the calling convention. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: nelson.dsouza@intel.com Cc: tonyj@suse.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190408173252.37932-2-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Apr-2019 |
Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com> |
perf/headers: Fix stale comment for struct perf_addr_filter The @inode field has been removed after: 9511bce9fe8e ("perf/core: Fix bad use of igrab()") Update the description. Signed-off-by: Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1554274464-5739-1-git-send-email-zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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15-Feb-2019 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf, pt, coresight: Fix address filters for vmas with non-zero offset Currently, the address range calculation for file-based filters works as long as the vma that maps the matching part of the object file starts from offset zero into the file (vm_pgoff==0). Otherwise, the resulting filter range would be off by vm_pgoff pages. Another related problem is that in case of a partially matching vma, that is, a vma that matches part of a filter region, the filter range size wouldn't be adjusted. Fix the arithmetics around address filter range calculations, taking into account vma offset, so that the entire calculation is done before the filter configuration is passed to the PMU drivers instead of having those drivers do the final bit of arithmetics. Based on the patch by Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter.intel.com>. Reported-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Fixes: 375637bc5249 ("perf/core: Introduce address range filtering") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190215115655.63469-3-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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04-Feb-2019 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> |
perf/x86: Add check_period PMU callback Vince (and later on Ravi) reported crashes in the BTS code during fuzzing with the following backtrace: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI ... RIP: 0010:perf_prepare_sample+0x8f/0x510 ... Call Trace: <IRQ> ? intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer+0x194/0x230 intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer+0x160/0x230 ? tick_nohz_irq_exit+0x31/0x40 ? smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x48/0xe0 ? call_function_single_interrupt+0xf/0x20 ? call_function_single_interrupt+0xa/0x20 ? x86_schedule_events+0x1a0/0x2f0 ? x86_pmu_commit_txn+0xb4/0x100 ? find_busiest_group+0x47/0x5d0 ? perf_event_set_state.part.42+0x12/0x50 ? perf_mux_hrtimer_restart+0x40/0xb0 intel_pmu_disable_event+0xae/0x100 ? intel_pmu_disable_event+0xae/0x100 x86_pmu_stop+0x7a/0xb0 x86_pmu_del+0x57/0x120 event_sched_out.isra.101+0x83/0x180 group_sched_out.part.103+0x57/0xe0 ctx_sched_out+0x188/0x240 ctx_resched+0xa8/0xd0 __perf_event_enable+0x193/0x1e0 event_function+0x8e/0xc0 remote_function+0x41/0x50 flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x68/0x100 generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x13/0x30 smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x3e/0xe0 call_function_single_interrupt+0xf/0x20 </IRQ> The reason is that while event init code does several checks for BTS events and prevents several unwanted config bits for BTS event (like precise_ip), the PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD allows to create BTS event without those checks being done. Following sequence will cause the crash: If we create an 'almost' BTS event with precise_ip and callchains, and it into a BTS event it will crash the perf_prepare_sample() function because precise_ip events are expected to come in with callchain data initialized, but that's not the case for intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer() caller. Adding a check_period callback to be called before the period is changed via PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD. It will deny the change if the event would become BTS. Plus adding also the limit_period check as well. Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190204123532.GA4794@krava Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2019 |
Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> |
perf/aux: Make perf_event accessible to setup_aux() When pmu::setup_aux() is called the coresight PMU needs to know which sink to use for the session by looking up the information in the event's attr::config2 field. As such simply replace the cpu information by the complete perf_event structure and change all affected customers. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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31-Jan-2019 |
Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> |
perf/aux: Make perf_event accessible to setup_aux() When pmu::setup_aux() is called the coresight PMU needs to know which sink to use for the session by looking up the information in the event's attr::config2 field. As such simply replace the cpu information by the complete perf_event structure and change all affected customers. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190131184714.20388-2-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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28-Jan-2019 |
Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> |
perf: Convert perf_event_context.refcount to refcount_t atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference counters with the following properties: - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set() - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero - once counter reaches zero, its further increments aren't allowed - counter schema uses basic atomic operations (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.) Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable. The variable perf_event_context.refcount is used as pure reference counter. Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations. ** Important note for maintainers: Some functions from refcount_t API defined in lib/refcount.c have different memory ordering guarantees than their atomic counterparts. Please check Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst for more information. Normally the differences should not matter since refcount_t provides enough guarantees to satisfy the refcounting use cases, but in some rare cases it might matter. Please double check that you don't have some undocumented memory guarantees for this variable usage. For the perf_event_context.refcount it might make a difference in following places: - get_ctx(), perf_event_ctx_lock_nested(), perf_lock_task_context() and __perf_event_ctx_lock_double(): increment in refcount_inc_not_zero() only guarantees control dependency on success vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart - put_ctx(): decrement in refcount_dec_and_test() provides RELEASE ordering and ACQUIRE ordering + control dependency on success vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: namhyung@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548678448-24458-2-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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17-Jan-2019 |
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> |
perf, bpf: Introduce PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT For better performance analysis of BPF programs, this patch introduces PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT, a new perf_event_type that exposes BPF program load/unload information to user space. Each BPF program may contain up to BPF_MAX_SUBPROGS (256) sub programs. The following example shows kernel symbols for a BPF program with 7 sub programs: ffffffffa0257cf9 t bpf_prog_b07ccb89267cf242_F ffffffffa02592e1 t bpf_prog_2dcecc18072623fc_F ffffffffa025b0e9 t bpf_prog_bb7a405ebaec5d5c_F ffffffffa025dd2c t bpf_prog_a7540d4a39ec1fc7_F ffffffffa025fcca t bpf_prog_05762d4ade0e3737_F ffffffffa026108f t bpf_prog_db4bd11e35df90d4_F ffffffffa0263f00 t bpf_prog_89d64e4abf0f0126_F ffffffffa0257cf9 t bpf_prog_ae31629322c4b018__dummy_tracepoi When a bpf program is loaded, PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL is generated for each of these sub programs. Therefore, PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT is not needed for simple profiling. For annotation, user space need to listen to PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT and gather more information about these (sub) programs via sys_bpf. Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradeaed.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190117161521.1341602-4-songliubraving@fb.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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76193a94 |
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17-Jan-2019 |
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> |
perf, bpf: Introduce PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL For better performance analysis of dynamically JITed and loaded kernel functions, such as BPF programs, this patch introduces PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL, a new perf_event_type that exposes kernel symbol register/unregister information to user space. The following data structure is used for PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL. /* * struct { * struct perf_event_header header; * u64 addr; * u32 len; * u16 ksym_type; * u16 flags; * char name[]; * struct sample_id sample_id; * }; */ Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190117161521.1341602-2-songliubraving@fb.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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56201969 |
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11-Jan-2019 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
perf: Make perf_event_output() propagate the output() return For the original mode of operation it isn't needed, since we report back errors via PERF_RECORD_LOST records in the ring buffer, but for use in bpf_perf_event_output() it is convenient to return the errors, basically -ENOSPC. Currently bpf_perf_event_output() returns an error indication, the last thing it does, which is to push it to the ring buffer is that can fail and if so, this failure won't be reported back to its users, fix it. Reported-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Tested-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118150938.GN5823@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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17-Jan-2019 |
YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> |
perf: Remove duplicated workqueue.h include from perf_event.h It is already included a little bit higher up in that file. Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190117072504.14428-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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cc6795ae |
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10-Jan-2019 |
Andrew Murray <amurray@thegoodpenguin.co.uk> |
perf/core: Add PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE for exclusion incapable PMUs Many PMU drivers do not have the capability to exclude counting events that occur in specific contexts such as idle, kernel, guest, etc. These drivers indicate this by returning an error in their event_init upon testing the events attribute flags. This approach is error prone and often inconsistent. Let's instead allow PMU drivers to advertise their inability to exclude based on context via a new capability: PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE. This allows the perf core to reject requests for exclusion events where there is no support in the PMU. Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: robin.murphy@arm.com Cc: suzuki.poulose@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547128414-50693-4-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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10-Jan-2019 |
Andrew Murray <amurray@thegoodpenguin.co.uk> |
perf/core: Add function to test for event exclusion flags Add a function that tests if any of the perf event exclusion flags are set on a given event. Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: robin.murphy@arm.com Cc: suzuki.poulose@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547128414-50693-3-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Nov-2018 |
Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org> |
perf/core: Declare the __percpu attribute on non-deref types Sparse reports the current declaration of two perf percpu variables with this warning: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces) expected void const [noderef] <asn:3>*__vpp_verify got struct perf_cpu_context *<noident> While it's normally perfectly fine to place GCC attributes anywhere in the definition, this particular attribute is for a checking compiler's such as Sparse's benefit, which doesn't want __percpu on pointers. So reorder the attribute to come after the structure type, not after the pointer type. [ mingo: Rewrote the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543310012-7967-1-git-send-email-mojha@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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10-May-2018 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf/x86/intel: Fix unwind errors from PEBS entries (mk-II) Vince reported the perf_fuzzer giving various unwinder warnings and Josh reported: > Deja vu. Most of these are related to perf PEBS, similar to the > following issue: > > b8000586c90b ("perf/x86/intel: Cure bogus unwind from PEBS entries") > > This is basically the ORC version of that. setup_pebs_sample_data() is > assembling a franken-pt_regs which ORC isn't happy about. RIP is > inconsistent with some of the other registers (like RSP and RBP). And where the previous unwinder only needed BP,SP ORC also requires IP. But we cannot spoof IP because then the sample will get displaced, entirely negating the point of PEBS. So cure the whole thing differently by doing the unwind early; this does however require a means to communicate we did the unwind early. We (ab)use an unused sample_type bit for this, which we set on events that fill out the data->callchain before the normal perf_prepare_sample(). Debugged-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Tested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Tested-by: Prashant Bhole <bhole_prashant_q7@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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08-Jul-2018 |
Tobias Tefke <tobias.tefke@gmail.com> |
perf, tools: Use correct articles in comments Some of the comments in the perf events code use articles incorrectly, using 'a' for words beginning with a vowel sound, where 'an' should be used. Signed-off-by: Tobias Tefke <tobias.tefke@tutanota.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: namhyung@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180709105715.22938-1-tobias.tefke@tutanota.com [ Fix a few more perf related 'a event' typo fixes from all around the kernel and tooling tree. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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18-Apr-2018 |
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> |
perf/core: Fix bad use of igrab() As Miklos reported and suggested: "This pattern repeats two times in trace_uprobe.c and in kernel/events/core.c as well: ret = kern_path(filename, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path); if (ret) goto fail_address_parse; inode = igrab(d_inode(path.dentry)); path_put(&path); And it's wrong. You can only hold a reference to the inode if you have an active ref to the superblock as well (which is normally through path.mnt) or holding s_umount. This way unmounting the containing filesystem while the tracepoint is active will give you the "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount..." message and a crash when the inode is finally put. Solution: store path instead of inode." This patch fixes the issue in kernel/event/core.c. Reviewed-and-tested-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <kernel-team@fb.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Fixes: 375637bc5249 ("perf/core: Introduce address range filtering") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180418062907.3210386-2-songliubraving@fb.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-May-2018 |
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> |
perf/core: Fix group scheduling with mixed hw and sw events When hw and sw events are mixed in the same group, they are all attached to the hw perf_event_context. This sometimes requires moving group of perf_event to a different context. We found a bug in how the kernel handles this, for example if we do: perf stat -e '{faults,ref-cycles,faults}' -I 1000 1.005591180 1,297 faults 1.005591180 457,476,576 ref-cycles 1.005591180 <not supported> faults First, sw event "faults" is attached to the sw context, and becomes the group leader. Then, hw event "ref-cycles" is attached, so both events are moved to the hw context. Last, another sw "faults" tries to attach, but it fails because of mismatch between the new target ctx (from sw pmu) and the group_leader's ctx (hw context, same as ref-cycles). The broken condition is: group_leader is sw event; group_leader is on hw context; add a sw event to the group. Fix this scenario by checking group_leader's context (instead of just event type). If group_leader is on hw context, use the ->pmu of this context to look up context for the new event. Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <kernel-team@fb.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Fixes: b04243ef7006 ("perf: Complete software pmu grouping") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180503194716.162815-1-songliubraving@fb.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-May-2018 |
Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> |
perf/core: add perf_get_event() to return perf_event given a struct file A new extern function, perf_get_event(), is added to return a perf event given a struct file. This function will be used in later patches. Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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29-Mar-2018 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf/x86/pt, coresight: Clean up address filter structure This is a cosmetic patch that deals with the address filter structure's ambiguous fields 'filter' and 'range'. The former stands to mean that the filter's *action* should be to filter the traces to its address range if it's set or stop tracing if it's unset. This is confusing and hard on the eyes, so this patch replaces it with 'action' enum. The 'range' field is completely redundant (meaning that the filter is an address range as opposed to a single address trigger), as we can use zero size to mean the same thing. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180329120648.11902-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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15-Mar-2018 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix sibling iteration Mark noticed that the change to sibling_list changed some iteration semantics; because previously we used group_list as list entry, sibling events would always have an empty sibling_list. But because we now use sibling_list for both list head and list entry, siblings will report as having siblings. Fix this with a custom for_each_sibling_event() iterator. Fixes: 8343aae66167 ("perf/core: Remove perf_event::group_entry") Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: vincent.weaver@maine.edu Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com Cc: valery.cherepennikov@intel.com Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Cc: davidcc@google.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: Dmitry.Prohorov@intel.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180315170129.GX4043@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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15-Mar-2018 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix sibling iteration Mark noticed that the change to sibling_list changed some iteration semantics; because previously we used group_list as list entry, sibling events would always have an empty sibling_list. But because we now use sibling_list for both list head and list entry, siblings will report as having siblings. Fix this with a custom for_each_sibling_event() iterator. Fixes: 8343aae66167 ("perf/core: Remove perf_event::group_entry") Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: vincent.weaver@maine.edu Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com Cc: valery.cherepennikov@intel.com Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Cc: davidcc@google.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: Dmitry.Prohorov@intel.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180315170129.GX4043@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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13-Nov-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf/core: Optimize ctx_sched_out() When an event group contains more events than can be scheduled on the hardware, iterating the full event group for ctx_sched_out is a waste of time. Keep track of the events that got programmed on the hardware, such that we can iterate this smaller list in order to schedule them out. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitri Prokhorov <Dmitry.Prohorov@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Valery Cherepennikov <valery.cherepennikov@intel.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-Nov-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf/core: Remove perf_event::group_entry Now that all the grouping is done with RB trees, we no longer need group_entry and can replace the whole thing with sibling_list. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitri Prokhorov <Dmitry.Prohorov@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Valery Cherepennikov <valery.cherepennikov@intel.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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08-Sep-2017 |
Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> |
perf/cor: Use RB trees for pinned/flexible groups Change event groups into RB trees sorted by CPU and then by a 64bit index, so that multiplexing hrtimer interrupt handler would be able skipping to the current CPU's list and ignore groups allocated for the other CPUs. New API for manipulating event groups in the trees is implemented as well as adoption on the API in the current implementation. pinned_group_sched_in() and flexible_group_sched_in() API are introduced to consolidate code enabling the whole group from pinned and flexible groups appropriately. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitri Prokhorov <Dmitry.Prohorov@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Valery Cherepennikov <valery.cherepennikov@intel.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/372f9c8b-0cfe-4240-e44d-83d863d40813@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Dec-2017 |
Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
bpf: correct broken uapi for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type Commit 0515e5999a466dfe ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type") introduced the bpf_perf_event_data structure which exports the pt_regs structure. This is OK for multiple architectures but fail for s390 and arm64 which do not export pt_regs. Programs using them, for example, the bpf selftest fail to compile on these architectures. For s390, exporting the pt_regs is not an option because s390 wants to allow changes to it. For arm64, there is a user_pt_regs structure that covers parts of the pt_regs structure for use by user space. To solve the broken uapi for s390 and arm64, introduce an abstract type for pt_regs and add an asm/bpf_perf_event.h file that concretes the type. An asm-generic header file covers the architectures that export pt_regs today. The arch-specific enablement for s390 and arm64 follows in separate commits. Reported-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Fixes: 0515e5999a466dfe ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type") Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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05-Sep-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf/core: Rewrite event timekeeping The current even timekeeping, which computes enabled and running times, uses 3 distinct timestamps to reflect the various event states: OFF (stopped), INACTIVE (enabled) and ACTIVE (running). Furthermore, the update rules are such that even INACTIVE events need their timestamps updated. This is undesirable because we'd like to not touch INACTIVE events if at all possible, this makes event scheduling (much) more expensive than needed. Rewrite the timekeeping to directly use event->state, this greatly simplifies the code and results in only having to update things when we change state, or an up-to-date value is requested (read). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Sep-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf/core: Rename 'enum perf_event_active_state' Its a weird name, active is one of the states, it should not be part of the name, also, its too long. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Oct-2017 |
Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> |
perf/bpf: Extend the perf_event_read_local() interface, a.k.a. "bpf: perf event change needed for subsequent bpf helpers" eBPF programs would like access to the (perf) event enabled and running times along with the event value, such that they can deal with event multiplexing (among other things). This patch extends the interface; a future eBPF patch will utilize the new functionality. [ Note, there's a same-content commit with a poor changelog and a meaningless title in the networking tree as well - but we need this change for subsequent perf work, so apply it here as well, with a proper changelog. Hopefully Git will be able to sort out this somewhat messy workflow, if there are no other, conflicting changes to these files. ] Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> [ Rewrote the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <ast@fb.com> Cc: <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171005161923.332790-2-yhs@fb.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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11-Oct-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf/ftrace: Revert ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function") Revert commit: 75e8387685f6 ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function") The reason I instantly stumbled on that patch is that it only addresses the ftrace situation and doesn't mention the other _5_ places that use this interface. It doesn't explain why those don't have the problem and if not, why their solution doesn't work for ftrace. It doesn't, but this is just putting more duct tape on. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171011080224.200565770@infradead.org Cc: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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05-Oct-2017 |
Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> |
bpf: perf event change needed for subsequent bpf helpers This patch does not impact existing functionalities. It contains the changes in perf event area needed for subsequent bpf_perf_event_read_value and bpf_perf_prog_read_value helpers. Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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28-Aug-2017 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> |
perf/core, x86: Add PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR For understanding how the workload maps to memory channels and hardware behavior, it's very important to collect address maps with physical addresses. For example, 3D XPoint access can only be found by filtering the physical address. Add a new sample type for physical address. perf already has a facility to collect data virtual address. This patch introduces a function to convert the virtual address to physical address. The function is quite generic and can be extended to any architecture as long as a virtual address is provided. - For kernel direct mapping addresses, virt_to_phys is used to convert the virtual addresses to physical address. - For user virtual addresses, __get_user_pages_fast is used to walk the pages tables for user physical address. - This does not work for vmalloc addresses right now. These are not resolved, but code to do that could be added. The new sample type requires collecting the virtual address. The virtual address will not be output unless SAMPLE_ADDR is applied. For security, the physical address can only be exposed to root or privileged user. Tested-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503967969-48278-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Mar-2017 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core, pt, bts: Get rid of itrace_started I just noticed that hw.itrace_started and hw.config are aliased to the same location. Now, the PT driver happens to use both, which works out fine by sheer luck: - STORE(hw.itrace_start) is ordered before STORE(hw.config), in the program order, although there are no compiler barriers to ensure that, - to the perf_log_itrace_start() hw.itrace_start looks set at the same time as when it is intended to be set because both stores happen in the same path, - hw.config is never reset to zero in the PT driver. Now, the use of hw.config by the PT driver makes more sense (it being a HW PMU) than messing around with itrace_started, which is an awkward API to begin with. This patch replaces hw.itrace_started with an attach_state bit and an API call for the PMU drivers to use to communicate the condition. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170330153956.25994-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Aug-2017 |
Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com> |
perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function When running perf on the ftrace:function tracepoint, there is a bug which can be reproduced by: perf record -e ftrace:function -a sleep 20 & perf record -e ftrace:function ls perf script ls 10304 [005] 171.853235: ftrace:function: perf_output_begin ls 10304 [005] 171.853237: ftrace:function: perf_output_begin ls 10304 [005] 171.853239: ftrace:function: task_tgid_nr_ns ls 10304 [005] 171.853240: ftrace:function: task_tgid_nr_ns ls 10304 [005] 171.853242: ftrace:function: __task_pid_nr_ns ls 10304 [005] 171.853244: ftrace:function: __task_pid_nr_ns We can see that all the function traces are doubled. The problem is caused by the inconsistency of the register function perf_ftrace_event_register() with the probe function perf_ftrace_function_call(). The former registers one probe for every perf_event. And the latter handles all perf_events on the current cpu. So when two perf_events on the current cpu, the traces of them will be doubled. So this patch adds an extra parameter "event" for perf_tp_event, only send sample data to this event when it's not NULL. Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: huawei.libin@huawei.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503668977-12526-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Aug-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf/x86: Fix RDPMC vs. mm_struct tracking Vince reported the following rdpmc() testcase failure: > Failing test case: > > fd=perf_event_open(); > addr=mmap(fd); > exec() // without closing or unmapping the event > fd=perf_event_open(); > addr=mmap(fd); > rdpmc() // GPFs due to rdpmc being disabled The problem is of course that exec() plays tricks with what is current->mm, only destroying the old mappings after having installed the new mm. Fix this confusion by passing along vma->vm_mm instead of relying on current->mm. Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 1e0fb9ec679c ("perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802173930.cstykcqefmqt7jau@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net [ Minor cleanups. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Jul-2017 |
Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> |
x86/perf/cqm: Wipe out perf based cqm 'perf cqm' never worked due to the incompatibility between perf infrastructure and cqm hardware support. The hardware uses RMIDs to track the llc occupancy of tasks and these RMIDs are per package. This makes monitoring a hierarchy like cgroup along with monitoring of tasks separately difficult and several patches sent to lkml to fix them were NACKed. Further more, the following issues in the current perf cqm make it almost unusable: 1. No support to monitor the same group of tasks for which we do allocation using resctrl. 2. It gives random and inaccurate data (mostly 0s) once we run out of RMIDs due to issues in Recycling. 3. Recycling results in inaccuracy of data because we cannot guarantee that the RMID was stolen from a task when it was not pulling data into cache or even when it pulled the least data. Also for monitoring llc_occupancy, if we stop using an RMID_x and then start using an RMID_y after we reclaim an RMID from an other event, we miss accounting all the occupancy that was tagged to RMID_x at a later perf_count. 2. Recycling code makes the monitoring code complex including scheduling because the event can lose RMID any time. Since MBM counters count bandwidth for a period of time by taking snap shot of total bytes at two different times, recycling complicates the way we count MBM in a hierarchy. Also we need a spin lock while we do the processing to account for MBM counter overflow. We also currently use a spin lock in scheduling to prevent the RMID from being taken away. 4. Lack of support when we run different kind of event like task, system-wide and cgroup events together. Data mostly prints 0s. This is also because we can have only one RMID tied to a cpu as defined by the cqm hardware but a perf can at the same time tie multiple events during one sched_in. 5. No support of monitoring a group of tasks. There is partial support for cgroup but it does not work once there is a hierarchy of cgroups or if we want to monitor a task in a cgroup and the cgroup itself. 6. No support for monitoring tasks for the lifetime without perf overhead. 7. It reported the aggregate cache occupancy or memory bandwidth over all sockets. But most cloud and VMM based use cases want to know the individual per-socket usage. Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: davidcc@google.com Cc: reinette.chatre@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501017287-28083-2-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
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02-Jun-2017 |
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
perf, bpf: Add BPF support to all perf_event types Allow BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program types to attach to all perf_event types, including HW_CACHE, RAW, and dynamic pmu events. Only tracepoint/kprobe events are treated differently which require BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACEPOINT/BPF_PROG_TYPE_KPROBE program types accordingly. Also add support for reading all event counters using bpf_perf_event_read() helper. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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24-May-2017 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
perf/tracing/cpuhotplug: Fix locking order perf, tracing, kprobes and jump_labels have a gazillion of ways to create dependency lock chains. Some of those involve nested invocations of get_online_cpus(). The conversion of the hotplug locking to a percpu rwsem requires to avoid such nested calls. sys_perf_event_open() protects most of the syscall logic against cpu hotplug. This causes nested calls and lock inversions versus ftrace and kprobes in various interesting ways. It's impossible to move the hotplug locking to the outer end of all call chains in the involved facilities, so the hotplug protection in sys_perf_event_open() needs to be solved differently. Introduce 'pmus_mutex' which protects a perf private online cpumask. This mutex is taken when the mask is updated in the cpu hotplug callbacks and can be taken in sys_perf_event_open() to protect the swhash setup/teardown code and when the final judgement about a valid event has to be made. [ tglx: Produced changelog and fixed the swhash interaction ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081548.930941109@linutronix.de
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24-Feb-2017 |
Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> |
x86/events/amd/iommu: Add IOMMU-specific hw_perf_event struct Current AMD IOMMU perf PMU inappropriately uses the hardware struct inside the union in struct hw_perf_event, extra_reg in particular. Instead, introduce an AMD IOMMU-specific struct with required parameters to be programmed into the IOMMU performance counter control register. Update the pasid field from 16 to 20 bits while at it. Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> [ Fixup macros, shorten get_next_avail_iommu_bnk_cntr() local vars, massage commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Jörg Rödel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487926102-13073-10-git-send-email-Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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20-Feb-2017 |
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
perf/core: Keep AUX flags in the output handle In preparation for adding more flags to perf AUX records, introduce a separate API for setting the flags for a session, rather than appending more bool arguments to perf_aux_output_end. This allows to set each flag at the time a corresponding condition is detected, instead of tracking it in each driver's private state. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170220133352.17995-3-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Mar-2017 |
Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
perf: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info With the advert of container technologies like docker, that depend on namespaces for isolation, there is a need for tracing support for namespaces. This patch introduces new PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES event for recording namespaces related info. By recording info for every namespace, it is left to userspace to take a call on the definition of a container and trace containers by updating perf tool accordingly. Each namespace has a combination of device and inode numbers. Though every namespace has the same device number currently, that may change in future to avoid the need for a namespace of namespaces. Considering such possibility, record both device and inode numbers separately for each namespace. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148891929686.25309.2827618988917007768.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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26-Jan-2017 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Allow kernel filters on CPU events While supporting file-based address filters for CPU events requires some extra context switch handling, kernel address filters are easy, since the kernel mapping is preserved across address spaces. It is also useful as it permits tracing scheduling paths of the kernel. This patch allows setting up kernel filters for CPU events. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170126094057.13805-4-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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18-Jan-2017 |
David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> |
perf/core: Remove perf_cpu_context::unique_pmu cpuctx->unique_pmu was originally introduced as a way to identify cpuctxs with shared pmus in order to avoid visiting the same cpuctx more than once in a for_each_pmu loop. cpuctx->unique_pmu == cpuctx->pmu in non-software task contexts since they have only one pmu per cpuctx. Since perf_pmu_sched_task() is only called in hw contexts, this patch replaces cpuctx->unique_pmu by cpuctx->pmu in it. The change above, together with the previous patch in this series, removed the remaining uses of cpuctx->unique_pmu, so we remove it altogether. Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118192454.58008-3-davidcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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18-Jan-2017 |
David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> |
perf/core: Make cgroup switch visit only cpuctxs with cgroup events This patch follows from a conversation in CQM/CMT's last series about speeding up the context switch for cgroup events: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9478617/ This is a low-hanging fruit optimization. It replaces the iteration over the "pmus" list in cgroup switch by an iteration over a new list that contains only cpuctxs with at least one cgroup event. This is necessary because the number of PMUs have increased over the years e.g modern x86 server systems have well above 50 PMUs. The iteration over the full PMU list is unneccessary and can be costly in heavy cache contention scenarios. Below are some instrumentation measurements with 10, 50 and 90 percentiles of the total cost of context switch before and after this optimization for a simple array read/write microbenchark. Contention Level Nr events Before (us) After (us) Median L2 L3 types (10%, 50%, 90%) (10%, 50%, 90% Speedup -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Low Low 1 (1.72, 2.42, 5.85) (1.35, 1.64, 5.46) 29% High Low 1 (2.08, 4.56, 19.8) (1720, 2.20, 13.7) 51% High High 1 (2.86, 10.4, 12.7) (2.54, 4.32, 12.1) 58% Low Low 2 (1.98, 3.20, 6.89) (1.68, 2.41, 8.89) 24% High Low 2 (2.48, 5.28, 22.4) (2150, 3.69, 14.6) 30% High High 2 (3.32, 8.09, 13.9) (2.80, 5.15, 13.7) 36% where: 1 event type = cycles 2 event types = cycles,intel_cqm/llc_occupancy/ Contention L2 Low: workset < L2 cache size. High: " >> L2 " " . Contention L3 Low: workset of task on all sockets < L3 cache size. High: " " " " " " >> L3 " " . Median Speedup is (50%ile Before - 50%ile After) / 50%ile Before Unsurprisingly, the benefits of this optimization decrease with the number of cpuctxs with a cgroup events, yet, is never detrimental. Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118192454.58008-2-davidcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-Dec-2016 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> |
perf/x86/intel: Account interrupts for PEBS errors It's possible to set up PEBS events to get only errors and not any data, like on SNB-X (model 45) and IVB-EP (model 62) via 2 perf commands running simultaneously: taskset -c 1 ./perf record -c 4 -e branches:pp -j any -C 10 This leads to a soft lock up, because the error path of the intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm() does not account event->hw.interrupt for error PEBS interrupts, so in case you're getting ONLY errors you don't have a way to stop the event when it's over the max_samples_per_tick limit: NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#22 stuck for 22s! [perf_fuzzer:5816] ... RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81159232>] [<ffffffff81159232>] smp_call_function_single+0xe2/0x140 ... Call Trace: ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xf5/0x1b0 ? perf_cgroup_attach+0x70/0x70 perf_install_in_context+0x199/0x1b0 ? ctx_resched+0x90/0x90 SYSC_perf_event_open+0x641/0xf90 SyS_perf_event_open+0x9/0x10 do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x1f0 entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 Add perf_event_account_interrupt() which does the interrupt and frequency checks and call it from intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm()'s error path. We keep the pending_kill and pending_wakeup logic only in the __perf_event_overflow() path, because they make sense only if there's any data to deliver. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482931866-6018-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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26-Oct-2016 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> |
perf/powerpc: Don't call perf_event_disable() from atomic context The trinity syscall fuzzer triggered following WARN() on powerpc: WARNING: CPU: 9 PID: 2998 at arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:278 ... NIP [c00000000093aedc] .hw_breakpoint_handler+0x28c/0x2b0 LR [c00000000093aed8] .hw_breakpoint_handler+0x288/0x2b0 Call Trace: [c0000002f7933580] [c00000000093aed8] .hw_breakpoint_handler+0x288/0x2b0 (unreliable) [c0000002f7933630] [c0000000000f671c] .notifier_call_chain+0x7c/0xf0 [c0000002f79336d0] [c0000000000f6abc] .__atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xbc/0x1c0 [c0000002f7933780] [c0000000000f6c40] .notify_die+0x70/0xd0 [c0000002f7933820] [c00000000001a74c] .do_break+0x4c/0x100 [c0000002f7933920] [c0000000000089fc] handle_dabr_fault+0x14/0x48 Followed by a lockdep warning: =============================== [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] 4.8.0-rc5+ #7 Tainted: G W ------------------------------- ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:556 Illegal context switch in RCU read-side critical section! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 2 locks held by ls/2998: #0: (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<c0000000000f6a00>] .__atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x1c0 #1: (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<c00000000093ac50>] .hw_breakpoint_handler+0x0/0x2b0 stack backtrace: CPU: 9 PID: 2998 Comm: ls Tainted: G W 4.8.0-rc5+ #7 Call Trace: [c0000002f7933150] [c00000000094b1f8] .dump_stack+0xe0/0x14c (unreliable) [c0000002f79331e0] [c00000000013c468] .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x138/0x180 [c0000002f7933270] [c0000000001005d8] .___might_sleep+0x278/0x2e0 [c0000002f7933300] [c000000000935584] .mutex_lock_nested+0x64/0x5a0 [c0000002f7933410] [c00000000023084c] .perf_event_ctx_lock_nested+0x16c/0x380 [c0000002f7933500] [c000000000230a80] .perf_event_disable+0x20/0x60 [c0000002f7933580] [c00000000093aeec] .hw_breakpoint_handler+0x29c/0x2b0 [c0000002f7933630] [c0000000000f671c] .notifier_call_chain+0x7c/0xf0 [c0000002f79336d0] [c0000000000f6abc] .__atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xbc/0x1c0 [c0000002f7933780] [c0000000000f6c40] .notify_die+0x70/0xd0 [c0000002f7933820] [c00000000001a74c] .do_break+0x4c/0x100 [c0000002f7933920] [c0000000000089fc] handle_dabr_fault+0x14/0x48 While it looks like the first WARN() is probably valid, the other one is triggered by disabling event via perf_event_disable() from atomic context. The event is disabled here in case we were not able to emulate the instruction that hit the breakpoint. By disabling the event we unschedule the event and make sure it's not scheduled back. But we can't call perf_event_disable() from atomic context, instead we need to use the event's pending_disable irq_work method to disable it. Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161026094824.GA21397@krava Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Sep-2016 |
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
perf, bpf: add perf events core support for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT programs Allow attaching BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT programs to sw and hw perf events via overflow_handler mechanism. When program is attached the overflow_handlers become stacked. The program acts as a filter. Returning zero from the program means that the normal perf_event_output handler will not be called and sampling event won't be stored in the ring buffer. The overflow_handler_context==NULL is an additional safety check to make sure programs are not attached to hw breakpoints and watchdog in case other checks (that prevent that now anyway) get accidentally relaxed in the future. The program refcnt is incremented in case perf_events are inhereted when target task is forked. Similar to kprobe and tracepoint programs there is no ioctl to detach the program or swap already attached program. The user space expected to close(perf_event_fd) like it does right now for kprobe+bpf. That restriction simplifies the code quite a bit. The invocation of overflow_handler in __perf_event_overflow() is now done via READ_ONCE, since that pointer can be replaced when the program is attached while perf_event itself could have been active already. There is no need to do similar treatment for event->prog, since it's assigned only once before it's accessed. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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01-Sep-2016 |
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type Introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT programs that can be attached to HW and SW perf events (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE correspondingly in uapi/linux/perf_event.h) The program visible context meta structure is struct bpf_perf_event_data { struct pt_regs regs; __u64 sample_period; }; which is accessible directly from the program: int bpf_prog(struct bpf_perf_event_data *ctx) { ... ctx->sample_period ... ... ctx->regs.ip ... } The bpf verifier rewrites the accesses into kernel internal struct bpf_perf_event_data_kern which allows changing struct perf_sample_data without affecting bpf programs. New fields can be added to the end of struct bpf_perf_event_data in the future. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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17-Aug-2016 |
David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> |
perf/core: Introduce PMU_EV_CAP_READ_ACTIVE_PKG Introduce the flag PMU_EV_CAP_READ_ACTIVE_PKG, useful for uncore events, that allows a PMU to signal the generic perf code that an event is readable in the current CPU if the event is active in a CPU in the same package as the current CPU. This is an optimization that avoids a unnecessary IPI for the common case where uncore events are run and read in the same package but in different CPUs. As an example, the IPI removal speeds up perf_read() in my Haswell system as follows: - For event UNC_C_LLC_LOOKUP: From 260 us to 31 us. - For event RAPL's power/energy-cores/: From to 255 us to 27 us. For the optimization to work, all events in the group must have it (similarly to PERF_EV_CAP_SOFTWARE). Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471467307-61171-4-git-send-email-davidcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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17-Aug-2016 |
David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> |
perf/core: Generalize event->group_flags Currently, PERF_GROUP_SOFTWARE is used in the group_flags field of a group's leader to indicate that is_software_event(event) is true for all events in a group. This is the only usage of event->group_flags. This pattern of setting a group level flags when all events in the group share a property is useful for the flag introduced in the next patch and for future CQM/CMT flags. So this patches generalizes group_flags to work as an aggregate of event level flags. PERF_GROUP_SOFTWARE denotes an inmutable event's property. All other flags that I intend to add are also determinable at event initialization. To better convey the above, this patch renames event's group_flags to group_caps and PERF_GROUP_SOFTWARE to PERF_EV_CAP_SOFTWARE. Individual event flags are stored in the new event->event_caps. Since the cap flags do not change after event initialization, there is no need to serialize event_caps. This new field is used when events are added to a context, similarly to how PERF_GROUP_SOFTWARE and is_software_event() worked. Lastly, for consistency, updates is_software_event() to rely in event_cap instead of the context index. Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471467307-61171-3-git-send-email-davidcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-Jul-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf/core: Optimize perf_pmu_sched_task() For perf record -b, which requires the pmu::sched_task callback the current code is rather expensive: 7.68% sched-pipe [kernel.vmlinux] [k] perf_pmu_sched_task 5.95% sched-pipe [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __switch_to 5.20% sched-pipe [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __intel_pmu_disable_all 3.95% sched-pipe perf [.] worker_thread The problem is that it will iterate all registered PMUs, most of which will not have anything to do. Avoid this by keeping an explicit list of PMUs that have requested the callback. The perf_sched_cb_{inc,dec}() functions already takes the required pmu argument, and now that these functions are no longer called from NMI context we can use them to manage a list. With this patch applied the function doesn't show up in the top 4 anymore (it dropped to 18th place). 6.67% sched-pipe [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __switch_to 6.18% sched-pipe [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __intel_pmu_disable_all 3.92% sched-pipe [kernel.vmlinux] [k] switch_mm_irqs_off 3.71% sched-pipe perf [.] worker_thread Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Aug-2016 |
David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> |
perf/core: Set cgroup in CPU contexts for new cgroup events There's a perf stat bug easy to observer on a machine with only one cgroup: $ perf stat -e cycles -I 1000 -C 0 -G / # time counts unit events 1.000161699 <not counted> cycles / 2.000355591 <not counted> cycles / 3.000565154 <not counted> cycles / 4.000951350 <not counted> cycles / We'd expect some output there. The underlying problem is that there is an optimization in perf_cgroup_sched_{in,out}() that skips the switch of cgroup events if the old and new cgroups in a task switch are the same. This optimization interacts with the current code in two ways that cause a CPU context's cgroup (cpuctx->cgrp) to be NULL even if a cgroup event matches the current task. These are: 1. On creation of the first cgroup event in a CPU: In current code, cpuctx->cpu is only set in perf_cgroup_sched_in, but due to the aforesaid optimization, perf_cgroup_sched_in will run until the next cgroup switches in that CPU. This may happen late or never happen, depending on system's number of cgroups, CPU load, etc. 2. On deletion of the last cgroup event in a cpuctx: In list_del_event, cpuctx->cgrp is set NULL. Any new cgroup event will not be sched in because cpuctx->cgrp == NULL until a cgroup switch occurs and perf_cgroup_sched_in is executed (updating cpuctx->cgrp). This patch fixes both problems by setting cpuctx->cgrp in list_add_event, mirroring what list_del_event does when removing a cgroup event from CPU context, as introduced in: commit 68cacd29167b ("perf_events: Fix stale ->cgrp pointer in update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx()") With this patch, cpuctx->cgrp is always set/clear when installing/removing the first/last cgroup event in/from the CPU context. With cpuctx->cgrp correctly set, event_filter_match works as intended when events are sched in/out. After the fix, the output is as expected: $ perf stat -e cycles -I 1000 -a -G / # time counts unit events 1.004699159 627342882 cycles / 2.007397156 615272690 cycles / 3.010019057 616726074 cycles / Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470124092-113192-1-git-send-email-davidcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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21-Jul-2016 |
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> |
bpf, events: fix offset in skb copy handler This patch fixes the __output_custom() routine we currently use with bpf_skb_copy(). I missed that when len is larger than the size of the current handle, we can issue multiple invocations of copy_func, and __output_custom() advances destination but also source buffer by the written amount of bytes. When we have __output_custom(), this is actually wrong since in that case the source buffer points to a non-linear object, in our case an skb, which the copy_func helper is supposed to walk. Therefore, since this is non-linear we thus need to pass the offset into the helper, so that copy_func can use it for extracting the data from the source object. Therefore, adjust the callback signatures properly and pass offset into the skb_header_pointer() invoked from bpf_skb_copy() callback. The __DEFINE_OUTPUT_COPY_BODY() is adjusted to accommodate for two things: i) to pass in whether we should advance source buffer or not; this is a compile-time constant condition, ii) to pass in the offset for __output_custom(), which we do with help of __VA_ARGS__, so everything can stay inlined as is currently. Both changes allow for adapting the __output_* fast-path helpers w/o extra overhead. Fixes: 555c8a8623a3 ("bpf: avoid stack copy and use skb ctx for event output") Fixes: 7e3f977edd0b ("perf, events: add non-linear data support for raw records") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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14-Jul-2016 |
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> |
perf, events: add non-linear data support for raw records This patch adds support for non-linear data on raw records. It extends raw records to have one or multiple fragments that will be written linearly into the ring slot, where each fragment can optionally have a custom callback handler to walk and extract complex, possibly non-linear data. If a callback handler is provided for a fragment, then the new __output_custom() will be used instead of __output_copy() for the perf_output_sample() part. perf_prepare_sample() does all the size calculation only once, so perf_output_sample() doesn't need to redo the same work anymore, meaning real_size and padding will be cached in the raw record. The raw record becomes 32 bytes in size without holes; to not increase it further and to avoid doing unnecessary recalculations in fast-path, we can reuse next pointer of the last fragment, idea here is borrowed from ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(), which should keep the perf_output_sample() path for PERF_SAMPLE_RAW minimal. This facility is needed for BPF's event output helper as a first user that will, in a follow-up, add an additional perf_raw_frag to its perf_raw_record in order to be able to more efficiently dump skb context after a linear head meta data related to it. skbs can be non-linear and thus need a custom output function to dump buffers. Currently, the skb data needs to be copied twice; with the help of __output_custom() this work only needs to be done once. Future users could be things like XDP/BPF programs that work on different context though and would thus also have a different callback function. The few users of raw records are adapted to initialize their frag data from the raw record itself, no change in behavior for them. The code is based upon a PoC diff provided by Peter Zijlstra [1]. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/421294 Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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13-Jul-2016 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
perf/core: Remove perf CPU notifier code All users converted to state machine callbacks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160713153335.115333381@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-Jul-2016 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
perf/core: Convert to hotplug state machine Actually a nice symmetric startup/teardown pair which fits properly into the state machine concept. In the long run we should be able to invoke the startup callback for the boot CPU via the state machine and get rid of the init function which invokes it on the boot CPU. Note: This comes actually before the perf hardware callbacks. In the notifier model the hardware callbacks have a higher priority than the core callback. But that's solely for CPU offline so that hardware migration of events happens before the core is notified about the outgoing CPU. With the symetric state array model we have the following ordering: UP: core -> hardware DOWN: hardware -> core Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160713153333.587514098@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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19-May-2016 |
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> |
perf/x86: Support sysfs files depending on SMT status Add a way to show different sysfs events attributes depending on HyperThreading is on or off. This is difficult to determine early at boot, so we just do it dynamically when the sysfs attribute is read. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: jolsa@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463703002-19686-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Mar-2016 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> |
perf/core: Optimize side-band event delivery The perf_event_aux() function iterates all PMUs and all events in their respective per-CPU contexts to find the events to deliver side-band records to. For example, the brk test case in lkp triggers many mmap() operations, which, if we're also running perf, results in many perf_event_aux() invocations. If we enable uncore PMU support (even when uncore events are not used), dozens of uncore PMUs will be iterated, which can significantly decrease brk_test's throughput. For example, the brk throughput: without uncore PMUs: 2647573 ops_per_sec with uncore PMUs: 1768444 ops_per_sec ... a 33% reduction. To get at the per-CPU events that need side-band records, this patch puts these events on a per-CPU list, this avoids iterating the PMUs and any events that do not need side-band records. Per task events are unchanged to avoid extra overhead on the context switch paths. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reported-by: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458757477-3781-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-Apr-2016 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
perf core: Per event callchain limit Additionally to being able to control the system wide maximum depth via /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack, now we are able to ask for different depths per event, using perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack for that. This uses an u16 hole at the end of perf_event_attr, that, when perf_event_attr.sample_type has the PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN, if sample_max_stack is zero, means use perf_event_max_stack, otherwise it'll be bounds checked under callchain_mutex. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kolmn1yo40p7jhswxwrc7rrd@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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12-May-2016 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
perf core: Separate accounting of contexts and real addresses in a stack trace The perf_sample->ip_callchain->nr value includes all the entries in the ip_callchain->ip[] array, real addresses and PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc}, while what the user expects is that what is in the kernel.perf_event_max_stack sysctl or in the upcoming per event perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack knob be honoured in terms of IP addresses in the stack trace. So allocate a bunch of extra entries for contexts, and do the accounting via perf_callchain_entry_ctx struct members. A new sysctl, kernel.perf_event_max_contexts_per_stack is also introduced for investigating possible bugs in the callchain implementation by some arch. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3b4wnqk340c4sg4gwkfdi9yk@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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12-May-2016 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
perf core: Add perf_callchain_store_context() helper We need have different helpers to account how many contexts we have in the sample and for real addresses, so do it now as a prep patch, to ease review. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-q964tnyuqrxw5gld18vizs3c@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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10-May-2016 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
perf core: Add a 'nr' field to perf_event_callchain_context We will use it to count how many addresses are in the entry->ip[] array, excluding PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc} entries, so that we can really return the number of entries specified by the user via the relevant sysctl, kernel.perf_event_max_contexts, or via the per event perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack knob. This way we keep the perf_sample->ip_callchain->nr meaning, that is the number of entries, be it real addresses or PERF_CONTEXT_ entries, while honouring the max_stack knobs, i.e. the end result will be max_stack entries if we have at least that many entries in a given stack trace. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-s8teto51tdqvlfhefndtat9r@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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27-Apr-2016 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
perf core: Pass max stack as a perf_callchain_entry context This makes perf_callchain_{user,kernel}() receive the max stack as context for the perf_callchain_entry, instead of accessing the global sysctl_perf_event_max_stack. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kolmn1yo40p7jhswxwrc7rrd@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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26-Apr-2016 |
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> |
perf/arm: Special-case hetereogeneous CPUs Commit: 26657848502b7847 ("perf/core: Verify we have a single perf_hw_context PMU") forcefully prevents multiple PMUs from sharing perf_hw_context, as this generally doesn't make sense. It is a common bug for uncore PMUs to use perf_hw_context rather than perf_invalid_context, which this detects. However, systems exist with heterogeneous CPUs (and hence heterogeneous HW PMUs), for which sharing perf_hw_context is necessary, and possible in some limited cases. To make this work we have to perform some gymnastics, as we did in these commits: 66eb579e66ecfea5 ("perf: allow for PMU-specific event filtering") c904e32a69b7c779 ("arm: perf: filter unschedulable events") To allow those systems to work, we must allow PMUs for heterogeneous CPUs to share perf_hw_context, though we must still disallow sharing otherwise to detect the common misuse of perf_hw_context. This patch adds a new PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS for this, updates the core logic to account for this, and makes use of it in the arm_pmu code that is used for systems with heterogeneous CPUs. Comments are added to make the rationale clear and hopefully avoid accidental abuse. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160426103346.GA20836@leverpostej Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Apr-2016 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Introduce address range filtering Many instruction tracing PMUs out there support address range-based filtering, which would, for example, generate trace data only for a given range of instruction addresses, which is useful for tracing individual functions, modules or libraries. Other PMUs may also utilize this functionality to allow filtering to or filtering out code at certain address ranges. This patch introduces the interface for userspace to specify these filters and for the PMU drivers to apply these filters to hardware configuration. The user interface is an ASCII string that is passed via an ioctl() and specifies (in the form of an ASCII string) address ranges within certain object files or within kernel. There is no special treatment for kernel modules yet, but it might be a worthy pursuit. The PMU driver interface basically adds two extra callbacks to the PMU driver structure, one of which validates the filter configuration proposed by the user against what the hardware is actually capable of doing and the other one translates hardware-independent filter configuration into something that can be programmed into the hardware. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461771888-10409-6-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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20-Apr-2016 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctl The default remains 127, which is good for most cases, and not even hit most of the time, but then for some cases, as reported by Brendan, 1024+ deep frames are appearing on the radar for things like groovy, ruby. And in some workloads putting a _lower_ cap on this may make sense. One that is per event still needs to be put in place tho. The new file is: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack 127 Chaging it: # echo 256 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack 256 But as soon as there is some event using callchains we get: # echo 512 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy # Because we only allocate the callchain percpu data structures when there is a user, which allows for changing the max easily, its just a matter of having no callchain users at that point. Reported-and-Tested-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160426002928.GB16708@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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05-Apr-2016 |
Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> |
perf/core: Add ::write_backward attribute to perf event This patch introduces 'write_backward' bit to perf_event_attr, which controls the direction of a ring buffer. After set, the corresponding ring buffer is written from end to beginning. This feature is design to support reading from overwritable ring buffer. Ring buffer can be created by mapping a perf event fd. Kernel puts event records into ring buffer, user tooling like perf fetch them from address returned by mmap(). To prevent racing between kernel and tooling, they communicate to each other through 'head' and 'tail' pointers. Kernel maintains 'head' pointer, points it to the next free area (tail of the last record). Tooling maintains 'tail' pointer, points it to the tail of last consumed record (record has already been fetched). Kernel determines the available space in a ring buffer using these two pointers to avoid overwrite unfetched records. By mapping without 'PROT_WRITE', an overwritable ring buffer is created. Different from normal ring buffer, tooling is unable to maintain 'tail' pointer because writing is forbidden. Therefore, for this type of ring buffers, kernel overwrite old records unconditionally, works like flight recorder. This feature would be useful if reading from overwritable ring buffer were as easy as reading from normal ring buffer. However, there's an obscure problem. The following figure demonstrates a full overwritable ring buffer. In this figure, the 'head' pointer points to the end of last record, and a long record 'E' is pending. For a normal ring buffer, a 'tail' pointer would have pointed to position (X), so kernel knows there's no more space in the ring buffer. However, for an overwritable ring buffer, kernel ignore the 'tail' pointer. (X) head . | . V +------+-------+----------+------+---+ |A....A|B.....B|C........C|D....D| | +------+-------+----------+------+---+ Record 'A' is overwritten by event 'E': head | V +--+---+-------+----------+------+---+ |.E|..A|B.....B|C........C|D....D|E..| +--+---+-------+----------+------+---+ Now tooling decides to read from this ring buffer. However, none of these two natural positions, 'head' and the start of this ring buffer, are pointing to the head of a record. Even the full ring buffer can be accessed by tooling, it is unable to find a position to start decoding. The first attempt tries to solve this problem AFAIK can be found from [1]. It makes kernel to maintain 'tail' pointer: updates it when ring buffer is half full. However, this approach introduces overhead to fast path. Test result shows a 1% overhead [2]. In addition, this method utilizes no more tham 50% records. Another attempt can be found from [3], which allows putting the size of an event at the end of each record. This approach allows tooling to find records in a backward manner from 'head' pointer by reading size of a record from its tail. However, because of alignment requirement, it needs 8 bytes to record the size of a record, which is a huge waste. Its performance is also not good, because more data need to be written. This approach also introduces some extra branch instructions to fast path. 'write_backward' is a better solution to this problem. Following figure demonstrates the state of the overwritable ring buffer when 'write_backward' is set before overwriting: head | V +---+------+----------+-------+------+ | |D....D|C........C|B.....B|A....A| +---+------+----------+-------+------+ and after overwriting: head | V +---+------+----------+-------+---+--+ |..E|D....D|C........C|B.....B|A..|E.| +---+------+----------+-------+---+--+ In each situation, 'head' points to the beginning of the newest record. From this record, tooling can iterate over the full ring buffer and fetch records one by one. The only limitation that needs to be considered is back-to-back reading. Due to the non-deterministic of user programs, it is impossible to ensure the ring buffer keeps stable during reading. Consider an extreme situation: tooling is scheduled out after reading record 'D', then a burst of events come, eat up the whole ring buffer (one or multiple rounds). When the tooling process comes back, reading after 'D' is incorrect now. To prevent this problem, we need to find a way to ensure the ring buffer is stable during reading. ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT) is suggested because its overhead is lower than ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE). By carefully verifying 'header' pointer, reader can avoid pausing the ring-buffer. For example: /* A union of all possible events */ union perf_event event; p = head = perf_mmap__read_head(); while (true) { /* copy header of next event */ fetch(&event.header, p, sizeof(event.header)); /* read 'head' pointer */ head = perf_mmap__read_head(); /* check overwritten: is the header good? */ if (!verify(sizeof(event.header), p, head)) break; /* copy the whole event */ fetch(&event, p, event.header.size); /* read 'head' pointer again */ head = perf_mmap__read_head(); /* is the whole event good? */ if (!verify(event.header.size, p, head)) break; p += event.header.size; } However, the overhead is high because: a) In-place decoding is not safe. Copying-verifying-decoding is required. b) Fetching 'head' pointer requires additional synchronization. (From Alexei Starovoitov: Even when this trick works, pause is needed for more than stability of reading. When we collect the events into overwrite buffer we're waiting for some other trigger (like all cpu utilization spike or just one cpu running and all others are idle) and when it happens the buffer has valuable info from the past. At this point new events are no longer interesting and buffer should be paused, events read and unpaused until next trigger comes.) This patch utilizes event's default overflow_handler introduced previously. perf_event_output_backward() is created as the default overflow handler for backward ring buffers. To avoid extra overhead to fast path, original perf_event_output() becomes __perf_event_output() and marked '__always_inline'. In theory, there's no extra overhead introduced to fast path. Performance testing: Calling 3000000 times of 'close(-1)', use gettimeofday() to check duration. Use 'perf record -o /dev/null -e raw_syscalls:*' to capture system calls. In ns. Testing environment: CPU : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz Kernel : v4.5.0 MEAN STDVAR BASE 800214.950 2853.083 PRE1 2253846.700 9997.014 PRE2 2257495.540 8516.293 POST 2250896.100 8933.921 Where 'BASE' is pure performance without capturing. 'PRE1' is test result of pure 'v4.5.0' kernel. 'PRE2' is test result before this patch. 'POST' is test result after this patch. See [4] for the detailed experimental setup. Considering the stdvar, this patch doesn't introduce performance overhead to the fast path. [1] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1304.1/04584.html [2] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1307.1/00535.html [3] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1512.0/01265.html [4] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/56F89DCD.1040202@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: <acme@kernel.org> Cc: <pi3orama@163.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459865478-53413-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com [ Fixed the changelog some more. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-Apr-2016 |
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
perf: split perf_trace_buf_prepare into alloc and update parts split allows to move expensive update of 'struct trace_entry' to later phase. Repurpose unused 1st argument of perf_tp_event() to indicate event type. While splitting use temp variable 'rctx' instead of '*rctx' to avoid unnecessary loads done by the compiler due to -fno-strict-aliasing Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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06-Apr-2016 |
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
perf: optimize perf_fetch_caller_regs avoid memset in perf_fetch_caller_regs, since it's the critical path of all tracepoints. It's called from perf_sw_event_sched, perf_event_task_sched_in and all of perf_trace_##call with this_cpu_ptr(&__perf_regs[..]) which are zero initialized by perpcu init logic and subsequent call to perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs initializes the same fields on all archs, so we can safely drop memset from all of the above cases and move it into perf_ftrace_function_call that calls it with stack allocated pt_regs. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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28-Mar-2016 |
Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> |
perf/core: Set event's default ::overflow_handler() Set a default event->overflow_handler in perf_event_alloc() so don't need to check event->overflow_handler in __perf_event_overflow(). Following commits can give a different default overflow_handler. Initial idea comes from Peter: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130708121557.GA17211@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Since the default value of event->overflow_handler is not NULL, existing 'if (!overflow_handler)' checks need to be changed. is_default_overflow_handler() is introduced for this. No extra performance overhead is introduced into the hot path because in the original code we still need to read this handler from memory. A conditional branch is avoided so actually we remove some instructions. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <pi3orama@163.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459147292-239310-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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08-Mar-2016 |
Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> |
perf/x86/amd/power: Add AMD accumulated power reporting mechanism Introduce an AMD accumlated power reporting mechanism for the Family 15h, Model 60h processor that can be used to calculate the average power consumed by a processor during a measurement interval. The feature support is indicated by CPUID Fn8000_0007_EDX[12]. This feature will be implemented both in hwmon and perf. The current design provides one event to report per package/processor power consumption by counting each compute unit power value. Here the gory details of how the computation is done: * Tsample: compute unit power accumulator sample period * Tref: the PTSC counter period (PTSC: performance timestamp counter) * N: the ratio of compute unit power accumulator sample period to the PTSC period * Jmax: max compute unit accumulated power which is indicated by MSR_C001007b[MaxCpuSwPwrAcc] * Jx/Jy: compute unit accumulated power which is indicated by MSR_C001007a[CpuSwPwrAcc] * Tx/Ty: the value of performance timestamp counter which is indicated by CU_PTSC MSR_C0010280[PTSC] * PwrCPUave: CPU average power i. Determine the ratio of Tsample to Tref by executing CPUID Fn8000_0007. N = value of CPUID Fn8000_0007_ECX[CpuPwrSampleTimeRatio[15:0]]. ii. Read the full range of the cumulative energy value from the new MSR MaxCpuSwPwrAcc. Jmax = value returned. iii. At time x, software reads CpuSwPwrAcc and samples the PTSC. Jx = value read from CpuSwPwrAcc and Tx = value read from PTSC. iv. At time y, software reads CpuSwPwrAcc and samples the PTSC. Jy = value read from CpuSwPwrAcc and Ty = value read from PTSC. v. Calculate the average power consumption for a compute unit over time period (y-x). Unit of result is uWatt: if (Jy < Jx) // Rollover has occurred Jdelta = (Jy + Jmax) - Jx else Jdelta = Jy - Jx PwrCPUave = N * Jdelta * 1000 / (Ty - Tx) Simple example: root@hr-zp:/home/ray/tip# ./tools/perf/perf stat -a -e 'power/power-pkg/' make -j4 CHK include/config/kernel.release CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h CHK include/generated/timeconst.h CHK include/generated/bounds.h CHK include/generated/asm-offsets.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/generated/compile.h SKIPPED include/generated/compile.h Building modules, stage 2. Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#40) MODPOST 4225 modules Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 183.44 mWatts power/power-pkg/ 341.837270111 seconds time elapsed root@hr-zp:/home/ray/tip# ./tools/perf/perf stat -a -e 'power/power-pkg/' sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 0.18 mWatts power/power-pkg/ 10.012551815 seconds time elapsed Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: jacob.w.shin@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457502306-2559-1-git-send-email-ray.huang@amd.com [ Fixed the modular build. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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10-Mar-2016 |
Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> |
perf/x86/cqm: Fix CQM handling of grouping events into a cache_group Currently CQM (cache quality of service monitoring) is grouping all events belonging to same PID to use one RMID. However its not counting all of these different events. Hence we end up with a count of zero for all events other than the group leader. The patch tries to address the issue by keeping a flag in the perf_event.hw which has other CQM related fields. The field is updated at event creation and during grouping. Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> [peterz: Changed hw_perf_event::is_group_event to an int] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: h.peter.anvin@intel.com Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457652732-4499-2-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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16-Jul-2015 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Migrate perf to use new tick dependency mask model Instead of providing asynchronous checks for the nohz subsystem to verify perf event tick dependency, migrate perf to the new mask. Perf needs the tick for two situations: 1) Freq events. We could set the tick dependency when those are installed on a CPU context. But setting a global dependency on top of the global freq events accounting is much easier. If people want that to be optimized, we can still refine that on the per-CPU tick dependency level. This patch dooesn't change the current behaviour anyway. 2) Throttled events: this is a per-cpu dependency. Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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22-Feb-2016 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
perf: Allow storage of PMU private data in event For PMUs which are not per CPU, but e.g. per package/socket, we want to be able to store a reference to the underlying per package/socket facility in the event at init time so we can avoid magic storage constructs in the PMU driver. This allows us to get rid of the per CPU dance in the intel uncore and RAPL drivers and avoids a lookup of the per package data in the perf hotpath. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Harish Chegondi <harish.chegondi@intel.com> Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160222221011.364140369@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-Feb-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix race between event install and jump_labels perf_install_in_context() relies upon the context switch hooks to have scheduled in events when the IPI misses its target -- after all, if the task has moved from the CPU (or wasn't running at all), it will have to context switch to run elsewhere. This however doesn't appear to be happening. It is possible for the IPI to not happen (task wasn't running) only to later observe the task running with an inactive context. The only possible explanation is that the context switch hooks are not called. Therefore put in a sync_sched() after toggling the jump_label to guarantee all CPUs will have them enabled before we install an event. A simple if (0->1) sync_sched() will not in fact work, because any further increment can race and complete before the sync_sched(). Therefore we must jump through some hoops. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dvyukov@google.com Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: panand@redhat.com Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174947.980211985@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-Feb-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix cloning Alexander reported that when the 'original' context gets destroyed, no new clones happen. This can happen irrespective of the ctx switch optimization, any task can die, even the parent, and we want to continue monitoring the task hierarchy until we either close the event or no tasks are left in the hierarchy. perf_event_init_context() will attempt to pin the 'parent' context during clone(). At that point current is the parent, and since current cannot have exited while executing clone(), its context cannot have passed through perf_event_exit_task_context(). Therefore perf_pin_task_context() cannot observe ctx->task == TASK_TOMBSTONE. However, since inherit_event() does: if (parent_event->parent) parent_event = parent_event->parent; it looks at the 'original' event when it does: is_orphaned_event(). This can return true if the context that contains the this event has passed through perf_event_exit_task_context(). And thus we'll fail to clone the perf context. Fix this by adding a new state: STATE_DEAD, which is set by perf_release() to indicate that the filedesc (or kernel reference) is dead and there are no observers for our data left. Only for STATE_DEAD will is_orphaned_event() be true and inhibit cloning. STATE_EXIT is otherwise preserved such that is_event_hup() remains functional and will report when the observed task hierarchy becomes empty. Reported-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dvyukov@google.com Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: panand@redhat.com Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com Cc: vince@deater.net Fixes: c6e5b73242d2 ("perf: Synchronously clean up child events") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174947.919845295@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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17-Feb-2016 |
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
perf: generalize perf_callchain . avoid walking the stack when there is no room left in the buffer . generalize get_perf_callchain() to be called from bpf helper Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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15-Jan-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Synchronously clean up child events The orphan cleanup workqueue doesn't always catch orphans, for example, if they never schedule after they are orphaned. IOW, the event leak is still very real. It also wouldn't work for kernel counters. Doing it synchonously is a little hairy due to lock inversion issues, but is made to work. Patch based on work by Alexander Shishkin. Suggested-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: vince@deater.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Jan-2016 |
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
perf/bpf: Convert perf_event_array to use struct file Robustify refcounting. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160126045947.GA40151@ast-mbp.thefacebook.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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11-Jan-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Collapse and fix event_function_call() users There is one common bug left in all the event_function_call() users, between loading ctx->task and getting to the remote_function(), ctx->task can already have been changed. Therefore we need to double check and retry if ctx->task != current. Insert another trampoline specific to event_function_call() that checks for this and further validates state. This also allows getting rid of the active/inactive functions. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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12-Nov-2015 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf/core: Robustify the perf_cgroup_from_task() RCU checks This patch reinforces the lockdep checks performed by perf_cgroup_from_tsk() by passing the perf_event_context whenever possible. It is okay to not hold the RCU read lock when we know we hold the ctx->lock. This patch makes sure this property holds. In some functions, such as perf_cgroup_sched_in(), we do not pass the context because we are sure we are holding the RCU read lock. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: edumazet@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447322404-10920-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Sep-2015 |
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
perf/core: Drop PERF_EVENT_TXN We currently use PERF_EVENT_TXN flag to determine if we are in the middle of a transaction. If in a transaction, we defer the schedulability checks from pmu->add() operation to the pmu->commit() operation. Now that we have "transaction types" (PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD, PERF_PMU_TXN_READ) we can use the type to determine if we are in a transaction and drop the PERF_EVENT_TXN flag. When PERF_EVENT_TXN is dropped, the cpuhw->group_flag on some architectures becomes unused, so drop that field as well. This is an extension of the Powerpc patch from Peter Zijlstra to s390, Sparc and x86 architectures. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441336073-22750-11-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Sep-2015 |
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
perf/core: Define PERF_PMU_TXN_READ interface Define a new PERF_PMU_TXN_READ interface to read a group of counters at once. pmu->start_txn() // Initialize before first event for each event in group pmu->read(event); // Queue each event to be read rc = pmu->commit_txn() // Read/update all queued counters Note that we use this interface with all PMUs. PMUs that implement this interface use the ->read() operation to _queue_ the counters to be read and use ->commit_txn() to actually read all the queued counters at once. PMUs that don't implement PERF_PMU_TXN_READ ignore ->start_txn() and ->commit_txn() and continue to read counters one at a time. Thanks to input from Peter Zijlstra. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441336073-22750-9-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Sep-2015 |
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
perf/core: Add a 'flags' parameter to the PMU transactional interfaces Currently, the PMU interface allows reading only one counter at a time. But some PMUs like the 24x7 counters in Power, support reading several counters at once. To leveage this functionality, extend the transaction interface to support a "transaction type". The first type, PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD, refers to the existing transactions, i.e. used to _schedule_ all the events on the PMU as a group. A second transaction type, PERF_PMU_TXN_READ, will be used in a follow-on patch, by the 24x7 counters to read several counters at once. Extend the transaction interfaces to the PMU to accept a 'txn_flags' parameter and use this parameter to ignore any transactions that are not of type PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for his input. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [peterz: s390 compile fix] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441336073-22750-3-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-Aug-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf/abi: Document some more aspects of the perf ABI Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-Aug-2015 |
Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com> |
perf: add the necessary core perf APIs when accessing events counters in eBPF programs This patch add three core perf APIs: - perf_event_attrs(): export the struct perf_event_attr from struct perf_event; - perf_event_get(): get the struct perf_event from the given fd; - perf_event_read_local(): read the events counters active on the current CPU; These APIs are needed when accessing events counters in eBPF programs. The API perf_event_read_local() comes from Peter and I add the corresponding SOB. Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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10-May-2015 |
Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> |
perf/x86/intel: Introduce PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES After enlarging the PEBS interrupt threshold, there may be some mixed up PEBS samples which are discarded by the kernel. This patch makes the kernel emit a PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES record with the number of possible discarded records when it is impossible to demux the samples. It makes sure the user is not left in the dark about such discards. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: eranian@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431285195-14269-8-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-May-2015 |
Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> |
perf/x86/intel: Handle multiple records in the PEBS buffer When the PEBS interrupt threshold is larger than one record and the machine supports multiple PEBS events, the records of these events are mixed up and we need to demultiplex them. Demuxing the records is hard because the hardware is deficient. The hardware has two issues that, when combined, create impossible scenarios to demux. The first issue is that the 'status' field of the PEBS record is a copy of the GLOBAL_STATUS MSR at PEBS assist time. To see why this is a problem let us first describe the regular PEBS cycle: A) the CTRn value reaches 0: - the corresponding bit in GLOBAL_STATUS gets set - we start arming the hardware assist < some unspecified amount of time later -- this could cover multiple events of interest > B) the hardware assist is armed, any next event will trigger it C) a matching event happens: - the hardware assist triggers and generates a PEBS record this includes a copy of GLOBAL_STATUS at this moment - if we auto-reload we (re)set CTRn - we clear the relevant bit in GLOBAL_STATUS Now consider the following chain of events: A0, B0, A1, C0 The event generated for counter 0 will include a status with counter 1 set, even though its not at all related to the record. A similar thing can happen with a !PEBS event if it just happens to overflow at the right moment. The second issue is that the hardware will only emit one record for two or more counters if the event that triggers the assist is 'close'. The 'close' can be several cycles. In some cases even the complete assist, if the event is something that doesn't need retirement. For instance, consider this chain of events: A0, B0, A1, B1, C01 Where C01 is an event that triggers both hardware assists, we will generate but a single record, but again with both counters listed in the status field. This time the record pertains to both events. Note that these two cases are different but undistinguishable with the data as generated. Therefore demuxing records with multiple PEBS bits (we can safely ignore status bits for !PEBS counters) is impossible. Furthermore we cannot emit the record to both events because that might cause a data leak -- the events might not have the same privileges -- so what this patch does is discard such events. The assumption/hope is that such discards will be rare. Here lists some possible ways you may get high discard rate. - when you count the same thing multiple times. But it is not a useful configuration. - you can be unfortunate if you measure with a userspace only PEBS event along with either a kernel or unrestricted PEBS event. Imagine the event triggering and setting the overflow flag right before entering the kernel. Then all kernel side events will end up with multiple bits set. Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> [ Changelog improvements. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: eranian@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430940834-8964-4-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-May-2015 |
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> |
perf: allow for PMU-specific event filtering In certain circumstances it may not be possible to schedule particular events due to constraints other than a lack of hardware counters (e.g. on big.LITTLE systems where CPUs support different events). The core perf event code does not distinguish these cases and pessimistically assumes that any failure to schedule an event means that it is not worth attempting to schedule later events, even if some hardware counters are still unused. When an event a pmu cannot schedule exists in a flexible group list it can unnecessarily prevent event groups following it in the list from being scheduled (until it is rotated to the end of the list). This means some events are scheduled for only a portion of the time they could be, and for short running programs no events may be scheduled if the list is initially sorted in an unfortunate order. This patch adds a new (optional) filter_match function pointer to struct pmu which a pmu driver can use to tell perf core when an event matches pmu-specific scheduling requirements. This plugs into the existing event_filter_match logic, and makes it possible to avoid the scheduling problem described above. When no filter is provided by the PMU, the existing behaviour is retained. Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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18-May-2015 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
perf/x86/intel/cqm: Use proper data types 'int' is really not a proper data type for an MSR. Use u32 to make it clear that we are dealing with a 32-bit unsigned hardware value. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: Kanaka Juvva <kanaka.d.juvva@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Will Auld <will.auld@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150518235149.919350144@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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21-May-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf/x86: Fix event/group validation Commit 43b4578071c0 ("perf/x86: Reduce stack usage of x86_schedule_events()") violated the rule that 'fake' scheduling; as used for event/group validation; should not change the event state. This went mostly un-noticed because repeated calls of x86_pmu::get_event_constraints() would give the same result. And x86_pmu::put_event_constraints() would mostly not do anything. Commit e979121b1b15 ("perf/x86/intel: Implement cross-HT corruption bug workaround") made the situation much worse by actually setting the event->hw.constraint value to NULL, so when validation and actual scheduling interact we get NULL ptr derefs. Fix it by removing the constraint pointer from the event and move it back to an array, this time in cpuc instead of on the stack. validate_group() x86_schedule_events() event->hw.constraint = c; # store <context switch> perf_task_event_sched_in() ... x86_schedule_events(); event->hw.constraint = c2; # store ... put_event_constraints(event); # assume failure to schedule intel_put_event_constraints() event->hw.constraint = NULL; <context switch end> c = event->hw.constraint; # read -> NULL if (!test_bit(hwc->idx, c->idxmsk)) # <- *BOOM* NULL deref This in particular is possible when the event in question is a cpu-wide event and group-leader, where the validate_group() tries to add an event to the group. Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Maria Dimakopoulou <maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 43b4578071c0 ("perf/x86: Reduce stack usage of x86_schedule_events()") Fixes: e979121b1b15 ("perf/x86/intel: Implement cross-HT corruption bug workaround") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-May-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched,perf: Fix periodic timers In the below two commits (see Fixes) we have periodic timers that can stop themselves when they're no longer required, but need to be (re)-started when their idle condition changes. Further complications is that we want the timer handler to always do the forward such that it will always correctly deal with the overruns, and we do not want to race such that the handler has already decided to stop, but the (external) restart sees the timer still active and we end up with a 'lost' timer. The problem with the current code is that the re-start can come before the callback does the forward, at which point the forward from the callback will WARN about forwarding an enqueued timer. Now, conceptually its easy to detect if you're before or after the fwd by comparing the expiration time against the current time. Of course, that's expensive (and racy) because we don't have the current time. Alternatively one could cache this state inside the timer, but then everybody pays the overhead of maintaining this extra state, and that is undesired. The only other option that I could see is the external timer_active variable, which I tried to kill before. I would love a nicer interface for this seemingly simple 'problem' but alas. Fixes: 272325c4821f ("perf: Fix mux_interval hrtimer wreckage") Fixes: 77a4d1a1b9a1 ("sched: Cleanup bandwidth timers") Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: klamm@yandex-team.ru Cc: mingo@kernel.org Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150514102311.GX21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
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05-May-2015 |
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
tracing: Rename ftrace_event_{call,class} to trace_event_{call,class} The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It is not about the trace_events. The structures ftrace_event_call and ftrace_event_class have nothing to do with the function hooks, and are really trace_event structures. Rename ftrace_event_* to trace_event_*. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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17-Apr-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix software migrate events Stephane asked about PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS and I realized it was borken: > The problem is that the task isn't actually scheduled while its being > migrated (obviously), and if its not scheduled, the counters aren't > scheduled either, so there's no observing of the fact. > > A further problem with migrations is that many migrations happen from > softirq context, which is nested inside the 'random' task context of > whoemever happens to run at that time, similarly for the wakeup > migrations triggered from (soft)irq context. All those end up being > accounted in the task that's currently running, eg. your 'ls'. The below cures this by marking a task as migrated and accounting it on the subsequent sched_in(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Jan-2015 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Add ITRACE_START record to indicate that tracing has started For counters that generate AUX data that is bound to the context of a running task, such as instruction tracing, the decoder needs to know exactly which task is running when the event is first scheduled in, before the first sched_switch. The decoder's need to know this stems from the fact that instruction flow trace decoding will almost always require program's object code in order to reconstruct said flow and for that we need at least its pid/tid in the perf stream. To single out such instruction tracing pmus, this patch introduces ITRACE PMU capability. The reason this is not part of RECORD_AUX record is that not all pmus capable of generating AUX data need this, and the opposite is *probably* also true. While sched_switch covers for most cases, there are two problems with it: the consumer will need to process events out of order (that is, having found RECORD_AUX, it will have to skip forward to the nearest sched_switch to figure out which task it was, then go back to the actual trace to decode it) and it completely misses the case when the tracing is enabled and disabled before sched_switch, for example, via PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-15-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Jan-2015 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Add API for PMUs to write to the AUX area For pmus that wish to write data to ring buffer's AUX area, provide perf_aux_output_{begin,end}() calls to initiate/commit data writes, similarly to perf_output_{begin,end}. These also use the same output handle structure. Also, similarly to software counterparts, these will direct inherited events' output to parents' ring buffers. After the perf_aux_output_begin() returns successfully, handle->size is set to the maximum amount of data that can be written wrt aux_tail pointer, so that no data that the user hasn't seen will be overwritten, therefore this should always be called before hardware writing is enabled. On success, this will return the pointer to pmu driver's private structure allocated for this aux area by pmu::setup_aux. Same pointer can also be retrieved using perf_get_aux() while hardware writing is enabled. PMU driver should pass the actual amount of data written as a parameter to perf_aux_output_end(). All hardware writes should be completed and visible before this one is called. Additionally, perf_aux_output_skip() will adjust output handle and aux_head in case some part of the buffer has to be skipped over to maintain hardware's alignment constraints. Nested writers are forbidden and guards are in place to catch such attempts. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-8-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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29-Jan-2015 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Add a pmu capability for "exclusive" events Usually, pmus that do, for example, instruction tracing, would only ever be able to have one event per task per cpu (or per perf_event_context). For such pmus it makes sense to disallow creating conflicting events early on, so as to provide consistent behavior for the user. This patch adds a pmu capability that indicates such constraint on event creation. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422613866-113186-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Jan-2015 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Add a capability for AUX_NO_SG pmus to do software double buffering For pmus that don't support scatter-gather for AUX data in hardware, it might still make sense to implement software double buffering to avoid losing data while the user is reading data out. For this purpose, add a pmu capability that guarantees multiple high-order chunks for AUX buffer, so that the pmu driver can do switchover tricks. To make use of this feature, add PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_SW_DOUBLEBUF to your pmu's capability mask. This will make the ring buffer AUX allocation code ensure that the biggest high order allocation for the aux buffer pages is no bigger than half of the total requested buffer size, thus making sure that the buffer has at least two high order allocations. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-5-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Jan-2015 |
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Support high-order allocations for AUX space Some pmus (such as BTS or Intel PT without multiple-entry ToPA capability) don't support scatter-gather and will prefer larger contiguous areas for their output regions. This patch adds a new pmu capability to request higher order allocations. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-4-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Jan-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Add AUX area to ring buffer for raw data streams This patch introduces "AUX space" in the perf mmap buffer, intended for exporting high bandwidth data streams to userspace, such as instruction flow traces. AUX space is a ring buffer, defined by aux_{offset,size} fields in the user_page structure, and read/write pointers aux_{head,tail}, which abide by the same rules as data_* counterparts of the main perf buffer. In order to allocate/mmap AUX, userspace needs to set up aux_offset to such an offset that will be greater than data_offset+data_size and aux_size to be the desired buffer size. Both need to be page aligned. Then, same aux_offset and aux_size should be passed to mmap() call and if everything adds up, you should have an AUX buffer as a result. Pages that are mapped into this buffer also come out of user's mlock rlimit plus perf_event_mlock_kb allowance. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-3-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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20-Feb-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Add per event clockid support While thinking on the whole clock discussion it occurred to me we have two distinct uses of time: 1) the tracking of event/ctx/cgroup enabled/running/stopped times which includes the self-monitoring support in struct perf_event_mmap_page. 2) the actual timestamps visible in the data records. And we've been conflating them. The first is all about tracking time deltas, nobody should really care in what time base that happens, its all relative information, as long as its internally consistent it works. The second however is what people are worried about when having to merge their data with external sources. And here we have the discussion on MONOTONIC vs MONOTONIC_RAW etc.. Where MONOTONIC is good for correlating between machines (static offset), MONOTNIC_RAW is required for correlating against a fixed rate hardware clock. This means configurability; now 1) makes that hard because it needs to be internally consistent across groups of unrelated events; which is why we had to have a global perf_clock(). However, for 2) it doesn't really matter, perf itself doesn't care what it writes into the buffer. The below patch makes the distinction between these two cases by adding perf_event_clock() which is used for the second case. It further makes this configurable on a per-event basis, but adds a few sanity checks such that we cannot combine events with different clocks in confusing ways. And since we then have per-event configurability we might as well retain the 'legacy' behaviour as a default. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Mar-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Remove type specific target pointers The only reason CQM had to use a hard-coded pmu type was so it could use cqm_target in hw_perf_event. Do away with the {tp,bp,cqm}_target pointers and provide a non type specific one. This allows us to do away with that silly pmu type as well. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: kanaka.d.juvva@intel.com Cc: matt.fleming@intel.com Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150305211019.GU21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Jan-2015 |
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> |
perf/x86/intel: Support task events with Intel CQM Add support for task events as well as system-wide events. This change has a big impact on the way that we gather LLC occupancy values in intel_cqm_event_read(). Currently, for system-wide (per-cpu) events we defer processing to userspace which knows how to discard all but one cpu result per package. Things aren't so simple for task events because we need to do the value aggregation ourselves. To do this, we defer updating the LLC occupancy value in event->count from intel_cqm_event_read() and do an SMP cross-call to read values for all packages in intel_cqm_event_count(). We need to ensure that we only do this for one task event per cache group, otherwise we'll report duplicate values. If we're a system-wide event we want to fallback to the default perf_event_count() implementation. Refactor this into a common function so that we don't duplicate the code. Also, introduce PERF_TYPE_INTEL_CQM, since we need a way to track an event's task (if the event isn't per-cpu) inside of the Intel CQM PMU driver. This task information is only availble in the upper layers of the perf infrastructure. Other perf backends stash the target task in event->hw.*target so we need to do something similar. The task is used to determine whether events should share a cache group and an RMID. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kanaka Juvva <kanaka.d.juvva@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422038748-21397-8-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Jan-2015 |
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> |
perf/x86/intel: Add Intel Cache QoS Monitoring support Future Intel Xeon processors support a Cache QoS Monitoring feature that allows tracking of the LLC occupancy for a task or task group, i.e. the amount of data in pulled into the LLC for the task (group). Currently the PMU only supports per-cpu events. We create an event for each cpu and read out all the LLC occupancy values. Because this results in duplicate values being written out to userspace, we also export a .per-pkg event file so that the perf tools only accumulate values for one cpu per package. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kanaka Juvva <kanaka.d.juvva@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422038748-21397-6-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Jan-2015 |
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> |
perf: Add ->count() function to read per-package counters For PMU drivers that record per-package counters, the ->count variable cannot be used to record an accurate aggregated value, since it's not possible to perform SMP cross-calls to cpus on other packages from the context in which we update ->count. Introduce a new optional ->count() accessor function that can be used to customize how values are collected. If a PMU driver doesn't provide a ->count() function, we fallback to the existing code. There is necessarily a window of staleness with this approach because the task that generated the counter value may not have been scheduled by the cpu recently. An alternative and more complex approach would be to use a hrtimer to periodically refresh the values from a more permissive scheduling context. So, we're trading off complexity for accuracy. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kanaka Juvva <kanaka.d.juvva@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422038748-21397-3-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Jan-2015 |
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> |
perf: Make perf_cgroup_from_task() global Move perf_cgroup_from_task() from kernel/events/ to include/linux/ along with the necessary struct definitions, so that it can be used by the PMU code. When the upcoming Intel Cache Monitoring PMU driver assigns monitoring IDs to perf events, it needs to be able to check whether any two monitoring events overlap (say, a cgroup and task event), which means we need to be able to lookup the cgroup associated with a task (if any). Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kanaka Juvva <kanaka.d.juvva@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422038748-21397-2-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Jan-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf, powerpc: Fix up flush_branch_stack() users The recent LBR rework for x86 left a stray flush_branch_stack() user in the PowerPC code, fix that up. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Nov-2014 |
Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> |
perf: Simplify the branch stack check Use event->attr.branch_sample_type to replace intel_pmu_needs_lbr_smpl() for avoiding duplicated code that implicitly enables the LBR. Currently, branch stack can be enabled by user explicitly requesting branch sampling or implicit branch sampling to correct PEBS skid. For user explicitly requested branch sampling, the branch_sample_type is explicitly set by user. For PEBS case, the branch_sample_type is also implicitly set to PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY in x86_pmu_hw_config. Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-11-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Nov-2014 |
Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> |
perf: Add pmu specific data for perf task context Introduce a new flag PERF_ATTACH_TASK_DATA for perf event's attach stata. The flag is set by PMU's event_init() callback, it indicates that perf event needs PMU specific data. The PMU specific data are initialized to zeros. Later patches will use PMU specific data to save LBR stack. Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-6-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Nov-2014 |
Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> |
perf/x86/intel: Use context switch callback to flush LBR stack Previous commit introduces context switch callback, its function overlaps with the flush branch stack callback. So we can use the context switch callback to flush LBR stack. This patch adds code that uses the flush branch callback to flush the LBR stack when task is being scheduled in. The callback is enabled only when there are events use the LBR hardware. This patch also removes all old flush branch stack code. Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-4-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Nov-2014 |
Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> |
perf: Introduce pmu context switch callback The callback is invoked when process is scheduled in or out. It provides mechanism for later patches to save/store the LBR stack. For the schedule in case, the callback is invoked at the same place that flush branch stack callback is invoked. So it also can replace the flush branch stack callback. To avoid unnecessary overhead, the callback is enabled only when there are events use the LBR stack. Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-Oct-2014 |
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> |
perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: "hillf.zj" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/266afcba1d1f91ea5501e4e16e94bbbc1a9339b6.1414190806.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Jan-2015 |
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> |
perf: Decouple unthrottling and rotating Currently the adjusments made as part of perf_event_task_tick() use the percpu rotation lists to iterate over any active PMU contexts, but these are not used by the context rotation code, having been replaced by separate (per-context) hrtimer callbacks. However, some manipulation of the rotation lists (i.e. removal of contexts) has remained in perf_rotate_context(). This leads to the following issues: * Contexts are not always removed from the rotation lists. Removal of PMUs which have been placed in rotation lists, but have not been removed by a hrtimer callback can result in corruption of the rotation lists (when memory backing the context is freed). This has been observed to result in hangs when PMU drivers built as modules are inserted and removed around the creation of events for said PMUs. * Contexts which do not require rotation may be removed from the rotation lists as a result of a hrtimer, and will not be considered by the unthrottling code in perf_event_task_tick. This patch fixes the issue by updating the rotation ist when events are scheduled in/out, ensuring that each rotation list stays in sync with the HW state. As each event holds a refcount on the module of its PMU, this ensures that when a PMU module is unloaded none of its CPU contexts can be in a rotation list. By maintaining a list of perf_event_contexts rather than perf_event_cpu_contexts, we don't need separate paths to handle the cpu and task contexts, which also makes the code a little simpler. As the rotation_list variables are not used for rotation, these are renamed to active_ctx_list, which better matches their current function. perf_pmu_rotate_{start,stop} are renamed to perf_pmu_ctx_{activate,deactivate}. Reported-by: Johannes Jensen <johannes.jensen@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150129134511.GR17721@leverpostej Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Jan-2015 |
Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper Helper for constructing static struct perf_pmu_events_attr s. Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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30-Jan-2015 |
Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr (struct perf_pmu_events_attr) is defined in include/linux/perf_event.h, but the only "show" for it is in x86 and contains x86 specific stuff. Make a generic one for those of us who are just using the event_str. Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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23-Jan-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Tighten (and fix) the grouping condition The fix from 9fc81d87420d ("perf: Fix events installation during moving group") was incomplete in that it failed to recognise that creating a group with events for different CPUs is semantically broken -- they cannot be co-scheduled. Furthermore, it leads to real breakage where, when we create an event for CPU Y and then migrate it to form a group on CPU X, the code gets confused where the counter is programmed -- triggered in practice as well by me via the perf fuzzer. Fix this by tightening the rules for creating groups. Only allow grouping of counters that can be co-scheduled in the same context. This means for the same task and/or the same cpu. Fixes: 9fc81d87420d ("perf: Fix events installation during moving group") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150123125834.090683288@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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15-Dec-2014 |
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Avoid horrible stack usage Both Linus (most recent) and Steve (a while ago) reported that perf related callbacks have massive stack bloat. The problem is that software events need a pt_regs in order to properly report the event location and unwind stack. And because we could not assume one was present we allocated one on stack and filled it with minimal bits required for operation. Now, pt_regs is quite large, so this is undesirable. Furthermore it turns out that most sites actually have a pt_regs pointer available, making this even more onerous, as the stack space is pointless waste. This patch addresses the problem by observing that software events have well defined nesting semantics, therefore we can use static per-cpu storage instead of on-stack. Linus made the further observation that all but the scheduler callers of perf_sw_event() have a pt_regs available, so we change the regular perf_sw_event() to require a valid pt_regs (where it used to be optional) and add perf_sw_event_sched() for the scheduler. We have a scheduler specific call instead of a more generic _noregs() like construct because we can assume non-recursion from the scheduler and thereby simplify the code further (_noregs would have to put the recursion context call inline in order to assertain which __perf_regs element to use). One last note on the implementation of perf_trace_buf_prepare(); we allow .regs = NULL for those cases where we already have a pt_regs pointer available and do not need another. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141216115041.GW3337@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Jan-2015 |
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> |
perf: Move task_pt_regs sampling into arch code On x86_64, at least, task_pt_regs may be only partially initialized in many contexts, so x86_64 should not use it without extra care from interrupt context, let alone NMI context. This will allow x86_64 to override the logic and will supply some scratch space to use to make a cleaner copy of user regs. Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: chenggang.qcg@taobao.com Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e431cd4c18c2e1c44c774f10758527fb2d1025c4.1420396372.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-Sep-2014 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Improve the perf_sample_data struct layout This patch reorders fields in the perf_sample_data struct in order to minimize the number of cachelines touched in perf_sample_data_init(). It also removes some intializations which are redundant with the code in kernel/events/core.c Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411559322-16548-7-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Cc: cebbert.lkml@gmail.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-Sep-2014 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf: Add ability to sample machine state on interrupt Enable capture of interrupted machine state for each sample. Registers to sample are passed per event in the sample_regs_intr bitmask. To sample interrupt machine state, the PERF_SAMPLE_INTR_REGS must be passed in sample_type. The list of available registers is arch dependent and provided by asm/perf_regs.h Registers are laid out as u64 in the order of the bit order of sample_intr_regs. This patch also adds a new ABI version PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER4 because we extend the perf_event_attr struct with a new u64 field. Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: cebbert.lkml@gmail.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411559322-16548-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Aug-2014 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> |
perf: Add PERF_EVENT_STATE_EXIT state for events with exited task Adding new perf event state to indicate that the monitored task has exited. In this case the event stays alive until the owner task exits or close the event fd while providing the last data through the read syscall and ring buffer. Instead it needs to propagate the error info (monitored task has died) via poll and read syscalls by returning POLLHUP and 0 respectively. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140811120102.GY9918@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-t5y3w8jjx6tfo5w8y6oajsjq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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11-Aug-2014 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf/x86: Fix data source encoding issues for load latency/precise store This patch fixes issues introuduce by Andi's previous patch 'Revamp PEBS' series. This patch fixes the following: - precise_store_data_hsw() encode the mem op type whenever we can - precise_store_data_hsw set the default data source correctly - 0 is not a valid init value for data source. Define PERF_MEM_NA as the default value This bug was actually introduced by commit 722e76e60f2775c21b087ff12c5e678cf0ebcaaf Author: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Date: Thu May 15 17:56:44 2014 +0200 fix Haswell precise store data source encoding Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1407785233-32193-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Aug-2014 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> |
perf: Add queued work to remove orphaned child events In cases when the owner task exits before the workload and the workload made some forks, all the events stay in until the last workload process exits. Thats' because each child event holds parent reference. We want to release all children events once the parent is gone, because at that time there's no process to read them anyway, so they're just eating resources. This removal races with process exit, which removes all events and fork, which clone events. To be clear of those two, adding work queue to remove orphaned child for context in case such event is detected. Using delayed work queue (with delay == 1), because we queue this work under perf scheduler callbacks. Normal work queue tries to wake up the queue process, which deadlocks on rq->lock in this place. Also preventing clones from abandoned parent event. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406896382-18404-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-May-2014 |
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> |
perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events perf tools like 'perf report' can aggregate samples by comm strings, which generally works. However, there are other potential use-cases. For example, to pair up 'calls' with 'returns' accurately (from branch events like Intel BTS) it is necessary to identify whether the process has exec'd. Although a comm event is generated when an 'exec' happens it is also generated whenever the comm string is changed on a whim (e.g. by prctl PR_SET_NAME). This patch adds a flag to the comm event to differentiate one case from the other. In order to determine whether the kernel supports the new flag, a selection bit named 'exec' is added to struct perf_event_attr. The bit does nothing but will cause perf_event_open() to fail if the bit is set on kernels that do not have it defined. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/537D9EBE.7030806@intel.com Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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21-May-2014 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption perf_event_comm() assumes that set_task_comm() is only called on exec(), and in particular that its only called on current. Neither are true, as Dave reported a WARN triggered by set_task_comm() being called on !current. Separate the exec() hook from the comm hook. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140521153219.GH5226@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net [ Build fix. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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16-May-2014 |
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> |
perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interrupt Add common code to generate -ENOTSUPP at event creation time if an architecture attempts to create a sampled event and PERF_PMU_NO_INTERRUPT is set. This adds a new pmu->capabilities flag. Initially we only support PERF_PMU_NO_INTERRUPT (to indicate a PMU has no support for generating hardware interrupts) but there are other capabilities that can be added later. Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> [peterz: rename to PERF_PMU_CAP_* and moved the pmu::capabilities word into a hole] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1405161708060.11099@vincent-weaver-1.umelst.maine.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Mar-2014 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix a race between ring_buffer_detach() and ring_buffer_attach() Alexander noticed that we use RCU iteration on rb->event_list but do not use list_{add,del}_rcu() to add,remove entries to that list, nor do we observe proper grace periods when re-using the entries. Merge ring_buffer_detach() into ring_buffer_attach() such that attaching to the NULL buffer is detaching. Furthermore, ensure that between any 'detach' and 'attach' of the same event we observe the required grace period, but only when strictly required. In effect this means that only ioctl(.request = PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT) will wait for a grace period, while the normal initial attach and final detach will not be delayed. This patch should, I think, do the right thing under all circumstances, the 'normal' cases all should never see the extra grace period, but the two cases: 1) PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT on an event which already has a ring_buffer set, will now observe the required grace period between removing itself from the old and attaching itself to the new buffer. This case is 'simple' in that both buffers are present in perf_event_set_output() one could think an unconditional synchronize_rcu() would be sufficient; however... 2) an event that has a buffer attached, the buffer is destroyed (munmap) and then the event is attached to a new/different buffer using PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT. This case is more complex because the buffer destruction does: ring_buffer_attach(.rb = NULL) followed by the ioctl() doing: ring_buffer_attach(.rb = foo); and we still need to observe the grace period between these two calls due to us reusing the event->rb_entry list_head. In order to make 2 happen we use Paul's latest cond_synchronize_rcu() call. Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reported-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140507123526.GD13658@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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18-Mar-2014 |
Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> |
perf: Allow building PMU drivers as modules This patch adds support for building PMU driver as module. It exports the functions perf_pmu_{register,unregister}() and adds reference tracking for the PMU driver module. When the PMU driver is built as a module, each active event of the PMU holds a reference to the driver module. Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395133004-23205-1-git-send-email-zheng.z.yan@intel.com Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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10-Mar-2014 |
Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
CPU hotplug, perf: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration Subsystems that want to register CPU hotplug callbacks, as well as perform initialization for the CPUs that are already online, often do it as shown below: get_online_cpus(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) init_cpu(cpu); register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier); put_online_cpus(); This is wrong, since it is prone to ABBA deadlocks involving the cpu_add_remove_lock and the cpu_hotplug.lock (when running concurrently with CPU hotplug operations). Instead, the correct and race-free way of performing the callback registration is: cpu_notifier_register_begin(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) init_cpu(cpu); /* Note the use of the double underscored version of the API */ __register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier); cpu_notifier_register_done(); Fix the perf subsystem's hotplug notifier by using this latter form of callback registration. Also provide a bare-bones version of perf_cpu_notifier() that doesn't invoke the notifiers for the already online CPUs. This would be useful for subsystems that need to perform a different set of initialization for the already online CPUs, or don't need the initialization altogether. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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08-Jan-2014 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf/x86: Fix active_entry initialization This patch fixes a problem with the initialization of the struct perf_event active_entry field. It is defined inside an anonymous union and was initialized in perf_event_alloc() using INIT_LIST_HEAD(). However at that time, we do not know whether the event is going to use active_entry or hlist_entry (SW). Or at last, we don't want to make that determination there. The problem is that hlist and list_head are not initialized the same way. One is okay with NULL (from kzmalloc), the other needs to pointers to point to self. This patch resolves this problem by dropping the union. This will avoid problems later on, if someone starts using active_entry or hlist_entry without verifying that they actually overlap. This also solves the initialization problem. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: vincent.weaver@maine.edu Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389176153-3128-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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12-Nov-2013 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf: Add active_entry list head to struct perf_event This patch adds a new field to the struct perf_event. It is intended to be used to chain events which are active (enabled). It helps in the hardware layer for PMUs which do not have actual counter restrictions, i.e., free running read-only counters. Active events are chained as opposed to being tracked via the counter they use. To save space we use a union with hlist_entry as both are mutually exclusive (suggested by Jiri Olsa). Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384275531-10892-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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20-Sep-2013 |
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Add generic transaction flags Add a generic qualifier for transaction events, as a new sample type that returns a flag word. This is particularly useful for qualifying aborts: to distinguish aborts which happen due to asynchronous events (like conflicts caused by another CPU) versus instructions that lead to an abort. The tuning strategies are very different for those cases, so it's important to distinguish them easily and early. Since it's inconvenient and inflexible to filter for this in the kernel we report all the events out and allow some post processing in user space. The flags are based on the Intel TSX events, but should be fairly generic and mostly applicable to other HTM architectures too. In addition to various flag words there's also reserved space to report an program supplied abort code. For TSX this is used to distinguish specific classes of aborts, like a lock busy abort when doing lock elision. Flags: Elision and generic transactions (ELISION vs TRANSACTION) (HLE vs RTM on TSX; IBM etc. would likely only use TRANSACTION) Aborts caused by current thread vs aborts caused by others (SYNC vs ASYNC) Retryable transaction (RETRY) Conflicts with other threads (CONFLICT) Transaction write capacity overflow (CAPACITY WRITE) Transaction read capacity overflow (CAPACITY READ) Transactions implicitely aborted can also return an abort code. This can be used to signal specific events to the profiler. A common case is abort on lock busy in a RTM eliding library (code 0xff) To handle this case we include the TSX abort code Common example aborts in TSX would be: - Data conflict with another thread on memory read. Flags: TRANSACTION|ASYNC|CONFLICT - executing a WRMSR in a transaction. Flags: TRANSACTION|SYNC - HLE transaction in user space is too large Flags: ELISION|SYNC|CAPACITY-WRITE The only flag that is somewhat TSX specific is ELISION. This adds the perf core glue needed for reporting the new flag word out. v2: Add MEM/MISC v3: Move transaction to the end v4: Separate capacity-read/write and remove misc v5: Remove _SAMPLE. Move abort flags to 32bit. Rename transaction to txn Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379688044-14173-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Oct-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix perf_pmu_migrate_context While auditing the list_entry usage due to a trinity bug I found that perf_pmu_migrate_context violates the rules for perf_event::event_entry. The problem is that perf_event::event_entry is a RCU list element, and hence we must wait for a full RCU grace period before re-using the element after deletion. Therefore the usage in perf_pmu_migrate_context() which re-uses the entry immediately is broken. For now introduce another list_head into perf_event for this specific usage. This doesn't actually fix the trinity report because that never goes through this code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mkj72lxagw1z8fvjm648iznw@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Aug-2013 |
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> |
perf: Export struct perf_branch_entry to userspace If PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK is enabled then samples are returned with the format { u64 from, to, flags } but the flags layout is not specified. This field has the type struct perf_branch_entry; move this definition into include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h so users can access these fields. This is similar to the existing inclusion of perf_mem_data_src in the include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h file. Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1308231544420.1889@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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09-Aug-2013 |
Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> |
jump_label: Split jumplabel ratelimit Commit b202952075f62603bea9bfb6ebc6b0420db11949 ("perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching") introduced rate limiting for jump label disabling. The changes were made in the jump label code in order to be more widely available and to keep things tidier. This is all fine, except now jump_label.h includes linux/workqueue.h, which makes it impossible to include jump_label.h from anything that workqueue.h needs. For example, it's now impossible to include jump_label.h from asm/spinlock.h, which is done in proposed pv-ticketlock patches. This patch splits out the rate limiting related changes from jump_label.h into a new file, jump_label_ratelimit.h, to resolve the issue. Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376058122-8248-10-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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19-Jun-2013 |
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> |
kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include) that don't really have a specific maintainer. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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21-Jun-2013 |
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow This patch keeps track of how long perf's NMI handler is taking, and also calculates how many samples perf can take a second. If the sample length times the expected max number of samples exceeds a configurable threshold, it drops the sample rate. This way, we don't have a runaway sampling process eating up the CPU. This patch can tend to drop the sample rate down to level where perf doesn't work very well. *BUT* the alternative is that my system hangs because it spends all of its time handling NMIs. I'll take a busted performance tool over an entire system that's busted and undebuggable any day. BTW, my suspicion is that there's still an underlying bug here. Using the HPET instead of the TSC is definitely a contributing factor, but I suspect there are some other things going on. But, I can't go dig down on a bug like that with my machine hanging all the time. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> [ Prettified it a bit. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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17-Jun-2013 |
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> |
perf/x86/intel: Support Haswell/v4 LBR format Haswell has two additional LBR from flags for TSX: in_tx and abort_tx, implemented as a new "v4" version of the LBR format. Handle those in and adjust the sign extension code to still correctly extend. The flags are exported similarly in the LBR record to the existing misprediction flag Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.jf.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371515812-9646-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Jun-2013 |
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> |
sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation Most of the stuff from kernel/sched.c was moved to kernel/sched/core.c long time back and the comments/Documentation never got updated. I figured it out when I was going through sched-domains.txt and so thought of fixing it globally. I haven't crossed check if the stuff that is referenced in sched/core.c by all these files is still present and hasn't changed as that wasn't the motive behind this patch. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cdff76a265326ab8d71922a1db5be599f20aad45.1370329560.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-May-2013 |
Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com> |
perf/x86: Reduce stack usage of x86_schedule_events() x86_schedule_events() caches event constraints on the stack during scheduling. Given the number of possible events, this is 512 bytes of stack; since it can be invoked under schedule() under god-knows-what, this is causing stack blowouts. Trade some space usage for stack safety: add a place to cache the constraint pointer to struct perf_event. For 8 bytes per event (1% of its size) we can save the giant stack frame. This shouldn't change any aspect of scheduling whatsoever and while in theory the locality's a tiny bit worse, I doubt we'll see any performance impact either. Tested: `perf stat whatever` does not blow up and produces results that aren't hugely obviously wrong. I'm not sure how to run particularly good tests of perf code, but this should not produce any functional change whatsoever. Signed-off-by: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369332423-4400-1-git-send-email-ahh@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Jun-2013 |
Mischa Jonker <Mischa.Jonker@synopsys.com> |
perf: Add const qualifier to perf_pmu_register's 'name' arg This allows us to use pdev->name for registering a PMU device. IMO the name is not supposed to be changed anyway. Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker <mjonker@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1370339148-5566-1-git-send-email-mjonker@synopsys.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-May-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix perf mmap bugs Vince reported a problem found by his perf specific trinity fuzzer. Al noticed 2 problems with perf's mmap(): - it has issues against fork() since we use vma->vm_mm for accounting. - it has an rb refcount leak on double mmap(). We fix the issues against fork() by using VM_DONTCOPY; I don't think there's code out there that uses this; we didn't hear about weird accounting problems/crashes. If we do need this to work, the previously proposed VM_PINNED could make this work. Aside from the rb reference leak spotted by Al, Vince's example prog was indeed doing a double mmap() through the use of perf_event_set_output(). This exposes another problem, since we now have 2 events with one buffer, the accounting gets screwy because we account per event. Fix this by making the buffer responsible for its own accounting. Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130528085548.GA12193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Apr-2013 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf: Add sysfs entry to adjust multiplexing interval per PMU This patch adds /sys/device/xxx/perf_event_mux_interval_ms to ajust the multiplexing interval per PMU. The unit is milliseconds. Value has to be >= 1. In the 4th version, we renamed the sysfs file to be more consistent with the other /proc/sys/kernel entries for perf_events. In the 5th version, we handle the reprogramming of the hrtimer using hrtimer_forward_now(). That way, we sync up to new timer value quickly (suggested by Jiri Olsa). Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364991694-5876-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Apr-2013 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf: Use hrtimers for event multiplexing The current scheme of using the timer tick was fine for per-thread events. However, it was causing bias issues in system-wide mode (including for uncore PMUs). Event groups would not get their fair share of runtime on the PMU. With tickless kernels, if a core is idle there is no timer tick, and thus no event rotation (multiplexing). However, there are events (especially uncore events) which do count even though cores are asleep. This patch changes the timer source for multiplexing. It introduces a per-PMU per-cpu hrtimer. The advantage is that even when a core goes idle, it will come back to service the hrtimer, thus multiplexing on system-wide events works much better. The per-PMU implementation (suggested by PeterZ) enables adjusting the multiplexing interval per PMU. The preferred interval is stashed into the struct pmu. If not set, it will be forced to the default interval value. In order to minimize the impact of the hrtimer, it is turned on and off on demand. When the PMU on a CPU is overcommited, the hrtimer is activated. It is stopped when the PMU is not overcommitted. In order for this to work properly, we had to change the order of initialization in start_kernel() such that hrtimer_init() is run before perf_event_init(). The default interval in milliseconds is set to a timer tick just like with the old code. We will provide a sysctl to tune this in another patch. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364991694-5876-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-May-2013 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> |
perf: Fix hw breakpoints overflow period sampling The hw breakpoint pmu 'add' function is missing the period_left update needed for SW events. The perf HW breakpoint events use the SW events framework to process the overflow, so it needs to be properly initialized in the PMU 'add' method. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367421944-19082-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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20-Apr-2013 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick Provide a new helper that help full dynticks CPUs to prevent from stopping their tick in case there are events in the local rotation list. This way we make sure that perf_event_task_tick() is serviced on demand. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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24-Jan-2013 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf: Add generic memory sampling interface This patch adds PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC. PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC collects the data source, i.e., where did the data associated with the sampled instruction come from. Information is stored in a perf_mem_data_src structure. It contains opcode, mem level, tlb, snoop, lock information, subject to availability in hardware. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-8-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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24-Jan-2013 |
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> |
perf/core: Add weighted samples For some events it's useful to weight sample with a hardware provided number. This expresses how expensive the action the sample represent was. This allows the profiler to scale the samples to be more informative to the programmer. There is already the period which is used similarly, but it means something different, so I chose to not overload it. Instead a new sample type for WEIGHT is added. Can be used for multiple things. Initially it is used for TSX abort costs and profiling by memory latencies (so to make expensive load appear higher up in the histograms). The concept is quite generic and can be extended to many other kinds of events or architectures, as long as the hardware provides suitable auxillary values. In principle it could be also used for software tracepoints. This adds the generic glue. A new optional sample format for a 64-bit weight value. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-5-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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24-Jan-2013 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf/x86: Add flags to event constraints This patch adds a flags field to each event constraint. It can be used to store event specific features which can then later be used by scheduling code or low-level x86 code. The flags are propagated into event->hw.flags during the get_event_constraint() call. They are cleared during the put_event_constraint() call. This mechanism is going to be used by the PEBS-LL patches. It avoids defining yet another table to hold event specific information. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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24-Jan-2013 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf/x86: Improve sysfs event mapping with event string This patch extends Jiri's changes to make generic events mapping visible via sysfs. The patch extends the mechanism to non-generic events by allowing the mappings to be hardcoded in strings. This mechanism will be used by the PEBS-LL patch later on. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [ fixed up conflict with 2663960 "perf: Make EVENT_ATTR global" ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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17-Mar-2013 |
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> |
perf,x86: fix link failure for non-Intel configs Commit 1d9d8639c063 ("perf,x86: fix kernel crash with PEBS/BTS after suspend/resume") introduces a link failure since perf_restore_debug_store() is only defined for CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL: arch/x86/power/built-in.o: In function `restore_processor_state': (.text+0x45c): undefined reference to `perf_restore_debug_store' Fix it by defining the dummy function appropriately. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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15-Mar-2013 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf,x86: fix kernel crash with PEBS/BTS after suspend/resume This patch fixes a kernel crash when using precise sampling (PEBS) after a suspend/resume. Turns out the CPU notifier code is not invoked on CPU0 (BP). Therefore, the DS_AREA (used by PEBS) is not restored properly by the kernel and keeps it power-on/resume value of 0 causing any PEBS measurement to crash when running on CPU0. The workaround is to add a hook in the actual resume code to restore the DS Area MSR value. It is invoked for all CPUS. So for all but CPU0, the DS_AREA will be restored twice but this is harmless. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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04-Mar-2013 |
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> |
perf: Remove include of cgroup.h from perf_event.h Move struct perf_cgroup_info and perf_cgroup to kernel/perf/core.c, and then we can remove include of cgroup.h. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513568A0.6020804@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2013 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
perf: Introduce hw_perf_event->tp_target and ->tp_list sys_perf_event_open()->perf_init_event(event) is called before find_get_context(event), this means that event->ctx == NULL when class->reg(TRACE_REG_PERF_REGISTER/OPEN) is called and thus it can't know if this event is per-task or system-wide. This patch adds hw_perf_event->tp_target for PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT, this is analogous to PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT/bp_target we already have. The patch also moves ->bp_target up so that it can overlap with the new member, this can help the compiler to generate the better code. trace_uprobe_register() will use it for prefiltering to avoid the unnecessary breakpoints in mm's we do not want to trace. ->tp_target doesn't have its own reference, but we can rely on the fact that either sys_perf_event_open() holds a reference, or it is equal to event->ctx->task. So this pointer is always valid until free_event(). Also add the "struct list_head tp_list" into this union. It is not strictly necessary, but it can simplify the next changes and we can add it for free. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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22-Jan-2013 |
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
perf: Make EVENT_ATTR global Rename EVENT_ATTR() to PMU_EVENT_ATTR() and make it global so it is available to all architectures. Further to allow architectures flexibility, have PMU_EVENT_ATTR() pass in the variable name as a parameter. Changelog[v2] - [Jiri Olsa] No need to define PMU_EVENT_PTR() Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130123062422.GC13720@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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16-Oct-2012 |
Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
perf, cpu hotplug: Use cached value of smp_processor_id() The perf_cpu_notifier() macro invokes smp_processor_id() multiple times. Optimize it by using a local variable. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121016075817.3572.76733.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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16-Oct-2012 |
Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
perf, cpu hotplug: Run CPU_STARTING notifiers with irqs disabled The CPU_STARTING notifiers are supposed to be run with irqs disabled. But the perf_cpu_notifier() macro invokes them without doing that. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121016075809.3572.47848.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-Oct-2012 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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02-Oct-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Clarify perf_cpu_context::active_pmu usage by renaming it to ::unique_pmu Stephane thought the perf_cpu_context::active_pmu name confusing and suggested using 'unique_pmu' instead. This pointer is a pointer to a 'random' pmu sharing the cpuctx instance, therefore limiting a for_each_pmu loop to those where cpuctx->unique_pmu matches the pmu we get a loop over unique cpuctx instances. Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kxyjqpfj2fn9gt7kwu5ag9ks@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Jul-2012 |
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> |
perf/x86/ibs: Check syscall attribute flags Current implementation simply ignores attribute flags. Thus, there is no notification to userland of unsupported features. Check syscall's attribute flags to let userland know if a feature is supported by the kernel. This is also needed to distinguish between future kernels what might support a feature. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> v3.5.. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120910093018.GO8285@erda.amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Aug-2012 |
K.Prasad <Prasad.Krishnan@gmail.com> |
perf/hwpb: Invoke __perf_event_disable() if interrupts are already disabled While debugging a warning message on PowerPC while using hardware breakpoints, it was discovered that when perf_event_disable is invoked through hw_breakpoint_handler function with interrupts disabled, a subsequent IPI in the code path would trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE message in smp_call_function_single function. This patch calls __perf_event_disable() when interrupts are already disabled, instead of perf_event_disable(). Reported-by: Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <Prasad.Krishnan@gmail.com> [naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com: v3: Check to make sure we target current task] Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120802081635.5811.17737.stgit@localhost.localdomain [ Fixed build error on MIPS. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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20-Aug-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> |
perf_event: Switch to internal refcount, fix race with close() Don't mess with file refcounts (or keep a reference to file, for that matter) in perf_event. Use explicit refcount of its own instead. Deal with the race between the final reference to event going away and new children getting created for it by use of atomic_long_inc_not_zero() in inherit_event(); just have the latter free what it had allocated and return NULL, that works out just fine (children of siblings of something doomed are created as singletons, same as if the child of leader had been created and immediately killed). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120820135925.GG23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Aug-2012 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> |
perf tools: Keep the perf_event_attr on version 3 Stashing version 4 under version 3 and removing version 4, because both version changes were within single patchset. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120822083540.GB1003@krava.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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07-Aug-2012 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Add attribute to filter out callchains Introducing following bits to the the perf_event_attr struct: - exclude_callchain_kernel to filter out kernel callchain from the sample dump - exclude_callchain_user to filter out user callchain from the sample dump We need to be able to disable standard user callchain dump when we use the dwarf cfi callchain mode, because frame pointer based user callchains are useless in this mode. Implementing also exclude_callchain_kernel to have complete set of options. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> [ Added kernel callchains filtering ] Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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07-Aug-2012 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> |
perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample Introducing PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER sample type bit to trigger the dump of the user level stack on sample. The size of the dump is specified by sample_stack_user value. Being able to dump parts of the user stack, starting from the stack pointer, will be useful to make a post mortem dwarf CFI based stack unwinding. Added HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP config option to determine if the architecture provides user stack dump on perf event samples. This needs access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across architectures. Enabling this for x86 architecture. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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07-Aug-2012 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> |
perf: Add perf_output_skip function to skip bytes in sample Introducing perf_output_skip function to be able to skip data within the perf ring buffer. When writing data into perf ring buffer we first reserve needed place in ring buffer and then copy the actual data. There's a possibility we won't be able to fill all the reserved size with data, so we need a way to skip the remaining bytes. This is going to be useful when storing the user stack dump, where we might end up with less data than we originally requested. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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07-Aug-2012 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Factor __output_copy to be usable with specific copy function Adding a generic way to use __output_copy function with specific copy function via DEFINE_PERF_OUTPUT_COPY macro. Using this to add new __output_copy_user function, that provides output copy from user pointers. For x86 the copy_from_user_nmi function is used and __copy_from_user_inatomic for the rest of the architectures. This new function will be used in user stack dump on sample, coming in next patches. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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07-Aug-2012 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> |
perf: Add ability to attach user level registers dump to sample Introducing PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER sample type bit to trigger the dump of user level registers on sample. Registers we want to dump are specified by sample_regs_user bitmask. Only user level registers are dumped at the moment. Meaning the register values of the user space context as it was before the user entered the kernel for whatever reason (syscall, irq, exception, or a PMI happening in userspace). The layout of the sample_regs_user bitmap is described in asm/perf_regs.h for archs that support register dump. This is going to be useful to bring Dwarf CFI based stack unwinding on top of samples. Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> [ Dump registers ABI specification. ] Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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11-Jul-2012 |
Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> |
perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events A few events are interesting not only for a current task. For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such events will be delivered to a target task too. Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task(). The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra. I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods. These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by perf tools. Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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15-Jun-2012 |
Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> |
perf: Introduce perf_pmu_migrate_context() Originally from Peter Zijlstra. The helper migrates perf events from one cpu to another cpu. Signed-off-by: Zheng Yan <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339741902-8449-5-git-send-email-zheng.z.yan@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Mar-2012 |
Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> |
perf/x86: Use rdpmc() rather than rdmsr() when possible in the kernel The rdpmc instruction is faster than the equivelant rdmsr call, so use it when possible in the kernel. The perfctr kernel patches did this, after extensive testing showed rdpmc to always be faster (One can look in etc/costs in the perfctr-2.6 package to see a historical list of the overhead). I have done some tests on a 3.2 kernel, the kernel module I used was included in the first posting of this patch: rdmsr rdpmc Core2 T9900: 203.9 cycles 30.9 cycles AMD fam0fh: 56.2 cycles 9.8 cycles Atom 6/28/2: 129.7 cycles 50.6 cycles The speedup of using rdpmc is large. [ It's probably possible (and desirable) to do this without requiring a new field in the hw_perf_event structure, but the fixed events make this tricky. ] Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1203011724030.26934@cl320.eecs.utk.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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20-Apr-2012 |
Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> |
perf: Limit callchains to 127 Stack depth of 255 seems excessive, given that copy_from_user_nmi() could be slow. Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334961696-19580-3-git-send-email-asharma@fb.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-May-2012 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> |
perf tools: Check if callchain is corrupted We faced segmentation fault on perf top -G at very high sampling rate due to a corrupted callchain. While the root cause was not revealed (I failed to figure it out), this patch tries to protect us from the segfault on such cases. Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Sunjin Yang <fan4326@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338443007-24857-2-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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23-May-2012 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> |
Revert "sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler" This reverts commit cb04ff9ac424 ("sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler"). Before this change was introduced, the process switch worked like this (wrt. to perf event schedule): schedule (prev, next) - schedule out all perf events for prev - switch to next - schedule in all perf events for current (next) After the commit, the process switch looks like: schedule (prev, next) - schedule out all perf events for prev - schedule in all perf events for (next) - switch to next The problem is, that after we schedule perf events in, the pmu is enabled and we can receive events even before we make the switch to next - so "current" still being prev process (event SAMPLE data are filled based on the value of the "current" process). Thats exactly what we see for test__PERF_RECORD test. We receive SAMPLES with PID of the process that our tracee is scheduled from. Discussed with Peter Zijlstra: > Bah!, yeah I guess reverting is the right thing for now. Sad > though. > > So by having the two hooks we have a black-spot between them > where we receive no events at all, this black-spot covers the > hand-over of current and we thus don't receive the 'wrong' > events. > > I rather liked we could do away with both that black-spot and > clean up the code a little, but apparently people rely on it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: eranian@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120523111302.GC1638@m.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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08-May-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler We can easily use a single callback for both sched-in and sched-out. This reduces the code footprint in the scheduler path as well as removes the PMU black spot otherwise present between the out and in callback. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-o56ajxp1edwqg6x9d31wb805@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Apr-2012 |
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> |
perf: Pass last sampling period to perf_sample_data_init() We always need to pass the last sample period to perf_sample_data_init(), otherwise the event distribution will be wrong. Thus, modifiyng the function interface with the required period as argument. So basically a pattern like this: perf_sample_data_init(&data, ~0ULL); data.period = event->hw.last_period; will now be like that: perf_sample_data_init(&data, ~0ULL, event->hw.last_period); Avoids unininitialized data.period and simplifies code. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333390758-10893-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Mar-2012 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> |
perf: Move mmap page data_head offset assertion out of header Having the build time assertion in header is making the perf build fail on x86 with: ../../include/linux/perf_event.h:411:32: error: variably modified \ ‘__assert_mmap_data_head_offset’ at file scope [-Werror] I'm moving the build time validation out of the header, because I think it's better than to lessen the perf build warn/error check. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332513680-7870-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Mar-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix mmap_page capabilities and docs Complete the syscall-less self-profiling feature and address all complaints, namely: - capabilities, so we can detect what is actually available at runtime Add a capabilities field to perf_event_mmap_page to indicate what is actually available for use. - on x86: RDPMC weirdness due to being 40/48 bits and not sign-extending properly. - ABI documentation as to how all this stuff works. Also improve the documentation for the new features. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332433596.2487.33.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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15-Mar-2012 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> |
perf: Adding sysfs group format attribute for pmu device Adding sysfs group 'format' attribute for pmu device that contains a syntax description on how to construct raw events. The event configuration is described in following struct pefr_event_attr attributes: config config1 config2 Each sysfs attribute within the format attribute group, describes mapping of name and bitfield definition within one of above attributes. eg: "/sys/...<dev>/format/event" contains "config:0-7" "/sys/...<dev>/format/umask" contains "config:8-15" "/sys/...<dev>/format/usr" contains "config:16" the attribute value syntax is: line: config ':' bits config: 'config' | 'config1' | 'config2" bits: bits ',' bit_term | bit_term bit_term: VALUE '-' VALUE | VALUE Adding format attribute definitions for x86 cpu pmus. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vhdk5y2hyype9j63prymty36@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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09-Feb-2012 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf: Add ABI reference sizes This patch adds reference sizes for revision 1 and 2 of the perf_event ABI, i.e., the size of the perf_event_attr struct. With Rev1: config2 was added = +8 bytes With Rev2: branch_sample_type was added = +8 bytes Adds the definition for Rev1, Rev2. This is useful for tools trying to decode the revision numbers based on the size of the struct. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: asharma@fb.com Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-16-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Feb-2012 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch With branch stack sampling, it is possible to filter by priv levels. In system-wide mode, that means it is possible to capture only user level branches. The builtin SW LBR filter needs to disassemble code based on LBR captured addresses. For that, it needs to know the task the addresses are associated with. Because of context switches, the content of the branch stack buffer may contain addresses from different tasks. We need a callback on context switch to either flush the branch stack or save it. This patch adds a new callback in struct pmu which is called during context switches. The callback is called only when necessary. That is when a system-wide context has, at least, one event which uses PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK. The callback is never called for per-thread context. In this version, the Intel x86 code simply flushes (resets) the LBR on context switches (fills it with zeroes). Those zeroed branches are then filtered out by the SW filter. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-11-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Feb-2012 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf: Add generic taken branch sampling support This patch adds the ability to sample taken branches to the perf_event interface. The ability to capture taken branches is very useful for all sorts of analysis. For instance, basic block profiling, call counts, statistical call graph. This new capability requires hardware assist and as such may not be available on all HW platforms. On Intel x86 it is implemented on top of the Last Branch Record (LBR) facility. To enable taken branches sampling, the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK bit must be set in attr->sample_type. Sampled taken branches may be filtered by type and/or priv levels. The patch adds a new field, called branch_sample_type, to the perf_event_attr structure. It contains a bitmask of filters to apply to the sampled taken branches. Filters may be implemented in HW. If the HW filter does not exist or is not good enough, some arch may also implement a SW filter. The following generic filters are currently defined: - PERF_SAMPLE_USER only branches whose targets are at the user level - PERF_SAMPLE_KERNEL only branches whose targets are at the kernel level - PERF_SAMPLE_HV only branches whose targets are at the hypervisor level - PERF_SAMPLE_ANY any type of branches (subject to priv levels filters) - PERF_SAMPLE_ANY_CALL any call branches (may incl. syscall on some arch) - PERF_SAMPLE_ANY_RET any return branches (may incl. syscall returns on some arch) - PERF_SAMPLE_IND_CALL indirect call branches Obviously filter may be combined. The priv level bits are optional. If not provided, the priv level of the associated event are used. It is possible to collect branches at a priv level different from the associated event. Use of kernel, hv priv levels is subject to permissions and availability (hv). The number of taken branch records present in each sample may vary based on HW, the type of sampled branches, the executed code. Therefore each sample contains the number of taken branches it contains. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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24-Feb-2012 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
static keys: Introduce 'struct static_key', static_key_true()/false() and static_key_slow_[inc|dec]() So here's a boot tested patch on top of Jason's series that does all the cleanups I talked about and turns jump labels into a more intuitive to use facility. It should also address the various misconceptions and confusions that surround jump labels. Typical usage scenarios: #include <linux/static_key.h> struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_TRUE; if (static_key_false(&key)) do unlikely code else do likely code Or: if (static_key_true(&key)) do likely code else do unlikely code The static key is modified via: static_key_slow_inc(&key); ... static_key_slow_dec(&key); The 'slow' prefix makes it abundantly clear that this is an expensive operation. I've updated all in-kernel code to use this everywhere. Note that I (intentionally) have not pushed through the rename blindly through to the lowest levels: the actual jump-label patching arch facility should be named like that, so we want to decouple jump labels from the static-key facility a bit. On non-jump-label enabled architectures static keys default to likely()/unlikely() branches. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120222085809.GA26397@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Feb-2012 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> |
ftrace, perf: Add support to use function tracepoint in perf Adding perf registration support for the ftrace function event, so it is now possible to register it via perf interface. The perf_event struct statically contains ftrace_ops as a handle for function tracer. The function tracer is registered/unregistered in open/close actions. To be efficient, we enable/disable ftrace_ops each time the traced process is scheduled in/out (via TRACE_REG_PERF_(ADD|DELL) handlers). This way tracing is enabled only when the process is running. Intentionally using this way instead of the event's hw state PERF_HES_STOPPED, which would not disable the ftrace_ops. It is now possible to use function trace within perf commands like: perf record -e ftrace:function ls perf stat -e ftrace:function ls Allowed only for root. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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26-Jan-2012 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling This patch fixes the sampling interrupt throttling mechanism. It was broken in v3.2. Events were not being unthrottled. The unthrottling mechanism required that events be checked at each timer tick. This patch solves this problem and also separates: - unthrottling - multiplexing - frequency-mode period adjustments Not all of them need to be executed at each timer tick. This third version of the patch is based on my original patch + PeterZ proposal (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/7/87). At each timer tick, for each context: - if the current CPU has throttled events, we unthrottle events - if context has frequency-based events, we adjust sampling periods - if we have reached the jiffies interval, we multiplex (rotate) We decoupled rotation (multiplexing) from frequency-mode sampling period adjustments. They should not necessarily happen at the same rate. Multiplexing is subject to jiffies_interval (currently at 1 but could be higher once the tunable is exposed via sysfs). We have grouped frequency-mode adjustment and unthrottling into the same routine to minimize code duplication. When throttled while in frequency mode, we scan the events only once. We have fixed the threshold enforcement code in __perf_event_overflow(). There was a bug whereby it would allow more than the authorized rate because an increment of hwc->interrupts was not executed at the right place. The patch was tested with low sampling limit (2000) and fixed periods, frequency mode, overcommitted PMU. On a 2.1GHz AMD CPU: $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate 2000 We set a rate of 3000 samples/sec (2.1GHz/3000 = 700000): $ perf record -e cycles,cycles -c 700000 noploop 10 $ perf report -D | tail -21 Aggregated stats: TOTAL events: 80086 MMAP events: 88 COMM events: 2 EXIT events: 4 THROTTLE events: 19996 UNTHROTTLE events: 19996 SAMPLE events: 40000 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 40006 MMAP events: 5 COMM events: 1 EXIT events: 4 THROTTLE events: 9998 UNTHROTTLE events: 9998 SAMPLE events: 20000 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 39996 THROTTLE events: 9998 UNTHROTTLE events: 9998 SAMPLE events: 20000 For 10s, the cap is 2x2000x10 = 40000 samples. We get exactly that: 20000 samples/event. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # v3.2+ Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120126160319.GA5655@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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21-Nov-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Extend the mmap control page with time (TSC) fields Extend the mmap control page with fields so that userspace can compute time deltas relative to the provided time fields. Currently only implemented for x86 with constant and nonstop TSC. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3u1jucza77j3wuvs0x2bic0f@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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20-Nov-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf, x86: Provide means for disabling userspace RDPMC Allow the disabling of RDPMC via a pmu specific attribute: echo 0 > /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/rdpmc Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pqeog465zo5hsimtkfz73f27@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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20-Nov-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf, arch: Rework perf_event_index() Put the logic to compute the event index into a per pmu method. This is required because the x86 rules are weird and wonderful and don't match the capabilities of the current scheme. AFAIK only powerpc actually has a usable userspace read of the PMCs but I'm not at all sure anybody actually used that. ARM is restored to the default since it currently does not support userspace access at all. And all software events are provided with a method that reports their index as 0 (disabled). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dfydxodki16lylkt3gl2j7cw@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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10-Dec-2011 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf events: Add PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES generic PMU event This event counts the number of reference core cpu cycles. Reference means that the event increments at a constant rate which is not subject to core CPU frequency adjustments. The event may not count when the processor is in halted (low power) state. As such, it may not be equivalent to wall clock time. However, when the processor is not halted state, the event keeps a constant correlation with wall clock time. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323559734-3488-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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27-Nov-2011 |
Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> |
perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching jump_lable patching is very expensive operation that involves pausing all cpus. The patching of perf_sched_events jump_label is easily controllable from userspace by unprivileged user. When te user runs a loop like this: "while true; do perf stat -e cycles true; done" ... the performance of my test application that just increments a counter for one second drops by 4%. This is on a 16 cpu box with my test application using only one of them. An impact on a real server doing real work will be worse. Performance of KVM PMU drops nearly 50% due to jump_lable for "perf record" since KVM PMU implementation creates and destroys perf event frequently. This patch introduces a way to rate limit jump_label patching and uses it to fix the above problem. I believe that as jump_label use will spread the problem will become more common and thus solving it in a generic code is appropriate. Also fixing it in the perf code would result in moving jump_label accounting logic to perf code with all the ifdefs in case of JUMP_LABEL=n kernel. With this patch all details are nicely hidden inside jump_label code. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111127155909.GO2557@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Nov-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Avoid a useless pmu_disable() in the perf-tick Gleb writes: > Currently pmu is disabled and re-enabled on each timer interrupt even > when no rotation or frequency adjustment is needed. On Intel CPU this > results in two writes into PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR per tick. On bare metal > it does not cause significant slowdown, but when running perf in a virtual > machine it leads to 20% slowdown on my machine. Cure this by keeping a perf_event_context::nr_freq counter that counts the number of active events that require frequency adjustments and use this in a similar fashion to the already existing nr_events != nr_active test in perf_rotate_context(). By being able to exclude both rotation and frequency adjustments a-priory for the common case we can avoid the otherwise superfluous PMU disable. Suggested-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-515yhoatehd3gza7we9fapaa@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Nov-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-event When you do: $ perf record -e cycles,cycles,cycles noploop 10 You expect about 10,000 samples for each event, i.e., 10s at 1000samples/sec. However, this is not what's happening. You get much fewer samples, maybe 3700 samples/event: $ perf report -D | tail -15 Aggregated stats: TOTAL events: 10998 MMAP events: 66 COMM events: 2 SAMPLE events: 10930 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 3644 SAMPLE events: 3644 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 3642 SAMPLE events: 3642 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 3644 SAMPLE events: 3644 On a Intel Nehalem or even AMD64, there are 4 counters capable of measuring cycles, so there is plenty of space to measure those events without multiplexing (even with the NMI watchdog active). And even with multiplexing, we'd expect roughly the same number of samples per event. The root of the problem was that when the event that caused the buffer to become full was not the first event passed on the cmdline, the user notification would get lost. The notification was sent to the file descriptor of the overflowed event but the perf tool was not polling on it. The perf tool aggregates all samples into a single buffer, i.e., the buffer of the first event. Consequently, it assumes notifications for any event will come via that descriptor. The seemingly straight forward solution of moving the waitq into the ringbuffer object doesn't work because of life-time issues. One could perf_event_set_output() on a fd that you're also blocking on and cause the old rb object to be freed while its waitq would still be referenced by the blocked thread -> FAIL. Therefore link all events to the ringbuffer and broadcast the wakeup from the ringbuffer object to all possible events that could be waited upon. This is rather ugly, and we're open to better solutions but it works for now. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Finished-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111126014731.GA7030@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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05-Oct-2011 |
Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> |
perf, core: Introduce attrs to count in either host or guest mode The two new attributes exclude_guest and exclude_host can bes used by user-space to tell the kernel to setup performance counter to either only count while the CPU is in guest or in host mode. An additional check is also introduced to make sure user-space does not try to exclude guest and host mode from counting. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317816084-18026-2-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Aug-2011 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf events: Fix slow and broken cgroup context switch code The current cgroup context switch code was incorrect leading to bogus counts. Furthermore, as soon as there was an active cgroup event on a CPU, the context switch cost on that CPU would increase by a significant amount as demonstrated by a simple ping/pong example: $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10684.51 ctxsw/s Now start a cgroup perf stat: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 100 $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 6674.61 ctxsw/s That's a 37% penalty. Note that pong is not even in the monitored cgroup. The results shown by perf stat are bogus: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 100 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 100': CPU1 <not counted> cycles test CPU1 16,984,189,138 cycles # 0.000 GHz The second 'cycles' event should report a count @ CPU clock (here 2.4GHz) as it is counting across all cgroups. The patch below fixes the bogus accounting and bypasses any cgroup switches in case the outgoing and incoming tasks are in the same cgroup. With this patch the same test now yields: $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10775.30 ctxsw/s Start perf stat with cgroup: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Run pong outside the cgroup: $ /pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10687.80 ctxsw/s The penalty is now less than 2%. And the results for perf stat are correct: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10': CPU1 <not counted> cycles test # 0.000 GHz CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles # 0.000 GHz Now perf stat reports the correct counts for for the non cgroup event. If we run pong inside the cgroup, then we also get the correct counts: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10': CPU1 22,297,726,205 cycles test # 0.000 GHz CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles # 0.000 GHz 10.001457237 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110825135803.GA4697@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-Jul-2011 |
Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> |
atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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29-Jun-2011 |
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> |
perf: export perf_event_refresh() to modules KVM needs one-shot samples, since a PMC programmed to -X will fire after X events and then again after 2^40 events (i.e. variable period). Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-4-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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29-Jun-2011 |
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> |
perf: Add context field to perf_event The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event in their local data structure. This is ugly and doesn't scale if a single callback services many perf_events. Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event. The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context. All callers are updated. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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22-Apr-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf, arch: Add generic NODE cache events Add a NODE level to the generic cache events which is used to measure local vs remote memory accesses. Like all other cache events, an ACCESS is HIT+MISS, if there is no way to distinguish between reads and writes do reads only etc.. The below needs filling out for !x86 (which I filled out with unsupported events). I'm fairly sure ARM can leave it like that since it doesn't strike me as an architecture that even has NUMA support. SH might have something since it does appear to have some NUMA bits. Sparc64, PowerPC and MIPS certainly want a good look there since they clearly are NUMA capable. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303508226.4865.8.camel@laptop Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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06-Jun-2011 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf_events: Update Intel extra regs shared constraints management This patch improves the code managing the extra shared registers used for offcore_response events on Intel Nehalem/Westmere. The idea is to use static allocation instead of dynamic allocation. This simplifies greatly the get and put constraint routines for those events. The patch also renames per_core to shared_regs because the same data structure gets used whether or not HT is on. When HT is off, those events still need to coordination because they use a extra MSR that has to be shared within an event group. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110606145703.GA7258@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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27-Jun-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Remove the perf_output_begin(.sample) argument Since only samples call perf_output_sample() its much saner (and more correct) to put the sample logic in there than in the perf_output_begin()/perf_output_end() pair. Saves a useless argument, reduces conditionals and shrinks struct perf_output_handle, win! Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2crpvsx3cqu67q3zqjbnlpsc@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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27-Jun-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface The nmi parameter indicated if we could do wakeups from the current context, if not, we would set some state and self-IPI and let the resulting interrupt do the wakeup. For the various event classes: - hardware: nmi=0; PMI is in fact an NMI or we run irq_work_run from the PMI-tail (ARM etc.) - tracepoint: nmi=0; since tracepoint could be from NMI context. - software: nmi=[0,1]; some, like the schedule thing cannot perform wakeups, and hence need 0. As one can see, there is very little nmi=1 usage, and the down-side of not using it is that on some platforms some software events can have a jiffy delay in wakeup (when arch_irq_work_raise isn't implemented). The up-side however is that we can remove the nmi parameter and save a bunch of conditionals in fast paths. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-agjev8eu666tvknpb3iaj0fg@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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07-Jun-2011 |
Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> |
perf: Remove 64-bit alignment padding from perf_event_context Reorder perf_event_context to remove 8 bytes of 64 bit alignment padding shrinking its size to 192 bytes, allowing it to fit into a smaller slab and use one fewer cache lines. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307460819.1950.5.camel@castor.rsk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-May-2011 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Split up buffer handling from core code And create the internal perf events header. v2: Keep an internal inlined perf_output_copy() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305827704-5607-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com [ v3: use clearer 'ring_buffer' and 'rb' naming ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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03-Jun-2011 |
Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> |
perf: Fix comments in include/linux/perf_event.h Fix include/linux/perf_event.h comments to be consistent with the actual #define names. This is trivial, but it can be a bit confusing when first reading through the file. Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1106031757090.29381@cl320.eecs.utk.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-May-2011 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
perf events: Clean up definitions and initializers, update copyrights Fix a few inconsistent style bits that were added over the past few months. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yv4hwf9yhnzoada8pcpb3a97@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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29-Apr-2011 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
perf events: Add generic front-end and back-end stalled cycle event definitions Add two generic hardware events: front-end and back-end stalled cycles. These events measure conditions when the CPU is executing code but its capabilities are not fully utilized. Understanding such situations and analyzing them is an important sub-task of code optimization workflows. Both events limit performance: most front end stalls tend to be caused by branch misprediction or instruction fetch cachemisses, backend stalls can be caused by various resource shortages or inefficient instruction scheduling. Front-end stalls are the more important ones: code cannot run fast if the instruction stream is not being kept up. An over-utilized back-end can cause front-end stalls and thus has to be kept an eye on as well. The exact composition is very program logic and instruction mix dependent. We use the terms 'stall', 'front-end' and 'back-end' loosely and try to use the best available events from specific CPUs that approximate these concepts. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n000io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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24-Apr-2011 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
perf events: Add stalled cycles generic event - PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES The new PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES event tries to approximate cycles the CPU does nothing useful, because it is stalled on a cache-miss or some other condition. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fue11vymwqsoo5to72jxxjyl@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Mar-2011 |
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> |
jump label: Introduce static_branch() interface Introduce: static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key); instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro. In this way, jump labels become really easy to use: Define: struct jump_label_key jump_key; Can be used as: if (static_branch(&jump_key)) do unlikely code enable/disale via: jump_label_inc(&jump_key); jump_label_dec(&jump_key); that's it! For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(), atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below. Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct. Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write. Testing: I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3 configurations, where tracepoints were disabled. jump label configured in avg: 815.6 jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads) avg: 800.1 jump label *not* configured in (regular reads) avg: 803.4 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110316212947.GA8792@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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30-Mar-2011 |
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> |
Fix common misspellings Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
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31-Mar-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Fix task context scheduling Jiri reported: | | - once an event is created by sys_perf_event_open, task context | is created and it stays even if the event is closed, until the | task is finished ... thats what I see in code and I assume it's | correct | | - when the task opens event, perf_sched_events jump label is | incremented and following callbacks are started from scheduler | | __perf_event_task_sched_in | __perf_event_task_sched_out | | These callback *in/out set/unset cpuctx->task_ctx value to the | task context. | | - close is called on event on CPU 0: | - the task is scheduled on CPU 0 | - __perf_event_task_sched_in is called | - cpuctx->task_ctx is set | - perf_sched_events jump label is decremented and == 0 | - __perf_event_task_sched_out is not called | - cpuctx->task_ctx on CPU 0 stays set | | - exit is called on CPU 1: | - the task is scheduled on CPU 1 | - perf_event_exit_task is called | - task_ctx_sched_out unsets cpuctx->task_ctx on CPU 1 | - put_ctx destroys the context | | - another call of perf_rotate_context on CPU 0 will use invalid | task_ctx pointer, and eventualy panic. | Cure this the simplest possibly way by partially reverting the jump_label optimization for the sched_out case. Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .37+ LKML-Reference: <1301520405.4859.213.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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23-Mar-2011 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf_events: Fix stale ->cgrp pointer in update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx() This patch solves a stale pointer problem in update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx(). The cpuctx->cgrp was not cleared on all possible event exit paths, including: close() perf_release() perf_release_kernel() list_del_event() This patch fixes list_del_event() to clear cpuctx->cgrp when there are no cgroup events left in the context. [ This second version makes the code compile when CONFIG_CGROUP_PERF is not enabled. We unconditionally define perf_cpu_context->cgrp. ] Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: davem@davemloft.net LKML-Reference: <20110323150306.GA1580@quad> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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07-Mar-2011 |
Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> |
perf: Reorder & optimize perf_event_context to remove alignment padding on 64 bit builds Remove 8 bytes of alignment padding from perf_event_context on 64 bit builds which shrinks its size to 192 bytes allowing it to fit into one fewer cache lines and into a smaller slab. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1299512819.2039.5.camel@castor.rsk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Mar-2011 |
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Add support for supplementary event registers Change logs against Andi's original version: - Extends perf_event_attr:config to config{,1,2} (Peter Zijlstra) - Fixed a major event scheduling issue. There cannot be a ref++ on an event that has already done ref++ once and without calling put_constraint() in between. (Stephane Eranian) - Use thread_cpumask for percore allocation. (Lin Ming) - Use MSR names in the extra reg lists. (Lin Ming) - Remove redundant "c = NULL" in intel_percore_constraints - Fix comment of perf_event_attr::config1 Intel Nehalem/Westmere have a special OFFCORE_RESPONSE event that can be used to monitor any offcore accesses from a core. This is a very useful event for various tunings, and it's also needed to implement the generic LLC-* events correctly. Unfortunately this event requires programming a mask in a separate register. And worse this separate register is per core, not per CPU thread. This patch: - Teaches perf_events that OFFCORE_RESPONSE needs extra parameters. The extra parameters are passed by user space in the perf_event_attr::config1 field. - Adds support to the Intel perf_event core to schedule per core resources. This adds fairly generic infrastructure that can be also used for other per core resources. The basic code has is patterned after the similar AMD northbridge constraints code. Thanks to Stephane Eranian who pointed out some problems in the original version and suggested improvements. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1299119690-13991-2-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Feb-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Optimize throttling code By pre-computing the maximum number of samples per tick we can avoid a multiplication and a conditional since MAX_INTERRUPTS > max_samples_per_tick. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Feb-2011 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf: Add cgroup support This kernel patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on container groups (cgroups). This is for use in per-cpu mode only. The cgroup to monitor is passed as a file descriptor in the pid argument to the syscall. The file descriptor must be opened to the cgroup name in the cgroup filesystem. For instance, if the cgroup name is foo and cgroupfs is mounted in /cgroup, then the file descriptor is opened to /cgroup/foo. Cgroup mode is activated by passing PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP in the flags argument to the syscall. For instance to measure in cgroup foo on CPU1 assuming cgroupfs is mounted under /cgroup: struct perf_event_attr attr; int cgroup_fd, fd; cgroup_fd = open("/cgroup/foo", O_RDONLY); fd = perf_event_open(&attr, cgroup_fd, 1, -1, PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP); close(cgroup_fd); Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ added perf_cgroup_{exit,attach} ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4d590250.114ddf0a.689e.4482@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Nov-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Sysfs enumeration Simple sysfs emumeration of the PMUs. Use a "event_source" bus, and add PMU devices using their name. Each PMU device has a type attribute which contrains the value needed for perf_event_attr::type to identify this PMU. This is the minimal stub needed to start using this interface, we'll consider extending the sysfs usage later. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20101117222056.316982569@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Nov-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Dynamic pmu types Extend the perf_pmu_register() interface to allow for named and dynamic pmu types. Because we need to support the existing static types we cannot use dynamic types for everything, hence provide a type argument. If we want to enumerate the PMUs they need a name, provide one. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20101117222056.259707703@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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07-Dec-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Fix duplicate events with multiple-pmu vs software events Because the multi-pmu bits can share contexts between struct pmu instances we could get duplicate events by iterating the pmu list. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Dec-2010 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
perf events: Make sample_type identity fields available in all PERF_RECORD_ events If perf_event_attr.sample_id_all is set it will add the PERF_SAMPLE_ identity info: TID, TIME, ID, CPU, STREAM_ID As a trailer, so that older perf tools can process new files, just ignoring the extra payload. With this its possible to do further analysis on problems in the event stream, like detecting reordering of MMAP and FORK events, etc. V2: Fixup header size in comm, mmap and task processing, as we have to take into account different sample_types for each matching event, noticed by Thomas Gleixner. Thomas also noticed a problem in v2 where if we didn't had space in the buffer we wouldn't restore the header size. Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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03-Dec-2010 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
perf events: Separate the routines handling the PERF_SAMPLE_ identity fields Those will be made available in sample like events like MMAP, EXEC, etc in a followup patch. So precalculate the extra id header space and have a separate routine to fill them up. V2: Thomas noticed that the id header needs to be precalculated at inherit_events too: LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1012031245220.2653@localhost6.localdomain6> Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1291318772-30880-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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19-Oct-2010 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
perf events: Precalculate the header space for PERF_SAMPLE_ fields PERF_SAMPLE_{CALLCHAIN,RAW} have variable lenghts per sample, but the others can be precalculated, reducing a bit the per sample cost. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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23-Nov-2010 |
Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> |
perf: Introduce is_sampling_event() and use it when appropriate. Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1290525705-6265-1-git-send-email-fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-Nov-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Fix the software context switch counter Stephane noticed that because the perf_sw_event() call is inside the perf_event_task_sched_out() call it won't get called unless we have a per-task counter. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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24-Nov-2010 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
perf: Fix inherit vs. context rotation bug It was found that sometimes children of tasks with inherited events had one extra event. Eventually it turned out to be due to the list rotation no being exclusive with the list iteration in the inheritance code. Cure this by temporarily disabling the rotation while we inherit the events. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-Oct-2010 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf_events: Fix time tracking in samples This patch corrects time tracking in samples. Without this patch both time_enabled and time_running are bogus when user asks for PERF_SAMPLE_READ. One uses PERF_SAMPLE_READ to sample the values of other counters in each sample. Because of multiplexing, it is necessary to know both time_enabled, time_running to be able to scale counts correctly. In this second version of the patch, we maintain a shadow copy of ctx->time which allows us to compute ctx->time without calling update_context_time() from NMI context. We avoid the issue that update_context_time() must always be called with ctx->lock held. We do not keep shadow copies of the other event timings because if the lead event is overflowing then it is active and thus it's been scheduled in via event_sched_in() in which case neither tstamp_stopped, tstamp_running can be modified. This timing logic only applies to samples when PERF_SAMPLE_READ is used. Note that this patch does not address timing issues related to sampling inheritance between tasks. This will be addressed in a future patch. With this patch, the libpfm4 example task_smpl now reports correct counts (shown on 2.4GHz Core 2): $ task_smpl -p 2400000000 -e unhalted_core_cycles:u,instructions_retired:u,baclears noploop 5 noploop for 5 seconds IIP:0x000000004006d6 PID:5596 TID:5596 TIME:466,210,211,430 STREAM_ID:33 PERIOD:2,400,000,000 ENA=1,010,157,814 RUN=1,010,157,814 NR=3 2,400,000,254 unhalted_core_cycles:u (33) 2,399,273,744 instructions_retired:u (34) 53,340 baclears (35) Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4cc6e14b.1e07e30a.256e.5190@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Oct-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
jump_label: Add COND_STMT(), reducer wrappery The use of the JUMP_LABEL() construct ends up creating endless silly wrappers, create a higher level construct to reduce this clutter. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Oct-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Optimize sw events Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Oct-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Use jump_labels to optimize the scheduler hooks Trades a call + conditional + ret for an unconditional jmp. Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20101014203625.501657727@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Oct-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix crash in hw_breakpoint creation hw_breakpoint creation needs to account stuff per-task to ensure there is always sufficient hardware resources to back these things due to ptrace. With the perf per pmu context changes the event initialization no longer has access to the event context, for the simple reason that we need to first find the pmu (result of initialization) before we can find the context. This makes hw_breakpoints unhappy, because it can no longer do per task accounting, cure this by frobbing a task pointer in the event::hw bits for now... Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20101014203625.391543667@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Oct-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers. Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also benefit. The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately. Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in processing the work. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [ various fixes ] Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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03-Oct-2010 |
Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> |
perf: New helper function for pmu name Introduce perf_pmu_name() helper function that returns the name of the pmu. This gives us a generic way to get the name of a pmu regardless of how an architecture identifies it internally. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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27-Sep-2010 |
Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> |
perf: Add helper function to return number of counters The number of counters for the registered pmu is needed in a few places so provide a helper function that returns this number. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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17-Sep-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Undo the per cpu-context timer stuff Revert the timer per cpu-context timers because of unfortunate nohz interaction. Fixing that would have been somewhat ugly, so go back to driving things from the regular tick. Provide a jiffies interval feature for people who want slower rotations. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <20100917093009.519845633@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Sep-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Complete software pmu grouping Aside from allowing software events into a !software group, allow adding !software events to pure software groups. Once we've moved the software group and attached the first !software event, the group will no longer be a pure software group and hence no longer be eligible for movement, at which point the straight ctx comparison is correct again. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20100917093009.410784731@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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13-Sep-2010 |
Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> |
perf events: Clean up pid passing The kernel perf event creation path shouldn't use find_task_by_vpid() because a vpid exists in a specific namespace. find_task_by_vpid() uses current's pid namespace which isn't always the correct namespace to use for the vpid in all the places perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and thus find_get_context()) is called. The goal is to clean up pid namespace handling and prevent bugs like: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 Instead of using pids switch find_get_context() to use task struct pointers directly. The syscall is responsible for resolving the pid to a task struct. This moves the pid namespace resolution into the syscall much like every other syscall that takes pid parameters. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <a134e5e392ab0204961fd1a62c84a222bf5874a9.1284407763.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Sep-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Fix up delayed_put_task_struct() I missed a perf_event_ctxp user when converting it to an array. Pull this last user into perf_event.c as well and fix it up. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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07-Sep-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Provide a separate task context for swevents Since software events are always schedulable, mixing them up with hardware events (who are not) can lead to funny scheduling oddities. Giving them their own context solves this. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Sep-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Multiple task contexts Provide the infrastructure for multiple task contexts. A more flexible approach would have resulted in more pointer chases in the scheduling hot-paths. This approach has the limitation of a static number of task contexts. Since I expect most external PMUs to be system wide, or at least node wide (as per the intel uncore unit) they won't actually need a task context. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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06-Sep-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Per-pmu-per-cpu contexts Allocate per-cpu contexts per pmu. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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06-Sep-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Per cpu-context rotation timer Give each cpu-context its own timer so that it is a self contained entity, this eases the way for per-pmu-per-cpu contexts as well as provides the basic infrastructure to allow different rotation times per pmu. Things to look at: - folding the tick and these TICK_NSEC timers - separate task context rotation Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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06-Sep-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Remove the swevent hash-table from the cpu context Separate the swevent hash-table from the cpu_context bits in preparation for per pmu cpu contexts. This keeps the swevent hash a global entity. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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06-Sep-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Remove the sysfs bits Neither the overcommit nor the reservation sysfs parameter were actually working, remove them as they'll only get in the way. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Jun-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Rework the PMU methods Replace pmu::{enable,disable,start,stop,unthrottle} with pmu::{add,del,start,stop}, all of which take a flags argument. The new interface extends the capability to stop a counter while keeping it scheduled on the PMU. We replace the throttled state with the generic stopped state. This also allows us to efficiently stop/start counters over certain code paths (like IRQ handlers). It also allows scheduling a counter without it starting, allowing for a generic frozen state (useful for rotating stopped counters). The stopped state is implemented in two different ways, depending on how the architecture implemented the throttled state: 1) We disable the counter: a) the pmu has per-counter enable bits, we flip that b) we program a NOP event, preserving the counter state 2) We store the counter state and ignore all read/overflow events Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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23-Jun-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Shrink hw_perf_event Use hw_perf_event::period_left instead of hw_perf_event::remaining and win back 8 bytes. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Jun-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Default PMU ops Provide default implementations for the pmu txn methods, this allows us to remove some conditional code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Jun-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Per PMU disable Changes perf_disable() into perf_pmu_disable(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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11-Jun-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Reduce perf_disable() usage Since the current perf_disable() usage is only an optimization, remove it for now. This eases the removal of the __weak hw_perf_enable() interface. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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11-Jun-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Register PMU implementations Simple registration interface for struct pmu, this provides the infrastructure for removing all the weak functions. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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11-Jun-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Deconstify struct pmu sed -ie 's/const struct pmu\>/struct pmu/g' `git grep -l "const struct pmu\>"` Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Aug-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Humanize the number of contexts Instead of hardcoding the number of contexts for the recursions barriers, define a cpp constant to make the code more self-explanatory. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
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01-Jul-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Fix race in callchains Now that software events don't have interrupt disabled anymore in the event path, callchains can nest on any context. So seperating nmi and others contexts in two buffers has become racy. Fix this by providing one buffer per nesting level. Given the size of the callchain entries (2040 bytes * 4), we now need to allocate them dynamically. v2: Fixed put_callchain_entry call after recursion. Fix the type of the recursion, it must be an array. v3: Use a manual pr cpu allocation (temporary solution until NMIs can safely access vmalloc'ed memory). Do a better separation between callchain reference tracking and allocation. Make the "put" path lockless for non-release cases. v4: Protect the callchain buffers with rcu. v5: Do the cpu buffers allocations node affine. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
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30-Jun-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Generalize some arch callchain code - Most archs use one callchain buffer per cpu, except x86 that needs to deal with NMIs. Provide a default perf_callchain_buffer() implementation that x86 overrides. - Centralize all the kernel/user regs handling and invoke new arch handlers from there: perf_callchain_user() / perf_callchain_kernel() That avoid all the user_mode(), current->mm checks and so... - Invert some parameters in perf_callchain_*() helpers: entry to the left, regs to the right, following the traditional (dst, src). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
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29-Jun-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Generalize callchain_store() callchain_store() is the same on every archs, inline it in perf_event.h and rename it to perf_callchain_store() to avoid any collision. This removes repetitive code. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
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22-Jun-2010 |
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com> |
perf: Fix argument of perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs "struct regs" was set to argument of perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs off-case. It should be "struct pt_regs". This fixes various build errors in archs that have CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y but no overriden implementation of perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs. cc1: warnings being treated as errors In file included from include/linux/ftrace_event.h:8, from include/trace/syscall.h:6, from include/linux/syscalls.h:75, from arch/sh/kernel/sys_sh32.c:9: include/linux/perf_event.h:937: error: 'struct regs' declared inside parameter list include/linux/perf_event.h:937: error: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want include/linux/perf_event.h: In function 'perf_fetch_caller_regs': include/linux/perf_event.h:952: error: passing argument 1 of 'perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs' from incompatible pointer type Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <AANLkTinKKFKEBQrZ3Hkj-XCaMwaTqulb-XnFzqEYiFRr@mail.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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23-Jun-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
hw_breakpoints: Fix per task breakpoint tracking Freeing a perf event can happen in several ways. A task calls perf_event_exit_task() right before exiting. This helper will detach all the events from the task context and queue their removal through free_event() if they are child tasks. The task also loses its context reference there. Releasing the breakpoint slot from the constraint table is made from free_event() that calls release_bp_slot(). We count the number of breakpoints this task is running by looking at the task's perf_event_ctxp and iterating through its attached events. But at this time, the reference to this context has been cleaned up already. So looking at the event->ctx instead of task->perf_event_ctxp to count the remaining breakpoints should solve the problem. At least it would for child breakpoints, but not for parent ones. If the parent exits before the child, it will remove all its events from the context but free_event() will be called later, on fd release time. And checking the number of breakpoints the task has attached to its context at this time is unreliable as all events have been removed from the context. To solve this, we keep track of the list of per task breakpoints. On top of it, we maintain our array of numbers of breakpoints used by the tasks. We use the context address as a task id. So, instead of looking at the number of events attached to a context, we walk through our list of per task breakpoints and count the number of breakpoints that use the same ctx than the one to be reserved or released from the constraint table, and update the count on top of this result. In the meantime it solves a bad refcounting, it also solves a warning, reported by Paul. Badness at /home/paulus/kernel/perf/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:114 NIP: c0000000000cb470 LR: c0000000000cb46c CTR: c00000000032d9b8 REGS: c000000118e7b570 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.35-rc3-perf-00008-g76b0f13 ) MSR: 9000000000029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR> CR: 44004424 XER: 000fffff TASK = c0000001187dcad0[3143] 'perf' THREAD: c000000118e78000 CPU: 1 GPR00: c0000000000cb46c c000000118e7b7f0 c0000000009866a0 0000000000000020 GPR04: 0000000000000000 000000000000001d 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 GPR08: c0000000009bed68 c00000000086dff8 c000000000a5bf10 0000000000000001 GPR12: 0000000024004422 c00000000ffff200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000018 00000000101150f4 GPR20: 0000000010206b40 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000101150f4 GPR24: c0000001199090c0 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 GPR28: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000008ec290 0000000000000000 NIP [c0000000000cb470] .task_bp_pinned+0x5c/0x12c LR [c0000000000cb46c] .task_bp_pinned+0x58/0x12c Call Trace: [c000000118e7b7f0] [c0000000000cb46c] .task_bp_pinned+0x58/0x12c (unreliable) [c000000118e7b8a0] [c0000000000cb584] .toggle_bp_task_slot+0x44/0xe4 [c000000118e7b940] [c0000000000cb6c8] .toggle_bp_slot+0xa4/0x164 [c000000118e7b9f0] [c0000000000cbafc] .release_bp_slot+0x44/0x6c [c000000118e7ba80] [c0000000000c4178] .bp_perf_event_destroy+0x10/0x24 [c000000118e7bb00] [c0000000000c4aec] .free_event+0x180/0x1bc [c000000118e7bbc0] [c0000000000c54c4] .perf_event_release_kernel+0x14c/0x170 Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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09-Jun-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Fix build breakage for architecutes without atomic64_t The local64.h include dependency was not dependent on PERF_EVENT=y, which meant that arch's without atomic64_t support ended up including it and failed to build. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
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21-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Convert perf_event to local_t Since now all modification to event->count (and ->prev_count and ->period_left) are local to a cpu, change then to local64_t so we avoid the LOCK'ed ops. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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21-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Add perf_event::child_count Only child counters adding back their values into the parent counter are responsible for cross-cpu updates to event->count. So if we pull that out into a new child_count variable, we get an event->count that is only modified locally. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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28-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Simplify the ring-buffer logic: make perf_buffer_alloc() do everything needed Currently there are perf_buffer_alloc() + perf_buffer_init() + some separate bits, fold it all into a single perf_buffer_alloc() and only leave the attachment to the event separate. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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28-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Rename perf_mmap_data to perf_buffer Rename to clarify code. s/perf_mmap_data/perf_buffer/g and selective s/data/buffer/g Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Cleanup {start,commit,cancel}_txn details Clarify some of the transactional group scheduling API details and change it so that a successfull ->commit_txn also closes the transaction. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1274803086.5882.1752.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-May-2010 |
Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> |
perf: Add non-exec mmap() tracking Add the capacility to track data mmap()s. This can be used together with PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR for data profiling. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> [Updated code for stable perf ABI] Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1274193049-25997-1-git-send-email-ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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21-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf, trace: Inline perf_swevent_put_recursion_context() Inline perf_swevent_put_recursion_context into perf_tp_event(), this shrinks the per trace template code footprint and saves a function call. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-May-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Drop the skip argument from perf_arch_fetch_regs_caller Drop this argument now that we always want to rewind only to the state of the first caller. It means frame pointers are not necessary anymore to reliably get the source of an event. But this also means we need this helper to be a macro now, as an inline function is not an option since we need to know when to provide a default implentation. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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08-Jun-2010 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
sched: define and use CPU_PRI_* enums for cpu notifier priorities Instead of hardcoding priority 10 and 20 in sched and perf, collect them into CPU_PRI_* enums. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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27-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf_events: Fix races in group composition Group siblings don't pin each-other or the parent, so when we destroy events we must make sure to clean up all cross referencing pointers. In particular, for destruction of a group leader we must be able to find all its siblings and remove their reference to it. This means that detaching an event from its context must not detach it from the group, otherwise we can end up failing to clear all pointers. Solve this by clearly separating the attachment to a context and attachment to a group, and keep the group composed until we destroy the events. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf_events: Fix races and clean up perf_event and perf_mmap_data interaction In order to move toward separate buffer objects, rework the whole perf_mmap_data construct to be a more self-sufficient entity, one with its own lifetime rules. This greatly sanitizes the whole output redirection code, which was riddled with bugs and races. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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20-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Remove more code from the fastpath Sanity checks cost instructions. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.852926930@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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20-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Optimize the !vmalloc backed buffer Reduce code and data by using the knowledge that for !PERF_USE_VMALLOC data_order is always 0. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.795019386@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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20-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Optimize perf_output_copy() Reduce the clutter in perf_output_copy() by keeping an interator in perf_output_handle. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.742809176@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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20-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Fix wakeup storm for RO mmap()s RO mmap()s don't update the tail pointer, so comparing against it for determining the written data size doesn't really do any good. Keep track of when we last did a wakeup, and compare against that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.684479310@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by using per-tracepoint-per-cpu hlist to track events Avoid the swevent hash-table by using per-tracepoint hlists. Also, avoid conditionals on the fast path by ordering with probe unregister so that we should never get on the callback path without the data being there. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.473188012@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Optimize perf_output_*() by avoiding local_xchg() Since the x86 XCHG ins implies LOCK, avoid the use by using a sequence count instead. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Optimize the hotpath by converting the perf output buffer to local_t Since there is now only a single writer, we can use local_t instead and avoid all these pesky LOCK insn. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Optimize the perf_output() path by removing IRQ-disables Since we can now assume there is only a single writer to each buffer, we can remove per-cpu lock thingy and use a simply nest-count to the same effect. This removes the need to disable IRQs. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf/ftrace: Optimize perf/tracepoint interaction for single events When we've got but a single event per tracepoint there is no reason to try and multiplex it so don't. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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11-May-2010 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
Revert "perf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUP" This reverts commit 4fd38e4595e2f6c9d27732c042a0e16b2753049c. It causes various crashes and hangs when events are activated. The cause is not fully understood yet but we need to revert it because the effects are severe. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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22-Apr-2010 |
Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> |
perf: Add group scheduling transactional APIs Add group scheduling transactional APIs to struct pmu. These APIs will be implemented in arch code, based on Peter's idea as below. > the idea behind hw_perf_group_sched_in() is to not perform > schedulability tests on each event in the group, but to add the group > as a whole and then perform one test. > > Of course, when that test fails, you'll have to roll-back the whole > group again. > > So start_txn (or a better name) would simply toggle a flag in the pmu > implementation that will make pmu::enable() not perform the > schedulablilty test. > > Then commit_txn() will perform the schedulability test (so note the > method has to have a !void return value. > > This will allow us to use the regular > kernel/perf_event.c::group_sched_in() and all the rollback code. > Currently each hw_perf_group_sched_in() implementation duplicates all > the rolllback code (with various bugs). ->start_txn: Start group events scheduling transaction, set a flag to make pmu::enable() not perform the schedulability test, it will be performed at commit time. ->commit_txn: Commit group events scheduling transaction, perform the group schedulability as a whole ->cancel_txn: Stop group events scheduling transaction, clear the flag so pmu::enable() will perform the schedulability test. Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1272002160.5707.60.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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08-Apr-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf, x86: Improve the PEBS ABI Rename perf_event_attr::precise to perf_event_attr::precise_ip and widen it to 2 bits. This new field describes the required precision of the PERF_SAMPLE_IP field: 0 - SAMPLE_IP can have arbitrary skid 1 - SAMPLE_IP must have constant skid 2 - SAMPLE_IP requested to have 0 skid 3 - SAMPLE_IP must have 0 skid And modify the Intel PEBS code accordingly. The PEBS implementation now supports up to precise_ip == 2, where we perform the IP fixup. Also s/PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT/&_IP/ to clarify its meaning, this bit should be set for each PERF_SAMPLE_IP field known to match the actual instruction triggering the event. This new scheme allows for a PEBS mode that uses the buffer for more than a single event. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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06-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUP Both Stephane and Corey reported that PERF_FORMAT_GROUP didn't work as expected if the task the counters were attached to quit before the read() call. The cause is that we unconditionally destroy the grouping when we remove counters from their context. Fix this by only doing this when we free the counter itself. Reported-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1273160566.5605.404.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-Apr-2010 |
Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> |
perf & kvm: Clean up some of the guest profiling callback API details Fix some build bug and programming style issues: - use valid C - fix up various style details Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: oerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com> Cc: zhiteng.huang@intel.com Cc: tim.c.chen@intel.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1271729638.2078.624.camel@ymzhang.sh.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-Apr-2010 |
Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> |
perf: Enhance perf to allow for guest statistic collection from host Below patch introduces perf_guest_info_callbacks and related register/unregister functions. Add more PERF_RECORD_MISC_XXX bits meaning guest kernel and guest user space. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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05-Apr-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Store active software events in a hashlist Each time a software event triggers, we need to walk through the entire list of events from the current cpu and task contexts to retrieve a running perf event that matches. We also need to check a matching perf event is actually counting. This walk is wasteful and makes the event fast path scaling down with a growing number of events running on the same contexts. To solve this, we store the running perf events in a hashlist to get an immediate access to them against their type:event_id when they trigger. v2: - Fix SWEVENT_HLIST_SIZE definition (and re-learn some basic maths along the way) - Only allocate hlist for online cpus, but keep track of the refcount on offline possible cpus too, so that we allocate it if needed when it becomes online. - Drop the kref use as it's not adapted to our tricks anymore. v3: - Fix bad refcount check (address instead of value). Thanks to Eric Dumazet who spotted this. - While exiting cpu, move the hlist release out of the IPI path to lock the hlist mutex sanely. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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22-Mar-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Use hot regs with software sched switch/migrate events Scheduler's task migration events don't work because they always pass NULL regs perf_sw_event(). The event hence gets filtered in perf_swevent_add(). Scheduler's context switches events use task_pt_regs() to get the context when the event occured which is a wrong thing to do as this won't give us the place in the kernel where we went to sleep but the place where we left userspace. The result is even more wrong if we switch from a kernel thread. Use the hot regs snapshot for both events as they belong to the non-interrupt/exception based events family. Unlike page faults or so that provide the regs matching the exact origin of the event, we need to save the current context. This makes the task migration event working and fix the context switch callchains and origin ip. Example: perf record -a -e cs Before: 10.91% ksoftirqd/0 0 [k] 0000000000000000 | --- (nil) perf_callchain perf_prepare_sample __perf_event_overflow perf_swevent_overflow perf_swevent_add perf_swevent_ctx_event do_perf_sw_event __perf_sw_event perf_event_task_sched_out schedule run_ksoftirqd kthread kernel_thread_helper After: 23.77% hald-addon-stor [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule | --- schedule | |--60.00%-- schedule_timeout | wait_for_common | wait_for_completion | blk_execute_rq | scsi_execute | scsi_execute_req | sr_test_unit_ready | | | |--66.67%-- sr_media_change | | media_changed | | cdrom_media_changed | | sr_block_media_changed | | check_disk_change | | cdrom_open v2: Always build perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() now that software events need that too. They don't need it from modules, unlike trace events, so we keep the EXPORT_SYMBOL in trace_event_perf.c Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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11-Mar-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf, ppc: Fix compile error due to new cpu notifiers Fix: arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c:1334: error: 'power_pmu_notifier' undeclared (first use in this function) arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c:1334: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c:1334: error: for each function it appears in.) arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c:1334: error: implicit declaration of function 'power_pmu_notifier' arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c:1334: error: implicit declaration of function 'register_cpu_notifier' Due to commit 3f6da390 (perf: Rework and fix the arch CPU-hotplug hooks). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Mar-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Introduce new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for hot regs snapshot Events that trigger overflows by interrupting a context can use get_irq_regs() or task_pt_regs() to retrieve the state when the event triggered. But this is not the case for some other class of events like trace events as tracepoints are executed in the same context than the code that triggered the event. It means we need a different api to capture the regs there, namely we need a hot snapshot to get the most important informations for perf: the instruction pointer to get the event origin, the frame pointer for the callchain, the code segment for user_mode() tests (we always use __KERNEL_CS as trace events always occur from the kernel) and the eflags for further purposes. v2: rename perf_save_regs to perf_fetch_caller_regs as per Masami's suggestion. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
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03-Mar-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf, x86: use LBR for PEBS IP+1 fixup Use the LBR to fix up the PEBS IP+1 issue. As said, PEBS reports the next instruction, here we use the LBR to find the last branch and from that construct the actual IP. If the IP matches the LBR-TO, we use LBR-FROM, otherwise we use the LBR-TO address as the beginning of the last basic block and decode forward. Once we find a match to the current IP, we use the previous location. This patch introduces a new ABI element: PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT, which conveys that the reported IP (PERF_SAMPLE_IP) is the exact instruction that caused the event (barring CPU errata). The fixup can fail due to various reasons: 1) LBR contains invalid data (quite possible) 2) part of the basic block got paged out 3) the reported IP isn't part of the basic block (see 1) Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.619375431@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Mar-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf, x86: Implement simple LBR support Implement simple suport Intel Last-Branch-Record, it supports all hardware that implements FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI, but does not (yet) implement the LBR config register. The Intel LBR is a FIFO of From,To addresses describing the last few branches the hardware took. This patch does not add perf interface to the LBR, but merely provides an interface for internal use. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.544191154@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Mar-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf, x86: Add PEBS infrastructure This patch implements support for Intel Precise Event Based Sampling, which is an alternative counter mode in which the counter triggers a hardware assist to collect information on events. The hardware assist takes a trap like snapshot of a subset of the machine registers. This data is written to the Intel Debug-Store, which can be programmed with a data threshold at which to raise a PMI. With the PEBS hardware assist being trap like, the reported IP is always one instruction after the actual instruction that triggered the event. This implements a simple PEBS model that always takes a single PEBS event at a time. This is done so that the interaction with the rest of the system is as expected (freq adjust, period randomization, lbr, callchains, etc.). It adds an ABI element: perf_event_attr::precise, which indicates that we wish to use this (constrained, but precise) mode. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.392111285@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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05-Mar-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Rework and fix the arch CPU-hotplug hooks Remove the hw_perf_event_*() hotplug hooks in favour of per PMU hotplug notifiers. This has the advantage of reducing the static weak interface as well as exposing all hotplug actions to the PMU. Use this to fix x86 hotplug usage where we did things in ONLINE which should have been done in UP_PREPARE or STARTING. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20100305154128.736225361@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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03-Mar-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Provide generic perf_sample_data initialization This makes it easier to extend perf_sample_data and fixes a bug on arm and sparc, which failed to set ->raw to NULL, which can cause crashes when combined with PERF_SAMPLE_RAW. It also optimizes PowerPC and tracepoint, because the struct initialization is forced to zero out the whole structure. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jpihet@mvista.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.315416040@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Mar-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf, x86: Restrict the ANY flag The ANY flag can show SMT data of another task (like 'top'), so we want to disable it when system-wide profiling is disabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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27-Feb-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Remove pointless breakpoint union Remove pointless union in the breakpoint field of hw_perf_event. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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11-Feb-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf_events: Simplify code by removing cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() Since the cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() is always smp_processor_id(), simplify the code a little by removing this argument and using the current cpu where needed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1265890918.5396.3.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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08-Feb-2010 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacks In certain situations, the kernel may need to stop and start the same event rapidly. The current PMU callbacks do not distinguish between stop and release (i.e., stop + free the resource). Thus, a counter may be released, then it will be immediately re-acquired. Event scheduling will again take place with no guarantee to assign the same counter. On some processors, this may event yield to failure to assign the event back due to competion between cores. This patch is adding a new pair of callback to stop and restart a counter without actually release the underlying counter resource. On stop, the counter is stopped, its values saved and that's it. On start, the value is reloaded and counter is restarted (on x86, actual restart is delayed until perf_enable()). Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ added fallback to ->enable/->disable for all other PMUs fixed x86_pmu_start() to call x86_pmu.enable() merged __x86_pmu_disable into x86_pmu_stop() ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4b703875.0a04d00a.7896.ffffb824@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Feb-2010 |
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> |
perf_events, x86: Fix bug in hw_perf_enable() We cannot assume that because hwc->idx == assign[i], we can avoid reprogramming the counter in hw_perf_enable(). The event may have been scheduled out and another event may have been programmed into this counter. Thus, we need a more robust way of verifying if the counter still contains config/data related to an event. This patch adds a generation number to each counter on each cpu. Using this mechanism we can verify reliabilty whether the content of a counter corresponds to an event. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4b66dc67.0b38560a.1635.ffffae18@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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29-Jan-2010 |
Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
perf: Make bp_len type to u64 generic across the arch Change 'bp_len' type to __u64 to make it work across archs as the s390 architecture watch point length can be upto 2^64. reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/25/212 This is an ABI change that is not backward compatible with the previous hardware breakpoint info layout integrated in this development cycle, a rebuilt of perf tools is necessary for versions based on 2.6.33-rc1 - 2.6.33-rc6 to work with a kernel based on this patch. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100130045518.GA20776@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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27-Jan-2010 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
perf, x86: Clean up event constraints code a bit - Remove stray debug code - Improve ugly macros a bit - Remove some whitespace damage - (Also fix up some accumulated damage in perf_event.h) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
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26-Jan-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Reimplement frequency driven sampling There was a bug in the old period code that caused intel_pmu_enable_all() or native_write_msr_safe() to show up quite high in the profiles. In staring at that code it made my head hurt, so I rewrote it in a hopefully simpler fashion. Its now fully symetric between tick and overflow driven adjustments and uses less data to boot. The only complication is that it basically wants to do a u128 division. The code approximates that in a rather simple truncate until it fits fashion, taking care to balance the terms while truncating. This version does not generate that sampling artefact. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-Jan-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Change the is_software_event() definition The is_software_event() definition always confuses me because its an exclusive expression, make it an inclusive one. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jan-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Export software-only event group characteristic as a flag Before scheduling an event group, we first check if a group can go on. We first check if the group is made of software only events first, in which case it is enough to know if the group can be scheduled in. For that purpose, we iterate through the whole group, which is wasteful as we could do this check when we add/delete an event to a group. So we create a group_flags field in perf event that can host characteristics from a group of events, starting with a first PERF_GROUP_SOFTWARE flag that reduces the check on the fast path. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
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09-Jan-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf/core: Split context's event group list into pinned and non-pinned lists Split-up struct perf_event_context::group_list into pinned_groups and flexible_groups (non-pinned). This first appears to be useless as it duplicates various loops around the group list handlings. But it scales better in the fast-path in perf_sched_in(). We don't anymore iterate twice through the entire list to separate pinned and non-pinned scheduling. Instead we interate through two distinct lists. The another desired effect is that it makes easier to define distinct scheduling rules on both. Changes in v2: - Respectively rename pinned_grp_list and volatile_grp_list into pinned_groups and flexible_groups as per Ingo suggestion. - Various cleanups Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
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20-Dec-2009 |
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> |
perf events: Remove CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE Quoted from Ingo: | This reminds me - i think we should eliminate CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE - | it's an unnecessary Kconfig complication. If both PERF_EVENTS and | EVENT_TRACING is enabled we should expose generic tracepoints. | | Nor is it limited to event 'profiling', so it has become a misnomer as | well. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4B2F1557.2050705@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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27-Dec-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf events: Remove arg from perf sched hooks Since we only ever schedule the local cpu, there is no need to pass the cpu number to the perf sched hooks. This micro-optimizes things a bit. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Dec-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf_events: Fix perf_event_attr layout The miss-alignment of bp_addr created a 32bit hole, causing different structure packings on 32 and 64 bit machines. Fix that by moving __reserve_2 into that hole. Further, remove the useless struct and redundant __bp_reserve muck. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1260902591.8023.781.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Nov-2009 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
perf_event: Convert to raw_spinlock Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Dec-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
hw-breakpoints: Modify breakpoints without unregistering them Currently, when ptrace needs to modify a breakpoint, like disabling it, changing its address, type or len, it calls modify_user_hw_breakpoint(). This latter will perform the heavy and racy task of unregistering the old breakpoint and registering a new one. This is racy as someone else might steal the reserved breakpoint slot under us, which is undesired as the breakpoint is only supposed to be modified, sometimes in the middle of a debugging workflow. We don't want our slot to be stolen in the middle. So instead of unregistering/registering the breakpoint, just disable it while we modify its breakpoint fields and re-enable it after if necessary. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1260347148-5519-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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07-Dec-2009 |
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> |
perf events: hw_breakpoints: Don't include asm/hw_breakpoint.h in user space asm/hw_breakpoint.h is evidently a kernel internal file and should not be included globally, not even under an #ifdef. Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <200912071712.58650.arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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05-Dec-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Remove the "event" callback from perf events As it is not used anymore and has been superseded by overflow_handler. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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05-Dec-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
hw-breakpoints: Use overflow handler instead of the event callback struct perf_event::event callback was called when a breakpoint triggers. But this is a rather opaque callback, pretty tied-only to the breakpoint API and not really integrated into perf as it triggers even when we don't overflow. We prefer to use overflow_handler() as it fits into the perf events rules, being called only when we overflow. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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03-Dec-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Remove unused struct perf_event::event_callback This field might result from an older manual rebasing mistake. We don't use it. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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03-Dec-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf: Remove pointless union that wraps the hw breakpoint fields It stands to anonymize a structure, but structures can already anonymize by themselves. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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03-Dec-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
hw-breakpoints: Add two reserved fields for future extensions Add two reserved fields for future extensions in the hardware breakpoints interface. Further needs may arise. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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23-Nov-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf_events: Undo some recursion damage Make perf_swevent_get_recursion_context return a context number and disable preemption. This could be used to remove the IRQ disable from the trace bit and index the per-cpu buffer with. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20091123103819.993226816@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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21-Nov-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
tracing: Use the perf recursion protection from trace event When we commit a trace to perf, we first check if we are recursing in the same buffer so that we don't mess-up the buffer with a recursing trace. But later on, we do the same check from perf to avoid commit recursion. The recursion check is desired early before we touch the buffer but we want to do this check only once. Then export the recursion protection from perf and use it from the trace events before submitting a trace. v2: Put appropriate Reported-by tag Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1258864015-10579-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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20-Nov-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Fix event scaling for inherited counters Properly account the full hierarchy of counters for both the count (we already did so) and the scale times (new). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20091120212509.153379276@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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20-Nov-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Allow for custom overflow handlers in-kernel perf users might wish to have custom actions on the sample interrupt. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20091120212508.222339539@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Nov-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf_event: Optimize perf_output_lock() The purpose of perf_output_{un,}lock() is to: 1) avoid publishing incomplete data [ possible when publishing a head that is ahead of an entry that is still being written ] 2) guarantee fwd progress [ a simple refcount on pending writers doesn't need to drop to 0, making it so would end up implementing something like forced quiecent states of RCU ] To satisfy the above without undue complexity it serializes between CPUs, this means that a pending writer can only be the same cpu in a nested context, and since (under normal operation) a cpu always makes progress we're good -- if the head is only published when the bottom most writer completes. Now we don't need to disable IRQs in order to serialize between CPUs, disabling preemption ought to be sufficient, esp since we already deal with nesting due to NMIs. This avoids potentially expensive (and needless) local IRQ disable/enable ops. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1258373161.26714.254.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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13-Nov-2009 |
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> |
perf_event: Fix invalid type in ioctl definition u64 is invalid in userspace headers, including ioctl definitions; use __u64 instead Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <20091113214733.7cd76be9@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Sep-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of perf events instances. Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc.. The new layering is now made as follows: ptrace kgdb ftrace perf syscall \ | / / \ | / / / Core breakpoint API / / | / | / Breakpoints perf events | | Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling (Part of core breakpoint API) | | Hardware debug registers Reasons of this rewrite: - Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling, implying an easier arch integration - More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...) Impact: - New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters - Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per thread breakpoints references. Todo (in the order): - Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement perf_bpcounter_event()) - Support from perf tools Changes in v2: - Follow the perf "event " rename - The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events weren't released when a task ended) - Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in perf_event_attr. - Separate core and arch specific headers, drop asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h - Use new generic len/type for breakpoint - Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch Changes in v3: - Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers to the host. Changes in v4: - Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a module - Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit: TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be set when the guest used debug registers. (Waiting for a reliable optimization) Changes in v5: - Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch - Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up address registers. - Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild - Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c Changes in v6: - Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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18-Oct-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
perf/core: Add a callback to perf events A simple callback in a perf event can be used for multiple purposes. For example it is useful for triggered based events like hardware breakpoints that need a callback to dispatch a triggered breakpoint event. v2: Simplify a bit the callback attribution as suggested by Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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24-Sep-2009 |
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> |
perf/core: Provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters There are reasons for kernel code to ask for, and use, performance counters. For example, in CPU freq governors this tends to be a good idea, but there are other examples possible as well of course. This patch adds the needed bits to do enable this functionality; they have been tested in an experimental cpufreq driver that I'm working on, and the changes are all that I needed to access counters properly. [fweisbec@gmail.com: added pid to perf_event_create_kernel_counter so that we can profile a particular task too TODO: Have a better error reporting, don't just return NULL in fail case.] v2: Remove the wrong comment about the fact perf_event_create_kernel_counter must be called from a kernel thread. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090925122556.2f8bd939@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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17-Oct-2009 |
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> |
perf_event: Add alignment-faults and emulation-faults software events Add two more software events that are common to many cpus. Alignment faults: When a load or store is not aligned properly. Emulation faults: When an instruction is emulated in software. Both cause a very significant slowdown (100x or worse), so identifying and fixing them is very important. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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15-Sep-2009 |
Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk> |
perf events: Fix swevent hrtimer sampling by keeping track of remaining time when enabling/disabling swevent hrtimers Make the hrtimer based events work for sysprof. Whenever a swevent is scheduled out, the hrtimer is canceled. When it is scheduled back in, the timer is restarted. This happens every scheduler tick, which means the timer never expired because it was getting repeatedly restarted over and over with the same period. To fix that, save the remaining time when disabling; when reenabling, use that saved time as the period instead of the user-specified sampling period. Also, move the starting and stopping of the hrtimers to helper functions instead of duplicating the code. Signed-off-by: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <ye8vdi7mluz.fsf@camel16.daimi.au.dk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Oct-2009 |
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> |
tracing/profile: Add filter support - Add an ioctl to allocate a filter for a perf event. - Free the filter when the associated perf event is to be freed. - Do the filtering in perf_swevent_match(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4AD69546.8050401@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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21-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing Some architectures such as Sparc, ARM and MIPS (basically everything with flush_dcache_page()) need to deal with dcache aliases by carefully placing pages in both kernel and user maps. These architectures typically have to use vmalloc_user() for this. However, on other architectures, vmalloc() is not needed and has the downsides of being more restricted and slower than regular allocations. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1254830228.21044.272.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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22-Sep-2009 |
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> |
perf_event: Update PERF_EVENT_FORK header definition PERF_EVENT_FORK always outputs the time field, so update the header to reflect this. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090922123424.GD19453@kryten> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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20-Sep-2009 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
perf: Tidy up after the big rename - provide compatibility Kconfig entry for existing PERF_COUNTERS .config's - provide courtesy copy of old perf_counter.h, for user-space projects - small indentation fixups - fix up MAINTAINERS - fix small x86 printout fallout - fix up small PowerPC comment fallout (use 'counter' as in register) Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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20-Sep-2009 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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