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>

1 files changed, 74 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 12b5ec39bf9..02d4ff041b0 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -1725,6 +1725,26 @@ static int perf_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
         return 0;
 }
 
+int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+        struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx;
+
+        WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->parent_ctx);
+        mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex);
+        perf_event_remove_from_context(event);
+        mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
+
+        mutex_lock(&event->owner->perf_event_mutex);
+        list_del_init(&event->owner_entry);
+        mutex_unlock(&event->owner->perf_event_mutex);
+        put_task_struct(event->owner);
+
+        free_event(event);
+
+        return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_event_release_kernel);
+
 static int perf_event_read_size(struct perf_event *event)
 {
         int entry = sizeof(u64); /* value */
@@ -1750,7 +1770,7 @@ static int perf_event_read_size(struct perf_event *event)
         return size;
 }
 
-static u64 perf_event_read_value(struct perf_event *event)
+u64 perf_event_read_value(struct perf_event *event)
 {
         struct perf_event *child;
         u64 total = 0;
@@ -1761,6 +1781,7 @@ static u64 perf_event_read_value(struct perf_event *event)
 
         return total;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_event_read_value);
 
 static int perf_event_read_entry(struct perf_event *event,
                                    u64 read_format, char __user *buf)
@@ -4638,6 +4659,58 @@ err_put_context:
         return err;
 }
 
+/**
+ * perf_event_create_kernel_counter
+ *
+ * @attr: attributes of the counter to create
+ * @cpu: cpu in which the counter is bound
+ * @pid: task to profile
+ */
+struct perf_event *
+perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
+                                 pid_t pid)
+{
+        struct perf_event *event;
+        struct perf_event_context *ctx;
+        int err;
+
+        /*
+         * Get the target context (task or percpu):
+         */
+
+        ctx = find_get_context(pid, cpu);
+        if (IS_ERR(ctx))
+                return NULL ;
+
+        event = perf_event_alloc(attr, cpu, ctx, NULL,
+                                     NULL, GFP_KERNEL);
+        err = PTR_ERR(event);
+        if (IS_ERR(event))
+                goto err_put_context;
+
+        event->filp = NULL;
+        WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->parent_ctx);
+        mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex);
+        perf_install_in_context(ctx, event, cpu);
+        ++ctx->generation;
+        mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
+
+        event->owner = current;
+        get_task_struct(current);
+        mutex_lock(&current->perf_event_mutex);
+        list_add_tail(&event->owner_entry, &current->perf_event_list);
+        mutex_unlock(&current->perf_event_mutex);
+
+        return event;
+
+err_put_context:
+        if (err < 0)
+                put_ctx(ctx);
+
+        return NULL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_event_create_kernel_counter);
+
 /*
  * inherit a event from parent task to child task:
  */