perf_counter: Fix/complete ftrace event records sampling

This patch implements the kernel side support for ftrace event
record sampling.

A new counter sampling attribute is added:

   PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD

which requests ftrace events record sampling. In this case
if a PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT counter is active and a tracepoint
fires, we emit the tracepoint binary record to the
perfcounter event buffer, as a sample.

Result, after setting PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD attribute from perf
record:

 perf record -f -F 1 -a -e workqueue:workqueue_execution
 perf report -D

 0x21e18 [0x48]: event: 9
 .
 . ... raw event: size 72 bytes
 .  0000:  09 00 00 00 01 00 48 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff  ......H........
 .  0010:  0a 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........!......
 .  0020:  2b 00 01 02 0a 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 65 76 65 6e  +...........eve
 .  0030:  74 73 2f 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00  ts/1...........
 .  0040:  e0 b1 31 81 ff ff ff ff                          .......
.
0x21e18 [0x48]: PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE (IP, 1): 10: 0xffffffff8100c7d0 period: 33

The raw ftrace binary record starts at offset 0020.

Translation:

 struct trace_entry {
	type		= 0x2b = 43;
	flags		= 1;
	preempt_count	= 2;
	pid		= 0xa = 10;
	tgid		= 0xa = 10;
 }

 thread_comm = "events/1"
 thread_pid  = 0xa = 10;
 func	    = 0xffffffff8131b1e0 = flush_to_ldisc()

What will come next?

 - Userspace support ('perf trace'), 'flight data recorder' mode
   for perf trace, etc.

 - The unconditional copy from the profiling callback brings
   some costs however if someone wants no such sampling to
   occur, and needs to be fixed in the future. For that we need
   to have an instant access to the perf counter attribute.
   This is a matter of a flag to add in the struct ftrace_event.

 - Take care of the events recursivity! Don't ever try to record
   a lock event for example, it seems some locking is used in
   the profiling fast path and lead to a tracing recursivity.
   That will be fixed using raw spinlock or recursivity
   protection.

 - [...]

 - Profit! :-)

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
index d7cd193c2277..a81170de7f6b 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ enum print_line_t {
         TRACE_TYPE_NO_CONSUME   = 3     /* Handled but ask to not consume */
 };
 
-
+void tracing_generic_entry_update(struct trace_entry *entry,
+                                  unsigned long flags,
+                                  int pc);
 struct ring_buffer_event *
 trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve(int type, unsigned long len,
                                   unsigned long flags, int pc);
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index e604e6ef72dd..a67dd5c5b6d3 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -121,8 +121,9 @@ enum perf_counter_sample_format {
         PERF_SAMPLE_CPU                         = 1U << 7,
         PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD                      = 1U << 8,
         PERF_SAMPLE_STREAM_ID                   = 1U << 9,
+        PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD                   = 1U << 10,
 
-        PERF_SAMPLE_MAX = 1U << 10,             /* non-ABI */
+        PERF_SAMPLE_MAX = 1U << 11,             /* non-ABI */
 };
 
 /*
@@ -413,6 +414,11 @@ struct perf_callchain_entry {
         __u64                           ip[PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH];
 };
 
+struct perf_tracepoint_record {
+        int                             size;
+        char                            *record;
+};
+
 struct task_struct;
 
 /**
@@ -681,6 +687,7 @@ struct perf_sample_data {
         struct pt_regs                  *regs;
         u64                             addr;
         u64                             period;
+        void                            *private;
 };
 
 extern int perf_counter_overflow(struct perf_counter *counter, int nmi,