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* Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2015-02-16
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "This series tightens up RDPMC permissions: currently even highly sandboxed x86 execution environments (such as seccomp) have permission to execute RDPMC, which may leak various perf events / PMU state such as timing information and other CPU execution details. This 'all is allowed' RDPMC mode is still preserved as the (non-default) /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 setting. The new default is that RDPMC access is only allowed if a perf event is mmap-ed (which is needed to correctly interpret RDPMC counter values in any case). As a side effect of these changes CR4 handling is cleaned up in the x86 code and a shadow copy of the CR4 value is added. The extra CR4 manipulation adds ~ <50ns to the context switch cost between rdpmc-capable and rdpmc-non-capable mms" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf/x86: Add /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 to allow rdpmc for all tasks perf/x86: Only allow rdpmc if a perf_event is mapped perf: Pass the event to arch_perf_update_userpage() perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping x86: Add a comment clarifying LDT context switching x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4 x86: Clean up cr4 manipulation
| * perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmappingAndy Lutomirski2015-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | Merge tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds2015-02-11
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: - Update of all defconfigs - Addition of a bunch of config options to modernise our defconfigs - Some PS3 updates from Geoff - Optimised memcmp for 64 bit from Anton - Fix for kprobes that allows 'perf probe' to work from Naveen - Several cxl updates from Ian & Ryan - Expanded support for the '24x7' PMU from Cody & Sukadev - Freescale updates from Scott: "Highlights include 8xx optimizations, some more work on datapath device tree content, e300 machine check support, t1040 corenet error reporting, and various cleanups and fixes" * tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (102 commits) cxl: Add missing return statement after handling AFU errror cxl: Fail AFU initialisation if an invalid configuration record is found cxl: Export optional AFU configuration record in sysfs powerpc/mm: Warn on flushing tlb page in kernel context powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL soft-poweroff routine powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Document sysfs event description entries powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events perf: define EVENT_DEFINE_RANGE_FORMAT_LITE helper perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr powerpc/kernel: Avoid initializing device-tree pointer twice powerpc: Remove old compile time disabled syscall tracing code powerpc/kernel: Make syscall_exit a local label cxl: Fix device_node reference counting powerpc/mm: bail out early when flushing TLB page powerpc: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency for M25P80) perf/powerpc: reset event hw state when adding it to the PMU powerpc/qe: Use strlcpy() ...
| * perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helperCody P Schafer2015-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attrCody P Schafer2015-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (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>
* | perf: Decouple unthrottling and rotatingMark Rutland2015-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixesIngo Molnar2015-01-28
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * | perf: Tighten (and fix) the grouping conditionPeter Zijlstra2015-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | perf: Avoid horrible stack usagePeter Zijlstra (Intel)2015-01-14
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* / perf: Move task_pt_regs sampling into arch codeAndy Lutomirski2015-01-09
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* perf: Improve the perf_sample_data struct layoutPeter Zijlstra2014-11-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* perf: Add ability to sample machine state on interruptStephane Eranian2014-11-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* perf: Add PERF_EVENT_STATE_EXIT state for events with exited taskJiri Olsa2014-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* perf/x86: Fix data source encoding issues for load latency/precise storeStephane Eranian2014-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* perf: Add queued work to remove orphaned child eventsJiri Olsa2014-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm eventsAdrian Hunter2014-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to resolve conflict and to ↵Ingo Molnar2014-06-06
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | prepare for new patches Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/traps.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumptionPeter Zijlstra2014-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * perf: Fix a race between ring_buffer_detach() and ring_buffer_attach()Peter Zijlstra2014-05-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interruptVince Weaver2014-06-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | perf: Allow building PMU drivers as modulesYan, Zheng2014-04-18
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* CPU hotplug, perf: Fix CPU hotplug callback registrationSrivatsa S. Bhat2014-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* perf/x86: Fix active_entry initializationStephane Eranian2014-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* perf: Add active_entry list head to struct perf_eventStephane Eranian2013-11-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* perf: Add generic transaction flagsAndi Kleen2013-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* perf: Fix perf_pmu_migrate_contextPeter Zijlstra2013-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge branch 'x86-spinlocks-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-09-04
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 spinlock changes from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest change here are paravirtualized ticket spinlocks (PV spinlocks), which bring a nice speedup on various benchmarks. The KVM host side will come to you via the KVM tree" * 'x86-spinlocks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/kvm/guest: Fix sparse warning: "symbol 'klock_waiting' was not declared as static" kvm: Paravirtual ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor kvm guest: Add configuration support to enable debug information for KVM Guests kvm uapi: Add KICK_CPU and PV_UNHALT definition to uapi xen, pvticketlock: Allow interrupts to be enabled while blocking x86, ticketlock: Add slowpath logic jump_label: Split jumplabel ratelimit x86, pvticketlock: When paravirtualizing ticket locks, increment by 2 x86, pvticketlock: Use callee-save for lock_spinning xen, pvticketlocks: Add xen_nopvspin parameter to disable xen pv ticketlocks xen, pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup x86, ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions x86, ticketlock: Don't inline _spin_unlock when using paravirt spinlocks x86, spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks
| * jump_label: Split jumplabel ratelimitAndrew Jones2013-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | perf: Export struct perf_branch_entry to userspaceVince Weaver2013-09-02
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel filesPaul Gortmaker2013-07-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-07-02
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes: - load-calculation cleanups and improvements, by Alex Shi - various nohz related tidying up of statisics, by Frederic Weisbecker - factor out /proc functions to kernel/sched/proc.c, by Paul Gortmaker - simplify the RT policy scheduler, by Kirill Tkhai - various fixes and cleanups" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits) sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED mask sched/debug: Fix formatting of /proc/<PID>/sched sched: Fix typo in struct sched_avg member description sched/fair: Fix typo describing flags in enqueue_entity sched/debug: Add load-tracking statistics to task sched: Change get_rq_runnable_load() to static and inline sched/tg: Remove tg.load_weight sched/cfs_rq: Change atomic64_t removed_load to atomic_long_t sched/tg: Use 'unsigned long' for load variable in task group sched: Change cfs_rq load avg to unsigned long sched: Consider runnable load average in move_tasks() sched: Compute runnable load avg in cpu_load and cpu_avg_load_per_task sched: Update cpu load after task_tick sched: Fix sleep time double accounting in enqueue entity sched: Set an initial value of runnable avg for new forked task sched: Move a few runnable tg variables into CONFIG_SMP Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking" sched: Don't mix use of typedef ctl_table and struct ctl_table sched: Remove WARN_ON(!sd) from init_sched_groups_power() sched: Fix memory leakage in build_sched_groups() ...
| * Merge tag 'v3.10' into sched/coreIngo Molnar2013-07-01
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge in a recent upstream commit: c2853c8df57f include/linux/math64.h: add div64_ul() because: 72a4cf20cb71 sched: Change cfs_rq load avg to unsigned long relies on it. [ We don't rebase sched/core for this, because the handful of followup commits after the broken commit are not behavioral changes so are unlikely to be needed during bisection. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * | sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and DocumentationViresh Kumar2013-06-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slowDave Hansen2013-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | perf/x86/intel: Support Haswell/v4 LBR formatAndi Kleen2013-06-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | perf/x86: Reduce stack usage of x86_schedule_events()Andrew Hunter2013-06-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | perf: Add const qualifier to perf_pmu_register's 'name' argMischa Jonker2013-06-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar2013-06-19
|\ \ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | Merge in the latest fixes, to avoid conflicts with ongoing work. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * | perf: Fix perf mmap bugsPeter Zijlstra2013-05-28
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | perf: Add sysfs entry to adjust multiplexing interval per PMUStephane Eranian2013-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | perf: Use hrtimers for event multiplexingStephane Eranian2013-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | perf: Fix hw breakpoints overflow period samplingJiri Olsa2013-05-28
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohzFrederic Weisbecker2013-05-02
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies. Merge a common upstream merge point that has these updates. Conflicts: include/linux/perf_event.h kernel/rcutree.h kernel/rcutree_plugin.h Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
| * Merge branch 'for-tip' of ↵Ingo Molnar2013-04-08
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile into perf/core Pull IBM zEnterprise EC12 support patchlet from Robert Richter. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| | * perf,x86: fix link failure for non-Intel configsDavid Rientjes2013-03-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| | * perf,x86: fix kernel crash with PEBS/BTS after suspend/resumeStephane Eranian2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * | perf: Add generic memory sampling interfaceStephane Eranian2013-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * | perf/core: Add weighted samplesAndi Kleen2013-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * | perf/x86: Add flags to event constraintsStephane Eranian2013-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * | perf/x86: Improve sysfs event mapping with event stringStephane Eranian2013-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>