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| author |   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2013-10-31 17:25:38 +0100 |
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| committer |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-11-06 12:34:20 +0100 |
| commit | 85f59edf9684603026c64c902791748116d29478 (patch) | |
| tree | 13da84a3f347a24a3929d7546a6d7e9addbdf857 /kernel/events | |
| parent | perf: Add unlikely() to the ring-buffer code (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-85f59edf9684603026c64c902791748116d29478.tar.xz linux-dev-85f59edf9684603026c64c902791748116d29478.zip | |
perf: Optimize perf_output_begin()
There's no point in re-doing the memory-barrier when we fail the
cmpxchg(). Also placing it after the space reservation loop makes it
clearer it only separates the userpage->tail read from the data
stores.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-c19u6egfldyx86tpyc3zgkw9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index 383cde476176..6ed16ecfd0a3 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -141,15 +141,7 @@ int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle, perf_output_get_handle(handle); do { - /* - * Userspace could choose to issue a mb() before updating the - * tail pointer. So that all reads will be completed before the - * write is issued. - * - * See perf_output_put_handle(). - */ tail = ACCESS_ONCE(rb->user_page->data_tail); - smp_mb(); offset = head = local_read(&rb->head); if (!rb->overwrite && unlikely(CIRC_SPACE(head, tail, perf_data_size(rb)) < size)) @@ -157,6 +149,15 @@ int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle, head += size; } while (local_cmpxchg(&rb->head, offset, head) != offset); + /* + * Separate the userpage->tail read from the data stores below. + * Matches the MB userspace SHOULD issue after reading the data + * and before storing the new tail position. + * + * See perf_output_put_handle(). + */ + smp_mb(); + if (unlikely(head - local_read(&rb->wakeup) > rb->watermark)) local_add(rb->watermark, &rb->wakeup); |