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2016-06-03perf/x86: Support sysfs files depending on SMT statusAndi Kleen1-0/+7
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>
2016-06-03perf/core: Optimize side-band event deliveryKan Liang1-0/+6
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>
2016-05-30perf core: Per event callchain limitArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+1
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>
2016-05-25Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-5/+29
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "Mostly tooling and PMU driver fixes, but also a number of late updates such as the reworking of the call-chain size limiting logic to make call-graph recording more robust, plus tooling side changes for the new 'backwards ring-buffer' extension to the perf ring-buffer" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits) perf record: Read from backward ring buffer perf record: Rename variable to make code clear perf record: Prevent reading invalid data in record__mmap_read perf evlist: Add API to pause/resume perf trace: Use the ptr->name beautifier as default for "filename" args perf trace: Use the fd->name beautifier as default for "fd" args perf report: Add srcline_from/to branch sort keys perf evsel: Record fd into perf_mmap perf evsel: Add overwrite attribute and check write_backward perf tools: Set buildid dir under symfs when --symfs is provided perf trace: Only auto set call-graph to "dwarf" when syscalls are being traced perf annotate: Sort list of recognised instructions perf annotate: Fix identification of ARM blt and bls instructions perf tools: Fix usage of max_stack sysctl perf callchain: Stop validating callchains by the max_stack sysctl perf trace: Fix exit_group() formatting perf top: Use machine->kptr_restrict_warned perf trace: Warn when trying to resolve kernel addresses with kptr_restrict=1 perf machine: Do not bail out if not managing to read ref reloc symbol perf/x86/intel/p4: Trival indentation fix, remove space ...
2016-05-17Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds1-3/+1
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Highlights: 1) Support SPI based w5100 devices, from Akinobu Mita. 2) Partial Segmentation Offload, from Alexander Duyck. 3) Add GMAC4 support to stmmac driver, from Alexandre TORGUE. 4) Allow cls_flower stats offload, from Amir Vadai. 5) Implement bpf blinding, from Daniel Borkmann. 6) Optimize _ASYNC_ bit twiddling on sockets, unless the socket is actually using FASYNC these atomics are superfluous. From Eric Dumazet. 7) Run TCP more preemptibly, also from Eric Dumazet. 8) Support LED blinking, EEPROM dumps, and rxvlan offloading in mlx5e driver, from Gal Pressman. 9) Allow creating ppp devices via rtnetlink, from Guillaume Nault. 10) Improve BPF usage documentation, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer. 11) Support tunneling offloads in qed, from Manish Chopra. 12) aRFS offloading in mlx5e, from Maor Gottlieb. 13) Add RFS and RPS support to SCTP protocol, from Marcelo Ricardo Leitner. 14) Add MSG_EOR support to TCP, this allows controlling packet coalescing on application record boundaries for more accurate socket timestamp sampling. From Martin KaFai Lau. 15) Fix alignment of 64-bit netlink attributes across the board, from Nicolas Dichtel. 16) Per-vlan stats in bridging, from Nikolay Aleksandrov. 17) Several conversions of drivers to ethtool ksettings, from Philippe Reynes. 18) Checksum neutral ILA in ipv6, from Tom Herbert. 19) Factorize all of the various marvell dsa drivers into one, from Vivien Didelot 20) Add VF support to qed driver, from Yuval Mintz" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1649 commits) Revert "phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m" Revert "phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional" r8169: default to 64-bit DMA on recent PCIe chips phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m bpf: arm64: remove callee-save registers use for tmp registers asix: Fix offset calculation in asix_rx_fixup() causing slow transmissions switchdev: pass pointer to fib_info instead of copy net_sched: close another race condition in tcf_mirred_release() tipc: fix nametable publication field in nl compat drivers: net: Don't print unpopulated net_device name qed: add support for dcbx. ravb: Add missing free_irq() calls to ravb_close() qed: Remove a stray tab net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phydev from struct net_device bpf, doc: fix typo on bpf_asm descriptions stmmac: hardware TX COE doesn't work when force_thresh_dma_mode is set net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phydev from struct net_device ...
2016-05-16perf core: Separate accounting of contexts and real addresses in a stack traceArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+16
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>
2016-05-16perf core: Add perf_callchain_store_context() helperArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+2
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>
2016-05-16perf core: Add a 'nr' field to perf_event_callchain_contextArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+4
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>
2016-05-16perf core: Pass max stack as a perf_callchain_entry contextArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-5/+11
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>
2016-05-05perf/arm: Special-case hetereogeneous CPUsMark Rutland1-0/+1
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>
2016-05-05perf/core: Introduce address range filteringAlexander Shishkin1-0/+98
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>
2016-04-27perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctlArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+6
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>
2016-04-23perf/core: Add ::write_backward attribute to perf eventWang Nan1-3/+25
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>
2016-04-13Merge tag 'v4.6-rc3' into perf/core, to refresh the treeIngo Molnar1-2/+11
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-07perf: split perf_trace_buf_prepare into alloc and update partsAlexei Starovoitov1-1/+1
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>
2016-04-07perf: optimize perf_fetch_caller_regsAlexei Starovoitov1-2/+0
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>
2016-03-31perf/core: Set event's default ::overflow_handler()Wang Nan1-0/+6
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>
2016-03-24Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-0/+5
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar: "This tree contains various perf fixes on the kernel side, plus three hw/event-enablement late additions: - Intel Memory Bandwidth Monitoring events and handling - the AMD Accumulated Power Mechanism reporting facility - more IOMMU events ... and a final round of perf tooling updates/fixes" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits) perf llvm: Use strerror_r instead of the thread unsafe strerror one perf llvm: Use realpath to canonicalize paths perf tools: Unexport some methods unused outside strbuf.c perf probe: No need to use formatting strbuf method perf help: Use asprintf instead of adhoc equivalents perf tools: Remove unused perf_pathdup, xstrdup functions perf tools: Do not include stringify.h from the kernel sources tools include: Copy linux/stringify.h from the kernel tools lib traceevent: Remove redundant CPU output perf tools: Remove needless 'extern' from function prototypes perf tools: Simplify die() mechanism perf tools: Remove unused DIE_IF macro perf script: Remove lots of unused arguments perf thread: Rename perf_event__preprocess_sample_addr to thread__resolve perf machine: Rename perf_event__preprocess_sample to machine__resolve perf tools: Add cpumode to struct perf_sample perf tests: Forward the perf_sample in the dwarf unwind test perf tools: Remove misplaced __maybe_unused perf list: Fix documentation of :ppp perf bench numa: Fix assertion for nodes bitfield ...
2016-03-21perf/x86/amd/power: Add AMD accumulated power reporting mechanismHuang Rui1-0/+4
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>
2016-03-21perf/x86/cqm: Fix CQM handling of grouping events into a cache_groupVikas Shivappa1-0/+1
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>
2016-03-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds1-2/+11
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Highlights: 1) Support more Realtek wireless chips, from Jes Sorenson. 2) New BPF types for per-cpu hash and arrap maps, from Alexei Starovoitov. 3) Make several TCP sysctls per-namespace, from Nikolay Borisov. 4) Allow the use of SO_REUSEPORT in order to do per-thread processing of incoming TCP/UDP connections. The muxing can be done using a BPF program which hashes the incoming packet. From Craig Gallek. 5) Add a multiplexer for TCP streams, to provide a messaged based interface. BPF programs can be used to determine the message boundaries. From Tom Herbert. 6) Add 802.1AE MACSEC support, from Sabrina Dubroca. 7) Avoid factorial complexity when taking down an inetdev interface with lots of configured addresses. We were doing things like traversing the entire address less for each address removed, and flushing the entire netfilter conntrack table for every address as well. 8) Add and use SKB bulk free infrastructure, from Jesper Brouer. 9) Allow offloading u32 classifiers to hardware, and implement for ixgbe, from John Fastabend. 10) Allow configuring IRQ coalescing parameters on a per-queue basis, from Kan Liang. 11) Extend ethtool so that larger link mode masks can be supported. From David Decotigny. 12) Introduce devlink, which can be used to configure port link types (ethernet vs Infiniband, etc.), port splitting, and switch device level attributes as a whole. From Jiri Pirko. 13) Hardware offload support for flower classifiers, from Amir Vadai. 14) Add "Local Checksum Offload". Basically, for a tunneled packet the checksum of the outer header is 'constant' (because with the checksum field filled into the inner protocol header, the payload of the outer frame checksums to 'zero'), and we can take advantage of that in various ways. From Edward Cree" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1548 commits) bonding: fix bond_get_stats() net: bcmgenet: fix dma api length mismatch net/mlx4_core: Fix backward compatibility on VFs phy: mdio-thunder: Fix some Kconfig typos lan78xx: add ndo_get_stats64 lan78xx: handle statistics counter rollover RDS: TCP: Remove unused constant RDS: TCP: Add sysctl tunables for sndbuf/rcvbuf on rds-tcp socket net: smc911x: convert pxa dma to dmaengine team: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST bonding: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST net: fix a comment typo ethernet: micrel: fix some error codes ip_tunnels, bpf: define IP_TUNNEL_OPTS_MAX and use it bpf, dst: add and use dst_tclassid helper bpf: make skb->tc_classid also readable net: mvneta: bm: clarify dependencies cls_bpf: reset class and reuse major in da ldmvsw: Checkpatch sunvnet.c and sunvnet_common.c ldmvsw: Add ldmvsw.c driver code ...
2016-03-14Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-6/+0
Pull NOHZ updates from Ingo Molnar: "NOHZ enhancements, by Frederic Weisbecker, which reorganizes/refactors the NOHZ 'can the tick be stopped?' infrastructure and related code to be data driven, and harmonizes the naming and handling of all the various properties" [ This makes the ugly "fetch_or()" macro that the scheduler used internally a new generic helper, and does a bad job at it. I'm pulling it, but I've asked Ingo and Frederic to get this fixed up ] * 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched-clock: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model sched: Migrate sched to use new tick dependency mask model sched: Account rr tasks perf: Migrate perf to use new tick dependency mask model nohz: Use enum code for tick stop failure tracing message nohz: New tick dependency mask nohz: Implement wide kick on top of irq work atomic: Export fetch_or()
2016-03-08Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller1-3/+4
Several cases of overlapping changes, as well as one instance (vxlan) of a bug fix in 'net' overlapping with code movement in 'net-next'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-08Merge branch 'timers/core-v9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohzIngo Molnar1-6/+0
Pull nohz enhancements from Frederic Weisbecker: "Currently in nohz full configs, the tick dependency is checked asynchronously by nohz code from interrupt and context switch for each concerned subsystem with a set of function provided by these. Such functions are made of many conditions and details that can be heavyweight as they are called on fastpath: sched_can_stop_tick(), posix_cpu_timer_can_stop_tick(), perf_event_can_stop_tick()... Thomas suggested a few months ago to make that tick dependency check synchronous. Instead of checking subsystems details from each interrupt to guess if the tick can be stopped, every subsystem that may have a tick dependency should set itself a flag specifying the state of that dependency. This way we can verify if we can stop the tick with a single lightweight mask check on fast path. This conversion from a pull to a push model to implement tick dependency is the core feature of this patchset that is split into: * Nohz wide kick simplification * Improve nohz tracing * Introduce tick dependency mask * Migrate scheduler, posix timers, perf events and sched clock tick dependencies to the tick dependency mask." Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-02perf: Migrate perf to use new tick dependency mask modelFrederic Weisbecker1-6/+0
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>
2016-02-29perf: Allow storage of PMU private data in eventThomas Gleixner1-0/+1
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>
2016-02-25perf: Fix race between event install and jump_labelsPeter Zijlstra1-3/+3
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>
2016-02-25perf: Fix cloningPeter Zijlstra1-0/+1
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>
2016-02-20perf: generalize perf_callchainAlexei Starovoitov1-2/+11
. 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>
2016-01-29perf: Synchronously clean up child eventsPeter Zijlstra1-3/+0
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>
2016-01-29perf/bpf: Convert perf_event_array to use struct fileAlexei Starovoitov1-2/+2
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>
2016-01-21perf: Collapse and fix event_function_call() usersPeter Zijlstra1-1/+1
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>
2015-11-23perf/core: Robustify the perf_cgroup_from_task() RCU checksStephane Eranian1-2/+4
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>
2015-09-13perf/core: Drop PERF_EVENT_TXNSukadev Bhattiprolu1-2/+0
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>
2015-09-13perf/core: Define PERF_PMU_TXN_READ interfaceSukadev Bhattiprolu1-0/+1
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>
2015-09-13perf/core: Add a 'flags' parameter to the PMU transactional interfacesSukadev Bhattiprolu1-3/+11
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>
2015-09-13perf/abi: Document some more aspects of the perf ABIPeter Zijlstra1-13/+92
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>
2015-08-09perf: add the necessary core perf APIs when accessing events counters in eBPF programsKaixu Xia1-0/+10
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>
2015-06-26Merge tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-traceLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "This patch series contains several clean ups and even a new trace clock "monitonic raw". Also some enhancements to make the ring buffer even faster. But the biggest and most noticeable change is the renaming of the ftrace* files, structures and variables that have to deal with trace events. Over the years I've had several developers tell me about their confusion with what ftrace is compared to events. Technically, "ftrace" is the infrastructure to do the function hooks, which include tracing and also helps with live kernel patching. But the trace events are a separate entity altogether, and the files that affect the trace events should not be named "ftrace". These include: include/trace/ftrace.h -> include/trace/trace_events.h include/linux/ftrace_event.h -> include/linux/trace_events.h Also, functions that are specific for trace events have also been renamed: ftrace_print_*() -> trace_print_*() (un)register_ftrace_event() -> (un)register_trace_event() ftrace_event_name() -> trace_event_name() ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() -> trace_trigger_soft_disabled() ftrace_define_fields_##call() -> trace_define_fields_##call() ftrace_get_offsets_##call() -> trace_get_offsets_##call() Structures have been renamed: ftrace_event_file -> trace_event_file ftrace_event_{call,class} -> trace_event_{call,class} ftrace_event_buffer -> trace_event_buffer ftrace_subsystem_dir -> trace_subsystem_dir ftrace_event_raw_##call -> trace_event_raw_##call ftrace_event_data_offset_##call-> trace_event_data_offset_##call ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call -> trace_event_type_funcs_##call And a few various variables and flags have also been updated. This has been sitting in linux-next for some time, and I have not heard a single complaint about this rename breaking anything. Mostly because these functions, variables and structures are mostly internal to the tracing system and are seldom (if ever) used by anything external to that" * tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits) ring_buffer: Allow to exit the ring buffer benchmark immediately ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong type ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong param in module_param ring-buffer: Add enum names for the context levels ring-buffer: Remove useless unused tracing_off_permanent() ring-buffer: Give NMIs a chance to lock the reader_lock ring-buffer: Add trace_recursive checks to ring_buffer_write() ring-buffer: Allways do the trace_recursive checks ring-buffer: Move recursive check to per_cpu descriptor ring-buffer: Add unlikelys to make fast path the default tracing: Rename ftrace_get_offsets_##call() to trace_event_get_offsets_##call() tracing: Rename ftrace_define_fields_##call() to trace_event_define_fields_##call() tracing: Rename ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call to trace_event_type_funcs_##call tracing: Rename ftrace_data_offset_##call to trace_event_data_offset_##call tracing: Rename ftrace_raw_##call event structures to trace_event_raw_##call tracing: Rename ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() to trace_trigger_soft_disabled() tracing: Rename FTRACE_EVENT_FL_* flags to EVENT_FILE_FL_* tracing: Rename struct ftrace_subsystem_dir to trace_subsystem_dir tracing: Rename ftrace_event_name() to trace_event_name() tracing: Rename FTRACE_MAX_EVENT to TRACE_EVENT_TYPE_MAX ...
2015-06-26Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-armLinus Torvalds1-0/+5
Pull ARM updates from Russell King: "Bigger items included in this update are: - A series of updates from Arnd for ARM randconfig build failures - Updates from Dmitry for StrongARM SA-1100 to move IRQ handling to drivers/irqchip/ - Move ARMs SP804 timer to drivers/clocksource/ - Perf updates from Mark Rutland in preparation to move the ARM perf code into drivers/ so it can be shared with ARM64. - MCPM updates from Nicolas - Add support for taking platform serial number from DT - Re-implement Keystone2 physical address space switch to conform to architecture requirements - Clean up ARMv7 LPAE code, which goes in hand with the Keystone2 changes. - L2C cleanups to avoid unlocking caches if we're prevented by the secure support to unlock. - Avoid cleaning a potentially dirty cache containing stale data on CPU initialisation - Add ARM-only entry point for secondary startup (for machines that can only call into a Thumb kernel in ARM mode). Same thing is also done for the resume entry point. - Provide arch_irqs_disabled via asm-generic - Enlarge ARMv7M vector table - Always use BFD linker for VDSO, as gold doesn't accept some of the options we need. - Fix an incorrect BSYM (for Thumb symbols) usage, and convert all BSYM compiler macros to a "badr" (for branch address). - Shut up compiler warnings provoked by our cmpxchg() implementation. - Ensure bad xchg sizes fail to link" * 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (75 commits) ARM: Fix build if CLKDEV_LOOKUP is not configured ARM: fix new BSYM() usage introduced via for-arm-soc branch ARM: 8383/1: nommu: avoid deprecated source register on mov ARM: 8391/1: l2c: add options to overwrite prefetching behavior ARM: 8390/1: irqflags: Get arch_irqs_disabled from asm-generic ARM: 8387/1: arm/mm/dma-mapping.c: Add arm_coherent_dma_mmap ARM: 8388/1: tcm: Don't crash when TCM banks are protected by TrustZone ARM: 8384/1: VDSO: force use of BFD linker ARM: 8385/1: VDSO: group link options ARM: cmpxchg: avoid warnings from macro-ized cmpxchg() implementations ARM: remove __bad_xchg definition ARM: 8369/1: ARMv7M: define size of vector table for Vybrid ARM: 8382/1: clocksource: make ARM_TIMER_SP804 depend on GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK ARM: 8366/1: move Dual-Timer SP804 driver to drivers/clocksource ARM: 8365/1: introduce sp804_timer_disable and remove arm_timer.h inclusion ARM: 8364/1: fix BE32 module loading ARM: 8360/1: add secondary_startup_arm prototype in header file ARM: 8359/1: correct secondary_startup_arm mode ARM: proc-v7: sanitise and document registers around errata ARM: proc-v7: clean up MIDR access ...
2015-06-22Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-0/+4
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A rather largish update for everything time and timer related: - Cache footprint optimizations for both hrtimers and timer wheel - Lower the NOHZ impact on systems which have NOHZ or timer migration disabled at runtime. - Optimize run time overhead of hrtimer interrupt by making the clock offset updates smarter - hrtimer cleanups and removal of restrictions to tackle some problems in sched/perf - Some more leap second tweaks - Another round of changes addressing the 2038 problem - First step to change the internals of clock event devices by introducing the necessary infrastructure - Allow constant folding for usecs/msecs_to_jiffies() - The usual pile of clockevent/clocksource driver updates The hrtimer changes contain updates to sched, perf and x86 as they depend on them plus changes all over the tree to cleanup API changes and redundant code, which got copied all over the place. The y2038 changes touch s390 to remove the last non 2038 safe code related to boot/persistant clock" * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits) clocksource: Increase dependencies of timer-stm32 to limit build wreckage timer: Minimize nohz off overhead timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling timer: Replace timer base by a cpu index timer: Use hlist for the timer wheel hash buckets timer: Remove FIFO "guarantee" timers: Sanitize catchup_timer_jiffies() usage hrtimer: Allow hrtimer::function() to free the timer seqcount: Introduce raw_write_seqcount_barrier() seqcount: Rename write_seqcount_barrier() hrtimer: Fix hrtimer_is_queued() hole hrtimer: Remove HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE selftest: Timers: Avoid signal deadlock in leap-a-day timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the real timekeeper last clockevents: Check state instead of mode in suspend/resume path selftests: timers: Add leap-second timer edge testing to leap-a-day.c ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge ntp: Introduce and use SECS_PER_DAY macro instead of 86400 ...
2015-06-07perf/x86/intel: Introduce PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLESKan Liang1-0/+3
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>
2015-06-07perf/x86/intel: Handle multiple records in the PEBS bufferYan, Zheng1-0/+13
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>
2015-05-27perf: allow for PMU-specific event filteringMark Rutland1-0/+5
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>
2015-05-27perf/x86/intel/cqm: Use proper data typesThomas Gleixner1-1/+1
'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>
2015-05-27Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, before applying dependent patchesIngo Molnar1-4/+0
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-27perf/x86: Fix event/group validationPeter Zijlstra1-4/+0
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>
2015-05-18sched,perf: Fix periodic timersPeter Zijlstra1-0/+4
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
2015-05-13tracing: Rename ftrace_event_{call,class} to trace_event_{call,class}Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-1/+1
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>
2015-05-08perf: Fix software migrate eventsPeter Zijlstra1-0/+24
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>