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Gleb Natapov
86b47c2549 perf: Do no try to schedule task events if there are none
perf_event_sched_in() shouldn't try to schedule task events if there
are none otherwise task's ctx->is_active will be set and will not be
cleared during sched_out. This will prevent newly added events from
being scheduled into the task context.

Fixes a boo-boo in commit 1d5f003f5a ("perf: Do not set task_ctx
pointer in cpuctx if there are no events in the context").

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111122140821.GF2557@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-07 16:31:22 +01:00
Gleb Natapov
b202952075 perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching
jump_lable patching is very expensive operation that involves pausing all
cpus. The patching of perf_sched_events jump_label is easily controllable
from userspace by unprivileged user.

When te user runs a loop like this:

  "while true; do perf stat -e cycles true; done"

... the performance of my test application that just increments a counter
for one second drops by 4%.

This is on a 16 cpu box with my test application using only one of
them. An impact on a real server doing real work will be worse.

Performance of KVM PMU drops nearly 50% due to jump_lable for "perf
record" since KVM PMU implementation creates and destroys perf event
frequently.

This patch introduces a way to rate limit jump_label patching and uses
it to fix the above problem.

I believe that as jump_label use will spread the problem will become more
common and thus solving it in a generic code is appropriate. Also fixing
it in the perf code would result in moving jump_label accounting logic to
perf code with all the ifdefs in case of JUMP_LABEL=n kernel. With this
patch all details are nicely hidden inside jump_label code.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111127155909.GO2557@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:34:02 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
b79387ef18 perf: Fix enable_on_exec for sibling events
Deng-Cheng Zhu reported that sibling events that were created disabled
with enable_on_exec would never get enabled. Iterate all events
instead of the group lists.

Reported-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dczhu@mips.com>
Tested-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dczhu@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322048382.14799.41.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:34:01 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
1d9b482e78 perf: Remove superfluous arguments
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yv4o74vh90suyghccgykbnry@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:33:59 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
0f5a260128 perf: Avoid a useless pmu_disable() in the perf-tick
Gleb writes:

 > Currently pmu is disabled and re-enabled on each timer interrupt even
 > when no rotation or frequency adjustment is needed. On Intel CPU this
 > results in two writes into PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR per tick. On bare metal
 > it does not cause significant slowdown, but when running perf in a virtual
 > machine it leads to 20% slowdown on my machine.

Cure this by keeping a perf_event_context::nr_freq counter that counts the
number of active events that require frequency adjustments and use this in a
similar fashion to the already existing nr_events != nr_active test in
perf_rotate_context().

By being able to exclude both rotation and frequency adjustments a-priory for
the common case we can avoid the otherwise superfluous PMU disable.

Suggested-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-515yhoatehd3gza7we9fapaa@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:33:52 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d6c1c49de5 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: Add these cherry-picked commits so that future changes
              on perf/core don't conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 06:43:49 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
10c6db110d perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-event
When you do:
        $ perf record -e cycles,cycles,cycles noploop 10

You expect about 10,000 samples for each event, i.e., 10s at
1000samples/sec. However, this is not what's happening. You
get much fewer samples, maybe 3700 samples/event:

$ perf report -D | tail -15
Aggregated stats:
           TOTAL events:      10998
            MMAP events:         66
            COMM events:          2
          SAMPLE events:      10930
cycles stats:
           TOTAL events:       3644
          SAMPLE events:       3644
cycles stats:
           TOTAL events:       3642
          SAMPLE events:       3642
cycles stats:
           TOTAL events:       3644
          SAMPLE events:       3644

On a Intel Nehalem or even AMD64, there are 4 counters capable
of measuring cycles, so there is plenty of space to measure those
events without multiplexing (even with the NMI watchdog active).
And even with multiplexing, we'd expect roughly the same number
of samples per event.

The root of the problem was that when the event that caused the buffer
to become full was not the first event passed on the cmdline, the user
notification would get lost. The notification was sent to the file
descriptor of the overflowed event but the perf tool was not polling
on it.  The perf tool aggregates all samples into a single buffer,
i.e., the buffer of the first event. Consequently, it assumes
notifications for any event will come via that descriptor.

The seemingly straight forward solution of moving the waitq into the
ringbuffer object doesn't work because of life-time issues. One could
perf_event_set_output() on a fd that you're also blocking on and cause
the old rb object to be freed while its waitq would still be
referenced by the blocked thread -> FAIL.

Therefore link all events to the ringbuffer and broadcast the wakeup
from the ringbuffer object to all possible events that could be waited
upon. This is rather ugly, and we're open to better solutions but it
works for now.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Finished-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111126014731.GA7030@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05 09:33:03 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
c23205c848 Merge branch 'core' of git://amd64.org/linux/rric into perf/core 2011-11-15 11:05:18 +01:00
Andrew Vagin
5d81e5cfb3 events: Don't divide events if it has field period
This patch solves the following problem:

Now some samples may be lost due to throttling. The number of samples is
restricted by sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate/HZ.  A trace event is
divided on some samples according to event's period.  I don't sure, that
we should generate more than one sample on each trace event. I think the
better way to use SAMPLE_PERIOD.

E.g.: I want to trace when a process sleeps. I created a process, which
sleeps for 1ms and for 4ms.  perf got 100 events in both cases.

swapper     0 [000]  1141.371830: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=1386750 [ns]
swapper     0 [000]  1141.369444: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=4499585 [ns]

In the first case a kernel want to send 4499585 events and
in the second case it wants to send 1386750 events.
perf-reports shows that process sleeps in both places equal time. It's
bug.

With this patch kernel generates one event on each "sleep" and the time
slice is saved in the field "period". Perf knows how handle it.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320670457-2633428-3-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-11-14 13:31:28 +01:00
Borislav Petkov
9251f904f9 perf: Carve out callchain functionality
Split the callchain code from the perf events core into
a new kernel/events/callchain.c file.

This simplifies a bit the big core.c

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[keep ctx recursion handling inline and use internal headers]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318778104-17152-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-11-14 13:31:26 +01:00
Gleb Natapov
1d5f003f5a perf: Do not set task_ctx pointer in cpuctx if there are no events in the context
Do not set task_ctx pointer during sched_in if there are no
events associated with the context.  Otherwise if during task
execution total number of events in the system will become zero
perf_event_context_sched_out() will not be called and cpuctx->task_ctx
will be left with a stale value.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111023171033.GI17571@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-11-14 13:01:21 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
32aaeffbd4 Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
Robert Richter
dcfce4a095 oprofile, x86: Reimplement nmi timer mode using perf event
The legacy x86 nmi watchdog code was removed with the implementation
of the perf based nmi watchdog. This broke Oprofile's nmi timer
mode. To run nmi timer mode we relied on a continuous ticking nmi
source which the nmi watchdog provided. The nmi tick was no longer
available and current watchdog can not be used anymore since it runs
with very long periods in the range of seconds. This patch
reimplements the nmi timer mode using a perf counter nmi source.

V2:
* removing pr_info()
* fix undefined reference to `__udivdi3' for 32 bit build
* fix section mismatch of .cpuinit.data:nmi_timer_cpu_nb
* removed nmi timer setup in arch/x86
* implemented function stubs for op_nmi_init/exit()
* made code more readable in oprofile_init()

V3:
* fix architectural initialization in oprofile_init()
* fix CONFIG_OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER dependencies

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2011-11-04 16:27:18 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
4536e4d1d2 Revert "perf: Add PM notifiers to fix CPU hotplug races"
This reverts commit 144060fee0.

It causes a resume regression for Andi on his Acer Aspire 1830T post
3.1.  The screen just stays black after wakeup.

Also, it really looks like the wrong way to suspend and resume perf
events: I think they should be done as part of the CPU suspend and
resume, rather than as a notifier that does smp_call_function().

Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-03 07:44:04 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
bc3e53f682 mm: distinguish between mlocked and pinned pages
Some kernel components pin user space memory (infiniband and perf) (by
increasing the page count) and account that memory as "mlocked".

The difference between mlocking and pinning is:

A. mlocked pages are marked with PG_mlocked and are exempt from
   swapping. Page migration may move them around though.
   They are kept on a special LRU list.

B. Pinned pages cannot be moved because something needs to
   directly access physical memory. They may not be on any
   LRU list.

I recently saw an mlockalled process where mm->locked_vm became
bigger than the virtual size of the process (!) because some
memory was accounted for twice:

Once when the page was mlocked and once when the Infiniband
layer increased the refcount because it needt to pin the RDMA
memory.

This patch introduces a separate counter for pinned pages and
accounts them seperately.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath@qlogic.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:46 -07:00
Paul Gortmaker
6e5fdeedca kernel: Fix files explicitly needing EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure
These files were getting <linux/module.h> via an implicit non-obvious
path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost
time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers
for no reason.  Give them the lightweight header that just contains
the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:05 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
ed3982cf37 Merge commit 'v3.1-rc7' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-09-26 12:54:28 +02:00
Eric B Munson
7f310a5d4e perf_event: Fix broken calc_timer_values()
We detected a serious issue with PERF_SAMPLE_READ and
timing information when events were being multiplexing.

Samples would have time_running > time_enabled. That
was easy to reproduce with a libpfm4 example (ran 3
times to cause multiplexing on Core 2):

 $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 &
 $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 &
 $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 &
 IIP:0x0000000040062d ... PERIOD:2355332948 ENA=40144625315 RUN=60014875184
 syst_smpl: WARNING: time_running > time_enabled
	63277537998 uops_retired:freq=1 , scaled

The bug was not present in kernel up to (and including) 3.0. It turns
out the bug was introduced by the following commit:

commit c479429591

    events: Move lockless timer calculation into helper function

The parameters of the function got reversed yet the call sites
were not updated to reflect the change. That lead to time_running
and time_enabled being swapped. That had no effect when there was
no multiplexing because in that case time_running = time_enabled
but it would show up in any other scenario.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110829124112.GA4828@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-31 15:56:29 +02:00
Stephane Eranian
a8d757ef07 perf events: Fix slow and broken cgroup context switch code
The current cgroup context switch code was incorrect leading
to bogus counts. Furthermore, as soon as there was an active
cgroup event on a CPU, the context switch cost on that CPU
would increase by a significant amount as demonstrated by a
simple ping/pong example:

 $ ./pong
 Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s
 10684.51 ctxsw/s

Now start a cgroup perf stat:
 $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 100

$ ./pong
 Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s
 6674.61 ctxsw/s

That's a 37% penalty.

Note that pong is not even in the monitored cgroup.

The results shown by perf stat are bogus:
 $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 100

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 100':

 CPU1 <not counted> cycles   test
 CPU1 16,984,189,138 cycles  #    0.000 GHz

The second 'cycles' event should report a count @ CPU clock
(here 2.4GHz) as it is counting across all cgroups.

The patch below fixes the bogus accounting and bypasses any
cgroup switches in case the outgoing and incoming tasks are
in the same cgroup.

With this patch the same test now yields:
 $ ./pong
 Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s
 10775.30 ctxsw/s

Start perf stat with cgroup:

 $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 10

Run pong outside the cgroup:
 $ /pong
 Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s
 10687.80 ctxsw/s

The penalty is now less than 2%.

And the results for perf stat are correct:

$ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 10

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10':

 CPU1 <not counted> cycles test #    0.000 GHz
 CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles      #    0.000 GHz

Now perf stat reports the correct counts for
for the non cgroup event.

If we run pong inside the cgroup, then we also get the
correct counts:

$ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 10

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10':

 CPU1 22,297,726,205 cycles test #    0.000 GHz
 CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles      #    0.000 GHz

      10.001457237 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110825135803.GA4697@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29 12:28:33 +02:00
Mark Rutland
7e5b2a01d2 perf: provide PMU when initing events
Currently, an event's 'pmu' field is set after pmu::event_init() is
called. This means that pmu::event_init() must figure out which struct
pmu the event was initialised from. This makes it difficult to
consolidate common event initialisation code for similar PMUs, and
very difficult to implement drivers for PMUs which can have multiple
instances (e.g. a USB controller PMU, a GPU PMU, etc).

This patch sets the 'pmu' field before initialising the event, allowing
event init code to identify the struct pmu instance easily. In the
event of failure to initialise an event, the event is destroyed via
kfree() without calling perf_event::destroy(), so this shouldn't
result in bad behaviour even if the destroy field was set before
failure to initialise was noted.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313062280-19123-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 11:53:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
144060fee0 perf: Add PM notifiers to fix CPU hotplug races
Francis reports that s2r gets him spurious NMIs, this is because the
suspend code leaves the boot cpu up and running.

Cure this by adding a suspend notifier. The problem is that hotplug
and suspend are completely un-serialized and the PM notifiers run
before the suspend cpu unplug of all but the boot cpu.

This leaves a window where the user can initialize another hotplug
operation (either remove or add a cpu) resulting in either one too
many or one too few hotplug ops. Thus we cannot use the hotplug code
for the suspend case.

There's another reason to not use the hotplug code, which is that the
hotplug code totally destroys the perf state, we can do better for
suspend and simply remove all counters from the PMU so that we can
re-instate them on resume.

Reported-by: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1cvevybkgmv4s6v5y37t4847@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 11:53:03 +02:00
Lin Ming
9985c20f9e perf: Remove perf_event_attr::type check
PMU type id can be allocated dynamically, so perf_event_attr::type check
when copying attribute from userspace to kernel is not valid.

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309421396-17438-4-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21 20:41:55 +02:00
Avi Kivity
26ca5c11fb perf: export perf_event_refresh() to modules
KVM needs one-shot samples, since a PMC programmed to -X will fire after X
events and then again after 2^40 events (i.e. variable period).

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-4-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 11:06:40 +02:00
Avi Kivity
4dc0da8696 perf: Add context field to perf_event
The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived
argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event
in their local data structure.  This is ugly and doesn't scale if a
single callback services many perf_events.

Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter()
(and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event.
The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context.
All callers are updated.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 11:06:38 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a7ac67ea02 perf: Remove the perf_output_begin(.sample) argument
Since only samples call perf_output_sample() its much saner (and more
correct) to put the sample logic in there than in the
perf_output_begin()/perf_output_end() pair.

Saves a useless argument, reduces conditionals and shrinks
struct perf_output_handle, win!

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2crpvsx3cqu67q3zqjbnlpsc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a8b0ca17b8 perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface
The nmi parameter indicated if we could do wakeups from the current
context, if not, we would set some state and self-IPI and let the
resulting interrupt do the wakeup.

For the various event classes:

  - hardware: nmi=0; PMI is in fact an NMI or we run irq_work_run from
    the PMI-tail (ARM etc.)
  - tracepoint: nmi=0; since tracepoint could be from NMI context.
  - software: nmi=[0,1]; some, like the schedule thing cannot
    perform wakeups, and hence need 0.

As one can see, there is very little nmi=1 usage, and the down-side of
not using it is that on some platforms some software events can have a
jiffy delay in wakeup (when arch_irq_work_raise isn't implemented).

The up-side however is that we can remove the nmi parameter and save a
bunch of conditionals in fast paths.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-agjev8eu666tvknpb3iaj0fg@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
Eric B Munson
0d6412085b events: Ensure that timers are updated without requiring read() call
The event tracing infrastructure exposes two timers which should be updated
each time the value of the counter is updated.  Currently, these counters are
only updated when userspace calls read() on the fd associated with an event.
This means that counters which are read via the mmap'd page exclusively never
have their timers updated.  This patch adds ensures that the timers are updated
each time the values in the mmap'd page are updated.

Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308932786-5111-1-git-send-email-emunson@mgebm.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 11:06:34 +02:00
Eric B Munson
c479429591 events: Move lockless timer calculation into helper function
Take the timer calculation from perf_output_read and move it to a helper
function for any place that needs timer values but cannot take the ctx->lock.

Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308861279-15216-2-git-send-email-emunson@mgebm.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 11:06:33 +02:00
Eric B Munson
b7526f0ca6 events: Add note to update_event_times comment about holding ctx->lock
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308861279-15216-1-git-send-email-emunson@mgebm.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 11:06:33 +02:00
Vince Weaver
4ec8363dfc perf_events: Fix perf buffer watermark setting
Since 2.6.36 (specifically commit d57e34fdd6 ("perf: Simplify the
ring-buffer logic: make perf_buffer_alloc() do everything needed"),
the perf_buffer_init_code() has been mis-setting the buffer watermark
if perf_event_attr.wakeup_events has a non-zero value.

This is because perf_event_attr.wakeup_events is a union with
perf_event_attr.wakeup_watermark.

This commit re-enables the check for perf_event_attr.watermark being
set before continuing with setting a non-default watermark.

This bug is most noticable when you are trying to use PERF_IOC_REFRESH
with a value larger than one and perf_event_attr.wakeup_events is set to
one.  In this case the buffer watermark will be set to 1 and you will
get extraneous POLL_IN overflows rather than POLL_HUP as expected.

[ avoid using attr.wakeup_events when attr.watermark is set ]

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1106011506390.5384@cl320.eecs.utk.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 11:06:32 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
76369139ce perf: Split up buffer handling from core code
And create the internal perf events header.

v2: Keep an internal inlined perf_output_copy()

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305827704-5607-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
[ v3: use clearer 'ring_buffer' and 'rb' naming ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-09 12:57:54 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b58f6b0dd3 perf, core: Fix initial task_ctx/event installation
A lost Quilt refresh of 2c29ef0fef (perf: Simplify and fix
__perf_install_in_context()) is causing grief and lockups,
reported by Jiri Olsa.

When installing an event in a task context, there's a number of
issues:

 - there might not be an existing task context, in which case
   we should install the now current context;

 - there might already be a context, not the current one, in
   which case we should de-schedule the old and install the new;

these cases were dealt with in the lost refresh, however there is one
further case that was found in testing:

 - there might already be a context, the current one, in which
   case we should still de-schedule, and should take care
   to re-install it (note that task_ctx_sched_out() clears
   cpuctx->task_ctx).

Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307399008.2497.971.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-07 13:02:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3ce2a0bc9d Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/util/python.c

Merge reason: resolve the conflict with perf/urgent.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-04 12:28:05 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
710054ba25 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent 2011-06-04 12:13:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
74c355fbdf perf, cgroups: Fix up for new API
Ben changed the cgroup API in commit f780bdb7c1 (cgroups: add
per-thread subsystem callbacks) in an incompatible way, but
forgot to convert the perf cgroup bits.

Avoid compile warnings and runtime splats and convert perf too ;-)

Acked-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306767651.1200.2990.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-31 14:20:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
64ce312618 perf: De-schedule a task context when removing the last event
Since perf_install_in_context() will now install a context when we
add the first event, we can de-schedule the context when the last
event is removed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192142.090431763@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 18:01:23 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
e03a9a55b4 perf: Change close() semantics for group events
In order to always call list_del_event() on the correct cpu if the
event is part of an active context and avoid having to do two IPIs,
change the close() semantics slightly.

The current perf_event_disable() call would disable a whole group if
the event that's being closed is the group leader, whereas the new
code keeps the group siblings enabled.

People should not rely on this behaviour and I don't think they do,
but in case we find they do, the fix is easy and we have to take the
double IPI cost.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192142.038377551@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 18:01:21 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
dce5855bba perf: Collect the schedule-in rules in one function
This was scattered out - refactor it into a single function.
No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192141.979862055@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 18:01:19 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
db24d33e08 perf: Change and simplify ctx::is_active semantics
Instead of tracking if a context is active or not, track which events
of the context are active. By making it a bitmask of
EVENT_PINNED|EVENT_FLEXIBLE we can simplify some of the scheduling
routines since it can avoid adding events that are already active.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192141.930282378@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 18:01:17 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
2c29ef0fef perf: Simplify and fix __perf_install_in_context()
Currently __perf_install_in_context() will try and schedule in the
event irrespective of our event scheduling rules, that is, we try to
schedule CPU-pinned, TASK-pinned, CPU-flexible, TASK-flexible, but
when creating a new event we simply try and schedule it on top of
whatever is already on the PMU, this can lead to errors for pinned
events.

Therefore, simplify things and simply schedule everything out, add the
event to the corresponding context and schedule everything back in.

This also nicely handles the case where with
__ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW the IPI can come right in the middle
of schedule, before we managed to call perf_event_task_sched_in().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192141.870894224@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 18:01:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
04dc2dbbfe perf: Remove task_ctx_sched_in()
Make task_ctx_sched_*() imply EVENT_ALL, since anything less will not
actually have scheduled the task in/out at all.

Since there's no site that schedules all of a task in (due to the
interleave with flexible cpuctx) we can remove this function.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192141.817893268@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 18:01:14 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
facc43071c perf: Optimize event scheduling locking
Currently we only hold one ctx->lock at a time, which results in us
flipping back and forth between cpuctx->ctx.lock and task_ctx->lock.

Avoid this and gain large atomic regions by holding both locks. We
nest the task lock inside the cpu lock, since with task scheduling we
might have to change task ctx while holding the cpu ctx lock.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192141.769881865@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 18:01:12 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
9137fb28ac perf: Clean up 'ctx' reference counting
Small cleanup to how we refcount in find_get_context(), this also
allows us to use put_ctx() to free things instead of using kfree().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192141.719340481@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 18:01:10 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
075e0b0085 perf: Optimize ctx_sched_out()
Oleg noted that ctx_sched_out() disables the PMU even though it might
not actually do something, avoid needless PMU-disabling.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192141.665385503@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 18:01:09 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f506b3dc0e perf: Fix SIGIO handling
Vince noticed that unless we mmap() a buffer, SIGIO gets lost. So
explicitly push the wakeup (including signals) when requested.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2euus3f3x3dyvdk52cjxw8zu@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 17:04:59 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
eb04f2f04e Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (78 commits)
  Revert "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof"
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(prl_entry_destroy_rcu) to kfree
  batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(softif_neigh_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu
  batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(neigh_node_free_rcu) to kfree()
  batman,rcu: convert call_rcu(gw_node_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(kfree_tid_tx) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xt_osf_finger_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
  net/mac80211,rcu: convert call_rcu(work_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(wq_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(phonet_device_rcu_free) to kfree_rcu()
  perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(swevent_hlist_release_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
  perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(free_ctx) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(__nf_ct_ext_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(net_generic_release) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(netlbl_unlhsh_free_addr6) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(netlbl_unlhsh_free_addr4) to kfree_rcu()
  security,rcu: convert call_rcu(sel_netif_free) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xps_dev_maps_release) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(xps_map_release) to kfree_rcu()
  net,rcu: convert call_rcu(rps_map_release) to kfree_rcu()
  ...
2011-05-19 18:14:34 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
e7e7ee2eab perf events: Clean up definitions and initializers, update copyrights
Fix a few inconsistent style bits that were added over the past few
months.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yv4hwf9yhnzoada8pcpb3a97@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-04 08:49:24 +02:00
Borislav Petkov
fae85b7c8b perf: Start the restructuring
mv kernel/perf_event.c -> kernel/events/core.c. From there, all further
sensible splitting can happen. The idea is that due to perf_event.c
becoming pretty sizable and with the advent of the marriage with ftrace,
splitting functionality into its logical parts should help speeding up
the unification and to manage the complexity of the subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2011-05-03 12:59:43 +02:00