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2010-05-11perf: Fix exit() vs event-groupsPeter Zijlstra
Corey reported that the value scale times of group siblings are not updated when the monitored task dies. The problem appears to be that we only update the group leader's time values, fix it by updating the whole group. Reported-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .34.x LKML-Reference: <1273588935.1810.6.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-11perf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUPPeter Zijlstra
Both Stephane and Corey reported that PERF_FORMAT_GROUP didn't work as expected if the task the counters were attached to quit before the read() call. The cause is that we unconditionally destroy the grouping when we remove counters from their context. Fix this by splitting off the group destroy from the list removal such that perf_event_remove_from_context() does not do this and change perf_event_release() to do so. Reported-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .34.x LKML-Reference: <1273571513.5605.3527.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-11Revert "perf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUP"Ingo Molnar
This reverts commit 4fd38e4595e2f6c9d27732c042a0e16b2753049c. It causes various crashes and hangs when events are activated. The cause is not fully understood yet but we need to revert it because the effects are severe. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-08perf_event: Make software events work againPaul Mackerras
Commit 6bde9b6ce0127e2a56228a2071536d422be31336 ("perf: Add group scheduling transactional APIs") added code to allow a group to be scheduled in a single transaction. However, it introduced a bug in handling events whose pmu does not implement transactions -- at the end of scheduling in the events in the group, in the non-transactional case the code now falls through to the group_error label, and proceeds to unschedule all the events in the group and return failure. This fixes it by returning 0 (success) in the non-transactional case. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: eranian@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <20100508105800.GB10650@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-07perf: Add group scheduling transactional APIsLin Ming
Add group scheduling transactional APIs to struct pmu. These APIs will be implemented in arch code, based on Peter's idea as below. > the idea behind hw_perf_group_sched_in() is to not perform > schedulability tests on each event in the group, but to add the group > as a whole and then perform one test. > > Of course, when that test fails, you'll have to roll-back the whole > group again. > > So start_txn (or a better name) would simply toggle a flag in the pmu > implementation that will make pmu::enable() not perform the > schedulablilty test. > > Then commit_txn() will perform the schedulability test (so note the > method has to have a !void return value. > > This will allow us to use the regular > kernel/perf_event.c::group_sched_in() and all the rollback code. > Currently each hw_perf_group_sched_in() implementation duplicates all > the rolllback code (with various bugs). ->start_txn: Start group events scheduling transaction, set a flag to make pmu::enable() not perform the schedulability test, it will be performed at commit time. ->commit_txn: Commit group events scheduling transaction, perform the group schedulability as a whole ->cancel_txn: Stop group events scheduling transaction, clear the flag so pmu::enable() will perform the schedulability test. Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1272002160.5707.60.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-07perf: Annotate perf_event_read_group() vs perf_event_release_kernel()Peter Zijlstra
Stephane reported a lockdep warning while using PERF_FORMAT_GROUP. The issue is that perf_event_read_group() takes faults while holding the ctx->mutex, while perf_event_release_kernel() can be called from munmap(). Which makes for an AB-BA deadlock. Except we can never establish the deadlock because we'll only ever call perf_event_release_kernel() after all file descriptors are dead so there is no concurrency possible. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-07Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Resolve patch dependency Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-07perf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUPPeter Zijlstra
Both Stephane and Corey reported that PERF_FORMAT_GROUP didn't work as expected if the task the counters were attached to quit before the read() call. The cause is that we unconditionally destroy the grouping when we remove counters from their context. Fix this by only doing this when we free the counter itself. Reported-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1273160566.5605.404.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-01perf: Fix resource leak in failure path of perf_event_open()Tejun Heo
perf_event_open() kfrees event after init failure which doesn't release all resources allocated by perf_event_alloc(). Use free_event() instead. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4BDBE237.1040809@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-19perf: Enhance perf to allow for guest statistic collection from hostZhang, Yanmin
Below patch introduces perf_guest_info_callbacks and related register/unregister functions. Add more PERF_RECORD_MISC_XXX bits meaning guest kernel and guest user space. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-14perf: Fix hlist related build errorFrederic Weisbecker
hlist helpers need to be available for all software events, not only trace events. Pull them out outside the ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING section. Fixes: kernel/perf_event.c:4573: error: implicit declaration of function 'swevent_hlist_put' kernel/perf_event.c:4614: error: implicit declaration of function 'swevent_hlist_get' kernel/perf_event.c:5534: error: implicit declaration of function 'swevent_hlist_release Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1271281338-23491-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14perf: Make clock software events consistent with general exclusion rulesFrederic Weisbecker
The cpu/task clock events implement their own version of exclusion on top of exclude_user and exclude_kernel. The result is that when the event triggered in the kernel but we have exclude_kernel set, we try to rewind using task_pt_regs. There are two side effects of this: - we call task_pt_regs even on kernel threads, which doesn't give us the desired result. - if the event occured in the kernel, we shouldn't rewind to the user context. We want to actually ignore the event. get_irq_regs() will always give us the right interrupted context, so use its result and submit it to perf_exclude_context() that knows when an event must be ignored. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14perf: Store active software events in a hashlistFrederic Weisbecker
Each time a software event triggers, we need to walk through the entire list of events from the current cpu and task contexts to retrieve a running perf event that matches. We also need to check a matching perf event is actually counting. This walk is wasteful and makes the event fast path scaling down with a growing number of events running on the same contexts. To solve this, we store the running perf events in a hashlist to get an immediate access to them against their type:event_id when they trigger. v2: - Fix SWEVENT_HLIST_SIZE definition (and re-learn some basic maths along the way) - Only allocate hlist for online cpus, but keep track of the refcount on offline possible cpus too, so that we allocate it if needed when it becomes online. - Drop the kref use as it's not adapted to our tricks anymore. v3: - Fix bad refcount check (address instead of value). Thanks to Eric Dumazet who spotted this. - While exiting cpu, move the hlist release out of the IPI path to lock the hlist mutex sanely. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-08Merge branch 'linus' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c Merge reason: pick up latest fixes, fix the conflict Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-05Merge branch 'master' into export-slabhTejun Heo
2010-04-04perf_event: Make perf fd non seekableArnd Bergmann
Perf_event does not need seeking, so prevent it in order to get rid of default_llseek, which uses the BKL. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [drop the nonseekable_open, not needed for anon inodes] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-04-03Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: tools/perf/Makefile Merge reason: resolve the conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-03perf: Always build the stub perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs versionFrederic Weisbecker
Now that software events use perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() too, we need the stub version to be always built in for archs that don't implement it. Fixes the following build error in PARISC: kernel/built-in.o: In function `perf_event_task_sched_out': (.text.perf_event_task_sched_out+0x54): undefined reference to `perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs' Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2010-04-02Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, pick up fixes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02perf: Fix 'perf sched record' deadlockMike Galbraith
perf sched record can deadlock a box should the holder of handle->data->lock take an interrupt, and then attempt to acquire an rq lock held by a CPU trying to acquire the same lock. Disable interrupts. CPU0 CPU1 sched event with rq->lock held grab handle->data->lock spin on handle->data->lock interrupt try to grab rq->lock Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1269598293.6174.8.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-01perf: Use hot regs with software sched switch/migrate eventsFrederic Weisbecker
Scheduler's task migration events don't work because they always pass NULL regs perf_sw_event(). The event hence gets filtered in perf_swevent_add(). Scheduler's context switches events use task_pt_regs() to get the context when the event occured which is a wrong thing to do as this won't give us the place in the kernel where we went to sleep but the place where we left userspace. The result is even more wrong if we switch from a kernel thread. Use the hot regs snapshot for both events as they belong to the non-interrupt/exception based events family. Unlike page faults or so that provide the regs matching the exact origin of the event, we need to save the current context. This makes the task migration event working and fix the context switch callchains and origin ip. Example: perf record -a -e cs Before: 10.91% ksoftirqd/0 0 [k] 0000000000000000 | --- (nil) perf_callchain perf_prepare_sample __perf_event_overflow perf_swevent_overflow perf_swevent_add perf_swevent_ctx_event do_perf_sw_event __perf_sw_event perf_event_task_sched_out schedule run_ksoftirqd kthread kernel_thread_helper After: 23.77% hald-addon-stor [kernel.kallsyms] [k] schedule | --- schedule | |--60.00%-- schedule_timeout | wait_for_common | wait_for_completion | blk_execute_rq | scsi_execute | scsi_execute_req | sr_test_unit_ready | | | |--66.67%-- sr_media_change | | media_changed | | cdrom_media_changed | | sr_block_media_changed | | check_disk_change | | cdrom_open v2: Always build perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() now that software events need that too. They don't need it from modules, unlike trace events, so we keep the EXPORT_SYMBOL in trace_event_perf.c Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-17perf: Fix unexported generic perf_arch_fetch_caller_regsFrederic Weisbecker
perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() is exported for the overriden x86 version, but not for the generic weak version. As a general rule, weak functions should not have their symbol exported in the same file they are defined. So let's export it on trace_event_perf.c as it is used by trace events only. This fixes: ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [fs/xfs/xfs.ko] undefined! ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko] undefined! -v2: And also only build it if trace events are enabled. -v3: Fix changelog mistake Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1268697902-9518-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-16perf: Fix unexported generic perf_arch_fetch_caller_regsFrederic Weisbecker
perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() is exported for the overriden x86 version, but not for the generic weak version. As a general rule, weak functions should not have their symbol exported in the same file they are defined. So let's export it on trace_event_perf.c as it is used by trace events only. This fixes: ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [fs/xfs/xfs.ko] undefined! ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko] undefined! -v2: And also only build it if trace events are enabled. -v3: Fix changelog mistake Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1268697902-9518-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-12Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: We want to queue up a dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11perf_events: Improve task_sched_in()eranian@google.com
This patch is an optimization in perf_event_task_sched_in() to avoid scheduling the events twice in a row. Without it, the perf_disable()/perf_enable() pair is invoked twice, thereby pinned events counts while scheduling flexible events and we go throuh hw_perf_enable() twice. By encapsulating, the whole sequence into perf_disable()/perf_enable() we ensure, hw_perf_enable() is going to be invoked only once because of the refcount protection. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268288765-5326-1-git-send-email-eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11perf_event: Fix oops triggered by cpu offline/onlinePaul Mackerras
Anton Blanchard found that he could reliably make the kernel hit a BUG_ON in the slab allocator by taking a cpu offline and then online while a system-wide perf record session was running. The reason is that when the cpu comes up, we completely reinitialize the ctx field of the struct perf_cpu_context for the cpu. If there is a system-wide perf record session running, then there will be a struct perf_event that has a reference to the context, so its refcount will be 2. (The perf_event has been removed from the context's group_entry and event_entry lists by perf_event_exit_cpu(), but that doesn't remove the perf_event's reference to the context and doesn't decrement the context's refcount.) When the cpu comes up, perf_event_init_cpu() gets called, and it calls __perf_event_init_context() on the cpu's context. That resets the refcount to 1. Then when the perf record session finishes and the perf_event is closed, the refcount gets decremented to 0 and the context gets kfreed after an RCU grace period. Since the context wasn't kmalloced -- it's part of a per-cpu variable -- bad things happen. In fact we don't need to completely reinitialize the context when the cpu comes up. It's sufficient to initialize the context once at boot, but we need to do it for all possible cpus. This moves the context initialization to happen at boot time. With this, we don't trash the refcount and the context never gets kfreed, and we don't hit the BUG_ON. Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-10perf: Drop the obsolete profile naming for trace eventsFrederic Weisbecker
Drop the obsolete "profile" naming used by perf for trace events. Perf can now do more than simple events counting, so generalize the API naming. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
2010-03-10perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace eventsFrederic Weisbecker
We are taking a wrong regs snapshot when a trace event triggers. Either we use get_irq_regs(), which gives us the interrupted registers if we are in an interrupt, or we use task_pt_regs() which gives us the state before we entered the kernel, assuming we are lucky enough to be no kernel thread, in which case task_pt_regs() returns the initial set of regs when the kernel thread was started. What we want is different. We need a hot snapshot of the regs, so that we can get the instruction pointer to record in the sample, the frame pointer for the callchain, and some other things. Let's use the new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for that. Comparison with perf record -e lock: -R -a -f -g Before: perf [kernel] [k] __do_softirq | --- __do_softirq | |--55.16%-- __open | --44.84%-- __write_nocancel After: perf [kernel] [k] perf_tp_event | --- perf_tp_event | |--41.07%-- lock_acquire | | | |--39.36%-- _raw_spin_lock | | | | | |--7.81%-- hrtimer_interrupt | | | smp_apic_timer_interrupt | | | apic_timer_interrupt The old case was producing unreliable callchains. Now having right frame and instruction pointers, we have the trace we want. Also syscalls and kprobe events already have the right regs, let's use them instead of wasting a retrieval. v2: Follow the rename perf_save_regs() -> perf_fetch_caller_regs() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
2010-03-10perf: Introduce new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for hot regs snapshotFrederic Weisbecker
Events that trigger overflows by interrupting a context can use get_irq_regs() or task_pt_regs() to retrieve the state when the event triggered. But this is not the case for some other class of events like trace events as tracepoints are executed in the same context than the code that triggered the event. It means we need a different api to capture the regs there, namely we need a hot snapshot to get the most important informations for perf: the instruction pointer to get the event origin, the frame pointer for the callchain, the code segment for user_mode() tests (we always use __KERNEL_CS as trace events always occur from the kernel) and the eflags for further purposes. v2: rename perf_save_regs to perf_fetch_caller_regs as per Masami's suggestion. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
2010-03-10perf: Provide better condition for event rotationPeter Zijlstra
Try to avoid useless rotation and PMU disables. [ Could be improved by keeping a nr_runnable count to better account for the < PERF_STAT_INACTIVE counters ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-10perf: Optimize perf_disablePeter Zijlstra
Currently we always call hw_perf_disable(), even if its already disabled, this seems superflous, esp. since it cannot be made NMI safe (see further patches). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-10perf: Rework and fix the arch CPU-hotplug hooksPeter Zijlstra
Remove the hw_perf_event_*() hotplug hooks in favour of per PMU hotplug notifiers. This has the advantage of reducing the static weak interface as well as exposing all hotplug actions to the PMU. Use this to fix x86 hotplug usage where we did things in ONLINE which should have been done in UP_PREPARE or STARTING. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20100305154128.736225361@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-10perf: Provide generic perf_sample_data initializationPeter Zijlstra
This makes it easier to extend perf_sample_data and fixes a bug on arm and sparc, which failed to set ->raw to NULL, which can cause crashes when combined with PERF_SAMPLE_RAW. It also optimizes PowerPC and tracepoint, because the struct initialization is forced to zero out the whole structure. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jpihet@mvista.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.315416040@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-09Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc1' into perf/urgentIngo Molnar
Conflicts: tools/perf/util/probe-event.c Merge reason: Pick up -rc1 and resolve the conflict as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-08sysdev: Pass attribute in sysdev_class attributes show/storeAndi Kleen
Passing the attribute to the low level IO functions allows all kinds of cleanups, by sharing low level IO code without requiring an own function for every piece of data. Also drivers can extend the attributes with own data fields and use that in the low level function. Similar to sysdev_attributes and normal attributes. This is a tree-wide sweep, converting everything in one go. No functional changes in this patch other than passing the new argument everywhere. Tested on x86, the non x86 parts are uncompiled. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-06kernel core: use helpers for rlimitsJiri Slaby
Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits. E.g. fetching them twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are implemented. I.e. either use rlimit helpers added in commit 3e10e716abf3 ("resource: add helpers for fetching rlimits") or ACCESS_ONCE if not applicable. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-02perf, x86: Restrict the ANY flagPeter Zijlstra
The ANY flag can show SMT data of another task (like 'top'), so we want to disable it when system-wide profiling is disabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-28Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (172 commits) perf_event, amd: Fix spinlock initialization perf_event: Fix preempt warning in perf_clock() perf tools: Flush maps on COMM events perf_events, x86: Split PMU definitions into separate files perf annotate: Handle samples not at objdump output addr boundaries perf_events, x86: Remove superflous MSR writes perf_events: Simplify code by removing cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() perf_events, x86: AMD event scheduling perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacks perf_events: Report the MMAP pgoff value in bytes perf annotate: Defer allocating sym_priv->hist array perf symbols: Improve debugging information about symtab origins perf top: Use a macro instead of a constant variable perf symbols: Check the right return variable perf/scripts: Tag syscall_name helper as not yet available perf/scripts: Add perf-trace-python Documentation perf/scripts: Remove unnecessary PyTuple resizes perf/scripts: Add syscall tracing scripts perf/scripts: Add Python scripting engine perf/scripts: Remove check-perf-trace from listed scripts ... Fix trivial conflict in tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
2010-02-27Merge commit 'v2.6.33' into perf/coreFrederic Weisbecker
Merge reason: __percpu annotations need the corresponding sparse address space definition upstream. Conflicts: tools/perf/util/probe-event.c (trivial)
2010-02-26perf_event: Fix preempt warning in perf_clock()Peter Zijlstra
A recent commit introduced a preemption warning for perf_clock(), use raw_smp_processor_id() to avoid this, it really doesn't matter which cpu we use here. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1267198583.22519.684.camel@laptop> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-26perf_events: Simplify code by removing cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in()Peter Zijlstra
Since the cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() is always smp_processor_id(), simplify the code a little by removing this argument and using the current cpu where needed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1265890918.5396.3.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-26perf_events, x86: AMD event schedulingStephane Eranian
This patch adds correct AMD NorthBridge event scheduling. NB events are events measuring L3 cache, Hypertransport traffic. They are identified by an event code >= 0xe0. They measure events on the Northbride which is shared by all cores on a package. NB events are counted on a shared set of counters. When a NB event is programmed in a counter, the data actually comes from a shared counter. Thus, access to those counters needs to be synchronized. We implement the synchronization such that no two cores can be measuring NB events using the same counters. Thus, we maintain a per-NB allocation table. The available slot is propagated using the event_constraint structure. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4b703957.0702d00a.6bf2.7b7d@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-26perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacksStephane Eranian
In certain situations, the kernel may need to stop and start the same event rapidly. The current PMU callbacks do not distinguish between stop and release (i.e., stop + free the resource). Thus, a counter may be released, then it will be immediately re-acquired. Event scheduling will again take place with no guarantee to assign the same counter. On some processors, this may event yield to failure to assign the event back due to competion between cores. This patch is adding a new pair of callback to stop and restart a counter without actually release the underlying counter resource. On stop, the counter is stopped, its values saved and that's it. On start, the value is reloaded and counter is restarted (on x86, actual restart is delayed until perf_enable()). Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ added fallback to ->enable/->disable for all other PMUs fixed x86_pmu_start() to call x86_pmu.enable() merged __x86_pmu_disable into x86_pmu_stop() ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4b703875.0a04d00a.7896.ffffb824@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-26perf_events: Report the MMAP pgoff value in bytesPeter Zijlstra
DaveM reported that currently perf interprets the pgoff value reported by the MMAP events as a byte range, but the kernel reports it as a page offset. Since its broken (and unusable) anyway, change the kernel behaviour (ABI) to report bytes indeed, avoiding the need for userspace to deal with PAGE_SIZE things. Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-14perf_events: Fix FORK eventsPeter Zijlstra
Commit 22e19085 ("Honour event state for aux stream data") introduced a bug where we would drop FORK events. The thing is that we deliver FORK events to the child process' event, which at that time will be PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE because the child won't be scheduled in (we're in the middle of fork). Solve this twice, change the event state filter to exclude only disabled (STATE_OFF) or worse, and deliver FORK events to the current (parent). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> LKML-Reference: <1266142324.5273.411.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-04perf_events: Optimize perf_event_task_tick()Peter Zijlstra
Pretty much all of the calls do perf_disable/perf_enable cycles, pull that out to cut back on hardware programming. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-04perf: Make bp_len type to u64 generic across the archMahesh Salgaonkar
Change 'bp_len' type to __u64 to make it work across archs as the s390 architecture watch point length can be upto 2^64. reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/25/212 This is an ABI change that is not backward compatible with the previous hardware breakpoint info layout integrated in this development cycle, a rebuilt of perf tools is necessary for versions based on 2.6.33-rc1 - 2.6.33-rc6 to work with a kernel based on this patch. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100130045518.GA20776@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-01-29Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: We want to queue up a dependent patch. Also update to later -rc's. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-29perf_events: Fix sample_period transfer on inheritPeter Zijlstra
One problem with frequency driven counters is that we cannot predict the rate at which they trigger, therefore we have to start them at period=1, this causes a ramp up effect. However, if we fail to propagate the stable state on fork each new child will have to ramp up again. This can lead to significant artifacts in sample data. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1264752266.4283.2121.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>