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Paul Mackerras
a63eaf34ae perf_counter: Dynamically allocate tasks' perf_counter_context struct
This replaces the struct perf_counter_context in the task_struct with
a pointer to a dynamically allocated perf_counter_context struct.  The
main reason for doing is this is to allow us to transfer a
perf_counter_context from one task to another when we do lazy PMU
switching in a later patch.

This has a few side-benefits: the task_struct becomes a little smaller,
we save some memory because only tasks that have perf_counters attached
get a perf_counter_context allocated for them, and we can remove the
inclusion of <linux/perf_counter.h> in sched.h, meaning that we don't
end up recompiling nearly everything whenever perf_counter.h changes.

The perf_counter_context structures are reference-counted and freed
when the last reference is dropped.  A context can have references
from its task and the counters on its task.  Counters can outlive the
task so it is possible that a context will be freed well after its
task has exited.

Contexts are allocated on fork if the parent had a context, or
otherwise the first time that a per-task counter is created on a task.
In the latter case, we set the context pointer in the task struct
locklessly using an atomic compare-and-exchange operation in case we
raced with some other task in creating a context for the subject task.

This also removes the task pointer from the perf_counter struct.  The
task pointer was not used anywhere and would make it harder to move a
context from one task to another.  Anything that needed to know which
task a counter was attached to was already using counter->ctx->task.

The __perf_counter_init_context function moves up in perf_counter.c
so that it can be called from find_get_context, and now initializes
the refcount, but is otherwise unchanged.

We were potentially calling list_del_counter twice: once from
__perf_counter_exit_task when the task exits and once from
__perf_counter_remove_from_context when the counter's fd gets closed.
This adds a check in list_del_counter so it doesn't do anything if
the counter has already been removed from the lists.

Since perf_counter_task_sched_in doesn't do anything if the task doesn't
have a context, and leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL, this adds code to
__perf_install_in_context to set cpuctx->task_ctx if necessary, i.e. in
the case where the current task adds the first counter to itself and
thus creates a context for itself.

This also adds similar code to __perf_counter_enable to handle a
similar situation which can arise when the counters have been disabled
using prctl; that also leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL.

[ Impact: refactor counter context management to prepare for new feature ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18966.10075.781053.231153@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22 12:18:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
34adc80622 perf_counter: Fix context removal deadlock
Disable the PMU globally before removing a counter from a
context. This fixes the following lockup:

[22081.741922] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[22081.746668] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c:803 intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x9b/0x24e()
[22081.755624] Hardware name: X8DTN
[22081.758903] perfcounters: irq loop stuck!
[22081.762985] Modules linked in:
[22081.766136] Pid: 11082, comm: perf Not tainted 2.6.30-rc6-tip #226
[22081.772432] Call Trace:
[22081.774940]  <NMI>  [<ffffffff81019aed>] ? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x9b/0x24e
[22081.781993]  [<ffffffff81019aed>] ? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x9b/0x24e
[22081.788368]  [<ffffffff8104505c>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xa3
[22081.794649]  [<ffffffff810450d3>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x40/0x45
[22081.800696]  [<ffffffff81019aed>] ? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x9b/0x24e
[22081.807080]  [<ffffffff814d1a72>] ? perf_counter_nmi_handler+0x3f/0x4a
[22081.813751]  [<ffffffff814d2d09>] ? notifier_call_chain+0x58/0x86
[22081.819951]  [<ffffffff8105b250>] ? notify_die+0x2d/0x32
[22081.825392]  [<ffffffff814d1414>] ? do_nmi+0x8e/0x242
[22081.830538]  [<ffffffff814d0f0a>] ? nmi+0x1a/0x20
[22081.835342]  [<ffffffff8117e102>] ? selinux_file_free_security+0x0/0x1a
[22081.842105]  [<ffffffff81018793>] ? x86_pmu_disable_counter+0x15/0x41
[22081.848673]  <<EOE>>  [<ffffffff81018f3d>] ? x86_pmu_disable+0x86/0x103
[22081.855512]  [<ffffffff8108fedd>] ? __perf_counter_remove_from_context+0x0/0xfe
[22081.862926]  [<ffffffff8108fcbc>] ? counter_sched_out+0x30/0xce
[22081.868909]  [<ffffffff8108ff36>] ? __perf_counter_remove_from_context+0x59/0xfe
[22081.876382]  [<ffffffff8106808a>] ? smp_call_function_single+0x6c/0xe6
[22081.882955]  [<ffffffff81091b96>] ? perf_release+0x86/0x14c
[22081.888600]  [<ffffffff810c4c84>] ? __fput+0xe7/0x195
[22081.893718]  [<ffffffff810c213e>] ? filp_close+0x5b/0x62
[22081.899107]  [<ffffffff81046a70>] ? put_files_struct+0x64/0xc2
[22081.905031]  [<ffffffff8104841a>] ? do_exit+0x1e2/0x6ef
[22081.910360]  [<ffffffff814d0a60>] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0xe
[22081.916292]  [<ffffffff8104898e>] ? do_group_exit+0x67/0x93
[22081.921953]  [<ffffffff810489cc>] ? sys_exit_group+0x12/0x16
[22081.927759]  [<ffffffff8100baab>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[22081.934076] ---[ end trace 3a3936ce3e1b4505 ]---

And could potentially also fix the lockup reported by Marcelo Tosatti.

Also, print more debug info in case of a detected lockup.

[ Impact: fix lockup ]

Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20 20:12:54 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
afedadf23a perf_counter: Optimize sched in/out of counters
Avoid a function call for !group counters by directly calling the counter
function.

[ Impact: micro-optimize the code ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090520102553.511933670@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20 12:43:34 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b986d7ec0f perf_counter: Optimize disable of time based sw counters
Currently we call hrtimer_cancel() unconditionally on disable of time based
software counters. Avoid when possible.

[ Impact: micro-optimize the code ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090520102553.388185031@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20 12:43:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
26b119bc81 perf_counter: Log irq_period changes
For the dynamic irq_period code, log whenever we change the period so that
analyzing code can normalize the event flow.

[ Impact: add new feature to allow more precise profiling ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090520102553.298769743@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20 12:43:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
d7b629a34f perf_counter: Solve the rotate_ctx vs inherit race differently
Instead of disabling RR scheduling of the counters, use a different list
that does not get rotated to iterate the counters on inheritance.

[ Impact: cleanup, optimization ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090520102553.237504544@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20 12:43:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c44d70a340 perf_counter: fix counter inheritance race
Context rotation should not occur when we are in the middle of
walking the counter list when inheriting counters ...

[ Impact: fix occasionally incorrect perf stat results ]

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20 00:22:30 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
33b2fb303f perf_counter: fix counter freeing logic
Fix counter lifetime bugs which explain the crashes reported by
Marcelo Tosatti and Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

The new rule is: flushing + freeing is only done for a task's
own counters, never for other tasks.

[ Impact: fix crashes/lockups with inherited counters ]

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20 00:22:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
8bc2095951 perf_counter: Fix inheritance cleanup code
Clean up code that open-coded the list_{add,del}_counter() code in
__perf_counter_exit_task() which consequently diverged. This could
lead to software counter crashes.

Also, fold the ctx->nr_counter inc/dec into those functions and clean
up some of the related code.

[ Impact: fix potential sw counter crash, cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-17 07:52:23 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
9d23a90a67 perf_counter: allow arch to supply event misc flags and instruction pointer
At present the values we put in overflow events for the misc
flags indicating processor mode and the instruction pointer are
obtained using the standard user_mode() and
instruction_pointer() functions. Those functions tell you where
the performance monitor interrupt was taken, which might not be
exactly where the counter overflow occurred, for example
because interrupts were disabled at the point where the
overflow occurred, or because the processor had many
instructions in flight and chose to complete some more
instructions beyond the one that caused the counter overflow.

Some architectures (e.g. powerpc) can supply more precise
information about where the counter overflow occurred and the
processor mode at that point.  This introduces new functions,
perf_misc_flags() and perf_instruction_pointer(), which arch
code can override to provide more precise information if
available.  They have default implementations which are
identical to the existing code.

This also adds a new misc flag value,
PERF_EVENT_MISC_HYPERVISOR, for the case where a counter
overflow occurred in the hypervisor.  We encode the processor
mode in the 2 bits previously used to indicate user or kernel
mode; the values for user and kernel mode are unchanged and
hypervisor mode is indicated by both bits being set.

[ Impact: generalize perfcounter core facilities ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18956.1272.818511.561835@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15 16:38:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
2e569d3672 perf_counter: frequency based adaptive irq_period, 32-bit fix
fix:

  kernel/built-in.o: In function `perf_counter_alloc':
  perf_counter.c:(.text+0x7ddc7): undefined reference to `__udivdi3'

[ Impact: build fix on 32-bit systems ]

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1242394667.6642.1887.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15 15:40:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
60db5e09c1 perf_counter: frequency based adaptive irq_period
Instead of specifying the irq_period for a counter, provide a target interrupt
frequency and dynamically adapt the irq_period to match this frequency.

[ Impact: new perf-counter attribute/feature ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.646195868@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15 15:26:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
789f90fcf6 perf_counter: per user mlock gift
Instead of a per-process mlock gift for perf-counters, use a
per-user gift so that there is less of a DoS potential.

[ Impact: allow less worst-case unprivileged memory consumption ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.496182835@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15 15:26:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
548e1ddf25 perf_counter: remove perf_disable/enable exports
Now that ACPI idle doesn't use it anymore, remove the exports.

[ Impact: remove dead code/data ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.429826617@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15 15:26:55 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
9e35ad388b perf_counter: Rework the perf counter disable/enable
The current disable/enable mechanism is:

	token = hw_perf_save_disable();
	...
	/* do bits */
	...
	hw_perf_restore(token);

This works well, provided that the use nests properly. Except we don't.

x86 NMI/INT throttling has non-nested use of this, breaking things. Therefore
provide a reference counter disable/enable interface, where the first disable
disables the hardware, and the last enable enables the hardware again.

[ Impact: refactor, simplify the PMU disable/enable logic ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15 09:47:02 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
53020fe81e perf_counter: Fix perf_output_copy() WARN to account for overflow
The simple reservation test in perf_output_copy() failed to take
unsigned int overflow into account, fix this.

[ Impact: fix false positive warning with more than 4GB of profiling data ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15 09:46:59 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
e758a33d6f perf_counter: call hw_perf_save_disable/restore around group_sched_in
I noticed that when enabling a group via the PERF_COUNTER_IOC_ENABLE
ioctl on the group leader, the counters weren't enabled and counting
immediately on return from the ioctl, but did start counting a little
while later (presumably after a context switch).

The reason was that __perf_counter_enable calls group_sched_in which
calls hw_perf_group_sched_in, which on powerpc assumes that the caller
has called hw_perf_save_disable already.  Until commit 46d686c6
("perf_counter: put whole group on when enabling group leader") it was
true that all callers of group_sched_in had called
hw_perf_save_disable first, and the powerpc hw_perf_group_sched_in
relies on that (there isn't an x86 version).

This fixes the problem by putting calls to hw_perf_save_disable /
hw_perf_restore around the calls to group_sched_in and
counter_sched_in in __perf_counter_enable.  Having the calls to
hw_perf_save_disable/restore around the counter_sched_in call is
harmless and makes this call consistent with the other call sites
of counter_sched_in, which have all called hw_perf_save_disable first.

[ Impact: more precise counter group disable/enable functionality ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <18953.25733.53359.147452@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-12 15:31:06 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
615a3f1e05 perf_counter: call atomic64_set for counter->count
A compile warning triggered because we are calling
atomic_set(&counter->count). But since counter->count
is an atomic64_t, we have to use atomic64_set.

So the count can be set short, resulting in the reset ioctl
only resetting the low word.

[ Impact: clear counter properly during the reset ioctl ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <18951.48285.270311.981806@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 12:10:54 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
a08b159fc2 perf_counter: don't count scheduler ticks as context switches
The context-switch software counter gives inflated values at present
because each scheduler tick and each process-wide counter
enable/disable prctl gets counted as a context switch.

This happens because perf_counter_task_tick, perf_counter_task_disable
and perf_counter_task_enable all call perf_counter_task_sched_out,
which calls perf_swcounter_event to record a context switch event.

This fixes it by introducing a variant of perf_counter_task_sched_out
with two underscores in front for internal use within the perf_counter
code, and makes perf_counter_task_{tick,disable,enable} call it.  This
variant doesn't record a context switch event, and takes a struct
perf_counter_context *.  This adds the new variant rather than
changing the behaviour or interface of perf_counter_task_sched_out
because that is called from other code.

[ Impact: fix inflated context-switch event counts ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <18951.48034.485580.498953@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 12:10:53 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
6751b71ea2 perf_counter: Put whole group on when enabling group leader
Currently, if you have a group where the leader is disabled and there
are siblings that are enabled, and then you enable the leader, we only
put the leader on the PMU, and not its enabled siblings.  This is
incorrect, since the enabled group members should be all on or all off
at any given point.

This fixes it by adding a call to group_sched_in in
__perf_counter_enable in the case where we're enabling a group leader.

To avoid the need for a forward declaration this also moves
group_sched_in up before __perf_counter_enable.  The actual content of
group_sched_in is unchanged by this patch.

[ Impact: fix bug in counter enable code ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <18951.34946.451546.691693@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 12:10:53 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f370e1e2f1 perf_counter: add PERF_RECORD_CPU
Allow recording the CPU number the event was generated on.

RFC: this leaves a u32 as reserved, should we fill in the
     node_id() there, or leave this open for future extention,
     as userspace can already easily do the cpu->node mapping
     if needed.

[ Impact: extend perfcounter output record format ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090508170029.008627711@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08 20:36:59 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a85f61abe1 perf_counter: add PERF_RECORD_CONFIG
Much like CONFIG_RECORD_GROUP records the hw_event.config to
identify the values, allow to record this for all counters.

[ Impact: extend perfcounter output record format ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090508170028.923228280@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08 20:36:58 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
3df5edad87 perf_counter: rework ioctl()s
Corey noticed that ioctl()s on grouped counters didn't work on
the whole group. This extends the ioctl() interface to take a
second argument that is interpreted as a flags field. We then
provide PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP to toggle the behaviour.

Having this flag gives the greatest flexibility, allowing you
to individually enable/disable/reset counters in a group, or
all together.

[ Impact: fix group counter enable/disable semantics ]

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>
LKML-Reference: <20090508170028.837558214@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08 20:36:58 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
7fc23a5380 perf_counter: optimize perf_counter_task_tick()
perf_counter_task_tick() does way too much work to find out
there's nothing to do. Provide an easy short-circuit for the
normal case where there are no counters on the system.

[ Impact: micro-optimization ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090508170028.750619201@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08 20:36:57 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
2023b35921 perf_counter: inheritable sample counters
Redirect the output to the parent counter and put in some sanity checks.

[ Impact: new perfcounter feature - inherited sampling counters ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.331556171@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-05 20:18:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
22c1558e51 perf_counter: fix the output lock
Use -1 instead of 0 as unlocked, since 0 is a valid cpu number.

( This is not an issue right now but will be once we allow multiple
  counters to output to the same mmap area. )

[ Impact: prepare code for multi-counter profile output ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.232686598@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-05 20:18:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
c5078f78b4 perf_counter: provide an mlock threshold
Provide a threshold to relax the mlock accounting, increasing usability.

Each counter gets perf_counter_mlock_kb for free.

[ Impact: allow more mmap buffering ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.112113632@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-05 20:18:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6de6a7b957 perf_counter: add ioctl(PERF_COUNTER_IOC_RESET)
Provide a way to reset an existing counter - this eases PAPI
libraries around perfcounters.

Similar to read() it doesn't collapse pending child counters.

[ Impact: new perfcounter fd ioctl method to reset counters ]

Suggested-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.022272933@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-05 20:18:31 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
c66de4a5be perf_counter: uncouple data_head updates from wakeups
Keep data_head up-to-date irrespective of notifications. This fixes
the case where you disable a counter and don't get a notification for
the last few pending events, and it also allows polling usage.

[ Impact: increase precision of perfcounter mmap-ed fields ]

Suggested-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155436.925084300@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-05 20:18:30 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1dce8d99b8 perf_counter: convert perf_resource_mutex to a spinlock
Now percpu counters can be initialized very early. But the init
sequence uses mutex_lock(). Fortunately, perf_resource_mutex should
be a spinlock anyway, so convert it.

[ Impact: fix crash due to early init mutex use ]

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-04 19:30:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0d905bca23 perf_counter: initialize the per-cpu context earlier
percpu scheduling for perfcounters wants to take the context lock,
but that lock first needs to be initialized. Currently it is an
early_initcall() - but that is too late, the task tick runs much
sooner than that.

Call it explicitly from the scheduler init sequence instead.

[ Impact: fix access-before-init crash ]

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-04 19:30:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b82914ce33 perf_counter: round-robin per-CPU counters too
This used to be unstable when we had the rq->lock dependencies,
but now that they are that of the past we can turn on percpu
counter RR too.

[ Impact: handle counter over-commit for per-CPU counters too ]

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-04 19:29:57 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
c33a0bc4e4 perf_counter: fix race in perf_output_*
When two (or more) contexts output to the same buffer, it is possible
to observe half written output.

Suppose we have CPU0 doing perf_counter_mmap(), CPU1 doing
perf_counter_overflow(). If CPU1 does a wakeup and exposes head to
user-space, then CPU2 can observe the data CPU0 is still writing.

[ Impact: fix occasionally corrupted profiling records ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090501102533.007821627@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-01 13:23:43 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
c5dd016cdf perf_counter: update copyright notice
This adds my name to the list of copyright holders on the core
perf_counter.c, since I have contributed a significant amount of the
code in there.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <18936.59200.888049.746658@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-30 08:23:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
9814451142 perf_counter: add/update copyrights
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:52:50 +02:00
Robert Richter
4aeb0b4239 perfcounters: rename struct hw_perf_counter_ops into struct pmu
This patch renames struct hw_perf_counter_ops into struct pmu. It
introduces a structure to describe a cpu specific pmu (performance
monitoring unit). It may contain ops and data. The new name of the
structure fits better, is shorter, and thus better to handle. Where it
was appropriate, names of function and variable have been changed too.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1241002046-8832-7-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:51:03 +02:00
Steven Whitehouse
ff7b1b4f00 perfcounters: export perf_tpcounter_event
Needed for modular tracepoint support.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-16 01:10:04 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
d3d21c412d perf_counter: log full path names
Impact: fix perf-report output for /home mounted binaries, etc.

dentry_path() only provide path-names up to the mount root, which is
unsuited for out purpose, use d_path() instead.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409085524.601794134@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 11:50:54 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
1ccd154978 perf_counter: sysctl for system wide perf counters
Impact: add sysctl for paranoid/relaxed perfcounters policy

Allow the use of system wide perf counters to everybody, but provide
a sysctl to disable it for the paranoid security minded.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409085524.514046352@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 11:50:52 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
9ee318a782 perf_counter: optimize mmap/comm tracking
Impact: performance optimization

The mmap/comm tracking code does quite a lot of work before it discovers
there's no interest in it, avoid that by keeping a counter.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409085524.427173196@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 11:50:43 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
888fcee066 perf_counter: fix off task->comm by one
strlen() does not include the \0.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 09:48:22 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
78f13e9525 perf_counter: allow for data addresses to be recorded
Paul suggested we allow for data addresses to be recorded along with
the traditional IPs as power can provide these.

For now, only the software pagefault events provide data addresses,
but in the future power might as well for some events.

x86 doesn't seem capable of providing this atm.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.394816925@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 19:05:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4d855457d8 perf_counter: move PERF_RECORD_TIME
Move PERF_RECORD_TIME so that all the fixed length items come before
the variable length ones.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.307926436@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 19:05:55 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
8d1b2d9361 perf_counter: track task-comm data
Similar to the mmap data stream, add one that tracks the task COMM field,
so that the userspace reporting knows what to call a task.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.127422406@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 19:05:47 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6b6e5486b3 perf_counter: use misc field to widen type
Push the PERF_EVENT_COUNTER_OVERFLOW bit into the misc field so that
we can have the full 32bit for PERF_RECORD_ bits.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130408.891867663@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 18:53:28 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6fab01927e perf_counter: provide misc bits in the event header
Limit the size of each record to 64k (or should we count in multiples
of u64 and have a 512K limit?), this gives 16 bits or spare room in the
header, which we can use for misc bits, so as to not have to grow the
record with u64 every time we have a few bits to report.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130408.769271806@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 18:53:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
e30e08f65c perf_counter: fix NMI race in task clock
We should not be updating ctx->time from NMI context, work around that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130408.681326666@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 18:53:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
bce379bf35 perf_counter: minimize context time updates
Push the update_context_time() calls up the stack so that we get less
invokations and thereby a less noisy output:

before:

 # ./perfstat -e 1:0 -e 1:1 -e 1:1 -e 1:1 -l ls > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

      10.163691  cpu clock ticks      (msecs)  (scaled from 98.94%)
      10.215360  task clock ticks     (msecs)  (scaled from 98.18%)
      10.185549  task clock ticks     (msecs)  (scaled from 98.53%)
      10.183581  task clock ticks     (msecs)  (scaled from 98.71%)

 Wall-clock time elapsed:    11.912858 msecs

after:

 # ./perfstat -e 1:0 -e 1:1 -e 1:1 -e 1:1 -l ls > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

       9.316630  cpu clock ticks      (msecs)
       9.280789  task clock ticks     (msecs)
       9.280789  task clock ticks     (msecs)
       9.280789  task clock ticks     (msecs)

 Wall-clock time elapsed:     9.574872 msecs

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.618876874@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:49:01 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
849691a6cd perf_counter: remove rq->lock usage
Now that all the task runtime clock users are gone, remove the ugly
rq->lock usage from perf counters, which solves the nasty deadlock
seen when a software task clock counter was read from an NMI overflow
context.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.531137582@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:49:01 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a39d6f2556 perf_counter: rework the task clock software counter
Rework the task clock software counter to use the context time instead
of the task runtime clock, this removes the last such user.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.445450972@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:49:00 +02:00