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Peter Zijlstra 559fdc3c1b perf_event: Optimize perf_output_lock()
The purpose of perf_output_{un,}lock() is to:

 1) avoid publishing incomplete data
    [ possible when publishing a head that is ahead of an entry
      that is still being written ]

 2) guarantee fwd progress
    [ a simple refcount on pending writers doesn't need to drop to
      0, making it so would end up implementing something like forced
      quiecent states of RCU ]

To satisfy the above without undue complexity it serializes
between CPUs, this means that a pending writer can only be the
same cpu in a nested context, and since (under normal operation)
a cpu always makes progress we're good -- if the head is only
published when the bottom  most writer completes.

Now we don't need to disable IRQs in order to serialize between
CPUs, disabling preemption ought to be sufficient, esp since we
already deal with nesting due to NMIs.

This avoids potentially expensive (and needless) local IRQ
disable/enable ops.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258373161.26714.254.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-16 13:27:45 +01:00
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gcov microblaze: Enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL 2009-09-21 14:29:21 +02:00
irq genirq: try_one_irq() must be called with irq disabled 2009-11-07 21:44:45 +01:00
power PM / Hibernate: Add newline to load_image() fail path 2009-11-03 11:03:09 +01:00
time headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h 2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
trace Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc7' into perf/core 2009-11-15 09:50:41 +01:00
.gitignore
acct.c bsdacct: switch credentials for writing to the accounting file 2009-08-24 11:33:40 +10:00
async.c
audit.c Audit: send signal info if selinux is disabled 2009-09-24 03:50:26 -04:00
audit.h Fix rule eviction order for AUDIT_DIR 2009-06-24 00:02:38 -04:00
audit_tree.c Fix rule eviction order for AUDIT_DIR 2009-06-24 00:02:38 -04:00
audit_watch.c Audit: reorganize struct audit_watch to save 8 bytes 2009-09-24 03:50:25 -04:00
auditfilter.c Audit: clean up all op= output to include string quoting 2009-06-24 00:00:52 -04:00
auditsc.c Audit: rearrange audit_context to save 16 bytes per struct 2009-09-24 03:50:26 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup.c cgroup: fix strstrip() misuse 2009-10-29 07:39:25 -07:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time 2009-09-24 07:20:58 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c Merge branch 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-15 09:19:38 -07:00
cpuset.c cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time 2009-09-24 07:20:58 -07:00
cred-internals.h
cred.c creds_are_invalid() needs to be exported for use by modules: 2009-09-23 11:02:26 -07:00
delayacct.c headers: taskstats_kern.h trim 2009-09-18 09:48:52 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c connector: fix regression introduced by sid connector 2009-10-29 07:39:25 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c Correct nr_processes() when CPUs have been unplugged 2009-11-03 07:52:39 -08:00
freezer.c sched: fix nr_uninterruptible accounting of frozen tasks really 2009-07-18 14:19:53 +02:00
futex.c futex: Fix spurious wakeup for requeue_pi really 2009-10-28 20:34:34 +01:00
futex_compat.c futex: Fix compat_futex to be same as futex for REQUEUE_PI 2009-08-10 15:41:12 +02:00
groups.c groups: move code to kernel/groups.c 2009-06-16 19:47:48 -07:00
hrtimer.c Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-10-05 12:04:16 -07:00
hung_task.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
itimer.c itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer 2009-08-29 14:10:07 +02:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: use new arch_is_kernel_text() 2009-09-23 07:39:30 -07:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: fix omitting offset in extended crashkernel syntax 2009-07-29 19:10:34 -07:00
kfifo.c kfifo: Use "const" definitions 2009-09-19 13:13:17 -07:00
kgdb.c
kmod.c Revert "kmod: fix race in usermodehelper code" 2009-09-23 18:12:10 -07:00
kprobes.c const: constify remaining file_operations 2009-10-01 16:11:11 -07:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c sched: Fix kthread_bind() by moving the body of kthread_bind() to sched.c 2009-11-03 07:25:00 +01:00
latencytop.c
lockdep.c tracing: Rename 'lockdep' event subsystem into 'lock' 2009-11-13 10:48:27 +01:00
lockdep_internals.h lockdep: BFS cleanup 2009-07-24 10:53:29 +02:00
lockdep_proc.c seq_file: constify seq_operations 2009-09-23 07:39:29 -07:00
lockdep_states.h
Makefile cgroups: move the cgroup debug subsys into cgroup.c to access internal state 2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
module.c module: fix up CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n build. 2009-10-01 16:11:11 -07:00
mutex-debug.c headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h 2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c
ns_cgroup.c cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time 2009-09-24 07:20:58 -07:00
nsproxy.c nsproxy: extract create_nsproxy() 2009-06-18 13:03:56 -07:00
panic.c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-10-08 12:16:35 -07:00
params.c param: fix setting arrays of bool 2009-10-29 08:56:20 +10:30
perf_event.c perf_event: Optimize perf_output_lock() 2009-11-16 13:27:45 +01:00
pid.c mm: also use alloc_large_system_hash() for the PID hash table 2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
pid_namespace.c pidns: deny CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_NEWPID combination 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
pm_qos_params.c
posix-cpu-timers.c itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer 2009-08-29 14:10:07 +02:00
posix-timers.c time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE 2009-08-21 21:43:46 +02:00
printk.c printk: add printk_delay to make messages readable for some scenarios 2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
profile.c kernel/profile.c: Switch /proc/irq/prof_cpu_mask to seq_file 2009-09-20 20:15:40 +02:00
ptrace.c ptrace: __ptrace_detach: do __wake_up_parent() if we reap the tracee 2009-09-24 07:20:59 -07:00
rcupdate.c rcu: Move rcu_barrier() to rcutree 2009-10-07 08:11:20 +02:00
rcutorture.c rcu: Clean up code to address Ingo's checkpatch feedback 2009-09-23 19:46:30 +02:00
rcutree.c rcu: Fix long-grace-period race between forcing and initialization 2009-11-02 16:06:21 +01:00
rcutree.h rcu: Fix long-grace-period race between forcing and initialization 2009-11-02 16:06:21 +01:00
rcutree_plugin.h rcu: Fix TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU_HOTPLUG bad-luck hang 2009-10-15 20:33:01 +02:00
rcutree_trace.c rcu: Make hot-unplugged CPU relinquish its own RCU callbacks 2009-10-07 08:11:20 +02:00
relay.c const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
res_counter.c memcg: some modification to softlimit under hierarchical memory reclaim. 2009-10-01 16:11:13 -07:00
resource.c walk system ram range 2009-09-23 07:39:41 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c rtmutex: Avoid deadlock in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() 2009-08-06 05:50:21 +02:00
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h
rwsem.c
sched.c sched: Use root_task_group_empty only with FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 2009-11-08 13:15:48 +01:00
sched_clock.c sched_clock: Fix atomicity/continuity bug by using cmpxchg64() 2009-09-30 22:56:10 +02:00
sched_cpupri.c sched: Add new prio to cpupri before removing old prio 2009-08-02 14:26:09 +02:00
sched_cpupri.h
sched_debug.c sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING 2009-09-17 10:17:25 +02:00
sched_fair.c sched: Strengthen buddies and mitigate buddy induced latencies 2009-10-23 23:48:28 +02:00
sched_features.h sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING 2009-09-17 10:17:25 +02:00
sched_idletask.c sched: Simplify sys_sched_rr_get_interval() system call 2009-09-21 09:53:55 +02:00
sched_rt.c sched: Simplify sys_sched_rr_get_interval() system call 2009-09-21 09:53:55 +02:00
sched_stats.h
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c signals: inline __fatal_signal_pending 2009-09-24 07:21:01 -07:00
slow-work.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
smp.c cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipi 2009-09-24 09:34:47 +09:30
softirq.c softirq: add BLOCK_IOPOLL to softirq_to_name 2009-09-17 15:53:44 -04:00
softlockup.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
spinlock.c locking: Allow arch-inlined spinlocks 2009-08-31 18:08:50 +02:00
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys.c Merge branch 'hwpoison-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-10-29 08:20:00 -07:00
sys_ni.c Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-09-24 15:13:11 -07:00
sysctl.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
sysctl_check.c sysctl: fix false positives when PROC_SYSCTL=n 2009-10-29 07:39:30 -07:00
taskstats.c genetlink: make netns aware 2009-07-12 14:03:27 -07:00
test_kprobes.c
time.c time: Prevent 32 bit overflow with set_normalized_timespec() 2009-09-15 10:17:30 +02:00
timeconst.pl
timer.c Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-23 09:46:15 -07:00
tracepoint.c trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files 2009-09-21 15:14:55 +02:00
tsacct.c
uid16.c headers: utsname.h redux 2009-09-23 18:13:10 -07:00
up.c
user.c uids: Prevent tear down race 2009-11-02 16:02:39 +01:00
user_namespace.c
utsname.c utsns: extract creeate_uts_ns() 2009-06-18 13:03:55 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
wait.c locking, sched: Give waitqueue spinlocks their own lockdep classes 2009-08-10 14:43:09 +02:00
workqueue.c Merge branch 'hwpoison-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-10-29 08:20:00 -07:00