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authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>2012-02-09 23:21:00 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2012-03-05 14:55:42 +0100
commitd010b3326cf06b3406cdd88af16dcf4e4b6fec2e (patch)
treed0468d78582aeff6a603cb5d29b1a14310106896 /kernel/events
parent2481c5fa6db0237e4f0168f88913178b2b495b7c (diff)
perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
With branch stack sampling, it is possible to filter by priv levels. In system-wide mode, that means it is possible to capture only user level branches. The builtin SW LBR filter needs to disassemble code based on LBR captured addresses. For that, it needs to know the task the addresses are associated with. Because of context switches, the content of the branch stack buffer may contain addresses from different tasks. We need a callback on context switch to either flush the branch stack or save it. This patch adds a new callback in struct pmu which is called during context switches. The callback is called only when necessary. That is when a system-wide context has, at least, one event which uses PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK. The callback is never called for per-thread context. In this version, the Intel x86 code simply flushes (resets) the LBR on context switches (fills it with zeroes). Those zeroed branches are then filtered out by the SW filter. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-11-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c85
1 files changed, 85 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 242bb51c67f..c61234b1a98 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ enum event_type_t {
*/
struct static_key_deferred perf_sched_events __read_mostly;
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t, perf_cgroup_events);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t, perf_branch_stack_events);
static atomic_t nr_mmap_events __read_mostly;
static atomic_t nr_comm_events __read_mostly;
@@ -888,6 +889,9 @@ list_add_event(struct perf_event *event, struct perf_event_context *ctx)
if (is_cgroup_event(event))
ctx->nr_cgroups++;
+ if (has_branch_stack(event))
+ ctx->nr_branch_stack++;
+
list_add_rcu(&event->event_entry, &ctx->event_list);
if (!ctx->nr_events)
perf_pmu_rotate_start(ctx->pmu);
@@ -1027,6 +1031,9 @@ list_del_event(struct perf_event *event, struct perf_event_context *ctx)
cpuctx->cgrp = NULL;
}
+ if (has_branch_stack(event))
+ ctx->nr_branch_stack--;
+
ctx->nr_events--;
if (event->attr.inherit_stat)
ctx->nr_stat--;
@@ -2202,6 +2209,66 @@ static void perf_event_context_sched_in(struct perf_event_context *ctx,
}
/*
+ * When sampling the branck stack in system-wide, it may be necessary
+ * to flush the stack on context switch. This happens when the branch
+ * stack does not tag its entries with the pid of the current task.
+ * Otherwise it becomes impossible to associate a branch entry with a
+ * task. This ambiguity is more likely to appear when the branch stack
+ * supports priv level filtering and the user sets it to monitor only
+ * at the user level (which could be a useful measurement in system-wide
+ * mode). In that case, the risk is high of having a branch stack with
+ * branch from multiple tasks. Flushing may mean dropping the existing
+ * entries or stashing them somewhere in the PMU specific code layer.
+ *
+ * This function provides the context switch callback to the lower code
+ * layer. It is invoked ONLY when there is at least one system-wide context
+ * with at least one active event using taken branch sampling.
+ */
+static void perf_branch_stack_sched_in(struct task_struct *prev,
+ struct task_struct *task)
+{
+ struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx;
+ struct pmu *pmu;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ /* no need to flush branch stack if not changing task */
+ if (prev == task)
+ return;
+
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(pmu, &pmus, entry) {
+ cpuctx = this_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context);
+
+ /*
+ * check if the context has at least one
+ * event using PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
+ */
+ if (cpuctx->ctx.nr_branch_stack > 0
+ && pmu->flush_branch_stack) {
+
+ pmu = cpuctx->ctx.pmu;
+
+ perf_ctx_lock(cpuctx, cpuctx->task_ctx);
+
+ perf_pmu_disable(pmu);
+
+ pmu->flush_branch_stack();
+
+ perf_pmu_enable(pmu);
+
+ perf_ctx_unlock(cpuctx, cpuctx->task_ctx);
+ }
+ }
+
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+
+/*
* Called from scheduler to add the events of the current task
* with interrupts disabled.
*
@@ -2232,6 +2299,10 @@ void __perf_event_task_sched_in(struct task_struct *prev,
*/
if (atomic_read(&__get_cpu_var(perf_cgroup_events)))
perf_cgroup_sched_in(prev, task);
+
+ /* check for system-wide branch_stack events */
+ if (atomic_read(&__get_cpu_var(perf_branch_stack_events)))
+ perf_branch_stack_sched_in(prev, task);
}
static u64 perf_calculate_period(struct perf_event *event, u64 nsec, u64 count)
@@ -2798,6 +2869,14 @@ static void free_event(struct perf_event *event)
atomic_dec(&per_cpu(perf_cgroup_events, event->cpu));
static_key_slow_dec_deferred(&perf_sched_events);
}
+
+ if (has_branch_stack(event)) {
+ static_key_slow_dec_deferred(&perf_sched_events);
+ /* is system-wide event */
+ if (!(event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK))
+ atomic_dec(&per_cpu(perf_branch_stack_events,
+ event->cpu));
+ }
}
if (event->rb) {
@@ -5924,6 +6003,12 @@ done:
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
}
+ if (has_branch_stack(event)) {
+ static_key_slow_inc(&perf_sched_events.key);
+ if (!(event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK))
+ atomic_inc(&per_cpu(perf_branch_stack_events,
+ event->cpu));
+ }
}
return event;