perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching

jump_lable patching is very expensive operation that involves pausing all
cpus. The patching of perf_sched_events jump_label is easily controllable
from userspace by unprivileged user.

When te user runs a loop like this:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111127155909.GO2557@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 3c1541d7a53..3a3b1a18f49 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ enum event_type_t {
  * perf_sched_events : >0 events exist
  * perf_cgroup_events: >0 per-cpu cgroup events exist on this cpu
  */
-struct jump_label_key perf_sched_events __read_mostly;
+struct jump_label_key_deferred perf_sched_events __read_mostly;
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t, perf_cgroup_events);
 
 static atomic_t nr_mmap_events __read_mostly;
@@ -2748,7 +2748,7 @@ static void free_event(struct perf_event *event)
 
 	if (!event->parent) {
 		if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK)
-			jump_label_dec(&perf_sched_events);
+			jump_label_dec_deferred(&perf_sched_events);
 		if (event->attr.mmap || event->attr.mmap_data)
 			atomic_dec(&nr_mmap_events);
 		if (event->attr.comm)
@@ -2759,7 +2759,7 @@ static void free_event(struct perf_event *event)
 			put_callchain_buffers();
 		if (is_cgroup_event(event)) {
 			atomic_dec(&per_cpu(perf_cgroup_events, event->cpu));
-			jump_label_dec(&perf_sched_events);
+			jump_label_dec_deferred(&perf_sched_events);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -5784,7 +5784,7 @@ done:
 
 	if (!event->parent) {
 		if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK)
-			jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events);
+			jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events.key);
 		if (event->attr.mmap || event->attr.mmap_data)
 			atomic_inc(&nr_mmap_events);
 		if (event->attr.comm)
@@ -6022,7 +6022,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 		 * - that may need work on context switch
 		 */
 		atomic_inc(&per_cpu(perf_cgroup_events, event->cpu));
-		jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events);
+		jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events.key);
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -6868,6 +6868,9 @@ void __init perf_event_init(void)
 
 	ret = init_hw_breakpoint();
 	WARN(ret, "hw_breakpoint initialization failed with: %d", ret);
+
+	/* do not patch jump label more than once per second */
+	jump_label_rate_limit(&perf_sched_events, HZ);
 }
 
 static int __init perf_event_sysfs_init(void)