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2009-09-21perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance EventsIngo Molnar
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_eventIngo Molnar
In preparation to the renames, to avoid a namespace clash. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20perf_counter: x86: Fix PMU resource leakPeter Zijlstra
Dave noticed that we leak the PMU resource reservations when we fail the hardware counter init. Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> LKML-Reference: <1252483487.7746.164.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Bring in tracing changes we depend on. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS overflow handlingMarkus Metzger
Draining the BTS buffer on a buffer overflow interrupt takes too long resulting in a kernel lockup when tracing the kernel. Restructure perf_counter sampling into sample creation and sample output. Prepare a single reference sample for BTS sampling and update the from and to address fields when draining the BTS buffer. Drain the entire BTS buffer between a single perf_output_begin() / perf_output_end() pair. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090915130023.A16204@sedona.ch.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits) powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas() vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm() percpu: add chunk->base_addr percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[] percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk() percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page percpu: improve boot messages percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking ... Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-04x86, perf_counter, bts: Do not allow kernel BTS tracing for nowmarkus.t.metzger@intel.com
Kernel BTS tracing generates too much data too fast for us to handle, causing the kernel to hang. Fail for BTS requests for kernel code. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zjilstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090902140616.901253000@intel.com> [ This is really a workaround - but we want BTS tracing in .32 so make sure we dont regress. The lockup should be fixed ASAP. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04x86, perf_counter, bts: Correct pointer-to-u64 castsmarkus.t.metzger@intel.com
On 32bit, pointers in the DS AREA configuration are cast to u64. The current (long) cast to avoid compiler warnings results in a signed 64bit address. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090902140615.305889000@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04x86, perf_counter, bts: Fail if BTS is not availablemarkus.t.metzger@intel.com
Reserve PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS with sample_period == 1 for BTS tracing and fail, if BTS is not available. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090902140612.943801000@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-15Merge branch 'perfcounters/urgent' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/perf_counter.c Merge reason: update to latest upstream (-rc6) and resolve the conflict with urgent fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-14Merge branch 'percpu-for-linus' into percpu-for-nextTejun Heo
Conflicts: arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c mm/percpu.c Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids. As for-next branch has moved all the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved from arch code to mm/percpu.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-12perf_counter, x86: Fix/improve apic fallbackIngo Molnar
Johannes Stezenbach reported that his Pentium-M based laptop does not have the local APIC enabled by default, and hence perfcounters do not get initialized. Add a fallback for this case: allow non-sampled counters and return with an error on sampled counters. This allows 'perf stat' to work out of box - and allows 'perf top' and 'perf record' to fall back on a hrtimer based sampling method. ( Passing 'lapic' on the boot line will allow hardware sampling to occur - but if the APIC is disabled permanently by the hardware then this fallback still allows more systems to use perfcounters. ) Also decouple perfcounter support from X86_LOCAL_APIC. -v2: fix typo breaking counters on all other systems ... Reported-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> Cc: 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>
2009-08-11perf_counter, x86: Fix generic cache events on P6-mobile CPUsIngo Molnar
Johannes Stezenbach reported that 'perf stat' does not count cache-miss and cache-references events on his Pentium-M based laptop. This is because we left them blank in p6_perfmon_event_map[], fill them in. Reported-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> Cc: 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>
2009-08-11perf_counter, x86: Fix lapic printk messageIngo Molnar
Instead of this garbled bootup on UP Pentium-M systems: [ 0.015048] Performance Counters: [ 0.016004] no Local APIC, try rebooting with lapicno PMU driver, software counters only. Print: [ 0.015050] Performance Counters: [ 0.016004] no APIC, boot with the "lapic" boot parameter to force-enable it. [ 0.017003] no PMU driver, software counters only. Cf: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> 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>
2009-08-09x86, perf_counter, bts: Add BTS support to perfcountersMarkus Metzger
Implement a performance counter with: attr.type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE attr.config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS attr.sample_period = 1 Using branch trace store (BTS) on x86 hardware, if available. The from and to address for each branch can be sampled using: PERF_SAMPLE_IP for the from address PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR for the to address [ v2: address review feedback, fix bugs ] Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-22perf_counter: Remove unused variablesPeter Zijlstra
Fix a gcc unused variables warning. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2009-07-13perf_counter, x86: Extend perf_counter Pentium M supportDaniel Qarras
I've attached a patch to remove the Pentium M special casing of EMON and as noticed at least with my Pentium M the hardware PMU now works: Performance counter stats for '/bin/ls /var/tmp': 1.809988 task-clock-msecs # 0.125 CPUs 1 context-switches # 0.001 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 224 page-faults # 0.124 M/sec 1425648 cycles # 787.656 M/sec 912755 instructions # 0.640 IPC Vince suggested that this code was trying to address erratum Y17 in Pentium-M's: http://download.intel.com/support/processors/mobile/pm/sb/25266532.pdf But that erratum (related to IA32_MISC_ENABLES.7) does not affect perfcounters as we dont use this toggle to disable RDPMC and WRMSR/RDMSR access to performance counters. We keep cr4's bit 8 (X86_CR4_PCE) clear so unprivileged RDPMC access is not allowed anyway. Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-10perf_counter: Clean up global vs counter enablePeter Zijlstra
Ingo noticed that both AMD and P6 call x86_pmu_disable_counter() on *_pmu_enable_counter(). This is because we rely on the side effect of that call to program the event config but not touch the EN bit. We change that for AMD by having enable_all() simply write the full config in, and for P6 by explicitly coding it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-10perf_counter: Fix up P6 PMU detailsPeter Zijlstra
The P6 doesn't seem to support cache ref/hit/miss counts, so we extend the generic hardware event codes to have 0 and -1 mean the same thing as for the generic cache events. Furthermore, it turns out the 0 event does not count (that is, its reported that on PPro it actually does count something), therefore use a event configuration that's specified not to count to disable the counters. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-10perf_counter: Add P6 PMU supportVince Weaver
Add basic P6 PMU support. The P6 uses the EVNTSEL0 EN bit to enable/disable both its counters. We use this for the global enable/disable, and clear all config bits (except EN) to disable individual counters. Actual ia32 hardware doesn't support lfence, so use a locked op without side-effect to implement a full barrier. perf stat and perf record seem to function correctly. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: cleanups and complete the enable/disable code] Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0907081718450.2715@pianoman.cluster.toy> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-04Merge branch 'master' into for-nextTejun Heo
Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix changes. As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute. Conflicts: arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S include/linux/percpu-defs.h
2009-07-01perf_counter: Ignore the nmi call frames in the x86-64 backtracesFrederic Weisbecker
About every callchains recorded with perf record are filled up including the internal perfcounter nmi frame: perf_callchain perf_counter_overflow intel_pmu_handle_irq perf_counter_nmi_handler notifier_call_chain atomic_notifier_call_chain notify_die do_nmi nmi We want ignore this frame as it's not interesting for instrumentation. To solve this, we simply ignore every frames from nmi context. New example of "perf report -s sym -c" after this patch: 9.59% [k] search_by_key 4.88% search_by_key reiserfs_read_locked_inode reiserfs_iget reiserfs_lookup do_lookup __link_path_walk path_walk do_path_lookup user_path_at vfs_fstatat vfs_lstat sys_newlstat system_call_fastpath __lxstat 0x406fb1 3.19% search_by_key search_by_entry_key reiserfs_find_entry reiserfs_lookup do_lookup __link_path_walk path_walk do_path_lookup user_path_at vfs_fstatat vfs_lstat sys_newlstat system_call_fastpath __lxstat 0x406fb1 [...] For now this patch only solves the problem in x86-64. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1246474930-6088-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-29perf_counter, x86: Update x86_pmu after WARN()Yinghai Lu
The print out should read the value before changing the value. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4A487017.4090007@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25perf_counter, x86: Add mmap counter read supportPeter Zijlstra
Update the mmap control page with the needed information to use the userspace RDPMC instruction for self monitoring. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24perf_counter, x86: Set global control MSR correctlyYong Wang
Previous code made an assumption that the power on value of global control MSR has enabled all fixed and general purpose counters properly. However, this is not the case for certain Intel processors, such as Atom - and it might also be firmware dependent. Each enable bit in IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL is AND'ed with the enable bits for all privilege levels in the respective IA32_PERFEVTSELx or IA32_PERF_FIXED_CTR_CTRL MSRs to start/stop the counting of respective counters. Counting is enabled if the AND'ed results is true; counting is disabled when the result is false. The end result is that all fixed counters are always disabled on Atom processors because the assumption is just invalid. Fix this by not initializing the ctrl-mask out of the global MSR, but setting it to perf_counter_mask. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20090624021324.GA2788@ywang-moblin2.bj.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24percpu: clean up percpu variable definitionsTejun Heo
Percpu variable definition is about to be updated such that all percpu symbols including the static ones must be unique. Update percpu variable definitions accordingly. * as,cfq: rename ioc_count uniquely * cpufreq: rename cpu_dbs_info uniquely * xen: move nesting_count out of xen_evtchn_do_upcall() and rename it * mm: move ratelimits out of balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr() and rename it * ipv4,6: rename cookie_scratch uniquely * x86 perf_counter: rename prev_left to pmc_prev_left, irq_entry to pmc_irq_entry and nmi_entry to pmc_nmi_entry * perf_counter: rename disable_count to perf_disable_count * ftrace: rename test_event_disable to ftrace_test_event_disable * kmemleak: rename test_pointer to kmemleak_test_pointer * mce: rename next_interval to mce_next_interval [ Impact: percpu usage cleanups, no duplicate static percpu var names ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
2009-06-24percpu: cleanup percpu array definitionsTejun Heo
Currently, the following three different ways to define percpu arrays are in use. 1. DEFINE_PER_CPU(elem_type[array_len], array_name); 2. DEFINE_PER_CPU(elem_type, array_name[array_len]); 3. DEFINE_PER_CPU(elem_type, array_name)[array_len]; Unify to #1 which correctly separates the roles of the two parameters and thus allows more flexibility in the way percpu variables are defined. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-21perf_counter, x8: Fix L1-data-Cache-Store-Referencees for AMDJaswinder Singh Rajput
Fix AMD's Data Cache Refills from System event. After this patch : ./tools/perf/perf stat -e l1d -e l1d-misses -e l1d-write -e l1d-prefetch -e l1d-prefetch-miss -e l1i -e l1i-misses -e l1i-prefetch -e l2 -e l2-misses -e l2-write -e dtlb -e dtlb-misses -e itlb -e itlb-misses -e bpu -e bpu-misses ls /dev/ > /dev/null Performance counter stats for 'ls /dev/': 2499484 L1-data-Cache-Load-Referencees (scaled from 3.97%) 70347 L1-data-Cache-Load-Misses (scaled from 7.30%) 9360 L1-data-Cache-Store-Referencees (scaled from 8.64%) 32804 L1-data-Cache-Prefetch-Referencees (scaled from 17.72%) 7693 L1-data-Cache-Prefetch-Misses (scaled from 22.97%) 2180945 L1-instruction-Cache-Load-Referencees (scaled from 28.48%) 14518 L1-instruction-Cache-Load-Misses (scaled from 35.00%) 2405 L1-instruction-Cache-Prefetch-Referencees (scaled from 34.89%) 71387 L2-Cache-Load-Referencees (scaled from 34.94%) 18732 L2-Cache-Load-Misses (scaled from 34.92%) 79918 L2-Cache-Store-Referencees (scaled from 36.02%) 1295294 Data-TLB-Cache-Load-Referencees (scaled from 35.99%) 30896 Data-TLB-Cache-Load-Misses (scaled from 33.36%) 1222030 Instruction-TLB-Cache-Load-Referencees (scaled from 29.46%) 357 Instruction-TLB-Cache-Load-Misses (scaled from 20.46%) 530888 Branch-Cache-Load-Referencees (scaled from 11.48%) 8638 Branch-Cache-Load-Misses (scaled from 5.09%) 0.011295149 seconds time elapsed. Earlier it always shows value 0. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1245484165.3102.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-19perf_counter: Make callchain samples extensiblePeter Zijlstra
Before exposing upstream tools to a callchain-samples ABI, tidy it up to make it more extensible in the future: Use markers in the IP chain to denote context, use (u64)-1..-4095 range for these context markers because we use them for ERR_PTR(), so these addresses are unlikely to be mapped. 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-17perf_counter: x86: Set the period in the intel overflow handlerPeter Zijlstra
Commit 9e350de37ac960 ("perf_counter: Accurate period data") missed a spot, which caused all Intel-PMU samples to have a period of 0. This broke auto-freq sampling. 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-15perf_counter: x86: Fix call-chain support to use NMI-safe methodsPeter Zijlstra
__copy_from_user_inatomic() isn't NMI safe in that it can trigger the page fault handler which is another trap and its return path invokes IRET which will also close the NMI context. Therefore use a GUP based approach to copy the stack frames over. We tried an alternative solution as well: we used a forward ported version of Mathieu Desnoyers's "NMI safe INT3 and Page Fault" patch that modifies the exception return path to use an open-coded IRET with explicit stack unrolling and TF checking. This didnt work as it interacted with faulting user-space instructions, causing them not to restart properly, which corrupts user-space registers. Solving that would probably involve disassembling those instructions and backtracing the RIP. But even without that, the code was deemed rather complex to the already non-trivial x86 entry assembly code, so instead we went for this GUP based method that does a software-walk of the pagetables. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-15perf_counter, x86: Fix kernel-space call-chainsIngo Molnar
Kernel-space call-chains were trimmed at the first entry because we never processed anything beyond the first stack context. Allow the backtrace to jump from NMI to IRQ stack then to task stack and finally user-space stack. Also calculate the stack and bp variables correctly so that the stack walker does not exit early. We can get deep traces as a result, visible in perf report -D output: 0x32af0 [0xe0]: PERF_EVENT (IP, 5): 15134: 0xffffffff815225fd period: 1 ... chain: u:2, k:22, nr:24 ..... 0: 0xffffffff815225fd ..... 1: 0xffffffff810ac51c ..... 2: 0xffffffff81018e29 ..... 3: 0xffffffff81523939 ..... 4: 0xffffffff81524b8f ..... 5: 0xffffffff81524bd9 ..... 6: 0xffffffff8105e498 ..... 7: 0xffffffff8152315a ..... 8: 0xffffffff81522c3a ..... 9: 0xffffffff810d9b74 ..... 10: 0xffffffff810dbeec ..... 11: 0xffffffff810dc3fb This is a 22-entries kernel-space chain. (We still only record reliable stack entries.) Cc: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-14perf_counter, x86: Fix call-chain walkingIngo Molnar
Fix the ptregs variant when we hit user-mode tasks. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-13perf_counter, x86: Update AMD hw caching related event tableJaswinder Singh Rajput
All AMD models share the same hw caching related event table. Also complete the table with more events. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: 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> LKML-Reference: <1244835381.2802.2.camel@ht.satnam> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-13perf_counter, x86: Check old-AMD performance monitoring supportJaswinder Singh Rajput
AMD supports performance monitoring start from K7 (i.e. family 6), so disable it for earlier AMD CPUs. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: 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> LKML-Reference: <1244714289.6923.0.camel@ht.satnam> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12perf_counter/x86: Add a quirk for Atom processorsYong Wang
The fixed-function performance counters do not work on current Atom processors. Use the general-purpose ones instead. Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com> Cc: 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> LKML-Reference: <20090612080855.GA2286@ywang-moblin2.bj.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11perf_counter: Rename L2 to LL cachePeter Zijlstra
The top (fastest) and last level (biggest) caches are the most interesting ones, performance wise. 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> [ Fixed the Nehalem LL table to LLC Reference/Miss events ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11perf_counter: Standardize event namesPeter Zijlstra
Pure renames only, to PERF_COUNT_HW_* and PERF_COUNT_SW_*. 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11perf_counter: Accurate period dataPeter Zijlstra
We currently log hw.sample_period for PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD, however this is incorrect. When we adjust the period, it will only take effect the next cycle but report it for the current cycle. So when we adjust the period for every cycle, we're always wrong. Solve this by keeping track of the last_period. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11perf_counter: Introduce struct for sample dataPeter Zijlstra
For easy extension of the sample data, put it in a structure. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-10perf_counter: More aggressive frequency adjustmentPeter Zijlstra
Also employ the overflow handler to adjust the frequency, this results in a stable frequency in about 40~50 samples, instead of that many ticks. This also means we can start sampling at a sample period of 1 without running head-first into the throttle. It relies on sched_clock() to accurately measure the time difference between the overflow NMIs. 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-10perf_counter/x86: Fix the model number of Intel Core2 processorsYong Wang
Fix the model number of Intel Core2 processors according to the documentation: Intel Processor Identification with the CPUID Instruction: http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/cs-009861.htm Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com> Also-Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: 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> LKML-Reference: <20090610090612.GA26580@ywang-moblin2.bj.intel.com> [ Added two more model numbers suggested by Arnd Bergmann ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-09perf_counter, x86: Correct some event and umask values for Intel processorsYong Wang
Correct some event and UMASK values according to Intel SDM, in the Nehalem and Atom tables. Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com> Cc: 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> LKML-Reference: <20090609131553.GA12489@ywang-moblin2.bj.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-08perf_counter, x86: Clean up hw_cache_event ids copiesThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-08perf_counter, x86: Implement generalized cache event types, add AMD supportThomas Gleixner
Fill in amd_hw_cache_event_id[] with the AMD CPU specific events, for family 0x0f, 0x10 and 0x11. There's apparently no distinction between load and store events, so we only fill in the load events. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-08perf_counter: Clean up x86 boot messagesIngo Molnar
Standardize and tidy up all the messages we print during perfcounter initialization. Cc: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-08perf_counter, x86: Implement generalized cache event types, add Atom supportThomas Gleixner
Fill in core2_hw_cache_event_id[] with the Atom model specific events. The events can be used in all the tools via the -e (--event) parameter, for example "-e l1-misses" or -"-e l2-accesses" or "-e l2-write-misses". ( Note: these are straight from the Intel manuals - not tested yet.) Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-08perf_counter, x86: Implement generalized cache event types, add Core2 supportThomas Gleixner
Fill in core2_hw_cache_event_id[] with the Core2 model specific events. The events can be used in all the tools via the -e (--event) parameter, for example "-e l1-misses" or -"-e l2-accesses" or "-e l2-write-misses". Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-06perf_counter: Implement generalized cache event typesIngo Molnar
Extend generic event enumeration with the PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE method. This is a 3-dimensional space: { L1-D, L1-I, L2, ITLB, DTLB, BPU } x { load, store, prefetch } x { accesses, misses } User-space passes in the 3 coordinates and the kernel provides a counter. (if the hardware supports that type and if the combination makes sense.) Combinations that make no sense produce a -EINVAL. Combinations that are not supported by the hardware produce -ENOTSUP. Extend the tools to deal with this, and rewrite the event symbol parsing code with various popular aliases for the units and access methods above. So 'l1-cache-miss' and 'l1d-read-ops' are both valid aliases. ( x86 is supported for now, with the Nehalem event table filled in, and with Core2 and Atom having placeholder tables. ) Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-06perf_counter: Separate out attr->type from attr->configIngo Molnar
Counter type is a frequently used value and we do a lot of bit juggling by encoding and decoding it from attr->config. Clean this up by creating a separate attr->type field. Also clean up the various similarly complex user-space bits all around counter attribute management. The net improvement is significant, and it will be easier to add a new major type (which is what triggered this cleanup). (This changes the ABI, all tools are adapted.) (PowerPC build-tested.) Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>