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2012-01-21perf: Call perf_cgroup_event_time() directlyNamhyung Kim
The perf_event_time() will call perf_cgroup_event_time() if @event is a cgroup event. Just do it directly and avoid the extra check.. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327021966-27688-2-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-21perf: Don't call release_callchain_buffers() if allocation failsNamhyung Kim
When alloc_callchain_buffers() fails, it frees all of entries before return. In addition, calling the release_callchain_buffers() will cause a NULL pointer dereference since callchain_cpu_entries is not set. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327021966-27688-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-09Merge branch 'for-3.3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup * 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits) cgroup: fix to allow mounting a hierarchy by name cgroup: move assignement out of condition in cgroup_attach_proc() cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork() cgroup: add sparse annotation to cgroup_iter_start() and cgroup_iter_end() cgroup: mark cgroup_rmdir_waitq and cgroup_attach_proc() as static cgroup: only need to check oldcgrp==newgrp once cgroup: remove redundant get/put of task struct cgroup: remove redundant get/put of old css_set from migrate cgroup: Remove unnecessary task_lock before fetching css_set on migration cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork() cgroups: remove redundant get/put of css_set from css_set_check_fetched() resource cgroups: remove bogus cast cgroup: kill subsys->can_attach_task(), pre_attach() and attach_task() cgroup, cpuset: don't use ss->pre_attach() cgroup: don't use subsys->can_attach_task() or ->attach_task() cgroup: introduce cgroup_taskset and use it in subsys->can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach() cgroup: improve old cgroup handling in cgroup_attach_proc() cgroup: always lock threadgroup during migration threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem ... Fix up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c due to commit e0197aae59e5: "cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc" that already mentioned that the bug is fixed (differently) in Tejun's cgroup patchset. This one, in other words.
2012-01-08Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (53 commits) Kconfig: acpi: Fix typo in comment. misc latin1 to utf8 conversions devres: Fix a typo in devm_kfree comment btrfs: free-space-cache.c: remove extra semicolon. fat: Spelling s/obsolate/obsolete/g SCSI, pmcraid: Fix spelling error in a pmcraid_err() call tools/power turbostat: update fields in manpage mac80211: drop spelling fix types.h: fix comment spelling for 'architectures' typo fixes: aera -> area, exntension -> extension devices.txt: Fix typo of 'VMware'. sis900: Fix enum typo 'sis900_rx_bufer_status' decompress_bunzip2: remove invalid vi modeline treewide: Fix comment and string typo 'bufer' hyper-v: Update MAINTAINERS treewide: Fix typos in various parts of the kernel, and fix some comments. clockevents: drop unknown Kconfig symbol GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIGR gpio: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol 'CS5535_GPIO' leds: Kconfig: Fix typo 'D2NET_V2' sound: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol ARCH_CLPS7500 ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/Kconfig (some new kconfig additions, close to removed commented-out old ones)
2012-01-06Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (106 commits) perf kvm: Fix copy & paste error in description perf script: Kill script_spec__delete perf top: Fix a memory leak perf stat: Introduce get_ratio_color() helper perf session: Remove impossible condition check perf tools: Fix feature-bits rework fallout, remove unused variable perf script: Add generic perl handler to process events perf tools: Use for_each_set_bit() to iterate over feature flags perf tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature section perf report: Accept fifos as input file perf tools: Moving code in some files perf tools: Fix out-of-bound access to struct perf_session perf tools: Continue processing header on unknown features perf tools: Improve macros for struct feature_ops perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two. perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM. perf tools: Fix truncated annotation perf script: look up thread using tid instead of pid perf tools: Look up thread names for system wide profiling perf tools: Fix comm for processes with named threads ...
2012-01-06Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits) cpu: Export cpu_up() rcu: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to rcu_boost() return value Revert "rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled" docs: Additional LWN links to RCU API rcu: Augment rcu_batch_end tracing for idle and callback state rcu: Add rcutorture tests for srcu_read_lock_raw() rcu: Make rcutorture test for hotpluggability before offlining CPUs driver-core/cpu: Expose hotpluggability to the rest of the kernel rcu: Remove redundant rcu_cpu_stall_suppress declaration rcu: Adaptive dyntick-idle preparation rcu: Keep invoking callbacks if CPU otherwise idle rcu: Irq nesting is always 0 on rcu_enter_idle_common rcu: Don't check irq nesting from rcu idle entry/exit rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending rcu: Document same-context read-side constraints rcu: Identify dyntick-idle CPUs on first force_quiescent_state() pass rcu: Remove dynticks false positives and RCU failures rcu: Reduce latency of rcu_prepare_for_idle() rcu: Eliminate RCU_FAST_NO_HZ grace-period hang rcu: Avoid needlessly IPIing CPUs at GP end ...
2012-01-02misc latin1 to utf8 conversionsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-12-20Merge commit 'v3.2-rc6' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Update with the latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-14perf events: Fix ring_buffer_wakeup() brown paperbag bugWill Deacon
Commit 10c6db11 ("perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-event") seems to unconditionally dereference event->rb in the wakeup handler, this is wrong, there might not be a buffer attached. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111213152651.GP20297@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com [ minor edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-12cgroup: don't use subsys->can_attach_task() or ->attach_task()Tejun Heo
Now that subsys->can_attach() and attach() take @tset instead of @task, they can handle per-task operations. Convert ->can_attach_task() and ->attach_task() users to use ->can_attach() and attach() instead. Most converions are straight-forward. Noteworthy changes are, * In cgroup_freezer, remove unnecessary NULL assignments to unused methods. It's useless and very prone to get out of sync, which already happened. * In cpuset, PF_THREAD_BOUND test is checked for each task. This doesn't make any practical difference but is conceptually cleaner. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2011-12-11events: Make events use the new is_idle_task() APIPaul E. McKenney
Change from direct comparison of ->pid with zero to is_idle_task(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-07perf: Do no try to schedule task events if there are noneGleb Natapov
perf_event_sched_in() shouldn't try to schedule task events if there are none otherwise task's ctx->is_active will be set and will not be cleared during sched_out. This will prevent newly added events from being scheduled into the task context. Fixes a boo-boo in commit 1d5f003f5a9 ("perf: Do not set task_ctx pointer in cpuctx if there are no events in the context"). Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111122140821.GF2557@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patchingGleb Natapov
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>
2011-12-06perf: Fix enable_on_exec for sibling eventsPeter Zijlstra
Deng-Cheng Zhu reported that sibling events that were created disabled with enable_on_exec would never get enabled. Iterate all events instead of the group lists. Reported-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dczhu@mips.com> Tested-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dczhu@mips.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322048382.14799.41.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06perf: Remove superfluous argumentsPeter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yv4o74vh90suyghccgykbnry@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06perf: Avoid a useless pmu_disable() in the perf-tickPeter Zijlstra
Gleb writes: > Currently pmu is disabled and re-enabled on each timer interrupt even > when no rotation or frequency adjustment is needed. On Intel CPU this > results in two writes into PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR per tick. On bare metal > it does not cause significant slowdown, but when running perf in a virtual > machine it leads to 20% slowdown on my machine. Cure this by keeping a perf_event_context::nr_freq counter that counts the number of active events that require frequency adjustments and use this in a similar fashion to the already existing nr_events != nr_active test in perf_rotate_context(). By being able to exclude both rotation and frequency adjustments a-priory for the common case we can avoid the otherwise superfluous PMU disable. Suggested-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-515yhoatehd3gza7we9fapaa@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Add these cherry-picked commits so that future changes on perf/core don't conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-eventPeter Zijlstra
When you do: $ perf record -e cycles,cycles,cycles noploop 10 You expect about 10,000 samples for each event, i.e., 10s at 1000samples/sec. However, this is not what's happening. You get much fewer samples, maybe 3700 samples/event: $ perf report -D | tail -15 Aggregated stats: TOTAL events: 10998 MMAP events: 66 COMM events: 2 SAMPLE events: 10930 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 3644 SAMPLE events: 3644 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 3642 SAMPLE events: 3642 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 3644 SAMPLE events: 3644 On a Intel Nehalem or even AMD64, there are 4 counters capable of measuring cycles, so there is plenty of space to measure those events without multiplexing (even with the NMI watchdog active). And even with multiplexing, we'd expect roughly the same number of samples per event. The root of the problem was that when the event that caused the buffer to become full was not the first event passed on the cmdline, the user notification would get lost. The notification was sent to the file descriptor of the overflowed event but the perf tool was not polling on it. The perf tool aggregates all samples into a single buffer, i.e., the buffer of the first event. Consequently, it assumes notifications for any event will come via that descriptor. The seemingly straight forward solution of moving the waitq into the ringbuffer object doesn't work because of life-time issues. One could perf_event_set_output() on a fd that you're also blocking on and cause the old rb object to be freed while its waitq would still be referenced by the blocked thread -> FAIL. Therefore link all events to the ringbuffer and broadcast the wakeup from the ringbuffer object to all possible events that could be waited upon. This is rather ugly, and we're open to better solutions but it works for now. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Finished-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111126014731.GA7030@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-11-15Merge branch 'core' of git://amd64.org/linux/rric into perf/coreIngo Molnar
2011-11-14events: Don't divide events if it has field periodAndrew Vagin
This patch solves the following problem: Now some samples may be lost due to throttling. The number of samples is restricted by sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate/HZ. A trace event is divided on some samples according to event's period. I don't sure, that we should generate more than one sample on each trace event. I think the better way to use SAMPLE_PERIOD. E.g.: I want to trace when a process sleeps. I created a process, which sleeps for 1ms and for 4ms. perf got 100 events in both cases. swapper 0 [000] 1141.371830: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=1386750 [ns] swapper 0 [000] 1141.369444: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=4499585 [ns] In the first case a kernel want to send 4499585 events and in the second case it wants to send 1386750 events. perf-reports shows that process sleeps in both places equal time. It's bug. With this patch kernel generates one event on each "sleep" and the time slice is saved in the field "period". Perf knows how handle it. Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320670457-2633428-3-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-11-14perf: Carve out callchain functionalityBorislav Petkov
Split the callchain code from the perf events core into a new kernel/events/callchain.c file. This simplifies a bit the big core.c Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [keep ctx recursion handling inline and use internal headers] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318778104-17152-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-11-14perf: Do not set task_ctx pointer in cpuctx if there are no events in the ↵Gleb Natapov
context Do not set task_ctx pointer during sched_in if there are no events associated with the context. Otherwise if during task execution total number of events in the system will become zero perf_event_context_sched_out() will not be called and cpuctx->task_ctx will be left with a stale value. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111023171033.GI17571@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-11-06Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux * 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits) Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h" irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules. bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h> acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h> net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h> net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h> ... Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c} - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c - include/linux/dmaengine.h
2011-11-04oprofile, x86: Reimplement nmi timer mode using perf eventRobert Richter
The legacy x86 nmi watchdog code was removed with the implementation of the perf based nmi watchdog. This broke Oprofile's nmi timer mode. To run nmi timer mode we relied on a continuous ticking nmi source which the nmi watchdog provided. The nmi tick was no longer available and current watchdog can not be used anymore since it runs with very long periods in the range of seconds. This patch reimplements the nmi timer mode using a perf counter nmi source. V2: * removing pr_info() * fix undefined reference to `__udivdi3' for 32 bit build * fix section mismatch of .cpuinit.data:nmi_timer_cpu_nb * removed nmi timer setup in arch/x86 * implemented function stubs for op_nmi_init/exit() * made code more readable in oprofile_init() V3: * fix architectural initialization in oprofile_init() * fix CONFIG_OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER dependencies Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2011-11-03Revert "perf: Add PM notifiers to fix CPU hotplug races"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 144060fee07e9c22e179d00819c83c86fbcbf82c. It causes a resume regression for Andi on his Acer Aspire 1830T post 3.1. The screen just stays black after wakeup. Also, it really looks like the wrong way to suspend and resume perf events: I think they should be done as part of the CPU suspend and resume, rather than as a notifier that does smp_call_function(). Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm: distinguish between mlocked and pinned pagesChristoph Lameter
Some kernel components pin user space memory (infiniband and perf) (by increasing the page count) and account that memory as "mlocked". The difference between mlocking and pinning is: A. mlocked pages are marked with PG_mlocked and are exempt from swapping. Page migration may move them around though. They are kept on a special LRU list. B. Pinned pages cannot be moved because something needs to directly access physical memory. They may not be on any LRU list. I recently saw an mlockalled process where mm->locked_vm became bigger than the virtual size of the process (!) because some memory was accounted for twice: Once when the page was mlocked and once when the Infiniband layer increased the refcount because it needt to pin the RDMA memory. This patch introduces a separate counter for pinned pages and accounts them seperately. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath@qlogic.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org> Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31kernel: Fix files explicitly needing EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructurePaul Gortmaker
These files were getting <linux/module.h> via an implicit non-obvious path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers for no reason. Give them the lightweight header that just contains the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-09-26Merge commit 'v3.1-rc7' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Pick up the latest upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-31perf_event: Fix broken calc_timer_values()Eric B Munson
We detected a serious issue with PERF_SAMPLE_READ and timing information when events were being multiplexing. Samples would have time_running > time_enabled. That was easy to reproduce with a libpfm4 example (ran 3 times to cause multiplexing on Core 2): $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 & $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 & $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 & IIP:0x0000000040062d ... PERIOD:2355332948 ENA=40144625315 RUN=60014875184 syst_smpl: WARNING: time_running > time_enabled 63277537998 uops_retired:freq=1 , scaled The bug was not present in kernel up to (and including) 3.0. It turns out the bug was introduced by the following commit: commit c4794295917ebeda8013b6cb9c8d71ab4f74a1fa events: Move lockless timer calculation into helper function The parameters of the function got reversed yet the call sites were not updated to reflect the change. That lead to time_running and time_enabled being swapped. That had no effect when there was no multiplexing because in that case time_running = time_enabled but it would show up in any other scenario. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110829124112.GA4828@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29perf events: Fix slow and broken cgroup context switch codeStephane Eranian
The current cgroup context switch code was incorrect leading to bogus counts. Furthermore, as soon as there was an active cgroup event on a CPU, the context switch cost on that CPU would increase by a significant amount as demonstrated by a simple ping/pong example: $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10684.51 ctxsw/s Now start a cgroup perf stat: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 100 $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 6674.61 ctxsw/s That's a 37% penalty. Note that pong is not even in the monitored cgroup. The results shown by perf stat are bogus: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 100 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 100': CPU1 <not counted> cycles test CPU1 16,984,189,138 cycles # 0.000 GHz The second 'cycles' event should report a count @ CPU clock (here 2.4GHz) as it is counting across all cgroups. The patch below fixes the bogus accounting and bypasses any cgroup switches in case the outgoing and incoming tasks are in the same cgroup. With this patch the same test now yields: $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10775.30 ctxsw/s Start perf stat with cgroup: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Run pong outside the cgroup: $ /pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10687.80 ctxsw/s The penalty is now less than 2%. And the results for perf stat are correct: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10': CPU1 <not counted> cycles test # 0.000 GHz CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles # 0.000 GHz Now perf stat reports the correct counts for for the non cgroup event. If we run pong inside the cgroup, then we also get the correct counts: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10': CPU1 22,297,726,205 cycles test # 0.000 GHz CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles # 0.000 GHz 10.001457237 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110825135803.GA4697@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14perf: provide PMU when initing eventsMark Rutland
Currently, an event's 'pmu' field is set after pmu::event_init() is called. This means that pmu::event_init() must figure out which struct pmu the event was initialised from. This makes it difficult to consolidate common event initialisation code for similar PMUs, and very difficult to implement drivers for PMUs which can have multiple instances (e.g. a USB controller PMU, a GPU PMU, etc). This patch sets the 'pmu' field before initialising the event, allowing event init code to identify the struct pmu instance easily. In the event of failure to initialise an event, the event is destroyed via kfree() without calling perf_event::destroy(), so this shouldn't result in bad behaviour even if the destroy field was set before failure to initialise was noted. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313062280-19123-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14perf: Add PM notifiers to fix CPU hotplug racesPeter Zijlstra
Francis reports that s2r gets him spurious NMIs, this is because the suspend code leaves the boot cpu up and running. Cure this by adding a suspend notifier. The problem is that hotplug and suspend are completely un-serialized and the PM notifiers run before the suspend cpu unplug of all but the boot cpu. This leaves a window where the user can initialize another hotplug operation (either remove or add a cpu) resulting in either one too many or one too few hotplug ops. Thus we cannot use the hotplug code for the suspend case. There's another reason to not use the hotplug code, which is that the hotplug code totally destroys the perf state, we can do better for suspend and simply remove all counters from the PMU so that we can re-instate them on resume. Reported-by: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1cvevybkgmv4s6v5y37t4847@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21perf: Remove perf_event_attr::type checkLin Ming
PMU type id can be allocated dynamically, so perf_event_attr::type check when copying attribute from userspace to kernel is not valid. Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309421396-17438-4-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01perf: export perf_event_refresh() to modulesAvi Kivity
KVM needs one-shot samples, since a PMC programmed to -X will fire after X events and then again after 2^40 events (i.e. variable period). Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-4-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01perf: Add context field to perf_eventAvi Kivity
The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event in their local data structure. This is ugly and doesn't scale if a single callback services many perf_events. Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event. The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context. All callers are updated. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01perf: Remove the perf_output_begin(.sample) argumentPeter Zijlstra
Since only samples call perf_output_sample() its much saner (and more correct) to put the sample logic in there than in the perf_output_begin()/perf_output_end() pair. Saves a useless argument, reduces conditionals and shrinks struct perf_output_handle, win! Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2crpvsx3cqu67q3zqjbnlpsc@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interfacePeter Zijlstra
The nmi parameter indicated if we could do wakeups from the current context, if not, we would set some state and self-IPI and let the resulting interrupt do the wakeup. For the various event classes: - hardware: nmi=0; PMI is in fact an NMI or we run irq_work_run from the PMI-tail (ARM etc.) - tracepoint: nmi=0; since tracepoint could be from NMI context. - software: nmi=[0,1]; some, like the schedule thing cannot perform wakeups, and hence need 0. As one can see, there is very little nmi=1 usage, and the down-side of not using it is that on some platforms some software events can have a jiffy delay in wakeup (when arch_irq_work_raise isn't implemented). The up-side however is that we can remove the nmi parameter and save a bunch of conditionals in fast paths. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-agjev8eu666tvknpb3iaj0fg@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01events: Ensure that timers are updated without requiring read() callEric B Munson
The event tracing infrastructure exposes two timers which should be updated each time the value of the counter is updated. Currently, these counters are only updated when userspace calls read() on the fd associated with an event. This means that counters which are read via the mmap'd page exclusively never have their timers updated. This patch adds ensures that the timers are updated each time the values in the mmap'd page are updated. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308932786-5111-1-git-send-email-emunson@mgebm.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01events: Move lockless timer calculation into helper functionEric B Munson
Take the timer calculation from perf_output_read and move it to a helper function for any place that needs timer values but cannot take the ctx->lock. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308861279-15216-2-git-send-email-emunson@mgebm.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01events: Add note to update_event_times comment about holding ctx->lockEric B Munson
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308861279-15216-1-git-send-email-emunson@mgebm.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01perf_events: Fix perf buffer watermark settingVince Weaver
Since 2.6.36 (specifically commit d57e34fdd60b ("perf: Simplify the ring-buffer logic: make perf_buffer_alloc() do everything needed"), the perf_buffer_init_code() has been mis-setting the buffer watermark if perf_event_attr.wakeup_events has a non-zero value. This is because perf_event_attr.wakeup_events is a union with perf_event_attr.wakeup_watermark. This commit re-enables the check for perf_event_attr.watermark being set before continuing with setting a non-default watermark. This bug is most noticable when you are trying to use PERF_IOC_REFRESH with a value larger than one and perf_event_attr.wakeup_events is set to one. In this case the buffer watermark will be set to 1 and you will get extraneous POLL_IN overflows rather than POLL_HUP as expected. [ avoid using attr.wakeup_events when attr.watermark is set ] Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1106011506390.5384@cl320.eecs.utk.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-09perf: Split up buffer handling from core codeFrederic Weisbecker
And create the internal perf events header. v2: Keep an internal inlined perf_output_copy() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305827704-5607-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com [ v3: use clearer 'ring_buffer' and 'rb' naming ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-07perf, core: Fix initial task_ctx/event installationPeter Zijlstra
A lost Quilt refresh of 2c29ef0fef8 (perf: Simplify and fix __perf_install_in_context()) is causing grief and lockups, reported by Jiri Olsa. When installing an event in a task context, there's a number of issues: - there might not be an existing task context, in which case we should install the now current context; - there might already be a context, not the current one, in which case we should de-schedule the old and install the new; these cases were dealt with in the lost refresh, however there is one further case that was found in testing: - there might already be a context, the current one, in which case we should still de-schedule, and should take care to re-install it (note that task_ctx_sched_out() clears cpuctx->task_ctx). Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307399008.2497.971.camel@laptop Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-04Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: tools/perf/util/python.c Merge reason: resolve the conflict with perf/urgent. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-04Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent
2011-05-31perf, cgroups: Fix up for new APIPeter Zijlstra
Ben changed the cgroup API in commit f780bdb7c1c (cgroups: add per-thread subsystem callbacks) in an incompatible way, but forgot to convert the perf cgroup bits. Avoid compile warnings and runtime splats and convert perf too ;-) Acked-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306767651.1200.2990.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28perf: De-schedule a task context when removing the last eventPeter Zijlstra
Since perf_install_in_context() will now install a context when we add the first event, we can de-schedule the context when the last event is removed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192142.090431763@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28perf: Change close() semantics for group eventsPeter Zijlstra
In order to always call list_del_event() on the correct cpu if the event is part of an active context and avoid having to do two IPIs, change the close() semantics slightly. The current perf_event_disable() call would disable a whole group if the event that's being closed is the group leader, whereas the new code keeps the group siblings enabled. People should not rely on this behaviour and I don't think they do, but in case we find they do, the fix is easy and we have to take the double IPI cost. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192142.038377551@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28perf: Collect the schedule-in rules in one functionPeter Zijlstra
This was scattered out - refactor it into a single function. No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192141.979862055@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28perf: Change and simplify ctx::is_active semanticsPeter Zijlstra
Instead of tracking if a context is active or not, track which events of the context are active. By making it a bitmask of EVENT_PINNED|EVENT_FLEXIBLE we can simplify some of the scheduling routines since it can avoid adding events that are already active. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192141.930282378@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>