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2012-06-18perf: Introduce perf_pmu_migrate_context()Yan, Zheng1-0/+2
Originally from Peter Zijlstra. The helper migrates perf events from one cpu to another cpu. Signed-off-by: Zheng Yan <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339741902-8449-5-git-send-email-zheng.z.yan@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06perf/x86: Use rdpmc() rather than rdmsr() when possible in the kernelVince Weaver1-0/+1
The rdpmc instruction is faster than the equivelant rdmsr call, so use it when possible in the kernel. The perfctr kernel patches did this, after extensive testing showed rdpmc to always be faster (One can look in etc/costs in the perfctr-2.6 package to see a historical list of the overhead). I have done some tests on a 3.2 kernel, the kernel module I used was included in the first posting of this patch: rdmsr rdpmc Core2 T9900: 203.9 cycles 30.9 cycles AMD fam0fh: 56.2 cycles 9.8 cycles Atom 6/28/2: 129.7 cycles 50.6 cycles The speedup of using rdpmc is large. [ It's probably possible (and desirable) to do this without requiring a new field in the hw_perf_event structure, but the fixed events make this tricky. ] Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1203011724030.26934@cl320.eecs.utk.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06perf: Limit callchains to 127Arun Sharma1-1/+1
Stack depth of 255 seems excessive, given that copy_from_user_nmi() could be slow. Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334961696-19580-3-git-send-email-asharma@fb.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-31perf tools: Check if callchain is corruptedNamhyung Kim1-2/+2
We faced segmentation fault on perf top -G at very high sampling rate due to a corrupted callchain. While the root cause was not revealed (I failed to figure it out), this patch tries to protect us from the segfault on such cases. Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Sunjin Yang <fan4326@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338443007-24857-2-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-23Revert "sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler"Jiri Olsa1-6/+18
This reverts commit cb04ff9ac424 ("sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler"). Before this change was introduced, the process switch worked like this (wrt. to perf event schedule): schedule (prev, next) - schedule out all perf events for prev - switch to next - schedule in all perf events for current (next) After the commit, the process switch looks like: schedule (prev, next) - schedule out all perf events for prev - schedule in all perf events for (next) - switch to next The problem is, that after we schedule perf events in, the pmu is enabled and we can receive events even before we make the switch to next - so "current" still being prev process (event SAMPLE data are filled based on the value of the "current" process). Thats exactly what we see for test__PERF_RECORD test. We receive SAMPLES with PID of the process that our tracee is scheduled from. Discussed with Peter Zijlstra: > Bah!, yeah I guess reverting is the right thing for now. Sad > though. > > So by having the two hooks we have a black-spot between them > where we receive no events at all, this black-spot covers the > hand-over of current and we thus don't receive the 'wrong' > events. > > I rather liked we could do away with both that black-spot and > clean up the code a little, but apparently people rely on it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: eranian@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120523111302.GC1638@m.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-09sched, perf: Use a single callback into the schedulerPeter Zijlstra1-18/+6
We can easily use a single callback for both sched-in and sched-out. This reduces the code footprint in the scheduler path as well as removes the PMU black spot otherwise present between the out and in callback. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-o56ajxp1edwqg6x9d31wb805@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-09perf: Pass last sampling period to perf_sample_data_init()Robert Richter1-1/+4
We always need to pass the last sample period to perf_sample_data_init(), otherwise the event distribution will be wrong. Thus, modifiyng the function interface with the required period as argument. So basically a pattern like this: perf_sample_data_init(&data, ~0ULL); data.period = event->hw.last_period; will now be like that: perf_sample_data_init(&data, ~0ULL, event->hw.last_period); Avoids unininitialized data.period and simplifies code. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333390758-10893-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-03-24perf: Move mmap page data_head offset assertion out of headerJiri Olsa1-7/+0
Having the build time assertion in header is making the perf build fail on x86 with: ../../include/linux/perf_event.h:411:32: error: variably modified \ ‘__assert_mmap_data_head_offset’ at file scope [-Werror] I'm moving the build time validation out of the header, because I think it's better than to lessen the perf build warn/error check. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332513680-7870-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-03-23perf: Fix mmap_page capabilities and docsPeter Zijlstra1-10/+73
Complete the syscall-less self-profiling feature and address all complaints, namely: - capabilities, so we can detect what is actually available at runtime Add a capabilities field to perf_event_mmap_page to indicate what is actually available for use. - on x86: RDPMC weirdness due to being 40/48 bits and not sign-extending properly. - ABI documentation as to how all this stuff works. Also improve the documentation for the new features. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332433596.2487.33.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-03-16perf: Adding sysfs group format attribute for pmu deviceJiri Olsa1-0/+14
Adding sysfs group 'format' attribute for pmu device that contains a syntax description on how to construct raw events. The event configuration is described in following struct pefr_event_attr attributes: config config1 config2 Each sysfs attribute within the format attribute group, describes mapping of name and bitfield definition within one of above attributes. eg: "/sys/...<dev>/format/event" contains "config:0-7" "/sys/...<dev>/format/umask" contains "config:8-15" "/sys/...<dev>/format/usr" contains "config:16" the attribute value syntax is: line: config ':' bits config: 'config' | 'config1' | 'config2" bits: bits ',' bit_term | bit_term bit_term: VALUE '-' VALUE | VALUE Adding format attribute definitions for x86 cpu pmus. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vhdk5y2hyype9j63prymty36@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-03-09perf: Add ABI reference sizesStephane Eranian1-0/+2
This patch adds reference sizes for revision 1 and 2 of the perf_event ABI, i.e., the size of the perf_event_attr struct. With Rev1: config2 was added = +8 bytes With Rev2: branch_sample_type was added = +8 bytes Adds the definition for Rev1, Rev2. This is useful for tools trying to decode the revision numbers based on the size of the struct. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: asharma@fb.com Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-16-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-05perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switchStephane Eranian1-1/+8
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>
2012-03-05perf: Add generic taken branch sampling supportStephane Eranian1-4/+67
This patch adds the ability to sample taken branches to the perf_event interface. The ability to capture taken branches is very useful for all sorts of analysis. For instance, basic block profiling, call counts, statistical call graph. This new capability requires hardware assist and as such may not be available on all HW platforms. On Intel x86 it is implemented on top of the Last Branch Record (LBR) facility. To enable taken branches sampling, the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK bit must be set in attr->sample_type. Sampled taken branches may be filtered by type and/or priv levels. The patch adds a new field, called branch_sample_type, to the perf_event_attr structure. It contains a bitmask of filters to apply to the sampled taken branches. Filters may be implemented in HW. If the HW filter does not exist or is not good enough, some arch may also implement a SW filter. The following generic filters are currently defined: - PERF_SAMPLE_USER only branches whose targets are at the user level - PERF_SAMPLE_KERNEL only branches whose targets are at the kernel level - PERF_SAMPLE_HV only branches whose targets are at the hypervisor level - PERF_SAMPLE_ANY any type of branches (subject to priv levels filters) - PERF_SAMPLE_ANY_CALL any call branches (may incl. syscall on some arch) - PERF_SAMPLE_ANY_RET any return branches (may incl. syscall returns on some arch) - PERF_SAMPLE_IND_CALL indirect call branches Obviously filter may be combined. The priv level bits are optional. If not provided, the priv level of the associated event are used. It is possible to collect branches at a priv level different from the associated event. Use of kernel, hv priv levels is subject to permissions and availability (hv). The number of taken branch records present in each sample may vary based on HW, the type of sampled branches, the executed code. Therefore each sample contains the number of taken branches it contains. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-28Merge branch 'perf/jump-labels' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-6/+6
Merge reason: After much naming discussion, there seems to be consensus now - queue it up for v3.4. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-24static keys: Introduce 'struct static_key', static_key_true()/false() and ↵Ingo Molnar1-6/+6
static_key_slow_[inc|dec]() So here's a boot tested patch on top of Jason's series that does all the cleanups I talked about and turns jump labels into a more intuitive to use facility. It should also address the various misconceptions and confusions that surround jump labels. Typical usage scenarios: #include <linux/static_key.h> struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_TRUE; if (static_key_false(&key)) do unlikely code else do likely code Or: if (static_key_true(&key)) do likely code else do unlikely code The static key is modified via: static_key_slow_inc(&key); ... static_key_slow_dec(&key); The 'slow' prefix makes it abundantly clear that this is an expensive operation. I've updated all in-kernel code to use this everywhere. Note that I (intentionally) have not pushed through the rename blindly through to the lowest levels: the actual jump-label patching arch facility should be named like that, so we want to decouple jump labels from the static-key facility a bit. On non-jump-label enabled architectures static keys default to likely()/unlikely() branches. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120222085809.GA26397@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-21ftrace, perf: Add support to use function tracepoint in perfJiri Olsa1-0/+3
Adding perf registration support for the ftrace function event, so it is now possible to register it via perf interface. The perf_event struct statically contains ftrace_ops as a handle for function tracer. The function tracer is registered/unregistered in open/close actions. To be efficient, we enable/disable ftrace_ops each time the traced process is scheduled in/out (via TRACE_REG_PERF_(ADD|DELL) handlers). This way tracing is enabled only when the process is running. Intentionally using this way instead of the event's hw state PERF_HES_STOPPED, which would not disable the ftrace_ops. It is now possible to use function trace within perf commands like: perf record -e ftrace:function ls perf stat -e ftrace:function ls Allowed only for root. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-01-31Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-0/+1
We cherry-picked 3 commits into perf/urgent, merge them back to allow conflict-free work on those files. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-27perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttlingStephane Eranian1-0/+1
This patch fixes the sampling interrupt throttling mechanism. It was broken in v3.2. Events were not being unthrottled. The unthrottling mechanism required that events be checked at each timer tick. This patch solves this problem and also separates: - unthrottling - multiplexing - frequency-mode period adjustments Not all of them need to be executed at each timer tick. This third version of the patch is based on my original patch + PeterZ proposal (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/7/87). At each timer tick, for each context: - if the current CPU has throttled events, we unthrottle events - if context has frequency-based events, we adjust sampling periods - if we have reached the jiffies interval, we multiplex (rotate) We decoupled rotation (multiplexing) from frequency-mode sampling period adjustments. They should not necessarily happen at the same rate. Multiplexing is subject to jiffies_interval (currently at 1 but could be higher once the tunable is exposed via sysfs). We have grouped frequency-mode adjustment and unthrottling into the same routine to minimize code duplication. When throttled while in frequency mode, we scan the events only once. We have fixed the threshold enforcement code in __perf_event_overflow(). There was a bug whereby it would allow more than the authorized rate because an increment of hwc->interrupts was not executed at the right place. The patch was tested with low sampling limit (2000) and fixed periods, frequency mode, overcommitted PMU. On a 2.1GHz AMD CPU: $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate 2000 We set a rate of 3000 samples/sec (2.1GHz/3000 = 700000): $ perf record -e cycles,cycles -c 700000 noploop 10 $ perf report -D | tail -21 Aggregated stats: TOTAL events: 80086 MMAP events: 88 COMM events: 2 EXIT events: 4 THROTTLE events: 19996 UNTHROTTLE events: 19996 SAMPLE events: 40000 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 40006 MMAP events: 5 COMM events: 1 EXIT events: 4 THROTTLE events: 9998 UNTHROTTLE events: 9998 SAMPLE events: 20000 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 39996 THROTTLE events: 9998 UNTHROTTLE events: 9998 SAMPLE events: 20000 For 10s, the cap is 2x2000x10 = 40000 samples. We get exactly that: 20000 samples/event. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # v3.2+ Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120126160319.GA5655@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-21perf: Extend the mmap control page with time (TSC) fieldsPeter Zijlstra1-1/+3
Extend the mmap control page with fields so that userspace can compute time deltas relative to the provided time fields. Currently only implemented for x86 with constant and nonstop TSC. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3u1jucza77j3wuvs0x2bic0f@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-21perf, x86: Provide means for disabling userspace RDPMCPeter Zijlstra1-0/+1
Allow the disabling of RDPMC via a pmu specific attribute: echo 0 > /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/rdpmc Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pqeog465zo5hsimtkfz73f27@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-21perf, arch: Rework perf_event_index()Peter Zijlstra1-0/+6
Put the logic to compute the event index into a per pmu method. This is required because the x86 rules are weird and wonderful and don't match the capabilities of the current scheme. AFAIK only powerpc actually has a usable userspace read of the PMCs but I'm not at all sure anybody actually used that. ARM is restored to the default since it currently does not support userspace access at all. And all software events are provided with a method that reports their index as 0 (disabled). 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: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dfydxodki16lylkt3gl2j7cw@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-21perf events: Add PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES generic PMU eventStephane Eranian1-0/+1
This event counts the number of reference core cpu cycles. Reference means that the event increments at a constant rate which is not subject to core CPU frequency adjustments. The event may not count when the processor is in halted (low power) state. As such, it may not be equivalent to wall clock time. However, when the processor is not halted state, the event keeps a constant correlation with wall clock time. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323559734-3488-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patchingGleb Natapov1-3/+3
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: Avoid a useless pmu_disable() in the perf-tickPeter Zijlstra1-0/+1
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>
2011-12-05perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-eventPeter Zijlstra1-0/+1
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>
2011-10-06perf, core: Introduce attrs to count in either host or guest modeJoerg Roedel1-1/+4
The two new attributes exclude_guest and exclude_host can bes used by user-space to tell the kernel to setup performance counter to either only count while the CPU is in guest or in host mode. An additional check is also introduced to make sure user-space does not try to exclude guest and host mode from counting. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317816084-18026-2-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29perf events: Fix slow and broken cgroup context switch codeStephane Eranian1-9/+15
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>
2011-07-27atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma1-1/+1
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-01perf: export perf_event_refresh() to modulesAvi Kivity1-0/+5
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 Kivity1-1/+3
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, arch: Add generic NODE cache eventsPeter Zijlstra1-1/+2
Add a NODE level to the generic cache events which is used to measure local vs remote memory accesses. Like all other cache events, an ACCESS is HIT+MISS, if there is no way to distinguish between reads and writes do reads only etc.. The below needs filling out for !x86 (which I filled out with unsupported events). I'm fairly sure ARM can leave it like that since it doesn't strike me as an architecture that even has NUMA support. SH might have something since it does appear to have some NUMA bits. Sparc64, PowerPC and MIPS certainly want a good look there since they clearly are NUMA capable. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303508226.4865.8.camel@laptop Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01perf_events: Update Intel extra regs shared constraints managementStephane Eranian1-3/+11
This patch improves the code managing the extra shared registers used for offcore_response events on Intel Nehalem/Westmere. The idea is to use static allocation instead of dynamic allocation. This simplifies greatly the get and put constraint routines for those events. The patch also renames per_core to shared_regs because the same data structure gets used whether or not HT is on. When HT is off, those events still need to coordination because they use a extra MSR that has to be shared within an event group. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110606145703.GA7258@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01perf: Remove the perf_output_begin(.sample) argumentPeter Zijlstra1-3/+1
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 Zijlstra1-10/+8
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>
2011-07-01perf: Remove 64-bit alignment padding from perf_event_contextRichard Kennedy1-1/+1
Reorder perf_event_context to remove 8 bytes of 64 bit alignment padding shrinking its size to 192 bytes, allowing it to fit into a smaller slab and use one fewer cache lines. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307460819.1950.5.camel@castor.rsk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-16Merge commit 'v3.0-rc3' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-4/+4
Merge reason: add the latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-09perf: Split up buffer handling from core codeFrederic Weisbecker1-29/+4
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>
2011-06-04perf: Fix comments in include/linux/perf_event.hVince Weaver1-4/+4
Fix include/linux/perf_event.h comments to be consistent with the actual #define names. This is trivial, but it can be a bit confusing when first reading through the file. Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1106031757090.29381@cl320.eecs.utk.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-06Merge branch 'perf/stat' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-0/+2
Merge reason: the perf stat improvements are tested and ready now. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-04perf events: Clean up definitions and initializers, update copyrightsIngo Molnar1-52/+44
Fix a few inconsistent style bits that were added over the past few months. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yv4hwf9yhnzoada8pcpb3a97@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf events: Add generic front-end and back-end stalled cycle event definitionsIngo Molnar1-1/+2
Add two generic hardware events: front-end and back-end stalled cycles. These events measure conditions when the CPU is executing code but its capabilities are not fully utilized. Understanding such situations and analyzing them is an important sub-task of code optimization workflows. Both events limit performance: most front end stalls tend to be caused by branch misprediction or instruction fetch cachemisses, backend stalls can be caused by various resource shortages or inefficient instruction scheduling. Front-end stalls are the more important ones: code cannot run fast if the instruction stream is not being kept up. An over-utilized back-end can cause front-end stalls and thus has to be kept an eye on as well. The exact composition is very program logic and instruction mix dependent. We use the terms 'stall', 'front-end' and 'back-end' loosely and try to use the best available events from specific CPUs that approximate these concepts. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n000io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-27Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar1-12/+11
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core Conflicts: include/linux/perf_event.h Merge reason: pick up the latest jump-label enhancements, they are cooked ready. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf events: Add stalled cycles generic event - PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLESIngo Molnar1-0/+1
The new PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES event tries to approximate cycles the CPU does nothing useful, because it is stalled on a cache-miss or some other condition. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fue11vymwqsoo5to72jxxjyl@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-07Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6: Fix common misspellings
2011-04-04jump label: Introduce static_branch() interfaceJason Baron1-13/+13
Introduce: static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key); instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro. In this way, jump labels become really easy to use: Define: struct jump_label_key jump_key; Can be used as: if (static_branch(&jump_key)) do unlikely code enable/disale via: jump_label_inc(&jump_key); jump_label_dec(&jump_key); that's it! For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(), atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below. Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct. Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write. Testing: I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3 configurations, where tracepoints were disabled. jump label configured in avg: 815.6 jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads) avg: 800.1 jump label *not* configured in (regular reads) avg: 803.4 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110316212947.GA8792@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi1-1/+1
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31perf: Fix task context schedulingPeter Zijlstra1-1/+1
Jiri reported: | | - once an event is created by sys_perf_event_open, task context | is created and it stays even if the event is closed, until the | task is finished ... thats what I see in code and I assume it's | correct | | - when the task opens event, perf_sched_events jump label is | incremented and following callbacks are started from scheduler | | __perf_event_task_sched_in | __perf_event_task_sched_out | | These callback *in/out set/unset cpuctx->task_ctx value to the | task context. | | - close is called on event on CPU 0: | - the task is scheduled on CPU 0 | - __perf_event_task_sched_in is called | - cpuctx->task_ctx is set | - perf_sched_events jump label is decremented and == 0 | - __perf_event_task_sched_out is not called | - cpuctx->task_ctx on CPU 0 stays set | | - exit is called on CPU 1: | - the task is scheduled on CPU 1 | - perf_event_exit_task is called | - task_ctx_sched_out unsets cpuctx->task_ctx on CPU 1 | - put_ctx destroys the context | | - another call of perf_rotate_context on CPU 0 will use invalid | task_ctx pointer, and eventualy panic. | Cure this the simplest possibly way by partially reverting the jump_label optimization for the sched_out case. Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .37+ LKML-Reference: <1301520405.4859.213.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-23perf_events: Fix stale ->cgrp pointer in update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx()Stephane Eranian1-2/+0
This patch solves a stale pointer problem in update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx(). The cpuctx->cgrp was not cleared on all possible event exit paths, including: close() perf_release() perf_release_kernel() list_del_event() This patch fixes list_del_event() to clear cpuctx->cgrp when there are no cgroup events left in the context. [ This second version makes the code compile when CONFIG_CGROUP_PERF is not enabled. We unconditionally define perf_cpu_context->cgrp. ] Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: davem@davemloft.net LKML-Reference: <20110323150306.GA1580@quad> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-16perf: Reorder & optimize perf_event_context to remove alignment padding on ↵Richard Kennedy1-1/+1
64 bit builds Remove 8 bytes of alignment padding from perf_event_context on 64 bit builds which shrinks its size to 192 bytes allowing it to fit into one fewer cache lines and into a smaller slab. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1299512819.2039.5.camel@castor.rsk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-04perf: Add support for supplementary event registersAndi Kleen1-2/+11
Change logs against Andi's original version: - Extends perf_event_attr:config to config{,1,2} (Peter Zijlstra) - Fixed a major event scheduling issue. There cannot be a ref++ on an event that has already done ref++ once and without calling put_constraint() in between. (Stephane Eranian) - Use thread_cpumask for percore allocation. (Lin Ming) - Use MSR names in the extra reg lists. (Lin Ming) - Remove redundant "c = NULL" in intel_percore_constraints - Fix comment of perf_event_attr::config1 Intel Nehalem/Westmere have a special OFFCORE_RESPONSE event that can be used to monitor any offcore accesses from a core. This is a very useful event for various tunings, and it's also needed to implement the generic LLC-* events correctly. Unfortunately this event requires programming a mask in a separate register. And worse this separate register is per core, not per CPU thread. This patch: - Teaches perf_events that OFFCORE_RESPONSE needs extra parameters. The extra parameters are passed by user space in the perf_event_attr::config1 field. - Adds support to the Intel perf_event core to schedule per core resources. This adds fairly generic infrastructure that can be also used for other per core resources. The basic code has is patterned after the similar AMD northbridge constraints code. Thanks to Stephane Eranian who pointed out some problems in the original version and suggested improvements. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1299119690-13991-2-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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