linux/kernel/events/core.c, branch v3.13

perf: Disable all pmus on unthrottling and rescheduling

2013-12-17T14:04:00Z

Currently, only one PMU in a context gets disabled during unthrottling and event_sched_{out,in}(), however, events in one context may belong to different pmus, which results in PMUs being reprogrammed while they are still enabled. This means that mixed PMU use [which is rare in itself] resulted in potentially completely unreliable results: corrupted events, bogus results, etc. This patch temporarily disables PMUs that correspond to each event in the context while these events are being modified. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Alexander Shishkin Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387196256-8030-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Remove fragile swevent hlist optimization

2013-11-19T15:57:42Z

Currently we only allocate a single cpu hashtable for per-cpu swevents; do away with this optimization for it is fragile in the face of things like perf_pmu_migrate_context(). The easiest thing is to make sure all CPUs are consistent wrt state. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130913111447.GN31370@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

list: introduce list_next_entry() and list_prev_entry()

2013-11-13T03:09:23Z

Add two trivial helpers list_next_entry() and list_prev_entry(), they can have a lot of users including list.h itself. In fact the 1st one is already defined in events/core.c and bnx2x_sp.c, so the patch simply moves the definition to list.h. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Eilon Greenstein Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-11-12T01:06:34Z

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "As a first remark I'd like to note that the way to build perf tooling has been simplified and sped up, in the future it should be enough for you to build perf via: cd tools/perf/ make install (ie without the -j option.) The build system will figure out the number of CPUs and will do a parallel build+install. The various build system inefficiencies and breakages Linus reported against the v3.12 pull request should now be resolved - please (re-)report any remaining annoyances or bugs. Main changes on the perf kernel side: * Performance optimizations: . perf ring-buffer code optimizations, by Peter Zijlstra . perf ring-buffer code optimizations, by Oleg Nesterov . x86 NMI call-stack processing optimizations, by Peter Zijlstra . perf context-switch optimizations, by Peter Zijlstra . perf sampling speedups, by Peter Zijlstra . x86 Intel PEBS processing speedups, by Peter Zijlstra * Enhanced hardware support: . for Intel Ivy Bridge-EP uncore PMUs, by Zheng Yan . for Haswell transactions, by Andi Kleen, Peter Zijlstra * Core perf events code enhancements and fixes by Oleg Nesterov: . for uprobes, if fork() is called with pending ret-probes . for uprobes platform support code * New ABI details by Andi Kleen: . Report x86 Haswell TSX transaction abort cost as weight Main changes on the perf tooling side (some of these tooling changes utilize the above kernel side changes): * 'perf report/top' enhancements: . Convert callchain children list to rbtree, greatly reducing the time taken for callchain processing, from Namhyung Kim. . Add new COMM infrastructure, further improving histogram processing, from Frédéric Weisbecker, one fix from Namhyung Kim. . Add /proc/kcore based live-annotation improvements, including build-id cache support, multi map 'call' instruction navigation fixes, kcore address validation, objdump workarounds. From Adrian Hunter. . Show progress on histogram collapsing, that can take a long time, from Namhyung Kim. . Add --max-stack option to limit callchain stack scan in 'top' and 'report', improving callchain processing when reducing the stack depth is an option, from Waiman Long. . Add new option --ignore-vmlinux for perf top, from Willy Tarreau. * 'perf trace' enhancements: . 'perf trace' now can can use a 'perf probe' dynamic tracepoints to hook into the userspace -> kernel pathname copy so that it can map fds to pathnames without reading /proc/pid/fd/ symlinks. From Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Show VFS path associated with fd in live sessions, using a 'vfs_getname' 'perf probe' created dynamic tracepoint or by looking at /proc/pid/fd, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Add 'trace' beautifiers for lots of syscall arguments, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Implement more compact 'trace' output by suppressing zeroed args, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Show thread COMM by default in 'trace', from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Add option to show full timestamp in 'trace', from David Ahern. . Add 'record' command in 'trace', to record raw_syscalls:*, from David Ahern. . Add summary option to dump syscall statistics in 'trace', from David Ahern. . Improve error messages in 'trace', providing hints about system configuration steps needed for using it, from Ramkumar Ramachandra. . 'perf trace' now emits hints as to why tracing is not possible, helping the user to setup the system to allow tracing in the desired permission granularity, telling if the problem is due to debugfs not being mounted or with not enough permission for !root, /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoit value, etc. From Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. * 'perf record' enhancements: . Check maximum frequency rate for record/top, emitting better error messages, from Jiri Olsa. . 'perf record' code cleanups, from David Ahern. . Improve write_output error message in 'perf record', from Adrian Hunter. . Allow specifying B/K/M/G unit to the --mmap-pages arguments, from Jiri Olsa. . Fix command line callchain attribute tests to handle the new -g/--call-chain semantics, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. * 'perf kvm' enhancements: . Disable live kvm command if timerfd is not supported, from David Ahern. . Fix detection of non-core features, from David Ahern. * 'perf list' enhancements: . Add usage to 'perf list', from David Ahern. . Show error in 'perf list' if tracepoints not available, from Pekka Enberg. * 'perf probe' enhancements: . Support "$vars" meta argument syntax for local variables, allowing asking for all possible variables at a given probe point to be collected when it hits, from Masami Hiramatsu. * 'perf sched' enhancements: . Address the root cause of that 'perf sched' stack initialization build slowdown, by programmatically setting a big array after moving the global variable back to the stack. Fix from Adrian Hunter. * 'perf script' enhancements: . Set up output options for in-stream attributes, from Adrian Hunter. . Print addr by default for BTS in 'perf script', from Adrian Juntmer * 'perf stat' enhancements: . Improved messages when doing profiling in all or a subset of CPUs using a workload as the session delimitator, as in: 'perf stat --cpu 0,2 sleep 10s' from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Add units to nanosec-based counters in 'perf stat', from David Ahern. . Remove bogus info when using 'perf stat' -e cycles/instructions, from Ramkumar Ramachandra. * 'perf lock' enhancements: . 'perf lock' fixes and cleanups, from Davidlohr Bueso. * 'perf test' enhancements: . Fixup PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION handling in sample synthesizing and 'perf test', from Adrian Hunter. . Clarify the "sample parsing" test entry, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Consider PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION in the "sample parsing" test, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Memory leak fixes in 'perf test', from Felipe Pena. * 'perf bench' enhancements: . Change the procps visible command-name of invididual benchmark tests plus cleanups, from Ingo Molnar. * Generic perf tooling infrastructure/plumbing changes: . Separating data file properties from session, code reorganization from Jiri Olsa. . Fix version when building out of tree, as when using one of these: $ make help | grep perf perf-tar-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar source tarball perf-targz-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.gz source tarball perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.bz2 source tarball perf-tarxz-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.xz source tarball $ from David Ahern. . Enhance option parse error message, showing just the help lines of the options affected, from Namhyung Kim. . libtraceevent updates from upstream trace-cmd repo, from Steven Rostedt. . Always use perf_evsel__set_sample_bit to set sample_type, from Adrian Hunter. . Memory and mmap leak fixes from Chenggang Qin. . Assorted build fixes for from David Ahern and Jiri Olsa. . Speed up and prettify the build system, from Ingo Molnar. . Implement addr2line directly using libbfd, from Roberto Vitillo. . Separate the GTK support in a separate libperf-gtk.so DSO, that is only loaded when --gtk is specified, from Namhyung Kim. . perf bash completion fixes and improvements from Ramkumar Ramachandra. . Support for Openembedded/Yocto -dbg packages, from Ricardo Ribalda Delgado. And lots and lots of other fixes and code reorganizations that did not make it into the list, see the shortlog, diffstat and the Git log for details!" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (300 commits) uprobes: Fix the memory out of bound overwrite in copy_insn() uprobes: Fix the wrong usage of current->utask in uprobe_copy_process() perf tools: Remove unneeded include perf record: Remove post_processing_offset variable perf record: Remove advance_output function perf record: Refactor feature handling into a separate function perf trace: Don't relookup fields by name in each sample perf tools: Fix version when building out of tree perf evsel: Ditch evsel->handler.data field uprobes: Export write_opcode() as uprobe_write_opcode() uprobes: Introduce arch_uprobe->ixol uprobes: Kill module_init() and module_exit() uprobes: Move function declarations out of arch perf/x86/intel: Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore IRP box support perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add filter support for IvyBridge-EP QPI boxes perf: Factor out strncpy() in perf_event_mmap_event() tools/perf: Add required memory barriers perf: Fix arch_perf_out_copy_user default perf: Update a stale comment perf: Optimize perf_output_begin() -- address calculation ...

Merge tag 'driver-core-3.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2013-11-07T02:42:15Z

Pull driver core / sysfs patches from Greg KH: "Here's the big driver core / sysfs update for 3.13-rc1. There's lots of dev_groups updates for different subsystems, as they all get slowly migrated over to the safe versions of the attribute groups (removing userspace races with the creation of the sysfs files.) Also in here are some kobject updates, devres expansions, and the first round of Tejun's sysfs reworking to enable it to be used by other subsystems as a backend for an in-kernel filesystem. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-3.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (83 commits) sysfs: rename sysfs_assoc_lock and explain what it's about sysfs: use generic_file_llseek() for sysfs_file_operations sysfs: return correct error code on unimplemented mmap() mdio_bus: convert bus code to use dev_groups device: Make dev_WARN/dev_WARN_ONCE print device as well as driver name sysfs: separate out dup filename warning into a separate function sysfs: move sysfs_hash_and_remove() to fs/sysfs/dir.c sysfs: remove unused sysfs_get_dentry() prototype sysfs: honor bin_attr.attr.ignore_lockdep sysfs: merge sysfs_elem_bin_attr into sysfs_elem_attr devres: restore zeroing behavior of devres_alloc() sysfs: fix sysfs_write_file for bin file input: gameport: convert bus code to use dev_groups input: serio: remove bus usage of dev_attrs input: serio: use DEVICE_ATTR_RO() i2o: convert bus code to use dev_groups memstick: convert bus code to use dev_groups tifm: convert bus code to use dev_groups virtio: convert bus code to use dev_groups ipack: convert bus code to use dev_groups ...

perf: Factor out strncpy() in perf_event_mmap_event()

2013-11-06T11:34:28Z

While this is really minor, but strncpy() does the unnecessary zero-padding till the end of tmp[16] and it is called every time we are going to use the string literal. Turn these strncpy()'s into the single strlcpy() under the new label, saves 72 bytes. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131017182417.GA17753@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix the perf context switch optimization

2013-10-29T13:13:01Z

Currently we only optimize the context switch between two contexts that have the same parent; this forgoes the optimization between parent and child context, even though these contexts could be equivalent too. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Shishkin, Alexander Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131007164257.GH3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Change zero-padding of strings in perf_event_mmap_event()

2013-10-29T11:02:53Z

Oleg complained about the excessive 0-ing in perf_event_mmap_event(), so try and be smarter about it while keeping it fairly fool proof and avoid leaking random bits out to userspace. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8jirlm99m6if2z13wd6rbyu6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Do not waste PAGE_SIZE bytes for ALIGN(8) in perf_event_mmap_event()

2013-10-29T11:02:52Z

perf_event_mmap_event() does kzalloc(PATH_MAX + sizeof(u64)) to ensure we can align the size later. However this means that we actually allocate PAGE_SIZE * 2 buffer, seems too much. Change this code to allocate PATH_MAX==PAGE_SIZE bytes, but tell d_path() to not use the last sizeof(u64) bytes. Note: it is not clear why do we need __GFP_ZERO, see the next patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016201004.GC23214@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Kill the dead !vma->vm_mm code in perf_event_mmap_event()

2013-10-29T11:02:51Z

1. perf_event_mmap(vma) is never called with a gate_vma-like arg, remove the "if (!vma->vm_mm)" code. 2. arch_vma_name() can use the chached value of mmap_event->vma. 3. Change the code to not call arch_vma_name() twice. 4. Purely cosmetic, but since we use "goto got_name" all the time remove "else" from "[stack]" branch just for symmetry. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016200945.GB23214@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar