linux/kernel/events/core.c, branch v3.5

perf: Use css_tryget() to avoid propping up css refcount

2012-06-18T09:45:57Z

An rmdir pushes css's ref count to zero. However, if the associated directory is open at the time, the dentry ref count is non-zero. If the fd for this directory is then passed into perf_event_open, it does a css_get(). This bounces the ref count back up from zero. This is a problem by itself. But what makes it turn into a crash is the fact that we end up doing an extra dput, since we perform a dput when css_put sees the ref count go down to zero. css_tryget() does not fall into that trap. So, we use that instead. Reproduction test-case for the bug: #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP (1U << 2) int perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *hw_event_uptr, pid_t pid, int cpu, int group_fd, unsigned long flags) { return syscall(__NR_perf_event_open,hw_event_uptr, pid, cpu, group_fd, flags); } /* * Directly poke at the perf_event bug, since it's proving hard to repro * depending on where in the kernel tree. what moved? */ int main(int argc, char **argv) { int fd; struct perf_event_attr attr; memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(attr)); attr.exclude_kernel = 1; attr.size = sizeof(attr); mkdir("/dev/cgroup/perf_event/blah", 0777); fd = open("/dev/cgroup/perf_event/blah", O_RDONLY); perror("open"); rmdir("/dev/cgroup/perf_event/blah"); sleep(2); perf_event_open(&attr, fd, 0, -1, PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP); perror("perf_event_open"); close(fd); return 0; } Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Tejun Heo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120614223108.1025.2503.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Remove duplicate invocation on perf_event_for_each

2012-05-31T17:01:00Z

The @func callback was invoked twice for group leader when perf_event_for_each() called. It seems the commit 75f937f24bd9 ("perf_counter: Fix ctx->mutex vs counter ->mutex inversion") made the mistake during the change. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338443506-25009-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Revert "sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler"

2012-05-23T15:40:51Z

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 Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 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

Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core

2012-05-18T16:13:33Z

Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch: "perf tools: Move parse event automated tests to separated object" That depends on: commit e7c72d8 perf tools: Add 'G' and 'H' modifiers to event parsing Conflicts: tools/perf/builtin-stat.c Conflicted with the recent 'perf_target' patches when checking the result of perf_evsel open routines to see if a retry is needed to cope with older kernels where the exclude guest/host perf_event_attr bits were not used. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler

2012-05-09T13:23:17Z

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 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-o56ajxp1edwqg6x9d31wb805@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Pass last sampling period to perf_sample_data_init()

2012-05-09T13:23:12Z

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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333390758-10893-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Use static variant of perf_event_overflow in core.c

2012-04-26T11:52:52Z

No need to have an additional function layer. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333643084-26776-4-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix perf_event_for_each() to use sibling

2012-04-26T11:51:31Z

In perf_event_for_each() we call a function on an event, and then iterate over the siblings of the event. However we don't call the function on the siblings, we call it repeatedly on the original event - it seems "obvious" that we should be calling it with sibling as the argument. It looks like this broke in commit 75f937f24bd9 ("Fix ctx->mutex vs counter->mutex inversion"). The only effect of the bug is that the PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP parameter to the ioctls doesn't work. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334109253-31329-1-git-send-email-michael@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgent

2012-03-26T15:19:03Z

Merge reason: we need to fix a non-trivial merge conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Move mmap page data_head offset assertion out of header

2012-03-24T07:46:59Z

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 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