linux/kernel/events, 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

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

2012-05-24T18:39:34Z

Pull user-space probe instrumentation from Ingo Molnar: "The uprobes code originates from SystemTap and has been used for years in Fedora and RHEL kernels. This version is much rewritten, reviews from PeterZ, Oleg and myself shaped the end result. This tree includes uprobes support in 'perf probe' - but SystemTap (and other tools) can take advantage of user probe points as well. Sample usage of uprobes via perf, for example to profile malloc() calls without modifying user-space binaries. First boot a new kernel with CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT=y enabled. If you don't know which function you want to probe you can pick one from 'perf top' or can get a list all functions that can be probed within libc (binaries can be specified as well): $ perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6 To probe libc's malloc(): $ perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc Added new event: probe_libc:malloc (on 0x7eac0) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 1 Make use of it to create a call graph (as the flat profile is going to look very boring): $ perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -gR make [ perf record: Woken up 173 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 44.190 MB perf.data (~1930712 $ perf report | less 32.03% git libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc 29.49% cc1 libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | |--0.95%-- 0x208eb1000000000 | |--0.63%-- htab_traverse_noresize 11.04% as libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | 7.15% ld libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | 5.07% sh libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | 4.99% python-config libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | 4.54% make libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | |--7.34%-- glob | | | |--93.18%-- 0x41588f | | | --6.82%-- glob | 0x41588f ... Or: $ perf report -g flat | less # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............. ............. .......... # 32.03% git libc-2.15.so [.] malloc 27.19% malloc 29.49% cc1 libc-2.15.so [.] malloc 24.77% malloc 11.04% as libc-2.15.so [.] malloc 11.02% malloc 7.15% ld libc-2.15.so [.] malloc 6.57% malloc ... The core uprobes design is fairly straightforward: uprobes probe points register themselves at (inode:offset) addresses of libraries/binaries, after which all existing (or new) vmas that map that address will have a software breakpoint injected at that address. vmas are COW-ed to preserve original content. The probe points are kept in an rbtree. If user-space executes the probed inode:offset instruction address then an event is generated which can be recovered from the regular perf event channels and mmap-ed ring-buffer. Multiple probes at the same address are supported, they create a dynamic callback list of event consumers. The basic model is further complicated by the XOL speedup: the original instruction that is probed is copied (in an architecture specific fashion) and executed out of line when the probe triggers. The XOL area is a single vma per process, with a fixed number of entries (which limits probe execution parallelism). The API: uprobes are installed/removed via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events, the API is integrated to align with the kprobes interface as much as possible, but is separate to it. Injecting a probe point is privileged operation, which can be relaxed by setting perf_paranoid to -1. You can use multiple probes as well and mix them with kprobes and regular PMU events or tracepoints, when instrumenting a task." Fix up trivial conflicts in mm/memory.c due to previous cleanup of unmap_single_vma(). * 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits) perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absent perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes tracing: Fix kconfig warning due to a typo tracing: Provide trace events interface for uprobes tracing: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes trace events tracing: Modify is_delete, is_return from int to bool uprobes/core: Decrement uprobe count before the pages are unmapped uprobes/core: Make background page replacement logic account for rss_stat counters uprobes/core: Optimize probe hits with the help of a counter uprobes/core: Allocate XOL slots for uprobes use uprobes/core: Handle breakpoint and singlestep exceptions uprobes/core: Rename bkpt to swbp uprobes/core: Make order of function parameters consistent across functions uprobes/core: Make macro names consistent uprobes: Update copyright notices uprobes/core: Move insn to arch specific structure uprobes/core: Remove uprobe_opcode_sz uprobes/core: Make instruction tables volatile uprobes: Move to kernel/events/ uprobes/core: Clean up, refactor and improve the code ...

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

Merge branch 'perf/uprobes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/uprobes

2012-05-14T12:43:40Z

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