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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2009-05-23 18:28:55 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-05-23 19:37:44 +0200
commite220d2dcb944c5c488b6855d15ec66d76900514f (patch)
treebbaa8ead4276d59d6d73d49a28fd6e1e1ed3259a
parentc6eb13847ba081552d2af644219bddeff7110caf (diff)
perf_counter: Fix dynamic irq_period logging
We call perf_adjust_freq() from perf_counter_task_tick() which is is called under the rq->lock causing lock recursion. However, it's no longer required to be called under the rq->lock, so remove it from under it. Also, fix up some related comments. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.476197912@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_counter.h1
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_counter.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c3
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index 2eedae8498d3..23ddd29730f8 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ enum perf_event_type {
/*
* struct {
* struct perf_event_header header;
+ * u64 time;
* u64 irq_period;
* };
*/
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index c10055416dea..2f410ea2cb39 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -2559,7 +2559,8 @@ void perf_counter_munmap(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
}
/*
- *
+ * Log irq_period changes so that analyzing tools can re-normalize the
+ * event flow.
*/
static void perf_log_period(struct perf_counter *counter, u64 period)
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 4c0d58bce6b2..ad079f07c9c8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4875,9 +4875,10 @@ void scheduler_tick(void)
update_rq_clock(rq);
update_cpu_load(rq);
curr->sched_class->task_tick(rq, curr, 0);
- perf_counter_task_tick(curr, cpu);
spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
+ perf_counter_task_tick(curr, cpu);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
rq->idle_at_tick = idle_cpu(cpu);
trigger_load_balance(rq, cpu);