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2018-02-11vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacementLinus Torvalds
This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL* variables as described by Al, done by this script: for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'` for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\<POLL$V\>\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done done with de-mangling cleanups yet to come. NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same values as the POLL* constants do. But they keyword here is "almost". For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al. The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we should be all done. Scripted-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-15Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon: "The big highlight is support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) which required extensive ABI work to ensure we don't break existing applications by blowing away their signal stack with the rather large new vector context (<= 2 kbit per vector register). There's further work to be done optimising things like exception return, but the ABI is solid now. Much of the line count comes from some new PMU drivers we have, but they're pretty self-contained and I suspect we'll have more of them in future. Plenty of acronym soup here: - initial support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) - improved handling for SError interrupts (required to handle RAS events) - enable GCC support for 128-bit integer types - remove kernel text addresses from backtraces and register dumps - use of WFE to implement long delay()s - ACPI IORT updates from Lorenzo Pieralisi - perf PMU driver for the Statistical Profiling Extension (SPE) - perf PMU driver for Hisilicon's system PMUs - misc cleanups and non-critical fixes" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (97 commits) arm64: Make ARMV8_DEPRECATED depend on SYSCTL arm64: Implement __lshrti3 library function arm64: support __int128 on gcc 5+ arm64/sve: Add documentation arm64/sve: Detect SVE and activate runtime support arm64/sve: KVM: Hide SVE from CPU features exposed to guests arm64/sve: KVM: Treat guest SVE use as undefined instruction execution arm64/sve: KVM: Prevent guests from using SVE arm64/sve: Add sysctl to set the default vector length for new processes arm64/sve: Add prctl controls for userspace vector length management arm64/sve: ptrace and ELF coredump support arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around EFI runtime service calls arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around kernel-mode NEON use arm64/sve: Probe SVE capabilities and usable vector lengths arm64: cpufeature: Move sys_caps_initialised declarations arm64/sve: Backend logic for setting the vector length arm64/sve: Signal handling support arm64/sve: Support vector length resetting for new processes arm64/sve: Core task context handling arm64/sve: Low-level CPU setup ...
2017-10-25locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns ↵Mark Rutland
to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the coccinelle script shown below and apply its output. For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't harmful, and changing them results in churn. However, for some features, the read/write distinction is critical to correct operation. To distinguish these cases, separate read/write accessors must be used. This patch migrates (most) remaining ACCESS_ONCE() instances to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), using the following coccinelle script: ---- // Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() uses to equivalent READ_ONCE() and // WRITE_ONCE() // $ make coccicheck COCCI=/home/mark/once.cocci SPFLAGS="--include-headers" MODE=patch virtual patch @ depends on patch @ expression E1, E2; @@ - ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2 + WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2) @ depends on patch @ expression E; @@ - ACCESS_ONCE(E) + READ_ONCE(E) ---- Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: shuah@kernel.org Cc: snitzer@redhat.com Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com Cc: tj@kernel.org Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-18perf/core: Export AUX buffer helpers to modulesWill Deacon
Perf PMU drivers using AUX buffers cannot be built as modules unless the AUX helpers are exported. This patch exports perf_aux_output_{begin,end,skip} and perf_get_aux to modules. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2017-09-29perf/aux: Only update ->aux_wakeup in non-overwrite modeAlexander Shishkin
The following commit: d9a50b0256 ("perf/aux: Ensure aux_wakeup represents most recent wakeup index") changed the AUX wakeup position calculation to rounddown(), which causes a division-by-zero in AUX overwrite mode (aka "snapshot mode"). The zero denominator results from the fact that perf record doesn't set aux_watermark to anything, in which case the kernel will set it to half the AUX buffer size, but only for non-overwrite mode. In the overwrite mode aux_watermark stays zero. The good news is that, AUX overwrite mode, wakeups don't happen and related bookkeeping is not relevant, so we can simply forego the whole wakeup updates. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170906160811.16510-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-25perf/aux: Ensure aux_wakeup represents most recent wakeup indexWill Deacon
The aux_watermark member of struct ring_buffer represents the period (in terms of bytes) at which wakeup events should be generated when data is written to the aux buffer in non-snapshot mode. On hardware that cannot generate an interrupt when the aux_head reaches an arbitrary wakeup index (such as ARM SPE), the aux_head sampled from handle->head in perf_aux_output_{skip,end} may in fact be past the wakeup index. This can lead to wakeup slowly falling behind the head. For example, consider the case where hardware can only generate an interrupt on a page-boundary and the aux buffer is initialised as follows: // Buffer size is 2 * PAGE_SIZE rb->aux_head = rb->aux_wakeup = 0 rb->aux_watermark = PAGE_SIZE / 2 following the first perf_aux_output_begin call, the handle is initialised with: handle->head = 0 handle->size = 2 * PAGE_SIZE handle->wakeup = PAGE_SIZE / 2 and the hardware will be programmed to generate an interrupt at PAGE_SIZE. When the interrupt is raised, the hardware head will be at PAGE_SIZE, so calling perf_aux_output_end(handle, PAGE_SIZE) puts the ring buffer into the following state: rb->aux_head = PAGE_SIZE rb->aux_wakeup = PAGE_SIZE / 2 rb->aux_watermark = PAGE_SIZE / 2 and then the next call to perf_aux_output_begin will result in: handle->head = handle->wakeup = PAGE_SIZE for which the semantics are unclear and, for a smaller aux_watermark (e.g. PAGE_SIZE / 4), then the wakeup would in fact be behind head at this point. This patch fixes the problem by rounding down the aux_head (as sampled from the handle) to the nearest aux_watermark boundary when updating rb->aux_wakeup, therefore taking into account any overruns by the hardware. Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502900297-21839-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-25perf/aux: Make aux_{head,wakeup} ring_buffer members longWill Deacon
The aux_head and aux_wakeup members of struct ring_buffer are defined using the local_t type, despite the fact that they are only accessed via the perf_aux_output_*() functions, which cannot race with each other for a given ring buffer. This patch changes the type of the members to long, so we can avoid using the local_*() API where it isn't needed. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502900297-21839-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-21perf/aux: Correct return code of rb_alloc_aux() if !has_aux(ev)Hendrik Brueckner
If the event for which an AUX area is about to be allocated, does not support setting up an AUX area, rb_alloc_aux() return -ENOTSUPP. This error condition is being returned unfiltered to the user space, and, for example, the perf tools fails with: failed to mmap with 524 (INTERNAL ERROR: strerror_r(524, 0x3fff497a1c8, 512)=22) This error can be easily seen with "perf record -m 128,256 -e cpu-clock". The 524 error code maps to -ENOTSUPP (in rb_alloc_aux()). The -ENOTSUPP error code shall be only used within the kernel. So the correct error code would then be -EOPNOTSUPP. With this commit, the perf tool then reports: failed to mmap with 95 (Operation not supported) which is more clear. Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Pu Hou <bjhoupu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497954399-6355-1-git-send-email-brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-16perf/core: Add a flag for partial AUX recordsAlexander Shishkin
The Intel PT driver needs to be able to communicate partial AUX transactions, that is, transactions with gaps in data for reasons other than no room left in the buffer (i.e. truncated transactions). Therefore, this condition does not imply a wakeup for the consumer. To this end, add a new "partial" AUX flag. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170220133352.17995-4-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-16perf/core: Keep AUX flags in the output handleWill Deacon
In preparation for adding more flags to perf AUX records, introduce a separate API for setting the flags for a session, rather than appending more bool arguments to perf_aux_output_end. This allows to set each flag at the time a corresponding condition is detected, instead of tracking it in each driver's private state. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170220133352.17995-3-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-09-10perf/core: Fix aux_mmap_count vs aux_refcount orderAlexander Shishkin
The order of accesses to ring buffer's aux_mmap_count and aux_refcount has to be preserved across the users, namely perf_mmap_close() and perf_aux_output_begin(), otherwise the inversion can result in the latter holding the last reference to the aux buffer and subsequently free'ing it in atomic context, triggering a warning. > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 257 at kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:541 __rb_free_aux+0x11a/0x130 > CPU: 0 PID: 257 Comm: stopbug Not tainted 4.8.0-rc1+ #2596 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff810f3e0b>] __warn+0xcb/0xf0 > [<ffffffff810f3f3d>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20 > [<ffffffff8121182a>] __rb_free_aux+0x11a/0x130 > [<ffffffff812127a8>] rb_free_aux+0x18/0x20 > [<ffffffff81212913>] perf_aux_output_begin+0x163/0x1e0 > [<ffffffff8100c33a>] bts_event_start+0x3a/0xd0 > [<ffffffff8100c42d>] bts_event_add+0x5d/0x80 > [<ffffffff81203646>] event_sched_in.isra.104+0xf6/0x2f0 > [<ffffffff8120652e>] group_sched_in+0x6e/0x190 > [<ffffffff8120694e>] ctx_sched_in+0x2fe/0x5f0 > [<ffffffff81206ca0>] perf_event_sched_in+0x60/0x80 > [<ffffffff81206d1b>] ctx_resched+0x5b/0x90 > [<ffffffff81207281>] __perf_event_enable+0x1e1/0x240 > [<ffffffff81200639>] event_function+0xa9/0x180 > [<ffffffff81202000>] ? perf_cgroup_attach+0x70/0x70 > [<ffffffff8120203f>] remote_function+0x3f/0x50 > [<ffffffff811971f3>] flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x83/0x150 > [<ffffffff81197bd3>] generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x13/0x60 > [<ffffffff810a6477>] smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x27/0x40 > [<ffffffff81a26ea9>] call_function_single_interrupt+0x89/0x90 > [<ffffffff81120056>] finish_task_switch+0xa6/0x210 > [<ffffffff81120017>] ? finish_task_switch+0x67/0x210 > [<ffffffff81a1e83d>] __schedule+0x3dd/0xb50 > [<ffffffff81a1efe5>] schedule+0x35/0x80 > [<ffffffff81128031>] sys_sched_yield+0x61/0x70 > [<ffffffff81a25be5>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xa8 > ---[ end trace 6235f556f5ea83a9 ]--- This patch puts the checks in perf_aux_output_begin() in the same order as that of perf_mmap_close(). Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906132353.19887-3-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-05-12perf/core: Disable the event on a truncated AUX recordAlexander Shishkin
When the PMU driver reports a truncated AUX record, it effectively means that there is no more usable room in the event's AUX buffer (even though there may still be some room, so that perf_aux_output_begin() doesn't take action). At this point the consumer still has to be woken up and the event has to be disabled, otherwise the event will just keep spinning between perf_aux_output_begin() and perf_aux_output_end() until its context gets unscheduled. Again, for cpu-wide events this means never, so once in this condition, they will be forever losing data. Fix this by disabling the event and waking up the consumer in case of a truncated AUX record. Reported-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462886313-13660-3-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-23perf/core: Add ::write_backward attribute to perf eventWang Nan
This patch introduces 'write_backward' bit to perf_event_attr, which controls the direction of a ring buffer. After set, the corresponding ring buffer is written from end to beginning. This feature is design to support reading from overwritable ring buffer. Ring buffer can be created by mapping a perf event fd. Kernel puts event records into ring buffer, user tooling like perf fetch them from address returned by mmap(). To prevent racing between kernel and tooling, they communicate to each other through 'head' and 'tail' pointers. Kernel maintains 'head' pointer, points it to the next free area (tail of the last record). Tooling maintains 'tail' pointer, points it to the tail of last consumed record (record has already been fetched). Kernel determines the available space in a ring buffer using these two pointers to avoid overwrite unfetched records. By mapping without 'PROT_WRITE', an overwritable ring buffer is created. Different from normal ring buffer, tooling is unable to maintain 'tail' pointer because writing is forbidden. Therefore, for this type of ring buffers, kernel overwrite old records unconditionally, works like flight recorder. This feature would be useful if reading from overwritable ring buffer were as easy as reading from normal ring buffer. However, there's an obscure problem. The following figure demonstrates a full overwritable ring buffer. In this figure, the 'head' pointer points to the end of last record, and a long record 'E' is pending. For a normal ring buffer, a 'tail' pointer would have pointed to position (X), so kernel knows there's no more space in the ring buffer. However, for an overwritable ring buffer, kernel ignore the 'tail' pointer. (X) head . | . V +------+-------+----------+------+---+ |A....A|B.....B|C........C|D....D| | +------+-------+----------+------+---+ Record 'A' is overwritten by event 'E': head | V +--+---+-------+----------+------+---+ |.E|..A|B.....B|C........C|D....D|E..| +--+---+-------+----------+------+---+ Now tooling decides to read from this ring buffer. However, none of these two natural positions, 'head' and the start of this ring buffer, are pointing to the head of a record. Even the full ring buffer can be accessed by tooling, it is unable to find a position to start decoding. The first attempt tries to solve this problem AFAIK can be found from [1]. It makes kernel to maintain 'tail' pointer: updates it when ring buffer is half full. However, this approach introduces overhead to fast path. Test result shows a 1% overhead [2]. In addition, this method utilizes no more tham 50% records. Another attempt can be found from [3], which allows putting the size of an event at the end of each record. This approach allows tooling to find records in a backward manner from 'head' pointer by reading size of a record from its tail. However, because of alignment requirement, it needs 8 bytes to record the size of a record, which is a huge waste. Its performance is also not good, because more data need to be written. This approach also introduces some extra branch instructions to fast path. 'write_backward' is a better solution to this problem. Following figure demonstrates the state of the overwritable ring buffer when 'write_backward' is set before overwriting: head | V +---+------+----------+-------+------+ | |D....D|C........C|B.....B|A....A| +---+------+----------+-------+------+ and after overwriting: head | V +---+------+----------+-------+---+--+ |..E|D....D|C........C|B.....B|A..|E.| +---+------+----------+-------+---+--+ In each situation, 'head' points to the beginning of the newest record. From this record, tooling can iterate over the full ring buffer and fetch records one by one. The only limitation that needs to be considered is back-to-back reading. Due to the non-deterministic of user programs, it is impossible to ensure the ring buffer keeps stable during reading. Consider an extreme situation: tooling is scheduled out after reading record 'D', then a burst of events come, eat up the whole ring buffer (one or multiple rounds). When the tooling process comes back, reading after 'D' is incorrect now. To prevent this problem, we need to find a way to ensure the ring buffer is stable during reading. ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT) is suggested because its overhead is lower than ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE). By carefully verifying 'header' pointer, reader can avoid pausing the ring-buffer. For example: /* A union of all possible events */ union perf_event event; p = head = perf_mmap__read_head(); while (true) { /* copy header of next event */ fetch(&event.header, p, sizeof(event.header)); /* read 'head' pointer */ head = perf_mmap__read_head(); /* check overwritten: is the header good? */ if (!verify(sizeof(event.header), p, head)) break; /* copy the whole event */ fetch(&event, p, event.header.size); /* read 'head' pointer again */ head = perf_mmap__read_head(); /* is the whole event good? */ if (!verify(event.header.size, p, head)) break; p += event.header.size; } However, the overhead is high because: a) In-place decoding is not safe. Copying-verifying-decoding is required. b) Fetching 'head' pointer requires additional synchronization. (From Alexei Starovoitov: Even when this trick works, pause is needed for more than stability of reading. When we collect the events into overwrite buffer we're waiting for some other trigger (like all cpu utilization spike or just one cpu running and all others are idle) and when it happens the buffer has valuable info from the past. At this point new events are no longer interesting and buffer should be paused, events read and unpaused until next trigger comes.) This patch utilizes event's default overflow_handler introduced previously. perf_event_output_backward() is created as the default overflow handler for backward ring buffers. To avoid extra overhead to fast path, original perf_event_output() becomes __perf_event_output() and marked '__always_inline'. In theory, there's no extra overhead introduced to fast path. Performance testing: Calling 3000000 times of 'close(-1)', use gettimeofday() to check duration. Use 'perf record -o /dev/null -e raw_syscalls:*' to capture system calls. In ns. Testing environment: CPU : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz Kernel : v4.5.0 MEAN STDVAR BASE 800214.950 2853.083 PRE1 2253846.700 9997.014 PRE2 2257495.540 8516.293 POST 2250896.100 8933.921 Where 'BASE' is pure performance without capturing. 'PRE1' is test result of pure 'v4.5.0' kernel. 'PRE2' is test result before this patch. 'POST' is test result after this patch. See [4] for the detailed experimental setup. Considering the stdvar, this patch doesn't introduce performance overhead to the fast path. [1] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1304.1/04584.html [2] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1307.1/00535.html [3] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1512.0/01265.html [4] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/56F89DCD.1040202@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: <acme@kernel.org> Cc: <pi3orama@163.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459865478-53413-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com [ Fixed the changelog some more. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-31perf/ring_buffer: Prepare writing into the ring-buffer from the endWang Nan
Convert perf_output_begin() to __perf_output_begin() and make the later function able to write records from the end of the ring-buffer. Following commits will utilize the 'backward' flag. This is the core patch to support writing to the ring-buffer backwards, which will be introduced by upcoming patches to support reading from overwritable ring-buffers. In theory, this patch should not introduce any extra performance overhead since we use always_inline, but it does not hurt to double check that assumption: When CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is disabled, the output object is nearly identical to original one. See: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/56F52E83.70409@huawei.com When CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is enabled, the resuling object file becomes smaller: $ size kernel/events/ring_buffer.o* text data bss dec hex filename 4641 4 8 4653 122d kernel/events/ring_buffer.o.old 4545 4 8 4557 11cd kernel/events/ring_buffer.o.new Performance testing results: Calling 3000000 times of 'close(-1)', use gettimeofday() to check duration. Use 'perf record -o /dev/null -e raw_syscalls:*' to capture system calls. In ns. Testing environment: CPU : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz Kernel : v4.5.0 MEAN STDVAR BASE 800214.950 2853.083 PRE 2253846.700 9997.014 POST 2257495.540 8516.293 Where 'BASE' is pure performance without capturing. 'PRE' is test result of pure 'v4.5.0' kernel. 'POST' is test result after this patch. Considering the stdvar, this patch doesn't hurt performance, within noise margin. For testing details, see: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/56F89DCD.1040202@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <pi3orama@163.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459147292-239310-4-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-31perf/ring_buffer: Introduce new ioctl options to pause and resume the ↵Wang Nan
ring-buffer Add new ioctl() to pause/resume ring-buffer output. In some situations we want to read from the ring-buffer only when we ensure nothing can write to the ring-buffer during reading. Without this patch we have to turn off all events attached to this ring-buffer to achieve this. This patch is a prerequisite to enable overwrite support for the perf ring-buffer support. Following commits will introduce new methods support reading from overwrite ring buffer. Before reading, caller must ensure the ring buffer is frozen, or the reading is unreliable. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <pi3orama@163.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459147292-239310-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-31perf/ring_buffer: Document AUX API usageAlexander Shishkin
In order to ensure safe AUX buffer management, we rely on the assumption that pmu::stop() stops its ongoing AUX transaction and not just the hw. This patch documents this requirement for the perf_aux_output_{begin,end}() APIs. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457098969-21595-4-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-31perf/core: Free AUX pages in unmap pathAlexander Shishkin
Now that we can ensure that when ring buffer's AUX area is on the way to getting unmapped new transactions won't start, we only need to stop all events that can potentially be writing aux data to our ring buffer. Having done that, we can safely free the AUX pages and corresponding PMU data, as this time it is guaranteed to be the last aux reference holder. This partially reverts: 57ffc5ca679 ("perf: Fix AUX buffer refcounting") ... which was made to defer deallocation that was otherwise possible from an NMI context. Now it is no longer the case; the last call to rb_free_aux() that drops the last AUX reference has to happen in perf_mmap_close() on that AUX area. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87d1qtz23d.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-31perf/ring_buffer: Refuse to begin AUX transaction after rb->aux_mmap_count dropsAlexander Shishkin
When ring buffer's AUX area is unmapped and rb->aux_mmap_count drops to zero, new AUX transactions into this buffer can still be started, even though the buffer in en route to deallocation. This patch adds a check to perf_aux_output_begin() for rb->aux_mmap_count being zero, in which case there is no point starting new transactions, in other words, the ring buffers that pass a certain point in perf_mmap_close will not have their events sending new data, which clears path for freeing those buffers' pages right there and then, provided that no active transactions are holding the AUX reference. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457098969-21595-2-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-21perf/core: Fix Undefined behaviour in rb_alloc()Peter Zijlstra
Sasha reported: [ 3494.030114] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:685:22 [ 3494.030647] shift exponent -1 is negative Andrey spotted that this is because: It happens if nr_pages = 0: rb->page_order = ilog2(nr_pages); Fix it by making both assignments conditional on nr_pages; since otherwise they should both be 0 anyway, and will be because of the kzalloc() used to allocate the structure. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160129141751.GA407@worktop Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-01-21perf: Synchronously free aux pages in case of allocation failureAlexander Shishkin
We are currently using asynchronous deallocation in the error path in AUX mmap code, which is unnecessary and also presents a problem for users that wish to probe for the biggest possible buffer size they can get: they'll get -EINVAL on all subsequent attemts to allocate a smaller buffer before the asynchronous deallocation callback frees up the pages from the previous unsuccessful attempt. Currently, gdb does that for allocating AUX buffers for Intel PT traces. More specifically, overwrite mode of AUX pmus that don't support hardware sg (some implementations of Intel PT, for instance) is limited to only one contiguous high order allocation for its buffer and there is no way of knowing its size without trying. This patch changes error path freeing to be synchronous as there won't be any contenders for the AUX pages at that point. Reported-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453216469-9509-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-23treewide: Remove old email addressPeter Zijlstra
There were still a number of references to my old Red Hat email address in the kernel source. Remove these while keeping the Red Hat copyright notices intact. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-03atomic: remove all traces of READ_ONCE_CTRL() and atomic*_read_ctrl()Linus Torvalds
This seems to be a mis-reading of how alpha memory ordering works, and is not backed up by the alpha architecture manual. The helper functions don't do anything special on any other architectures, and the arguments that support them being safe on other architectures also argue that they are safe on alpha. Basically, the "control dependency" is between a previous read and a subsequent write that is dependent on the value read. Even if the subsequent write is actually done speculatively, there is no way that such a speculative write could be made visible to other cpu's until it has been committed, which requires validating the speculation. Note that most weakely ordered architectures (very much including alpha) do not guarantee any ordering relationship between two loads that depend on each other on a control dependency: read A if (val == 1) read B because the conditional may be predicted, and the "read B" may be speculatively moved up to before reading the value A. So we require the user to insert a smp_rmb() between the two accesses to be correct: read A; if (A == 1) smp_rmb() read B Alpha is further special in that it can break that ordering even if the *address* of B depends on the read of A, because the cacheline that is read later may be stale unless you have a memory barrier in between the pointer read and the read of the value behind a pointer: read ptr read offset(ptr) whereas all other weakly ordered architectures guarantee that the data dependency (as opposed to just a control dependency) will order the two accesses. As a result, alpha needs a "smp_read_barrier_depends()" in between those two reads for them to be ordered. The coontrol dependency that "READ_ONCE_CTRL()" and "atomic_read_ctrl()" had was a control dependency to a subsequent *write*, however, and nobody can finalize such a subsequent write without having actually done the read. And were you to write such a value to a "stale" cacheline (the way the unordered reads came to be), that would seem to lose the write entirely. So the things that make alpha able to re-order reads even more aggressively than other weak architectures do not seem to be relevant for a subsequent write. Alpha memory ordering may be strange, but there's no real indication that it is *that* strange. Also, the alpha architecture reference manual very explicitly talks about the definition of "Dependence Constraints" in section 5.6.1.7, where a preceding read dominates a subsequent write. Such a dependence constraint admittedly does not impose a BEFORE (alpha architecture term for globally visible ordering), but it does guarantee that there can be no "causal loop". I don't see how you could avoid such a loop if another cpu could see the stored value and then impact the value of the first read. Put another way: the read and the write could not be seen as being out of order wrt other cpus. So I do not see how these "x_ctrl()" functions can currently be necessary. I may have to eat my words at some point, but in the absense of clear proof that alpha actually needs this, or indeed even an explanation of how alpha could _possibly_ need it, I do not believe these functions are called for. And if it turns out that alpha really _does_ need a barrier for this case, that barrier still should not be "smp_read_barrier_depends()". We'd have to make up some new speciality barrier just for alpha, along with the documentation for why it really is necessary. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul E McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-08-12perf/ring-buffer: Clarify the use of page::private for high-order AUX ↵Alexander Shishkin
allocations A question [1] was raised about the use of page::private in AUX buffer allocations, so let's add a clarification about its intended use. The private field and flag are used by perf's rb_alloc_aux() path to tell the pmu driver the size of each high-order allocation, so that the driver can program those appropriately into its hardware. This only matters for PMUs that don't support hardware scatter tables. Otherwise, every page in the buffer is just a page. This patch adds a comment about the private field to the AUX buffer allocation path. [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=143803696607968 Reported-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438063204-665-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-12perf: Fix double-free of the AUX bufferBen Hutchings
If rb->aux_refcount is decremented to zero before rb->refcount, __rb_free_aux() may be called twice resulting in a double free of rb->aux_pages. Fix this by adding a check to __rb_free_aux(). Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 57ffc5ca679f ("perf: Fix AUX buffer refcounting") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437953468.12842.17.camel@decadent.org.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-06perf: Fix AUX buffer refcountingPeter Zijlstra
Its currently possible to drop the last refcount to the aux buffer from NMI context, which results in the expected fireworks. The refcounting needs a bigger overhaul, but to cure the immediate problem, delay the freeing by using an irq_work. Reviewed-and-tested-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150618103249.GK19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-22Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: - Continued initialization/Kconfig updates: hide most Kconfig options from unsuspecting users. There's now a single high level configuration option: * * RCU Subsystem * Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration (RCU_EXPERT) [N/y/?] (NEW) Which if answered in the negative, leaves us with a single interactive configuration option: Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs (RCU_NOCB_CPU) [N/y/?] (NEW) All the rest of the RCU options are configured automatically. Later on we'll remove this single leftover configuration option as well. - Remove all uses of RCU-protected array indexes: replace the rcu_[access|dereference]_index_check() APIs with READ_ONCE() and rcu_lockdep_assert() - RCU CPU-hotplug cleanups - Updates to Tiny RCU: a race fix and further code shrinkage. - RCU torture-testing updates: fixes, speedups, cleanups and documentation updates. - Miscellaneous fixes - Documentation updates * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (60 commits) rcutorture: Allow repetition factors in Kconfig-fragment lists rcutorture: Display "make oldconfig" errors rcutorture: Update TREE_RCU-kconfig.txt rcutorture: Make rcutorture scripts force RCU_EXPERT rcutorture: Update configuration fragments for rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact rcutorture: TASKS_RCU set directly, so don't explicitly set it rcutorture: Test SRCU cleanup code path rcutorture: Replace barriers with smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire() locktorture: Change longdelay_us to longdelay_ms rcutorture: Allow negative values of nreaders to oversubscribe rcutorture: Exchange TREE03 and TREE08 NR_CPUS, speed up CPU hotplug rcutorture: Exchange TREE03 and TREE04 geometries locktorture: fix deadlock in 'rw_lock_irq' type rcu: Correctly handle non-empty Tiny RCU callback list with none ready rcutorture: Test both RCU-sched and RCU-bh for Tiny RCU rcu: Further shrink Tiny RCU by making empty functions static inlines rcu: Conditionally compile RCU's eqs warnings rcu: Remove prompt for RCU implementation rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF ...
2015-05-27smp: Make control dependencies work on Alpha, improve documentationPaul E. McKenney
The current formulation of control dependencies fails on DEC Alpha, which does not respect dependencies of any kind unless an explicit memory barrier is provided. This means that the current fomulation of control dependencies fails on Alpha. This commit therefore creates a READ_ONCE_CTRL() that has the same overhead on non-Alpha systems, but causes Alpha to produce the needed ordering. This commit also applies READ_ONCE_CTRL() to the one known use of control dependencies. Use of READ_ONCE_CTRL() also has the beneficial effect of adding a bit of self-documentation to control dependencies. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2015-05-27perf: Disallow sparse AUX allocations for non-SG PMUs in overwrite modeAlexander Shishkin
PMUs that don't support hardware scatter tables require big contiguous chunks of memory and a PMI to switch between them. However, in overwrite using a PMI for this purpose adds extra overhead that the users would like to avoid. Thus, in overwrite mode for such PMUs we can only allow one contiguous chunk for the entire requested buffer. This patch changes the behavior accordingly, so that if the buddy allocator fails to come up with a single high-order chunk for the entire requested buffer, the allocation will fail. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: hpa@zytor.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432308626-18845-2-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02perf: Add wakeup watermark control to the AUX areaAlexander Shishkin
When AUX area gets a certain amount of new data, we want to wake up userspace to collect it. This adds a new control to specify how much data will cause a wakeup. This is then passed down to pmu drivers via output handle's "wakeup" field, so that the driver can find the nearest point where it can generate an interrupt. We repurpose __reserved_2 in the event attribute for this, even though it was never checked to be zero before, aux_watermark will only matter for new AUX-aware code, so the old code should still be fine. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-10-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02perf: Support overwrite mode for the AUX areaAlexander Shishkin
This adds support for overwrite mode in the AUX area, which means "keep collecting data till you're stopped", turning AUX area into a circular buffer, where new data overwrites old data. It does not depend on data buffer's overwrite mode, so that it doesn't lose sideband data that is instrumental for processing AUX data. Overwrite mode is enabled at mapping AUX area read only. Even though aux_tail in the buffer's user page might be user writable, it will be ignored in this mode. A PERF_RECORD_AUX with PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE set is written to the perf data stream every time an event writes new data to the AUX area. The pmu driver might not be able to infer the exact beginning of the new data in each snapshot, some drivers will only provide the tail, which is aux_offset + aux_size in the AUX record. Consumer has to be able to tell the new data from the old one, for example, by means of time stamps if such are provided in the trace. Consumer is also responsible for disabling any events that might write to the AUX area (thus potentially racing with the consumer) before collecting the data. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-9-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02perf: Add API for PMUs to write to the AUX areaAlexander Shishkin
For pmus that wish to write data to ring buffer's AUX area, provide perf_aux_output_{begin,end}() calls to initiate/commit data writes, similarly to perf_output_{begin,end}. These also use the same output handle structure. Also, similarly to software counterparts, these will direct inherited events' output to parents' ring buffers. After the perf_aux_output_begin() returns successfully, handle->size is set to the maximum amount of data that can be written wrt aux_tail pointer, so that no data that the user hasn't seen will be overwritten, therefore this should always be called before hardware writing is enabled. On success, this will return the pointer to pmu driver's private structure allocated for this aux area by pmu::setup_aux. Same pointer can also be retrieved using perf_get_aux() while hardware writing is enabled. PMU driver should pass the actual amount of data written as a parameter to perf_aux_output_end(). All hardware writes should be completed and visible before this one is called. Additionally, perf_aux_output_skip() will adjust output handle and aux_head in case some part of the buffer has to be skipped over to maintain hardware's alignment constraints. Nested writers are forbidden and guards are in place to catch such attempts. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-8-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02perf: Add a capability for AUX_NO_SG pmus to do software double bufferingAlexander Shishkin
For pmus that don't support scatter-gather for AUX data in hardware, it might still make sense to implement software double buffering to avoid losing data while the user is reading data out. For this purpose, add a pmu capability that guarantees multiple high-order chunks for AUX buffer, so that the pmu driver can do switchover tricks. To make use of this feature, add PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_SW_DOUBLEBUF to your pmu's capability mask. This will make the ring buffer AUX allocation code ensure that the biggest high order allocation for the aux buffer pages is no bigger than half of the total requested buffer size, thus making sure that the buffer has at least two high order allocations. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-5-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02perf: Support high-order allocations for AUX spaceAlexander Shishkin
Some pmus (such as BTS or Intel PT without multiple-entry ToPA capability) don't support scatter-gather and will prefer larger contiguous areas for their output regions. This patch adds a new pmu capability to request higher order allocations. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-4-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02perf: Add AUX area to ring buffer for raw data streamsPeter Zijlstra
This patch introduces "AUX space" in the perf mmap buffer, intended for exporting high bandwidth data streams to userspace, such as instruction flow traces. AUX space is a ring buffer, defined by aux_{offset,size} fields in the user_page structure, and read/write pointers aux_{head,tail}, which abide by the same rules as data_* counterparts of the main perf buffer. In order to allocate/mmap AUX, userspace needs to set up aux_offset to such an offset that will be greater than data_offset+data_size and aux_size to be the desired buffer size. Both need to be page aligned. Then, same aux_offset and aux_size should be passed to mmap() call and if everything adds up, you should have an AUX buffer as a result. Pages that are mapped into this buffer also come out of user's mlock rlimit plus perf_event_mlock_kb allowance. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-3-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-04perf: Use POLLIN instead of POLL_IN for perf poll data in flagJiri Olsa
Currently we flag available data (via poll syscall) on perf fd with POLL_IN macro, which is normally used for SIGIO interface. We've been lucky, because POLLIN (0x1) is subset of POLL_IN (0x20001) and sys_poll (do_pollfd function) cut the extra bit out (0x20000). Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422467678-22341-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-11perf: Optimize ring-buffer write by depending on control dependenciesPeter Zijlstra
Remove a full barrier from the ring-buffer write path by relying on a control dependency to order a LOAD -> STORE scenario. Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8alv40z6ikk57jzbaobnxrjl@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-06perf: Update a stale commentPeter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9s5mze78gmlz19agt39i8rii@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-06perf: Optimize perf_output_begin() -- address calculationPeter Zijlstra
Rewrite the handle address calculation code to be clearer. Saves 8 bytes on x86_64-defconfig. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3trb2n2henb9m27tncef3ag7@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-06perf: Optimize perf_output_begin() -- lost_event casePeter Zijlstra
Avoid touching the lost_event and sample_data cachelines twince. Its not like we end up doing less work, but it might help to keep all accesses to these cachelines in one place. Due to code shuffle, this looses 4 bytes on x86_64-defconfig. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zfxnc58qxj0eawdoj31hhupv@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-06perf: Optimize perf_output_begin()Peter Zijlstra
There's no point in re-doing the memory-barrier when we fail the cmpxchg(). Also placing it after the space reservation loop makes it clearer it only separates the userpage->tail read from the data stores. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-c19u6egfldyx86tpyc3zgkw9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-06perf: Add unlikely() to the ring-buffer codePeter Zijlstra
Add unlikely() annotations to 'slow' paths: When having a sampling event but no output buffer; you have bigger issues -- also the bail is still faster than actually doing the work. When having a sampling event but a control page only buffer, you have bigger issues -- again the bail is still faster than actually doing work. Optimize for the case where you're not loosing events -- again, not doing the work is still faster but make sure that when you have to actually do work its as fast as possible. The typical watermark is 1/2 the buffer size, so most events will not take this path. Shrinks perf_output_begin() by 16 bytes on x86_64-defconfig. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wlg3jew3qnutm8opd0hyeuwn@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-06perf: Simplify the ring-buffer codePeter Zijlstra
By using CIRC_SPACE() we can obviate the need for perf_output_space(). Shrinks the size of perf_output_begin() by 17 bytes on x86_64-defconfig. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vtb0xb0llebmsdlfn1v5vtfj@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-29perf: Fix perf ring buffer memory orderingPeter Zijlstra
The PPC64 people noticed a missing memory barrier and crufty old comments in the perf ring buffer code. So update all the comments and add the missing barrier. When the architecture implements local_t using atomic_long_t there will be double barriers issued; but short of introducing more conditional barrier primitives this is the best we can do. Reported-by: Victor Kaplansky <victork@il.ibm.com> Tested-by: Victor Kaplansky <victork@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: michael@ellerman.id.au Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: anton@samba.org Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131025173749.GG19466@laptop.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-01perf: Fix vmalloc ring buffer pages handlingJiri Olsa
If we allocate perf ring buffer with the size of single (user) page, we will get memory corruption when releasing itin rb_free_work function (for CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC option). For single page sized ring buffer the page_order is -1 (because nr_pages is 0). This needs to be recognized in the rb_free_work function to release proper amount of pages. Adding data_page_nr function that returns number of allocated data pages. Customizing the rest of the code to use it. Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> Original-patch-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130319143509.GA1128@krava.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-21perf: Fix ring_buffer perf_output_space() boundary calculationStephane Eranian
This patch fixes a flaw in perf_output_space(). In case the size of the space needed is bigger than the actual buffer size, there may be situations where the function would return true (i.e., there is space) when it should not. head > offset due to rounding of the masking logic. The problem can be tested by activating BTS on Intel processors. A BTS record can be as big as 16 pages. The following command fails: $ perf record -m 4 -c 1 -e branches:u my_test_program You will get a buffer corruption with this. Perf report won't be able to parse the perf.data. The fix is to first check that the requested space is smaller than the buffer size. If so, then the masking logic will work fine. If not, then there is no chance the record can be saved and it will be gracefully handled by upper code layers. [ In v2, we also make the logic for the writable more explicit by renaming it to rb->overwrite because it tells whether or not the buffer can overwrite its tail (suggested by PeterZ). ] Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130318133327.GA3056@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-08-10perf: Add perf_output_skip function to skip bytes in sampleJiri Olsa
Introducing perf_output_skip function to be able to skip data within the perf ring buffer. When writing data into perf ring buffer we first reserve needed place in ring buffer and then copy the actual data. There's a possibility we won't be able to fill all the reserved size with data, so we need a way to skip the remaining bytes. This is going to be useful when storing the user stack dump, where we might end up with less data than we originally requested. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-10perf: Factor __output_copy to be usable with specific copy functionFrederic Weisbecker
Adding a generic way to use __output_copy function with specific copy function via DEFINE_PERF_OUTPUT_COPY macro. Using this to add new __output_copy_user function, that provides output copy from user pointers. For x86 the copy_from_user_nmi function is used and __copy_from_user_inatomic for the rest of the architectures. This new function will be used in user stack dump on sample, coming in next patches. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-01-08Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (53 commits) Kconfig: acpi: Fix typo in comment. misc latin1 to utf8 conversions devres: Fix a typo in devm_kfree comment btrfs: free-space-cache.c: remove extra semicolon. fat: Spelling s/obsolate/obsolete/g SCSI, pmcraid: Fix spelling error in a pmcraid_err() call tools/power turbostat: update fields in manpage mac80211: drop spelling fix types.h: fix comment spelling for 'architectures' typo fixes: aera -> area, exntension -> extension devices.txt: Fix typo of 'VMware'. sis900: Fix enum typo 'sis900_rx_bufer_status' decompress_bunzip2: remove invalid vi modeline treewide: Fix comment and string typo 'bufer' hyper-v: Update MAINTAINERS treewide: Fix typos in various parts of the kernel, and fix some comments. clockevents: drop unknown Kconfig symbol GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIGR gpio: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol 'CS5535_GPIO' leds: Kconfig: Fix typo 'D2NET_V2' sound: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol ARCH_CLPS7500 ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/Kconfig (some new kconfig additions, close to removed commented-out old ones)
2012-01-02misc latin1 to utf8 conversionsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-12-05perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-eventPeter Zijlstra
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>