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2009-11-15Merge branches 'perf/powerpc' and 'perf/bench' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Both 'perf bench' and the pending PowerPC changes are now ready for the next merge window. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf eventsFrederic Weisbecker
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of perf events instances. Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc.. The new layering is now made as follows: ptrace kgdb ftrace perf syscall \ | / / \ | / / / Core breakpoint API / / | / | / Breakpoints perf events | | Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling (Part of core breakpoint API) | | Hardware debug registers Reasons of this rewrite: - Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling, implying an easier arch integration - More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...) Impact: - New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters - Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per thread breakpoints references. Todo (in the order): - Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement perf_bpcounter_event()) - Support from perf tools Changes in v2: - Follow the perf "event " rename - The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events weren't released when a task ended) - Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in perf_event_attr. - Separate core and arch specific headers, drop asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h - Use new generic len/type for breakpoint - Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch Changes in v3: - Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers to the host. Changes in v4: - Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a module - Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit: TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be set when the guest used debug registers. (Waiting for a reliable optimization) Changes in v5: - Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch - Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up address registers. - Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild - Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c Changes in v6: - Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-11-04Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc6' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: tools/perf/Makefile Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, merge to upstream and merge in perf fixes so we can add a dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-03perf/core: Add a callback to perf eventsFrederic Weisbecker
A simple callback in a perf event can be used for multiple purposes. For example it is useful for triggered based events like hardware breakpoints that need a callback to dispatch a triggered breakpoint event. v2: Simplify a bit the callback attribution as suggested by Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-11-03perf/core: Provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance countersArjan van de Ven
There are reasons for kernel code to ask for, and use, performance counters. For example, in CPU freq governors this tends to be a good idea, but there are other examples possible as well of course. This patch adds the needed bits to do enable this functionality; they have been tested in an experimental cpufreq driver that I'm working on, and the changes are all that I needed to access counters properly. [fweisbec@gmail.com: added pid to perf_event_create_kernel_counter so that we can profile a particular task too TODO: Have a better error reporting, don't just return NULL in fail case.] v2: Remove the wrong comment about the fact perf_event_create_kernel_counter must be called from a kernel thread. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090925122556.2f8bd939@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-10-28perf_event: Add alignment-faults and emulation-faults software eventsAnton Blanchard
Add two more software events that are common to many cpus. Alignment faults: When a load or store is not aligned properly. Emulation faults: When an instruction is emulated in software. Both cause a very significant slowdown (100x or worse), so identifying and fixing them is very important. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-10-23perf events: Don't generate events for the idle task when exclude_idle is setSoeren Sandmann
Getting samples for the idle task is often not interesting, so don't generate them when exclude_idle is set for the event in question. Signed-off-by: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <ye8pr8fmlq7.fsf@camel16.daimi.au.dk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23perf events: Fix swevent hrtimer sampling by keeping track of remaining time ↵Soeren Sandmann
when enabling/disabling swevent hrtimers Make the hrtimer based events work for sysprof. Whenever a swevent is scheduled out, the hrtimer is canceled. When it is scheduled back in, the timer is restarted. This happens every scheduler tick, which means the timer never expired because it was getting repeatedly restarted over and over with the same period. To fix that, save the remaining time when disabling; when reenabling, use that saved time as the period instead of the user-specified sampling period. Also, move the starting and stopping of the hrtimers to helper functions instead of duplicating the code. Signed-off-by: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <ye8vdi7mluz.fsf@camel16.daimi.au.dk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-20Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Queue up dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-15tracing/profile: Add filter supportLi Zefan
- Add an ioctl to allocate a filter for a perf event. - Free the filter when the associated perf event is to be freed. - Do the filtering in perf_swevent_match(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4AD69546.8050401@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-14perf_event: Adjust frequency and unthrottle for non-group-leader eventsPaul Mackerras
The loop in perf_ctx_adjust_freq checks the frequency of sampling event counters, and adjusts the event interval and unthrottles the event if required, and resets the interrupt count for the event. However, at present it only looks at group leaders. This means that a sampling event that is not a group leader will eventually get throttled, once its interrupt count reaches sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate/HZ --- and that is guaranteed to happen, if the event is active for long enough, since the interrupt count never gets reset. Once it is throttled it never gets unthrottled, so it basically just stops working at that point. This fixes it by making perf_ctx_adjust_freq use ctx->event_list rather than ctx->group_list. The existing spin_lock/spin_unlock around the loop makes it unnecessary to put rcu_read_lock/ rcu_read_unlock around the list_for_each_entry_rcu(). Reported-by: Mark W. Krentel <krentel@cs.rice.edu> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <19157.26731.855609.165622@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-06perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backingPeter Zijlstra
Some architectures such as Sparc, ARM and MIPS (basically everything with flush_dcache_page()) need to deal with dcache aliases by carefully placing pages in both kernel and user maps. These architectures typically have to use vmalloc_user() for this. However, on other architectures, vmalloc() is not needed and has the downsides of being more restricted and slower than regular allocations. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1254830228.21044.272.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-01perf_event: Clean up perf_event_init_task()Xiao Guangrong
While at it: we can traverse ctx->group_list to get all group leader, it should be safe since we hold ctx->mutex. Changlog v1->v2: - remove WARN_ON_ONCE() according to Peter Zijlstra's suggestion Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4ABC5AF9.6060808@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-01perf_event: Fix event group handling in __perf_event_sched_*()Xiao Guangrong
Paul Mackerras says: "Actually, looking at this more closely, it has to be a group leader anyway since it's at the top level of ctx->group_list. In fact I see four places where we do: list_for_each_entry(event, &ctx->group_list, group_entry) { if (event == event->group_leader) ... or the equivalent, three of which appear to have been introduced by afedadf2 ("perf_counter: Optimize sched in/out of counters") back in May by Peter Z. As far as I can see the if () is superfluous in each case (a singleton event will be a group of 1 and will have its group_leader pointing to itself)." [ See: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125361238901442&w=2 ] And Peter Zijlstra points out this is a bugfix: "The intent was to call event_sched_{in,out}() for single event groups because that's cheaper than group_sched_{in,out}(), however.. - as you noticed, I got the condition wrong, it should have read: list_empty(&event->sibling_list) - it failed to call group_can_go_on() which deals with ->exclusive. - it also doesn't call hw_perf_group_sched_in() which might break power." [ See: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125369523318583&w=2 ] Changelog v1->v2: - Fix the title name according to Peter Zijlstra's suggestion - Remove the comments and WARN_ON_ONCE() as Peter Zijlstra's suggestion Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4ABC5A55.7000208@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-27const: mark struct vm_struct_operationsAlexey Dobriyan
* mark struct vm_area_struct::vm_ops as const * mark vm_ops in AGP code But leave TTM code alone, something is fishy there with global vm_ops being used. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-21perf: Tidy up after the big renameIngo Molnar
- provide compatibility Kconfig entry for existing PERF_COUNTERS .config's - provide courtesy copy of old perf_counter.h, for user-space projects - small indentation fixups - fix up MAINTAINERS - fix small x86 printout fallout - fix up small PowerPC comment fallout (use 'counter' as in register) Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance EventsIngo Molnar
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>