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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2009-06-30 16:07:19 +1000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-30 12:00:16 +0200
commit57e7986ed142417498155ebcd5eaf617ac37136d (patch)
tree81ce9acd79ee7e6383dfd5cdadc4e016a012990e
parent051ae7f7344f453616b6b10332d4d8e1d40ed823 (diff)
perf_counter: Provide a way to enable counters on exec
This provides a way to mark a counter to be enabled on the next exec. This is useful for measuring the total activity of a program without including overhead from the process that launches it. This also changes the perf stat command to use this new facility. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <19017.43927.838745.689203@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_counter.h3
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_counter.c50
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-stat.c6
3 files changed, 55 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index 3078e23c91e..5e970c7d3fd 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -179,8 +179,9 @@ struct perf_counter_attr {
comm : 1, /* include comm data */
freq : 1, /* use freq, not period */
inherit_stat : 1, /* per task counts */
+ enable_on_exec : 1, /* next exec enables */
- __reserved_1 : 52;
+ __reserved_1 : 51;
__u32 wakeup_events; /* wakeup every n events */
__u32 __reserved_2;
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index 66ab1e9d129..d55a50da234 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1429,6 +1429,53 @@ void perf_counter_task_tick(struct task_struct *curr, int cpu)
}
/*
+ * Enable all of a task's counters that have been marked enable-on-exec.
+ * This expects task == current.
+ */
+static void perf_counter_enable_on_exec(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+ struct perf_counter_context *ctx;
+ struct perf_counter *counter;
+ unsigned long flags;
+ int enabled = 0;
+
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ ctx = task->perf_counter_ctxp;
+ if (!ctx || !ctx->nr_counters)
+ goto out;
+
+ __perf_counter_task_sched_out(ctx);
+
+ spin_lock(&ctx->lock);
+
+ list_for_each_entry(counter, &ctx->counter_list, list_entry) {
+ if (!counter->attr.enable_on_exec)
+ continue;
+ counter->attr.enable_on_exec = 0;
+ if (counter->state >= PERF_COUNTER_STATE_INACTIVE)
+ continue;
+ counter->state = PERF_COUNTER_STATE_INACTIVE;
+ counter->tstamp_enabled =
+ ctx->time - counter->total_time_enabled;
+ enabled = 1;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Unclone this context if we enabled any counter.
+ */
+ if (enabled && ctx->parent_ctx) {
+ put_ctx(ctx->parent_ctx);
+ ctx->parent_ctx = NULL;
+ }
+
+ spin_unlock(&ctx->lock);
+
+ perf_counter_task_sched_in(task, smp_processor_id());
+ out:
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+
+/*
* Cross CPU call to read the hardware counter
*/
static void __perf_counter_read(void *info)
@@ -2949,6 +2996,9 @@ void perf_counter_comm(struct task_struct *task)
{
struct perf_comm_event comm_event;
+ if (task->perf_counter_ctxp)
+ perf_counter_enable_on_exec(task);
+
if (!atomic_read(&nr_comm_counters))
return;
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 201ef2367dc..2e03524a1de 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -116,8 +116,9 @@ static void create_perf_stat_counter(int counter, int pid)
fd[cpu][counter], strerror(errno));
}
} else {
- attr->inherit = inherit;
- attr->disabled = 1;
+ attr->inherit = inherit;
+ attr->disabled = 1;
+ attr->enable_on_exec = 1;
fd[0][counter] = sys_perf_counter_open(attr, pid, -1, -1, 0);
if (fd[0][counter] < 0 && verbose)
@@ -262,7 +263,6 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
* Enable counters and exec the command:
*/
t0 = rdclock();
- prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_COUNTERS_ENABLE);
close(go_pipe[1]);
wait(&status);