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2010-02-28Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (172 commits) perf_event, amd: Fix spinlock initialization perf_event: Fix preempt warning in perf_clock() perf tools: Flush maps on COMM events perf_events, x86: Split PMU definitions into separate files perf annotate: Handle samples not at objdump output addr boundaries perf_events, x86: Remove superflous MSR writes perf_events: Simplify code by removing cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() perf_events, x86: AMD event scheduling perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacks perf_events: Report the MMAP pgoff value in bytes perf annotate: Defer allocating sym_priv->hist array perf symbols: Improve debugging information about symtab origins perf top: Use a macro instead of a constant variable perf symbols: Check the right return variable perf/scripts: Tag syscall_name helper as not yet available perf/scripts: Add perf-trace-python Documentation perf/scripts: Remove unnecessary PyTuple resizes perf/scripts: Add syscall tracing scripts perf/scripts: Add Python scripting engine perf/scripts: Remove check-perf-trace from listed scripts ... Fix trivial conflict in tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
2010-02-26perf_event: Fix preempt warning in perf_clock()Peter Zijlstra
A recent commit introduced a preemption warning for perf_clock(), use raw_smp_processor_id() to avoid this, it really doesn't matter which cpu we use here. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1267198583.22519.684.camel@laptop> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-26perf_events: Simplify code by removing cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in()Peter Zijlstra
Since the cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() is always smp_processor_id(), simplify the code a little by removing this argument and using the current cpu where needed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1265890918.5396.3.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-26perf_events, x86: AMD event schedulingStephane Eranian
This patch adds correct AMD NorthBridge event scheduling. NB events are events measuring L3 cache, Hypertransport traffic. They are identified by an event code >= 0xe0. They measure events on the Northbride which is shared by all cores on a package. NB events are counted on a shared set of counters. When a NB event is programmed in a counter, the data actually comes from a shared counter. Thus, access to those counters needs to be synchronized. We implement the synchronization such that no two cores can be measuring NB events using the same counters. Thus, we maintain a per-NB allocation table. The available slot is propagated using the event_constraint structure. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4b703957.0702d00a.6bf2.7b7d@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-26perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacksStephane Eranian
In certain situations, the kernel may need to stop and start the same event rapidly. The current PMU callbacks do not distinguish between stop and release (i.e., stop + free the resource). Thus, a counter may be released, then it will be immediately re-acquired. Event scheduling will again take place with no guarantee to assign the same counter. On some processors, this may event yield to failure to assign the event back due to competion between cores. This patch is adding a new pair of callback to stop and restart a counter without actually release the underlying counter resource. On stop, the counter is stopped, its values saved and that's it. On start, the value is reloaded and counter is restarted (on x86, actual restart is delayed until perf_enable()). Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ added fallback to ->enable/->disable for all other PMUs fixed x86_pmu_start() to call x86_pmu.enable() merged __x86_pmu_disable into x86_pmu_stop() ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4b703875.0a04d00a.7896.ffffb824@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-26perf_events: Report the MMAP pgoff value in bytesPeter Zijlstra
DaveM reported that currently perf interprets the pgoff value reported by the MMAP events as a byte range, but the kernel reports it as a page offset. Since its broken (and unusable) anyway, change the kernel behaviour (ABI) to report bytes indeed, avoiding the need for userspace to deal with PAGE_SIZE things. Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-14perf_events: Fix FORK eventsPeter Zijlstra
Commit 22e19085 ("Honour event state for aux stream data") introduced a bug where we would drop FORK events. The thing is that we deliver FORK events to the child process' event, which at that time will be PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE because the child won't be scheduled in (we're in the middle of fork). Solve this twice, change the event state filter to exclude only disabled (STATE_OFF) or worse, and deliver FORK events to the current (parent). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> LKML-Reference: <1266142324.5273.411.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-04perf_events: Optimize perf_event_task_tick()Peter Zijlstra
Pretty much all of the calls do perf_disable/perf_enable cycles, pull that out to cut back on hardware programming. Signed-off-by: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-04perf: Make bp_len type to u64 generic across the archMahesh Salgaonkar
Change 'bp_len' type to __u64 to make it work across archs as the s390 architecture watch point length can be upto 2^64. reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/25/212 This is an ABI change that is not backward compatible with the previous hardware breakpoint info layout integrated in this development cycle, a rebuilt of perf tools is necessary for versions based on 2.6.33-rc1 - 2.6.33-rc6 to work with a kernel based on this patch. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100130045518.GA20776@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-01-29Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: We want to queue up a dependent patch. Also update to later -rc's. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-29perf_events: Fix sample_period transfer on inheritPeter Zijlstra
One problem with frequency driven counters is that we cannot predict the rate at which they trigger, therefore we have to start them at period=1, this causes a ramp up effect. However, if we fail to propagate the stable state on fork each new child will have to ramp up again. This can lead to significant artifacts in sample data. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: eranian@google.com 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> LKML-Reference: <1264752266.4283.2121.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-27perf: Reimplement frequency driven samplingPeter Zijlstra
There was a bug in the old period code that caused intel_pmu_enable_all() or native_write_msr_safe() to show up quite high in the profiles. In staring at that code it made my head hurt, so I rewrote it in a hopefully simpler fashion. Its now fully symetric between tick and overflow driven adjustments and uses less data to boot. The only complication is that it basically wants to do a u128 division. The code approximates that in a rather simple truncate until it fits fashion, taking care to balance the terms while truncating. This version does not generate that sampling artefact. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21perf: Honour event state for aux stream dataPeter Zijlstra
Anton reported that perf record kept receiving events even after calling ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE). It turns out that FORK,COMM and MMAP events didn't respect the disabled state and kept flowing in. Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1263459187.4244.265.camel@laptop> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-17perf: Better order flexible and pinned schedulingFrederic Weisbecker
When a task gets scheduled in. We don't touch the cpu bound events so the priority order becomes: cpu pinned, cpu flexible, task pinned, task flexible. So schedule out cpu flexibles when a new task context gets in and correctly order the groups to schedule in: task pinned, cpu flexible, task flexible. Cpu pinned groups don't need to be touched at this time. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-17perf: Don't schedule out/in pinned events on task tickFrederic Weisbecker
We don't need to schedule in/out pinned events on task tick, now that pinned and flexible groups can be scheduled separately. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-17perf: Allow pinned and flexible groups to be scheduled separatelyFrederic Weisbecker
Tune the scheduling helpers so that we can choose to schedule either pinned and/or flexible groups from a context. And while at it, refactor a bit the naming of these helpers to make these more consistent and flexible. There is no (intended) change in scheduling behaviour in this patch. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-17perf: Make __perf_event_sched_out staticFrederic Weisbecker
__perf_event_sched_out doesn't need to be globally available, make it static. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-16perf: Export software-only event group characteristic as a flagFrederic Weisbecker
Before scheduling an event group, we first check if a group can go on. We first check if the group is made of software only events first, in which case it is enough to know if the group can be scheduled in. For that purpose, we iterate through the whole group, which is wasteful as we could do this check when we add/delete an event to a group. So we create a group_flags field in perf event that can host characteristics from a group of events, starting with a first PERF_GROUP_SOFTWARE flag that reduces the check on the fast path. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-16perf: Round robin flexible groups of events using list_rotate_left()Frederic Weisbecker
This is more proper that doing it through a list_for_each_entry() that breaks after the first entry. v2: Don't rotate pinned groups as its not needed to time share them. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-16perf/core: Split context's event group list into pinned and non-pinned listsFrederic Weisbecker
Split-up struct perf_event_context::group_list into pinned_groups and flexible_groups (non-pinned). This first appears to be useless as it duplicates various loops around the group list handlings. But it scales better in the fast-path in perf_sched_in(). We don't anymore iterate twice through the entire list to separate pinned and non-pinned scheduling. Instead we interate through two distinct lists. The another desired effect is that it makes easier to define distinct scheduling rules on both. Changes in v2: - Respectively rename pinned_grp_list and volatile_grp_list into pinned_groups and flexible_groups as per Ingo suggestion. - Various cleanups Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
2010-01-13Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: queue up dependent patch, update to -rc4 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-31Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf: Fix NULL deref in inheritance code perf: Pass appropriate frame pointer to dump_trace()
2009-12-31perf: Fix NULL deref in inheritance codePeter Zijlstra
Liming found a NULL deref when a task has a perf context but no counters when it forks. This can occur in two cases, a race during construction where the fork hits after installing the context but before the first counter gets inserted, or more reproducably, a fork after the last counter is closed (which leaves the context around). Reported-by: Wang Liming <liming.wang@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> CC: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1262185684.7135.222.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-28perf events: Remove CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILELi Zefan
Quoted from Ingo: | This reminds me - i think we should eliminate CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE - | it's an unnecessary Kconfig complication. If both PERF_EVENTS and | EVENT_TRACING is enabled we should expose generic tracepoints. | | Nor is it limited to event 'profiling', so it has become a misnomer as | well. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4B2F1557.2050705@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-28perf events: Remove arg from perf sched hooksPeter Zijlstra
Since we only ever schedule the local cpu, there is no need to pass the cpu number to the perf sched hooks. This micro-optimizes things a bit. Signed-off-by: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-22anonfd: Allow making anon files read-onlyRoland Dreier
It seems a couple places such as arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c and drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c could use anon_inode_getfile() instead of a private pseudo-fs + alloc_file(), if only there were a way to get a read-only file. So provide this by having anon_inode_getfile() create a read-only file if we pass O_RDONLY in flags. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-19Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf session: Make events_stats u64 to avoid overflow on 32-bit arches hw-breakpoints: Fix hardware breakpoints -> perf events dependency perf events: Dont report side-band events on each cpu for per-task-per-cpu events perf events, x86/stacktrace: Fix performance/softlockup by providing a special frame pointer-only stack walker perf events, x86/stacktrace: Make stack walking optional perf events: Remove unused perf_counter.h header file perf probe: Check new event name kprobe-tracer: Check new event/group name perf probe: Check whether debugfs path is correct perf probe: Fix libdwarf include path for Debian
2009-12-17perf events: Dont report side-band events on each cpu for per-task-per-cpu ↵Peter Zijlstra
events Acme noticed that his FORK/MMAP numbers were inflated by about the same factor as his cpu-count. This led to the discovery of a few more sites that need to respect the event->cpu filter. Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20091217121830.215333434@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-17cpumask: use cpu_online in kernel/perf_event.cRusty Russell
Also, we want to check against nr_cpu_ids, not num_possible_cpus(). The latter works, but the correct bounds check is < nr_cpu_ids. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-12-16Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (52 commits) perf record: Use per-task-per-cpu events for inherited events perf record: Properly synchronize child creation perf events: Allow per-task-per-cpu counters perf diff: Percent calcs should use double values perf diff: Change the default sort order to "dso,symbol" perf diff: Use perf_session__fprintf_hists just like 'perf record' perf report: Fix cut'n'paste error recently introduced perf session: Move perf report specific hits out of perf_session__fprintf_hists perf tools: Move hist entries printing routines from perf report perf report: Generalize perf_session__fprintf_hists() perf symbols: Move symbol filtering to event__preprocess_sample() perf symbols: Adopt the strlists for dso, comm perf symbols: Make symbol_conf global perf probe: Fix to show which probe point is not found perf probe: Check symbols in symtab/kallsyms perf probe: Check build-id of vmlinux perf probe: Reject second attempt of adding same-name event perf probe: Support event name for --add option perf probe: Add glob matching support on --del perf probe: Use strlist__for_each macros in probe-event.c ...
2009-12-16perf events: Allow per-task-per-cpu countersPeter Zijlstra
In order to allow for per-task-per-cpu counters, useful for scalability when profiling task hierarchies, we allow installing events with event->cpu != -1 in task contexts. __perf_event_sched_in() already skips events where ->cpu mis-matches the current cpu, fix up __perf_install_in_context() and __perf_event_enable() to also respect this filter. This does lead to vary hard to interpret enabled/running times for such counters, but I don't see a simple solution for that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20091216165904.831451147@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-15perf_events: Fix perf_event_attr layoutPeter Zijlstra
The miss-alignment of bp_addr created a 32bit hole, causing different structure packings on 32 and 64 bit machines. Fix that by moving __reserve_2 into that hole. Further, remove the useless struct and redundant __bp_reserve muck. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1260902591.8023.781.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-15perf_event: Fix incorrect range check on cpu numberPaul Mackerras
It is quite legitimate for CPUs to be numbered sparsely, meaning that it possible for an online CPU to have a number which is greater than the total count of possible CPUs. Currently find_get_context() has a sanity check on the cpu number where it checks it against num_possible_cpus(). This test can fail for a legitimate cpu number if the cpu_possible_mask is sparsely populated. This fixes the problem by checking the CPU number against nr_cpumask_bits instead, since that is the appropriate check to ensure that the cpu number is same to pass to cpu_isset() subsequently. Reported-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Tested-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <20091215084032.GA18661@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14perf_event: Convert to raw_spinlockThomas Gleixner
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-11Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (57 commits) x86, perf events: Check if we have APIC enabled perf_event: Fix variable initialization in other codepaths perf kmem: Fix unused argument build warning perf symbols: perf_header__read_build_ids() offset'n'size should be u64 perf symbols: dsos__read_build_ids() should read both user and kernel buildids perf tools: Align long options which have no short forms perf kmem: Show usage if no option is specified sched: Mark sched_clock() as notrace perf sched: Add max delay time snapshot perf tools: Correct size given to memset perf_event: Fix perf_swevent_hrtimer() variable initialization perf sched: Fix for getting task's execution time tracing/kprobes: Fix field creation's bad error handling perf_event: Cleanup for cpu_clock_perf_event_update() perf_event: Allocate children's perf_event_ctxp at the right time perf_event: Clean up __perf_event_init_context() hw-breakpoints: Modify breakpoints without unregistering them perf probe: Update perf-probe document perf probe: Support --del option trace-kprobe: Support delete probe syntax ...
2009-12-10perf_event: Fix variable initialization in other codepathsXiao Guangrong
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4B20BAA6.7010609@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-10perf_event: Fix perf_swevent_hrtimer() variable initializationXiao Guangrong
fix: [<c0477471>] ? printk+0x1d/0x24 [<c01c98f9>] ? perf_prepare_sample+0x269/0x280 [<c0149231>] warn_slowpath_common+0x71/0xd0 [<c01c98f9>] ? perf_prepare_sample+0x269/0x280 [<c01492aa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<c01c98f9>] perf_prepare_sample+0x269/0x280 [<c016e9f3>] ? cpu_clock+0x53/0x90 [<c01cc368>] __perf_event_overflow+0x2a8/0x300 [<c01ccc3b>] perf_event_overflow+0x1b/0x30 [<c01ccccf>] perf_swevent_hrtimer+0x7f/0x120 This is because 'data.raw' variable not initialize. Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4B208E93.1010801@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09perf_event: Cleanup for cpu_clock_perf_event_update()Xiao Guangrong
Using atomic64_xchg() instead of atomic64_read() and atomic64_set(). Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4B1F19DC.90204@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09perf_event: Allocate children's perf_event_ctxp at the right timeXiao Guangrong
In current code, children task will allocate memory for 'child->perf_event_ctxp' if the parent is counted, we can do it only if the parent allowed children inherit it. It can save memory and reduce overhead. Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4B1F19A8.5040805@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09perf_event: Clean up __perf_event_init_context()Xiao Guangrong
Clean up the code a bit: - define 'perf_cpu_context' variable with 'static' - use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() and memset() Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4B1F194D.7080306@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09hw-breakpoints: Modify breakpoints without unregistering themFrederic Weisbecker
Currently, when ptrace needs to modify a breakpoint, like disabling it, changing its address, type or len, it calls modify_user_hw_breakpoint(). This latter will perform the heavy and racy task of unregistering the old breakpoint and registering a new one. This is racy as someone else might steal the reserved breakpoint slot under us, which is undesired as the breakpoint is only supposed to be modified, sometimes in the middle of a debugging workflow. We don't want our slot to be stolen in the middle. So instead of unregistering/registering the breakpoint, just disable it while we modify its breakpoint fields and re-enable it after if necessary. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1260347148-5519-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-07Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linusJiri Kosina
Conflicts: kernel/irq/chip.c
2009-12-06hw-breakpoints: Use overflow handler instead of the event callbackFrederic Weisbecker
struct perf_event::event callback was called when a breakpoint triggers. But this is a rather opaque callback, pretty tied-only to the breakpoint API and not really integrated into perf as it triggers even when we don't overflow. We prefer to use overflow_handler() as it fits into the perf events rules, being called only when we overflow. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-12-04tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the placeAndré Goddard Rosa
That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping" , "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature" , "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore" , "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others. Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-12-02perf: Don't free perf_mmap_data until work has been doneKristian Høgsberg
In the CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC case, perf_mmap_data_free() only schedules the cleanup of the perf_mmap_data struct. In that case we have to wait until the work has been done before we free data. Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1259697901-1747-1-git-send-email-krh@bitplanet.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01perf_event: Initialize data.period in perf_swevent_hrtimer()Xiao Guangrong
In current code in perf_swevent_hrtimer(), data.period is not initialized, The result is obvious wrong: # ./perf record -f -e cpu-clock make # ./perf report # Samples: 1740 # # Overhead Command ...... # ........ ........ .......................................... # 1025422183050275328.00% sh libc-2.9.90.so ... 1025422183050275328.00% perl libperl.so ... 1025422168240043264.00% perl [kernel] ... 1025422030011210752.00% perl [kernel] ... Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4B14E220.2050107@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26perf_events: Fix read() bogus counts when in error stateStephane Eranian
When a pinned group cannot be scheduled it goes into error state. Normally a group cannot go out of error state without being explicitly re-enabled or disabled. There was a bug in per-thread mode, whereby upon termination of the thread, the group would transition from error to off leading to bogus counts and timing information returned by read(). Fix it by clearing the error state. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net LKML-Reference: <4b0eb9ce.0508d00a.573b.ffffeab6@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26hw-breakpoints: Fix unused function in off-caseFrederic Weisbecker
bp_perf_event_destroy() is unused in its off-case version, let's remove it to fix the following warning reported by Stephen Rothwell in linux-next: kernel/perf_event.c:4306: warning: 'bp_perf_event_destroy' defined but not used Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1259180453-5813-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26hw-breakpoints: Improve in-kernel event creation error granularityFrederic Weisbecker
In fail case, perf_event_create_kernel_counter() returns NULL instead of an error, which doesn't help us to inform the user about the origin of the problem from the outer most callers. Often we can just return -EINVAL, which doesn't help anyone when it's eventually about a memory allocation failure. Then, this patch makes perf_event_create_kernel_counter() always return a detailed error code. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-24perf_events: Fix bad software/trace event recursion countingFrederic Weisbecker
Commit 4ed7c92d68a5387ba5f7030dc76eab03558e27f5 (perf_events: Undo some recursion damage) has introduced a bad reference counting of the recursion context. putting the context behaves like getting it, dropping every software/trace events after the first one in a context. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1259091502-5171-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>