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2009-06-03perf_counter: Fix throttling lock-upIngo Molnar
Throttling logic is broken and we can lock up with too small hw sampling intervals. Make the throttling code more robust: disable counters even if we already disabled them. ( Also clean up whitespace damage i noticed while reading various pieces of code related to throttling. ) Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-03perf_counter: Fix race in counter initializationPeter Zijlstra
We need the PID namespace and counter ID available when the counter overflows and we need to generate a sample event. [ Impact: fix kernel crash with high-frequency sampling ] Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> [ fixed a further crash and cleaned up the initialization a bit ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-03perf_counter: Add a comm hook for pure fork()sPeter Zijlstra
I noticed missing COMM events and found that we missed reporting them for pure forks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-02perf_counter: Rename perf_counter_hw_event => perf_counter_attrPeter Zijlstra
The structure isn't hw only and when I read event, I think about those things that fall out the other end. Rename the thing. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-02perf_counter: Add ioctl for changing the sample period/frequencyPeter Zijlstra
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-02perf_counter: Change data head from u32 to u64Peter Zijlstra
Since some people worried that 4G might not be a large enough as an mmap data window, extend it to 64 bit for capable platforms. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-02perf_counter: Rename various fieldsPeter Zijlstra
A few renames: s/irq_period/sample_period/ s/irq_freq/sample_freq/ s/PERF_RECORD_/PERF_SAMPLE_/ s/record_type/sample_type/ And change both the new sample_type and read_format to u64. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-02perf_counter: Add unique counter idPeter Zijlstra
Stephan raised the issue that we currently cannot distinguish between similar counters within a group (PERF_RECORD_GROUP uses the config value as identifier). Therefore, generate a new ID for each counter using a global u64 sequence counter. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-02perf_counter: Use PID namespaces properlyPeter Zijlstra
Stop using task_struct::pid and start using PID namespaces. PIDs will be reported in the PID namespace of the monitoring task at the moment of counter creation. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-02perf_counter: Remove unused prev_state fieldPaul Mackerras
This removes the prev_state field of struct perf_counter since it is now unused. It was only used by the cpu migration counter, which doesn't use it any more. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18979.35052.915728.626374@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-02perf_counter: Fix cpu migration counterPaul Mackerras
This fixes the cpu migration software counter to count correctly even when contexts get swapped from one task to another. Previously the cpu migration counts reported by perf stat were bogus, ranging from negative to several thousand for a single "lat_ctx 2 8 32" run. With this patch the cpu migration count reported for "lat_ctx 2 8 32" is almost always between 35 and 44. This fixes the problem by adding a call into the perf_counter code from set_task_cpu when tasks are migrated. This enables us to use the generic swcounter code (with some modifications) for the cpu migration counter. This modifies the swcounter code to allow a NULL regs pointer to be passed in to perf_swcounter_ctx_event() etc. The cpu migration counter does this because there isn't necessarily a pt_regs struct for the task available. In this case, the counter will not have interrupt capability - but the migration counter didn't have interrupt capability before, so this is no loss. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18979.35006.819769.416327@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-02perf_counter: Initialize per-cpu context earlier on cpu upPaul Mackerras
This arranges for perf_counter's notifier for cpu hotplug operations to be called earlier than the migration notifier in sched.c by increasing its priority to 20, compared to the 10 for the migration notifier. The reason for doing this is that a subsequent commit to convert the cpu migration counter to use the generic swcounter infrastructure will add a call into the perf_counter subsystem when tasks get migrated. Therefore the perf_counter subsystem needs a chance to initialize its per-cpu data for the new cpu before it can get called from the migration code. This also adds a comment to the migration notifier noting that its priority needs to be lower than that of the perf_counter notifier. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <18981.1900.792795.836858@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-01perf_counter: Tidy up style detailsIngo Molnar
- whitespace fixlets - make local variable definitions more consistent [ Impact: cleanup ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-01perf_counter: Allow software counters to count while task is not runningPaul Mackerras
This changes perf_swcounter_match() so that per-task software counters can count events that occur while their associated task is not running. This will allow us to use the generic software counter code for counting task migrations, which can occur while the task is not scheduled in. To do this, we have to distinguish between the situations where the counter is inactive because its task has been scheduled out, and those where the counter is inactive because it is part of a group that was not able to go on the PMU. In the former case we want the counter to count, but not in the latter case. If the context is active, we have the latter case. If the context is inactive then we need to know whether the counter was counting when the context was last active, which we can determine by comparing its ->tstamp_stopped timestamp with the context's timestamp. This also folds three checks in perf_swcounter_match, checking perf_event_raw(), perf_event_type() and perf_event_id() individually, into a single 64-bit comparison on counter->hw_event.config, as an optimization. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18979.34810.259718.955621@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-01perf_counter: Provide functions for locking and pinning the context for a taskPaul Mackerras
This abstracts out the code for locking the context associated with a task. Because the context might get transferred from one task to another concurrently, we have to check after locking the context that it is still the right context for the task and retry if not. This was open-coded in find_get_context() and perf_counter_init_task(). This adds a further function for pinning the context for a task, i.e. marking it so it can't be transferred to another task. This adds a 'pin_count' field to struct perf_counter_context to indicate that a context is pinned, instead of the previous method of setting the parent_gen count to all 1s. Pinning the context with a pin_count is easier to undo and doesn't require saving the parent_gen value. This also adds a perf_unpin_context() to undo the effect of perf_pin_task_context() and changes perf_counter_init_task to use it. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18979.34748.755674.596386@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-01Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: merge almost-rc8 into perfcounters/core, which was -rc6 based - to pick up the latest upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29perf_counter: Ammend cleanup in fork() failPeter Zijlstra
When fork() fails we cannot use perf_counter_exit_task() since that assumes to operate on current. Write a new helper that cleans up unused/clean contexts. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29perf_counter: Clean up task_ctx vs interruptsPeter Zijlstra
Remove the local_irq_save() etc.. in routines that are smp function calls, or have IRQs disabled by other means. Then change the COMM, MMAP, and swcounter context iteration to current->perf_counter_ctxp and RCU, since it really doesn't matter which context they iterate, they're all folded. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29perf_counter: Fix COMM and MMAP events for cpu wide countersPeter Zijlstra
Commit a63eaf34ae6 ("perf_counter: Dynamically allocate tasks' perf_counter_context struct") broke COMM and MMAP notification for cpu wide counters by dropping out early if there was no task context, thereby also not iterating the cpu context. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29perf_counter: Robustify counter-free logicIngo Molnar
This fixes a nasty crash and highlights a bug that we were freeing failed-fork() counters incorrectly. (the fix for that will come separately) [ Impact: fix crashes/lockups with inherited counters ] Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29perf_counter: Fix cpuctx->task_ctx racesIngo Molnar
Peter noticed that we are sometimes reading cpuctx->task_ctx with interrupts enabled. Noticed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29perf_counter: Don't swap contexts containing locked mutexPaul Mackerras
Peter Zijlstra pointed out that under some circumstances, we can take the mutex in a context or a counter and then swap that context or counter to another task, potentially leading to lock order inversions or the mutexes not protecting what they are supposed to protect. This fixes the problem by making sure that we never take a mutex in a context or counter which could get swapped to another task. Most of the cases where we take a mutex is on a top-level counter or context, i.e. a counter which has an fd associated with it or a context that contains such a counter. This adds WARN_ON_ONCE statements to verify that. The two cases where we need to take the mutex on a context that is a clone of another are in perf_counter_exit_task and perf_counter_init_task. The perf_counter_exit_task case is solved by uncloning the context before starting to remove the counters from it. The perf_counter_init_task is a little trickier; we temporarily disable context swapping for the parent (forking) task by setting its ctx->parent_gen to the all-1s value after locking the context, if it is a cloned context, and restore the ctx->parent_gen value at the end if the context didn't get uncloned in the meantime. This also moves the increment of the context generation count to be within the same critical section, protected by the context mutex, that adds the new counter to the context. That way, taking the mutex is sufficient to ensure that both the counter list and the generation count are stable. [ Impact: fix hangs, races with inherited and PID counters ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <18975.31580.520676.619896@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-28perf_counter: Fix race in attaching counters to tasks and exitingPaul Mackerras
Commit 564c2b21 ("perf_counter: Optimize context switch between identical inherited contexts") introduced a race where it is possible that a counter being attached to a task could get attached to the wrong task, if the task is one that has inherited its context from another task via fork. This happens because the optimized context switch could switch the context to another task after find_get_context has read task->perf_counter_ctxp. In fact, it's possible that the context could then get freed, if the other task then exits. This fixes the problem by protecting both the context switch and the critical code in find_get_context with spinlocks. The context switch locks the cxt->lock of both the outgoing and incoming contexts before swapping them. That means that once code such as find_get_context has obtained the spinlock for the context associated with a task, the context can't get swapped to another task. However, the context may have been swapped in the interval between reading task->perf_counter_ctxp and getting the lock, so it is necessary to check and retry. To make sure that none of the contexts being looked at in find_get_context can get freed, this changes the context freeing code to use RCU. Thus an rcu_read_lock() is sufficient to ensure that no contexts can get freed. This part of the patch is lifted from a patch posted by Peter Zijlstra. This also adds a check to make sure that we can't add a counter to a task that is exiting. There is also a race between perf_counter_exit_task and find_get_context; this solves the race by moving the get_ctx that was in perf_counter_alloc into the locked region in find_get_context, so that once find_get_context has got the context for a task, it won't get freed even if the task calls perf_counter_exit_task. It doesn't matter if new top-level (non-inherited) counters get attached to the context after perf_counter_exit_task has detached the context from the task. They will just stay there and never get scheduled in until the counters' fds get closed, and then perf_release will remove them from the context and eventually free the context. With this, we are now doing the unclone in find_get_context rather than when a counter was added to or removed from a context (actually, we were missing the unclone_ctx() call when adding a counter to a context). We don't need to unclone when removing a counter from a context because we have no way to remove a counter from a cloned context. This also takes out the smp_wmb() in find_get_context, which Peter Zijlstra pointed out was unnecessary because the cmpxchg implies a full barrier anyway. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18974.33033.667187.273886@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-26kmod: Release sub_info on cred allocation failure.Tetsuo Handa
call_usermodehelper_setup() forgot to kfree(sub_info) when prepare_usermodehelper_creds() failed. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-26perf_counter: Initialize ->oncpu properlyIngo Molnar
This shouldnt matter normally (and i have not seen any misbehavior), because active counters always have a proper ->oncpu value - but nevertheless initialize the field properly to -1. [ Impact: cleanup ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25perf_counter: fix warning & lockupIngo Molnar
- remove bogus warning - fix wakeup from NMI path lockup - also fix up whitespace noise in perf_counter.h Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.703093461@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25perf_counter: Generic per counter interrupt throttlePeter Zijlstra
Introduce a generic per counter interrupt throttle. This uses the perf_counter_overflow() quick disable to throttle a specific counter when its going too fast when a pmu->unthrottle() method is provided which can undo the quick disable. Power needs to implement both the quick disable and the unthrottle method. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.703093461@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25perf_counter: Fix PERF_COUNTER_CONTEXT_SWITCHES for cpu countersPeter Zijlstra
Ingo noticed that cpu counters had 0 context switches, even though there was plenty scheduling on the cpu. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.419025548@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25perf_counter: Propagate inheritance failures down the fork() pathPeter Zijlstra
Fail fork() when we fail inheritance for some reason (-ENOMEM most likely). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.324656474@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25perf_counter: Make pctrl() affect inherited counters tooPeter Zijlstra
Paul noted that the new ptcrl() didn't work on child counters. Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.203151469@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25perf_counter: Move child perfcounter init to after scheduler initIngo Molnar
Initialize a task's perfcounters (inherit from parent, etc.) after the child task's scheduler fields have been initialized already. [ Impact: cleanup ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: PM: Do not hold dpm_list_mtx while disabling/enabling nonboot CPUs
2009-05-24async: make sure independent async domains can't accidentally entangleJames Bottomley
The problem occurs when async_synchronize_full_domain() is called when the async_pending list is not empty. This will cause lowest_running() to return the cookie of the first entry on the async_pending list, which might be nothing at all to do with the domain being asked for and thus cause the domain synchronization to wait for an unrelated domain. This can cause a deadlock if domain synchronization is used from one domain to wait for another. Fix by running over the async_pending list to see if any pending items actually belong to our domain (and return their cookies if they do). Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-24PM: Do not hold dpm_list_mtx while disabling/enabling nonboot CPUsRafael J. Wysocki
We shouldn't hold dpm_list_mtx while executing [disable|enable]_nonboot_cpus(), because theoretically this may lead to a deadlock as shown by the following example (provided by Johannes Berg): CPU 3 CPU 2 CPU 1 suspend/hibernate something: rtnl_lock() device_pm_lock() -> mutex_lock(&dpm_list_mtx) mutex_lock(&dpm_list_mtx) linkwatch_work -> rtnl_lock() disable_nonboot_cpus() -> flush CPU 3 workqueue Fortunately, device drivers are supposed to stop any activities that might lead to the registration of new device objects way before disable_nonboot_cpus() is called, so it shouldn't be necessary to hold dpm_list_mtx over the entire late part of device suspend and early part of device resume. Thus, during the late suspend and the early resume of devices acquire dpm_list_mtx only when dpm_list is going to be traversed and release it right after that. This patch is reported to fix the regressions tracked as http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13245. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> Tested-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
2009-05-24perf_counter: Increase mmap limitIngo Molnar
In a default 'perf top' run the tool will create a counter for each online CPU. With enough CPUs this will eventually exhaust the default limit. So scale it up with the number of online CPUs. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-24perf_counter: Remove perf_counter_context::nr_enabledPeter Zijlstra
now that pctrl() no longer disables other people's counters, remove the PMU cache code that deals with that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090523163013.032998331@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-24perf_counter: Change pctrl() behaviourPeter Zijlstra
Instead of en/dis-abling all counters acting on a particular task, en/dis- able all counters we created. [ v2: fix crash on first counter enable ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.916937244@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-23perf_counter: Simplify context cleanupPeter Zijlstra
Use perf_counter_remove_from_context() to remove counters from the context. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.796275849@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-23perf_counter: Sanitize context lockingPeter Zijlstra
Ensure we're consistent with the context locks. context->mutex context->lock list_{add,del}_counter(); so that either lock is sufficient to stabilize the context. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.618790733@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-23perf_counter: Sanitize counter->mutexPeter Zijlstra
s/counter->mutex/counter->child_mutex/ and make sure its only used to protect child_list. The usage in __perf_counter_exit_task() doesn't appear to be problematic since ctx->mutex also covers anything related to fd tear-down. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.533186528@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-23perf_counter: Fix dynamic irq_period loggingPeter Zijlstra
We call perf_adjust_freq() from perf_counter_task_tick() which is is called under the rq->lock causing lock recursion. However, it's no longer required to be called under the rq->lock, so remove it from under it. Also, fix up some related comments. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.476197912@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22perf_counter: Optimize context switch between identical inherited contextsPaul Mackerras
When monitoring a process and its descendants with a set of inherited counters, we can often get the situation in a context switch where both the old (outgoing) and new (incoming) process have the same set of counters, and their values are ultimately going to be added together. In that situation it doesn't matter which set of counters are used to count the activity for the new process, so there is really no need to go through the process of reading the hardware counters and updating the old task's counters and then setting up the PMU for the new task. This optimizes the context switch in this situation. Instead of scheduling out the perf_counter_context for the old task and scheduling in the new context, we simply transfer the old context to the new task and keep using it without interruption. The new context gets transferred to the old task. This means that both tasks still have a valid perf_counter_context, so no special case is introduced when the old task gets scheduled in again, either on this CPU or another CPU. The equivalence of contexts is detected by keeping a pointer in each cloned context pointing to the context it was cloned from. To cope with the situation where a context is changed by adding or removing counters after it has been cloned, we also keep a generation number on each context which is incremented every time a context is changed. When a context is cloned we take a copy of the parent's generation number, and two cloned contexts are equivalent only if they have the same parent and the same generation number. In order that the parent context pointer remains valid (and is not reused), we increment the parent context's reference count for each context cloned from it. Since we don't have individual fds for the counters in a cloned context, the only thing that can make two clones of a given parent different after they have been cloned is enabling or disabling all counters with prctl. To account for this, we keep a count of the number of enabled counters in each context. Two contexts must have the same number of enabled counters to be considered equivalent. Here are some measurements of the context switch time as measured with the lat_ctx benchmark from lmbench, comparing the times obtained with and without this patch series: -----Unmodified----- With this patch series Counters: none 2 HW 4H+4S none 2 HW 4H+4S 2 processes: Average 3.44 6.45 11.24 3.12 3.39 3.60 St dev 0.04 0.04 0.13 0.05 0.17 0.19 8 processes: Average 6.45 8.79 14.00 5.57 6.23 7.57 St dev 1.27 1.04 0.88 1.42 1.46 1.42 32 processes: Average 5.56 8.43 13.78 5.28 5.55 7.15 St dev 0.41 0.47 0.53 0.54 0.57 0.81 The numbers are the mean and standard deviation of 20 runs of lat_ctx. The "none" columns are lat_ctx run directly without any counters. The "2 HW" columns are with lat_ctx run under perfstat, counting cycles and instructions. The "4H+4S" columns are lat_ctx run under perfstat with 4 hardware counters and 4 software counters (cycles, instructions, cache references, cache misses, task clock, context switch, cpu migrations, and page faults). [ Impact: performance optimization of counter context-switches ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18966.10666.517218.332164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22perf_counter: Dynamically allocate tasks' perf_counter_context structPaul Mackerras
This replaces the struct perf_counter_context in the task_struct with a pointer to a dynamically allocated perf_counter_context struct. The main reason for doing is this is to allow us to transfer a perf_counter_context from one task to another when we do lazy PMU switching in a later patch. This has a few side-benefits: the task_struct becomes a little smaller, we save some memory because only tasks that have perf_counters attached get a perf_counter_context allocated for them, and we can remove the inclusion of <linux/perf_counter.h> in sched.h, meaning that we don't end up recompiling nearly everything whenever perf_counter.h changes. The perf_counter_context structures are reference-counted and freed when the last reference is dropped. A context can have references from its task and the counters on its task. Counters can outlive the task so it is possible that a context will be freed well after its task has exited. Contexts are allocated on fork if the parent had a context, or otherwise the first time that a per-task counter is created on a task. In the latter case, we set the context pointer in the task struct locklessly using an atomic compare-and-exchange operation in case we raced with some other task in creating a context for the subject task. This also removes the task pointer from the perf_counter struct. The task pointer was not used anywhere and would make it harder to move a context from one task to another. Anything that needed to know which task a counter was attached to was already using counter->ctx->task. The __perf_counter_init_context function moves up in perf_counter.c so that it can be called from find_get_context, and now initializes the refcount, but is otherwise unchanged. We were potentially calling list_del_counter twice: once from __perf_counter_exit_task when the task exits and once from __perf_counter_remove_from_context when the counter's fd gets closed. This adds a check in list_del_counter so it doesn't do anything if the counter has already been removed from the lists. Since perf_counter_task_sched_in doesn't do anything if the task doesn't have a context, and leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL, this adds code to __perf_install_in_context to set cpuctx->task_ctx if necessary, i.e. in the case where the current task adds the first counter to itself and thus creates a context for itself. This also adds similar code to __perf_counter_enable to handle a similar situation which can arise when the counters have been disabled using prctl; that also leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL. [ Impact: refactor counter context management to prepare for new feature ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18966.10075.781053.231153@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20perf_counter: Fix context removal deadlockIngo Molnar
Disable the PMU globally before removing a counter from a context. This fixes the following lockup: [22081.741922] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [22081.746668] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c:803 intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x9b/0x24e() [22081.755624] Hardware name: X8DTN [22081.758903] perfcounters: irq loop stuck! [22081.762985] Modules linked in: [22081.766136] Pid: 11082, comm: perf Not tainted 2.6.30-rc6-tip #226 [22081.772432] Call Trace: [22081.774940] <NMI> [<ffffffff81019aed>] ? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x9b/0x24e [22081.781993] [<ffffffff81019aed>] ? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x9b/0x24e [22081.788368] [<ffffffff8104505c>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xa3 [22081.794649] [<ffffffff810450d3>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x40/0x45 [22081.800696] [<ffffffff81019aed>] ? intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x9b/0x24e [22081.807080] [<ffffffff814d1a72>] ? perf_counter_nmi_handler+0x3f/0x4a [22081.813751] [<ffffffff814d2d09>] ? notifier_call_chain+0x58/0x86 [22081.819951] [<ffffffff8105b250>] ? notify_die+0x2d/0x32 [22081.825392] [<ffffffff814d1414>] ? do_nmi+0x8e/0x242 [22081.830538] [<ffffffff814d0f0a>] ? nmi+0x1a/0x20 [22081.835342] [<ffffffff8117e102>] ? selinux_file_free_security+0x0/0x1a [22081.842105] [<ffffffff81018793>] ? x86_pmu_disable_counter+0x15/0x41 [22081.848673] <<EOE>> [<ffffffff81018f3d>] ? x86_pmu_disable+0x86/0x103 [22081.855512] [<ffffffff8108fedd>] ? __perf_counter_remove_from_context+0x0/0xfe [22081.862926] [<ffffffff8108fcbc>] ? counter_sched_out+0x30/0xce [22081.868909] [<ffffffff8108ff36>] ? __perf_counter_remove_from_context+0x59/0xfe [22081.876382] [<ffffffff8106808a>] ? smp_call_function_single+0x6c/0xe6 [22081.882955] [<ffffffff81091b96>] ? perf_release+0x86/0x14c [22081.888600] [<ffffffff810c4c84>] ? __fput+0xe7/0x195 [22081.893718] [<ffffffff810c213e>] ? filp_close+0x5b/0x62 [22081.899107] [<ffffffff81046a70>] ? put_files_struct+0x64/0xc2 [22081.905031] [<ffffffff8104841a>] ? do_exit+0x1e2/0x6ef [22081.910360] [<ffffffff814d0a60>] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0xe [22081.916292] [<ffffffff8104898e>] ? do_group_exit+0x67/0x93 [22081.921953] [<ffffffff810489cc>] ? sys_exit_group+0x12/0x16 [22081.927759] [<ffffffff8100baab>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [22081.934076] ---[ end trace 3a3936ce3e1b4505 ]--- And could potentially also fix the lockup reported by Marcelo Tosatti. Also, print more debug info in case of a detected lockup. [ Impact: fix lockup ] Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20perf_counter: Optimize sched in/out of countersPeter Zijlstra
Avoid a function call for !group counters by directly calling the counter function. [ Impact: micro-optimize the code ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090520102553.511933670@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20perf_counter: Optimize disable of time based sw countersPeter Zijlstra
Currently we call hrtimer_cancel() unconditionally on disable of time based software counters. Avoid when possible. [ Impact: micro-optimize the code ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090520102553.388185031@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20perf_counter: Log irq_period changesPeter Zijlstra
For the dynamic irq_period code, log whenever we change the period so that analyzing code can normalize the event flow. [ Impact: add new feature to allow more precise profiling ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090520102553.298769743@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20perf_counter: Solve the rotate_ctx vs inherit race differentlyPeter Zijlstra
Instead of disabling RR scheduling of the counters, use a different list that does not get rotated to iterate the counters on inheritance. [ Impact: cleanup, optimization ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090520102553.237504544@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20perf_counter: fix counter inheritance raceIngo Molnar
Context rotation should not occur when we are in the middle of walking the counter list when inheriting counters ... [ Impact: fix occasionally incorrect perf stat results ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20perf_counter: fix counter freeing logicIngo Molnar
Fix counter lifetime bugs which explain the crashes reported by Marcelo Tosatti and Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. The new rule is: flushing + freeing is only done for a task's own counters, never for other tasks. [ Impact: fix crashes/lockups with inherited counters ] Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>