Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of perf related fixes:
- fix a CR4.PCE propagation issue caused by usage of mm instead of
active_mm and therefore propagated the wrong value.
- perf core fixes, which plug a use-after-free issue and make the
event inheritance on fork more robust.
- a tooling fix for symbol handling"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf symbols: Fix symbols__fixup_end heuristic for corner cases
x86/perf: Clarify why x86_pmu_event_mapped() isn't racy
x86/perf: Fix CR4.PCE propagation to use active_mm instead of mm
perf/core: Better explain the inherit magic
perf/core: Simplify perf_event_free_task()
perf/core: Fix event inheritance on fork()
perf/core: Fix use-after-free in perf_release()
While going through the event inheritance code Oleg got confused.
Add some comments to better explain the silent dissapearance of
orphaned events.
So what happens is that at perf_event_release_kernel() time; when an
event looses its connection to userspace (and ceases to exist from the
user's perspective) we can still have an arbitrary amount of inherited
copies of the event. We want to synchronously find and remove all
these child events.
Since that requires a bit of lock juggling, there is the possibility
that concurrent clone()s will create new child events. Therefore we
first mark the parent event as DEAD, which marks all the extant child
events as orphaned.
We then avoid copying orphaned events; in order to avoid getting more
of them.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170316125823.289567442@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We are going to split <linux/sched/mm.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/mm.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
The APIs that are going to be moved first are:
mm_alloc()
__mmdrop()
mmdrop()
mmdrop_async_fn()
mmdrop_async()
mmget_not_zero()
mmput()
mmput_async()
get_task_mm()
mm_access()
mm_release()
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We are going to split <linux/sched/clock.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/clock.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"Several noteworthy changes.
- Parav's rdma controller is finally merged. It is very straight
forward and can limit the abosolute numbers of common rdma
constructs used by different cgroups.
- kernel/cgroup.c got too chubby and disorganized. Created
kernel/cgroup/ subdirectory and moved all cgroup related files
under kernel/ there and reorganized the core code. This hurts for
backporting patches but was long overdue.
- cgroup v2 process listing reimplemented so that it no longer
depends on allocating a buffer large enough to cache the entire
result to sort and uniq the output. v2 has always mangled the sort
order to ensure that users don't depend on the sorted output, so
this shouldn't surprise anybody. This makes the pid listing
functions use the same iterators that are used internally, which
have to have the same iterating capabilities anyway.
- perf cgroup filtering now works automatically on cgroup v2. This
patch was posted a long time ago but somehow fell through the
cracks.
- misc fixes asnd documentation updates"
* 'for-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (27 commits)
kernfs: fix locking around kernfs_ops->release() callback
cgroup: drop the matching uid requirement on migration for cgroup v2
cgroup, perf_event: make perf_event controller work on cgroup2 hierarchy
cgroup: misc cleanups
cgroup: call subsys->*attach() only for subsystems which are actually affected by migration
cgroup: track migration context in cgroup_mgctx
cgroup: cosmetic update to cgroup_taskset_add()
rdmacg: Fixed uninitialized current resource usage
cgroup: Add missing cgroup-v2 PID controller documentation.
rdmacg: Added documentation for rdmacg
IB/core: added support to use rdma cgroup controller
rdmacg: Added rdma cgroup controller
cgroup: fix a comment typo
cgroup: fix RCU related sparse warnings
cgroup: move namespace code to kernel/cgroup/namespace.c
cgroup: rename functions for consistency
cgroup: move v1 mount functions to kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
cgroup: separate out cgroup1_kf_syscall_ops
cgroup: refactor mount path and clearly distinguish v1 and v2 paths
cgroup: move cgroup v1 specific code to kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
...
Since commit:
321027c1fe ("perf/core: Fix concurrent sys_perf_event_open() vs. 'move_group' race")
... the code looks like (assuming move_group==1):
gctx = __perf_event_ctx_lock_double(group_leader, ctx);
perf_remove_from_context(group_leader, 0);
list_for_each_entry(sibling, &group_leader->sibling_list, group_entry) {
perf_remove_from_context(sibling, 0);
put_ctx(gctx);
}
/* ... */
/* misleading comment about how this is the last reference */
put_ctx(gctx);
perf_event_ctx_unlock(group_leader, gctx);
What that 'last' put_ctx() does is drop @group_leader's reference on
gctx after having dropped all its potential sibling references.
But the thing is that __perf_event_ctx_lock_double() returns with a
reference _and_ a held lock, and perf_event_ctx_unlock() unlocks that
lock and drops that reference. Therefore that put_ctx() cannot be the
'last' of anything, nor is there an unbalance in puts.
To reduce confusion, remove the comment and place the put_ctx() next
to the remove_from_context() call.
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
perf_event is a utility controller whose primary role is identifying
cgroup membership to filter perf events; however, because it also
tracks some per-css state, it can't be replaced by pure cgroup
membership test. Mark the controller as implicitly enabled on the
default hierarchy so that perf events can always be filtered based on
cgroup v2 path as long as the controller is not mounted on a legacy
hierarchy.
"perf record" is updated accordingly so that it searches for both v1
and v2 hierarchies. A v1 hierarchy is used if perf_event is mounted
on it; otherwise, it uses the v2 hierarchy.
v2: Doc updated to reflect more flexible rebinding behavior.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
perf has additional overhead when monitoring the task which
frequently generates child tasks.
perf_init_event() is one of the hotspots for the additional overhead:
Currently, to get the PMU, it tries to search the type in pmu_idr at
first. But it is not always successful, especially for the widely used
PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE events. So it has to go to the
slow path which go through the whole PMUs list.
It will be a big performance issue, if the PMUs list is long (e.g. server
with many uncore boxes) and the task frequently generates child tasks.
The child event inherits its parent event. So the child event should
try its parent PMU first.
Here is some data from the overhead test on Broadwell server:
perf record -e $TEST_EVENTS -- ./loop.sh 50000
loop.sh
start=$(date +%s%N)
i=0
while [ "$i" -le "$1" ]
do
date > /dev/null
i=`expr $i + 1`
done
end=$(date +%s%N)
elapsed=`expr $end - $start`
Event# Original elapsed time Elapsed time with patch delta
1 196,573,192,397 189,162,029,998 -3.77%
2 257,567,753,013 241,620,788,683 -6.19%
4 398,730,726,971 370,518,938,714 -7.08%
8 824,983,761,120 740,702,489,329 -10.22%
16 1,883,411,923,498 1,672,027,508,355 -11.22%
... which shows a nice performance improvement.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484745662-15928-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
[ Tidied up the changelog and the code comment. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patch follows from a conversation in CQM/CMT's last series about
speeding up the context switch for cgroup events:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9478617/
This is a low-hanging fruit optimization. It replaces the iteration over
the "pmus" list in cgroup switch by an iteration over a new list that
contains only cpuctxs with at least one cgroup event.
This is necessary because the number of PMUs have increased over the years
e.g modern x86 server systems have well above 50 PMUs.
The iteration over the full PMU list is unneccessary and can be costly in
heavy cache contention scenarios.
Below are some instrumentation measurements with 10, 50 and 90 percentiles
of the total cost of context switch before and after this optimization for
a simple array read/write microbenchark.
Contention
Level Nr events Before (us) After (us) Median
L2 L3 types (10%, 50%, 90%) (10%, 50%, 90% Speedup
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Low Low 1 (1.72, 2.42, 5.85) (1.35, 1.64, 5.46) 29%
High Low 1 (2.08, 4.56, 19.8) (1720, 2.20, 13.7) 51%
High High 1 (2.86, 10.4, 12.7) (2.54, 4.32, 12.1) 58%
Low Low 2 (1.98, 3.20, 6.89) (1.68, 2.41, 8.89) 24%
High Low 2 (2.48, 5.28, 22.4) (2150, 3.69, 14.6) 30%
High High 2 (3.32, 8.09, 13.9) (2.80, 5.15, 13.7) 36%
where:
1 event type = cycles
2 event types = cycles,intel_cqm/llc_occupancy/
Contention L2 Low: workset < L2 cache size.
High: " >> L2 " " .
Contention L3 Low: workset of task on all sockets < L3 cache size.
High: " " " " " " >> L3 " " .
Median Speedup is (50%ile Before - 50%ile After) / 50%ile Before
Unsurprisingly, the benefits of this optimization decrease with the number
of cpuctxs with a cgroup events, yet, is never detrimental.
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118192454.58008-2-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linus Torvalds
Peter Zijlstra
Masahiro Yamada
Ingo Molnar
Dave Jiang
Tan Xiaojun
Alexander Shishkin
Tejun Heo
Kan Liang
David Carrillo-Cisneros