Gleb writes:
> Currently pmu is disabled and re-enabled on each timer interrupt even
> when no rotation or frequency adjustment is needed. On Intel CPU this
> results in two writes into PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR per tick. On bare metal
> it does not cause significant slowdown, but when running perf in a virtual
> machine it leads to 20% slowdown on my machine.
Cure this by keeping a perf_event_context::nr_freq counter that counts the
number of active events that require frequency adjustments and use this in a
similar fashion to the already existing nr_events != nr_active test in
perf_rotate_context().
By being able to exclude both rotation and frequency adjustments a-priory for
the common case we can avoid the otherwise superfluous PMU disable.
Suggested-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-515yhoatehd3gza7we9fapaa@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the set_ftrace_filter is cleared by writing just whitespace to
it, then the filter hash refcounts will be decremented but not
updated. This causes two bugs:
1) No functions will be enabled for tracing when they all should be
2) If the users clears the set_ftrace_filter twice, it will crash ftrace:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at /home/rostedt/work/git/linux-trace.git/kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1384 __ftrace_hash_rec_update.part.27+0x157/0x1a7()
Modules linked in:
Pid: 2330, comm: bash Not tainted 3.1.0-test+ #32
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81051828>] warn_slowpath_common+0x83/0x9b
[<ffffffff8105185a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c
[<ffffffff810ba362>] __ftrace_hash_rec_update.part.27+0x157/0x1a7
[<ffffffff810ba6e8>] ? ftrace_regex_release+0xa7/0x10f
[<ffffffff8111bdfe>] ? kfree+0xe5/0x115
[<ffffffff810ba51e>] ftrace_hash_move+0x2e/0x151
[<ffffffff810ba6fb>] ftrace_regex_release+0xba/0x10f
[<ffffffff8112e49a>] fput+0xfd/0x1c2
[<ffffffff8112b54c>] filp_close+0x6d/0x78
[<ffffffff8113a92d>] sys_dup3+0x197/0x1c1
[<ffffffff8113a9a6>] sys_dup2+0x4f/0x54
[<ffffffff8150cac2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
---[ end trace 77a3a7ee73794a02 ]---
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111101141420.GA4918@debian
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A forced undef of a config value was used for testing and was
accidently left in during the final commit. This causes x86 to
run slower than needed while running function tracing as well
as causes the function graph selftest to fail when DYNMAIC_FTRACE
is not set. This is because the code in MCOUNT expects the ftrace
code to be processed with the config value set that happened to
be forced not set.
The forced config option was left in by:
commit 6331c28c96
ftrace: Fix dynamic selftest failure on some archs
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111102150255.GA6973@debian
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix a bug introduced by e9dbfae5, which prevents event_subsystem from
ever being released.
Ref_count was added to keep track of subsystem users, not for counting
events. Subsystem is created with ref_count = 1, so there is no need to
increment it for every event, we have nr_events for that. Fix this by
touching ref_count only when we actually have a new user -
subsystem_open().
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320052062-7846-1-git-send-email-idryomov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When you do:
$ perf record -e cycles,cycles,cycles noploop 10
You expect about 10,000 samples for each event, i.e., 10s at
1000samples/sec. However, this is not what's happening. You
get much fewer samples, maybe 3700 samples/event:
$ perf report -D | tail -15
Aggregated stats:
TOTAL events: 10998
MMAP events: 66
COMM events: 2
SAMPLE events: 10930
cycles stats:
TOTAL events: 3644
SAMPLE events: 3644
cycles stats:
TOTAL events: 3642
SAMPLE events: 3642
cycles stats:
TOTAL events: 3644
SAMPLE events: 3644
On a Intel Nehalem or even AMD64, there are 4 counters capable
of measuring cycles, so there is plenty of space to measure those
events without multiplexing (even with the NMI watchdog active).
And even with multiplexing, we'd expect roughly the same number
of samples per event.
The root of the problem was that when the event that caused the buffer
to become full was not the first event passed on the cmdline, the user
notification would get lost. The notification was sent to the file
descriptor of the overflowed event but the perf tool was not polling
on it. The perf tool aggregates all samples into a single buffer,
i.e., the buffer of the first event. Consequently, it assumes
notifications for any event will come via that descriptor.
The seemingly straight forward solution of moving the waitq into the
ringbuffer object doesn't work because of life-time issues. One could
perf_event_set_output() on a fd that you're also blocking on and cause
the old rb object to be freed while its waitq would still be
referenced by the blocked thread -> FAIL.
Therefore link all events to the ringbuffer and broadcast the wakeup
from the ringbuffer object to all possible events that could be waited
upon. This is rather ugly, and we're open to better solutions but it
works for now.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Finished-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111126014731.GA7030@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch solves the following problem:
Now some samples may be lost due to throttling. The number of samples is
restricted by sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate/HZ. A trace event is
divided on some samples according to event's period. I don't sure, that
we should generate more than one sample on each trace event. I think the
better way to use SAMPLE_PERIOD.
E.g.: I want to trace when a process sleeps. I created a process, which
sleeps for 1ms and for 4ms. perf got 100 events in both cases.
swapper 0 [000] 1141.371830: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=1386750 [ns]
swapper 0 [000] 1141.369444: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=4499585 [ns]
In the first case a kernel want to send 4499585 events and
in the second case it wants to send 1386750 events.
perf-reports shows that process sleeps in both places equal time. It's
bug.
With this patch kernel generates one event on each "sleep" and the time
slice is saved in the field "period". Perf knows how handle it.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320670457-2633428-3-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Do not set task_ctx pointer during sched_in if there are no
events associated with the context. Otherwise if during task
execution total number of events in the system will become zero
perf_event_context_sched_out() will not be called and cpuctx->task_ctx
will be left with a stale value.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111023171033.GI17571@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since commit 4a31a334, the name of this misc device is not initialized,
which leads to a funny device named /dev/(null) being created and
/proc/misc containing an entry with just a number but no name. The latter
leads to complaints by cryptsetup, which caused me to investigate this
matter.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
If the set_ftrace_filter is cleared by writing just whitespace to
it, then the filter hash refcounts will be decremented but not
updated. This causes two bugs:
1) No functions will be enabled for tracing when they all should be
2) If the users clears the set_ftrace_filter twice, it will crash ftrace:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at /home/rostedt/work/git/linux-trace.git/kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1384 __ftrace_hash_rec_update.part.27+0x157/0x1a7()
Modules linked in:
Pid: 2330, comm: bash Not tainted 3.1.0-test+ #32
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81051828>] warn_slowpath_common+0x83/0x9b
[<ffffffff8105185a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c
[<ffffffff810ba362>] __ftrace_hash_rec_update.part.27+0x157/0x1a7
[<ffffffff810ba6e8>] ? ftrace_regex_release+0xa7/0x10f
[<ffffffff8111bdfe>] ? kfree+0xe5/0x115
[<ffffffff810ba51e>] ftrace_hash_move+0x2e/0x151
[<ffffffff810ba6fb>] ftrace_regex_release+0xba/0x10f
[<ffffffff8112e49a>] fput+0xfd/0x1c2
[<ffffffff8112b54c>] filp_close+0x6d/0x78
[<ffffffff8113a92d>] sys_dup3+0x197/0x1c1
[<ffffffff8113a9a6>] sys_dup2+0x4f/0x54
[<ffffffff8150cac2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
---[ end trace 77a3a7ee73794a02 ]---
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111101141420.GA4918@debian
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A forced undef of a config value was used for testing and was
accidently left in during the final commit. This causes x86 to
run slower than needed while running function tracing as well
as causes the function graph selftest to fail when DYNMAIC_FTRACE
is not set. This is because the code in MCOUNT expects the ftrace
code to be processed with the config value set that happened to
be forced not set.
The forced config option was left in by:
commit 6331c28c96
ftrace: Fix dynamic selftest failure on some archs
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111102150255.GA6973@debian
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The pretty print of the lockdep debug splat uses just the lock name
to show how the locking scenario happens. But when it comes to
nesting locks, the output becomes confusing which takes away the point
of the pretty printing of the lock scenario.
Without displaying the subclass info, we get the following output:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(slock-AF_INET);
lock(slock-AF_INET);
lock(slock-AF_INET);
lock(slock-AF_INET);
*** DEADLOCK ***
The above looks more of a A->A locking bug than a A->B B->A.
By adding the subclass to the output, we can see what really happened:
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(slock-AF_INET);
lock(slock-AF_INET/1);
lock(slock-AF_INET);
lock(slock-AF_INET/1);
*** DEADLOCK ***
This bug was discovered while tracking down a real bug caught by lockdep.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111025202049.GB25043@hostway.ca
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier
x86/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
s390/jump-label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() to optimise non-live code updates
sparc/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out
stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early
jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer
Conflicts:
- arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
Added __init_or_module to arch_jump_label_text_poke_early vs
removal of that function entirely
- kernel/stop_machine.c
same patch ("stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient
to call early") merged twice, with whitespace fix in one version
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
* 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work
writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes
writeback: trace event balance_dirty_pages
writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimit
writeback: fix ppc compile warnings on do_div(long long, unsigned long)
writeback: per-bdi background threshold
writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area
writeback: control dirty pause time
writeback: limit max dirty pause time
writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages()
writeback: per task dirty rate limit
writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit
writeback: dirty rate control
writeback: add bg_threshold parameter to __bdi_update_bandwidth()
writeback: dirty position control
writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages
