This patch keeps track of how long perf's NMI handler is taking,
and also calculates how many samples perf can take a second. If
the sample length times the expected max number of samples
exceeds a configurable threshold, it drops the sample rate.
This way, we don't have a runaway sampling process eating up the
CPU.
This patch can tend to drop the sample rate down to level where
perf doesn't work very well. *BUT* the alternative is that my
system hangs because it spends all of its time handling NMIs.
I'll take a busted performance tool over an entire system that's
busted and undebuggable any day.
BTW, my suspicion is that there's still an underlying bug here.
Using the HPET instead of the TSC is definitely a contributing
factor, but I suspect there are some other things going on.
But, I can't go dig down on a bug like that with my machine
hanging all the time.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
[ Prettified it a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patch simply moves all per-cpu variables into the new
single per-cpu "struct bp_cpuinfo".
To me this looks more logical and clean, but this can also
simplify the further potential changes. In particular, I do not
think this memory should be per-cpu, it is never used "locally".
After this change it is trivial to turn it into, say,
bootmem[nr_cpu_ids].
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130620155020.GA6350@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The enable/disable logic in toggle_bp_slot() is not symmetrical
and imho very confusing. "old_count" in toggle_bp_task_slot() is
actually new_count because this bp was already removed from the
list.
Change toggle_bp_slot() to always call list_add/list_del after
toggle_bp_task_slot(). This way old_idx is task_bp_pinned() and
this entry should be decremented, new_idx is +/-weight and we
need to increment this element. The code/logic looks obvious.
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130620155011.GA6330@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
trinity fuzzer triggered WARN_ONCE("Can't find any breakpoint
slot") in arch_install_hw_breakpoint() but the problem is not
arch-specific.
The problem is, task_bp_pinned(cpu) checks "cpu == iter->cpu"
but this doesn't account the "all cpus" events with iter->cpu <
0.
This means that, say, register_user_hw_breakpoint(tsk) can
happily create the arbitrary number > HBP_NUM of breakpoints
which can not be activated. toggle_bp_task_slot() is equally
wrong by the same reason and nr_task_bp_pinned[] can have
negative entries.
Simple test:
# perl -e 'sleep 1 while 1' &
# perf record -e mem:0x10,mem:0x10,mem:0x10,mem:0x10,mem:0x10 -p `pidof perl`
Before this patch this triggers the same problem/WARN_ON(),
after the patch it correctly fails with -ENOSPC.
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130620155006.GA6324@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Commit 2b923c8 perf/x86: Check branch sampling priv level in generic code
was missing the check for the hypervisor (HV) priv level, so add it back.
With this patch, we get the following correct behavior:
# echo 2 >/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid
$ perf record -j any,k noploop 1
Error:
You may not have permission to collect stats.
Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid:
-1 - Not paranoid at all
0 - Disallow raw tracepoint access for unpriv
1 - Disallow cpu events for unpriv
2 - Disallow kernel profiling for unpriv
$ perf record -j any,hv noploop 1
Error:
You may not have permission to collect stats.
Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid:
-1 - Not paranoid at all
0 - Disallow raw tracepoint access for unpriv
1 - Disallow cpu events for unpriv
2 - Disallow kernel profiling for unpriv
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130606090204.GA3725@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Vince's fuzzer once again found holes. This time it spotted a leak in
the locked page accounting.
When an event had redirected output and its close() was the last
reference to the buffer we didn't have a vm context to undo accounting.
Change the code to destroy the buffer on the last munmap() and detach
all redirected events at that time. This provides us the right context
to undo the vm accounting.
Reported-and-tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130604084421.GI8923@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In old kernels, it's allowed to set softlockup_thresh to -1 or 0
to disable softlockup detection. However watchdog_thresh only
uses 0 to disable detection, and setting it to -1 just froze my
box and nothing I can do but reboot.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51959668.9040106@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Vince reported a problem found by his perf specific trinity
fuzzer.
Al noticed 2 problems with perf's mmap():
- it has issues against fork() since we use vma->vm_mm for accounting.
- it has an rb refcount leak on double mmap().
We fix the issues against fork() by using VM_DONTCOPY; I don't
think there's code out there that uses this; we didn't hear
about weird accounting problems/crashes. If we do need this to
work, the previously proposed VM_PINNED could make this work.
Aside from the rb reference leak spotted by Al, Vince's example
prog was indeed doing a double mmap() through the use of
perf_event_set_output().
This exposes another problem, since we now have 2 events with
one buffer, the accounting gets screwy because we account per
event. Fix this by making the buffer responsible for its own
accounting.
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130528085548.GA12193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fix to free gone and unused optprobes. This bug will
cause a kernel panic if the user reuses the killed and
unused probe.
Reported at:
http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2013-q2/msg00142.html
In the normal path, an optprobe on an init function is
unregistered when a module goes live.
unregister_kprobe(kp)
-> __unregister_kprobe_top
->__disable_kprobe
->disarm_kprobe(ap == op)
->__disarm_kprobe
->unoptimize_kprobe : the op is queued
on unoptimizing_list
and do nothing in __unregister_kprobe_bottom
After a while (usually wait 5 jiffies), kprobe_optimizer
runs to unoptimize and free optprobe.
kprobe_optimizer
->do_unoptimize_kprobes
->arch_unoptimize_kprobes : moved to free_list
->do_free_cleaned_kprobes
->hlist_del: the op is removed
->free_aggr_kprobe
->arch_remove_optimized_kprobe
->arch_remove_kprobe
->kfree: the op is freed
Here, if kprobes_module_callback is called and the delayed
unoptimizing probe is picked BEFORE kprobe_optimizer runs,
kprobes_module_callback
->kill_kprobe
->kill_optimized_kprobe : dequeued from unoptimizing_list <=!!!
->arch_remove_optimized_kprobe
->arch_remove_kprobe
(but op is not freed, and on the kprobe hash table)
This doesn't happen if the probe unregistration is done AFTER
kprobes_module_callback is called (because at that time the op
is gone), and kprobe-tracer does it.
To fix this bug, this patch changes kprobes_module_callback to
enqueue the op to freeing_list at kill_optimized_kprobe only
if the op is unused. The unused probes on freeing_list will
be freed in do_free_cleaned_kprobes.
Note that this calls arch_remove_*kprobe twice on the
same probe. Thus those functions have to check the double free.
Fortunately, most of arch codes already checked that except
for mips. This will be fixed in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130522093409.9084.63554.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
[ Minor edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patch adds /sys/device/xxx/perf_event_mux_interval_ms to ajust
the multiplexing interval per PMU. The unit is milliseconds. Value has
to be >= 1.
In the 4th version, we renamed the sysfs file to be more consistent
with the other /proc/sys/kernel entries for perf_events.
In the 5th version, we handle the reprogramming of the hrtimer using
hrtimer_forward_now(). That way, we sync up to new timer value quickly
(suggested by Jiri Olsa).
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364991694-5876-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The current scheme of using the timer tick was fine for per-thread
events. However, it was causing bias issues in system-wide mode
(including for uncore PMUs). Event groups would not get their fair
share of runtime on the PMU. With tickless kernels, if a core is idle
there is no timer tick, and thus no event rotation (multiplexing).
However, there are events (especially uncore events) which do count
even though cores are asleep.
This patch changes the timer source for multiplexing. It introduces a
per-PMU per-cpu hrtimer. The advantage is that even when a core goes
idle, it will come back to service the hrtimer, thus multiplexing on
system-wide events works much better.
The per-PMU implementation (suggested by PeterZ) enables adjusting the
multiplexing interval per PMU. The preferred interval is stashed into
the struct pmu. If not set, it will be forced to the default interval
value.
In order to minimize the impact of the hrtimer, it is turned on and
off on demand. When the PMU on a CPU is overcommited, the hrtimer is
activated. It is stopped when the PMU is not overcommitted.
In order for this to work properly, we had to change the order of
initialization in start_kernel() such that hrtimer_init() is run
before perf_event_init().
The default interval in milliseconds is set to a timer tick just like
with the old code. We will provide a sysctl to tune this in another
patch.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364991694-5876-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fix kernel-doc warnings in kernel/auditfilter.c:
Warning(kernel/auditfilter.c:1029): Excess function parameter 'loginuid' description in 'audit_receive_filter'
Warning(kernel/auditfilter.c:1029): Excess function parameter 'sessionid' description in 'audit_receive_filter'
Warning(kernel/auditfilter.c:1029): Excess function parameter 'sid' description in 'audit_receive_filter'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
"Masami Hiramatsu fixed another bug. This time returning a proper
result in event_enable_func(). After checking the return status of
try_module_get(), it returned the status of try_module_get().
But try_module_get() returns 0 on failure, which is success for
event_enable_func()"
* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.10-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Return -EBUSY when event_enable_func() fails to get module
Pull kmemleak patches from Catalin Marinas:
"Kmemleak now scans all the writable and non-executable module sections
to avoid false positives (previously it was only scanning specific
sections and missing .ref.data)."
* tag 'kmemleak-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64:
kmemleak: No need for scanning specific module sections
kmemleak: Scan all allocated, writeable and not executable module sections
As kmemleak now scans all module sections that are allocated, writable
and non executable, there's no need to scan individual sections that
might reference data.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Instead of just picking data sections by name (names that start
with .data, .bss or .ref.data), use the section flags and scan all
sections that are allocated, writable and not executable. Which should
cover all sections of a module that might reference data.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: removed unused 'name' variable]
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: collapsed 'if' blocks]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
