We are adjusting struct page to make it smaller, removing unneeded fields
which correctly belong to struct folio.
Two of those fields are page->index and page->mapping. Perf is currently
making use of both of these. This is unnecessary. This patch eliminates
this.
Perf establishes its own internally controlled memory-mapped pages using
vm_ops hooks. The first page in the mapping is the read/write user control
page, and the rest of the mapping consists of read-only pages.
The VMA is backed by kernel memory either from the buddy allocator or
vmalloc depending on configuration. It is intended to be mapped read/write,
but because it has a page_mkwrite() hook, vma_wants_writenotify() indicates
that it should be mapped read-only.
When a write fault occurs, the provided page_mkwrite() hook,
perf_mmap_fault() (doing double duty handing faults as well) uses the
vmf->pgoff field to determine if this is the first page, allowing for the
desired read/write first page, read-only rest mapping.
For this to work the implementation has to carefully work around faulting
logic. When a page is write-faulted, the fault() hook is called first, then
its page_mkwrite() hook is called (to allow for dirty tracking in file
systems).
On fault we set the folio's mapping in perf_mmap_fault(), this is because
when do_page_mkwrite() is subsequently invoked, it treats a missing mapping
as an indicator that the fault should be retried.
We also set the folio's index so, given the folio is being treated as faux
user memory, it correctly references its offset within the VMA.
This explains why the mapping and index fields are used - but it's not
necessary.
We preallocate pages when perf_mmap() is called for the first time via
rb_alloc(), and further allocate auxiliary pages via rb_aux_alloc() as
needed if the mapping requires it.
This allocation is done in the f_ops->mmap() hook provided in perf_mmap(),
and so we can instead simply map all the memory right away here - there's
no point in handling (read) page faults when we don't demand page nor need
to be notified about them (perf does not).
This patch therefore changes this logic to map everything when the mmap()
hook is called, establishing a PFN map. It implements vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite()
to provide the required read/write vs. read-only behaviour, which does not
require the previously implemented workarounds.
While it is not ideal to use a VM_PFNMAP here, doing anything else will
result in the page_mkwrite() hook need to be provided, which requires the
same page->mapping hack this patch seeks to undo.
It will also result in the pages being treated as folios and placed on the
rmap, which really does not make sense for these mappings.
Semantically it makes sense to establish this as some kind of special
mapping, as the pages are managed by perf and are not strictly user pages,
but currently the only means by which we can do so functionally while
maintaining the required R/W and R/O behaviour is a PFN map.
There should be no change to actual functionality as a result of this
change.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103153151.124163-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Ole reported that event->mmap_mutex is strictly insufficient to
serialize the AUX buffer, add a per RB mutex to fully serialize it.
Note that in the lock order comment the perf_event::mmap_mutex order
was already wrong, that is, it nesting under mmap_lock is not new with
this patch.
Fixes: 45bfb2e504 ("perf: Add AUX area to ring buffer for raw data streams")
Reported-by: Ole <ole@binarygecko.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The default aux_watermark is half the AUX area buffer size. In general,
on a 64-bit architecture, the AUX area buffer size could be a bigger than
fits in a 32-bit type, but the calculation does not allow for that
possibility.
However the aux_watermark value is recorded in a u32, so should not be
more than U32_MAX either.
Fix by doing the calculation in a correctly sized type, and limiting the
result to U32_MAX.
Fixes: d68e6799a5 ("perf: Cap allocation order at aux_watermark")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624201101.60186-7-adrian.hunter@intel.com
When perf-record with a large AUX area, e.g 4GB, it fails with:
#perf record -C 0 -m ,4G -e arm_spe_0// -- sleep 1
failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)
and it reveals a WARNING with __alloc_pages():
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 44 PID: 17573 at mm/page_alloc.c:5568 __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x248
Call trace:
__alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x248
__kmalloc_large_node+0xc0/0x1f8
__kmalloc_node+0x134/0x1e8
rb_alloc_aux+0xe0/0x298
perf_mmap+0x440/0x660
mmap_region+0x308/0x8a8
do_mmap+0x3c0/0x528
vm_mmap_pgoff+0xf4/0x1b8
ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x18c/0x218
__arm64_sys_mmap+0x38/0x58
invoke_syscall+0x50/0x128
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x58/0x188
do_el0_svc+0x34/0x50
el0_svc+0x34/0x108
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8
'rb->aux_pages' allocated by kcalloc() is a pointer array which is used to
maintains AUX trace pages. The allocated page for this array is physically
contiguous (and virtually contiguous) with an order of 0..MAX_ORDER. If the
size of pointer array crosses the limitation set by MAX_ORDER, it reveals a
WARNING.
So bail out early with -ENOMEM if the request AUX area is out of bound,
e.g.:
#perf record -C 0 -m ,4G -e arm_spe_0// -- sleep 1
failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)
Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Use local_try_cmpxchg instead of local_cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old
in __perf_output_begin. x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF
flag, so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg (and related move
instruction in front of cmpxchg).
Also, try_cmpxchg implicitly assigns old *ptr value to "old" when cmpxchg
fails. There is no need to re-read the value in the loop.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230708090048.63046-2-ubizjak@gmail.com
Marco reported:
Due to the implementation of how SIGTRAP are delivered if
perf_event_attr::sigtrap is set, we've noticed 3 issues:
1. Missing SIGTRAP due to a race with event_sched_out() (more
details below).
2. Hardware PMU events being disabled due to returning 1 from
perf_event_overflow(). The only way to re-enable the event is
for user space to first "properly" disable the event and then
re-enable it.
3. The inability to automatically disable an event after a
specified number of overflows via PERF_EVENT_IOC_REFRESH.
The worst of the 3 issues is problem (1), which occurs when a
pending_disable is "consumed" by a racing event_sched_out(), observed
as follows:
CPU0 | CPU1
--------------------------------+---------------------------
__perf_event_overflow() |
perf_event_disable_inatomic() |
pending_disable = CPU0 | ...
| _perf_event_enable()
| event_function_call()
| task_function_call()
| /* sends IPI to CPU0 */
<IPI> | ...
__perf_event_enable() +---------------------------
ctx_resched()
task_ctx_sched_out()
ctx_sched_out()
group_sched_out()
event_sched_out()
pending_disable = -1
</IPI>
<IRQ-work>
perf_pending_event()
perf_pending_event_disable()
/* Fails to send SIGTRAP because no pending_disable! */
</IRQ-work>
In the above case, not only is that particular SIGTRAP missed, but also
all future SIGTRAPs because 'event_limit' is not reset back to 1.
To fix, rework pending delivery of SIGTRAP via IRQ-work by introduction
of a separate 'pending_sigtrap', no longer using 'event_limit' and
'pending_disable' for its delivery.
Additionally; and different to Marco's proposed patch:
- recognise that pending_disable effectively duplicates oncpu for
the case where it is set. As such, change the irq_work handler to
use ->oncpu to target the event and use pending_* as boolean toggles.
- observe that SIGTRAP targets the ctx->task, so the context switch
optimization that carries contexts between tasks is invalid. If
the irq_work were delayed enough to hit after a context switch the
SIGTRAP would be delivered to the wrong task.
- observe that if the event gets scheduled out
(rotation/migration/context-switch/...) the irq-work would be
insufficient to deliver the SIGTRAP when the event gets scheduled
back in (the irq-work might still be pending on the old CPU).
Therefore have event_sched_out() convert the pending sigtrap into a
task_work which will deliver the signal at return_to_user.
Fixes: 97ba62b278 ("perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events")
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Debugged-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reported-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Debugged-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Sometimes we want to know an accurate number of samples even if it's
lost. Currenlty PERF_RECORD_LOST is generated for a ring-buffer which
might be shared with other events. So it's hard to know per-event
lost count.
Add event->lost_samples field and PERF_FORMAT_LOST to retrieve it from
userspace.
Original-patch-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220616180623.1358843-1-namhyung@kernel.org
This problem can be reproduced with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC enabled on
both x86_64 and aarch64 arch when using sysdig -B(using ebpf)[1].
sysdig -B works fine after rebuilding the kernel with
CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC disabled.
I tracked it down to the if condition event->rb->nr_pages != nr_pages
in perf_mmap is true when CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC is enabled where
event->rb->nr_pages = 1 and nr_pages = 2048 resulting perf_mmap to
return -EINVAL. This is because when CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC is
enabled, rb->nr_pages is always equal to 1.
Arch with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC enabled by default:
arc/arm/csky/mips/sh/sparc/xtensa
Arch with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC disabled by default:
x86_64/aarch64/...
Fix this problem by using data_page_nr()
[1] https://github.com/draios/sysdig
Fixes: 906010b213 ("perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing")
Signed-off-by: Zhipeng Xie <xiezhipeng1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220209145417.6495-1-xiezhipeng1@huawei.com
Currently, we start allocating AUX pages half the size of the total
requested AUX buffer size, ignoring the attr.aux_watermark setting. This,
in turn, makes intel_pt driver disregard the watermark also, as it uses
page order for its SG (ToPA) configuration.
Now, this can be fixed in the intel_pt PMU driver, but seeing as it's the
only one currently making use of high order allocations, there is no
reason not to fix the allocator instead. This way, any other driver
wishing to add this support would not have to worry about this.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210414154955.49603-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
eBPF requires needing to know the size of the perf ring buffer structure.
But it unfortunately has the same name as the generic ring buffer used by
tracing and oprofile. To make it less ambiguous, rename the perf ring buffer
structure to "perf_buffer".
As other parts of the ring buffer code has "perf_" as the prefix, it only
makes sense to give the ring buffer the "perf_" prefix as well.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213153553.GE20583@krava
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In perf_output_put_handle(), an IRQ/NMI can happen in below location and
write records to the same ring buffer:
...
local_dec_and_test(&rb->nest)
... <-- an IRQ/NMI can happen here
rb->user_page->data_head = head;
...
In this case, a value A is written to data_head in the IRQ, then a value
B is written to data_head after the IRQ. And A > B. As a result,
data_head is temporarily decreased from A to B. And a reader may see
data_head < data_tail if it read the buffer frequently enough, which
creates unexpected behaviors.
This can be fixed by moving dec(&rb->nest) to after updating data_head,
which prevents the IRQ/NMI above from updating data_head.
[ Split up by peterz. ]
Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com>
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: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.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>
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
Fixes: ef60777c9a ("perf: Optimize the perf_output() path by removing IRQ-disables")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517115418.224478157@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
