kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing
(randomized testing). Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique
that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a
system. A notable user-space example is AFL
(http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/). However, this technique is not
widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel
support.
kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible. It aims to
collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs.
To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard
interrupts and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic or
non-interesting parts of kernel is disbled (e.g. scheduler, locking).
Currently there is a single coverage collection mode (tracing), but the
API anticipates additional collection modes. Initially I also
implemented a second mode which exposes coverage in a fixed-size hash
table of counters (what Quentin used in his original patch). I've
dropped the second mode for simplicity.
This patch adds the necessary support on kernel side. The complimentary
compiler support was added in gcc revision 231296.
We've used this support to build syzkaller system call fuzzer, which has
found 90 kernel bugs in just 2 months:
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/wiki/Found-Bugs
We've also found 30+ bugs in our internal systems with syzkaller.
Another (yet unexplored) direction where kcov coverage would greatly
help is more traditional "blob mutation". For example, mounting a
random blob as a filesystem, or receiving a random blob over wire.
Why not gcov. Typical fuzzing loop looks as follows: (1) reset
coverage, (2) execute a bit of code, (3) collect coverage, repeat. A
typical coverage can be just a dozen of basic blocks (e.g. an invalid
input). In such context gcov becomes prohibitively expensive as
reset/collect coverage steps depend on total number of basic
blocks/edges in program (in case of kernel it is about 2M). Cost of
kcov depends only on number of executed basic blocks/edges. On top of
that, kernel requires per-thread coverage because there are always
background threads and unrelated processes that also produce coverage.
With inlined gcov instrumentation per-thread coverage is not possible.
kcov exposes kernel PCs and control flow to user-space which is
insecure. But debugfs should not be mapped as user accessible.
Based on a patch by Quentin Casasnovas.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make task_struct.kcov_mode have type `enum kcov_mode']
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak allmodconfig]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: follow x86 Makefile layout standards]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This is another big update. Main changes are:
- lots of x86 system call (and other traps/exceptions) entry code
enhancements. In particular the complex parts of the 64-bit entry
code have been migrated to C code as well, and a number of dusty
corners have been refreshed. (Andy Lutomirski)
- vDSO special mapping robustification and general cleanups (Andy
Lutomirski)
- cpufeature refactoring, cleanups and speedups (Borislav Petkov)
- lots of other changes ..."
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
x86/cpufeature: Enable new AVX-512 features
x86/entry/traps: Show unhandled signal for i386 in do_trap()
x86/entry: Call enter_from_user_mode() with IRQs off
x86/entry/32: Change INT80 to be an interrupt gate
x86/entry: Improve system call entry comments
x86/entry: Remove TIF_SINGLESTEP entry work
x86/entry/32: Add and check a stack canary for the SYSENTER stack
x86/entry/32: Simplify and fix up the SYSENTER stack #DB/NMI fixup
x86/entry: Only allocate space for tss_struct::SYSENTER_stack if needed
x86/entry: Vastly simplify SYSENTER TF (single-step) handling
x86/entry/traps: Clear DR6 early in do_debug() and improve the comment
x86/entry/traps: Clear TIF_BLOCKSTEP on all debug exceptions
x86/entry/32: Restore FLAGS on SYSEXIT
x86/entry/32: Filter NT and speed up AC filtering in SYSENTER
x86/entry/compat: In SYSENTER, sink AC clearing below the existing FLAGS test
selftests/x86: In syscall_nt, test NT|TF as well
x86/asm-offsets: Remove PARAVIRT_enabled
x86/entry/32: Introduce and use X86_BUG_ESPFIX instead of paravirt_enabled
uprobes: __create_xol_area() must nullify xol_mapping.fault
x86/cpufeature: Create a new synthetic cpu capability for machine check recovery
...
Also, keep the churn at minimum by adjusting the include "perf_event.h"
when each file gets moved.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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/1454947748-28629-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Move them to a separate header and have the following
dependency:
x86/cpufeatures.h <- x86/processor.h <- x86/cpufeature.h
This makes it easier to use the header in asm code and not
include the whole cpufeature.h and add guards for asm.
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patch adds new PMUs to support cstate related free running
(read-only) counters. These counters may be used simultaneously by other
tools, such as turbostat. However, it still make sense to implement them
in perf. Because we can conveniently collect them together with other
events, and allow to use them from tools without special MSR access
code.
These counters include CORE_C*_RESIDENCY and PKG_C*_RESIDENCY.
According to counters' scope and category, two PMUs are registered with
the perf_event core subsystem.
- 'cstate_core': The counter is available for each physical core. The
counters include CORE_C*_RESIDENCY.
- 'cstate_pkg': The counter is available for each physical package. The
counters include PKG_C*_RESIDENCY.
The events are exposed in sysfs for use by perf stat and other tools.
The files are:
/sys/devices/cstate_core/events/c*-residency
/sys/devices/cstate_pkg/events/c*-residency
These events only support system-wide mode counting.
The /sys/devices/cstate_*/cpumask file can be used by tools to figure
out which CPUs to monitor by default.
The PMU type (attr->type) is dynamically allocated and is available from
/sys/devices/core_misc/type and /sys/device/cstate_*/type.
Sampling is not supported.
Here is an example.
- To caculate the fraction of time when the core is running in C6 state
CORE_C6_time% = CORE_C6_RESIDENCY / TSC
# perf stat -x, -e"cstate_core/c6-residency/,msr/tsc/" -C0 -- taskset -c 0 sleep 5
11838820015,,cstate_core/c6-residency/,5175919658,100.00
11877130740,,msr/tsc/,5175922010,100.00
For sleep, 99.7% of time we ran in C6 state.
# perf stat -x, -e"cstate_core/c6-residency/,msr/tsc/" -C0 -- taskset -c 0 busyloop
1253316,,cstate_core/c6-residency/,4360969154,100.00
10012635248,,msr/tsc/,4360972366,100.00
For busyloop, 0.01% of time we ran in C6 state.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443443404-8581-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patch adds an MSR PMU to support free running MSR counters. Such
as time and freq related counters includes TSC, IA32_APERF, IA32_MPERF
and IA32_PPERF, but also SMI_COUNT.
The events are exposed in sysfs for use by perf stat and other tools.
The files are under /sys/devices/msr/events/
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
[ s/freq/msr/, added SMI_COUNT, fixed bugs. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: jolsa@kernel.org
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
Cc: namhyung@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437407346-31186-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add support for Branch Trace Store (BTS) via kernel perf event infrastructure.
The difference with the existing implementation of BTS support is that this
one is a separate PMU that exports events' trace buffers to userspace by means
of AUX area of the perf buffer, which is zero-copy mapped into userspace.
The immediate benefit is that the buffer size can be much bigger, resulting in
fewer interrupts and no kernel side copying is involved and little to no trace
data loss. Also, kernel code can be traced with this driver.
The old way of collecting BTS traces still works.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422614435-114702-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add support for Intel Processor Trace (PT) to kernel's perf events.
PT is an extension of Intel Architecture that collects information about
software execuction such as control flow, execution modes and timings and
formats it into highly compressed binary packets. Even being compressed,
these packets are generated at hundreds of megabytes per second per core,
which makes it impractical to decode them on the fly in the kernel.
This driver exports trace data by through AUX space in the perf ring
buffer, which is zero-copy mapped into userspace for faster data retrieval.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422614392-114498-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Commit 9def39be4e ("x86: Support compiling out human-friendly
processor feature names") made two source file targets
conditional. Such conditional targets will not be cleaned
automatically by make mrproper.
Fix by adding explicit clean-files targets for the two files.
Fixes: 9def39be4e ("x86: Support compiling out human-friendly processor feature names")
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1419335863-10608-1-git-send-email-bjorn@mork.no
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side updates:
- Fix and enhance poll support (Jiri Olsa)
- Re-enable inheritance optimization (Jiri Olsa)
- Enhance Intel memory events support (Stephane Eranian)
- Refactor the Intel uncore driver to be more maintainable (Zheng
Yan)
- Enhance and fix Intel CPU and uncore PMU drivers (Peter Zijlstra,
Andi Kleen)
- [ plus various smaller fixes/cleanups ]
User visible tooling updates:
- Add +field argument support for --field option, so that one can add
fields to the default list of fields to show, ie now one can just
do:
perf report --fields +pid
And the pid will appear in addition to the default fields (Jiri
Olsa)
- Add +field argument support for --sort option (Jiri Olsa)
- Honour -w in the report tools (report, top), allowing to specify
the widths for the histogram entries columns (Namhyung Kim)
- Properly show submicrosecond times in 'perf kvm stat' (Christian
Borntraeger)
- Add beautifier for mremap flags param in 'trace' (Alex Snast)
- perf script: Allow callchains if any event samples them
- Don't truncate Intel style addresses in 'annotate' (Alex Converse)
- Allow profiling when kptr_restrict == 1 for non root users, kernel
samples will just remain unresolved (Andi Kleen)
- Allow configuring default options for callchains in config file
(Namhyung Kim)
- Support operations for shared futexes. (Davidlohr Bueso)
- "perf kvm stat report" improvements by Alexander Yarygin:
- Save pid string in opts.target.pid
- Enable the target.system_wide flag
- Unify the title bar output
- [ plus lots of other fixes and small improvements. ]
Tooling infrastructure changes:
- Refactor unit and scale function parameters for PMU parsing
routines (Matt Fleming)
- Improve DSO long names lookup with rbtree, resulting in great
speedup for workloads with lots of DSOs (Waiman Long)
- We were not handling POLLHUP notifications for event file
descriptors
Fix it by filtering entries in the events file descriptor array
after poll() returns, refcounting mmaps so that when the last fd
pointing to a perf mmap goes away we do the unmap (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
- Intel PT prep work, from Adrian Hunter, including:
- Let a user specify a PMU event without any config terms
- Add perf-with-kcore script
- Let default config be defined for a PMU
- Add perf_pmu__scan_file()
- Add a 'perf test' for tracking with sched_switch
- Add 'flush' callback to scripting API
- Use ring buffer consume method to look like other tools (Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo)
- hists browser (used in top and report) refactorings, getting rid of
unused variables and reducing source code size by handling similar
cases in a fewer functions (Namhyung Kim).
- Replace thread unsafe strerror() with strerror_r() accross the
whole tools/perf/ tree (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Rename ordered_samples to ordered_events and allow setting a queue
size for ordering events (Jiri Olsa)
- [ plus lots of fixes, cleanups and other improvements ]"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (198 commits)
perf/x86: Tone down kernel messages when the PMU check fails in a virtual environment
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix minor race in box set up
perf record: Fix error message for --filter option not coming after tracepoint
perf tools: Fix build breakage on arm64 targets
perf symbols: Improve DSO long names lookup speed with rbtree
perf symbols: Encapsulate dsos list head into struct dsos
perf bench futex: Sanitize -q option in requeue
perf bench futex: Support operations for shared futexes
perf trace: Fix mmap return address truncation to 32-bit
perf tools: Refactor unit and scale function parameters
perf tools: Fix line number in the config file error message
perf tools: Convert {record,top}.call-graph option to call-graph.record-mode
perf tools: Introduce perf_callchain_config()
perf callchain: Move some parser functions to callchain.c
perf tools: Move callchain config from record_opts to callchain_param
perf hists browser: Fix callchain print bug on TUI
perf tools: Use ACCESS_ONCE() instead of volatile cast
perf tools: Modify error code for when perf_session__new() fails
perf tools: Fix perf record as non root with kptr_restrict == 1
perf stat: Fix --per-core on multi socket systems
...
The table mapping CPUID bits to human-readable strings takes up a
non-trivial amount of space, and only exists to support /proc/cpuinfo
and a couple of kernel messages. Since programs depend on the format of
/proc/cpuinfo, force inclusion of the table when building with /proc
support; otherwise, support omitting that table to save space, in which
case the kernel messages will print features numerically instead.
In addition to saving 1408 bytes out of vmlinux, this also saves 1373
bytes out of the uncompressed setup code, which contributes directly to
the size of bzImage.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c only exists to support files in /proc; omit that
file when compiling without CONFIG_PROC_FS.
Saves 645 additional bytes on 32-bit x86 when !CONFIG_PROC_FS:
add/remove: 0/5 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 0/-645 (-645)
function old new delta
c_stop 1 - -1
c_next 11 - -11
cpuinfo_op 16 - -16
c_start 24 - -24
show_cpuinfo 593 - -593
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Pull x86 microcode loader updates from Ingo Molnar:
"There are two main changes in this tree:
- AMD microcode early loading fixes
- some microcode loader source files reorganization"
* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, microcode: Move to a proper location
x86, microcode, AMD: Fix early ucode loading
x86, microcode: Share native MSR accessing variants
x86, ramdisk: Export relocated ramdisk VA
We've grown a bunch of microcode loader files all prefixed with
"microcode_". They should be under cpu/ because this is strictly
CPU-related functionality so do that and drop the prefix since they're
in their own directory now which gives that prefix. :)
While at it, drop MICROCODE_INTEL_LIB config item and stash the
functionality under CONFIG_MICROCODE_INTEL as it was its only user.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
This patch adds a new uncore PMU to expose the Intel
RAPL energy consumption counters. Up to 3 counters,
each counting a particular RAPL event are exposed.
The RAPL counters are available on Intel SandyBridge,
IvyBridge, Haswell. The server skus add a 3rd counter.
The following events are available and exposed in sysfs:
- power/energy-cores: power consumption of all cores on socket
- power/energy-pkg: power consumption of all cores + LLc cache
- power/energy-dram: power consumption of DRAM (servers only)
For each event both the unit (Joules) and scale (2^-32 J)
is exposed in sysfs for use by perf stat and other tools.
The files are:
/sys/devices/power/events/energy-*.unit
/sys/devices/power/events/energy-*.scale
The RAPL PMU is uncore by nature and is implemented such
that it only works in system-wide mode. Measuring only
one CPU per socket is sufficient. The /sys/devices/power/cpumask
file can be used by tools to figure out which CPUs to monitor
by default. For instance, on a 2-socket system, 2 CPUs
(one on each socket) will be shown.
All the counters measure in the same unit (exposed via sysfs).
The perf_events API exposes all RAPL counters as 64-bit integers
counting in unit of 1/2^32 Joules (about 0.23 nJ). User level tools
must convert the counts by multiplying them by 2^-32 to obtain
Joules. The reason for this is that the kernel avoids
doing floating point math whenever possible because it is
expensive (user floating-point state must be saved). The method
used avoids kernel floating-point usage. There is no loss of
precision. Thanks to PeterZ for suggesting this approach.
To convert the raw count in Watt:
W = C * 2.3 / (1e10 * time)
or ldexp(C, -32).
RAPL PMU is a new standalone PMU which registers with the
perf_event core subsystem. The PMU type (attr->type) is
dynamically allocated and is available from /sys/device/power/type.
Sampling is not supported by the RAPL PMU. There is no
privilege level filtering either.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Maria Dimakopoulou <maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384275531-10892-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Implement a perf PMU to handle IOMMU performance counters and events.
The PMU only supports counting mode (e.g. perf stat). Since the counters
are shared across all cores, the PMU is implemented as "system-wide" mode.
To invoke the AMD IOMMU PMU, issue a perf tool command such as:
./perf stat -a -e amd_iommu/<events>/ <command>
or:
./perf stat -a -e amd_iommu/config=<config-data>,config1=<config1-data>/ <command>
For example:
./perf stat -a -e amd_iommu/mem_trans_total/ <command>
The resulting count will be how many IOMMU total peripheral memory
operations were performed during the command execution window.
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1370466709-3212-3-git-send-email-suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 paravirt update from Ingo Molnar:
"Various paravirtualization related changes - the biggest one makes
guest support optional via CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST"
* 'x86-paravirt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, wakeup, sleep: Use pvops functions for changing GDT entries
x86, xen, gdt: Remove the pvops variant of store_gdt.
x86-32, gdt: Store/load GDT for ACPI S3 or hibernation/resume path is not needed
x86-64, gdt: Store/load GDT for ACPI S3 or hibernate/resume path is not needed.
x86: Make Linux guest support optional
x86, Kconfig: Move PARAVIRT_DEBUG into the paravirt menu
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Features:
- Add "uretprobes" - an optimization to uprobes, like kretprobes are
an optimization to kprobes. "perf probe -x file sym%return" now
works like kretprobes. By Oleg Nesterov.
- Introduce per core aggregation in 'perf stat', from Stephane
Eranian.
- Add memory profiling via PEBS, from Stephane Eranian.
- Event group view for 'annotate' in --stdio, --tui and --gtk, from
Namhyung Kim.
- Add support for AMD NB and L2I "uncore" counters, by Jacob Shin.
- Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore support, by Zheng Yan
- IBM zEnterprise EC12 oprofile support patchlet from Robert Richter.
- Add perf test entries for checking breakpoint overflow signal
handler issues, from Jiri Olsa.
- Add perf test entry for for checking number of EXIT events, from
Namhyung Kim.
- Add perf test entries for checking --cpu in record and stat, from
Jiri Olsa.
- Introduce perf stat --repeat forever, from Frederik Deweerdt.
- Add --no-demangle to report/top, from Namhyung Kim.
- PowerPC fixes plus a couple of cleanups/optimizations in uprobes
and trace_uprobes, by Oleg Nesterov.
Various fixes and refactorings:
- Fix dependency of the python binding wrt libtraceevent, from
Naohiro Aota.
- Simplify some perf_evlist methods and to allow 'stat' to share code
with 'record' and 'trace', by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.
- Remove dead code in related to libtraceevent integration, from
Namhyung Kim.
- Revert "perf sched: Handle PERF_RECORD_EXIT events" to get 'perf
sched lat' back working, by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
- We don't use Newt anymore, just plain libslang, by Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo.
- Kill a bunch of die() calls, from Namhyung Kim.
- Fix build on non-glibc systems due to libio.h absence, from Cody P
Schafer.
- Remove some perf_session and tracing dead code, from David Ahern.
- Honor parallel jobs, fix from Borislav Petkov
- Introduce tools/lib/lk library, initially just removing duplication
among tools/perf and tools/vm. from Borislav Petkov
... and many more I missed to list, see the shortlog and git log for
more details."
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (136 commits)
perf/x86/intel/P4: Robistify P4 PMU types
perf/x86/amd: Fix AMD NB and L2I "uncore" support
perf/x86/amd: Remove old-style NB counter support from perf_event_amd.c
perf/x86: Check all MSRs before passing hw check
perf/x86/amd: Add support for AMD NB and L2I "uncore" counters
perf/x86/intel: Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore support
perf/x86/intel: Fix SNB-EP CBO and PCU uncore PMU filter management
perf/x86: Avoid kfree() in CPU_{STARTING,DYING}
uprobes/perf: Avoid perf_trace_buf_prepare/submit if ->perf_events is empty
uprobes/tracing: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
uprobes/tracing: Change create_trace_uprobe() to support uretprobes
uprobes/tracing: Make seq_printf() code uretprobe-friendly
uprobes/tracing: Make register_uprobe_event() paths uretprobe-friendly
uprobes/tracing: Make uprobe_{trace,perf}_print() uretprobe-friendly
uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_ret_probe() and uretprobe_dispatcher()
uprobes/tracing: Introduce uprobe_{trace,perf}_print() helpers
uprobes/tracing: Generalize struct uprobe_trace_entry_head
uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless local_save_flags/preempt_count calls
uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless seq_print_ip_sym() call
uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless task_pt_regs() calls
...
Generate asm-x86/cpufeature.h with posix-2008 commands instead of perl.
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowell@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support for AMD Family 15h [and above] northbridge
performance counters. MSRs 0xc0010240 ~ 0xc0010247 are shared
across all cores that share a common northbridge.
Add support for AMD Family 16h L2 performance counters. MSRs
0xc0010230 ~ 0xc0010237 are shared across all cores that share a
common L2 cache.
We do not enable counter overflow interrupts. Sampling mode and
per-thread events are not supported.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130419213428.GA8229@jshin-Toonie
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Put all config options needed to run Linux as a guest behind a
CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST menu so that they don't get built-in by default
but be selectable by the user. Also, make all units which depend on
x86_hyper, depend on this new symbol so that compilation doesn't fail
when CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST is disabled but those units assume its
presence.
Sort options in the new HYPERVISOR_GUEST menu, adapt config text and
drop redundant select.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362428421-9244-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The following patch adds perf_event support for the Xeon-Phi
PMU, as documented in the "Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor (codename:
Knights Corner) Performance Monitoring Units" manual.
Even though it is a co-processor, a Phi runs a full Linux
environment and can support performance counters.
This is just barebones support, it does not add support for
interesting new features such as the SPFLT intruction that
allows starting/stopping events without entering the kernel.
The PMU internally is just like that of an original Pentium, but
a "P6-like" MSR interface is provided. The interface is
different enough from a real P6 that it's not easy (or
practical) to re-use the code in perf_event_p6.c
Acked-by: Lawrence F Meadows <lawrence.f.meadows@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: eranian@gmail.com
Cc: Lawrence F <lawrence.f.meadows@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1209261405320.8398@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change is a performance improvement on SMP systems:
| 4 socket 40 core + SMT Westmere box, single 30 sec tbench
| runs, higher is better:
|
| clients 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
|..........................................................................
| pre 30 41 118 645 3769 6214 12233 14312
| post 299 603 1211 2418 4697 6847 11606 14557
|
| A nice increase in performance.
which speedup is particularly noticeable on heavily interacting
few-tasks workloads, so the changes should help desktop-style Xorg
workloads and interactivity as well, on multi-core CPUs.
There are also cpuset suspend behavior fixes/restructuring and various
smaller tweaks."
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched: Fix race in task_group()
sched: Improve balance_cpu() to consider other cpus in its group as target of (pinned) task
sched: Reset loop counters if all tasks are pinned and we need to redo load balance
sched: Reorder 'struct lb_env' members to reduce its size
sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random perturbations
cpusets: Remove/update outdated comments
cpusets, hotplug: Restructure functions that are invoked during hotplug
cpusets, hotplug: Implement cpuset tree traversal in a helper function
CPU hotplug, cpusets, suspend: Don't modify cpusets during suspend/resume
sched/x86: Remove broken power estimation
The x86 sched power implementation has been broken forever and gets in
the way of other stuff, remove it.
[ For archaeological interest, fixing this code would require dealing
with the cross-cpu calling of these functions and more importantly, we
need to filter idle time out of the a/m-perf stuff because the ratio
will go down to 0 when idle, giving a 0 capacity which is not what
we'd want. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339594110.8980.38.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patch adds the generic Intel uncore PMU support, including helper
functions that add/delete uncore events, a hrtimer that periodically
polls the counters to avoid overflow and code that places all events
for a particular socket onto a single cpu.
The code design is based on the structure of Sandy Bridge-EP's uncore
subsystem, which consists of a variety of components, each component
contains one or more "boxes".
(Tooling support follows in the next patches.)
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yan <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339741902-8449-6-git-send-email-zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
