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>
There's a growing number of drivers that support a specific x86 feature
or CPU. Currently loading these drivers currently on a generic
distribution requires various driver specific hacks and it often
doesn't work.
This patch adds auto probing for drivers based on the x86 cpuid
information, in particular based on vendor/family/model number
and also based on CPUID feature bits.
For example a common issue is not loading the SSE 4.2 accelerated
CRC module: this can significantly lower the performance of BTRFS
which relies on fast CRC.
Another issue is loading the right CPUFREQ driver for the current CPU.
Currently distributions often try all all possible driver until
one sticks, which is not really a good way to do this.
It works with existing udev without any changes. The code
exports the x86 information as a generic string in sysfs
that can be matched by udev's pattern matching.
This scheme does not support numeric ranges, so if you want to
handle e.g. ranges of model numbers they have to be encoded
in ASCII or simply all models or families listed. Fixing
that would require changing udev.
Another issue is that udev will happily load all drivers that match,
there is currently no nice way to stop a specific driver from
being loaded if it's not needed (e.g. if you don't need fast CRC)
But there are not that many cpu specific drivers around and they're
all not that bloated, so this isn't a particularly serious issue.
Originally this patch added the modalias to the normal cpu
sysdevs. However sysdevs don't have all the infrastructure
needed for udev, so it couldn't really autoload drivers.
This patch instead adds the CPU modaliases to the cpuid devices,
which are real devices with full support for udev. This implies
that the cpuid driver has to be loaded to use this.
This patch just adds infrastructure, some driver conversions
in followups.
Thanks to Kay for helping with some sysfs magic.
v2: Constifcation, some updates
v4: (trenn@suse.de):
- Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc to terminate modalias buffer
- Use uppercase hex values to match correctly against hex values containing
letters
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jen Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'x86-rdrand-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, random: Verify RDRAND functionality and allow it to be disabled
x86, random: Architectural inlines to get random integers with RDRAND
random: Add support for architectural random hooks
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/char/random.c: the architectural
random hooks touched "get_random_int()" that was simplified to use MD5
and not do the keyptr thing any more (see commit 6e5714eaf7: "net:
Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5").
This patch implements IBS feature detection and initialzation. The
code is shared between perf and oprofile. If IBS is available on the
system for perf, a pmu is setup.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1316597423-25723-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The CPU support for perf events on x86 was implemented via included C files
with #ifdefs. Clean this up by creating a new header file and compiling
the vendor-specific files as needed.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314747665-2090-1-git-send-email-kjwinchester@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the CPU declares that RDRAND is available, go through a guranteed
reseed sequence, and make sure that it is actually working (producing
data.) If it does not, disable the CPU feature flag.
Allow RDRAND to be disabled on the command line (as opposed to at
compile time) for a user who has special requirements with regards to
random numbers.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Move cmpxchg emulation code from arch/x86/kernel/cpu (which is
otherwise CPU identification) to arch/x86/lib, where other emulation
code lives already.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTikAmaDPji-TVDarmG1yD=fwbffcsmEU=YEuP+8r@mail.gmail.com>
addon_cpuid_features.c contains exactly two almost completely
unrelated functions, plus has a long and very generic name. Split it
into two files, scattered.c for the scattered feature flags, and
topology.c for the topology information.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>
This patch integrates HyperV detection within the framework currently
used by VmWare. With this patch, we can avoid having to replicate the
HyperV detection code in each of the Microsoft HyperV drivers.
Reworked and tweaked by Greg K-H to build properly.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100506190841.GA1605@kroah.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG, which provides some parsed versions of the x86
CPU configuration via debugfs, has caused boot failures on real
hardware. The value of this feature has been marginal at best, as all
this information is already available to userspace via generic
interfaces.
Causes crashes that have not been fixed + minimal utility -> remove.
See the referenced LKML thread for more information.
Reported-by: Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001221755320.13231@localhost.localdomain>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Decreases perf overhead when function tracing is enabled,
by about 50%.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!
In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.
Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.
All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)
The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.
Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.
User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)
This patch has been generated via the following script:
FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')
sed -i \
-e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
-e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
-e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
-e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
-e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
-e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
$FILES
for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
mv $N $M
done
FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)
sed -i \
-e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
-e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
-e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
-e 's/counter/event/g' \
-e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
$FILES
... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.
Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.
( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )
Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
APERF/MPERF support for cpu_power.
APERF/MPERF is arch defined to be a relative scale of work capacity
per logical cpu, this is assumed to include SMT and Turbo mode.
APERF/MPERF are specified to both reset to 0 when either counter
wraps, which is highly inconvenient, since that'll give a blimp
when that happens. The manual specifies writing 0 to the counters
after each read, but that's 1) too expensive, and 2) destroys the
possibility of sharing these counters with other users, so we live
with the blimp - the other existing user does too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
load_percpu_segment() is used to set up the per-cpu segment registers,
which are also used for -fstack-protector. Make sure that the
load_percpu_segment() function doesn't have stackprotector enabled.
[ Impact: allow percpu setup before calling stack-protected functions ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Merge reason: we have gathered quite a few conflicts, need to merge upstream
Conflicts:
arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h
arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/Makefile
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
there should be no difference, except:
* the 64bit variant now also initializes the padlock unit.
* ->c_early_init() is executed again from ->c_init()
* the 64bit fixups made into 32bit path.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
LKML-Reference: <1237029843-28076-2-git-send-email-sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Introduce:
cat /sys/kernel/debug/x86/cpu/*
for Intel and AMD processors to view / debug the state of each CPU.
By using this we can debug whole range of registers and other
cpu information for debugging purpose and monitor how things
are changing.
This can be useful for developers as well as for users.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1236701373.3387.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
ftrace: enable format arguments checking
x86, bts: memory accounting
x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
trace: fix task state printout
ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
...
Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
Impact: fix a crash/hard-reboot on certain configs while enabling cpu runtime
On some archs, the boot of a secondary cpu can have an early fragile state.
On x86-64, the pda is not initialized on the first stage of a cpu boot but
it is needed to get the cpu number and the current task pointer. This data
is needed during tracing. As they were dereferenced at this stage, we got a
crash while tracing a cpu being enabled at runtime.
Some other archs like ia64 can have such kind of issue too.
Changes on v2:
We dropped the previous solution of a per-arch called function to guess the
current state of a cpu. That could slow down the tracing.
This patch removes the -pg flag on arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c where
the low level cpu boot functions exist, on start_secondary() and a helper
function used at this stage.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Implement performance counters for x86 Intel CPUs.
It's simplified right now: the PERFMON CPU feature is assumed,
which is available in Core2 and later Intel CPUs.
The design is flexible to be extended to more CPU types as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Changes timebase calibration on Vmware.
v3->v2 : Abstract the hypervisor detection and feature (tsc_freq) request
behind a hypervisor.c file
v2->v1 : Add a x86_hyper_vendor field to the cpuinfo_x86 structure.
This avoids multiple calls to the hypervisor detection function.
This patch adds function to detect if we are running under VMware.
The current way to check if we are on VMware is following,
# check if "hypervisor present bit" is set, if so read the 0x40000000
cpuid leaf and check for "VMwareVMware" signature.
# if the above fails, check the DMI vendors name for "VMware" string
if we find one we query the VMware hypervisor port to check if we are
under VMware.
The DMI + "VMware hypervisor port check" is needed for older VMware products,
which don't implement the hypervisor signature cpuid leaf.
Also note that since we are checking for the DMI signature the hypervisor
port should never be accessed on native hardware.
This patch also adds a hypervisor_get_tsc_freq function, instead of
calibrating the frequency which can be error prone in virtualized
environment, we ask the hypervisor for it. We get the frequency from
the hypervisor by accessing the hypervisor port if we are running on VMware.
Other hypervisors too can add code to the generic routine to get frequency on
their platform.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
now that arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_64.c and
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c are equal, drop
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_64.c and fix up
the glue.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
