Impact: fix stuck NMIs and non-working oprofile on certain CPUs
Resetting the counter width of the performance counters on Intel's
Core2 CPUs, breaks the delivery of NMIs, when running in x86_64 mode.
This should fix bug #12395:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12395
Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090303100412.GC10085@erda.amd.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch creates the new functions
oprofile_write_reserve()
oprofile_add_data()
oprofile_write_commit()
and makes them part of the oprofile api.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
The new ring buffer implementation allows the storage of samples with
different size. This patch implements the usage of the new sample
format to store ibs samples in the cpu buffer. Until now, writing to
the cpu buffer could lead to incomplete sampling sequences since IBS
samples were transfered in multiple samples. Due to a full buffer,
data could be lost at any time. This can't happen any more since the
complete data is reserved in advance and then stored in a single
sample.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Special events such as task or context switches are marked with an
escape code in the cpu buffer followed by an event code or a task
identifier. There is one escape code per event. To make escape
sequences also available for data samples the internal cpu buffer
format must be changed. The current implementation does not allow the
extension of event codes since this would lead to collisions with the
task identifiers. To avoid this, this patch introduces an event mask
that allows the storage of multiple events with one escape code. Now,
task identifiers are stored in the data section of the sample. The
implementation also allows the usage of custom data in a sample. As a
side effect the new code is much more readable and easier to
understand.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
This patch fixes the PCI device use count for AMD northbridge
devices. In case of an IBS LVT initialization failure, the PCI device
is released now by calling pci_dev_put().
If there are no initialization errors, the devices are released in
pci_get_device() while iterating.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Implementation of pairwise init/exit funcions for IBS and IBS NMI
setup. There are also some function renames and the removal of forward
function declarations.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Alan Jenkins wrote:
> This is on an EeePC 701, /proc/cpuinfo as attached.
>
> Is this expected? Will the next release work?
>
> Thanks, Alan
>
> # opcontrol --setup --no-vmlinux
> cpu_type 'unset' is not valid
> you should upgrade oprofile or force the use of timer mode
>
> # opcontrol -v
> opcontrol: oprofile 0.9.4 compiled on Nov 29 2008 22:44:10
>
> # cat /dev/oprofile/cpu_type
> i386/p6
> # uname -r
> 2.6.28-rc6eeepc
Hi Alan,
Looking at the kernel driver code for oprofile it can return the "i386/p6" for
the cpu_type. However, looking at the user-space oprofile code there isn't the
matching entry in libop/op_cpu_type.c or the events/unit_mask files in
events/i386 directory.
The Intel AP-485 says this is a "Intel Pentium M processor model D". Seems like
the oprofile kernel driver should be identifying the processor as "i386/p6_mobile"
The driver identification code doesn't look quite right in nmi_init.c
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git;a=blob;f=arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c;h=022cd41ea9b4106e5884277096e80e9088a7c7a9;hb=HEAD
has:
409 case 10 ... 13:
410 *cpu_type = "i386/p6";
411 break;
Referring to the Intel AP-485:
case 10 and 11 should produce "i386/piii"
case 13 should produce "i386/p6_mobile"
I didn't see anything for case 12.
Something like the attached patch. I don't have a celeron machine to verify that
changes in this area of the kernel fix thing.
-Will
Signed-off-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
If oprofile statically compiled in kernel, a cpu unplug triggers
a panic in ppro_stop(), because a NULL pointer is dereferenced.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
reset_value was changed from long to u64 in commit
b991702884 (oprofile: Implement Intel
architectural perfmon support)
But dynamic allocation of this array use a wrong type (long instead of
u64)
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Fix the counter overflow check for CPUs with counter width > 32
I had a similar change in a different patch that I didn't submit
and I didn't notice the problem earlier because it was always
tested together.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
This patch adds the logic for enabling additional IBS control bits :
* IBS-Fetch IbsRandEn bit (bit 57)
* IBS-Op IbsOpCntCtl bit (bit 19)
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Discover number of counters for all family 6 models even when not
in arch perfmon mode.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Newer Intel CPUs (Core1+) have support for architectural
events described in CPUID 0xA. See the IA32 SDM Vol3b.18 for details.
The advantage of this is that it can be done without knowing about
the specific CPU, because the CPU describes by itself what
performance events are supported. This is only a fallback
because only a limited set of 6 events are supported.
This allows to do profiling on Nehalem and on Atom systems
(later not tested)
This patch implements support for that in oprofile's Intel
Family 6 profiling module. It also has the advantage of supporting
an arbitary number of events now as reported by the CPU.
Also allow arbitary counter widths >32bit while we're at it.
Requires a patched oprofile userland to support the new
architecture.
v2: update for latest oprofile tree
remove force_arch_perfmon
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
This essentially reverts Linus' earlier 4b9f12a377
commit. Nehalem is not core_2, so it shouldn't be reported as such.
However with the earlier arch perfmon patch it will fall back to
arch perfmon mode now, so there is no need to fake it as core_2.
The only drawback is that Linus will need to patch the arch perfmon
support into his oprofile binary now, but I think he can do that.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Vegard Nossum reported oprofile + hibernation problems:
> Now some warnings:
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at /uio/arkimedes/s29/vegardno/git-working/linux-2.6/kernel/smp.c:328 s
> mp_call_function_mask+0x194/0x1a0()
The usual problem: the suspend function when interrupts are
already disabled calls smp_call_function which is not allowed with
interrupt off. But at this point all the other CPUs should be already
down anyways, so it should be enough to just drop that.
This patch should fix that problem at least by fixing cpu hotplug&
suspend support.
[ mingo@elte.hu: fixed 5 coding style errors. ]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch introduces multiplexing support for the Oprofile kernel
module. It basically adds a new function pointer in oprofile_operator
allowing each architecture to supply its callback to switch between
different sets of event when the timer expires. Userspace tools can
modify the time slice through /dev/oprofile/time_slice.
It also modifies the number of counters exposed to the userspace through
/dev/oprofile. For example, the number of counters for AMD CPUs are
changed to 32 and multiplexed in the sets of 4.
Signed-off-by: Jason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
