Although the perf_counter API allows 63-bit raw event codes,
internally in the powerpc back-end we had been using 32-bit
event codes. This expands them to 64 bits so that we can add
bits for specifying threshold start/stop events and instruction
sampling modes later.
This also corrects the return value of can_go_on_limited_pmc;
we were returning an event code rather than just a 0/1 value in
some circumstances. That didn't particularly matter while event
codes were 32-bit, but now that event codes are 64-bit it
might, so this fixes it.
[ Impact: extend PowerPC perfcounter interfaces from u32 to u64 ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18955.36874.472452.353104@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Provide perf top -F as alternative to -c.
[ Impact: new 'perf top' feature ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.707922166@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Instead of specifying the irq_period for a counter, provide a target interrupt
frequency and dynamically adapt the irq_period to match this frequency.
[ Impact: new perf-counter attribute/feature ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.646195868@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Instead of a per-process mlock gift for perf-counters, use a
per-user gift so that there is less of a DoS potential.
[ Impact: allow less worst-case unprivileged memory consumption ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.496182835@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now that ACPI idle doesn't use it anymore, remove the exports.
[ Impact: remove dead code/data ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.429826617@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Before this change, if a long-running perf stat workload was Ctrl-C-ed,
the utility exited without displaying statistics.
After the change, the Ctrl-C gets propagated into the workload (and
causes its early exit there), but perf stat itself will still continue
to run and will display counter results.
This is useful to run open-ended workloads, let them run for
a while, then Ctrl-C them to get the stats.
[ Impact: extend perf stat with new functionality ]
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We had a disable/enable around acpi_idle_do_entry() due to an erratum
in an early prototype CPU i had access to. That erratum has been fixed
in the BIOS so remove the quirk.
The quirk also kept us from profiling interrupts that hit the ACPI idle
instruction - so this is an improvement as well, beyond a cleanup and
a micro-optimization.
[ Impact: improve profiling scope, cleanup, micro-optimization ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
intel_pmu_handle_irq() can lock up in an infinite loop if the hardware
does not allow the acking of irqs. Alas, this happened in testing so
make this robust and emit a warning if it happens in the future.
Also, clean up the IRQ handlers a bit.
[ Impact: improve perfcounter irq/nmi handling robustness ]
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On certain CPUs i have observed a stuck PMU if interval was set to
1 and NMIs were used. The PMU had PMC0 set in MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS,
but it was not possible to ack it via MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL,
and the NMI loop got stuck infinitely.
[ Impact: fix rare hangs during high perfcounter load ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Two consecutive NMIs could daze and confuse the machine when the
first would handle the overflow of both counters.
[ Impact: fix false-positive syslog messages under multi-session profiling ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The current disable/enable mechanism is:
token = hw_perf_save_disable();
...
/* do bits */
...
hw_perf_restore(token);
This works well, provided that the use nests properly. Except we don't.
x86 NMI/INT throttling has non-nested use of this, breaking things. Therefore
provide a reference counter disable/enable interface, where the first disable
disables the hardware, and the last enable enables the hardware again.
[ Impact: refactor, simplify the PMU disable/enable logic ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf_counter_unthrottle() restores throttle_ctrl, buts its never set.
Also, we fail to disable all counters when throttling.
[ Impact: fix rare stuck perf-counters when they are throttled ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The simple reservation test in perf_output_copy() failed to take
unsigned int overflow into account, fix this.
[ Impact: fix false positive warning with more than 4GB of profiling data ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If counters are disabled globally when a perfcounter IRQ/NMI hits,
and if we throttle in that case, we'll promote the '0' value to
the next lapic IRQ and disable all perfcounters at that point,
permanently ...
Fix it.
[ Impact: fix hung perfcounters under load ]
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Take the counter width into account instead of assuming 32 bits.
In particular Nehalem has 44 bit wide counters, and all
arithmetics should happen on a 44-bit signed integer basis.
[ Impact: fix rare event imprecision, warning message on Nehalem ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Allow specifying a pid instead of always fork+exec'ing a command.
Because the PERF_EVENT_COMM and PERF_EVENT_MMAP events happened before
we connected, we must synthesize them so that 'perf report' can get what
it needs.
[ Impact: add new command line option ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090515015046.GA13664@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I noticed that when enabling a group via the PERF_COUNTER_IOC_ENABLE
ioctl on the group leader, the counters weren't enabled and counting
immediately on return from the ioctl, but did start counting a little
while later (presumably after a context switch).
The reason was that __perf_counter_enable calls group_sched_in which
calls hw_perf_group_sched_in, which on powerpc assumes that the caller
has called hw_perf_save_disable already. Until commit 46d686c6
("perf_counter: put whole group on when enabling group leader") it was
true that all callers of group_sched_in had called
hw_perf_save_disable first, and the powerpc hw_perf_group_sched_in
relies on that (there isn't an x86 version).
This fixes the problem by putting calls to hw_perf_save_disable /
hw_perf_restore around the calls to group_sched_in and
counter_sched_in in __perf_counter_enable. Having the calls to
hw_perf_save_disable/restore around the counter_sched_in call is
harmless and makes this call consistent with the other call sites
of counter_sched_in, which have all called hw_perf_save_disable first.
[ Impact: more precise counter group disable/enable functionality ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <18953.25733.53359.147452@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
A compile warning triggered because we are calling
atomic_set(&counter->count). But since counter->count
is an atomic64_t, we have to use atomic64_set.
So the count can be set short, resulting in the reset ioctl
only resetting the low word.
[ Impact: clear counter properly during the reset ioctl ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <18951.48285.270311.981806@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The context-switch software counter gives inflated values at present
because each scheduler tick and each process-wide counter
enable/disable prctl gets counted as a context switch.
This happens because perf_counter_task_tick, perf_counter_task_disable
and perf_counter_task_enable all call perf_counter_task_sched_out,
which calls perf_swcounter_event to record a context switch event.
This fixes it by introducing a variant of perf_counter_task_sched_out
with two underscores in front for internal use within the perf_counter
code, and makes perf_counter_task_{tick,disable,enable} call it. This
variant doesn't record a context switch event, and takes a struct
perf_counter_context *. This adds the new variant rather than
changing the behaviour or interface of perf_counter_task_sched_out
because that is called from other code.
[ Impact: fix inflated context-switch event counts ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <18951.48034.485580.498953@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently, if you have a group where the leader is disabled and there
are siblings that are enabled, and then you enable the leader, we only
put the leader on the PMU, and not its enabled siblings. This is
incorrect, since the enabled group members should be all on or all off
at any given point.
This fixes it by adding a call to group_sched_in in
__perf_counter_enable in the case where we're enabling a group leader.
To avoid the need for a forward declaration this also moves
group_sched_in up before __perf_counter_enable. The actual content of
group_sched_in is unchanged by this patch.
[ Impact: fix bug in counter enable code ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <18951.34946.451546.691693@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
s/PERFMON/perfcounters for perfcounter interrupt throttling warning.
'perfmon' is the CPU feature name that is Intel-only, while we do
throttling in a generic way.
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There is a buffer overwrite problem in builtin-top.c line 526, When I
tried to use ./perf top command, it was giving memory corruption
problem.
[ Impact: fix 'perf top' crash ]
LKML-Reference: <3fee128b0905092313x608e65e0l7b1116d86914114f@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Allow recording the CPU number the event was generated on.
RFC: this leaves a u32 as reserved, should we fill in the
node_id() there, or leave this open for future extention,
as userspace can already easily do the cpu->node mapping
if needed.
[ Impact: extend perfcounter output record format ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090508170029.008627711@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Much like CONFIG_RECORD_GROUP records the hw_event.config to
identify the values, allow to record this for all counters.
[ Impact: extend perfcounter output record format ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090508170028.923228280@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Corey noticed that ioctl()s on grouped counters didn't work on
the whole group. This extends the ioctl() interface to take a
second argument that is interpreted as a flags field. We then
provide PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP to toggle the behaviour.
Having this flag gives the greatest flexibility, allowing you
to individually enable/disable/reset counters in a group, or
all together.
[ Impact: fix group counter enable/disable semantics ]
Reported-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090508170028.837558214@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf_counter_task_tick() does way too much work to find out
there's nothing to do. Provide an easy short-circuit for the
normal case where there are no counters on the system.
[ Impact: micro-optimization ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090508170028.750619201@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge reason: we moved a mutex.h commit that originated from the
perfcounters tree into core/locking - but now merge
back that branch to solve a merge artifact and to
pick up cleanups of this commit that happened in
core/locking.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Redirect the output to the parent counter and put in some sanity checks.
[ Impact: new perfcounter feature - inherited sampling counters ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.331556171@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use -1 instead of 0 as unlocked, since 0 is a valid cpu number.
( This is not an issue right now but will be once we allow multiple
counters to output to the same mmap area. )
[ Impact: prepare code for multi-counter profile output ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.232686598@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Provide a threshold to relax the mlock accounting, increasing usability.
Each counter gets perf_counter_mlock_kb for free.
[ Impact: allow more mmap buffering ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.112113632@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Provide a way to reset an existing counter - this eases PAPI
libraries around perfcounters.
Similar to read() it doesn't collapse pending child counters.
[ Impact: new perfcounter fd ioctl method to reset counters ]
Suggested-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.022272933@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Keep data_head up-to-date irrespective of notifications. This fixes
the case where you disable a counter and don't get a notification for
the last few pending events, and it also allows polling usage.
[ Impact: increase precision of perfcounter mmap-ed fields ]
Suggested-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155436.925084300@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fixed-purpose counters stopped working in a simple 'perf stat ls' run:
<not counted> cache references
<not counted> cache misses
Due to:
ef7b3e0: perf_counter, x86: remove vendor check in fixed_mode_idx()
Which made x86_pmu.num_counters_fixed matter: if it's nonzero, the
fixed-purpose counters are utilized.
But on v2 perfmon this field is not set (despite there being
fixed-purpose PMCs). So add a quirk to set the number of fixed-purpose
counters to at least three.
[ Impact: add quirk for three fixed-purpose counters on certain Intel CPUs ]
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1241002046-8832-28-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now percpu counters can be initialized very early. But the init
sequence uses mutex_lock(). Fortunately, perf_resource_mutex should
be a spinlock anyway, so convert it.
[ Impact: fix crash due to early init mutex use ]
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
percpu scheduling for perfcounters wants to take the context lock,
but that lock first needs to be initialized. Currently it is an
early_initcall() - but that is too late, the task tick runs much
sooner than that.
Call it explicitly from the scheduler init sequence instead.
[ Impact: fix access-before-init crash ]
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Invert the atomic_inc_not_zero() test so that we will indeed detect the
first activation.
Also rename the global num_counters, since its easy to confuse with
x86_pmu.num_counters.
[ Impact: fix non-working perfcounters on AMD CPUs, cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1241455664.7620.4938.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This used to be unstable when we had the rq->lock dependencies,
but now that they are that of the past we can turn on percpu
counter RR too.
[ Impact: handle counter over-commit for per-CPU counters too ]
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Update the documentation to reflect the current state of affairs
[ Impact: documentation update ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090501102533.296727903@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
