linux_dsm_epyc7002/kernel/events
Gleb Natapov b202952075 perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching
jump_lable patching is very expensive operation that involves pausing all
cpus. The patching of perf_sched_events jump_label is easily controllable
from userspace by unprivileged user.

When te user runs a loop like this:

  "while true; do perf stat -e cycles true; done"

... the performance of my test application that just increments a counter
for one second drops by 4%.

This is on a 16 cpu box with my test application using only one of
them. An impact on a real server doing real work will be worse.

Performance of KVM PMU drops nearly 50% due to jump_lable for "perf
record" since KVM PMU implementation creates and destroys perf event
frequently.

This patch introduces a way to rate limit jump_label patching and uses
it to fix the above problem.

I believe that as jump_label use will spread the problem will become more
common and thus solving it in a generic code is appropriate. Also fixing
it in the perf code would result in moving jump_label accounting logic to
perf code with all the ifdefs in case of JUMP_LABEL=n kernel. With this
patch all details are nicely hidden inside jump_label code.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111127155909.GO2557@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 08:34:02 +01:00
..
callchain.c perf: Carve out callchain functionality 2011-11-14 13:31:26 +01:00
core.c perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching 2011-12-06 08:34:02 +01:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf: Add context field to perf_event 2011-07-01 11:06:38 +02:00
internal.h Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2011-12-06 06:43:49 +01:00
Makefile perf: Carve out callchain functionality 2011-11-14 13:31:26 +01:00
ring_buffer.c perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-event 2011-12-05 09:33:03 +01:00