1. 26 May, 2009 13 commits
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf_counter: Implement dso__load using libelf · 62eb9390
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      62eb9390
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      perf_counter tools: remove the standalone perf-report utility · fd4242bb
      Ingo Molnar authored
      With a built-in 'perf report' command now available, remove the
      standalone implementation for good.
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      fd4242bb
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      perf_counter: First part of 'perf report' conversion to C + elfutils · 8fa66bdc
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
      Integrate perf-report into 'perf', as builtin-report.c.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8fa66bdc
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf top: Convert to Git option parsing · b456bae0
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Remove getopt usage and use Git's much more advanced and more compact
      command option library.
      
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      b456bae0
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      perf stat: Convert to Git option parsing · 5242519b
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Remove getopt usage and use Git's much more advanced and more compact
      command option library.
      
      Extend the event parser library with the extensions that were in
      perf-stat before.
      
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      5242519b
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf_counter tools: Librarize event string parsing · 8ad8db37
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Extract the event string parser from builtin-record.c, and
      librarize it - to be reused in other commands.
      
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8ad8db37
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      perf record: Convert to Git option parsing · 0e9b20b8
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Remove getopt usage and use Git's much more advanced and more compact
      command option library.
      
      Git's library (util/parse-options.[ch]) constructs help texts and
      error messages automatically, and has a number of other convenience
      features as well.
      
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0e9b20b8
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf stat: Remove unused variable · 4e97ddf0
      Ingo Molnar authored
      [ Impact: cleanup ]
      
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      4e97ddf0
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf record: Straighten out argv types · 69aa48ab
      Ingo Molnar authored
      [ Impact: cleanup ]
      
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      69aa48ab
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf_counter: Initialize ->oncpu properly · 329d876d
      Ingo Molnar authored
      This shouldnt matter normally (and i have not seen any
      misbehavior), because active counters always have a
      proper ->oncpu value - but nevertheless initialize the
      field properly to -1.
      
      [ Impact: cleanup ]
      
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      329d876d
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf_counter, x86: Make NMI lockups more robust · aaba9801
      Ingo Molnar authored
      We have a debug check that detects stuck NMIs and returns with
      the PMU disabled in the global ctrl MSR - but i managed to trigger
      a situation where this was not enough to deassert the NMI.
      
      So clear/reset the full PMU and keep the disable count balanced when
      exiting from here. This way the box produces a debug warning but
      stays up and is more debuggable.
      
      [ Impact: in case of PMU related bugs, recover more gracefully ]
      
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      aaba9801
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf_counter, x86: Fix APIC NMI programming · 79202ba9
      Ingo Molnar authored
      My Nehalem box locks up in certain situations (with an
      always-asserted NMI causing a lockup) if the PMU LVT
      entry is programmed between NMI and IRQ mode with a
      high frequency.
      
      Standardize exlusively on NMIs instead.
      
      [ Impact: fix lockup ]
      
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      79202ba9
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      perf_counter: powerpc: Implement interrupt throttling · 8a7b8cb9
      Paul Mackerras authored
      This implements interrupt throttling on powerpc.  Since we don't have
      individual count enable/disable or interrupt enable/disable controls
      per counter, this simply sets the hardware counter to 0, meaning that
      it will not interrupt again until it has counted 2^31 counts, which
      will take at least 2^30 cycles assuming a maximum of 2 counts per
      cycle.  Also, we set counter->hw.period_left to the maximum possible
      value (2^63 - 1), so we won't report overflows for this counter for
      the forseeable future.
      
      The unthrottle operation restores counter->hw.period_left and the
      hardware counter so that we will once again report a counter overflow
      after counter->hw.irq_period counts.
      
      [ Impact: new perfcounters robustness feature on PowerPC ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      LKML-Reference: <18971.35823.643362.446774@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8a7b8cb9
  2. 25 May, 2009 14 commits
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf_counter: fix warning & lockup · 0127c3ea
      Ingo Molnar authored
       - remove bogus warning
       - fix wakeup from NMI path lockup
       - also fix up whitespace noise in perf_counter.h
      
      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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.703093461@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0127c3ea
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Revert "perf_counter, x86: speed up the scheduling fast-path" · 53b441a5
      Ingo Molnar authored
      This reverts commit b68f1d2e.
      
      It is causing problems (stuck/stuttering profiling) - when mixed
      NMI and non-NMI counters are used.
      
      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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.703093461@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      53b441a5
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Generic per counter interrupt throttle · a78ac325
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Introduce a generic per counter interrupt throttle.
      
      This uses the perf_counter_overflow() quick disable to throttle a specific
      counter when its going too fast when a pmu->unthrottle() method is provided
      which can undo the quick disable.
      
      Power needs to implement both the quick disable and the unthrottle method.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.703093461@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a78ac325
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: x86: Remove interrupt throttle · 48e22d56
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      remove the x86 specific interrupt throttle
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.616671838@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      48e22d56
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: x86: Expose INV and EDGE bits · ff99be57
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Expose the INV and EDGE bits of the PMU to raw configs.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.494709027@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      ff99be57
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Fix PERF_COUNTER_CONTEXT_SWITCHES for cpu counters · 10989fb2
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Ingo noticed that cpu counters had 0 context switches, even though
      there was plenty scheduling on the cpu.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.419025548@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      10989fb2
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Propagate inheritance failures down the fork() path · 6ab423e0
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Fail fork() when we fail inheritance for some reason (-ENOMEM most likely).
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.324656474@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6ab423e0
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Make pctrl() affect inherited counters too · 771d7cde
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Paul noted that the new ptcrl() didn't work on child counters.
      Reported-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.203151469@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      771d7cde
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      perf_counter: Remove unused ABI bits · e527ea31
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      extra_config_len isn't used for anything, remove it.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.116035832@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e527ea31
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Fix perf-$cmd invokation · 266dfb0b
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Fix:
      
        $ perf-top
        fatal: cannot handle -top internally
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090525124559.995591577@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      266dfb0b
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      perf stat: flip around ':k' and ':u' flags · d3f4b385
      Ingo Molnar authored
      This output:
      
       $ perf stat -e 0:1:k -e 0:1:u ./hello
        Performance counter stats for './hello':
                140131  instructions         (events)
               1906968  instructions         (events)
      
      Is quite confusing - as :k means "user instructions", :u means
      "kernel instructions".
      
      Flip them around - as the 'exclude' property is not intuitive in
      the flag naming.
      
      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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      d3f4b385
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      perf_counter: Move child perfcounter init to after scheduler init · e4cbb4e3
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Initialize a task's perfcounters (inherit from parent, etc.) after
      the child task's scheduler fields have been initialized already.
      
      [ Impact: cleanup ]
      
      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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e4cbb4e3
    • Mike Galbraith's avatar
      perf top: Reduce display overhead · d94b9430
      Mike Galbraith authored
      Iterate over the symbol table once per display interval, and
      copy/sort/tally/decay only those symbols which are active.
      
      Before:
      
       top - 10:14:53 up  4:08, 17 users,  load average: 1.17, 1.53, 1.49
       Tasks: 273 total,   5 running, 268 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
       Cpu(s):  6.9%us, 38.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 19.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi, 35.0%si,  0.0%st
      
         PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  P COMMAND
       28504 root      20   0  1044  260  164 S   58  0.0   0:04.19 2 netserver
       28499 root      20   0  1040  412  316 R   51  0.0   0:04.15 0 netperf
       28500 root      20   0  1040  408  316 R   50  0.0   0:04.14 1 netperf
       28503 root      20   0  1044  260  164 S   50  0.0   0:04.01 1 netserver
       28501 root      20   0  1044  260  164 S   49  0.0   0:03.99 0 netserver
       28502 root      20   0  1040  412  316 S   43  0.0   0:03.96 2 netperf
       28468 root      20   0 1892m 325m  972 S   16 10.8   0:10.50 3 perf
       28467 root      20   0 1892m 325m  972 R    2 10.8   0:00.72 3 perf
      
      After:
      
       top - 10:16:30 up  4:10, 17 users,  load average: 2.27, 1.88, 1.62
       Tasks: 273 total,   6 running, 267 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
       Cpu(s):  2.5%us, 39.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 24.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi, 33.3%si,  0.0%st
      
         PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  P COMMAND
       28590 root      20   0  1040  412  316 S   54  0.0   0:07.85 2 netperf
       28589 root      20   0  1044  260  164 R   54  0.0   0:07.84 0 netserver
       28588 root      20   0  1040  412  316 R   50  0.0   0:07.89 1 netperf
       28591 root      20   0  1044  256  164 S   50  0.0   0:07.82 1 netserver
       28587 root      20   0  1040  408  316 R   47  0.0   0:07.61 0 netperf
       28592 root      20   0  1044  260  164 R   47  0.0   0:07.85 2 netserver
       28378 root      20   0  8732 1300  860 R    2  0.0   0:01.81 3 top
       28577 root      20   0 1892m 165m  972 R    2  5.5   0:00.48 3 perf
       28578 root      20   0 1892m 165m  972 S    2  5.5   0:00.04 3 perf
      
      [ Impact: optimization ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      d94b9430
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      perf_counter tools: increase limits, fix · 85a9f920
      Ingo Molnar authored
      NR_CPUS and NR_COUNTERS goes up quadratic ... 1024x4096 was far
      too ambitious upper limit - go for 256x256 which is still plenty.
      
      [ Impact: reduce perf tool memory consumption ]
      
      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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      85a9f920
  3. 24 May, 2009 4 commits
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf_counter: Increase mmap limit · a3862d3f
      Ingo Molnar authored
      In a default 'perf top' run the tool will create a counter for
      each online CPU. With enough CPUs this will eventually exhaust
      the default limit.
      
      So scale it up with the number of online CPUs.
      
      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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a3862d3f
    • Mike Galbraith's avatar
      perf top: fix segfault · c2990a2a
      Mike Galbraith authored
      c6eb13 increased stack usage such that perf-top now croaks on startup.
      
      Take event_array and mmap_array off the stack to prevent segfault on boxen
      with smallish ulimit -s setting.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      c2990a2a
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Remove perf_counter_context::nr_enabled · 475c5579
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      now that pctrl() no longer disables other people's counters,
      remove the PMU cache code that deals with that.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090523163013.032998331@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      475c5579
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Change pctrl() behaviour · 082ff5a2
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Instead of en/dis-abling all counters acting on a particular
      task, en/dis- able all counters we created.
      
      [ v2: fix crash on first counter enable ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.916937244@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      082ff5a2
  4. 23 May, 2009 5 commits
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Simplify context cleanup · aa9c67f5
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Use perf_counter_remove_from_context() to remove counters from
      the context.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.796275849@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      aa9c67f5
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Fix userspace build · 1a482f38
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      recent userspace (F11) seems to already include the
      linux/unistd.h bits which means we cannot include the version
      in the kernel sources due to the header guards being the same.
      
      Ensure we include the kernel version first.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.739756497@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1a482f38
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Sanitize context locking · 682076ae
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Ensure we're consistent with the context locks.
      
       context->mutex
         context->lock
           list_{add,del}_counter();
      
      so that either lock is sufficient to stabilize the context.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.618790733@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      682076ae
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Sanitize counter->mutex · fccc714b
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      s/counter->mutex/counter->child_mutex/ and make sure its only
      used to protect child_list.
      
      The usage in __perf_counter_exit_task() doesn't appear to be
      problematic since ctx->mutex also covers anything related to fd
      tear-down.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.533186528@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      fccc714b
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Fix dynamic irq_period logging · e220d2dc
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      We call perf_adjust_freq() from perf_counter_task_tick() which
      is is called under the rq->lock causing lock recursion.
      However, it's no longer required to be called under the
      rq->lock, so remove it from under it.
      
      Also, fix up some related comments.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.476197912@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e220d2dc
  5. 22 May, 2009 4 commits
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf_counter tools: increase limits · c6eb1384
      Ingo Molnar authored
      I tried to run with 300 active counters and the tools bailed out
      because our limit was at 64. So increase the counter limit to 1024
      and the CPU limit to 4096.
      
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      c6eb1384
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf_counter: fix !PERF_COUNTERS build failure · 910431c7
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Update the !CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS prototype too, for
      perf_counter_task_sched_out().
      
      [ Impact: build fix ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <18966.10666.517218.332164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      910431c7
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      perf_counter: Optimize context switch between identical inherited contexts · 564c2b21
      Paul Mackerras authored
      When monitoring a process and its descendants with a set of inherited
      counters, we can often get the situation in a context switch where
      both the old (outgoing) and new (incoming) process have the same set
      of counters, and their values are ultimately going to be added together.
      In that situation it doesn't matter which set of counters are used to
      count the activity for the new process, so there is really no need to
      go through the process of reading the hardware counters and updating
      the old task's counters and then setting up the PMU for the new task.
      
      This optimizes the context switch in this situation.  Instead of
      scheduling out the perf_counter_context for the old task and
      scheduling in the new context, we simply transfer the old context
      to the new task and keep using it without interruption.  The new
      context gets transferred to the old task.  This means that both
      tasks still have a valid perf_counter_context, so no special case
      is introduced when the old task gets scheduled in again, either on
      this CPU or another CPU.
      
      The equivalence of contexts is detected by keeping a pointer in
      each cloned context pointing to the context it was cloned from.
      To cope with the situation where a context is changed by adding
      or removing counters after it has been cloned, we also keep a
      generation number on each context which is incremented every time
      a context is changed.  When a context is cloned we take a copy
      of the parent's generation number, and two cloned contexts are
      equivalent only if they have the same parent and the same
      generation number.  In order that the parent context pointer
      remains valid (and is not reused), we increment the parent
      context's reference count for each context cloned from it.
      
      Since we don't have individual fds for the counters in a cloned
      context, the only thing that can make two clones of a given parent
      different after they have been cloned is enabling or disabling all
      counters with prctl.  To account for this, we keep a count of the
      number of enabled counters in each context.  Two contexts must have
      the same number of enabled counters to be considered equivalent.
      
      Here are some measurements of the context switch time as measured with
      the lat_ctx benchmark from lmbench, comparing the times obtained with
      and without this patch series:
      
      		-----Unmodified-----		With this patch series
      Counters:	none	2 HW	4H+4S	none	2 HW	4H+4S
      
      2 processes:
      Average		3.44	6.45	11.24	3.12	3.39	3.60
      St dev		0.04	0.04	0.13	0.05	0.17	0.19
      
      8 processes:
      Average		6.45	8.79	14.00	5.57	6.23	7.57
      St dev		1.27	1.04	0.88	1.42	1.46	1.42
      
      32 processes:
      Average		5.56	8.43	13.78	5.28	5.55	7.15
      St dev		0.41	0.47	0.53	0.54	0.57	0.81
      
      The numbers are the mean and standard deviation of 20 runs of
      lat_ctx.  The "none" columns are lat_ctx run directly without any
      counters.  The "2 HW" columns are with lat_ctx run under perfstat,
      counting cycles and instructions.  The "4H+4S" columns are lat_ctx run
      under perfstat with 4 hardware counters and 4 software counters
      (cycles, instructions, cache references, cache misses, task
      clock, context switch, cpu migrations, and page faults).
      
      [ Impact: performance optimization of counter context-switches ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <18966.10666.517218.332164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      564c2b21
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      perf_counter: Dynamically allocate tasks' perf_counter_context struct · a63eaf34
      Paul Mackerras authored
      This replaces the struct perf_counter_context in the task_struct with
      a pointer to a dynamically allocated perf_counter_context struct.  The
      main reason for doing is this is to allow us to transfer a
      perf_counter_context from one task to another when we do lazy PMU
      switching in a later patch.
      
      This has a few side-benefits: the task_struct becomes a little smaller,
      we save some memory because only tasks that have perf_counters attached
      get a perf_counter_context allocated for them, and we can remove the
      inclusion of <linux/perf_counter.h> in sched.h, meaning that we don't
      end up recompiling nearly everything whenever perf_counter.h changes.
      
      The perf_counter_context structures are reference-counted and freed
      when the last reference is dropped.  A context can have references
      from its task and the counters on its task.  Counters can outlive the
      task so it is possible that a context will be freed well after its
      task has exited.
      
      Contexts are allocated on fork if the parent had a context, or
      otherwise the first time that a per-task counter is created on a task.
      In the latter case, we set the context pointer in the task struct
      locklessly using an atomic compare-and-exchange operation in case we
      raced with some other task in creating a context for the subject task.
      
      This also removes the task pointer from the perf_counter struct.  The
      task pointer was not used anywhere and would make it harder to move a
      context from one task to another.  Anything that needed to know which
      task a counter was attached to was already using counter->ctx->task.
      
      The __perf_counter_init_context function moves up in perf_counter.c
      so that it can be called from find_get_context, and now initializes
      the refcount, but is otherwise unchanged.
      
      We were potentially calling list_del_counter twice: once from
      __perf_counter_exit_task when the task exits and once from
      __perf_counter_remove_from_context when the counter's fd gets closed.
      This adds a check in list_del_counter so it doesn't do anything if
      the counter has already been removed from the lists.
      
      Since perf_counter_task_sched_in doesn't do anything if the task doesn't
      have a context, and leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL, this adds code to
      __perf_install_in_context to set cpuctx->task_ctx if necessary, i.e. in
      the case where the current task adds the first counter to itself and
      thus creates a context for itself.
      
      This also adds similar code to __perf_counter_enable to handle a
      similar situation which can arise when the counters have been disabled
      using prctl; that also leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL.
      
      [ Impact: refactor counter context management to prepare for new feature ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <18966.10075.781053.231153@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a63eaf34