Fix various errors in the Documentation/perf*.txt description as well.
Also fix a bug in builtin-help: we'd map 'perf help top' to 'perftop'
if only the 'perf' binary is in the default PATH - confusing the manpage
logic. I dont fully understand why Git did it this way - but i suppose
it's a migration artifact from their migration from standalone git-xyz
commands to 'git xyz' commands. The perf tools were always using the
modern form so it's not an issue there.
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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We need to protect the active_symbols list as two threads change it:
the main thread adding entries to the head and the display thread
decaying entries from any place in the list.
Also related: take a snapshot of syme->count[0] before using it to
calculate the weight and to show the same number used in this calc when
displaying the symbol usage.
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090529200307.GR4747@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra [Fri, 29 May 2009 12:25:58 +0000 (14:25 +0200)]
perf_counter: Ammend cleanup in fork() fail
When fork() fails we cannot use perf_counter_exit_task() since that
assumes to operate on current. Write a new helper that cleans up
unused/clean contexts.
Signed-off-by: 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra [Fri, 29 May 2009 12:51:57 +0000 (14:51 +0200)]
perf_counter: Clean up task_ctx vs interrupts
Remove the local_irq_save() etc.. in routines that are smp function
calls, or have IRQs disabled by other means.
Then change the COMM, MMAP, and swcounter context iteration to
current->perf_counter_ctxp and RCU, since it really doesn't matter
which context they iterate, they're all folded.
Signed-off-by: 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra [Fri, 29 May 2009 12:25:58 +0000 (14:25 +0200)]
perf_counter: Fix COMM and MMAP events for cpu wide counters
Commit a63eaf34ae6 ("perf_counter: Dynamically allocate tasks'
perf_counter_context struct") broke COMM and MMAP notification for
cpu wide counters by dropping out early if there was no task context,
thereby also not iterating the cpu context.
Signed-off-by: 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra pointed out that under some circumstances, we can take
the mutex in a context or a counter and then swap that context or
counter to another task, potentially leading to lock order inversions
or the mutexes not protecting what they are supposed to protect.
This fixes the problem by making sure that we never take a mutex in a
context or counter which could get swapped to another task. Most of
the cases where we take a mutex is on a top-level counter or context,
i.e. a counter which has an fd associated with it or a context that
contains such a counter. This adds WARN_ON_ONCE statements to verify
that.
The two cases where we need to take the mutex on a context that is a
clone of another are in perf_counter_exit_task and
perf_counter_init_task. The perf_counter_exit_task case is solved by
uncloning the context before starting to remove the counters from it.
The perf_counter_init_task is a little trickier; we temporarily
disable context swapping for the parent (forking) task by setting its
ctx->parent_gen to the all-1s value after locking the context, if it
is a cloned context, and restore the ctx->parent_gen value at the end
if the context didn't get uncloned in the meantime.
This also moves the increment of the context generation count to be
within the same critical section, protected by the context mutex, that
adds the new counter to the context. That way, taking the mutex is
sufficient to ensure that both the counter list and the generation
count are stable.
[ Impact: fix hangs, races with inherited and PID counters ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <18975.31580.520676.619896@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The advantage of that column is that it is characteristic of the
execution workflow, regardless of runtime. Hence 'hackbench 10'
will look similar to 'hackbench 15' - while the absolute counter
values are very different.
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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Paul Mackerras [Thu, 28 May 2009 12:18:17 +0000 (22:18 +1000)]
perf_counter: Fix race in attaching counters to tasks and exiting
Commit 564c2b21 ("perf_counter: Optimize context switch between
identical inherited contexts") introduced a race where it is possible
that a counter being attached to a task could get attached to the
wrong task, if the task is one that has inherited its context from
another task via fork. This happens because the optimized context
switch could switch the context to another task after find_get_context
has read task->perf_counter_ctxp. In fact, it's possible that the
context could then get freed, if the other task then exits.
This fixes the problem by protecting both the context switch and the
critical code in find_get_context with spinlocks. The context switch
locks the cxt->lock of both the outgoing and incoming contexts before
swapping them. That means that once code such as find_get_context
has obtained the spinlock for the context associated with a task,
the context can't get swapped to another task. However, the context
may have been swapped in the interval between reading
task->perf_counter_ctxp and getting the lock, so it is necessary to
check and retry.
To make sure that none of the contexts being looked at in
find_get_context can get freed, this changes the context freeing code
to use RCU. Thus an rcu_read_lock() is sufficient to ensure that no
contexts can get freed. This part of the patch is lifted from a patch
posted by Peter Zijlstra.
This also adds a check to make sure that we can't add a counter to a
task that is exiting.
There is also a race between perf_counter_exit_task and
find_get_context; this solves the race by moving the get_ctx that
was in perf_counter_alloc into the locked region in find_get_context,
so that once find_get_context has got the context for a task, it
won't get freed even if the task calls perf_counter_exit_task. It
doesn't matter if new top-level (non-inherited) counters get attached
to the context after perf_counter_exit_task has detached the context
from the task. They will just stay there and never get scheduled in
until the counters' fds get closed, and then perf_release will remove
them from the context and eventually free the context.
With this, we are now doing the unclone in find_get_context rather
than when a counter was added to or removed from a context (actually,
we were missing the unclone_ctx() call when adding a counter to a
context). We don't need to unclone when removing a counter from a
context because we have no way to remove a counter from a cloned
context.
This also takes out the smp_wmb() in find_get_context, which Peter
Zijlstra pointed out was unnecessary because the cmpxchg implies a
full barrier anyway.
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: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18974.33033.667187.273886@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar [Wed, 27 May 2009 20:13:17 +0000 (22:13 +0200)]
pref_counter: tools: report: Robustify in case of weird events
This error condition:
aldebaran:~/linux/linux/Documentation/perf_counter> perf report
dso__load_sym: cannot get elf header.
failed to open: /etc/ld.so.cache
problem processing PERF_EVENT_MMAP, bailing out
caused the profile to be very short - as the error was at the beginning
of the file and we bailed out completely.
Be more permissive and consider the event broken instead.
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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra [Fri, 22 May 2009 13:34:54 +0000 (15:34 +0200)]
perf report: Fix segfault on unknown symbols
Ingo reported:
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x0000003e25080f80 in strlen () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install elfutils.x86_64
> glibc.x86_64 zlib.x86_64
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x0000003e25080f80 in strlen () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #1 0x0000003e2506954e in fputs () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #2 0x00000000004059e8 in cmd_report (argc=<value optimized out>,
> argv=<value optimized out>) at builtin-report.c:521
> #3 0x0000000000402dad in handle_internal_command (argc=1, argv=0x7fffe1218e30)
> at perf.c:226
> #4 0x0000000000402f6d in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffe1218e30) at perf.c:324
> (gdb)
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: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 26 May 2009 07:17:18 +0000 (09:17 +0200)]
perf record: Convert to Git option parsing
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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 26 May 2009 06:10:00 +0000 (08:10 +0200)]
perf_counter: Initialize ->oncpu properly
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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 26 May 2009 06:10:00 +0000 (08:10 +0200)]
perf_counter, x86: Make NMI lockups more robust
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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 26 May 2009 06:10:00 +0000 (08:10 +0200)]
perf_counter, x86: Fix APIC NMI programming
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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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: Paul 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 25 May 2009 15:39:05 +0000 (17:39 +0200)]
perf_counter: Generic per counter interrupt throttle
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: 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra [Sat, 23 May 2009 16:28:58 +0000 (18:28 +0200)]
perf_counter: Fix userspace build
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: 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: <20090523163012.739756497@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra [Sat, 23 May 2009 16:28:55 +0000 (18:28 +0200)]
perf_counter: Fix dynamic irq_period logging
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: 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: <20090523163012.476197912@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar [Fri, 22 May 2009 16:18:28 +0000 (18:18 +0200)]
perf_counter tools: increase limits
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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Paul Mackerras [Fri, 22 May 2009 04:27:22 +0000 (14:27 +1000)]
perf_counter: Optimize context switch between identical inherited contexts
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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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