- 22 Jul, 2009 6 commits
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Anton Blanchard authored
perf stat and perf record currently look for all options on the command line. This can lead to some confusion: # perf stat ls -l Error: unknown switch `l' While we can work around this by adding '--' before the command, the git option parsing code can stop at the first non option: # perf stat ls -l Performance counter stats for 'ls -l': .... Signed-off-by:
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090722130412.GD9029@kryten>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Anton noted that for inherited counters the counter-id as provided by PERF_SAMPLE_ID isn't mappable to the id found through PERF_RECORD_ID because each inherited counter gets its own id. His suggestion was to always return the parent counter id, since that is the primary counter id as exposed. However, these inherited counters have a unique identifier so that events like PERF_EVENT_PERIOD and PERF_EVENT_THROTTLE can be specific about which counter gets modified, which is important when trying to normalize the sample streams. This patch removes PERF_EVENT_PERIOD in favour of PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD, which is more useful anyway, since changing periods became a lot more common than initially thought -- rendering PERF_EVENT_PERIOD the less useful solution (also, PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD reports the more accurate value, since it reports the value used to trigger the overflow, whereas PERF_EVENT_PERIOD simply reports the requested period changed, which might only take effect on the next cycle). This still leaves us PERF_EVENT_THROTTLE to consider, but since that _should_ be a rare occurrence, and linking it to a primary id is the most useful bit to diagnose the problem, we introduce a PERF_SAMPLE_STREAM_ID, for those few cases where the full reconstruction is important. [Does change the ABI a little, but I see no other way out] Suggested-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Per example of Arjan's patch, I went through and found a few more. Signed-off-by: -
Arjan van de Ven authored
the "reserved" field was not initialized to zero, resulting in 4 bytes of stack data leaking to userspace.... Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Fix a gcc unused variables warning. Signed-off-by: -
Peter Zijlstra authored
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- 18 Jul, 2009 5 commits
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Anton Blanchard authored
perf record uses -g for logging call graph data but perf report uses -c to print call graph data. Be consistent and use -g everywhere for call graph data. Also update the help text to reflect the current default - fractal,0.5 Signed-off-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Anton Blanchard authored
Add the -d or --data option to log event addresses (eg page faults). Signed-off-by:
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Anton Blanchard authored
Right now we don't output vfork events. Even though we should always see an exec after a vfork, we may get perfcounter samples between the vfork and exec. These samples can lead to some confusion when parsing perfcounter data. To keep things consistent we should always log a fork event. It will result in a little more log data, but is less confusing to trace parsing tools. Signed-off-by:
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Anton Blanchard authored
perf record synthesizes mmap events for the running process. Right now it just catches file mappings, but we can check for the vdso symbol and add that too. Signed-off-by:
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Anton Blanchard authored
There are a few places we are leaking tiny amounts of kernel memory to userspace. This happens when writing out strings because we always align the end to 64 bits. To avoid this we should always use an appropriately sized temporary buffer and ensure it is zeroed. Since d_path assembles the string from the end of the buffer backwards, we need to add 64 bits after the buffer to allow for alignment. We also need to copy arch_vma_name to the temporary buffer, because if we use it directly we may end up copying to userspace a number of bytes after the end of the string constant. Signed-off-by:
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- 13 Jul, 2009 3 commits
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Roel Kluin authored
Keep index within event_type_descriptors[] Signed-off-by:
Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4A5A7F0B.4070106@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Chris Wilson authored
Fix a missed rename in EVENT_PROFILE support so that it gets built and allows tracepoint tracing from the 'perf' tool. Fix a typo in the (never before built & enabled) portion in perf_counter.c as well, and update that code to the attr.config changes as well. Signed-off-by:
Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1246869094-21237-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Qarras authored
I've attached a patch to remove the Pentium M special casing of EMON and as noticed at least with my Pentium M the hardware PMU now works: Performance counter stats for '/bin/ls /var/tmp': 1.809988 task-clock-msecs # 0.125 CPUs 1 context-switches # 0.001 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 224 page-faults # 0.124 M/sec 1425648 cycles # 787.656 M/sec 912755 instructions # 0.640 IPC Vince suggested that this code was trying to address erratum Y17 in Pentium-M's: http://download.intel.com/support/processors/mobile/pm/sb/25266532.pdf But that erratum (related to IA32_MISC_ENABLES.7) does not affect perfcounters as we dont use this toggle to disable RDPMC and WRMSR/RDMSR access to performance counters. We keep cr4's bit 8 (X86_CR4_PCE) clear so unprivileged RDPMC access is not allowed anyway. Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by:
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- 11 Jul, 2009 6 commits
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
[acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report -ns comm,dso,symbol -d /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so -C pahole | head -17 21.94% 32101 [.] _int_malloc 20.10% 29402 [.] __GI_strcmp 16.77% 24533 [.] __tsearch 12.61% 18450 [.] malloc_consolidate 6.42% 9394 [.] _int_free 6.28% 9191 [.] __tfind 4.56% 6678 [.] __GI___libc_free 4.46% 6520 [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 2.59% 3786 [.] __malloc 1.17% 1716 [.] __GI_memcpy [acme@doppio pahole]$ Signed-off-by:Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1247325517-12272-5-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
So we need to get the richer .symtab from the debuginfo packages but the PLT info from the original DSO where we have just the leaner .dynsym symtab. Example: | [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol > before | [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol > after | [acme@doppio pahole]$ diff -U1 before after | --- before 2009-07-11 11:04:22.688595741 -0300 | +++ after 2009-07-11 11:04:33.380595676 -0300 | @@ -80,3 +80,2 @@ | 0.07% pahole ./build/pahole [.] pahole_stealer | - 0.06% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] 0x00000000007140 | 0.06% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] __libdw_getabbrev | @@ -91,2 +90,3 @@ | 0.06% pahole [kernel] [k] free_hot_cold_page | + 0.06% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] tfind@plt | 0.05% pahole ./build/libdwarves.so.1.0.0 [.] ftype__add_parameter | @@ -242,2 +242,3 @@ | 0.01% pahole [kernel] [k] account_group_user_time | + 0.01% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] strlen@plt | 0.01% pahole ./build/pahole [.] strcmp@plt | [acme@doppio pahole]$ Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
When we filter by column content we may end up with a column that has the same value for all the lines. So remove that column and tell its unique value on the top, as a comment. Example: [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol -d ./build/libdwarves.so.1.0.0 -C pahole | head -15 # dso: ./build/libdwarves.so.1.0.0 # comm: pahole # Samples: 58409 # # Overhead Symbol # ........ ...... # 20.93% [.] tag__recode_dwarf_type 14.94% [.] namespace__recode_dwarf_types 10.38% [.] cu__table_add_tag 6.69% [.] __die__process_tag 5.05% [.] die__process_function 4.70% [.] list__for_all_tags 3.68% [.] tag__init 3.48% [.] die__create_new_parameter [acme@doppio pahole]$ Signed-off-by: -
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
The strlist__entry method allows accessing strlists like an array, will be used in the 'perf report' to access the first entry. We now keep the nr_entries so that we can check if we have just one entry, will be used in 'perf report' to improve the output by showing just at the top when we have just, say, one DSO. While at it use nr_entries to optimize strlist__is_empty by not using the far more costly rb_first based implementation. Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Always printing the level info about if it is in the kernel, hypervisor or userspace as that is in the hist_entry. Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Auto-adjust column width of perf report output to the longest occuring string length. Example: [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol | head -13 12.79% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] __libdw_find_attr 8.90% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] _int_malloc 8.68% pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so [.] __libdw_form_val_len 8.15% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] __GI_strcmp 6.80% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] __tsearch 5.54% pahole ./build/libdwarves.so.1.0.0 [.] tag__recode_dwarf_type [acme@doppio pahole]$ [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol -d /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so | head -10 21.92% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] _int_malloc 20.08% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] __GI_strcmp 16.75% pahole /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so [.] __tsearch [acme@doppio pahole]$ Also add these extra options to control the new behaviour: -w, --field-width Force each column width to the provided list, for large terminal readability. -t, --field-separator: Use a special separator character and don't pad with spaces, replacing all occurances of this separator in symbol names (and other output) with a '.' character, that thus it's the only non valid separator. Signed-off-by:
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- 10 Jul, 2009 5 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Instead of open coding the unclone context thingy, put it in a common function. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Ingo noticed that both AMD and P6 call x86_pmu_disable_counter() on *_pmu_enable_counter(). This is because we rely on the side effect of that call to program the event config but not touch the EN bit. We change that for AMD by having enable_all() simply write the full config in, and for P6 by explicitly coding it. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
The P6 doesn't seem to support cache ref/hit/miss counts, so we extend the generic hardware event codes to have 0 and -1 mean the same thing as for the generic cache events. Furthermore, it turns out the 0 event does not count (that is, its reported that on PPro it actually does count something), therefore use a event configuration that's specified not to count to disable the counters. Signed-off-by:
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Vince Weaver authored
Add basic P6 PMU support. The P6 uses the EVNTSEL0 EN bit to enable/disable both its counters. We use this for the global enable/disable, and clear all config bits (except EN) to disable individual counters. Actual ia32 hardware doesn't support lfence, so use a locked op without side-effect to implement a full barrier. perf stat and perf record seem to function correctly. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: cleanups and complete the enable/disable code] Signed-off-by:
Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Signed-off-by:
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Anton Blanchard authored
The cache events contain '$' which will hit shell variable expansion. To avoid confusion change this to 'cache', ie L1-d$-loads becomes L1-dcache-loads. Signed-off-by:
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- 05 Jul, 2009 5 commits
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
The current callchain displays the overhead rates as absolute: relative to the total overhead. This patch provides relative overhead percentage, in which each branch of the callchain tree is a independant instrumentated object. This provides a 'fractal' view of the call-chain profile: each sub-graph looks like a profile in itself - relative to its parent. You can produce such output by using the "fractal" mode that you can abbreviate via f, fr, fra, frac, etc... ./perf report -s sym -c fractal Example: 8.46% [k] copy_user_generic_string | |--52.01%-- generic_file_aio_read | do_sync_read | vfs_read | | | |--97.20%-- sys_pread64 | | system_call_fastpath | | pread64 | | | --2.81%-- sys_read | system_call_fastpath | __read | |--39.85%-- generic_file_buffered_write | __generic_file_aio_write_nolock | generic_file_aio_write | do_sync_write | reiserfs_file_write | vfs_write | | | |--97.05%-- sys_pwrite64 | | system_call_fastpath | | __pwrite64 | | | --2.95%-- sys_write | system_call_fastpath | __write_nocancel [...] Signed-off-by: -
Frederic Weisbecker authored
The cumul hits are the number of hits of every childs of a node plus the hits of the current nodes, required for percentage computing of a branch. Theses numbers are calculated during the sorting of the branches of the callchain tree using a depth first postfix traversal, so that cumulative hits are propagated in the right order. But if we plan to implement percentages relative to the parent and not absolute percentages (relative to the whole overhead), we need to know the cumulative hits of the parent before computing the children because the relative minimum acceptable number of entries (ie: minimum rate against the cumulative hits from the parent) is the basis to filter the children against a given rate. Then we need to handle the cumul hits on the fly to prepare the implementation of relative overhead rates. Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
The default callchain parameters are set to use the flat mode and never filter any overhead threshold of backtrace. But flat mode is boring compared to graph mode. Also the number of callchains may be very high if none is filtered. Let's change this to set the graph view and a minimum overhead of 0.5% as default parameters. Reported-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
If the user doesn't provide options to tune his callchain output (ie: if he uses -c without arguments) then the default value passed in the OPT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT() macro is used. But it's parsed later by strtok() which will replace comma separators to a zero. This may segfault as we are using a read-only string. Use a modifiable one instead, and also fix the "100%" default minimum threshold value by turning it into a 0 (output every callchains) as it was intended in the origin. Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
perf report segfaults while trying to handle callchains from a non callchain data file. Instead of a segfault, print a useful message to the user. Reported-by:
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Reported-by:
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- 04 Jul, 2009 1 commit
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Eric Dumazet authored
Now atomic64_read() is light weight (no register pressure and small icache), we can inline it again. Also use "=&A" constraint instead of "+A" to avoid warning about unitialized 'res' variable. (gcc had to force 0 in eax/edx) $ size vmlinux.prev vmlinux.after text data bss dec hex filename 4908667 451676 1684868 7045211 6b805b vmlinux.prev 4908651 451676 1684868 7045195 6b804b vmlinux.after Signed-off-by:Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> LKML-Reference: <4A4E1AA2.30002@gmail.com> [ Also fix typo in atomic64_set() export ] Signed-off-by:
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- 03 Jul, 2009 9 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Linus noticed that the variable name 'old_val' is confusingly named in these functions - the correct naming is 'new_val'. Reported-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Remove the read-first logic from atomic64_xchg() and simplify the loop. This function was the last user of __atomic64_read() - remove it. Also, change the 'real_val' assumption from the somewhat quirky 1ULL << 32 value to the (just as arbitrary, but simpler) value of 0. Reported-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
atomic64_t primitives are used by a handful of drivers, so export the APIs consistently. These were inlined before. Also mark atomic64_32.o a core object, so that the symbols are available even if not linked to core kernel pieces. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> LKML-Reference: <tip-05118ab8859492ac9ddda0154cf90e37b0a4a0b0@git.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: -
Eric Dumazet authored
Optimize atomic64_read() as a special open-coded cmpxchg8b variant. This generates nicer code: arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.o: text data bss dec hex filename 435 0 0 435 1b3 atomic64_32.o.before 431 0 0 431 1af atomic64_32.o.after md5: bd8ab95e69c93518578bfaf0ea3be4d9 atomic64_32.o.before.asm 2bdfd4bd1f6b7b61b7fc127aef90ce3b atomic64_32.o.after.asm Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907021653030.3210@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: -
Paul Mackerras authored
Occasionally we get bugs where atomic_read or atomic_set are used on atomic64_t variables or vice versa. These bugs don't generate warnings on x86 because atomic_read and atomic_set are coded as macros rather than C functions, so we don't get any type-checking on their arguments; similarly for atomic64_read and atomic64_set in 64-bit kernels. This converts them to C functions so that the arguments are type-checked and bugs like this will get caught more easily. It also converts atomic_cmpxchg and atomic_xchg, and atomic64_cmpxchg and atomic64_xchg on 64-bit, so we get type-checking on their arguments too. Compiling a typical 64-bit x86 config, this generates no new warnings, and the vmlinux text is 86 bytes smaller. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907021653030.3210@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: -
Ingo Molnar authored
Linus noticed that atomic64_xchg() uses atomic_read(), which happens to work because atomic_read() is a macro so the .counter value gets u64-read on 32-bit too - but this is really bogus and serious bugs are waiting to happen. Fix atomic64_xchg() to use __atomic64_read() instead. No code changed: arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.o: text data bss dec hex filename 435 0 0 435 1b3 atomic64_32.o.before 435 0 0 435 1b3 atomic64_32.o.after md5: bd8ab95e69c93518578bfaf0ea3be4d9 atomic64_32.o.before.asm bd8ab95e69c93518578bfaf0ea3be4d9 atomic64_32.o.after.asm Reported-by: -
Ingo Molnar authored
Linus noticed that atomic64_xchg() uses atomic_read(), which happens to work because atomic_read() is a macro so the .counter value gets u64-read on 32-bit too - but this is really bogus and serious bugs are waiting to happen. Change atomic_read() to be a type-safe inline, and this exposes the atomic64 bogosity as well: arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c: In function ‘atomic64_xchg’: arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c:39: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘atomic_read’ from incompatible pointer type Reported-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
cmpxchg8b is a huge instruction in terms of register footprint, we almost never want to inline it, not even within the same code module. GCC 4.3 still messes up for two functions, under-judging the true cost of this instruction - so annotate two key functions to reduce the bloat: arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.o: text data bss dec hex filename 1763 0 0 1763 6e3 atomic64_32.o.before 435 0 0 435 1b3 atomic64_32.o.after Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907021653030.3210@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: -
Ingo Molnar authored
Linus noted (based on Eric Dumazet's numbers) that we would probably be better off not trying an atomic_read() in atomic64_add_return() but intead intentionally let the first cmpxchg8b fail - to get a cache-friendly 'give me ownership of this cacheline' transaction. That can then be followed by the real cmpxchg8b which sets the value local to the CPU. Reported-by:
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