1. 04 Mar, 2010 2 commits
    • Will Deacon's avatar
      perf, ARM: Modify kuser rmb() call to compile for Thumb-2 · da7196e1
      Will Deacon authored
      The Thumb-2 instruction set does not provide an encoding
      for sub pc, r0, #95 as present in the rmb() definition used
      by perf. This results in compilation failure when using a
      compiler targetting an instruction set other than ARM.
      
      This patch redefines rmb() for ARM by casting the address
      of the kuser helper to a function pointer, therefore getting
      the compiler to take care of making the call.
      
      Patch taken against tip/master.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.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>
      LKML-Reference: <1267616878-2154-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      da7196e1
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/urgent · 4f16d4e0
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Merge reason: Switch from pre-merge topical split to the post-merge urgent track
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      4f16d4e0
  2. 02 Mar, 2010 3 commits
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf archive: Don't try to collect files without a build-id · 66301254
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
      To avoid these error:
      
         [root@doppio ~]# perf archive
         tar: .build-id/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000: Cannot stat:
         No such file or directory
         tar: .build-id/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000: Cannot stat:
         No such file or directory
         tar: .build-id/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000: Cannot stat:
         No such file or directory
         tar: .build-id/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000: Cannot stat:
         No such file or directory
         tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
         [root@doppio ~]#
      
      More work is needed to support archiving symtabs for binaries
      without a build-id, perhaps creating a perf.data UUID + adding
      build-ids for the binaries copied into the cache and then have
      this perf.data session UUID be a directory with symlinks to the
      by now calculated build-id of the files inside it.
      
      Or just do an extra pass and insert the calculated build-ids in
      the perf.data header.
      Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      66301254
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_events, x86: Fixup fixed counter constraints · b622d644
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Patch 1da53e02 ("perf_events, x86: Improve x86 event scheduling")
      lost us one of the fixed purpose counters and then ed8777fc
      ("perf_events, x86: Fix event constraint masks") broke it even
      further.
      
      Widen the fixed event mask to event+umask and specify the full config
      for each of the 3 fixed purpose counters. Then let the init code fill
      out the placement for the GP regs based on the cpuid info.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      b622d644
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf, x86: Restrict the ANY flag · 320ebf09
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      The ANY flag can show SMT data of another task (like 'top'),
      so we want to disable it when system-wide profiling is
      disabled.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      320ebf09
  3. 01 Mar, 2010 4 commits
  4. 28 Feb, 2010 1 commit
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      hw-breakpoints: Remove stub unthrottle callback · 1e259e0a
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      We support event unthrottling in breakpoint events. It means
      that if we have more than sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate/HZ,
      perf will throttle, ignoring subsequent events until the next
      tick.
      
      So if ptrace exceeds this max rate, it will omit events, which
      breaks the ptrace determinism that is supposed to report every
      triggered breakpoints. This is likely to happen if we set
      sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate to 1.
      
      This patch removes support for unthrottling in breakpoint
      events to break throttling and restore ptrace determinism.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: 2.6.33.x <stable@kernel.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      1e259e0a
  5. 27 Feb, 2010 6 commits
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      x86/hw-breakpoints: Remove the name field · 3d083407
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      Remove the name field from the arch_hw_breakpoint. We never deal
      with target symbols in the arch level, neither do we need to ever
      store it. It's a legacy for the previous version of the x86
      breakpoint backend.
      
      Let's remove it.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3d083407
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      perf: Remove pointless breakpoint union · dd8b1cf6
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      Remove pointless union in the breakpoint field of hw_perf_event.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      dd8b1cf6
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      perf lock: Drop the buffers multiplexing dependency · b67577df
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      We need to deal with time ordered events to build a correct
      state machine of lock events. This is why we multiplex the lock
      events buffers. But the ordering is done from the kernel, on
      the tracing fast path, leading to high contention between cpus.
      
      Without multiplexing, the events appears in a weak order.
      If we have four events, each split per cpu, perf record will
      read the events buffers in the following order:
      
      [ CPU0 ev0, CPU0 ev1, CPU0 ev3, CPU0 ev4, CPU1 ev0, CPU1 ev0....]
      
      To handle a post processing reordering, we could just read and sort
      the whole in memory, but it just doesn't scale with high amounts
      of events: lock events can fill huge amounts in few times.
      
      Basically we need to sort in memory and find a "grace period"
      point when we know that a given slice of previously sorted events
      can be committed for post-processing, so that we can unload the
      memory usage step by step and keep a scalable sorting list.
      
      There is no strong rules about how to define such "grace period".
      What does this patch is:
      
      We define a FLUSH_PERIOD value that defines a grace period in
      seconds.
      We want to have a slice of events covering 2 * FLUSH_PERIOD in our
      sorted list.
      If FLUSH_PERIOD is big enough, it ensures every events that occured
      in the first half of the timeslice have all been buffered and there
      are none remaining and there won't be further to put inside this
      first timeslice. Then once we reach the 2 * FLUSH_PERIOD
      timeslice, we flush the first half to be gentle with the memory
      (the second half can still get new events in the middle, so wait
      another period to flush it)
      
      FLUSH_PERIOD is defined to 5 seconds. Say the first event started on
      time t0. We can safely assume that at the time we are processing
      events of t0 + 10 seconds, ther won't be anymore events to read
      from perf.data that occured between t0 and t0 + 5 seconds. Hence
      we can safely flush the first half.
      
      To point out funky bugs, we have a guardian that checks a new event
      timestamp is not below the last event's timestamp flushed and that
      displays a warning in this case.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
      Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      b67577df
    • Hitoshi Mitake's avatar
      perf lock: Fix and add misc documentally things · 84c6f88f
      Hitoshi Mitake authored
      I've forgot to add 'perf lock' line to command-list.txt,
      so users of perf could not find perf lock when they type 'perf'.
      
      Fixing command-list.txt requires document
      (tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt).
      But perf lock is too much "under construction" to write a
      stable document, so this is something like pseudo document for now.
      
      And I wrote description of perf lock at help section of
      CONFIG_LOCK_STAT, this will navigate users of lock trace events.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
      LKML-Reference: <1265267295-8388-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      84c6f88f
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      percpu: Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint · 44ee6358
      Tejun Heo authored
      Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint.
      
      These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be
      in a different address space and warn if accessed without going
      through percpu accessors.  This patch doesn't affect normal builds.
      
      In kernel/hw_breakpoint.c, per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned, cpu)'s will
      trigger spurious noderef related warnings from sparse.  Changing it to
      &per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned[0], cpu) will work around the problem but
      deemed to ugly by the maintainer.  Leave it alone until better
      solution can be found.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      LKML-Reference: <4B7B4B7A.9050902@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      44ee6358
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      Merge commit 'v2.6.33' into perf/core · 018cbffe
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      Merge reason:
      	__percpu annotations need the corresponding sparse address
      space definition upstream.
      
      Conflicts:
      	tools/perf/util/probe-event.c (trivial)
      018cbffe
  6. 26 Feb, 2010 22 commits
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_event, amd: Fix spinlock initialization · 1dd2980d
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Avoid kernels from exploding on AMD machines when they have any
      lock debugging bits enabled.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1dd2980d
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_event: Fix preempt warning in perf_clock() · 24691ea9
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      A recent commit introduced a preemption warning for
      perf_clock(), use raw_smp_processor_id() to avoid this, it
      really doesn't matter which cpu we use here.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <1267198583.22519.684.camel@laptop>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      24691ea9
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      perf tools: Flush maps on COMM events · 4385d580
      David S. Miller authored
      Even though we don't register the counters until the child is right about
      to exec(), we're still going to get at least a few events while the
      fork()'d child is still executing 'perf' and in particular we're going to
      get the MMAP events.
      
      We can't distinguish the ones in the newly executed process because the
      PID will be the same.
      
      One way to solve this would be to have a PERF_RECORD_EXEC event, and when
      this is seen 'perf' can flush it's map cache.  We can't use
      PERF_RECORD_COMM since that's generated by other things, not just exec().
      
      Actually, thinking about it some more, using PERF_RECORD_COMM might be a
      good enough approximation.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1267196914-16238-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      4385d580
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_events, x86: Split PMU definitions into separate files · f22f54f4
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Split amd,p6,intel into separate files so that we can easily deal with
      CONFIG_CPU_SUP_* things, needed to make things build now that perf_event.c
      relies on symbols from amd.c
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      f22f54f4
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf annotate: Handle samples not at objdump output addr boundaries · 48fb4fdd
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
      Without this patch we get this for need_resched:
      
      [root@mica ~]# perf annotate need_resched
      
      ------------------------------------------------
       Percent |      Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux
      ------------------------------------------------
               :
               :
               :      Disassembly of section .text:
               :
               :      ffffffff810095ed <need_resched>:
               :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
               :      }
               :
               :      static inline int need_resched(void)
               :      {
          0.00 :      ffffffff810095ed:       55                      push   %rbp
               :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
          0.00 :      ffffffff810095ee:       be 03 00 00 00          mov    $0x3,%esi
               :
               :      static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
               :      {
               :              struct thread_info *ti;
               :              ti = (void *)(percpu_read_stable(kernel_stack) +
          0.00 :      ffffffff810095f3:       65 48 8b 3c 25 48 b5    mov    %gs:0xb548,%rdi
          0.00 :      ffffffff810095fa:       00 00
               :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
               :      }
               :
               :      static inline int need_resched(void)
               :      {
          0.00 :      ffffffff810095fc:       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
               :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
          0.00 :      ffffffff810095ff:       48 81 ef d8 1f 00 00    sub    $0x1fd8,%rdi
          0.00 :      ffffffff81009606:       e8 9d ff ff ff          callq  ffffffff810095a8 <test_ti_thread_flag>
               :      }
          0.00 :      ffffffff8100960b:       c9                      leaveq
          0.00 :      ffffffff8100960c:       85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
          0.00 :      ffffffff8100960e:       0f 95 c0                setne  %al
          0.00 :      ffffffff81009611:       0f b6 c0                movzbl %al,%eax
               :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_0:
               :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_fn:
               :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_1:
               :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_2:
               :      Disassembly of section .init.text:
               :      Disassembly of section .altinstr_replacement:
               :      Disassembly of section .exit.text:
      [root@mica ~]#
      
      But from the 'perf report' result we know that there are hits
      for need_resched on a 4 way machine mostly doing nothing, so
      after adding code to show what is in each hist offset and
      collapsing IP hits for what happens between objdump lines we
      get, for the same perf.data file:
      
      [root@mica ~]# perf annotate -v need_resched
      
      ------------------------------------------------
       Percent |      Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux
      ------------------------------------------------
               :
               :
               :      Disassembly of section .text:
               :
               :      ffffffff810095ed <need_resched>:
               :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
               :      }
               :
               :      static inline int need_resched(void)
               :      {
          0.00 :      ffffffff810095ed:       55                      push   %rbp
               :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
         52.78 :      ffffffff810095ee:       be 03 00 00 00          mov    $0x3,%esi
               :
               :      static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
               :      {
               :              struct thread_info *ti;
               :              ti = (void *)(percpu_read_stable(kernel_stack) +
          0.00 :      ffffffff810095f3:       65 48 8b 3c 25 48 b5    mov    %gs:0xb548,%rdi
          0.00 :      ffffffff810095fa:       00 00
               :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
               :      }
               :
               :      static inline int need_resched(void)
               :      {
          0.00 :      ffffffff810095fc:       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
               :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
          9.72 :      ffffffff810095ff:       48 81 ef d8 1f 00 00    sub    $0x1fd8,%rdi
          0.00 :      ffffffff81009606:       e8 9d ff ff ff          callq  ffffffff810095a8 <test_ti_thread_flag>
               :      }
          0.00 :      ffffffff8100960b:       c9                      leaveq
          0.00 :      ffffffff8100960c:       85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
         37.50 :      ffffffff8100960e:       0f 95 c0                setne  %al
          0.00 :      ffffffff81009611:       0f b6 c0                movzbl %al,%eax
               :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_0:
               :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_fn:
               :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_1:
               :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_2:
               :      Disassembly of section .init.text:
               :      Disassembly of section .altinstr_replacement:
               :      Disassembly of section .exit.text:
      [root@mica ~]#
      
      And now 'perf annotate -v', verbose mode, will show the hits per
      precise IP, so that one can make sense of the attribution to
      each objdumop line:
      
      [root@mica ~]# perf annotate -v need_resched
      Looking at the vmlinux_path (5 entries long)
      Using /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-tip-00784-g3471df5-dirty/build/vmlinux
      for symbols annotate_sym: filename=/lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-tip-00784-g3471df5-dirty/build/vmlinux, sym=need_resched, start=0xffffffff810095ed, end=0xffffffff81009614
      
      ------------------------------------------------
       Percent |      Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux
      ------------------------------------------------
                      ffffffff810095f1: 152
                      ffffffff81009603: 28
                      ffffffff8100960f: 55
                      ffffffff81009610: 53
                                h->sum: 288
      <SNIP same annotation>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1267194194-15670-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      48fb4fdd
    • Robert Richter's avatar
      oprofile/x86: fix msr access to reserved counters · cfc9c0b4
      Robert Richter authored
      During switching virtual counters there is access to perfctr msrs. If
      the counter is not available this fails due to an invalid
      address. This patch fixes this.
      
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      cfc9c0b4
    • Robert Richter's avatar
      oprofile/x86: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() · c17c8fbf
      Robert Richter authored
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      c17c8fbf
    • Robert Richter's avatar
      oprofile/x86: fix perfctr nmi reservation for mulitplexing · 68dc819c
      Robert Richter authored
      Multiple virtual counters share one physical counter. The reservation
      of virtual counters fails due to duplicate allocation of the same
      counter. The counters are already reserved. Thus, virtual counter
      reservation may removed at all. This also makes the code easier.
      
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      68dc819c
    • Naga Chumbalkar's avatar
      oprofile/x86: add comment to counter-in-use warning · 8588d106
      Naga Chumbalkar authored
      Currently, oprofile fails silently on platforms where a non-OS entity
      such as the system firmware "enables" and uses a performance
      counter. There is a warning in the code for this case.
      
      The warning indicates an already running counter. If oprofile doesn't
      collect data, then try using a different performance counter on your
      platform to monitor the desired event. Delete the counter from the
      desired event by editing the
      
       /usr/share/oprofile/<cpu_type>/<cpu>/events
      
      file. If the event cannot be monitored by any other counter, contact
      your hardware or BIOS vendor.
      
      Cc: Shashi Belur <shashi-kiran.belur@hp.com>
      Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNaga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      8588d106
    • Robert Richter's avatar
      oprofile/x86: warn user if a counter is already active · 98a2e73a
      Robert Richter authored
      This patch generates a warning if a counter is already active.
      
      Implemented for AMD and P6 models. P4 is not supported.
      
      Cc: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
      Cc: Shashi Belur <shashi-kiran.belur@hp.com>
      Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      98a2e73a
    • Robert Richter's avatar
      oprofile/x86: implement randomization for IBS periodic op counter · ba52078e
      Robert Richter authored
      IBS selects an op (execution operation) for sampling by counting
      either cycles or dispatched ops. Better statistical samples can be
      produced by adding a software generated random offset to the periodic
      op counter value with each sample.
      
      This patch adds software randomization to the IBS periodic op
      counter. The lower 12 bits of the 20 bit counter are
      randomized. IbsOpCurCnt is initialized with a 12 bit random value.
      
      There is a work around if the hw can not write to IbsOpCurCnt. Then
      the lower 8 bits of the 16 bit IbsOpMaxCnt [15:0] value are randomized
      in the range of -128 to +127 by adding/subtracting an offset to the
      maximum count (IbsOpMaxCnt).
      
      The linear feedback shift register (LFSR) algorithm is used for
      pseudo-random number generation to have low impact to the memory
      system.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      ba52078e
    • Suravee Suthikulpanit's avatar
      oprofile/x86: implement lsfr pseudo-random number generator for IBS · f125be14
      Suravee Suthikulpanit authored
      This patch implements a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) for
      pseudo-random number generation for IBS.
      
      For IBS measurements it would be good to minimize memory traffic in
      the interrupt handler since every access pollutes the data
      caches. Computing a maximal period LFSR just needs shifts and ORs.
      
      The LFSR method is good enough to randomize the ops at low
      overhead. 16 pseudo-random bits are enough for the implementation and
      it doesn't matter that the pattern repeats with a fairly short
      cycle. It only needs to break up (hard) periodic sampling behavior.
      
      The logic was designed by Paul Drongowski.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSuravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      f125be14
    • Robert Richter's avatar
      oprofile/x86: implement IBS cpuid feature detection · 64683da6
      Robert Richter authored
      This patch adds IBS feature detection using cpuid flags. An IBS
      capability mask is introduced to test for certain IBS features. The
      bit mask is the same as for IBS cpuid feature flags (Fn8000_001B_EAX),
      but bit 0 is used to indicate the existence of IBS.
      
      The patch also changes the handling of the IbsOpCntCtl bit (periodic
      op counter count control). The oprofilefs file for this feature
      (ibs_op/dispatched_ops) will be only exposed if the feature is
      available, also the default for the bit is set to count clock cycles.
      
      In general, the userland can detect the availability of a feature by
      checking for the corresponding file in oprofilefs. If it exists, the
      feature also exists. This may lead to a dynamic file layout depending
      on the cpu type with that the userland has to deal with. Current
      opcontrol is compatible.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      64683da6
    • Robert Richter's avatar
      oprofile/x86: remove node check in AMD IBS initialization · 89baaaa9
      Robert Richter authored
      Standard AMD systems have the same number of nodes as there are
      northbridge devices. However, there may kernel configurations
      (especially for 32 bit) or system setups exist, where the node number
      is different or it can not be detected properly. Thus the check is not
      reliable and may fail though IBS setup was fine. For this reason it is
      better to remove the check.
      
      Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      89baaaa9
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      oprofile/x86: remove OPROFILE_IBS config option · 013cfc50
      Robert Richter authored
      OProfile support for IBS is now for several versions in the
      kernel. The feature is stable now and the code can be activated
      permanently.
      
      As a side effect IBS now works also on nosmp configs.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      013cfc50
    • Robert Richter's avatar
      oprofile: remove EXPERIMENTAL from the config option description · b309a294
      Robert Richter authored
      OProfile is already used for a long time and no longer experimental.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      b309a294
    • Robert Richter's avatar
      oprofile: remove tracing build dependency · 18b4a4d5
      Robert Richter authored
      The commit
      
       1155de47 ring-buffer: Make it generally available
      
      already made ring-buffer available without the TRACING option
      enabled. This patch removes the TRACING dependency from oprofile.
      
      Fixes also oprofile configuration on ia64.
      
      The patch also applies to the 2.6.32-stable kernel.
      Reported-by: default avatarTony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      18b4a4d5
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_events, x86: Remove superflous MSR writes · 6667661d
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      We re-program the event control register every time we reset the count,
      this appears to be superflous, hence remove it.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6667661d
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_events: Simplify code by removing cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() · 6e37738a
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Since the cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() is always
      smp_processor_id(), simplify the code a little by removing this argument
      and using the current cpu where needed.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1265890918.5396.3.camel@laptop>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6e37738a
    • Stephane Eranian's avatar
      perf_events, x86: AMD event scheduling · 38331f62
      Stephane Eranian authored
      This patch adds correct AMD NorthBridge event scheduling.
      
      NB events are events measuring L3 cache, Hypertransport traffic. They are
      identified by an event code >= 0xe0. They measure events on the
      Northbride which is shared by all cores on a package. NB events are
      counted on a shared set of counters. When a NB event is programmed in a
      counter, the data actually comes from a shared counter. Thus, access to
      those counters needs to be synchronized.
      
      We implement the synchronization such that no two cores can be measuring
      NB events using the same counters. Thus, we maintain a per-NB allocation
      table. The available slot is propagated using the event_constraint
      structure.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <4b703957.0702d00a.6bf2.7b7d@mx.google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      38331f62
    • Stephane Eranian's avatar
      perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacks · d76a0812
      Stephane Eranian authored
      In certain situations, the kernel may need to stop and start the same
      event rapidly. The current PMU callbacks do not distinguish between stop
      and release (i.e., stop + free the resource). Thus, a counter may be
      released, then it will be immediately re-acquired. Event scheduling will
      again take place with no guarantee to assign the same counter. On some
      processors, this may event yield to failure to assign the event back due
      to competion between cores.
      
      This patch is adding a new pair of callback to stop and restart a counter
      without actually release the underlying counter resource. On stop, the
      counter is stopped, its values saved and that's it. On start, the value
      is reloaded and counter is restarted (on x86, actual restart is delayed
      until perf_enable()).
      Signed-off-by: default avatarStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      [ added fallback to ->enable/->disable for all other PMUs
        fixed x86_pmu_start() to call x86_pmu.enable()
        merged __x86_pmu_disable into x86_pmu_stop() ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <4b703875.0a04d00a.7896.ffffb824@mx.google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      d76a0812
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_events: Report the MMAP pgoff value in bytes · 3a0304e9
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      DaveM reported that currently perf interprets the pgoff value reported by
      the MMAP events as a byte range, but the kernel reports it as a page
      offset.
      
      Since its broken (and unusable) anyway, change the kernel behaviour (ABI)
      to report bytes indeed, avoiding the need for userspace to deal with
      PAGE_SIZE things.
      Reported-by: default avatarDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      3a0304e9
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