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authorDavid Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>2016-08-02 00:48:12 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-08-10 13:05:52 +0200
commitdb4a835601b73cf8d6cd8986381d966b8e13d2d9 (patch)
tree1b99cff91738db040181bdd92b34dc7760b5184c /include/linux/perf_event.h
parent0b8f1e2e26bfc6b9abe3f0f3faba2cb0eecb9fb9 (diff)
perf/core: Set cgroup in CPU contexts for new cgroup events
There's a perf stat bug easy to observer on a machine with only one cgroup: $ perf stat -e cycles -I 1000 -C 0 -G / # time counts unit events 1.000161699 <not counted> cycles / 2.000355591 <not counted> cycles / 3.000565154 <not counted> cycles / 4.000951350 <not counted> cycles / We'd expect some output there. The underlying problem is that there is an optimization in perf_cgroup_sched_{in,out}() that skips the switch of cgroup events if the old and new cgroups in a task switch are the same. This optimization interacts with the current code in two ways that cause a CPU context's cgroup (cpuctx->cgrp) to be NULL even if a cgroup event matches the current task. These are: 1. On creation of the first cgroup event in a CPU: In current code, cpuctx->cpu is only set in perf_cgroup_sched_in, but due to the aforesaid optimization, perf_cgroup_sched_in will run until the next cgroup switches in that CPU. This may happen late or never happen, depending on system's number of cgroups, CPU load, etc. 2. On deletion of the last cgroup event in a cpuctx: In list_del_event, cpuctx->cgrp is set NULL. Any new cgroup event will not be sched in because cpuctx->cgrp == NULL until a cgroup switch occurs and perf_cgroup_sched_in is executed (updating cpuctx->cgrp). This patch fixes both problems by setting cpuctx->cgrp in list_add_event, mirroring what list_del_event does when removing a cgroup event from CPU context, as introduced in: commit 68cacd29167b ("perf_events: Fix stale ->cgrp pointer in update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx()") With this patch, cpuctx->cgrp is always set/clear when installing/removing the first/last cgroup event in/from the CPU context. With cpuctx->cgrp correctly set, event_filter_match works as intended when events are sched in/out. After the fix, the output is as expected: $ perf stat -e cycles -I 1000 -a -G / # time counts unit events 1.004699159 627342882 cycles / 2.007397156 615272690 cycles / 3.010019057 616726074 cycles / Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470124092-113192-1-git-send-email-davidcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_event.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 8ed4326164cc..2b6b43cc0dd5 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -743,7 +743,9 @@ struct perf_event_context {
u64 parent_gen;
u64 generation;
int pin_count;
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_PERF
int nr_cgroups; /* cgroup evts */
+#endif
void *task_ctx_data; /* pmu specific data */
struct rcu_head rcu_head;
};
@@ -769,7 +771,9 @@ struct perf_cpu_context {
unsigned int hrtimer_active;
struct pmu *unique_pmu;
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_PERF
struct perf_cgroup *cgrp;
+#endif
};
struct perf_output_handle {