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2019-11-13perf/aux: Allow using AUX data in perf samplesAlexander Shishkin
AUX data can be used to annotate perf events such as performance counters or tracepoints/breakpoints by including it in sample records when PERF_SAMPLE_AUX flag is set. Such samples would be instrumental in debugging and profiling by providing, for example, a history of instruction flow leading up to the event's overflow. The implementation makes use of grouping an AUX event with all the events that wish to take samples of the AUX data, such that the former is the group leader. The samplees should also specify the desired size of the AUX sample via attr.aux_sample_size. AUX capable PMUs need to explicitly add support for sampling, because it relies on a new callback to take a snapshot of the buffer without touching the event states. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191025140835.53665-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-08-28perf: Allow normal events to output AUX dataAlexander Shishkin
In some cases, ordinary (non-AUX) events can generate data for AUX events. For example, PEBS events can come out as records in the Intel PT stream instead of their usual DS records, if configured to do so. One requirement for such events is to consistently schedule together, to ensure that the data from the "AUX output" events isn't lost while their corresponding AUX event is not scheduled. We use grouping to provide this guarantee: an "AUX output" event can be added to a group where an AUX event is a group leader, and provided that the former supports writing to the latter. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: kan.liang@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806084606.4021-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
2019-01-21perf, bpf: Introduce PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENTSong Liu
For better performance analysis of BPF programs, this patch introduces PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT, a new perf_event_type that exposes BPF program load/unload information to user space. Each BPF program may contain up to BPF_MAX_SUBPROGS (256) sub programs. The following example shows kernel symbols for a BPF program with 7 sub programs: ffffffffa0257cf9 t bpf_prog_b07ccb89267cf242_F ffffffffa02592e1 t bpf_prog_2dcecc18072623fc_F ffffffffa025b0e9 t bpf_prog_bb7a405ebaec5d5c_F ffffffffa025dd2c t bpf_prog_a7540d4a39ec1fc7_F ffffffffa025fcca t bpf_prog_05762d4ade0e3737_F ffffffffa026108f t bpf_prog_db4bd11e35df90d4_F ffffffffa0263f00 t bpf_prog_89d64e4abf0f0126_F ffffffffa0257cf9 t bpf_prog_ae31629322c4b018__dummy_tracepoi When a bpf program is loaded, PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL is generated for each of these sub programs. Therefore, PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT is not needed for simple profiling. For annotation, user space need to listen to PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT and gather more information about these (sub) programs via sys_bpf. Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradeaed.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190117161521.1341602-4-songliubraving@fb.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-01-21perf, bpf: Introduce PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOLSong Liu
For better performance analysis of dynamically JITed and loaded kernel functions, such as BPF programs, this patch introduces PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL, a new perf_event_type that exposes kernel symbol register/unregister information to user space. The following data structure is used for PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL. /* * struct { * struct perf_event_header header; * u64 addr; * u32 len; * u16 ksym_type; * u16 flags; * char name[]; * struct sample_id sample_id; * }; */ Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190117161521.1341602-2-songliubraving@fb.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-01-21perf/core: Remove unused perf_flagsAndrew Murray
Now that perf_flags is not used we remove it. Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: robin.murphy@arm.com Cc: suzuki.poulose@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547128414-50693-13-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-10-31perf tools: Don't clone maps from parent when synthesizing forksDavid Miller
When synthesizing FORK events, we are trying to create thread objects for the already running tasks on the machine. Normally, for a kernel FORK event, we want to clone the parent's maps because that is what the kernel just did. But when synthesizing, this should not be done. If we do, we end up with overlapping maps as we process the sythesized MMAP2 events that get delivered shortly thereafter. Use the FORK event misc flags in an internal way to signal this situation, so we can elide the map clone when appropriate. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181030.222404.2085088822877051075.davem@davemloft.net [ Added comment about flag use in machine__process_fork_event(), use ternary op in thread__clone_map_groups() as suggested by Jiri ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-09-10perf/UAPI: Clearly mark __PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN_EARLY as internal usePeter Zijlstra
Vince noted that commit: 6cbc304f2f36 ("perf/x86/intel: Fix unwind errors from PEBS entries (mk-II)") 'leaked' __PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN_EARLY into the UAPI namespace. And while sys_perf_event_open() will error out if you try to use it, it is exposed. Clearly mark it for internal use only to avoid any confusion. Requested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-07-25perf/x86/intel: Fix unwind errors from PEBS entries (mk-II)Peter Zijlstra
Vince reported the perf_fuzzer giving various unwinder warnings and Josh reported: > Deja vu. Most of these are related to perf PEBS, similar to the > following issue: > > b8000586c90b ("perf/x86/intel: Cure bogus unwind from PEBS entries") > > This is basically the ORC version of that. setup_pebs_sample_data() is > assembling a franken-pt_regs which ORC isn't happy about. RIP is > inconsistent with some of the other registers (like RSP and RBP). And where the previous unwinder only needed BP,SP ORC also requires IP. But we cannot spoof IP because then the sample will get displaced, entirely negating the point of PEBS. So cure the whole thing differently by doing the unwind early; this does however require a means to communicate we did the unwind early. We (ab)use an unused sample_type bit for this, which we set on events that fill out the data->callchain before the normal perf_prepare_sample(). Debugged-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Tested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Tested-by: Prashant Bhole <bhole_prashant_q7@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-17perf/core: Store context switch out type in PERF_RECORD_SWITCH[_CPU_WIDE]Alexey Budankov
Store preempting context switch out event into Perf trace as a part of PERF_RECORD_SWITCH[_CPU_WIDE] record. Percentage of preempting and non-preempting context switches help understanding the nature of workloads (CPU or IO bound) that are running on a machine; The event is treated as preemption one when task->state value of the thread being switched out is TASK_RUNNING. Event type encoding is implemented using PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT_PREEMPT bit; Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9ff84e83-a0ca-dd82-a6d0-cb951689be74@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-03-13perf/core: Implement fast breakpoint modification via _IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTESMilind Chabbi
Problem and motivation: Once a breakpoint perf event (PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT) is created, there is no flexibility to change the breakpoint type (bp_type), breakpoint address (bp_addr), or breakpoint length (bp_len). The only option is to close the perf event and configure a new breakpoint event. This inflexibility has a significant performance overhead. For example, sampling-based, lightweight performance profilers (and also concurrency bug detection tools), monitor different addresses for a short duration using PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT and change the address (bp_addr) to another address or change the kind of breakpoint (bp_type) from "write" to a "read" or vice-versa or change the length (bp_len) of the address being monitored. The cost of these modifications is prohibitive since it involves unmapping the circular buffer associated with the perf event, closing the perf event, opening another perf event and mmaping another circular buffer. Solution: The new ioctl flag for perf events, PERF_EVENT_IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTES, introduced in this patch takes a pointer to a struct perf_event_attr as an argument to update an old breakpoint event with new address, type, and size. This facility allows retaining a previous mmaped perf events ring buffer and avoids having to close and reopen another perf event. This patch supports only changing PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT event type; future implementations can extend this feature. The patch replicates some of its functionality of modify_user_hw_breakpoint() in kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c. modify_user_hw_breakpoint cannot be called directly since perf_event_ctx_lock() is already held in _perf_ioctl(). Evidence: Experiments show that the baseline (not able to modify an already created breakpoint) costs an order of magnitude (~10x) more than the suggested optimization (having the ability to dynamically modifying a configured breakpoint via ioctl). When the breakpoints typically do not trap, the speedup due to the suggested optimization is ~10x; even when the breakpoints always trap, the speedup is ~4x due to the suggested optimization. Testing: tests posted at https://github.com/linux-contrib/perf_event_modify_bp demonstrate the performance significance of this patch. Tests also check the functional correctness of the patch. Signed-off-by: Milind Chabbi <chabbi.milind@gmail.com> [ Using modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check function. ] [ Reformated PERF_EVENT_IOC_*, so the values are all in one column. ] Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <onestero@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312134548.31532-8-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-17Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixesIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-06perf/core: Prepare perf_event.h for new types: 'perf_kprobe' and 'perf_uprobe'Song Liu
Two new perf types, perf_kprobe and perf_uprobe, will be added to allow creating [k,u]probe with perf_event_open. These [k,u]probe are associated with the file decriptor created by perf_event_open(), thus are easy to clean when the file descriptor is destroyed. kprobe_func and uprobe_path are added to union config1 for pointers to function name for kprobe or binary path for uprobe. kprobe_addr and probe_offset are added to union config2 for kernel address (when kprobe_func is NULL), or [k,u]probe offset. Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: <kernel-team@fb.com> Cc: <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171206224518.3598254-4-songliubraving@fb.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-01-31Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Significantly shrink the core networking routing structures. Result of http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/seoul2017_netdev_keynote.pdf 2) Add netdevsim driver for testing various offloads, from Jakub Kicinski. 3) Support cross-chip FDB operations in DSA, from Vivien Didelot. 4) Add a 2nd listener hash table for TCP, similar to what was done for UDP. From Martin KaFai Lau. 5) Add eBPF based queue selection to tun, from Jason Wang. 6) Lockless qdisc support, from John Fastabend. 7) SCTP stream interleave support, from Xin Long. 8) Smoother TCP receive autotuning, from Eric Dumazet. 9) Lots of erspan tunneling enhancements, from William Tu. 10) Add true function call support to BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov. 11) Add explicit support for GRO HW offloading, from Michael Chan. 12) Support extack generation in more netlink subsystems. From Alexander Aring, Quentin Monnet, and Jakub Kicinski. 13) Add 1000BaseX, flow control, and EEE support to mvneta driver. From Russell King. 14) Add flow table abstraction to netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso. 15) Many improvements and simplifications to the NFP driver bpf JIT, from Jakub Kicinski. 16) Support for ipv6 non-equal cost multipath routing, from Ido Schimmel. 17) Add resource abstration to devlink, from Arkadi Sharshevsky. 18) Packet scheduler classifier shared filter block support, from Jiri Pirko. 19) Avoid locking in act_csum, from Davide Caratti. 20) devinet_ioctl() simplifications from Al viro. 21) More TCP bpf improvements from Lawrence Brakmo. 22) Add support for onlink ipv6 route flag, similar to ipv4, from David Ahern. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1925 commits) tls: Add support for encryption using async offload accelerator ip6mr: fix stale iterator net/sched: kconfig: Remove blank help texts openvswitch: meter: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit tcp_nv: fix potential integer overflow in tcpnv_acked r8169: fix RTL8168EP take too long to complete driver initialization. qmi_wwan: Add support for Quectel EP06 rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_NEWLINK ipmr: Fix ptrdiff_t print formatting ibmvnic: Wait for device response when changing MAC qlcnic: fix deadlock bug tcp: release sk_frag.page in tcp_disconnect ipv4: Get the address of interface correctly. net_sched: gen_estimator: fix lockdep splat net: macb: Handle HRESP error net/mlx5e: IPoIB, Fix copy-paste bug in flow steering refactoring ipv6: addrconf: break critical section in addrconf_verify_rtnl() ipv6: change route cache aging logic i40e/i40evf: Update DESC_NEEDED value to reflect larger value bnxt_en: cleanup DIM work on device shutdown ...
2018-01-08perf: Update PERF_RECORD_MISC_* comment for perf_event_header::misc bit 13Jiri Olsa
The perf_event_header::misc bit 13 is shared on different events and next patch is adding yet another bit 13 user. Updating the comment to make it more structured and clear which events use bit 13. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107160356.28203-8-jolsa@kernel.org [ Update the tools/include/uapi/linux copy ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-01-08perf: Add sample_id to PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START event commentJiri Olsa
Adding missing sample_id line into PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START event comment. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107160356.28203-5-jolsa@kernel.org [ Update the tools/include/uapi/linux copy ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-12-12bpf/tracing: allow user space to query prog array on the same tpYonghong Song
Commit e87c6bc3852b ("bpf: permit multiple bpf attachments for a single perf event") added support to attach multiple bpf programs to a single perf event. Although this provides flexibility, users may want to know what other bpf programs attached to the same tp interface. Besides getting visibility for the underlying bpf system, such information may also help consolidate multiple bpf programs, understand potential performance issues due to a large array, and debug (e.g., one bpf program which overwrites return code may impact subsequent program results). Commit 2541517c32be ("tracing, perf: Implement BPF programs attached to kprobes") utilized the existing perf ioctl interface and added the command PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF to attach a bpf program to a tracepoint. This patch adds a new ioctl command, given a perf event fd, to query the bpf program array attached to the same perf tracepoint event. The new uapi ioctl command: PERF_EVENT_IOC_QUERY_BPF The new uapi/linux/perf_event.h structure: struct perf_event_query_bpf { __u32 ids_len; __u32 prog_cnt; __u32 ids[0]; }; User space provides buffer "ids" for kernel to copy to. When returning from the kernel, the number of available programs in the array is set in "prog_cnt". The usage: struct perf_event_query_bpf *query = malloc(sizeof(*query) + sizeof(u32) * ids_len); query.ids_len = ids_len; err = ioctl(pmu_efd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_QUERY_BPF, query); if (err == 0) { /* query.prog_cnt is the number of available progs, * number of progs in ids: (ids_len == 0) ? 0 : query.prog_cnt */ } else if (errno == ENOSPC) { /* query.ids_len number of progs copied, * query.prog_cnt is the number of available progs */ } else { /* other errors */ } Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2017-11-15Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon: "The big highlight is support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) which required extensive ABI work to ensure we don't break existing applications by blowing away their signal stack with the rather large new vector context (<= 2 kbit per vector register). There's further work to be done optimising things like exception return, but the ABI is solid now. Much of the line count comes from some new PMU drivers we have, but they're pretty self-contained and I suspect we'll have more of them in future. Plenty of acronym soup here: - initial support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) - improved handling for SError interrupts (required to handle RAS events) - enable GCC support for 128-bit integer types - remove kernel text addresses from backtraces and register dumps - use of WFE to implement long delay()s - ACPI IORT updates from Lorenzo Pieralisi - perf PMU driver for the Statistical Profiling Extension (SPE) - perf PMU driver for Hisilicon's system PMUs - misc cleanups and non-critical fixes" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (97 commits) arm64: Make ARMV8_DEPRECATED depend on SYSCTL arm64: Implement __lshrti3 library function arm64: support __int128 on gcc 5+ arm64/sve: Add documentation arm64/sve: Detect SVE and activate runtime support arm64/sve: KVM: Hide SVE from CPU features exposed to guests arm64/sve: KVM: Treat guest SVE use as undefined instruction execution arm64/sve: KVM: Prevent guests from using SVE arm64/sve: Add sysctl to set the default vector length for new processes arm64/sve: Add prctl controls for userspace vector length management arm64/sve: ptrace and ELF coredump support arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around EFI runtime service calls arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around kernel-mode NEON use arm64/sve: Probe SVE capabilities and usable vector lengths arm64: cpufeature: Move sys_caps_initialised declarations arm64/sve: Backend logic for setting the vector length arm64/sve: Signal handling support arm64/sve: Support vector length resetting for new processes arm64/sve: Core task context handling arm64/sve: Low-level CPU setup ...
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman
Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the license under which the file is supposed to be. This makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license. Update these files with an SPDX license identifier. The identifier was chosen based on the license information in the file. GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall exception: NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL code, without confusing license compliance tools. Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier. The format is: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE) SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. The update does not remove existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will happen in a separate step. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the methodology of how this patch was researched. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-18perf/core: Add PERF_AUX_FLAG_COLLISION to report colliding samplesWill Deacon
The ARM SPE architecture permits an implementation to ignore a sample if the sample is due to be taken whilst another sample is already being produced. In this case, it is desirable to report the collision to userspace, as they may want to lower the sample period. This patch adds a PERF_AUX_FLAG_COLLISION flag, so that such events can be relayed to userspace. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2017-08-29perf/core, x86: Add PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDRKan Liang
For understanding how the workload maps to memory channels and hardware behavior, it's very important to collect address maps with physical addresses. For example, 3D XPoint access can only be found by filtering the physical address. Add a new sample type for physical address. perf already has a facility to collect data virtual address. This patch introduces a function to convert the virtual address to physical address. The function is quite generic and can be extended to any architecture as long as a virtual address is provided. - For kernel direct mapping addresses, virt_to_phys is used to convert the virtual addresses to physical address. - For user virtual addresses, __get_user_pages_fast is used to walk the pages tables for user physical address. - This does not work for vmalloc addresses right now. These are not resolved, but code to do that could be added. The new sample type requires collecting the virtual address. The virtual address will not be output unless SAMPLE_ADDR is applied. For security, the physical address can only be exposed to root or privileged user. Tested-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503967969-48278-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-25perf/x86: Fix data source decoding for SkylakeAndi Kleen
Skylake changed the encoding of the PEBS data source field. Some combinations are not available anymore, but some new cases e.g. for L4 cache hit are added. Fix up the conversion table for Skylake, similar as had been done for Nehalem. On Skylake server the encoding for L4 actually means persistent memory. Handle this case too. To properly describe it in the abstracted perf format I had to add some new fields. Since a hit can have only one level add a new field that is an enumeration, not a bit field to describe the level. It can describe any level. Some numbers are also used to describe PMEM and LFB. Also add a new generic remote flag that can be combined with the generic level to signify a remote cache. And there is an extension field for the snoop indication to handle the Forward state. I didn't add a generic flag for hops because it's not needed for Skylake. I changed the existing encodings for older CPUs to also fill in the new level and remote fields. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: jolsa@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816222156.19953-3-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-18perf/core: Define the common branch type classificationJin Yao
It is often useful to know the branch types while analyzing branch data. For example, a call is very different from a conditional branch. Currently we have to look it up in binary while the binary may later not be available and even the binary is available but user has to take some time. It is very useful for user to check it directly in perf report. Perf already has support for disassembling the branch instruction to get the x86 branch type. To keep consistent on kernel and userspace and make the classification more common, the patch adds the common branch type classification in perf_event.h. The patch only defines a minimum but most common set of branch types. PERF_BR_UNKNOWN : unknown PERF_BR_COND :conditional PERF_BR_UNCOND : unconditional PERF_BR_IND : indirect PERF_BR_CALL : function call PERF_BR_IND_CALL : indirect function call PERF_BR_RET : function return PERF_BR_SYSCALL : syscall PERF_BR_SYSRET : syscall return PERF_BR_COND_CALL : conditional function call PERF_BR_COND_RET : conditional function return The patch also adds a new field type (4 bits) in perf_branch_entry to record the branch type. Since the disassembling of branch instruction needs some overhead, a new PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_TYPE_SAVE is introduced to indicate if it needs to disassemble the branch instruction and record the branch type. Change log: v10: Not changed. v9: Not changed. v8: Change PERF_BR_NONE to PERF_BR_UNKNOWN. No other change. v7: Just keep the most common branch types. Others are removed. v6: Not changed. v5: Not changed. The v5 patch series just change the userspace. v4: Comparing to previous version, the major changes are: 1. Remove the PERF_BR_JCC_FWD/PERF_BR_JCC_BWD, they will be computed later in userspace. 2. Remove the "cross" field in perf_branch_entry. The cross page computing will be done later in userspace. Signed-off-by: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500379995-6449-2-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-05-05Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Highlights include: - Larger virtual address space on 64-bit server CPUs. By default we use a 128TB virtual address space, but a process can request access to the full 512TB by passing a hint to mmap(). - Support for the new Power9 "XIVE" interrupt controller. - TLB flushing optimisations for the radix MMU on Power9. - Support for CAPI cards on Power9, using the "Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture 2.0". - The ability to configure the mmap randomisation limits at build and runtime. - Several small fixes and cleanups to the kprobes code, as well as support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE. - Major improvements to handling of system reset interrupts, correctly treating them as NMIs, giving them a dedicated stack and using a new hypervisor call to trigger them, all of which should aid debugging and robustness. - Many fixes and other minor enhancements. Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Ben Hutchings, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhupesh Sharma, Chris Packham, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Gautham R. Shenoy, Gavin Shan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hamish Martin, Hari Bathini, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh J Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masami Hiramatsu, Matt Brown, Matthew R. Ochs, Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Pan Xinhui, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Russell Currey, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tobin C. Harding, Tyrel Datwyler, Uma Krishnan, Vaibhav Jain, Vipin K Parashar, Yang Shi" * tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (214 commits) powerpc/64s: Power9 has no LPCR[VRMASD] field so don't set it powerpc/powernv: Fix TCE kill on NVLink2 powerpc/mm/radix: Drop support for CPUs without lockless tlbie powerpc/book3s/mce: Move add_taint() later in virtual mode powerpc/sysfs: Move #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU out of the function body powerpc/smp: Document irq enable/disable after migrating IRQs powerpc/mpc52xx: Don't select user-visible RTAS_PROC powerpc/powernv: Document cxl dependency on special case in pnv_eeh_reset() powerpc/eeh: Clean up and document event handling functions powerpc/eeh: Avoid use after free in eeh_handle_special_event() cxl: Mask slice error interrupts after first occurrence cxl: Route eeh events to all drivers in cxl_pci_error_detected() cxl: Force context lock during EEH flow powerpc/64: Allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE if COMPILE_TEST powerpc/xmon: Teach xmon oops about radix vectors powerpc/mm/hash: Fix off-by-one in comment about kernel contexts ids powerpc/pseries: Enable VFIO powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu table size calculation hook for small tables powerpc/powernv: Check kzalloc() return value in pnv_pci_table_alloc powerpc: Add arch/powerpc/tools directory ...
2017-04-19powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of perf_mem_data_srcSukadev Bhattiprolu
perf_mem_data_src is a union that is initialized in the kernel via the ->val field and accessed by userspace via the mem_xxx bitfields. For this to work correctly on big endian platforms, we need a big-endian definition for the bitfields. Currently on a big endian system, if a user requests PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC (perf report -d), they will get the default value from perf_sample_data_init(), which is PERF_MEM_NA. The value for PERF_MEM_NA is constructed using shifts: /* TLB access */ #define PERF_MEM_TLB_NA 0x01 /* not available */ ... #define PERF_MEM_TLB_SHIFT 26 #define PERF_MEM_S(a, s) \ (((__u64)PERF_MEM_##a##_##s) << PERF_MEM_##a##_SHIFT) #define PERF_MEM_NA (PERF_MEM_S(OP, NA) |\ PERF_MEM_S(LVL, NA) |\ PERF_MEM_S(SNOOP, NA) |\ PERF_MEM_S(LOCK, NA) |\ PERF_MEM_S(TLB, NA)) Which works out as: ((0x01 << 0) | (0x01 << 5) | (0x01 << 19) | (0x01 << 24) | (0x01 << 26)) Which means the PERF_MEM_NA value comes out of the kernel as 0x5080021 in CPU endian. But then in the perf tool, the code uses the bitfields to inspect the value, and currently the bitfields are defined using little endian ordering. So eg. in perf_mem__tlb_scnprintf() we see: data_src->val = 0x5080021 op = 0x0 lvl = 0x0 snoop = 0x0 lock = 0x0 dtlb = 0x0 rsvd = 0x5080021 Because of the way the perf tool code is written this is still displayed to the user as "N/A", so there is no bug visible at the UI level. Currently there are no big endian architectures which export a meaningful value (ie. other than PERF_MEM_NA), so the extent of the bug on big endian platforms is that the PERF_MEM_NA value is exported incorrectly as described above. Subsequent patches will add support on big endian powerpc for populating the data source value. This patch does a minimal fix of adding big endian definition of the bitfields to match the values that are already exported by the kernel on big endian. And it makes no change on little endian. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-03-16perf/core: Add a flag for partial AUX recordsAlexander Shishkin
The Intel PT driver needs to be able to communicate partial AUX transactions, that is, transactions with gaps in data for reasons other than no room left in the buffer (i.e. truncated transactions). Therefore, this condition does not imply a wakeup for the consumer. To this end, add a new "partial" AUX flag. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170220133352.17995-4-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-13perf: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related infoHari Bathini
With the advert of container technologies like docker, that depend on namespaces for isolation, there is a need for tracing support for namespaces. This patch introduces new PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES event for recording namespaces related info. By recording info for every namespace, it is left to userspace to take a call on the definition of a container and trace containers by updating perf tool accordingly. Each namespace has a combination of device and inode numbers. Though every namespace has the same device number currently, that may change in future to avoid the need for a namespace of namespaces. Considering such possibility, record both device and inode numbers separately for each namespace. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148891929686.25309.2827618988917007768.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-05-30perf core: Per event callchain limitArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Additionally to being able to control the system wide maximum depth via /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack, now we are able to ask for different depths per event, using perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack for that. This uses an u16 hole at the end of perf_event_attr, that, when perf_event_attr.sample_type has the PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN, if sample_max_stack is zero, means use perf_event_max_stack, otherwise it'll be bounds checked under callchain_mutex. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kolmn1yo40p7jhswxwrc7rrd@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-05-16perf core: Separate accounting of contexts and real addresses in a stack traceArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
The perf_sample->ip_callchain->nr value includes all the entries in the ip_callchain->ip[] array, real addresses and PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc}, while what the user expects is that what is in the kernel.perf_event_max_stack sysctl or in the upcoming per event perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack knob be honoured in terms of IP addresses in the stack trace. So allocate a bunch of extra entries for contexts, and do the accounting via perf_callchain_entry_ctx struct members. A new sysctl, kernel.perf_event_max_contexts_per_stack is also introduced for investigating possible bugs in the callchain implementation by some arch. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3b4wnqk340c4sg4gwkfdi9yk@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-04-23perf/core: Add ::write_backward attribute to perf eventWang Nan
This patch introduces 'write_backward' bit to perf_event_attr, which controls the direction of a ring buffer. After set, the corresponding ring buffer is written from end to beginning. This feature is design to support reading from overwritable ring buffer. Ring buffer can be created by mapping a perf event fd. Kernel puts event records into ring buffer, user tooling like perf fetch them from address returned by mmap(). To prevent racing between kernel and tooling, they communicate to each other through 'head' and 'tail' pointers. Kernel maintains 'head' pointer, points it to the next free area (tail of the last record). Tooling maintains 'tail' pointer, points it to the tail of last consumed record (record has already been fetched). Kernel determines the available space in a ring buffer using these two pointers to avoid overwrite unfetched records. By mapping without 'PROT_WRITE', an overwritable ring buffer is created. Different from normal ring buffer, tooling is unable to maintain 'tail' pointer because writing is forbidden. Therefore, for this type of ring buffers, kernel overwrite old records unconditionally, works like flight recorder. This feature would be useful if reading from overwritable ring buffer were as easy as reading from normal ring buffer. However, there's an obscure problem. The following figure demonstrates a full overwritable ring buffer. In this figure, the 'head' pointer points to the end of last record, and a long record 'E' is pending. For a normal ring buffer, a 'tail' pointer would have pointed to position (X), so kernel knows there's no more space in the ring buffer. However, for an overwritable ring buffer, kernel ignore the 'tail' pointer. (X) head . | . V +------+-------+----------+------+---+ |A....A|B.....B|C........C|D....D| | +------+-------+----------+------+---+ Record 'A' is overwritten by event 'E': head | V +--+---+-------+----------+------+---+ |.E|..A|B.....B|C........C|D....D|E..| +--+---+-------+----------+------+---+ Now tooling decides to read from this ring buffer. However, none of these two natural positions, 'head' and the start of this ring buffer, are pointing to the head of a record. Even the full ring buffer can be accessed by tooling, it is unable to find a position to start decoding. The first attempt tries to solve this problem AFAIK can be found from [1]. It makes kernel to maintain 'tail' pointer: updates it when ring buffer is half full. However, this approach introduces overhead to fast path. Test result shows a 1% overhead [2]. In addition, this method utilizes no more tham 50% records. Another attempt can be found from [3], which allows putting the size of an event at the end of each record. This approach allows tooling to find records in a backward manner from 'head' pointer by reading size of a record from its tail. However, because of alignment requirement, it needs 8 bytes to record the size of a record, which is a huge waste. Its performance is also not good, because more data need to be written. This approach also introduces some extra branch instructions to fast path. 'write_backward' is a better solution to this problem. Following figure demonstrates the state of the overwritable ring buffer when 'write_backward' is set before overwriting: head | V +---+------+----------+-------+------+ | |D....D|C........C|B.....B|A....A| +---+------+----------+-------+------+ and after overwriting: head | V +---+------+----------+-------+---+--+ |..E|D....D|C........C|B.....B|A..|E.| +---+------+----------+-------+---+--+ In each situation, 'head' points to the beginning of the newest record. From this record, tooling can iterate over the full ring buffer and fetch records one by one. The only limitation that needs to be considered is back-to-back reading. Due to the non-deterministic of user programs, it is impossible to ensure the ring buffer keeps stable during reading. Consider an extreme situation: tooling is scheduled out after reading record 'D', then a burst of events come, eat up the whole ring buffer (one or multiple rounds). When the tooling process comes back, reading after 'D' is incorrect now. To prevent this problem, we need to find a way to ensure the ring buffer is stable during reading. ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT) is suggested because its overhead is lower than ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE). By carefully verifying 'header' pointer, reader can avoid pausing the ring-buffer. For example: /* A union of all possible events */ union perf_event event; p = head = perf_mmap__read_head(); while (true) { /* copy header of next event */ fetch(&event.header, p, sizeof(event.header)); /* read 'head' pointer */ head = perf_mmap__read_head(); /* check overwritten: is the header good? */ if (!verify(sizeof(event.header), p, head)) break; /* copy the whole event */ fetch(&event, p, event.header.size); /* read 'head' pointer again */ head = perf_mmap__read_head(); /* is the whole event good? */ if (!verify(event.header.size, p, head)) break; p += event.header.size; } However, the overhead is high because: a) In-place decoding is not safe. Copying-verifying-decoding is required. b) Fetching 'head' pointer requires additional synchronization. (From Alexei Starovoitov: Even when this trick works, pause is needed for more than stability of reading. When we collect the events into overwrite buffer we're waiting for some other trigger (like all cpu utilization spike or just one cpu running and all others are idle) and when it happens the buffer has valuable info from the past. At this point new events are no longer interesting and buffer should be paused, events read and unpaused until next trigger comes.) This patch utilizes event's default overflow_handler introduced previously. perf_event_output_backward() is created as the default overflow handler for backward ring buffers. To avoid extra overhead to fast path, original perf_event_output() becomes __perf_event_output() and marked '__always_inline'. In theory, there's no extra overhead introduced to fast path. Performance testing: Calling 3000000 times of 'close(-1)', use gettimeofday() to check duration. Use 'perf record -o /dev/null -e raw_syscalls:*' to capture system calls. In ns. Testing environment: CPU : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz Kernel : v4.5.0 MEAN STDVAR BASE 800214.950 2853.083 PRE1 2253846.700 9997.014 PRE2 2257495.540 8516.293 POST 2250896.100 8933.921 Where 'BASE' is pure performance without capturing. 'PRE1' is test result of pure 'v4.5.0' kernel. 'PRE2' is test result before this patch. 'POST' is test result after this patch. See [4] for the detailed experimental setup. Considering the stdvar, this patch doesn't introduce performance overhead to the fast path. [1] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1304.1/04584.html [2] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1307.1/00535.html [3] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1512.0/01265.html [4] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/56F89DCD.1040202@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: <acme@kernel.org> Cc: <pi3orama@163.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459865478-53413-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com [ Fixed the changelog some more. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-31perf/ring_buffer: Introduce new ioctl options to pause and resume the ↵Wang Nan
ring-buffer Add new ioctl() to pause/resume ring-buffer output. In some situations we want to read from the ring-buffer only when we ensure nothing can write to the ring-buffer during reading. Without this patch we have to turn off all events attached to this ring-buffer to achieve this. This patch is a prerequisite to enable overwrite support for the perf ring-buffer support. Following commits will introduce new methods support reading from overwrite ring buffer. Before reading, caller must ensure the ring buffer is frozen, or the reading is unreliable. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <pi3orama@163.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459147292-239310-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-23perf/x86: Add option to disable reading branch flags/cyclesAndi Kleen
With LBRv5 reading the extra LBR flags like mispredict, TSX, cycles is not free anymore, as it has moved to a separate MSR. For callstack mode we don't need any of this information; so we can avoid the unnecessary MSR read. Add flags to the perf interface where perf record can request not collecting this information. Add branch_sample_type flags for CYCLES and FLAGS. It's a bit unusual for branch_sample_types to be negative (disable), not positive (enable), but since the legacy ABI reported the flags we need some form of explicit disabling to avoid breaking the ABI. After we have the flags the x86 perf code can keep track if any users need the flags. If noone needs it the information is not collected. This cuts down the cost of LBR callstack on Skylake significantly. Profiling a kernel build with LBR call stack the average run time of the PMI handler drops by 43%. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: jolsa@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445366797-30894-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking updates from David Miller: Changes of note: 1) Allow to schedule ICMP packets in IPVS, from Alex Gartrell. 2) Provide FIB table ID in ipv4 route dumps just as ipv6 does, from David Ahern. 3) Allow the user to ask for the statistics to be filtered out of ipv4/ipv6 address netlink dumps. From Sowmini Varadhan. 4) More work to pass the network namespace context around deep into various packet path APIs, starting with the netfilter hooks. From Eric W Biederman. 5) Add layer 2 TX/RX checksum offloading to qeth driver, from Thomas Richter. 6) Use usec resolution for SYN/ACK RTTs in TCP, from Yuchung Cheng. 7) Support Very High Throughput in wireless MESH code, from Bob Copeland. 8) Allow setting the ageing_time in switchdev/rocker. From Scott Feldman. 9) Properly autoload L2TP type modules, from Stephen Hemminger. 10) Fix and enable offload features by default in 8139cp driver, from David Woodhouse. 11) Support both ipv4 and ipv6 sockets in a single vxlan device, from Jiri Benc. 12) Fix CWND limiting of thin streams in TCP, from Bendik Rønning Opstad. 13) Fix IPSEC flowcache overflows on large systems, from Steffen Klassert. 14) Convert bridging to track VLANs using rhashtable entries rather than a bitmap. From Nikolay Aleksandrov. 15) Make TCP listener handling completely lockless, this is a major accomplishment. Incoming request sockets now live in the established hash table just like any other socket too. From Eric Dumazet. 15) Provide more bridging attributes to netlink, from Nikolay Aleksandrov. 16) Use hash based algorithm for ipv4 multipath routing, this was very long overdue. From Peter Nørlund. 17) Several y2038 cures, mostly avoiding timespec. From Arnd Bergmann. 18) Allow non-root execution of EBPF programs, from Alexei Starovoitov. 19) Support SO_INCOMING_CPU as setsockopt, from Eric Dumazet. This influences the port binding selection logic used by SO_REUSEPORT. 20) Add ipv6 support to VRF, from David Ahern. 21) Add support for Mellanox Spectrum switch ASIC, from Jiri Pirko. 22) Add rtl8xxxu Realtek wireless driver, from Jes Sorensen. 23) Implement RACK loss recovery in TCP, from Yuchung Cheng. 24) Support multipath routes in MPLS, from Roopa Prabhu. 25) Fix POLLOUT notification for listening sockets in AF_UNIX, from Eric Dumazet. 26) Add new QED Qlogic river, from Yuval Mintz, Manish Chopra, and Sudarsana Kalluru. 27) Don't fetch timestamps on AF_UNIX sockets, from Hannes Frederic Sowa. 28) Support ipv6 geneve tunnels, from John W Linville. 29) Add flood control support to switchdev layer, from Ido Schimmel. 30) Fix CHECKSUM_PARTIAL handling of potentially fragmented frames, from Hannes Frederic Sowa. 31) Support persistent maps and progs in bpf, from Daniel Borkmann. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1790 commits) sh_eth: use DMA barriers switchdev: respect SKIP_EOPNOTSUPP flag in case there is no recursion net: sched: kill dead code in sch_choke.c irda: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "irlmp_unregister_service" net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: include DSA ports in VLANs net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: disable SA learning for DSA and CPU ports net/core: fix for_each_netdev_feature vlan: Invoke driver vlan hooks only if device is present arcnet/com20020: add LEDS_CLASS dependency bpf, verifier: annotate verbose printer with __printf dp83640: Only wait for timestamps for packets with timestamping enabled. ptp: Change ptp_class to a proper bitmask dp83640: Prune rx timestamp list before reading from it dp83640: Delay scheduled work. dp83640: Include hash in timestamp/packet matching ipv6: fix tunnel error handling net/mlx5e: Fix LSO vlan insertion net/mlx5e: Re-eanble client vlan TX acceleration net/mlx5e: Return error in case mlx5e_set_features() fails net/mlx5e: Don't allow more than max supported channels ...
2015-10-22bpf: introduce bpf_perf_event_output() helperAlexei Starovoitov
This helper is used to send raw data from eBPF program into special PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE/PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUTPUT perf_event. User space needs to perf_event_open() it (either for one or all cpus) and store FD into perf_event_array (similar to bpf_perf_event_read() helper) before eBPF program can send data into it. Today the programs triggered by kprobe collect the data and either store it into the maps or print it via bpf_trace_printk() where latter is the debug facility and not suitable to stream the data. This new helper replaces such bpf_trace_printk() usage and allows programs to have dedicated channel into user space for post-processing of the raw data collected. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-20perf: Add PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALLStephane Eranian
Add a new branch sample type to cover only call branches (function calls). The current ANY_CALL included direct, indirect calls and far jumps. We want to be able to differentiate indirect from direct calls. Therefore we introduce PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL. The implementation is up to each architecture. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444720151-10275-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-20perf/x86: Fix time_shift in perf_event_mmap_pageAdrian Hunter
Commit: b20112edeadf ("perf/x86: Improve accuracy of perf/sched clock") allowed the time_shift value in perf_event_mmap_page to be as much as 32. Unfortunately the documented algorithms for using time_shift have it shifting an integer, whereas to work correctly with the value 32, the type must be u64. In the case of perf tools, Intel PT decodes correctly but the timestamps that are output (for example by perf script) have lost 32-bits of granularity so they look like they are not changing at all. Fix by limiting the shift to 31 and adjusting the multiplier accordingly. Also update the documentation of perf_event_mmap_page so that new code based on it will be more future-proof. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Fixes: b20112edeadf ("perf/x86: Improve accuracy of perf/sched clock") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445001845-13688-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-04perf: Add cycles to branch_infoAndi Kleen
Intel Skylake supports reporting the time in cycles a branch in the LBR took, to give a rough indication of the basic block performance. Export the cycle information in the branch_info structure. This can be done by just reusing some currently zero padding. This is just the generic header change. The architecture still needs to fill it in. There's no attempt to convert to real time, as we really want cycles here. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: eranian@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431285767-27027-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-23perf: Add PERF_RECORD_SWITCH to indicate context switchesAdrian Hunter
There are already two events for context switches, namely the tracepoint sched:sched_switch and the software event context_switches. Unfortunately neither are suitable for use by non-privileged users for the purpose of synchronizing hardware trace data (e.g. Intel PT) to the context switch. Tracepoints are no good at all for non-privileged users because they need either CAP_SYS_ADMIN or /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid <= -1. On the other hand, kernel software events need either CAP_SYS_ADMIN or /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid <= 1. Now many distributions do default perf_event_paranoid to 1 making context_switches a contender, except it has another problem (which is also shared with sched:sched_switch) which is that it happens before perf schedules events out instead of after perf schedules events in. Whereas a privileged user can see all the events anyway, a non-privileged user only sees events for their own processes, in other words they see when their process was scheduled out not when it was scheduled in. That presents two problems to use the event: 1. the information comes too late, so tools have to look ahead in the event stream to find out what the current state is 2. if they are unlucky tracing might have stopped before the context-switches event is recorded. This new PERF_RECORD_SWITCH event does not have those problems and it also has a couple of other small advantages. It is easier to use because it is an auxiliary event (like mmap, comm and task events) which can be enabled by setting a single bit. It is smaller than sched:sched_switch and easier to parse. To make the event useful for privileged users also, if the context is cpu-wide then the event record will be PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE which is the same as PERF_RECORD_SWITCH except it also provides the next or previous pid/tid. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437471846-26995-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-06-19perf tools: Add time out to force stop proc map processingKan Liang
System wide sampling like 'perf top' or 'perf record -a' read all threads /proc/xxx/maps before sampling. If there are any threads which generating a keeping growing huge maps, perf will do infinite loop during synthesizing. Nothing will be sampled. This patch fixes this issue by adding per-thread timeout to force stop this kind of endless proc map processing. PERF_RECORD_MISC_PROC_MAP_PARSE_TIME_OUT is introduced to indicate that the mmap record are truncated by time out. User will get warning notification when truncated mmap records are detected. Reported-by: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434549071-25611-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-06-07perf/x86/intel: Introduce PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLESKan Liang
After enlarging the PEBS interrupt threshold, there may be some mixed up PEBS samples which are discarded by the kernel. This patch makes the kernel emit a PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES record with the number of possible discarded records when it is impossible to demux the samples. It makes sure the user is not left in the dark about such discards. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: eranian@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431285195-14269-8-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-07perf: add new PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP branch sample typeStephane Eranian
This patch adds a new branch_sample_type flag to enable filtering branch sampling to indirect jumps. The support is subject to hardware or kernel software support on each architecture. Filtering on indirect jump is useful to study the targets of the jump. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: namhyung@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431637800-31061-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02perf: Add ITRACE_START record to indicate that tracing has startedAlexander Shishkin
For counters that generate AUX data that is bound to the context of a running task, such as instruction tracing, the decoder needs to know exactly which task is running when the event is first scheduled in, before the first sched_switch. The decoder's need to know this stems from the fact that instruction flow trace decoding will almost always require program's object code in order to reconstruct said flow and for that we need at least its pid/tid in the perf stream. To single out such instruction tracing pmus, this patch introduces ITRACE PMU capability. The reason this is not part of RECORD_AUX record is that not all pmus capable of generating AUX data need this, and the opposite is *probably* also true. While sched_switch covers for most cases, there are two problems with it: the consumer will need to process events out of order (that is, having found RECORD_AUX, it will have to skip forward to the nearest sched_switch to figure out which task it was, then go back to the actual trace to decode it) and it completely misses the case when the tracing is enabled and disabled before sched_switch, for example, via PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-15-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02perf: Add wakeup watermark control to the AUX areaAlexander Shishkin
When AUX area gets a certain amount of new data, we want to wake up userspace to collect it. This adds a new control to specify how much data will cause a wakeup. This is then passed down to pmu drivers via output handle's "wakeup" field, so that the driver can find the nearest point where it can generate an interrupt. We repurpose __reserved_2 in the event attribute for this, even though it was never checked to be zero before, aux_watermark will only matter for new AUX-aware code, so the old code should still be fine. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-10-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02perf: Support overwrite mode for the AUX areaAlexander Shishkin
This adds support for overwrite mode in the AUX area, which means "keep collecting data till you're stopped", turning AUX area into a circular buffer, where new data overwrites old data. It does not depend on data buffer's overwrite mode, so that it doesn't lose sideband data that is instrumental for processing AUX data. Overwrite mode is enabled at mapping AUX area read only. Even though aux_tail in the buffer's user page might be user writable, it will be ignored in this mode. A PERF_RECORD_AUX with PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE set is written to the perf data stream every time an event writes new data to the AUX area. The pmu driver might not be able to infer the exact beginning of the new data in each snapshot, some drivers will only provide the tail, which is aux_offset + aux_size in the AUX record. Consumer has to be able to tell the new data from the old one, for example, by means of time stamps if such are provided in the trace. Consumer is also responsible for disabling any events that might write to the AUX area (thus potentially racing with the consumer) before collecting the data. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-9-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02perf: Add AUX recordAlexander Shishkin
When there's new data in the AUX space, output a record indicating its offset and size and a set of flags, such as PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED, to mean the described data was truncated to fit in the ring buffer. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-7-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02perf: Add AUX area to ring buffer for raw data streamsPeter Zijlstra
This patch introduces "AUX space" in the perf mmap buffer, intended for exporting high bandwidth data streams to userspace, such as instruction flow traces. AUX space is a ring buffer, defined by aux_{offset,size} fields in the user_page structure, and read/write pointers aux_{head,tail}, which abide by the same rules as data_* counterparts of the main perf buffer. In order to allocate/mmap AUX, userspace needs to set up aux_offset to such an offset that will be greater than data_offset+data_size and aux_size to be the desired buffer size. Both need to be page aligned. Then, same aux_offset and aux_size should be passed to mmap() call and if everything adds up, you should have an AUX buffer as a result. Pages that are mapped into this buffer also come out of user's mlock rlimit plus perf_event_mlock_kb allowance. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-3-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02perf: Add data_{offset,size} to user_pageAlexander Shishkin
Currently, the actual perf ring buffer is one page into the mmap area, following the user page and the userspace follows this convention. This patch adds data_{offset,size} fields to user_page that can be used by userspace instead for locating perf data in the mmap area. This is also helpful when mapping existing or shared buffers if their size is not known in advance. Right now, it is made to follow the existing convention that data_offset == PAGE_SIZE and data_offset + data_size == mmap_size. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-2-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02tracing, perf: Implement BPF programs attached to kprobesAlexei Starovoitov
BPF programs, attached to kprobes, provide a safe way to execute user-defined BPF byte-code programs without being able to crash or hang the kernel in any way. The BPF engine makes sure that such programs have a finite execution time and that they cannot break out of their sandbox. The user interface is to attach to a kprobe via the perf syscall: struct perf_event_attr attr = { .type = PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT, .config = event_id, ... }; event_fd = perf_event_open(&attr,...); ioctl(event_fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF, prog_fd); 'prog_fd' is a file descriptor associated with BPF program previously loaded. 'event_id' is an ID of the kprobe created. Closing 'event_fd': close(event_fd); ... automatically detaches BPF program from it. BPF programs can call in-kernel helper functions to: - lookup/update/delete elements in maps - probe_read - wraper of probe_kernel_read() used to access any kernel data structures BPF programs receive 'struct pt_regs *' as an input ('struct pt_regs' is architecture dependent) and return 0 to ignore the event and 1 to store kprobe event into the ring buffer. Note, kprobes are a fundamentally _not_ a stable kernel ABI, so BPF programs attached to kprobes must be recompiled for every kernel version and user must supply correct LINUX_VERSION_CODE in attr.kern_version during bpf_prog_load() call. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427312966-8434-4-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-27perf: Add per event clockid supportPeter Zijlstra
While thinking on the whole clock discussion it occurred to me we have two distinct uses of time: 1) the tracking of event/ctx/cgroup enabled/running/stopped times which includes the self-monitoring support in struct perf_event_mmap_page. 2) the actual timestamps visible in the data records. And we've been conflating them. The first is all about tracking time deltas, nobody should really care in what time base that happens, its all relative information, as long as its internally consistent it works. The second however is what people are worried about when having to merge their data with external sources. And here we have the discussion on MONOTONIC vs MONOTONIC_RAW etc.. Where MONOTONIC is good for correlating between machines (static offset), MONOTNIC_RAW is required for correlating against a fixed rate hardware clock. This means configurability; now 1) makes that hard because it needs to be internally consistent across groups of unrelated events; which is why we had to have a global perf_clock(). However, for 2) it doesn't really matter, perf itself doesn't care what it writes into the buffer. The below patch makes the distinction between these two cases by adding perf_event_clock() which is used for the second case. It further makes this configurable on a per-event basis, but adds a few sanity checks such that we cannot combine events with different clocks in confusing ways. And since we then have per-event configurability we might as well retain the 'legacy' behaviour as a default. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-18perf/x86/intel: Expose LBR callstack to user space toolingPeter Zijlstra
With LBR call stack feature enable, there are three callchain options. Enable the 3rd callchain option (LBR callstack) to user space tooling. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141105093759.GQ10501@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-18perf/x86/intel: Reduce lbr_sel_map[] sizeYan, Zheng
The index of lbr_sel_map is bit value of perf branch_sample_type. PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX is 1024 at present, so each lbr_sel_map uses 4096 bytes. By using bit shift as index, we can reduce lbr_sel_map size to 40 bytes. This patch defines 'bit shift' for branch types, and use 'bit shift' to define lbr_sel_maps. Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>