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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>perf: Add generic transaction flags</title>
<updated>2013-10-04T08:06:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
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<published>2013-09-20T14:40:39+00:00</published>
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Add a generic qualifier for transaction events, as a new sample
type that returns a flag word. This is particularly useful
for qualifying aborts: to distinguish aborts which happen
due to asynchronous events (like conflicts caused by another
CPU) versus instructions that lead to an abort.

The tuning strategies are very different for those cases,
so it's important to distinguish them easily and early.

Since it's inconvenient and inflexible to filter for this
in the kernel we report all the events out and allow
some post processing in user space.

The flags are based on the Intel TSX events, but should be fairly
generic and mostly applicable to other HTM architectures too. In addition
to various flag words there's also reserved space to report an
program supplied abort code. For TSX this is used to distinguish specific
classes of aborts, like a lock busy abort when doing lock elision.

Flags:

Elision and generic transactions 		   (ELISION vs TRANSACTION)
(HLE vs RTM on TSX; IBM etc.  would likely only use TRANSACTION)
Aborts caused by current thread vs aborts caused by others (SYNC vs ASYNC)
Retryable transaction				   (RETRY)
Conflicts with other threads			   (CONFLICT)
Transaction write capacity overflow		   (CAPACITY WRITE)
Transaction read capacity overflow		   (CAPACITY READ)

Transactions implicitely aborted can also return an abort code.
This can be used to signal specific events to the profiler. A common
case is abort on lock busy in a RTM eliding library (code 0xff)
To handle this case we include the TSX abort code

Common example aborts in TSX would be:

- Data conflict with another thread on memory read.
                                      Flags: TRANSACTION|ASYNC|CONFLICT
- executing a WRMSR in a transaction. Flags: TRANSACTION|SYNC
- HLE transaction in user space is too large
                                      Flags: ELISION|SYNC|CAPACITY-WRITE

The only flag that is somewhat TSX specific is ELISION.

This adds the perf core glue needed for reporting the new flag word out.

v2: Add MEM/MISC
v3: Move transaction to the end
v4: Separate capacity-read/write and remove misc
v5: Remove _SAMPLE. Move abort flags to 32bit. Rename
    transaction to txn
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379688044-14173-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Add a generic qualifier for transaction events, as a new sample
type that returns a flag word. This is particularly useful
for qualifying aborts: to distinguish aborts which happen
due to asynchronous events (like conflicts caused by another
CPU) versus instructions that lead to an abort.

The tuning strategies are very different for those cases,
so it's important to distinguish them easily and early.

Since it's inconvenient and inflexible to filter for this
in the kernel we report all the events out and allow
some post processing in user space.

The flags are based on the Intel TSX events, but should be fairly
generic and mostly applicable to other HTM architectures too. In addition
to various flag words there's also reserved space to report an
program supplied abort code. For TSX this is used to distinguish specific
classes of aborts, like a lock busy abort when doing lock elision.

Flags:

Elision and generic transactions 		   (ELISION vs TRANSACTION)
(HLE vs RTM on TSX; IBM etc.  would likely only use TRANSACTION)
Aborts caused by current thread vs aborts caused by others (SYNC vs ASYNC)
Retryable transaction				   (RETRY)
Conflicts with other threads			   (CONFLICT)
Transaction write capacity overflow		   (CAPACITY WRITE)
Transaction read capacity overflow		   (CAPACITY READ)

Transactions implicitely aborted can also return an abort code.
This can be used to signal specific events to the profiler. A common
case is abort on lock busy in a RTM eliding library (code 0xff)
To handle this case we include the TSX abort code

Common example aborts in TSX would be:

- Data conflict with another thread on memory read.
                                      Flags: TRANSACTION|ASYNC|CONFLICT
- executing a WRMSR in a transaction. Flags: TRANSACTION|SYNC
- HLE transaction in user space is too large
                                      Flags: ELISION|SYNC|CAPACITY-WRITE

The only flag that is somewhat TSX specific is ELISION.

This adds the perf core glue needed for reporting the new flag word out.

v2: Add MEM/MISC
v3: Move transaction to the end
v4: Separate capacity-read/write and remove misc
v5: Remove _SAMPLE. Move abort flags to 32bit. Rename
    transaction to txn
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379688044-14173-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf: Fix perf_pmu_migrate_context</title>
<updated>2013-10-04T07:58:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-03T14:02:23+00:00</published>
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While auditing the list_entry usage due to a trinity bug I found that
perf_pmu_migrate_context violates the rules for
perf_event::event_entry.

The problem is that perf_event::event_entry is a RCU list element, and
hence we must wait for a full RCU grace period before re-using the
element after deletion.

Therefore the usage in perf_pmu_migrate_context() which re-uses the
entry immediately is broken. For now introduce another list_head into
perf_event for this specific usage.

This doesn't actually fix the trinity report because that never goes
through this code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mkj72lxagw1z8fvjm648iznw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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While auditing the list_entry usage due to a trinity bug I found that
perf_pmu_migrate_context violates the rules for
perf_event::event_entry.

The problem is that perf_event::event_entry is a RCU list element, and
hence we must wait for a full RCU grace period before re-using the
element after deletion.

Therefore the usage in perf_pmu_migrate_context() which re-uses the
entry immediately is broken. For now introduce another list_head into
perf_event for this specific usage.

This doesn't actually fix the trinity report because that never goes
through this code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mkj72lxagw1z8fvjm648iznw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-spinlocks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-09-04T18:55:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-04T18:55:10+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 spinlock changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change here are paravirtualized ticket spinlocks (PV
  spinlocks), which bring a nice speedup on various benchmarks.

  The KVM host side will come to you via the KVM tree"

* 'x86-spinlocks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/kvm/guest: Fix sparse warning: "symbol 'klock_waiting' was not declared as static"
  kvm: Paravirtual ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor
  kvm guest: Add configuration support to enable debug information for KVM Guests
  kvm uapi: Add KICK_CPU and PV_UNHALT definition to uapi
  xen, pvticketlock: Allow interrupts to be enabled while blocking
  x86, ticketlock: Add slowpath logic
  jump_label: Split jumplabel ratelimit
  x86, pvticketlock: When paravirtualizing ticket locks, increment by 2
  x86, pvticketlock: Use callee-save for lock_spinning
  xen, pvticketlocks: Add xen_nopvspin parameter to disable xen pv ticketlocks
  xen, pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks
  xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup
  x86, ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions
  x86, ticketlock: Don't inline _spin_unlock when using paravirt spinlocks
  x86, spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks
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Pull x86 spinlock changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change here are paravirtualized ticket spinlocks (PV
  spinlocks), which bring a nice speedup on various benchmarks.

  The KVM host side will come to you via the KVM tree"

* 'x86-spinlocks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/kvm/guest: Fix sparse warning: "symbol 'klock_waiting' was not declared as static"
  kvm: Paravirtual ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor
  kvm guest: Add configuration support to enable debug information for KVM Guests
  kvm uapi: Add KICK_CPU and PV_UNHALT definition to uapi
  xen, pvticketlock: Allow interrupts to be enabled while blocking
  x86, ticketlock: Add slowpath logic
  jump_label: Split jumplabel ratelimit
  x86, pvticketlock: When paravirtualizing ticket locks, increment by 2
  x86, pvticketlock: Use callee-save for lock_spinning
  xen, pvticketlocks: Add xen_nopvspin parameter to disable xen pv ticketlocks
  xen, pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks
  xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup
  x86, ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions
  x86, ticketlock: Don't inline _spin_unlock when using paravirt spinlocks
  x86, spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks
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<entry>
<title>perf: Export struct perf_branch_entry to userspace</title>
<updated>2013-09-02T06:42:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vince Weaver</name>
<email>vincent.weaver@maine.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-23T19:51:03+00:00</published>
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If PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK is enabled then samples are returned
with the format { u64 from, to, flags } but the flags layout
is not specified.

This field has the type struct perf_branch_entry; move this
definition into include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h so users can
access these fields.

This is similar to the existing inclusion of perf_mem_data_src in
the include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h file.

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1308231544420.1889@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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If PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK is enabled then samples are returned
with the format { u64 from, to, flags } but the flags layout
is not specified.

This field has the type struct perf_branch_entry; move this
definition into include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h so users can
access these fields.

This is similar to the existing inclusion of perf_mem_data_src in
the include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h file.

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1308231544420.1889@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>jump_label: Split jumplabel ratelimit</title>
<updated>2013-08-09T14:53:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Jones</name>
<email>drjones@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-09T14:21:57+00:00</published>
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Commit b202952075f62603bea9bfb6ebc6b0420db11949 ("perf, core: Rate limit
perf_sched_events jump_label patching") introduced rate limiting
for jump label disabling. The changes were made in the jump label code
in order to be more widely available and to keep things tidier. This is
all fine, except now jump_label.h includes linux/workqueue.h, which
makes it impossible to include jump_label.h from anything that
workqueue.h needs. For example, it's now impossible to include
jump_label.h from asm/spinlock.h, which is done in proposed
pv-ticketlock patches. This patch splits out the rate limiting related
changes from jump_label.h into a new file, jump_label_ratelimit.h, to
resolve the issue.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376058122-8248-10-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T &lt;raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Commit b202952075f62603bea9bfb6ebc6b0420db11949 ("perf, core: Rate limit
perf_sched_events jump_label patching") introduced rate limiting
for jump label disabling. The changes were made in the jump label code
in order to be more widely available and to keep things tidier. This is
all fine, except now jump_label.h includes linux/workqueue.h, which
makes it impossible to include jump_label.h from anything that
workqueue.h needs. For example, it's now impossible to include
jump_label.h from asm/spinlock.h, which is done in proposed
pv-ticketlock patches. This patch splits out the rate limiting related
changes from jump_label.h into a new file, jump_label_ratelimit.h, to
resolve the issue.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376058122-8248-10-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T &lt;raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files</title>
<updated>2013-07-14T23:36:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-19T18:53:51+00:00</published>
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-07-02T23:17:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T23:17:25+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes:

   - load-calculation cleanups and improvements, by Alex Shi
   - various nohz related tidying up of statisics, by Frederic
     Weisbecker
   - factor out /proc functions to kernel/sched/proc.c, by Paul
     Gortmaker
   - simplify the RT policy scheduler, by Kirill Tkhai
   - various fixes and cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits)
  sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED mask
  sched/debug: Fix formatting of /proc/&lt;PID&gt;/sched
  sched: Fix typo in struct sched_avg member description
  sched/fair: Fix typo describing flags in enqueue_entity
  sched/debug: Add load-tracking statistics to task
  sched: Change get_rq_runnable_load() to static and inline
  sched/tg: Remove tg.load_weight
  sched/cfs_rq: Change atomic64_t removed_load to atomic_long_t
  sched/tg: Use 'unsigned long' for load variable in task group
  sched: Change cfs_rq load avg to unsigned long
  sched: Consider runnable load average in move_tasks()
  sched: Compute runnable load avg in cpu_load and cpu_avg_load_per_task
  sched: Update cpu load after task_tick
  sched: Fix sleep time double accounting in enqueue entity
  sched: Set an initial value of runnable avg for new forked task
  sched: Move a few runnable tg variables into CONFIG_SMP
  Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking"
  sched: Don't mix use of typedef ctl_table and struct ctl_table
  sched: Remove WARN_ON(!sd) from init_sched_groups_power()
  sched: Fix memory leakage in build_sched_groups()
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes:

   - load-calculation cleanups and improvements, by Alex Shi
   - various nohz related tidying up of statisics, by Frederic
     Weisbecker
   - factor out /proc functions to kernel/sched/proc.c, by Paul
     Gortmaker
   - simplify the RT policy scheduler, by Kirill Tkhai
   - various fixes and cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits)
  sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED mask
  sched/debug: Fix formatting of /proc/&lt;PID&gt;/sched
  sched: Fix typo in struct sched_avg member description
  sched/fair: Fix typo describing flags in enqueue_entity
  sched/debug: Add load-tracking statistics to task
  sched: Change get_rq_runnable_load() to static and inline
  sched/tg: Remove tg.load_weight
  sched/cfs_rq: Change atomic64_t removed_load to atomic_long_t
  sched/tg: Use 'unsigned long' for load variable in task group
  sched: Change cfs_rq load avg to unsigned long
  sched: Consider runnable load average in move_tasks()
  sched: Compute runnable load avg in cpu_load and cpu_avg_load_per_task
  sched: Update cpu load after task_tick
  sched: Fix sleep time double accounting in enqueue entity
  sched: Set an initial value of runnable avg for new forked task
  sched: Move a few runnable tg variables into CONFIG_SMP
  Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking"
  sched: Don't mix use of typedef ctl_table and struct ctl_table
  sched: Remove WARN_ON(!sd) from init_sched_groups_power()
  sched: Fix memory leakage in build_sched_groups()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v3.10' into sched/core</title>
<updated>2013-07-01T09:18:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-01T09:16:54+00:00</published>
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Merge in a recent upstream commit:

  c2853c8df57f include/linux/math64.h: add div64_ul()

because:

  72a4cf20cb71 sched: Change cfs_rq load avg to unsigned long

relies on it.

[ We don't rebase sched/core for this, because the handful of
  followup commits after the broken commit are not behavioral
  changes so are unlikely to be needed during bisection. ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Merge in a recent upstream commit:

  c2853c8df57f include/linux/math64.h: add div64_ul()

because:

  72a4cf20cb71 sched: Change cfs_rq load avg to unsigned long

relies on it.

[ We don't rebase sched/core for this, because the handful of
  followup commits after the broken commit are not behavioral
  changes so are unlikely to be needed during bisection. ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow</title>
<updated>2013-06-23T09:52:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave.hansen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-21T15:51:36+00:00</published>
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This patch keeps track of how long perf's NMI handler is taking,
and also calculates how many samples perf can take a second.  If
the sample length times the expected max number of samples
exceeds a configurable threshold, it drops the sample rate.

This way, we don't have a runaway sampling process eating up the
CPU.

This patch can tend to drop the sample rate down to level where
perf doesn't work very well.  *BUT* the alternative is that my
system hangs because it spends all of its time handling NMIs.

I'll take a busted performance tool over an entire system that's
busted and undebuggable any day.

BTW, my suspicion is that there's still an underlying bug here.
Using the HPET instead of the TSC is definitely a contributing
factor, but I suspect there are some other things going on.
But, I can't go dig down on a bug like that with my machine
hanging all the time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
[ Prettified it a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch keeps track of how long perf's NMI handler is taking,
and also calculates how many samples perf can take a second.  If
the sample length times the expected max number of samples
exceeds a configurable threshold, it drops the sample rate.

This way, we don't have a runaway sampling process eating up the
CPU.

This patch can tend to drop the sample rate down to level where
perf doesn't work very well.  *BUT* the alternative is that my
system hangs because it spends all of its time handling NMIs.

I'll take a busted performance tool over an entire system that's
busted and undebuggable any day.

BTW, my suspicion is that there's still an underlying bug here.
Using the HPET instead of the TSC is definitely a contributing
factor, but I suspect there are some other things going on.
But, I can't go dig down on a bug like that with my machine
hanging all the time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
[ Prettified it a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/x86/intel: Support Haswell/v4 LBR format</title>
<updated>2013-06-19T12:43:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-18T00:36:51+00:00</published>
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Haswell has two additional LBR from flags for TSX: in_tx and
abort_tx, implemented as a new "v4" version of the LBR format.

Handle those in and adjust the sign extension code to still
correctly extend. The flags are exported similarly in the LBR
record to the existing misprediction flag

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.jf.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371515812-9646-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Haswell has two additional LBR from flags for TSX: in_tx and
abort_tx, implemented as a new "v4" version of the LBR format.

Handle those in and adjust the sign extension code to still
correctly extend. The flags are exported similarly in the LBR
record to the existing misprediction flag

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.jf.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371515812-9646-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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