linux-toradex.git/include/linux/perf_event.h, branch v4.11-rc3

perf/core: Allow kernel filters on CPU events

2017-02-10T08:08:09+00:00

While supporting file-based address filters for CPU events requires some
extra context switch handling, kernel address filters are easy, since the
kernel mapping is preserved across address spaces. It is also useful as
it permits tracing scheduling paths of the kernel.

This patch allows setting up kernel filters for CPU events.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Mathieu Poirier 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170126094057.13805-4-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/core: Remove perf_cpu_context::unique_pmu

2017-01-30T11:01:14+00:00

cpuctx->unique_pmu was originally introduced as a way to identify cpuctxs
with shared pmus in order to avoid visiting the same cpuctx more than once
in a for_each_pmu loop.

cpuctx->unique_pmu == cpuctx->pmu in non-software task contexts since they
have only one pmu per cpuctx. Since perf_pmu_sched_task() is only called in
hw contexts, this patch replaces cpuctx->unique_pmu by cpuctx->pmu in it.

The change above, together with the previous patch in this series, removed
the remaining uses of cpuctx->unique_pmu, so we remove it altogether.

Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul Turner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vikas Shivappa 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118192454.58008-3-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/core: Make cgroup switch visit only cpuctxs with cgroup events

2017-01-30T11:01:13+00:00

This patch follows from a conversation in CQM/CMT's last series about
speeding up the context switch for cgroup events:

  https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9478617/

This is a low-hanging fruit optimization. It replaces the iteration over
the "pmus" list in cgroup switch by an iteration over a new list that
contains only cpuctxs with at least one cgroup event.

This is necessary because the number of PMUs have increased over the years
e.g modern x86 server systems have well above 50 PMUs.

The iteration over the full PMU list is unneccessary and can be costly in
heavy cache contention scenarios.

Below are some instrumentation measurements with 10, 50 and 90 percentiles
of the total cost of context switch before and after this optimization for
a simple array read/write microbenchark.

  Contention
    Level    Nr events      Before (us)            After (us)       Median
  L2    L3     types      (10%, 50%, 90%)       (10%, 50%, 90%     Speedup
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Low   Low       1       (1.72, 2.42, 5.85)    (1.35, 1.64, 5.46)     29%
  High  Low       1       (2.08, 4.56, 19.8)    (1720, 2.20, 13.7)     51%
  High  High      1       (2.86, 10.4, 12.7)    (2.54, 4.32, 12.1)     58%

  Low   Low       2       (1.98, 3.20, 6.89)    (1.68, 2.41, 8.89)     24%
  High  Low       2       (2.48, 5.28, 22.4)    (2150, 3.69, 14.6)     30%
  High  High      2       (3.32, 8.09, 13.9)    (2.80, 5.15, 13.7)     36%

where:

  1 event type  = cycles
  2 event types = cycles,intel_cqm/llc_occupancy/

   Contention L2 Low: workset  <  L2 cache size.
                 High:  "     >>  L2   "     " .
   Contention L3 Low: workset of task on all sockets  <  L3 cache size.
                 High:   "     "   "   "   "    "    >>  L3   "     " .

   Median Speedup is (50%ile Before - 50%ile After) /  50%ile Before

Unsurprisingly, the benefits of this optimization decrease with the number
of cpuctxs with a cgroup events, yet, is never detrimental.

Tested-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul Turner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vikas Shivappa 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118192454.58008-2-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/x86/intel: Account interrupts for PEBS errors

2017-01-14T10:06:49+00:00

It's possible to set up PEBS events to get only errors and not
any data, like on SNB-X (model 45) and IVB-EP (model 62)
via 2 perf commands running simultaneously:

    taskset -c 1 ./perf record -c 4 -e branches:pp -j any -C 10

This leads to a soft lock up, because the error path of the
intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm() does not account event->hw.interrupt
for error PEBS interrupts, so in case you're getting ONLY
errors you don't have a way to stop the event when it's over
the max_samples_per_tick limit:

  NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#22 stuck for 22s! [perf_fuzzer:5816]
  ...
  RIP: 0010:[]  [] smp_call_function_single+0xe2/0x140
  ...
  Call Trace:
   ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xf5/0x1b0
   ? perf_cgroup_attach+0x70/0x70
   perf_install_in_context+0x199/0x1b0
   ? ctx_resched+0x90/0x90
   SYSC_perf_event_open+0x641/0xf90
   SyS_perf_event_open+0x9/0x10
   do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x1f0
   entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25

Add perf_event_account_interrupt() which does the interrupt
and frequency checks and call it from intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm()'s
error path.

We keep the pending_kill and pending_wakeup logic only in the
__perf_event_overflow() path, because they make sense only if
there's any data to deliver.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482931866-6018-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/powerpc: Don't call perf_event_disable() from atomic context

2016-10-28T09:06:25+00:00

The trinity syscall fuzzer triggered following WARN() on powerpc:

  WARNING: CPU: 9 PID: 2998 at arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:278
  ...
  NIP [c00000000093aedc] .hw_breakpoint_handler+0x28c/0x2b0
  LR [c00000000093aed8] .hw_breakpoint_handler+0x288/0x2b0
  Call Trace:
  [c0000002f7933580] [c00000000093aed8] .hw_breakpoint_handler+0x288/0x2b0 (unreliable)
  [c0000002f7933630] [c0000000000f671c] .notifier_call_chain+0x7c/0xf0
  [c0000002f79336d0] [c0000000000f6abc] .__atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xbc/0x1c0
  [c0000002f7933780] [c0000000000f6c40] .notify_die+0x70/0xd0
  [c0000002f7933820] [c00000000001a74c] .do_break+0x4c/0x100
  [c0000002f7933920] [c0000000000089fc] handle_dabr_fault+0x14/0x48

Followed by a lockdep warning:

  ===============================
  [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
  4.8.0-rc5+ #7 Tainted: G        W
  -------------------------------
  ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:556 Illegal context switch in RCU read-side critical section!

  other info that might help us debug this:

  rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
  2 locks held by ls/2998:
   #0:  (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [] .__atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x1c0
   #1:  (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [] .hw_breakpoint_handler+0x0/0x2b0

  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 9 PID: 2998 Comm: ls Tainted: G        W       4.8.0-rc5+ #7
  Call Trace:
  [c0000002f7933150] [c00000000094b1f8] .dump_stack+0xe0/0x14c (unreliable)
  [c0000002f79331e0] [c00000000013c468] .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x138/0x180
  [c0000002f7933270] [c0000000001005d8] .___might_sleep+0x278/0x2e0
  [c0000002f7933300] [c000000000935584] .mutex_lock_nested+0x64/0x5a0
  [c0000002f7933410] [c00000000023084c] .perf_event_ctx_lock_nested+0x16c/0x380
  [c0000002f7933500] [c000000000230a80] .perf_event_disable+0x20/0x60
  [c0000002f7933580] [c00000000093aeec] .hw_breakpoint_handler+0x29c/0x2b0
  [c0000002f7933630] [c0000000000f671c] .notifier_call_chain+0x7c/0xf0
  [c0000002f79336d0] [c0000000000f6abc] .__atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xbc/0x1c0
  [c0000002f7933780] [c0000000000f6c40] .notify_die+0x70/0xd0
  [c0000002f7933820] [c00000000001a74c] .do_break+0x4c/0x100
  [c0000002f7933920] [c0000000000089fc] handle_dabr_fault+0x14/0x48

While it looks like the first WARN() is probably valid, the other one is
triggered by disabling event via perf_event_disable() from atomic context.

The event is disabled here in case we were not able to emulate
the instruction that hit the breakpoint. By disabling the event
we unschedule the event and make sure it's not scheduled back.

But we can't call perf_event_disable() from atomic context, instead
we need to use the event's pending_disable irq_work method to disable it.

Reported-by: Jan Stancek 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Michael Neuling 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161026094824.GA21397@krava
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2016-10-05T17:11:24+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) BBR TCP congestion control, from Neal Cardwell, Yuchung Cheng and
    co. at Google. https://lwn.net/Articles/701165/

 2) Do TCP Small Queues for retransmits, from Eric Dumazet.

 3) Support collect_md mode for all IPV4 and IPV6 tunnels, from Alexei
    Starovoitov.

 4) Allow cls_flower to classify packets in ip tunnels, from Amir Vadai.

 5) Support DSA tagging in older mv88e6xxx switches, from Andrew Lunn.

 6) Support GMAC protocol in iwlwifi mwm, from Ayala Beker.

 7) Support ndo_poll_controller in mlx5, from Calvin Owens.

 8) Move VRF processing to an output hook and allow l3mdev to be
    loopback, from David Ahern.

 9) Support SOCK_DESTROY for UDP sockets. Also from David Ahern.

10) Congestion control in RXRPC, from David Howells.

11) Support geneve RX offload in ixgbe, from Emil Tantilov.

12) When hitting pressure for new incoming TCP data SKBs, perform a
    partial rathern than a full purge of the OFO queue (which could be
    huge). From Eric Dumazet.

13) Convert XFRM state and policy lookups to RCU, from Florian Westphal.

14) Support RX network flow classification to igb, from Gangfeng Huang.

15) Hardware offloading of eBPF in nfp driver, from Jakub Kicinski.

16) New skbmod packet action, from Jamal Hadi Salim.

17) Remove some inefficiencies in snmp proc output, from Jia He.

18) Add FIB notifications to properly propagate route changes to
    hardware which is doing forwarding offloading. From Jiri Pirko.

19) New dsa driver for qca8xxx chips, from John Crispin.

20) Implement RFC7559 ipv6 router solicitation backoff, from Maciej
    Żenczykowski.

21) Add L3 mode to ipvlan, from Mahesh Bandewar.

22) Support 802.1ad in mlx4, from Moshe Shemesh.

23) Support hardware LRO in mediatek driver, from Nelson Chang.

24) Add TC offloading to mlx5, from Or Gerlitz.

25) Convert various drivers to ethtool ksettings interfaces, from
    Philippe Reynes.

26) TX max rate limiting for cxgb4, from Rahul Lakkireddy.

27) NAPI support for ath10k, from Rajkumar Manoharan.

28) Support XDP in mlx5, from Rana Shahout and Saeed Mahameed.

29) UDP replicast support in TIPC, from Richard Alpe.

30) Per-queue statistics for qed driver, from Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru.

31) Support BQL in thunderx driver, from Sunil Goutham.

32) TSO support in alx driver, from Tobias Regnery.

33) Add stream parser engine and use it in kcm.

34) Support async DHCP replies in ipconfig module, from Uwe
    Kleine-König.

35) DSA port fast aging for mv88e6xxx driver, from Vivien Didelot.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1715 commits)
  mlxsw: switchx2: Fix misuse of hard_header_len
  mlxsw: spectrum: Fix misuse of hard_header_len
  net/faraday: Stop NCSI device on shutdown
  net/ncsi: Introduce ncsi_stop_dev()
  net/ncsi: Rework the channel monitoring
  net/ncsi: Allow to extend NCSI request properties
  net/ncsi: Rework request index allocation
  net/ncsi: Don't probe on the reserved channel ID (0x1f)
  net/ncsi: Introduce NCSI_RESERVED_CHANNEL
  net/ncsi: Avoid unused-value build warning from ia64-linux-gcc
  net: Add netdev all_adj_list refcnt propagation to fix panic
  net: phy: Add Edge-rate driver for Microsemi PHYs.
  vmxnet3: Wake queue from reset work
  i40e: avoid NULL pointer dereference and recursive errors on early PCI error
  qed: Add RoCE ll2 & GSI support
  qed: Add support for memory registeration verbs
  qed: Add support for QP verbs
  qed: PD,PKEY and CQ verb support
  qed: Add support for RoCE hw init
  qede: Add qedr framework
  ...

perf, bpf: add perf events core support for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT programs

2016-09-02T17:46:44+00:00

Allow attaching BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT programs to sw and hw perf events
via overflow_handler mechanism.
When program is attached the overflow_handlers become stacked.
The program acts as a filter.
Returning zero from the program means that the normal perf_event_output handler
will not be called and sampling event won't be stored in the ring buffer.

The overflow_handler_context==NULL is an additional safety check
to make sure programs are not attached to hw breakpoints and watchdog
in case other checks (that prevent that now anyway) get accidentally
relaxed in the future.

The program refcnt is incremented in case perf_events are inhereted
when target task is forked.
Similar to kprobe and tracepoint programs there is no ioctl to
detach the program or swap already attached program. The user space
expected to close(perf_event_fd) like it does right now for kprobe+bpf.
That restriction simplifies the code quite a bit.

The invocation of overflow_handler in __perf_event_overflow() is now
done via READ_ONCE, since that pointer can be replaced when the program
is attached while perf_event itself could have been active already.
There is no need to do similar treatment for event->prog, since it's
assigned only once before it's accessed.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type

2016-09-02T17:46:44+00:00

Introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT programs that can be attached to
HW and SW perf events (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE
correspondingly in uapi/linux/perf_event.h)

The program visible context meta structure is
struct bpf_perf_event_data {
    struct pt_regs regs;
     __u64 sample_period;
};
which is accessible directly from the program:
int bpf_prog(struct bpf_perf_event_data *ctx)
{
  ... ctx->sample_period ...
  ... ctx->regs.ip ...
}

The bpf verifier rewrites the accesses into kernel internal
struct bpf_perf_event_data_kern which allows changing
struct perf_sample_data without affecting bpf programs.
New fields can be added to the end of struct bpf_perf_event_data
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

perf/core: Introduce PMU_EV_CAP_READ_ACTIVE_PKG

2016-08-18T08:53:59+00:00

Introduce the flag PMU_EV_CAP_READ_ACTIVE_PKG, useful for uncore events,
that allows a PMU to signal the generic perf code that an event is readable
in the current CPU if the event is active in a CPU in the same package as
the current CPU.

This is an optimization that avoids a unnecessary IPI for the common case
where uncore events are run and read in the same package but in
different CPUs.

As an example, the IPI removal speeds up perf_read() in my Haswell system
as follows:

  - For event UNC_C_LLC_LOOKUP: From 260 us to 31 us.
  - For event RAPL's power/energy-cores/: From to 255 us to 27 us.

For the optimization to work, all events in the group must have it
(similarly to PERF_EV_CAP_SOFTWARE).

Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul Turner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vegard Nossum 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471467307-61171-4-git-send-email-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/core: Generalize event->group_flags

2016-08-18T08:44:21+00:00

Currently, PERF_GROUP_SOFTWARE is used in the group_flags field of a
group's leader to indicate that is_software_event(event) is true for all
events in a group. This is the only usage of event->group_flags.

This pattern of setting a group level flags when all events in the group
share a property is useful for the flag introduced in the next patch and
for future CQM/CMT flags. So this patches generalizes group_flags to work
as an aggregate of event level flags.

PERF_GROUP_SOFTWARE denotes an inmutable event's property. All other flags
that I intend to add are also determinable at event initialization.
To better convey the above, this patch renames event's group_flags to
group_caps and PERF_GROUP_SOFTWARE to PERF_EV_CAP_SOFTWARE.

Individual event flags are stored in the new event->event_caps. Since the
cap flags do not change after event initialization, there is no need to
serialize event_caps. This new field is used when events are added to a
context, similarly to how PERF_GROUP_SOFTWARE and is_software_event()
worked.

Lastly, for consistency, updates is_software_event() to rely in event_cap
instead of the context index.

Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul Turner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vegard Nossum 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471467307-61171-3-git-send-email-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar