linux-toradex.git/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h, branch v4.6-rc6

perf/x86: Add option to disable reading branch flags/cycles

2015-11-23T08:58:25+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
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

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

2015-11-04T17:41:05+00:00

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
  ...

bpf: introduce bpf_perf_event_output() helper

2015-10-22T13:42:15+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

perf: Add PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL

2015-10-20T08:30:53+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
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

perf/x86: Fix time_shift in perf_event_mmap_page

2015-10-20T08:30:52+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
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

perf: Add cycles to branch_info

2015-08-04T08:16:57+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: eranian@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431285767-27027-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Add PERF_RECORD_SWITCH to indicate context switches

2015-07-24T01:51:12+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Mathieu Poirier 
Cc: Pawel Moll 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437471846-26995-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add time out to force stop proc map processing

2015-06-19T21:20:15+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ying Huang 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434549071-25611-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf/x86/intel: Introduce PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES

2015-06-07T14:09:02+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
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

perf: add new PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP branch sample type

2015-06-07T14:08:22+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
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