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<title>Merge tag 'perf-core-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-02-21T20:49:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2021-02-21T20:49:32+00:00</published>
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Pull performance event updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Add CPU-PMU support for Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs

 - Extend the perf ABI with PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT, to offer
   two-parameter sampling event feedback. Not used yet, but is intended
   for Golden Cove CPU-PMU, which can provide both the instruction
   latency and the cache latency information for memory profiling
   events.

 - Remove experimental, default-disabled perfmon-v4 counter_freezing
   support that could only be enabled via a boot option. The hardware is
   hopelessly broken, we'd like to make sure nobody starts relying on
   this, as it would only end in tears.

 - Fix energy/power events on Intel SPR platforms

 - Simplify the uprobes resume_execution() logic

 - Misc smaller fixes.

* tag 'perf-core-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86/rapl: Fix psys-energy event on Intel SPR platform
  perf/x86/rapl: Only check lower 32bits for RAPL energy counters
  perf/x86/rapl: Add msr mask support
  perf/x86/kvm: Add Cascade Lake Xeon steppings to isolation_ucodes[]
  perf/x86/intel: Support CPUID 10.ECX to disable fixed counters
  perf/x86/intel: Add perf core PMU support for Sapphire Rapids
  perf/x86/intel: Filter unsupported Topdown metrics event
  perf/x86/intel: Factor out intel_update_topdown_event()
  perf/core: Add PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT
  perf/intel: Remove Perfmon-v4 counter_freezing support
  x86/perf: Use static_call for x86_pmu.guest_get_msrs
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: With &gt; 8 nodes, get pci bus die id from NUMA info
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Store the logical die id instead of the physical die id.
  x86/kprobes: Do not decode opcode in resume_execution()
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Pull performance event updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Add CPU-PMU support for Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs

 - Extend the perf ABI with PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT, to offer
   two-parameter sampling event feedback. Not used yet, but is intended
   for Golden Cove CPU-PMU, which can provide both the instruction
   latency and the cache latency information for memory profiling
   events.

 - Remove experimental, default-disabled perfmon-v4 counter_freezing
   support that could only be enabled via a boot option. The hardware is
   hopelessly broken, we'd like to make sure nobody starts relying on
   this, as it would only end in tears.

 - Fix energy/power events on Intel SPR platforms

 - Simplify the uprobes resume_execution() logic

 - Misc smaller fixes.

* tag 'perf-core-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86/rapl: Fix psys-energy event on Intel SPR platform
  perf/x86/rapl: Only check lower 32bits for RAPL energy counters
  perf/x86/rapl: Add msr mask support
  perf/x86/kvm: Add Cascade Lake Xeon steppings to isolation_ucodes[]
  perf/x86/intel: Support CPUID 10.ECX to disable fixed counters
  perf/x86/intel: Add perf core PMU support for Sapphire Rapids
  perf/x86/intel: Filter unsupported Topdown metrics event
  perf/x86/intel: Factor out intel_update_topdown_event()
  perf/core: Add PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT
  perf/intel: Remove Perfmon-v4 counter_freezing support
  x86/perf: Use static_call for x86_pmu.guest_get_msrs
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: With &gt; 8 nodes, get pci bus die id from NUMA info
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Store the logical die id instead of the physical die id.
  x86/kprobes: Do not decode opcode in resume_execution()
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<entry>
<title>perf/x86/intel: Add perf core PMU support for Sapphire Rapids</title>
<updated>2021-02-01T14:31:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kan Liang</name>
<email>kan.liang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-28T22:40:10+00:00</published>
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Add perf core PMU support for the Intel Sapphire Rapids server, which is
the successor of the Intel Ice Lake server. The enabling code is based
on Ice Lake, but there are several new features introduced.

The event encoding is changed and simplified, e.g., the event codes
which are below 0x90 are restricted to counters 0-3. The event codes
which above 0x90 are likely to have no restrictions. The event
constraints, extra_regs(), and hardware cache events table are changed
accordingly.

A new Precise Distribution (PDist) facility is introduced, which
further minimizes the skid when a precise event is programmed on the GP
counter 0. Enable the Precise Distribution (PDist) facility with :ppp
event. For this facility to work, the period must be initialized with a
value larger than 127. Add spr_limit_period() to apply the limit for
:ppp event.

Two new data source fields, data block &amp; address block, are added in the
PEBS Memory Info Record for the load latency event. To enable the
feature,
- An auxiliary event has to be enabled together with the load latency
  event on Sapphire Rapids. A new flag PMU_FL_MEM_LOADS_AUX is
  introduced to indicate the case. A new event, mem-loads-aux, is
  exposed to sysfs for the user tool.
  Add a check in hw_config(). If the auxiliary event is not detected,
  return an unique error -ENODATA.
- The union perf_mem_data_src is extended to support the new fields.
- Ice Lake and earlier models do not support block information, but the
  fields may be set by HW on some machines. Add pebs_no_block to
  explicitly indicate the previous platforms which don't support the new
  block fields. Accessing the new block fields are ignored on those
  platforms.

A new store Latency facility is introduced, which leverages the PEBS
facility where it can provide additional information about sampled
stores. The additional information includes the data address, memory
auxiliary info (e.g. Data Source, STLB miss) and the latency of the
store access. To enable the facility, the new event (0x02cd) has to be
programed on the GP counter 0. A new flag PERF_X86_EVENT_PEBS_STLAT is
introduced to indicate the event. The store_latency_data() is introduced
to parse the memory auxiliary info.

The layout of access latency field of PEBS Memory Info Record has been
changed. Two latency, instruction latency (bit 15:0) and cache access
latency (bit 47:32) are recorded.
- The cache access latency is similar to previous memory access latency.
  For loads, the latency starts by the actual cache access until the
  data is returned by the memory subsystem.
  For stores, the latency starts when the demand write accesses the L1
  data cache and lasts until the cacheline write is completed in the
  memory subsystem.
  The cache access latency is stored in low 32bits of the sample type
  PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT.
- The instruction latency starts by the dispatch of the load operation
  for execution and lasts until completion of the instruction it belongs
  to.
  Add a new flag PMU_FL_INSTR_LATENCY to indicate the instruction
  latency support. The instruction latency is stored in the bit 47:32
  of the sample type PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT.

Extends the PERF_METRICS MSR to feature TMA method level 2 metrics. The
lower half of the register is the TMA level 1 metrics (legacy). The
upper half is also divided into four 8-bit fields for the new level 2
metrics. Expose all eight Topdown metrics events to user space.

The full description for the SPR features can be found at Intel
Architecture Instruction Set Extensions and Future Features
Programming Reference, 319433-041.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611873611-156687-5-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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Add perf core PMU support for the Intel Sapphire Rapids server, which is
the successor of the Intel Ice Lake server. The enabling code is based
on Ice Lake, but there are several new features introduced.

The event encoding is changed and simplified, e.g., the event codes
which are below 0x90 are restricted to counters 0-3. The event codes
which above 0x90 are likely to have no restrictions. The event
constraints, extra_regs(), and hardware cache events table are changed
accordingly.

A new Precise Distribution (PDist) facility is introduced, which
further minimizes the skid when a precise event is programmed on the GP
counter 0. Enable the Precise Distribution (PDist) facility with :ppp
event. For this facility to work, the period must be initialized with a
value larger than 127. Add spr_limit_period() to apply the limit for
:ppp event.

Two new data source fields, data block &amp; address block, are added in the
PEBS Memory Info Record for the load latency event. To enable the
feature,
- An auxiliary event has to be enabled together with the load latency
  event on Sapphire Rapids. A new flag PMU_FL_MEM_LOADS_AUX is
  introduced to indicate the case. A new event, mem-loads-aux, is
  exposed to sysfs for the user tool.
  Add a check in hw_config(). If the auxiliary event is not detected,
  return an unique error -ENODATA.
- The union perf_mem_data_src is extended to support the new fields.
- Ice Lake and earlier models do not support block information, but the
  fields may be set by HW on some machines. Add pebs_no_block to
  explicitly indicate the previous platforms which don't support the new
  block fields. Accessing the new block fields are ignored on those
  platforms.

A new store Latency facility is introduced, which leverages the PEBS
facility where it can provide additional information about sampled
stores. The additional information includes the data address, memory
auxiliary info (e.g. Data Source, STLB miss) and the latency of the
store access. To enable the facility, the new event (0x02cd) has to be
programed on the GP counter 0. A new flag PERF_X86_EVENT_PEBS_STLAT is
introduced to indicate the event. The store_latency_data() is introduced
to parse the memory auxiliary info.

The layout of access latency field of PEBS Memory Info Record has been
changed. Two latency, instruction latency (bit 15:0) and cache access
latency (bit 47:32) are recorded.
- The cache access latency is similar to previous memory access latency.
  For loads, the latency starts by the actual cache access until the
  data is returned by the memory subsystem.
  For stores, the latency starts when the demand write accesses the L1
  data cache and lasts until the cacheline write is completed in the
  memory subsystem.
  The cache access latency is stored in low 32bits of the sample type
  PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT.
- The instruction latency starts by the dispatch of the load operation
  for execution and lasts until completion of the instruction it belongs
  to.
  Add a new flag PMU_FL_INSTR_LATENCY to indicate the instruction
  latency support. The instruction latency is stored in the bit 47:32
  of the sample type PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT.

Extends the PERF_METRICS MSR to feature TMA method level 2 metrics. The
lower half of the register is the TMA level 1 metrics (legacy). The
upper half is also divided into four 8-bit fields for the new level 2
metrics. Expose all eight Topdown metrics events to user space.

The full description for the SPR features can be found at Intel
Architecture Instruction Set Extensions and Future Features
Programming Reference, 319433-041.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611873611-156687-5-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Add PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT</title>
<updated>2021-02-01T14:31:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kan Liang</name>
<email>kan.liang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-28T22:40:07+00:00</published>
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Current PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type is very useful to expresses the
cost of an action represented by the sample. This allows the profiler
to scale the samples to be more informative to the programmer. It could
also help to locate a hotspot, e.g., when profiling by memory latencies,
the expensive load appear higher up in the histograms. But current
PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type is solely determined by one factor. This
could be a problem, if users want two or more factors to contribute to
the weight. For example, Golden Cove core PMU can provide both the
instruction latency and the cache Latency information as factors for the
memory profiling.

For current X86 platforms, although meminfo::latency is defined as a
u64, only the lower 32 bits include the valid data in practice (No
memory access could last than 4G cycles). The higher 32 bits can be used
to store new factors.

Add a new sample type, PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT, to indicate the new
sample weight structure. It shares the same space as the
PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type.

Users can apply either the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type or the
PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT sample type to retrieve the sample weight, but
they cannot apply both sample types simultaneously.

Currently, only X86 and PowerPC use the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type.
- For PowerPC, there is nothing changed for the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT
  sample type. There is no effect for the new PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT
  sample type. PowerPC can re-struct the weight field similarly later.
- For X86, the same value will be dumped for the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT
  sample type or the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT sample type for now.
  The following patches will apply the new factors for the
  PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT sample type.

The field in the union perf_sample_weight should be shared among
different architectures. A generic name is required, but it's hard to
abstract a name that applies to all architectures. For example, on X86,
the fields are to store all kinds of latency. While on PowerPC, it
stores MMCRA[TECX/TECM], which should not be latency. So a general name
prefix 'var$NUM' is used here.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611873611-156687-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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Current PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type is very useful to expresses the
cost of an action represented by the sample. This allows the profiler
to scale the samples to be more informative to the programmer. It could
also help to locate a hotspot, e.g., when profiling by memory latencies,
the expensive load appear higher up in the histograms. But current
PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type is solely determined by one factor. This
could be a problem, if users want two or more factors to contribute to
the weight. For example, Golden Cove core PMU can provide both the
instruction latency and the cache Latency information as factors for the
memory profiling.

For current X86 platforms, although meminfo::latency is defined as a
u64, only the lower 32 bits include the valid data in practice (No
memory access could last than 4G cycles). The higher 32 bits can be used
to store new factors.

Add a new sample type, PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT, to indicate the new
sample weight structure. It shares the same space as the
PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type.

Users can apply either the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type or the
PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT sample type to retrieve the sample weight, but
they cannot apply both sample types simultaneously.

Currently, only X86 and PowerPC use the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT sample type.
- For PowerPC, there is nothing changed for the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT
  sample type. There is no effect for the new PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT
  sample type. PowerPC can re-struct the weight field similarly later.
- For X86, the same value will be dumped for the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT
  sample type or the PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT sample type for now.
  The following patches will apply the new factors for the
  PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT sample type.

The field in the union perf_sample_weight should be shared among
different architectures. A generic name is required, but it's hard to
abstract a name that applies to all architectures. For example, on X86,
the fields are to store all kinds of latency. While on PowerPC, it
stores MMCRA[TECX/TECM], which should not be latency. So a general name
prefix 'var$NUM' is used here.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611873611-156687-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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<entry>
<title>perf: Add build id data in mmap2 event</title>
<updated>2021-01-15T03:29:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-14T13:40:44+00:00</published>
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Adding support to carry build id data in mmap2 event.

The build id data replaces maj/min/ino/ino_generation
fields, which are also used to identify map's binary,
so it's ok to replace them with build id data:

  union {
          struct {
                  u32       maj;
                  u32       min;
                  u64       ino;
                  u64       ino_generation;
          };
          struct {
                  u8        build_id_size;
                  u8        __reserved_1;
                  u16       __reserved_2;
                  u8        build_id[20];
          };
  };

Replaced maj/min/ino/ino_generation fields give us size
of 24 bytes. We use 20 bytes for build id data, 1 byte
for size and rest is unused.

There's new misc bit for mmap2 to signal there's build
id data in it:

  #define PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_BUILD_ID   (1 &lt;&lt; 14)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210114134044.1418404-4-jolsa@kernel.org
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Adding support to carry build id data in mmap2 event.

The build id data replaces maj/min/ino/ino_generation
fields, which are also used to identify map's binary,
so it's ok to replace them with build id data:

  union {
          struct {
                  u32       maj;
                  u32       min;
                  u64       ino;
                  u64       ino_generation;
          };
          struct {
                  u8        build_id_size;
                  u8        __reserved_1;
                  u16       __reserved_2;
                  u8        build_id[20];
          };
  };

Replaced maj/min/ino/ino_generation fields give us size
of 24 bytes. We use 20 bytes for build id data, 1 byte
for size and rest is unused.

There's new misc bit for mmap2 to signal there's build
id data in it:

  #define PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_BUILD_ID   (1 &lt;&lt; 14)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210114134044.1418404-4-jolsa@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into perf/core</title>
<updated>2020-11-26T12:16:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-26T12:16:55+00:00</published>
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Further perf/core patches will depend on:

  d3f7b1bb2040 ("mm/gup: fix gup_fast with dynamic page table folding")

which is already in Linus' tree.
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Further perf/core patches will depend on:

  d3f7b1bb2040 ("mm/gup: fix gup_fast with dynamic page table folding")

which is already in Linus' tree.
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<title>perf/core: Add support for PERF_SAMPLE_CODE_PAGE_SIZE</title>
<updated>2020-10-29T10:00:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-01T13:57:49+00:00</published>
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When studying code layout, it is useful to capture the page size of the
sampled code address.

Add a new sample type for code page size.
The new sample type requires collecting the ip. The code page size can
be calculated from the NMI-safe perf_get_page_size().

For large PEBS, it's very unlikely that the mapping is gone for the
earlier PEBS records. Enable the feature for the large PEBS. The worst
case is that page-size '0' is returned.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201001135749.2804-5-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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When studying code layout, it is useful to capture the page size of the
sampled code address.

Add a new sample type for code page size.
The new sample type requires collecting the ip. The code page size can
be calculated from the NMI-safe perf_get_page_size().

For large PEBS, it's very unlikely that the mapping is gone for the
earlier PEBS records. Enable the feature for the large PEBS. The worst
case is that page-size '0' is returned.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201001135749.2804-5-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Add PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_PAGE_SIZE</title>
<updated>2020-10-29T10:00:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kan Liang</name>
<email>kan.liang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-01T13:57:46+00:00</published>
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Current perf can report both virtual addresses and physical addresses,
but not the MMU page size. Without the MMU page size information of the
utilized page, users cannot decide whether to promote/demote large pages
to optimize memory usage.

Add a new sample type for the data MMU page size.

Current perf already has a facility to collect data virtual addresses.
A page walker is required to walk the pages tables and calculate the
MMU page size from a given virtual address.

On some platforms, e.g., X86, the page walker is invoked in an NMI
handler. So the page walker must be NMI-safe and low overhead. Besides,
the page walker should work for both user and kernel virtual address.
The existing generic page walker, e.g., walk_page_range_novma(), is a
little bit complex and doesn't guarantee the NMI-safe. The follow_page()
is only for user-virtual address.

Add a new function perf_get_page_size() to walk the page tables and
calculate the MMU page size. In the function:
- Interrupts have to be disabled to prevent any teardown of the page
  tables.
- For user space threads, the current-&gt;mm is used for the page walker.
  For kernel threads and the like, the current-&gt;mm is NULL. The init_mm
  is used for the page walker. The active_mm is not used here, because
  it can be NULL.
  Quote from Peter Zijlstra,
  "context_switch() can set prev-&gt;active_mm to NULL when it transfers it
   to @next. It does this before @current is updated. So an NMI that
   comes in between this active_mm swizzling and updating @current will
   see !active_mm."
- The MMU page size is calculated from the page table level.

The method should work for all architectures, but it has only been
verified on X86. Should there be some architectures, which support perf,
where the method doesn't work, it can be fixed later separately.
Reporting the wrong page size would not be fatal for the architecture.

Some under discussion features may impact the method in the future.
Quote from Dave Hansen,
  "There are lots of weird things folks are trying to do with the page
   tables, like Address Space Isolation.  For instance, if you get a
   perf NMI when running userspace, current-&gt;mm-&gt;pgd is *different* than
   the PGD that was in use when userspace was running. It's close enough
   today, but it might not stay that way."
If the case happens later, lots of consecutive page walk errors will
happen. The worst case is that lots of page-size '0' are returned, which
would not be fatal.
In the perf tool, a check is implemented to detect this case. Once it
happens, a kernel patch could be implemented accordingly then.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201001135749.2804-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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Current perf can report both virtual addresses and physical addresses,
but not the MMU page size. Without the MMU page size information of the
utilized page, users cannot decide whether to promote/demote large pages
to optimize memory usage.

Add a new sample type for the data MMU page size.

Current perf already has a facility to collect data virtual addresses.
A page walker is required to walk the pages tables and calculate the
MMU page size from a given virtual address.

On some platforms, e.g., X86, the page walker is invoked in an NMI
handler. So the page walker must be NMI-safe and low overhead. Besides,
the page walker should work for both user and kernel virtual address.
The existing generic page walker, e.g., walk_page_range_novma(), is a
little bit complex and doesn't guarantee the NMI-safe. The follow_page()
is only for user-virtual address.

Add a new function perf_get_page_size() to walk the page tables and
calculate the MMU page size. In the function:
- Interrupts have to be disabled to prevent any teardown of the page
  tables.
- For user space threads, the current-&gt;mm is used for the page walker.
  For kernel threads and the like, the current-&gt;mm is NULL. The init_mm
  is used for the page walker. The active_mm is not used here, because
  it can be NULL.
  Quote from Peter Zijlstra,
  "context_switch() can set prev-&gt;active_mm to NULL when it transfers it
   to @next. It does this before @current is updated. So an NMI that
   comes in between this active_mm swizzling and updating @current will
   see !active_mm."
- The MMU page size is calculated from the page table level.

The method should work for all architectures, but it has only been
verified on X86. Should there be some architectures, which support perf,
where the method doesn't work, it can be fixed later separately.
Reporting the wrong page size would not be fatal for the architecture.

Some under discussion features may impact the method in the future.
Quote from Dave Hansen,
  "There are lots of weird things folks are trying to do with the page
   tables, like Address Space Isolation.  For instance, if you get a
   perf NMI when running userspace, current-&gt;mm-&gt;pgd is *different* than
   the PGD that was in use when userspace was running. It's close enough
   today, but it might not stay that way."
If the case happens later, lots of consecutive page walk errors will
happen. The worst case is that lots of page-size '0' are returned, which
would not be fatal.
In the perf tool, a check is implemented to detect this case. Once it
happens, a kernel patch could be implemented accordingly then.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201001135749.2804-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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<entry>
<title>perf: correct SNOOPX field offset</title>
<updated>2020-10-19T17:39:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Grant</name>
<email>al.grant@foss.arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-21T20:46:37+00:00</published>
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perf_event.h has macros that define the field offsets in the
data_src bitmask in perf records. The SNOOPX and REMOTE offsets
were both 37. These are distinct fields, and the bitfield layout
in perf_mem_data_src confirms that SNOOPX should be at offset 38.

Fixes: 52839e653b5629bd ("perf tools: Add support for printing new mem_info encodings")
Signed-off-by: Al Grant &lt;al.grant@foss.arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ac9f5cc-4388-b34a-9999-418a4099415d@foss.arm.com
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perf_event.h has macros that define the field offsets in the
data_src bitmask in perf records. The SNOOPX and REMOTE offsets
were both 37. These are distinct fields, and the bitfield layout
in perf_mem_data_src confirms that SNOOPX should be at offset 38.

Fixes: 52839e653b5629bd ("perf tools: Add support for printing new mem_info encodings")
Signed-off-by: Al Grant &lt;al.grant@foss.arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ac9f5cc-4388-b34a-9999-418a4099415d@foss.arm.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-08-03T21:51:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-03T21:51:09+00:00</published>
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Pull perf event updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "HW support updates:

   - Add uncore support for Intel Comet Lake

   - Add RAPL support for Hygon Fam18h

   - Add Intel "IIO stack to PMON mapping" support on Skylake-SP CPUs,
     which enumerates per device performance counters via sysfs and
     enables the perf stat --iiostat functionality

   - Add support for Intel "Architectural LBRs", which generalized the
     model specific LBR hardware tracing feature into a
     model-independent, architected performance monitoring feature.

     Usage is mostly seamless to tooling, as the pre-existing LBR
     features are kept, but there's a couple of advantages under the
     hood, such as faster context-switching, faster LBR reads, cleaner
     exposure of LBR features to guest kernels, etc.

     ( Since architectural LBRs are supported via XSAVE, there's related
       changes to the x86 FPU code as well. )

  ftrace/perf updates:

   - Add support to add a text poke event to record changes to kernel
     text (i.e. self-modifying code) in order to support tracers like
     Intel PT decoding through jump labels, kprobes and ftrace
     trampolines.

  Misc cleanups, smaller fixes..."

* tag 'perf-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  perf/x86/rapl: Add Hygon Fam18h RAPL support
  kprobes: Remove unnecessary module_mutex locking from kprobe_optimizer()
  x86/perf: Fix a typo
  perf: &lt;linux/perf_event.h&gt;: drop a duplicated word
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support XSAVES for arch LBR read
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support XSAVES/XRSTORS for LBR context switch
  x86/fpu/xstate: Add helpers for LBR dynamic supervisor feature
  x86/fpu/xstate: Support dynamic supervisor feature for LBR
  x86/fpu: Use proper mask to replace full instruction mask
  perf/x86: Remove task_ctx_size
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Create kmem_cache for the LBR context data
  perf/core: Use kmem_cache to allocate the PMU specific data
  perf/core: Factor out functions to allocate/free the task_ctx_data
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support Architectural LBR
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Factor out intel_pmu_store_lbr
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Factor out rdlbr_all() and wrlbr_all()
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Mark the {rd,wr}lbr_{to,from} wrappers __always_inline
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Unify the stored format of LBR information
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support LBR_CTL
  perf/x86: Expose CPUID enumeration bits for arch LBR
  ...
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Pull perf event updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "HW support updates:

   - Add uncore support for Intel Comet Lake

   - Add RAPL support for Hygon Fam18h

   - Add Intel "IIO stack to PMON mapping" support on Skylake-SP CPUs,
     which enumerates per device performance counters via sysfs and
     enables the perf stat --iiostat functionality

   - Add support for Intel "Architectural LBRs", which generalized the
     model specific LBR hardware tracing feature into a
     model-independent, architected performance monitoring feature.

     Usage is mostly seamless to tooling, as the pre-existing LBR
     features are kept, but there's a couple of advantages under the
     hood, such as faster context-switching, faster LBR reads, cleaner
     exposure of LBR features to guest kernels, etc.

     ( Since architectural LBRs are supported via XSAVE, there's related
       changes to the x86 FPU code as well. )

  ftrace/perf updates:

   - Add support to add a text poke event to record changes to kernel
     text (i.e. self-modifying code) in order to support tracers like
     Intel PT decoding through jump labels, kprobes and ftrace
     trampolines.

  Misc cleanups, smaller fixes..."

* tag 'perf-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  perf/x86/rapl: Add Hygon Fam18h RAPL support
  kprobes: Remove unnecessary module_mutex locking from kprobe_optimizer()
  x86/perf: Fix a typo
  perf: &lt;linux/perf_event.h&gt;: drop a duplicated word
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support XSAVES for arch LBR read
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support XSAVES/XRSTORS for LBR context switch
  x86/fpu/xstate: Add helpers for LBR dynamic supervisor feature
  x86/fpu/xstate: Support dynamic supervisor feature for LBR
  x86/fpu: Use proper mask to replace full instruction mask
  perf/x86: Remove task_ctx_size
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Create kmem_cache for the LBR context data
  perf/core: Use kmem_cache to allocate the PMU specific data
  perf/core: Factor out functions to allocate/free the task_ctx_data
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support Architectural LBR
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Factor out intel_pmu_store_lbr
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Factor out rdlbr_all() and wrlbr_all()
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Mark the {rd,wr}lbr_{to,from} wrappers __always_inline
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Unify the stored format of LBR information
  perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support LBR_CTL
  perf/x86: Expose CPUID enumeration bits for arch LBR
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Add perf_event_mmap_page::cap_user_time_short ABI</title>
<updated>2020-07-20T10:50:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-16T05:11:28+00:00</published>
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In order to support short clock counters, provide an ABI extension.

As a whole:

    u64 time, delta, cyc = read_cycle_counter();

+   if (cap_user_time_short)
+	cyc = time_cycle + ((cyc - time_cycle) &amp; time_mask);

    delta = mul_u64_u32_shr(cyc, time_mult, time_shift);

    if (cap_user_time_zero)
	time = time_zero + delta;

    delta += time_offset;

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200716051130.4359-6-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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In order to support short clock counters, provide an ABI extension.

As a whole:

    u64 time, delta, cyc = read_cycle_counter();

+   if (cap_user_time_short)
+	cyc = time_cycle + ((cyc - time_cycle) &amp; time_mask);

    delta = mul_u64_u32_shr(cyc, time_mult, time_shift);

    if (cap_user_time_zero)
	time = time_zero + delta;

    delta += time_offset;

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200716051130.4359-6-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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