linux-toradex.git/kernel/events, branch v4.5-rc6

perf: Robustify task_function_call()

2016-02-25T07:44:29+00:00

Since there is no serialization between task_function_call() doing
task_curr() and the other CPU doing context switches, we could end
up not sending an IPI even if we had to.

And I'm not sure I still buy my own argument we're OK.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174948.340031200@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix scaling vs. perf_install_in_context()

2016-02-25T07:44:29+00:00

Completely reworks perf_install_in_context() (again!) in order to
ensure that there will be no ctx time hole between add_event_to_ctx()
and any potential ctx_sched_in().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174948.279399438@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix scaling vs. perf_event_enable()

2016-02-25T07:44:19+00:00

Similar to the perf_enable_on_exec(), ensure that event timings are
consistent across perf_event_enable().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174948.218288698@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix scaling vs. perf_event_enable_on_exec()

2016-02-25T07:43:34+00:00

The recent commit 3e349507d12d ("perf: Fix perf_enable_on_exec() event
scheduling") caused this by moving task_ctx_sched_out() from before
__perf_event_mask_enable() to after it.

The overlooked consequence of that change is that task_ctx_sched_out()
would update the ctx time fields, and now __perf_event_mask_enable()
uses stale time.

In order to fix this, explicitly stop our context's time before
enabling the event(s).

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Fixes: 3e349507d12d ("perf: Fix perf_enable_on_exec() event scheduling")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174948.159242158@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix ctx time tracking by introducing EVENT_TIME

2016-02-25T07:42:34+00:00

Currently any ctx_sched_in() call will re-start the ctx time tracking,
this means that calls like:

	ctx_sched_in(.event_type = EVENT_PINNED);
	ctx_sched_in(.event_type = EVENT_FLEXIBLE);

will have a hole in their ctx time tracking. This is likely harmless
but can confuse things a little. By adding EVENT_TIME, we can have the
first ctx_sched_in() (is_active: 0 -> !0) start the time and any
further ctx_sched_in() will leave the timestamps alone.

Secondly, this allows for an early disable like:

	ctx_sched_out(.event_type = EVENT_TIME);

which would update the ctx time (if the ctx is active) and any further
calls to ctx_sched_out() would not further modify the ctx time.

For ctx_sched_in() any 0 -> !0 transition will automatically include
EVENT_TIME.

For ctx_sched_out(), any transition that clears EVENT_ALL will
automatically clear EVENT_TIME.

These two rules ensure that under normal circumstances we need not
bother with EVENT_TIME and get natural ctx time behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174948.100446561@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Cure event->pending_disable race

2016-02-25T07:42:34+00:00

Because event_sched_out() checks event->pending_disable _before_
actually disabling the event, it can happen that the event fires after
it checks but before it gets disabled.

This would leave event->pending_disable set and the queued irq_work
will try and process it.

However, if the event trigger was during schedule(), the event might
have been de-scheduled by the time the irq_work runs, and
perf_event_disable_local() will fail.

Fix this by checking event->pending_disable _after_ we call
event->pmu->del(). This depends on the latter being a compiler
barrier, such that the compiler does not lift the load and re-creates
the problem.

Tested-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174948.040469884@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix race between event install and jump_labels

2016-02-25T07:42:34+00:00

perf_install_in_context() relies upon the context switch hooks to have
scheduled in events when the IPI misses its target -- after all, if
the task has moved from the CPU (or wasn't running at all), it will
have to context switch to run elsewhere.

This however doesn't appear to be happening.

It is possible for the IPI to not happen (task wasn't running) only to
later observe the task running with an inactive context.

The only possible explanation is that the context switch hooks are not
called. Therefore put in a sync_sched() after toggling the jump_label
to guarantee all CPUs will have them enabled before we install an
event.

A simple if (0->1) sync_sched() will not in fact work, because any
further increment can race and complete before the sync_sched().
Therefore we must jump through some hoops.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174947.980211985@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix cloning

2016-02-25T07:42:33+00:00

Alexander reported that when the 'original' context gets destroyed, no
new clones happen.

This can happen irrespective of the ctx switch optimization, any task
can die, even the parent, and we want to continue monitoring the task
hierarchy until we either close the event or no tasks are left in the
hierarchy.

perf_event_init_context() will attempt to pin the 'parent' context
during clone(). At that point current is the parent, and since current
cannot have exited while executing clone(), its context cannot have
passed through perf_event_exit_task_context(). Therefore
perf_pin_task_context() cannot observe ctx->task == TASK_TOMBSTONE.

However, since inherit_event() does:

	if (parent_event->parent)
		parent_event = parent_event->parent;

it looks at the 'original' event when it does: is_orphaned_event().
This can return true if the context that contains the this event has
passed through perf_event_exit_task_context(). And thus we'll fail to
clone the perf context.

Fix this by adding a new state: STATE_DEAD, which is set by
perf_release() to indicate that the filedesc (or kernel reference) is
dead and there are no observers for our data left.

Only for STATE_DEAD will is_orphaned_event() be true and inhibit
cloning.

STATE_EXIT is otherwise preserved such that is_event_hup() remains
functional and will report when the observed task hierarchy becomes
empty.

Reported-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Tested-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Fixes: c6e5b73242d2 ("perf: Synchronously clean up child events")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174947.919845295@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Only update context time when active

2016-02-25T07:42:33+00:00

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174947.860690919@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Allow perf_release() with !event->ctx

2016-02-25T07:42:33+00:00

In the err_file: fput(event_file) case, the event will not yet have
been attached to a context. However perf_release() does assume it has
been. Cure this.

Tested-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174947.793996260@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar