perf/arm: Special-case hetereogeneous CPUs

Commit:

  26657848502b7847 ("perf/core: Verify we have a single perf_hw_context PMU")

forcefully prevents multiple PMUs from sharing perf_hw_context, as this
generally doesn't make sense. It is a common bug for uncore PMUs to
use perf_hw_context rather than perf_invalid_context, which this detects.

However, systems exist with heterogeneous CPUs (and hence heterogeneous
HW PMUs), for which sharing perf_hw_context is necessary, and possible
in some limited cases.

To make this work we have to perform some gymnastics, as we did in these
commits:

  66eb579e66ecfea5 ("perf: allow for PMU-specific event filtering")
  c904e32a69b7c779 ("arm: perf: filter unschedulable events")

To allow those systems to work, we must allow PMUs for heterogeneous
CPUs to share perf_hw_context, though we must still disallow sharing
otherwise to detect the common misuse of perf_hw_context.

This patch adds a new PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS for this, updates
the core logic to account for this, and makes use of it in the arm_pmu
code that is used for systems with heterogeneous CPUs. Comments are
added to make the rationale clear and hopefully avoid accidental abuse.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160426103346.GA20836@leverpostej
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 63be65437e9e..fc0290f25482 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8443,7 +8443,13 @@ skip_type:
 	if (pmu->task_ctx_nr == perf_hw_context) {
 		static int hw_context_taken = 0;
 
-		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(hw_context_taken))
+		/*
+		 * Other than systems with heterogeneous CPUs, it never makes
+		 * sense for two PMUs to share perf_hw_context. PMUs which are
+		 * uncore must use perf_invalid_context.
+		 */
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(hw_context_taken &&
+		    !(pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS)))
 			pmu->task_ctx_nr = perf_invalid_context;
 
 		hw_context_taken = 1;