Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle on the kernel side were:
- CPU PMU and uncore driver updates to Intel Snow Ridge, IceLake,
KabyLake, AmberLake and WhiskeyLake CPUs.
- Rework the MSR probing infrastructure to make it more robust, make
it work better on virtualized systems and to better expose it on
sysfs.
- Rework PMU attributes group support based on the feedback from
Greg. The core sysfs patch that adds sysfs_update_groups() was
acked by Greg.
There's a lot of perf tooling changes as well, all around the place:
- vendor updates to Intel, cs-etm (ARM), ARM64, s390,
- various enhancements to Intel PT tooling support:
- Improve CBR (Core to Bus Ratio) packets support.
- Export power and ptwrite events to sqlite and postgresql.
- Add support for decoding PEBS via PT packets.
- Add support for samples to contain IPC ratio, collecting cycles
information from CYC packets, showing the IPC info periodically
- Allow using time ranges
- lots of updates to perf pmu, perf stat, perf trace, eBPF support,
perf record, perf diff, etc. - please see the shortlog and Git log
for details"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (252 commits)
tools arch x86: Sync asm/cpufeatures.h with the with the kernel
tools build: Check if gettid() is available before providing helper
perf jvmti: Address gcc string overflow warning for strncpy()
perf python: Remove -fstack-protector-strong if clang doesn't have it
perf annotate TUI browser: Do not use member from variable within its own initialization
perf tests: Fix record+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh for powerpc64
perf evsel: Do not rely on errno values for precise_ip fallback
perf thread: Allow references to thread objects after machine__exit()
perf header: Assign proper ff->ph in perf_event__synthesize_features()
tools arch kvm: Sync kvm headers with the kernel sources
perf script: Allow specifying the files to process guest samples
perf tools metric: Don't include duration_time in group
perf list: Avoid extra : for --raw metrics
perf vendor events intel: Metric fixes for SKX/CLX
perf tools: Fix typos / broken sentences
perf jevents: Add support for Hisi hip08 L3C PMU aliasing
perf jevents: Add support for Hisi hip08 HHA PMU aliasing
perf jevents: Add support for Hisi hip08 DDRC PMU aliasing
perf pmu: Support more complex PMU event aliasing
perf diff: Documentation -c cycles option
...
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are:
- rwsem scalability improvements, phase #2, by Waiman Long, which are
rather impressive:
"On a 2-socket 40-core 80-thread Skylake system with 40 reader
and writer locking threads, the min/mean/max locking operations
done in a 5-second testing window before the patchset were:
40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/1,808/1,810
40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/50,344/151,255
After the patchset, they became:
40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 30,057/31,359/32,741
40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 94,466/95,845/97,098"
There's a lot of changes to the locking implementation that makes
it similar to qrwlock, including owner handoff for more fair
locking.
Another microbenchmark shows how across the spectrum the
improvements are:
"With a locking microbenchmark running on 5.1 based kernel, the
total locking rates (in kops/s) on a 2-socket Skylake system
with equal numbers of readers and writers (mixed) before and
after this patchset were:
# of Threads Before Patch After Patch
------------ ------------ -----------
2 2,618 4,193
4 1,202 3,726
8 802 3,622
16 729 3,359
32 319 2,826
64 102 2,744"
The changes are extensive and the patch-set has been through
several iterations addressing various locking workloads. There
might be more regressions, but unless they are pathological I
believe we want to use this new implementation as the baseline
going forward.
- jump-label optimizations by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira: the primary
motivation was to remove IPI disturbance of isolated RT-workload
CPUs, which resulted in the implementation of batched jump-label
updates. Beyond the improvement of the real-time characteristics
kernel, in one test this patchset improved static key update
overhead from 57 msecs to just 1.4 msecs - which is a nice speedup
as well.
- atomic64_t cross-arch type cleanups by Mark Rutland: over the last
~10 years of atomic64_t existence the various types used by the
APIs only had to be self-consistent within each architecture -
which means they became wildly inconsistent across architectures.
Mark puts and end to this by reworking all the atomic64
implementations to use 's64' as the base type for atomic64_t, and
to ensure that this type is consistently used for parameters and
return values in the API, avoiding further problems in this area.
- A large set of small improvements to lockdep by Yuyang Du: type
cleanups, output cleanups, function return type and othr cleanups
all around the place.
- A set of percpu ops cleanups and fixes by Peter Zijlstra.
- Misc other changes - please see the Git log for more details"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (82 commits)
locking/lockdep: increase size of counters for lockdep statistics
locking/atomics: Use sed(1) instead of non-standard head(1) option
locking/lockdep: Move mark_lock() inside CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS && CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
x86/jump_label: Make tp_vec_nr static
x86/percpu: Optimize raw_cpu_xchg()
x86/percpu, sched/fair: Avoid local_clock()
x86/percpu, x86/irq: Relax {set,get}_irq_regs()
x86/percpu: Relax smp_processor_id()
x86/percpu: Differentiate this_cpu_{}() and __this_cpu_{}()
locking/rwsem: Guard against making count negative
locking/rwsem: Adaptive disabling of reader optimistic spinning
locking/rwsem: Enable time-based spinning on reader-owned rwsem
locking/rwsem: Make rwsem->owner an atomic_long_t
locking/rwsem: Enable readers spinning on writer
locking/rwsem: Clarify usage of owner's nonspinaable bit
locking/rwsem: Wake up almost all readers in wait queue
locking/rwsem: More optimal RT task handling of null owner
locking/rwsem: Always release wait_lock before waking up tasks
locking/rwsem: Implement lock handoff to prevent lock starvation
locking/rwsem: Make rwsem_spin_on_owner() return owner state
...
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc fixes all over the place:
- might_sleep() atomicity fix in the microcode loader
- resctrl boundary condition fix
- APIC arithmethics bug fix for frequencies >= 4.2 GHz
- three 5-level paging crash fixes
- two speculation fixes
- a perf/stacktrace fix"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/unwind/orc: Fall back to using frame pointers for generated code
perf/x86: Always store regs->ip in perf_callchain_kernel()
x86/speculation: Allow guests to use SSBD even if host does not
x86/mm: Handle physical-virtual alignment mismatch in phys_p4d_init()
x86/boot/64: Add missing fixup_pointer() for next_early_pgt access
x86/boot/64: Fix crash if kernel image crosses page table boundary
x86/apic: Fix integer overflow on 10 bit left shift of cpu_khz
x86/resctrl: Prevent possible overrun during bitmap operations
x86/microcode: Fix the microcode load on CPU hotplug for real
The stacktrace_map_raw_tp BPF selftest is failing because the RIP saved by
perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() isn't getting saved by perf_callchain_kernel().
This was broken by the following commit:
d15d356887 ("perf/x86: Make perf callchains work without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER")
With that change, when starting with non-HW regs, the unwinder starts
with the current stack frame and unwinds until it passes up the frame
which called perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs(). So regs->ip needs to be
saved deliberately.
Fixes: d15d356887 ("perf/x86: Make perf callchains work without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER")
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3975a298fa52b506fea32666d8ff6a13467eee6d.1561595111.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
We don't need pmu->pebs_no_xmm_regs anymore, the capabilities
PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_REGS can be used to check if XMM registers
collection is supported.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.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: 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>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1559081314-9714-4-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
All callers of lockdep_assert_held_exclusive() use it to verify the
correct locking state of either a semaphore (ldisc_sem in tty,
mmap_sem for perf events, i_rwsem of inode for dax) or rwlock by
apparmor. Thus it makes sense to rename _exclusive to _write since
that's the semantics callers care. Additionally there is already
lockdep_assert_held_read(), which this new naming is more consistent with.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531100651.3969-1-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Using the new pmu::update_attrs attribute group for default
attributes - freeze_on_smi, allow_tsx_force_abort.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190512155518.21468-10-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Using the new pmu::update_attrs attribute group for
"caps" directory.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190512155518.21468-7-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We dont need to pre-filter out unsupported base events,
we can just use its group's is_visible function to do this.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190512155518.21468-6-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Using the new pmu::update_attrs attribute group to
create detected events for x86_pmu.
Moving the topdown/memory/tsx attributes to separate
attribute groups with specific is_visible functions.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190512155518.21468-5-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Currently perf callchain doesn't work well with ORC unwinder
when sampling from trace point. We'll get useless in kernel callchain
like this:
perf 6429 [000] 22.498450: kmem:mm_page_alloc: page=0x176a17 pfn=1534487 order=0 migratetype=0 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL
ffffffffbe23e32e __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x22e (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
7efdf7f7d3e8 __poll+0x18 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so)
5651468729c1 [unknown] (/usr/bin/perf)
5651467ee82a main+0x69a (/usr/bin/perf)
7efdf7eaf413 __libc_start_main+0xf3 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so)
5541f689495641d7 [unknown] ([unknown])
The root cause is that, for trace point events, it doesn't provide a
real snapshot of the hardware registers. Instead perf tries to get
required caller's registers and compose a fake register snapshot
which suppose to contain enough information for start a unwinding.
However without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, if failed to get caller's BP as the
frame pointer, so current frame pointer is returned instead. We get
a invalid register combination which confuse the unwinder, and end the
stacktrace early.
So in such case just don't try dump BP, and let the unwinder start
directly when the register is not a real snapshot. Use SP
as the skip mark, unwinder will skip all the frames until it meet
the frame of the trace point caller.
Tested with frame pointer unwinder and ORC unwinder, this makes perf
callchain get the full kernel space stacktrace again like this:
perf 6503 [000] 1567.570191: kmem:mm_page_alloc: page=0x16c904 pfn=1493252 order=0 migratetype=0 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL
ffffffffb523e2ae __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x22e (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
ffffffffb52383bd __get_free_pages+0xd (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
ffffffffb52fd28a __pollwait+0x8a (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
ffffffffb521426f perf_poll+0x2f (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
ffffffffb52fe3e2 do_sys_poll+0x252 (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
ffffffffb52ff027 __x64_sys_poll+0x37 (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
ffffffffb500418b do_syscall_64+0x5b (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
ffffffffb5a0008c entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44 (/lib/modules/5.1.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
7f71e92d03e8 __poll+0x18 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so)
55a22960d9c1 [unknown] (/usr/bin/perf)
55a22958982a main+0x69a (/usr/bin/perf)
7f71e9202413 __libc_start_main+0xf3 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so)
5541f689495641d7 [unknown] ([unknown])
Co-developed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190422162652.15483-1-kasong@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Starting from Icelake, XMM registers can be collected in PEBS record.
But current code only output the pt_regs.
Add a new struct x86_perf_regs for both pt_regs and xmm_regs. The
xmm_regs will be used later to keep a pointer to PEBS record which has
XMM information.
XMM registers are 128 bit. To simplify the code, they are handled like
two different registers, which means setting two bits in the register
bitmap. This also allows only sampling the lower 64bit bits in XMM.
The index of XMM registers starts from 32. There are 16 XMM registers.
So all reserved space for regs are used. Remove REG_RESERVED.
Add PERF_REG_X86_XMM_MAX, which stands for the max number of all x86
regs including both GPRs and XMM.
Add REG_NOSUPPORT for 32bit to exclude unsupported registers.
Previous platforms can not collect XMM information in PEBS record.
Adding pebs_no_xmm_regs to indicate the unsupported platforms.
The common code still validates the supported registers. However, it
cannot check model specific registers, e.g. XMM. Add extra check in
x86_pmu_hw_config() to reject invalid config of regs_user and regs_intr.
The regs_user never supports XMM collection.
The regs_intr only supports XMM collection when sampling PEBS event on
icelake and later platforms.
Originally-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.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: 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: acme@kernel.org
Cc: jolsa@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190402194509.2832-3-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Spurious interrupt support was added to perf in the following commit, almost
a decade ago:
63e6be6d98 ("perf, x86: Catch spurious interrupts after disabling counters")
The two previous patches (resolving the race condition when disabling a
PMC and NMI latency mitigation) allow for the removal of this older
spurious interrupt support.
Currently in x86_pmu_stop(), the bit for the PMC in the active_mask bitmap
is cleared before disabling the PMC, which sets up a race condition. This
race condition was mitigated by introducing the running bitmap. That race
condition can be eliminated by first disabling the PMC, waiting for PMC
reset on overflow and then clearing the bit for the PMC in the active_mask
bitmap. The NMI handler will not re-enable a disabled counter.
If x86_pmu_stop() is called from the perf NMI handler, the NMI latency
mitigation support will guard against any unhandled NMI messages.
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.14.x-
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.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>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Message-ID:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
By computing the 'committed' index earlier, we can use it to validate
the cached constraint state.
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: 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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Now that cpuc->event_constraint[] is retained, we can avoid calling
get_event_constraints() over and over again.
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: 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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The current code unconditionally clears cpuc->event_constraint[i]
before calling get_event_constraints(.idx=i). The only site that cares
is intel_get_event_constraints() where the c1 load will always be
NULL.
However, always calling get_event_constraints() on all events is
wastefull, most times it will return the exact same result. Therefore
retain the logic in intel_get_event_constraints() and change the
generic code to only clear the constraint on put.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The flag PERF_X86_EVENT_COMMITTED is used to find uncommitted events
for which to call put_event_constraint() when scheduling fails.
These are the newly added events to the list, and must form, per
definition, the tail of cpuc->event_list[]. By computing the list
index of the last successfull schedule, then iteration can start there
and the flag is redundant.
There are only 3 callers of x86_schedule_events(), notably:
- x86_pmu_add()
- x86_pmu_commit_txn()
- validate_group()
For x86_pmu_add(), cpuc->n_events isn't updated until after
schedule_events() succeeds, therefore cpuc->n_events points to the
desired index.
For x86_pmu_commit_txn(), cpuc->n_events is updated, but we can
trivially compute the desired value with cpuc->n_txn -- the number of
events added in this transaction.
For validate_group(), we can make the rule for x86_pmu_add() work by
simply setting cpuc->n_events to 0 before calling schedule_events().
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
There is a special case for validate_events() where we'll call
x86_pmu.get_constraints(.idx=-1). It's purpose, up until recent, seems
to be to avoid taking a previous constraint from
cpuc->event_constraint[] in intel_get_event_constraints().
(I could not find any other get_event_constraints() implementation
using @idx)
However, since that cpuc is freshly allocated, that array will in fact
be initialized with NULL pointers, achieving the very same effect.
Therefore remove this exception.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The cpuc data structure allocation is different between fake and real
cpuc's; use the same code to init/free both.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Vince (and later on Ravi) reported crashes in the BTS code during
fuzzing with the following backtrace:
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
...
RIP: 0010:perf_prepare_sample+0x8f/0x510
...
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
? intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer+0x194/0x230
intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer+0x160/0x230
? tick_nohz_irq_exit+0x31/0x40
? smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x48/0xe0
? call_function_single_interrupt+0xf/0x20
? call_function_single_interrupt+0xa/0x20
? x86_schedule_events+0x1a0/0x2f0
? x86_pmu_commit_txn+0xb4/0x100
? find_busiest_group+0x47/0x5d0
? perf_event_set_state.part.42+0x12/0x50
? perf_mux_hrtimer_restart+0x40/0xb0
intel_pmu_disable_event+0xae/0x100
? intel_pmu_disable_event+0xae/0x100
x86_pmu_stop+0x7a/0xb0
x86_pmu_del+0x57/0x120
event_sched_out.isra.101+0x83/0x180
group_sched_out.part.103+0x57/0xe0
ctx_sched_out+0x188/0x240
ctx_resched+0xa8/0xd0
__perf_event_enable+0x193/0x1e0
event_function+0x8e/0xc0
remote_function+0x41/0x50
flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x68/0x100
generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x13/0x30
smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x3e/0xe0
call_function_single_interrupt+0xf/0x20
</IRQ>
The reason is that while event init code does several checks
for BTS events and prevents several unwanted config bits for
BTS event (like precise_ip), the PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD allows
to create BTS event without those checks being done.
Following sequence will cause the crash:
If we create an 'almost' BTS event with precise_ip and callchains,
and it into a BTS event it will crash the perf_prepare_sample()
function because precise_ip events are expected to come
in with callchain data initialized, but that's not the
case for intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer() caller.
Adding a check_period callback to be called before the period
is changed via PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD. It will deny the change
if the event would become BTS. Plus adding also the limit_period
check as well.
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190204123532.GA4794@krava
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 cpu updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Add support for the "Dhyana" x86 CPUs by Hygon: these are licensed
based on the AMD Zen architecture, and are built and sold in China,
for domestic datacenter use. The code is pretty close to AMD
support, mostly with a few quirks and enumeration differences. (Pu
Wen)
- Enable CPUID support on Cyrix 6x86/6x86L processors"
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tools/cpupower: Add Hygon Dhyana support
cpufreq: Add Hygon Dhyana support
ACPI: Add Hygon Dhyana support
x86/xen: Add Hygon Dhyana support to Xen
x86/kvm: Add Hygon Dhyana support to KVM
x86/mce: Add Hygon Dhyana support to the MCA infrastructure
x86/bugs: Add Hygon Dhyana to the respective mitigation machinery
x86/apic: Add Hygon Dhyana support
x86/pci, x86/amd_nb: Add Hygon Dhyana support to PCI and northbridge
x86/amd_nb: Check vendor in AMD-only functions
x86/alternative: Init ideal_nops for Hygon Dhyana
x86/events: Add Hygon Dhyana support to PMU infrastructure
x86/smpboot: Do not use BSP INIT delay and MWAIT to idle on Dhyana
x86/cpu/mtrr: Support TOP_MEM2 and get MTRR number
x86/cpu: Get cache info and setup cache cpumap for Hygon Dhyana
x86/cpu: Create Hygon Dhyana architecture support file
x86/CPU: Change query logic so CPUID is enabled before testing
x86/CPU: Use correct macros for Cyrix calls
Memory events depends on PEBS support and access to LDLAT MSR, but we
display them in /sys/devices/cpu/events even if the CPU does not
provide those, like for KVM guests.
That brings the false assumption that those events should be
available, while they fail event to open.
Separating the mem-* events attributes and merging them with
cpu_events only if there's PEBS support detected.
We could also check if LDLAT MSR is available, but the PEBS check
seems to cover the need now.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180906135748.GC9577@krava
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
perf_event_read_local() is the safest way to obtain measurements
associated with performance events. In some cases the overhead
introduced by perf_event_read_local() affects the measurements and the
use of rdpmcl() is needed. rdpmcl() requires the index
of the performance counter used so a helper is introduced to determine
the index used by a provided performance event.
The index used by a performance event may change when interrupts are
enabled. A check is added to ensure that the index is only accessed
with interrupts disabled. Even with this check the use of this counter
needs to be done with care to ensure it is queried and used within the
same disabled interrupts section.
This change introduces a new checkpatch warning:
CHECK: extern prototypes should be avoided in .h files
+extern int x86_perf_rdpmc_index(struct perf_event *event);
This warning was discussed and designated as a false positive in
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180919091759.GZ24124@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: gavin.hindman@intel.com
Cc: jithu.joseph@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b277ffa78a51254f5414f7b1bc1923826874566e.1537377064.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
x86_pmu_{format,events,attr,caps}_group is written to in
init_hw_perf_events and not modified after. This makes them suitable
candidates for annotating as __ro_after_init.
Signed-off-by: Zubin Mithra <zsm@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: groeck@chromium.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180810154314.96710-1-zsm@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
A NMI can hit in the middle of context switching or in the middle of
switch_mm_irqs_off(). In either case, CR3 might not match current->mm,
which could cause copy_from_user_nmi() and friends to read the wrong
memory.
Fix it by adding a new nmi_uaccess_okay() helper and checking it in
copy_from_user_nmi() and in __copy_from_user_nmi()'s callers.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dd956eba16646fd0b15c3c0741269dfd84452dac.1535557289.git.luto@kernel.org
Pull timers and timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Core infrastucture work for Y2038 to address the COMPAT interfaces:
+ Add a new Y2038 safe __kernel_timespec and use it in the core
code
+ Introduce config switches which allow to control the various
compat mechanisms
+ Use the new config switch in the posix timer code to control the
32bit compat syscall implementation.
- Prevent bogus selection of CPU local clocksources which causes an
endless reselection loop
- Remove the extra kthread in the clocksource code which has no value
and just adds another level of indirection
- The usual bunch of trivial updates, cleanups and fixlets all over the
place
- More SPDX conversions
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
clocksource/drivers/mxs_timer: Switch to SPDX identifier
clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-tpm: Switch to SPDX identifier
clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: Switch to SPDX identifier
clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: Remove outdated file path
clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Add comments about locking while read GFRC
clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Add pr_fmt and reword pr_* messages
clocksource/drivers/sprd: Fix Kconfig dependency
clocksource: Move inline keyword to the beginning of function declarations
timer_list: Remove unused function pointer typedef
timers: Adjust a kernel-doc comment
tick: Prefer a lower rating device only if it's CPU local device
clocksource: Remove kthread
time: Change nanosleep to safe __kernel_* types
time: Change types to new y2038 safe __kernel_* types
time: Fix get_timespec64() for y2038 safe compat interfaces
time: Add new y2038 safe __kernel_timespec
posix-timers: Make compat syscalls depend on CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
time: Introduce CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
time: Introduce CONFIG_64BIT_TIME in architectures
compat: Enable compat_get/put_timespec64 always
...
With the cherry-picked perf/urgent commit merged separately we can now
merge all the fixes without conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The 'freerunning PEBS' and 'large PEBS' are the same thing. Both of these
names appear in the code and in the API, which causes confusion.
Rename 'freerunning PEBS' to 'large PEBS' to unify the code,
which eliminates the confusion.
No functional change.
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.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: 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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520865937-22910-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Userspace RDPMC cannot possibly work for large PEBS, which was introduced in:
b8241d2069 ("perf/x86/intel: Implement batched PEBS interrupt handling (large PEBS interrupt threshold)")
When the PEBS interrupt threshold is larger than one, there is no way
to get exact auto-reload times and value for userspace RDPMC. Disable
the userspace RDPMC usage when large PEBS is enabled.
The only exception is when the PEBS interrupt threshold is 1, in which
case user-space RDPMC works well even with auto-reload events.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.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: 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: acme@kernel.org
Fixes: b8241d2069 ("perf/x86/intel: Implement batched PEBS interrupt handling (large PEBS interrupt threshold)")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518474035-21006-6-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 1af22eba24)
Now that all the grouping is done with RB trees, we no longer need
group_entry and can replace the whole thing with sibling_list.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitri Prokhorov <Dmitry.Prohorov@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Valery Cherepennikov <valery.cherepennikov@intel.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Userspace RDPMC cannot possibly work for large PEBS, which was introduced in:
b8241d2069 ("perf/x86/intel: Implement batched PEBS interrupt handling (large PEBS interrupt threshold)")
When the PEBS interrupt threshold is larger than one, there is no way
to get exact auto-reload times and value for userspace RDPMC. Disable
the userspace RDPMC usage when large PEBS is enabled.
The only exception is when the PEBS interrupt threshold is 1, in which
case user-space RDPMC works well even with auto-reload events.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.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: 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: acme@kernel.org
Fixes: b8241d2069 ("perf/x86/intel: Implement batched PEBS interrupt handling (large PEBS interrupt threshold)")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518474035-21006-6-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
There is a bug when reading event->count with large PEBS enabled.
Here is an example:
# ./read_count
0x71f0
0x122c0
0x1000000001c54
0x100000001257d
0x200000000bdc5
In fixed period mode, the auto-reload mechanism could be enabled for
PEBS events, but the calculation of event->count does not take the
auto-reload values into account.
Anyone who reads event->count will get the wrong result, e.g x86_pmu_read().
This bug was introduced with the auto-reload mechanism enabled since
commit:
851559e35f ("perf/x86/intel: Use the PEBS auto reload mechanism when possible")
Introduce intel_pmu_save_and_restart_reload() to calculate the
event->count only for auto-reload.
Since the counter increments a negative counter value and overflows on
the sign switch, giving the interval:
[-period, 0]
the difference between two consequtive reads is:
A) value2 - value1;
when no overflows have happened in between,
B) (0 - value1) + (value2 - (-period));
when one overflow happened in between,
C) (0 - value1) + (n - 1) * (period) + (value2 - (-period));
when @n overflows happened in between.
Here A) is the obvious difference, B) is the extension to the discrete
interval, where the first term is to the top of the interval and the
second term is from the bottom of the next interval and C) the extension
to multiple intervals, where the middle term is the whole intervals
covered.
The equation for all cases is:
value2 - value1 + n * period
Previously the event->count is updated right before the sample output.
But for case A, there is no PEBS record ready. It needs to be specially
handled.
Remove the auto-reload code from x86_perf_event_set_period() since
we'll not longer call that function in this case.
Based-on-code-from: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.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: 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: acme@kernel.org
Fixes: 851559e35f ("perf/x86/intel: Use the PEBS auto reload mechanism when possible")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518474035-21006-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the
coccinelle script shown below and apply its output.
For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in
preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the
former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of
ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't harmful, and changing them results in
churn.
However, for some features, the read/write distinction is critical to
correct operation. To distinguish these cases, separate read/write
accessors must be used. This patch migrates (most) remaining
ACCESS_ONCE() instances to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), using the following
coccinelle script:
----
// Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() uses to equivalent READ_ONCE() and
// WRITE_ONCE()
// $ make coccicheck COCCI=/home/mark/once.cocci SPFLAGS="--include-headers" MODE=patch
virtual patch
@ depends on patch @
expression E1, E2;
@@
- ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2
+ WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2)
@ depends on patch @
expression E;
@@
- ACCESS_ONCE(E)
+ READ_ONCE(E)
----
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: snitzer@redhat.com
Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
READ_ONCE() now has an implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() call, so it
can be used instead of lockless_dereference() without any change in
semantics.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side changes:
- Add branch type profiling/tracing support. (Jin Yao)
- Add the PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR ABI to allow the tracing/profiling of
physical memory addresses, where the PMU supports it. (Kan Liang)
- Export some PMU capability details in the new
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/caps/ sysfs directory. (Andi
Kleen)
- Aux data fixes and updates (Will Deacon)
- kprobes fixes and updates (Masami Hiramatsu)
- AMD uncore PMU driver fixes and updates (Janakarajan Natarajan)
On the tooling side, here's a (limited!) list of highlights - there
were many other changes that I could not list, see the shortlog and
git history for details:
UI improvements:
- Implement a visual marker for fused x86 instructions in the
annotate TUI browser, available now in 'perf report', more work
needed to have it available as well in 'perf top' (Jin Yao)
Further explanation from one of Jin's patches:
│ ┌──cmpl $0x0,argp_program_version_hook
81.93 │ ├──je 20
│ │ lock cmpxchg %esi,0x38a9a4(%rip)
│ │↓ jne 29
│ │↓ jmp 43
11.47 │20:└─→cmpxch %esi,0x38a999(%rip)
That means the cmpl+je is a fused instruction pair and they should
be considered together.
- Record the branch type and then show statistics and info about in
callchain entries (Jin Yao)
Example from one of Jin's patches:
# perf record -g -j any,save_type
# perf report --branch-history --stdio --no-children
38.50% div.c:45 [.] main div
|
---main div.c:42 (RET CROSS_2M cycles:2)
compute_flag div.c:28 (cycles:2)
compute_flag div.c:27 (RET CROSS_2M cycles:1)
rand rand.c:28 (cycles:1)
rand rand.c:28 (RET CROSS_2M cycles:1)
__random random.c:298 (cycles:1)
__random random.c:297 (COND_BWD CROSS_2M cycles:1)
__random random.c:295 (cycles:1)
__random random.c:295 (COND_BWD CROSS_2M cycles:1)
__random random.c:295 (cycles:1)
__random random.c:295 (RET CROSS_2M cycles:9)
namespaces support:
- Add initial support for namespaces, using setns to access files in
namespaces, grabbing their build-ids, etc. (Krister Johansen)
perf trace enhancements:
- Beautify pkey_{alloc,free,mprotect} arguments in 'perf trace'
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Add initial 'clone' syscall args beautifier in 'perf trace'
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Ignore 'fd' and 'offset' args for MAP_ANONYMOUS in 'perf trace'
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Beautifiers for the 'cmd' arg of several ioctl types, including:
sound, DRM, KVM, vhost virtio and perf_events. (Arnaldo Carvalho de
Melo)
- Add PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_RECORD_MMAP[2] to 'perf data'
CTF conversion, allowing CTF trace visualization tools to show
callchains and to resolve symbols (Geneviève Bastien)
- Beautify the fcntl syscall, which is an interesting one in the
sense that infrastructure had to be put in place to change the
formatters of some arguments according to the value in a previous
one, i.e. cmd dictates how arg and the syscall return will be
formatted. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
perf stat enhancements:
- Use group read for event groups in 'perf stat', reducing overhead
when groups are defined in the event specification, i.e. when using
{} to enclose a list of events, asking them to be read at the same
time, e.g.: "perf stat -e '{cycles,instructions}'" (Jiri Olsa)
pipe mode improvements:
- Process tracing data in 'perf annotate' pipe mode (David
Carrillo-Cisneros)
- Add header record types to pipe-mode, now this command:
$ perf record -o - -e cycles sleep 1 | perf report --stdio --header
Will show the same as in non-pipe mode, i.e. involving a perf.data
file (David Carrillo-Cisneros)
Vendor specific hardware event support updates/enhancements:
- Update POWER9 vendor events tables (Sukadev Bhattiprolu)
- Add POWER9 PMU events Sukadev (Bhattiprolu)
- Support additional POWER8+ PVR in PMU mapfile (Shriya)
- Add Skylake server uncore JSON vendor events (Andi Kleen)
- Support exporting Intel PT data to sqlite3 with python perf
scripts, this is in addition to the postgresql support that was
already there (Adrian Hunter)"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (253 commits)
perf symbols: Fix plt entry calculation for ARM and AARCH64
perf probe: Fix kprobe blacklist checking condition
perf/x86: Fix caps/ for !Intel
perf/core, x86: Add PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR
perf/core, pt, bts: Get rid of itrace_started
perf trace beauty: Beautify pkey_{alloc,free,mprotect} arguments
tools headers: Sync cpu features kernel ABI headers with tooling headers
perf tools: Pass full path of FEATURES_DUMP
perf tools: Robustify detection of clang binary
tools lib: Allow external definition of CC, AR and LD
perf tools: Allow external definition of flex and bison binary names
tools build tests: Don't hardcode gcc name
perf report: Group stat values on global event id
perf values: Zero value buffers
perf values: Fix allocation check
perf values: Fix thread index bug
perf report: Add dump_read function
perf record: Set read_format for inherit_stat
perf c2c: Fix remote HITM detection for Skylake
perf tools: Fix static build with newer toolchains
...