Extend generic event enumeration with the PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE
method.
This is a 3-dimensional space:
{ L1-D, L1-I, L2, ITLB, DTLB, BPU } x
{ load, store, prefetch } x
{ accesses, misses }
User-space passes in the 3 coordinates and the kernel provides
a counter. (if the hardware supports that type and if the
combination makes sense.)
Combinations that make no sense produce a -EINVAL.
Combinations that are not supported by the hardware produce -ENOTSUP.
Extend the tools to deal with this, and rewrite the event symbol
parsing code with various popular aliases for the units and
access methods above. So 'l1-cache-miss' and 'l1d-read-ops' are
both valid aliases.
( x86 is supported for now, with the Nehalem event table filled in,
and with Core2 and Atom having placeholder tables. )
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Yong Wang [Fri, 5 Jun 2009 03:37:35 +0000 (11:37 +0800)]
perf_counter tools: Fix incorrect printf formats
Otherwise the code does not compile on 32-bit boxes.
builtin-report.c: In function 'map__fprintf':
builtin-report.c:240: error: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'uint64_t'
builtin-report.c:240: error: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'uint64_t'
builtin-report.c:240: error: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'uint64_t'
Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090605033735.GA20451@ywang-moblin2.bj.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Paul Mackerras [Fri, 5 Jun 2009 02:36:28 +0000 (12:36 +1000)]
perf_counter: Fix lockup with interrupting counters
Commit 274bf677 ("perf_counter: Change data head from u32 to u64")
changed the type of 'head' in struct perf_mmap_data from atomic_t
to atomic_long_t, but missed converting one use of atomic_read on
it to atomic_long_read. The effect of using atomic_read rather than
atomic_long_read on powerpc (and other big-endian architectures) is
that we get the high half of the 64-bit quantity, resulting in the
cmpxchg retry loop in perf_output_begin spinning forever as soon as
data->head becomes non-zero. On little-endian architectures such as
x86 we would get the low half, resulting in a lockup once data->head
becomes greater than 4G.
This fixes it by using atomic_long_read rather than atomic_read.
[ Impact: fix perfcounter lockup on PowerPC / big-endian systems ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <18984.33964.21541.743096@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix warnings for return values that we don't care about:
util/quote.c:222: attention : ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
util/quote.c:235: attention : ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
util/quote.c: In function ‘write_name_quotedpfx’:
util/quote.c:290: attention : ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1244146558-8635-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf_counter: Sleep before refresh using poll in perf top
perf top is refreshed every delay_secs the thread runs in such
loop:
while (sleep(delay_secs)) {
print_sym_table();
}
At the end of print_sym_table(), poll is used without sleep delay
to check if we have something from stdin.
It means that this check is done only every delay_secs, which can
be higher that 2 secs if the user defined a custom refresh rate.
We can drop sleep() here and directly use poll to wait between
refresh periods, so that the reaction after the user stops perf top
after typing "Enter" is immediate and doesn't suffer from the
delay_secs latency.
Nb: poll doesn't add any overhead that can parasite perf top measures
since it sleeps the entire timeout here.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1244141284-7507-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Paul Mackerras [Wed, 3 Jun 2009 23:49:59 +0000 (09:49 +1000)]
perf_counter: powerpc: Use new identifier names in powerpc-specific code
Commit 40a4beba ("perf_counter: Rename various fields") fixed up
most of the uses of the renamed fields, but missed one instance
of "record_type" in powerpc-specific code which needs to be changed
to "sample_type", and a "PERF_RECORD_ADDR" in the same statement that
needs to be changed to "PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR", causing compilation
errors on powerpc. This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <18983.3111.770392.800486@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> FYI, i just got this crash (segfault) in perf report after
> collecting a long profile from Xorg:
>
> Starting program: /home/mingo/tip/Documentation/perf_counter/perf report
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Detaching after fork from child process 20008.
> [New Thread 0x7f92fd62a6f0 (LWP 20005)]
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x000000000041031a in __rb_erase_color (node=0x142c090, parent=0x0,
> root=0x881918)
> at util/rbtree.c:143
> 143 if (parent->rb_left == node)
Ingo Molnar [Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:29:14 +0000 (23:29 +0200)]
perf report: Handle all known event types
We have munmap, throttle/unthrottle and period events as well,
process them - otherwise they are considered broke events and
we mis-parse the next few events.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra [Wed, 3 Jun 2009 12:01:36 +0000 (14:01 +0200)]
perf_counter: Fix race in counter initialization
We need the PID namespace and counter ID available when the
counter overflows and we need to generate a sample event.
[ Impact: fix kernel crash with high-frequency sampling ]
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
[ fixed a further crash and cleaned up the initialization a bit ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra [Wed, 3 Jun 2009 10:37:36 +0000 (12:37 +0200)]
perf report: Fix comm sorting
Since we can (and do) change comm strings during the collection
phase, we cannot actually sort on them to build the histogram.
Therefore add an (optional) third sorting phase to collapse the
histrogram.
Comm sorting now builds the histrogram on threads and then in
the collapse phase collects all threads with the same comm.
This collapsed histogram is then reversed and sorted on events.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When using interrupting counters and limited (non-interrupting)
counters at the same time, it's possible that we get an
interrupt in write_mmcr0() after writing MMCR0 but before we
have set up the counters using limited PMCs. What happens then
is that we get into perf_counter_interrupt() with
counter->hw.idx = 0 for the limited counters, leading to the
"oops trying to read PMC0" error message being printed.
This fixes the problem by making perf_counter_interrupt()
robust against counter->hw.idx being zero (the counter is just
ignored in that case) and also by changing write_mmcr0() to
write MMCR0 initially with the counter overflow interrupt
enable bits masked (set to 0). If the MMCR0 value requested by
the caller has either of those bits set, we write MMCR0 again
with the requested value of those bits after setting up the
limited counters properly.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
LKML-Reference: <18982.17684.138182.954599@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Paul Mackerras [Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:38:58 +0000 (19:38 +1000)]
perf_counter: powerpc: Fix event alternative code generation on POWER5/5+
Commit 8dbb0bd6 ("perf_counter: powerpc: use u64 for event
codes internally") introduced a bug where the return value from
function find_alternative_bdecode gets put into a u64 variable
and later tested to see if it is < 0. The effect is that we
get extra, bogus event code alternatives on POWER5 and POWER5+,
leading to error messages such as "oops compute_mmcr failed"
being printed and counters not counting properly.
This fixes it by using s64 for the return type of
find_alternative_bdecode and for the local variable that the
caller puts the value in. It also makes the event argument a
u64 on POWER5+ for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
LKML-Reference: <18982.17586.666132.90983@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
PLT, the Program Linking Table, is used with the dynamic linker to
allow PIC code in executables and shared objects to figure out
where functions are in other shared objects.
It is one of the sources of unknown/unresolved symbols - this patch
does what binutils figures out when you ask it to disassembly.
(objdump -S)
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:43:11 +0000 (23:43 +0200)]
perf record: Print out the number of events captured
It makes sense to inform the user about how many events
perf record has written - so that the sufficiency of
profiling coverage and intensity can be determined at
a glance.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:24:45 +0000 (23:24 +0200)]
perf report: Print more info instead of <unknown> entries
Sometimes we still fail to find a DSO or look up a symbol,
print out the raw information in this case (which an help
debug the problem), instead of a not very helpful <unknown>
string.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:08:20 +0000 (16:08 +0200)]
perf_counter: x86: Emulate longer sample periods
Do as Power already does, emulate sample periods up to 2^63-1 by
composing them of smaller values limited by hardware capabilities.
Only once we wrap the software period do we generate an overflow
event.
Just 10 lines of new code.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:08:15 +0000 (15:08 +0200)]
perf_counter: Add unique counter id
Stephan raised the issue that we currently cannot distinguish between
similar counters within a group (PERF_RECORD_GROUP uses the config
value as identifier).
Therefore, generate a new ID for each counter using a global u64
sequence counter.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Paul Mackerras [Mon, 1 Jun 2009 07:53:16 +0000 (17:53 +1000)]
perf_counter: Remove unused prev_state field
This removes the prev_state field of struct perf_counter since
it is now unused. It was only used by the cpu migration
counter, which doesn't use it any more.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18979.35052.915728.626374@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Paul Mackerras [Mon, 1 Jun 2009 07:52:30 +0000 (17:52 +1000)]
perf_counter: Fix cpu migration counter
This fixes the cpu migration software counter to count
correctly even when contexts get swapped from one task to
another. Previously the cpu migration counts reported by perf
stat were bogus, ranging from negative to several thousand for
a single "lat_ctx 2 8 32" run. With this patch the cpu
migration count reported for "lat_ctx 2 8 32" is almost always
between 35 and 44.
This fixes the problem by adding a call into the perf_counter
code from set_task_cpu when tasks are migrated. This enables
us to use the generic swcounter code (with some modifications)
for the cpu migration counter.
This modifies the swcounter code to allow a NULL regs pointer
to be passed in to perf_swcounter_ctx_event() etc. The cpu
migration counter does this because there isn't necessarily a
pt_regs struct for the task available. In this case, the
counter will not have interrupt capability - but the migration
counter didn't have interrupt capability before, so this is no
loss.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18979.35006.819769.416327@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Paul Mackerras [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:05:16 +0000 (21:05 +1000)]
perf_counter: Initialize per-cpu context earlier on cpu up
This arranges for perf_counter's notifier for cpu hotplug
operations to be called earlier than the migration notifier in
sched.c by increasing its priority to 20, compared to the 10
for the migration notifier. The reason for doing this is that
a subsequent commit to convert the cpu migration counter to use
the generic swcounter infrastructure will add a call into the
perf_counter subsystem when tasks get migrated. Therefore the
perf_counter subsystem needs a chance to initialize its per-cpu
data for the new cpu before it can get called from the
migration code.
This also adds a comment to the migration notifier noting that
its priority needs to be lower than that of the perf_counter
notifier.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <18981.1900.792795.836858@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mike Galbraith [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 09:04:44 +0000 (11:04 +0200)]
perf_counter tools: Fix uninitialized variable in perf-report.c
# make prefix=/usr/local V=1
gcc -o builtin-report.o -c -O2 -ggdb3 -Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -std=gnu99 -Wdeclaration-after-statement -DSHA1_HEADER='<openssl/sha.h>' builtin-report.c
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
builtin-report.c: In function ‘__cmd_report’:
builtin-report.c:626: error: ‘cwdlen’ may be used uninitialized in this function
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Mike Galbraith [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:17:34 +0000 (10:17 +0200)]
perf_counter tools: Cleanup Makefile
We currently build perf-stat/record etc, only to do nothing
with them. We also install the perf binary in two places,
$prefix/bin and $perfexec_instdir, which appears to be for
binaries which perf would exec were a command not linked in.
Correct this, and comment out broken/incomplete targets dist
and coverage.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[acme@emilia ~]$ perf
perf: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by perf)
[acme@emilia ~]$ nm `which perf` | grep GLIBC_2\.7
U __isoc99_sscanf@@GLIBC_2.7
[acme@emilia ~]$
The most commonly used perf commands are:
record Run a command and record its profile into perf.data
report Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display the
profile
stat Run a command and gather performance counter statistics
top Run a command and profile it
See 'perf help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command.
[acme@emilia ~]$ nm `which perf` | grep GLIBC_2\.7
[acme@emilia ~]$
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090601205019.GA7805@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Paul Mackerras [Mon, 1 Jun 2009 07:49:14 +0000 (17:49 +1000)]
perf_counter: Allow software counters to count while task is not running
This changes perf_swcounter_match() so that per-task software
counters can count events that occur while their associated
task is not running. This will allow us to use the generic
software counter code for counting task migrations, which can
occur while the task is not scheduled in.
To do this, we have to distinguish between the situations where
the counter is inactive because its task has been scheduled
out, and those where the counter is inactive because it is part
of a group that was not able to go on the PMU. In the former
case we want the counter to count, but not in the latter case.
If the context is active, we have the latter case. If the
context is inactive then we need to know whether the counter
was counting when the context was last active, which we can
determine by comparing its ->tstamp_stopped timestamp with the
context's timestamp.
This also folds three checks in perf_swcounter_match, checking
perf_event_raw(), perf_event_type() and perf_event_id()
individually, into a single 64-bit comparison on
counter->hw_event.config, as an optimization.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18979.34810.259718.955621@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Paul Mackerras [Mon, 1 Jun 2009 07:48:12 +0000 (17:48 +1000)]
perf_counter: Provide functions for locking and pinning the context for a task
This abstracts out the code for locking the context associated
with a task. Because the context might get transferred from
one task to another concurrently, we have to check after
locking the context that it is still the right context for the
task and retry if not. This was open-coded in
find_get_context() and perf_counter_init_task().
This adds a further function for pinning the context for a
task, i.e. marking it so it can't be transferred to another
task. This adds a 'pin_count' field to struct
perf_counter_context to indicate that a context is pinned,
instead of the previous method of setting the parent_gen count
to all 1s. Pinning the context with a pin_count is easier to
undo and doesn't require saving the parent_gen value. This
also adds a perf_unpin_context() to undo the effect of
perf_pin_task_context() and changes perf_counter_init_task to
use it.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18979.34748.755674.596386@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar [Sun, 31 May 2009 20:09:49 +0000 (22:09 +0200)]
perf_counter tools: Fix unknown command help text
Arjan reported this error when entering an unknown command to perf:
$ perf start
fatal: Uh oh. Your system reports no Git commands at all.
The Git code expects there to be perf-* commands - but since Perf
is a 'pure' utility with no dash commands anymore, this old assumption
of Git does not hold anymore. Remove that error check.
Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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