perf: Provide a separate task context for swevents
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:34:50 +0000 (17:34 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 9 Sep 2010 18:46:34 +0000 (20:46 +0200)
Since software events are always schedulable, mixing them up with
hardware events (who are not) can lead to funny scheduling oddities.

Giving them their own context solves this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
include/linux/perf_event.h
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
kernel/perf_event.c

index 9ecfd856ce6ec308468deb688840977b4892c177..c1173520f14d46e78de1535184836661ccc12914 100644 (file)
@@ -952,14 +952,7 @@ extern int perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event, int nmi,
  */
 static inline int is_software_event(struct perf_event *event)
 {
-       switch (event->attr.type) {
-       case PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE:
-       case PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT:
-       /* for now the breakpoint stuff also works as software event */
-       case PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT:
-               return 1;
-       }
-       return 0;
+       return event->pmu->task_ctx_nr == perf_sw_context;
 }
 
 extern atomic_t perf_swevent_enabled[PERF_COUNT_SW_MAX];
index 89d6023c6f824b1fe274ce929306e90c2556efd3..eb3c1ceec06e1f9f1f2833258c737008d8df79b9 100644 (file)
@@ -1163,6 +1163,7 @@ struct rcu_node;
 enum perf_event_task_context {
        perf_invalid_context = -1,
        perf_hw_context = 0,
+       perf_sw_context,
        perf_nr_task_contexts,
 };
 
index 6f150095cafe14e247c27eee6ba4f1461c195b18..3b2aaffb65f019505f5265a7b9f5c5165e6dad5a 100644 (file)
@@ -610,6 +610,8 @@ static void hw_breakpoint_stop(struct perf_event *bp, int flags)
 }
 
 static struct pmu perf_breakpoint = {
+       .task_ctx_nr    = perf_sw_context, /* could eventually get its own */
+
        .event_init     = hw_breakpoint_event_init,
        .add            = hw_breakpoint_add,
        .del            = hw_breakpoint_del,
index 7223ea875861d026fb703c6dba179bea4e6ea55f..357ee8d5e8aee1e01f8090ddb881d6ec2f6744c7 100644 (file)
@@ -4709,6 +4709,8 @@ static int perf_swevent_init(struct perf_event *event)
 }
 
 static struct pmu perf_swevent = {
+       .task_ctx_nr    = perf_sw_context,
+
        .event_init     = perf_swevent_init,
        .add            = perf_swevent_add,
        .del            = perf_swevent_del,
@@ -4800,6 +4802,8 @@ static int perf_tp_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 }
 
 static struct pmu perf_tracepoint = {
+       .task_ctx_nr    = perf_sw_context,
+
        .event_init     = perf_tp_event_init,
        .add            = perf_trace_add,
        .del            = perf_trace_del,
@@ -4988,6 +4992,8 @@ static int cpu_clock_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 }
 
 static struct pmu perf_cpu_clock = {
+       .task_ctx_nr    = perf_sw_context,
+
        .event_init     = cpu_clock_event_init,
        .add            = cpu_clock_event_add,
        .del            = cpu_clock_event_del,
@@ -5063,6 +5069,8 @@ static int task_clock_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 }
 
 static struct pmu perf_task_clock = {
+       .task_ctx_nr    = perf_sw_context,
+
        .event_init     = task_clock_event_init,
        .add            = task_clock_event_add,
        .del            = task_clock_event_del,
@@ -5490,6 +5498,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
        struct perf_event_context *ctx;
        struct file *event_file = NULL;
        struct file *group_file = NULL;
+       struct pmu *pmu;
        int event_fd;
        int fput_needed = 0;
        int err;
@@ -5522,20 +5531,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
                goto err_fd;
        }
 
-       /*
-        * Get the target context (task or percpu):
-        */
-       ctx = find_get_context(event->pmu, pid, cpu);
-       if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
-               err = PTR_ERR(ctx);
-               goto err_alloc;
-       }
-
        if (group_fd != -1) {
                group_leader = perf_fget_light(group_fd, &fput_needed);
                if (IS_ERR(group_leader)) {
                        err = PTR_ERR(group_leader);
-                       goto err_context;
+                       goto err_alloc;
                }
                group_file = group_leader->filp;
                if (flags & PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT)
@@ -5544,6 +5544,23 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
                        group_leader = NULL;
        }
 
+       /*
+        * Special case software events and allow them to be part of
+        * any hardware group.
+        */
+       pmu = event->pmu;
+       if ((pmu->task_ctx_nr == perf_sw_context) && group_leader)
+               pmu = group_leader->pmu;
+
+       /*
+        * Get the target context (task or percpu):
+        */
+       ctx = find_get_context(pmu, pid, cpu);
+       if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
+               err = PTR_ERR(ctx);
+               goto err_group_fd;
+       }
+
        /*
         * Look up the group leader (we will attach this event to it):
         */
@@ -5605,8 +5622,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
        return event_fd;
 
 err_context:
-       fput_light(group_file, fput_needed);
        put_ctx(ctx);
+err_group_fd:
+       fput_light(group_file, fput_needed);
 err_alloc:
        free_event(event);
 err_fd: