[PATCH 0/4] perf_counter bits

[PATCH 0/4] perf_counter bits

[Peter Zijlstra]

 - fixes a race in the output code
 - x86: fixes a hang in nmi_watchdog=2 vs perf_counters
 - teaches perf-report to handle 0-length files
 - updates the documentation
-- 

[PATCH 1/4] perf_counter: fix race in perf_output_*

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: perf_counter-output-race.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 6696 bytes --]

When two (or more) contexts output to the same buffer, it is possible
to observe half written output.

Suppose we have CPU0 doing perf_counter_mmap(), CPU1 doing
perf_counter_overflow(). If CPU1 does a wakeup and exposes head to
user-space, then CPU2 can observe the data CPU0 is still writing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/linux/perf_counter.h |    5 +
 kernel/perf_counter.c        |  130 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/perf_counter.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -358,10 +358,13 @@ struct perf_mmap_data {
 	struct rcu_head			rcu_head;
 	int				nr_pages;	/* nr of data pages  */
 
-	atomic_t			wakeup;		/* POLL_ for wakeups */
+	atomic_t			poll;		/* POLL_ for wakeups */
 	atomic_t			head;		/* write position    */
 	atomic_t			events;		/* event limit       */
 
+	atomic_t			wakeup_head;	/* completed head    */
+	atomic_t			lock;		/* concurrent writes */
+
 	struct perf_counter_mmap_page   *user_page;
 	void 				*data_pages[0];
 };
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/perf_counter.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1279,14 +1279,12 @@ static unsigned int perf_poll(struct fil
 {
 	struct perf_counter *counter = file->private_data;
 	struct perf_mmap_data *data;
-	unsigned int events;
+	unsigned int events = POLL_HUP;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	data = rcu_dereference(counter->data);
 	if (data)
-		events = atomic_xchg(&data->wakeup, 0);
-	else
-		events = POLL_HUP;
+		events = atomic_xchg(&data->poll, 0);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	poll_wait(file, &counter->waitq, wait);
@@ -1568,22 +1566,6 @@ static const struct file_operations perf
 
 void perf_counter_wakeup(struct perf_counter *counter)
 {
-	struct perf_mmap_data *data;
-
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	data = rcu_dereference(counter->data);
-	if (data) {
-		atomic_set(&data->wakeup, POLL_IN);
-		/*
-		 * Ensure all data writes are issued before updating the
-		 * user-space data head information. The matching rmb()
-		 * will be in userspace after reading this value.
-		 */
-		smp_wmb();
-		data->user_page->data_head = atomic_read(&data->head);
-	}
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-
 	wake_up_all(&counter->waitq);
 
 	if (counter->pending_kill) {
@@ -1721,10 +1703,14 @@ struct perf_output_handle {
 	int			wakeup;
 	int			nmi;
 	int			overflow;
+	int			locked;
+	unsigned long		flags;
 };
 
-static inline void __perf_output_wakeup(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
+static void perf_output_wakeup(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
 {
+	atomic_set(&handle->data->poll, POLL_IN);
+
 	if (handle->nmi) {
 		handle->counter->pending_wakeup = 1;
 		perf_pending_queue(&handle->counter->pending,
@@ -1733,6 +1719,86 @@ static inline void __perf_output_wakeup(
 		perf_counter_wakeup(handle->counter);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Curious locking construct.
+ *
+ * We need to ensure a later event doesn't publish a head when a former
+ * event isn't done writing. However since we need to deal with NMIs we
+ * cannot fully serialize things.
+ *
+ * What we do is serialize between CPUs so we only have to deal with NMI
+ * nesting on a single CPU.
+ *
+ * We only publish the head (and generate a wakeup) when the outer-most
+ * event completes.
+ */
+static void perf_output_lock(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
+{
+	struct perf_mmap_data *data = handle->data;
+	int cpu;
+
+	handle->locked = 0;
+
+	local_irq_save(handle->flags);
+	cpu = smp_processor_id();
+
+	if (in_nmi() && atomic_read(&data->lock) == cpu)
+		return;
+
+	while (atomic_cmpxchg(&data->lock, 0, cpu) != 0)
+		cpu_relax();
+
+	handle->locked = 1;
+}
+
+static void perf_output_unlock(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
+{
+	struct perf_mmap_data *data = handle->data;
+	int head, cpu;
+
+	if (handle->wakeup)
+		data->wakeup_head = data->head;
+
+	if (!handle->locked)
+		goto out;
+
+again:
+	/*
+	 * The xchg implies a full barrier that ensures all writes are done
+	 * before we publish the new head, matched by a rmb() in userspace when
+	 * reading this position.
+	 */
+	while ((head = atomic_xchg(&data->wakeup_head, 0))) {
+		data->user_page->data_head = head;
+		handle->wakeup = 1;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * NMI can happen here, which means we can miss a wakeup_head update.
+	 */
+
+	cpu = atomic_xchg(&data->lock, 0);
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu != smp_processor_id());
+
+	/*
+	 * Therefore we have to validate we did not indeed do so.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(atomic_read(&data->wakeup_head))) {
+		/*
+		 * Since we had it locked, we can lock it again.
+		 */
+		while (atomic_cmpxchg(&data->lock, 0, cpu) != 0)
+			cpu_relax();
+
+		goto again;
+	}
+
+	if (handle->wakeup)
+		perf_output_wakeup(handle);
+out:
+	local_irq_restore(handle->flags);
+}
+
 static int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 			     struct perf_counter *counter, unsigned int size,
 			     int nmi, int overflow)
@@ -1745,6 +1811,7 @@ static int perf_output_begin(struct perf
 	if (!data)
 		goto out;
 
+	handle->data	 = data;
 	handle->counter	 = counter;
 	handle->nmi	 = nmi;
 	handle->overflow = overflow;
@@ -1752,12 +1819,13 @@ static int perf_output_begin(struct perf
 	if (!data->nr_pages)
 		goto fail;
 
+	perf_output_lock(handle);
+
 	do {
 		offset = head = atomic_read(&data->head);
 		head += size;
 	} while (atomic_cmpxchg(&data->head, offset, head) != offset);
 
-	handle->data	= data;
 	handle->offset	= offset;
 	handle->head	= head;
 	handle->wakeup	= (offset >> PAGE_SHIFT) != (head >> PAGE_SHIFT);
@@ -1765,7 +1833,7 @@ static int perf_output_begin(struct perf
 	return 0;
 
 fail:
-	__perf_output_wakeup(handle);
+	perf_output_wakeup(handle);
 out:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
@@ -1809,16 +1877,20 @@ static void perf_output_copy(struct perf
 
 static void perf_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
 {
-	int wakeup_events = handle->counter->hw_event.wakeup_events;
+	struct perf_counter *counter = handle->counter;
+	struct perf_mmap_data *data = handle->data;
+
+	int wakeup_events = counter->hw_event.wakeup_events;
 
 	if (handle->overflow && wakeup_events) {
-		int events = atomic_inc_return(&handle->data->events);
+		int events = atomic_inc_return(&data->events);
 		if (events >= wakeup_events) {
-			atomic_sub(wakeup_events, &handle->data->events);
-			__perf_output_wakeup(handle);
+			atomic_sub(wakeup_events, &data->events);
+			handle->wakeup = 1;
 		}
-	} else if (handle->wakeup)
-		__perf_output_wakeup(handle);
+	}
+
+	perf_output_unlock(handle);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 

-- 

[tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: fix race in perf_output_*

[tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra]

Commit-ID:  c33a0bc4e41ef169d6e807d8abb9502544b518e5
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/c33a0bc4e41ef169d6e807d8abb9502544b518e5
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
AuthorDate: Fri, 1 May 2009 12:23:16 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:23:43 +0200

perf_counter: fix race in perf_output_*

When two (or more) contexts output to the same buffer, it is possible
to observe half written output.

Suppose we have CPU0 doing perf_counter_mmap(), CPU1 doing
perf_counter_overflow(). If CPU1 does a wakeup and exposes head to
user-space, then CPU2 can observe the data CPU0 is still writing.

[ Impact: fix occasionally corrupted profiling records ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090501102533.007821627@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


---
 include/linux/perf_counter.h |    5 +-
 kernel/perf_counter.c        |  130 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index 41aed42..f776851 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -358,10 +358,13 @@ struct perf_mmap_data {
 	struct rcu_head			rcu_head;
 	int				nr_pages;	/* nr of data pages  */
 
-	atomic_t			wakeup;		/* POLL_ for wakeups */
+	atomic_t			poll;		/* POLL_ for wakeups */
 	atomic_t			head;		/* write position    */
 	atomic_t			events;		/* event limit       */
 
+	atomic_t			wakeup_head;	/* completed head    */
+	atomic_t			lock;		/* concurrent writes */
+
 	struct perf_counter_mmap_page   *user_page;
 	void 				*data_pages[0];
 };
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index 75f2b6c..8660ae5 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1279,14 +1279,12 @@ static unsigned int perf_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
 {
 	struct perf_counter *counter = file->private_data;
 	struct perf_mmap_data *data;
-	unsigned int events;
+	unsigned int events = POLL_HUP;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	data = rcu_dereference(counter->data);
 	if (data)
-		events = atomic_xchg(&data->wakeup, 0);
-	else
-		events = POLL_HUP;
+		events = atomic_xchg(&data->poll, 0);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	poll_wait(file, &counter->waitq, wait);
@@ -1568,22 +1566,6 @@ static const struct file_operations perf_fops = {
 
 void perf_counter_wakeup(struct perf_counter *counter)
 {
-	struct perf_mmap_data *data;
-
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	data = rcu_dereference(counter->data);
-	if (data) {
-		atomic_set(&data->wakeup, POLL_IN);
-		/*
-		 * Ensure all data writes are issued before updating the
-		 * user-space data head information. The matching rmb()
-		 * will be in userspace after reading this value.
-		 */
-		smp_wmb();
-		data->user_page->data_head = atomic_read(&data->head);
-	}
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-
 	wake_up_all(&counter->waitq);
 
 	if (counter->pending_kill) {
@@ -1721,10 +1703,14 @@ struct perf_output_handle {
 	int			wakeup;
 	int			nmi;
 	int			overflow;
+	int			locked;
+	unsigned long		flags;
 };
 
-static inline void __perf_output_wakeup(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
+static void perf_output_wakeup(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
 {
+	atomic_set(&handle->data->poll, POLL_IN);
+
 	if (handle->nmi) {
 		handle->counter->pending_wakeup = 1;
 		perf_pending_queue(&handle->counter->pending,
@@ -1733,6 +1719,86 @@ static inline void __perf_output_wakeup(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
 		perf_counter_wakeup(handle->counter);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Curious locking construct.
+ *
+ * We need to ensure a later event doesn't publish a head when a former
+ * event isn't done writing. However since we need to deal with NMIs we
+ * cannot fully serialize things.
+ *
+ * What we do is serialize between CPUs so we only have to deal with NMI
+ * nesting on a single CPU.
+ *
+ * We only publish the head (and generate a wakeup) when the outer-most
+ * event completes.
+ */
+static void perf_output_lock(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
+{
+	struct perf_mmap_data *data = handle->data;
+	int cpu;
+
+	handle->locked = 0;
+
+	local_irq_save(handle->flags);
+	cpu = smp_processor_id();
+
+	if (in_nmi() && atomic_read(&data->lock) == cpu)
+		return;
+
+	while (atomic_cmpxchg(&data->lock, 0, cpu) != 0)
+		cpu_relax();
+
+	handle->locked = 1;
+}
+
+static void perf_output_unlock(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
+{
+	struct perf_mmap_data *data = handle->data;
+	int head, cpu;
+
+	if (handle->wakeup)
+		data->wakeup_head = data->head;
+
+	if (!handle->locked)
+		goto out;
+
+again:
+	/*
+	 * The xchg implies a full barrier that ensures all writes are done
+	 * before we publish the new head, matched by a rmb() in userspace when
+	 * reading this position.
+	 */
+	while ((head = atomic_xchg(&data->wakeup_head, 0))) {
+		data->user_page->data_head = head;
+		handle->wakeup = 1;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * NMI can happen here, which means we can miss a wakeup_head update.
+	 */
+
+	cpu = atomic_xchg(&data->lock, 0);
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu != smp_processor_id());
+
+	/*
+	 * Therefore we have to validate we did not indeed do so.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(atomic_read(&data->wakeup_head))) {
+		/*
+		 * Since we had it locked, we can lock it again.
+		 */
+		while (atomic_cmpxchg(&data->lock, 0, cpu) != 0)
+			cpu_relax();
+
+		goto again;
+	}
+
+	if (handle->wakeup)
+		perf_output_wakeup(handle);
+out:
+	local_irq_restore(handle->flags);
+}
+
 static int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 			     struct perf_counter *counter, unsigned int size,
 			     int nmi, int overflow)
@@ -1745,6 +1811,7 @@ static int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 	if (!data)
 		goto out;
 
+	handle->data	 = data;
 	handle->counter	 = counter;
 	handle->nmi	 = nmi;
 	handle->overflow = overflow;
@@ -1752,12 +1819,13 @@ static int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 	if (!data->nr_pages)
 		goto fail;
 
+	perf_output_lock(handle);
+
 	do {
 		offset = head = atomic_read(&data->head);
 		head += size;
 	} while (atomic_cmpxchg(&data->head, offset, head) != offset);
 
-	handle->data	= data;
 	handle->offset	= offset;
 	handle->head	= head;
 	handle->wakeup	= (offset >> PAGE_SHIFT) != (head >> PAGE_SHIFT);
@@ -1765,7 +1833,7 @@ static int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 	return 0;
 
 fail:
-	__perf_output_wakeup(handle);
+	perf_output_wakeup(handle);
 out:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
@@ -1809,16 +1877,20 @@ static void perf_output_copy(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 
 static void perf_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
 {
-	int wakeup_events = handle->counter->hw_event.wakeup_events;
+	struct perf_counter *counter = handle->counter;
+	struct perf_mmap_data *data = handle->data;
+
+	int wakeup_events = counter->hw_event.wakeup_events;
 
 	if (handle->overflow && wakeup_events) {
-		int events = atomic_inc_return(&handle->data->events);
+		int events = atomic_inc_return(&data->events);
 		if (events >= wakeup_events) {
-			atomic_sub(wakeup_events, &handle->data->events);
-			__perf_output_wakeup(handle);
+			atomic_sub(wakeup_events, &data->events);
+			handle->wakeup = 1;
 		}
-	} else if (handle->wakeup)
-		__perf_output_wakeup(handle);
+	}
+
+	perf_output_unlock(handle);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 

[PATCH 2/4] perf_counter: fix nmi-watchdog interaction

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: perf_counter-fix-nmi.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 670 bytes --]

When we don't have any perf-counters active, don't act like we know
what the NMI is for.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
@@ -891,6 +891,9 @@ perf_counter_nmi_handler(struct notifier
 	struct pt_regs *regs;
 	int ret;
 
+	if (!atomic_read(&num_counters))
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
+
 	switch (cmd) {
 	case DIE_NMI:
 	case DIE_NMI_IPI:

-- 

[tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: fix nmi-watchdog interaction

[tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra]

Commit-ID:  63a809a2dc53b91268dd915bbcbd425063893676
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/63a809a2dc53b91268dd915bbcbd425063893676
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
AuthorDate: Fri, 1 May 2009 12:23:17 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:23:44 +0200

perf_counter: fix nmi-watchdog interaction

When we don't have any perf-counters active, don't act like we know
what the NMI is for.

[ Impact: fix hard hang with nmi_watchdog=2 ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090501102533.109867793@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
index fc06f4d..d4c0cc9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
@@ -871,6 +871,9 @@ perf_counter_nmi_handler(struct notifier_block *self,
 	struct pt_regs *regs;
 	int ret;
 
+	if (!atomic_read(&num_counters))
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
+
 	switch (cmd) {
 	case DIE_NMI:
 	case DIE_NMI_IPI:

[PATCH 3/4] perf_counter: tool: handle 0-length data files

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: perf_counter-report-zero-file.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 650 bytes --]

Avoid perf-report barfing on 0-length data files.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 Documentation/perf_counter/perf-report.cc |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/perf_counter/perf-report.cc
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/perf_counter/perf-report.cc
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/perf_counter/perf-report.cc
@@ -402,6 +402,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		exit(-1);
 	}
 
+	if (!stat.st_size) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "zero-sized file, nothing to do!\n");
+		exit(0);
+	}
+
 	load_kallsyms();
 
 remap:

-- 

[tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: tool: handle 0-length data files

[tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra]

Commit-ID:  585e3374d9d29376c2c37d821c8b7637dd48ca95
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/585e3374d9d29376c2c37d821c8b7637dd48ca95
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
AuthorDate: Fri, 1 May 2009 12:23:18 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:23:44 +0200

perf_counter: tool: handle 0-length data files

Avoid perf-report barfing on 0-length data files.

[ Impact: fix perf-report SIGBUS ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090501102533.196245693@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


---
 Documentation/perf_counter/perf-report.cc |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/perf-report.cc b/Documentation/perf_counter/perf-report.cc
index 933a075..911d7f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/perf-report.cc
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/perf-report.cc
@@ -402,6 +402,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		exit(-1);
 	}
 
+	if (!stat.st_size) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "zero-sized file, nothing to do!\n");
+		exit(0);
+	}
+
 	load_kallsyms();
 
 remap:

[PATCH 4/4] perf_counter: documetation update

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: perf_counter-doc.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 13254 bytes --]

Update the documentation to reflect the current state of affairs

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 Documentation/perf_counter/design.txt |  272 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 219 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/perf_counter/design.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/perf_counter/design.txt
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/perf_counter/design.txt
@@ -34,41 +34,47 @@ can be poll()ed.
 
 When creating a new counter fd, 'perf_counter_hw_event' is:
 
-/*
- * Event to monitor via a performance monitoring counter:
- */
 struct perf_counter_hw_event {
-	__u64			event_config;
-
-	__u64			irq_period;
-	__u64			record_type;
-	__u64			read_format;
+        /*
+         * The MSB of the config word signifies if the rest contains cpu
+         * specific (raw) counter configuration data, if unset, the next
+         * 7 bits are an event type and the rest of the bits are the event
+         * identifier.
+         */
+        __u64                   config;
+
+        __u64                   irq_period;
+        __u32                   record_type;
+        __u32                   read_format;
+
+        __u64                   disabled       :  1, /* off by default        */
+                                nmi            :  1, /* NMI sampling          */
+                                inherit        :  1, /* children inherit it   */
+                                pinned         :  1, /* must always be on PMU */
+                                exclusive      :  1, /* only group on PMU     */
+                                exclude_user   :  1, /* don't count user      */
+                                exclude_kernel :  1, /* ditto kernel          */
+                                exclude_hv     :  1, /* ditto hypervisor      */
+                                exclude_idle   :  1, /* don't count when idle */
+                                mmap           :  1, /* include mmap data     */
+                                munmap         :  1, /* include munmap data   */
+                                comm           :  1, /* include comm data     */
 
-	__u64			disabled       :  1, /* off by default        */
-				nmi	       :  1, /* NMI sampling          */
-				inherit	       :  1, /* children inherit it   */
-				pinned	       :  1, /* must always be on PMU */
-				exclusive      :  1, /* only group on PMU     */
-				exclude_user   :  1, /* don't count user      */
-				exclude_kernel :  1, /* ditto kernel          */
-				exclude_hv     :  1, /* ditto hypervisor      */
-				exclude_idle   :  1, /* don't count when idle */
+                                __reserved_1   : 52;
 
-				__reserved_1   : 55;
+        __u32                   extra_config_len;
+        __u32                   wakeup_events;  /* wakeup every n events */
 
-	__u32			extra_config_len;
-
-	__u32			__reserved_4;
-	__u64			__reserved_2;
-	__u64			__reserved_3;
+        __u64                   __reserved_2;
+        __u64                   __reserved_3;
 };
 
-The 'event_config' field specifies what the counter should count.  It
+The 'config' field specifies what the counter should count.  It
 is divided into 3 bit-fields:
 
-raw_type: 1 bit (most significant bit)		0x8000_0000_0000_0000
-type:	  7 bits (next most significant)	0x7f00_0000_0000_0000
-event_id: 56 bits (least significant)		0x00ff_0000_0000_0000
+raw_type: 1 bit   (most significant bit)	0x8000_0000_0000_0000
+type:	  7 bits  (next most significant)	0x7f00_0000_0000_0000
+event_id: 56 bits (least significant)		0x00ff_ffff_ffff_ffff
 
 If 'raw_type' is 1, then the counter will count a hardware event
 specified by the remaining 63 bits of event_config.  The encoding is
@@ -134,41 +140,56 @@ enum sw_event_ids {
 	PERF_COUNT_PAGE_FAULTS_MAJ	= 6,
 };
 
+Counters of the type PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT are available when the ftrace event
+tracer is available, and event_id values can be obtained from
+/debug/tracing/events/*/*/id
+
+
 Counters come in two flavours: counting counters and sampling
 counters.  A "counting" counter is one that is used for counting the
 number of events that occur, and is characterised by having
-irq_period = 0 and record_type = PERF_RECORD_SIMPLE.  A read() on a
-counting counter simply returns the current value of the counter as
-an 8-byte number.
+irq_period = 0.
+
+
+A read() on a counter returns the current value of the counter and possible
+additional values as specified by 'read_format', each value is a u64 (8 bytes)
+in size.
+
+/*
+ * Bits that can be set in hw_event.read_format to request that
+ * reads on the counter should return the indicated quantities,
+ * in increasing order of bit value, after the counter value.
+ */
+enum perf_counter_read_format {
+        PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED  =  1,
+        PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING  =  2,
+};
+
+Using these additional values one can establish the overcommit ratio for a
+particular counter allowing one to take the round-robin scheduling effect
+into account.
+
 
 A "sampling" counter is one that is set up to generate an interrupt
 every N events, where N is given by 'irq_period'.  A sampling counter
-has irq_period > 0 and record_type != PERF_RECORD_SIMPLE.  The
-record_type controls what data is recorded on each interrupt, and the
-available values are currently:
+has irq_period > 0. The record_type controls what data is recorded on each
+interrupt:
 
 /*
- * IRQ-notification data record type:
+ * Bits that can be set in hw_event.record_type to request information
+ * in the overflow packets.
  */
-enum perf_counter_record_type {
-	PERF_RECORD_SIMPLE		= 0,
-	PERF_RECORD_IRQ			= 1,
-	PERF_RECORD_GROUP		= 2,
-};
-
-A record_type value of PERF_RECORD_IRQ will record the instruction
-pointer (IP) at which the interrupt occurred.  A record_type value of
-PERF_RECORD_GROUP will record the event_config and counter value of
-all of the other counters in the group, and should only be used on a
-group leader (see below).  Currently these two values are mutually
-exclusive, but record_type will become a bit-mask in future and
-support other values.
-
-A sampling counter has an event queue, into which an event is placed
-on each interrupt.  A read() on a sampling counter will read the next
-event from the event queue.  If the queue is empty, the read() will
-either block or return an EAGAIN error, depending on whether the fd
-has been set to non-blocking mode or not.
+enum perf_counter_record_format {
+        PERF_RECORD_IP          = 1U << 0,
+        PERF_RECORD_TID         = 1U << 1,
+        PERF_RECORD_TIME        = 1U << 2,
+        PERF_RECORD_ADDR        = 1U << 3,
+        PERF_RECORD_GROUP       = 1U << 4,
+        PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN   = 1U << 5,
+};
+
+Such (and other) events will be recorded in a ring-buffer, which is
+available to user-space using mmap() (see below).
 
 The 'disabled' bit specifies whether the counter starts out disabled
 or enabled.  If it is initially disabled, it can be enabled by ioctl
@@ -206,6 +227,13 @@ The 'exclude_user', 'exclude_kernel' and
 way to request that counting of events be restricted to times when the
 CPU is in user, kernel and/or hypervisor mode.
 
+The 'mmap' and 'munmap' bits allow recording of PROT_EXEC mmap/munmap
+operations, these can be used to relate userspace IP addresses to actual
+code, even after the mapping (or even the whole process) is gone,
+these events are recorded in the ring-buffer (see below).
+
+The 'comm' bit allows tracking of process comm data on process creation.
+This too is recorded in the ring-buffer (see below).
 
 The 'pid' parameter to the perf_counter_open() system call allows the
 counter to be specific to a task:
@@ -250,6 +278,138 @@ can be meaningfully compared, added, div
 with each other, since they have counted events for the same set of
 executed instructions.
 
+
+Like stated, asynchronous events, like counter overflow or PROT_EXEC mmap
+tracking are logged into a ring-buffer. This ring-buffer is created and
+accessed through mmap().
+
+The mmap size should be 1+2^n pages, where the first page is a meta-data page
+(struct perf_counter_mmap_page) that contains various bits of information such
+as where the ring-buffer head is.
+
+/*
+ * Structure of the page that can be mapped via mmap
+ */
+struct perf_counter_mmap_page {
+        __u32   version;                /* version number of this structure */
+        __u32   compat_version;         /* lowest version this is compat with */
+
+        /*
+         * Bits needed to read the hw counters in user-space.
+         *
+         *   u32 seq;
+         *   s64 count;
+         *
+         *   do {
+         *     seq = pc->lock;
+         *
+         *     barrier()
+         *     if (pc->index) {
+         *       count = pmc_read(pc->index - 1);
+         *       count += pc->offset;
+         *     } else
+         *       goto regular_read;
+         *
+         *     barrier();
+         *   } while (pc->lock != seq);
+         *
+         * NOTE: for obvious reason this only works on self-monitoring
+         *       processes.
+         */
+        __u32   lock;                   /* seqlock for synchronization */
+        __u32   index;                  /* hardware counter identifier */
+        __s64   offset;                 /* add to hardware counter value */
+
+        /*
+         * Control data for the mmap() data buffer.
+         *
+         * User-space reading this value should issue an rmb(), on SMP capable
+         * platforms, after reading this value -- see perf_counter_wakeup().
+         */
+        __u32   data_head;              /* head in the data section */
+};
+
+NOTE: the hw-counter userspace bits are arch specific and are currently only
+      implemented on powerpc.
+
+The following 2^n pages are the ring-buffer which contains events of the form:
+
+#define PERF_EVENT_MISC_KERNEL          (1 << 0)
+#define PERF_EVENT_MISC_USER            (1 << 1)
+#define PERF_EVENT_MISC_OVERFLOW        (1 << 2)
+
+struct perf_event_header {
+        __u32   type;
+        __u16   misc;
+        __u16   size;
+};
+
+enum perf_event_type {
+
+        /*
+         * The MMAP events record the PROT_EXEC mappings so that we can
+         * correlate userspace IPs to code. They have the following structure:
+         *
+         * struct {
+         *      struct perf_event_header        header;
+         *
+         *      u32                             pid, tid;
+         *      u64                             addr;
+         *      u64                             len;
+         *      u64                             pgoff;
+         *      char                            filename[];
+         * };
+         */
+        PERF_EVENT_MMAP                 = 1,
+        PERF_EVENT_MUNMAP               = 2,
+
+        /*
+         * struct {
+         *      struct perf_event_header        header;
+         *
+         *      u32                             pid, tid;
+         *      char                            comm[];
+         * };
+         */
+        PERF_EVENT_COMM                 = 3,
+
+        /*
+         * When header.misc & PERF_EVENT_MISC_OVERFLOW the event_type field
+         * will be PERF_RECORD_*
+         *
+         * struct {
+         *      struct perf_event_header        header;
+         *
+         *      { u64                   ip;       } && PERF_RECORD_IP
+         *      { u32                   pid, tid; } && PERF_RECORD_TID
+         *      { u64                   time;     } && PERF_RECORD_TIME
+         *      { u64                   addr;     } && PERF_RECORD_ADDR
+         *
+         *      { u64                   nr;
+         *        { u64 event, val; }   cnt[nr];  } && PERF_RECORD_GROUP
+         *
+         *      { u16                   nr,
+         *                              hv,
+         *                              kernel,
+         *                              user;
+         *        u64                   ips[nr];  } && PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN
+         * };
+         */
+};
+
+NOTE: PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN is arch specific and currently only implemented
+      on x86.
+
+Notification of new events is possible through poll()/select()/epoll() and
+fcntl() managing signals.
+
+Normally a notification is generated for every page filled, however one can
+additionally set perf_counter_hw_event.wakeup_events to generate one every
+so many counter overflow events.
+
+Future work will include a splice() interface to the ring-buffer.
+
+
 Counters can be enabled and disabled in two ways: via ioctl and via
 prctl.  When a counter is disabled, it doesn't count or generate
 events but does continue to exist and maintain its count value.
@@ -269,6 +429,12 @@ group other than the leader only affects
 non-leader stops that counter from counting but doesn't affect any
 other counter.
 
+Additionally, non-inherited overflow counters can use
+
+	ioctl(fd, PERF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH, nr);
+
+to enable a counter for 'nr' events, after which it gets disabled again.
+
 A process can enable or disable all the counter groups that are
 attached to it, using prctl:
 

-- 

[tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: documentation update

[tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra]

Commit-ID:  e5791a808ae91a9e7e1b65ea9b8de0f96a043d88
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/e5791a808ae91a9e7e1b65ea9b8de0f96a043d88
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
AuthorDate: Fri, 1 May 2009 12:23:19 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:23:45 +0200

perf_counter: documentation update

Update the documentation to reflect the current state of affairs

[ Impact: documentation update ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090501102533.296727903@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


---
 Documentation/perf_counter/design.txt |  274 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 220 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/design.txt b/Documentation/perf_counter/design.txt
index aaf105c..9930c4b 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/design.txt
@@ -34,41 +34,47 @@ can be poll()ed.
 
 When creating a new counter fd, 'perf_counter_hw_event' is:
 
-/*
- * Event to monitor via a performance monitoring counter:
- */
 struct perf_counter_hw_event {
-	__u64			event_config;
-
-	__u64			irq_period;
-	__u64			record_type;
-	__u64			read_format;
-
-	__u64			disabled       :  1, /* off by default        */
-				nmi	       :  1, /* NMI sampling          */
-				inherit	       :  1, /* children inherit it   */
-				pinned	       :  1, /* must always be on PMU */
-				exclusive      :  1, /* only group on PMU     */
-				exclude_user   :  1, /* don't count user      */
-				exclude_kernel :  1, /* ditto kernel          */
-				exclude_hv     :  1, /* ditto hypervisor      */
-				exclude_idle   :  1, /* don't count when idle */
-
-				__reserved_1   : 55;
-
-	__u32			extra_config_len;
-
-	__u32			__reserved_4;
-	__u64			__reserved_2;
-	__u64			__reserved_3;
+        /*
+         * The MSB of the config word signifies if the rest contains cpu
+         * specific (raw) counter configuration data, if unset, the next
+         * 7 bits are an event type and the rest of the bits are the event
+         * identifier.
+         */
+        __u64                   config;
+
+        __u64                   irq_period;
+        __u32                   record_type;
+        __u32                   read_format;
+
+        __u64                   disabled       :  1, /* off by default        */
+                                nmi            :  1, /* NMI sampling          */
+                                inherit        :  1, /* children inherit it   */
+                                pinned         :  1, /* must always be on PMU */
+                                exclusive      :  1, /* only group on PMU     */
+                                exclude_user   :  1, /* don't count user      */
+                                exclude_kernel :  1, /* ditto kernel          */
+                                exclude_hv     :  1, /* ditto hypervisor      */
+                                exclude_idle   :  1, /* don't count when idle */
+                                mmap           :  1, /* include mmap data     */
+                                munmap         :  1, /* include munmap data   */
+                                comm           :  1, /* include comm data     */
+
+                                __reserved_1   : 52;
+
+        __u32                   extra_config_len;
+        __u32                   wakeup_events;  /* wakeup every n events */
+
+        __u64                   __reserved_2;
+        __u64                   __reserved_3;
 };
 
-The 'event_config' field specifies what the counter should count.  It
+The 'config' field specifies what the counter should count.  It
 is divided into 3 bit-fields:
 
-raw_type: 1 bit (most significant bit)		0x8000_0000_0000_0000
-type:	  7 bits (next most significant)	0x7f00_0000_0000_0000
-event_id: 56 bits (least significant)		0x00ff_0000_0000_0000
+raw_type: 1 bit   (most significant bit)	0x8000_0000_0000_0000
+type:	  7 bits  (next most significant)	0x7f00_0000_0000_0000
+event_id: 56 bits (least significant)		0x00ff_ffff_ffff_ffff
 
 If 'raw_type' is 1, then the counter will count a hardware event
 specified by the remaining 63 bits of event_config.  The encoding is
@@ -134,41 +140,56 @@ enum sw_event_ids {
 	PERF_COUNT_PAGE_FAULTS_MAJ	= 6,
 };
 
+Counters of the type PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT are available when the ftrace event
+tracer is available, and event_id values can be obtained from
+/debug/tracing/events/*/*/id
+
+
 Counters come in two flavours: counting counters and sampling
 counters.  A "counting" counter is one that is used for counting the
 number of events that occur, and is characterised by having
-irq_period = 0 and record_type = PERF_RECORD_SIMPLE.  A read() on a
-counting counter simply returns the current value of the counter as
-an 8-byte number.
+irq_period = 0.
+
+
+A read() on a counter returns the current value of the counter and possible
+additional values as specified by 'read_format', each value is a u64 (8 bytes)
+in size.
+
+/*
+ * Bits that can be set in hw_event.read_format to request that
+ * reads on the counter should return the indicated quantities,
+ * in increasing order of bit value, after the counter value.
+ */
+enum perf_counter_read_format {
+        PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED  =  1,
+        PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING  =  2,
+};
+
+Using these additional values one can establish the overcommit ratio for a
+particular counter allowing one to take the round-robin scheduling effect
+into account.
+
 
 A "sampling" counter is one that is set up to generate an interrupt
 every N events, where N is given by 'irq_period'.  A sampling counter
-has irq_period > 0 and record_type != PERF_RECORD_SIMPLE.  The
-record_type controls what data is recorded on each interrupt, and the
-available values are currently:
+has irq_period > 0. The record_type controls what data is recorded on each
+interrupt:
 
 /*
- * IRQ-notification data record type:
+ * Bits that can be set in hw_event.record_type to request information
+ * in the overflow packets.
  */
-enum perf_counter_record_type {
-	PERF_RECORD_SIMPLE		= 0,
-	PERF_RECORD_IRQ			= 1,
-	PERF_RECORD_GROUP		= 2,
+enum perf_counter_record_format {
+        PERF_RECORD_IP          = 1U << 0,
+        PERF_RECORD_TID         = 1U << 1,
+        PERF_RECORD_TIME        = 1U << 2,
+        PERF_RECORD_ADDR        = 1U << 3,
+        PERF_RECORD_GROUP       = 1U << 4,
+        PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN   = 1U << 5,
 };
 
-A record_type value of PERF_RECORD_IRQ will record the instruction
-pointer (IP) at which the interrupt occurred.  A record_type value of
-PERF_RECORD_GROUP will record the event_config and counter value of
-all of the other counters in the group, and should only be used on a
-group leader (see below).  Currently these two values are mutually
-exclusive, but record_type will become a bit-mask in future and
-support other values.
-
-A sampling counter has an event queue, into which an event is placed
-on each interrupt.  A read() on a sampling counter will read the next
-event from the event queue.  If the queue is empty, the read() will
-either block or return an EAGAIN error, depending on whether the fd
-has been set to non-blocking mode or not.
+Such (and other) events will be recorded in a ring-buffer, which is
+available to user-space using mmap() (see below).
 
 The 'disabled' bit specifies whether the counter starts out disabled
 or enabled.  If it is initially disabled, it can be enabled by ioctl
@@ -206,6 +227,13 @@ The 'exclude_user', 'exclude_kernel' and 'exclude_hv' bits provide a
 way to request that counting of events be restricted to times when the
 CPU is in user, kernel and/or hypervisor mode.
 
+The 'mmap' and 'munmap' bits allow recording of PROT_EXEC mmap/munmap
+operations, these can be used to relate userspace IP addresses to actual
+code, even after the mapping (or even the whole process) is gone,
+these events are recorded in the ring-buffer (see below).
+
+The 'comm' bit allows tracking of process comm data on process creation.
+This too is recorded in the ring-buffer (see below).
 
 The 'pid' parameter to the perf_counter_open() system call allows the
 counter to be specific to a task:
@@ -250,6 +278,138 @@ can be meaningfully compared, added, divided (to get ratios), etc.,
 with each other, since they have counted events for the same set of
 executed instructions.
 
+
+Like stated, asynchronous events, like counter overflow or PROT_EXEC mmap
+tracking are logged into a ring-buffer. This ring-buffer is created and
+accessed through mmap().
+
+The mmap size should be 1+2^n pages, where the first page is a meta-data page
+(struct perf_counter_mmap_page) that contains various bits of information such
+as where the ring-buffer head is.
+
+/*
+ * Structure of the page that can be mapped via mmap
+ */
+struct perf_counter_mmap_page {
+        __u32   version;                /* version number of this structure */
+        __u32   compat_version;         /* lowest version this is compat with */
+
+        /*
+         * Bits needed to read the hw counters in user-space.
+         *
+         *   u32 seq;
+         *   s64 count;
+         *
+         *   do {
+         *     seq = pc->lock;
+         *
+         *     barrier()
+         *     if (pc->index) {
+         *       count = pmc_read(pc->index - 1);
+         *       count += pc->offset;
+         *     } else
+         *       goto regular_read;
+         *
+         *     barrier();
+         *   } while (pc->lock != seq);
+         *
+         * NOTE: for obvious reason this only works on self-monitoring
+         *       processes.
+         */
+        __u32   lock;                   /* seqlock for synchronization */
+        __u32   index;                  /* hardware counter identifier */
+        __s64   offset;                 /* add to hardware counter value */
+
+        /*
+         * Control data for the mmap() data buffer.
+         *
+         * User-space reading this value should issue an rmb(), on SMP capable
+         * platforms, after reading this value -- see perf_counter_wakeup().
+         */
+        __u32   data_head;              /* head in the data section */
+};
+
+NOTE: the hw-counter userspace bits are arch specific and are currently only
+      implemented on powerpc.
+
+The following 2^n pages are the ring-buffer which contains events of the form:
+
+#define PERF_EVENT_MISC_KERNEL          (1 << 0)
+#define PERF_EVENT_MISC_USER            (1 << 1)
+#define PERF_EVENT_MISC_OVERFLOW        (1 << 2)
+
+struct perf_event_header {
+        __u32   type;
+        __u16   misc;
+        __u16   size;
+};
+
+enum perf_event_type {
+
+        /*
+         * The MMAP events record the PROT_EXEC mappings so that we can
+         * correlate userspace IPs to code. They have the following structure:
+         *
+         * struct {
+         *      struct perf_event_header        header;
+         *
+         *      u32                             pid, tid;
+         *      u64                             addr;
+         *      u64                             len;
+         *      u64                             pgoff;
+         *      char                            filename[];
+         * };
+         */
+        PERF_EVENT_MMAP                 = 1,
+        PERF_EVENT_MUNMAP               = 2,
+
+        /*
+         * struct {
+         *      struct perf_event_header        header;
+         *
+         *      u32                             pid, tid;
+         *      char                            comm[];
+         * };
+         */
+        PERF_EVENT_COMM                 = 3,
+
+        /*
+         * When header.misc & PERF_EVENT_MISC_OVERFLOW the event_type field
+         * will be PERF_RECORD_*
+         *
+         * struct {
+         *      struct perf_event_header        header;
+         *
+         *      { u64                   ip;       } && PERF_RECORD_IP
+         *      { u32                   pid, tid; } && PERF_RECORD_TID
+         *      { u64                   time;     } && PERF_RECORD_TIME
+         *      { u64                   addr;     } && PERF_RECORD_ADDR
+         *
+         *      { u64                   nr;
+         *        { u64 event, val; }   cnt[nr];  } && PERF_RECORD_GROUP
+         *
+         *      { u16                   nr,
+         *                              hv,
+         *                              kernel,
+         *                              user;
+         *        u64                   ips[nr];  } && PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN
+         * };
+         */
+};
+
+NOTE: PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN is arch specific and currently only implemented
+      on x86.
+
+Notification of new events is possible through poll()/select()/epoll() and
+fcntl() managing signals.
+
+Normally a notification is generated for every page filled, however one can
+additionally set perf_counter_hw_event.wakeup_events to generate one every
+so many counter overflow events.
+
+Future work will include a splice() interface to the ring-buffer.
+
+
 Counters can be enabled and disabled in two ways: via ioctl and via
 prctl.  When a counter is disabled, it doesn't count or generate
 events but does continue to exist and maintain its count value.
@@ -269,6 +429,12 @@ group other than the leader only affects that counter - disabling an
 non-leader stops that counter from counting but doesn't affect any
 other counter.
 
+Additionally, non-inherited overflow counters can use
+
+	ioctl(fd, PERF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH, nr);
+
+to enable a counter for 'nr' events, after which it gets disabled again.
+
 A process can enable or disable all the counter groups that are
 attached to it, using prctl:
 

[PATCH 0/4] perf counter bits

[Peter Zijlstra]

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Re: [PATCH 0/4] perf counter bits

[Ingo Molnar]

Applied to tip:perfcounters/core, thanks Peter!

	Ingo

[PATCH 0/4] perf counter bits

[Peter Zijlstra]

Some perf counter patches for your consideration ;-)
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