From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751945AbeDIJ0J (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2018 05:26:09 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:56466 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751896AbeDIJ0G (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2018 05:26:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 11:26:03 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Alexey Budankov Cc: Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Alexander Shishkin , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel , linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] perf/core: store context switch out type into Perf trace Message-ID: <20180409092603.GY4043@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <9ff84e83-a0ca-dd82-a6d0-cb951689be74@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9ff84e83-a0ca-dd82-a6d0-cb951689be74@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.3 (2018-01-21) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 10:25:32AM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote: > > Store preempting context switch out event into Perf trace as a part of > PERF_RECORD_SWITCH[_CPU_WIDE] record. > > Percentage of preempting and non-preempting context switches help > understanding the nature of workloads (CPU or IO bound) that are running > on a machine; > > The event is treated as preemption one when task->state value of the > thread being switched out is TASK_RUNNING. Event type encoding is > implemented using PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT_PREEMPT bit; > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acme, I'm thinking you should route this, since most of the changes are actually to the tool. > diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c > index fc1c330c6bd6..872a5aaa77eb 100644 > --- a/kernel/events/core.c > +++ b/kernel/events/core.c > @@ -7584,6 +7584,10 @@ static void perf_event_switch(struct task_struct *task, > }, > }; > > + if (!sched_in && task->state == TASK_RUNNING) > + switch_event.event_id.header.misc |= > + PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT_PREEMPT; I typically prefer {} over any multi-line expression. > perf_iterate_sb(perf_event_switch_output, > &switch_event, > NULL);