user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/perf_event.h, branch v4.0

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2015-02-16T22:58:12Z

Pull x86 perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "This series tightens up RDPMC permissions: currently even highly sandboxed x86 execution environments (such as seccomp) have permission to execute RDPMC, which may leak various perf events / PMU state such as timing information and other CPU execution details. This 'all is allowed' RDPMC mode is still preserved as the (non-default) /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 setting. The new default is that RDPMC access is only allowed if a perf event is mmap-ed (which is needed to correctly interpret RDPMC counter values in any case). As a side effect of these changes CR4 handling is cleaned up in the x86 code and a shadow copy of the CR4 value is added. The extra CR4 manipulation adds ~ <50ns to the context switch cost between rdpmc-capable and rdpmc-non-capable mms" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf/x86: Add /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 to allow rdpmc for all tasks perf/x86: Only allow rdpmc if a perf_event is mapped perf: Pass the event to arch_perf_update_userpage() perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping x86: Add a comment clarifying LDT context switching x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4 x86: Clean up cr4 manipulation

Merge tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux

2015-02-12T02:15:38Z

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: - Update of all defconfigs - Addition of a bunch of config options to modernise our defconfigs - Some PS3 updates from Geoff - Optimised memcmp for 64 bit from Anton - Fix for kprobes that allows 'perf probe' to work from Naveen - Several cxl updates from Ian & Ryan - Expanded support for the '24x7' PMU from Cody & Sukadev - Freescale updates from Scott: "Highlights include 8xx optimizations, some more work on datapath device tree content, e300 machine check support, t1040 corenet error reporting, and various cleanups and fixes" * tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (102 commits) cxl: Add missing return statement after handling AFU errror cxl: Fail AFU initialisation if an invalid configuration record is found cxl: Export optional AFU configuration record in sysfs powerpc/mm: Warn on flushing tlb page in kernel context powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL soft-poweroff routine powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Document sysfs event description entries powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events perf: define EVENT_DEFINE_RANGE_FORMAT_LITE helper perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr powerpc/kernel: Avoid initializing device-tree pointer twice powerpc: Remove old compile time disabled syscall tracing code powerpc/kernel: Make syscall_exit a local label cxl: Fix device_node reference counting powerpc/mm: bail out early when flushing TLB page powerpc: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency for M25P80) perf/powerpc: reset event hw state when adding it to the PMU powerpc/qe: Use strlcpy() ...

perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping

2015-02-04T11:10:45Z

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: "hillf.zj" Cc: Valdis Kletnieks Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/266afcba1d1f91ea5501e4e16e94bbbc1a9339b6.1414190806.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Decouple unthrottling and rotating

2015-02-04T07:07:16Z

Currently the adjusments made as part of perf_event_task_tick() use the percpu rotation lists to iterate over any active PMU contexts, but these are not used by the context rotation code, having been replaced by separate (per-context) hrtimer callbacks. However, some manipulation of the rotation lists (i.e. removal of contexts) has remained in perf_rotate_context(). This leads to the following issues: * Contexts are not always removed from the rotation lists. Removal of PMUs which have been placed in rotation lists, but have not been removed by a hrtimer callback can result in corruption of the rotation lists (when memory backing the context is freed). This has been observed to result in hangs when PMU drivers built as modules are inserted and removed around the creation of events for said PMUs. * Contexts which do not require rotation may be removed from the rotation lists as a result of a hrtimer, and will not be considered by the unthrottling code in perf_event_task_tick. This patch fixes the issue by updating the rotation ist when events are scheduled in/out, ensuring that each rotation list stays in sync with the HW state. As each event holds a refcount on the module of its PMU, this ensures that when a PMU module is unloaded none of its CPU contexts can be in a rotation list. By maintaining a list of perf_event_contexts rather than perf_event_cpu_contexts, we don't need separate paths to handle the cpu and task contexts, which also makes the code a little simpler. As the rotation_list variables are not used for rotation, these are renamed to active_ctx_list, which better matches their current function. perf_pmu_rotate_{start,stop} are renamed to perf_pmu_ctx_{activate,deactivate}. Reported-by: Johannes Jensen Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Fengguang Wu Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150129134511.GR17721@leverpostej Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper

2015-02-02T06:56:37Z

Helper for constructing static struct perf_pmu_events_attr s. Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr

2015-02-02T06:56:36Z

(struct perf_pmu_events_attr) is defined in include/linux/perf_event.h, but the only "show" for it is in x86 and contains x86 specific stuff. Make a generic one for those of us who are just using the event_str. Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes

2015-01-28T14:42:56Z

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Tighten (and fix) the grouping condition

2015-01-28T12:17:35Z

The fix from 9fc81d87420d ("perf: Fix events installation during moving group") was incomplete in that it failed to recognise that creating a group with events for different CPUs is semantically broken -- they cannot be co-scheduled. Furthermore, it leads to real breakage where, when we create an event for CPU Y and then migrate it to form a group on CPU X, the code gets confused where the counter is programmed -- triggered in practice as well by me via the perf fuzzer. Fix this by tightening the rules for creating groups. Only allow grouping of counters that can be co-scheduled in the same context. This means for the same task and/or the same cpu. Fixes: 9fc81d87420d ("perf: Fix events installation during moving group") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150123125834.090683288@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Avoid horrible stack usage

2015-01-14T14:11:45Z

Both Linus (most recent) and Steve (a while ago) reported that perf related callbacks have massive stack bloat. The problem is that software events need a pt_regs in order to properly report the event location and unwind stack. And because we could not assume one was present we allocated one on stack and filled it with minimal bits required for operation. Now, pt_regs is quite large, so this is undesirable. Furthermore it turns out that most sites actually have a pt_regs pointer available, making this even more onerous, as the stack space is pointless waste. This patch addresses the problem by observing that software events have well defined nesting semantics, therefore we can use static per-cpu storage instead of on-stack. Linus made the further observation that all but the scheduler callers of perf_sw_event() have a pt_regs available, so we change the regular perf_sw_event() to require a valid pt_regs (where it used to be optional) and add perf_sw_event_sched() for the scheduler. We have a scheduler specific call instead of a more generic _noregs() like construct because we can assume non-recursion from the scheduler and thereby simplify the code further (_noregs would have to put the recursion context call inline in order to assertain which __perf_regs element to use). One last note on the implementation of perf_trace_buf_prepare(); we allow .regs = NULL for those cases where we already have a pt_regs pointer available and do not need another. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Reported-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Javi Merino Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141216115041.GW3337@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Move task_pt_regs sampling into arch code

2015-01-09T10:12:28Z

On x86_64, at least, task_pt_regs may be only partially initialized in many contexts, so x86_64 should not use it without extra care from interrupt context, let alone NMI context. This will allow x86_64 to override the logic and will supply some scratch space to use to make a cleaner copy of user regs. Tested-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: chenggang.qcg@taobao.com Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: David Ahern Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Jean Pihet Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mark Salter Cc: Russell King Cc: Will Deacon Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e431cd4c18c2e1c44c774f10758527fb2d1025c4.1420396372.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar