user/sven/linux.git/kernel/events/internal.h, branch v6.18.1

perf: Convert mmap() refcounts to refcount_t

2025-08-15T11:13:02Z

The recently fixed reference count leaks could have been detected by using refcount_t and refcount_t would have mitigated the potential overflow at least. Now that the code is properly structured, convert the mmap() related mmap_count variants over to refcount_t. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250812104020.071507932@infradead.org

perf/core: Add aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused

2024-11-05T11:55:43Z

Hardware traces, such as instruction traces, can produce a vast amount of trace data, so being able to reduce tracing to more specific circumstances can be useful. The ability to pause or resume tracing when another event happens, can do that. Add ability for an event to "pause" or "resume" AUX area tracing. Add aux_pause bit to perf_event_attr to indicate that, if the event happens, the associated AUX area tracing should be paused. Ditto aux_resume. Do not allow aux_pause and aux_resume to be set together. Add aux_start_paused bit to perf_event_attr to indicate to an AUX area event that it should start in a "paused" state. Add aux_paused to struct hw_perf_event for AUX area events to keep track of the "paused" state. aux_paused is initialized to aux_start_paused. Add PERF_EF_PAUSE and PERF_EF_RESUME modes for ->stop() and ->start() callbacks. Call as needed, during __perf_event_output(). Add aux_in_pause_resume to struct perf_buffer to prevent races with the NMI handler. Pause/resume in NMI context will miss out if it coincides with another pause/resume. To use aux_pause or aux_resume, an event must be in a group with the AUX area event as the group leader. Example (requires Intel PT and tools patches also): $ perf record --kcore -e intel_pt/aux-action=start-paused/k,syscalls:sys_enter_newuname/aux-action=resume/,syscalls:sys_exit_newuname/aux-action=pause/ uname Linux [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.043 MB perf.data ] $ perf script --call-trace uname 30805 [000] 24001.058782799: name: 0x7ffc9c1865b0 uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784424: psb offs: 0 uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784424: cbr: 39 freq: 3904 MHz (139%) uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) debug_smp_processor_id uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) __x64_sys_newuname uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) down_read uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) __cond_resched uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) preempt_count_add uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) in_lock_functions uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) preempt_count_sub uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) up_read uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) preempt_count_add uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) in_lock_functions uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) preempt_count_sub uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) _copy_to_user uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) syscall_exit_to_user_mode uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) syscall_exit_work uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_syscall_exit uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) debug_smp_processor_id uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_trace_buf_alloc uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_swevent_get_recursion_context uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) debug_smp_processor_id uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) debug_smp_processor_id uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_tp_event uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_trace_buf_update uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) tracing_gen_ctx_irq_test uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_swevent_event uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) __perf_event_account_interrupt uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) __this_cpu_preempt_check uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_event_output_forward uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_event_aux_pause uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) ring_buffer_get uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) __rcu_read_lock uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) __rcu_read_unlock uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785254: ([kernel.kallsyms]) pt_event_stop uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785254: ([kernel.kallsyms]) debug_smp_processor_id uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785254: ([kernel.kallsyms]) debug_smp_processor_id uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785254: ([kernel.kallsyms]) native_write_msr uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785463: ([kernel.kallsyms]) native_write_msr uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785639: 0x0 Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: James Clark Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241022155920.17511-3-adrian.hunter@intel.com

perf/aux: Fix AUX buffer serialization

2024-09-04T16:22:56Z

Ole reported that event->mmap_mutex is strictly insufficient to serialize the AUX buffer, add a per RB mutex to fully serialize it. Note that in the lock order comment the perf_event::mmap_mutex order was already wrong, that is, it nesting under mmap_lock is not new with this patch. Fixes: 45bfb2e50471 ("perf: Add AUX area to ring buffer for raw data streams") Reported-by: Ole Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Move swevent_htable::recursion into task_struct.

2024-07-09T11:26:36Z

The swevent_htable::recursion counter is used to avoid creating an swevent while an event is processed to avoid recursion. The counter is per-CPU and preemption must be disabled to have a stable counter. perf_pending_task() disables preemption to access the counter and then signal. This is problematic on PREEMPT_RT because sending a signal uses a spinlock_t which must not be acquired in atomic on PREEMPT_RT because it becomes a sleeping lock. The atomic context can be avoided by moving the counter into the task_struct. There is a 4 byte hole between futex_state (usually always on) and the following perf pointer (perf_event_ctxp). After the recursion lost some weight it fits perfectly. Move swevent_htable::recursion into task_struct. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Marco Elver Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240704170424.1466941-6-bigeasy@linutronix.de

perf: Shrink the size of the recursion counter.

2024-07-09T11:26:35Z

There are four recursion counter, one for each context. The type of the counter is `int' but the counter is used as `bool' since it is only incremented if zero. The main goal here is to shrink the whole struct into 32bit int which can later be added task_struct into an existing hole. Reduce the type of the recursion counter to an unsigned char, keep the increment/ decrement operation. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Marco Elver Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240704170424.1466941-5-bigeasy@linutronix.de

perf: Fix perf_aux_size() for greater-than 32-bit size

2024-07-04T14:00:22Z

perf_buffer->aux_nr_pages uses a 32-bit type, so a cast is needed to calculate a 64-bit size. Fixes: 45bfb2e50471 ("perf: Add AUX area to ring buffer for raw data streams") Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624201101.60186-5-adrian.hunter@intel.com

perf/core: Fix perf_mmap fail when CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC enabled

2022-04-19T19:15:42Z

This problem can be reproduced with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC enabled on both x86_64 and aarch64 arch when using sysdig -B(using ebpf)[1]. sysdig -B works fine after rebuilding the kernel with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC disabled. I tracked it down to the if condition event->rb->nr_pages != nr_pages in perf_mmap is true when CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC is enabled where event->rb->nr_pages = 1 and nr_pages = 2048 resulting perf_mmap to return -EINVAL. This is because when CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC is enabled, rb->nr_pages is always equal to 1. Arch with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC enabled by default: arc/arm/csky/mips/sh/sparc/xtensa Arch with CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC disabled by default: x86_64/aarch64/... Fix this problem by using data_page_nr() [1] https://github.com/draios/sysdig Fixes: 906010b2134e ("perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing") Signed-off-by: Zhipeng Xie Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220209145417.6495-1-xiezhipeng1@huawei.com

tracing/perf: Add interrupt_context_level() helper

2021-10-20T00:33:20Z

Now that there are three different instances of doing the addition trick to the preempt_count() and NMI_MASK, HARDIRQ_MASK and SOFTIRQ_OFFSET macros, it deserves a helper function defined in the preempt.h header. Add the interrupt_context_level() helper and replace the three instances that do that logic with it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211015142541.4badd8a9@gandalf.local.home/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

perf: Optimize get_recursion_context()

2020-11-09T17:12:34Z

"Look ma, no branches!" Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201030151955.187580298@infradead.org

perf: Fix get_recursion_context()

2020-11-09T17:12:34Z

One should use in_serving_softirq() to detect SoftIRQ context. Fixes: 96f6d4444302 ("perf_counter: avoid recursion") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201030151955.120572175@infradead.org