user/sven/linux.git/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c, branch v5.10.221

perf/core: Add a new read format to get a number of lost samples

2023-12-13T17:27:04Z

[ Upstream commit 119a784c81270eb88e573174ed2209225d646656 ] Sometimes we want to know an accurate number of samples even if it's lost. Currenlty PERF_RECORD_LOST is generated for a ring-buffer which might be shared with other events. So it's hard to know per-event lost count. Add event->lost_samples field and PERF_FORMAT_LOST to retrieve it from userspace. Original-patch-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220616180623.1358843-1-namhyung@kernel.org Stable-dep-of: 382c27f4ed28 ("perf: Fix perf_event_validate_size()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf/core: Bail out early if the request AUX area is out of bound

2023-11-28T16:54:49Z

[ Upstream commit 54aee5f15b83437f23b2b2469bcf21bdd9823916 ] When perf-record with a large AUX area, e.g 4GB, it fails with: #perf record -C 0 -m ,4G -e arm_spe_0// -- sleep 1 failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory) and it reveals a WARNING with __alloc_pages(): ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 44 PID: 17573 at mm/page_alloc.c:5568 __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x248 Call trace: __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x248 __kmalloc_large_node+0xc0/0x1f8 __kmalloc_node+0x134/0x1e8 rb_alloc_aux+0xe0/0x298 perf_mmap+0x440/0x660 mmap_region+0x308/0x8a8 do_mmap+0x3c0/0x528 vm_mmap_pgoff+0xf4/0x1b8 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x18c/0x218 __arm64_sys_mmap+0x38/0x58 invoke_syscall+0x50/0x128 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x58/0x188 do_el0_svc+0x34/0x50 el0_svc+0x34/0x108 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0 el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8 'rb->aux_pages' allocated by kcalloc() is a pointer array which is used to maintains AUX trace pages. The allocated page for this array is physically contiguous (and virtually contiguous) with an order of 0..MAX_ORDER. If the size of pointer array crosses the limitation set by MAX_ORDER, it reveals a WARNING. So bail out early with -ENOMEM if the request AUX area is out of bound, e.g.: #perf record -C 0 -m ,4G -e arm_spe_0// -- sleep 1 failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory) Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf/core: Fix perf_mmap fail when CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC enabled

2022-04-27T11:53:56Z

[ Upstream commit 60490e7966659b26d74bf1fa4aa8693d9a94ca88 ] 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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf: Reduce stack usage of perf_output_begin()

2020-11-09T17:12:33Z

__perf_output_begin() has an on-stack struct perf_sample_data in the unlikely case it needs to generate a LOST record. However, every call to perf_output_begin() must already have a perf_sample_data on-stack. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201030151954.985416146@infradead.org

perf: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous

2020-01-13T18:19:38Z

eBPF requires needing to know the size of the perf ring buffer structure. But it unfortunately has the same name as the generic ring buffer used by tracing and oprofile. To make it less ambiguous, rename the perf ring buffer structure to "perf_buffer". As other parts of the ring buffer code has "perf_" as the prefix, it only makes sense to give the ring buffer the "perf_" prefix as well. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213153553.GE20583@krava Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

perf/aux: Allow using AUX data in perf samples

2019-11-13T10:06:14Z

AUX data can be used to annotate perf events such as performance counters or tracepoints/breakpoints by including it in sample records when PERF_SAMPLE_AUX flag is set. Such samples would be instrumental in debugging and profiling by providing, for example, a history of instruction flow leading up to the event's overflow. The implementation makes use of grouping an AUX event with all the events that wish to take samples of the AUX data, such that the former is the group leader. The samplees should also specify the desired size of the AUX sample via attr.aux_sample_size. AUX capable PMUs need to explicitly add support for sampling, because it relies on a new callback to take a snapshot of the buffer without touching the event states. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191025140835.53665-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/ring_buffer: Matching the memory allocate and free, in rb_alloc()

2019-10-17T19:31:55Z

Currently perf_mmap_alloc_page() is used to allocate memory in rb_alloc(), but using free_page() to free memory in the failure path. It's better to use perf_mmap_free_page() instead. Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/575c7e8c-90c7-4e3a-b41d-f894d8cdbd7f@huawei.com

perf/ring_buffer: Modify the parameter type of perf_mmap_free_page()

2019-10-17T19:31:55Z

In perf_mmap_free_page(), the unsigned long type is converted to the pointer type, but where the call is made, the pointer type is converted to the unsigned long type. There is no need to do these operations. Modify the parameter type of perf_mmap_free_page() to pointer type. Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e6ae3f0c-d04c-50f9-544a-aee3b30330cd@huawei.com

perf/ring-buffer: Use regular variables for nesting

2019-05-24T07:00:11Z

While the IRQ/NMI will nest, the nest-count will be invariant over the actual exception, since it will decrement equal to increment. This means we can -- carefully -- use a regular variable since the typical LOAD-STORE race doesn't exist (similar to preempt_count). This optimizes the ring-buffer for all LOAD-STORE architectures, since they need to use atomic ops to implement local_t. Suggested-by: Alexander Shishkin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com Cc: namhyung@kernel.org Cc: yabinc@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517115418.481392777@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/ring-buffer: Always use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() for rb->user_page data

2019-05-24T07:00:11Z

We must use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() on rb->user_page data such that concurrent usage will see whole values. A few key sites were missing this. Suggested-by: Yabin Cui Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com Cc: namhyung@kernel.org Fixes: 7b732a750477 ("perf_counter: new output ABI - part 1") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517115418.394192145@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar