From c85b03349640b34f3545503c8429fc43005e9a92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 13:06:21 -0300 Subject: perf core: Separate accounting of contexts and real addresses in a stack trace The perf_sample->ip_callchain->nr value includes all the entries in the ip_callchain->ip[] array, real addresses and PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc}, while what the user expects is that what is in the kernel.perf_event_max_stack sysctl or in the upcoming per event perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack knob be honoured in terms of IP addresses in the stack trace. So allocate a bunch of extra entries for contexts, and do the accounting via perf_callchain_entry_ctx struct members. A new sysctl, kernel.perf_event_max_contexts_per_stack is also introduced for investigating possible bugs in the callchain implementation by some arch. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Brendan Gregg Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: He Kuang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Milian Wolff Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: Wang Nan Cc: Zefan Li Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3b4wnqk340c4sg4gwkfdi9yk@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index daabdd7ee543..a3683ce2a2f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - perf_cpu_time_max_percent - perf_event_paranoid - perf_event_max_stack +- perf_event_max_contexts_per_stack - pid_max - powersave-nap [ PPC only ] - printk @@ -668,6 +669,19 @@ The default value is 127. ============================================================== +perf_event_max_contexts_per_stack: + +Controls maximum number of stack frame context entries for +(attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN) configured events, for +instance, when using 'perf record -g' or 'perf trace --call-graph fp'. + +This can only be done when no events are in use that have callchains +enabled, otherwise writing to this file will return -EBUSY. + +The default value is 8. + +============================================================== + pid_max: PID allocation wrap value. When the kernel's next PID value -- cgit v1.2.3 From 52b6f46bc163eef17ecba4cd552beeafe2b24453 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 17:12:50 -0700 Subject: mm: /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh to force vmstat update Provide /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh to force an immediate update of per-cpu into global vmstats: useful to avoid a sleep(2) or whatever before checking counts when testing. Originally added to work around a bug which left counts stranded indefinitely on a cpu going idle (an inaccuracy magnified when small below-batch numbers represent "huge" amounts of memory), but I believe that bug is now fixed: nonetheless, this is still a useful knob. Its schedule_on_each_cpu() is probably too expensive just to fold into reading /proc/meminfo itself: give this mode 0600 to prevent abuse. Allow a write or a read to do the same: nothing to read, but "grep -h Shmem /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh /proc/meminfo" is convenient. Oh, and since global_page_state() itself is careful to disguise any underflow as 0, hack in an "Invalid argument" and pr_warn() if a counter is negative after the refresh - this helped to fix a misaccounting of NR_ISOLATED_FILE in my migration code. But on recent kernels, I find that NR_ALLOC_BATCH and NR_PAGES_SCANNED often go negative some of the time. I have not yet worked out why, but have no evidence that it's actually harmful. Punt for the moment by just ignoring the anomaly on those. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Ning Qu Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 14 +++++++++++ include/linux/vmstat.h | 4 +++ kernel/sysctl.c | 7 ++++++ mm/vmstat.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 85 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 34a5fece3121..720355cbdf45 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - panic_on_oom - percpu_pagelist_fraction - stat_interval +- stat_refresh - swappiness - user_reserve_kbytes - vfs_cache_pressure @@ -755,6 +756,19 @@ is 1 second. ============================================================== +stat_refresh + +Any read or write (by root only) flushes all the per-cpu vm statistics +into their global totals, for more accurate reports when testing +e.g. cat /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh /proc/meminfo + +As a side-effect, it also checks for negative totals (elsewhere reported +as 0) and "fails" with EINVAL if any are found, with a warning in dmesg. +(At time of writing, a few stats are known sometimes to be found negative, +with no ill effects: errors and warnings on these stats are suppressed.) + +============================================================== + swappiness This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h index 73fae8c4a5fb..02fce415b3d9 100644 --- a/include/linux/vmstat.h +++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h @@ -193,6 +193,10 @@ void quiet_vmstat(void); void cpu_vm_stats_fold(int cpu); void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void); +struct ctl_table; +int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); + void drain_zonestat(struct zone *zone, struct per_cpu_pageset *); int calculate_pressure_threshold(struct zone *zone); diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index c8b318663525..2effd84d83e3 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1521,6 +1521,13 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_jiffies, }, + { + .procname = "stat_refresh", + .data = NULL, + .maxlen = 0, + .mode = 0600, + .proc_handler = vmstat_refresh, + }, #endif #ifdef CONFIG_MMU { diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index a7de9adacbd9..c831be32a1a3 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1379,6 +1379,66 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct delayed_work, vmstat_work); int sysctl_stat_interval __read_mostly = HZ; static cpumask_var_t cpu_stat_off; +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS +static void refresh_vm_stats(struct work_struct *work) +{ + refresh_cpu_vm_stats(true); +} + +int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) +{ + long val; + int err; + int i; + + /* + * The regular update, every sysctl_stat_interval, may come later + * than expected: leaving a significant amount in per_cpu buckets. + * This is particularly misleading when checking a quantity of HUGE + * pages, immediately after running a test. /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh, + * which can equally be echo'ed to or cat'ted from (by root), + * can be used to update the stats just before reading them. + * + * Oh, and since global_page_state() etc. are so careful to hide + * transiently negative values, report an error here if any of + * the stats is negative, so we know to go looking for imbalance. + */ + err = schedule_on_each_cpu(refresh_vm_stats); + if (err) + return err; + for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS; i++) { + val = atomic_long_read(&vm_stat[i]); + if (val < 0) { + switch (i) { + case NR_ALLOC_BATCH: + case NR_PAGES_SCANNED: + /* + * These are often seen to go negative in + * recent kernels, but not to go permanently + * negative. Whilst it would be nicer not to + * have exceptions, rooting them out would be + * another task, of rather low priority. + */ + break; + default: + pr_warn("%s: %s %ld\n", + __func__, vmstat_text[i], val); + err = -EINVAL; + break; + } + } + } + if (err) + return err; + if (write) + *ppos += *lenp; + else + *lenp = 0; + return 0; +} +#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */ + static void vmstat_update(struct work_struct *w) { if (refresh_cpu_vm_stats(true)) { -- cgit v1.2.3