Rename perf_event_attr::precise to perf_event_attr::precise_ip and
widen it to 2 bits. This new field describes the required precision of
the PERF_SAMPLE_IP field:
0 - SAMPLE_IP can have arbitrary skid
1 - SAMPLE_IP must have constant skid
2 - SAMPLE_IP requested to have 0 skid
3 - SAMPLE_IP must have 0 skid
And modify the Intel PEBS code accordingly. The PEBS implementation
now supports up to precise_ip == 2, where we perform the IP fixup.
Also s/PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT/&_IP/ to clarify its meaning, this bit
should be set for each PERF_SAMPLE_IP field known to match the actual
instruction triggering the event.
This new scheme allows for a PEBS mode that uses the buffer for more
than a single event.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Its broken, we really should get PERF_SAMPLE_REGS sorted.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix typo. But the modularization here is ugly and should be improved.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Pull the core handler in line with the nhm one, also make sure we always
drain the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We need to use the actual cpuc->pebs_enabled value, not a local copy for
the changes to take effect.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Its unclear if the PEBS state record will have only a single bit set, in
case it does not and accumulates bits, deal with that by only processing
each event once.
Also, robustify some of the code.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We should never call ->enable with the pmu enabled, and we _can_ have
->disable called with the pmu enabled.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I overlooked the perf_disable()/perf_enable() calls in
intel_pmu_handle_irq(), (pointed out by Markus) so we should not
explicitly disable_all/enable_all pebs counters in the drain functions,
these are already disabled and enabling them early is confusing.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Calling ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE) on a thottled counter would result
in a double disable, cure this by using x86_pmu_{start,stop} for
throttle/unthrottle and teach x86_pmu_stop() to check ->active_mask.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It turns out the LBR is massively unreliable on certain CPUs, so code the
fixup a little more defensive to avoid crashing the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix up the ds allocation error path, where we could free @buffer before
we used it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100305154128.813452402@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since there's now two users for this, place it in a common header.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.923774125@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Saner PERF_CAPABILITIES support, which also exposes pebs_trap. Use that
latter to make PEBS's use of LBR conditional since a fault-like pebs
should already report the correct IP.
( As of this writing there is no known hardware that implements
!pebs_trap )
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.770650663@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use the LBR to fix up the PEBS IP+1 issue.
As said, PEBS reports the next instruction, here we use the LBR to find
the last branch and from that construct the actual IP. If the IP matches
the LBR-TO, we use LBR-FROM, otherwise we use the LBR-TO address as the
beginning of the last basic block and decode forward.
Once we find a match to the current IP, we use the previous location.
This patch introduces a new ABI element: PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT, which
conveys that the reported IP (PERF_SAMPLE_IP) is the exact instruction
that caused the event (barring CPU errata).
The fixup can fail due to various reasons:
1) LBR contains invalid data (quite possible)
2) part of the basic block got paged out
3) the reported IP isn't part of the basic block (see 1)
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.619375431@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch implements support for Intel Precise Event Based Sampling,
which is an alternative counter mode in which the counter triggers a
hardware assist to collect information on events. The hardware assist
takes a trap like snapshot of a subset of the machine registers.
This data is written to the Intel Debug-Store, which can be programmed
with a data threshold at which to raise a PMI.
With the PEBS hardware assist being trap like, the reported IP is always
one instruction after the actual instruction that triggered the event.
This implements a simple PEBS model that always takes a single PEBS event
at a time. This is done so that the interaction with the rest of the
system is as expected (freq adjust, period randomization, lbr,
callchains, etc.).
It adds an ABI element: perf_event_attr::precise, which indicates that we
wish to use this (constrained, but precise) mode.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.392111285@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
