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authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>2013-04-03 14:21:33 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-05-28 09:07:10 +0200
commit9e6302056f8029f438e853432a856b9f13de26a6 (patch)
tree2c777b710fb4624fda55be17306d6f107b72428c
parentab573844e3058eef2788803d373019f8bebead57 (diff)
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perf: Use hrtimers for event multiplexing
The current scheme of using the timer tick was fine for per-thread events. However, it was causing bias issues in system-wide mode (including for uncore PMUs). Event groups would not get their fair share of runtime on the PMU. With tickless kernels, if a core is idle there is no timer tick, and thus no event rotation (multiplexing). However, there are events (especially uncore events) which do count even though cores are asleep. This patch changes the timer source for multiplexing. It introduces a per-PMU per-cpu hrtimer. The advantage is that even when a core goes idle, it will come back to service the hrtimer, thus multiplexing on system-wide events works much better. The per-PMU implementation (suggested by PeterZ) enables adjusting the multiplexing interval per PMU. The preferred interval is stashed into the struct pmu. If not set, it will be forced to the default interval value. In order to minimize the impact of the hrtimer, it is turned on and off on demand. When the PMU on a CPU is overcommited, the hrtimer is activated. It is stopped when the PMU is not overcommitted. In order for this to work properly, we had to change the order of initialization in start_kernel() such that hrtimer_init() is run before perf_event_init(). The default interval in milliseconds is set to a timer tick just like with the old code. We will provide a sysctl to tune this in another patch. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364991694-5876-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_event.h3
-rw-r--r--init/main.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c114
3 files changed, 109 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index fa38612d70b6..72138d75a60a 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -501,8 +501,9 @@ struct perf_cpu_context {
struct perf_event_context *task_ctx;
int active_oncpu;
int exclusive;
+ struct hrtimer hrtimer;
+ ktime_t hrtimer_interval;
struct list_head rotation_list;
- int jiffies_interval;
struct pmu *unique_pmu;
struct perf_cgroup *cgrp;
};
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 9484f4ba88d0..ec549581d732 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -542,7 +542,6 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
if (WARN(!irqs_disabled(), "Interrupts were enabled *very* early, fixing it\n"))
local_irq_disable();
idr_init_cache();
- perf_event_init();
rcu_init();
tick_nohz_init();
radix_tree_init();
@@ -555,6 +554,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
softirq_init();
timekeeping_init();
time_init();
+ perf_event_init();
profile_init();
call_function_init();
WARN(!irqs_disabled(), "Interrupts were enabled early\n");
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index e0dcced282e4..97bfac7e6f45 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ int sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate __read_mostly = DEFAULT_MAX_SAMPLE_RATE;
static int max_samples_per_tick __read_mostly =
DIV_ROUND_UP(DEFAULT_MAX_SAMPLE_RATE, HZ);
+static int perf_rotate_context(struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx);
+
int perf_proc_update_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
loff_t *ppos)
@@ -658,6 +660,98 @@ perf_cgroup_mark_enabled(struct perf_event *event,
}
#endif
+/*
+ * set default to be dependent on timer tick just
+ * like original code
+ */
+#define PERF_CPU_HRTIMER (1000 / HZ)
+/*
+ * function must be called with interrupts disbled
+ */
+static enum hrtimer_restart perf_cpu_hrtimer_handler(struct hrtimer *hr)
+{
+ struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx;
+ enum hrtimer_restart ret = HRTIMER_NORESTART;
+ int rotations = 0;
+
+ WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());
+
+ cpuctx = container_of(hr, struct perf_cpu_context, hrtimer);
+
+ rotations = perf_rotate_context(cpuctx);
+
+ /*
+ * arm timer if needed
+ */
+ if (rotations) {
+ hrtimer_forward_now(hr, cpuctx->hrtimer_interval);
+ ret = HRTIMER_RESTART;
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/* CPU is going down */
+void perf_cpu_hrtimer_cancel(int cpu)
+{
+ struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx;
+ struct pmu *pmu;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ if (WARN_ON(cpu != smp_processor_id()))
+ return;
+
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(pmu, &pmus, entry) {
+ cpuctx = this_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context);
+
+ if (pmu->task_ctx_nr == perf_sw_context)
+ continue;
+
+ hrtimer_cancel(&cpuctx->hrtimer);
+ }
+
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+
+static void __perf_cpu_hrtimer_init(struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx, int cpu)
+{
+ struct hrtimer *hr = &cpuctx->hrtimer;
+ struct pmu *pmu = cpuctx->ctx.pmu;
+
+ /* no multiplexing needed for SW PMU */
+ if (pmu->task_ctx_nr == perf_sw_context)
+ return;
+
+ cpuctx->hrtimer_interval =
+ ns_to_ktime(NSEC_PER_MSEC * PERF_CPU_HRTIMER);
+
+ hrtimer_init(hr, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED);
+ hr->function = perf_cpu_hrtimer_handler;
+}
+
+static void perf_cpu_hrtimer_restart(struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx)
+{
+ struct hrtimer *hr = &cpuctx->hrtimer;
+ struct pmu *pmu = cpuctx->ctx.pmu;
+
+ /* not for SW PMU */
+ if (pmu->task_ctx_nr == perf_sw_context)
+ return;
+
+ if (hrtimer_active(hr))
+ return;
+
+ if (!hrtimer_callback_running(hr))
+ __hrtimer_start_range_ns(hr, cpuctx->hrtimer_interval,
+ 0, HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED, 0);
+}
+
void perf_pmu_disable(struct pmu *pmu)
{
int *count = this_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_disable_count);
@@ -1506,6 +1600,7 @@ group_sched_in(struct perf_event *group_event,
if (event_sched_in(group_event, cpuctx, ctx)) {
pmu->cancel_txn(pmu);
+ perf_cpu_hrtimer_restart(cpuctx);
return -EAGAIN;
}
@@ -1552,6 +1647,8 @@ group_error:
pmu->cancel_txn(pmu);
+ perf_cpu_hrtimer_restart(cpuctx);
+
return -EAGAIN;
}
@@ -1807,8 +1904,10 @@ static int __perf_event_enable(void *info)
* If this event can't go on and it's part of a
* group, then the whole group has to come off.
*/
- if (leader != event)
+ if (leader != event) {
group_sched_out(leader, cpuctx, ctx);
+ perf_cpu_hrtimer_restart(cpuctx);
+ }
if (leader->attr.pinned) {
update_group_times(leader);
leader->state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_ERROR;
@@ -2555,7 +2654,7 @@ static void rotate_ctx(struct perf_event_context *ctx)
* because they're strictly cpu affine and rotate_start is called with IRQs
* disabled, while rotate_context is called from IRQ context.
*/
-static void perf_rotate_context(struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx)
+static int perf_rotate_context(struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx)
{
struct perf_event_context *ctx = NULL;
int rotate = 0, remove = 1;
@@ -2594,6 +2693,8 @@ static void perf_rotate_context(struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx)
done:
if (remove)
list_del_init(&cpuctx->rotation_list);
+
+ return rotate;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
@@ -2625,10 +2726,6 @@ void perf_event_task_tick(void)
ctx = cpuctx->task_ctx;
if (ctx)
perf_adjust_freq_unthr_context(ctx, throttled);
-
- if (cpuctx->jiffies_interval == 1 ||
- !(jiffies % cpuctx->jiffies_interval))
- perf_rotate_context(cpuctx);
}
}
@@ -6001,7 +6098,9 @@ skip_type:
lockdep_set_class(&cpuctx->ctx.lock, &cpuctx_lock);
cpuctx->ctx.type = cpu_context;
cpuctx->ctx.pmu = pmu;
- cpuctx->jiffies_interval = 1;
+
+ __perf_cpu_hrtimer_init(cpuctx, cpu);
+
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cpuctx->rotation_list);
cpuctx->unique_pmu = pmu;
}
@@ -7387,7 +7486,6 @@ perf_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE:
perf_event_exit_cpu(cpu);
break;
-
default:
break;
}