This still has not been merged and now powerpc is the only arch that does
not have this change. Sorry about missing linuxppc-dev before.
V2->V2
- Fix up to work against 3.18-rc1
__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x). This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.
Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area. __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.
__get_cpu_var() is defined as :
__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.
this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.
This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset. Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.
At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so
the macro is removed too.
The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations
are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86
arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e. using a global
register that may be set to the per cpu base.
Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()
1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
int *x = &__get_cpu_var(y);
Converts to
int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&y);
2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);
Converts to
int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);
3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
int x = __get_cpu_var(y)
Converts to
int x = __this_cpu_read(y);
4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);
Converts to
memcpy(&x, this_cpu_ptr(&y), sizeof(x));
5. Assignment to a per cpu variable
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
__get_cpu_var(y) = x;
Converts to
__this_cpu_write(y, x);
6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
__get_cpu_var(y)++
Converts to
__this_cpu_inc(y)
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
[mpe: Fix build errors caused by set/or_softirq_pending(), and rework
assignment in __set_breakpoint() to use memcpy().]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Power8 has a new register (MMCR2), which contains individual freeze bits
for each counter. This is an improvement on previous chips as it means
we can have multiple events on the PMU at the same time with different
exclude_{user,kernel,hv} settings. Previously we had to ensure all
events on the PMU had the same exclude settings.
The core of the patch is fairly simple. We use the 207S feature flag to
indicate that the PMU backend supports per-event excludes, if it's set
we skip the generic logic that enforces the equality of excludes between
events. We also use that flag to skip setting the freeze bits in MMCR0,
the PMU backend is expected to have handled setting them in MMCR2.
The complication arises with EBB. The FCxP bits in MMCR2 are accessible
R/W to a task using EBB. Which means a task using EBB will be able to
see that we are using MMCR2 for freezing, whereas the old logic which
used MMCR0 is not user visible.
The task can not see or affect exclude_kernel & exclude_hv, so we only
need to consider exclude_user.
The table below summarises the behaviour both before and after this
commit is applied:
exclude_user true false
------------------------------------
| User visible | N N
Before | Can freeze | Y Y
| Can unfreeze | N Y
------------------------------------
| User visible | Y Y
After | Can freeze | Y Y
| Can unfreeze | Y/N Y
------------------------------------
So firstly I assert that the simple visibility of the exclude_user
setting in MMCR2 is a non-issue. The event belongs to the task, and
was most likely created by the task. So the exclude_user setting is not
privileged information in any way.
Secondly, the behaviour in the exclude_user = false case is unchanged.
This is important as it is the case that is actually useful, ie. the
event is created with no exclude setting and the task uses MMCR2 to
implement exclusion manually.
For exclude_user = true there is no meaningful change to freezing the
event. Previously the task could use MMCR2 to freeze the event, though
it was already frozen with MMCR0. With the new code the task can use
MMCR2 to freeze the event, though it was already frozen with MMCR2.
The only real change is when exclude_user = true and the task tries to
use MMCR2 to unfreeze the event. Previously this had no effect, because
the event was already frozen in MMCR0. With the new code the task can
unfreeze the event in MMCR2, but at some indeterminate time in the
future the kernel will overwrite its setting and refreeze the event.
Therefore my final assertion is that any task using exclude_user = true
and also fiddling with MMCR2 was deeply confused before this change, and
remains so after it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To support per-event exclude settings on Power8 we need access to the
struct perf_events in compute_mmcr().
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Because we reuse cpuhw->mmcr on each call to compute_mmcr() there's a
risk that we could forget to set one of the values and use whatever
value was in there previously.
Currently all the implementations are careful to set all the values, but
it's safer to clear them all before we call compute_mmcr().
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In the recent commit b50a6c584b "Clear MMCR2 when enabling PMU", I
screwed up the handling of MMCR2 for tasks using EBB.
We must make sure we set MMCR2 *before* ebb_switch_in(), otherwise we
overwrite the value of MMCR2 that userspace may have written. That
potentially breaks a task that uses EBB and manually uses MMCR2 for
event freezing.
Fixes: b50a6c584b ("powerpc/perf: Clear MMCR2 when enabling PMU")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We are seeing a lot of PMU warnings on POWER8:
Can't find PMC that caused IRQ
Looking closer, the active PMC is 0 at this point and we took a PMU
exception on the transition from negative to 0. Some versions of POWER8
have an issue where they edge detect and not level detect PMC overflows.
A number of places program the PMC with (0x80000000 - period_left),
where period_left can be negative. We can either fix all of these or
just ensure that period_left is always >= 1.
This patch takes the second option.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On POWER8 when switching to a KVM guest we set bits in MMCR2 to freeze
the PMU counters. Aside from on boot they are then never reset,
resulting in stuck perf counters for any user in the guest or host.
We now set MMCR2 to 0 whenever enabling the PMU, which provides a sane
state for perf to use the PMU counters under either the guest or the
host.
This was manifesting as a bug with ppc64_cpu --frequency:
$ sudo ppc64_cpu --frequency
WARNING: couldn't run on cpu 0
WARNING: couldn't run on cpu 8
...
WARNING: couldn't run on cpu 144
WARNING: couldn't run on cpu 152
min: 18446744073.710 GHz (cpu -1)
max: 0.000 GHz (cpu -1)
avg: 0.000 GHz
The command uses a perf counter to measure CPU cycles over a fixed
amount of time, in order to approximate the frequency of the machine.
The counters were returning zero once a guest was started, regardless of
weather it was still running or had been shut down.
By dumping the value of MMCR2, it was observed that once a guest is
running MMCR2 is set to 1s - which stops counters from running:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo p > /proc/sysrq-trigger'
CPU: 0 PMU registers, ppmu = POWER8 n_counters = 6
PMC1: 5b635e38 PMC2: 00000000 PMC3: 00000000 PMC4: 00000000
PMC5: 1bf5a646 PMC6: 5793d378 PMC7: deadbeef PMC8: deadbeef
MMCR0: 0000000080000000 MMCR1: 000000001e000000 MMCRA: 0000040000000000
MMCR2: fffffffffffffc00 EBBHR: 0000000000000000
EBBRR: 0000000000000000 BESCR: 0000000000000000
SIAR: 00000000000a51cc SDAR: c00000000fc40000 SIER: 0000000001000000
This is done unconditionally in book3s_hv_interrupts.S upon entering the
guest, and the original value is only save/restored if the host has
indicated it was using the PMU. This is okay, however the user of the
PMU needs to ensure that it is in a defined state when it starts using
it.
Fixes: e05b9b9e5c ("powerpc/perf: Power8 PMU support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Instead of separate bits for every POWER8 PMU feature, have a single one
for v2.07 of the architecture.
This saves us adding a MMCR2 define for a future patch.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The previous commit added constraint and register handling to allow
processes using EBB (Event Based Branches) to request access to the BHRB
(Branch History Rolling Buffer).
With that in place we can allow processes using EBB to access the BHRB.
This is achieved by setting BHRBA in MMCR0 when we enable EBB access. We
must also clear BHRBA when we are disabling.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Although we already block EBB events which request sampling using
sample_period, technically it's possible for an event to set sample_type
but not sample_period.
Nothing terrible will happen if an EBB event does specify sample_type,
but it signals a major confusion on the part of userspace, and so we do
them the favor of rejecting it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Some power8 revisions have a hardware bug where we can lose a PMU
exception, this commit adds a workaround to detect the bad condition and
rectify the situation.
See the comment in the commit for a full description.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Currently the sysrq ShowRegs command does not print any PMU registers as
we have an empty definition for perf_event_print_debug(). This patch
defines perf_event_print_debug() to print various PMU registers.
Example output:
CPU: 0 PMU registers, ppmu = POWER7 n_counters = 6
PMC1: 00000000 PMC2: 00000000 PMC3: 00000000 PMC4: 00000000
PMC5: 00000000 PMC6: 00000000 PMC7: deadbeef PMC8: deadbeef
MMCR0: 0000000080000000 MMCR1: 0000000000000000 MMCRA: 0f00000001000000
SIAR: 0000000000000000 SDAR: 0000000000000000 SIER: 0000000000000000
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Fix 32 bit build and rework formatting for compactness]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Right now the config_bhrb() PMU specific call happens after
write_mmcr0(), which actually enables the PMU for event counting and
interrupts. So there is a small window of time where the PMU and BHRB
runs without the required HW branch filter (if any) enabled in BHRB.
This can cause some of the branch samples to be collected through BHRB
without any filter applied and hence affects the correctness of
the results. This patch moves the BHRB config function call before
enabling interrupts.
Here are some data points captured via trace prints which depicts how we
could get PMU interrupts with BHRB filter NOT enabled with a standard
perf record command line (asking for branch record information as well).
$ perf record -j any_call ls
Before the patch:-
ls-1962 [003] d... 2065.299590: .perf_event_interrupt: MMCRA: 40000000000
ls-1962 [003] d... 2065.299603: .perf_event_interrupt: MMCRA: 40000000000
...
All the PMU interrupts before this point did not have the requested
HW branch filter enabled in the MMCRA.
ls-1962 [003] d... 2065.299647: .perf_event_interrupt: MMCRA: 40040000000
ls-1962 [003] d... 2065.299662: .perf_event_interrupt: MMCRA: 40040000000
After the patch:-
ls-1850 [008] d... 190.311828: .perf_event_interrupt: MMCRA: 40040000000
ls-1850 [008] d... 190.311848: .perf_event_interrupt: MMCRA: 40040000000
All the PMU interrupts have the requested HW BHRB branch filter
enabled in MMCRA.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Fixed up whitespace and cleaned up changelog]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Address some of the trivial sparse warnings in arch/powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We use bit 63 of the event code for userspace to request that the event
be counted using EBB (Event Based Branches). Export this value, making
it part of the API - though only on processors that support EBB.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When the task moves around the system, the corresponding cpuhw
per cpu strcuture should be popullated with the BHRB filter
request value so that PMU could be configured appropriately with
that during the next call into power_pmu_enable().
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add support for EBB (Event Based Branches) on 64-bit book3s. See the
included documentation for more details.
EBBs are a feature which allows the hardware to branch directly to a
specified user space address when a PMU event overflows. This can be
used by programs for self-monitoring with no kernel involvement in the
inner loop.
Most of the logic is in the generic book3s code, primarily to avoid a
proliferation of PMU callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In power_pmu_enable() we still enable the PMU even if we have zero
events. This should have no effect but doesn't make much sense. Instead
just return after telling the hypervisor that we are not using the PMCs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In power_pmu_enable() we can use the existing out label to reduce the
number of return paths.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On Power8 we can freeze PMC5 and 6 if we're not using them. Normally they
run all the time.
As noticed by Anshuman, we should unfreeze them when we disable the PMU
as there are legacy tools which expect them to run all the time.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In pmu_disable() we disable the PMU by setting the FC (Freeze Counters)
bit in MMCR0. In order to do this we have to read/modify/write MMCR0.
It's possible that we read a value from MMCR0 which has PMAO (PMU Alert
Occurred) set. When we write that value back it will cause an interrupt
to occur. We will then end up in the PMU interrupt handler even though
we are supposed to have just disabled the PMU.
We can avoid this by making sure we never write PMAO back. We should not
lose interrupts because when the PMU is re-enabled the overflowed values
will cause another interrupt.
We also reorder the clearing of SAMPLE_ENABLE so that is done after the
PMU is frozen. Otherwise there is a small window between the clearing of
SAMPLE_ENABLE and the setting of FC where we could take an interrupt and
incorrectly see SAMPLE_ENABLE not set. This would for example change the
logic in perf_read_regs().
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.
After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.
This removes all the powerpc uses of the __cpuinit macros. There
are no __CPUINIT users in assembly files in powerpc.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In commit bc09c21 "Fix finding overflowed PMC in interrupt" we added
a printk() to the PMU exception handler. Unfortunately that is not safe.
The problem is that the PMU exception may run even when interrupts are
soft disabled, aka NMI context. We do this so that we can profile parts
of the kernel that have interrupts soft-disabled.
But by calling printk() from the exception handler, we can potentially
deadlock in the printk code on logbuf_lock, eg:
[c00000038ba575c0] c000000000081928 .vprintk_emit+0xa8/0x540
[c00000038ba576a0] c0000000007bcde8 .printk+0x48/0x58
[c00000038ba57710] c000000000076504 .perf_event_interrupt+0x2d4/0x490
[c00000038ba57810] c00000000001f6f8 .performance_monitor_exception+0x48/0x60
[c00000038ba57880] c0000000000032cc performance_monitor_common+0x14c/0x180
--- Exception: f01 (Performance Monitor) at c0000000007b25d4 ._raw_spin_lock_irq
+0x64/0xc0
[c00000038ba57bf0] c00000000007ed90 .devkmsg_read+0xd0/0x5a0
[c00000038ba57d00] c0000000001c2934 .vfs_read+0xc4/0x1e0
[c00000038ba57d90] c0000000001c2cd8 .SyS_read+0x58/0xd0
[c00000038ba57e30] c000000000009d54 syscall_exit+0x0/0x98
--- Exception: c01 (System Call) at 00001fffffbf6f7c
SP (3ffff6d4de10) is in userspace
Fix it by making sure we only call printk() when we are not in NMI
context.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Commit 8f61aa3 "Add support for SIER" missed updates to siar_valid()
and perf_get_data_addr().
In both cases we need to check the SIER instead of mmcra.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This is a revert and then some of commit 860aad7 "Add regs_no_sipr()".
This workaround was only needed on early chip versions.
As before NO_SIPR becomes a static flag of the PMU struct.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Currently we only set the "to" address in the branch stack when the CPU
explicitly gives us a value. Unfortunately it only does this for XL form
branches (eg blr, bctr, bctar) and not I and B form branches (eg b, bc).
Fortunately if we read the instruction from memory we can extract the offset of
a branch and calculate the target address.
This adds a function power_pmu_bhrb_to() to calculate the target/to address of
the corresponding I and B form branches. It handles branches in both user and
kernel spaces. It also plumbs this into the perf brhb reading code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The current Branch History Rolling Buffer (BHRB) code misinterprets the order
of entries in the hardware buffer. It assumes that a branch target address
will be read _after_ its corresponding branch. In reality the branch target
comes before (lower mfbhrb entry) it's corresponding branch.
This is a rewrite of the code to take this into account.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The new Branch History Rolling buffer (BHRB) code is only useful on 64bit
processors, so move it into the #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 region.
This avoids code bloat on 32bit systems.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Provides basic enablement for perf branch stack sampling framework on
POWER8 processor based platforms. Adds new BHRB related elements into
cpu_hw_event structure to represent current BHRB config, BHRB filter
configuration, manage context and to hold output BHRB buffer during
PMU interrupt before passing to the user space. This also enables
processing of BHRB data and converts them into generic perf branch
stack data format.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On power8 we have a new SIER (Sampled Instruction Event Register), which
captures information about instructions when we have random sampling
enabled.
Add support for loading the SIER into pt_regs, overloading regs->dar.
Also set the new NO_SIPR flag in regs->result if we don't have SIPR.
Update regs_sihv/sipr() to look for SIPR/SIHV in SIER.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On power8 the presence or absence of SIPR depends on settings at runtime,
so convert to using a dynamic flag for NO_SIPR. Existing backends that
set NO_SIPR unconditionally set the dynamic flag obviously.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add an accessor for regs->result so we can use it to store more flags in
future.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On power8 the SIPR and SIHV are not in MMCRA, so convert the routines
to take regs and change the names accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In perf_ip_adjust() we potentially use the MMCRA[SLOT] field to adjust
the reported IP of a sampled instruction.
Currently the logic is written so that if the backend does NOT have
the PPMU_ALT_SIPR flag set then we assume MMCRA[SLOT] exists.
However on power8 we do not want to set ALT_SIPR (it's in a third
location), and we also do not have MMCRA[SLOT].
So add a new flag which only indicates whether MMCRA[SLOT] exists.
Naively we'd set it on everything except power6/7, because they set
ALT_SIPR, and we've reversed the polarity of the flag. But it's more
complicated than that.
mpc7450 is 32-bit, and uses its own version of perf_ip_adjust()
which doesn't use MMCRA[SLOT], so it doesn't need the new flag set and
the behaviour is unchanged.
PPC970 (and I assume power4) don't have MMCRA[SLOT], so shouldn't have
the new flag set. This is a behaviour change on those cpus, though we
were probably getting lucky and the bits in question were 0.
power5 and power5+ set the new flag, behaviour unchanged.
power6 & power7 do not set the new flag, behaviour unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"So from the depth of frozen Minnesota, here's the powerpc pull request
for 3.9. It has a few interesting highlights, in addition to the
usual bunch of bug fixes, minor updates, embedded device tree updates
and new boards:
- Hand tuned asm implementation of SHA1 (by Paulus & Michael
Ellerman)
- Support for Doorbell interrupts on Power8 (kind of fast
thread-thread IPIs) by Ian Munsie
- Long overdue cleanup of the way we handle relocation of our open
firmware trampoline (prom_init.c) on 64-bit by Anton Blanchard
- Support for saving/restoring & context switching the PPR (Processor
Priority Register) on server processors that support it. This
allows the kernel to preserve thread priorities established by
userspace. By Haren Myneni.
- DAWR (new watchpoint facility) support on Power8 by Michael Neuling
- Ability to change the DSCR (Data Stream Control Register) which
controls cache prefetching on a running process via ptrace by
Alexey Kardashevskiy
- Support for context switching the TAR register on Power8 (new
branch target register meant to be used by some new specific
userspace perf event interrupt facility which is yet to be enabled)
by Ian Munsie.
- Improve preservation of the CFAR register (which captures the
origin of a branch) on various exception conditions by Paulus.
- Move the Bestcomm DMA driver from arch powerpc to drivers/dma where
it belongs by Philippe De Muyter
- Support for Transactional Memory on Power8 by Michael Neuling
(based on original work by Matt Evans). For those curious about
the feature, the patch contains a pretty good description."
(See commit db8ff907027b: "powerpc: Documentation for transactional
memory on powerpc" for the mentioned description added to the file
Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt)
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (140 commits)
powerpc/kexec: Disable hard IRQ before kexec
powerpc/85xx: l2sram - Add compatible string for BSC9131 platform
powerpc/85xx: bsc9131 - Correct typo in SDHC device node
powerpc/e500/qemu-e500: enable coreint
powerpc/mpic: allow coreint to be determined by MPIC version
powerpc/fsl_pci: Store the pci ctlr device ptr in the pci ctlr struct
powerpc/85xx: Board support for ppa8548
powerpc/fsl: remove extraneous DIU platform functions
arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/p1022_ds.c: adjust duplicate test
powerpc: Documentation for transactional memory on powerpc
powerpc: Add transactional memory to pseries and ppc64 defconfigs
powerpc: Add config option for transactional memory
powerpc: Add transactional memory to POWER8 cpu features
powerpc: Add new transactional memory state to the signal context
powerpc: Hook in new transactional memory code
powerpc: Routines for FP/VSX/VMX unavailable during a transaction
powerpc: Add transactional memory unavaliable execption handler
powerpc: Add reclaim and recheckpoint functions for context switching transactional memory processes
powerpc: Add FP/VSX and VMX register load functions for transactional memory
powerpc: Add helper functions for transactional memory context switching
...
Make the generic perf events in POWER7 available via sysfs.
$ ls /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events
branch-instructions
branch-misses
cache-misses
cache-references
cpu-cycles
instructions
stalled-cycles-backend
stalled-cycles-frontend
$ cat /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events/cache-misses
event=0x400f0
This patch is based on commits that implement this functionality on x86.
Eg:
commit a47473939d
Author: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Oct 10 14:53:11 2012 +0200
perf/x86: Make hardware event translations available in sysfs
Changelog:[v2]
[Jiri Osla] Drop EVENT_ID() macro since it is only used once.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130123062454.GD13720@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf/Power: PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE does not reenable event
If we disable a perf event because we exceeded the specified ->event_limit,
power_pmu_stop() sets the PERF_HES_STOPPED flag on the event.
If the application then re-enables the event using PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE
ioctl, we don't ever clear this STOPPED flag. Consequently, the user space
is never notified of the event.
Following message has more background and test case.
http://lists.eecs.utk.edu/pipermail/ptools-perfapi/2012-October/002528.html
Used the following test cases to verify that this patch works on latest PAPI.
$ papi.git/src/ctests/nonthread PAPI_TOT_CYC@5000000
$ papi.git/src/ctests/overflow_single_event
Changelog[v2]:
- [Paul Mackerras] Also clear PERF_HES_UPTODATE flag since we are
restarting the event; cleanup comments and patch description.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On POWER7 when we have really small counts left before overflow, we can take a
PMU IRQ, but the PMC gets wound back to just before the overflow.
If the kernel is setting the PMC to a value just before the overflow, we can
get interrupted again without the PMC making any progress (ie another buggy
overflow). In this case, we can end up making no forward progress, with the
PMC interrupt returning us to the same count over and over.
The below detects when we are making no forward progress (ie. delta = 0) and
then increases the amount left before the overflow. This stops us from locking
up.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
cc: Linux PPC dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
If a PMC is about to overflow on a counter that's on an active perf event
(ie. less than 256 from the end) and a _different_ PMC overflows just at this
time (a PMC that's not on an active perf event), we currently mark the event as
found, but in reality it's not as it's likely the other PMC that caused the
IRQ. Since we mark it as found the second catch all for overflows doesn't run,
and we don't reset the overflowing PMC ever. Hence we keep hitting that same
PMC IRQ over and over and don't reset the actual overflowing counter.
This is a rewrite of the perf interrupt handler for book3s to get around this.
We now check to see if any of the PMCs have actually overflowed (ie >=
0x80000000). If yes, record it for active counters and just reset it for
inactive counters. If it's not overflowed, then we check to see if it's one of
the buggy power7 counters and if it is, record it and continue. If none of the
PMCs match this, then we make note that we couldn't find the PMC that caused
the IRQ.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
cc: Linux PPC dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
powerpc/perf: Sample only if SIAR-Valid bit is set in P7+
On POWER7+ two new bits (mmcra[35] and mmcra[36]) indicate whether the
contents of SIAR and SDAR are valid.
For marked instructions on P7+, we must save the contents of SIAR and
SDAR registers only if these new bits are set.
This code/check for the SIAR-Valid bit is specific to P7+, so rather than
waste a CPU-feature bit use the PVR flag.
Note that Carl Love proposed a similar change for oprofile:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/22/309
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We have an old FIXME in reg.h which points out that we should standardise
on PVR_foo for our PVR #defines. Currently we use PVR_ on 32-bit and PV_
on 64-bit.
So do that rename and remove the FIXME.
Seeing as we're touching all but one usage of __is_processor(), rename it
to something less ugly and more indicative of what it does, which is
simply to check the PVR version.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
For certain speculative events on Power7, 'perf stat' reports far higher
event count than 'perf record' for the same event.
As described in following commit, a performance monitor exception is raised
even when the the performance events are rolled back.
commit 0837e3242c
Author: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Date: Wed Mar 9 14:38:42 2011 +1100
perf_event_interrupt() records an event only when an overflow occurs. But
this check for overflow is a simple 'if (val < 0)'.
Because the events are rolled back, this check for overflow fails and the
event is not recorded. perf_event_interrupt() later uses pmc_overflow() to
detect the overflow and resets the counters and the events are lost completely.
To properly detect the overflow of rolled back events, use pmc_overflow()
even when recording events.
To reproduce:
$ cat strcpy.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
main()
{
char buf[256];
alarm(5);
while(1)
strcpy(buf, "string1");
}
$ perf record -e r20014 ./strcpy
$ perf report -n > report.1
$ perf stat -e r20014 > report.2
# Compare report.1 and report.2
Reported-by: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
At the moment we always use the SIAR if the PMU supports continuous
sampling. Unfortunately the SIAR and the PMU exception are not
synchronised for non marked events so we can end up with callchains
that dont make sense.
The following patch checks the HV and PR bits for samples coming from
userspace and always uses pt_regs for them. Userspace will never have
interrupts off so there is no real advantage to using the SIAR for
non marked events in userspace.
I had experimented with a patch that did a similar thing for kernel
samples but we lost a significant amount of information. I was
unable to profile any of our early exception code for example.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The logic to choose whether to use the SIAR or get the information
out of pt_regs is going to get more complicated, so do it once in
perf_read_regs.
We overload regs->result which is gross but we are already doing it
with regs->dsisr.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We want to access the MMCRA_SIHV and MMCRA_SIPR bits elsewhere so
create mmcra_sihv and mmcra_sipr which hide the differences between
the old and new layout of the bits.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We always need to pass the last sample period to
perf_sample_data_init(), otherwise the event distribution will be
wrong. Thus, modifiyng the function interface with the required period
as argument. So basically a pattern like this:
perf_sample_data_init(&data, ~0ULL);
data.period = event->hw.last_period;
will now be like that:
perf_sample_data_init(&data, ~0ULL, event->hw.last_period);
Avoids unininitialized data.period and simplifies code.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333390758-10893-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
970 and Power4 don't support "continuous sampling" which means that
when we aren't in marked instruction sampling mode (marked events),
SIAR isn't updated with the last instruction sampled before the
perf interrupt. On those processors, we must thus use the exception
SRR0 value as the sampled instruction pointer.
Those processors also don't support the SIPR and SIHV bits in MMCRA
which means we need some kind of heuristic to decide if SIAR values
represent kernel or user addresses.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Christoph Lameter