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perf/arm: Special-case hetereogeneous CPUs 

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  2665784850 ("perf/core: Verify we have a single perf_hw_context PMU")

forcefully prevents multiple PMUs from sharing perf_hw_context, as this
generally doesn't make sense. It is a common bug for uncore PMUs to
use perf_hw_context rather than perf_invalid_context, which this detects.

However, systems exist with heterogeneous CPUs (and hence heterogeneous
HW PMUs), for which sharing perf_hw_context is necessary, and possible
in some limited cases.

To make this work we have to perform some gymnastics, as we did in these
commits:

  66eb579e66 ("perf: allow for PMU-specific event filtering")
  c904e32a69 ("arm: perf: filter unschedulable events")

To allow those systems to work, we must allow PMUs for heterogeneous
CPUs to share perf_hw_context, though we must still disallow sharing
otherwise to detect the common misuse of perf_hw_context.

This patch adds a new PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS for this, updates
the core logic to account for this, and makes use of it in the arm_pmu
code that is used for systems with heterogeneous CPUs. Comments are
added to make the rationale clear and hopefully avoid accidental abuse.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160426103346.GA20836@leverpostej
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Mark Rutland 2016-04-26 11:33:46 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 6e855cd4f4
commit 5101ef20f0
3 changed files with 16 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
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@ -847,6 +847,14 @@ static int cpu_pmu_init(struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu)
if (!platform_get_irq(cpu_pmu->plat_device, 0))
cpu_pmu->pmu.capabilities |= PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_INTERRUPT;
/*
* This is a CPU PMU potentially in a heterogeneous configuration (e.g.
* big.LITTLE). This is not an uncore PMU, and we have taken ctx
* sharing into account (e.g. with our pmu::filter_match callback and
* pmu::event_init group validation).
*/
cpu_pmu->pmu.capabilities |= PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS;
return 0;
out_unregister:

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include/linux/perf_event.h
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@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ struct perf_event;
#define PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_SW_DOUBLEBUF 0x08
#define PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUSIVE 0x10
#define PERF_PMU_CAP_ITRACE 0x20
#define PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS 0x40
/**
* struct pmu - generic performance monitoring unit

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kernel/events/core.c
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@ -8443,7 +8443,13 @@ skip_type:
if (pmu->task_ctx_nr == perf_hw_context) {
static int hw_context_taken = 0;
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(hw_context_taken))
/*
* Other than systems with heterogeneous CPUs, it never makes
* sense for two PMUs to share perf_hw_context. PMUs which are
* uncore must use perf_invalid_context.
*/
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(hw_context_taken &&
!(pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS)))
pmu->task_ctx_nr = perf_invalid_context;
hw_context_taken = 1;