2016-03-24 01:50:18

by Liang, Kan

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Subject: [PATCH V2 1/1] perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus

From: Kan Liang <[email protected]>

perf_event_aux funciton goes through all pmus and all events in whatever
contexts to find the side-band event to output, which is unnecessary and
expensive.

For example, the brk test case in lkp triggers many mmap operations, at
the time, perf with cycles:pp is also running on the system. As a
result, many perf_event_aux are invoked, and each would search all pmus
and all events. If we enable the uncore support (even when uncore event
are not really used), dozens of uncore pmus will be added into pmus
list, which can significantly decrease brk_test's ops_per_sec. Based on
our test, the ops_per_sec without uncore patch is 2647573, while the
ops_per_sec with uncore patch is only 1768444, which is a 33.2%
reduction.

To get at the per cpu side-band event, this patch put the side-band
events to four categories, which are tracked by 4 per-cpu lists. It only
finds the interested events from masked category.
To get at the per task side-band event, each task context for current task
will be searched. Because we don't want to go update more global state on
context switch.

Reported-by: Huang, Ying <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>

---

The V1 patch is "perf/core: find auxiliary events in running pmus list"
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/24/961.
This V2 patch almost changes everything compare with V1.
The V2 patch is mainly based on Peter's suggestion. But I didn't rename
perf_event_aux to perf_event_sb. Because it looks there are many aux things
in the codes, e.g. AUX area in ring buffer. I'm not sure if we need to change
all aux to sb. We may do the rename later in separate patch.

include/linux/perf_event.h | 26 +++++++++
kernel/events/core.c | 135 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 15588d4..953113e 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -437,6 +437,31 @@ struct swevent_hlist {
struct perf_cgroup;
struct ring_buffer;

+struct pmu_event_list {
+ raw_spinlock_t lock;
+ struct list_head list;
+};
+
+/*
+ * {mmap,mmap_data,mmap2} -> mmap
+ * {comm,comm_exec} -> comm
+ * task
+ * context_switch
+ */
+enum event_sb_channel {
+ sb_mmap = 0,
+ sb_comm,
+ sb_task,
+ sb_switch,
+
+ sb_nr,
+};
+
+#define IS_SB_MMAP(attr) \
+ (attr.mmap || attr.mmap_data || attr.mmap2)
+#define IS_SB_COMM(attr) \
+ (attr.comm || attr.comm_exec)
+
/**
* struct perf_event - performance event kernel representation:
*/
@@ -589,6 +614,7 @@ struct perf_event {
int cgrp_defer_enabled;
#endif

+ struct list_head sb_list[sb_nr];
#endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */
};

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index de24fbc..bff49d0 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ static atomic_t perf_sched_count;

static DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t, perf_cgroup_events);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, perf_sched_cb_usages);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct pmu_event_list, pmu_sb_events[sb_nr]);

static atomic_t nr_mmap_events __read_mostly;
static atomic_t nr_comm_events __read_mostly;
@@ -3560,6 +3561,37 @@ static void free_event_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
static void ring_buffer_attach(struct perf_event *event,
struct ring_buffer *rb);

+static void detach_sb_event(struct perf_event *event, enum event_sb_channel sb)
+{
+ struct pmu_event_list *pel = per_cpu_ptr(&pmu_sb_events[sb], event->cpu);
+
+ raw_spin_lock(&pel->lock);
+ list_del_rcu(&event->sb_list[sb]);
+ raw_spin_unlock(&pel->lock);
+}
+
+static void unaccount_pmu_sb_event(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+ if (event->parent)
+ return;
+
+ if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK)
+ return;
+
+ if (IS_SB_MMAP(event->attr))
+ detach_sb_event(event, sb_mmap);
+
+ if (IS_SB_COMM(event->attr))
+ detach_sb_event(event, sb_comm);
+
+ if (event->attr.task)
+ detach_sb_event(event, sb_task);
+
+ if (event->attr.context_switch)
+ detach_sb_event(event, sb_switch);
+
+}
+
static void unaccount_event_cpu(struct perf_event *event, int cpu)
{
if (event->parent)
@@ -3623,6 +3655,8 @@ static void unaccount_event(struct perf_event *event)
}

unaccount_event_cpu(event, event->cpu);
+
+ unaccount_pmu_sb_event(event);
}

static void perf_sched_delayed(struct work_struct *work)
@@ -5720,13 +5754,41 @@ perf_event_aux_task_ctx(perf_event_aux_output_cb output, void *data,
rcu_read_unlock();
}

+static void perf_event_sb_iterate(enum event_sb_channel sb,
+ perf_event_aux_output_cb output,
+ void *data)
+{
+ struct pmu_event_list *pel = this_cpu_ptr(&pmu_sb_events[sb]);
+ struct perf_event *event;
+
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(event, &pel->list, sb_list[sb]) {
+ if (event->state < PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE)
+ continue;
+ if (!event_filter_match(event))
+ continue;
+ output(event, data);
+ }
+}
+
+static void perf_event_sb_mask(unsigned int sb_mask,
+ perf_event_aux_output_cb output,
+ void *data)
+{
+ int sb;
+
+ for (sb = 0; sb < sb_nr; sb++) {
+ if (!(sb_mask & (1 << sb)))
+ continue;
+ perf_event_sb_iterate(sb, output, data);
+ }
+}
+
static void
perf_event_aux(perf_event_aux_output_cb output, void *data,
- struct perf_event_context *task_ctx)
+ struct perf_event_context *task_ctx,
+ unsigned int sb_mask)
{
- struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx;
struct perf_event_context *ctx;
- struct pmu *pmu;
int ctxn;

/*
@@ -5741,21 +5803,17 @@ perf_event_aux(perf_event_aux_output_cb output, void *data,
}

rcu_read_lock();
- list_for_each_entry_rcu(pmu, &pmus, entry) {
- cpuctx = get_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context);
- if (cpuctx->unique_pmu != pmu)
- goto next;
- perf_event_aux_ctx(&cpuctx->ctx, output, data);
- ctxn = pmu->task_ctx_nr;
- if (ctxn < 0)
- goto next;
+ preempt_disable();
+ perf_event_sb_mask(sb_mask, output, data);
+
+ for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn) {
ctx = rcu_dereference(current->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]);
if (ctx)
perf_event_aux_ctx(ctx, output, data);
-next:
- put_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context);
}
+ preempt_enable();
rcu_read_unlock();
+
}

/*
@@ -5852,7 +5910,8 @@ static void perf_event_task(struct task_struct *task,

perf_event_aux(perf_event_task_output,
&task_event,
- task_ctx);
+ task_ctx,
+ (1 << sb_task) | (1 << sb_mmap) | (1 << sb_comm));
}

void perf_event_fork(struct task_struct *task)
@@ -5931,7 +5990,8 @@ static void perf_event_comm_event(struct perf_comm_event *comm_event)

perf_event_aux(perf_event_comm_output,
comm_event,
- NULL);
+ NULL,
+ 1 << sb_comm);
}

void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *task, bool exec)
@@ -6162,7 +6222,8 @@ got_name:

perf_event_aux(perf_event_mmap_output,
mmap_event,
- NULL);
+ NULL,
+ 1 << sb_mmap);

kfree(buf);
}
@@ -6350,7 +6411,8 @@ static void perf_event_switch(struct task_struct *task,

perf_event_aux(perf_event_switch_output,
&switch_event,
- NULL);
+ NULL,
+ 1 << sb_switch);
}

/*
@@ -7841,6 +7903,37 @@ unlock:
return pmu;
}

+static void attach_sb_event(struct perf_event *event, enum event_sb_channel sb)
+{
+ struct pmu_event_list *pel = per_cpu_ptr(&pmu_sb_events[sb], event->cpu);
+
+ raw_spin_lock(&pel->lock);
+ list_add_rcu(&event->sb_list[sb], &pel->list);
+ raw_spin_unlock(&pel->lock);
+}
+
+static void account_pmu_sb_event(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+ if (event->parent)
+ return;
+
+ if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK)
+ return;
+
+ if (IS_SB_MMAP(event->attr))
+ attach_sb_event(event, sb_mmap);
+
+ if (IS_SB_COMM(event->attr))
+ attach_sb_event(event, sb_comm);
+
+ if (event->attr.task)
+ attach_sb_event(event, sb_task);
+
+ if (event->attr.context_switch)
+ attach_sb_event(event, sb_switch);
+
+}
+
static void account_event_cpu(struct perf_event *event, int cpu)
{
if (event->parent)
@@ -7921,6 +8014,8 @@ static void account_event(struct perf_event *event)
enabled:

account_event_cpu(event, event->cpu);
+
+ account_pmu_sb_event(event);
}

/*
@@ -7938,6 +8033,7 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
struct perf_event *event;
struct hw_perf_event *hwc;
long err = -EINVAL;
+ int i;

if ((unsigned)cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) {
if (!task || cpu != -1)
@@ -7965,6 +8061,8 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->active_entry);
INIT_HLIST_NODE(&event->hlist_entry);

+ for (i = 0; i < sb_nr; i++)
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->sb_list[i]);

init_waitqueue_head(&event->waitq);
init_irq_work(&event->pending, perf_pending_event);
@@ -9360,11 +9458,14 @@ static void __init perf_event_init_all_cpus(void)
{
struct swevent_htable *swhash;
int cpu;
+ int i;

for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
swhash = &per_cpu(swevent_htable, cpu);
mutex_init(&swhash->hlist_mutex);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&per_cpu(active_ctx_list, cpu));
+ for (i = 0; i < sb_nr; i++)
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&per_cpu(pmu_sb_events[i].list, cpu));
}
}

--
2.5.0


2016-03-29 12:06:18

by Peter Zijlstra

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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:24:37AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> The V2 patch is mainly based on Peter's suggestion. But I didn't rename
> perf_event_aux to perf_event_sb. Because it looks there are many aux things
> in the codes, e.g. AUX area in ring buffer. I'm not sure if we need to change
> all aux to sb. We may do the rename later in separate patch.

Right.. no problem doing that in a separate patch.

> +static void perf_event_sb_mask(unsigned int sb_mask,
> + perf_event_aux_output_cb output,
> + void *data)
> +{
> + int sb;
> +
> + for (sb = 0; sb < sb_nr; sb++) {
> + if (!(sb_mask & (1 << sb)))
> + continue;
> + perf_event_sb_iterate(sb, output, data);
> + }
> +}

> @@ -5852,7 +5910,8 @@ static void perf_event_task(struct task_struct *task,
>
> perf_event_aux(perf_event_task_output,
> &task_event,
> - task_ctx);
> + task_ctx,
> + (1 << sb_task) | (1 << sb_mmap) | (1 << sb_comm));
> }

So one side-effect of this change is that the above event can be
delivered 3 times if you're 'lucky'.

Acme; does userspace care?

2016-03-31 14:06:06

by Liang, Kan

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Subject: RE: [PATCH V2 1/1] perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus



> > +static void perf_event_sb_mask(unsigned int sb_mask,
> > + perf_event_aux_output_cb output,
> > + void *data)
> > +{
> > + int sb;
> > +
> > + for (sb = 0; sb < sb_nr; sb++) {
> > + if (!(sb_mask & (1 << sb)))
> > + continue;
> > + perf_event_sb_iterate(sb, output, data);
> > + }
> > +}
>
> > @@ -5852,7 +5910,8 @@ static void perf_event_task(struct task_struct
> > *task,
> >
> > perf_event_aux(perf_event_task_output,
> > &task_event,
> > - task_ctx);
> > + task_ctx,
> > + (1 << sb_task) | (1 << sb_mmap) | (1 << sb_comm));
> > }
>
> So one side-effect of this change is that the above event can be delivered
> 3 times if you're 'lucky'.
>
> Acme; does userspace care?

Hi Arnaldo,

Do you think if it's an issue for userspace?

Thanks,
Kan

2016-03-31 14:26:10

by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus

Em Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 02:05:46PM +0000, Liang, Kan escreveu:
>
>
> > > +static void perf_event_sb_mask(unsigned int sb_mask,
> > > + perf_event_aux_output_cb output,
> > > + void *data)
> > > +{
> > > + int sb;
> > > +
> > > + for (sb = 0; sb < sb_nr; sb++) {
> > > + if (!(sb_mask & (1 << sb)))
> > > + continue;
> > > + perf_event_sb_iterate(sb, output, data);
> > > + }
> > > +}
> >
> > > @@ -5852,7 +5910,8 @@ static void perf_event_task(struct task_struct
> > > *task,
> > >
> > > perf_event_aux(perf_event_task_output,
> > > &task_event,
> > > - task_ctx);
> > > + task_ctx,
> > > + (1 << sb_task) | (1 << sb_mmap) | (1 << sb_comm));
> > > }
> >
> > So one side-effect of this change is that the above event can be delivered
> > 3 times if you're 'lucky'.
> >
> > Acme; does userspace care?
>
> Hi Arnaldo,
>
> Do you think if it's an issue for userspace?

Trying to get context and decode what you guys wrote...

- Arnaldo

2016-03-31 14:44:47

by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus

Em Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 02:06:09PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra escreveu:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:24:37AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > The V2 patch is mainly based on Peter's suggestion. But I didn't rename
> > perf_event_aux to perf_event_sb. Because it looks there are many aux things
> > in the codes, e.g. AUX area in ring buffer. I'm not sure if we need to change
> > all aux to sb. We may do the rename later in separate patch.
>
> Right.. no problem doing that in a separate patch.
>
> > +static void perf_event_sb_mask(unsigned int sb_mask,
> > + perf_event_aux_output_cb output,
> > + void *data)
> > +{
> > + int sb;
> > +
> > + for (sb = 0; sb < sb_nr; sb++) {
> > + if (!(sb_mask & (1 << sb)))
> > + continue;
> > + perf_event_sb_iterate(sb, output, data);
> > + }
> > +}
>
> > @@ -5852,7 +5910,8 @@ static void perf_event_task(struct task_struct *task,
> >
> > perf_event_aux(perf_event_task_output,
> > &task_event,
> > - task_ctx);
> > + task_ctx,
> > + (1 << sb_task) | (1 << sb_mmap) | (1 << sb_comm));
> > }
>
> So one side-effect of this change is that the above event can be
> delivered 3 times if you're 'lucky'.
>
> Acme; does userspace care?

So, when processing a PERF_RECORD_FORK there is some sanity checks in
machine__process_fork_event() (tools/perf/util/machine.c), and one that
is affected by copies is:

struct thread *thread = machine__find_thread(machine,
event->fork.pid,
event->fork.tid);
<SNIP>
/* if a thread currently exists for the thread id remove it */
if (thread != NULL) {
machine__remove_thread(machine, thread);
thread__put(thread);
}

thread = machine__findnew_thread(machine, event->fork.pid,
event->fork.tid);
<SNIP>

So we conceivably may end up with multiple 'struct thread' pointing to
the same kernel thread, being held as references somewhere (in a
hist_entry, for instance, if a PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE happens mid sentence).

It probably will cope, but can't we just emit one single record?

PERF_RECORD_EXIT are ok:

int machine__process_exit_event(struct machine *machine, union perf_event *event,
struct perf_sample *sample __maybe_unused)
{
struct thread *thread = machine__find_thread(machine,
event->fork.pid,
event->fork.tid);

if (dump_trace)
perf_event__fprintf_task(event, stdout);

if (thread != NULL) {
thread__exited(thread);
thread__put(thread);
}

return 0;
}

PERF_RECORD_COMM will unecessarily add a new COMM to its list, leading tooling
to think that there was a prctl(PR_SET_NAME). This could conceivably be annoyed
away by checking if the "new" COMM is the current one, again, can't the kernel
emit just one record?

- Arnaldo

2016-03-31 14:56:36

by Peter Zijlstra

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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:44:39AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> It probably will cope, but can't we just emit one single record?

I'll try and figure something out...

2016-03-31 16:21:50

by Peter Zijlstra

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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 04:56:21PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:44:39AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > It probably will cope, but can't we just emit one single record?
>
> I'll try and figure something out...

less clever but probably good enough..

---
Subject: perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus
From: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:24:37 -0700

perf_event_aux funciton goes through all pmus and all events in whatever
contexts to find the side-band event to output, which is unnecessary and
expensive.

For example, the brk test case in lkp triggers many mmap operations, at
the time, perf with cycles:pp is also running on the system. As a
result, many perf_event_aux are invoked, and each would search all pmus
and all events. If we enable the uncore support (even when uncore event
are not really used), dozens of uncore pmus will be added into pmus
list, which can significantly decrease brk_test's ops_per_sec. Based on
our test, the ops_per_sec without uncore patch is 2647573, while the
ops_per_sec with uncore patch is only 1768444, which is a 33.2%
reduction.

To get at the per cpu side-band event, this patch put the side-band
events to four categories, which are tracked by 4 per-cpu lists. It only
finds the interested events from masked category.
To get at the per task side-band event, each task context for current task
will be searched. Because we don't want to go update more global state on
context switch.


Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Reported-by: Huang, Ying <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
---

The V1 patch is "perf/core: find auxiliary events in running pmus list"
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/24/961.
This V2 patch almost changes everything compare with V1.
The V2 patch is mainly based on Peter's suggestion. But I didn't rename
perf_event_aux to perf_event_sb. Because it looks there are many aux things
in the codes, e.g. AUX area in ring buffer. I'm not sure if we need to change
all aux to sb. We may do the rename later in separate patch.

include/linux/perf_event.h | 26 ++++++++
kernel/events/core.c | 134 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -437,6 +437,31 @@ struct swevent_hlist {
struct perf_cgroup;
struct ring_buffer;

+struct pmu_event_list {
+ raw_spinlock_t lock;
+ struct list_head list;
+};
+
+/*
+ * {mmap,mmap_data,mmap2} -> mmap
+ * {comm,comm_exec} -> comm
+ * task
+ * context_switch
+ */
+enum event_sb_channel {
+ sb_mmap = 0,
+ sb_comm,
+ sb_task,
+ sb_switch,
+
+ sb_nr,
+};
+
+#define IS_SB_MMAP(attr) \
+ (attr.mmap || attr.mmap_data || attr.mmap2)
+#define IS_SB_COMM(attr) \
+ (attr.comm || attr.comm_exec)
+
/**
* struct perf_event - performance event kernel representation:
*/
@@ -589,6 +614,7 @@ struct perf_event {
int cgrp_defer_enabled;
#endif

+ struct list_head sb_list[sb_nr];
#endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */
};

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ static atomic_t perf_sched_count;

static DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t, perf_cgroup_events);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, perf_sched_cb_usages);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct pmu_event_list, pmu_sb_events[sb_nr]);

static atomic_t nr_mmap_events __read_mostly;
static atomic_t nr_comm_events __read_mostly;
@@ -3598,6 +3599,37 @@ static void free_event_rcu(struct rcu_he
static void ring_buffer_attach(struct perf_event *event,
struct ring_buffer *rb);

+static void detach_sb_event(struct perf_event *event, enum event_sb_channel sb)
+{
+ struct pmu_event_list *pel = per_cpu_ptr(&pmu_sb_events[sb], event->cpu);
+
+ raw_spin_lock(&pel->lock);
+ list_del_rcu(&event->sb_list[sb]);
+ raw_spin_unlock(&pel->lock);
+}
+
+static void unaccount_pmu_sb_event(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+ if (event->parent)
+ return;
+
+ if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK)
+ return;
+
+ if (IS_SB_MMAP(event->attr))
+ detach_sb_event(event, sb_mmap);
+
+ if (IS_SB_COMM(event->attr))
+ detach_sb_event(event, sb_comm);
+
+ if (event->attr.task)
+ detach_sb_event(event, sb_task);
+
+ if (event->attr.context_switch)
+ detach_sb_event(event, sb_switch);
+
+}
+
static void unaccount_event_cpu(struct perf_event *event, int cpu)
{
if (event->parent)
@@ -3661,6 +3693,8 @@ static void unaccount_event(struct perf_
}

unaccount_event_cpu(event, event->cpu);
+
+ unaccount_pmu_sb_event(event);
}

static void perf_sched_delayed(struct work_struct *work)
@@ -5785,13 +5819,41 @@ perf_event_aux_task_ctx(perf_event_aux_o
rcu_read_unlock();
}

+static void perf_event_sb_iterate(enum event_sb_channel sb,
+ perf_event_aux_output_cb output,
+ void *data)
+{
+ struct pmu_event_list *pel = this_cpu_ptr(&pmu_sb_events[sb]);
+ struct perf_event *event;
+
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(event, &pel->list, sb_list[sb]) {
+ if (event->state < PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE)
+ continue;
+ if (!event_filter_match(event))
+ continue;
+ output(event, data);
+ }
+}
+
+static void perf_event_sb_mask(unsigned int sb_mask,
+ perf_event_aux_output_cb output,
+ void *data)
+{
+ int sb;
+
+ for (sb = 0; sb < sb_nr; sb++) {
+ if (!(sb_mask & (1 << sb)))
+ continue;
+ perf_event_sb_iterate(sb, output, data);
+ }
+}
+
static void
perf_event_aux(perf_event_aux_output_cb output, void *data,
- struct perf_event_context *task_ctx)
+ struct perf_event_context *task_ctx,
+ unsigned int sb_mask)
{
- struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx;
struct perf_event_context *ctx;
- struct pmu *pmu;
int ctxn;

/*
@@ -5806,20 +5868,15 @@ perf_event_aux(perf_event_aux_output_cb
}

rcu_read_lock();
- list_for_each_entry_rcu(pmu, &pmus, entry) {
- cpuctx = get_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context);
- if (cpuctx->unique_pmu != pmu)
- goto next;
- perf_event_aux_ctx(&cpuctx->ctx, output, data);
- ctxn = pmu->task_ctx_nr;
- if (ctxn < 0)
- goto next;
+ preempt_disable();
+ perf_event_sb_mask(sb_mask, output, data);
+
+ for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn) {
ctx = rcu_dereference(current->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]);
if (ctx)
perf_event_aux_ctx(ctx, output, data);
-next:
- put_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context);
}
+ preempt_enable();
rcu_read_unlock();
}

@@ -5991,7 +6048,8 @@ static void perf_event_task(struct task_

perf_event_aux(perf_event_task_output,
&task_event,
- task_ctx);
+ task_ctx,
+ (1 << sb_task) | (1 << sb_mmap) | (1 << sb_comm));
}

void perf_event_fork(struct task_struct *task)
@@ -6070,7 +6128,8 @@ static void perf_event_comm_event(struct

perf_event_aux(perf_event_comm_output,
comm_event,
- NULL);
+ NULL,
+ 1 << sb_comm);
}

void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *task, bool exec)
@@ -6301,7 +6360,8 @@ static void perf_event_mmap_event(struct

perf_event_aux(perf_event_mmap_output,
mmap_event,
- NULL);
+ NULL,
+ 1 << sb_mmap);

kfree(buf);
}
@@ -6489,7 +6549,8 @@ static void perf_event_switch(struct tas

perf_event_aux(perf_event_switch_output,
&switch_event,
- NULL);
+ NULL,
+ 1 << sb_switch);
}

/*
@@ -7986,6 +8047,37 @@ static struct pmu *perf_init_event(struc
return pmu;
}

+static void attach_sb_event(struct perf_event *event, enum event_sb_channel sb)
+{
+ struct pmu_event_list *pel = per_cpu_ptr(&pmu_sb_events[sb], event->cpu);
+
+ raw_spin_lock(&pel->lock);
+ list_add_rcu(&event->sb_list[sb], &pel->list);
+ raw_spin_unlock(&pel->lock);
+}
+
+static void account_pmu_sb_event(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+ if (event->parent)
+ return;
+
+ if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK)
+ return;
+
+ if (IS_SB_MMAP(event->attr))
+ attach_sb_event(event, sb_mmap);
+
+ if (IS_SB_COMM(event->attr))
+ attach_sb_event(event, sb_comm);
+
+ if (event->attr.task)
+ attach_sb_event(event, sb_task);
+
+ if (event->attr.context_switch)
+ attach_sb_event(event, sb_switch);
+
+}
+
static void account_event_cpu(struct perf_event *event, int cpu)
{
if (event->parent)
@@ -8066,6 +8158,8 @@ static void account_event(struct perf_ev
enabled:

account_event_cpu(event, event->cpu);
+
+ account_pmu_sb_event(event);
}

/*
@@ -8083,6 +8177,7 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr
struct perf_event *event;
struct hw_perf_event *hwc;
long err = -EINVAL;
+ int i;

if ((unsigned)cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) {
if (!task || cpu != -1)
@@ -8110,6 +8205,8 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->active_entry);
INIT_HLIST_NODE(&event->hlist_entry);

+ for (i = 0; i < sb_nr; i++)
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->sb_list[i]);

init_waitqueue_head(&event->waitq);
init_irq_work(&event->pending, perf_pending_event);
@@ -9511,11 +9608,14 @@ static void __init perf_event_init_all_c
{
struct swevent_htable *swhash;
int cpu;
+ int i;

for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
swhash = &per_cpu(swevent_htable, cpu);
mutex_init(&swhash->hlist_mutex);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&per_cpu(active_ctx_list, cpu));
+ for (i = 0; i < sb_nr; i++)
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&per_cpu(pmu_sb_events[i].list, cpu));
}
}


2016-03-31 16:22:31

by Peter Zijlstra

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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 06:21:41PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 04:56:21PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:44:39AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > It probably will cope, but can't we just emit one single record?
> >
> > I'll try and figure something out...
>
> less clever but probably good enough..

I'm an idiot; quilt refresh is needed..

---
Subject: perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus
From: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:24:37 -0700

perf_event_aux funciton goes through all pmus and all events in whatever
contexts to find the side-band event to output, which is unnecessary and
expensive.

For example, the brk test case in lkp triggers many mmap operations, at
the time, perf with cycles:pp is also running on the system. As a
result, many perf_event_aux are invoked, and each would search all pmus
and all events. If we enable the uncore support (even when uncore event
are not really used), dozens of uncore pmus will be added into pmus
list, which can significantly decrease brk_test's ops_per_sec. Based on
our test, the ops_per_sec without uncore patch is 2647573, while the
ops_per_sec with uncore patch is only 1768444, which is a 33.2%
reduction.

To get at the per cpu side-band event, this patch put the side-band
events to four categories, which are tracked by 4 per-cpu lists. It only
finds the interested events from masked category.
To get at the per task side-band event, each task context for current task
will be searched. Because we don't want to go update more global state on
context switch.


Cc: [email protected]
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Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Reported-by: Huang, Ying <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
---

include/linux/perf_event.h | 6 +++
kernel/events/core.c | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -437,6 +437,11 @@ struct swevent_hlist {
struct perf_cgroup;
struct ring_buffer;

+struct pmu_event_list {
+ raw_spinlock_t lock;
+ struct list_head list;
+};
+
/**
* struct perf_event - performance event kernel representation:
*/
@@ -589,6 +594,7 @@ struct perf_event {
int cgrp_defer_enabled;
#endif

+ struct list_head sb_list;
#endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */
};

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ static atomic_t perf_sched_count;

static DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t, perf_cgroup_events);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, perf_sched_cb_usages);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct pmu_event_list, pmu_sb_events);

static atomic_t nr_mmap_events __read_mostly;
static atomic_t nr_comm_events __read_mostly;
@@ -3598,6 +3599,26 @@ static void free_event_rcu(struct rcu_he
static void ring_buffer_attach(struct perf_event *event,
struct ring_buffer *rb);

+static void detach_sb_event(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+ struct pmu_event_list *pel = per_cpu_ptr(&pmu_sb_events, event->cpu);
+
+ raw_spin_lock(&pel->lock);
+ list_del_rcu(&event->sb_list);
+ raw_spin_unlock(&pel->lock);
+}
+
+static void unaccount_pmu_sb_event(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+ if (event->parent)
+ return;
+
+ if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK)
+ return;
+
+ detach_sb_event(event);
+}
+
static void unaccount_event_cpu(struct perf_event *event, int cpu)
{
if (event->parent)
@@ -3661,6 +3682,8 @@ static void unaccount_event(struct perf_
}

unaccount_event_cpu(event, event->cpu);
+
+ unaccount_pmu_sb_event(event);
}

static void perf_sched_delayed(struct work_struct *work)
@@ -5785,13 +5808,25 @@ perf_event_aux_task_ctx(perf_event_aux_o
rcu_read_unlock();
}

+static void perf_event_sb_iterate(perf_event_aux_output_cb output, void *data)
+{
+ struct pmu_event_list *pel = this_cpu_ptr(&pmu_sb_events);
+ struct perf_event *event;
+
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(event, &pel->list, sb_list) {
+ if (event->state < PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE)
+ continue;
+ if (!event_filter_match(event))
+ continue;
+ output(event, data);
+ }
+}
+
static void
perf_event_aux(perf_event_aux_output_cb output, void *data,
struct perf_event_context *task_ctx)
{
- struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx;
struct perf_event_context *ctx;
- struct pmu *pmu;
int ctxn;

/*
@@ -5806,20 +5841,15 @@ perf_event_aux(perf_event_aux_output_cb
}

rcu_read_lock();
- list_for_each_entry_rcu(pmu, &pmus, entry) {
- cpuctx = get_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context);
- if (cpuctx->unique_pmu != pmu)
- goto next;
- perf_event_aux_ctx(&cpuctx->ctx, output, data);
- ctxn = pmu->task_ctx_nr;
- if (ctxn < 0)
- goto next;
+ preempt_disable();
+ perf_event_sb_iterate(output, data);
+
+ for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn) {
ctx = rcu_dereference(current->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]);
if (ctx)
perf_event_aux_ctx(ctx, output, data);
-next:
- put_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context);
}
+ preempt_enable();
rcu_read_unlock();
}

@@ -7986,6 +8016,32 @@ static struct pmu *perf_init_event(struc
return pmu;
}

+static void attach_sb_event(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+ struct pmu_event_list *pel = per_cpu_ptr(&pmu_sb_events, event->cpu);
+
+ raw_spin_lock(&pel->lock);
+ list_add_rcu(&event->sb_list, &pel->list);
+ raw_spin_unlock(&pel->lock);
+}
+
+static void account_pmu_sb_event(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+ struct perf_event_attr *attr = &event->attr;
+
+ if (event->parent)
+ return;
+
+ if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK)
+ return;
+
+ if (attr->mmap || attr->mmap_data || attr->mmap2 ||
+ attr->comm || attr->comm_exec ||
+ attr->task ||
+ attr->context_switch)
+ attach_sb_event(event);
+}
+
static void account_event_cpu(struct perf_event *event, int cpu)
{
if (event->parent)
@@ -8066,6 +8122,8 @@ static void account_event(struct perf_ev
enabled:

account_event_cpu(event, event->cpu);
+
+ account_pmu_sb_event(event);
}

/*
@@ -8109,7 +8167,7 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->rb_entry);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->active_entry);
INIT_HLIST_NODE(&event->hlist_entry);
-
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->sb_list);

init_waitqueue_head(&event->waitq);
init_irq_work(&event->pending, perf_pending_event);
@@ -9516,6 +9574,9 @@ static void __init perf_event_init_all_c
swhash = &per_cpu(swevent_htable, cpu);
mutex_init(&swhash->hlist_mutex);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&per_cpu(active_ctx_list, cpu));
+
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&per_cpu(pmu_sb_events.list, cpu));
+ raw_spin_lock_init(&per_cpu(pmu_sb_events.lock, cpu));
}
}


2016-04-06 08:09:52

by Peter Zijlstra

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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 06:22:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> I'm an idiot; quilt refresh is needed..
>
> ---
> Subject: perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus
> From: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:24:37 -0700
>

Kan, does this patch work for you?

2016-04-06 14:25:45

by Liang, Kan

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Subject: RE: [PATCH V2 1/1] perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Zijlstra [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 4:10 AM
> To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
> Cc: Liang, Kan <[email protected]>; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; linux-
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] perf/core: don't find side-band event from all
> pmus
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 06:22:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > I'm an idiot; quilt refresh is needed..
> >
> > ---
> > Subject: perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus
> > From: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
> > Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:24:37 -0700
> >
>
> Kan, does this patch work for you?

Yes. I did some tests on my machine. It looks good.

Thanks,
Kan