Hi Peter,
Patch 10/46 to 14/46 were sent separately to you and modified
follow your suggestion. Do you have further comment on it?
Thank you.
On 2016/2/29 23:39, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 09:31:58AM +0000, Wang Nan escreveu:
>> Add new ioctl() to pause/resume ring-buffer output.
>>
>> In some situations we want to read from ring buffer only when we
>> ensure nothing can write to the ring buffer during reading. Without
>> this patch we have to turn off all events attached to this ring buffer
>> to achieve this.
>>
>> This patch is for supporting overwrite ring buffer. Following
>> commits will introduce new methods support reading from overwrite ring
>> buffer. Before reading caller must ensure the ring buffer is frozen, or
>> the reading is unreliable.
> Peter, have you have the chance too look at this and the other kernel
> bits in this kit?
>
> - Arnaldo
>
>> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
>> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> ---
>> include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 1 +
>> kernel/events/core.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>> kernel/events/internal.h | 11 +++++++++++
>> kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 7 ++++++-
>> 4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
>> index 1afe962..a3c1903 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
>> @@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
>> #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER _IOW('$', 6, char *)
>> #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID _IOR('$', 7, __u64 *)
>> #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF _IOW('$', 8, __u32)
>> +#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT _IOW('$', 9, __u32)
>>
>> enum perf_event_ioc_flags {
>> PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP = 1U << 0,
>> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
>> index 94c47e3..a7075ae 100644
>> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
>> @@ -4231,6 +4231,19 @@ static long _perf_ioctl(struct perf_event *event, unsigned int cmd, unsigned lon
>> case PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF:
>> return perf_event_set_bpf_prog(event, arg);
>>
>> + case PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT: {
>> + struct ring_buffer *rb;
>> +
>> + rcu_read_lock();
>> + rb = rcu_dereference(event->rb);
>> + if (!event->rb) {
>> + rcu_read_unlock();
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> + }
>> + rb_toggle_paused(rb, !!arg);
>> + rcu_read_unlock();
>> + return 0;
>> + }
>> default:
>> return -ENOTTY;
>> }
>> diff --git a/kernel/events/internal.h b/kernel/events/internal.h
>> index 2bbad9c..6a93d1b 100644
>> --- a/kernel/events/internal.h
>> +++ b/kernel/events/internal.h
>> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ struct ring_buffer {
>> #endif
>> int nr_pages; /* nr of data pages */
>> int overwrite; /* can overwrite itself */
>> + int paused; /* can write into ring buffer */
>>
>> atomic_t poll; /* POLL_ for wakeups */
>>
>> @@ -65,6 +66,16 @@ static inline void rb_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu_head)
>> rb_free(rb);
>> }
>>
>> +static inline void
>> +rb_toggle_paused(struct ring_buffer *rb,
>> + bool pause)
>> +{
>> + if (!pause && rb->nr_pages)
>> + rb->paused = 0;
>> + else
>> + rb->paused = 1;
>> +}
>> +
>> extern struct ring_buffer *
>> rb_alloc(int nr_pages, long watermark, int cpu, int flags);
>> extern void perf_event_wakeup(struct perf_event *event);
>> diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
>> index 1faad2c..22e1a47 100644
>> --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
>> +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
>> @@ -125,8 +125,11 @@ int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
>> if (unlikely(!rb))
>> goto out;
>>
>> - if (unlikely(!rb->nr_pages))
>> + if (unlikely(rb->paused)) {
>> + if (rb->nr_pages)
>> + local_inc(&rb->lost);
>> goto out;
>> + }
>>
>> handle->rb = rb;
>> handle->event = event;
>> @@ -244,6 +247,8 @@ ring_buffer_init(struct ring_buffer *rb, long watermark, int flags)
>> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rb->event_list);
>> spin_lock_init(&rb->event_lock);
>> init_irq_work(&rb->irq_work, rb_irq_work);
>> +
>> + rb->paused = rb->nr_pages ? 0 : 1;
>> }
>>
>> static void ring_buffer_put_async(struct ring_buffer *rb)
>> --
>> 1.8.3.4