linux-stable.git/arch/xtensa/kernel/perf_event.c, branch linux-4.7.y

perf core: Pass max stack as a perf_callchain_entry context

2016-05-17T02:11:50+00:00

This makes perf_callchain_{user,kernel}() receive the max stack
as context for the perf_callchain_entry, instead of accessing
the global sysctl_perf_event_max_stack.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kolmn1yo40p7jhswxwrc7rrd@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctl

2016-04-27T13:20:39+00:00

The default remains 127, which is good for most cases, and not even hit
most of the time, but then for some cases, as reported by Brendan, 1024+
deep frames are appearing on the radar for things like groovy, ruby.

And in some workloads putting a _lower_ cap on this may make sense. One
that is per event still needs to be put in place tho.

The new file is:

  # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
  127

Chaging it:

  # echo 256 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
  # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
  256

But as soon as there is some event using callchains we get:

  # echo 512 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
  -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
  #

Because we only allocate the callchain percpu data structures when there
is a user, which allows for changing the max easily, its just a matter
of having no callchain users at that point.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Brendan Gregg 
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Acked-by: David Ahern 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160426002928.GB16708@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

xtensa: implement fake NMI

2015-08-17T04:33:39+00:00

In case perf IRQ is the highest of the medium-level IRQs, and is alone
on its level, it may be treated as NMI:
- LOCKLEVEL is defined to be one level less than EXCM level,
- IRQ masking never lowers current IRQ level,
- new fake exception cause code, EXCCAUSE_MAPPED_NMI is assigned to that
  IRQ; new second level exception handler, do_nmi, assigned to it
  handles it as NMI,
- atomic operations in configurations without s32c1i still need to mask
  all interrupts.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov

xtensa: implement counting and sampling perf events

2015-08-17T04:33:30+00:00

Xtensa Performance Monitor Module has up to 8 32 bit wide performance
counters. Each counter may be enabled independently and can count any
single type of hardware performance events. Event counting may be enabled
and disabled globally (per PMM).
Each counter has status register with bits indicating if the counter has
been overflown and may be programmed to raise profiling IRQ on overflow.
This IRQ is used to rewind counters and allow for counting more than 2^32
samples for counting events and to report samples for sampling events.

For more details see Tensilica Debug User's Guide, chapter 8
"Performance monitor module".

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov