linux-stable.git/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h, branch linux-5.0.y

perf tools: Don't clone maps from parent when synthesizing forks

2018-10-31T13:18:01+00:00

When synthesizing FORK events, we are trying to create thread objects
for the already running tasks on the machine.

Normally, for a kernel FORK event, we want to clone the parent's maps
because that is what the kernel just did.

But when synthesizing, this should not be done.  If we do, we end up
with overlapping maps as we process the sythesized MMAP2 events that
get delivered shortly thereafter.

Use the FORK event misc flags in an internal way to signal this
situation, so we can elide the map clone when appropriate.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Joe Mario 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181030.222404.2085088822877051075.davem@davemloft.net
[ Added comment about flag use in machine__process_fork_event(),
  use ternary op in thread__clone_map_groups() as suggested by Jiri ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools headers uapi: Update tools's copy of linux/perf_event.h

2018-09-11T13:57:13+00:00

To get the changes in:

	09121255c784 ("perf/UAPI: Clearly mark __PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN_EARLY as internal use")

This cures the following warning during perf's build:

	Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
	diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2vvwh2o19orn56di0ksrtgzr@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools headers uapi: Update tools's copy of linux/perf_event.h

2018-07-30T14:41:56+00:00

To get the changes in:

  6cbc304f2f36 ("perf/x86/intel: Fix unwind errors from PEBS entries (mk-II)")

That do not imply any changes in the tooling side, the (ab)use of
sample_type is entirely done in kernel space, nothing for userspace to
witness here.

This cures the following warning during perf's build:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Prashant Bhole 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-o64mjoy35s9gd1gitunw1zg4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf/core: Store context switch out type in PERF_RECORD_SWITCH[_CPU_WIDE]

2018-04-17T12:47:39+00:00

Store preempting context switch out event into Perf trace as a part of
PERF_RECORD_SWITCH[_CPU_WIDE] record.

Percentage of preempting and non-preempting context switches help
understanding the nature of workloads (CPU or IO bound) that are running
on a machine;

The event is treated as preemption one when task->state value of the
thread being switched out is TASK_RUNNING. Event type encoding is
implemented using PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT_PREEMPT bit;

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9ff84e83-a0ca-dd82-a6d0-cb951689be74@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf/core: Implement fast breakpoint modification via _IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTES

2018-03-13T14:24:02+00:00

Problem and motivation: Once a breakpoint perf event (PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT)
is created, there is no flexibility to change the breakpoint type
(bp_type), breakpoint address (bp_addr), or breakpoint length (bp_len). The
only option is to close the perf event and configure a new breakpoint
event. This inflexibility has a significant performance overhead. For
example, sampling-based, lightweight performance profilers (and also
concurrency bug detection tools),  monitor different addresses for a short
duration using PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT and change the address (bp_addr) to
another address or change the kind of breakpoint (bp_type) from  "write" to
a "read" or vice-versa or change the length (bp_len) of the address being
monitored. The cost of these modifications is prohibitive since it involves
unmapping the circular buffer associated with the perf event, closing the
perf event, opening another perf event and mmaping another circular buffer.

Solution: The new ioctl flag for perf events,
PERF_EVENT_IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTES, introduced in this patch takes a pointer
to a struct perf_event_attr as an argument to update an old breakpoint
event with new address, type, and size. This facility allows retaining a
previous mmaped perf events ring buffer and avoids having to close and
reopen another perf event.

This patch supports only changing PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT event type; future
implementations can extend this feature. The patch replicates some of its
functionality of modify_user_hw_breakpoint() in
kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c. modify_user_hw_breakpoint cannot be called
directly since perf_event_ctx_lock() is already held in _perf_ioctl().

Evidence: Experiments show that the baseline (not able to modify an already
created breakpoint) costs an order of magnitude (~10x) more than the
suggested optimization (having the ability to dynamically modifying a
configured breakpoint via ioctl). When the breakpoints typically do not
trap, the speedup due to the suggested optimization is ~10x; even when the
breakpoints always trap, the speedup is ~4x due to the suggested
optimization.

Testing: tests posted at
https://github.com/linux-contrib/perf_event_modify_bp demonstrate the
performance significance of this patch. Tests also check the functional
correctness of the patch.

Signed-off-by: Milind Chabbi 
[ Using modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check function. ]
[ Reformated PERF_EVENT_IOC_*, so the values are all in one column. ]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Hari Bathini 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312134548.31532-8-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes

2018-02-17T10:39:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/headers: Sync new perf_event.h with the tools/include/uapi version

2018-02-06T09:18:05+00:00

perf_event.h is updated in previous patch, this patch applies the same
changes to the tools/ version. This is part is put in a separate
patch in case the two files are back ported separately.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Yonghong Song 
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik 
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171206224518.3598254-5-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2018-01-31T22:31:10+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Significantly shrink the core networking routing structures. Result
    of http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/seoul2017_netdev_keynote.pdf

 2) Add netdevsim driver for testing various offloads, from Jakub
    Kicinski.

 3) Support cross-chip FDB operations in DSA, from Vivien Didelot.

 4) Add a 2nd listener hash table for TCP, similar to what was done for
    UDP. From Martin KaFai Lau.

 5) Add eBPF based queue selection to tun, from Jason Wang.

 6) Lockless qdisc support, from John Fastabend.

 7) SCTP stream interleave support, from Xin Long.

 8) Smoother TCP receive autotuning, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Lots of erspan tunneling enhancements, from William Tu.

10) Add true function call support to BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

11) Add explicit support for GRO HW offloading, from Michael Chan.

12) Support extack generation in more netlink subsystems. From Alexander
    Aring, Quentin Monnet, and Jakub Kicinski.

13) Add 1000BaseX, flow control, and EEE support to mvneta driver. From
    Russell King.

14) Add flow table abstraction to netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

15) Many improvements and simplifications to the NFP driver bpf JIT,
    from Jakub Kicinski.

16) Support for ipv6 non-equal cost multipath routing, from Ido
    Schimmel.

17) Add resource abstration to devlink, from Arkadi Sharshevsky.

18) Packet scheduler classifier shared filter block support, from Jiri
    Pirko.

19) Avoid locking in act_csum, from Davide Caratti.

20) devinet_ioctl() simplifications from Al viro.

21) More TCP bpf improvements from Lawrence Brakmo.

22) Add support for onlink ipv6 route flag, similar to ipv4, from David
    Ahern.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1925 commits)
  tls: Add support for encryption using async offload accelerator
  ip6mr: fix stale iterator
  net/sched: kconfig: Remove blank help texts
  openvswitch: meter: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit
  tcp_nv: fix potential integer overflow in tcpnv_acked
  r8169: fix RTL8168EP take too long to complete driver initialization.
  qmi_wwan: Add support for Quectel EP06
  rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_NEWLINK
  ipmr: Fix ptrdiff_t print formatting
  ibmvnic: Wait for device response when changing MAC
  qlcnic: fix deadlock bug
  tcp: release sk_frag.page in tcp_disconnect
  ipv4: Get the address of interface correctly.
  net_sched: gen_estimator: fix lockdep splat
  net: macb: Handle HRESP error
  net/mlx5e: IPoIB, Fix copy-paste bug in flow steering refactoring
  ipv6: addrconf: break critical section in addrconf_verify_rtnl()
  ipv6: change route cache aging logic
  i40e/i40evf: Update DESC_NEEDED value to reflect larger value
  bnxt_en: cleanup DIM work on device shutdown
  ...

perf: Update PERF_RECORD_MISC_* comment for perf_event_header::misc bit 13

2018-01-08T15:37:54+00:00

The perf_event_header::misc bit 13 is shared on different events and
next patch is adding yet another bit 13 user.  Updating the comment to
make it more structured and clear which events use bit 13.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107160356.28203-8-jolsa@kernel.org
[ Update the tools/include/uapi/linux copy ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf: Add sample_id to PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START event comment

2018-01-08T15:32:25+00:00

Adding missing sample_id line into PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START
event comment.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107160356.28203-5-jolsa@kernel.org
[ Update the tools/include/uapi/linux copy ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo