linux-stable.git/tools/perf/bench, branch linux-5.8.y

x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}()

2020-11-01T11:45:37+00:00

commit ec6347bb43395cb92126788a1a5b25302543f815 upstream.

In reaction to a proposal to introduce a memcpy_mcsafe_fast()
implementation Linus points out that memcpy_mcsafe() is poorly named
relative to communicating the scope of the interface. Specifically what
addresses are valid to pass as source, destination, and what faults /
exceptions are handled.

Of particular concern is that even though x86 might be able to handle
the semantics of copy_mc_to_user() with its common copy_user_generic()
implementation other archs likely need / want an explicit path for this
case:

  On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:28 AM Linus Torvalds  wrote:
  >
  > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:21 PM Dan Williams  wrote:
  > >
  > > However now I see that copy_user_generic() works for the wrong reason.
  > > It works because the exception on the source address due to poison
  > > looks no different than a write fault on the user address to the
  > > caller, it's still just a short copy. So it makes copy_to_user() work
  > > for the wrong reason relative to the name.
  >
  > Right.
  >
  > And it won't work that way on other architectures. On x86, we have a
  > generic function that can take faults on either side, and we use it
  > for both cases (and for the "in_user" case too), but that's an
  > artifact of the architecture oddity.
  >
  > In fact, it's probably wrong even on x86 - because it can hide bugs -
  > but writing those things is painful enough that everybody prefers
  > having just one function.

Replace a single top-level memcpy_mcsafe() with either
copy_mc_to_user(), or copy_mc_to_kernel().

Introduce an x86 copy_mc_fragile() name as the rename for the
low-level x86 implementation formerly named memcpy_mcsafe(). It is used
as the slow / careful backend that is supplanted by a fast
copy_mc_generic() in a follow-on patch.

One side-effect of this reorganization is that separating copy_mc_64.S
to its own file means that perf no longer needs to track dependencies
for its memcpy_64.S benchmarks.

 [ bp: Massage a bit. ]

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck 
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjSqtXAqfUJxFtWNwmguFASTgB0dz1dT3V-78Quiezqbg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160195561680.2163339.11574962055305783722.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf bench: The do_run_multi_threaded() function must use IS_ERR(perf_session__new())

2020-09-09T17:14:22+00:00

[ Upstream commit e4d71f79cf5c10fa8bc6f5d3bebea570c9c438f1 ]

In case of error, the function perf_session__new() returns ERR_PTR() and
never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check should be
replaced with IS_ERR()

Committer notes:

This wasn't compiling due to an extraneous '{' not matched by a '}', fix
it.

Fixes: 13edc237200c ("perf bench: Add a multi-threaded synthesize benchmark")
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200902140526.26916-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf bench mem: Always memset source before memcpy

2020-08-21T11:15:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1beaef29c34154ccdcb3f1ae557f6883eda18840 ]

For memcpy, the source pages are memset to zero only when --cycles is
used.  This leads to wildly different results with or without --cycles,
since all sources pages are likely to be mapped to the same zero page
without explicit writes.

Before this fix:

$ export cmd="./perf stat -e LLC-loads -- ./perf bench \
  mem memcpy -s 1024MB -l 100 -f default"
$ $cmd

         2,935,826      LLC-loads
       3.821677452 seconds time elapsed

$ $cmd --cycles

       217,533,436      LLC-loads
       8.616725985 seconds time elapsed

After this fix:

$ $cmd

       214,459,686      LLC-loads
       8.674301124 seconds time elapsed

$ $cmd --cycles

       214,758,651      LLC-loads
       8.644480006 seconds time elapsed

Fixes: 47b5757bac03c338 ("perf bench mem: Move boilerplate memory allocation to the infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: kernel@axis.com
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200810133404.30829-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf tools: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

2020-05-28T13:03:27+00:00

The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array
member[1][2], introduced in C99:

struct foo {
        int stuff;
        struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in
case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will
help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this
change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200515172926.GA31976@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools feature: Rename HAVE_EVENTFD to HAVE_EVENTFD_SUPPORT

2020-05-28T13:03:26+00:00

To be consistent with other such auto-detected features.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Anand K Mistry 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench: Add kallsyms parsing

2020-05-05T19:35:32+00:00

Add a benchmark for kallsyms parsing. Example output:

  Running 'internals/kallsyms-parse' benchmark:
  Average kallsyms__parse took: 103.971 ms (+- 0.121 ms)

Committer testing:

Test Machine: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor

  [root@five ~]# perf bench internals kallsyms-parse
  # Running 'internals/kallsyms-parse' benchmark:
    Average kallsyms__parse took: 79.692 ms (+- 0.101 ms)
  [root@five ~]# perf stat -r5 perf bench internals kallsyms-parse
  # Running 'internals/kallsyms-parse' benchmark:
    Average kallsyms__parse took: 80.563 ms (+- 0.079 ms)
  # Running 'internals/kallsyms-parse' benchmark:
    Average kallsyms__parse took: 81.046 ms (+- 0.155 ms)
  # Running 'internals/kallsyms-parse' benchmark:
    Average kallsyms__parse took: 80.874 ms (+- 0.104 ms)
  # Running 'internals/kallsyms-parse' benchmark:
    Average kallsyms__parse took: 81.173 ms (+- 0.133 ms)
  # Running 'internals/kallsyms-parse' benchmark:
    Average kallsyms__parse took: 81.169 ms (+- 0.074 ms)

   Performance counter stats for 'perf bench internals kallsyms-parse' (5 runs):

            8,093.54 msec task-clock                #    0.999 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.14% )
               3,165      context-switches          #    0.391 K/sec                    ( +-  0.18% )
                  10      cpu-migrations            #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +- 23.13% )
                 744      page-faults               #    0.092 K/sec                    ( +-  0.21% )
      34,551,564,954      cycles                    #    4.269 GHz                      ( +-  0.05% )  (83.33%)
       1,160,584,308      stalled-cycles-frontend   #    3.36% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  1.60% )  (83.33%)
      14,974,323,985      stalled-cycles-backend    #   43.34% backend cycles idle      ( +-  0.24% )  (83.33%)
      58,712,905,705      instructions              #    1.70  insn per cycle
                                                    #    0.26  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  0.01% )  (83.34%)
      14,136,433,778      branches                  # 1746.632 M/sec                    ( +-  0.01% )  (83.33%)
         141,943,217      branch-misses             #    1.00% of all branches          ( +-  0.04% )  (83.33%)

              8.1040 +- 0.0115 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.14% )

  [root@five ~]#

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200501221315.54715-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench: Add a multi-threaded synthesize benchmark

2020-04-30T13:48:25+00:00

By default this isn't run as it reads /proc and may not have access.
For consistency, modify the single threaded benchmark to compute an
average time per event.

Committer testing:

  $ grep -m1 "model name" /proc/cpuinfo
  model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8650U CPU @ 1.90GHz
  $ grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo  | wc -l
  8
  $
  $ perf bench internals synthesize -h
  # Running 'internals/synthesize' benchmark:

   Usage: perf bench internals synthesize 

      -I, --multi-iterations 
                            Number of iterations used to compute multi-threaded average
      -i, --single-iterations 
                            Number of iterations used to compute single-threaded average
      -M, --max-threads 
                            Maximum number of threads in multithreaded bench
      -m, --min-threads 
                            Minimum number of threads in multithreaded bench
      -s, --st              Run single threaded benchmark
      -t, --mt              Run multi-threaded benchmark

  $
  $ perf bench internals synthesize -t
  # Running 'internals/synthesize' benchmark:
  Computing performance of multi threaded perf event synthesis by
  synthesizing events on CPU 0:
    Number of synthesis threads: 1
      Average synthesis took: 65449.000 usec (+- 586.442 usec)
      Average num. events: 9405.400 (+- 0.306)
      Average time per event 6.959 usec
    Number of synthesis threads: 2
      Average synthesis took: 37838.300 usec (+- 130.259 usec)
      Average num. events: 9501.800 (+- 20.469)
      Average time per event 3.982 usec
    Number of synthesis threads: 3
      Average synthesis took: 48551.400 usec (+- 225.686 usec)
      Average num. events: 9544.000 (+- 0.000)
      Average time per event 5.087 usec
    Number of synthesis threads: 4
      Average synthesis took: 29632.500 usec (+- 50.808 usec)
      Average num. events: 9544.000 (+- 0.000)
      Average time per event 3.105 usec
    Number of synthesis threads: 5
      Average synthesis took: 33920.400 usec (+- 284.509 usec)
      Average num. events: 9544.000 (+- 0.000)
      Average time per event 3.554 usec
    Number of synthesis threads: 6
      Average synthesis took: 27604.100 usec (+- 72.344 usec)
      Average num. events: 9548.000 (+- 0.000)
      Average time per event 2.891 usec
    Number of synthesis threads: 7
      Average synthesis took: 25406.300 usec (+- 933.371 usec)
      Average num. events: 9545.500 (+- 0.167)
      Average time per event 2.662 usec
    Number of synthesis threads: 8
      Average synthesis took: 24110.400 usec (+- 73.229 usec)
      Average num. events: 9551.000 (+- 0.000)
      Average time per event 2.524 usec
  $

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Kefeng Wang 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200415054050.31645-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench: Fix div-by-zero if runtime is zero

2020-04-22T13:01:33+00:00

Fix div-by-zero if runtime is zero:

  $ perf bench futex hash --runtime=0
  # Running 'futex/hash' benchmark:
  Run summary [PID 12090]: 4 threads, each operating on 1024 [private] futexes for 0 secs.
  Floating point exception (core dumped)

Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Darren Hart 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200417132330.119407-4-tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench: Add event synthesis benchmark

2020-04-16T15:19:12+00:00

Event synthesis may occur at the start or end (tail) of a perf command.
In system-wide mode it can scan every process in /proc, which may add
seconds of latency before event recording. Add a new benchmark that
times how long event synthesis takes with and without data synthesis.

An example execution looks like:

 $ perf bench internals synthesize
 # Running 'internals/synthesize' benchmark:
 Average synthesis took: 168.253800 usec
 Average data synthesis took: 208.104700 usec

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Kefeng Wang 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200402154357.107873-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench: Clear struct sigaction before sigaction() syscall

2020-03-06T11:30:47+00:00

Avoid garbage in sigaction structs used in sigaction() syscalls.
Valgrind is complaining about it.

Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Changbin Du 
Cc: Darren Hart 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200305083714.9381-4-tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo