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<title>arm64: perf: reject CHAIN events at creation time</title>
<updated>2023-02-16T21:23:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
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<published>2023-02-16T14:12:39+00:00</published>
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Currently it's possible for a user to open CHAIN events arbitrarily,
which we previously tried to rule out in commit:

  ca2b497253ad01c8 ("arm64: perf: Reject stand-alone CHAIN events for PMUv3")

Which allowed the events to be opened, but prevented them from being
scheduled by by using an arm_pmu::filter_match hook to reject the
relevant events.

The CHAIN event filtering in the arm_pmu::filter_match hook was silently
removed in commit:

  bd27568117664b8b ("perf: Rewrite core context handling")

As a result, it's now possible for users to open CHAIN events, and for
these to be installed arbitrarily.

Fix this by rejecting CHAIN events at creation time. This avoids the
creation of events which will never count, and doesn't require using the
dynamic filtering.

Attempting to open a CHAIN event (0x1e) will now be rejected:

| # ./perf stat -e armv8_pmuv3/config=0x1e/ ls
| perf
|
|  Performance counter stats for 'ls':
|
|    &lt;not supported&gt;      armv8_pmuv3/config=0x1e/
|
|        0.002197470 seconds time elapsed
|
|        0.000000000 seconds user
|        0.002294000 seconds sys

Other events (e.g. CPU_CYCLES / 0x11) will open as usual:

| # ./perf stat -e armv8_pmuv3/config=0x11/ ls
| perf
|
|  Performance counter stats for 'ls':
|
|            2538761      armv8_pmuv3/config=0x11/
|
|        0.002227330 seconds time elapsed
|
|        0.002369000 seconds user
|        0.000000000 seconds sys

Fixes: bd2756811766 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230216141240.3833272-3-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently it's possible for a user to open CHAIN events arbitrarily,
which we previously tried to rule out in commit:

  ca2b497253ad01c8 ("arm64: perf: Reject stand-alone CHAIN events for PMUv3")

Which allowed the events to be opened, but prevented them from being
scheduled by by using an arm_pmu::filter_match hook to reject the
relevant events.

The CHAIN event filtering in the arm_pmu::filter_match hook was silently
removed in commit:

  bd27568117664b8b ("perf: Rewrite core context handling")

As a result, it's now possible for users to open CHAIN events, and for
these to be installed arbitrarily.

Fix this by rejecting CHAIN events at creation time. This avoids the
creation of events which will never count, and doesn't require using the
dynamic filtering.

Attempting to open a CHAIN event (0x1e) will now be rejected:

| # ./perf stat -e armv8_pmuv3/config=0x1e/ ls
| perf
|
|  Performance counter stats for 'ls':
|
|    &lt;not supported&gt;      armv8_pmuv3/config=0x1e/
|
|        0.002197470 seconds time elapsed
|
|        0.000000000 seconds user
|        0.002294000 seconds sys

Other events (e.g. CPU_CYCLES / 0x11) will open as usual:

| # ./perf stat -e armv8_pmuv3/config=0x11/ ls
| perf
|
|  Performance counter stats for 'ls':
|
|            2538761      armv8_pmuv3/config=0x11/
|
|        0.002227330 seconds time elapsed
|
|        0.002369000 seconds user
|        0.000000000 seconds sys

Fixes: bd2756811766 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230216141240.3833272-3-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm_pmu: fix event CPU filtering</title>
<updated>2023-02-16T21:23:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-16T14:12:38+00:00</published>
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Janne reports that perf has been broken on Apple M1 as of commit:

  bd27568117664b8b ("perf: Rewrite core context handling")

That commit replaced the pmu::filter_match() callback with
pmu::filter(), whose return value has the opposite polarity, with true
implying events should be ignored rather than scheduled. While an
attempt was made to update the logic in armv8pmu_filter() and
armpmu_filter() accordingly, the return value remains inverted in a
couple of cases:

* If the arm_pmu does not have an arm_pmu::filter() callback,
  armpmu_filter() will always return whether the CPU is supported rather
  than whether the CPU is not supported.

  As a result, the perf core will not schedule events on supported CPUs,
  resulting in a loss of events. Additionally, the perf core will
  attempt to schedule events on unsupported CPUs, but this will be
  rejected by armpmu_add(), which may result in a loss of events from
  other PMUs on those unsupported CPUs.

* If the arm_pmu does have an arm_pmu::filter() callback, and
  armpmu_filter() is called on a CPU which is not supported by the
  arm_pmu, armpmu_filter() will return false rather than true.

  As a result, the perf core will attempt to schedule events on
  unsupported CPUs, but this will be rejected by armpmu_add(), which may
  result in a loss of events from other PMUs on those unsupported CPUs.

This means a loss of events can be seen with any arm_pmu driver, but
with the ARMv8 PMUv3 driver (which is the only arm_pmu driver with an
arm_pmu::filter() callback) the event loss will be more limited and may
go unnoticed, which is how this issue evaded testing so far.

Fix the CPU filtering by performing this consistently in
armpmu_filter(), and remove the redundant arm_pmu::filter() callback and
armv8pmu_filter() implementation.

Commit bd2756811766 also silently removed the CHAIN event filtering from
armv8pmu_filter(), which will be addressed by a separate patch without
using the filter callback.

Fixes: bd2756811766 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling")
Reported-by: Janne Grunau &lt;j@jannau.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/20230215-arm_pmu_m1_regression-v1-1-f5a266577c8d@jannau.net/
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Asahi Lina &lt;lina@asahilina.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Curtin &lt;ecurtin@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Janne Grunau &lt;j@jannau.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230216141240.3833272-2-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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Janne reports that perf has been broken on Apple M1 as of commit:

  bd27568117664b8b ("perf: Rewrite core context handling")

That commit replaced the pmu::filter_match() callback with
pmu::filter(), whose return value has the opposite polarity, with true
implying events should be ignored rather than scheduled. While an
attempt was made to update the logic in armv8pmu_filter() and
armpmu_filter() accordingly, the return value remains inverted in a
couple of cases:

* If the arm_pmu does not have an arm_pmu::filter() callback,
  armpmu_filter() will always return whether the CPU is supported rather
  than whether the CPU is not supported.

  As a result, the perf core will not schedule events on supported CPUs,
  resulting in a loss of events. Additionally, the perf core will
  attempt to schedule events on unsupported CPUs, but this will be
  rejected by armpmu_add(), which may result in a loss of events from
  other PMUs on those unsupported CPUs.

* If the arm_pmu does have an arm_pmu::filter() callback, and
  armpmu_filter() is called on a CPU which is not supported by the
  arm_pmu, armpmu_filter() will return false rather than true.

  As a result, the perf core will attempt to schedule events on
  unsupported CPUs, but this will be rejected by armpmu_add(), which may
  result in a loss of events from other PMUs on those unsupported CPUs.

This means a loss of events can be seen with any arm_pmu driver, but
with the ARMv8 PMUv3 driver (which is the only arm_pmu driver with an
arm_pmu::filter() callback) the event loss will be more limited and may
go unnoticed, which is how this issue evaded testing so far.

Fix the CPU filtering by performing this consistently in
armpmu_filter(), and remove the redundant arm_pmu::filter() callback and
armv8pmu_filter() implementation.

Commit bd2756811766 also silently removed the CHAIN event filtering from
armv8pmu_filter(), which will be addressed by a separate patch without
using the filter callback.

Fixes: bd2756811766 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling")
Reported-by: Janne Grunau &lt;j@jannau.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/20230215-arm_pmu_m1_regression-v1-1-f5a266577c8d@jannau.net/
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Asahi Lina &lt;lina@asahilina.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Curtin &lt;ecurtin@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Janne Grunau &lt;j@jannau.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230216141240.3833272-2-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf-core-2022-12-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-12-12T23:19:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-12T23:19:38+00:00</published>
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Pull perf events updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Thoroughly rewrite the data structures that implement perf task
   context handling, with the goal of fixing various quirks and
   unfeatures both in already merged, and in upcoming proposed code.

   The old data structure is the per task and per cpu
   perf_event_contexts:

         task_struct::perf_events_ctxp[] &lt;-&gt; perf_event_context &lt;-&gt; perf_cpu_context
              ^                                 |    ^     |           ^
              `---------------------------------'    |     `--&gt; pmu ---'
                                                     v           ^
                                                perf_event ------'

   In this new design this is replaced with a single task context and a
   single CPU context, plus intermediate data-structures:

         task_struct::perf_event_ctxp -&gt; perf_event_context &lt;- perf_cpu_context
              ^                           |   ^ ^
              `---------------------------'   | |
                                              | |    perf_cpu_pmu_context &lt;--.
                                              | `----.    ^                  |
                                              |      |    |                  |
                                              |      v    v                  |
                                              | ,--&gt; perf_event_pmu_context  |
                                              | |                            |
                                              | |                            |
                                              v v                            |
                                         perf_event ---&gt; pmu ----------------'

   [ See commit bd2756811766 for more details. ]

   This rewrite was developed by Peter Zijlstra and Ravi Bangoria.

 - Optimize perf_tp_event()

 - Update the Intel uncore PMU driver, extending it with UPI topology
   discovery on various hardware models.

 - Misc fixes &amp; cleanups

* tag 'perf-core-2022-12-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix reference count leak in __uncore_imc_init_box()
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix reference count leak in snr_uncore_mmio_map()
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix reference count leak in hswep_has_limit_sbox()
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix reference count leak in sad_cfg_iio_topology()
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Make set_mapping() procedure void
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Update sysfs-devices-mapping file
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Enable UPI topology discovery for Sapphire Rapids
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Enable UPI topology discovery for Icelake Server
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Get UPI NodeID and GroupID
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Enable UPI topology discovery for Skylake Server
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Generalize get_topology() for SKX PMUs
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Disable I/O stacks to PMU mapping on ICX-D
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Clear attr_update properly
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Introduce UPI topology type
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Generalize IIO topology support
  perf/core: Don't allow grouping events from different hw pmus
  perf/amd/ibs: Make IBS a core pmu
  perf: Fix function pointer case
  perf/x86/amd: Remove the repeated declaration
  perf: Fix possible memleak in pmu_dev_alloc()
  ...
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Pull perf events updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Thoroughly rewrite the data structures that implement perf task
   context handling, with the goal of fixing various quirks and
   unfeatures both in already merged, and in upcoming proposed code.

   The old data structure is the per task and per cpu
   perf_event_contexts:

         task_struct::perf_events_ctxp[] &lt;-&gt; perf_event_context &lt;-&gt; perf_cpu_context
              ^                                 |    ^     |           ^
              `---------------------------------'    |     `--&gt; pmu ---'
                                                     v           ^
                                                perf_event ------'

   In this new design this is replaced with a single task context and a
   single CPU context, plus intermediate data-structures:

         task_struct::perf_event_ctxp -&gt; perf_event_context &lt;- perf_cpu_context
              ^                           |   ^ ^
              `---------------------------'   | |
                                              | |    perf_cpu_pmu_context &lt;--.
                                              | `----.    ^                  |
                                              |      |    |                  |
                                              |      v    v                  |
                                              | ,--&gt; perf_event_pmu_context  |
                                              | |                            |
                                              | |                            |
                                              v v                            |
                                         perf_event ---&gt; pmu ----------------'

   [ See commit bd2756811766 for more details. ]

   This rewrite was developed by Peter Zijlstra and Ravi Bangoria.

 - Optimize perf_tp_event()

 - Update the Intel uncore PMU driver, extending it with UPI topology
   discovery on various hardware models.

 - Misc fixes &amp; cleanups

* tag 'perf-core-2022-12-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix reference count leak in __uncore_imc_init_box()
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix reference count leak in snr_uncore_mmio_map()
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix reference count leak in hswep_has_limit_sbox()
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix reference count leak in sad_cfg_iio_topology()
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Make set_mapping() procedure void
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Update sysfs-devices-mapping file
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Enable UPI topology discovery for Sapphire Rapids
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Enable UPI topology discovery for Icelake Server
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Get UPI NodeID and GroupID
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Enable UPI topology discovery for Skylake Server
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Generalize get_topology() for SKX PMUs
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Disable I/O stacks to PMU mapping on ICX-D
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Clear attr_update properly
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Introduce UPI topology type
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Generalize IIO topology support
  perf/core: Don't allow grouping events from different hw pmus
  perf/amd/ibs: Make IBS a core pmu
  perf: Fix function pointer case
  perf/x86/amd: Remove the repeated declaration
  perf: Fix possible memleak in pmu_dev_alloc()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm64/perf: Replace PMU version number '0' with ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMUVer_NI</title>
<updated>2022-11-29T14:11:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>anshuman.khandual@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-28T02:54:49+00:00</published>
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__armv8pmu_probe_pmu() returns if detected PMU is either not implemented or
implementation defined. Extracted ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMUVer value, when PMU is
not implemented is '0' which can be replaced with ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMUVer_NI
defined as '0b0000'.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221128025449.39085-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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__armv8pmu_probe_pmu() returns if detected PMU is either not implemented or
implementation defined. Extracted ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMUVer value, when PMU is
not implemented is '0' which can be replaced with ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMUVer_NI
defined as '0b0000'.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221128025449.39085-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf: Rewrite core context handling</title>
<updated>2022-10-27T18:12:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-08T06:24:24+00:00</published>
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There have been various issues and limitations with the way perf uses
(task) contexts to track events. Most notable is the single hardware
PMU task context, which has resulted in a number of yucky things (both
proposed and merged).

Notably:
 - HW breakpoint PMU
 - ARM big.little PMU / Intel ADL PMU
 - Intel Branch Monitoring PMU
 - AMD IBS PMU
 - S390 cpum_cf PMU
 - PowerPC trace_imc PMU

*Current design:*

Currently we have a per task and per cpu perf_event_contexts:

  task_struct::perf_events_ctxp[] &lt;-&gt; perf_event_context &lt;-&gt; perf_cpu_context
       ^                                 |    ^     |           ^
       `---------------------------------'    |     `--&gt; pmu ---'
                                              v           ^
                                         perf_event ------'

Each task has an array of pointers to a perf_event_context. Each
perf_event_context has a direct relation to a PMU and a group of
events for that PMU. The task related perf_event_context's have a
pointer back to that task.

Each PMU has a per-cpu pointer to a per-cpu perf_cpu_context, which
includes a perf_event_context, which again has a direct relation to
that PMU, and a group of events for that PMU.

The perf_cpu_context also tracks which task context is currently
associated with that CPU and includes a few other things like the
hrtimer for rotation etc.

Each perf_event is then associated with its PMU and one
perf_event_context.

*Proposed design:*

New design proposed by this patch reduce to a single task context and
a single CPU context but adds some intermediate data-structures:

  task_struct::perf_event_ctxp -&gt; perf_event_context &lt;- perf_cpu_context
       ^                           |   ^ ^
       `---------------------------'   | |
                                       | |    perf_cpu_pmu_context &lt;--.
                                       | `----.    ^                  |
                                       |      |    |                  |
                                       |      v    v                  |
                                       | ,--&gt; perf_event_pmu_context  |
                                       | |                            |
                                       | |                            |
                                       v v                            |
                                  perf_event ---&gt; pmu ----------------'

With the new design, perf_event_context will hold all events for all
pmus in the (respective pinned/flexible) rbtrees. This can be achieved
by adding pmu to rbtree key:

  {cpu, pmu, cgroup, group_index}

Each perf_event_context carries a list of perf_event_pmu_context which
is used to hold per-pmu-per-context state. For example, it keeps track
of currently active events for that pmu, a pmu specific task_ctx_data,
a flag to tell whether rotation is required or not etc.

Additionally, perf_cpu_pmu_context is used to hold per-pmu-per-cpu
state like hrtimer details to drive the event rotation, a pointer to
perf_event_pmu_context of currently running task and some other
ancillary information.

Each perf_event is associated to it's pmu, perf_event_context and
perf_event_pmu_context.

Further optimizations to current implementation are possible. For
example, ctx_resched() can be optimized to reschedule only single pmu
events.

Much thanks to Ravi for picking this up and pushing it towards
completion.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221008062424.313-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
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There have been various issues and limitations with the way perf uses
(task) contexts to track events. Most notable is the single hardware
PMU task context, which has resulted in a number of yucky things (both
proposed and merged).

Notably:
 - HW breakpoint PMU
 - ARM big.little PMU / Intel ADL PMU
 - Intel Branch Monitoring PMU
 - AMD IBS PMU
 - S390 cpum_cf PMU
 - PowerPC trace_imc PMU

*Current design:*

Currently we have a per task and per cpu perf_event_contexts:

  task_struct::perf_events_ctxp[] &lt;-&gt; perf_event_context &lt;-&gt; perf_cpu_context
       ^                                 |    ^     |           ^
       `---------------------------------'    |     `--&gt; pmu ---'
                                              v           ^
                                         perf_event ------'

Each task has an array of pointers to a perf_event_context. Each
perf_event_context has a direct relation to a PMU and a group of
events for that PMU. The task related perf_event_context's have a
pointer back to that task.

Each PMU has a per-cpu pointer to a per-cpu perf_cpu_context, which
includes a perf_event_context, which again has a direct relation to
that PMU, and a group of events for that PMU.

The perf_cpu_context also tracks which task context is currently
associated with that CPU and includes a few other things like the
hrtimer for rotation etc.

Each perf_event is then associated with its PMU and one
perf_event_context.

*Proposed design:*

New design proposed by this patch reduce to a single task context and
a single CPU context but adds some intermediate data-structures:

  task_struct::perf_event_ctxp -&gt; perf_event_context &lt;- perf_cpu_context
       ^                           |   ^ ^
       `---------------------------'   | |
                                       | |    perf_cpu_pmu_context &lt;--.
                                       | `----.    ^                  |
                                       |      |    |                  |
                                       |      v    v                  |
                                       | ,--&gt; perf_event_pmu_context  |
                                       | |                            |
                                       | |                            |
                                       v v                            |
                                  perf_event ---&gt; pmu ----------------'

With the new design, perf_event_context will hold all events for all
pmus in the (respective pinned/flexible) rbtrees. This can be achieved
by adding pmu to rbtree key:

  {cpu, pmu, cgroup, group_index}

Each perf_event_context carries a list of perf_event_pmu_context which
is used to hold per-pmu-per-context state. For example, it keeps track
of currently active events for that pmu, a pmu specific task_ctx_data,
a flag to tell whether rotation is required or not etc.

Additionally, perf_cpu_pmu_context is used to hold per-pmu-per-cpu
state like hrtimer details to drive the event rotation, a pointer to
perf_event_pmu_context of currently running task and some other
ancillary information.

Each perf_event is associated to it's pmu, perf_event_context and
perf_event_pmu_context.

Further optimizations to current implementation are possible. For
example, ctx_resched() can be optimized to reschedule only single pmu
events.

Much thanks to Ravi for picking this up and pushing it towards
completion.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221008062424.313-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sysreg: Use feature numbering for PMU and SPE revisions</title>
<updated>2022-09-16T11:38:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-10T16:33:51+00:00</published>
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Currently the kernel refers to the versions of the PMU and SPE features by
the version of the architecture where those features were updated but the
ARM refers to them using the FEAT_ names for the features. To improve
consistency and help with updating for newer features and since v9 will
make our current naming scheme a bit more confusing update the macros
identfying features to use the FEAT_ based scheme.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220910163354.860255-4-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Currently the kernel refers to the versions of the PMU and SPE features by
the version of the architecture where those features were updated but the
ARM refers to them using the FEAT_ names for the features. To improve
consistency and help with updating for newer features and since v9 will
make our current naming scheme a bit more confusing update the macros
identfying features to use the FEAT_ based scheme.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220910163354.860255-4-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sysreg: Add _EL1 into ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 definition names</title>
<updated>2022-09-16T11:38:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-10T16:33:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fcf37b38ff2282ef3dc6ba1966c83b29e5734edd'/>
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Normally we include the full register name in the defines for fields within
registers but this has not been followed for ID registers. In preparation
for automatic generation of defines add the _EL1s into the defines for
ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 to follow the convention. No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220910163354.860255-3-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Normally we include the full register name in the defines for fields within
registers but this has not been followed for ID registers. In preparation
for automatic generation of defines add the _EL1s into the defines for
ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 to follow the convention. No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220910163354.860255-3-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sysreg: Align field names in ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 with architecture</title>
<updated>2022-09-16T11:38:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-10T16:33:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c0357a73fa4a96d8ed9ee46e9927d9fcbc9d0828'/>
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The naming scheme the architecture uses for the fields in ID_AA64DFR0_EL1
does not align well with kernel conventions, using as it does a lot of
MixedCase in various arrangements. In preparation for automatically
generating the defines for this register rename the defines used to match
what is in the architecture.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220910163354.860255-2-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The naming scheme the architecture uses for the fields in ID_AA64DFR0_EL1
does not align well with kernel conventions, using as it does a lot of
MixedCase in various arrangements. In preparation for automatically
generating the defines for this register rename the defines used to match
what is in the architecture.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220910163354.860255-2-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: perf: Expose some Armv9 common events under sysfs</title>
<updated>2022-03-08T11:40:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaokun Zhang</name>
<email>zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-03T08:54:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=83f83cc0c1379413fb1199a78f91ab441a7e76fd'/>
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Armv9[1] has introduced some common architectural events (0x400C-0x400F)
and common microarchitectural events (0x4010-0x401B), which can be detected
by PMCEID0_EL0 from bit44 to bit59, so expose these common events under
sysfs.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0608/ba

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaokun Zhang &lt;zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220303085419.64085-1-zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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Armv9[1] has introduced some common architectural events (0x400C-0x400F)
and common microarchitectural events (0x4010-0x401B), which can be detected
by PMCEID0_EL0 from bit44 to bit59, so expose these common events under
sysfs.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0608/ba

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaokun Zhang &lt;zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220303085419.64085-1-zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: perf: Don't register user access sysctl handler multiple times</title>
<updated>2022-01-04T14:57:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-04T14:57:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3da4390bcdf4dcea5eb7961f1ba05f75c642a39d'/>
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Commit e2012600810c ("arm64: perf: Add userspace counter access disable
switch") introduced a new 'perf_user_access' sysctl file to enable and
disable direct userspace access to the PMU counters. Sadly, Geert
reports that on his big.LITTLE SoC ('Renesas Salvator-XS w/ R-Car H3'),
the file is created for each PMU type probed, resulting in a splat
during boot:

  | hw perfevents: enabled with armv8_cortex_a53 PMU driver, 7 counters available
  | sysctl duplicate entry: /kernel//perf_user_access
  | CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc3-arm64-renesas-00003-ge2012600810c #1420
  | Hardware name: Renesas Salvator-X 2nd version board based on r8a77951 (DT)
  | Call trace:
  |  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x190
  |  show_stack+0x14/0x20
  |  dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xb0
  |  dump_stack+0x14/0x2c
  |  __register_sysctl_table+0x384/0x818
  |  register_sysctl+0x20/0x28
  |  armv8_pmu_init.constprop.0+0x118/0x150
  |  armv8_a57_pmu_init+0x1c/0x28
  |  arm_pmu_device_probe+0x1b4/0x558
  |  armv8_pmu_device_probe+0x18/0x20
  |  platform_probe+0x64/0xd0
  |  hw perfevents: enabled with armv8_cortex_a57 PMU driver, 7 counters available

Introduce a state variable to track creation of the sysctl file and
ensure that it is only created once.

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Fixes: e2012600810c ("arm64: perf: Add userspace counter access disable switch")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdVcDxR9sGzc5pcnORiotonERBgc6dsXZXMd6wTvLGA9iw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit e2012600810c ("arm64: perf: Add userspace counter access disable
switch") introduced a new 'perf_user_access' sysctl file to enable and
disable direct userspace access to the PMU counters. Sadly, Geert
reports that on his big.LITTLE SoC ('Renesas Salvator-XS w/ R-Car H3'),
the file is created for each PMU type probed, resulting in a splat
during boot:

  | hw perfevents: enabled with armv8_cortex_a53 PMU driver, 7 counters available
  | sysctl duplicate entry: /kernel//perf_user_access
  | CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc3-arm64-renesas-00003-ge2012600810c #1420
  | Hardware name: Renesas Salvator-X 2nd version board based on r8a77951 (DT)
  | Call trace:
  |  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x190
  |  show_stack+0x14/0x20
  |  dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xb0
  |  dump_stack+0x14/0x2c
  |  __register_sysctl_table+0x384/0x818
  |  register_sysctl+0x20/0x28
  |  armv8_pmu_init.constprop.0+0x118/0x150
  |  armv8_a57_pmu_init+0x1c/0x28
  |  arm_pmu_device_probe+0x1b4/0x558
  |  armv8_pmu_device_probe+0x18/0x20
  |  platform_probe+0x64/0xd0
  |  hw perfevents: enabled with armv8_cortex_a57 PMU driver, 7 counters available

Introduce a state variable to track creation of the sysctl file and
ensure that it is only created once.

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Fixes: e2012600810c ("arm64: perf: Add userspace counter access disable switch")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdVcDxR9sGzc5pcnORiotonERBgc6dsXZXMd6wTvLGA9iw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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