[RFC][PATCH 10/11] perfcounters: abstract wakeup flag setting in core to fix powerpc build

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 17 2009 - 18:08:23 EST


From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>

Impact: build fix for powerpc

Commit bd753921015e7905 ("perf_counter: software counter event
infrastructure") introduced a use of TIF_PERF_COUNTERS into the core
perfcounter code. This breaks the build on powerpc because we use
a flag in a per-cpu area to signal wakeups on powerpc rather than
a thread_info flag, because the thread_info flags have to be
manipulated with atomic operations and are thus slower than per-cpu
flags.

This fixes the by changing the core to use an abstracted
set_perf_counter_pending() function, which is defined on x86 to set
the TIF_PERF_COUNTERS flag and on powerpc to set the per-cpu flag
(paca->perf_counter_pending). It changes the previous powerpc
definition of set_perf_counter_pending to not take an argument and
adds a clear_perf_counter_pending, so as to simplify the definition
on x86.

On x86, set_perf_counter_pending() is defined as a macro. Defining
it as a static inline in arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counters.h causes
compile failures because <asm/perf_counters.h> gets included early in
<linux/sched.h>, and the definitions of set_tsk_thread_flag etc. are
therefore not available in <asm/perf_counters.h>. (On powerpc this
problem is avoided by defining set_perf_counter_pending etc. in
<asm/hw_irq.h>.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h | 14 +++++++++++---
arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c | 11 +++--------
arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c | 3 +--
arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h | 3 +++
kernel/perf_counter.c | 2 +-
5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
+++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
@@ -142,10 +142,17 @@ static inline unsigned long get_perf_cou
return x;
}

-static inline void set_perf_counter_pending(int x)
+static inline void set_perf_counter_pending(void)
{
asm volatile("stb %0,%1(13)" : :
- "r" (x),
+ "r" (1),
+ "i" (offsetof(struct paca_struct, perf_counter_pending)));
+}
+
+static inline void clear_perf_counter_pending(void)
+{
+ asm volatile("stb %0,%1(13)" : :
+ "r" (0),
"i" (offsetof(struct paca_struct, perf_counter_pending)));
}

@@ -158,7 +165,8 @@ static inline unsigned long get_perf_cou
return 0;
}

-static inline void set_perf_counter_pending(int x) {}
+static inline void set_perf_counter_pending(void) {}
+static inline void clear_perf_counter_pending(void) {}
static inline void perf_counter_do_pending(void) {}
#endif /* CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS */

Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -104,13 +104,6 @@ static inline notrace void set_soft_enab
: : "r" (enable), "i" (offsetof(struct paca_struct, soft_enabled)));
}

-#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
-notrace void __weak perf_counter_do_pending(void)
-{
- set_perf_counter_pending(0);
-}
-#endif
-
notrace void raw_local_irq_restore(unsigned long en)
{
/*
@@ -142,8 +135,10 @@ notrace void raw_local_irq_restore(unsig
iseries_handle_interrupts();
}

- if (get_perf_counter_pending())
+ if (get_perf_counter_pending()) {
+ clear_perf_counter_pending();
perf_counter_do_pending();
+ }

/*
* if (get_paca()->hard_enabled) return;
Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -653,7 +653,6 @@ void perf_counter_do_pending(void)
struct cpu_hw_counters *cpuhw = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_counters);
struct perf_counter *counter;

- set_perf_counter_pending(0);
for (i = 0; i < cpuhw->n_counters; ++i) {
counter = cpuhw->counter[i];
if (counter && counter->wakeup_pending) {
@@ -811,7 +810,7 @@ static void perf_counter_interrupt(struc
perf_counter_do_pending();
irq_exit();
} else {
- set_perf_counter_pending(1);
+ set_perf_counter_pending();
}
}
}
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ union cpuid10_edx {
#define MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR2 0x30b
#define X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED_BUS_CYCLES (X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED + 2)

+#define set_perf_counter_pending() \
+ set_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_PERF_COUNTERS);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
extern void init_hw_perf_counters(void);
extern void perf_counters_lapic_init(int nmi);
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/perf_counter.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ static void perf_swcounter_interrupt(str

if (nmi) {
counter->wakeup_pending = 1;
- set_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_PERF_COUNTERS);
+ set_perf_counter_pending();
} else
wake_up(&counter->waitq);
}

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