[tip:perf/core] perf: Add a capability for AUX_NO_SG pmus to do software double buffering

[tip-bot for Alexander Shishkin]

Commit-ID:  6a279230391b63130070e0219b0ad09d34d28c89
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/6a279230391b63130070e0219b0ad09d34d28c89
Author:     Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:18:13 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 17:14:10 +0200

perf: Add a capability for AUX_NO_SG pmus to do software double buffering

For pmus that don't support scatter-gather for AUX data in hardware, it
might still make sense to implement software double buffering to avoid
losing data while the user is reading data out. For this purpose, add
a pmu capability that guarantees multiple high-order chunks for AUX buffer,
so that the pmu driver can do switchover tricks.

To make use of this feature, add PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_SW_DOUBLEBUF to your
pmu's capability mask. This will make the ring buffer AUX allocation code
ensure that the biggest high order allocation for the aux buffer pages is
no bigger than half of the total requested buffer size, thus making sure
that the buffer has at least two high order allocations.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: markus.t.metzger@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-5-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/perf_event.h  |  1 +
 kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index d5a4a8e..13a1eb3 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ struct perf_event;
 #define PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_INTERRUPT		0x01
 #define PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_NMI			0x02
 #define PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG			0x04
+#define PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_SW_DOUBLEBUF		0x08
 
 /**
  * struct pmu - generic performance monitoring unit
diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index ed0859e..6e3be7a 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -287,13 +287,26 @@ int rb_alloc_aux(struct ring_buffer *rb, struct perf_event *event,
 	if (!has_aux(event))
 		return -ENOTSUPP;
 
-	if (event->pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG)
+	if (event->pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG) {
 		/*
 		 * We need to start with the max_order that fits in nr_pages,
 		 * not the other way around, hence ilog2() and not get_order.
 		 */
 		max_order = ilog2(nr_pages);
 
+		/*
+		 * PMU requests more than one contiguous chunks of memory
+		 * for SW double buffering
+		 */
+		if ((event->pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_SW_DOUBLEBUF) &&
+		    !overwrite) {
+			if (!max_order)
+				return -EINVAL;
+
+			max_order--;
+		}
+	}
+
 	rb->aux_pages = kzalloc_node(nr_pages * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL, node);
 	if (!rb->aux_pages)
 		return -ENOMEM;
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