[PATCH 04/14] perf/x86: output side-band events overhead

From: kan . liang
Date: Wed Nov 23 2016 - 12:47:32 EST


From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>

Iterating all events which need to receive side-band events also bring
some overhead.
Save the overhead information in task context or CPU context, whichever
context is available.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/perf_event.h | 2 ++
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 1 +
kernel/events/core.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index f72b97a..ec3cb7f 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -764,6 +764,8 @@ struct perf_event_context {
#endif
void *task_ctx_data; /* pmu specific data */
struct rcu_head rcu_head;
+
+ struct perf_overhead_entry sb_overhead;
};

/*
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 9124c7c..5e7c522 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -994,6 +994,7 @@ struct perf_branch_entry {
enum perf_record_overhead_type {
PERF_NMI_OVERHEAD = 0,
PERF_MUX_OVERHEAD,
+ PERF_SB_OVERHEAD,

PERF_OVERHEAD_MAX,
};
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 9934059..51e9df7 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -1829,9 +1829,15 @@ event_sched_out(struct perf_event *event,
if (event->attr.exclusive || !cpuctx->active_oncpu)
cpuctx->exclusive = 0;

- if (log_overhead && cpuctx->mux_overhead.nr) {
- cpuctx->mux_overhead.cpu = smp_processor_id();
- perf_log_overhead(event, PERF_MUX_OVERHEAD, &cpuctx->mux_overhead);
+ if (log_overhead) {
+ if (cpuctx->mux_overhead.nr) {
+ cpuctx->mux_overhead.cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ perf_log_overhead(event, PERF_MUX_OVERHEAD, &cpuctx->mux_overhead);
+ }
+ if (ctx->sb_overhead.nr) {
+ ctx->sb_overhead.cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ perf_log_overhead(event, PERF_SB_OVERHEAD, &ctx->sb_overhead);
+ }
}

perf_pmu_enable(event->pmu);
@@ -6133,6 +6139,14 @@ static void perf_iterate_sb_cpu(perf_iterate_f output, void *data)
}
}

+static void
+perf_caculate_sb_overhead(struct perf_event_context *ctx,
+ u64 time)
+{
+ ctx->sb_overhead.nr++;
+ ctx->sb_overhead.time += time;
+}
+
/*
* Iterate all events that need to receive side-band events.
*
@@ -6143,9 +6157,12 @@ static void
perf_iterate_sb(perf_iterate_f output, void *data,
struct perf_event_context *task_ctx)
{
+ struct perf_event_context *overhead_ctx = task_ctx;
struct perf_event_context *ctx;
+ u64 start_clock, end_clock;
int ctxn;

+ start_clock = perf_clock();
rcu_read_lock();
preempt_disable();

@@ -6163,12 +6180,19 @@ perf_iterate_sb(perf_iterate_f output, void *data,

for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn) {
ctx = rcu_dereference(current->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]);
- if (ctx)
+ if (ctx) {
perf_iterate_ctx(ctx, output, data, false);
+ if (!overhead_ctx)
+ overhead_ctx = ctx;
+ }
}
done:
preempt_enable();
rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ end_clock = perf_clock();
+ if (overhead_ctx)
+ perf_caculate_sb_overhead(overhead_ctx, end_clock - start_clock);
}

/*
--
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