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    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Report the cloning task as parent on perf_counter_fork() · 94d5d1b2
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      A bug in (9f498cc5: perf_counter: Full task tracing) makes
      profiling multi-threaded apps it go belly up.
      
      [ output as: (PID:TID):(PPID:PTID) ]
      
       # ./perf report -D | grep FORK
      0x4b0 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3237):(3236:3236)
      0xa10 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3238):(3236:3236)
      0xa70 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3239):(3236:3236)
      0xad0 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3240):(3236:3236)
      0xb18 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3241):(3236:3236)
      
      Shows us that the test (27d028de
      
       perf report: Update for the new
      FORK/EXIT events) in builtin-report.c:
      
              /*
               * A thread clone will have the same PID for both
               * parent and child.
               */
              if (thread == parent)
                      return 0;
      
      Will clearly fail.
      
      The problem is that perf_counter_fork() reports the actual
      parent, instead of the cloning thread.
      
      Fixing that (with the below patch), yields:
      
       # ./perf report -D | grep FORK
      0x4c8 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1590):(1589:1589)
      0xbd8 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1591):(1590:1590)
      0xc80 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1592):(1590:1590)
      0x3338 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1593):(1590:1590)
      0x66b0 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1594):(1590:1590)
      
      Which both makes more sense and doesn't confuse perf report
      anymore.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: paulus@samba.org
      Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1250172882.5241.62.camel@twins>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      94d5d1b2
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Fix an ipi-deadlock · 970892a9
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      
      
      perf_pending_counter() is called from IRQ context and will call
      perf_counter_disable(), however perf_counter_disable() uses
      smp_call_function_single() which doesn't fancy being used with
      IRQs disabled due to IPI deadlocks.
      
      Fix this by making it use the local __perf_counter_disable()
      call and teaching the counter_sched_out() code about pending
      disables as well.
      
      This should cover the case where a counter migrates before the
      pending queue gets processed.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Corey J Ashford <cjashfor@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090813103655.244097721@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      970892a9
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf: Rework/fix the whole read vs group stuff · 3dab77fb
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      
      
      Replace PERF_SAMPLE_GROUP with PERF_SAMPLE_READ and introduce
      PERF_FORMAT_GROUP to deal with group reads in a more generic
      way.
      
      This allows you to get group reads out of read() as well.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Corey J Ashford <cjashfor@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090813103655.117411814@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      3dab77fb
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter: Fix swcounter context invariance · bcfc2602
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      
      
      perf_swcounter_is_counting() uses a lock, which means we cannot
      use swcounters from NMI or when holding that particular lock,
      this is unintended.
      
      The below removes the lock, this opens up race window, but not
      worse than the swcounters already experience due to RCU
      traversal of the context in perf_swcounter_ctx_event().
      
      This also fixes the hard lockups while opening a lockdep
      tracepoint counter.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Acked-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
      Cc: Corey J Ashford <cjashfor@us.ibm.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1250149915.10001.66.camel@twins>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      bcfc2602