perf events: Fix swevent hrtimer sampling by keeping track of remaining time...

perf events: Fix swevent hrtimer sampling by keeping track of remaining time when enabling/disabling swevent hrtimers

Make the hrtimer based events work for sysprof.

Whenever a swevent is scheduled out, the hrtimer is canceled.
When it is scheduled back in, the timer is restarted. This
happens every scheduler tick, which means the timer never
expired because it was getting repeatedly restarted over and
over with the same period.

To fix that, save the remaining time when disabling; when
reenabling, use that saved time as the period instead of the
user-specified sampling period.

Also, move the starting and stopping of the hrtimers to helper
functions instead of duplicating the code.
Signed-off-by: NSøren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <ye8vdi7mluz.fsf@camel16.daimi.au.dk>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

include/linux/perf_event.h

@@ -471,8 +471,8 @@ struct hw_perf_event {
 			unsigned long	event_base;
 			int		idx;
 		};
-		union { /* software */
-			atomic64_t	count;
+		struct { /* software */
+			s64		remaining;
 			struct hrtimer	hrtimer;
 		};
 	};

kernel/perf_event.c

@@ -3969,6 +3969,42 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart perf_swevent_hrtimer(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static void perf_swevent_start_hrtimer(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+	struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
+
+	hrtimer_init(&hwc->hrtimer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
+	hwc->hrtimer.function = perf_swevent_hrtimer;
+	if (hwc->sample_period) {
+		u64 period;
+
+		if (hwc->remaining) {
+			if (hwc->remaining < 0)
+				period = 10000;
+			else
+				period = hwc->remaining;
+			hwc->remaining = 0;
+		} else {
+			period = max_t(u64, 10000, hwc->sample_period);
+		}
+		__hrtimer_start_range_ns(&hwc->hrtimer,
+				ns_to_ktime(period), 0,
+				HRTIMER_MODE_REL, 0);
+	}
+}
+
+static void perf_swevent_cancel_hrtimer(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+	struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
+
+	if (hwc->sample_period) {
+		ktime_t remaining = hrtimer_get_remaining(&hwc->hrtimer);
+		hwc->remaining = ktime_to_ns(remaining);
+
+		hrtimer_cancel(&hwc->hrtimer);
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * Software event: cpu wall time clock
  */
@@ -3991,22 +4027,14 @@ static int cpu_clock_perf_event_enable(struct perf_event *event)
 	int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
 
 	atomic64_set(&hwc->prev_count, cpu_clock(cpu));
-	hrtimer_init(&hwc->hrtimer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
-	hwc->hrtimer.function = perf_swevent_hrtimer;
-	if (hwc->sample_period) {
-		u64 period = max_t(u64, 10000, hwc->sample_period);
-		__hrtimer_start_range_ns(&hwc->hrtimer,
-				ns_to_ktime(period), 0,
-				HRTIMER_MODE_REL, 0);
-	}
+	perf_swevent_start_hrtimer(event);
 
 	return 0;
 }
 
 static void cpu_clock_perf_event_disable(struct perf_event *event)
 {
-	if (event->hw.sample_period)
-		hrtimer_cancel(&event->hw.hrtimer);
+	perf_swevent_cancel_hrtimer(event);
 	cpu_clock_perf_event_update(event);
 }
 
@@ -4043,22 +4071,15 @@ static int task_clock_perf_event_enable(struct perf_event *event)
 	now = event->ctx->time;
 
 	atomic64_set(&hwc->prev_count, now);
-	hrtimer_init(&hwc->hrtimer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
-	hwc->hrtimer.function = perf_swevent_hrtimer;
-	if (hwc->sample_period) {
-		u64 period = max_t(u64, 10000, hwc->sample_period);
-		__hrtimer_start_range_ns(&hwc->hrtimer,
-				ns_to_ktime(period), 0,
-				HRTIMER_MODE_REL, 0);
-	}
+
+	perf_swevent_start_hrtimer(event);
 
 	return 0;
 }
 
 static void task_clock_perf_event_disable(struct perf_event *event)
 {
-	if (event->hw.sample_period)
-		hrtimer_cancel(&event->hw.hrtimer);
+	perf_swevent_cancel_hrtimer(event);
 	task_clock_perf_event_update(event, event->ctx->time);
 
 }