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      x86, trace: Add irq vector tracepoints · cf910e83
      Seiji Aguchi 提交于
      [Purpose of this patch]
      
      As Vaibhav explained in the thread below, tracepoints for irq vectors
      are useful.
      
      http://www.spinics.net/lists/mm-commits/msg85707.html
      
      <snip>
      The current interrupt traces from irq_handler_entry and irq_handler_exit
      provide when an interrupt is handled.  They provide good data about when
      the system has switched to kernel space and how it affects the currently
      running processes.
      
      There are some IRQ vectors which trigger the system into kernel space,
      which are not handled in generic IRQ handlers.  Tracing such events gives
      us the information about IRQ interaction with other system events.
      
      The trace also tells where the system is spending its time.  We want to
      know which cores are handling interrupts and how they are affecting other
      processes in the system.  Also, the trace provides information about when
      the cores are idle and which interrupts are changing that state.
      <snip>
      
      On the other hand, my usecase is tracing just local timer event and
      getting a value of instruction pointer.
      
      I suggested to add an argument local timer event to get instruction pointer before.
      But there is another way to get it with external module like systemtap.
      So, I don't need to add any argument to irq vector tracepoints now.
      
      [Patch Description]
      
      Vaibhav's patch shared a trace point ,irq_vector_entry/irq_vector_exit, in all events.
      But there is an above use case to trace specific irq_vector rather than tracing all events.
      In this case, we are concerned about overhead due to unwanted events.
      
      So, add following tracepoints instead of introducing irq_vector_entry/exit.
      so that we can enable them independently.
         - local_timer_vector
         - reschedule_vector
         - call_function_vector
         - call_function_single_vector
         - irq_work_entry_vector
         - error_apic_vector
         - thermal_apic_vector
         - threshold_apic_vector
         - spurious_apic_vector
         - x86_platform_ipi_vector
      
      Also, introduce a logic switching IDT at enabling/disabling time so that a time penalty
      makes a zero when tracepoints are disabled. Detailed explanations are as follows.
       - Create trace irq handlers with entering_irq()/exiting_irq().
       - Create a new IDT, trace_idt_table, at boot time by adding a logic to
         _set_gate(). It is just a copy of original idt table.
       - Register the new handlers for tracpoints to the new IDT by introducing
         macros to alloc_intr_gate() called at registering time of irq_vector handlers.
       - Add checking, whether irq vector tracing is on/off, into load_current_idt().
         This has to be done below debug checking for these reasons.
         - Switching to debug IDT may be kicked while tracing is enabled.
         - On the other hands, switching to trace IDT is kicked only when debugging
           is disabled.
      
      In addition, the new IDT is created only when CONFIG_TRACING is enabled to avoid being
      used for other purposes.
      Signed-off-by: NSeiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51C323ED.5050708@hds.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      cf910e83
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      x86, trace: Introduce entering/exiting_irq() · eddc0e92
      Seiji Aguchi 提交于
      When implementing tracepoints in interrupt handers, if the tracepoints are
      simply added in the performance sensitive path of interrupt handers,
      it may cause potential performance problem due to the time penalty.
      
      To solve the problem, an idea is to prepare non-trace/trace irq handers and
      switch their IDTs at the enabling/disabling time.
      
      So, let's introduce entering_irq()/exiting_irq() for pre/post-
      processing of each irq handler.
      
      A way to use them is as follows.
      
      Non-trace irq handler:
      smp_irq_handler()
      {
      	entering_irq();		/* pre-processing of this handler */
      	__smp_irq_handler();	/*
      				 * common logic between non-trace and trace handlers
      				 * in a vector.
      				 */
      	exiting_irq();		/* post-processing of this handler */
      
      }
      
      Trace irq_handler:
      smp_trace_irq_handler()
      {
      	entering_irq();		/* pre-processing of this handler */
      	trace_irq_entry();	/* tracepoint for irq entry */
      	__smp_irq_handler();	/*
      				 * common logic between non-trace and trace handlers
      				 * in a vector.
      				 */
      	trace_irq_exit();	/* tracepoint for irq exit */
      	exiting_irq();		/* post-processing of this handler */
      
      }
      
      If tracepoints can place outside entering_irq()/exiting_irq() as follows,
      it looks cleaner.
      
      smp_trace_irq_handler()
      {
      	trace_irq_entry();
      	smp_irq_handler();
      	trace_irq_exit();
      }
      
      But it doesn't work.
      The problem is with irq_enter/exit() being called. They must be called before
      trace_irq_enter/exit(),  because of the rcu_irq_enter() must be called before
      any tracepoints are used, as tracepoints use  rcu to synchronize.
      
      As a possible alternative, we may be able to call irq_enter() first as follows
      if irq_enter() can nest.
      
      smp_trace_irq_hander()
      {
      	irq_entry();
      	trace_irq_entry();
      	smp_irq_handler();
      	trace_irq_exit();
      	irq_exit();
      }
      
      But it doesn't work, either.
      If irq_enter() is nested, it may have a time penalty because it has to check if it
      was already called or not. The time penalty is not desired in performance sensitive
      paths even if it is tiny.
      Signed-off-by: NSeiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51C3238D.9040706@hds.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      eddc0e92
  4. 12 12月, 2011 1 次提交
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      x86: Call idle notifier after irq_enter() · 98ad1cc1
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      Interrupts notify the idle exit state before calling irq_enter().
      But the notifier code calls rcu_read_lock() and this is not
      allowed while rcu is in an extended quiescent state. We need
      to wait for irq_enter() -> rcu_idle_exit() to be called before
      doing so otherwise this results in a grumpy RCU:
      
      [    0.099991] WARNING: at include/linux/rcupdate.h:194 __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd2/0x110()
      [    0.099991] Hardware name: AMD690VM-FMH
      [    0.099991] Modules linked in:
      [    0.099991] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0-rc6+ #255
      [    0.099991] Call Trace:
      [    0.099991]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff81051c8a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff81051cd5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff817d6fa2>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd2/0x110
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff817d6ff1>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x11/0x20
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff81001873>] exit_idle+0x43/0x50
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff81020439>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x39/0xa0
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff817da253>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20
      [    0.099991]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8100ae67>] ? default_idle+0xa7/0x350
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff8100ae65>] ? default_idle+0xa5/0x350
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff8100b19b>] amd_e400_idle+0x8b/0x110
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff810cb01f>] ? rcu_enter_nohz+0x8f/0x160
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff810019a0>] cpu_idle+0xb0/0x110
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff817a7505>] rest_init+0xe5/0x140
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff817a7468>] ? rest_init+0x48/0x140
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff81cc5ca3>] start_kernel+0x3d1/0x3dc
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff81cc5321>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x135
      [    0.099991]  [<ffffffff81cc5412>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xed/0xf4
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Andy Henroid <andrew.d.henroid@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      98ad1cc1
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