[acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$ perf record -a -f
   Fatal: Permission error - are you root?
 	 Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.

 [acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$
Suggested-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1268333592-30872-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch is an optimization in perf_event_task_sched_in() to avoid
scheduling the events twice in a row.

Without it, the perf_disable()/perf_enable() pair is invoked twice,
thereby pinned events counts while scheduling flexible events and we go
throuh hw_perf_enable() twice.

By encapsulating, the whole sequence into perf_disable()/perf_enable() we
ensure, hw_perf_enable() is going to be invoked only once because of the
refcount protection.
Signed-off-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268288765-5326-1-git-send-email-eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix typo. But the modularization here is ugly and should be improved.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The PEBS+LBR decoding magic needs the insn_get_length() infrastructure
to be able to decode x86 instruction length.

So split it out of KPROBES dependency and make it enabled when either
KPROBES or PERF_EVENTS is enabled.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Don't decrement the TOS twice...
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Pull the core handler in line with the nhm one, also make sure we always
drain the buffer.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We don't need checking_{wr,rd}msr() calls, since we should know what cpu
we're running on and not use blindly poke at msrs.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

If we reset the LBR on each first counter, simple counter rotation which
first deschedules all counters and then reschedules the new ones will
lead to LBR reset, even though we're still in the same task context.

Reduce this by not flushing on the first counter but only flushing on
different task contexts.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We need to use the actual cpuc->pebs_enabled value, not a local copy for
the changes to take effect.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Its unclear if the PEBS state record will have only a single bit set, in
case it does not and accumulates bits, deal with that by only processing
each event once.

Also, robustify some of the code.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The documentation says we have to enable PEBS before we enable the PMU
proper.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We should never call ->enable with the pmu enabled, and we _can_ have
->disable called with the pmu enabled.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We should never call ->enable with the pmu enabled, and we _can_ have
->disable called with the pmu enabled.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

I overlooked the perf_disable()/perf_enable() calls in
intel_pmu_handle_irq(), (pointed out by Markus) so we should not
explicitly disable_all/enable_all pebs counters in the drain functions,
these are already disabled and enabling them early is confusing.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Calling ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE) on a thottled counter would result
in a double disable, cure this by using x86_pmu_{start,stop} for
throttle/unthrottle and teach x86_pmu_stop() to check ->active_mask.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

It turns out the LBR is massively unreliable on certain CPUs, so code the
fixup a little more defensive to avoid crashing the kernel.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100305154129.042271287@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Some CPUs have errata where the LBR is not cleared on Power-On. So always
clear the LBRs before use.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100305154128.966563424@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This CPU has just too many handycaps to be really useful.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100305154128.890278662@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix up the ds allocation error path, where we could free @buffer before
we used it.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100305154128.813452402@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Since there's now two users for this, place it in a common header.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.923774125@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Expose the full PEBS record using PERF_SAMPLE_RAW
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.847218224@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Saner PERF_CAPABILITIES support, which also exposes pebs_trap. Use that
latter to make PEBS's use of LBR conditional since a fault-like pebs
should already report the correct IP.

( As of this writing there is no known hardware that implements
  !pebs_trap )
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.770650663@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Use the PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT information to measure the success rate of
the PEBS fix-up.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.694233760@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Use the LBR to fix up the PEBS IP+1 issue.

As said, PEBS reports the next instruction, here we use the LBR to find
the last branch and from that construct the actual IP. If the IP matches
the LBR-TO, we use LBR-FROM, otherwise we use the LBR-TO address as the
beginning of the last basic block and decode forward.

Once we find a match to the current IP, we use the previous location.

This patch introduces a new ABI element: PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT, which
conveys that the reported IP (PERF_SAMPLE_IP) is the exact instruction
that caused the event (barring CPU errata).

The fixup can fail due to various reasons:

 1) LBR contains invalid data (quite possible)
 2) part of the basic block got paged out
 3) the reported IP isn't part of the basic block (see 1)
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.619375431@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Implement simple suport Intel Last-Branch-Record, it supports all
hardware that implements FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI, but does not (yet) implement
the LBR config register.

The Intel LBR is a FIFO of From,To addresses describing the last few
branches the hardware took.

This patch does not add perf interface to the LBR, but merely provides an
interface for internal use.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.544191154@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Minimal userspace interface to the new 'precise' events flag.

Can be used like "perf top -e r00c0p" which will use PEBS to sample
retired instructions.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.468665803@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch implements support for Intel Precise Event Based Sampling,
which is an alternative counter mode in which the counter triggers a
hardware assist to collect information on events. The hardware assist
takes a trap like snapshot of a subset of the machine registers.

This data is written to the Intel Debug-Store, which can be programmed
with a data threshold at which to raise a PMI.

With the PEBS hardware assist being trap like, the reported IP is always
one instruction after the actual instruction that triggered the event.

This implements a simple PEBS model that always takes a single PEBS event
at a time. This is done so that the interaction with the rest of the
system is as expected (freq adjust, period randomization, lbr,
callchains, etc.).

It adds an ABI element: perf_event_attr::precise, which indicates that we
wish to use this (constrained, but precise) mode.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.392111285@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Try to avoid useless rotation and PMU disables.

[ Could be improved by keeping a nr_runnable count to better account
  for the < PERF_STAT_INACTIVE counters ]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

hw_perf_enable() would enable already enabled events.

This causes problems with code that assumes that ->enable/->disable calls
are balanced (like the LBR code does).

What happens is that events that were already running and left in place
would get enabled again.

Avoid this by only enabling new events that match their previous
assignment.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

hw_perf_enable() would disable events that were not yet enabled.

This causes problems with code that assumes that ->enable/->disable calls
are balanced (like the LBR code does).

What happens is that we disable newly added counters that match their
previous assignment, even though they are not yet programmed on the
hardware.

Avoid this by only doing the first pass over the existing events.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Make sure n_added is properly accounted so that we can rely on the value
to reflect the number of added counters. This is needed if its going to
be used for more than a boolean check.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Calling ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE) on a thottled counter would result
in a double disable, cure this by using x86_pmu_{start,stop} for
throttle/unthrottle and teach x86_pmu_stop() to check ->active_mask.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

pmu::start should undo pmu::stop, make it so.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

There is no concurrency on these variables, so don't use LOCK'ed ops.

As to the intel_pmu_handle_irq() status bit clean, nobody uses that so
remove it all together.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.240023029@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Pass the full perf_event into the x86_pmu functions so that those may
make use of more than the hw_perf_event, and while doing this, remove the
superfluous second argument.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.165166129@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The second and third argument to x86_perf_event_update() are superfluous
since they are simple expressions of the first argument. Hence remove
them.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.089468871@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The second and third argument to x86_perf_event_set_period() are
superfluous since they are simple expressions of the first argument.
Hence remove them.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.006500906@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Explicitly use intel_pmu_{disable,enable}_all() in intel_pmu_handle_irq()
to avoid the NMI race conditions in perf_{disable,enable}
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Currently we always call hw_perf_disable(), even if its already disabled,
this seems superflous, esp. since it cannot be made NMI safe (see further
patches).
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Remove the hw_perf_event_*() hotplug hooks in favour of per PMU hotplug
notifiers. This has the advantage of reducing the static weak interface
as well as exposing all hotplug actions to the PMU.

Use this to fix x86 hotplug usage where we did things in ONLINE which
should have been done in UP_PREPARE or STARTING.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
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Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>