Context rotation should not occur when we are in the middle of
walking the counter list when inheriting counters ...

[ Impact: fix occasionally incorrect perf stat results ]

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

At present the values we put in overflow events for the misc
flags indicating processor mode and the instruction pointer are
obtained using the standard user_mode() and
instruction_pointer() functions. Those functions tell you where
the performance monitor interrupt was taken, which might not be
exactly where the counter overflow occurred, for example
because interrupts were disabled at the point where the
overflow occurred, or because the processor had many
instructions in flight and chose to complete some more
instructions beyond the one that caused the counter overflow.

Some architectures (e.g. powerpc) can supply more precise
information about where the counter overflow occurred and the
processor mode at that point.  This introduces new functions,
perf_misc_flags() and perf_instruction_pointer(), which arch
code can override to provide more precise information if
available.  They have default implementations which are
identical to the existing code.

This also adds a new misc flag value,
PERF_EVENT_MISC_HYPERVISOR, for the case where a counter
overflow occurred in the hypervisor.  We encode the processor
mode in the 2 bits previously used to indicate user or kernel
mode; the values for user and kernel mode are unchanged and
hypervisor mode is indicated by both bits being set.

[ Impact: generalize perfcounter core facilities ]
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18956.1272.818511.561835@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Instead of specifying the irq_period for a counter, provide a target interrupt
frequency and dynamically adapt the irq_period to match this frequency.

[ Impact: new perf-counter attribute/feature ]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.646195868@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The current disable/enable mechanism is:

	token = hw_perf_save_disable();
	...
	/* do bits */
	...
	hw_perf_restore(token);

This works well, provided that the use nests properly. Except we don't.

x86 NMI/INT throttling has non-nested use of this, breaking things. Therefore
provide a reference counter disable/enable interface, where the first disable
disables the hardware, and the last enable enables the hardware again.

[ Impact: refactor, simplify the PMU disable/enable logic ]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Allow recording the CPU number the event was generated on.

RFC: this leaves a u32 as reserved, should we fill in the
     node_id() there, or leave this open for future extention,
     as userspace can already easily do the cpu->node mapping
     if needed.

[ Impact: extend perfcounter output record format ]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090508170029.008627711@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Much like CONFIG_RECORD_GROUP records the hw_event.config to
identify the values, allow to record this for all counters.

[ Impact: extend perfcounter output record format ]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090508170028.923228280@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Corey noticed that ioctl()s on grouped counters didn't work on
the whole group. This extends the ioctl() interface to take a
second argument that is interpreted as a flags field. We then
provide PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP to toggle the behaviour.

Having this flag gives the greatest flexibility, allowing you
to individually enable/disable/reset counters in a group, or
all together.

[ Impact: fix group counter enable/disable semantics ]
Reported-by: NCorey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090508170028.837558214@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Provide a threshold to relax the mlock accounting, increasing usability.

Each counter gets perf_counter_mlock_kb for free.

[ Impact: allow more mmap buffering ]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.112113632@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Provide a way to reset an existing counter - this eases PAPI
libraries around perfcounters.

Similar to read() it doesn't collapse pending child counters.

[ Impact: new perfcounter fd ioctl method to reset counters ]
Suggested-by: NCorey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.022272933@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Keep data_head up-to-date irrespective of notifications. This fixes
the case where you disable a counter and don't get a notification for
the last few pending events, and it also allows polling usage.

[ Impact: increase precision of perfcounter mmap-ed fields ]
Suggested-by: NCorey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155436.925084300@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

percpu scheduling for perfcounters wants to take the context lock,
but that lock first needs to be initialized. Currently it is an
early_initcall() - but that is too late, the task tick runs much
sooner than that.

Call it explicitly from the scheduler init sequence instead.

[ Impact: fix access-before-init crash ]

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

When two (or more) contexts output to the same buffer, it is possible
to observe half written output.

Suppose we have CPU0 doing perf_counter_mmap(), CPU1 doing
perf_counter_overflow(). If CPU1 does a wakeup and exposes head to
user-space, then CPU2 can observe the data CPU0 is still writing.

[ Impact: fix occasionally corrupted profiling records ]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090501102533.007821627@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The type of counter index is sometimes implemented as unsigned
int. This patch changes this to have a consistent usage of int.

[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1241002046-8832-21-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch renames struct hw_perf_counter_ops into struct pmu. It
introduces a structure to describe a cpu specific pmu (performance
monitoring unit). It may contain ops and data. The new name of the
structure fits better, is shorter, and thus better to handle. Where it
was appropriate, names of function and variable have been changed too.

[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1241002046-8832-7-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This is only needed for CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS enabled.

[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1241002046-8832-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: add sysctl for paranoid/relaxed perfcounters policy

Allow the use of system wide perf counters to everybody, but provide
a sysctl to disable it for the paranoid security minded.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409085524.514046352@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Paul suggested we allow for data addresses to be recorded along with
the traditional IPs as power can provide these.

For now, only the software pagefault events provide data addresses,
but in the future power might as well for some events.

x86 doesn't seem capable of providing this atm.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.394816925@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Move PERF_RECORD_TIME so that all the fixed length items come before
the variable length ones.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.307926436@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Similar to the mmap data stream, add one that tracks the task COMM field,
so that the userspace reporting knows what to call a task.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.127422406@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add a few comments because I was forgetting what field what for what
functionality.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.036984214@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Push the PERF_EVENT_COUNTER_OVERFLOW bit into the misc field so that
we can have the full 32bit for PERF_RECORD_ bits.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130408.891867663@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Limit the size of each record to 64k (or should we count in multiples
of u64 and have a 512K limit?), this gives 16 bits or spare room in the
header, which we can use for misc bits, so as to not have to grow the
record with u64 every time we have a few bits to report.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130408.769271806@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Since perf_counter_context is switched along with tasks, we can
maintain the context time without using the task runtime clock.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.353552838@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Currently the definition of an event is slightly ambiguous. We have
wakeup events, for poll() and SIGIO, which are either generated
when a record crosses a page boundary (hw_events.wakeup_events == 0),
or every wakeup_events new records.

Now a record can be either a counter overflow record, or a number of
different things, like the mmap PROT_EXEC region notifications.

Then there is the PERF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH event limit, which only
considers counter overflows.

This patch changes then wakeup_events and SIGIO notification to only
consider overflow events. Furthermore it changes the SIGIO notification
to report SIGHUP when the event limit is reached and the counter will
be disabled.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.266679874@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Describe the event format.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.211174347@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Provide means to auto-disable the counter after 'n' overflow events.

Create the counter with hw_event.disabled = 1, and then issue an
ioctl(fd, PREF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH, n); to set the limit and enable
the counter.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.083139737@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

By popular request, provide means to log a timestamp along with the
counter overflow event.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.024173282@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Prepare for more generic overflow handling. The new perf_counter_overflow()
method will handle the generic bits of the counter overflow, and can return
a !0 return value, in which case the counter should be (soft) disabled, so
that it won't count until it's properly disabled.

XXX: do powerpc and swcounter
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.812109629@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Prepare the pending infrastructure to do more than wakeups.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.634732847@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Provide support for fcntl() I/O availability signals.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.579788800@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Change the callchain context entries to u16, so as to gain some space.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.457320003@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Update the userspace read method.

Paul noted that:
 - userspace cannot observe ->lock & 1 on the same cpu.
 - we need a barrier() between reading ->lock and ->index
   to ensure we read them in that prticular order.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.368446033@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Paul noted that we don't need SMP barriers for the mmap() counter read
because its always on the same cpu (otherwise you can't access the hw
counter anyway).

So remove the SMP barriers and replace them with regular compiler
barriers.

Further, update the comment to include a race free method of reading
said hardware counter. The primary change is putting the pmc_read
inside the seq-loop, otherwise we can still race and read rubbish.
Noticed-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090402091319.577951445@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Put in counts to tell which ips belong to what context.

  -----
   | |  hv
   | --
nr | |  kernel
   | --
   | |  user
  -----
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090402091319.493101305@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

By request, provide a way to request a wakeup every 'n' events instead
of every page of output.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090402091319.323309784@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Per suggestion from Paul, move the event overflow bits to record_type
and sanitize the enums a bit.

Breaks the ABI -- again ;-)
Suggested-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090402091319.151921176@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Provide the generic callchain support bits. If hw_event->callchain is
set the arch specific perf_callchain() function is called upon to
provide a perf_callchain_entry structure filled with the current
callchain.

If it does so, it is added to the overflow output event.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171024.254266860@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Breaks ABI yet again :-)

Change the event type so that [0, 2^31-1] are regular event types, but
[2^31, 2^32-1] forms a bitmask for overflow events.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171024.047961770@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Currently the profiling information returns userspace IPs but no way
to correlate them to userspace code. Userspace could look into
/proc/$pid/maps but that might not be current or even present anymore
at the time of analyzing the IPs.

Therefore provide means to track the mmap information and provide it
in the output stream.

XXX: only covers mmap()/munmap(), mremap() and mprotect() are missing.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171023.417259499@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

It just occured to me it is possible to have multiple contending
updates of the userpage (mmap information vs overflow vs counter).
This would break the seqlock logic.

It appear the arch code uses this from NMI context, so we cannot
possibly serialize its use, therefore separate the data_head update
from it and let it return to its original use.

The arch code needs to make sure there are no contending callers by
disabling the counter before using it -- powerpc appears to do this
nicely.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171023.241410660@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>