Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/6] perf/core: Provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters | Date | Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:11:09 +0100 |
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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
There are reasons for kernel code to ask for, and use, performance counters. For example, in CPU freq governors this tends to be a good idea, but there are other examples possible as well of course.
This patch adds the needed bits to do enable this functionality; they have been tested in an experimental cpufreq driver that I'm working on, and the changes are all that I needed to access counters properly.
[fweisbec@gmail.com: added pid to perf_event_create_kernel_counter so that we can profile a particular task too
TODO: Have a better error reporting, don't just return NULL in fail case.]
v2: Remove the wrong comment about the fact perf_event_create_kernel_counter must be called from a kernel thread.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090925122556.2f8bd939@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 6 +++ kernel/perf_event.c | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index df9d964..fa151d4 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -744,6 +744,12 @@ extern int hw_perf_group_sched_in(struct perf_event *group_leader, struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx, struct perf_event_context *ctx, int cpu); extern void perf_event_update_userpage(struct perf_event *event); +extern int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event); +extern struct perf_event * +perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr, + int cpu, + pid_t pid); +extern u64 perf_event_read_value(struct perf_event *event); struct perf_sample_data { u64 type; diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c index 12b5ec3..02d4ff0 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -1725,6 +1725,26 @@ static int perf_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) return 0; } +int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event) +{ + struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx; + + WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->parent_ctx); + mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex); + perf_event_remove_from_context(event); + mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex); + + mutex_lock(&event->owner->perf_event_mutex); + list_del_init(&event->owner_entry); + mutex_unlock(&event->owner->perf_event_mutex); + put_task_struct(event->owner); + + free_event(event); + + return 0; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_event_release_kernel); + static int perf_event_read_size(struct perf_event *event) { int entry = sizeof(u64); /* value */ @@ -1750,7 +1770,7 @@ static int perf_event_read_size(struct perf_event *event) return size; } -static u64 perf_event_read_value(struct perf_event *event) +u64 perf_event_read_value(struct perf_event *event) { struct perf_event *child; u64 total = 0; @@ -1761,6 +1781,7 @@ static u64 perf_event_read_value(struct perf_event *event) return total; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_event_read_value); static int perf_event_read_entry(struct perf_event *event, u64 read_format, char __user *buf) @@ -4638,6 +4659,58 @@ err_put_context: return err; } +/** + * perf_event_create_kernel_counter + * + * @attr: attributes of the counter to create + * @cpu: cpu in which the counter is bound + * @pid: task to profile + */ +struct perf_event * +perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, + pid_t pid) +{ + struct perf_event *event; + struct perf_event_context *ctx; + int err; + + /* + * Get the target context (task or percpu): + */ + + ctx = find_get_context(pid, cpu); + if (IS_ERR(ctx)) + return NULL ; + + event = perf_event_alloc(attr, cpu, ctx, NULL, + NULL, GFP_KERNEL); + err = PTR_ERR(event); + if (IS_ERR(event)) + goto err_put_context; + + event->filp = NULL; + WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->parent_ctx); + mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex); + perf_install_in_context(ctx, event, cpu); + ++ctx->generation; + mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex); + + event->owner = current; + get_task_struct(current); + mutex_lock(¤t->perf_event_mutex); + list_add_tail(&event->owner_entry, ¤t->perf_event_list); + mutex_unlock(¤t->perf_event_mutex); + + return event; + +err_put_context: + if (err < 0) + put_ctx(ctx); + + return NULL; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_event_create_kernel_counter); + /* * inherit a event from parent task to child task: */ -- 1.6.2.3
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