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SubjectRe: x86, perf: throttling issues with long nmi latencies
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:14:04PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
> index 32e9ed81cd00..3978e72a1c9f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
> @@ -722,6 +722,8 @@ void intel_pmu_pebs_disable_all(void)
> wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE, 0);
> }
>
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u8 [PAGE_SIZE], insn_page);
> +
> static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);
> @@ -729,6 +731,8 @@ static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struct pt_regs *regs)
> unsigned long old_to, to = cpuc->lbr_entries[0].to;
> unsigned long ip = regs->ip;
> int is_64bit = 0;
> + int size, bytes;
> + void *kaddr;
>
> /*
> * We don't need to fixup if the PEBS assist is fault like
> @@ -763,29 +767,44 @@ static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struct pt_regs *regs)
> return 1;
> }
>
> +refill:
> + if (kernel_ip(ip)) {
> + u8 *buf = &__get_cpu_var(insn_page[0]);
> + size = PAGE_SIZE - ((unsigned long)to & (PAGE_SIZE-1));
> + if (size < MAX_INSN_SIZE) {
> + /*
> + * If we're going to have to touch two pages; just copy
> + * as much as we can hold.
> + */
> + size = PAGE_SIZE;


Arguably we'd want that to be:

size = min(PAGE_SIZE, ip - to);

As there's no point in copying beyond the basic block.

> + }
> + bytes = copy_from_user_nmi(buf, (void __user *)to, size);
> + if (bytes != size)
> + return 0;
> +
> + kaddr = buf;


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