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authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>2010-10-26 16:08:01 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-11-10 22:58:39 +0100
commiteed01528a45dc4138e9a08064b4b6cc1a9426899 (patch)
treec7b4256b4158abc74338f14ac2071ec33c52d7e6 /kernel/perf_event.c
parent7e55055e5bb00085051ca59c570c83a820e1e0ee (diff)
perf_events: Fix time tracking in samples
This patch corrects time tracking in samples. Without this patch both time_enabled and time_running are bogus when user asks for PERF_SAMPLE_READ. One uses PERF_SAMPLE_READ to sample the values of other counters in each sample. Because of multiplexing, it is necessary to know both time_enabled, time_running to be able to scale counts correctly. In this second version of the patch, we maintain a shadow copy of ctx->time which allows us to compute ctx->time without calling update_context_time() from NMI context. We avoid the issue that update_context_time() must always be called with ctx->lock held. We do not keep shadow copies of the other event timings because if the lead event is overflowing then it is active and thus it's been scheduled in via event_sched_in() in which case neither tstamp_stopped, tstamp_running can be modified. This timing logic only applies to samples when PERF_SAMPLE_READ is used. Note that this patch does not address timing issues related to sampling inheritance between tasks. This will be addressed in a future patch. With this patch, the libpfm4 example task_smpl now reports correct counts (shown on 2.4GHz Core 2): $ task_smpl -p 2400000000 -e unhalted_core_cycles:u,instructions_retired:u,baclears noploop 5 noploop for 5 seconds IIP:0x000000004006d6 PID:5596 TID:5596 TIME:466,210,211,430 STREAM_ID:33 PERIOD:2,400,000,000 ENA=1,010,157,814 RUN=1,010,157,814 NR=3 2,400,000,254 unhalted_core_cycles:u (33) 2,399,273,744 instructions_retired:u (34) 53,340 baclears (35) Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4cc6e14b.1e07e30a.256e.5190@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/perf_event.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_event.c42
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 517d827f498..cb6c0d2af68 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -674,6 +674,8 @@ event_sched_in(struct perf_event *event,
event->tstamp_running += ctx->time - event->tstamp_stopped;
+ event->shadow_ctx_time = ctx->time - ctx->timestamp;
+
if (!is_software_event(event))
cpuctx->active_oncpu++;
ctx->nr_active++;
@@ -3396,7 +3398,8 @@ static u32 perf_event_tid(struct perf_event *event, struct task_struct *p)
}
static void perf_output_read_one(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
- struct perf_event *event)
+ struct perf_event *event,
+ u64 enabled, u64 running)
{
u64 read_format = event->attr.read_format;
u64 values[4];
@@ -3404,11 +3407,11 @@ static void perf_output_read_one(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
values[n++] = perf_event_count(event);
if (read_format & PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED) {
- values[n++] = event->total_time_enabled +
+ values[n++] = enabled +
atomic64_read(&event->child_total_time_enabled);
}
if (read_format & PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING) {
- values[n++] = event->total_time_running +
+ values[n++] = running +
atomic64_read(&event->child_total_time_running);
}
if (read_format & PERF_FORMAT_ID)
@@ -3421,7 +3424,8 @@ static void perf_output_read_one(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
* XXX PERF_FORMAT_GROUP vs inherited events seems difficult.
*/
static void perf_output_read_group(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
- struct perf_event *event)
+ struct perf_event *event,
+ u64 enabled, u64 running)
{
struct perf_event *leader = event->group_leader, *sub;
u64 read_format = event->attr.read_format;
@@ -3431,10 +3435,10 @@ static void perf_output_read_group(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
values[n++] = 1 + leader->nr_siblings;
if (read_format & PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED)
- values[n++] = leader->total_time_enabled;
+ values[n++] = enabled;
if (read_format & PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING)
- values[n++] = leader->total_time_running;
+ values[n++] = running;
if (leader != event)
leader->pmu->read(leader);
@@ -3459,13 +3463,35 @@ static void perf_output_read_group(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
}
}
+#define PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIMES (PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|\
+ PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING)
+
static void perf_output_read(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
struct perf_event *event)
{
+ u64 enabled = 0, running = 0, now, ctx_time;
+ u64 read_format = event->attr.read_format;
+
+ /*
+ * compute total_time_enabled, total_time_running
+ * based on snapshot values taken when the event
+ * was last scheduled in.
+ *
+ * we cannot simply called update_context_time()
+ * because of locking issue as we are called in
+ * NMI context
+ */
+ if (read_format & PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIMES) {
+ now = perf_clock();
+ ctx_time = event->shadow_ctx_time + now;
+ enabled = ctx_time - event->tstamp_enabled;
+ running = ctx_time - event->tstamp_running;
+ }
+
if (event->attr.read_format & PERF_FORMAT_GROUP)
- perf_output_read_group(handle, event);
+ perf_output_read_group(handle, event, enabled, running);
else
- perf_output_read_one(handle, event);
+ perf_output_read_one(handle, event, enabled, running);
}
void perf_output_sample(struct perf_output_handle *handle,