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| author | Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> | 2011-11-27 17:59:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-12-06 08:34:02 +0100 |
| commit | b202952075f62603bea9bfb6ebc6b0420db11949 (patch) | |
| tree | 9c8e0538b455e68b5c371caba5b1585ed0ef9d8a /kernel/events/core.c | |
| parent | b79387ef185af2323594920923cecba5753c3817 (diff) | |
perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching
jump_lable patching is very expensive operation that involves pausing all
cpus. The patching of perf_sched_events jump_label is easily controllable
from userspace by unprivileged user.
When te user runs a loop like this:
"while true; do perf stat -e cycles true; done"
... the performance of my test application that just increments a counter
for one second drops by 4%.
This is on a 16 cpu box with my test application using only one of
them. An impact on a real server doing real work will be worse.
Performance of KVM PMU drops nearly 50% due to jump_lable for "perf
record" since KVM PMU implementation creates and destroys perf event
frequently.
This patch introduces a way to rate limit jump_label patching and uses
it to fix the above problem.
I believe that as jump_label use will spread the problem will become more
common and thus solving it in a generic code is appropriate. Also fixing
it in the perf code would result in moving jump_label accounting logic to
perf code with all the ifdefs in case of JUMP_LABEL=n kernel. With this
patch all details are nicely hidden inside jump_label code.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111127155909.GO2557@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events/core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/events/core.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 3c1541d7a53d..3a3b1a18f490 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ enum event_type_t { * perf_sched_events : >0 events exist * perf_cgroup_events: >0 per-cpu cgroup events exist on this cpu */ -struct jump_label_key perf_sched_events __read_mostly; +struct jump_label_key_deferred perf_sched_events __read_mostly; static DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t, perf_cgroup_events); static atomic_t nr_mmap_events __read_mostly; @@ -2748,7 +2748,7 @@ static void free_event(struct perf_event *event) if (!event->parent) { if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK) - jump_label_dec(&perf_sched_events); + jump_label_dec_deferred(&perf_sched_events); if (event->attr.mmap || event->attr.mmap_data) atomic_dec(&nr_mmap_events); if (event->attr.comm) @@ -2759,7 +2759,7 @@ static void free_event(struct perf_event *event) put_callchain_buffers(); if (is_cgroup_event(event)) { atomic_dec(&per_cpu(perf_cgroup_events, event->cpu)); - jump_label_dec(&perf_sched_events); + jump_label_dec_deferred(&perf_sched_events); } } @@ -5784,7 +5784,7 @@ done: if (!event->parent) { if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK) - jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events); + jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events.key); if (event->attr.mmap || event->attr.mmap_data) atomic_inc(&nr_mmap_events); if (event->attr.comm) @@ -6022,7 +6022,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, * - that may need work on context switch */ atomic_inc(&per_cpu(perf_cgroup_events, event->cpu)); - jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events); + jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events.key); } /* @@ -6868,6 +6868,9 @@ void __init perf_event_init(void) ret = init_hw_breakpoint(); WARN(ret, "hw_breakpoint initialization failed with: %d", ret); + + /* do not patch jump label more than once per second */ + jump_label_rate_limit(&perf_sched_events, HZ); } static int __init perf_event_sysfs_init(void) |