From 10c6db110d0eb4466b59812c49088ab56218fc2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:47:31 +0100 Subject: perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-event When you do: $ perf record -e cycles,cycles,cycles noploop 10 You expect about 10,000 samples for each event, i.e., 10s at 1000samples/sec. However, this is not what's happening. You get much fewer samples, maybe 3700 samples/event: $ perf report -D | tail -15 Aggregated stats: TOTAL events: 10998 MMAP events: 66 COMM events: 2 SAMPLE events: 10930 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 3644 SAMPLE events: 3644 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 3642 SAMPLE events: 3642 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 3644 SAMPLE events: 3644 On a Intel Nehalem or even AMD64, there are 4 counters capable of measuring cycles, so there is plenty of space to measure those events without multiplexing (even with the NMI watchdog active). And even with multiplexing, we'd expect roughly the same number of samples per event. The root of the problem was that when the event that caused the buffer to become full was not the first event passed on the cmdline, the user notification would get lost. The notification was sent to the file descriptor of the overflowed event but the perf tool was not polling on it. The perf tool aggregates all samples into a single buffer, i.e., the buffer of the first event. Consequently, it assumes notifications for any event will come via that descriptor. The seemingly straight forward solution of moving the waitq into the ringbuffer object doesn't work because of life-time issues. One could perf_event_set_output() on a fd that you're also blocking on and cause the old rb object to be freed while its waitq would still be referenced by the blocked thread -> FAIL. Therefore link all events to the ringbuffer and broadcast the wakeup from the ringbuffer object to all possible events that could be waited upon. This is rather ugly, and we're open to better solutions but it works for now. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian Finished-by: Stephane Eranian Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111126014731.GA7030@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/events/ring_buffer.c') diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index a2a29205cc0f..7f3011c6b57f 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ ring_buffer_init(struct ring_buffer *rb, long watermark, int flags) rb->writable = 1; atomic_set(&rb->refcount, 1); + + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rb->event_list); + spin_lock_init(&rb->event_lock); } #ifndef CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC -- cgit v1.2.3 From d36b691077dc59c74efec0d54ed21b86f7a2a21a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:09:01 -0500 Subject: misc latin1 to utf8 conversions Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/events/ring_buffer.c') diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index a2a29205cc0f..809c8ec5d42a 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 2008 Thomas Gleixner * Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar * Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra - * Copyright © 2009 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp. + * Copyright © 2009 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp. * * For licensing details see kernel-base/COPYING */ -- cgit v1.2.3