Commit fb0459d7 authored by Arjan van de Ven's avatar Arjan van de Ven Committed by Frederic Weisbecker
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perf/core: Provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters 



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: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter 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: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
parent 0f8f86c7

include/linux/perf_event.h

+6 −0
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@@ -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;

kernel/perf_event.c

+74 −1
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@@ -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(&current->perf_event_mutex);

	list_add_tail(&event->owner_entry, &current->perf_event_list);

	mutex_unlock(&current->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:

 */

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