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authorMilind Chabbi <chabbi.milind@gmail.com>2018-03-12 14:45:47 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-03-13 15:24:02 +0100
commit32ff77e8cc9e66cc4fb38098f64fd54cc8f54573 (patch)
tree15353ed042227640ade576095a70384863406f26 /tools/include
parent032db28e5fa3594dfa3df585c54d8b612657f537 (diff)
downloadlinux-32ff77e8cc9e66cc4fb38098f64fd54cc8f54573.tar.bz2
perf/core: Implement fast breakpoint modification via _IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTES
Problem and motivation: Once a breakpoint perf event (PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT) is created, there is no flexibility to change the breakpoint type (bp_type), breakpoint address (bp_addr), or breakpoint length (bp_len). The only option is to close the perf event and configure a new breakpoint event. This inflexibility has a significant performance overhead. For example, sampling-based, lightweight performance profilers (and also concurrency bug detection tools), monitor different addresses for a short duration using PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT and change the address (bp_addr) to another address or change the kind of breakpoint (bp_type) from "write" to a "read" or vice-versa or change the length (bp_len) of the address being monitored. The cost of these modifications is prohibitive since it involves unmapping the circular buffer associated with the perf event, closing the perf event, opening another perf event and mmaping another circular buffer. Solution: The new ioctl flag for perf events, PERF_EVENT_IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTES, introduced in this patch takes a pointer to a struct perf_event_attr as an argument to update an old breakpoint event with new address, type, and size. This facility allows retaining a previous mmaped perf events ring buffer and avoids having to close and reopen another perf event. This patch supports only changing PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT event type; future implementations can extend this feature. The patch replicates some of its functionality of modify_user_hw_breakpoint() in kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c. modify_user_hw_breakpoint cannot be called directly since perf_event_ctx_lock() is already held in _perf_ioctl(). Evidence: Experiments show that the baseline (not able to modify an already created breakpoint) costs an order of magnitude (~10x) more than the suggested optimization (having the ability to dynamically modifying a configured breakpoint via ioctl). When the breakpoints typically do not trap, the speedup due to the suggested optimization is ~10x; even when the breakpoints always trap, the speedup is ~4x due to the suggested optimization. Testing: tests posted at https://github.com/linux-contrib/perf_event_modify_bp demonstrate the performance significance of this patch. Tests also check the functional correctness of the patch. Signed-off-by: Milind Chabbi <chabbi.milind@gmail.com> [ Using modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check function. ] [ Reformated PERF_EVENT_IOC_*, so the values are all in one column. ] Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <onestero@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312134548.31532-8-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/include')
-rw-r--r--tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h23
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 6f873503552d..912b85b52344 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -448,17 +448,18 @@ struct perf_event_query_bpf {
/*
* Ioctls that can be done on a perf event fd:
*/
-#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE _IO ('$', 0)
-#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE _IO ('$', 1)
-#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_REFRESH _IO ('$', 2)
-#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_RESET _IO ('$', 3)
-#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD _IOW('$', 4, __u64)
-#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT _IO ('$', 5)
-#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER _IOW('$', 6, char *)
-#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID _IOR('$', 7, __u64 *)
-#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF _IOW('$', 8, __u32)
-#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT _IOW('$', 9, __u32)
-#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_QUERY_BPF _IOWR('$', 10, struct perf_event_query_bpf *)
+#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE _IO ('$', 0)
+#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE _IO ('$', 1)
+#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_REFRESH _IO ('$', 2)
+#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_RESET _IO ('$', 3)
+#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD _IOW('$', 4, __u64)
+#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT _IO ('$', 5)
+#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER _IOW('$', 6, char *)
+#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID _IOR('$', 7, __u64 *)
+#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF _IOW('$', 8, __u32)
+#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT _IOW('$', 9, __u32)
+#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_QUERY_BPF _IOWR('$', 10, struct perf_event_query_bpf *)
+#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTES _IOW('$', 11, struct perf_event_attr *)
enum perf_event_ioc_flags {
PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP = 1U << 0,