linux/kernel
Mark Rutland 5101ef20f0 perf/arm: Special-case hetereogeneous CPUs
Commit:

  2665784850 ("perf/core: Verify we have a single perf_hw_context PMU")

forcefully prevents multiple PMUs from sharing perf_hw_context, as this
generally doesn't make sense. It is a common bug for uncore PMUs to
use perf_hw_context rather than perf_invalid_context, which this detects.

However, systems exist with heterogeneous CPUs (and hence heterogeneous
HW PMUs), for which sharing perf_hw_context is necessary, and possible
in some limited cases.

To make this work we have to perform some gymnastics, as we did in these
commits:

  66eb579e66 ("perf: allow for PMU-specific event filtering")
  c904e32a69 ("arm: perf: filter unschedulable events")

To allow those systems to work, we must allow PMUs for heterogeneous
CPUs to share perf_hw_context, though we must still disallow sharing
otherwise to detect the common misuse of perf_hw_context.

This patch adds a new PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS for this, updates
the core logic to account for this, and makes use of it in the arm_pmu
code that is used for systems with heterogeneous CPUs. Comments are
added to make the rationale clear and hopefully avoid accidental abuse.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160426103346.GA20836@leverpostej
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-05-05 10:13:59 +02:00
..
bpf Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes 2016-05-05 10:12:37 +02:00
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cgroup.c
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configs.c
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cpu_pm.c
cpu.c
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elfcore.c
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Kconfig.freezer
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kcov.c kcov: don't profile branches in kcov 2016-04-28 19:34:04 -07:00
kexec_core.c kexec: export OFFSET(page.compound_head) to find out compound tail page 2016-04-28 19:34:04 -07:00
kexec_file.c
kexec_internal.h
kexec.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
Makefile
membarrier.c
memremap.c
module_signing.c
module-internal.h
module.c
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c
params.c
pid_namespace.c
pid.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c
resource.c
seccomp.c
signal.c
smp.c
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c
sys.c
sysctl_binary.c
sysctl.c perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctl 2016-04-27 10:20:39 -03:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
torture.c
tracepoint.c
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uid16.c
up.c
user_namespace.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
watchdog.c
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c Merge branch 'for-4.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2016-04-27 12:03:59 -07:00