Add debug store support for Core i7.
Core i7 adds a reset value for each performance counter and a new
PEBS record format.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144607.088997000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Check the buffer size more precisely to allow buffers for exactly
one element provided the base address is already properly aligned.
Add a debug store selftest.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144606.139137000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ds_reset_pebs() passed the wrong qualifier to a shared function resulting
in a reset of bts, rather than pebs.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144605.206510000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Debug store already uses TIF_DS_AREA_MSR to trigger debug store context
switch handling. No need to use TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR, as well.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144604.256645000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a warning in case a debug store context is not removed before
the task it is attached to is freed.
Remove the old warning at thread exit. It is too early.
Declare the debug store context field in thread_struct unconditionally.
Remove ds_copy_thread() and ds_exit_thread() and do the work directly
in process*.c.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144601.254472000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The hw-branch-tracer uses debug store functions from an on_each_cpu()
context, which is simply wrong since the functions may sleep.
Add _noirq variants for most functions, which may be called with
interrupts disabled.
Separate per-cpu and per-task tracing and allow per-cpu tracing to be
controlled from any cpu.
Make the hw-branch-tracer use the new debug store interface, synchronize
with hotplug cpu event using get/put_online_cpus(), and remove the
unnecessary spinlock.
Make the ptrace bts and the ds selftest code use the new interface.
Defer the ds selftest.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144555.658136000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Per-task branch tracing installs a debug store context with the traced
task. This immediately results in the branch trace control bits to be
cleared for the next context switch of that task, if not set before.
Either per-cpu or per-task tracing are allowed at the same time.
An active per-cpu tracing would be disabled even if the per-task tracing
request is rejected and the task debug store context removed.
Check the tracing type (per-cpu or per-task) before installing a task
debug store context.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144552.856000000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In order to stop branch tracing for a running task, we need to first
clear the branch tracing control bits before we may free the tracing
buffer.
If the traced task is running, the cpu might still trace that task
after the branch trace control bits have cleared.
Wait until the traced task has been scheduled out before proceeding.
A similar problem affects the task debug store context. We first remove
the context, then we need to wait until the task has been scheduled
out before we can free the context memory.
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144551.919636000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When the bts tracer is removed while the traced task is running,
the write to clear the bts tracer pointer races with context switch code.
Read the tracer once during a context switch.
When a new tracer is installed, the bts tracer is set in the ds context
before the tracer is initialized in order to claim the context for that
tracer.
This may result in write accesses using an uninitialized trace configuration
when scheduling timestamps have been requested.
Store active tracing flags separately and only set active flags after
the tracing configuration has been initialized.
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144548.881338000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ds_request_bts() needs to allocate memory. It uses GFP_KERNEL.
Hw-branch-tracer calls ds_request_bts() within on_each_cpu().
Use atomic memory allocation to allow it to be used in that context.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090318192700.A6038@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix
One usage site was missed in the sizeof_field -> sizeof_ptr_field
rename.
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090313104218.A30096@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Perform a selftest of branch trace store when a cpu is initialized.
WARN and disable branch trace store support if the selftest fails.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090313104507.A30125@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: more robust DS feature enumeration
Detect the size of the pointer-type fields in the DS area
configuration via the DTES64 features rather than based on
the cpuid.
Rename a variable to denote that size to reflect that it only
covers the pointer-type fields.
Add more boot-time diagnostics giving the detected size and
the sizes of BTS and PEBS records.
Use the size of the BTS/PEBS record to indicate that the
respective feature is not available (if the record size is zero).
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090313104218.A30096@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
ds_write_config() can write the BTS as well as the PEBS part of
the DS config. ds_request_pebs() passes the wrong qualifier, which
results in the wrong configuration to be written.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090305085721.A22550@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In case a ptraced task is reaped (while the tracer is still attached),
ds_exit_thread() is called before ptrace_exit(). The latter will
release the bts_tracer and remove the thread's ds_ctx.
The former will WARN() if the context is not NULL.
Oleg Nesterov submitted patches that move ptrace_exit() before
exit_thread() and thus reverse the order of the above calls.
Remove the bad warning. I will add it again when Oleg's changes are in.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090305084954.A22000@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cleanup the cpuid check for DS configuration.
This also fixes a Corei7 CPUID enumeration bug.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: introduce new ptrace facility
Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer
detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies);
ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach.
Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a
traced task is forked.
Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork.
Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This
releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do
that when the traced task dies.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change the reporting of empty BTS records
Correctly report a cleared BTS record as invalid. Used to be reported
as branch from 0 to 0.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Optimistically allocate a DS context. It is extremely unlikely that
one already existed. This simplifies the code a lot.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c: In function 'ds_request':
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:236: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'ds_get_context': recursive inlining
but the recursion here is scary ...
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Move the BTS bits from ptrace.c into ds.c.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: make the ds code more debuggable
Turn BUG_ON's into WARN_ON_ONCE.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: restructure DS memory allocation to be done by the usage site of DS
Require pre-allocated buffers in ds.h.
Move the BTS buffer allocation for ptrace into ptrace.c.
The pointer to the allocated buffer is stored in the traced task's
task_struct together with the handle returned by ds_request_bts().
Removes memory accounting code.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: generalize the DS code to shared buffers
Change the in-kernel ds.h interface to identify the tracer via a
handle returned on ds_request_~().
Tracers used to be identified via their task_struct.
The changes are required to allow DS to be shared between different
tasks, which is needed for perfmon2 and for ftrace.
For ptrace, the handle is stored in the traced task's task_struct.
This should probably go into a (arch-specific) ptrace context some
time.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix sleeping-with-spinlock-held bugs/crashes
- Turn a wrmsr to write the DS_AREA MSR into a wrmsrl.
- Use irqsave variants of spinlocks.
- Do not allocate memory while holding spinlocks.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix DS hw enablement on 64-bit x86
Fix the PEBS record size in the DS configuration.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Move the CONFIG guard from the .c file into the makefile.
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi-suse@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
this compiler warning:
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c: In function 'ds_request':
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:368: warning: 'context' may be used uninitialized in this function
Shows that the code flow in ds_request() is buggy - it goes into
the unlock+release-context path even when the context is not allocated
yet.
First allocate the context, then do the other checks.
Also, take care with GFP allocations under the ds_lock spinlock.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix a problem where ds_request() returned an error without releasing the
ds lock.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: widen BTS/PEBS ptrace enablement to more CPU models
Move BTS initialisation out of an #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 guard.
Assume core2 BTS and DS layout for future models of family 6 processors.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fix:
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:763:29: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:777:46: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:1115:45: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:482:26: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:487:25: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fix:
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c: In function ‘ds_allocate_buffer':
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:339: error: implicit declaration of function ‘PAGE_ALIGN'
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Polish the ds.h interface and add support for PEBS.
Ds.c is meant to be the resource allocator for per-thread and per-cpu
BTS and PEBS recording.
It is used by ptrace/utrace to provide execution tracing of debugged tasks.
It will be used by profilers (e.g. perfmon2).
It may be used by kernel debuggers to provide a kernel execution trace.
Changes in detail:
- guard DS and ptrace by CONFIG macros
- separate DS and BTS more clearly
- simplify field accesses
- add functions to manage PEBS buffers
- add simple protection/allocation mechanism
- added support for Atom
Opens:
- buffer overflow handling
Currently, only circular buffers are supported. This is all we need
for debugging. Profilers would want an overflow notification.
This is planned to be added when perfmon2 is made to use the ds.h
interface.
- utrace intermediate layer
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We should call for kfree if only we really need it.
Though it's safe to call kfree with NULL pointer passed
in this code we've already tested the pointer and can
eliminate the call
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Support BTS recording of 32bit and 64bit tasks from 32bit or 64bit tasks.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Here's the new ptrace BTS API that supports two different overflow handling mechanisms (wrap-around and buffer-full-signal) to support two different use cases (debugging and profiling).
It further combines buffer allocation and configuration.
Opens:
- memory rlimit
- overflow signal
What would be the right signal to use?
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Replace sched_clock() with jiffies for BTS timestamps.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Resend using different mail client
Changes to the last version:
- split implementation into two layers: ds/bts and ptrace
- renamed TIF's
- save/restore ds save area msr in __switch_to_xtra()
- make block-stepping only look at BTF bit
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
