From b202952075f62603bea9bfb6ebc6b0420db11949 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gleb Natapov Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:59:09 +0200 Subject: perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching jump_lable patching is very expensive operation that involves pausing all cpus. The patching of perf_sched_events jump_label is easily controllable from userspace by unprivileged user. When te user runs a loop like this: "while true; do perf stat -e cycles true; done" ... the performance of my test application that just increments a counter for one second drops by 4%. This is on a 16 cpu box with my test application using only one of them. An impact on a real server doing real work will be worse. Performance of KVM PMU drops nearly 50% due to jump_lable for "perf record" since KVM PMU implementation creates and destroys perf event frequently. This patch introduces a way to rate limit jump_label patching and uses it to fix the above problem. I believe that as jump_label use will spread the problem will become more common and thus solving it in a generic code is appropriate. Also fixing it in the perf code would result in moving jump_label accounting logic to perf code with all the ifdefs in case of JUMP_LABEL=n kernel. With this patch all details are nicely hidden inside jump_label code. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov Acked-by: Jason Baron Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111127155909.GO2557@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/events') diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 3c1541d7a53..3a3b1a18f49 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ enum event_type_t { * perf_sched_events : >0 events exist * perf_cgroup_events: >0 per-cpu cgroup events exist on this cpu */ -struct jump_label_key perf_sched_events __read_mostly; +struct jump_label_key_deferred perf_sched_events __read_mostly; static DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t, perf_cgroup_events); static atomic_t nr_mmap_events __read_mostly; @@ -2748,7 +2748,7 @@ static void free_event(struct perf_event *event) if (!event->parent) { if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK) - jump_label_dec(&perf_sched_events); + jump_label_dec_deferred(&perf_sched_events); if (event->attr.mmap || event->attr.mmap_data) atomic_dec(&nr_mmap_events); if (event->attr.comm) @@ -2759,7 +2759,7 @@ static void free_event(struct perf_event *event) put_callchain_buffers(); if (is_cgroup_event(event)) { atomic_dec(&per_cpu(perf_cgroup_events, event->cpu)); - jump_label_dec(&perf_sched_events); + jump_label_dec_deferred(&perf_sched_events); } } @@ -5784,7 +5784,7 @@ done: if (!event->parent) { if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK) - jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events); + jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events.key); if (event->attr.mmap || event->attr.mmap_data) atomic_inc(&nr_mmap_events); if (event->attr.comm) @@ -6022,7 +6022,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, * - that may need work on context switch */ atomic_inc(&per_cpu(perf_cgroup_events, event->cpu)); - jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events); + jump_label_inc(&perf_sched_events.key); } /* @@ -6868,6 +6868,9 @@ void __init perf_event_init(void) ret = init_hw_breakpoint(); WARN(ret, "hw_breakpoint initialization failed with: %d", ret); + + /* do not patch jump label more than once per second */ + jump_label_rate_limit(&perf_sched_events, HZ); } static int __init perf_event_sysfs_init(void) -- cgit v1.2.3