[PATCH] perf: Do not send exit event twice

* [PATCH] perf: Do not send exit event twice
@ 2015-11-04 15:00 Jiri Olsa
  2015-11-04 15:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Jiri Olsa @ 2015-11-04 15:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: lkml, David Ahern, Ingo Molnar, Namhyung Kim, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

In case we monitor events system wide, we get EXIT event
(when configured) twice for each task that exited.

Note doubled lines with same pid/tid in following example:

  $ sudo ./perf record -a
  ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.480 MB perf.data (2518 samples) ]
  $ sudo ./perf report -D | grep EXIT

  0 60290687567581 0x59910 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(1250:1250):(1250:1250)
  0 60290687568354 0x59948 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(1250:1250):(1250:1250)
  0 60290687988744 0x59ad8 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(1250:1250):(1250:1250)
  0 60290687989198 0x59b10 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(1250:1250):(1250:1250)
  1 60290692567895 0x62af0 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(1253:1253):(1253:1253)
  1 60290692568322 0x62b28 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(1253:1253):(1253:1253)
  2 60290692739276 0x69a18 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(1252:1252):(1252:1252)
  2 60290692739910 0x69a50 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(1252:1252):(1252:1252)

The reason is that the cpu contexts are processes each time
we call perf_event_task. I'm changing the perf_event_aux logic
to serve task_ctx and cpu contexts separately, which ensure we
don't get EXIT event generated twice on same cpu context.

This does not affect other auxiliary events, as they don't
use task_ctx at all.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fghxh2gucaa7wyp1edjtvssd@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index ea02109aee77..470d6eaef576 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -5661,6 +5661,17 @@ perf_event_aux_ctx(struct perf_event_context *ctx,
 }
 
 static void
+perf_event_aux_task_ctx(perf_event_aux_output_cb output, void *data,
+			struct perf_event_context *task_ctx)
+{
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	preempt_disable();
+	perf_event_aux_ctx(task_ctx, output, data);
+	preempt_enable();
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
+static void
 perf_event_aux(perf_event_aux_output_cb output, void *data,
 	       struct perf_event_context *task_ctx)
 {
@@ -5669,14 +5680,23 @@ perf_event_aux(perf_event_aux_output_cb output, void *data,
 	struct pmu *pmu;
 	int ctxn;
 
+	/*
+	 * If we have task_ctx != NULL we only notify
+	 * the task context itself. The task_ctx is set
+	 * only for EXIT events before releasing task
+	 * context.
+	 */
+	if (task_ctx) {
+		perf_event_aux_task_ctx(output, data, task_ctx);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(pmu, &pmus, entry) {
 		cpuctx = get_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context);
 		if (cpuctx->unique_pmu != pmu)
 			goto next;
 		perf_event_aux_ctx(&cpuctx->ctx, output, data);
-		if (task_ctx)
-			goto next;
 		ctxn = pmu->task_ctx_nr;
 		if (ctxn < 0)
 			goto next;
@@ -5686,12 +5706,6 @@ perf_event_aux(perf_event_aux_output_cb output, void *data,
 next:
 		put_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context);
 	}
-
-	if (task_ctx) {
-		preempt_disable();
-		perf_event_aux_ctx(task_ctx, output, data);
-		preempt_enable();
-	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
@@ -8777,10 +8791,8 @@ static void perf_event_exit_task_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn)
 	struct perf_event_context *child_ctx, *clone_ctx = NULL;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	if (likely(!child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn])) {
-		perf_event_task(child, NULL, 0);
+	if (likely(!child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]))
 		return;
-	}
 
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	/*
@@ -8864,6 +8876,14 @@ void perf_event_exit_task(struct task_struct *child)
 
 	for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn)
 		perf_event_exit_task_context(child, ctxn);
+
+	/*
+	 * The perf_event_exit_task_context calls perf_event_task
+	 * with child's task_ctx, which generates EXIT events for
+	 * child contexts and sets child->perf_event_ctxp[] to NULL.
+	 * At this point we need to send EXIT events to cpu contexts.
+	 */
+	perf_event_task(child, NULL, 0);
 }
 
 static void perf_free_event(struct perf_event *event,
-- 
2.4.3


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