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* [PATCH v4 00/13] perf/core: Generalise event exclusion checking
@ 2019-01-07 16:27 Andrew Murray
  2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 01/13] perf/doc: update design.txt for exclude_{host|guest} flags Andrew Murray
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  0 siblings, 13 replies; 27+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Murray @ 2019-01-07 16:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo,
	Richard Henderson, Ivan Kokshaysky, Matt Turner, Will Deacon,
	Mark Rutland, Shawn Guo, Sascha Hauer, Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
	Paul Mackerras, Thomas Gleixner, Borislav Petkov, Russell King,
	suzuki.poulose, robin.murphy, Michael Ellerman
  Cc: x86, linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel, linux-alpha

Many PMU drivers do not have the capability to exclude counting events
that occur in specific contexts such as idle, kernel, guest, etc. These
drivers indicate this by returning an error in their event_init upon
testing the events attribute flags.

However this approach requires that each time a new event modifier is
added to perf, all the perf drivers need to be modified to indicate that
they don't support the attribute. This results in additional boiler-plate
code common to many drivers that needs to be maintained. Furthermore the
drivers are not consistent with regards to the error value they return
when reporting unsupported attributes.

This patchset allow PMU drivers to advertise their inability to exclude
based on context via a new capability: PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE. This
allows the perf core to reject requests for exclusion events where there
is no support in the PMU.

This is a functional change, in particular:

 - Some drivers will now additionally (but correctly) report unsupported
   exclusion flags. It's typical for existing userspace tools such as
   perf to handle such errors by retrying the system call without the
   unsupported flags.

 - Drivers that do not support any exclusion that previously reported
   -EPERM or -EOPNOTSUPP will now report -EINVAL - this is consistent
   with the majority and results in userspace perf retrying without
   exclusion.

All drivers touched by this patchset have been compile tested.

Changes from v3:

 - Added PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE to Cavium TX2 PMU driver

Changes from v2:

 - Invert logic from CAP_EXCLUDE to CAP_NO_EXCLUDE

Changes from v1:

 - Changed approach from explicitly rejecting events in unsupporting PMU
   drivers to explicitly advertising a capability in PMU drivers that
   do support exclusion events

 - Added additional information to tools/perf/design.txt

 - Rename event_has_exclude_flags to event_has_any_exclude_flag and
   update commit log to reflect it's a function

Andrew Murray (13):
  perf/doc: update design.txt for exclude_{host|guest} flags
  perf/core: add function to test for event exclusion flags
  perf/core: add PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE for exclusion incapable PMUs
  alpha: perf/core: use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE
  arm: perf: conditionally use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE
  arm: perf/core: use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE for exclude incapable PMUs
  drivers/perf: perf/core: use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE for exclude
    incapable PMUs
  drivers/perf: perf/core: use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE for exclude
    incapable PMUs
  powerpc: perf/core: use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE for exclude incapable
    PMUs
  x86: perf/core: use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE for exclude incapable PMUs
  x86: perf/core: use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE for exclude incapable PMUs
  perf/core: remove unused perf_flags
  drivers/perf: use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE for Cavium TX2 PMU

 arch/alpha/kernel/perf_event.c                |  7 +------
 arch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c                      |  9 ++-------
 arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c                  |  9 +--------
 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c                   | 10 +---------
 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci.c                   | 10 +---------
 arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c                   | 19 +------------------
 arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c                     | 13 +------------
 arch/x86/events/amd/iommu.c                   |  6 +-----
 arch/x86/events/amd/power.c                   | 10 ++--------
 arch/x86/events/amd/uncore.c                  |  7 ++-----
 arch/x86/events/intel/cstate.c                | 12 +++---------
 arch/x86/events/intel/rapl.c                  |  9 ++-------
 arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c                |  9 +--------
 arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snb.c            |  9 ++-------
 arch/x86/events/msr.c                         | 10 ++--------
 drivers/perf/arm-cci.c                        | 10 +---------
 drivers/perf/arm-ccn.c                        |  6 ++----
 drivers/perf/arm_dsu_pmu.c                    |  9 ++-------
 drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c                        | 15 +++++----------
 drivers/perf/hisilicon/hisi_uncore_ddrc_pmu.c |  1 +
 drivers/perf/hisilicon/hisi_uncore_hha_pmu.c  |  1 +
 drivers/perf/hisilicon/hisi_uncore_l3c_pmu.c  |  1 +
 drivers/perf/hisilicon/hisi_uncore_pmu.c      |  9 ---------
 drivers/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.c                    |  9 +--------
 drivers/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.c                    |  8 +-------
 drivers/perf/thunderx2_pmu.c                  | 10 +---------
 drivers/perf/xgene_pmu.c                      |  6 +-----
 include/linux/perf_event.h                    | 10 ++++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h               |  2 --
 kernel/events/core.c                          |  9 +++++++++
 tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h         |  2 --
 tools/perf/design.txt                         |  4 ++++
 32 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 198 deletions(-)

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2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 01/13] perf/doc: update design.txt for exclude_{host|guest} flags Andrew Murray
2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 02/13] perf/core: add function to test for event exclusion flags Andrew Murray
2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 03/13] perf/core: add PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE for exclusion incapable PMUs Andrew Murray
2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 04/13] alpha: perf/core: use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE Andrew Murray
2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 05/13] arm: perf: conditionally " Andrew Murray
2019-01-08 10:28   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-08 13:07     ` Andrew Murray
2019-01-08 13:10       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-08 13:13         ` Andrew Murray
2019-01-08 14:43           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 06/13] arm: perf/core: use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE for exclude incapable PMUs Andrew Murray
2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 07/13] drivers/perf: " Andrew Murray
2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 08/13] " Andrew Murray
2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 09/13] powerpc: " Andrew Murray
2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 10/13] x86: " Andrew Murray
2019-01-08 10:48   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-08 13:12     ` Andrew Murray
2019-01-08 16:36     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-01-08 18:49       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-10 13:15     ` Michael Ellerman
2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 11/13] " Andrew Murray
2019-01-08 10:49   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-08 13:08     ` Andrew Murray
2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 12/13] perf/core: remove unused perf_flags Andrew Murray
2019-01-07 16:27 ` [PATCH v4 13/13] drivers/perf: use PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE for Cavium TX2 PMU Andrew Murray
2019-01-10 11:10   ` Will Deacon

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