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Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:52:30 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, acme@...hat.com, paulus@...ba.org,
	hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	efault@....de, mtosatti@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: Simplify and fix task migration counting

Commit-ID:  e5289d4a181fb6c0b7a7607649af2ffdc491335c
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/e5289d4a181fb6c0b7a7607649af2ffdc491335c
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
AuthorDate: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:22:51 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:43:12 +0200

perf_counter: Simplify and fix task migration counting

The task migrations counter was causing rare and hard to decypher
memory corruptions under load. After a day of debugging and bisection
we found that the problem was introduced with:

  3f731ca: perf_counter: Fix cpu migration counter

Turning them off fixes the crashes. Incidentally, the whole
perf_counter_task_migration() logic can be done simpler as well,
by injecting a proper sw-counter event.

This cleanup also fixed the crashes. The precise failure mode is
not completely clear yet, but we are clearly not unhappy about
having a fix ;-)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>


---
 include/linux/perf_counter.h |    4 ----
 kernel/perf_counter.c        |   23 +----------------------
 kernel/sched.c               |    3 ++-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index e7e7e02..89698d8 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -682,8 +682,6 @@ static inline void perf_counter_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 extern void perf_counter_comm(struct task_struct *tsk);
 extern void perf_counter_fork(struct task_struct *tsk);
 
-extern void perf_counter_task_migration(struct task_struct *task, int cpu);
-
 extern struct perf_callchain_entry *perf_callchain(struct pt_regs *regs);
 
 extern int sysctl_perf_counter_paranoid;
@@ -724,8 +722,6 @@ static inline void perf_counter_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)	{ }
 static inline void perf_counter_comm(struct task_struct *tsk)		{ }
 static inline void perf_counter_fork(struct task_struct *tsk)		{ }
 static inline void perf_counter_init(void)				{ }
-static inline void perf_counter_task_migration(struct task_struct *task,
-					       int cpu)			{ }
 #endif
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index 7e9108e..8d4f0dd 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ void perf_enable(void)
 
 static void get_ctx(struct perf_counter_context *ctx)
 {
-	atomic_inc(&ctx->refcount);
+	WARN_ON(!atomic_inc_not_zero(&ctx->refcount));
 }
 
 static void free_ctx(struct rcu_head *head)
@@ -3467,27 +3467,6 @@ static const struct pmu perf_ops_task_clock = {
 	.read		= task_clock_perf_counter_read,
 };
 
-/*
- * Software counter: cpu migrations
- */
-void perf_counter_task_migration(struct task_struct *task, int cpu)
-{
-	struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx = &per_cpu(perf_cpu_context, cpu);
-	struct perf_counter_context *ctx;
-
-	perf_swcounter_ctx_event(&cpuctx->ctx, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE,
-				 PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS,
-				 1, 1, NULL, 0);
-
-	ctx = perf_pin_task_context(task);
-	if (ctx) {
-		perf_swcounter_ctx_event(ctx, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE,
-					 PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS,
-					 1, 1, NULL, 0);
-		perf_unpin_context(ctx);
-	}
-}
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE
 void perf_tpcounter_event(int event_id)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 8fb88a9..f46540b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -1978,7 +1978,8 @@ void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int new_cpu)
 		if (task_hot(p, old_rq->clock, NULL))
 			schedstat_inc(p, se.nr_forced2_migrations);
 #endif
-		perf_counter_task_migration(p, new_cpu);
+		perf_swcounter_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS,
+				     1, 1, NULL, 0);
 	}
 	p->se.vruntime -= old_cfsrq->min_vruntime -
 					 new_cfsrq->min_vruntime;
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