linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf: Make clock software events consistent with general exclusion rules

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Date:	Fri,  9 Apr 2010 14:02:47 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: [PATCH] perf: Make clock software events consistent with general exclusion rules

The cpu/task clock events implement their own version of exclusion
on top of exclude_user and exclude_kernel.

The result is that when the event triggered in the kernel but we
have exclude_kernel set, we try to rewind using task_pt_regs.
There are two side effects of this:

- we call task_pt_regs even on kernel threads, which doesn't give
  us the desired result.
- if the event occured in the kernel, we shouldn't rewind to the
  user context. We want to actually ignore the event.

get_irq_regs() will always give us the right interrupted context, so
use its result and submit it to perf_exclude_context() that knows
when an event must be ignored.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 kernel/perf_event.c |    9 +--------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index c953cfb..2d8b67c 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -4163,15 +4163,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart perf_swevent_hrtimer(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
 	perf_sample_data_init(&data, 0);
 	data.period = event->hw.last_period;
 	regs = get_irq_regs();
-	/*
-	 * In case we exclude kernel IPs or are somehow not in interrupt
-	 * context, provide the next best thing, the user IP.
-	 */
-	if ((event->attr.exclude_kernel || !regs) &&
-			!event->attr.exclude_user)
-		regs = task_pt_regs(current);
 
-	if (regs) {
+	if (regs && !perf_exclude_event(event, regs)) {
 		if (!(event->attr.exclude_idle && current->pid == 0))
 			if (perf_event_overflow(event, 0, &data, regs))
 				ret = HRTIMER_NORESTART;
-- 
1.6.2.3

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