linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/9] perf/core: Support a REMOVE transaction

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Date:   Tue, 21 May 2019 14:40:47 -0700
From:   kan.liang@...ux.intel.com
To:     peterz@...radead.org, acme@...nel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, jolsa@...nel.org, eranian@...gle.com,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, ak@...ux.intel.com,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/9] perf/core: Support a REMOVE transaction

From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

The TopDown events can be collected per thread/process on Icelake. To
use TopDown through RDPMC in applications, the metrics and slots MSR
values have to be saved/restored during context switching.
It is useful to have a remove transaction when the counter is
unscheduled, so that the values can be saved correctly.

Add a remove transaction to the perf core.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/events/core.c     | 3 +--
 include/linux/perf_event.h | 1 +
 kernel/events/core.c       | 5 +++++
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c
index f0e4804515d8..e075de494dfd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
@@ -1856,8 +1856,7 @@ static inline void x86_pmu_read(struct perf_event *event)
  * Set the flag to make pmu::enable() not perform the
  * schedulability test, it will be performed at commit time
  *
- * We only support PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD transactions. Save the
- * transaction flags but otherwise ignore non-PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD
+ * Save the transaction flags and ignore non-PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD
  * transactions.
  */
 static void x86_pmu_start_txn(struct pmu *pmu, unsigned int txn_flags)
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 5beb5cde3d56..973b7f8ce8e9 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ struct perf_event;
  */
 #define PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD  0x1		/* txn to add/schedule event on PMU */
 #define PERF_PMU_TXN_READ 0x2		/* txn to read event group from PMU */
+#define PERF_PMU_TXN_REMOVE 0x4		/* txn to remove event on PMU */
 
 /**
  * pmu::capabilities flags
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 118ad1aef6af..f204166f6bc8 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -2032,6 +2032,7 @@ group_sched_out(struct perf_event *group_event,
 		struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx,
 		struct perf_event_context *ctx)
 {
+	struct pmu *pmu = ctx->pmu;
 	struct perf_event *event;
 
 	if (group_event->state != PERF_EVENT_STATE_ACTIVE)
@@ -2039,6 +2040,8 @@ group_sched_out(struct perf_event *group_event,
 
 	perf_pmu_disable(ctx->pmu);
 
+	pmu->start_txn(pmu, PERF_PMU_TXN_REMOVE);
+
 	event_sched_out(group_event, cpuctx, ctx);
 
 	/*
@@ -2051,6 +2054,8 @@ group_sched_out(struct perf_event *group_event,
 
 	if (group_event->attr.exclusive)
 		cpuctx->exclusive = 0;
+
+	pmu->commit_txn(pmu);
 }
 
 #define DETACH_GROUP	0x01UL
-- 
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