linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2] perf: Rewrite core context handling

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Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:44:22 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@....com>
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        jolsa@...hat.com, namhyung@...nel.org, songliubraving@...com,
        eranian@...gle.com, alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com,
        ak@...ux.intel.com, mark.rutland@....com, megha.dey@...el.com,
        frederic@...nel.org, maddy@...ux.ibm.com, irogers@...gle.com,
        kim.phillips@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        santosh.shukla@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] perf: Rewrite core context handling

On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 11:40:34AM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> On 13-Jun-22 8:25 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 04:35:11PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> @@ -12125,6 +12232,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
> >>  		goto err_task;
> >>  	}
> >>  
> >> +	// XXX premature; what if this is allowed, but we get moved to a PMU
> >> +	// that doesn't have this.
> >>  	if (is_sampling_event(event)) {
> >>  		if (event->pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_INTERRUPT) {
> >>  			err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > 
> > No; this really should be against the event's native PMU. If the event
> > can't natively sample, it can't sample when placed in another group
> > either.
> 
> Right. But IIUC, the question was, would there be any issue if we allow
> grouping of perf_sw_context sampling event as group leader and
> perf_{hw|invalid}_context counting event as group member. I think no. It
> should just work fine. And, there could be real usecases of it as you
> described in one old thread[1].

Like you I need to bend my brain around this again, but I'm not seeing a
contradiction. The use-case from [1] is a software sampler with a bunch
of non-sampling uncore events.

The uncore events aren't sampling, the are simply read by the software
event (SAMPLE_READ). And moving the sampling software event to the
non-sample capable uncore PMU shouldn't matter.

That is; the code as it stands here seems right, we should check
is_sampling_event() against an event's native pmu->capabilities.

Or am I misunderstanding things?