kernel/linux.git/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h, branch v6.12.80

perf/hw_breakpoint: Remove arch breakpoint hooks

2023-08-16T13:54:50+00:00

PowerPC was the only user of these hooks, and has been refactored to no longer require them. There is no need to keep them around, so remove them to reduce complexity. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://msgid.link/20230801011744.153973-8-bgray@linux.ibm.com

Move bp_type_idx to include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h

2023-03-10T20:05:16+00:00

This has a "#ifdef CONFIG_*" that used to be exposed to userspace. The names in here are so generic that I don't think it's a good idea to expose them to userspace (or even the rest of the kernel). There are multiple in-kernel users, so it's been moved to a kernel header file. Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt Reviewed-by: Andrew Waterman Reviewed-by: Albert Ou Message-Id: <1447119071-19392-10-git-send-email-palmer@dabbelt.com> [thuth: Remove it also from tools/include/uapi/linux/hw_breakpoint.h] Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

perf/hw_breakpoint: Make hw_breakpoint_weight() inlinable

2022-08-30T08:56:22+00:00

Due to being a __weak function, hw_breakpoint_weight() will cause the compiler to always emit a call to it. This generates unnecessarily bad code (register spills etc.) for no good reason; in fact it appears in profiles of `perf bench -r 100 breakpoint thread -b 4 -p 128 -t 512`: ... 0.70% [kernel] [k] hw_breakpoint_weight ... While a small percentage, no architecture defines its own hw_breakpoint_weight() nor are there users outside hw_breakpoint.c, which makes the fact it is currently __weak a poor choice. Change hw_breakpoint_weight()'s definition to follow a similar protocol to hw_breakpoint_slots(), such that if defines hw_breakpoint_weight(), we'll use it instead. The result is that it is inlined and no longer shows up in profiles. Signed-off-by: Marco Elver Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov Acked-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829124719.675715-8-elver@google.com

perf/hw_breakpoint: Provide hw_breakpoint_is_used() and use in test

2022-08-30T08:56:20+00:00

Provide hw_breakpoint_is_used() to check if breakpoints are in use on the system. Use it in the KUnit test to verify the global state before and after a test case. Signed-off-by: Marco Elver Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov Acked-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829124719.675715-3-elver@google.com

hw_breakpoint: Remove unused __register_perf_hw_breakpoint() declaration

2020-08-06T15:54:04+00:00

Commit: b326e9560a28 ("hw-breakpoints: Use overflow handler instead of the event callback") removed __register_perf_hw_breakpoint() function usage and replaced it with register_perf_hw_breakpoint() function. Remove the left-over unused __register_perf_hw_breakpoint() declaration from as well. Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Mark Rutland Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1594971060-14180-1-git-send-email-bhsharma@redhat.com

hw-breakpoints: Fix build warnings with clang

2020-06-02T10:58:55+00:00

kbuild test robot reported some build warnings in the hw_breakpoint code when compiled with clang[1]. Some of them were introduced by the recent powerpc change to add arch_reserve_bp_slot() and arch_release_bp_slot(). Fix them all. kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c:71:12: warning: no previous prototype for function 'hw_breakpoint_weight' kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c:216:12: warning: no previous prototype for function 'arch_reserve_bp_slot' kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c:221:13: warning: no previous prototype for function 'arch_release_bp_slot' kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c:228:13: warning: no previous prototype for function 'arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint' [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/202005192233.oi9CjRtA%25lkp@intel.com/ Fixes: 29da4f91c0c1 ("powerpc/watchpoint: Don't allow concurrent perf and ptrace events") Reported-by: kbuild test robot Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria [mpe: Drop extern, flesh out change log, add Fixes tag] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200602041208.128913-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com

perf/core: Implement fast breakpoint modification via _IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTES

2018-03-13T14:24:02+00:00

Problem and motivation: Once a breakpoint perf event (PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT) is created, there is no flexibility to change the breakpoint type (bp_type), breakpoint address (bp_addr), or breakpoint length (bp_len). The only option is to close the perf event and configure a new breakpoint event. This inflexibility has a significant performance overhead. For example, sampling-based, lightweight performance profilers (and also concurrency bug detection tools), monitor different addresses for a short duration using PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT and change the address (bp_addr) to another address or change the kind of breakpoint (bp_type) from "write" to a "read" or vice-versa or change the length (bp_len) of the address being monitored. The cost of these modifications is prohibitive since it involves unmapping the circular buffer associated with the perf event, closing the perf event, opening another perf event and mmaping another circular buffer. Solution: The new ioctl flag for perf events, PERF_EVENT_IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTES, introduced in this patch takes a pointer to a struct perf_event_attr as an argument to update an old breakpoint event with new address, type, and size. This facility allows retaining a previous mmaped perf events ring buffer and avoids having to close and reopen another perf event. This patch supports only changing PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT event type; future implementations can extend this feature. The patch replicates some of its functionality of modify_user_hw_breakpoint() in kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c. modify_user_hw_breakpoint cannot be called directly since perf_event_ctx_lock() is already held in _perf_ioctl(). Evidence: Experiments show that the baseline (not able to modify an already created breakpoint) costs an order of magnitude (~10x) more than the suggested optimization (having the ability to dynamically modifying a configured breakpoint via ioctl). When the breakpoints typically do not trap, the speedup due to the suggested optimization is ~10x; even when the breakpoints always trap, the speedup is ~4x due to the suggested optimization. Testing: tests posted at https://github.com/linux-contrib/perf_event_modify_bp demonstrate the performance significance of this patch. Tests also check the functional correctness of the patch. Signed-off-by: Milind Chabbi [ Using modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check function. ] [ Reformated PERF_EVENT_IOC_*, so the values are all in one column. ] Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Hari Bathini Cc: Jin Yao Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312134548.31532-8-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf: Make perf build for x86 with UAPI disintegration applied

2012-11-19T22:21:03+00:00

Make perf build for x86 once the UAPI disintegration patches for that arch have been applied by adding the appropriate -I flags - in the right order - and then converting some #includes that use ../.. notation to find main kernel headerfiles to use and instead. Note that -Iarch/foo/include/uapi is present _before_ -Iarch/foo/include. This makes sure we get the userspace version of the pt_regs struct. Ideally, we wouldn't have the latter -I flag at all, but unfortunately we want asm/svm.h and asm/vmx.h in builtin-kvm.c and these aren't part of the UAPI - at least not for x86. I wonder if the bits outside of the __KERNEL__ guards *should* be transferred there. I note also that perf seems to do its dependency handling manually by listing all the header files it might want to use in LIB_H in the Makefile. Can this be changed to use -MD? Note that to do make this work, we need to export and UAPI disintegrate linux/hw_breakpoint.h, which I think should've been exported previously so that perf can access the bits. We have to do this in the same patch to maintain bisectability. Signed-off-by: David Howells

perf: Add context field to perf_event

2011-07-01T09:06:38+00:00

The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event in their local data structure. This is ugly and doesn't scale if a single callback services many perf_events. Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event. The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context. All callers are updated. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar