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| author | Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com> | 2025-05-09 02:26:42 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2025-05-15 19:07:19 +0300 |
| commit | 18049c8cff9cc89daadc4df6975f7d9069638926 (patch) | |
| tree | bcbb6d02cc2696045e86cae9f0543d28e1a010e2 /include/linux | |
| parent | 881097c0549f3818f5aa31af8ccb49213bd99bed (diff) | |
| download | linux-18049c8cff9cc89daadc4df6975f7d9069638926.tar.xz | |
perf/aux: Allocate non-contiguous AUX pages by default
perf always allocates contiguous AUX pages based on aux_watermark.
However, this contiguous allocation doesn't benefit all PMUs. For
instance, ARM SPE and TRBE operate with virtual pages, and Coresight
ETR allocates a separate buffer. For these PMUs, allocating contiguous
AUX pages unnecessarily exacerbates memory fragmentation. This
fragmentation can prevent their use on long-running devices.
This patch modifies the perf driver to be memory-friendly by default,
by allocating non-contiguous AUX pages. For PMUs requiring contiguous
pages (Intel BTS and some Intel PT), the existing
PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG capability can be used. For PMUs that don't
require but can benefit from contiguous pages (some Intel PT), a new
capability, PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_PREFER_LARGE, is added to maintain their
existing behavior.
Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508232642.148767-1-yabinc@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/perf_event.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index 947ad12dfdbe..a96c00e2ceca 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ struct perf_event_pmu_context; #define PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_OUTPUT 0x0080 #define PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_HW_TYPE 0x0100 #define PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_PAUSE 0x0200 +#define PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_PREFER_LARGE 0x0400 /** * pmu::scope |