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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2022-07-11 12:32:14 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2022-07-20 17:08:53 +0300
commit7d1f65b5046f859df39bbdc66582120315134935 (patch)
tree9030519904a4620b3eec1fa748d2c8153254a550 /tools
parent0bb82cf518779721993053888d61d9f6f2f97de7 (diff)
downloadlinux-7d1f65b5046f859df39bbdc66582120315134935.tar.xz
perf intel-pt: Disable sync switch with guest sideband
The sync_switch facility attempts to better synchronize context switches with the Intel PT trace, however it is not designed for guest machine context switches, so disable it when guest sideband is detected. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220711093218.10967-32-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c29
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
index 98b097fec476..dc2af64f9e31 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ struct intel_pt {
bool data_queued;
bool est_tsc;
bool sync_switch;
+ bool sync_switch_not_supported;
bool mispred_all;
bool use_thread_stack;
bool callstack;
@@ -2638,6 +2639,9 @@ static void intel_pt_enable_sync_switch(struct intel_pt *pt)
{
unsigned int i;
+ if (pt->sync_switch_not_supported)
+ return;
+
pt->sync_switch = true;
for (i = 0; i < pt->queues.nr_queues; i++) {
@@ -2649,6 +2653,23 @@ static void intel_pt_enable_sync_switch(struct intel_pt *pt)
}
}
+static void intel_pt_disable_sync_switch(struct intel_pt *pt)
+{
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ pt->sync_switch = false;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < pt->queues.nr_queues; i++) {
+ struct auxtrace_queue *queue = &pt->queues.queue_array[i];
+ struct intel_pt_queue *ptq = queue->priv;
+
+ if (ptq) {
+ ptq->sync_switch = false;
+ intel_pt_next_tid(pt, ptq);
+ }
+ }
+}
+
/*
* To filter against time ranges, it is only necessary to look at the next start
* or end time.
@@ -3090,6 +3111,14 @@ static int intel_pt_guest_context_switch(struct intel_pt *pt,
pt->have_guest_sideband = true;
+ /*
+ * sync_switch cannot handle guest machines at present, so just disable
+ * it.
+ */
+ pt->sync_switch_not_supported = true;
+ if (pt->sync_switch)
+ intel_pt_disable_sync_switch(pt);
+
if (out)
return 0;