[PATCH V3 5/6] perf/core: calculate side-band events overhead

From: kan . liang
Date: Thu Dec 08 2016 - 16:28:43 EST


From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>

Iterating all events which need to receive side-band events also bring
some overhead.

The side-band events overhead PERF_CORE_SB_OVERHEAD is a common overhead
type.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 1 +
kernel/events/core.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index c488336..7ba6d30 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -1002,6 +1002,7 @@ struct perf_branch_entry {
enum perf_record_overhead_type {
/* common overhead */
PERF_CORE_MUX_OVERHEAD = 0,
+ PERF_CORE_SB_OVERHEAD,
/* PMU specific */
PERF_OVERHEAD_MAX,
};
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 28468ae..335b1e2 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -6134,9 +6134,13 @@ static void
perf_iterate_sb(perf_iterate_f output, void *data,
struct perf_event_context *task_ctx)
{
+ struct perf_event_context *overhead_ctx = task_ctx;
+ struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx;
struct perf_event_context *ctx;
+ u64 start_clock, end_clock;
int ctxn;

+ start_clock = perf_clock();
rcu_read_lock();
preempt_disable();

@@ -6154,12 +6158,23 @@ perf_iterate_sb(perf_iterate_f output, void *data,

for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn) {
ctx = rcu_dereference(current->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]);
- if (ctx)
+ if (ctx) {
perf_iterate_ctx(ctx, output, data, false);
+ if (!overhead_ctx)
+ overhead_ctx = ctx;
+ }
}
done:
preempt_enable();
rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ /* calculate side-band event overhead */
+ end_clock = perf_clock();
+ if (overhead_ctx && overhead_ctx->pmu && overhead_ctx->pmu->stat) {
+ cpuctx = this_cpu_ptr(overhead_ctx->pmu->pmu_cpu_context);
+ cpuctx->overhead[PERF_CORE_SB_OVERHEAD].nr++;
+ cpuctx->overhead[PERF_CORE_SB_OVERHEAD].time += end_clock - start_clock;
+ }
}

/*
--
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