Re: [PATCH 0/3] arm64: perf: Add support for Perf NMI interrupts

[Mark Rutland]

Hi all,

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 02:26:00PM +0800, Lecopzer Chen wrote:
> HI Sumit,
> 
> Thanks for your information.
> 
> I've already implemented IPI (same as you did [1], little difference
> in detail), hardlockup detector and perf in last year(2019) for
> debuggability.
> And now we tend to upstream to reduce kernel maintaining effort.
> I'm glad if someone in ARM can do this work :)
> 
> Hi Julien,
> 
> Does any Arm maintainers can proceed this action?

Alexandru (Cc'd) has been rebasing and reworking Julien's patches, which
is my preferred approach.

I understand that's not quite ready for posting since he's investigating
some of the nastier subtleties (e.g. mutual exclusion with the NMI), but
maybe we can put the work-in-progress patches somewhere in the mean
time.

Alexandru, do you have an idea of what needs to be done, and/or when you
expect you could post that?

Thanks,
Mark.

> This is really useful in debugging.
> Thank you!!
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/24/328
> 
> 
> Lecopzer
> 
> Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx> æ 2020å5æ18æ éä äå1:46åéï
> >
> > + Julien
> >
> > Hi Lecopzer,
> >
> > On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 18:20, Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > These series implement Perf NMI funxtionality and depends on
> > > Pseudo NMI [1] which has been upstreamed.
> > >
> > > In arm64 with GICv3, Pseudo NMI was implemented for NMI-like interruts.
> > > That can be extended to Perf NMI which is the prerequisite for hard-lockup
> > > detector which had already a standard interface inside Linux.
> > >
> > > Thus the first step we need to implement perf NMI interface and make sure
> > > it works fine.
> > >
> >
> > This is something that is already implemented via Julien's patch-set
> > [1]. Its v4 has been floating since July, 2019 and I couldn't find any
> > major blocking comments but not sure why things haven't progressed
> > further.
> >
> > Maybe Julien or Arm maintainers can provide updates on existing
> > patch-set [1] and how we should proceed further with this interesting
> > feature.
> >
> > And regarding hard-lockup detection, I have been able to enable it
> > based on perf NMI events using Julien's perf patch-set [1]. Have a
> > look at the patch here [2].
> >
> > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11047407/
> > [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2020-May/732227.html
> >
> > -Sumit
> >
> > > Perf NMI has been test by dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null like the link [2]
> > > did.
> > >
> > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/31/535
> > > [2] https://www.linaro.org/blog/debugging-arm-kernels-using-nmifiq
> > >
> > >
> > > Lecopzer Chen (3):
> > >   arm_pmu: Add support for perf NMI interrupts registration
> > >   arm64: perf: Support NMI context for perf event ISR
> > >   arm64: Kconfig: Add support for the Perf NMI
> > >
> > >  arch/arm64/Kconfig             | 10 +++++++
> > >  arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++------
> > >  drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c         | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> > >  include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h   |  6 ++++
> > >  4 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.25.1
> > >
> > >
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