Re: [PATCH] perf/core: Speed up kexec shutdown by avoiding unnecessary cross CPU calls

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 11:14:24AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> From: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There are typically a lot of PMUs registered, but in many cases only few
> of them have an event registered (like the "cpu" PMU in the presence of
> the watchdog). As the mutex is already held, it's safe to just check for
> existing events before doing the cross CPU call.
> 
> This change saves tens of milliseconds from kexec time (perceived as
> steal time during a hypervisor host update), with <2ms remaining for
> this step in the shutdown. There might be additional potential for
> parallelization or we could just disable performance monitoring during
> the actual shutdown and be less graceful about it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Fair enough I suppose. Let me go queue this.

>  kernel/events/core.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
> index 413b88a4e00f..e36372b3c83f 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> @@ -14712,7 +14712,8 @@ static void perf_event_exit_cpu_context(int cpu)
>  	ctx = &cpuctx->ctx;
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex);
> -	smp_call_function_single(cpu, __perf_event_exit_context, ctx, 1);
> +	if (ctx->nr_events)
> +		smp_call_function_single(cpu, __perf_event_exit_context, ctx, 1);
>  	cpuctx->online = 0;
>  	mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
>  	mutex_unlock(&pmus_lock);
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
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