perfcounters: add nr-of-faults counter
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:44:31 +0000 (14:44 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:31:27 +0000 (20:31 +0100)
Impact: add new feature, new sw counter

Add a counter that counts the number of pagefaults a task
is experiencing.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/perf_counter.c

index fb11e351e44e339a78353040a1be16ec6a3b66eb..59c52f9ee431a6ee09140d58f72a724856102e51 100644 (file)
@@ -888,6 +888,54 @@ static const struct hw_perf_counter_ops perf_ops_task_clock = {
        .hw_perf_counter_read           = task_clock_perf_counter_read,
 };
 
+static u64 get_page_faults(void)
+{
+       struct task_struct *curr = current;
+
+       return curr->maj_flt + curr->min_flt;
+}
+
+static void page_faults_perf_counter_update(struct perf_counter *counter)
+{
+       u64 prev, now;
+       s64 delta;
+
+       prev = atomic64_read(&counter->hw.prev_count);
+       now = get_page_faults();
+
+       atomic64_set(&counter->hw.prev_count, now);
+
+       delta = now - prev;
+       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(delta < 0))
+               delta = 0;
+
+       atomic64_add(delta, &counter->count);
+}
+
+static void page_faults_perf_counter_read(struct perf_counter *counter)
+{
+       page_faults_perf_counter_update(counter);
+}
+
+static void page_faults_perf_counter_enable(struct perf_counter *counter)
+{
+       /*
+        * page-faults is a per-task value already,
+        * so we dont have to clear it on switch-in.
+        */
+}
+
+static void page_faults_perf_counter_disable(struct perf_counter *counter)
+{
+       page_faults_perf_counter_update(counter);
+}
+
+static const struct hw_perf_counter_ops perf_ops_page_faults = {
+       .hw_perf_counter_enable         = page_faults_perf_counter_enable,
+       .hw_perf_counter_disable        = page_faults_perf_counter_disable,
+       .hw_perf_counter_read           = page_faults_perf_counter_read,
+};
+
 static u64 get_context_switches(void)
 {
        struct task_struct *curr = current;
@@ -994,6 +1042,9 @@ sw_perf_counter_init(struct perf_counter *counter)
        case PERF_COUNT_TASK_CLOCK:
                hw_ops = &perf_ops_task_clock;
                break;
+       case PERF_COUNT_PAGE_FAULTS:
+               hw_ops = &perf_ops_page_faults;
+               break;
        case PERF_COUNT_CONTEXT_SWITCHES:
                hw_ops = &perf_ops_context_switches;
                break;