From 8fdc65391c6ad16461526a685f03262b3b01bfde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:26:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf/core: Fix time tracking bug with multiplexing Stephane reported that commit: 3cbaa5906967 ("perf: Fix ctx time tracking by introducing EVENT_TIME") introduced a regression wrt. time tracking, as easily observed by: > This patch introduce a bug in the time tracking of events when > multiplexing is used. > > The issue is easily reproducible with the following perf run: > > $ perf stat -a -C 0 -e branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,branches -I 1000 > 1.000730239 652,394 branches (66.41%) > 1.000730239 597,809 branches (66.41%) > 1.000730239 593,870 branches (66.63%) > 1.000730239 651,440 branches (67.03%) > 1.000730239 656,725 branches (66.96%) > 1.000730239 branches > > One branches event is shown as not having run. Yet, with > multiplexing, all events should run especially with a 1s (-I 1000) > interval. The delta for time_running comes out to 0. Yet, the event > has run because the kernel is actually multiplexing the events. The > problem is that the time tracking is the kernel and especially in > ctx_sched_out() is wrong now. > > The problem is that in case that the kernel enters ctx_sched_out() with the > following state: > ctx->is_active=0x7 event_type=0x1 > Call Trace: > [] dump_stack+0x63/0x82 > [] ctx_sched_out+0x2bc/0x2d0 > [] perf_mux_hrtimer_handler+0xf6/0x2c0 > [] ? __perf_install_in_context+0x130/0x130 > [] __hrtimer_run_queues+0xf8/0x2f0 > [] hrtimer_interrupt+0xb7/0x1d0 > [] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x38/0x60 > [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x3d/0x50 > [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x8c/0xa0 > > In that case, the test: > if (is_active & EVENT_TIME) > > will be false and the time will not be updated. Time must always be updated on > sched out. Fix this by always updating time if EVENT_TIME was set, as opposed to only updating time when EVENT_TIME changed. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian Tested-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: namhyung@kernel.org Fixes: 3cbaa5906967 ("perf: Fix ctx time tracking by introducing EVENT_TIME") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160329072644.GB3408@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index de24fbce5277..8c11388e92a5 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -2417,14 +2417,24 @@ static void ctx_sched_out(struct perf_event_context *ctx, cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL; } - is_active ^= ctx->is_active; /* changed bits */ - + /* + * Always update time if it was set; not only when it changes. + * Otherwise we can 'forget' to update time for any but the last + * context we sched out. For example: + * + * ctx_sched_out(.event_type = EVENT_FLEXIBLE) + * ctx_sched_out(.event_type = EVENT_PINNED) + * + * would only update time for the pinned events. + */ if (is_active & EVENT_TIME) { /* update (and stop) ctx time */ update_context_time(ctx); update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx(cpuctx); } + is_active ^= ctx->is_active; /* changed bits */ + if (!ctx->nr_active || !(is_active & EVENT_ALL)) return; -- 2.20.1