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authorRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>2008-12-09 01:21:32 +0100
committerRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>2008-12-10 14:20:18 +0100
commit6dad828b76c7224a22ddc9ce7aa495d994f03b31 (patch)
tree364de7a3efd56d60c0742145e3a8d3d4f73bcde4 /drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.h
parente09373f22e76cc048ca5fe10a9ff9012f5d64309 (diff)
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oprofile: port to the new ring_buffer
This patch replaces the current oprofile cpu buffer implementation with the ring buffer provided by the tracing framework. The motivation here is to leave the pain of implementing ring buffers to others. Oh, no, there are more advantages. Main reason is the support of different sample sizes that could be stored in the buffer. Use cases for this are IBS and Cell spu profiling. Using the new ring buffer ensures valid and complete samples and allows copying the cpu buffer stateless without knowing its content. Second it will use generic kernel API and also reduce code size. And hopefully, there are less bugs. Since the new tracing ring buffer implementation uses spin locks to protect the buffer during read/write access, it is difficult to use the buffer in an NMI handler. In this case, writing to the buffer by the NMI handler (x86) could occur also during critical sections when reading the buffer. To avoid this, there are 2 buffers for independent read and write access. Read access is in process context only, write access only in the NMI handler. If the read buffer runs empty, both buffers are swapped atomically. There is potentially a small window during swapping where the buffers are disabled and samples could be lost. Using 2 buffers is a little bit overhead, but the solution is clear and does not require changes in the ring buffer implementation. It can be changed to a single buffer solution when the ring buffer access is implemented as non-locking atomic code. The new buffer requires more size to store the same amount of samples because each sample includes an u32 header. Also, there is more code to execute for buffer access. Nonetheless, the buffer implementation is proven in the ftrace environment and worth to use also in oprofile. Patches that changes the internal IBS buffer usage will follow. Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.h71
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.h b/drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.h
index 895763f065e9..aacb0f0bc566 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.h
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include <linux/cache.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/ring_buffer.h>
struct task_struct;
@@ -32,6 +33,12 @@ struct op_sample {
unsigned long event;
};
+struct op_entry {
+ struct ring_buffer_event *event;
+ struct op_sample *sample;
+ unsigned long irq_flags;
+};
+
struct oprofile_cpu_buffer {
volatile unsigned long head_pos;
volatile unsigned long tail_pos;
@@ -39,7 +46,6 @@ struct oprofile_cpu_buffer {
struct task_struct *last_task;
int last_is_kernel;
int tracing;
- struct op_sample *buffer;
unsigned long sample_received;
unsigned long sample_lost_overflow;
unsigned long backtrace_aborted;
@@ -48,6 +54,8 @@ struct oprofile_cpu_buffer {
struct delayed_work work;
};
+extern struct ring_buffer *op_ring_buffer_read;
+extern struct ring_buffer *op_ring_buffer_write;
DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct oprofile_cpu_buffer, cpu_buffer);
/*
@@ -64,46 +72,49 @@ static inline void cpu_buffer_reset(int cpu)
cpu_buf->last_task = NULL;
}
-static inline
-struct op_sample *cpu_buffer_write_entry(struct oprofile_cpu_buffer *cpu_buf)
+static inline int cpu_buffer_write_entry(struct op_entry *entry)
{
- return &cpu_buf->buffer[cpu_buf->head_pos];
-}
+ entry->event = ring_buffer_lock_reserve(op_ring_buffer_write,
+ sizeof(struct op_sample),
+ &entry->irq_flags);
+ if (entry->event)
+ entry->sample = ring_buffer_event_data(entry->event);
+ else
+ entry->sample = NULL;
-static inline
-void cpu_buffer_write_commit(struct oprofile_cpu_buffer *b)
-{
- unsigned long new_head = b->head_pos + 1;
+ if (!entry->sample)
+ return -ENOMEM;
- /*
- * Ensure anything written to the slot before we increment is
- * visible
- */
- wmb();
+ return 0;
+}
- if (new_head < b->buffer_size)
- b->head_pos = new_head;
- else
- b->head_pos = 0;
+static inline int cpu_buffer_write_commit(struct op_entry *entry)
+{
+ return ring_buffer_unlock_commit(op_ring_buffer_write, entry->event,
+ entry->irq_flags);
}
-static inline
-struct op_sample *cpu_buffer_read_entry(struct oprofile_cpu_buffer *cpu_buf)
+static inline struct op_sample *cpu_buffer_read_entry(int cpu)
{
- return &cpu_buf->buffer[cpu_buf->tail_pos];
+ struct ring_buffer_event *e;
+ e = ring_buffer_consume(op_ring_buffer_read, cpu, NULL);
+ if (e)
+ return ring_buffer_event_data(e);
+ if (ring_buffer_swap_cpu(op_ring_buffer_read,
+ op_ring_buffer_write,
+ cpu))
+ return NULL;
+ e = ring_buffer_consume(op_ring_buffer_read, cpu, NULL);
+ if (e)
+ return ring_buffer_event_data(e);
+ return NULL;
}
/* "acquire" as many cpu buffer slots as we can */
-static inline
-unsigned long cpu_buffer_entries(struct oprofile_cpu_buffer *b)
+static inline unsigned long cpu_buffer_entries(int cpu)
{
- unsigned long head = b->head_pos;
- unsigned long tail = b->tail_pos;
-
- if (head >= tail)
- return head - tail;
-
- return head + (b->buffer_size - tail);
+ return ring_buffer_entries_cpu(op_ring_buffer_read, cpu)
+ + ring_buffer_entries_cpu(op_ring_buffer_write, cpu);
}
/* transient events for the CPU buffer -> event buffer */
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