perf_counters: make software counters work as per-cpu counters

Impact: kernel crash fix

Yanmin Zhang reported that using a PERF_COUNT_TASK_CLOCK software
counter as a per-cpu counter would reliably crash the system, because
it calls __task_delta_exec with a null pointer.  The page fault,
context switch and cpu migration counters also won't function
correctly as per-cpu counters since they reference the current task.

This fixes the problem by redirecting the task_clock counter to the
cpu_clock counter when used as a per-cpu counter, and by implementing
per-cpu page fault, context switch and cpu migration counters.

Along the way, this:

- Initializes counter->ctx earlier, in perf_counter_alloc, so that
  sw_perf_counter_init can use it
- Adds code to kernel/sched.c to count task migrations into each
  cpu, in rq->nr_migrations_in
- Exports the per-cpu context switch and task migration counts
  via new functions added to kernel/sched.c
- Makes sure that if sw_perf_counter_init fails, we don't try to
  initialize the counter as a hardware counter.  Since the user has
  passed a negative, non-raw event type, they clearly don't intend
  for it to be interpreted as a hardware event.

Reported-by: "Zhang Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 8db1a4c..173768f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -558,6 +558,7 @@ struct rq {
 	struct load_weight load;
 	unsigned long nr_load_updates;
 	u64 nr_switches;
+	u64 nr_migrations_in;
 
 	struct cfs_rq cfs;
 	struct rt_rq rt;
@@ -1908,6 +1909,7 @@ void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int new_cpu)
 #endif
 	if (old_cpu != new_cpu) {
 		p->se.nr_migrations++;
+		new_rq->nr_migrations_in++;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
 		if (task_hot(p, old_rq->clock, NULL))
 			schedstat_inc(p, se.nr_forced2_migrations);
@@ -2811,6 +2813,21 @@ unsigned long nr_active(void)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Externally visible per-cpu scheduler statistics:
+ * cpu_nr_switches(cpu) - number of context switches on that cpu
+ * cpu_nr_migrations(cpu) - number of migrations into that cpu
+ */
+u64 cpu_nr_switches(int cpu)
+{
+	return cpu_rq(cpu)->nr_switches;
+}
+
+u64 cpu_nr_migrations(int cpu)
+{
+	return cpu_rq(cpu)->nr_migrations_in;
+}
+
+/*
  * Update rq->cpu_load[] statistics. This function is usually called every
  * scheduler tick (TICK_NSEC).
  */