From c530665c31c0140b74ca7689e7f836177796e5bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 07:16:16 +0100 Subject: perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace events We are taking a wrong regs snapshot when a trace event triggers. Either we use get_irq_regs(), which gives us the interrupted registers if we are in an interrupt, or we use task_pt_regs() which gives us the state before we entered the kernel, assuming we are lucky enough to be no kernel thread, in which case task_pt_regs() returns the initial set of regs when the kernel thread was started. What we want is different. We need a hot snapshot of the regs, so that we can get the instruction pointer to record in the sample, the frame pointer for the callchain, and some other things. Let's use the new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for that. Comparison with perf record -e lock: -R -a -f -g Before: perf [kernel] [k] __do_softirq | --- __do_softirq | |--55.16%-- __open | --44.84%-- __write_nocancel After: perf [kernel] [k] perf_tp_event | --- perf_tp_event | |--41.07%-- lock_acquire | | | |--39.36%-- _raw_spin_lock | | | | | |--7.81%-- hrtimer_interrupt | | | smp_apic_timer_interrupt | | | apic_timer_interrupt The old case was producing unreliable callchains. Now having right frame and instruction pointers, we have the trace we want. Also syscalls and kprobe events already have the right regs, let's use them instead of wasting a retrieval. v2: Follow the rename perf_save_regs() -> perf_fetch_caller_regs() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Archs --- kernel/perf_event.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/perf_event.c') diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c index 359d7f6..45b4b6e 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -4318,9 +4318,8 @@ static const struct pmu perf_ops_task_clock = { #ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING void perf_tp_event(int event_id, u64 addr, u64 count, void *record, - int entry_size) + int entry_size, struct pt_regs *regs) { - struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs(); struct perf_sample_data data; struct perf_raw_record raw = { .size = entry_size, @@ -4330,12 +4329,9 @@ void perf_tp_event(int event_id, u64 addr, u64 count, void *record, perf_sample_data_init(&data, addr); data.raw = &raw; - if (!regs) - regs = task_pt_regs(current); - /* Trace events already protected against recursion */ do_perf_sw_event(PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT, event_id, count, 1, - &data, regs); + &data, regs); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_tp_event); -- cgit v1.1