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author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-09-09 19:22:48 +0200 |
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committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-11-08 15:34:42 +0100 |
commit | 24f1e32c60c45c89a997c73395b69c8af6f0a84e (patch) | |
tree | 4f30f16e18cb4abbcf96b3b331e6a3f01bfa26e6 /include/linux/perf_event.h | |
parent | 2da3e160cb3d226d87b907fab26850d838ed8d7c (diff) | |
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hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.
Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..
The new layering is now made as follows:
ptrace kgdb ftrace perf syscall
\ | / /
\ | / /
/
Core breakpoint API /
/
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| /
Breakpoints perf events
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Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
(Part of core breakpoint API)
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Hardware debug registers
Reasons of this rewrite:
- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)
Impact:
- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
thread breakpoints references.
Todo (in the order):
- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools
Changes in v2:
- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch
Changes in v3:
- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
to the host.
Changes in v4:
- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
set when the guest used debug registers.
(Waiting for a reliable optimization)
Changes in v5:
- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c
Changes in v6:
- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/perf_event.h | 26 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index 8d54e6d25eeb..cead64ea6c15 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ #include <linux/ioctl.h> #include <asm/byteorder.h> +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT +#include <asm/hw_breakpoint.h> +#endif + /* * User-space ABI bits: */ @@ -31,6 +35,7 @@ enum perf_type_id { PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT = 2, PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE = 3, PERF_TYPE_RAW = 4, + PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT = 5, PERF_TYPE_MAX, /* non-ABI */ }; @@ -207,6 +212,15 @@ struct perf_event_attr { __u32 wakeup_events; /* wakeup every n events */ __u32 wakeup_watermark; /* bytes before wakeup */ }; + + union { + struct { /* Hardware breakpoint info */ + __u64 bp_addr; + __u32 bp_type; + __u32 bp_len; + }; + }; + __u32 __reserved_2; __u64 __reserved_3; @@ -476,6 +490,11 @@ struct hw_perf_event { atomic64_t count; struct hrtimer hrtimer; }; +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT + union { /* breakpoint */ + struct arch_hw_breakpoint info; + }; +#endif }; atomic64_t prev_count; u64 sample_period; @@ -588,7 +607,7 @@ struct perf_event { u64 tstamp_running; u64 tstamp_stopped; - struct perf_event_attr attr; + struct perf_event_attr attr; struct hw_perf_event hw; struct perf_event_context *ctx; @@ -643,6 +662,8 @@ struct perf_event { perf_callback_t callback; + perf_callback_t event_callback; + #endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */ }; @@ -831,6 +852,7 @@ extern int sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate; extern void perf_event_init(void); extern void perf_tp_event(int event_id, u64 addr, u64 count, void *record, int entry_size); +extern void perf_bp_event(struct perf_event *event, void *data); #ifndef perf_misc_flags #define perf_misc_flags(regs) (user_mode(regs) ? PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER : \ @@ -865,6 +887,8 @@ static inline int perf_event_task_enable(void) { return -EINVAL; } static inline void perf_sw_event(u32 event_id, u64 nr, int nmi, struct pt_regs *regs, u64 addr) { } +static inline void +perf_bp_event(struct perf_event *event, void *data) { } static inline void perf_event_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { } static inline void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *tsk) { } |