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Reading LBR registers in a perf NMI handler for a non-PEBS event causes a high overhead because the number of LBR registers is huge. To reduce the overhead, the XSAVES instruction should be used to replace the LBR registers' reading method. The XSAVES buffer used for LBR read has to be per-CPU because the NMI handler invoked the lbr_read(). The existing task_ctx_data buffer cannot be used which is per-task and only be allocated for the LBR call stack mode. A new lbr_xsave pointer is introduced in the cpu_hw_events as an XSAVES buffer for LBR read. The XSAVES buffer should be allocated only when LBR is used by a non-PEBS event on the CPU because the total size of the lbr_xsave is not small (~1.4KB). The XSAVES buffer is allocated when a non-PEBS event is added, but it is lazily released in x86_release_hardware() when perf releases the entire PMU hardware resource, because perf may frequently schedule the event, e.g. high context switch. The lazy release method reduces the overhead of frequently allocate/free the buffer. If the lbr_xsave fails to be allocated, roll back to normal Arch LBR lbr_read(). Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1593780569-62993-24-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com |
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