linux/arch/x86/kernel/cpu
Anton Blanchard 339ce1a4dc perf: Fix inconsistency between IP and callchain sampling
When running perf across all cpus with backtracing (-a -g), sometimes we
get samples without associated backtraces:

    23.44%         init  [kernel]                     [k] restore
    11.46%         init                       eeba0c  [k] 0x00000000eeba0c
     6.77%      swapper  [kernel]                     [k] .perf_ctx_adjust_freq
     5.73%         init  [kernel]                     [k] .__trace_hcall_entry
     4.69%         perf  libc-2.9.so                  [.] 0x0000000006bb8c
                       |
                       |--11.11%-- 0xfffa941bbbc

It turns out the backtrace code has a check for the idle task and the IP
sampling does not. This creates problems when profiling an interrupt
heavy workload (in my case 10Gbit ethernet) since we get no backtraces
for interrupts received while idle (ie most of the workload).

Right now x86 and sh check that current is not NULL, which should never
happen so remove that too.

Idle task's exclusion must be performed from the core code, on top
of perf_event_attr:exclude_idle.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100118054707.GT12666@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-01-28 14:31:20 +01:00
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cpufreq arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c: avoid cross-CPU interrupts by using smp_call_function_any() 2009-12-22 15:03:57 -05:00
mcheck Merge branch 'x86/mce' into x86/urgent 2009-12-15 20:33:53 +01:00
mtrr tree-wide: convert open calls to remove spaces to skip_spaces() lib function 2009-12-15 08:53:32 -08:00
.gitignore Update .gitignore files for generated targets 2008-10-20 11:24:31 -07:00
addon_cpuid_features.c x86: Limit the number of processor bootup messages 2009-12-11 15:16:00 -08:00
amd.c x86, amd: Get multi-node CPU info from NodeId MSR instead of PCI config space 2009-12-16 15:06:23 -08:00
bugs_64.c x86/cpu: Clean up various files a bit 2009-07-11 11:24:09 +02:00
bugs.c x86/cpu: Clean up various files a bit 2009-07-11 11:24:09 +02:00
centaur.c x86, cpu: mv display_cacheinfo -> cpu_detect_cache_sizes 2009-11-23 11:59:53 -08:00
cmpxchg.c x86: move cmpxchg fallbacks to a generic place 2008-08-18 16:05:47 +02:00
common.c Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 12:36:46 -08:00
cpu_debug.c percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique 2009-10-29 22:34:14 +09:00
cpu.h x86, cpu: mv display_cacheinfo -> cpu_detect_cache_sizes 2009-11-23 11:59:53 -08:00
cyrix.c x86, cpu: mv display_cacheinfo -> cpu_detect_cache_sizes 2009-11-23 11:59:53 -08:00
hypervisor.c x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_ops 2009-08-31 09:35:47 +02:00
intel_cacheinfo.c Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 12:36:46 -08:00
intel.c x86: Reenable TSC sync check at boot, even with NONSTOP_TSC 2009-12-17 14:44:35 -08:00
Makefile perf events: Do not generate function trace entries in perf code 2009-11-23 10:19:20 +01:00
mkcapflags.pl x86: generate names for /proc/cpuinfo from <asm/cpufeature.h> 2008-08-27 19:23:22 -07:00
perf_event.c perf: Fix inconsistency between IP and callchain sampling 2010-01-28 14:31:20 +01:00
perfctr-watchdog.c x86, perfctr: Remove unused func avail_to_resrv_perfctr_nmi() 2009-12-28 09:36:46 +01:00
powerflags.c x86: generate names for /proc/cpuinfo from <asm/cpufeature.h> 2008-08-27 19:23:22 -07:00
proc.c Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-14 07:57:32 -07:00
sched.c sched: x86: Name old_perf in a unique way 2009-09-16 11:21:07 +02:00
transmeta.c x86, cpu: mv display_cacheinfo -> cpu_detect_cache_sizes 2009-11-23 11:59:53 -08:00
umc.c x86: move various CPU initialization objects into .cpuinit.rodata 2009-03-12 13:13:07 +01:00
vmware.c x86: Print the hypervisor returned tsc_khz during boot 2009-09-20 20:25:36 +02:00