linux/arch/x86/kernel/cpu
Frederic Weisbecker e49a5bd381 perf: Use hot regs with software sched switch/migrate events
Scheduler's task migration events don't work because they always
pass NULL regs perf_sw_event(). The event hence gets filtered
in perf_swevent_add().

Scheduler's context switches events use task_pt_regs() to get
the context when the event occured which is a wrong thing to
do as this won't give us the place in the kernel where we went
to sleep but the place where we left userspace. The result is
even more wrong if we switch from a kernel thread.

Use the hot regs snapshot for both events as they belong to the
non-interrupt/exception based events family. Unlike page faults
or so that provide the regs matching the exact origin of the event,
we need to save the current context.

This makes the task migration event working and fix the context
switch callchains and origin ip.

Example: perf record -a -e cs

Before:

    10.91%      ksoftirqd/0                  0  [k] 0000000000000000
                |
                --- (nil)
                    perf_callchain
                    perf_prepare_sample
                    __perf_event_overflow
                    perf_swevent_overflow
                    perf_swevent_add
                    perf_swevent_ctx_event
                    do_perf_sw_event
                    __perf_sw_event
                    perf_event_task_sched_out
                    schedule
                    run_ksoftirqd
                    kthread
                    kernel_thread_helper

After:

    23.77%  hald-addon-stor  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] schedule
            |
            --- schedule
               |
               |--60.00%-- schedule_timeout
               |          wait_for_common
               |          wait_for_completion
               |          blk_execute_rq
               |          scsi_execute
               |          scsi_execute_req
               |          sr_test_unit_ready
               |          |
               |          |--66.67%-- sr_media_change
               |          |          media_changed
               |          |          cdrom_media_changed
               |          |          sr_block_media_changed
               |          |          check_disk_change
               |          |          cdrom_open

v2: Always build perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() now that software
events need that too. They don't need it from modules, unlike trace
events, so we keep the EXPORT_SYMBOL in trace_event_perf.c

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-01 08:26:31 +02:00
..
cpufreq Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq 2010-03-07 12:52:38 -08:00
mcheck x86/mce: Fix build bug with CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y && CONFIG_X86_MCE_INTEL=y 2010-03-14 08:57:03 +01:00
mtrr x86: fix mtrr missing kernel-doc 2010-03-05 11:46:03 -08:00
.gitignore Update .gitignore files for generated targets 2008-10-20 11:24:31 -07:00
addon_cpuid_features.c x86, cpu: Print AMD virtualization features in /proc/cpuinfo 2010-02-13 15:04:40 -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.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 Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type 2010-03-07 17:04:49 -08:00
intel.c x86: Fix sched_clock_cpu for systems with unsynchronized TSC 2010-03-02 13:36:11 +01:00
Makefile x86: Remove "x86 CPU features in debugfs" (CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG) 2010-01-23 18:27:47 -08:00
mkcapflags.pl x86: generate names for /proc/cpuinfo from <asm/cpufeature.h> 2008-08-27 19:23:22 -07:00
perf_event_amd.c x86 / perf: Fix suspend to RAM on HP nx6325 2010-03-22 09:57:19 -07:00
perf_event_intel.c perf, x86: Avoid double disable on throttle vs ioctl(PERF_IOC_DISABLE) 2010-03-10 13:22:31 +01:00
perf_event_p6.c perf, x86: Change x86_pmu.{enable,disable} calling convention 2010-03-10 13:22:28 +01:00
perf_event.c perf: Use hot regs with software sched switch/migrate events 2010-04-01 08:26:31 +02:00
perfctr-watchdog.c perf, x86: rename macro in ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE 2010-03-01 14:21:23 +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