Re: [PATCH 02/10] perf, trace: Use per-tracepoint-per-cpu hlist to track events

Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-21T10:02:11Z

On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 11:40 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:02:03AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > Also, avoid conditionals on the fast path by ordering with probe unregister
> > so that we should never get on the callback path without the data being there.
> >
> \
> > + head = per_cpu_ptr(event_call->perf_events, smp_processor_id());\

> Should be rcu_dereference_sched ?

No, I removed all that rcu stuff and synchronized against the probe
unregister.

I assumed that after probe unregister a tracepoint callback doesn't
happen, which then guarantees we should never get !head.

> > + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> > + INIT_HLIST_HEAD(per_cpu_ptr(list, cpu));
> > +
> > + tp_event->perf_events = list;
>
>
>
> I suspect this must be rcu_assign_pointer.

Same thing as above, I do this before probe register, so I see no need
for RCU.

> > + list = per_cpu_ptr(list, smp_processor_id());
> > + hlist_add_head_rcu(&p_event->hlist_entry, list);
>
>
>
> Ah and may be small comment, because using the hlist api here
> may puzzle more people than just me ;)

What exactly is the puzzlement about?

> > + if (--tp_event->perf_refcount > 0)
> > + return;
> > +
> > + tp_event->perf_event_disable(tp_event);
>
>
>
> Don't we need a rcu_synchronize_sched() here?

Doesn't probe unregister synchronize things against its own callback?

> > + free_percpu(tp_event->perf_events);
> > + tp_event->perf_events = NULL;
>
>
>
> And rcu_assign?

Which again, makes any use of RCU unneeded.

> > + raw_data = per_cpu_ptr(perf_trace_buf[*rctxp], smp_processor_id());
>
>
>
> Needs rcu_dereference_sched too. And this could be __this_cpu_var()

Ahh! so that is what its called.

> > + preempt_disable_notrace();
>
>
> Why is this needed. We have the recursion context protection already.

Because:

@@ -4094,7 +4087,7 @@ end:

int perf_swevent_get_recursion_context(void)
{
- struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx = &get_cpu_var(perf_cpu_context);
+ struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx = &__get_cpu_var(perf_cpu_context);
int rctx;

if (in_nmi())