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Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:56:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([165.132.143.163]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-2b97aa93a92sm25761535ad.22.2026.04.28.04.56.14 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:56:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Minwoo Ahn To: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Namhyung Kim Cc: Mark Rutland , Alexander Shishkin , Jiri Olsa , Ian Rogers , Adrian Hunter , James Clark , Jinkyu Jeong , Minwoo Ahn , linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] perf/core: Fix sampling period inconsistency across CPU migration Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:53:17 +0000 Message-ID: <20260428115317.22839-1-mwahn402@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When per-task software events are sampled, period_left is not managed consistently when task migration happens. The perf_event may observe a different hw_perf_event::period_left on the new CPU, breaking the sampling periodicity. Even if a task was near its sampling point, it would use a stale period_left after migration. Introduce struct perf_task_context as a per-task container to preserve period_left across CPU migrations. A separate structure is used rather than adding fields to hw_perf_event, because hw_perf_event is a general-purpose structure shared by all event types (hardware, software, tracepoint, breakpoint, etc.) and embedding per-task sampling state there would bloat it for the majority of events that do not need it. perf_task_context is only allocated for per-task software sampling events. Multiple per-CPU perf_event instances originating from the same perf_event_open caller share a single perf_task_context via refcounting. The perf_event owner field is used to distinguish events from different perf_event_open callers, preventing unrelated sampling sessions from interfering with each other. For inherited events (where owner is NULL), the inherit flag relaxes the owner check so that child events properly share perf_task_context. The allocation condition also accounts for inherited events whose attr.type has been remapped from PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE to a dynamic PMU type during initialization. perf_task_context serves purely as a transport for period_left across CPU migrations. On event removal (swevent_del for non-clock events, cancel_hrtimer for clock events), hw_perf_event::period_left is backed up to perf_task_context::period_left. On event addition (swevent_add for non-clock events, start_hrtimer for clock events), perf_task_context::period_left is restored to hw_perf_event::period_left. During normal operation between migrations, hw_perf_event::period_left remains the sole working copy, keeping existing code paths unaffected. To reproduce, force CPU migration during task-clock sampling: $ sysbench cpu --threads=1 --time=60 run & $ sleep 0.1 $ TID=$(ls /proc/$!/task/ | grep -v "^$!$") $ perf record -e task-clock -c 1000000000 -t $TID & # Force migration across CPUs every 1.2 seconds $ while kill -0 $TID 2>/dev/null; do taskset -p -c 0 $TID; sleep 1.2 taskset -p -c 1 $TID; sleep 1.2 taskset -p -c 2 $TID; sleep 1.2 done # Check sample intervals (expected: ~1.000s each) $ perf script -F time | \ awk 'NR==1 {prev=$1; next} {print $1-prev; prev=$1}' Without this patch, sample intervals show significant deviation from the expected 1-second period after each migration. With this patch, intervals remain consistent. Co-developed-by: Jinkyu Jeong Signed-off-by: Jinkyu Jeong Signed-off-by: Minwoo Ahn --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 18 +++++++++++ kernel/events/core.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 93 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index 48d851fbd8ea..84827f81cc9c 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -829,6 +829,9 @@ struct perf_event { u16 read_size; struct hw_perf_event hw; + /* Per-task sampling state for sw events, survives CPU migration */ + struct perf_task_context *perf_task_ctxp; + struct perf_event_context *ctx; /* * event->pmu_ctx points to perf_event_pmu_context in which the event @@ -1148,6 +1151,21 @@ struct perf_cpu_context { struct perf_event *heap_default[2]; }; +#define perf_event_equal_task_ctx(a1, a2) \ + ((a1)->config == (a2)->config && \ + (a1)->sample_period == (a2)->sample_period) + +/** + * struct perf_task_context - per-task software event context + * + * Shared across per-CPU perf_event instances of the same task to + * preserve period_left across CPU migrations. + */ +struct perf_task_context { + refcount_t refcount; + local64_t period_left; +}; + struct perf_output_handle { struct perf_event *event; struct perf_buffer *rb; diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 6d1f8bad7e1c..bd106e0b854a 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -5740,6 +5740,13 @@ static bool exclusive_event_installable(struct perf_event *event, static void perf_free_addr_filters(struct perf_event *event); +static void perf_put_task_ctxp(struct perf_event *event) +{ + if (event->perf_task_ctxp && + refcount_dec_and_test(&event->perf_task_ctxp->refcount)) + kfree(event->perf_task_ctxp); +} + /* vs perf_event_alloc() error */ static void __free_event(struct perf_event *event) { @@ -5761,6 +5768,9 @@ static void __free_event(struct perf_event *event) if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK_DATA) detach_perf_ctx_data(event); + if (event->perf_task_ctxp) + perf_put_task_ctxp(event); + if (event->destroy) event->destroy(event); @@ -11054,9 +11064,14 @@ static void perf_swevent_read(struct perf_event *event) static int perf_swevent_add(struct perf_event *event, int flags) { struct swevent_htable *swhash = this_cpu_ptr(&swevent_htable); + struct perf_task_context *ctxp = event->perf_task_ctxp; struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw; struct hlist_head *head; + if (ctxp) + local64_set(&hwc->period_left, + local64_read(&ctxp->period_left)); + if (is_sampling_event(event)) { hwc->last_period = hwc->sample_period; perf_swevent_set_period(event); @@ -11076,7 +11091,13 @@ static int perf_swevent_add(struct perf_event *event, int flags) static void perf_swevent_del(struct perf_event *event, int flags) { + struct perf_task_context *ctxp = event->perf_task_ctxp; + hlist_del_rcu(&event->hlist_entry); + + if (ctxp) + local64_set(&ctxp->period_left, + local64_read(&event->hw.period_left)); } static void perf_swevent_start(struct perf_event *event, int flags) @@ -12203,12 +12224,17 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart perf_swevent_hrtimer(struct hrtimer *hrtimer) static void perf_swevent_start_hrtimer(struct perf_event *event) { + struct perf_task_context *ctxp = event->perf_task_ctxp; struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw; s64 period; if (!is_sampling_event(event)) return; + if (ctxp) + local64_set(&hwc->period_left, + local64_read(&ctxp->period_left)); + period = local64_read(&hwc->period_left); if (period) { if (period < 0) @@ -12224,6 +12250,7 @@ static void perf_swevent_start_hrtimer(struct perf_event *event) static void perf_swevent_cancel_hrtimer(struct perf_event *event) { + struct perf_task_context *ctxp = event->perf_task_ctxp; struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw; /* @@ -12238,8 +12265,13 @@ static void perf_swevent_cancel_hrtimer(struct perf_event *event) */ if (is_sampling_event(event) && (hwc->interrupts != MAX_INTERRUPTS)) { ktime_t remaining = hrtimer_get_remaining(&hwc->hrtimer); + local64_set(&hwc->period_left, ktime_to_ns(remaining)); + if (ctxp) + local64_set(&ctxp->period_left, + ktime_to_ns(remaining)); + hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&hwc->hrtimer); } } @@ -13259,6 +13291,40 @@ static void account_event(struct perf_event *event) account_pmu_sb_event(event); } +static struct perf_task_context * +perf_get_task_ctxp(struct perf_event *event, struct task_struct *task, + bool inherit) +{ + struct perf_task_context *ctxp = NULL; + struct perf_event_context *ctx = task->perf_event_ctxp; + struct perf_event *iter; + + if (ctx) { + raw_spin_lock(&ctx->lock); + list_for_each_entry(iter, &ctx->event_list, event_entry) { + if (iter->perf_task_ctxp && + (iter->owner == current || + (inherit && !iter->owner)) && + perf_event_equal_task_ctx(&iter->attr, + &event->attr)) { + ctxp = iter->perf_task_ctxp; + refcount_inc(&ctxp->refcount); + break; + } + } + raw_spin_unlock(&ctx->lock); + } + + if (!ctxp) { + ctxp = kzalloc_obj(struct perf_task_context); + if (!ctxp) + return NULL; + refcount_set(&ctxp->refcount, 1); + } + + return ctxp; +} + /* * Allocate and initialize an event structure */ @@ -13344,6 +13410,15 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, * pmu before we get a ctx. */ event->hw.target = get_task_struct(task); + + if (attr->sample_period && + attr->config < PERF_COUNT_SW_MAX && + (attr->type == PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE || parent_event)) { + event->perf_task_ctxp = perf_get_task_ctxp(event, task, + !!parent_event); + if (!event->perf_task_ctxp) + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + } } event->clock = &local_clock; -- 2.49.0