Re: [tip: perf/core] perf: Generic hotplug support for a PMU with a scope

["Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>]

On 2024-09-12 6:12 a.m., Steven Price wrote:
> On 10/09/2024 10:59, tip-bot2 for Kan Liang wrote:
>> The following commit has been merged into the perf/core branch of tip:
>>
>> Commit-ID:     4ba4f1afb6a9fed8ef896c2363076e36572f71da
>> Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/4ba4f1afb6a9fed8ef896c2363076e36572f71da
>> Author:        Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
>> AuthorDate:    Fri, 02 Aug 2024 08:16:37 -07:00
>> Committer:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>> CommitterDate: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:44:12 +02:00
>>
>> perf: Generic hotplug support for a PMU with a scope
>>
>> The perf subsystem assumes that the counters of a PMU are per-CPU. So
>> the user space tool reads a counter from each CPU in the system wide
>> mode. However, many PMUs don't have a per-CPU counter. The counter is
>> effective for a scope, e.g., a die or a socket. To address this, a
>> cpumask is exposed by the kernel driver to restrict to one CPU to stand
>> for a specific scope. In case the given CPU is removed,
>> the hotplug support has to be implemented for each such driver.
>>
>> The codes to support the cpumask and hotplug are very similar.
>> - Expose a cpumask into sysfs
>> - Pickup another CPU in the same scope if the given CPU is removed.
>> - Invoke the perf_pmu_migrate_context() to migrate to a new CPU.
>> - In event init, always set the CPU in the cpumask to event->cpu
>>
>> Similar duplicated codes are implemented for each such PMU driver. It
>> would be good to introduce a generic infrastructure to avoid such
>> duplication.
>>
>> 5 popular scopes are implemented here, core, die, cluster, pkg, and
>> the system-wide. The scope can be set when a PMU is registered. If so, a
>> "cpumask" is automatically exposed for the PMU.
>>
>> The "cpumask" is from the perf_online_<scope>_mask, which is to track
>> the active CPU for each scope. They are set when the first CPU of the
>> scope is online via the generic perf hotplug support. When a
>> corresponding CPU is removed, the perf_online_<scope>_mask is updated
>> accordingly and the PMU will be moved to a new CPU from the same scope
>> if possible.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240802151643.1691631-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
>> ---
>>  include/linux/perf_event.h |  18 ++++-
>>  kernel/events/core.c       | 164 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  2 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
> [...]
>> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
>> index 67e115d..5ff9735 100644
>> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> [...]
>> @@ -13856,6 +13980,42 @@ static void perf_event_exit_cpu_context(int cpu) { }
>>  
>>  #endif
>>  
>> +static void perf_event_setup_cpumask(unsigned int cpu)
>> +{
>> +	struct cpumask *pmu_cpumask;
>> +	unsigned int scope;
>> +
>> +	cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, perf_online_mask);
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Early boot stage, the cpumask hasn't been set yet.
>> +	 * The perf_online_<domain>_masks includes the first CPU of each domain.
>> +	 * Always uncondifionally set the boot CPU for the perf_online_<domain>_masks.
>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ typo
> 
>> +	 */
>> +	if (!topology_sibling_cpumask(cpu)) {
> 
> This causes a compiler warning:
> 
>> kernel/events/core.c: In function 'perf_event_setup_cpumask':
>> kernel/events/core.c:14012:13: error: the comparison will always evaluate as 'true' for the address of 'thread_sibling' will never be NULL [-Werror=address]
>> 14012 |         if (!topology_sibling_cpumask(cpu)) {
>>       |             ^
>> In file included from ./include/linux/topology.h:30,
>>                  from ./include/linux/gfp.h:8,
>>                  from ./include/linux/xarray.h:16,
>>                  from ./include/linux/list_lru.h:14,
>>                  from ./include/linux/fs.h:13,
>>                  from kernel/events/core.c:11:
>> ./include/linux/arch_topology.h:78:19: note: 'thread_sibling' declared here
>>    78 |         cpumask_t thread_sibling;
>>       |                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> 

The patch to fix the warning has been posted.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240912145025.1574448-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com/

Please give it a try.

Thanks,
Kan