perf_counter: Simplify and fix task migration counting

The task migrations counter was causing rare and hard to decypher
memory corruptions under load. After a day of debugging and bisection
we found that the problem was introduced with:

  3f731ca: perf_counter: Fix cpu migration counter

Turning them off fixes the crashes. Incidentally, the whole
perf_counter_task_migration() logic can be done simpler as well,
by injecting a proper sw-counter event.

This cleanup also fixed the crashes. The precise failure mode is
not completely clear yet, but we are clearly not unhappy about
having a fix ;-)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This commit is contained in:
Peter Zijlstra
2009-06-19 13:22:51 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent f5970550d5
commit e5289d4a18
3 changed files with 3 additions and 27 deletions

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@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ void perf_enable(void)
static void get_ctx(struct perf_counter_context *ctx)
{
atomic_inc(&ctx->refcount);
WARN_ON(!atomic_inc_not_zero(&ctx->refcount));
}
static void free_ctx(struct rcu_head *head)
@@ -3467,27 +3467,6 @@ static const struct pmu perf_ops_task_clock = {
.read = task_clock_perf_counter_read,
};
/*
* Software counter: cpu migrations
*/
void perf_counter_task_migration(struct task_struct *task, int cpu)
{
struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx = &per_cpu(perf_cpu_context, cpu);
struct perf_counter_context *ctx;
perf_swcounter_ctx_event(&cpuctx->ctx, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE,
PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS,
1, 1, NULL, 0);
ctx = perf_pin_task_context(task);
if (ctx) {
perf_swcounter_ctx_event(ctx, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE,
PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS,
1, 1, NULL, 0);
perf_unpin_context(ctx);
}
}
#ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE
void perf_tpcounter_event(int event_id)
{