On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:04:39PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> I take that back the copy_from_user_nmi_iter is not super fast, I just had
> a bug in how I accumulate total time. So some how this approach is slower
> that yesterdays.
Humm interesting..
Slightly weird, because that instruction decoder stuff is a nest of calls
too, I wouldn't have thought the one extra call made such a difference.
I suppose it would still be an improvement for the FP chase.
So I'll stick with the one below for now; this one is actually compile
and runtime tested.
---
Subject: perf, x86: Optimize intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip()
From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:57:55 +0200
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 04:35:49PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> While there are a few places that are causing latencies, for now I focused on
> the longest one first. It seems to be 'copy_user_from_nmi'
>
> intel_pmu_handle_irq ->
> intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm ->
> __intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm ->
> __intel_pmu_pebs_event ->
> intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip ->
> copy_from_user_nmi
>
> In intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(), if the while-loop goes over 50, the sum of
> all the copy_from_user_nmi latencies seems to go over 1,000,000 cycles
> (there are some cases where only 10 iterations are needed to go that high
> too, but in generall over 50 or so). At this point copy_user_from_nmi
> seems to account for over 90% of the nmi latency.
So avoid having to call copy_from_user_nmi() for every instruction.
Since we already limit the max basic block size, we can easily
pre-allocate a piece of memory to copy the entire thing into in one
go.
Don reports (for a previous version):
> Your patch made a huge difference in improvement. The
> copy_from_user_nmi() no longer hits the million of cycles. I still
> have a batch of 100,000-300,000 cycles. My longest NMI paths used
> to be dominated by copy_from_user_nmi, now it is not (I have to dig
> up the new hot path).
Cc: jma...@redhat.com
Cc: a...@infradead.org
Cc: mi...@kernel.org
Cc: dave.han...@linux.intel.com
Cc: eran...@google.com
Cc: a...@linux.intel.com
Reported-by: Don Zickus <dzic...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#define BTS_BUFFER_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE << 4)
#define PEBS_BUFFER_SIZE PAGE_SIZE
+#define PEBS_FIXUP_SIZE PAGE_SIZE
/*
* pebs_record_32 for p4 and core not supported
@@ -228,12 +229,14 @@ void fini_debug_store_on_cpu(int cpu)
wrmsr_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_IA32_DS_AREA, 0, 0);
}
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(void *, insn_buffer);
+
static int alloc_pebs_buffer(int cpu)
{
struct debug_store *ds = per_cpu(cpu_hw_events, cpu).ds;
int node = cpu_to_node(cpu);
int max, thresh = 1; /* always use a single PEBS record */
- void *buffer;
+ void *buffer, *ibuffer;
if (!x86_pmu.pebs)
return 0;
@@ -242,6 +245,15 @@ static int alloc_pebs_buffer(int cpu)
if (unlikely(!buffer))
return -ENOMEM;
+ if (x86_pmu.intel_cap.pebs_format < 2) {
+ ibuffer = kzalloc_node(PEBS_FIXUP_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, node);
+ if (!ibuffer) {
+ kfree(buffer);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+ per_cpu(insn_buffer, cpu) = ibuffer;
+ }
+
max = PEBS_BUFFER_SIZE / x86_pmu.pebs_record_size;
ds->pebs_buffer_base = (u64)(unsigned long)buffer;
@@ -262,6 +274,9 @@ static void release_pebs_buffer(int cpu)
if (!ds || !x86_pmu.pebs)
return;
+ kfree(per_cpu(insn_buffer, cpu));
+ per_cpu(insn_buffer, cpu) = NULL;
+
kfree((void *)(unsigned long)ds->pebs_buffer_base);
ds->pebs_buffer_base = 0;
}
@@ -729,6 +744,7 @@ static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struc
unsigned long old_to, to = cpuc->lbr_entries[0].to;
unsigned long ip = regs->ip;
int is_64bit = 0;
+ void *kaddr;
/*
* We don't need to fixup if the PEBS assist is fault like
@@ -752,7 +768,7 @@ static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struc
* unsigned math, either ip is before the start (impossible) or
* the basic block is larger than 1 page (sanity)
*/
- if ((ip - to) > PAGE_SIZE)
+ if ((ip - to) > PEBS_FIXUP_SIZE)
return 0;
/*
@@ -763,29 +779,33 @@ static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struc
return 1;
}
+ if (!kernel_ip(ip)) {
+ int size, bytes;
+ u8 *buf = this_cpu_read(insn_buffer);
+
+ size = ip - to; /* Must fit our buffer, see above */
+ bytes = copy_from_user_nmi(buf, (void __user *)to, size);
+ if (bytes != size)
+ return 0;
+
+ kaddr = buf;
+ } else {
+ kaddr = (void *)to;
+ }
+
do {
struct insn insn;
- u8 buf[MAX_INSN_SIZE];
- void *kaddr;
old_to = to;
- if (!kernel_ip(ip)) {
- int bytes, size = MAX_INSN_SIZE;
-
- bytes = copy_from_user_nmi(buf, (void __user *)to,
size);
- if (bytes != size)
- return 0;
-
- kaddr = buf;
- } else
- kaddr = (void *)to;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
is_64bit = kernel_ip(to) || !test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32);
#endif
insn_init(&insn, kaddr, is_64bit);
insn_get_length(&insn);
+
to += insn.length;
+ kaddr += insn.length;
} while (to < ip);
if (to == ip) {
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