Handle the case when the aux buffer is going to be full and
data needs to be written to the data file. perf_aux_output_begin()
function checks if there is enough space depending on the values of
aux_wakeup and aux_watermark which is part of "struct perf_buffer".
Inorder to maintain where to write to aux buffer, add two fields
to "struct vpa_pmu_buf". Field "threshold" to indicate total possible
DTL entries that can be contained in aux buffer and field "full" to
indicate anytime when buffer is full. In perf_aux_output_end, there
is check to see if wake up is needed based on aux head value.
In vpa_dtl_capture_aux(), check if there is enough space to contain the
DTL data. If not, save the data for available memory and set full to true.
Set head of private aux to zero when buffer is full so that next data
will be copied to beginning of the buffer. The address used for copying
to aux is "aux_copy_buf + buf->head". So once buffer is full, set head
to zero, so that next time it will be written from start of the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Tejas Manhas <tejas05@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250915102947.26681-7-atrajeev@linux.ibm.com
vpa dtl pmu has one hrtimer added per vpa-dtl pmu thread. When the
hrtimer expires, in the timer handler, code is added to save the DTL
data to perf event record via vpa_dtl_capture_aux() function.
The DTL (Dispatch Trace Log) contains information
about dispatch/preempt, enqueue time etc. We directly copy the DTL
buffer data as part of auxiliary buffer. Data will be written to
disk only when the allocated buffer is full.
By this approach, all the DTL data will be present as-is in the
perf.data. The data will be post-processed in perf tools side when doing
perf report/perf script and this will avoid time taken to create samples
in the kernel space.
To corelate each DTL entry with other events across CPU's, we need to
map timebase from "struct dtl_entry" which phyp provides with boot
timebase. This also needs timebase frequency. Define "struct boottb_freq"
to save these details.
Added changes to capture the Dispatch Trace Log details to AUX buffer
in vpa_dtl_dump_sample_data(). Boot timebase and frequency needs to be
saved only at once, added field to indicate this as part of
"vpa_pmu_buf" structure.
perf_aux_output_begin: This function is called before writing to AUX
area. This returns the pointer to aux area private structure, ie
"struct vpa_pmu_buf". The function obtains the output handle
(used in perf_aux_output_end). when capture completes in
vpa_dtl_capture_aux(), call perf_aux_output_end() to commit the recorded
data. perf_aux_output_end() is called to move the aux->head of
"struct perf_buffer" to indicate size of data in aux buffer.
aux_tail will be moved in perf tools side when writing the data from
aux buffer to perf.data file in disk.
It is responsiblity of PMU driver to make sure data is copied between
perf_aux_output_begin and perf_aux_output_end.
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Tejas Manhas <tejas05@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250915102947.26681-6-atrajeev@linux.ibm.com
vpa dtl pmu has one hrtimer added per vpa-dtl pmu thread. When the
hrtimer expires, in the timer handler, code is added to save the DTL
data to perf event record. DTL (Dispatch Trace Log) contains information
about dispatch/preempt, enqueue time etc. We directly copy the DTL
buffer data as part of auxiliary buffer and it will be postprocessed
later. To enable the support for aux buffer, add the PMU callbacks for
setup_aux and free_aux.
In setup_aux, set up pmu-private data structures for an AUX
area. rb_alloc_aux uses "alloc_pages_node" and returns pointer to each
page address. Map these pages to contiguous space using vmap and use
that as base address. The aux private data structure ie,
"struct vpa_pmu_buf" mainly saves:
1. buf->base: aux buffer base address
2. buf->head: offset from base address where data will be written to.
3. buf->size: Size of allocated memory
free_aux will free pmu-private AUX data structures.
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Tejas Manhas <tejas05@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250915102947.26681-5-atrajeev@linux.ibm.com
The pseries Shared Processor Logical Partition(SPLPAR) machines
can retrieve a log of dispatch and preempt events from the
hypervisor using data from Disptach Trace Log(DTL) buffer.
With this information, user can retrieve when and why each dispatch &
preempt has occurred. Added an interface to expose the Virtual Processor
Area(VPA) DTL counters via perf.
The following events are available and exposed in sysfs:
vpa_dtl/dtl_cede/ - Trace voluntary (OS initiated) virtual processor waits
vpa_dtl/dtl_preempt/ - Trace time slice preempts
vpa_dtl/dtl_fault/ - Trace virtual partition memory page faults.
vpa_dtl/dtl_all/ - Trace all (dtl_cede/dtl_preempt/dtl_fault)
Added interface defines supported event list, config fields for the
event attributes and their corresponding bit values which are exported
via sysfs. User could use the standard perf tool to access perf events
exposed via vpa-dtl pmu.
The VPA DTL PMU counters do not interrupt on overflow or generate any
PMI interrupts. Therefore, the kernel needs to poll the counters, added
hrtimer code to do that. The timer interval can be provided by user via
sample_period field in nano seconds. There is one hrtimer added per
vpa-dtl pmu thread.
To ensure there are no other conflicting dtl users (example: debugfs dtl
or /proc/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats), interface added code to use
"down_write_trylock" call to take the dtl_access_lock. The dtl_access_lock
is defined in dtl.h file. Also added global reference count variable called
"dtl_global_refc", to ensure dtl data can be captured per-cpu. Code also
added global lock called "dtl_global_lock" to avoid race condition.
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Tejas Manhas <tejas05@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250915102947.26681-3-atrajeev@linux.ibm.com
Athira Rajeev