For pmus that don't support scatter-gather for AUX data in hardware, it might still make sense to implement software double buffering to avoid losing data while the user is reading data out. For this purpose, add a pmu capability that guarantees multiple high-order chunks for AUX buffer, so that the pmu driver can do switchover tricks.
To make use of this feature, add PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_SW_DOUBLEBUF to your pmu's capability mask. This will make the ring buffer AUX allocation code ensure that the biggest high order allocation for the aux buffer pages is no bigger than half of the total requested buffer size, thus making sure that the buffer has at least two high order allocations. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 1 + kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index dbf75064d4..6b59e22cb1 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ struct perf_event; */ #define PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_INTERRUPT 0x01 #define PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG 0x02 +#define PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_SW_DOUBLEBUF 0x04 /** * struct pmu - generic performance monitoring unit diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index 6e700e8fd6..608c0d67ad 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -286,13 +286,26 @@ int rb_alloc_aux(struct ring_buffer *rb, struct perf_event *event, if (!has_aux(event)) return -ENOTSUPP; - if (event->pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG) + if (event->pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG) { /* * We need to start with the max_order that fits in nr_pages, * not the other way around, hence ilog2() and not get_order. */ max_order = ilog2(nr_pages); + /* + * PMU requests more than one contiguous chunks of memory + * for SW double buffering + */ + if ((event->pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_SW_DOUBLEBUF) && + !overwrite) { + if (!max_order) + return -EINVAL; + + max_order--; + } + } + rb->aux_pages = kzalloc_node(nr_pages * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL, node); if (!rb->aux_pages) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
