New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting.
This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is
with known tools like pmcstat(8).
Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example
looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on
instructions.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
MFC after: 1 month
- Do not cover error returned by pmc_core_initialize with the
result of pmc_uncore_initialize, fail right away.
- Give a user something to report instead failing silently
Reported by: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
- Replace MIPS24K-specific code with more generic framework that will
make adding new CPU support easier
- Add MIPS24K support for new framework
- Limit backtrace depth to 1 for stability reasons and add option
HWPMC_MIPS_BACKTRACE to override this limitation
processors with CPUID signature 06_1AH, 06_1EH, and 06_1FH.
Refuse to allocate them on unsupported model.
Submitted by: Davide Italiano <davide.italiano@gmail.com>
MFC after: 1 month
This is a bit hackish and should be made more generic (ie, support more than
two hard-coded performance counter+config register pairs) so it can be used
for mips74k and other chips.
All this does is process the initial interrupt event. It doesn't (yet) handle
callgraph events, so even if you route the exception/interrupt to this routine
and flip the bit on, it will hang and crash pmc unless you disable callgraph
support when you enable a sample based PMC.
As the underlying block is 4KB if the PMC throughput is low the measurement
will be reported on the next tick. pmcstat(8) use the modified flush API to
reclaim current buffer before displaying next top.
MFC after: 1 month
* Add the interrupt bit in the configuration register
* Correctly set the counter register for the sampling overflow
interrupt. The interrupt is asserted when bit 31 is set.
So set the overflow value at 0x80000000 and subtract the
programmed value as appropriate.
patch modifies makesyscalls.sh to prefix all of the non-compatibility
calls (e.g. not linux_, freebsd32_) with sys_ and updates the kernel
entry points and all places in the code that use them. It also
fixes an additional name space collision between the kernel function
psignal and the libc function of the same name by renaming the kernel
psignal kern_psignal(). By introducing this change now we will ease future
MFCs that change syscalls.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (bz)
kernel for FreeBSD 9.0:
Add a new capability mask argument to fget(9) and friends, allowing system
call code to declare what capabilities are required when an integer file
descriptor is converted into an in-kernel struct file *. With options
CAPABILITIES compiled into the kernel, this enforces capability
protection; without, this change is effectively a no-op.
Some cases require special handling, such as mmap(2), which must preserve
information about the maximum rights at the time of mapping in the memory
map so that they can later be enforced in mprotect(2) -- this is done by
narrowing the rights in the existing max_protection field used for similar
purposes with file permissions.
In namei(9), we assert that the code is not reached from within capability
mode, as we're not yet ready to enforce namespace capabilities there.
This will follow in a later commit.
Update two capability names: CAP_EVENT and CAP_KEVENT become
CAP_POST_KEVENT and CAP_POLL_KEVENT to more accurately indicate what they
represent.
Approved by: re (bz)
Submitted by: jonathan
Sponsored by: Google Inc
cpuset_t objects.
That is going to offer the underlying support for a simple bump of
MAXCPU and then support for number of cpus > 32 (as it is today).
Right now, cpumask_t is an int, 32 bits on all our supported architecture.
cpumask_t on the other side is implemented as an array of longs, and
easilly extendible by definition.
The architectures touched by this commit are the following:
- amd64
- i386
- pc98
- arm
- ia64
- XEN
while the others are still missing.
Userland is believed to be fully converted with the changes contained
here.
Some technical notes:
- This commit may be considered an ABI nop for all the architectures
different from amd64 and ia64 (and sparc64 in the future)
- per-cpu members, which are now converted to cpuset_t, needs to be
accessed avoiding migration, because the size of cpuset_t should be
considered unknown
- size of cpuset_t objects is different from kernel and userland (this is
primirally done in order to leave some more space in userland to cope
with KBI extensions). If you need to access kernel cpuset_t from the
userland please refer to example in this patch on how to do that
correctly (kgdb may be a good source, for example).
- Support for other architectures is going to be added soon
- Only MAXCPU for amd64 is bumped now
The patch has been tested by sbruno and Nicholas Esborn on opteron
4 x 12 pack CPUs. More testing on big SMP is expected to came soon.
pluknet tested the patch with his 8-ways on both amd64 and i386.
Tested by: pluknet, sbruno, gianni, Nicholas Esborn
Reviewed by: jeff, jhb, sbruno
a PMC. It was possible that we could have turned a bit on but
never cleared it.
Extend the calls to rdmsr() to all necessary functions, not
just those which previously caused a panic.
Pointed out by: jhb@
MFC after: 1 week
All of the necessary wrmsr calls are now preceded by a rdmsr
and we leave the reserved bits alone.
Document the bits in the relevant registers for future reference.
Tested by: mdf
MFC after: 1 week
This bug would cause allocating sample-mode PMCs to fail with ENOMEM after allocating several counting-mode PMCs.
Approved by: jkoshy (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
domain clock, 8 programmable PMC.
- Westmere based CPU (Xeon 5600, Corei7 980X) support.
- New man pages with events list for core and uncore.
- Updated Corei7 events with Intel 253669-033US December 2009 doc.
There is some removed events in the documentation, they have been
kept in the code but documented in the man page as obsolete.
- Offcore response events can be setup with rsp token.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
pmc_flush_logfile is now non-blocking and just ask the kernel
to shutdown the file. From that point, no more data is
accepted by the log thread and when the last buffer is flushed
the file is closed.
This will remove a deadlock between pmcstat asking for
flush while it cannot flush the pipe itself.
MFC after: 3 days
* Correct a group of typos: for Core2 programmable events, check
user supplied umask values against the correct event descriptor
field.
Submitted by: Ryan Stone <rysto32 at gmail dot com>
This brings hwpmc(4) support for 2nd and 3rd generation XScale cores.
Right now it's enabled by default to make sure we test this a bit.
When the time comes it can be disabled by default.
Tested on Gateworks boards.
A man page is coming.
Obtained from: //depot/user/rpaulo/xscalepmc/...
