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Song Liu 7fa343b7fd perf/core: Fix corner case in perf_rotate_context()
In perf_rotate_context(), when the first cpu flexible event fail to
schedule, cpu_rotate is 1, while cpu_event is NULL. Since cpu_event is
NULL, perf_rotate_context will _NOT_ call cpu_ctx_sched_out(), thus
cpuctx->ctx.is_active will have EVENT_FLEXIBLE set. Then, the next
perf_event_sched_in() will skip all cpu flexible events because of the
EVENT_FLEXIBLE bit.

In the next call of perf_rotate_context(), cpu_rotate stays 1, and
cpu_event stays NULL, so this process repeats. The end result is, flexible
events on this cpu will not be scheduled (until another event being added
to the cpuctx).

Here is an easy repro of this issue. On Intel CPUs, where ref-cycles
could only use one counter, run one pinned event for ref-cycles, one
flexible event for ref-cycles, and one flexible event for cycles. The
flexible ref-cycles is never scheduled, which is expected. However,
because of this issue, the cycles event is never scheduled either.

 $ perf stat -e ref-cycles:D,ref-cycles,cycles -C 5 -I 1000

           time             counts unit events
    1.000152973         15,412,480      ref-cycles:D
    1.000152973      <not counted>      ref-cycles     (0.00%)
    1.000152973      <not counted>      cycles         (0.00%)
    2.000486957         18,263,120      ref-cycles:D
    2.000486957      <not counted>      ref-cycles     (0.00%)
    2.000486957      <not counted>      cycles         (0.00%)

To fix this, when the flexible_active list is empty, try rotate the
first event in the flexible_groups. Also, rename ctx_first_active() to
ctx_event_to_rotate(), which is more accurate.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <kernel-team@fb.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 8d5bce0c37 ("perf/core: Optimize perf_rotate_context() event scheduling")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191008165949.920548-1-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-10-09 12:44:13 +02:00
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README

Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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