[PATCH V2 5/7] arm64/perf: Drive BRBE from perf event states

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Wed Sep 7 22:10:44 PDT 2022


Branch stack sampling rides along the normal perf event and all the branch
records get captured during the PMU interrupt. This just changes perf event
handling on the arm64 platform to accommodate required BRBE operations that
will enable branch stack sampling support.

It adds a new 'hw_perf_event.flags' element i.e ARMPMU_EVT_PRIV, which will
enable caching perf event privilege information required for capturing some
branch record types.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: linux-perf-users at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c |  6 ++++
 drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c         | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h   |  4 +++
 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
index e7013699171f..5bfaba8edad1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -874,6 +874,12 @@ static irqreturn_t armv8pmu_handle_irq(struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu)
 		if (!armpmu_event_set_period(event))
 			continue;
 
+		if (has_branch_stack(event)) {
+			cpu_pmu->brbe_read(cpuc, event);
+			data.br_stack = &cpuc->brbe_stack;
+			cpu_pmu->brbe_reset(cpuc);
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * Perf event overflow will queue the processing of the event as
 		 * an irq_work which will be taken care of in the handling of
diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
index 59d3980b8ca2..1fe5d6238b81 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
@@ -271,12 +271,22 @@ armpmu_stop(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
 {
 	struct arm_pmu *armpmu = to_arm_pmu(event->pmu);
 	struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
+	struct pmu_hw_events *hw_events = this_cpu_ptr(armpmu->hw_events);
 
 	/*
 	 * ARM pmu always has to update the counter, so ignore
 	 * PERF_EF_UPDATE, see comments in armpmu_start().
 	 */
 	if (!(hwc->state & PERF_HES_STOPPED)) {
+		if (has_branch_stack(event)) {
+			WARN_ON_ONCE(!hw_events->brbe_users);
+			hw_events->brbe_users--;
+			if (!hw_events->brbe_users) {
+				hw_events->brbe_context = NULL;
+				armpmu->brbe_disable(hw_events);
+			}
+		}
+
 		armpmu->disable(event);
 		armpmu_event_update(event);
 		hwc->state |= PERF_HES_STOPPED | PERF_HES_UPTODATE;
@@ -287,6 +297,7 @@ static void armpmu_start(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
 {
 	struct arm_pmu *armpmu = to_arm_pmu(event->pmu);
 	struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
+	struct pmu_hw_events *hw_events = this_cpu_ptr(armpmu->hw_events);
 
 	/*
 	 * ARM pmu always has to reprogram the period, so ignore
@@ -304,6 +315,14 @@ static void armpmu_start(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
 	 * happened since disabling.
 	 */
 	armpmu_event_set_period(event);
+	if (has_branch_stack(event)) {
+		if (event->ctx->task && hw_events->brbe_context != event->ctx) {
+			armpmu->brbe_reset(hw_events);
+			hw_events->brbe_context = event->ctx;
+		}
+		armpmu->brbe_enable(hw_events);
+		hw_events->brbe_users++;
+	}
 	armpmu->enable(event);
 }
 
@@ -349,6 +368,10 @@ armpmu_add(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
 	hw_events->events[idx] = event;
 
 	hwc->state = PERF_HES_STOPPED | PERF_HES_UPTODATE;
+
+	if (has_branch_stack(event))
+		armpmu->brbe_filter(hw_events, event);
+
 	if (flags & PERF_EF_START)
 		armpmu_start(event, PERF_EF_RELOAD);
 
@@ -443,6 +466,7 @@ __hw_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 {
 	struct arm_pmu *armpmu = to_arm_pmu(event->pmu);
 	struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
+	struct pmu_hw_events *hw_events = this_cpu_ptr(armpmu->hw_events);
 	int mapping;
 
 	hwc->flags = 0;
@@ -492,6 +516,19 @@ __hw_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 		local64_set(&hwc->period_left, hwc->sample_period);
 	}
 
+	if (has_branch_stack(event)) {
+		/*
+		 * Cache whether the perf event is allowed to capture exception
+		 * and exception return branch records. It allows us to perform
+		 * the privilege check via perfmon_capable(), in the context of
+		 * the event owner, just once, during the pmu->event_init().
+		 */
+		if (perfmon_capable())
+			event->hw.flags |= ARMPMU_EVT_PRIV;
+
+		armpmu->brbe_filter(hw_events, event);
+	}
+
 	return validate_group(event);
 }
 
@@ -520,6 +557,18 @@ static int armpmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 	return __hw_perf_event_init(event);
 }
 
+static void armpmu_sched_task(struct perf_event_context *ctx, bool sched_in)
+{
+	struct arm_pmu *armpmu = to_arm_pmu(ctx->pmu);
+	struct pmu_hw_events *hw_events = this_cpu_ptr(armpmu->hw_events);
+
+	if (!hw_events->brbe_users)
+		return;
+
+	if (sched_in)
+		armpmu->brbe_reset(hw_events);
+}
+
 static void armpmu_enable(struct pmu *pmu)
 {
 	struct arm_pmu *armpmu = to_arm_pmu(pmu);
@@ -877,6 +926,7 @@ static struct arm_pmu *__armpmu_alloc(gfp_t flags)
 	}
 
 	pmu->pmu = (struct pmu) {
+		.sched_task	= armpmu_sched_task,
 		.pmu_enable	= armpmu_enable,
 		.pmu_disable	= armpmu_disable,
 		.event_init	= armpmu_event_init,
diff --git a/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h b/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
index 18e519e4e658..67f44020a736 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
 /* Event uses a 47bit counter */
 #define ARMPMU_EVT_47BIT		2
 
+#define ARMPMU_EVT_PRIV			0x00004	/* Event is privileged */
+
+static_assert((PERF_EVENT_FLAG_ARCH & ARMPMU_EVT_PRIV) == ARMPMU_EVT_PRIV);
+
 #define HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED		0xFFFF
 #define C(_x)				PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_##_x
 #define CACHE_OP_UNSUPPORTED		0xFFFF
-- 
2.25.1




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