From 5a7745b96f43c69f9b4875bcf516a0341acbc3fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Piggin Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:54:49 +1000 Subject: powerpc/64s/perf: add power_pmu_wants_prompt_pmi to say whether perf wants PMIs to be soft-NMI Interrupt code enables MSR[EE] in some irq handlers while keeping local irqs disabled via soft-mask, allowing PMI interrupts to be taken as soft-NMI to improve profiling of irq handlers. When perf is not enabled, there is no point to doing this, it's additional overhead. So provide a function that can say if PMIs should be taken promptly if possible. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210922145452.352571-4-npiggin@gmail.com --- arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/perf') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c index 1f1ded29a06e..07fd61a8d59d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 @@ -2437,6 +2438,36 @@ static void perf_event_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs) perf_sample_event_took(sched_clock() - start_clock); } +/* + * If the perf subsystem wants performance monitor interrupts as soon as + * possible (e.g., to sample the instruction address and stack chain), + * this should return true. The IRQ masking code can then enable MSR[EE] + * in some places (e.g., interrupt handlers) that allows PMI interrupts + * though to improve accuracy of profiles, at the cost of some performance. + * + * The PMU counters can be enabled by other means (e.g., sysfs raw SPR + * access), but in that case there is no need for prompt PMI handling. + * + * This currently returns true if any perf counter is being used. It + * could possibly return false if only events are being counted rather than + * samples being taken, but for now this is good enough. + */ +bool power_pmu_wants_prompt_pmi(void) +{ + struct cpu_hw_events *cpuhw; + + /* + * This could simply test local_paca->pmcregs_in_use if that were not + * under ifdef KVM. + */ + + if (!ppmu) + return false; + + cpuhw = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events); + return cpuhw->n_events; +} + static int power_pmu_prepare_cpu(unsigned int cpu) { struct cpu_hw_events *cpuhw = &per_cpu(cpu_hw_events, cpu); -- cgit v1.2.3