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Revert "sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler"

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This reverts commit cb04ff9ac4 ("sched, perf: Use a single
callback into the scheduler").

Before this change was introduced, the process switch worked
like this (wrt. to perf event schedule):

     schedule (prev, next)
       - schedule out all perf events for prev
       - switch to next
       - schedule in all perf events for current (next)

After the commit, the process switch looks like:

     schedule (prev, next)
       - schedule out all perf events for prev
       - schedule in all perf events for (next)
       - switch to next

The problem is, that after we schedule perf events in, the pmu
is enabled and we can receive events even before we make the
switch to next - so "current" still being prev process (event
SAMPLE data are filled based on the value of the "current"
process).

Thats exactly what we see for test__PERF_RECORD test. We receive
SAMPLES with PID of the process that our tracee is scheduled
from.

Discussed with Peter Zijlstra:

 > Bah!, yeah I guess reverting is the right thing for now. Sad
 > though.
 >
 > So by having the two hooks we have a black-spot between them
 > where we receive no events at all, this black-spot covers the
 > hand-over of current and we thus don't receive the 'wrong'
 > events.
 >
 > I rather liked we could do away with both that black-spot and
 > clean up the code a little, but apparently people rely on it.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120523111302.GC1638@m.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Jiri Olsa
2012-05-23 13:13:02 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 26252ea675
commit ab0cce560e
3 changed files with 30 additions and 17 deletions
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@ -2039,8 +2039,8 @@ static void perf_event_context_sched_out(struct task_struct *task, int ctxn,
* accessing the event control register. If a NMI hits, then it will
* not restart the event.
*/
static void __perf_event_task_sched_out(struct task_struct *task,
struct task_struct *next)
void __perf_event_task_sched_out(struct task_struct *task,
struct task_struct *next)
{
int ctxn;
@ -2279,8 +2279,8 @@ static void perf_branch_stack_sched_in(struct task_struct *prev,
* accessing the event control register. If a NMI hits, then it will
* keep the event running.
*/
static void __perf_event_task_sched_in(struct task_struct *prev,
struct task_struct *task)
void __perf_event_task_sched_in(struct task_struct *prev,
struct task_struct *task)
{
struct perf_event_context *ctx;
int ctxn;
@ -2305,12 +2305,6 @@ static void __perf_event_task_sched_in(struct task_struct *prev,
perf_branch_stack_sched_in(prev, task);
}
void __perf_event_task_sched(struct task_struct *prev, struct task_struct *next)
{
__perf_event_task_sched_out(prev, next);
__perf_event_task_sched_in(prev, next);
}
static u64 perf_calculate_period(struct perf_event *event, u64 nsec, u64 count)
{
u64 frequency = event->attr.sample_freq;