linux/kernel/profile.c
Linus Torvalds 2accfdb7ef profiling: attempt to remove per-cpu profile flip buffer
This is the really old legacy kernel profiling code, which has long
since been obviated by "real profiling" (ie 'prof' and company), and
mainly remains as a source of syzbot reports.

There are anecdotal reports that people still use it for boot-time
profiling, but it's unlikely that such use would care about the old NUMA
optimizations in this code from 2004 (commit ad02973d42: "profile: 512x
Altix timer interrupt livelock fix" in the BK import archive at [1])

So in order to head off future syzbot reports, let's try to simplify
this code and get rid of the per-cpu profile buffers that are quite a
large portion of the complexity footprint of this thing (including CPU
hotplug callbacks etc).

It's unlikely anybody will actually notice, or possibly, as Thomas put
it: "Only people who indulge in nostalgia will notice :)".

That said, if it turns out that this code is actually actively used by
somebody, we can always revert this removal.  Thus the "attempt" in the
summary line.

[ Note: in a small nod to "the profiling code can cause NUMA problems",
  this also removes the "increment the last entry in the profiling array
  on any unknown hits" logic. That would account any program counter in
  a module to that single counter location, and might exacerbate any
  NUMA cacheline bouncing issues ]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgs52BxT4Zjmjz8aNvHWKxf5_ThBY4bYL1Y6CTaNL2dTw@mail.gmail.com/
Link:  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git [1]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2024-07-29 10:58:28 -07:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
* linux/kernel/profile.c
* Simple profiling. Manages a direct-mapped profile hit count buffer,
* with configurable resolution, support for restricting the cpus on
* which profiling is done, and switching between cpu time and
* schedule() calls via kernel command line parameters passed at boot.
*
* Scheduler profiling support, Arjan van de Ven and Ingo Molnar,
* Red Hat, July 2004
* Consolidation of architecture support code for profiling,
* Nadia Yvette Chambers, Oracle, July 2004
* Amortized hit count accounting via per-cpu open-addressed hashtables
* to resolve timer interrupt livelocks, Nadia Yvette Chambers,
* Oracle, 2004
*/
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/profile.h>
#include <linux/memblock.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/sched/stat.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/irq_regs.h>
#include <asm/ptrace.h>
struct profile_hit {
u32 pc, hits;
};
#define PROFILE_GRPSHIFT 3
#define PROFILE_GRPSZ (1 << PROFILE_GRPSHIFT)
#define NR_PROFILE_HIT (PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(struct profile_hit))
#define NR_PROFILE_GRP (NR_PROFILE_HIT/PROFILE_GRPSZ)
static atomic_t *prof_buffer;
static unsigned long prof_len;
static unsigned short int prof_shift;
int prof_on __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(prof_on);
#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_PROC_FS)
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct profile_hit *[2], cpu_profile_hits);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, cpu_profile_flip);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(profile_flip_mutex);
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
int profile_setup(char *str)
{
static const char schedstr[] = "schedule";
static const char sleepstr[] = "sleep";
static const char kvmstr[] = "kvm";
const char *select = NULL;
int par;
if (!strncmp(str, sleepstr, strlen(sleepstr))) {
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
force_schedstat_enabled();
prof_on = SLEEP_PROFILING;
select = sleepstr;
#else
pr_warn("kernel sleep profiling requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS\n");
#endif /* CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS */
} else if (!strncmp(str, schedstr, strlen(schedstr))) {
prof_on = SCHED_PROFILING;
select = schedstr;
} else if (!strncmp(str, kvmstr, strlen(kvmstr))) {
prof_on = KVM_PROFILING;
select = kvmstr;
} else if (get_option(&str, &par)) {
prof_shift = clamp(par, 0, BITS_PER_LONG - 1);
prof_on = CPU_PROFILING;
pr_info("kernel profiling enabled (shift: %u)\n",
prof_shift);
}
if (select) {
if (str[strlen(select)] == ',')
str += strlen(select) + 1;
if (get_option(&str, &par))
prof_shift = clamp(par, 0, BITS_PER_LONG - 1);
pr_info("kernel %s profiling enabled (shift: %u)\n",
select, prof_shift);
}
return 1;
}
__setup("profile=", profile_setup);
int __ref profile_init(void)
{
int buffer_bytes;
if (!prof_on)
return 0;
/* only text is profiled */
prof_len = (_etext - _stext) >> prof_shift;
if (!prof_len) {
pr_warn("profiling shift: %u too large\n", prof_shift);
prof_on = 0;
return -EINVAL;
}
buffer_bytes = prof_len*sizeof(atomic_t);
prof_buffer = kzalloc(buffer_bytes, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN);
if (prof_buffer)
return 0;
prof_buffer = alloc_pages_exact(buffer_bytes,
GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_NOWARN);
if (prof_buffer)
return 0;
prof_buffer = vzalloc(buffer_bytes);
if (prof_buffer)
return 0;
return -ENOMEM;
}
static void do_profile_hits(int type, void *__pc, unsigned int nr_hits)
{
unsigned long pc;
pc = ((unsigned long)__pc - (unsigned long)_stext) >> prof_shift;
if (pc < prof_len)
atomic_add(nr_hits, &prof_buffer[pc]);
}
void profile_hits(int type, void *__pc, unsigned int nr_hits)
{
if (prof_on != type || !prof_buffer)
return;
do_profile_hits(type, __pc, nr_hits);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(profile_hits);
void profile_tick(int type)
{
struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
/* This is the old kernel-only legacy profiling */
if (!user_mode(regs))
profile_hit(type, (void *)profile_pc(regs));
}
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
/*
* This function accesses profiling information. The returned data is
* binary: the sampling step and the actual contents of the profile
* buffer. Use of the program readprofile is recommended in order to
* get meaningful info out of these data.
*/
static ssize_t
read_profile(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
unsigned long p = *ppos;
ssize_t read;
char *pnt;
unsigned long sample_step = 1UL << prof_shift;
if (p >= (prof_len+1)*sizeof(unsigned int))
return 0;
if (count > (prof_len+1)*sizeof(unsigned int) - p)
count = (prof_len+1)*sizeof(unsigned int) - p;
read = 0;
while (p < sizeof(unsigned int) && count > 0) {
if (put_user(*((char *)(&sample_step)+p), buf))
return -EFAULT;
buf++; p++; count--; read++;
}
pnt = (char *)prof_buffer + p - sizeof(atomic_t);
if (copy_to_user(buf, (void *)pnt, count))
return -EFAULT;
read += count;
*ppos += read;
return read;
}
/* default is to not implement this call */
int __weak setup_profiling_timer(unsigned mult)
{
return -EINVAL;
}
/*
* Writing to /proc/profile resets the counters
*
* Writing a 'profiling multiplier' value into it also re-sets the profiling
* interrupt frequency, on architectures that support this.
*/
static ssize_t write_profile(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
if (count == sizeof(int)) {
unsigned int multiplier;
if (copy_from_user(&multiplier, buf, sizeof(int)))
return -EFAULT;
if (setup_profiling_timer(multiplier))
return -EINVAL;
}
#endif
memset(prof_buffer, 0, prof_len * sizeof(atomic_t));
return count;
}
static const struct proc_ops profile_proc_ops = {
.proc_read = read_profile,
.proc_write = write_profile,
.proc_lseek = default_llseek,
};
int __ref create_proc_profile(void)
{
struct proc_dir_entry *entry;
int err = 0;
if (!prof_on)
return 0;
entry = proc_create("profile", S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO,
NULL, &profile_proc_ops);
if (entry)
proc_set_size(entry, (1 + prof_len) * sizeof(atomic_t));
return err;
}
subsys_initcall(create_proc_profile);
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */