linux/kernel/events
Jiri Olsa ab0cce560e Revert "sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler"
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>
2012-05-23 17:40:51 +02:00
..
callchain.c perf: Don't call release_callchain_buffers() if allocation fails 2012-01-21 09:33:41 +01:00
core.c Revert "sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler" 2012-05-23 17:40:51 +02:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported 2012-03-05 14:55:42 +01:00
internal.h Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2011-12-06 06:43:49 +01:00
Makefile perf: Carve out callchain functionality 2011-11-14 13:31:26 +01:00
ring_buffer.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-01-08 13:21:22 -08:00