commit 9ee318a7825929bc3734110b83ae8e20e53d9de3
author Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Thu Apr 09 10:53:44 2009 +0200
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Thu Apr 09 11:50:43 2009 +0200
tree 4823b4e82bb99971559d3569c7f4d710ac7f232d
parent b3828ebb3901adfe989d8d4157ed28247aeec132

perf_counter: optimize mmap/comm tracking

Impact: performance optimization

The mmap/comm tracking code does quite a lot of work before it discovers
there's no interest in it, avoid that by keeping a counter.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409085524.427173196@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

kernel/perf_counter.c

diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index b07195b..76376ec 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@
 static int perf_reserved_percpu __read_mostly;
 static int perf_overcommit __read_mostly = 1;
 
+static atomic_t nr_mmap_tracking __read_mostly;
+static atomic_t nr_munmap_tracking __read_mostly;
+static atomic_t nr_comm_tracking __read_mostly;
+
 /*
  * Mutex for (sysadmin-configurable) counter reservations:
  */
@@ -1186,6 +1190,13 @@
 {
 	perf_pending_sync(counter);
 
+	if (counter->hw_event.mmap)
+		atomic_dec(&nr_mmap_tracking);
+	if (counter->hw_event.munmap)
+		atomic_dec(&nr_munmap_tracking);
+	if (counter->hw_event.comm)
+		atomic_dec(&nr_comm_tracking);
+
 	if (counter->destroy)
 		counter->destroy(counter);
 
@@ -2005,7 +2016,12 @@
 
 void perf_counter_comm(struct task_struct *task)
 {
-	struct perf_comm_event comm_event = {
+	struct perf_comm_event comm_event;
+
+	if (!atomic_read(&nr_comm_tracking))
+		return;
+       
+	comm_event = (struct perf_comm_event){
 		.task	= task,
 		.event  = {
 			.header = { .type = PERF_EVENT_COMM, },
@@ -2128,7 +2144,12 @@
 void perf_counter_mmap(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
 		       unsigned long pgoff, struct file *file)
 {
-	struct perf_mmap_event mmap_event = {
+	struct perf_mmap_event mmap_event;
+
+	if (!atomic_read(&nr_mmap_tracking))
+		return;
+
+	mmap_event = (struct perf_mmap_event){
 		.file   = file,
 		.event  = {
 			.header = { .type = PERF_EVENT_MMAP, },
@@ -2146,7 +2167,12 @@
 void perf_counter_munmap(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
 			 unsigned long pgoff, struct file *file)
 {
-	struct perf_mmap_event mmap_event = {
+	struct perf_mmap_event mmap_event;
+
+	if (!atomic_read(&nr_munmap_tracking))
+		return;
+
+	mmap_event = (struct perf_mmap_event){
 		.file   = file,
 		.event  = {
 			.header = { .type = PERF_EVENT_MUNMAP, },
@@ -2725,6 +2751,13 @@
 
 	counter->hw_ops = hw_ops;
 
+	if (counter->hw_event.mmap)
+		atomic_inc(&nr_mmap_tracking);
+	if (counter->hw_event.munmap)
+		atomic_inc(&nr_munmap_tracking);
+	if (counter->hw_event.comm)
+		atomic_inc(&nr_comm_tracking);
+
 	return counter;
 }