Revert "sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler"
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Wed, 23 May 2012 11:13:02 +0000 (13:13 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 23 May 2012 15:40:51 +0000 (17:40 +0200)
commitab0cce560ef177bdc7a8f73e9962be9d829a7b2c
treed9875b21c42862201624eb7d9ea2c36f4ea4035d
parent26252ea675663d1bc6747125fcaa2b7cc4ed8a03
Revert "sched, perf: Use a single callback into the scheduler"

This reverts commit cb04ff9ac424 ("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>
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/events/core.c
kernel/sched/core.c