Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf: Add munmap callback

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Oct 24 2018 - 12:32:16 EST


Em Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 09:23:34AM -0700, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> > +void perf_event_munmap(void)
> > +{
> > + struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx;
> > + unsigned long flags;
> > + struct pmu *pmu;
> > +
> > + local_irq_save(flags);
> > + list_for_each_entry(cpuctx, this_cpu_ptr(&sched_cb_list), sched_cb_entry) {
>
> Would be good have a fast path here that checks for the list being empty
> without disabling the interrupts. munmap can be somewhat hot. I think
> it's ok to make it slower with perf running, but we shouldn't impact
> it without perf.

Right, look at how its counterpart, perf_event_mmap() works:

void perf_event_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
struct perf_mmap_event mmap_event;

if (!atomic_read(&nr_mmap_events))
return;
<SNIP>
}

- Arnaldo