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The function graph tracer disables interrupts as well as prevents
recursion via NMIs when recording the graph tracer code. There's no reason
to do this today. That disabling goes back to 2008 when the function graph
tracer was first introduced and recursion protection wasn't part of the
code.
Today, there's no reason to disable interrupts or prevent the code from
recursing as the infrastructure can easily handle it.
Before this change:
~# echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
~# perf stat -r 10 ./hackbench 10
Time: 4.240
Time: 4.236
Time: 4.106
Time: 4.014
Time: 4.314
Time: 3.830
Time: 4.063
Time: 4.323
Time: 3.763
Time: 3.727
Performance counter stats for '/work/c/hackbench 10' (10 runs):
33,937.20 msec task-clock # 7.008 CPUs utilized ( +- 1.85% )
18,220 context-switches # 536.874 /sec ( +- 6.41% )
624 cpu-migrations # 18.387 /sec ( +- 9.07% )
11,319 page-faults # 333.528 /sec ( +- 1.97% )
76,657,643,617 cycles # 2.259 GHz ( +- 0.40% )
141,403,302,768 instructions # 1.84 insn per cycle ( +- 0.37% )
25,518,463,888 branches # 751.932 M/sec ( +- 0.35% )
156,151,050 branch-misses # 0.61% of all branches ( +- 0.63% )
4.8423 +- 0.0892 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.84% )
After this change:
~# echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
~# perf stat -r 10 ./hackbench 10
Time: 3.340
Time: 3.192
Time: 3.129
Time: 2.579
Time: 2.589
Time: 2.798
Time: 2.791
Time: 2.955
Time: 3.044
Time: 3.065
Performance counter stats for './hackbench 10' (10 runs):
24,416.30 msec task-clock # 6.996 CPUs utilized ( +- 2.74% )
16,764 context-switches # 686.590 /sec ( +- 5.85% )
469 cpu-migrations # 19.208 /sec ( +- 6.14% )
11,519 page-faults # 471.775 /sec ( +- 1.92% )
53,895,628,450 cycles # 2.207 GHz ( +- 0.52% )
105,552,664,638 instructions # 1.96 insn per cycle ( +- 0.47% )
17,808,672,667 branches # 729.376 M/sec ( +- 0.48% )
133,075,435 branch-misses # 0.75% of all branches ( +- 0.59% )
3.490 +- 0.112 seconds time elapsed ( +- 3.22% )
Also removed unneeded "unlikely()" around the retaddr code.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241223184941.204074053@goodmis.org
Fixes: 9cd2992f2d6c8 ("fgraph: Have set_graph_notrace only affect function_graph tracer") # Performance only
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>