The following commit has been merged into the perf/urgent branch of tip: Commit-ID: b168098912926236bbeebaf7795eb7aab76d2b45 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/b168098912926236bbeebaf7795eb7aab76d2b45 Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:08:58 +02:00 Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Wed, 05 Apr 2023 09:58:46 +02:00 perf: Optimize perf_pmu_migrate_context() Thomas reported that offlining CPUs spends a lot of time in synchronize_rcu() as called from perf_pmu_migrate_context() even though he's not actually using uncore events. Turns out, the thing is unconditionally waiting for RCU, even if there's no actual events to migrate. Fixes: 0cda4c023132 ("perf: Introduce perf_pmu_migrate_context()") Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230403090858.GT4253@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- kernel/events/core.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index fb3e436..115320f 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -12893,12 +12893,14 @@ void perf_pmu_migrate_context(struct pmu *pmu, int src_cpu, int dst_cpu) __perf_pmu_remove(src_ctx, src_cpu, pmu, &src_ctx->pinned_groups, &events); __perf_pmu_remove(src_ctx, src_cpu, pmu, &src_ctx->flexible_groups, &events); - /* - * Wait for the events to quiesce before re-instating them. - */ - synchronize_rcu(); + if (!list_empty(&events)) { + /* + * Wait for the events to quiesce before re-instating them. + */ + synchronize_rcu(); - __perf_pmu_install(dst_ctx, dst_cpu, pmu, &events); + __perf_pmu_install(dst_ctx, dst_cpu, pmu, &events); + } mutex_unlock(&dst_ctx->mutex); mutex_unlock(&src_ctx->mutex);