When applying a recent commit to the <uapi/linux/perf_event.h>
header I noticed that we have accumulated quite a bit of
historic noise in this header, so do a bit of spring cleaning:
- Define bitfields in a vertically aligned fashion, like
perf_event_mmap_page::capabilities already does. This
makes it easier to see the distribution and sizing of
bits within a word, at a glance. The following is much
more readable:
__u64 cap_bit0 : 1,
cap_bit0_is_deprecated : 1,
cap_user_rdpmc : 1,
cap_user_time : 1,
cap_user_time_zero : 1,
cap_user_time_short : 1,
cap_____res : 58;
Than:
__u64 cap_bit0:1,
cap_bit0_is_deprecated:1,
cap_user_rdpmc:1,
cap_user_time:1,
cap_user_time_zero:1,
cap_user_time_short:1,
cap_____res:58;
So convert all bitfield definitions from the latter style to the
former style.
- Fix typos and grammar
- Fix capitalization
- Remove whitespace noise
- Harmonize the definitions of various generations and groups of
PERF_MEM_ ABI values.
- Vertically align all definitions and assignments to the same
column (48), as the first definition (enum perf_type_id),
throughout the entire header.
- And in general make the code and comments to be more in sync
with each other and to be more readable overall.
No change in functionality.
Copy the changes over to tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
To pick up the changes in this cset:
18d92bb57c ("perf/core: Add aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused")
This addresses these perf build warnings:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Reviewed-by: James Clark <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
To pick up changes from:
608f6976c3 perf/x86/intel: Support new data source for Lunar Lake
This should be used to beautify perf syscall arguments and it addresses
these tools/perf build warnings:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for details (it's in the first patch
of this series).
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: "Liang, Kan" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
To pick up the changes in:
09519ec3b1 ("perf: Add perf_event_attr::config3")
The patches for the tooling side will come later.
This addresses this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
To pick the changes in:
cfef80bad4 ("perf/uapi: Define PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_PEER in kernel header file")
ee3e88dfec ("perf/mem: Introduce PERF_MEM_LVLNUM_{EXTN_MEM|IO}")
b4e12b2d70 ("perf: Kill __PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN_EARLY")
There is a kernel patch pending that renames PERF_MEM_LVLNUM_EXTN_MEM to
PERF_MEM_LVLNUM_CXL, tooling this time is ahead of the kernel :-)
This thus partially addresses this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
This updates the perf tool with generic branch type classification with new
ABI extender place holder i.e PERF_BR_EXTEND_ABI, the new 4 bit branch type
field i.e perf_branch_entry.new_type, new generic page fault related branch
types and some arch specific branch types as added earlier in the kernel.
Committer note:
Add an extra entry to the branch_type_name array to cope with
PERF_BR_EXTEND_ABI, to address build warnings on some compiler/systems,
like:
75 8.89 ubuntu:20.04-x-powerpc64el : FAIL gcc version 10.3.0 (Ubuntu 10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04)
inlined from 'branch_type_stat_display' at util/branch.c:152:4:
/usr/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/include/bits/stdio2.h:100:10: error: '%8s' directive argument is null [-Werror=format-overflow=]
100 | return __fprintf_chk (__stream, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, __fmt,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
101 | __va_arg_pack ());
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Robin Murphy <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
This updates the perf tool with generic branch type classification with
two new branch types i.e system error (PERF_BR_SERROR) and not in
transaction (PERF_BR_NO_TX) which got updated earlier in the kernel.
This also updates corresponding branch type strings in
branch_type_name().
Committer notes:
At perf tools merge time this is only on PeterZ's tree, at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git perf/core
So for testing one has to build a kernel with that branch, then test
the tooling side from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git perf/core
Reviewed-by: James Clark <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Robin Murphy <[email protected]>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Add a flag to the 'perf mem' data struct to signal that a request caused
a cache-to-cache transfer of a line from a peer of the requestor and
wasn't sourced from a lower cache level.
The line being moved from one peer cache to another has latency and
performance implications.
On Arm64 Neoverse systems the data source can indicate a cache-to-cache
transfer but not if the line is dirty or clean, so instead of
overloading HITM define a new flag that indicates this type of transfer.
Committer notes:
This really is not syncing with the kernel since the patch to the kernel
wasn't merged.
But we're going ahead of this as it seems trivial and is just a matter
of the perf kernel maintainers to give their ack or for us to find
another way of expressing this in the perf records synthesized in
userspace from the ARM64 hardware traces.
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ali Saidi <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
Cc: German Gomez <[email protected]>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: John Garry <[email protected]>
Cc: Kajol Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Like Xu <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Leach <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Timothy Hayes <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare
having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure.
Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these
cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should
no longer be used[2].
This code was transformed with the help of Coccinelle:
(linux-5.19-rc2$ spatch --jobs $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) --sp-file script.cocci --include-headers --dir . > output.patch)
@@
identifier S, member, array;
type T1, T2;
@@
struct S {
...
T1 member;
T2 array[
- 0
];
};
-fstrict-flex-arrays=3 is coming and we need to land these changes
to prevent issues like these in the short future:
../fs/minix/dir.c:337:3: warning: 'strcpy' will always overflow; destination buffer has size 0,
but the source string has length 2 (including NUL byte) [-Wfortify-source]
strcpy(de3->name, ".");
^
Since these are all [0] to [] changes, the risk to UAPI is nearly zero. If
this breaks anything, we can use a union with a new member name.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
Build-tested-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/62b675ec.wKX6AOZ6cbE71vtF%[email protected]/
Acked-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]> # For ndctl.h
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
Pull x86 perf event updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix address filtering for Intel/PT,ARM/CoreSight
- Enable Intel/PEBS format 5
- Allow more fixed-function counters for x86
- Intel/PT: Enable not recording Taken-Not-Taken packets
- Add a few branch-types
* tag 'perf-core-2022-03-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix the build on !CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
perf: Add irq and exception return branch types
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Make uncore_discovery clean for 64 bit addresses
perf/x86/intel/pt: Add a capability and config bit for disabling TNTs
perf/x86/intel/pt: Add a capability and config bit for event tracing
perf/x86/intel: Increase max number of the fixed counters
KVM: x86: use the KVM side max supported fixed counter
perf/x86/intel: Enable PEBS format 5
perf/core: Allow kernel address filter when not filtering the kernel
perf/x86/intel/pt: Fix address filter config for 32-bit kernel
perf/core: Fix address filter parser for multiple filters
x86: Share definition of __is_canonical_address()
perf/x86/intel/pt: Relax address filter validation
This expands generic branch type classification by adding two more entries
there in i.e irq and exception return. Also updates the x86 implementation
to process X86_BR_IRET and X86_BR_IRQ records as appropriate. This changes
branch types reported to user space on x86 platform but it should not be a
problem. The possible scenarios and impacts are enumerated here.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
To pick the trivial change in:
ddecd22878 ("perf: uapi: Document perf_event_attr::sig_data truncation on 32 bit architectures")
Just adds a comment.
This silences this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
Cc: Marco Elver <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
To pick the trivial change in:
cb1c4aba05 ("perf: Add new macros for mem_hops field")
Just comment source code alignment.
This silences this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
Cc: Kajol Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Add new macros for mem_hops field which can be used to represent
remote-node, socket and board level details.
Currently the code had macro for HOPS_0 which, corresponds to data
coming from another core but same node. Add new macros for HOPS_1 to
HOPS_3 to represent remote-node, socket and board level data.
Also add corresponding strings in the mem_hops array to represent
mem_hop field data in perf_mem__lvl_scnprintf function
Incase mem_hops field is used, PERF_MEM_LVLNUM field also need to be set
inorder to represent the data source. Hence printing data source via
PERF_MEM_LVL field can be skip in that scenario.
For ex: Encodings for mem_hops fields with L2 cache:
L2 - local L2
L2 | REMOTE | HOPS_0 - remote core, same node L2
L2 | REMOTE | HOPS_1 - remote node, same socket L2
L2 | REMOTE | HOPS_2 - remote socket, same board L2
L2 | REMOTE | HOPS_3 - remote board L2
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Jin Yao <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Nageswara R Sastry <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
To pick up some tools/perf/ patches that went via tip/perf/core, such
as:
tools/perf: Add mem_hops field in perf_mem_data_src structure
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Going forward, future generation systems can have more hierarchy
within the node/package level but currently we don't have any data source
encoding field in perf, which can be used to represent this level of data.
Add a new field called 'mem_hops' in the perf_mem_data_src structure
which can be used to represent intra-node/package or inter-node/off-package
details. This field is of size 3 bits where PERF_MEM_HOPS_{NA, 0..6} value
can be used to present different hop levels data.
Also add corresponding macros to define mem_hop field values
and shift value.
Currently we define macro for HOPS_0 which corresponds
to data coming from another core but same node.
Add functionality to represent mem_hop field data in
perf_mem__lvl_scnprintf function with the help of added string
array called mem_hops.
For ex: Encodings for mem_hops fields with L2 cache:
L2 - local L2
L2 | REMOTE | HOPS_0 - remote core, same node L2
Since with the addition of HOPS field, now remote can be used to
denote cache access from the same node but different core, a check
is added in the c2c_decode_stats function to set mrem only when HOPS
is zero along with set remote field.
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Add a comment about PERF_MEM_LVL_* namespace being depricated
to some extent in favour of added PERF_MEM_{LVLNUM_,REMOTE_,SNOOPX_}
fields.
Remove an extra line present in perf_mem__lvl_scnprintf function.
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
To pick the trivial change in:
0683b53197 ("signal: Deliver all of the siginfo perf data in _perf")
This silences this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
To pick up the changes in:
2b26f0aa00 ("perf: Support only inheriting events if cloned with CLONE_THREAD")
2e498d0a74 ("perf: Add support for event removal on exec")
547b60988e ("perf: aux: Add flags for the buffer format")
55bcf6ef31 ("perf: Extend PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE")
7dde51767c ("perf: aux: Add CoreSight PMU buffer formats")
97ba62b278 ("perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events")
d0d1dd6285 ("perf core: Add PERF_COUNT_SW_CGROUP_SWITCHES event")
Also change the expected sizeof(struct perf_event_attr) from 120 to 128 due to
fields being added for the SIGTRAP changes.
Addressing this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Marco Elver <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
To get the changes in these csets:
2a6c6b7d7a ("perf/core: Add PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT")
61b985e3e7 ("perf/x86/intel: Add perf core PMU support for Sapphire Rapids")
This cures the following warning during perf's build:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
Committer notes:
Picked by hand as I had already merged the MMAP buildid patch that also touches
perf_event.h and is also only in {acme,tip}/perf/core, not yet upstream.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Jin Yao <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
The diff is just tabs versus spaces, trivial.
This silences this perf tools build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
perf_event.h has macros that define the field offsets in the data_src
bitmask in perf records. The SNOOPX and REMOTE offsets were both 37.
These are distinct fields, and the bitfield layout in perf_mem_data_src
confirms that SNOOPX should be at offset 38.
Committer notes:
This was extracted from a larger patch that also contained kernel
changes.
Fixes: 52839e653b ("perf tools: Add support for printing new mem_info encodings")
Signed-off-by: Al Grant <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
To sync headers, for instance, in this case tools/perf was ahead of
upstream till Linus merged tip/perf/core to get the
PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE changes:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
To get the changes in the commit:
"perf: Add perf_event_mmap_page::cap_user_time_short ABI"
This update is a prerequisite to add support for short clock counters
related ABI extension.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
To get the changes in:
6546b19f95 ("perf/core: Add PERF_SAMPLE_CGROUP feature")
96aaab6865 ("perf/core: Add PERF_RECORD_CGROUP event")
This silences this perf tools build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
This update is a prerequisite to adding support for the HW index of raw
branch records.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
[ split from a larger patch ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Add kernel AUX area sampling definitions, which brings perf_event.h into
line with the kernel version.
New sample type PERF_SAMPLE_AUX requests a sample of the AUX area
buffer. New perf_event_attr member 'aux_sample_size' specifies the
desired size of the sample.
Also add support for parsing samples containing AUX area data i.e.
PERF_SAMPLE_AUX.
Committer notes:
I squashed the first two patches in this series to avoid breaking
automatic bisection, i.e. after applying only the original first patch
in this series we would have:
# perf test -v parsing
26: Sample parsing :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 17018
sample format has changed, some new PERF_SAMPLE_ bit was introduced - test needs updating
test child finished with -1
---- end ----
Sample parsing: FAILED!
#
With the two paches combined:
# perf test parsing
26: Sample parsing : Ok
#
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
When synthesizing FORK events, we are trying to create thread objects
for the already running tasks on the machine.
Normally, for a kernel FORK event, we want to clone the parent's maps
because that is what the kernel just did.
But when synthesizing, this should not be done. If we do, we end up
with overlapping maps as we process the sythesized MMAP2 events that
get delivered shortly thereafter.
Use the FORK event misc flags in an internal way to signal this
situation, so we can elide the map clone when appropriate.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Don Zickus <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Mario <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[ Added comment about flag use in machine__process_fork_event(),
use ternary op in thread__clone_map_groups() as suggested by Jiri ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
To get the changes in:
09121255c7 ("perf/UAPI: Clearly mark __PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN_EARLY as internal use")
This cures the following warning during perf's build:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Store preempting context switch out event into Perf trace as a part of
PERF_RECORD_SWITCH[_CPU_WIDE] record.
Percentage of preempting and non-preempting context switches help
understanding the nature of workloads (CPU or IO bound) that are running
on a machine;
The event is treated as preemption one when task->state value of the
thread being switched out is TASK_RUNNING. Event type encoding is
implemented using PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT_PREEMPT bit;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Problem and motivation: Once a breakpoint perf event (PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT)
is created, there is no flexibility to change the breakpoint type
(bp_type), breakpoint address (bp_addr), or breakpoint length (bp_len). The
only option is to close the perf event and configure a new breakpoint
event. This inflexibility has a significant performance overhead. For
example, sampling-based, lightweight performance profilers (and also
concurrency bug detection tools), monitor different addresses for a short
duration using PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT and change the address (bp_addr) to
another address or change the kind of breakpoint (bp_type) from "write" to
a "read" or vice-versa or change the length (bp_len) of the address being
monitored. The cost of these modifications is prohibitive since it involves
unmapping the circular buffer associated with the perf event, closing the
perf event, opening another perf event and mmaping another circular buffer.
Solution: The new ioctl flag for perf events,
PERF_EVENT_IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTES, introduced in this patch takes a pointer
to a struct perf_event_attr as an argument to update an old breakpoint
event with new address, type, and size. This facility allows retaining a
previous mmaped perf events ring buffer and avoids having to close and
reopen another perf event.
This patch supports only changing PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT event type; future
implementations can extend this feature. The patch replicates some of its
functionality of modify_user_hw_breakpoint() in
kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c. modify_user_hw_breakpoint cannot be called
directly since perf_event_ctx_lock() is already held in _perf_ioctl().
Evidence: Experiments show that the baseline (not able to modify an already
created breakpoint) costs an order of magnitude (~10x) more than the
suggested optimization (having the ability to dynamically modifying a
configured breakpoint via ioctl). When the breakpoints typically do not
trap, the speedup due to the suggested optimization is ~10x; even when the
breakpoints always trap, the speedup is ~4x due to the suggested
optimization.
Testing: tests posted at
https://github.com/linux-contrib/perf_event_modify_bp demonstrate the
performance significance of this patch. Tests also check the functional
correctness of the patch.
Signed-off-by: Milind Chabbi <[email protected]>
[ Using modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check function. ]
[ Reformated PERF_EVENT_IOC_*, so the values are all in one column. ]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Hari Bathini <[email protected]>
Cc: Jin Yao <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Ingo Molnar