perf_events may sometimes throttle an event due to creating too many
samples during a given timer tick.
As of now, the perf tool will not report on throttling, which means this
is a silent error.
Implement a callback for the throttle and unthrottle events within the
Python scripting engine, which can allow scripts to detect and report
when events may have been lost due to throttling.
The simplest script to report throttle events is:
def throttle(*args):
print("throttle" + repr(args))
def unthrottle(*args):
print("unthrottle" + repr(args))
Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[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]>
Commit 48a1f56526 ("perf script python: Add more PMU fields to
event handler dict") added functionality to report fields like weight,
iregs, uregs etc via perf report. That commit predefined buffer size to
512 bytes to print those fields.
But in PowerPC, since we added extended regs support in:
068aeea377 ("perf powerpc: Support exposing Performance Monitor Counter SPRs as part of extended regs")
d735599a06 ("powerpc/perf: Add extended regs support for power10 platform")
Now iregs can carry more bytes of data and this predefined buffer size
can result to data loss in perf script output.
This patch resolves this issue by making the buffer size dynamic, based
on the number of registers needed to print. It also changes the
regs_map() return type from int to void, as it is not being used by the
set_regs_in_dict(), its only caller.
Fixes: 068aeea377 ("perf powerpc: Support exposing Performance Monitor Counter SPRs as part of extended regs")
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Nageswara R Sastry <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Clarke <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Move scripting_context update to a separate function and add
the arguments of ->process_event() to it.
This prepares the way for adding more methods to the perf_trace_context
module, by providing the context information that they will need.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
tuple_set_u64() produces a signed value instead of an unsigned value.
That works for database export but not other cases. Rename to
tuple_set_d64() for database export and fix tuple_set_u64().
Fixes: df919b400a ("perf scripting python: Extend interface to export data in a database-friendly way")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
To avoid this:
util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c: In function 'python_start_script':
util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c:1595:2: error: 'visibility' attribute ignored [-Werror=attributes]
1595 | PyMODINIT_FUNC (*initfunc)(void);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
That started breaking when building with PYTHON=python3 and these gcc
versions (I haven't checked with the clang ones, maybe it breaks there
as well):
# export PERF_TARBALL=http://192.168.86.5/perf/perf-5.9.0.tar.xz
# dm fedora:33 fedora:rawhide
1 107.80 fedora:33 : Ok gcc (GCC) 10.2.1 20201005 (Red Hat 10.2.1-5), clang version 11.0.0 (Fedora 11.0.0-1.fc33)
2 92.47 fedora:rawhide : Ok gcc (GCC) 10.2.1 20201016 (Red Hat 10.2.1-6), clang version 11.0.0 (Fedora 11.0.0-1.fc34)
#
Avoid that by ditching that 'initfunc' function pointer with its:
#define Py_EXPORTED_SYMBOL _attribute_ ((visibility ("default")))
#define PyMODINIT_FUNC Py_EXPORTED_SYMBOL PyObject*
And just call PyImport_AppendInittab() at the end of the ifdef python3
block with the functions that were being attributed to that initfunc.
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]>
Passing build_id object to build_id__sprintf function, so it can operate
with the proper size of build id.
This will create proper md5 build id readable names,
like following:
a50e350e97c43b4708d09bcd85ebfff7
instead of:
a50e350e97c43b4708d09bcd85ebfff700000000
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Replace build_id byte array with struct build_id object and all the code
that references it.
The objective is to carry size together with build id array, so it's
better to keep both together.
This is preparatory change for following patches, and there's no
functional change.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
As they are 'struct evsel' methods or related routines, not part of
tools/lib/perf/, aka libperf, to whom the perf_ prefix belongs.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
The low level index of raw branch records for the most recent branch can
be recorded in a sample with PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX
branch_sample_type. Extend struct branch_stack to support it.
However, if the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX is not applied, only nr and
entries[] will be output by kernel. The pointer of entries[] could be
wrong, since the output format is different with new struct
branch_stack. Add a variable no_hw_idx in struct perf_sample to
indicate whether the hw_idx is output. Add get_branch_entry() to return
corresponding pointer of entries[0].
To make dummy branch sample consistent as new branch sample, add hw_idx
in struct dummy_branch_stack for cs-etm and intel-pt.
Apply the new struct branch_stack for synthetic events as well.
Extend test case sample-parsing to support new struct branch_stack.
Committer notes:
Renamed get_branch_entries() to perf_sample__branch_entries() to have
proper namespacing and pave the way for this to be moved to libperf,
eventually.
Add 'static' to that inline as it is in a header.
Add 'hw_idx' to 'struct dummy_branch_stack' in cs-etm.c to fix the build
on arm64.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Gerasimov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Vitaly Slobodskoy <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Instead of calling a useless (and broken) helper function to get the
next event of a tep event array, just get the array directly and iterate
over it.
Note, the broken part was from trace_find_next_event() which after this
will no longer be used, and can be removed.
Committer notes:
This fixes a segfault when generating python scripts from perf.data
files with multiple tracepoint events, i.e. the following use case is
fixed by this patch:
# perf record -e sched:* sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 31 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.031 MB perf.data (9 samples) ]
# perf script -g python
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
#
Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Move the perf_event_attr struct fron 'struct evsel' to 'struct perf_evsel'.
Committer notes:
Fixed up these:
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c
tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c
tools/perf/arch/s390/util/auxtrace.c
tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
Also
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
tests/sample-parsing.c: In function 'do_test':
tests/sample-parsing.c:162: error: missing initializer
tests/sample-parsing.c:162: error: (near initialization for 'evsel.core.cpus')
struct evsel evsel = {
.needs_swap = false,
- .core.attr = {
- .sample_type = sample_type,
- .read_format = read_format,
+ .core = {
+ . attr = {
+ .sample_type = sample_type,
+ .read_format = read_format,
+ },
[perfbuilder@a70e4eeb5549 /]$ gcc --version |& head -1
gcc (GCC) 4.4.7
Also we don't need to include perf_event.h in
tools/perf/lib/include/perf/evsel.h, forward declaring 'struct
perf_event_attr' is enough. And this even fixes the build in some
systems where things are used somewhere down the include path from
perf_event.h without defining __always_inline.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Petlan <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
db_export__deferred() deferred the export of comms if the comm string
had not been "set" (changed from :<pid>) however that problem was fixed
a long time ago by commit e803cf97a4 ("perf record: Synthesize COMM
event for a command line workload"), so get rid of
db_export__deferred().
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[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]>
Synthesized events are samples but with architecture-specific data
stored in sample->raw_data. They are identified by attribute type
PERF_TYPE_SYNTH. Add a function to export them.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
The call_path can be used to find the parent symbol for a call but not
the exact parent call. To do that add parent_id to the call_return
export. This enables the creation of a call tree from the exported data.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Several places were using definitions found in symbols.h but not
including it, getting it by sheer luck from some other headers that now
are in the process of removing that include because they don't need it
or because simply having struct forward declarations is enough, fix it.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
With Python3. PyUnicode_FromStringAndSize is unsafe to call on attr and will
return NULL. Use _PyBytes_FromStringAndSize (as with raw_buf).
Below is the observed behavior without the fix. Note it is first necessary
to apply the prior fix (Add trace_context extension module to sys,modules):
# ldd /usr/bin/perf | grep -i python
libpython3.6m.so.1.0 => /usr/lib64/libpython3.6m.so.1.0 (0x00007f8e1dfb2000)
# perf record -e raw_syscalls:sys_enter /bin/false
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.018 MB perf.data (21 samples) ]
# perf script -g python | cat
generated Python script: perf-script.py
# perf script -s ./perf-script.py
in trace_begin
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jaroslav Škarvada <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Cc: Seeteena Thoufeek <[email protected]>
Fixes: 66dfdff03d ("perf tools: Add Python 3 support")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
In Python3, the result of PyModule_Create (called from
scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.c) is not automatically added to
sys.modules. See: https://bugs.python.org/issue4592
Below is the observed behavior without the fix:
# ldd /usr/bin/perf | grep -i python
libpython3.6m.so.1.0 => /usr/lib64/libpython3.6m.so.1.0 (0x00007f8e1dfb2000)
# perf record /bin/false
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.015 MB perf.data (17 samples) ]
# perf script -g python | cat
generated Python script: perf-script.py
# perf script -s ./perf-script.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./perf-script.py", line 18, in <module>
from perf_trace_context import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'perf_trace_context'
Error running python script ./perf-script.py
#
Committer notes:
To build with python3 use:
$ make -C tools/perf PYTHON=python3
Use a non-const variable to pass the 'name' arg to
PyImport_AppendInittab(), as python2.6 has that as 'char *', which ends
up trowing this in some environments:
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/parse-branch-options.o
util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c: In function 'python_start_script':
util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c:1520:2: error: passing argument 1 of 'PyImport_AppendInittab' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror]
PyImport_AppendInittab("perf_trace_context", initfunc);
^
In file included from /usr/include/python2.6/Python.h:130:0,
from util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c:22:
/usr/include/python2.6/import.h:54:17: note: expected 'char *' but argument is of type 'const char *'
PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyImport_AppendInittab(char *name, void (*initfunc)(void));
^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jaroslav Škarvada <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Cc: Seeteena Thoufeek <[email protected]>
Fixes: 66dfdff03d ("perf tools: Add Python 3 support")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
In order to make libtraceevent into a proper library, variables, data
structures and functions require a unique prefix to prevent name space
conflicts.
This renames 'struct tep_event_format' to 'struct tep_event', which
describes more closely the purpose of the struct.
Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
[ Fixup conflict with 6e33c250a88f ("tools lib traceevent: Fix compile warnings in tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c") ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Stephen Brennan