The original PERF_RECORD_COMPRESS is not 8-byte aligned, which can cause
asan runtime error:
# Build with asan
$ make -C tools/perf O=/tmp/perf DEBUG=1 EXTRA_CFLAGS="-O0 -g -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=undefined"
# Test success with many asan runtime errors:
$ /tmp/perf/perf test "Zstd perf.data compression/decompression" -vv
83: Zstd perf.data compression/decompression:
...
util/session.c:1959:13: runtime error: member access within misaligned address 0x7f69e3f99653 for type 'union perf_event', which requires 13 byte alignment
0x7f69e3f99653: note: pointer points here
d0 3a 50 69 44 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 bb 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 07 00 00
^
util/session.c:2163:22: runtime error: member access within misaligned address 0x7f69e3f99653 for type 'union perf_event', which requires 8 byte alignment
0x7f69e3f99653: note: pointer points here
d0 3a 50 69 44 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 bb 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 07 00 00
^
...
Since there is no way to align compressed data in zstd compression, this
patch add a new event type `PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED2`, which adds a field
`data_size` to specify the actual compressed data size.
The `header.size` contains the total record size, including the padding
at the end to make it 8-byte aligned.
Tested with `Zstd perf.data compression/decompression`
Signed-off-by: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ben Gainey <ben.gainey@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250303183646.327510-1-ctshao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Switch output to using a strbuf so the storage can be resized.
Add a maximum size argument to avoid too much output that may happen for
uncore events.
Rename as scnprintf is no longer used.
Committer testing:
With the patch applied:
root@number:~# perf probe -x ~/bin/perf evlist__format_evsels
Added new event:
probe_perf:evlist_format_evsels (on evlist__format_evsels in /home/acme/bin/perf)
You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
perf record -e probe_perf:evlist_format_evsels -aR sleep 1
root@number:~# perf probe -l
probe_perf:evlist_format_evsels (on evlist__format_evsels@util/evlist.c in /home/acme/bin/perf)
root@number:~# perf trace -e probe_perf:*/max-stack=10/ perf record -e cycles,instructions,cache-misses /tmp/bla
Failed to collect 'cycles,instructions,cache-misses' for the '/tmp/bla' workload: Permission denied
0.000 perf/3893011 probe_perf:evlist_format_evsels(__probe_ip: 6183397)
evlist__format_evsels (/home/acme/bin/perf)
__cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf)
cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf)
run_builtin (/home/acme/bin/perf)
handle_internal_command (/home/acme/bin/perf)
run_argv (/home/acme/bin/perf)
main (/home/acme/bin/perf)
__libc_start_call_main (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6)
__libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6)
_start (/home/acme/bin/perf)
root@number:~#
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Levi Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402201549.4090305-4-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Specify the threshold for dumping offcpu samples with --off-cpu-thresh,
the unit is milliseconds. Default value is 500ms.
Example:
perf record --off-cpu --off-cpu-thresh 824
The example above collects direct off-cpu samples where the off-cpu time
is longer than 824ms.
Committer testing:
After commenting out the end off-cpu dump to have just the ones that are
added right after the task is scheduled back, and using a threshould of
1000ms, we see some periods (the 5th column, just before "offcpu-time"
in the 'perf script' output) that are over 1000.000.000 nanoseconds:
root@number:~# perf record --off-cpu --off-cpu-thresh 10000
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 3.902 MB perf.data (34335 samples) ]
root@number:~# perf script
<SNIP>
Isolated Web Co 59932 [028] 63839.594437: 1000049427 offcpu-time:
7fe63c7976c2 __syscall_cancel_arch_end+0x0 (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6)
7fe63c78c04c __futex_abstimed_wait_common+0x7c (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6)
7fe63c78e928 pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2+0x178 (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6)
5599974a9fe7 mozilla::detail::ConditionVariableImpl::wait_for(mozilla::detail::MutexImpl&, mozilla::BaseTimeDuration<mozilla::TimeDurationValueCalculator> const&)+0xe7 (/usr/lib64/fir>
100000000 [unknown] ([unknown])
swapper 0 [025] 63839.594459: 195724 cycles:P: ffffffffac328270 read_tsc+0x0 ([kernel.kallsyms])
Isolated Web Co 59932 [010] 63839.594466: 1000055278 offcpu-time:
7fe63c7976c2 __syscall_cancel_arch_end+0x0 (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6)
7fe63c78ba24 __syscall_cancel+0x14 (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6)
7fe63c804c4e __poll+0x1e (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6)
7fe633b0d1b8 PollWrapper(_GPollFD*, unsigned int, int) [clone .lto_priv.0]+0xf8 (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
10000002c [unknown] ([unknown])
swapper 0 [027] 63839.594475: 134433 cycles:P: ffffffffad4c45d9 irqentry_enter+0x19 ([kernel.kallsyms])
swapper 0 [028] 63839.594499: 215838 cycles:P: ffffffffac39199a switch_mm_irqs_off+0x10a ([kernel.kallsyms])
MediaPD~oder #1 1407676 [027] 63839.594514: 134433 cycles:P: 7f982ef5e69f dct_IV(int*, int, int*)+0x24f (/usr/lib64/libfdk-aac.so.2.0.0)
swapper 0 [024] 63839.594524: 267411 cycles:P: ffffffffad4c6ee6 poll_idle+0x56 ([kernel.kallsyms])
MediaSu~sor #75 1093827 [026] 63839.594555: 332652 cycles:P: 55be753ad030 moz_xmalloc+0x200 (/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox)
swapper 0 [027] 63839.594616: 160548 cycles:P: ffffffffad144840 menu_select+0x570 ([kernel.kallsyms])
Isolated Web Co 14019 [027] 63839.595120: 1000050178 offcpu-time:
7fc9537cc6c2 __syscall_cancel_arch_end+0x0 (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6)
7fc9537c104c __futex_abstimed_wait_common+0x7c (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6)
7fc9537c3928 pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2+0x178 (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6)
7fc95372a3c8 pt_TimedWait+0xb8 (/usr/lib64/libnspr4.so)
7fc95372a8d8 PR_WaitCondVar+0x68 (/usr/lib64/libnspr4.so)
7fc94afb1f7c WatchdogMain(void*)+0xac (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
7fc947498660 [unknown] ([unknown])
7fc9535fce88 [unknown] ([unknown])
7fc94b620e60 WatchdogManager::~WatchdogManager()+0x0 (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
fff8548387f8b48 [unknown] ([unknown])
swapper 0 [003] 63839.595712: 212948 cycles:P: ffffffffacd5b865 acpi_os_read_port+0x55 ([kernel.kallsyms])
<SNIP>
Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Gautam Menghani <gautam@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241108204137.2444151-2-howardchu95@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250501022809.449767-10-howardchu95@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Parse the off-cpu event using parse_event(), as bpf-output.
Call evlist__enable_evsel() on off-cpu event. This fixes the inability
to collect direct off-cpu samples on a workload, as reported by Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>.
The reason being, workload sets enable_on_exec instead of calling
evlist__enable(), but off-cpu event does not attach to an executable and
execve won't be called, so the fds from perf_event_open() are not
enabled.
no-inherit should be set to 1, here's the reason:
We update the BPF perf_event map for direct off-cpu sample dumping (in
following patches), it executes as follows:
bpf_map_update_value()
bpf_fd_array_map_update_elem()
perf_event_fd_array_get_ptr()
perf_event_read_local()
In perf_event_read_local(), there is:
int perf_event_read_local(struct perf_event *event, u64 *value,
u64 *enabled, u64 *running)
{
...
/*
* It must not be an event with inherit set, we cannot read
* all child counters from atomic context.
*/
if (event->attr.inherit) {
ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
goto out;
}
Which means no-inherit has to be true for updating the BPF perf_event
map.
Moreover, for bpf-output events, we primarily want a system-wide event
instead of a per-task event.
The reason is that in BPF's bpf_perf_event_output(), BPF uses the CPU
index to retrieve the perf_event file descriptor it outputs to.
Making a bpf-output event system-wide naturally satisfies this
requirement by mapping CPU appropriately.
Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Gautam Menghani <gautam@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241108204137.2444151-4-howardchu95@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250501022809.449767-3-howardchu95@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The BPF sideband information is tracked using a separate thread and
evlist. But it's only useful for profiling kernel and we can skip it
when users profile their application only.
It seems it already fails to open the sideband event in that case.
Let's remove the noise in the verbose output anyway.
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226203039.1099131-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The struct dump_regs contains 512 bytes of cache_regs, meaning the two
values in perf_sample contribute 1088 bytes of its total 1384 bytes
size. Initializing this much memory has a cost reported by Tavian
Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com> as about 2.5% when running `perf
script --itrace=i0`:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d841b97b3ad2ca8bcab07e4293375fb7c32dfce7.1736618095.git.tavianator@tavianator.com/
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> replied that the zero
initialization was necessary and couldn't simply be removed.
This patch aims to strike a middle ground of still zeroing the
perf_sample, but removing 79% of its size by make user_regs and
intr_regs optional pointers to zalloc-ed memory. To support the
allocation accessors are created for user_regs and intr_regs. To
support correct cleanup perf_sample__init and perf_sample__exit
functions are created and added throughout the code base.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250113194345.1537821-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To allow BPF filters for unprivileged users it needs to pin the BPF
objects to BPF-fs first. Let's add a new option to pin and unpin the
objects easily. I'm not sure 'perf record' is a right place to do this
but I don't have a better idea right now.
$ sudo perf record --setup-filter pin
The above command would pin BPF program and maps for the filter when the
system has BPF-fs (usually at /sys/fs/bpf/). To unpin the objects,
users can run the following command (as root).
$ sudo perf record --setup-filter unpin
Committer testing:
root@number:~# perf record --setup-filter pin
root@number:~# ls -la /sys/fs/bpf/perf_filter/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 .
drwxr-xr-t. 3 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 ..
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 dropped
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 filters
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 perf_sample_filter
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 pid_hash
-rw-------. 1 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 sample_f_rodata
root@number:~# ls -la /sys/fs/bpf/perf_filter/perf_sample_filter
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 /sys/fs/bpf/perf_filter/perf_sample_filter
root@number:~#
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703223035.2024586-8-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Modified the object of 'memset' from '&lost.lost' to '&lost' in
record__read_lost_samples. This allows 'memset' to access memory properly
without causing out-of-bounds problems.
The problems got from builtin-record.c are:
In file included from /usr/include/string.h:495,
from util/parse-events.h:13,
from builtin-record.c:14:
In function 'memset',
inlined from 'record__read_lost_samples' at
builtin-record.c:1958:6,
inlined from '__cmd_record.constprop' at builtin-record.c:2817:2:
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string_fortified.h:71:10: error:
'__builtin_memset' offset [17, 64] from the object at 'lost' is out
of the bounds of referenced subobject 'lost' with type
'struct perf_record_lost_samples' at offset 0 [-Werror=array-bounds]
71|return __builtin___memset_chk (__dest,__ch,__len,__bos0 (__dest));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The error arised when performing a memset operation on the 'lost' variable,
the bytes of 'sizeof(lost)' exceeds that of '&lost.lost', which are 64
and 16.
Fixes: 6c1785cd75 ("perf record: Ensure space for lost samples")
Signed-off-by: Haoze Xie <royenheart@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan <tanyuan@tinylab.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/11e12f171b846577cac698cd3999db3d7f6c4d03.1720372317.git.royenheart@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The session has a header in it which contains a perf env with
bpf_progs. The bpf_progs are accessed by the sideband thread and so
the sideband thread must be stopped before the session is deleted, to
avoid a use after free. This error was detected by AddressSanitizer
in the following:
==2054673==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free on address 0x61d000161e00 at pc 0x55769289de54 bp 0x7f9df36d4ab0 sp 0x7f9df36d4aa8
READ of size 8 at 0x61d000161e00 thread T1
#0 0x55769289de53 in __perf_env__insert_bpf_prog_info util/env.c:42
#1 0x55769289dbb1 in perf_env__insert_bpf_prog_info util/env.c:29
#2 0x557692bbae29 in perf_env__add_bpf_info util/bpf-event.c:483
#3 0x557692bbb01a in bpf_event__sb_cb util/bpf-event.c:512
#4 0x5576928b75f4 in perf_evlist__poll_thread util/sideband_evlist.c:68
#5 0x7f9df96a63eb in start_thread nptl/pthread_create.c:444
#6 0x7f9df9726a4b in clone3 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:81
0x61d000161e00 is located 384 bytes inside of 2136-byte region [0x61d000161c80,0x61d0001624d8)
freed by thread T0 here:
#0 0x7f9dfa6d7288 in __interceptor_free libsanitizer/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cpp:52
#1 0x557692978d50 in perf_session__delete util/session.c:319
#2 0x557692673959 in __cmd_record tools/perf/builtin-record.c:2884
#3 0x55769267a9f0 in cmd_record tools/perf/builtin-record.c:4259
#4 0x55769286710c in run_builtin tools/perf/perf.c:349
#5 0x557692867678 in handle_internal_command tools/perf/perf.c:402
#6 0x557692867a40 in run_argv tools/perf/perf.c:446
#7 0x557692867fae in main tools/perf/perf.c:562
#8 0x7f9df96456c9 in __libc_start_call_main ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58
Fixes: 657ee55319 ("perf evlist: Introduce side band thread")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Disha Goel <disgoel@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240301074639.2260708-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently pipe mode doesn't set the file size and it results in a
misleading message of 0 data size at the end. Although it might miss
some accounting for pipe header or more, just displaying the data size
would reduce the possible confusion.
Before:
$ perf record -o- perf test -w noploop | perf report -i- -q --percent-limit=1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ] <====== (here)
99.58% perf perf [.] noploop
After:
$ perf record -o- perf test -w noploop | perf report -i- -q --percent-limit=1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.229 MB - ]
99.46% perf perf [.] noploop
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240112231340.779469-1-namhyung@kernel.org
In pipe mode, no need to switch perf data output, therefore,
'--timestamp-filename' option should not take effect.
Check the conflict before recording and output WARNING.
In this case, the check pipe mode in perf_data__switch() can be removed.
Before:
# perf record --timestamp-filename -o- perf test -w noploop | perf report -i- --percent-limit=1
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Dump -.2024011812110182 ]
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 4K of event 'cycles:P'
# Event count (approx.): 2176784359
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... .................... ......................................
#
97.83% perf perf [.] noploop
#
# (Tip: Print event counts in CSV format with: perf stat -x,)
#
After:
# perf record --timestamp-filename -o- perf test -w noploop | perf report -i- --percent-limit=1
WARNING: --timestamp-filename option is not available in pipe mode.
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ]
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 4K of event 'cycles:P'
# Event count (approx.): 2185575421
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ..................... .............................................
#
97.75% perf perf [.] noploop
#
# (Tip: Profiling branch (mis)predictions with: perf record -b / perf report)
#
Fixes: ecfd7a9c04 ("perf record: Add '--timestamp-filename' option to append timestamp to output file name")
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240119040304.3708522-3-yangjihong1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
It's hard to distinguish the default cycles events among hybrid PMUs.
For example,
$ perf top
Available samples
385 cycles:P
903 cycles:P
The other tool, e.g., perf record, uniforms the event name and adds the
hybrid PMU name before opening the event. So the events can be easily
distinguished. Apply the same methodology for the perf top as well.
The evlist__uniquify_name() will be invoked by both record and top.
Move it to util/evlist.c
With the patch:
$ perf top
Available samples
148 cpu_atom/cycles:P/
1K cpu_core/cycles:P/
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231214144612.1092028-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
User space tasks can migrate between CPUs, we need to track side-band
events for all CPUs.
The specific scenarios are as follows:
CPU0 CPU1
perf record -C 0 start
taskA starts to be created and executed
-> PERF_RECORD_COMM and PERF_RECORD_MMAP
events only deliver to CPU1
......
|
migrate to CPU0
|
Running on CPU0 <----------/
...
perf record -C 0 stop
Now perf samples the PC of taskA. However, perf does not record the
PERF_RECORD_COMM and PERF_RECORD_MMAP events of taskA.
Therefore, the comm and symbols of taskA cannot be parsed.
The solution is to record sideband events for all CPUs when tracing
selected CPUs. Because this modifies the default behavior, add related
comments to the perf record man page.
The sys_perf_event_open invoked is as follows:
# perf --debug verbose=3 record -e cpu-clock -C 1 true
<SNIP>
Opening: cpu-clock
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE)
size 136
config 0 (PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK)
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID|LOST
disabled 1
inherit 1
freq 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 5
Opening: dummy:u
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE)
size 136
config 0x9 (PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY)
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 1
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID|LOST
inherit 1
exclude_kernel 1
exclude_hv 1
mmap 1
comm 1
task 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
mmap2 1
comm_exec 1
ksymbol 1
bpf_event 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 6
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 7
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 2 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 9
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 3 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 10
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 4 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 11
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 5 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 12
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 6 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 13
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 7 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 14
<SNIP>
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230904023340.12707-5-yangjihong1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
User space tasks can migrate between CPUs, so when tracing selected CPUs,
sideband for all CPUs is needed. In this case set the cpu map of the evsel
to all online CPUs. This may modify the original cpu map of the evlist.
Therefore, need to check whether the preceding scenario exists before
record__init_thread_masks().
Dummy tracking has been set in record__open(), move it before
record__init_thread_masks() and add a helper for unified processing.
The sys_perf_event_open invoked is as follows:
# perf --debug verbose=3 record -e cpu-clock -D 100 true
<SNIP>
Opening: cpu-clock
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE)
size 136
config 0 (PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK)
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID|LOST
disabled 1
inherit 1
freq 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 5
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 6
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 2 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 7
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 3 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 9
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 4 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 10
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 5 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 11
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 6 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 12
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 7 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 13
Opening: dummy:u
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE)
size 136
config 0x9 (PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY)
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 1
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID|LOST
disabled 1
inherit 1
exclude_kernel 1
exclude_hv 1
mmap 1
comm 1
enable_on_exec 1
task 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
mmap2 1
comm_exec 1
ksymbol 1
bpf_event 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 14
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 15
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 2 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 16
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 3 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 17
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 4 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 18
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 5 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 19
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 6 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 20
sys_perf_event_open: pid 10318 cpu 7 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 21
<SNIP>
'perf test' needs to update base-record & system-wide-dummy attr expected values
for test-record-C0:
1. Because a dummy sideband event is added to the sampling of specified
CPUs. When evlist contains evsel of different sample_type,
evlist__config() will change the default PERF_SAMPLE_ID bit to
PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFICATION bit.
The attr sample_type expected value of base-record and system-wide-dummy
in test-record-C0 needs to be updated.
2. The perf record uses evlist__add_aux_dummy() instead of
evlist__add_dummy() to add a dummy event.
The expected value of system-wide-dummy attr needs to be updated.
The 'perf test' result is as follows:
# ./perf test list 2>&1 | grep 'Setup struct perf_event_attr'
17: Setup struct perf_event_attr
# ./perf test 17
17: Setup struct perf_event_attr : Ok
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230904023340.12707-4-yangjihong1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
New features like the BPF --filter support in perf record have made the
BPF event functionality somewhat redundant. As shown by commit
fcb027c1a4f6 ("perf tools: Revert enable indices setting syntax for BPF
map") and commit 14e4b9f428 ("perf trace: Raw augmented syscalls fix
libbpf 1.0+ compatibility") the BPF event support hasn't been well
maintained and it adds considerable complexity in areas like event
parsing, not least as '/' is a separator for event modifiers as well as
in paths.
This patch removes support in the event parser for BPF events and then
the associated functions are removed. This leads to the removal of whole
source files like bpf-loader.c. Removing support means that augmented
syscalls in perf trace is broken, this will be fixed in a later commit
adding support using BPF skeletons.
The removal of BPF events causes an unused label warning from flex
generated code, so update build to ignore it:
```
util/parse-events-flex.c:2704:1: error: label ‘find_rule’ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-label]
2704 | find_rule: /* we branch to this label when backing up */
```
Committer notes:
Extracted from a larger patch that was also removing the support for
linking with libllvm and libclang, that were an alternative to using an
external clang execution to compile the .c event source code into BPF
bytecode.
Testing it:
# perf trace -e /home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c
event syntax error: '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c'
\___ Bad event or PMU
Unabled to find PMU or event on a PMU of 'home'
Initial error:
event syntax error: '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c'
\___ Cannot find PMU `home'. Missing kernel support?
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
Usage: perf trace [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf trace [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
or: perf trace record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf trace record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
-e, --event <event> event/syscall selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
#
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Carsten Haitzler <carsten.haitzler@arm.com>
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Cc: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@huawei.com>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810184853.2860737-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
