Add a new branch filter, "counter", for the branch counter option. It is
used to mark the events which should be logged in the branch. If it is
applied with the -j option, the counters of all the events should be
logged in the branch. If the legacy kernel doesn't support the new
branch sample type, switching off the branch counter filter.
The stored counter values in each branch are displayed right after the
regular branch stack information via perf report -D.
Usage examples:
# perf record -e "{branch-instructions,branch-misses}:S" -j any,counter
Only the first event, branch-instructions, collect the LBR. Both
branch-instructions and branch-misses are marked as logged events. The
occurrences information of them can be found in the branch stack
extension space of each branch.
# perf record -e "{cpu/branch-instructions,branch_type=any/,cpu/branch-misses,branch_type=counter/}"
Only the first event, branch-instructions, collect the LBR. Only the
branch-misses event is marked as a logged event.
Committer notes:
I noticed 'perf test "Sample parsing"' failing, reported to the list and
Kan provided a patch that checks if the evsel has a leader and that
evsel->evlist is set, the comment in the source code further explains
it.
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tinghao Zhang <tinghao.zhang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025201626.3000228-8-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
evsel__increase_rlimit() helper does nothing with evsel, and description
of the functionality is inaccurate, rename it and move to util/rlimit.c.
By the way, fix a checkppatch warning about misplaced license tag:
WARNING: Misplaced SPDX-License-Identifier tag - use line 1 instead
#160: FILE: tools/perf/util/rlimit.h:3:
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1 */
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231023033144.1011896-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
In the default mode, the current output of the metricgroup include both
events and metrics, which is not necessary and just makes the output
hard to read. Since different ARCHs (even different generations in the
same ARCH) may use different events. The output also vary on different
platforms.
For a metricgroup, only outputting the value of each metric is good
enough.
Add a new field default_metricgroup in evsel to indicate an event of the
default metricgroup. For those events, printout() should print the
metricgroup name rather than each event.
Add perf_stat__skip_metric_event() to skip the evsel in the Default
metricgroup, if it's not running or not the metric event.
Add print_metricgroup_header_t to pass the functions which print the
display name of each metricgroup in the Default metricgroup. Support all
three output methods.
Factor out perf_stat__print_shadow_stats_metricgroup() to print out each
metrics.
On SPR:
Before:
./perf_old stat sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
0.54 msec task-clock:u # 0.001 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches:u # 0.000 /sec
0 cpu-migrations:u # 0.000 /sec
68 page-faults:u # 125.445 K/sec
540,970 cycles:u # 0.998 GHz
556,325 instructions:u # 1.03 insn per cycle
123,602 branches:u # 228.018 M/sec
6,889 branch-misses:u # 5.57% of all branches
3,245,820 TOPDOWN.SLOTS:u # 18.4 % tma_backend_bound
# 17.2 % tma_retiring
# 23.1 % tma_bad_speculation
# 41.4 % tma_frontend_bound
564,859 topdown-retiring:u
1,370,999 topdown-fe-bound:u
603,271 topdown-be-bound:u
744,874 topdown-bad-spec:u
12,661 INT_MISC.UOP_DROPPING:u # 23.357 M/sec
1.001798215 seconds time elapsed
0.000193000 seconds user
0.001700000 seconds sys
After:
$ ./perf stat sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
0.51 msec task-clock:u # 0.001 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches:u # 0.000 /sec
0 cpu-migrations:u # 0.000 /sec
68 page-faults:u # 132.683 K/sec
545,228 cycles:u # 1.064 GHz
555,509 instructions:u # 1.02 insn per cycle
123,574 branches:u # 241.120 M/sec
6,957 branch-misses:u # 5.63% of all branches
TopdownL1 # 17.5 % tma_backend_bound
# 22.6 % tma_bad_speculation
# 42.7 % tma_frontend_bound
# 17.1 % tma_retiring
TopdownL2 # 21.8 % tma_branch_mispredicts
# 11.5 % tma_core_bound
# 13.4 % tma_fetch_bandwidth
# 29.3 % tma_fetch_latency
# 2.7 % tma_heavy_operations
# 14.5 % tma_light_operations
# 0.8 % tma_machine_clears
# 6.1 % tma_memory_bound
1.001712086 seconds time elapsed
0.000151000 seconds user
0.001618000 seconds sys
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ahmad Yasin <ahmad.yasin@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230616031420.3751973-3-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf tools fixes for v6.4: 2nd batch
- Fix BPF CO-RE naming convention for checking the availability of fields on
'union perf_mem_data_src' on the running kernel.
- Remove the use of llvm-strip on BPF skel object files, not needed, fixes a
build breakage when the llvm package, that contains it in most distros, isn't
installed.
- Fix tools that use both evsel->{bpf_counter_list,bpf_filters}, removing them from a
union.
- Remove extra "--" from the 'perf ftrace latency' --use-nsec option,
previously it was working only when using the '-n' alternative.
- Don't stop building when both binutils-devel and a C++ compiler isn't
available to compile the alternative C++ demangle support code, disable that
feature instead.
- Sync the linux/in.h and coresight-pmu.h header copies with the kernel sources.
- Fix relative include path to cs-etm.h.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
'struct evsel' uses a union for the two lists. This turned out to be
error prone.
For example:
[root@quaco ~]# perf stat --bpf-prog 5246
Error: cpu-clock event does not have sample flags 66c660
failed to set filter "(null)" on event cpu-clock with 2 (No such file or directory)
[root@quaco ~]# perf stat --bpf-prog 5246
Fix this issue by separating the two lists.
Fixes: 56ec9457a4 ("perf bpf filter: Implement event sample filtering")
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: kernel-team@meta.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230519235757.3613719-1-song@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
'perf stat' with no arguments will use default events and metrics. These
events may fail to open even with kernel and hypervisor disabled. When
these fail then the permissions error appears even though they were
implicitly selected. This is particularly a problem with the automatic
selection of the TopdownL1 metric group on certain architectures like
Skylake:
$ perf stat true
Error:
Access to performance monitoring and observability operations is limited.
Consider adjusting /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid setting to open
access to performance monitoring and observability operations for processes
without CAP_PERFMON, CAP_SYS_PTRACE or CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capability.
More information can be found at 'Perf events and tool security' document:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/perf-security.html
perf_event_paranoid setting is 2:
-1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users
Ignore mlock limit after perf_event_mlock_kb without CAP_IPC_LOCK
>= 0: Disallow raw and ftrace function tracepoint access
>= 1: Disallow CPU event access
>= 2: Disallow kernel profiling
To make the adjusted perf_event_paranoid setting permanent preserve it
in /etc/sysctl.conf (e.g. kernel.perf_event_paranoid = <setting>)
$
This patch adds skippable evsels that when they fail to open won't cause
termination and will appear as "<not supported>" in output. The
TopdownL1 events, from the metric group, are marked as skippable. This
turns the failure above to:
$ perf stat perf bench internals synthesize
Computing performance of single threaded perf event synthesis by
synthesizing events on the perf process itself:
Average synthesis took: 49.287 usec (+- 0.083 usec)
Average num. events: 3.000 (+- 0.000)
Average time per event 16.429 usec
Average data synthesis took: 49.641 usec (+- 0.085 usec)
Average num. events: 11.000 (+- 0.000)
Average time per event 4.513 usec
Performance counter stats for 'perf bench internals synthesize':
1,222.38 msec task-clock:u # 0.993 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches:u # 0.000 /sec
0 cpu-migrations:u # 0.000 /sec
162 page-faults:u # 132.529 /sec
774,445,184 cycles:u # 0.634 GHz (49.61%)
1,640,969,811 instructions:u # 2.12 insn per cycle (59.67%)
302,052,148 branches:u # 247.102 M/sec (59.69%)
1,807,718 branch-misses:u # 0.60% of all branches (59.68%)
5,218,927 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.REF_XCLK:u # 4.269 M/sec
# 17.3 % tma_frontend_bound
# 56.4 % tma_retiring
# nan % tma_backend_bound
# nan % tma_bad_speculation (60.01%)
536,580,469 IDQ_UOPS_NOT_DELIVERED.CORE:u # 438.965 M/sec (60.33%)
<not supported> INT_MISC.RECOVERY_CYCLES_ANY:u
5,223,936 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.ONE_THREAD_ACTIVE:u # 4.274 M/sec (40.31%)
774,127,250 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD:u # 633.297 M/sec (50.34%)
1,746,579,518 UOPS_RETIRED.RETIRE_SLOTS:u # 1.429 G/sec (50.12%)
1,940,625,702 UOPS_ISSUED.ANY:u # 1.588 G/sec (49.70%)
1.231055525 seconds time elapsed
0.258327000 seconds user
0.965749000 seconds sys
$
The event INT_MISC.RECOVERY_CYCLES_ANY:u is skipped as it can't be
opened with paranoia 2 on Skylake. With a lower paranoia, or as root,
all events/metrics are computed.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ahmad Yasin <ahmad.yasin@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com>
Cc: Edward Baker <edward.baker@intel.com>
Cc: Florian Fischer <florian.fischer@muhq.space>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kang Minchul <tegongkang@gmail.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Perry Taylor <perry.taylor@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Samantha Alt <samantha.alt@intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Cc: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230502223851.2234828-3-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It seems that perf stat -b <prog id> doesn't produce any results:
$ perf stat -e cycles -b 4 -I 10000 -vvv
Control descriptor is not initialized
cycles: 0 0 0
time counts unit events
10.007641640 <not supported> cycles
Looks like this happens because fentry/fexit progs are getting loaded, but the
corresponding perf event is not enabled and not added into the events bpf map.
I think there is some mixing up between two type of bpf support, one for bperf
and one for bpf_profiler. Both are identified via evsel__is_bpf, based on which
perf events are enabled, but for the latter (bpf_profiler) a perf event is
required. Using evsel__is_bperf to check only bperf produces expected results:
$ perf stat -e cycles -b 4 -I 10000 -vvv
Control descriptor is not initialized
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
size 136
sample_type IDENTIFIER
read_format TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING
disabled 1
exclude_guest 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 3
------------------------------------------------------------
[...perf_event_attr for other CPUs...]
------------------------------------------------------------
cycles: 309426 169009 169009
time counts unit events
10.010091271 309426 cycles
The final numbers correspond (at least in the level of magnitude) to the
same metric obtained via bpftool.
Fixes: 112cb56164 ("perf stat: Introduce config stat.bpf-counter-events")
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230412182316.11628-1-9erthalion6@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Remove the LIBTRACEEVENT_DYNAMIC and LIBTRACEFS_DYNAMIC make command
line variables.
If libtraceevent isn't installed or NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1 is passed to the
build, don't compile in libtraceevent and libtracefs support.
This also disables CONFIG_TRACE that controls "perf trace".
CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT is used to control enablement in Build/Makefiles,
HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT is used in C code.
Without HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT tracepoints are disabled and as such the
commands kmem, kwork, lock, sched and timechart are removed. The
majority of commands continue to work including "perf test".
Committer notes:
Fixed up a tools/perf/util/Build reject and added:
#include <traceevent/event-parse.h>
to tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c.
Committer testing:
$ rpm -qi libtraceevent-devel
Name : libtraceevent-devel
Version : 1.5.3
Release : 2.fc36
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Mon 25 Jul 2022 03:20:19 PM -03
Group : Unspecified
Size : 27728
License : LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Fri 15 Apr 2022 02:11:58 PM -03, Key ID 999f7cbf38ab71f4
Source RPM : libtraceevent-1.5.3-2.fc36.src.rpm
Build Date : Fri 15 Apr 2022 10:57:01 AM -03
Build Host : buildvm-x86-05.iad2.fedoraproject.org
Packager : Fedora Project
Vendor : Fedora Project
URL : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git/
Bug URL : https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/libtraceevent
Summary : Development headers of libtraceevent
Description :
Development headers of libtraceevent-libs
$
Default build:
$ ldd ~/bin/perf | grep tracee
libtraceevent.so.1 => /lib64/libtraceevent.so.1 (0x00007f1dcaf8f000)
$
# perf trace -e sched:* --max-events 10
0.000 migration/0/17 sched:sched_migrate_task(comm: "", pid: 1603763 (perf), prio: 120, dest_cpu: 1)
0.005 migration/0/17 sched:sched_wake_idle_without_ipi(cpu: 1)
0.011 migration/0/17 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm: "", prev_pid: 17 (migration/0), prev_state: 1, next_comm: "", next_prio: 120)
1.173 :0/0 sched:sched_wakeup(comm: "", pid: 3138 (gnome-terminal-), prio: 120)
1.180 :0/0 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm: "", prev_prio: 120, next_comm: "", next_pid: 3138 (gnome-terminal-), next_prio: 120)
0.156 migration/1/21 sched:sched_migrate_task(comm: "", pid: 1603763 (perf), prio: 120, orig_cpu: 1, dest_cpu: 2)
0.160 migration/1/21 sched:sched_wake_idle_without_ipi(cpu: 2)
0.166 migration/1/21 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm: "", prev_pid: 21 (migration/1), prev_state: 1, next_comm: "", next_prio: 120)
1.183 :0/0 sched:sched_wakeup(comm: "", pid: 1602985 (kworker/u16:0-f), prio: 120, target_cpu: 1)
1.186 :0/0 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm: "", prev_prio: 120, next_comm: "", next_pid: 1602985 (kworker/u16:0-f), next_prio: 120)
#
Had to tweak tools/perf/util/setup.py to make sure the python binding
shared object links with libtraceevent if -DHAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT is
present in CFLAGS.
Building with NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1 uncovered some more build failures:
- Make building of data-convert-bt.c to CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT=y
- perf-$(CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT) += scripts/
- bpf_kwork.o needs also to be dependent on CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT=y
- The python binding needed some fixups and util/trace-event.c can't be
built and linked with the python binding shared object, so remove it
in tools/perf/util/setup.py and exclude it from the list of
dependencies in the python/perf.so Makefile.perf target.
Building without libtraceevent-devel installed uncovered more build
failures:
- The python binding tools/perf/util/python.c was assuming that
traceevent/parse-events.h was always available, which was the case
when we defaulted to using the in-kernel tools/lib/traceevent/ files,
now we need to enclose it under ifdef HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT, just like
the other parts of it that deal with tracepoints.
- We have to ifdef the rules in the Build files with
CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT=y to build builtin-trace.c and
tools/perf/trace/beauty/ as we only ifdef setting CONFIG_TRACE=y when
setting NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1 in the make command line, not when we don't
detect libtraceevent-devel installed in the system. Simplification here
to avoid these two ways of disabling builtin-trace.c and not having
CONFIG_TRACE=y when libtraceevent-devel isn't installed is the clean
way.
From Athira:
<quote>
tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
-perf-y += kvm-stat.o
+perf-$(CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT) += kvm-stat.o
</quote>
Then, ditto for arm64 and s390, detected by container cross build tests.
- s/390 uses test__checkevent_tracepoint() that is now only available if
HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT is defined, enclose the callsite with ifder HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT.
Also from Athira:
<quote>
With this change, I could successfully compile in these environment:
- Without libtraceevent-devel installed
- With libtraceevent-devel installed
- With “make NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1”
</quote>
Then, finally rename CONFIG_TRACEEVENT to CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT for
consistency with other libraries detected in tools/perf/.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221205225940.3079667-3-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
If any member in a group has a different cpu mask than the other
members, the current perf stat disables group. when the perf metrics
topdown events are part of the group, the below <not supported> error
will be triggered.
$ perf stat -e "{slots,topdown-retiring,uncore_imc_free_running_0/dclk/}" -a sleep 1
WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match, disabling group:
anon group { slots, topdown-retiring, uncore_imc_free_running_0/dclk/ }
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
141,465,174 slots
<not supported> topdown-retiring
1,605,330,334 uncore_imc_free_running_0/dclk/
The perf metrics topdown events must always be grouped with a slots
event as leader.
Factor out evsel__remove_from_group() to only remove the regular events
from the group.
Remove evsel__must_be_in_group(), since no one use it anymore.
With the patch, the topdown events aren't broken from the group for the
splitting.
$ perf stat -e "{slots,topdown-retiring,uncore_imc_free_running_0/dclk/}" -a sleep 1
WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match, disabling group:
anon group { slots, topdown-retiring, uncore_imc_free_running_0/dclk/ }
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
346,110,588 slots
124,608,256 topdown-retiring
1,606,869,976 uncore_imc_free_running_0/dclk/
1.003877592 seconds time elapsed
Fixes: a9a1790247 ("perf stat: Ensure group is defined on top of the same cpu mask")
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220518143900.1493980-3-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It bothered me that during benchmarking using 'perf stat' (to collect
for example CPU cache events) I could not simultaneously retrieve the
times spend in user or kernel mode in a machine readable format.
When running 'perf stat' the output for humans contains the times
reported by rusage and wait4.
$ perf stat -e cache-misses:u -- true
Performance counter stats for 'true':
4,206 cache-misses:u
0.001113619 seconds time elapsed
0.001175000 seconds user
0.000000000 seconds sys
But 'perf stat's machine-readable format does not provide this information.
$ perf stat -x, -e cache-misses:u -- true
4282,,cache-misses:u,492859,100.00,,
I found no way to retrieve this information using the available events
while using machine-readable output.
This patch adds two new tool internal events 'user_time' and
'system_time', similarly to the already present 'duration_time' event.
Both events use the already collected rusage information obtained by
wait4 and tracked in the global ru_stats.
Examples presenting cache-misses and rusage information in both human
and machine-readable form:
$ perf stat -e duration_time,user_time,system_time,cache-misses -- grep -q -r duration_time .
Performance counter stats for 'grep -q -r duration_time .':
67,422,542 ns duration_time:u
50,517,000 ns user_time:u
16,839,000 ns system_time:u
30,937 cache-misses:u
0.067422542 seconds time elapsed
0.050517000 seconds user
0.016839000 seconds sys
$ perf stat -x, -e duration_time,user_time,system_time,cache-misses -- grep -q -r duration_time .
72134524,ns,duration_time:u,72134524,100.00,,
65225000,ns,user_time:u,65225000,100.00,,
6865000,ns,system_time:u,6865000,100.00,,
38705,,cache-misses:u,71189328,100.00,,
Signed-off-by: Florian Fischer <florian.fischer@muhq.space>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420102354.468173-3-florian.fischer@muhq.space
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Perf tool sets exclude_guest by default while calling perf_event_open().
Because IBS does not have filtering capability, it always gets rejected
by IBS PMU driver and thus perf falls back to non-precise sampling. Fix
it by not setting exclude_guest by default on AMD.
Before:
$ sudo ./perf record -C 0 -vvv true |& grep precise
precise_ip 3
decreasing precise_ip by one (2)
precise_ip 2
decreasing precise_ip by one (1)
precise_ip 1
decreasing precise_ip by one (0)
After:
$ sudo ./perf record -C 0 -vvv true |& grep precise
precise_ip 3
decreasing precise_ip by one (2)
precise_ip 2
Committer notes:
Fixup init to zero for perf_env in older compilers:
arch/x86/util/evsel.c:15:26: error: missing field 'os_release' initializer [-Werror,-Wmissing-field-initializers]
struct perf_env env = {0};
^
Committer notes:
Namhyung remarked:
It'd be nice if it can cover explicit "-e cycles:pp" as well.
Ravi clarified:
For explicit :pp modifier, evsel->precise_max does not get set and thus perf
does not try with different attr->precise_ip values while exclude_guest set.
So no issue with explicit :pp:
$ sudo ./perf record -C 0 -e cycles:pp -vvv |& grep "precise_ip\|exclude_guest"
precise_ip 2
exclude_guest 1
precise_ip 2
exclude_guest 1
switching off exclude_guest, exclude_host
precise_ip 2
^C
Also, with :P modifier, evsel->precise_max gets set but exclude_guest does
not and thus :P also works fine:
$ sudo ./perf record -C 0 -e cycles:P -vvv |& grep "precise_ip\|exclude_guest"
precise_ip 3
decreasing precise_ip by one (2)
precise_ip 2
^C
Reported-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211103072112.32312-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The current logic for the perf missing feature has a bug that it can
wrongly clear some modifiers like G or H. Actually some PMUs don't
support any filtering or exclusion while others do. But we check it as
a global feature.
For example, the cycles event can have 'G' modifier to enable it only in
the guest mode on x86. When you don't run any VMs it'll return 0.
# perf stat -a -e cycles:G sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
0 cycles:G
1.000721670 seconds time elapsed
But when it's used with other pmu events that don't support G modifier,
it'll be reset and return non-zero values.
# perf stat -a -e cycles:G,msr/tsc/ sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
538,029,960 cycles:G
16,924,010,738 msr/tsc/
1.001815327 seconds time elapsed
This is because of the missing feature detection logic being global.
Add a hashmap to set pmu-specific exclude_host/guest features.
Committer notes:
Fix 'perf test python' by adding a stub for evsel__find_pmu() in
tools/perf/util/python.c, document that it is used so far only for the
above reasons so that if anybody needs this in the python binding
usecases, we can revisit this.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211105205847.120950-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
