linux-stable.git/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h, branch linux-5.6.y

perf tools: Add kernel AUX area sampling definitions

2019-11-21T13:54:20+00:00

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 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191115124225.5247-3-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add aux_output attribute flag

2019-08-14T13:59:59+00:00

Add aux_output attribute flag to match the kernel's perf_event.h file.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806084606.4021-4-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools headers uapi: Sync tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h

2019-01-21T20:00:57+00:00

Sync for PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu 
Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190117161521.1341602-5-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools headers uapi: Sync tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h

2019-01-21T20:00:57+00:00

Sync changes for PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu 
Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190117161521.1341602-3-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf/core: Remove unused perf_flags

2019-01-21T10:01:31+00:00

Now that perf_flags is not used we remove it.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Sascha Hauer 
Cc: Shawn Guo 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: robin.murphy@arm.com
Cc: suzuki.poulose@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547128414-50693-13-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Don't clone maps from parent when synthesizing forks

2018-10-31T13:18:01+00:00

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 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Joe Mario 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181030.222404.2085088822877051075.davem@davemloft.net
[ 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

tools headers uapi: Update tools's copy of linux/perf_event.h

2018-09-11T13:57:13+00:00

To get the changes in:

	09121255c784 ("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 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2vvwh2o19orn56di0ksrtgzr@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools headers uapi: Update tools's copy of linux/perf_event.h

2018-07-30T14:41:56+00:00

To get the changes in:

  6cbc304f2f36 ("perf/x86/intel: Fix unwind errors from PEBS entries (mk-II)")

That do not imply any changes in the tooling side, the (ab)use of
sample_type is entirely done in kernel space, nothing for userspace to
witness here.

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'

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Prashant Bhole 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-o64mjoy35s9gd1gitunw1zg4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf/core: Store context switch out type in PERF_RECORD_SWITCH[_CPU_WIDE]

2018-04-17T12:47:39+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9ff84e83-a0ca-dd82-a6d0-cb951689be74@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf/core: Implement fast breakpoint modification via _IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTES

2018-03-13T14:24:02+00:00

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 
[ Using modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check function. ]
[ Reformated PERF_EVENT_IOC_*, so the values are all in one column. ]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Hari Bathini 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312134548.31532-8-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar