Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
"Add Namhyung Kim as tools/perf/ co-maintainer, we're taking turns
processing patches, switching roles from perf-tools to perf-tools-next
at each Linux release.
Data profiling:
- Associate samples that identify loads and stores with data
structures. This uses events available on Intel, AMD and others and
DWARF info:
# To get memory access samples in kernel for 1 second (on Intel)
$ perf mem record -a -K --ldlat=4 -- sleep 1
# Similar for the AMD (but it requires 6.3+ kernel for BPF filters)
$ perf mem record -a --filter 'mem_op == load || mem_op == store, ip > 0x8000000000000000' -- sleep 1
Then, amongst several modes of post processing, one can do things like:
$ perf report -s type,typeoff --hierarchy --group --stdio
...
#
# Samples: 10K of events 'cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=4/P, cpu/mem-stores/P, dummy:u'
# Event count (approx.): 602758064
#
# Overhead Data Type / Data Type Offset
# ........................... ............................
#
26.09% 3.28% 0.00% long unsigned int
26.09% 3.28% 0.00% long unsigned int +0 (no field)
18.48% 0.73% 0.00% struct page
10.83% 0.02% 0.00% struct page +8 (lru.next)
3.90% 0.28% 0.00% struct page +0 (flags)
3.45% 0.06% 0.00% struct page +24 (mapping)
0.25% 0.28% 0.00% struct page +48 (_mapcount.counter)
0.02% 0.06% 0.00% struct page +32 (index)
0.02% 0.00% 0.00% struct page +52 (_refcount.counter)
0.02% 0.01% 0.00% struct page +56 (memcg_data)
0.00% 0.01% 0.00% struct page +16 (lru.prev)
15.37% 17.54% 0.00% (stack operation)
15.37% 17.54% 0.00% (stack operation) +0 (no field)
11.71% 50.27% 0.00% (unknown)
11.71% 50.27% 0.00% (unknown) +0 (no field)
$ perf annotate --data-type
...
Annotate type: 'struct cfs_rq' in [kernel.kallsyms] (13 samples):
============================================================================
samples offset size field
13 0 640 struct cfs_rq {
2 0 16 struct load_weight load {
2 0 8 unsigned long weight;
0 8 4 u32 inv_weight;
};
0 16 8 unsigned long runnable_weight;
0 24 4 unsigned int nr_running;
1 28 4 unsigned int h_nr_running;
...
$ perf annotate --data-type=page --group
Annotate type: 'struct page' in [kernel.kallsyms] (480 samples):
event[0] = cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=4/P
event[1] = cpu/mem-stores/P
event[2] = dummy:u
===================================================================================
samples offset size field
447 33 0 0 64 struct page {
108 8 0 0 8 long unsigned int flags;
319 13 0 8 40 union {
319 13 0 8 40 struct {
236 2 0 8 16 union {
236 2 0 8 16 struct list_head lru {
236 1 0 8 8 struct list_head* next;
0 1 0 16 8 struct list_head* prev;
};
236 2 0 8 16 struct {
236 1 0 8 8 void* __filler;
0 1 0 16 4 unsigned int mlock_count;
};
236 2 0 8 16 struct list_head buddy_list {
236 1 0 8 8 struct list_head* next;
0 1 0 16 8 struct list_head* prev;
};
236 2 0 8 16 struct list_head pcp_list {
236 1 0 8 8 struct list_head* next;
0 1 0 16 8 struct list_head* prev;
};
};
82 4 0 24 8 struct address_space* mapping;
1 7 0 32 8 union {
1 7 0 32 8 long unsigned int index;
1 7 0 32 8 long unsigned int share;
};
0 0 0 40 8 long unsigned int private;
};
This uses the existing annotate code, calling objdump to do the
disassembly, with improvements to avoid having this take too long,
but longer term a switch to a disassembler library, possibly
reusing code in the kernel will be pursued.
This is the initial implementation, please use it and report
impressions and bugs. Make sure the kernel-debuginfo packages match
the running kernel. The 'perf report' phase for non short perf.data
files may take a while.
There is a great article about it on LWN:
https://lwn.net/Articles/955709/ - "Data-type profiling for perf"
One last test I did while writing this text, on a AMD Ryzen 5950X,
using a distro kernel, while doing a simple 'find /' on an
otherwise idle system resulted in:
# uname -r
6.6.9-100.fc38.x86_64
# perf -vv | grep BPF_
bpf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT
bpf_skeletons: [ on ] # HAVE_BPF_SKEL
# rpm -qa | grep kernel-debuginfo
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-6.6.9-100.fc38.x86_64
kernel-debuginfo-6.6.9-100.fc38.x86_64
#
# perf mem record -a --filter 'mem_op == load || mem_op == store, ip > 0x8000000000000000'
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.199 MB perf.data (2913 samples) ]
#
# ls -la perf.data
-rw-------. 1 root root 2346486 Jan 9 18:36 perf.data
# perf evlist
ibs_op//
dummy:u
# perf evlist -v
ibs_op//: type: 11, size: 136, config: 0, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ADDR|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER|DATA_SRC|WEIGHT, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, freq: 1, sample_id_all: 1
dummy:u: type: 1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE), size: 136, config: 0x9 (PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY), { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ADDR|CPU|IDENTIFIER|DATA_SRC|WEIGHT, read_format: ID, inherit: 1, exclude_kernel: 1, exclude_hv: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, task: 1, mmap_data: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1
#
# perf report -s type,typeoff --hierarchy --group --stdio
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 2K of events 'ibs_op//, dummy:u'
# Event count (approx.): 1904553038
#
# Overhead Data Type / Data Type Offset
# ................... ............................
#
73.70% 0.00% (unknown)
73.70% 0.00% (unknown) +0 (no field)
3.01% 0.00% long unsigned int
3.00% 0.00% long unsigned int +0 (no field)
0.01% 0.00% long unsigned int +2 (no field)
2.73% 0.00% struct task_struct
1.71% 0.00% struct task_struct +52 (on_cpu)
0.38% 0.00% struct task_struct +2104 (rcu_read_unlock_special.b.blocked)
0.23% 0.00% struct task_struct +2100 (rcu_read_lock_nesting)
0.14% 0.00% struct task_struct +2384 ()
0.06% 0.00% struct task_struct +3096 (signal)
0.05% 0.00% struct task_struct +3616 (cgroups)
0.05% 0.00% struct task_struct +2344 (active_mm)
0.02% 0.00% struct task_struct +46 (flags)
0.02% 0.00% struct task_struct +2096 (migration_disabled)
0.01% 0.00% struct task_struct +24 (__state)
0.01% 0.00% struct task_struct +3956 (mm_cid_active)
0.01% 0.00% struct task_struct +1048 (cpus_ptr)
0.01% 0.00% struct task_struct +184 (se.group_node.next)
0.01% 0.00% struct task_struct +20 (thread_info.cpu)
0.00% 0.00% struct task_struct +104 (on_rq)
0.00% 0.00% struct task_struct +2456 (pid)
1.36% 0.00% struct module
0.59% 0.00% struct module +952 (kallsyms)
0.42% 0.00% struct module +0 (state)
0.23% 0.00% struct module +8 (list.next)
0.12% 0.00% struct module +216 (syms)
0.95% 0.00% struct inode
0.41% 0.00% struct inode +40 (i_sb)
0.22% 0.00% struct inode +0 (i_mode)
0.06% 0.00% struct inode +76 (i_rdev)
0.06% 0.00% struct inode +56 (i_security)
<SNIP>
perf top/report:
- Don't ignore job control, allowing control+Z + bg to work.
- Add s390 raw data interpretation for PAI (Processor Activity
Instrumentation) counters.
perf archive:
- Add new option '--all' to pack perf.data with DSOs.
- Add new option '--unpack' to expand tarballs.
Initialization speedups:
- Lazily initialize zstd streams to save memory when not using it.
- Lazily allocate/size mmap event copy.
- Lazy load kernel symbols in 'perf record'.
- Be lazier in allocating lost samples buffer in 'perf record'.
- Don't synthesize BPF events when disabled via the command line
(perf record --no-bpf-event).
Assorted improvements:
- Show note on AMD systems that the :p, :pp, :ppp and :P are all the
same, as IBS (Instruction Based Sampling) is used and it is
inherentely precise, not having levels of precision like in Intel
systems.
- When 'cycles' isn't available, fall back to the "task-clock" event
when not system wide, not to 'cpu-clock'.
- Add --debug-file option to redirect debug output, e.g.:
$ perf --debug-file /tmp/perf.log record -v true
- Shrink 'struct map' to under one cacheline by avoiding function
pointers for selecting if addresses are identity or DSO relative,
and using just a byte for some boolean struct members.
- Resolve the arch specific strerrno just once to use in
perf_env__arch_strerrno().
- Reduce memory for recording PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES event.
Assorted fixes:
- Fix the default 'perf top' usage on Intel hybrid systems, now it
starts with a browser showing the number of samples for Efficiency
(cpu_atom/cycles/P) and Performance (cpu_core/cycles/P). This
behaviour is similar on ARM64, with its respective set of
big.LITTLE processors.
- Fix segfault on build_mem_topology() error path.
- Fix 'perf mem' error on hybrid related to availability of mem event
in a PMU.
- Fix missing reference count gets (map, maps) in the db-export code.
- Avoid recursively taking env->bpf_progs.lock in the 'perf_env'
code.
- Use the newly introduced maps__for_each_map() to add missing
locking around iteration of 'struct map' entries.
- Parse NOTE segments until the build id is found, don't stop on the
first one, ELF files may have several such NOTE segments.
- Remove 'egrep' usage, its deprecated, use 'grep -E' instead.
- Warn first about missing libelf, not libbpf, that depends on
libelf.
- Use alternative to 'find ... -printf' as this isn't supported in
busybox.
- Address python 3.6 DeprecationWarning for string scapes.
- Fix memory leak in uniq() in libsubcmd.
- Fix man page formatting for 'perf lock'
- Fix some spelling mistakes.
perf tests:
- Fail shell tests that needs some symbol in perf itself if it is
stripped. These tests check if a symbol is resolved, if some hot
function is indeed detected by profiling, etc.
- The 'perf test sigtrap' test is currently failing on PREEMPT_RT,
skip it if sleeping spinlocks are detected (using BTF) and point to
the mailing list discussion about it. This test is also being
skipped on several architectures (powerpc, s390x, arm and aarch64)
due to other pending issues with intruction breakpoints.
- Adjust test case perf record offcpu profiling tests for s390.
- Fix 'Setup struct perf_event_attr' fails on s390 on z/VM guest,
addressing issues caused by the fallback from cycles to task-clock
done in this release.
- Fix mask for VG register in the user-regs test.
- Use shellcheck on 'perf test' shell scripts automatically to make
sure changes don't introduce things it flags as problematic.
- Add option to change objdump binary and allow it to be set via
'perf config'.
- Add basic 'perf script', 'perf list --json" and 'perf diff' tests.
- Basic branch counter support.
- Make DSO tests a suite rather than individual.
- Remove atomics from test_loop to avoid test failures.
- Fix call chain match on powerpc for the record+probe_libc_inet_pton
test.
- Improve Intel hybrid tests.
Vendor event files (JSON):
powerpc:
- Update datasource event name to fix duplicate events on IBM's
Power10.
- Add PVN for HX-C2000 CPU with Power8 Architecture.
Intel:
- Alderlake/rocketlake metric fixes.
- Update emeraldrapids events to v1.02.
- Update icelakex events to v1.23.
- Update sapphirerapids events to v1.17.
- Add skx, clx, icx and spr upi bandwidth metric.
AMD:
- Add Zen 4 memory controller events.
RISC-V:
- Add StarFive Dubhe-80 and Dubhe-90 JSON files.
https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/cpu-u
- Add T-HEAD C9xx JSON file.
https://github.com/riscv-software-src/opensbi/blob/master/docs/platform/thead-c9xx.md
ARM64:
- Remove UTF-8 characters from cmn.json, that were causing build
failure in some distros.
- Add core PMU events and metrics for Ampere One X.
- Rename Ampere One's BPU_FLUSH_MEM_FAULT to GPC_FLUSH_MEM_FAULT
libperf:
- Rename several perf_cpu_map constructor names to clarify what they
really do.
- Ditto for some other methods, coping with some issues in their
semantics, like perf_cpu_map__empty() ->
perf_cpu_map__has_any_cpu_or_is_empty().
- Document perf_cpu_map__nr()'s behavior
perf stat:
- Exit if parse groups fails.
- Combine the -A/--no-aggr and --no-merge options.
- Fix help message for --metric-no-threshold option.
Hardware tracing:
ARM64 CoreSight:
- Bump minimum OpenCSD version to ensure a bugfix is present.
- Add 'T' itrace option for timestamp trace
- Set start vm addr of exectable file to 0 and don't ignore first
sample on the arm-cs-trace-disasm.py 'perf script'"
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.8-1-2024-01-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (179 commits)
MAINTAINERS: Add Namhyung as tools/perf/ co-maintainer
perf test: test case 'Setup struct perf_event_attr' fails on s390 on z/vm
perf db-export: Fix missing reference count get in call_path_from_sample()
perf tests: Add perf script test
libsubcmd: Fix memory leak in uniq()
perf TUI: Don't ignore job control
perf vendor events intel: Update sapphirerapids events to v1.17
perf vendor events intel: Update icelakex events to v1.23
perf vendor events intel: Update emeraldrapids events to v1.02
perf vendor events intel: Alderlake/rocketlake metric fixes
perf x86 test: Add hybrid test for conflicting legacy/sysfs event
perf x86 test: Update hybrid expectations
perf vendor events amd: Add Zen 4 memory controller events
perf stat: Fix hard coded LL miss units
perf record: Reduce memory for recording PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES event
perf env: Avoid recursively taking env->bpf_progs.lock
perf annotate: Add --insn-stat option for debugging
perf annotate: Add --type-stat option for debugging
perf annotate: Support event group display
perf annotate: Add --data-type option
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