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<title>perf tools: Fix build with ARCH=x86_64</title>
<updated>2017-06-14T18:44:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiada Wang</name>
<email>jiada_wang@mentor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-10T03:02:37+00:00</published>
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With commit: 0a943cb10ce78 (tools build: Add HOSTARCH Makefile variable)
when building for ARCH=x86_64, ARCH=x86_64 is passed to perf instead of
ARCH=x86, so the perf build process searchs header files from
tools/arch/x86_64/include, which doesn't exist.

The following build failure is seen:

  In file included from util/event.c:2:0:
    tools/include/uapi/linux/mman.h:4:27: fatal error: uapi/asm/mman.h: No such file or directory
    compilation terminated.

Fix this issue by using SRCARCH instead of ARCH in perf, just like the
main kernel Makefile and tools/objtool's.

Signed-off-by: Jiada Wang &lt;jiada_wang@mentor.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Eugeniu Rosca &lt;erosca@de.adit-jv.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rui Teng &lt;rui.teng@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: 0a943cb10ce7 ("tools build: Add HOSTARCH Makefile variable")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491793357-14977-2-git-send-email-jiada_wang@mentor.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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With commit: 0a943cb10ce78 (tools build: Add HOSTARCH Makefile variable)
when building for ARCH=x86_64, ARCH=x86_64 is passed to perf instead of
ARCH=x86, so the perf build process searchs header files from
tools/arch/x86_64/include, which doesn't exist.

The following build failure is seen:

  In file included from util/event.c:2:0:
    tools/include/uapi/linux/mman.h:4:27: fatal error: uapi/asm/mman.h: No such file or directory
    compilation terminated.

Fix this issue by using SRCARCH instead of ARCH in perf, just like the
main kernel Makefile and tools/objtool's.

Signed-off-by: Jiada Wang &lt;jiada_wang@mentor.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Eugeniu Rosca &lt;erosca@de.adit-jv.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rui Teng &lt;rui.teng@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: 0a943cb10ce7 ("tools build: Add HOSTARCH Makefile variable")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491793357-14977-2-git-send-email-jiada_wang@mentor.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>perf evsel: Fix probing of precise_ip level for default cycles event</title>
<updated>2017-06-14T18:44:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-09T19:54:28+00:00</published>
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Since commit 18e7a45af91a ("perf/x86: Reject non sampling events with
precise_ip") returns -EINVAL for sys_perf_event_open() with an attribute
with (attr.precise_ip &gt; 0 &amp;&amp; attr.sample_period == 0), just like is done
in the routine used to probe the max precise level when no events were
passed to 'perf record' or 'perf top', i.e.:

	perf_evsel__new_cycles()
		perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip()

The x86 code, in x86_pmu_hw_config(), which is called all the way from
sys_perf_event_open() did, starting with the aforementioned commit:

                /* There's no sense in having PEBS for non sampling events: */
                if (!is_sampling_event(event))
                        return -EINVAL;

Which makes it fail for cycles:ppp, cycles:pp and cycles:p, always using
just the non precise cycles variant.

To make sure that this is the case, I tested it, before this patch,
with:

  # perf probe -L x86_pmu_hw_config
  &lt;x86_pmu_hw_config@/home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/events/core.c:0&gt;
        0  int x86_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event *event)
        1  {
        2         if (event-&gt;attr.precise_ip) {
&lt;SNIP&gt;
       17                 if (event-&gt;attr.precise_ip &gt; precise)
       18                         return -EOPNOTSUPP;

                          /* There's no sense in having PEBS for non sampling events: */
       21                 if (!is_sampling_event(event))
       22                         return -EINVAL;
                  }
&lt;SNIP&gt;
  # perf probe x86_pmu_hw_config:22
  Added new events:
    probe:x86_pmu_hw_config (on x86_pmu_hw_config:22)
    probe:x86_pmu_hw_config_1 (on x86_pmu_hw_config:22)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

        perf record -e probe:x86_pmu_hw_config_1 -aR sleep 1

  # perf trace -e perf_event_open,probe:x86_pmu_hwconfig*/max-stack=16/ perf record usleep 1
     0.000 ( 0.015 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffebc8ba110, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1      ) ...
     0.015 (         ): probe:x86_pmu_hw_config:(ffffffff9c0065e1))
                                       x86_pmu_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       hsw_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       x86_pmu_event_init ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       perf_try_init_event ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       perf_event_alloc ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       SYSC_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       sys_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       return_from_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       perf_evsel__new_cycles (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       perf_evlist__add_default (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       run_builtin (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       handle_internal_command (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.000 ( 0.021 ms): perf/4150  ... [continued]: perf_event_open()) = -1 EINVAL Invalid argument
     0.023 ( 0.002 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffebc8ba110, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1      ) ...
     0.025 (         ): probe:x86_pmu_hw_config:(ffffffff9c0065e1))
                                       x86_pmu_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       hsw_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       x86_pmu_event_init ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       perf_try_init_event ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       perf_event_alloc ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       SYSC_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       sys_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       return_from_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       perf_evsel__new_cycles (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       perf_evlist__add_default (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       run_builtin (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       handle_internal_command (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.023 ( 0.004 ms): perf/4150  ... [continued]: perf_event_open()) = -1 EINVAL Invalid argument
     0.028 ( 0.002 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffebc8ba110, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1      ) ...
     0.030 (         ): probe:x86_pmu_hw_config:(ffffffff9c0065e1))
                                       x86_pmu_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       hsw_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       x86_pmu_event_init ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       perf_try_init_event ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       perf_event_alloc ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       SYSC_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       sys_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       return_from_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       perf_evsel__new_cycles (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       perf_evlist__add_default (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       run_builtin (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       handle_internal_command (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.028 ( 0.004 ms): perf/4150  ... [continued]: perf_event_open()) = -1 EINVAL Invalid argument
    41.018 ( 0.012 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffebc8b5dd0, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
    41.065 ( 0.011 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c7db78, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
    41.080 ( 0.006 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c7db78, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
    41.103 ( 0.010 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c4e748, pid: 4151 (perf), group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
    41.115 ( 0.006 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c4e748, pid: 4151 (perf), cpu: 1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 5
    41.122 ( 0.004 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c4e748, pid: 4151 (perf), cpu: 2, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 6
    41.128 ( 0.008 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c4e748, pid: 4151 (perf), cpu: 3, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 8
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.017 MB perf.data (2 samples) ]
  #

I.e. that return -EINVAL in x86_pmu_hw_config() is hit three times.

So fix it by just setting attr.sample_period

Now, after this patch:

  # perf trace --max-stack=2 -e perf_event_open,probe:x86_pmu_hw_config* perf record usleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
     0.000 ( 0.017 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffe36c27d10, pid: -1, cpu: 3, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_event_open_cloexec_flag (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.050 ( 0.031 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24ebb78, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_evlist__config (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.092 ( 0.040 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24ebb78, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_evlist__config (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.143 ( 0.007 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1           ) = 4
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.161 ( 0.007 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, pid: 8470 (perf), group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_evsel__open (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.171 ( 0.005 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, pid: 8470 (perf), cpu: 1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 5
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_evsel__open (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.180 ( 0.007 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, pid: 8470 (perf), cpu: 2, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 6
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_evsel__open (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.190 ( 0.005 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, pid: 8470 (perf), cpu: 3, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 8
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_evsel__open (/home/acme/bin/perf)
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.017 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
  #

The probe one called from perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip() works
the first time, with attr.precise_ip = 3, wit hthe next ones being the
per cpu ones for the cycles:ppp event.

And here is the text from a report and alternative proposed patch by
Thomas-Mich Richter:

 ---

On s390 the counter and sampling facility do not support a precise IP
skid level and sometimes returns EOPNOTSUPP when structure member
precise_ip in struct perf_event_attr is not set to zero.

On s390 commnd 'perf record -- true' fails with error EOPNOTSUPP.  This
happens only when no events are specified on command line.

The functions called are
...
  --&gt; perf_evlist__add_default
      --&gt; perf_evsel__new_cycles
          --&gt; perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip

The last function determines the value of structure member precise_ip by
invoking the perf_event_open() system call and checking the return code.
The first successful open is the value for precise_ip.

However the value is determined without setting member sample_period and
indicates no sampling.

On s390 the counter facility and sampling facility are different.  The
above procedure determines a precise_ip value of 3 using the counter
facility. Later it uses the sampling facility with a value of 3 and
fails with EOPNOTSUPP.

 ---

v2: Older compilers (e.g. gcc 4.4.7) don't support referencing members
    of unnamed union members in the container struct initialization, so
    move from:

	struct perf_event_attr attr = {
		...
		.sample_period = 1,
	};

to right after it as:

	struct perf_event_attr attr = {
		...
	};

	attr.sample_period = 1;

v3: We need to reset .sample_period to 0 to let the users of
perf_evsel__new_cycles() to properly setup attr.sample_period or
attr.sample_freq. Reported by Ingo Molnar.

Reported-and-Acked-by: Thomas-Mich Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: 18e7a45af91a ("perf/x86: Reject non sampling events with precise_ip")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yv6nnkl7tzqocrm0hl3x7vf1@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Since commit 18e7a45af91a ("perf/x86: Reject non sampling events with
precise_ip") returns -EINVAL for sys_perf_event_open() with an attribute
with (attr.precise_ip &gt; 0 &amp;&amp; attr.sample_period == 0), just like is done
in the routine used to probe the max precise level when no events were
passed to 'perf record' or 'perf top', i.e.:

	perf_evsel__new_cycles()
		perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip()

The x86 code, in x86_pmu_hw_config(), which is called all the way from
sys_perf_event_open() did, starting with the aforementioned commit:

                /* There's no sense in having PEBS for non sampling events: */
                if (!is_sampling_event(event))
                        return -EINVAL;

Which makes it fail for cycles:ppp, cycles:pp and cycles:p, always using
just the non precise cycles variant.

To make sure that this is the case, I tested it, before this patch,
with:

  # perf probe -L x86_pmu_hw_config
  &lt;x86_pmu_hw_config@/home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/events/core.c:0&gt;
        0  int x86_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event *event)
        1  {
        2         if (event-&gt;attr.precise_ip) {
&lt;SNIP&gt;
       17                 if (event-&gt;attr.precise_ip &gt; precise)
       18                         return -EOPNOTSUPP;

                          /* There's no sense in having PEBS for non sampling events: */
       21                 if (!is_sampling_event(event))
       22                         return -EINVAL;
                  }
&lt;SNIP&gt;
  # perf probe x86_pmu_hw_config:22
  Added new events:
    probe:x86_pmu_hw_config (on x86_pmu_hw_config:22)
    probe:x86_pmu_hw_config_1 (on x86_pmu_hw_config:22)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

        perf record -e probe:x86_pmu_hw_config_1 -aR sleep 1

  # perf trace -e perf_event_open,probe:x86_pmu_hwconfig*/max-stack=16/ perf record usleep 1
     0.000 ( 0.015 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffebc8ba110, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1      ) ...
     0.015 (         ): probe:x86_pmu_hw_config:(ffffffff9c0065e1))
                                       x86_pmu_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       hsw_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       x86_pmu_event_init ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       perf_try_init_event ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       perf_event_alloc ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       SYSC_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       sys_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       return_from_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       perf_evsel__new_cycles (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       perf_evlist__add_default (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       run_builtin (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       handle_internal_command (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.000 ( 0.021 ms): perf/4150  ... [continued]: perf_event_open()) = -1 EINVAL Invalid argument
     0.023 ( 0.002 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffebc8ba110, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1      ) ...
     0.025 (         ): probe:x86_pmu_hw_config:(ffffffff9c0065e1))
                                       x86_pmu_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       hsw_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       x86_pmu_event_init ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       perf_try_init_event ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       perf_event_alloc ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       SYSC_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       sys_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       return_from_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       perf_evsel__new_cycles (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       perf_evlist__add_default (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       run_builtin (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       handle_internal_command (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.023 ( 0.004 ms): perf/4150  ... [continued]: perf_event_open()) = -1 EINVAL Invalid argument
     0.028 ( 0.002 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffebc8ba110, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1      ) ...
     0.030 (         ): probe:x86_pmu_hw_config:(ffffffff9c0065e1))
                                       x86_pmu_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       hsw_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       x86_pmu_event_init ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       perf_try_init_event ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       perf_event_alloc ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       SYSC_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       sys_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       return_from_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       perf_evsel__new_cycles (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       perf_evlist__add_default (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       run_builtin (/home/acme/bin/perf)
                                       handle_internal_command (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.028 ( 0.004 ms): perf/4150  ... [continued]: perf_event_open()) = -1 EINVAL Invalid argument
    41.018 ( 0.012 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffebc8b5dd0, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
    41.065 ( 0.011 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c7db78, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
    41.080 ( 0.006 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c7db78, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
    41.103 ( 0.010 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c4e748, pid: 4151 (perf), group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
    41.115 ( 0.006 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c4e748, pid: 4151 (perf), cpu: 1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 5
    41.122 ( 0.004 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c4e748, pid: 4151 (perf), cpu: 2, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 6
    41.128 ( 0.008 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c4e748, pid: 4151 (perf), cpu: 3, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 8
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.017 MB perf.data (2 samples) ]
  #

I.e. that return -EINVAL in x86_pmu_hw_config() is hit three times.

So fix it by just setting attr.sample_period

Now, after this patch:

  # perf trace --max-stack=2 -e perf_event_open,probe:x86_pmu_hw_config* perf record usleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
     0.000 ( 0.017 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffe36c27d10, pid: -1, cpu: 3, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_event_open_cloexec_flag (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.050 ( 0.031 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24ebb78, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_evlist__config (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.092 ( 0.040 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24ebb78, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_evlist__config (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.143 ( 0.007 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1           ) = 4
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.161 ( 0.007 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, pid: 8470 (perf), group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_evsel__open (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.171 ( 0.005 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, pid: 8470 (perf), cpu: 1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 5
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_evsel__open (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.180 ( 0.007 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, pid: 8470 (perf), cpu: 2, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 6
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_evsel__open (/home/acme/bin/perf)
     0.190 ( 0.005 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, pid: 8470 (perf), cpu: 3, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 8
                                       syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
                                       perf_evsel__open (/home/acme/bin/perf)
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.017 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
  #

The probe one called from perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip() works
the first time, with attr.precise_ip = 3, wit hthe next ones being the
per cpu ones for the cycles:ppp event.

And here is the text from a report and alternative proposed patch by
Thomas-Mich Richter:

 ---

On s390 the counter and sampling facility do not support a precise IP
skid level and sometimes returns EOPNOTSUPP when structure member
precise_ip in struct perf_event_attr is not set to zero.

On s390 commnd 'perf record -- true' fails with error EOPNOTSUPP.  This
happens only when no events are specified on command line.

The functions called are
...
  --&gt; perf_evlist__add_default
      --&gt; perf_evsel__new_cycles
          --&gt; perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip

The last function determines the value of structure member precise_ip by
invoking the perf_event_open() system call and checking the return code.
The first successful open is the value for precise_ip.

However the value is determined without setting member sample_period and
indicates no sampling.

On s390 the counter facility and sampling facility are different.  The
above procedure determines a precise_ip value of 3 using the counter
facility. Later it uses the sampling facility with a value of 3 and
fails with EOPNOTSUPP.

 ---

v2: Older compilers (e.g. gcc 4.4.7) don't support referencing members
    of unnamed union members in the container struct initialization, so
    move from:

	struct perf_event_attr attr = {
		...
		.sample_period = 1,
	};

to right after it as:

	struct perf_event_attr attr = {
		...
	};

	attr.sample_period = 1;

v3: We need to reset .sample_period to 0 to let the users of
perf_evsel__new_cycles() to properly setup attr.sample_period or
attr.sample_freq. Reported by Ingo Molnar.

Reported-and-Acked-by: Thomas-Mich Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: 18e7a45af91a ("perf/x86: Reject non sampling events with precise_ip")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yv6nnkl7tzqocrm0hl3x7vf1@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tests: Decompress kernel module before objdump</title>
<updated>2017-06-08T18:39:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-08T07:31:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=94df1040b1e6aacd8dec0ba3c61d7e77cd695f26'/>
<id>94df1040b1e6aacd8dec0ba3c61d7e77cd695f26</id>
<content type='text'>
If a kernel modules is compressed, it should be decompressed before
running objdump to parse binary data correctly.  This fixes a failure of
object code reading test for me.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170608073109.30699-8-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
If a kernel modules is compressed, it should be decompressed before
running objdump to parse binary data correctly.  This fixes a failure of
object code reading test for me.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170608073109.30699-8-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf test: Disable breakpoint signal tests for powerpc</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T17:18:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-01T20:54:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=598762cf91532e6e86dd21199b5e7f803df73f49'/>
<id>598762cf91532e6e86dd21199b5e7f803df73f49</id>
<content type='text'>
The following tests are failing on powerpc:

  # perf test break
  18: Breakpoint overflow signal handler  : FAILED!
  19: Breakpoint overflow sampling        : FAILED!

The powerpc kenel so far does not have support to even create
instruction breakpoints using the perf event interface, so those tests
fail early in the config phase.

I added a '-&gt;is_supported()' callback to test struct to be able to
disable specific tests. It seems better than putting ifdefs directly to
the test array.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170601205450.GA398@krava
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
The following tests are failing on powerpc:

  # perf test break
  18: Breakpoint overflow signal handler  : FAILED!
  19: Breakpoint overflow sampling        : FAILED!

The powerpc kenel so far does not have support to even create
instruction breakpoints using the perf event interface, so those tests
fail early in the config phase.

I added a '-&gt;is_supported()' callback to test struct to be able to
disable specific tests. It seems better than putting ifdefs directly to
the test array.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170601205450.GA398@krava
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tests kmod-path: Don't fail if compressed modules aren't supported</title>
<updated>2017-05-04T13:05:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kim Phillips</name>
<email>kim.phillips@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T12:14:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=805b151a1afd24414706a7f6ae275fbb9649be74'/>
<id>805b151a1afd24414706a7f6ae275fbb9649be74</id>
<content type='text'>
__kmod_path__parse() uses is_supported_compression() to determine and
parse out compressed module file extensions.  On systems without zlib,
this test fails and __kmod_path__parse() continues to strcmp "ko" with
"gz".  Don't do this on those systems.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 3c8a67f50a1e ("perf tools: Add kmod_path__parse function")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131402.c66e314460026c80cd787b34@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
__kmod_path__parse() uses is_supported_compression() to determine and
parse out compressed module file extensions.  On systems without zlib,
this test fails and __kmod_path__parse() continues to strcmp "ko" with
"gz".  Don't do this on those systems.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 3c8a67f50a1e ("perf tools: Add kmod_path__parse function")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131402.c66e314460026c80cd787b34@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Move event prototypes from util.h to event.h</title>
<updated>2017-04-25T18:30:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-25T18:30:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5ab8c689f7c0c97e98b8014b7f0ede386bef5aaf'/>
<id>5ab8c689f7c0c97e98b8014b7f0ede386bef5aaf</id>
<content type='text'>
More needs to be done to have the actual functions and variables in a
smaller .c file that can then be included in the python binding,
avoiding dragging more stuff into it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uecxz7cqkssouj7tlxrkqpl4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
More needs to be done to have the actual functions and variables in a
smaller .c file that can then be included in the python binding,
avoiding dragging more stuff into it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uecxz7cqkssouj7tlxrkqpl4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf buildid: Move prototypes from util.h to build-id.h</title>
<updated>2017-04-25T14:45:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-25T14:45:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6db81643fe41f51cf9f6fd10558b8b323d9198ba'/>
<id>6db81643fe41f51cf9f6fd10558b8b323d9198ba</id>
<content type='text'>
Where they belong.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-94m3dziejxgo7k0488q3mqjm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Where they belong.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-94m3dziejxgo7k0488q3mqjm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Remove poll.h and wait.h from util.h</title>
<updated>2017-04-24T16:43:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-19T22:06:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4208735d8de58f1cbc2e0009d87514ce06681e5a'/>
<id>4208735d8de58f1cbc2e0009d87514ce06681e5a</id>
<content type='text'>
Not needed in this header, added to the places that need poll(), wait()
and a few other prototypes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-i39c7b6xmo1vwd9wxp6fmkl0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Not needed in this header, added to the places that need poll(), wait()
and a few other prototypes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-i39c7b6xmo1vwd9wxp6fmkl0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Remove string.h, unistd.h and sys/stat.h from util.h</title>
<updated>2017-04-24T16:43:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-19T23:57:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7a8ef4c4b5fd5c578da4dadbcb1c5da650426c74'/>
<id>7a8ef4c4b5fd5c578da4dadbcb1c5da650426c74</id>
<content type='text'>
Not needed in this header, added to the places that need FILE,
putchar(), access() and a few other prototypes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xxtdsl6nsna82j7puwbdjqhs@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Not needed in this header, added to the places that need FILE,
putchar(), access() and a few other prototypes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xxtdsl6nsna82j7puwbdjqhs@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Include sys/param.h where needed</title>
<updated>2017-04-24T16:43:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-19T21:51:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=391e42060098a743a87380ed02bf4c8126742b04'/>
<id>391e42060098a743a87380ed02bf4c8126742b04</id>
<content type='text'>
As it is going away from util.h, where it is not needed.

This is mostly for things like MAXPATHLEN, MAX() and MIN(), these later
two probably should go away in favor of its kernel sources replacements.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z1666f3fl3fqobxvjr5o2r39@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
As it is going away from util.h, where it is not needed.

This is mostly for things like MAXPATHLEN, MAX() and MIN(), these later
two probably should go away in favor of its kernel sources replacements.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z1666f3fl3fqobxvjr5o2r39@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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