linux-stable.git/tools/perf/util/Build, branch v5.8

perf tools: Move arm-spe-pkt-decoder.h/c to the new dir

2020-06-01T15:24:23+00:00

Create a new arm-spe-decoder directory for subsequent extensions and
move arm-spe-pkt-decoder.h/c to this directory. No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Tan Xiaojun 
Tested-by: James Clark 
Tested-by: Qi Liu 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Al Grant 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Mathieu Poirier 
Cc: Mike Leach 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200530122442.490-2-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: James Clark 
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add optional support for libpfm4

2020-05-29T19:51:38+00:00

This patch links perf with the libpfm4 library if it is available and
LIBPFM4 is passed to the build. The libpfm4 library contains hardware
event tables for all processors supported by perf_events. It is a helper
library that helps convert from a symbolic event name to the event
encoding required by the underlying kernel interface. This library is
open-source and available from: http://perfmon2.sf.net.

With this patch, it is possible to specify full hardware events by name.
Hardware filters are also supported. Events must be specified via the
--pfm-events and not -e option. Both options are active at the same time
and it is possible to mix and match:

  $ perf stat --pfm-events inst_retired:any_p:c=1:i -e cycles ....

One needs to explicitely ask for its inclusion by using the LIBPFM4 make
command line option, ie its opt-in rather than opt-out of feature
detection and build support.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Alexey Budankov 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Florian Fainelli 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Igor Lubashev 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Jiwei Sun 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Yonghong Song 
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: yuzhoujian 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200505182943.218248-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Grab a copy of libbpf's hashmap

2020-05-28T13:03:26+00:00

Allow use of hashmap in perf. Modify perf's check-headers.sh script to
check that the files are kept in sync, in the same way kernel headers
are checked. This will warn if they are out of sync at the start of a
perf build.

Committer note:

This starts out of synch as a fix went thru the bpf tree, namely the one
removing the needless libbpf_internal.h include in hashmap.h.

There is also another change related to __WORDSIZE, that as is in
tools/lib/bpf/hashmap.h causes the tools/perf/ build to fail in systems
such as Alpine Linus, that uses the Musl libc, so we need an alternative
way of having __WORDSIZE available, use the one used by
tools/include/linux/bitops.h, that builds in all the systems I have
build containers for.

These differences will be resolved at some point, so keep the warning in
check-headers.sh as a reminder.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Cong Wang 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Fastabend 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Kajol Jain 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Kim Phillips 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Song Liu 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Yonghong Song 
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kp singh 
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200515221732.44078-5-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Move the sideband thread routines to separate object

2020-05-05T19:35:29+00:00

To avoid dragging more stuff into the perf python binding in the
following csets.

Reported-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Move routines that probe for perf API features to separate file

2020-05-05T19:35:26+00:00

Trying to disentangle this a bit further, unfortunately it uses
parse_events(), its interesting to have it separated anyway, so do it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf expr: Move expr lexer to flex

2020-03-10T00:43:24+00:00

Adding expr flex code instead of the manual parser code. So it's easily
extensible in upcoming changes.

The new flex code is in flex.l object and gets compiled like all the
other flexers we use.  It's defined as flex reentrant parser.

It's used by both expr__parse and expr__find_other interfaces by
separating the starting point.

There's no intended change of functionality ;-) the test expr is
passing.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Kajol Jain 
Cc: Michael Petlan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ravi Bangoria 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200228093616.67125-3-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf expr: Add expr.c object

2020-03-10T00:43:24+00:00

Add generic expr code into new expr.c object.

The expr.c object will be mainly used in following change that will get
rid of the manual flex code,

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Kajol Jain 
Cc: Michael Petlan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ravi Bangoria 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200228093616.67125-2-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf affinity: Add infrastructure to save/restore affinity

2019-11-28T11:08:38+00:00

The kernel perf subsystem has to IPI to the target CPU for many
operations. On systems with many CPUs and when managing many events the
overhead can be dominated by lots of IPIs.

An alternative is to set up CPU affinity in the perf tool, then set up
all the events for that CPU, and then move on to the next CPU.

Add some affinity management infrastructure to enable such a model.
Used in followon patches.

Committer notes:

Use zfree() in some places, add missing stdbool.h header, some minor
coding style changes.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191121001522.180827-3-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf pmu: Use file system cache to optimize sysfs access

2019-11-28T11:08:38+00:00

pmu.c does a lot of redundant /sys accesses while parsing aliases
and probing for PMUs. On large systems with a lot of PMUs this
can get expensive (>2s):

  % time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
  ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
   27.25    1.227847           8    160888     16976 openat
   26.42    1.190481           7    164224    164077 stat

Add a cache to remember if specific file names exist or don't
exist, which eliminates most of this overhead.

Also optimize some stat() calls to be slightly cheaper access()

Resulting in:

    0.18    0.004166           2      1851       305 open
    0.08    0.001970           2       829       622 access

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191121001522.180827-2-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf block: Cleanup and refactor block info functions

2019-11-07T12:09:18+00:00

We have already implemented some block-info related functions.
Now it's time to do some cleanup, refactoring and move the
functions and structures to new block-info.h/block-info.c.

 v4:
 ---
 Move code for skipping column length calculation to patch:
 'perf diff: Don't use hack to skip column length calculation'

 v3:
 ---
 1. Rename the patch title
 2. Rename from block.h/block.c to block-info.h/block-info.c
 3. Move more common part to block-info, such as
    block_info__process_sym.
 4. Remove the nasty hack for skipping calculation of column
    length

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao 
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191107074719.26139-3-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo