linux-stable.git/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c, branch linux-3.7.y

perf: Make perf build for x86 with UAPI disintegration applied

2012-11-19T22:21:03+00:00

Make perf build for x86 once the UAPI disintegration patches for that arch
have been applied by adding the appropriate -I flags - in the right order -
and then converting some #includes that use ../.. notation to find main kernel
headerfiles to use  and  instead.

Note that -Iarch/foo/include/uapi is present _before_ -Iarch/foo/include.
This makes sure we get the userspace version of the pt_regs struct.  Ideally,
we wouldn't have the latter -I flag at all, but unfortunately we want
asm/svm.h and asm/vmx.h in builtin-kvm.c and these aren't part of the UAPI -
at least not for x86.  I wonder if the bits outside of the __KERNEL__ guards
*should* be transferred there.

I note also that perf seems to do its dependency handling manually by listing
all the header files it might want to use in LIB_H in the Makefile.  Can this
be changed to use -MD?

Note that to do make this work, we need to export and UAPI disintegrate
linux/hw_breakpoint.h, which I think should've been exported previously so that
perf can access the bits.  We have to do this in the same patch to maintain
bisectability.

Signed-off-by: David Howells

perf tool: Precise mode requires exclude_guest

2012-10-16T15:43:31+00:00

Summary of events per Peter:

  "Intel PEBS in VT-x context uses the DS address as a guest linear address,
  even though its programmed by the host as a host linear address. This
  either results in guest memory corruption and or the hardware faulting and
  'crashing' the virtual machine.  Therefore we have to disable PEBS on VT-x
  enter and re-enable on VT-x exit, enforcing a strict exclude_guest.

  AMB IBS does work but doesn't currently support exclude_* at all,
  setting an exclude_* bit will make it fail."

This patch handles userspace perf command, setting the exclude_guest
attribute if precise mode is requested, but only if a user has not
specified a request for guest or host only profiling (G or H attribute).

Kernel side AMD currently ignores all exclude_* bits, so there is no impact
to existing IBS code paths. Robert Richter has a patch where IBS code will
return EINVAL if an exclude_* bit is set. When this goes in it means use
of :p on AMD with IBS will first fail with EINVAL (because exclude_guest
will be set). Then the existing fallback code within perf will unset
exclude_guest and try again. The second attempt will succeed if the CPU
supports IBS profiling.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Robert Richter 
Tested-by: Robert Richter 
Reviewed-by: Robert Richter 
Cc: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Gleb Natapov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347569955-54626-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use perf_evsel__newtp in the event parser

2012-09-26T21:29:19+00:00

Elliminating code duplication.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9v4zl7ldlp8v6azrpsu5lupk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf stat: Check PMU cpumask file

2012-09-17T16:12:02+00:00

If user doesn't explicitly specify CPU list, perf-stat only collects
events on CPUs listed in the PMU cpumask file.

Signed-off-by: "Yah, Zheng" 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347263631-23175-3-git-send-email-zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use __maybe_used for unused variables

2012-09-11T15:19:15+00:00

perf defines both __used and __unused variables to use for marking
unused variables. The variable __used is defined to
__attribute__((__unused__)), which contradicts the kernel definition to
__attribute__((__used__)) for new gcc versions. On Android, __used is
also defined in system headers and this leads to warnings like: warning:
'__used__' attribute ignored

__unused is not defined in the kernel and is not a standard definition.
If __unused is included everywhere instead of __used, this leads to
conflicts with glibc headers, since glibc has a variables with this name
in its headers.

The best approach is to use __maybe_unused, the definition used in the
kernel for __attribute__((unused)). In this way there is only one
definition in perf sources (instead of 2 definitions that point to the
same thing: __used and __unused) and it works on both Linux and Android.
This patch simply replaces all instances of __used and __unused with
__maybe_unused.

Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347315303-29906-7-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@intel.com
[ committer note: fixed up conflict with a116e05 in builtin-sched.c ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix cache event name generation

2012-09-06T18:01:08+00:00

If the event name is specified with all 3 components, the last one
overwrites the previous one during the name composing within the
parse_events_add_cache function.

Fixing this by properly adjusting the string index.

Reported-by: Joel Uckelman 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Joel Uckelman 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
LPU-Reference: 20120905175133.GA18352@krava.brq.redhat.com
[ committer note: Remove the newline fix, done already in 42e1fb7 ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove extraneous newline when parsing hardware cache events

2012-09-06T17:43:28+00:00

Noticed while developing a 'perf test' entry to verify that
perf_evsel__name works.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xz6zgh38mp3cjnd2udh38z8f@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Catch event names from command line

2012-08-22T16:40:49+00:00

Use command line string provided by the -e option to name events. This
way we get unique events names that also support pmu event syntax
(//). No need to reconstruct the name
anymore from its attributes. We use the event_desc of the header to
store the name in the perf.data header. Thus it is also available for
perf report.

Implemented by putting the parser in different states to parse events or
configs.

And since event names are now generated from the command line
specification.  Update event names in test cases accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345144224-27280-6-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
[ committer note: Folded patch fixing 'perf test' failure reported by Jiri Olsa ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Introduce evsel list accessors

2012-08-15T13:14:18+00:00

To replace the longer list_entry constructs for things that are widely
used:

	perf_evlist__{first,last}(evlist)
	perf_evsel__next(evsel)

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ng7azq26wg1jd801qqpcozwp@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Rename group method to set_leader

2012-08-15T13:13:56+00:00

Just like was done for parse_events__set_leader.

Also we need to have the list_entry set_leader method in evlist.c so that we
don't grow another dep in the python binding:

 # ~acme/git/linux/tools/perf/python/twatch.py
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf/python/twatch.py", line 16, in 
     import perf
 ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: parse_events__set_leader

And also remove a pr_debug from evsel.c so that we avoid this one too:

 # ~acme/git/linux/tools/perf/python/twatch.py
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf/python/twatch.py", line 16, in 
     import perf
 ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: eprintf

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0hk9dazg9pora9jylkqngovm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo