linux-stable.git/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l, branch linux-4.2.y

perf tools: Allow events with dot

2015-06-23T21:21:37+00:00

The Intel events use a dot to separate event name and unit mask.  Allow
dot in names in the scanner, and remove special handling of dot as EOF.
Also remove the hack in jevents to replace dot with underscore. This way
dotted events can be specified directly by the user.

I'm not fully sure this change to the scanner is correct (what was the
dot special case good for?), but I haven't found anything that breaks
with it so far at least.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433921123-25327-8-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add term support for parse_events_error

2015-04-29T13:38:01+00:00

Allowing event's term processing to report back error, like:

  $ perf record -e 'cpu/even=0x1/' ls
  event syntax error: 'cpu/even=0x1/'
                           \___ unknown term

  valid terms: pc,any,inv,edge,cmask,event,in_tx,ldlat,umask,in_tx_cp,offcore_rsp,config,config1,config2,name,period,branch_type

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429729824-13932-7-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
[ Renamed 'error' variables to 'err', not to clash with util.h error() ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add flex support for parse_events_error

2015-04-29T13:37:59+00:00

Allowing flex parser to report back event parsing error, like:

  $ perf record -e cycles,cache-mises ls
  event syntax error: '..es,cache-mises'
                                 \___ parser error
  ...

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429729824-13932-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add 'I' event modifier for exclude_idle bit

2015-04-08T14:00:16+00:00

Adding 'I' event modifier to have complete set of modifiers for
perf_event_attr:exclude_* bits.

Any event specified with 'I' modifier will have the
perf_event_attr:exclude_idle bit set.

  $ perf record -e cycles:I -vv ls 2>&1 | grep exclude_idle
  exclude_hv          0    exclude_idle        1

Adding automated tests.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: William Cohen 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428441919-23099-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: allow user to specify hardware breakpoint bp_len

2014-12-03T14:14:29+00:00

Currently bp_len is given a default value of 4. Allow user to override it:

  $ perf stat -e mem:0x1000/8
                            ^
                            bp_len

If no value is given, it will default to 4 as it did before.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin 
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: xiakaixu 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

perf tools: Add support to new style format of kernel PMU event

2014-10-15T19:05:45+00:00

Add new rules for kernel PMU event.

Currently, the patch only want to handle the PMU event name as "a-b" and
"a".

event_pmu:
PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT sep_dc
|
PE_PMU_EVENT_PRE '-' PE_PMU_EVENT_SUF sep_dc

PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT token is for
cycles-ct/cycles-t/mem-loads/mem-stores.

The prefix cycles is mixed up with cpu-cycles.  loads and stores are
mixed up with cache event So they have to be hardcode in lex.

PE_PMU_EVENT_PRE and PE_PMU_EVENT_SUF tokens are for other PMU events.

The lex looks generic identifier up in the table and return the matched
token. If there is no match, generic PE_NAME token will be return.

Using the rules, kernel PMU event could use new style format without //

so you can use:

  perf record -e mem-loads ...

instead of:

  perf record -e cpu/mem-loads/

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412694532-23391-4-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Move start conditions to start of the flex file

2013-10-11T15:17:31+00:00

Moving start conditions to start of the flex file so it's clear what the
INITIAL condition rules are.

Plus adding default rule for INITIAL condition. This prevents default
space to be printed for events like:

$ ./perf stat -e "cycles        " kill 2>/dev/null
        $
^^^^^^^^

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1380299398-10839-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add support for PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY

2013-09-02T17:58:20+00:00

Add support for the new dummy software event PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377975053-3811-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add support for pinned modifier

2013-08-07T20:35:40+00:00

This commit adds support for a new modifier "D", which requests that the
event, or group of events, be pinned to the PMU.

The "p" modifier is already taken for precise, and "P" may be used in
future to mean "fully precise".

So we use "D", which stands for pinneD - and looks like a padlock, or if
you're using the ":D" syntax perf smiles at you.

This is an oft-requested feature from our HW folks, who want to be able
to run a large number of events, but also want 100% accurate results for
instructions per cycle.

Comparison of results with and without pinning:

$ perf stat -e '{cycles,instructions}:D' -e cycles,instructions,...

  79,590,480,683 cycles         #  0.000 GHz
 166,123,716,524 instructions   #  2.09  insns per cycle
                                #  0.11  stalled cycles per insn

  79,352,134,463 cycles         #  0.000 GHz                     [11.11%]
 165,178,301,818 instructions   #  2.08  insns per cycle
                                #  0.11  stalled cycles per insn [11.13%]

As you can see although perf does a very good job of scaling the values
in the non-pinned case, there is some small discrepancy.

The patch is fairly straight forward, the one detail is that we need to
make sure we only request pinning for the group leader when we have a
group.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375795686-4226-1-git-send-email-michael@ellerman.id.au
[ Use perf_evsel__is_group_leader instead of open coded equivalent, as
  suggested by Jiri Olsa ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add 'S' event/group modifier to read sample value

2013-08-07T20:35:22+00:00

Adding 'S' event/group modifier to specify that the event value/s are
read by PERF_SAMPLE_READ sample type processing, instead of the period
value offered by lower layers.

There's additional behaviour change for 'S' modifier being specified on
event group:

Currently all the events within a group makes samples. If user now
specifies 'S' within group modifier, only the leader will trigger
samples. The rest of events in the group will have sampling disabled.

And same as for single events, values of all events within the group
(including leader) are read by PERF_SAMPLE_READ sample type processing.

Following example will create event group with cycles and cache-misses
events, setting the cycles as group leader and the only event to
actually sample. Both cycles and cache-misses event period values are
read by PERF_SAMPLE_READ sample type processing with PERF_FORMAT_GROUP
read format.

Example:

  $ perf record -e '{cycles,cache-misses}:S' ls
  ...
  $ perf report --group --show-total-period --stdio
  ...
  # Samples: 36  of event 'anon group { cycles, cache-misses }'
  # Event count (approx.): 12585593
  #
  #       Overhead          Period  Command      Shared Object                      Symbol
  # ..............  ..............  .......  .................  ..........................
  #
    19.92%   1.20%  2505936     31       ls  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] mark_held_locks
    13.74%   0.47%  1729327     12       ls  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sched_clock_local
    13.64%  23.72%  1716147    612       ls  ld-2.14.90.so      [.] check_match.10805
    13.12%  23.22%  1650778    599       ls  libc-2.14.90.so    [.] _nl_intern_locale_data
    11.24%  29.19%  1414554    753       ls  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sched_clock_cpu
     8.50%   0.35%  1070150      9       ls  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] check_chain_key
  ...

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-iyoinu3axi11mymwnh2b7fxj@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo