linux.git/include/linux/perf_event.h, branch v5.7-rc2

perf/core: Add PERF_SAMPLE_CGROUP feature

2020-03-27T13:41:44+00:00

The PERF_SAMPLE_CGROUP bit is to save (perf_event) cgroup information in
the sample.  It will add a 64-bit id to identify current cgroup and it's
the file handle in the cgroup file system.  Userspace should use this
information with PERF_RECORD_CGROUP event to match which cgroup it
belongs.

I put it before PERF_SAMPLE_AUX for simplicity since it just needs a
64-bit word.  But if we want bigger samples, I can work on that
direction too.

Committer testing:

  $ pahole perf_sample_data | grep -w cgroup -B5 -A5
  	/* --- cacheline 4 boundary (256 bytes) was 56 bytes ago --- */
  	struct perf_regs           regs_intr;            /*   312    16 */
  	/* --- cacheline 5 boundary (320 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */
  	u64                        stack_user_size;      /*   328     8 */
  	u64                        phys_addr;            /*   336     8 */
  	u64                        cgroup;               /*   344     8 */

  	/* size: 384, cachelines: 6, members: 22 */
  	/* padding: 32 */
  };
  $

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200325124536.2800725-3-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf/core: Add per perf_cpu_context min_heap storage

2020-03-06T10:57:00+00:00

The storage required for visit_groups_merge's min heap needs to vary in
order to support more iterators, such as when multiple nested cgroups'
events are being visited. This change allows for 2 iterators and doesn't
support growth.

Based-on-work-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200214075133.181299-5-irogers@google.com

perf/core: Add new branch sample type for HW index of raw branch records

2020-02-11T12:23:49+00:00

The low level index is the index in the underlying hardware buffer of
the most recently captured taken branch which is always saved in
branch_entries[0]. It is very useful for reconstructing the call stack.
For example, in Intel LBR call stack mode, the depth of reconstructed
LBR call stack limits to the number of LBR registers. With the low level
index information, perf tool may stitch the stacks of two samples. The
reconstructed LBR call stack can break the HW limitation.

Add a new branch sample type to retrieve low level index of raw branch
records. The low level index is between -1 (unknown) and max depth which
can be retrieved in /sys/devices/cpu/caps/branches.

Only when the new branch sample type is set, the low level index
information is dumped into the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK output.
Perf tool should check the attr.branch_sample_type, and apply the
corresponding format for PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK samples.
Otherwise, some user case may be broken. For example, users may parse a
perf.data, which include the new branch sample type, with an old version
perf tool (without the check). Users probably get incorrect information
without any warning.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200127165355.27495-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com

Merge tag 'perf-urgent-2020-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2020-02-09T20:04:09+00:00

Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of fixes and improvements for the perf subsystem:

  Kernel fixes:

   - Install cgroup events to the correct CPU context to prevent a
     potential list double add

   - Prevent an integer underflow in the perf mlock accounting

   - Add a missing prototype for arch_perf_update_userpage()

  Tooling:

   - Add a missing unlock in the error path of maps__insert() in perf
     maps.

   - Fix the build with the latest libbfd

   - Fix the perf parser so it does not delete parse event terms, which
     caused a regression for using perf with the ARM CoreSight as the
     sink configuration was missing due to the deletion.

   - Fix the double free in the perf CPU map merging test case

   - Add the missing ustring support for the perf probe command"

* tag 'perf-urgent-2020-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf maps: Add missing unlock to maps__insert() error case
  perf probe: Add ustring support for perf probe command
  perf: Make perf able to build with latest libbfd
  perf test: Fix test case Merge cpu map
  perf parse: Copy string to perf_evsel_config_term
  perf parse: Refactor 'struct perf_evsel_config_term'
  kernel/events: Add a missing prototype for arch_perf_update_userpage()
  perf/cgroups: Install cgroup events to correct cpuctx
  perf/core: Fix mlock accounting in perf_mmap()

kernel/events: Add a missing prototype for arch_perf_update_userpage()

2020-01-28T20:26:44+00:00

... in order to fix a -Wmissing-prototype warning.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thiel 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200109131351.9468-1-b.thiel@posteo.de

perf: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous

2020-01-13T18:19:38+00:00

eBPF requires needing to know the size of the perf ring buffer structure.
But it unfortunately has the same name as the generic ring buffer used by
tracing and oprofile. To make it less ambiguous, rename the perf ring buffer
structure to "perf_buffer".

As other parts of the ring buffer code has "perf_" as the prefix, it only
makes sense to give the ring buffer the "perf_" prefix as well.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213153553.GE20583@krava
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2019-11-26T23:04:47+00:00

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main kernel side changes in this cycle were:

   - Various Intel-PT updates and optimizations (Alexander Shishkin)

   - Prohibit kprobes on Xen/KVM emulate prefixes (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - Add support for LSM and SELinux checks to control access to the
     perf syscall (Joel Fernandes)

   - Misc other changes, optimizations, fixes and cleanups - see the
     shortlog for details.

  There were numerous tooling changes as well - 254 non-merge commits.
  Here are the main changes - too many to list in detail:

   - Enhancements to core tooling infrastructure, perf.data, libperf,
     libtraceevent, event parsing, vendor events, Intel PT, callchains,
     BPF support and instruction decoding.

   - There were updates to the following tools:

        perf annotate
        perf diff
        perf inject
        perf kvm
        perf list
        perf maps
        perf parse
        perf probe
        perf record
        perf report
        perf script
        perf stat
        perf test
        perf trace

   - And a lot of other changes: please see the shortlog and Git log for
     more details"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (279 commits)
  perf parse: Fix potential memory leak when handling tracepoint errors
  perf probe: Fix spelling mistake "addrees" -> "address"
  libtraceevent: Fix memory leakage in copy_filter_type
  libtraceevent: Fix header installation
  perf intel-bts: Does not support AUX area sampling
  perf intel-pt: Add support for decoding AUX area samples
  perf intel-pt: Add support for recording AUX area samples
  perf pmu: When using default config, record which bits of config were changed by the user
  perf auxtrace: Add support for queuing AUX area samples
  perf session: Add facility to peek at all events
  perf auxtrace: Add support for dumping AUX area samples
  perf inject: Cut AUX area samples
  perf record: Add aux-sample-size config term
  perf record: Add support for AUX area sampling
  perf auxtrace: Add support for AUX area sample recording
  perf auxtrace: Move perf_evsel__find_pmu()
  perf record: Add a function to test for kernel support for AUX area sampling
  perf tools: Add kernel AUX area sampling definitions
  perf/core: Make the mlock accounting simple again
  perf report: Jump to symbol source view from total cycles view
  ...

Merge branch 'kvm-tsx-ctrl' into HEAD

2019-11-21T11:03:40+00:00

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c

perf/core: Provide a kernel-internal interface to pause perf_event

2019-11-15T10:44:07+00:00

Exporting perf_event_pause() as an external accessor for kernel users (such
as KVM) who may do both disable perf_event and read count with just one
time to hold perf_event_ctx_lock. Also the value could be reset optionally.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Like Xu 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

perf/core: Provide a kernel-internal interface to recalibrate event period

2019-11-15T10:44:06+00:00

Currently, perf_event_period() is used by user tools via ioctl. Based on
naming convention, exporting perf_event_period() for kernel users (such
as KVM) who may recalibrate the event period for their assigned counter
according to their requirements.

The perf_event_period() is an external accessor, just like the
perf_event_{en,dis}able() and should thus use perf_event_ctx_lock().

Suggested-by: Kan Liang 
Signed-off-by: Like Xu 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini