linux.git/tools/perf/util/evlist.c, branch v5.16

perf tools: Enable on a list of CPUs for hybrid

2021-08-11T19:07:32+00:00

The 'perf record' and 'perf stat' commands have supported the option
'-C/--cpus' to count or collect only on the list of CPUs provided. This
option needs to be supported for hybrid as well.

For hybrid support, it needs to check that the cpu list are available
on hybrid PMU. One example for AlderLake, cpu0-7 is 'cpu_core', cpu8-11
is 'cpu_atom'.

Before:

  # perf stat -e cpu_core/cycles/ -C11 -- sleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'CPU(s) 11':

           cpu_core/cycles/

         1.006179431 seconds time elapsed

The 'perf stat' command silently returned "" without any
helpful information. It should error out pointing out that that cpu11
was not 'cpu_core'.

After:

  # perf stat -e cpu_core/cycles/ -C11 -- sleep 1
  WARNING: 11 isn't a 'cpu_core', please use a CPU list in the 'cpu_core' range (0-7)
  failed to use cpu list 11

We also need to support the events without pmu prefix specified.

  # perf stat -e cycles -C11 -- sleep 1
  WARNING: 11 isn't a 'cpu_core', please use a CPU list in the 'cpu_core' range (0-7)

   Performance counter stats for 'CPU(s) 11':

           1,067,373      cpu_atom/cycles/

         1.005544738 seconds time elapsed

The perf tool creates two cycles events automatically, cpu_core/cycles/ and
cpu_atom/cycles/. It checks that cpu11 is not 'cpu_core', then shows a warning
for cpu_core/cycles/ and only count the cpu_atom/cycles/.

If part of cpus are 'cpu_core' and part of cpus are 'cpu_atom', for example,

  # perf stat -e cycles -C0,11 -- sleep 1
  WARNING: use 0 in 'cpu_core' for 'cycles', skip other cpus in list.
  WARNING: use 11 in 'cpu_atom' for 'cycles', skip other cpus in list.

   Performance counter stats for 'CPU(s) 0,11':

           1,914,704      cpu_core/cycles/
           2,036,983      cpu_atom/cycles/

         1.005815641 seconds time elapsed

It now automatically selects cpu0 for cpu_core/cycles/, selects cpu11 for
cpu_atom/cycles/, and output with some warnings.

Some more complex examples,

  # perf stat -e cycles,instructions -C0,11 -- sleep 1
  WARNING: use 0 in 'cpu_core' for 'cycles', skip other cpus in list.
  WARNING: use 11 in 'cpu_atom' for 'cycles', skip other cpus in list.
  WARNING: use 0 in 'cpu_core' for 'instructions', skip other cpus in list.
  WARNING: use 11 in 'cpu_atom' for 'instructions', skip other cpus in list.

   Performance counter stats for 'CPU(s) 0,11':

           2,780,387      cpu_core/cycles/
           1,583,432      cpu_atom/cycles/
           3,957,277      cpu_core/instructions/
           1,167,089      cpu_atom/instructions/

         1.006005124 seconds time elapsed

  # perf stat -e cycles,cpu_atom/instructions/ -C0,11 -- sleep 1
  WARNING: use 0 in 'cpu_core' for 'cycles', skip other cpus in list.
  WARNING: use 11 in 'cpu_atom' for 'cycles', skip other cpus in list.
  WARNING: use 11 in 'cpu_atom' for 'cpu_atom/instructions/', skip other cpus in list.

   Performance counter stats for 'CPU(s) 0,11':

           3,290,301      cpu_core/cycles/
           1,953,073      cpu_atom/cycles/
           1,407,869      cpu_atom/instructions/

         1.006260912 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https //lore.kernel.org/r/20210723063433.7318-4-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Create hybrid flag in target

2021-08-11T19:04:33+00:00

The user may count or collect only on a cpu list via '-C/--cpus' option.

Previously cpus for an evsel were retrieved from PMU's sysfs. But if the
target cpu list is defined, the retrieved cpus are not kept and the
target cpu list is used instead.

But for hybrid system, we can't directly use target cpu list. The cpu
list may not be available on hybrid pmu (e.g. cpu_core or cpu_atom).  So
we should not set the 'has_user_cpus' flag for hybrid system.

The difficulity is that we can't call perf_pmu__has_hybrid() in evlist.c
to check hybrid system otherwise 'perf test python' would be failed
(undefined symbol for perf_pmu__has_hybrid). If we add pmu.c to
python-ext-sources, too many symbol dependencies are hard to resolve.

We use an alternative method by using a new 'hybrid' flag in target
for hybrid system checking.

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https //lore.kernel.org/r/20210723063433.7318-3-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

libperf: Adopt evlist__set_leader() from tools/perf as perf_evlist__set_leader()

2021-07-09T17:04:32+00:00

Move the implementation of evlist__set_leader() to a new libperf
perf_evlist__set_leader() function with the same functionality make it a
libperf exported API.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Requested-by: Shunsuke Nakamura 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Michael Petlan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210706151704.73662-6-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

libperf: Move 'nr_groups' from tools/perf to evlist::nr_groups

2021-07-09T17:04:32+00:00

Move evsel::nr_groups to perf_evsel::nr_groups, so we can move the group
interface to libperf.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Requested-by: Shunsuke Nakamura 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Michael Petlan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210706151704.73662-5-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

libperf: Move 'leader' from tools/perf to perf_evsel::leader

2021-07-09T17:04:31+00:00

Move evsel::leader to perf_evsel::leader, so we can move the group
interface to libperf.

Also add several evsel helpers to ease up the transition:

  struct evsel *evsel__leader(struct evsel *evsel);
  - get leader evsel

  bool evsel__has_leader(struct evsel *evsel, struct evsel *leader);
  - true if evsel has leader as leader

  bool evsel__is_leader(struct evsel *evsel);
  - true if evsel is itw own leader

  void evsel__set_leader(struct evsel *evsel, struct evsel *leader);
  - set leader for evsel

Committer notes:

Fix this when building with 'make BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1'

  tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.c

  -       if (evsel->leader->core.nr_members > 1) {
  +       if (evsel->core.leader->nr_members > 1) {

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Requested-by: Shunsuke Nakamura 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Michael Petlan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210706151704.73662-4-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

libperf: Move 'idx' from tools/perf to perf_evsel::idx

2021-07-09T17:04:28+00:00

Move evsel::idx to perf_evsel::idx, so we can move the group interface
to libperf.

Committer notes:

Fixup evsel->idx usage in tools/perf/util/bpf_counter_cgroup.c, that
appeared in my tree in my local tree.

Also fixed up these:

$ find tools/perf/ -name "*.[ch]" | xargs grep 'evsel->idx'
tools/perf/ui/gtk/annotate.c:                      evsel->idx + i);
tools/perf/ui/gtk/annotate.c:                   evsel->idx);
$

That running 'make -C tools/perf build-test' caught.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Requested-by: Shunsuke Nakamura 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Michael Petlan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210706151704.73662-3-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf mem: Disable 'mem-loads-aux' group before reporting

2021-06-01T14:06:01+00:00

For some platforms, such as Alderlake, the 'mem-loads' event is required
to use together with 'mem-loads-aux' within a group and 'mem-loads-aux'
must be the group leader. Now we disable this group before reporting
because 'mem-loads-aux' is just an auxiliary event. It doesn't carry
any valid memory load result. If we show the 'mem-loads-aux' +
'mem-loads' as a group in report, it needs many of changes but they
are totally unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527001610.10553-8-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf stat: Skip evlist__[enable|disable] when all events uses BPF

2021-05-21T19:50:17+00:00

When all events of a perf-stat session use BPF, it is not necessary to
call evlist__enable() and evlist__disable(). Skip them when
all_counters_use_bpf is true.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu 
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Create two hybrid 'cycles' events by default

2021-04-29T13:30:59+00:00

When evlist is empty, for example no '-e' specified in perf record,
one default 'cycles' event is added to evlist.

While on hybrid platform, it needs to create two default 'cycles'
events. One is for cpu_core, the other is for cpu_atom.

This patch actually calls evsel__new_cycles() two times to create
two 'cycles' events.

  # ./perf record -vv -a -- sleep 1
  ...
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  perf_event_attr:
    size                             120
    config                           0x400000000
    { sample_period, sample_freq }   4000
    sample_type                      IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU|PERIOD
    read_format                      ID
    disabled                         1
    inherit                          1
    freq                             1
    precise_ip                       3
    sample_id_all                    1
    exclude_guest                    1
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 0  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 5
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 6
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 2  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 7
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 3  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 9
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 4  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 10
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 5  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 11
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 6  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 12
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 7  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 13
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 8  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 14
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 9  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 15
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 10  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 16
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 11  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 17
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 12  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 18
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 13  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 19
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 14  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 20
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 15  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 21
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  perf_event_attr:
    size                             120
    config                           0x800000000
    { sample_period, sample_freq }   4000
    sample_type                      IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU|PERIOD
    read_format                      ID
    disabled                         1
    inherit                          1
    freq                             1
    precise_ip                       3
    sample_id_all                    1
    exclude_guest                    1
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 16  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 22
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 17  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 23
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 18  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 24
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 19  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 25
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 20  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 26
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 21  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 27
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 22  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 28
  sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 23  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 29
  ------------------------------------------------------------

We have to create evlist-hybrid.c otherwise due to the symbol
dependency the perf test python would be failed.

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao 
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210427070139.25256-14-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf stat: Introduce bpf_counter_ops->disable()

2021-04-29T13:30:58+00:00

Introduce bpf_counter_ops->disable(), which is used stop counting the
event.

Committer notes:

Added a dummy bpf_counter__disable() to the python binding to avoid
having 'perf test python' failing.

bpf_counter isn't supported in the python binding.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Song Liu 
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210425214333.1090950-6-song@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo