kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c, branch v6.19.11

perf sort: Use perf_env to set arch sort keys and header

2025-07-25T17:37:58+00:00

Previously arch_support_sort_key and arch_perf_header_entry used a weak symbol to compile as appropriate for x86 and powerpc. A limitation to this is that the handling of a data file could vary in cross-platform development. Change to using the perf_env of the current session to determine the architecture kind and set the sort key and header entries as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-23-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf stream: Use evsel rather than evsel->idx

2024-12-23T16:53:08+00:00

An evsel idx may not be stable due to sorting, evlist removal, etc. Avoid use of the idx where the evsel itself can be used to avoid these problems. Reviewed-by: James Clark Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Ahelenia Ziemiańska Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Chen Ni Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241114230713.330701-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf cpumap: Reduce transitive dependencies on libperf MAX_NR_CPUS

2024-12-09T20:52:41+00:00

libperf exposes MAX_NR_CPUS via tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h which is internal. The preferred dependency should be the definition in tools/perf/perf.h. Add the includes of perf.h so that MAX_NR_CPUS can be hidden in libperf. Reviewed-by: Leo Yan Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ben Gainey Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Kyle Meyer Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241206044035.1062032-3-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Add alternate_hw_config and use in evsel__match

2024-09-26T20:26:11+00:00

There are cases where we want to match events like instructions and cycles with legacy hardware values, in particular in stat-shadow's hard coded metrics. An evsel's name isn't a good point of reference as it gets altered, strstr would be too imprecise and re-parsing the event from its name is silly. Instead, hold the legacy hardware event name, determined during parsing, in the evsel for this matching case. Inline evsel__match2 that is only used in builtin-diff. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: James Clark Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Dominique Martinet Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Yunseong Kim Cc: Ze Gao Cc: Yicong Yang Cc: Weilin Wang Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Jing Zhang Cc: Yang Li Cc: Leo Yan Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Sun Haiyong Cc: John Garry Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240926144851.245903-2-james.clark@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf report: Display the branch counter histogram

2024-08-14T13:20:40+00:00

Reusing the existing --total-cycles option to display the branch counters. Add a new PERF_HPP_REPORT__BLOCK_BRANCH_COUNTER to display the logged branch counter events. They are shown right after all the cycle-related annotations. Extend the 'struct block_info' to store and pass the branch counter related information. The annotation_br_cntr_entry() is to print the histogram of each branch counter event. If the number of logged events is less than 4, the exact number of the abbr name is printed. Otherwise, using '+' to stands for more than 3 events. Assume the number of logged events is less than 4. The annotation_br_cntr_abbr_list() prints the branch counter's abbreviation list. Press 'B' to display the list in the TUI mode. $ perf record -e "{branch-instructions:ppp,branch-misses}:S" -j any,counter $ perf report --total-cycles --stdio # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 1M of events 'anon group { branch-instructions:ppp, branch-misses }' # Event count (approx.): 1610046 # # Branch counter abbr list: # branch-instructions:ppp = A # branch-misses = B # '-' No event occurs # '+' Event occurrences may be lost due to branch counter saturated # # Sampled Cycles% Sampled Cycles Avg Cycles% Avg Cycles Branch Counter [Program Block Range] # ............... .............. ........... .......... .............. .................. # 57.55% 2.5M 0.00% 3 |A |- | ... 25.27% 1.1M 0.00% 2 |AA |- | ... 15.61% 667.2K 0.00% 1 |A |- | ... 0.16% 6.9K 0.81% 575 |A |- | ... 0.16% 6.8K 1.38% 977 |AA |- | ... 0.16% 6.8K 0.04% 28 |AA |B | ... 0.15% 6.6K 1.33% 946 |A |- | ... 0.11% 4.5K 0.06% 46 |AAA+|- | ... 0.10% 4.4K 0.88% 624 |A |- | ... 0.09% 3.7K 0.74% 524 |AAA+|B | ... With -v applied, # Sampled Cycles% Sampled Cycles Avg Cycles% Avg Cycles Branch Counter [Program Block Range] # ............... .............. ........... .......... .............. .................. # 57.55% 2.5M 0.00% 3 A=1 ,B=- ... 25.27% 1.1M 0.00% 2 A=2 ,B=- ... 15.61% 667.2K 0.00% 1 A=1 ,B=- ... 0.16% 6.9K 0.81% 575 A=1 ,B=- ... 0.16% 6.8K 1.38% 977 A=2 ,B=- ... 0.16% 6.8K 0.04% 28 A=2 ,B=1 ... 0.15% 6.6K 1.33% 946 A=1 ,B=- ... 0.11% 4.5K 0.06% 46 A=3+,B=- ... 0.10% 4.4K 0.88% 624 A=1 ,B=- ... 0.09% 3.7K 0.74% 524 A=3+,B=1 ... Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Kan Liang Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240813160208.2493643-7-kan.liang@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate: Save branch counters for each block

2024-08-14T13:20:40+00:00

When annotating a basic block, it's useful to display the occurrences of other events in the block. The branch counter feature is only available for newer Intel platforms. So a dedicated option to display the branch counters is not introduced. Reuse the existing --total-cycles option, which triggers the annotation of a basic block and displays the cycle-related annotation. When the branch counters information is available, the branch counters are automatically appended after all the cycle-related annotation. Accounting the branch counters as well when accounting the cycles in hist__account_cycles(). In 'struct annotated_branch', introduce a br_cntr array to save the accumulation of each branch counter. In a sample, all the branch counters for a branch are saved in a u64 space. Because the saturation of a branch counter is small, e.g., for Intel Sierra Forest, the saturation is only 3. Add ANNOTATION__BR_CNTR_SATURATED_FLAG to indicate if a branch counter once saturated. That can be used to indicate a potential event lost because of the saturation. Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Kan Liang Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240813160208.2493643-5-kan.liang@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf diff: Use perf_tool__init()

2024-08-12T21:12:26+00:00

Use perf_tool__init() so that more uses of 'struct perf_tool' can be const and not relying on perf_tool__fill_defaults(). Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ilkka Koskinen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Nick Terrell Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Song Liu Cc: Sun Haiyong Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yanteng Si Cc: Yicong Yang Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240812204720.631678-22-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tool: Constify tool pointers

2024-08-12T21:05:14+00:00

The tool pointer (to a struct largely of function pointers) is passed around but is unchanged except at initialization. Change parameter and variable types to be const to lower the possibilities of what could happen with a tool. Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Adrian Hunter Tested-by: Leo Yan Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ilkka Koskinen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Nick Terrell Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Song Liu Cc: Sun Haiyong Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yanteng Si Cc: Yicong Yang Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240812204720.631678-4-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf diff: Replaces some ',' as separator with the more usual ';'

2023-07-20T14:43:45+00:00

When wrapping code, use ';' better than using ',' which is more in line with the coding habits of most engineers. Signed-off-by: Lu Hongfei Acked-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: opensource.kernel@vivo.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230706094635.1553-1-luhongfei@vivo.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf srcline: Optimize comparision against SRCLINE_UNKNOWN

2023-06-12T21:17:00+00:00

This is a string constant that gets returned and then strcmp() around, we can instead just do a pointer comparision. That requires a new global variable to comply with these warnings from some versions of clang and gcc: 41 68.95 fedora:rawhide : FAIL clang version 16.0.4 (Fedora 16.0.4-1.fc39) result of comparison against a string literal is unspecified (use an explicit string comparison function instead) [-Werror,-Wstring-compare] if (start_line != SRCLINE_UNKNOWN && ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 41 Ack comments: Agreed, the strcmps make me nervous as they won't distinguish heap from a global meaning we could end up with things like pointers to freed memory. The comparison with the global is always going to be same imo. Acked-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ali Saidi Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Brian Robbins Cc: Changbin Du Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Cc: Fangrui Song Cc: German Gomez Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ivan Babrou Cc: James Clark Cc: Jing Zhang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: K Prateek Nayak Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Naveen N. Rao Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Wenyu Liu Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Ye Xingchen Cc: Yuan Can Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIcoJytUEz4UgQYR@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo