kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/perf.c, branch v6.18.21

perf env: Remove global perf_env

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

The global perf_env was used for the host, but if a perf_env wasn't easy to come by it was used in a lot of places where potentially recorded and host data could be confused. Remove the global variable as now the majority of accesses retrieve the perf_env for the host from the session. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-20-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tools: Remove dependency on libaudit

2025-01-10T13:59:42+00:00

All architectures now support HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE_SUPPORT, so the flag is no longer needed. With the removal of the flag, the related GENERIC_SYSCALL_TABLE can also be removed. libaudit was only used as a fallback for when HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE_SUPPORT was not defined, so libaudit is also no longer needed for any architecture. Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Günther Noack Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mickaël Salaün Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Will Deacon Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108-perf_syscalltbl-v6-16-7543b5293098@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf test: Remove C test wrapper for attr.py

2024-10-17T20:17:36+00:00

Remove the C wrapper now a shell script wrapper exists. Move perf_event_attr dumping functions to evsel.c and reduce the scope of variables/defines. Use fprintf to avoid snprintf complexities in WRITE_ASS. Add __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ to evsel.c to fix format flag issues on PowerPC triggered by moving attr.c functions to evsel.c. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Athira Rajeev Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: zhaimingbing Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ze Gao Cc: Weilin Wang Cc: James Clark Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Veronika Molnarova Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241015000158.871828-3-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf check: Introduce 'check' subcommand

2024-09-04T12:56:05+00:00

Currently the presence of a feature is checked with a combination of perf version --build-options and greps, such as: perf version --build-options | grep " on .* HAVE_FEATURE" Instead of this, introduce a subcommand "perf check feature", with which scripts can test for presence of a feature, such as: perf check feature HAVE_FEATURE 'perf check feature' command is expected to have exit status of 0 if feature is built-in, and 1 if it's not built-in or if feature is not known. Multiple features can also be passed as a comma-separated list, in which case the exit status will be 1 only if all of the passed features are built-in. For example, with below command, it will have exit status of 0 only if both libtraceevent and bpf are enabled, else 1 in all other cases perf check feature libtraceevent,bpf The arguments are case-insensitive. An array 'supported_features' has also been introduced that can be used by other commands like 'perf version --build-options', so that new features can be added in one place, with the array Committer testing: $ perf check feature libtraceevent,bpf libtraceevent: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT bpf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT $ perf check feature libtraceevent libtraceevent: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT $ perf check feature bpf bpf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT $ perf check -q feature bpf && echo "BPF support is present" BPF support is present $ perf check -q feature Bogus && echo "Bogus support is present" $ Reviewed-by: Athira Rajeev Signed-off-by: Aditya Gupta Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Disha Goel Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904061836.55873-3-adityag@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Suggest inbuilt commands for unknown command

2024-03-21T16:54:40+00:00

The existing unknown command code looks for perf scripts like perf-archive.sh and perf-iostat.sh, however, inbuilt commands aren't suggested. Add the inbuilt commands so they may be suggested too. Before: $ perf reccord perf: 'reccord' is not a perf-command. See 'perf --help'. $ After: $ perf reccord perf: 'reccord' is not a perf-command. See 'perf --help'. Did you mean this? record $ Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240301201306.2680986-1-irogers@google.com [ Added some fixes from Ian to problems I noticed while testing ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add --debug-file option to redirect debug output

2023-11-28T17:14:53+00:00

Currently, debug messages is output to stderr, add --debug-file option to support redirection to a specified file. Some test scenarios: # perf --list-opts --help --version --exec-path --html-path --paginate --no-pager --debugfs-dir --buildid-dir --list-cmds --list-opts --debug --debug-file # perf --debug-file No path given for --debug-file. Usage: perf [--version] [--help] [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS] # perf --debug-file /sys/perf.log record -v true Open debug file '/sys/perf.log' failed: Permission denied Usage: perf [--version] [--help] [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS] # perf --debug-file /tmp/perf.log record -v true [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.013 MB perf.data (26 samples) ] # cat /tmp/perf.log DEBUGINFOD_URLS= Using CPUID GenuineIntel-6-3E-4 nr_cblocks: 0 affinity: SYS mmap flush: 1 comp level: 0 mmap size 528384B Control descriptor is not initialized mmap size 528384B Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long) Using /proc/kcore for kernel data Using /proc/kallsyms for symbols symbol:unmap_start file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) symbol:unmap_complete file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) symbol:map_start file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) symbol:map_complete file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) symbol:reloc_start file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) symbol:reloc_complete file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) symbol:init_start file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) symbol:init_complete file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) symbol:lll_lock_wait_private file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) symbol:lll_lock_wait file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) symbol:setjmp file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) symbol:longjmp file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) symbol:longjmp_target file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null) failed to write feature HYBRID_TOPOLOGY Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231031105523.1472558-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf parse-events: Remove BPF event support

2023-08-15T19:41:48+00:00

New features like the BPF --filter support in perf record have made the BPF event functionality somewhat redundant. As shown by commit fcb027c1a4f6 ("perf tools: Revert enable indices setting syntax for BPF map") and commit 14e4b9f4289a ("perf trace: Raw augmented syscalls fix libbpf 1.0+ compatibility") the BPF event support hasn't been well maintained and it adds considerable complexity in areas like event parsing, not least as '/' is a separator for event modifiers as well as in paths. This patch removes support in the event parser for BPF events and then the associated functions are removed. This leads to the removal of whole source files like bpf-loader.c. Removing support means that augmented syscalls in perf trace is broken, this will be fixed in a later commit adding support using BPF skeletons. The removal of BPF events causes an unused label warning from flex generated code, so update build to ignore it: ``` util/parse-events-flex.c:2704:1: error: label ‘find_rule’ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-label] 2704 | find_rule: /* we branch to this label when backing up */ ``` Committer notes: Extracted from a larger patch that was also removing the support for linking with libllvm and libclang, that were an alternative to using an external clang execution to compile the .c event source code into BPF bytecode. Testing it: # perf trace -e /home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c event syntax error: '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c' \___ Bad event or PMU Unabled to find PMU or event on a PMU of 'home' Initial error: event syntax error: '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c' \___ Cannot find PMU `home'. Missing kernel support? Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events Usage: perf trace [] [] or: perf trace [] -- [] or: perf trace record [] [] or: perf trace record [] -- [] -e, --event event/syscall selector. use 'perf list' to list available events # Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Brendan Gregg Cc: Carsten Haitzler Cc: Eduard Zingerman Cc: Fangrui Song Cc: He Kuang Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Naveen N. Rao Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Tiezhu Yang Cc: Tom Rix Cc: Wang Nan Cc: Wang ShaoBo Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Yonghong Song Cc: YueHaibing Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810184853.2860737-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf util: Move input_name to util

2023-04-10T22:21:31+00:00

'input_name' is the name of the input perf.data file, it is used by data convert and ui code. Move it to util to make it more consistent with other global state. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Chengdong Li Cc: Denis Nikitin Cc: Florian Fischer Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Martin Liška Cc: Mathieu Poirier Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Raul Silvera Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Xing Zhengjun Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230410162511.3055900-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf version: Use regular verbose flag

2023-04-10T22:21:17+00:00

Remove additional version_verbose flag by using the existing verbose variable. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Chengdong Li Cc: Denis Nikitin Cc: Florian Fischer Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Martin Liška Cc: Mathieu Poirier Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Raul Silvera Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Xing Zhengjun Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230410162511.3055900-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf usage: Move usage strings

2023-04-10T22:20:53+00:00

The usage function is part of util.h, move the usage strings there too. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Chengdong Li Cc: Denis Nikitin Cc: Florian Fischer Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Martin Liška Cc: Mathieu Poirier Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Raul Silvera Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Xing Zhengjun Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230410162511.3055900-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo