kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/util/event.h, branch linux-7.1.y

perf sched stats: Add record and rawdump support

2026-01-22T15:29:28+00:00

Define new, perf tool only, sample types and their layouts. Add logic to parse /proc/schedstat, convert it to perf sample format and save samples to perf.data file with `perf sched stats record` command. Also add logic to read perf.data file, interpret schedstat samples and print rawdump of samples with `perf script -D`. Note that, /proc/schedstat file output is standardized with version number. The patch supports v15 but older or newer version can be added easily. Co-developed-by: Ravi Bangoria Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria Signed-off-by: Swapnil Sapkal Tested-by: Chen Yu Tested-by: James Clark Acked-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Anubhav Shelat Cc: Ben Gainey Cc: Blake Jones Cc: Chun-Tse Shao Cc: David Vernet Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: Gautham Shenoy Cc: Graham Woodward Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Juri Lelli Cc: K Prateek Nayak Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Madadi Vineeth Reddy Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Sandipan Das Cc: Santosh Shukla Cc: Shrikanth Hegde Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Falcon Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Vincent Guittot Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Yujie Liu Cc: Zhongqiu Han [ PRIu64 needs uint64_t, not 'unsigned long' to work on both 32-bit and 64-bit ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Enable to present DTL entries

2025-10-01T14:22:05+00:00

The process_event() function in "builtin-script.c" invokes perf_sample__fprintf_synth() for displaying PERF_TYPE_SYNTH type events. if (attr->type == PERF_TYPE_SYNTH && PRINT_FIELD(SYNTH)) perf_sample__fprintf_synth(sample, evsel, fp); perf_sample__fprintf_synth() process the sample depending on the value in evsel->core.attr.config. Introduce perf_sample__fprintf_synth_vpadtl() and invoke this for PERF_SYNTH_POWERPC_VPA_DTL Sample output: ./perf record -a -e sched:*,vpa_dtl/dtl_all/ -c 1000000000 sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.300 MB perf.data ] ./perf script perf 13322 [002] 233.835807: sched:sched_switch: perf:13322 [120] R ==> migration/2:27 [0] migration/2 27 [002] 233.835811: sched:sched_migrate_task: comm=perf pid=13322 prio=120 orig_cpu=2 dest_cpu=3 migration/2 27 [002] 233.835818: sched:sched_stat_runtime: comm=migration/2 pid=27 runtime=9214 [ns] migration/2 27 [002] 233.835819: sched:sched_switch: migration/2:27 [0] S ==> swapper/2:0 [120] swapper 0 [002] 233.835822: vpa-dtl: timebase: 338954486062657 dispatch_reason:decrementer_interrupt, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:435, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:34775058, processor_id: 202 c0000000000f8094 plpar_hcall_norets_notrace+0x18 ([kernel.kallsyms]) swapper 0 [001] 233.835886: vpa-dtl: timebase: 338954486095398 dispatch_reason:priv_doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:542, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:1245360, processor_id: 201 c0000000000f8094 plpar_hcall_norets_notrace+0x18 ([kernel.kallsyms]) Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev Tested-by: Tejas Manhas Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Cc: Aboorva Devarajan Cc: Aditya Bodkhe Cc: Hari Bathini Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Shrikanth Hegde Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf powerpc: Add event name as vpa-dtl of PERF_TYPE_SYNTH type to present DTL samples

2025-10-01T14:22:05+00:00

Dispatch Trace Log details are captured as-is in PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE records. To present dtl entries as samples, create an event with name as "vpa-dtl" and type PERF_TYPE_SYNTH. Add perf_synth_id, "PERF_SYNTH_POWERPC_VPA_DTL" as config value for the event. Create a sample id to be a fixed offset from evsel id. To present the relevant fields from the "struct dtl_entry", prepare the entries as events of type PERF_TYPE_SYNTH. By defining as PERF_TYPE_SYNTH type, samples can be printed as part of perf_sample__fprintf_synth in builtin-script.c From powerpc_vpadtl_process_auxtrace_info(), invoke auxtrace_queues__process_index() function which will queue the auxtrace buffers by invoke auxtrace_queues__add_event(). Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev Tested-by: Tejas Manhas Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Cc: Aboorva Devarajan Cc: Aditya Bodkhe Cc: Hari Bathini Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Shrikanth Hegde Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf powerpc: Process auxtrace events and display in 'perf report -D'

2025-10-01T14:22:04+00:00

Add VPA DTL PMU auxtrace process function for "perf report -D". The auxtrace event processing functions are defined in file "util/powerpc-vpadtl.c". Data structures used includes "struct powerpc_vpadtl_queue", "struct powerpc_vpadtl" to store the auxtrace buffers in queue. Different PERF_RECORD_XXX are generated during recording. PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE_INFO is processed first since it is of type perf_user_event_type and perf session event delivers perf_session__process_user_event() first. Define function powerpc_vpadtl_process_auxtrace_info() to handle the processing of PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE_INFO records. In this function, initialize the aux buffer queues using auxtrace_queues__init(). Setup the required infrastructure for aux data processing. The data is collected per CPU and auxtrace_queue is created for each CPU. Define powerpc_vpadtl_process_event() function to process PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE records. In this, add the event to queue using auxtrace_queues__add_event() and process the buffer in powerpc_vpadtl_dump_event(). The first entry in the buffer with timebase as zero has boot timebase and frequency. Remaining data is of format for "struct powerpc_vpadtl_entry". Define the translation for dispatch_reasons and preempt_reasons, report this when dump trace is invoked via powerpc_vpadtl_dump() Sample output: ./perf record -a -e sched:*,vpa_dtl/dtl_all/ -c 1000000000 sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.300 MB perf.data ] ./perf report -D 0 0 0x39b10 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE size: 0x690 offset: 0 ref: 0 idx: 0 tid: -1 cpu: 0 . . ... VPA DTL PMU data: size 1680 bytes, entries is 35 . 00000000: boot_tb: 21349649546353231, tb_freq: 512000000 . 00000030: dispatch_reason:decrementer interrupt, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:7064, ready_to_enqueue_time:187, waiting_to_ready_time:6611773 . 00000060: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:146, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:15359437 . 00000090: dispatch_reason:decrementer interrupt, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:4868, ready_to_enqueue_time:232, waiting_to_ready_time:5100709 . 000000c0: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:179, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:30714243 . 000000f0: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:197, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:15350648 . 00000120: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:213, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:15353446 . 00000150: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:212, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:15355126 . 00000180: dispatch_reason:decrementer interrupt, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:6368, ready_to_enqueue_time:164, waiting_to_ready_time:5104665 Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev Tested-by: Tejas Manhas Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Cc: Aboorva Devarajan Cc: Aditya Bodkhe Cc: Hari Bathini Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Shrikanth Hegde Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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 sample: Remove arch notion of sample parsing

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

By definition arch sample parsing and synthesis will inhibit certain kinds of cross-platform record then analysis (report, script, etc.). Remove arch_perf_parse_sample_weight and arch_perf_synthesize_sample_weight replacing with a common implementation. Combine perf_sample p_stage_cyc and retire_lat as weight3 to capture the differing uses regardless of compiled for architecture. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-21-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tools: display the new PERF_RECORD_BPF_METADATA event

2025-06-20T21:48:56+00:00

Here's some example "perf script -D" output for the new event type. The ": unhandled!" message is from tool.c, analogous to other behavior there. I've elided some rows with all NUL characters for brevity, and I wrapped one of the >75-column lines to fit in the commit guidelines. 0x50fc8@perf.data [0x260]: event: 84 . . ... raw event: size 608 bytes . 0000: 54 00 00 00 00 00 60 02 62 70 66 5f 70 72 6f 67 T.....`.bpf_prog . 0010: 5f 31 65 30 61 32 65 33 36 36 65 35 36 66 31 61 _1e0a2e366e56f1a . 0020: 32 5f 70 65 72 66 5f 73 61 6d 70 6c 65 5f 66 69 2_perf_sample_fi . 0030: 6c 74 65 72 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 lter............ . 0040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ [...] . 0110: 74 65 73 74 5f 76 61 6c 75 65 00 00 00 00 00 00 test_value...... . 0120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ [...] . 0150: 34 32 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 42.............. . 0160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ [...] 0 0x50fc8 [0x260]: PERF_RECORD_BPF_METADATA \ prog bpf_prog_1e0a2e366e56f1a2_perf_sample_filter entry 0: test_value = 42 : unhandled! Signed-off-by: Blake Jones Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612194939.162730-5-blakejones@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf script: Fix typo in branch event mask

2025-03-13T20:19:27+00:00

BRACH -> BRANCH Fixes: 88b1473135e4 ("perf script: Separate events from branch types") Signed-off-by: Yujie Liu Reviewed-by: Leo Yan Reviewed-by: James Clark Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250312075636.429127-1-yujie.liu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf script: Add not taken event for branches

2025-03-05T17:13:19+00:00

Some hardware (e.g., Arm SPE) can trace the not taken event for branches. Add a flag for this event and support printing it. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Leo Yan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304111240.3378214-5-leo.yan@arm.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf script: Separate events from branch types

2025-03-05T17:13:19+00:00

Branch types and events are two different things. A branch type can be a conditional branch, an indirect branch, a procedure call, a return, or an exception taken, etc. The extra event information is provided for what happens during a branch, e.g. if a branch is mispredicted or not taken (specific to conditional branches). To deliver information about branches, this commit separates events from branch types. It parses branch types first, then appends event strings embraced by the '/' character. If multiple events occur, the events is separated with a comma (,). Also add a minor improvement by adding char 'm' in char array for branch mispredict event. Below are extracted sample flags. Before: branch: br miss instructions: br miss After: branch: jmp/miss/ instructions: jmp/miss/ Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Leo Yan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304111240.3378214-4-leo.yan@arm.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim