kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/util/evsel.h, branch v6.4

perf evsel: Separate bpf_counter_list and bpf_filters, can be used at the same time

2023-05-26T19:03:43+00:00

'struct evsel' uses a union for the two lists. This turned out to be error prone. For example: [root@quaco ~]# perf stat --bpf-prog 5246 Error: cpu-clock event does not have sample flags 66c660 failed to set filter "(null)" on event cpu-clock with 2 (No such file or directory) [root@quaco ~]# perf stat --bpf-prog 5246 Fix this issue by separating the two lists. Fixes: 56ec9457a4a20c5e ("perf bpf filter: Implement event sample filtering") Signed-off-by: Song Liu Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: kernel-team@meta.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230519235757.3613719-1-song@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf stat: Introduce skippable evsels

2023-05-10T15:35:02+00:00

'perf stat' with no arguments will use default events and metrics. These events may fail to open even with kernel and hypervisor disabled. When these fail then the permissions error appears even though they were implicitly selected. This is particularly a problem with the automatic selection of the TopdownL1 metric group on certain architectures like Skylake: $ perf stat true Error: Access to performance monitoring and observability operations is limited. Consider adjusting /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid setting to open access to performance monitoring and observability operations for processes without CAP_PERFMON, CAP_SYS_PTRACE or CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capability. More information can be found at 'Perf events and tool security' document: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/perf-security.html perf_event_paranoid setting is 2: -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users Ignore mlock limit after perf_event_mlock_kb without CAP_IPC_LOCK >= 0: Disallow raw and ftrace function tracepoint access >= 1: Disallow CPU event access >= 2: Disallow kernel profiling To make the adjusted perf_event_paranoid setting permanent preserve it in /etc/sysctl.conf (e.g. kernel.perf_event_paranoid = ) $ This patch adds skippable evsels that when they fail to open won't cause termination and will appear as "" in output. The TopdownL1 events, from the metric group, are marked as skippable. This turns the failure above to: $ perf stat perf bench internals synthesize Computing performance of single threaded perf event synthesis by synthesizing events on the perf process itself: Average synthesis took: 49.287 usec (+- 0.083 usec) Average num. events: 3.000 (+- 0.000) Average time per event 16.429 usec Average data synthesis took: 49.641 usec (+- 0.085 usec) Average num. events: 11.000 (+- 0.000) Average time per event 4.513 usec Performance counter stats for 'perf bench internals synthesize': 1,222.38 msec task-clock:u # 0.993 CPUs utilized 0 context-switches:u # 0.000 /sec 0 cpu-migrations:u # 0.000 /sec 162 page-faults:u # 132.529 /sec 774,445,184 cycles:u # 0.634 GHz (49.61%) 1,640,969,811 instructions:u # 2.12 insn per cycle (59.67%) 302,052,148 branches:u # 247.102 M/sec (59.69%) 1,807,718 branch-misses:u # 0.60% of all branches (59.68%) 5,218,927 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.REF_XCLK:u # 4.269 M/sec # 17.3 % tma_frontend_bound # 56.4 % tma_retiring # nan % tma_backend_bound # nan % tma_bad_speculation (60.01%) 536,580,469 IDQ_UOPS_NOT_DELIVERED.CORE:u # 438.965 M/sec (60.33%) INT_MISC.RECOVERY_CYCLES_ANY:u 5,223,936 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.ONE_THREAD_ACTIVE:u # 4.274 M/sec (40.31%) 774,127,250 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD:u # 633.297 M/sec (50.34%) 1,746,579,518 UOPS_RETIRED.RETIRE_SLOTS:u # 1.429 G/sec (50.12%) 1,940,625,702 UOPS_ISSUED.ANY:u # 1.588 G/sec (49.70%) 1.231055525 seconds time elapsed 0.258327000 seconds user 0.965749000 seconds sys $ The event INT_MISC.RECOVERY_CYCLES_ANY:u is skipped as it can't be opened with paranoia 2 on Skylake. With a lower paranoia, or as root, all events/metrics are computed. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Kan Liang Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Ahmad Yasin Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Caleb Biggers Cc: Edward Baker Cc: Florian Fischer Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Kang Minchul Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Perry Taylor Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Samantha Alt Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Sumanth Korikkar Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Tiezhu Yang Cc: Weilin Wang Cc: Xing Zhengjun Cc: Yang Jihong Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230502223851.2234828-3-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf stat: Separate bperf from bpf_profiler

2023-05-05T20:30:05+00:00

It seems that perf stat -b doesn't produce any results: $ perf stat -e cycles -b 4 -I 10000 -vvv Control descriptor is not initialized cycles: 0 0 0 time counts unit events 10.007641640 cycles Looks like this happens because fentry/fexit progs are getting loaded, but the corresponding perf event is not enabled and not added into the events bpf map. I think there is some mixing up between two type of bpf support, one for bperf and one for bpf_profiler. Both are identified via evsel__is_bpf, based on which perf events are enabled, but for the latter (bpf_profiler) a perf event is required. Using evsel__is_bperf to check only bperf produces expected results: $ perf stat -e cycles -b 4 -I 10000 -vvv Control descriptor is not initialized ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: size 136 sample_type IDENTIFIER read_format TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING disabled 1 exclude_guest 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 3 ------------------------------------------------------------ [...perf_event_attr for other CPUs...] ------------------------------------------------------------ cycles: 309426 169009 169009 time counts unit events 10.010091271 309426 cycles The final numbers correspond (at least in the level of magnitude) to the same metric obtained via bpftool. Fixes: 112cb56164bc2108 ("perf stat: Introduce config stat.bpf-counter-events") Reviewed-by: Song Liu Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Tested-by: Song Liu Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Song Liu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230412182316.11628-1-9erthalion6@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add util function for overriding user set config values

2023-04-24T17:41:51+00:00

There is some duplicated code to only override config values if they haven't already been set by the user so make a util function for this. Signed-off-by: James Clark Acked-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Denis Nikitin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mathieu Poirier Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yang Shi Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230424134748.228137-3-james.clark@arm.com [ Moved evsel__set_config_if_unset() to util/pmu.c to avoid dragging stuff into the python binding ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Introduce evsel__name_is() method to check if the evsel name is equal to a given string

2023-04-24T17:28:11+00:00

This makes the logic a bit clear by avoiding the !strcmp() pattern and also a way to intercept the pointer if we need to do extra validation on it or to do lazy setting of evsel->name via evsel__name(evsel). Reviewed-by: "Liang, Kan" Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZEGLM8VehJbS0gP2@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bpf filter: Implement event sample filtering

2023-03-15T13:34:33+00:00

The BPF program will be attached to a perf_event and be triggered when it overflows. It'd iterate the filters map and compare the sample value according to the expression. If any of them fails, the sample would be dropped. Also it needs to have the corresponding sample data for the expression so it compares data->sample_flags with the given value. To access the sample data, it uses the bpf_cast_to_kern_ctx() kfunc which was added in v6.2 kernel. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Hao Luo Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Song Liu Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230314234237.3008956-2-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Remove use_uncore_alias

2023-03-13T20:42:27+00:00

This flag used to be used when regrouping uncore events in particular due to wildcard matches. This is now handled by sorting evlist and so the flag is redundant. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Florian Fischer Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Kim Phillips Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Xing Zhengjun Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230312021543.3060328-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Add function to compute group PMU name

2023-03-13T20:42:02+00:00

The computed name respects software events and aux event groups, such that the pmu_name is changed to be that of the aux event leader or group leader for software events. This is done as a later change will split events that are in different PMUs into different groups. Committer notes: Added a stub for this new function so that 'perf test python' passes. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Florian Fischer Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Kim Phillips Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Xing Zhengjun Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230312021543.3060328-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Allow const evsel for certain accesses

2023-03-13T19:23:05+00:00

List sorting, added later to evlist, passes const elements requiring helper functions to also be const. Make the argument to evsel__find_pmu, evsel__is_aux_event and evsel__leader const. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Florian Fischer Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Kim Phillips Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Xing Zhengjun Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230312021543.3060328-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf stat: Use counts rather than saved_value

2023-02-19T11:10:25+00:00

Switch the hard coded metrics to use the aggregate value rather than from saved_value. When computing a metric like IPC the aggregate count comes from instructions then cycles is looked up and if present IPC computed. Rather than lookup from the saved_value rbtree, search the counter's evlist for the desired counter. A new helper evsel__stat_type is used to both quickly find a metric function and to identify when a counter is the one being sought. So that both total and miss counts can be sought, the stat_type enum is expanded. The ratio functions are rewritten to share a common helper with the ratios being directly passed rather than computed from an enum value. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexandre Torgue Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Caleb Biggers Cc: Eduard Zingerman Cc: Florian Fischer Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jing Zhang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Kajol Jain Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Maxime Coquelin Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Perry Taylor Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ravi Bangoria Cc: Sandipan Das Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Xing Zhengjun Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230219092848.639226-51-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo