kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y, branch linux-7.1.y

perf parse-events: Remove hard coded legacy hardware and cache parsing

2025-10-15T14:59:11+00:00

Now that legacy hardware and cache events are in json, having the lexer match the specific event is no longer necessary and generic PMU parsing can take place. Because of this remove the specific term parsing, event adding, and passing of alternate_hw_config which was now always PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX. This mirrors a similar change for software events in commit 6e9fa4131abb ("perf parse-events: Remove non-json software events"). With no hard coded legacy hardware or cache events the wild card, case insensitivity, etc. is consistent for events. This does, however, mean events like cycles will wild card against all PMUs. A change does the same was originally posted and merged from: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240416061533.921723-10-irogers@google.com and reverted by Linus in commit 4f1b067359ac ("Revert "perf parse-events: Prefer sysfs/JSON hardware events over legacy"") due to his dislike for the cycles behavior on ARM. Earlier patches in this series make perf record event opening failures non-fatal and hide the cycles event's failure to open on ARM in perf record, so it is expected the behavior will now be transparent in perf record. perf stat with a cycles event will wildcard open the event on all PMUs. As cycles is a "default event", the perf stat behavior for default events was updated to only open them on core/software PMUs. The change to support legacy events with PMUs was done to clean up Intel's hybrid PMU implementation. Having sysfs/json events with increased priority to legacy was requested by Mark Rutland to fix Apple-M PMU issues wrt broken legacy events on that PMU. It was requested that RISC-V be able to add events to the perf tool json so the PMU driver didn't need to map legacy events to config encodings: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240217005738.3744121-1-atishp@rivosinc.com/ A previous series of patches decreasing legacy hardware event priorities was posted in: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250416045117.876775-1-irogers@google.com/ Namhyung Kim mentioned that hardware and software events can be implemented similarly: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aIJmJns2lopxf3EK@google.com/ Tested-by: Thomas Richter Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf parse-events: Fix legacy cache events if event is duplicated in a PMU

2025-10-15T14:59:10+00:00

The term list when adding an event to a PMU is expected to have the event name for the alias lookup. Also, set found_supported so that -EINVAL isn't returned. Fixes: 62593394f66a ("perf parse-events: Legacy cache names on all PMUs and lower priority") Tested-by: Thomas Richter Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf parse-events: Remove non-json software events

2025-07-26T23:31:43+00:00

Remove the hard coded encodings from parse-events. This has the consequence that software events are matched using the sysfs/json priority, will be case insensitive and will be wildcarded across PMUs. As there were software and hardware types in the parsing code, the removal means software vs hardware logic can be removed and hardware assumed. Now the perf json provides detailed descriptions of software events, remove the previous listing support that didn't contain event descriptions. When globbing is required for the "sw" option in perf list, use string PMU globbing as was done previously for the tool PMU. The output of `perf list sw` command changed like this. Before: List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M): alignment-faults [Software event] bpf-output [Software event] cgroup-switches [Software event] context-switches OR cs [Software event] cpu-clock [Software event] cpu-migrations OR migrations [Software event] dummy [Software event] emulation-faults [Software event] major-faults [Software event] minor-faults [Software event] page-faults OR faults [Software event] task-clock [Software event] After: List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M): software: alignment-faults [Number of kernel handled memory alignment faults. Unit: software] bpf-output [An event used by BPF programs to write to the perf ring buffer. Unit: software] cgroup-switches [Number of context switches to a task in a different cgroup. Unit: software] context-switches [Number of context switches [This event is an alias of cs]. Unit: software] cpu-clock [Per-CPU high-resolution timer based event. Unit: software] cpu-migrations [Number of times a process has migrated to a new CPU [This event is an alias of migrations]. Unit: software] cs [Number of context switches [This event is an alias of context-switches]. Unit: software] dummy [A placeholder event that doesn't count anything. Unit: software] ... Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250725185202.68671-4-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tool_pmu: Factor tool events into their own PMU

2024-10-11T06:40:32+00:00

Rather than treat tool events as a special kind of event, create a tool only PMU where the events/aliases match the existing duration_time, user_time and system_time events. Remove special parsing and printing support for the tool events, but add function calls for when PMU functions are called on a tool_pmu. Move the tool PMU code in evsel into tool_pmu.c to better encapsulate the tool event behavior in that file. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241002032016.333748-5-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

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

Revert "perf parse-events: Prefer sysfs/JSON hardware events over legacy"

2024-05-26T11:41:34+00:00

This reverts commit 617824a7f0f73e4de325cf8add58e55b28c12493. This made a simple 'perf record -e cycles:pp make -j199' stop working on the Ampere ARM64 system Linus uses to test ARM64 kernels, as discussed at length in the threads in the Link tags below. The fix provided by Ian wasn't acceptable and work to fix this will take time we don't have at this point, so lets revert this and work on it on the next devel cycle. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury Cc: Ethan Adams Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: Tycho Andersen Cc: Yang Jihong Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi5Ri=yR2jBVk-4HzTzpoAWOgstr1LEvg_-OXtJvXXJOA@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiWvtFyedDNpoV7a8Fq_FpbB+F5KmWK2xPY3QoYseOf_A@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf parse-events: pass parse_state to add_tracepoint

2024-05-10T13:49:09+00:00

The next patch will add another flag to parse_state that we will want to pass to evsel__newtp_idx(), so pass the whole parse_state all the way down instead of giving only the index Originally-by: Jiri Olsa Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240510-perf_digit-v4-1-db1553f3233b@codewreck.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf parse-events: Tidy the setting of the default event name

2024-04-27T01:07:21+00:00

Add comments. Pass ownership of the event name to save on a strdup. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: Kan Liang Tested-by: Atish Patra Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Beeman Strong Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240416061533.921723-17-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf parse-events: Minor grouping tidy up

2024-04-27T01:07:20+00:00

Add comments. Ensure leader->group_name is freed before overwriting it. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: Kan Liang Tested-by: Atish Patra Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Beeman Strong Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240416061533.921723-16-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf parse-events: Improvements to modifier parsing

2024-04-27T01:07:20+00:00

Use a struct/bitmap rather than a copied string from lexer. In lexer give improved error message when too many precise flags are given or repeated modifiers. Before: $ perf stat -e 'cycles:kuk' true event syntax error: 'cycles:kuk' \___ Bad modifier ... $ perf stat -e 'cycles:pppp' true event syntax error: 'cycles:pppp' \___ Bad modifier ... $ perf stat -e '{instructions:p,cycles:pp}:pp' -a true event syntax error: '..cycles:pp}:pp' \___ Bad modifier ... After: $ perf stat -e 'cycles:kuk' true event syntax error: 'cycles:kuk' \___ Duplicate modifier 'k' (kernel) ... $ perf stat -e 'cycles:pppp' true event syntax error: 'cycles:pppp' \___ Maximum precise value is 3 ... $ perf stat -e '{instructions:p,cycles:pp}:pp' true event syntax error: '..cycles:pp}:pp' \___ Maximum combined precise value is 3, adding precision to "cycles:pp" ... Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: Kan Liang Tested-by: Atish Patra Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Beeman Strong Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240416061533.921723-14-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo