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<updated>2025-07-24T20:41:35+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>perf pmus: Factor perf_pmus__find_by_attr out of evsel__find_pmu</title>
<updated>2025-07-24T20:41:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-19T03:05:11+00:00</published>
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Allow a PMU to be found by a perf_event_attr, useful when creating
evsels.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Falcon &lt;thomas.falcon@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250719030517.1990983-10-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf hwmon_pmu: Hold path rather than fd</title>
<updated>2025-07-03T02:05:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-24T19:03:23+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Hold the path to the hwmon_pmu rather than the file descriptor. The
file descriptor is somewhat problematic in that it reflects the
directory state when opened, something that may vary in testing. Using
a path simplifies testing and to some extent cleanup as the hwmon_pmu
is owned by the pmus list and intentionally global and leaked when
perf terminates, the file descriptor being left open looks like a
leak.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250624190326.2038704-4-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: move perf_pmus__find_core_pmu() prototype to pmus.h</title>
<updated>2025-06-26T17:51:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Falcon</name>
<email>thomas.falcon@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-12T16:36:58+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
perf_pmus__find_core_pmu() is implemented in util/pmus.c but its
prototpye is in util/pmu.h. Move it to util/pmus.h.

Suggested-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon &lt;thomas.falcon@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612163659.1357950-1-thomas.falcon@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf parse-events: Avoid scanning PMUs that can't contain events</title>
<updated>2025-06-25T18:12:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-24T23:18:35+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:e1ec69ed5ded5351efb04218dcab9d79ab018ac5</id>
<content type='text'>
Add perf_pmus__scan_for_event that only reads sysfs for pmus that
could contain a given event.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250624231837.179536-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf util: Remove unused perf_pmus__default_pmu_name</title>
<updated>2025-03-10T18:31:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dr. David Alan Gilbert</name>
<email>linux@treblig.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-05T02:31:19+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
perf_pmus__default_pmu_name() last use was removed by 2023's
commit e3edd6cf6399 ("perf pmu-events: Reduce processed events by passing
PMU")

Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;linux@treblig.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305023120.155420-6-linux@treblig.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf test: Add hwmon "PMU" test</title>
<updated>2024-11-09T16:28:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-09T00:37:58+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Based on a mix of the sysfs PMU test (for creating the reference
files) and the tool PMU test, test that parsing given hwmon events
with there aliases creates the expected config values.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshihiro Furudera &lt;fj5100bi@fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Howard Chu &lt;howardchu95@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ze Gao &lt;zegao2021@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Junhao He &lt;hejunhao3@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Weilin Wang &lt;weilin.wang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Athira Jajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241109003759.473460-7-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf pmus: Fake PMU clean up</title>
<updated>2024-09-11T14:27:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-07T05:08:17+00:00</published>
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Rather than passing a fake PMU around, just pass that the fake PMU
should be used - true when doing testing. Move the fake PMU into
pmus.[ch] and try to abstract the PMU's properties in pmu.c, ie so
there is less "if fake_pmu" in non-PMU code. Give the fake PMU a made
up type number.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Athira Rajeev &lt;atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Gray &lt;bgray@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Clément Le Goffic &lt;clement.legoffic@foss.st.com&gt;
Cc: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.i.king@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;linux@treblig.org&gt;
Cc: Howard Chu &lt;howardchu95@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jing Zhang &lt;renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Junhao He &lt;hejunhao3@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Leach &lt;mike.leach@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Sandipan Das &lt;sandipan.das@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Sun Haiyong &lt;sunhaiyong@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: Veronika Molnarova &lt;vmolnaro@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Weilin Wang &lt;weilin.wang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xu Yang &lt;xu.yang_2@nxp.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Jihong &lt;yangjihong@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Yicong Yang &lt;yangyicong@hisilicon.com&gt;
Cc: Ze Gao &lt;zegao2021@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240907050830.6752-3-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf pmus: Sort/merge/aggregate PMUs like mrvl_ddr_pmu</title>
<updated>2024-05-28T18:29:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-15T06:01:13+00:00</published>
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The mrvl_ddr_pmu is uncore and has a hexadecimal address suffix while
the previous PMU sorting/merging code assumes uncore PMU names start
with uncore_ and have a decimal suffix. Because of the previous
assumption it isn't possible to wildcard the mrvl_ddr_pmu.

Modify pmu_name_len_no_suffix but also remove the suffix number out
argument, this is because we don't know if a suffix number of say 100
is in hexadecimal or decimal. As the only use of the suffix number is
in comparisons, it is safe there to compare the values as hexadecimal.
Modify perf_pmu__match_ignoring_suffix so that hexadecimal suffixes
are ignored.

Only allow hexadecimal suffixes to be greater than length 2 (ie 3 or
more) so that S390's cpum_cf PMU doesn't lose its suffix.

Change the return type of pmu_name_len_no_suffix to size_t to
workaround GCC incorrectly determining the result could be negative.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Bharat Bhushan &lt;bbhushan2@marvell.com&gt;
Cc: Bhaskara Budiredla &lt;bbudiredla@marvell.com&gt;
Cc: Tuan Phan &lt;tuanphan@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240515060114.3268149-2-irogers@google.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf test pmu: Refactor format test and exposed test APIs</title>
<updated>2024-05-03T20:08:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-02T21:35:04+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
In tests/pmu.c, make a common utility that creates a PMU in a mkdtemp
directory and uses regular PMU parsing logic to load that PMU. Formats
must still be eagerly loaded as by default the PMU code assumes devices
are going to be in sysfs.

In util/pmu.[ch], hide perf_pmu__format_parse but add the eager argument
to perf_pmu__lookup called by perf_pmus__add_test_pmu. Later patches
will eagerly load other non-sysfs files when eager loading is enabled.

In tests/pmu.c, rather than manually constructing a list of term
arguments, just use the term parsing code from a string.

Add more comments and debug logging.

Reviewed-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jing Zhang &lt;renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240502213507.2339733-4-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf list: Give more details about raw event encodings</title>
<updated>2024-03-21T13:41:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-08T00:19:13+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
List all the PMUs, not just the first core one, and list real format
specifiers with value ranges.

Before:

  $ perf list
  ...
    rNNN                                               [Raw hardware event descriptor]
    cpu/t1=v1[,t2=v2,t3 ...]/modifier                  [Raw hardware event descriptor]
         [(see 'man perf-list' on how to encode it)]
    mem:&lt;addr&gt;[/len][:access]                          [Hardware breakpoint]
  ...

After:

  $ perf list
  ...
    rNNN                                               [Raw event descriptor]
    cpu/event=0..255,pc,edge,.../modifier              [Raw event descriptor]
         [(see 'man perf-list' or 'man perf-record' on how to encode it)]
    breakpoint//modifier                               [Raw event descriptor]
    cstate_core/event=0..0xffffffffffffffff/modifier   [Raw event descriptor]
    cstate_pkg/event=0..0xffffffffffffffff/modifier    [Raw event descriptor]
    i915/i915_eventid=0..0x1fffff/modifier             [Raw event descriptor]
    intel_bts//modifier                                [Raw event descriptor]
    intel_pt/ptw,event,cyc_thresh=0..15,.../modifier   [Raw event descriptor]
    kprobe/retprobe/modifier                           [Raw event descriptor]
    msr/event=0..0xffffffffffffffff/modifier           [Raw event descriptor]
    power/event=0..255/modifier                        [Raw event descriptor]
    software//modifier                                 [Raw event descriptor]
    tracepoint//modifier                               [Raw event descriptor]
    uncore_arb/event=0..255,edge,inv,.../modifier      [Raw event descriptor]
    uncore_cbox/event=0..255,edge,inv,.../modifier     [Raw event descriptor]
    uncore_clock/event=0..255/modifier                 [Raw event descriptor]
    uncore_imc_free_running/event=0..255,umask=0..255/modifier[Raw event descriptor]
    uprobe/ref_ctr_offset=0..0xffffffff,retprobe/modifier[Raw event descriptor]
    mem:&lt;addr&gt;[/len][:access]                          [Hardware breakpoint]
  ...

With '--details' provide more details on the formats encoding:

  cpu/event=0..255,pc,edge,.../modifier              [Raw event descriptor]
       [(see 'man perf-list' or 'man perf-record' on how to encode it)]
        cpu/event=0..255,pc,edge,offcore_rsp=0..0xffffffffffffffff,ldlat=0..0xffff,inv,
        umask=0..255,frontend=0..0xffffff,cmask=0..255,config=0..0xffffffffffffffff,
        config1=0..0xffffffffffffffff,config2=0..0xffffffffffffffff,config3=0..0xffffffffffffffff,
        name=string,period=number,freq=number,branch_type=(u|k|hv|any|...),time,
        call-graph=(fp|dwarf|lbr),stack-size=number,max-stack=number,nr=number,inherit,no-inherit,
        overwrite,no-overwrite,percore,aux-output,aux-sample-size=number/modifier
  breakpoint//modifier                               [Raw event descriptor]
        breakpoint//modifier
  cstate_core/event=0..0xffffffffffffffff/modifier   [Raw event descriptor]
        cstate_core/event=0..0xffffffffffffffff/modifier
  cstate_pkg/event=0..0xffffffffffffffff/modifier    [Raw event descriptor]
        cstate_pkg/event=0..0xffffffffffffffff/modifier
  i915/i915_eventid=0..0x1fffff/modifier             [Raw event descriptor]
        i915/i915_eventid=0..0x1fffff/modifier
  intel_bts//modifier                                [Raw event descriptor]
        intel_bts//modifier
  intel_pt/ptw,event,cyc_thresh=0..15,.../modifier   [Raw event descriptor]
        intel_pt/ptw,event,cyc_thresh=0..15,pt,notnt,branch,tsc,pwr_evt,fup_on_ptw,cyc,noretcomp,
        mtc,psb_period=0..15,mtc_period=0..15/modifier
  kprobe/retprobe/modifier                           [Raw event descriptor]
        kprobe/retprobe/modifier
  msr/event=0..0xffffffffffffffff/modifier           [Raw event descriptor]
        msr/event=0..0xffffffffffffffff/modifier
  power/event=0..255/modifier                        [Raw event descriptor]
        power/event=0..255/modifier
  software//modifier                                 [Raw event descriptor]
        software//modifier
  tracepoint//modifier                               [Raw event descriptor]
        tracepoint//modifier
  uncore_arb/event=0..255,edge,inv,.../modifier      [Raw event descriptor]
        uncore_arb/event=0..255,edge,inv,umask=0..255,cmask=0..31/modifier
  uncore_cbox/event=0..255,edge,inv,.../modifier     [Raw event descriptor]
        uncore_cbox/event=0..255,edge,inv,umask=0..255,cmask=0..31/modifier
  uncore_clock/event=0..255/modifier                 [Raw event descriptor]
        uncore_clock/event=0..255/modifier
  uncore_imc_free_running/event=0..255,umask=0..255/modifier[Raw event descriptor]
        uncore_imc_free_running/event=0..255,umask=0..255/modifier
  uprobe/ref_ctr_offset=0..0xffffffff,retprobe/modifier[Raw event descriptor]
        uprobe/ref_ctr_offset=0..0xffffffff,retprobe/modifier

Committer notes:

Address this build error in various distros:

  55    58.44 ubuntu:24.04                  : FAIL gcc version 13.2.0 (Ubuntu 13.2.0-17ubuntu2)
    util/pmu.c:1638:70: error: '_Static_assert' with no message is a C2x extension [-Werror,-Wc2x-extensions]
     1638 |         _Static_assert(ARRAY_SIZE(terms) == __PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NR - 6);
          |                                                                             ^
          |                                                                             , ""
    1 error generated.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Jihong &lt;yangjihong1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308001915.4060155-5-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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