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authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>2024-05-24 23:52:27 +0300
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2024-05-30 20:05:57 +0300
commitaf752016340021d433a962063067e819dba889b1 (patch)
tree4cfbd4d243d26cffcf9955d15c72f3ad2d278805 /tools/perf/builtin-top.c
parentd92aa899fe0a66350303a1986d6dc7ec4b3a1ea7 (diff)
downloadlinux-af752016340021d433a962063067e819dba889b1.tar.xz
perf top: Allow filters on events
Allow filters to be added to perf top events. One use is to workaround issues with: ``` $ perf top --uid="$(id -u)" ``` which tries to scan /proc find processes belonging to the uid and can fail in such a pid terminates between the scan and the perf_event_open reporting: ``` Error: The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 3 (No such process) for event (cycles:P). /bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information. ``` A similar filter: ``` $ perf top -e cycles:P --filter "uid == $(id -u)" ``` doesn't fail this way. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com> Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240524205227.244375-4-irogers@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-top.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-top.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 1d6aef51c122..e8cbbf10d361 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -1055,6 +1055,13 @@ try_again:
}
}
+ if (evlist__apply_filters(evlist, &counter)) {
+ pr_err("failed to set filter \"%s\" on event %s with %d (%s)\n",
+ counter->filter ?: "BPF", evsel__name(counter), errno,
+ str_error_r(errno, msg, sizeof(msg)));
+ goto out_err;
+ }
+
if (evlist__mmap(evlist, opts->mmap_pages) < 0) {
ui__error("Failed to mmap with %d (%s)\n",
errno, str_error_r(errno, msg, sizeof(msg)));
@@ -1462,6 +1469,8 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv)
OPT_CALLBACK('e', "event", &parse_events_option_args, "event",
"event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events",
parse_events_option),
+ OPT_CALLBACK(0, "filter", &top.evlist, "filter",
+ "event filter", parse_filter),
OPT_U64('c', "count", &opts->user_interval, "event period to sample"),
OPT_STRING('p', "pid", &target->pid, "pid",
"profile events on existing process id"),