linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c, branch v3.16-rc7

perf list: Fix checking for supported events on older kernels

2014-02-10T14:34:31+00:00

"perf list" listing of hardware events doesn't work on older ARM devices.
The change enabling event detection:

 commit b41f1cec91c37eeea6fdb15effbfa24ea0a5536b
 Author: Namhyung Kim 
 Date:   Tue Aug 27 11:41:53 2013 +0900

     perf list: Skip unsupported events

uses the following code in tools/perf/util/parse-events.c:

        struct perf_event_attr attr = {
                .type = type,
                .config = config,
                .disabled = 1,
                .exclude_kernel = 1,
        };

On ARM machines pre-dating the Cortex-A15 this doesn't work, as these
machines don't support .exclude_kernel.  So starting with 3.12 "perf
list" does not report any hardware events at all on older machines (seen
on Rasp-Pi, Pandaboard, Beagleboard, etc).

This version of the patch makes changes suggested by Namhyung Kim to
check for EACCESS and retry (instead of just dropping the
exclude_kernel) so we can properly handle machines where
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid is set to 2.

Reported-by: Chad Paradis 
Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Chad Paradis 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1312301536150.28814@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf stat: fix NULL pointer reference bug with event unit

2014-01-20T19:19:08+00:00

This patch fixes a problem with the handling of the newly introduced
optional event unit. The following cmdline caused a segfault:

 $ perf stat -e cpu/event-0x3c/ ls

This patch fixes the problem with the default setting for alias->unit
which was eventually causing the segfault.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389972846-6566-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Introduce evlist__for_each() & friends

2014-01-13T13:06:25+00:00

For the common evsel list traversal, so that it becomes more compact.

Use the opportunity to start ditching the 'perf_' from 'perf_evlist__',
as discussed, as the whole conversion touches a lot of places, lets do
it piecemeal when we have the chance due to other work, like in this
case.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qnkx7dzm2h6m6uptkfk03ni6@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use zfree to help detect use after free bugs

2013-12-27T20:08:19+00:00

Several areas already used this technique, so do some audit to
consistently use it elsewhere.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9sbere0kkplwe45ak6rk4a1f@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools/: Convert to new topic libraries

2013-12-16T19:03:27+00:00

Move debugfs.* to api/fs/. We have a common tools/lib/api/ place where
the Makefile lives and then we place the headers in subdirs.

For example, all the fs-related stuff goes to tools/lib/api/fs/ from
which we get libapikfs.a (acme got almost the naming he wanted :-)) and
we link it into the tools which need it - in this case perf and
tools/vm/page-types.

acme:

"Looking at the implementation, I think some tools can even link
directly to the .o files, avoiding the .a file altogether.

But that is just an optimization/finer granularity tools/lib/
cherrypicking that toolers can make use of."

Fixup documentation cleaning target while at it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386605664-24041-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools/perf/stat: Add event unit and scale support

2013-11-27T10:16:39+00:00

This patch adds perf stat support for handling event units and
scales as exported by the kernel.

The kernel can export PMU events actual unit and scaling factor
via sysfs:

  $ ls -1 /sys/devices/power/events/energy-*
  /sys/devices/power/events/energy-cores
  /sys/devices/power/events/energy-cores.scale
  /sys/devices/power/events/energy-cores.unit
  /sys/devices/power/events/energy-pkg
  /sys/devices/power/events/energy-pkg.scale
  /sys/devices/power/events/energy-pkg.unit
  $ cat /sys/devices/power/events/energy-cores.scale
  2.3283064365386962890625e-10
  $ cat cat /sys/devices/power/events/energy-cores.unit
  Joules

This patch modifies the pmu event alias code to check
for the presence of the .unit and .scale files to load
the corresponding values. They are then used by perf stat
transparently:

   # perf stat -a -e power/energy-pkg/,power/energy-cores/,cycles -I 1000 sleep 1000
   #          time             counts   unit events
       1.000214717               3.07 Joules power/energy-pkg/         [100.00%]
       1.000214717               0.53 Joules power/energy-cores/
       1.000214717           12965028        cycles                    [100.00%]
       2.000749289               3.01 Joules power/energy-pkg/
       2.000749289               0.52 Joules power/energy-cores/
       2.000749289           15817043        cycles

When the event does not have an explicit unit exported by
the kernel, nothing is printed. In csv output mode, there
will be an empty field.

Special thanks to Jiri for providing the supporting code
in the parser to trigger reading of the scale and unit files.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384275531-10892-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf evsel: Remove idx parm from constructor

2013-11-11T18:56:39+00:00

Most uses of the evsel constructor are followed by a call to
perf_evlist__add with an idex of evlist->nr_entries, so make rename
the current constructor to perf_evsel__new_idx and remove the need
for passing the constructor for the common case.

We still need the new_idx variant because the way groups are handled,
with evsel->nr_members holding the number of entries in an evlist,
partitioning the evlist into sublists inside a single linked list.

This asks for a clarifying refactoring, but for now simplify the non
parser cases, so that tool writers don't have to bother with evsel idx
setting.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zy9tskx6jqm2rmw7468zze2a@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf list: Show error if tracepoints not available

2013-10-21T20:33:22+00:00

Tracepoints are not visible in "perf list" on Fedora 19 because regular
users have no permission to /sys/kernel/debug by default. Show an error
message so that the user knows about it instead of assuming that
tracepoints are not supported on the system.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381867647-8594-1-git-send-email-penberg@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf list: Skip unsupported events

2013-09-02T17:58:21+00:00

Some hardware events might not be supported on a system.  Listing those
events seems meaningless and confusing to users.  Let's skip them.

Before:
  $ perf list cache | wc -l
  33

After:
  $ perf list cache | wc -l
  27

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377571313-14722-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add support for PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY

2013-09-02T17:58:20+00:00

Add support for the new dummy software event PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377975053-3811-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo