linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h, branch v5.8-rc1

perf tools: Add optional support for libpfm4

2020-05-29T19:51:38+00:00

This patch links perf with the libpfm4 library if it is available and
LIBPFM4 is passed to the build. The libpfm4 library contains hardware
event tables for all processors supported by perf_events. It is a helper
library that helps convert from a symbolic event name to the event
encoding required by the underlying kernel interface. This library is
open-source and available from: http://perfmon2.sf.net.

With this patch, it is possible to specify full hardware events by name.
Hardware filters are also supported. Events must be specified via the
--pfm-events and not -e option. Both options are active at the same time
and it is possible to mix and match:

  $ perf stat --pfm-events inst_retired:any_p:c=1:i -e cycles ....

One needs to explicitely ask for its inclusion by using the LIBPFM4 make
command line option, ie its opt-in rather than opt-out of feature
detection and build support.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Alexey Budankov 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Florian Fainelli 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Igor Lubashev 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Jiwei Sun 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Yonghong Song 
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: yuzhoujian 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200505182943.218248-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf parse: Add 'struct parse_events_state' pointer to scanner

2020-05-28T13:03:28+00:00

We need to pass more data to the scanner so let's start with having it
to take pointer to 'struct parse_events_state' object instead of just
start token.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Michael Petlan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200524224219.234847-4-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf parse-events: Add parse_events_option() variant that creates evlist

2020-05-05T19:35:29+00:00

For the upcoming --switch-output-event option we want to create the side
band event, populate it with the specified events and then, if it is
present multiple times, go on adding to it, then, if the BPF tracking is
required, use the first event to set its attr.bpf_event to get those
PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT metadata events too.

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Song Liu 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200429131106.27974-5-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add aux-sample-size config term

2019-11-22T13:48:13+00:00

To allow individual events to be selected for AUX area sampling, add
aux-sample-size config term. attr.aux_sample_size is updated by
auxtrace_parse_sample_options() so that the existing validation will see
the value. Any event that has a non-zero aux_sample_size will cause AUX
area sampling to be configured, irrespective of the --aux-sample option.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191115124225.5247-8-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf parse: Report initial event parsing error

2019-11-18T22:14:29+00:00

Record the first event parsing error and report. Implementing feedback
from Jiri Olsa:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/28/680

An example error is:

  $ tools/perf/perf stat -e c/c/
  WARNING: multiple event parsing errors
  event syntax error: 'c/c/'
                         \___ unknown term

  valid terms: event,filter_rem,filter_opc0,edge,filter_isoc,filter_tid,filter_loc,filter_nc,inv,umask,filter_opc1,tid_en,thresh,filter_all_op,filter_not_nm,filter_state,filter_nm,config,config1,config2,name,period,percore

Initial error:

  event syntax error: 'c/c/'
                      \___ Cannot find PMU `c'. Missing kernel support?
  Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

   Usage: perf stat [] []

      -e, --event    event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Allison Randal 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Anju T Sudhakar 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ravi Bangoria 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Thomas Richter 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191116074652.9960-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf parse: Add a deep delete for parse event terms

2019-11-07T11:30:18+00:00

Add a parse_events_term deep delete function so that owned strings and
arrays are freed.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Song Liu 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Yonghong Song 
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191030223448.12930-10-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf parse: Add parse events handle error

2019-11-06T18:49:40+00:00

Parse event error handling may overwrite one error string with another
creating memory leaks. Introduce a helper routine that warns about
multiple error messages as well as avoiding the memory leak.

A reproduction of this problem can be seen with:

  perf stat -e c/c/

After this change this produces:
WARNING: multiple event parsing errors
event syntax error: 'c/c/'
                       \___ unknown term

valid terms: event,filter_rem,filter_opc0,edge,filter_isoc,filter_tid,filter_loc,filter_nc,inv,umask,filter_opc1,tid_en,thresh,filter_all_op,filter_not_nm,filter_state,filter_nm,config,config1,config2,name,period,percore
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

 Usage: perf stat [] []

    -e, --event    event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Song Liu 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Yonghong Song 
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191030223448.12930-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf list: Hide deprecated events by default

2019-10-19T18:35:01+00:00

There are some deprecated events listed by perf list. But we can't
remove them from perf list with ease because some old scripts may use
them.

Deprecated events are old names of renamed events.  When an event gets
renamed the old name is kept around for some time and marked with
Deprecated. The newer Intel event lists in the tree already have these
headers.

So we need to keep them in the event list, but provide a new option to
show them. The new option is "--deprecated".

With this patch, the deprecated events are hidden by default but they
can be displayed when option "--deprecated" is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191015025357.8708-1-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add aux-output config term

2019-08-14T13:59:59+00:00

Expose the aux_output attribute flag to the user to configure, by adding a
config term 'aux-output'. For events that support it, selection of
'aux-output' causes the generation of AUX records instead of event records.
This requires that an AUX area event is also provided.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806084606.4021-7-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Rename struct perf_evlist to struct evlist

2019-07-29T21:34:42+00:00

Rename struct perf_evlist to struct evlist, so we don't have a name
clash when we add struct perf_evlist in libperf.

Committer notes:

Added fixes to build on arm64, from Jiri and from me
(tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexey Budankov 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Michael Petlan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190721112506.12306-6-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo