linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/util/pmu.c, branch v4.9.42

perf list jevents: Add support for event list topics

2016-10-04T00:35:47+00:00

Add support to group the output of perf list by the Topic field in the
JSON file.

Example output:

% perf list
...
Cache:
  l1d.replacement
       [L1D data line replacements]
  l1d_pend_miss.pending
       [L1D miss oustandings duration in cycles]
  l1d_pend_miss.pending_cycles
       [Cycles with L1D load Misses outstanding]
  l2_l1d_wb_rqsts.all
       [Not rejected writebacks from L1D to L2 cache lines in any state]
  l2_l1d_wb_rqsts.hit_e
       [Not rejected writebacks from L1D to L2 cache lines in E state]
  l2_l1d_wb_rqsts.hit_m
       [Not rejected writebacks from L1D to L2 cache lines in M state]

...
Pipeline:
  arith.fpu_div
       [Divide operations executed]
  arith.fpu_div_active
       [Cycles when divider is busy executing divide operations]
  baclears.any
       [Counts the total number when the front end is resteered, mainly
       when the BPU cannot provide a correct prediction and this is
       corrected by other branch handling mechanisms at the front end]
  br_inst_exec.all_branches
       [Speculative and retired branches]
  br_inst_exec.all_conditional
       [Speculative and retired macro-conditional branches]
  br_inst_exec.all_direct_jmp
       [Speculative and retired macro-unconditional branches excluding
       calls and indirects]
  br_inst_exec.all_direct_near_call
       [Speculative and retired direct near calls]
  br_inst_exec.all_indirect_jump_non_call_ret

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-14-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf list: Support long jevents descriptions

2016-10-04T00:35:47+00:00

Previously we were dropping the useful longer descriptions that some
events have in the event list completely. This patch makes them appear with
perf list.

Old perf list:

baclears:
  baclears.all
       [Counts the number of baclears]

vs new:

perf list -v:
...
baclears:
  baclears.all
       [The BACLEARS event counts the number of times the front end is
        resteered, mainly when the Branch Prediction Unit cannot provide
        a correct prediction and this is corrected by the Branch Address
        Calculator at the front end. The BACLEARS.ANY event counts the
        number of baclears for any type of branch]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-13-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf pmu: Add override support for event list CPUID

2016-10-04T00:35:46+00:00

Add a PERF_CPUID variable to override the CPUID of the current CPU
(within the current architecture). This is useful for testing, so that
all event lists can be tested on a single system.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-10-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf list: Add a --no-desc flag

2016-10-04T00:35:45+00:00

Add a --no-desc flag to 'perf list' to not print the event descriptions
that were earlier added for JSON events. This may be useful to get a
less crowded listing.

It's still default to print descriptions as that is the more useful
default for most users.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-9-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Query terminal width and use in perf list

2016-10-04T00:35:45+00:00

Automatically adapt the now wider and word wrapped perf list output to
wider terminals. This requires querying the terminal before the auto
pager takes over, and exporting this information from the pager
subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-8-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf pmu: Support alias descriptions

2016-10-04T00:34:54+00:00

Add support to print alias descriptions in perf list, which are taken
from the generated event files.

The sorting code is changed to put the events with descriptions at the
end. The descriptions are printed as possibly multiple word wrapped
lines.

Example output:

% perf list
...
  arith.fpu_div
       [Divide operations executed]
  arith.fpu_div_active
       [Cycles when divider is busy executing divide operations]

Committer notes:

Further testing on a Broadwell machine (ThinkPad t450s), using these
files:

  $ find tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/
  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/
  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell
  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Cache.json
  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Other.json
  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Frontend.json
  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Virtual-Memory.json
  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Pipeline.json
  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Floating-point.json
  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Memory.json
  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/mapfile.csv
  $

Taken from:

https://github.com/sukadev/linux/tree/json-code+data-v21/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/

to get this machinery to actually parse JSON files, generate
$(OUTPUT)pmu-events/pmu-events.c, compile it and link it with perf, that
will then use the table it contains, these files will be submitted right
after this patchkit.

  [acme@jouet linux]$ perf list page_walker

  List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):

    page_walker_loads.dtlb_l1
         [Number of DTLB page walker hits in the L1+FB]
    page_walker_loads.dtlb_l2
         [Number of DTLB page walker hits in the L2]
    page_walker_loads.dtlb_l3
         [Number of DTLB page walker hits in the L3 + XSNP]
    page_walker_loads.dtlb_memory
         [Number of DTLB page walker hits in Memory]
    page_walker_loads.itlb_l1
         [Number of ITLB page walker hits in the L1+FB]
    page_walker_loads.itlb_l2
         [Number of ITLB page walker hits in the L2]
    page_walker_loads.itlb_l3
         [Number of ITLB page walker hits in the L3 + XSNP]

[acme@jouet linux]$

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-7-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf pmu: Use pmu_events table to create aliases

2016-10-03T22:58:00+00:00

At run time (when 'perf' is starting up), locate the specific table of
PMU events that corresponds to the current CPU. Using that table, create
aliases for the each of the PMU events in the CPU. The use these aliases
to parse the user specified perf event.

In short this would allow the user to specify events using their aliases
rather than raw event codes.

Based on input and some earlier patches from Andi Kleen, Jiri Olsa.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-4-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Make pmu_add_cpu_aliases() return void, since it was returning just '0' and
  furthermore, even that was being discarded via an explicit (void) cast ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf pmu: Support alternative sysfs cpumask

2016-09-08T16:44:06+00:00

The perf tools can read a cpumask file for a PMU, describing a subset of
CPUs which that PMU covers. So far this has only been used to cater for
uncore PMUs, which in practice happen to only have a single CPU
described in the mask.

Until recently, the perf tools only correctly handled cpumask containing
a single CPU, and only when monitoring in system-wide mode. For example,
prior to commit 00e727bb389359c8 ("perf stat: Balance opening and
reading events"), a mask with more than a single CPU could cause perf
stat to hang. When a CPU PMU covers a subset of CPUs, but lacks a
cpumask, perf record will fail to open events (on the cores the PMU does
not support), and gives up.

For systems with heterogeneous CPUs such as ARM big.LITTLE systems, this
presents a problem. We have a PMU for each microarchitecture (e.g. a big
PMU and a little PMU), and would like to expose a cpumask for each (so
as to allow perf record and other tools to do the right thing). However,
doing so kernel-side will cause old perf binaries to not function (e.g.
hitting the issue solved by 00e727bb389359c8), and thus commits the
cardinal sin of breaking (existing) userspace.

To address this chicken-and-egg problem, this patch adds support got a
new file, cpus, which is largely identical to the existing cpumask file.
A kernel can expose this file, knowing that new perf binaries will
correctly support it, while old perf binaries will not look for it (and
thus will not be broken).

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473330112-28528-8-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf pmu: Make pmu_formats_string to check return value of strbuf

2016-05-10T14:57:52+00:00

Make pmu_formats_string() to check return value of strbuf APIs so that
it can detect errors in it.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160510054744.6158.37810.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix PMU term format max value calculation

2016-04-01T21:46:24+00:00

Currently the max value of format is calculated by the bits number. It
relies on the continuity of the format.

However, uncore event format is not continuous. E.g. uncore qpi event
format can be 0-7,21.

If bit 21 is set, there is parsing issues as below.

  $ perf stat -a -e uncore_qpi_0/event=0x200002,umask=0x8/
  event syntax error: '..pi_0/event=0x200002,umask=0x8/'
                                    \___ value too big for format, maximum is 511

This patch return the real max value by setting all possible bits to 1.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459365375-14285-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo