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2015-11-06perf bpf: Improve BPF related error messagesWang Nan1-3/+4
A series of bpf loader related error codes were introduced to help error reporting. Functions were improved to return these new error codes. Functions which return pointers were adjusted to encode error codes into return value using the ERR_PTR() interface. bpf_loader_strerror() was improved to convert these error messages to strings. It checks the error codes and calls libbpf_strerror() and strerror_r() accordingly, so caller don't need to consider checking the range of the error code. In bpf__strerror_load(), print kernel version of running kernel and the object's 'version' section to notify user how to fix his/her program. v1 -> v2: Use macro for error code. Fetch error message based on array index, eliminate for-loop. Print version strings. Before: # perf record -e ./test_kversion_nomatch_program.o sleep 1 event syntax error: './test_kversion_nomatch_program.o' \___ Failed to load program: Validate your program and check 'license'/'version' sections in your object SKIP After: # perf record -e ./test_kversion_nomatch_program.o ls event syntax error: './test_kversion_nomatch_program.o' \___ 'version' (4.4.0) doesn't match running kernel (4.3.0) SKIP Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Add 'static inline' to bpf__strerror_prepare_load() when LIBBPF is disabled ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-11-06bpf tools: Improve libbpf error reportingWang Nan1-2/+2
In this patch, a series of libbpf specific error numbers and libbpf_strerror() are introduced to help reporting errors. Functions are updated to pass correct the error number through the CHECK_ERR() macro. All users of bpf_object__open{_buffer}() and bpf_program__title() in perf are modified accordingly. In addition, due to the error codes changing, bpf__strerror_load() is also modified to use them. bpf__strerror_head() is also changed accordingly so it can parse libbpf errors. bpf_loader_strerror() is introduced for that purpose, and will be improved by the following patch. load_program() is improved not to dump log buffer if it is empty. log buffer is also used to deduce whether the error was caused by an invalid program or other problem. v1 -> v2: - Using macro for error code. - Fetch error message based on array index, eliminate for-loop. - Use log buffer to detect the reason of failure. 3 new error code are introduced to replace LIBBPF_ERRNO__LOAD. In v1: # perf record -e ./test_ill_program.o ls event syntax error: './test_ill_program.o' \___ Failed to load program: Validate your program and check 'license'/'version' sections in your object SKIP # perf record -e ./test_kversion_nomatch_program.o ls event syntax error: './test_kversion_nomatch_program.o' \___ Failed to load program: Validate your program and check 'license'/'version' sections in your object SKIP # perf record -e ./test_big_program.o ls event syntax error: './test_big_program.o' \___ Failed to load program: Validate your program and check 'license'/'version' sections in your object SKIP In v2: # perf record -e ./test_ill_program.o ls event syntax error: './test_ill_program.o' \___ Kernel verifier blocks program loading SKIP # perf record -e ./test_kversion_nomatch_program.o event syntax error: './test_kversion_nomatch_program.o' \___ Incorrect kernel version SKIP (Will be further improved by following patches) # perf record -e ./test_big_program.o event syntax error: './test_big_program.o' \___ Program too big SKIP Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-10-29perf tools: Compile scriptlets to BPF objects when passing '.c' to --eventWang Nan1-2/+3
This patch provides infrastructure for passing source files to --event directly using: # perf record --event bpf-file.c command This patch does following works: 1) Allow passing '.c' file to '--event'. parse_events_load_bpf() is expanded to allow caller tell it whether the passed file is source file or object. 2) llvm__compile_bpf() is called to compile the '.c' file, the result is saved into memory. Use bpf_object__open_buffer() to load the in-memory object. Introduces a bpf-script-example.c so we can manually test it: # perf record --clang-opt "-DLINUX_VERSION_CODE=0x40200" --event ./bpf-script-example.c sleep 1 Note that '--clang-opt' must put before '--event'. Futher patches will merge it into a testcase so can be tested automatically. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Kaixu Xia <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: He Kuang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-10-29perf bpf: Attach eBPF filter to perf eventWang Nan1-0/+6
This is the final patch which makes basic BPF filter work. After applying this patch, users are allowed to use BPF filter like: # perf record --event ./hello_world.o ls A bpf_fd field is appended to 'struct evsel', and setup during the callback function add_bpf_event() for each 'probe_trace_event'. PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF ioctl is used to attach eBPF program to a newly created perf event. The file descriptor of the eBPF program is passed to perf record using previous patches, and stored into evsel->bpf_fd. It is possible that different perf event are created for one kprobe events for different CPUs. In this case, when trying to call the ioctl, EEXIST will be return. This patch doesn't treat it as an error. Committer note: The bpf proggie used so far: __attribute__((section("fork=_do_fork"), used)) int fork(void *ctx) { return 0; } char _license[] __attribute__((section("license"), used)) = "GPL"; int _version __attribute__((section("version"), used)) = 0x40300; failed to produce any samples, even with forks happening and it being running in system wide mode. That is because now the filter is being associated, and the code above always returns zero, meaning that all forks will be probed but filtered away ;-/ Change it to 'return 1;' instead and after that: # trace --no-syscalls --event /tmp/foo.o 0.000 perf_bpf_probe:fork:(ffffffff8109be30)) 2.333 perf_bpf_probe:fork:(ffffffff8109be30)) 3.725 perf_bpf_probe:fork:(ffffffff8109be30)) 4.550 perf_bpf_probe:fork:(ffffffff8109be30)) ^C# And it works with all tools, including 'perf trace'. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Kaixu Xia <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-10-28perf bpf: Collect perf_evsel in BPF object filesWang Nan1-7/+45
This patch creates a 'struct perf_evsel' for every probe in a BPF object file(s) and fills 'struct evlist' with them. The previously introduced dummy event is now removed. After this patch, the following command: # perf record --event filter.o ls Can trace on each of the probes defined in filter.o. The core of this patch is bpf__foreach_tev(), which calls a callback function for each 'struct probe_trace_event' event for a bpf program with each associated file descriptors. The add_bpf_event() callback creates evsels by calling parse_events_add_tracepoint(). Since bpf-loader.c will not be built if libbpf is turned off, an empty bpf__foreach_tev() is defined in bpf-loader.h to avoid build errors. Committer notes: Before: # /tmp/oldperf record --event /tmp/foo.o -a usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.198 MB perf.data ] # perf evlist /tmp/foo.o # perf evlist -v /tmp/foo.o: type: 1, size: 112, config: 0x9, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 I.e. we create just the PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE (type: 1), PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY(config 0x9) event, now, with this patch: # perf record --event /tmp/foo.o -a usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.210 MB perf.data ] # perf evlist -v perf_bpf_probe:fork: type: 2, size: 112, config: 0x6bd, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|RAW, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 # We now have a PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE (type: 1), but the config states 0x6bd, which is how, after setting up the event via the kprobes interface, the 'perf_bpf_probe:fork' event is accessible via the perf_event_open syscall. This is all transient, as soon as the 'perf record' session ends, these probes will go away. To see how it looks like, lets try doing a neverending session, one that expects a control+C to end: # perf record --event /tmp/foo.o -a So, with that in place, we can use 'perf probe' to see what is in place: # perf probe -l perf_bpf_probe:fork (on _do_fork@acme/git/linux/kernel/fork.c) We also can use debugfs: [root@felicio ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events p:perf_bpf_probe/fork _text+638512 Ok, now lets stop and see if we got some forks: [root@felicio linux]# perf record --event /tmp/foo.o -a ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.325 MB perf.data (111 samples) ] [root@felicio linux]# perf script sshd 1271 [003] 81797.507678: perf_bpf_probe:fork: (ffffffff8109be30) sshd 18309 [000] 81797.524917: perf_bpf_probe:fork: (ffffffff8109be30) sshd 18309 [001] 81799.381603: perf_bpf_probe:fork: (ffffffff8109be30) sshd 18309 [001] 81799.408635: perf_bpf_probe:fork: (ffffffff8109be30) <SNIP> Sure enough, we have 111 forks :-) Callchains seems to work as well: # perf report --stdio --no-child # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 562 of event 'perf_bpf_probe:fork' # Event count (approx.): 562 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ........ ................ ............ # 44.66% sh [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _do_fork | ---_do_fork entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath __libc_fork make_child 26.16% make [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _do_fork <SNIP> # Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Kaixu Xia <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-10-28perf tools: Load eBPF object into kernelWang Nan1-0/+6
This patch utilizes bpf_object__load() provided by libbpf to load all objects into kernel. Committer notes: Testing it: When using an incorrect kernel version number, i.e., having this in your eBPF proggie: int _version __attribute__((section("version"), used)) = 0x40100; For a 4.3.0-rc6+ kernel, say, this happens and needs checking at event parsing time, to provide a better error report to the user: # perf record --event /tmp/foo.o sleep 1 libbpf: load bpf program failed: Invalid argument libbpf: -- BEGIN DUMP LOG --- libbpf: libbpf: -- END LOG -- libbpf: failed to load program 'fork=_do_fork' libbpf: failed to load object '/tmp/foo.o' event syntax error: '/tmp/foo.o' \___ Invalid argument: Are you root and runing a CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL kernel? (add -v to see detail) Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] -e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events If we instead make it match, i.e. use 0x40300 on this v4.3.0-rc6+ kernel, the whole process goes thru: # perf record --event /tmp/foo.o -a usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.202 MB perf.data ] # perf evlist -v /tmp/foo.o: type: 1, size: 112, config: 0x9, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 # Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Kaixu Xia <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-10-28perf tools: Create probe points for BPF programsWang Nan1-0/+17
This patch introduces bpf__{un,}probe() functions to enable callers to create kprobe points based on section names a BPF program. It parses the section names in the program and creates corresponding 'struct perf_probe_event' structures. The parse_perf_probe_command() function is used to do the main parsing work. The resuling 'struct perf_probe_event' is stored into program private data for further using. By utilizing the new probing API, this patch creates probe points during event parsing. To ensure probe points be removed correctly, register an atexit hook so even perf quit through exit() bpf__clear() is still called, so probing points are cleared. Note that bpf_clear() should be registered before bpf__probe() is called, so failure of bpf__probe() can still trigger bpf__clear() to remove probe points which are already probed. strerror style error reporting scaffold is created by this patch. bpf__strerror_probe() is the first error reporting function in bpf-loader.c. Committer note: Trying it: To build a test eBPF object file: I am testing using a script I built from the 'perf test -v LLVM' output: $ cat ~/bin/hello-ebpf export KERNEL_INC_OPTIONS="-nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/include -I/home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated -I/home/acme/git/linux/include -Iinclude -I/home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/home/acme/git/linux/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /home/acme/git/linux/include/linux/kconfig.h" export WORKING_DIR=/lib/modules/4.2.0/build export CLANG_SOURCE=- export CLANG_OPTIONS=-xc OBJ=/tmp/foo.o rm -f $OBJ echo '__attribute__((section("fork=do_fork"), used)) int fork(void *ctx) {return 0;} char _license[] __attribute__((section("license"), used)) = "GPL";int _version __attribute__((section("version"), used)) = 0x40100;' | \ clang -D__KERNEL__ $CLANG_OPTIONS $KERNEL_INC_OPTIONS -Wno-unused-value -Wno-pointer-sign -working-directory $WORKING_DIR -c "$CLANG_SOURCE" -target bpf -O2 -o /tmp/foo.o && file $OBJ --- First asking to put a probe in a function not present in the kernel (misses the initial _): $ perf record --event /tmp/foo.o sleep 1 Probe point 'do_fork' not found. event syntax error: '/tmp/foo.o' \___ You need to check probing points in BPF file (add -v to see detail) Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] -e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events $ --- Now, with "__attribute__((section("fork=_do_fork"), used)): $ grep _do_fork /proc/kallsyms ffffffff81099ab0 T _do_fork $ perf record --event /tmp/foo.o sleep 1 Failed to open kprobe_events: Permission denied event syntax error: '/tmp/foo.o' \___ Permission denied --- Cool, we need to provide some better hints, "kprobe_events" is too low level, one doesn't strictly need to know the precise details of how these things are put in place, so something that shows the command needed to fix the permissions would be more helpful. Lets try as root instead: # perf record --event /tmp/foo.o sleep 1 Lowering default frequency rate to 1000. Please consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate. [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.013 MB perf.data ] # perf evlist /tmp/foo.o [root@felicio ~]# perf evlist -v /tmp/foo.o: type: 1, size: 112, config: 0x9, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 --- Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Kaixu Xia <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-10-28perf tools: Enable passing bpf object file to --eventWang Nan1-0/+57
By introducing new rules in tools/perf/util/parse-events.[ly], this patch enables 'perf record --event bpf_file.o' to select events by an eBPF object file. It calls parse_events_load_bpf() to load that file, which uses bpf__prepare_load() and finally calls bpf_object__open() for the object files. After applying this patch, commands like: # perf record --event foo.o sleep become possible. However, at this point it is unable to link any useful things onto the evsel list because the creating of probe points and BPF program attaching have not been implemented. Before real events are possible to be extracted, to avoid perf report error because of empty evsel list, this patch link a dummy evsel. The dummy event related code will be removed when probing and extracting code is ready. Commiter notes: Using it: $ ls -la foo.o ls: cannot access foo.o: No such file or directory $ perf record --event foo.o sleep libbpf: failed to open foo.o: No such file or directory event syntax error: 'foo.o' \___ BPF object file 'foo.o' is invalid (add -v to see detail) Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] -e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events $ $ file /tmp/build/perf/perf.o /tmp/build/perf/perf.o: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped $ perf record --event /tmp/build/perf/perf.o sleep libbpf: /tmp/build/perf/perf.o is not an eBPF object file event syntax error: '/tmp/build/perf/perf.o' \___ BPF object file '/tmp/build/perf/perf.o' is invalid (add -v to see detail) Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] -e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events $ $ file /tmp/foo.o /tmp/foo.o: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, no machine, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped $ perf record --event /tmp/foo.o sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.013 MB perf.data ] $ perf evlist /tmp/foo.o $ perf evlist -v /tmp/foo.o: type: 1, size: 112, config: 0x9, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 $ So, type 1 is PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, config 0x9 is PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY, ok. $ perf report --stdio Error: The perf.data file has no samples! # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # $ Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Kaixu Xia <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-10-28perf tools: Enable pre-event inherit setting by config termsWang Nan1-0/+14
This patch allows perf record setting event's attr.inherit bit by config terms like: # perf record -e cycles/no-inherit/ ... # perf record -e cycles/inherit/ ... So user can control inherit bit for each event separately. In following example, a.out fork()s in main then do some complex CPU intensive computations in both of its children. Basic result with and without inherit: # perf record -e cycles -e instructions ./a.out [ perf record: Woken up 9 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.205 MB perf.data (47920 samples) ] # perf report --stdio # ... # Samples: 23K of event 'cycles' # Event count (approx.): 23641752891 ... # Samples: 24K of event 'instructions' # Event count (approx.): 30428312415 # perf record -i -e cycles -e instructions ./a.out [ perf record: Woken up 5 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.111 MB perf.data (24019 samples) ] ... # Samples: 12K of event 'cycles' # Event count (approx.): 11699501775 ... # Samples: 12K of event 'instructions' # Event count (approx.): 15058023559 Cancel inherit for one event when globally enable: # perf record -e cycles/no-inherit/ -e instructions ./a.out [ perf record: Woken up 7 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.660 MB perf.data (36004 samples) ] ... # Samples: 12K of event 'cycles/no-inherit/' # Event count (approx.): 11895759282 ... # Samples: 24K of event 'instructions' # Event count (approx.): 30668000441 Enable inherit for one event when globally disable: # perf record -i -e cycles/inherit/ -e instructions ./a.out [ perf record: Woken up 7 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.654 MB perf.data (35868 samples) ] ... # Samples: 23K of event 'cycles/inherit/' # Event count (approx.): 23285400229 ... # Samples: 11K of event 'instructions' # Event count (approx.): 14969050259 Committer note: One can check if the bit was set, in addition to seeing the result in the perf.data file size as above by doing one of: # perf record -e cycles -e instructions -a usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.911 MB perf.data (63 samples) ] # perf evlist -v cycles: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 instructions: size: 112, config: 0x1, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, freq: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1 # So, the inherit bit was set in both, now, if we disable it globally using --no-inherit: # perf record --no-inherit -e cycles -e instructions -a usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.910 MB perf.data (56 samples) ] # perf evlist -v cycles: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 instructions: size: 112, config: 0x1, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, freq: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1 No inherit bit set, then disabling it and setting just on the cycles event: # perf record --no-inherit -e cycles/inherit/ -e instructions -a usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.909 MB perf.data (48 samples) ] # perf evlist -v cycles/inherit/: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 instructions: size: 112, config: 0x1, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, freq: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1 # We can see it as well in by using a more verbose level of debug messages in the tool that sets up the perf_event_attr, 'perf record' in this case: [root@zoo ~]# perf record -vv --no-inherit -e cycles/inherit/ -e instructions -a usleep 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: size 112 { sample_period, sample_freq } 4000 sample_type IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU|PERIOD read_format ID disabled 1 inherit 1 mmap 1 comm 1 freq 1 task 1 sample_id_all 1 exclude_guest 1 mmap2 1 comm_exec 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 2 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 3 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: size 112 config 0x1 { sample_period, sample_freq } 4000 sample_type IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU|PERIOD read_format ID disabled 1 freq 1 sample_id_all 1 exclude_guest 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 <SNIP> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]> Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Cc: Li Zefan <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ s/u64/bool/ for the perf_evsel_config_term inherit field - jolsa] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-10-05perf tools: Fail properly in case pattern matching fails to find tracepointJiri Olsa1-1/+8
Currently we dont fail properly when pattern matching fails to find any tracepoint. Current behaviour: $ perf record -e 'sched:krava*' sleep 1 WARNING: event parser found nothinginvalid or unsupported event: 'sched:krava*' Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] This patch change: $ perf record -e 'sched:krava*' sleep 1 event syntax error: 'sched:krava*' \___ unknown tracepoint Error: File /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/krava* not found. Hint: Perhaps this kernel misses some CONFIG_ setting to enable this feature?. Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-10-05perf tools: Introduce 'P' modifier to request max precisionJiri Olsa1-1/+7
The 'P' will cause the event to get maximum possible detected precise level. Following record: $ perf record -e cycles:P ... will detect maximum precise level for 'cycles' event and use it. Commiter note: Testing it: $ perf record -e cycles:P usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.013 MB perf.data (9 samples) ] $ perf evlist cycles:P $ perf evlist -v cycles:P: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 2, sample_id_all: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 $ Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Don Zickus <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-09-30perf list: Remove blank lines, headers when piping outputArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-6/+7
So that one can, for instance, use it with wc -l: # perf list *:*write* | wc -l 60 Or to look for the "bio" tracepoints, without 'perf list' headers: # perf list *:*bio* | head block:block_bio_backmerge [Tracepoint event] block:block_bio_bounce [Tracepoint event] block:block_bio_complete [Tracepoint event] block:block_bio_frontmerge [Tracepoint event] block:block_bio_queue [Tracepoint event] block:block_bio_remap [Tracepoint event] # Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-09-30perf tools: Fix shadowed declaration in parse-events.cJiri Olsa1-20/+20
The error variable breaks build on CentOS 6.7, due to a collision with a global error symbol: CC util/parse-events.o cc1: warnings being treated as errors util/parse-events.c:419: error: declaration of ‘error’ shadows a global declaration util/util.h:135: error: shadowed declaration is here util/parse-events.c: In function ‘add_tracepoint_multi_event’: ... Using different argument names instead to fix it. Reported-by: Vinson Lee <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: Matt Fleming <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Raphael Beamonte <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Fix one more case, at line 770 ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-09-28perf tools: Enable event_config terms to tracepoint eventsHe Kuang1-18/+66
This patch enables config terms for tracepoint perf events. Valid terms for tracepoint events are 'call-graph' and 'stack-size', so we can use different callgraph settings for each event and eliminate unnecessary overhead. Here is an example for using different call-graph config for each tracepoint. $ perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_write/call-graph=fp/ -e syscalls:sys_exit_write/call-graph=no/ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=4k count=10 $ perf report --stdio # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 13 of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_write' # Event count (approx.): 13 # # Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ........ ....... .................. ...................... # 76.92% 76.92% dd libpthread-2.20.so [.] __write_nocancel | ---__write_nocancel 23.08% 23.08% dd libc-2.20.so [.] write | ---write | |--33.33%-- 0x2031342820736574 | |--33.33%-- 0xa6e69207364726f | --33.33%-- 0x34202c7320393039 ... # Samples: 13 of event 'syscalls:sys_exit_write' # Event count (approx.): 13 # # Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ........ ....... .................. ...................... # 76.92% 76.92% dd libpthread-2.20.so [.] __write_nocancel 23.08% 23.08% dd libc-2.20.so [.] write 7.69% 0.00% dd [unknown] [.] 0x0a6e69207364726f 7.69% 0.00% dd [unknown] [.] 0x2031342820736574 7.69% 0.00% dd [unknown] [.] 0x34202c7320393039 Signed-off-by: He Kuang <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-09-28perf tools: Show proper error message for wrong terms of hw/sw eventsHe Kuang1-0/+29
Show proper error message and show valid terms when wrong config terms is specified for hw/sw type perf events. This patch makes the original error format function formats_error_string() more generic, which only outputs the static config terms for hw/sw perf events, and prepends pmu formats for pmu events. Before this patch: $ perf record -e 'cpu-clock/freqx=200/' -a sleep 1 invalid or unsupported event: 'cpu-clock/freqx=200/' Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] -e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events After this patch: $ perf record -e 'cpu-clock/freqx=200/' -a sleep 1 event syntax error: 'cpu-clock/freqx=200/' \___ unknown term valid terms: config,config1,config2,name,period,freq,branch_type,time,call-graph,stack-size Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] -e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events Signed-off-by: He Kuang <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-09-28perf tools: Adds the config_term callback for different type eventsHe Kuang1-12/+26
Currently, function config_term() is used for checking config terms of all types of events, while unknown terms is not reported as an error because pmu events have valid terms in sysfs. But this is wrong when unknown terms are specificed to hw/sw events. This patch Adds the config_term callback so we can use separate check routines for each type of events. Signed-off-by: He Kuang <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-09-21perf tools: Don't assume that the parser returns non empty evsel listWang Nan1-0/+16
Don't blindly retrieve and use a last element in the lists returned by parse_events__scanner(), as it may have collected no entries, i.e. return an empty list. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Kaixu Xia <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-09-16Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to resolve a conflictIngo Molnar1-4/+3
Conflicts: tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
2015-09-15perf evsel: Add own_cpus memberAdrian Hunter1-2/+2
perf_evlist__propagate_maps() cannot easily tell if an evsel has its own cpu map. To make that simpler, keep a copy of the PMU cpu map and adjust the propagation logic accordingly. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-09-15perf evlist: Fix splice_list_tail() not setting evlistAdrian Hunter1-2/+1
Commit d49e46950772 ("perf evsel: Add a backpointer to the evlist a evsel is in") updated perf_evlist__add() but not perf_evlist__splice_list_tail(). This illustrates that it is better if perf_evlist__splice_list_tail() calls perf_evlist__add() instead of duplicating the logic, so do that. This will also simplify a subsequent fix for propagating maps. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-09-15perf tools: Enhance parsing events tracepoint error outputJiri Olsa1-3/+32
Enhancing parsing events tracepoint error output. Adding more verbose output when the tracepoint is not found or the tracing event path cannot be access. $ sudo perf record -e sched:sched_krava ls event syntax error: 'sched:sched_krava' \___ unknown tracepoint Error: File /sys/kernel/debug/tracing//tracing/events/sched/sched_krava not found. Hint: Perhaps this kernel misses some CONFIG_ setting to enable this feature?. Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events ... $ perf record -e sched:sched_krava ls event syntax error: 'sched:sched_krava' \___ can't access trace events Error: No permissions to read /sys/kernel/debug/tracing//tracing/events/sched/sched_krava Hint: Try 'sudo mount -o remount,mode=755 /sys/kernel/debug' Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events ... Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Raphael Beamonte <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Matt Fleming <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-09-15perf evsel: Propagate error info from tp_formatJiri Olsa1-3/+3
Propagate error info from tp_format via ERR_PTR to get it all the way down to the parse-event.c tracepoint adding routines. Following functions now return pointer with encoded error: - tp_format - trace_event__tp_format - perf_evsel__newtp_idx - perf_evsel__newtp This affects several other places in perf, that cannot use pointer check anymore, but must utilize the err.h interface, when getting error information from above functions list. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Matt Fleming <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Raphael Beamonte <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Add two missing ERR_PTR() and one IS_ERR() ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-09-15perf tools: Propagate error info for the tracepoint parsingJiri Olsa1-11/+16
Pass 'struct parse_events_error *error' to the parse-event.c tracepoint adding path. It will be filled with error data in following patches. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Raphael Beamonte <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-09-04tools lib api fs: Move tracing_path interface into api/fs/tracing_path.cJiri Olsa1-1/+1
Moving tracing_path interface into api/fs/tracing_path.c out of util.c. It seems generic enough to be used by others, and I couldn't think of better place. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Raphael Beamonte <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-08-12perf callchain: Per-event type selection supportKan Liang1-0/+12
This patchkit adds the ability to set callgraph mode (fp, dwarf, lbr) per event. This in term can reduce sampling overhead and the size of the perf.data. Here is an example. perf record -e 'cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000,call-graph=fp,time=1/,cpu/instructions,call-graph=lbr/' sleep 1 perf evlist -v cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000,call-graph=fp,time=1/: type: 4, size: 112, config: 0x3c, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CALLCHAIN|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 cpu/instructions,call-graph=lbr/: type: 4, size: 112, config: 0xc0, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CALLCHAIN|PERIOD|BRANCH_STACK|IDENTIFIER, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1 Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-08-10perf record: Support per-event freq termNamhyung Kim1-0/+6
Now perf can set per-event value of time and (sampling) period. But I guess most users like me just want to set frequency rather than period. So add the 'freq' term in the event parser. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-08-06perf tools: Extend the event parser maximum error indexAdrian Hunter1-1/+1
Extend the event parser maximum error index from 10 to 13. That allows PMU config terms of up to 10 characters to display un-truncated in the error message. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-08-05perf tools: Per-event time supportKan Liang1-0/+12
This patchkit adds the ability to turn off time stamps per event. One usaful case for partial time is to work with per-event callgraph to enable "PEBS threshold > 1" (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/10/196), which can significantly reduce the sampling overhead. The event samples with time stamps off will not be ordered. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-07-29perf tools: Force period term to overload global settingsJiri Olsa1-1/+2
Currently the command line option settings beats the per event period settings: With no global settings, we get per-event configuration: $ perf record -e 'cpu/instructions,period=20000/' sleep 1 $ perf evlist -v ... { sample_period, sample_freq }: 20000 ... With 'c' option period setup, we get 'c' option value: $ perf record -e 'cpu/instructions,period=20000/' -c 1000 sleep 1 $ perf evlist -v ... { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1000 ... This patch makes the per-event settings overload the global 'c' option setup: $ perf record -e 'cpu/instructions,period=20000/' -c 1000 sleep 1 $ perf evlist -v ... { sample_period, sample_freq }: 20000 ... I think the making the per-event settings to overload any other config makes more sense than current state. However it breaks the current 'period' term handling, which might cause some noise.. so let's see ;-). Also fixing parse event tests with the new behaviour. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-07-29perf tools: Add support for event post configurationJiri Olsa1-11/+56
Add support to overload any global settings for event and force user specified term value. It will be useful for new time and backtrace terms. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-07-20perf record: Allow filtering perf's pid via --exclude-perfWang Nan1-13/+70
This patch allows 'perf record' to exclude events issued by perf itself by '--exclude-perf' option. Before this patch, when doing something like: # perf record -a -e syscalls:sys_enter_write <cmd> One could easily get result like this: # /tmp/perf report --stdio ... # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... .................. .................... # 99.99% perf libpthread-2.18.so [.] __write_nocancel 0.01% ls libc-2.18.so [.] write 0.01% sshd libc-2.18.so [.] write ... Where most events are generated by perf itself. A shell trick can be done to filter perf itself out: # cat << EOF > ./tmp > #!/bin/sh > exec perf record -e ... --filter="common_pid != \$\$" -a sleep 10 > EOF # chmod a+x ./tmp # ./tmp However, doing so is user unfriendly. This patch extracts evsel iteration framework introduced by patch 'perf record: Apply filter to all events in a glob matching' into foreach_evsel_in_last_glob(), and makes exclude_perf() function append new filter expression to each evsel selected by a '-e' selector. To avoid losing filters if user pass '--filter' after '--exclude-perf', this patch uses perf_evsel__append_filter() in both case, instead of perf_evsel__set_filter() which removes old filter. As a side effect, now it is possible to use multiple '--filter' option for one selector. They are combinded with '&&'. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-07-20perf record: Apply filter to all events in a glob matchingWang Nan1-9/+21
There is an old problem in perf's filter applying which first posted at Sep. 2014 at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/9/944 that, if passing multiple events in a glob matching expression in cmdline then add '--filter' after them, the filter will be applied on only the last one. For example: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null & [1] 464 # perf record -a -e 'syscalls:sys_*_read' --filter 'common_pid != 464' sleep 0.1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.239 MB perf.data (2094 samples) ] # perf report --stdio | tee ... # Samples: 2K of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_read' # Event count (approx.): 2092 ... # Samples: 2 of event 'syscalls:sys_exit_read' # Event count (approx.): 2 ... In this example, filter only applied on 'syscalls:sys_exit_read', and there's no way to set filter for ''syscalls:sys_enter_read'. This patch adds a 'cmdline_group_boundary' for 'struct evsel', and apply filter on all events between two boundary marks. After applying this patch: # perf record -a -e 'syscalls:sys_*_read' --filter 'common_pid != 464' sleep 0.1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.031 MB perf.data (3 samples) ] # perf report --stdio | tee ... # Samples: 1 of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_read' # Event count (approx.): 1 ... # Samples: 2 of event 'syscalls:sys_exit_read' # Event count (approx.): 2 ... Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Reported-by: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-07-06perf evsel: Introduce set_filter methodArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+1
Replaces existing filter string with the one provided. Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Don Zickus <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-06-25perf tools: Add reference counting for cpu_map objectJiri Olsa1-1/+4
Adding refference counting for cpu_map object, so it could be easily shared among other objects. Using cpu_map__put instead cpu_map__delete and making cpu_map__delete static. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-05-27perf tools: Fix parse_events_error dereferencesAdrian Hunter1-0/+2
Parse errors can be reported in struct parse_events_error but the pointer passed is optional and can be NULL. Ensure it is not NULL before dereferencing it. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-05-27perf tools: Fix function declarations needed by parse-events.yAdrian Hunter1-8/+8
Patch "perf tools: Add location to pmu event terms" moved declarations for parse_events_term__num() and parse_events_term__str() so that they were no longer visible in parse-events.y. That can result in segfaults as the arguments no longer need match the function prototype. Move the declarations back, changing YYLTYPE pointers to pointers-to-void because YYLTYPE is not generated until parse-events.y is processed. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add symbolic events support for parse_events_errorJiri Olsa1-3/+4
Allowing symbolic events processing to report back error. $ perf record -e 'cycles/period=krava/' ls event syntax error: '../period=krava/' \___ expected numeric value $ perf record -e 'cycles/name=1/' ls event syntax error: '..es/name=1/' \___ expected string value Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add static terms support for parse_events_errorJiri Olsa1-9/+28
Allowing static terms like 'name,period,config,config1..' processing to report back error. $ perf record -e 'cpu/event=1,name=1/' ls event syntax error: '..=1,name=1/' \___ expected string value $ perf record -e 'cpu/event=1,period=krava/' ls event syntax error: '..,period=krava/' \___ expected numeric value $ perf record -e 'cpu/config=krava1/' ls event syntax error: '../config=krava1/' \___ expected numeric value Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Renamed 'error' variables to 'err', not to clash with util.h error() ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add term support for parse_events_errorJiri Olsa1-1/+1
Allowing event's term processing to report back error, like: $ perf record -e 'cpu/even=0x1/' ls event syntax error: 'cpu/even=0x1/' \___ unknown term valid terms: pc,any,inv,edge,cmask,event,in_tx,ldlat,umask,in_tx_cp,offcore_rsp,config,config1,config2,name,period,branch_type Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Renamed 'error' variables to 'err', not to clash with util.h error() ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add location to pmu event termsJiri Olsa1-8/+24
Saving the terms location within term struct, so it could be used later for report. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Change parse_events_add_pmu interfaceJiri Olsa1-5/+6
Changing parse_events_add_pmu interface to allow propagating of the parse_events_error info. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Always bail out when config_attr function failsJiri Olsa1-4/+11
Not sure why we allowed the fail state, but it's wrong. Wrong type for 'name' term can cause segfault, and there's probably more fun hidden. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add parse_events_error interfaceJiri Olsa1-8/+92
Adding support to return error information from parse_events function. Following struct will be populated by parse_events function on return: struct parse_events_error { int idx; char *str; char *help; }; where 'idx' is the position in the string where the parsing failed, 'str' contains dynamically allocated error string describing the error and 'help' is optional help string. The change contains reporting function, which currently does not display anything. The code changes to supply error data for specific event types are coming in next patches. However this is what the expected output is: $ sudo perf record -e 'sched:krava' ls event syntax error: 'sched:krava' \___ unknown tracepoint ... $ perf record -e 'cpu/even=0x1/' ls event syntax error: 'cpu/even=0x1/' \___ unknown term valid terms: pc,any,inv,edge,cmask,event,in_tx,ldlat,umask,in_tx_cp,offcore_rsp,config,config1,config2,name,period,branch_type ... $ perf record -e cycles,cache-mises ls event syntax error: '..es,cache-mises' \___ parser error ... The output functions cut the beginning of the event string so the error starts up to 10th character and cut the end of the string of it crosses the terminal width. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Renamed 'error' variables to 'err', not to clash with util.h error() ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-08perf tools: Add 'I' event modifier for exclude_idle bitJiri Olsa1-1/+7
Adding 'I' event modifier to have complete set of modifiers for perf_event_attr:exclude_* bits. Any event specified with 'I' modifier will have the perf_event_attr:exclude_idle bit set. $ perf record -e cycles:I -vv ls 2>&1 | grep exclude_idle exclude_hv 0 exclude_idle 1 Adding automated tests. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: William Cohen <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-02-27perf list: Clean up the printing functions of hardware/software eventsYunlong Song1-77/+3
Do not need print_events_type or __print_events_type for listing hw/sw events, let print_symbol_events do its job instead. Moreover, print_symbol_events can also handle event_glob and name_only. Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-02-27perf list: Sort the output of 'perf list' to view more clearlyYunlong Song1-23/+193
Sort the output according to ASCII character list (using strcmp), which supports both number sequence and alphabet sequence. Example: Before this patch: $ perf list List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e): cpu-cycles OR cycles [Hardware event] instructions [Hardware event] cache-references [Hardware event] cache-misses [Hardware event] branch-instructions OR branches [Hardware event] branch-misses [Hardware event] bus-cycles [Hardware event] ... ... jbd2:jbd2_start_commit [Tracepoint event] jbd2:jbd2_commit_locking [Tracepoint event] jbd2:jbd2_run_stats [Tracepoint event] block:block_rq_issue [Tracepoint event] block:block_bio_complete [Tracepoint event] block:block_bio_backmerge [Tracepoint event] block:block_getrq [Tracepoint event] ... ... After this patch: $ perf list List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e): branch-instructions OR branches [Hardware event] branch-misses [Hardware event] bus-cycles [Hardware event] cache-misses [Hardware event] cache-references [Hardware event] cpu-cycles OR cycles [Hardware event] instructions [Hardware event] ... ... block:block_bio_backmerge [Tracepoint event] block:block_bio_complete [Tracepoint event] block:block_getrq [Tracepoint event] block:block_rq_issue [Tracepoint event] jbd2:jbd2_commit_locking [Tracepoint event] jbd2:jbd2_run_stats [Tracepoint event] jbd2:jbd2_start_commit [Tracepoint event] ... ... Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Don't forget closedir({sys,evt}_dir) when handling errors ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-02-13perf list: Place the header text in its right positionYunlong Song1-5/+0
The hearer text 'List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):' is placed in an improper function, which causes an abnormal output, e.g. 'perf list hw' shows no guiding text at all, and 'perf list hw L1-dcache*' shows the guiding text incorrectly in the middle of the output. Example Before this patch: $ perf list hw L1-dcache* branch-instructions OR branches [Hardware event] branch-misses [Hardware event] bus-cycles [Hardware event] cache-misses [Hardware event] cache-references [Hardware event] cpu-cycles OR cycles [Hardware event] instructions [Hardware event] stalled-cycles-backend OR idle-cycles-backend [Hardware event] stalled-cycles-frontend OR idle-cycles-frontend [Hardware event] List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e): <-- incorrect position L1-dcache-load-misses [Hardware cache event] L1-dcache-loads [Hardware cache event] L1-dcache-prefetch-misses [Hardware cache event] L1-dcache-prefetches [Hardware cache event] L1-dcache-store-misses [Hardware cache event] L1-dcache-stores [Hardware cache event] After this patch: $ perf list hw L1-dcache* List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e): <-- correct position branch-instructions OR branches [Hardware event] branch-misses [Hardware event] bus-cycles [Hardware event] cache-misses [Hardware event] cache-references [Hardware event] cpu-cycles OR cycles [Hardware event] instructions [Hardware event] stalled-cycles-backend OR idle-cycles-backend [Hardware event] stalled-cycles-frontend OR idle-cycles-frontend [Hardware event] L1-dcache-load-misses [Hardware cache event] L1-dcache-loads [Hardware cache event] L1-dcache-prefetch-misses [Hardware cache event] L1-dcache-prefetches [Hardware cache event] L1-dcache-store-misses [Hardware cache event] L1-dcache-stores [Hardware cache event] Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-02-07perf tools: Do not check debugfs MAGIC for tracing filesSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-19/+0
It's rather strange to be checking the debugfs MAGIC number for the tracing directory. A system admin may want to have a custom set of events to trace and it should be allowed to let the admin make a temp file (even for tracing virtual boxes, this is useful). Also with the coming tracefs, the files may not even be under debugfs, so checking the debugfs MAGIC number is pointless. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-01-28Merge branch 'perf/hw_breakpoints' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-10/+11
The new hw_breakpoint bits are now ready for v3.20, merge them into the main branch, to avoid conflicts. Conflicts: tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
2015-01-21perf tools: Remove EOL whitespacesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-3/+3
Janitorial stuff: boredom moment. Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Don Zickus <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>