The event parser needs to handle two special cases:
1) legacy events like L1-dcache-load-miss. These event names don't
appear in JSON or sysfs, and lookup tables are used for the config
value.
2) raw events where 'r0xead' is the same as 'read' unless the PMU has
an event called 'read' in which case the event has priority.
The previous parser to handle these cases would scan all PMUs for
components of event names. These components would then be used to
classify in the lexer whether the token should be part of a legacy
event, a raw event or an event. The grammar would handle legacy event
tokens or recombining the tokens back into a regular event name. The
code wasn't PMU specific and had issues around events like AMD's
branch-brs that would fail to parse as it expects brs to be a suffix
on a legacy event style name:
$ perf stat -e branch-brs true
event syntax error: 'branch-brs'
\___ parser error
This change removes processing all PMUs by using the lexer in the form
of a regular expression matcher. The lexer will return the token for
the longest matched sequence of characters, and in the event of a tie
the first. The legacy events are a fixed number of regular
expressions, and by matching these before a name token its possible to
generate an accurate legacy event token with everything else matching
as a name. Because of the lexer change the handling of hyphens in the
grammar can be removed as hyphens just become a part of the name.
To handle raw events and terms the parser is changed to defer trying
to evaluate whether something is a raw event until the PMU is known in
the grammar. Once the PMU is known, the events of the PMU can be
scanned for the 'read' style problem. A new term type is added for
these raw terms, used to enable deferring the evaluation.
While this change is large, it has stats of:
170 insertions(+), 436 deletions(-)
the bulk of the change is deleting the old approach. It isn't possible
to break apart the code added due to the dependencies on how the parts
of the parsing work.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ahmad Yasin <ahmad.yasin@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com>
Cc: Edward Baker <edward.baker@intel.com>
Cc: Florian Fischer <florian.fischer@muhq.space>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kang Minchul <tegongkang@gmail.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Perry Taylor <perry.taylor@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Samantha Alt <samantha.alt@intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Cc: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230502223851.2234828-19-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Remove the LIBTRACEEVENT_DYNAMIC and LIBTRACEFS_DYNAMIC make command
line variables.
If libtraceevent isn't installed or NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1 is passed to the
build, don't compile in libtraceevent and libtracefs support.
This also disables CONFIG_TRACE that controls "perf trace".
CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT is used to control enablement in Build/Makefiles,
HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT is used in C code.
Without HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT tracepoints are disabled and as such the
commands kmem, kwork, lock, sched and timechart are removed. The
majority of commands continue to work including "perf test".
Committer notes:
Fixed up a tools/perf/util/Build reject and added:
#include <traceevent/event-parse.h>
to tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c.
Committer testing:
$ rpm -qi libtraceevent-devel
Name : libtraceevent-devel
Version : 1.5.3
Release : 2.fc36
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Mon 25 Jul 2022 03:20:19 PM -03
Group : Unspecified
Size : 27728
License : LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Fri 15 Apr 2022 02:11:58 PM -03, Key ID 999f7cbf38ab71f4
Source RPM : libtraceevent-1.5.3-2.fc36.src.rpm
Build Date : Fri 15 Apr 2022 10:57:01 AM -03
Build Host : buildvm-x86-05.iad2.fedoraproject.org
Packager : Fedora Project
Vendor : Fedora Project
URL : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git/
Bug URL : https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/libtraceevent
Summary : Development headers of libtraceevent
Description :
Development headers of libtraceevent-libs
$
Default build:
$ ldd ~/bin/perf | grep tracee
libtraceevent.so.1 => /lib64/libtraceevent.so.1 (0x00007f1dcaf8f000)
$
# perf trace -e sched:* --max-events 10
0.000 migration/0/17 sched:sched_migrate_task(comm: "", pid: 1603763 (perf), prio: 120, dest_cpu: 1)
0.005 migration/0/17 sched:sched_wake_idle_without_ipi(cpu: 1)
0.011 migration/0/17 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm: "", prev_pid: 17 (migration/0), prev_state: 1, next_comm: "", next_prio: 120)
1.173 :0/0 sched:sched_wakeup(comm: "", pid: 3138 (gnome-terminal-), prio: 120)
1.180 :0/0 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm: "", prev_prio: 120, next_comm: "", next_pid: 3138 (gnome-terminal-), next_prio: 120)
0.156 migration/1/21 sched:sched_migrate_task(comm: "", pid: 1603763 (perf), prio: 120, orig_cpu: 1, dest_cpu: 2)
0.160 migration/1/21 sched:sched_wake_idle_without_ipi(cpu: 2)
0.166 migration/1/21 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm: "", prev_pid: 21 (migration/1), prev_state: 1, next_comm: "", next_prio: 120)
1.183 :0/0 sched:sched_wakeup(comm: "", pid: 1602985 (kworker/u16:0-f), prio: 120, target_cpu: 1)
1.186 :0/0 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm: "", prev_prio: 120, next_comm: "", next_pid: 1602985 (kworker/u16:0-f), next_prio: 120)
#
Had to tweak tools/perf/util/setup.py to make sure the python binding
shared object links with libtraceevent if -DHAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT is
present in CFLAGS.
Building with NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1 uncovered some more build failures:
- Make building of data-convert-bt.c to CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT=y
- perf-$(CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT) += scripts/
- bpf_kwork.o needs also to be dependent on CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT=y
- The python binding needed some fixups and util/trace-event.c can't be
built and linked with the python binding shared object, so remove it
in tools/perf/util/setup.py and exclude it from the list of
dependencies in the python/perf.so Makefile.perf target.
Building without libtraceevent-devel installed uncovered more build
failures:
- The python binding tools/perf/util/python.c was assuming that
traceevent/parse-events.h was always available, which was the case
when we defaulted to using the in-kernel tools/lib/traceevent/ files,
now we need to enclose it under ifdef HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT, just like
the other parts of it that deal with tracepoints.
- We have to ifdef the rules in the Build files with
CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT=y to build builtin-trace.c and
tools/perf/trace/beauty/ as we only ifdef setting CONFIG_TRACE=y when
setting NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1 in the make command line, not when we don't
detect libtraceevent-devel installed in the system. Simplification here
to avoid these two ways of disabling builtin-trace.c and not having
CONFIG_TRACE=y when libtraceevent-devel isn't installed is the clean
way.
From Athira:
<quote>
tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
-perf-y += kvm-stat.o
+perf-$(CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT) += kvm-stat.o
</quote>
Then, ditto for arm64 and s390, detected by container cross build tests.
- s/390 uses test__checkevent_tracepoint() that is now only available if
HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT is defined, enclose the callsite with ifder HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT.
Also from Athira:
<quote>
With this change, I could successfully compile in these environment:
- Without libtraceevent-devel installed
- With libtraceevent-devel installed
- With “make NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1”
</quote>
Then, finally rename CONFIG_TRACEEVENT to CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT for
consistency with other libraries detected in tools/perf/.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221205225940.3079667-3-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Skip an event configuration for event names with a dash/minus in them.
Events with a dash/minus in their name cause parsing issues as legacy
encoding of events would use a dash/minus as a separator.
The parser separates events with dashes into prefixes and suffixes and
then recombines them. Unfortunately if an event has part of its name
that matches a legacy token then the recombining fails.
This is seen for branch-brs where branch is a legacy token. branch-brs
was introduced to sysfs in:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220322221517.2510440-5-eranian@google.com/
The failure is shown below as well as the workaround to use a config
where the dash/minus isn't treated specially:
```
$ perf stat -e branch-brs true
event syntax error: 'branch-brs'
\___ parser error
$ perf stat -e cpu/branch-brs/ true
Performance counter stats for 'true':
46,179 cpu/branch-brs/
```
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221013011205.3151391-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Move evsel::leader to perf_evsel::leader, so we can move the group
interface to libperf.
Also add several evsel helpers to ease up the transition:
struct evsel *evsel__leader(struct evsel *evsel);
- get leader evsel
bool evsel__has_leader(struct evsel *evsel, struct evsel *leader);
- true if evsel has leader as leader
bool evsel__is_leader(struct evsel *evsel);
- true if evsel is itw own leader
void evsel__set_leader(struct evsel *evsel, struct evsel *leader);
- set leader for evsel
Committer notes:
Fix this when building with 'make BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1'
tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.c
- if (evsel->leader->core.nr_members > 1) {
+ if (evsel->core.leader->nr_members > 1) {
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Requested-by: Shunsuke Nakamura <nakamura.shun@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210706151704.73662-4-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Peter suggested that using the exclusive mode in perf could avoid some
problems with bad scheduling of groups. Exclusive is implemented in the
kernel, but wasn't exposed by the perf tool, so hard to use without
custom low level API users.
Add support for marking groups or events with :e for exclusive in the
perf tool. The implementation is basically the same as the existing
pinned attribute.
Committer testing:
# perf test "parse event"
6: Parse event definition strings : Ok
# perf test -v "parse event" |& grep :u*e
running test 56 'instructions:uep'
running test 57 '{cycles,cache-misses,branch-misses}:e'
#
#
# grep "model name" -m1 /proc/cpuinfo
model name : AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
#
# perf stat -a -e '{cycles,cache-misses,branch-misses}:e' sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
<not counted> cycles (0.00%)
<not counted> cache-misses (0.00%)
<not counted> branch-misses (0.00%)
1.001269893 seconds time elapsed
Some events weren't counted. Try disabling the NMI watchdog:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
perf stat ...
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
# perf stat -a -e '{cycles,cache-misses,branch-misses}:e' sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
1,298,663,141 cycles
30,962,215 cache-misses
5,325,150 branch-misses
1.001474934 seconds time elapsed
#
# The output for asking for precise events on AMD needs to improve, it
# supposedly works only for system wide or per CPU
#
# perf stat -a -e '{cycles,cache-misses,branch-misses}:uep' sleep 1
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (cycles).
/bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.
# perf stat -a -e '{cycles,cache-misses,branch-misses}:ue' sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
746,363,126 cycles
16,881,611 cache-misses
2,871,259 branch-misses
1.001636066 seconds time elapsed
#
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201014144255.22699-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently if we run 'perf record -e cycles:u', exclude_guest=0.
But it doesn't make sense in most cases that we request for
user-space counting but we also get the guest report.
Of course, we also need to consider 'perf kvm' usage case that
authorized perf users on the host may only want to count guest user
space events. For example,
# perf kvm --guest record -e cycles:u
When we have 'exclude_guest=1' for 'perf kvm' usage, we may get nothing
from guest events.
To keep perf semantics consistent and clear, this patch sets
exclude_guest=1 for user-space counting but except for 'perf kvm' usage.
Before:
perf record -e cycles:u ./div
perf evlist -v
cycles:u: ..., exclude_kernel: 1, exclude_hv: 1, ...
After:
perf record -e cycles:u ./div
perf evlist -v
cycles:u: ..., exclude_kernel: 1, exclude_hv: 1, exclude_guest: 1, ...
Before:
perf kvm --guest record -e cycles:u -vvv
perf_event_attr:
size 120
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU|PERIOD
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
exclude_kernel 1
exclude_hv 1
freq 1
sample_id_all 1
After:
perf kvm --guest record -e cycles:u -vvv
perf_event_attr:
size 120
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU|PERIOD
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
exclude_kernel 1
exclude_hv 1
freq 1
sample_id_all 1
For Before/After, exclude_guest are both 0 for perf kvm usage.
perf test 6
6: Parse event definition strings : Ok
Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200814012120.16647-1-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Jin Yao reported issue with possible conflict between raw events and
term values in pmu event syntax.
Currently following syntax is resolved as raw event with 0xead value:
uncore_imc_free_running/read/
instead of using 'read' term from uncore_imc_free_running pmu, because
'read' is correct raw event syntax with 0xead value.
To solve this issue we do following:
- check existing terms during rXXXX syntax processing
and make them priority in case of conflict
- allow pmu/r0x1234/ syntax to be able to specify conflicting
raw event (implemented in previous patch)
Also add automated tests for this and perf_pmu__parse_cleanup call to
parse_events_terms, so the test gets properly cleaned up.
Fixes: 3a6c51e4d6 ("perf parser: Add support to specify rXXX event with pmu")
Reported-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200726075244.1191481-2-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
As they are 'struct evsel' methods or related routines, not part of
tools/lib/perf/, aka libperf, to whom the perf_ prefix belongs.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The current rXXXX event specification creates event under PERF_TYPE_RAW
pmu type. This change allows to use rXXXX within pmu syntax, so it's
type is used via the following syntax:
-e 'cpu/r3c/'
-e 'cpum_cf/r0/'
The XXXX number goes directly to perf_event_attr::config the same way as
in '-e rXXXX' event. The perf_event_attr::type is filled with pmu type.
Committer testing:
So, lets see what goes in perf_event_attr::config for, say, the
'instructions' PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE (0) event, first we should look at how
to encode this event as a PERF_TYPE_RAW event for this specific CPU, an
AMD Ryzen 5:
# cat /sys/devices/cpu/events/instructions
event=0xc0
#
Then try with it _and_ the instruction, just to see that they are close
enough:
# perf stat -e rc0,instructions sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
919,794 rc0
919,898 instructions
1.000754579 seconds time elapsed
0.000715000 seconds user
0.000000000 seconds sys
#
Now we should try, before this patch, the PMU event encoding:
# perf stat -e cpu/rc0/ sleep 1
event syntax error: 'cpu/rc0/'
\___ unknown term
valid terms: event,edge,inv,umask,cmask,config,config1,config2,name,period,percore
#
Now with this patch, the three ways of specifying the 'instructions' CPU
counter are accepted:
# perf stat -e cpu/rc0/,rc0,instructions sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
892,948 cpu/rc0/
893,052 rc0
893,156 instructions
1.000931819 seconds time elapsed
0.000916000 seconds user
0.000000000 seconds sys
#
Requested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200416221405.437788-1-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
