This commit adds support for a new modifier "D", which requests that the
event, or group of events, be pinned to the PMU.
The "p" modifier is already taken for precise, and "P" may be used in
future to mean "fully precise".
So we use "D", which stands for pinneD - and looks like a padlock, or if
you're using the ":D" syntax perf smiles at you.
This is an oft-requested feature from our HW folks, who want to be able
to run a large number of events, but also want 100% accurate results for
instructions per cycle.
Comparison of results with and without pinning:
$ perf stat -e '{cycles,instructions}:D' -e cycles,instructions,...
79,590,480,683 cycles # 0.000 GHz
166,123,716,524 instructions # 2.09 insns per cycle
# 0.11 stalled cycles per insn
79,352,134,463 cycles # 0.000 GHz [11.11%]
165,178,301,818 instructions # 2.08 insns per cycle
# 0.11 stalled cycles per insn [11.13%]
As you can see although perf does a very good job of scaling the values
in the non-pinned case, there is some small discrepancy.
The patch is fairly straight forward, the one detail is that we need to
make sure we only request pinning for the group leader when we have a
group.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375795686-4226-1-git-send-email-michael@ellerman.id.au
[ Use perf_evsel__is_group_leader instead of open coded equivalent, as
suggested by Jiri Olsa ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Adding 'S' event/group modifier to specify that the event value/s are
read by PERF_SAMPLE_READ sample type processing, instead of the period
value offered by lower layers.
There's additional behaviour change for 'S' modifier being specified on
event group:
Currently all the events within a group makes samples. If user now
specifies 'S' within group modifier, only the leader will trigger
samples. The rest of events in the group will have sampling disabled.
And same as for single events, values of all events within the group
(including leader) are read by PERF_SAMPLE_READ sample type processing.
Following example will create event group with cycles and cache-misses
events, setting the cycles as group leader and the only event to
actually sample. Both cycles and cache-misses event period values are
read by PERF_SAMPLE_READ sample type processing with PERF_FORMAT_GROUP
read format.
Example:
$ perf record -e '{cycles,cache-misses}:S' ls
...
$ perf report --group --show-total-period --stdio
...
# Samples: 36 of event 'anon group { cycles, cache-misses }'
# Event count (approx.): 12585593
#
# Overhead Period Command Shared Object Symbol
# .............. .............. ....... ................. ..........................
#
19.92% 1.20% 2505936 31 ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mark_held_locks
13.74% 0.47% 1729327 12 ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_local
13.64% 23.72% 1716147 612 ls ld-2.14.90.so [.] check_match.10805
13.12% 23.22% 1650778 599 ls libc-2.14.90.so [.] _nl_intern_locale_data
11.24% 29.19% 1414554 753 ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_cpu
8.50% 0.35% 1070150 9 ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] check_chain_key
...
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-iyoinu3axi11mymwnh2b7fxj@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Updating event parser to allow any non zero string containing [ukhpGH]
characters for event modifier.
The modifier sanity is checked later in parse-event object logic. The
check validates modifier to contain only one instance of any modifier
(apart from 'p') present.
v2:
- added length check suggested Namhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121113143258.GA2481@krava.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
- Add missing scanner symbol for arbitrary aliases inside the config
region.
- looks nicer than _, so allow - in the event names. Used for various of
the arch perfmon and Haswell events.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352123463-7346-6-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf defines both __used and __unused variables to use for marking
unused variables. The variable __used is defined to
__attribute__((__unused__)), which contradicts the kernel definition to
__attribute__((__used__)) for new gcc versions. On Android, __used is
also defined in system headers and this leads to warnings like: warning:
'__used__' attribute ignored
__unused is not defined in the kernel and is not a standard definition.
If __unused is included everywhere instead of __used, this leads to
conflicts with glibc headers, since glibc has a variables with this name
in its headers.
The best approach is to use __maybe_unused, the definition used in the
kernel for __attribute__((unused)). In this way there is only one
definition in perf sources (instead of 2 definitions that point to the
same thing: __used and __unused) and it works on both Linux and Android.
This patch simply replaces all instances of __used and __unused with
__maybe_unused.
Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347315303-29906-7-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@intel.com
[ committer note: fixed up conflict with a116e05 in builtin-sched.c ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Use command line string provided by the -e option to name events. This
way we get unique events names that also support pmu event syntax
(<pmu_name>/<config>/<modifier>). No need to reconstruct the name
anymore from its attributes. We use the event_desc of the header to
store the name in the perf.data header. Thus it is also available for
perf report.
Implemented by putting the parser in different states to parse events or
configs.
And since event names are now generated from the command line
specification. Update event names in test cases accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345144224-27280-6-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
[ committer note: Folded patch fixing 'perf test' failure reported by Jiri Olsa ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Adding scanner/parser bits to parse event groups.
The grammar for group is:
groups: groups ',' group | group
group: group_name '{' events '}' group_mod
group_name: name | empty
group_mod: ':' group_mods | empty
group_mods: event_mod
It's possible to use standard event modifier as a modifier
for group. It'll be used as an update to existing event
modifiers.
It's necessary to use quoting ("'\) when specifying group on
command line, since {} characters are interpreted by most of
the shells.
It is now possible to specify groups in event syntax like:
'{cycles,faults}'
- anonymous group
'group1{cycles,faults}
- group with name 'group1'
'{cycles,faults}:k
- anonymous group with event modifier 'k'
'{cpu-clock,task-clock},{minor-faults,major-faults}'
- two anonymous groups
The grouping functionality itself is coming shortly.
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-p4j8bnvo879uokum4k4zk5q6@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf record fails on 32 bit with:
invalid or unsupported event: 'r40000F7E0'
Fixing this by parsing 64 bit num values.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361396-7237-4-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Spliting PE_VALUE_SYM token to PE_VALUE_SYM_HW and PE_VALUE_SYM_SW
tokens to separate hardware and software symbols.
This will be useful in upcomming patch where we want to be able to parse
out only hardware events.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341352848-11833-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The flex generator prints out each input character that is ignored by
lex rules.
Since the alias processing, we can have '\n' characters on input. We
need to assign empty rule to it, so it's not printed out.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341352848-11833-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fixing the hw breakpoint's type modifier parsing to allow all possible
combinations of 'rwx' characters.
Adding automated tests to the parsing test suite.
Reported-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Original-patch-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120629072254.GA940@krava.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We want to reuse the event grammar for parsing aliased terms.
The obvious reason is we dont need to add new code when there's
already support for this in event grammar.
Doing this by adding terms and event start entries into event
parse grammar. The grammar forks on the begining based on the
starting token, which is supplied via bison interface into the
lexer. The lexer then returns the starting token as the first
token, thus making the grammar switch accordingly.
Currently 2 starting tokens/grammars are supported:
PE_START_TERMS, PE_START_EVENTS
The PE_START_TERMS related grammar uses 'event_config' part
of the grammar for term parsing.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339741902-8449-12-git-send-email-zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Make the event parser reentrant by creating separate
scanner for each parsing. The scanner is passed to the bison
as and argument to the lexer.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yan <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
[ Cleaned up the patch. ]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339741902-8449-11-git-send-email-zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Adding a new hardcoded term 'name' allowing to specify a name for the
pmu event. The term is defined along with standard pmu terms. If no
'name' term is given, the event name follows following template:
"raw 0x<perf_event_attr::config>"
running:
perf stat -e cpu/config=1,name=krava1/u ls
will produce following output:
...
Performance counter stats for 'ls':
0 krava1
...
running:
perf stat -e cpu/config=1/u ls
will produce following output:
...
Performance counter stats for 'ls':
0 raw 0x1
...
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337584373-2741-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Separating 'mem:' scanner processing, so we can parse out modifier
specifically and dont clash with other rules.
This is just precaution for the future, so we dont need to worry about
the rules clashing where we need to parse out any sub-rule of global
rules.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337584373-2741-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
They were dropped during conversion of event parser. Add test case to
make sure this will not happen again.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120417111345.GK11918@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The commit 89812fc81f ("perf tools: Add parser generator for events
parsing") changed event parsing engine but missed the ref-cycles event.
Add it.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333016517-10591-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Adding a new rule to the event grammar to be able to specify
values of additional attributes of symbolic event.
The new syntax for event symbolic definition is:
event_legacy_symbol: PE_NAME_SYM '/' event_config '/' |
PE_NAME_SYM sep_slash_dc
event_config: event_config ',' event_term | event_term
event_term: PE_NAME '=' PE_NAME |
PE_NAME '=' PE_VALUE
PE_NAME
sep_slash_dc: '/' | ':' |
At the moment the config options are hardcoded to be used for legacy
symbol events to define several perf_event_attr fields. It is:
'config' to define perf_event_attr::config
'config1' to define perf_event_attr::config1
'config2' to define perf_event_attr::config2
'period' to define perf_event_attr::sample_period
Legacy events could be now specified as:
cycles/period=100000/
If term is specified without the value assignment, then 1 is
assigned by default.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mgkavww9790jbt2jdkooyv4q@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
