linux/tools/perf
Andi Kleen 0997a2662f perf tools: Add support for exclusive groups/events
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>
2020-10-14 12:24:28 -03:00
..
arch perf tsc: Add rdtsc() for Arm64 2020-09-22 13:44:16 -03:00
bench perf tools: Pass build_id object to filename__read_build_id() 2020-10-14 08:45:16 -03:00
Documentation perf tools: Add support for exclusive groups/events 2020-10-14 12:24:28 -03:00
examples/bpf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2020-01-28 16:02:33 -08:00
include/bpf perf bpf: Remove bpf/ subdir from bpf.h headers used to build bpf events 2020-02-18 10:13:28 -03:00
jvmti perf jvmti: Remove redundant jitdump line table entries 2020-05-29 16:51:38 -03:00
pmu-events perf vendor events: Fix typos in power8 PMU events 2020-10-13 11:01:42 -03:00
python
scripts perf script: Add min, max to futex-contention output, in addition to avg 2020-09-23 12:58:53 -03:00
tests perf tools: Add support for exclusive groups/events 2020-10-14 12:24:28 -03:00
trace perf trace: Use the autogenerated mmap 'prot' string/id table 2020-10-01 11:35:01 -03:00
ui perf top/report: Fix infinite loop in the TUI for grouped events 2020-09-01 12:15:52 -03:00
util perf tools: Add support for exclusive groups/events 2020-10-14 12:24:28 -03:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
Build
builtin-annotate.c perf evsel: Rename perf_evsel__resort*() to evsel__resort*() 2020-05-28 10:03:24 -03:00
builtin-bench.c perf bench: Add build-id injection benchmark 2020-10-13 10:59:42 -03:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf tools: Pass build_id object to build_id__sprintf() 2020-10-14 08:46:22 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure 2019-09-20 15:58:11 -03:00
builtin-c2c.c perf c2c: Update usage for showing memory events 2020-10-13 13:15:38 -03:00
builtin-config.c perf tools: Remove util.h from where it is not needed 2019-09-20 09:19:20 -03:00
builtin-data.c perf data: Add support to store time of day in CTF data conversion 2020-08-06 09:43:37 -03:00
builtin-diff.c perf evsel: Rename perf_evsel__is_*() to evsel__is*() 2020-05-05 16:35:31 -03:00
builtin-evlist.c perf evsel: Rename perf_evsel__fprintf() to evsel__fprintf() 2020-05-28 10:03:24 -03:00
builtin-ftrace.c perf: ftrace: Add filter support for option -F/--funcs 2020-09-04 16:11:16 -03:00
builtin-help.c
builtin-inject.c perf tools: Pass build_id object to filename__read_build_id() 2020-10-14 08:45:16 -03:00
builtin-kallsyms.c perf dsos: Move the dsos struct and its methods to separate source files 2019-08-31 22:24:10 -03:00
builtin-kmem.c perf kmem: Pass additional arguments to 'perf record' 2020-07-10 09:37:55 -03:00
builtin-kvm.c perf evlist: Fix the class prefix for 'struct evlist' 'add' evsel methods 2020-06-22 16:28:09 -03:00
builtin-list.c perf list: Remove dead code in argument check 2020-09-09 11:12:10 -03:00
builtin-lock.c perf lock: Rename perf_evsel__*() operating on 'struct evsel *' to evsel__*() 2020-05-05 16:35:31 -03:00
builtin-mem.c perf c2c: Fix 'perf c2c record -e list' to show the default events used 2020-05-28 10:03:25 -03:00
builtin-probe.c perf probe: Do not show the skipped events 2020-05-28 10:03:24 -03:00
builtin-record.c perf tools: Consolidate close_control_option()'s into one function 2020-09-04 16:11:16 -03:00
builtin-report.c perf report: Disable ordered_events for raw dump 2020-09-01 12:20:25 -03:00
builtin-sched.c perf sched: Show start of latency as well 2020-10-13 11:01:42 -03:00
builtin-script.c perf script: Display negative tid in non-sample events 2020-09-17 16:06:22 -03:00
builtin-stat.c perf tools: Allow creation of cgroup without open 2020-09-28 09:18:06 -03:00
builtin-timechart.c perf tools: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array 2020-05-28 10:03:27 -03:00
builtin-top.c perf top: Skip side-band event setup if HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT is not set 2020-08-21 10:22:23 -03:00
builtin-trace.c perf trace: Fix off by ones in memset() after realloc() in arches using libaudit 2020-10-13 13:57:41 -03:00
builtin-version.c perf tools: Make GTK2 support opt-in 2020-09-04 17:11:59 -03:00
builtin.h
check-headers.sh perf tools: Separate the checking of headers only used to build beautification tables 2020-09-29 08:56:38 -03:00
command-list.txt
CREDITS
design.txt perf tools: Support CAP_PERFMON capability 2020-04-16 12:19:08 -03:00
Makefile tools: Let O= makes handle a relative path with -C option 2020-03-06 17:08:28 -03:00
Makefile.config perf python: Autodetect python3 binary 2020-10-13 16:25:57 -03:00
Makefile.perf perf trace: Use the autogenerated mmap 'prot' string/id table 2020-10-01 11:35:01 -03:00
MANIFEST libperf: Move to tools/lib/perf 2020-01-06 11:46:09 -03:00
perf-archive.sh
perf-completion.sh
perf-read-vdso.c
perf-sys.h perf tests: Call test_attr__open() directly 2020-09-10 11:55:37 -03:00
perf-with-kcore.sh
perf.c libperf: Merge libperf_set_print() into libperf_init() 2019-09-25 09:51:49 -03:00
perf.h