Currently perf stat shows some metrics (like IPC) for defined events.
But when no aggregation mode is used (-A option), it shows incorrect
values since it used a value from a different cpu.
Before:
$ perf stat -aA -e cycles,instructions sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
CPU0 116,057,380 cycles
CPU1 86,084,722 cycles
CPU2 99,423,125 cycles
CPU3 98,272,994 cycles
CPU0 53,369,217 instructions # 0.46 insn per cycle
CPU1 33,378,058 instructions # 0.29 insn per cycle
CPU2 58,150,086 instructions # 0.50 insn per cycle
CPU3 40,029,703 instructions # 0.34 insn per cycle
1.001816971 seconds time elapsed
So the IPC for CPU1 should be 0.38 (= 33,378,058 / 86,084,722)
but it was 0.29 (= 33,378,058 / 116,057,380) and so on.
After:
$ perf stat -aA -e cycles,instructions sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
CPU0 109,621,384 cycles
CPU1 159,026,454 cycles
CPU2 99,460,366 cycles
CPU3 124,144,142 cycles
CPU0 44,396,706 instructions # 0.41 insn per cycle
CPU1 120,195,425 instructions # 0.76 insn per cycle
CPU2 44,763,978 instructions # 0.45 insn per cycle
CPU3 69,049,079 instructions # 0.56 insn per cycle
1.001910444 seconds time elapsed
Fixes: 44d49a6002 ("perf stat: Support metrics in --per-core/socket mode")
Reported-by: Sam Xi <xyzsam@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201127041404.390276-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It didn't check the tool->cgroup_events bit which is set when the
--all-cgroups option is given. Without it, samples will not have cgroup
info so no reason to synthesize.
We can check the PERF_RECORD_CGROUP records after running perf record
*WITHOUT* the --all-cgroups option:
Before:
$ perf report -D | grep CGROUP
0 0 0x8430 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_CGROUP cgroup: 1 /
CGROUP events: 1
CGROUP events: 0
CGROUP events: 0
After:
$ perf report -D | grep CGROUP
CGROUP events: 0
CGROUP events: 0
CGROUP events: 0
Committer testing:
Before:
# perf record -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.208 MB perf.data (10003 samples) ]
# perf report -D | grep "CGROUP events"
CGROUP events: 146
CGROUP events: 0
CGROUP events: 0
#
After:
# perf record -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.208 MB perf.data (10448 samples) ]
# perf report -D | grep "CGROUP events"
CGROUP events: 0
CGROUP events: 0
CGROUP events: 0
#
With all-cgroups:
# perf record --all-cgroups -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.374 MB perf.data (11526 samples) ]
# perf report -D | grep "CGROUP events"
CGROUP events: 146
CGROUP events: 0
CGROUP events: 0
#
Fixes: 8fb4b67939 ("perf record: Add --all-cgroups option")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201127054356.405481-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To pick the changes in:
7a078d2d18 ("libbpf, hashmap: Fix undefined behavior in hash_bits")
That don't entail any changes in tools/perf.
This addresses this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/perf/util/hashmap.h' differs from latest version at 'tools/lib/bpf/hashmap.h'
diff -u tools/perf/util/hashmap.h tools/lib/bpf/hashmap.h
Not a kernel ABI, its just that this uses the mechanism in place for
checking kernel ABI files drift.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In the Armv8 ARM (ARM DDI 0487F.c), chapter "D10.2.6 Events packet", it
describes the event bit is valid with specific payload requirement. For
example, the Last Level cache access event, the bit is defined as:
E[8], byte 1 bit [0], when SZ == 0b01 , when SZ == 0b10 ,
or when SZ == 0b11
It requires the payload size is at least 2 bytes, when byte 1 (start
counting from 0) is valid, E[8] (bit 0 in byte 1) can be used for LLC
access event type. For safety, the code checks the condition for
payload size firstly, if meet the requirement for payload size, then
continue to parse event type.
If review function arm_spe_get_payload(), it has used cast, so any bytes
beyond the valid size have been set to zeros.
For this reason, we don't need to check payload size anymore afterwards
when parse events, thus this patch removes payload size conditions.
Suggested-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Grant <Al.Grant@arm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wei Li <liwei391@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201119152441.6972-12-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When outputs strings to the decoding buffer with function snprintf(),
SPE decoder needs to detects if any error returns from snprintf() and if
so needs to directly bail out. If snprintf() returns success, it needs
to update buffer pointer and reduce the buffer length so can continue to
output the next string into the consequent memory space.
This complex logics are spreading in the function arm_spe_pkt_desc() so
there has many duplicate codes for handling error detecting, increment
buffer pointer and decrement buffer size.
To avoid the duplicate code, this patch introduces a new helper function
arm_spe_pkt_out_string() which is used to wrap up the complex logics,
and it's used by the caller arm_spe_pkt_desc(). This patch moves the
variable 'blen' as the function's local variable so allows to remove
the unnecessary braces and improve the readability.
This patch simplifies the return value for arm_spe_pkt_desc(): '0' means
success and other values mean an error has occurred. To realize this,
it relies on arm_spe_pkt_out_string()'s parameter 'err', the 'err' is a
cumulative value, returns its final value if printing buffer is called
for one time or multiple times. Finally, the error is handled in a
central place, rather than directly bailing out in switch-cases, it
returns error at the end of arm_spe_pkt_desc().
This patch changes the caller arm_spe_dump() to respect the updated
return value semantics of arm_spe_pkt_desc().
Suggested-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Grant <Al.Grant@arm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wei Li <liwei391@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201119152441.6972-2-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To bring in the change made in this cset:
4d6ffa27b8 ("x86/lib: Change .weak to SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK for arch/x86/lib/mem*_64.S")
6dcc5627f6 ("x86/asm: Change all ENTRY+ENDPROC to SYM_FUNC_*")
I needed to define SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL() as SYM_L_GLOBAL as
mem{cpy,set}_{orig,erms} are used by 'perf bench'.
This silences these perf tools build warnings:
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S' differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S'
diff -u tools/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S' differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S'
diff -u tools/arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When processing address packet and counter packet, if the packet
contains extended header, it misses to account the extra one byte for
header length calculation, thus returns the wrong packet length.
To correct the packet length calculation, one possible fixing is simply
to plus extra 1 for extended header, but will spread some duplicate code
in the flows for processing address packet and counter packet.
Alternatively, we can refine the function arm_spe_get_payload() to not
only support short header and allow it to support extended header, and
rely on it for the packet length calculation.
So this patch refactors function arm_spe_get_payload() with a new
argument 'ext_hdr' for support extended header; the packet processing
flows can invoke this function to unify the packet length calculation.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201111071149.815-6-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In function arm_spe_get_events(), the event packet's 'index' is assigned
as payload length, but the flow is not directive: it firstly gets the
packet length from the return value of arm_spe_get_payload(), the value
includes header length (1) and payload length:
int ret = arm_spe_get_payload(buf, len, packet);
and then reduces header length from packet length, so finally get the
payload length:
packet->index = ret - 1;
To simplify the code, this patch directly assigns payload length to
event packet's index; and at the end it calls arm_spe_get_payload() to
return the payload value.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201111071149.815-5-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
On the architectures with perf memory profiling, two types of hardware
events have been supported: load and store; if want to profile memory
for both load and store operations, the tool will use these two events
at the same time, the usage is:
# perf mem record -t load,store -- uname
But this cannot be applied for AUX tracing event, the same PMU event can
be used to only trace memory load, or only memory store, or trace for
both memory load and store.
This patch introduces a new event PERF_MEM_EVENTS__LOAD_STORE, which is
used to support the event which can record both memory load and store
operations.
When user specifies memory operation type as 'load,store', or doesn't
set type so use 'load,store' as default, if the arch supports the event
PERF_MEM_EVENTS__LOAD_STORE, the tool will convert the required
operations to this single event; otherwise, if the arch doesn't support
PERF_MEM_EVENTS__LOAD_STORE, the tool rolls back to enable both events
PERF_MEM_EVENTS__LOAD and PERF_MEM_EVENTS__STORE, which keeps the same
behaviour with before.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201106094853.21082-4-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Different architectures might use different event or different event
parameters for memory profiling, this patch introduces a weak
perf_mem_events__ptr() function which allows to return back a
architecture specific memory event.
Since the variable 'perf_mem_events' can be only accessed by the
perf_mem_events__ptr() function, mark the variable as 'static', this
allows the architectures to define its own memory event array.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201106094853.21082-3-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The perf tool searches a memory event name under the folder
'/sys/devices/cpu/events/', this leads to the limitation for the
selection of a memory profiling event which must be under this folder.
Thus it's impossible to use any other event as memory event which is not
under this specific folder, e.g. Arm SPE hardware event is not located
in '/sys/devices/cpu/events/' so it cannot be enabled for memory
profiling.
This patch changes to search folder from '/sys/devices/cpu/events/' to
'/sys/devices', so it give flexibility to find events which can be used
for memory profiling.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201106094853.21082-2-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add a new --quiet option to 'perf stat'. This is useful with 'perf stat
record' to write the data only to the perf.data file, which can lower
measurement overhead because the data doesn't need to be formatted.
On my 4C desktop:
% time ./perf stat record -e $(python -c 'print ",".join(["cycles"]*1000)') -a -I 1000 sleep 5
...
real 0m5.377s
user 0m0.238s
sys 0m0.452s
% time ./perf stat record --quiet -e $(python -c 'print ",".join(["cycles"]*1000)') -a -I 1000 sleep 5
real 0m5.452s
user 0m0.183s
sys 0m0.423s
In this example it cuts the user time by 20%. On systems with more cores
the savings are higher.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201027002737.30942-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
If libbpf isn't selected, no need for a bunch of related code, that were
not even being used, as code using these perf_env methods was also
enclosed in HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
As it uses the 'deprecated' attribute in a way that breaks the build
with old gcc compilers, so to continue being able to build in such
systems where NO_LIBBPF=1 is being used, enclose it under
HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT.
1 centos:6 : FAIL gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23)
2 oraclelinux:6 : FAIL gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23.0.1)
CC /tmp/build/perf/builtin-record.o
In file included from util/bpf-loader.h:11,
from builtin-record.c:39:
/git/linux/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h:203: error: wrong number of arguments specified for 'deprecated' attribute
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Some archs (e.g. x86 and Arm64) don't enable the configuration
CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG by default, if this configuration is not enabled
when build the kernel image, the SysFS for memory nodes will be missed.
This results in perf tool has no chance to catpure the memory nodes
information, when perf tool reports the result and detects no memory
nodes, it outputs "assertion failed at util/mem2node.c:99".
The output log doesn't give out reason for the failure and users have no
clue for how to fix it. This patch changes to use explicit way for
warning: it tells user that detected no memory nodes and suggests to
enable CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG for kernel building.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201019003613.8399-1-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
