Several places in perf need to check whether an evsel is a kprobe or
uprobe, which requires looking up the PMU by name via evsel__find_pmu().
This lookup walks the PMU list each time, which is wasteful when the
same evsel is checked repeatedly.
Add evsel__is_kprobe(), evsel__is_uprobe(), and evsel__is_probe() that
resolve the probe type on first call via evsel__pmu_name() and cache
the result in a 3-bit field (probe_type) in struct evsel. The field
fits in existing padding after the bool fields, so struct size does not
grow.
The enum uses PROBE__UNKNOWN (0) as the uninitialized sentinel —
explicitly set in evsel__init() — so the lookup happens on first use.
PROBE__NOPE (1) caches "not a probe" to avoid repeated negative lookups.
PMU-based probes (kprobe/uprobe PMU) are detected by PMU name.
Ftrace-based dynamic probes (created via tracefs, reported as PMU
"tracepoint") are detected by the __probe_ip field that the kernel
adds to all dynamic probe formats. This covers kprobes, uprobes, and
fprobes regardless of their group/system name.
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When building without libtraceevent (NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1), evsel__field()
and evsel__common_field() are declared but never defined, causing link
errors in any code path that references them.
Add inline stubs that return NULL when HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT is not defined,
matching the pattern used by other evsel accessor functions.
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add the sample address remapping logic to the ASLR tool. This patch
implements aslr_tool__process_sample, which parses sample events,
remaps IPs, ADDRs, callchains, and branch stacks using the mappings
collected from metadata events, and drops potentially leaking raw,
register, stack, physical address, and aux samples.
Also adds the aslr_tool__remap_address helper function.
Note on cross-endian compatibility:
'perf inject' functions as an endianness converter. Input files are read,
and their events are byte-swapped to host endianness in memory. When the
tool emits its output, it writes a host-endian PERF_MAGIC in the file
header, thereby marking the output file as host-endian natively.
Because the output file is always written in host endianness, events and
payloads must be constructed entirely using host-endian layouts. For this
reason, this patch explicitly un-packs and repacks PERF_SAMPLE_TID (and
PERF_SAMPLE_CPU) using unions to ensure that the sequential 32-bit layout
is correctly aligned in host endianness. Similarly, branch stack flags
(which are modified in-place to host-endian bitfields by the parser) are
copied directly to the newly synthesized event. When re-parsing the newly
synthesized event, 'needs_swap=false' is explicitly used to prevent double
swapping the already host-endian fields.
Committer notes:
Removed several unused variables, they will be reintroduced in the
following patches where they are finally used:
struct aslr_evsel_priv *priv = NULL;
u64 orig_sample_type;
u64 orig_regs_user;
u64 orig_regs_intr;
Also used PRIx64 for two u64 args (addresses) and %zu for a size_t arg
(map__size()) to fix the build on 32-bit architectures.
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.1-pro
Co-developed-by: Gabriel Marin <gmx@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Marin <gmx@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Opening an SPE event shows a warning that doesn't concern the user:
$ perf record -e arm_spe
Unknown/empty format name: discard
Perf only wants to know if the discard bit is set for configuring the
event, not in response to anything the user has done. Fix it by adding
another helper that returns if a config bit exists without warning.
We should probably keep the warning in evsel__get_config_val() to avoid
having every caller having to do it, and most format bits should never
be missing.
Add a test for the new helper. Rename the parent test function to be
more generic rather than adding a new one as it requires a lot of
boilerplate.
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tool PMU events (duration_time, user_time, system_time) currently
count from when the event is opened to when it is read. This causes
issues with features like the delay option (-D) or control fd, where
events are opened but should not start counting immediately.
Make these events behave more like regular counters by implementing
proper enable and disable support. Add accumulated_time to struct
evsel to track time while enabled, and implement enable/disable CPU
callbacks to start/stop counting.
Also generalize userspace PMU mixed group handling. Userspace synthetic
PMUs (type > PERF_PMU_TYPE_PE_END) do not have kernel implementations and
cannot be grouped in the kernel (opened with group_fd = -1), and are
skipped by kernel enable/disable calls. Iterate over group members in
userspace and manually enable/disable any members if the leader or the
member is a non-perf-event open PMU, and synchronize their disabled flags.
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20260517093650.2540920-1-nigro.fra@gmail.com/
Fixes: b71f46a6a7 ("perf stat: Remove hard coded shadow metrics")
Reported-by: Francesco Nigro <nigro.fra@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3-flash
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The options are used to configure the evsel but are not themselves
configured. Make the arguments const to better capture this.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Switch to using evsel__match rather than comparing perf_event_attr
values, this is robust on hybrid architectures.
Ensure evsel->pmu matches the evsel->core.attr.
Remove exclude bits that get set in other fallback attempts when
switching the event.
Log the event name with modifiers when switching the event on fallback.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Add a new callchain record mode option for deferred callchains. For now
it only works with FP (frame-pointer) mode.
And add the missing feature detection logic to clear the flag on old
kernels.
$ perf record --call-graph fp,defer -vv true
...
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)
size 136
config 0 (PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES)
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CALLCHAIN|PERIOD
read_format ID|LOST
disabled 1
inherit 1
mmap 1
comm 1
freq 1
enable_on_exec 1
task 1
sample_id_all 1
mmap2 1
comm_exec 1
ksymbol 1
bpf_event 1
defer_callchain 1
defer_output 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 162755 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8
sys_perf_event_open failed, error -22
switching off deferred callchain support
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Some Default group metrics require their events showing for
consistency with perf's previous behavior. Add a flag to indicate when
this is the case and use it in stat-display.
As events are coming from Default metrics remove that default hardware
and software events from perf stat.
Following this change the default perf stat output on an alderlake looks like:
```
$ perf stat -a -- sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
20,550 context-switches # nan cs/sec cs_per_second
TopdownL1 (cpu_core) # 9.0 % tma_bad_speculation
# 28.1 % tma_frontend_bound
TopdownL1 (cpu_core) # 29.2 % tma_backend_bound
# 33.7 % tma_retiring
6,685 page-faults # nan faults/sec page_faults_per_second
790,091,064 cpu_atom/cpu-cycles/
# nan GHz cycles_frequency (49.83%)
2,563,918,366 cpu_core/cpu-cycles/
# nan GHz cycles_frequency
# 12.3 % tma_bad_speculation
# 14.5 % tma_retiring (50.20%)
# 33.8 % tma_frontend_bound (50.24%)
76,390,322 cpu_atom/branches/ # nan M/sec branch_frequency (60.20%)
1,015,173,047 cpu_core/branches/ # nan M/sec branch_frequency
1,325 cpu-migrations # nan migrations/sec migrations_per_second
# 39.3 % tma_backend_bound (60.17%)
0.00 msec cpu-clock # 0.000 CPUs utilized
# 0.0 CPUs CPUs_utilized
554,347,072 cpu_atom/instructions/ # 0.64 insn per cycle
# 0.6 instructions insn_per_cycle (60.14%)
5,228,931,991 cpu_core/instructions/ # 2.04 insn per cycle
# 2.0 instructions insn_per_cycle
4,308,874 cpu_atom/branch-misses/ # 5.65% of all branches
# 5.6 % branch_miss_rate (49.76%)
9,890,606 cpu_core/branch-misses/ # 0.97% of all branches
# 1.0 % branch_miss_rate
1.005477803 seconds time elapsed
```
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The metric_events exist in the metric_expr list and so this variable
has been unused for a while.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
For the sake of Intel topdown events commit 9eac5612da ("perf
stat: Don't skip failing group events") changed 'perf stat' error
handling making it so that more errors were fatal and didn't report
"<not supported>" events. The change outside of topdown events was
unintentional.
The notion of "fatal" error handling was introduced in commit
e0e6a6ca3a ("perf stat: Factor out open error handling") and
refined in commits like commit cb5ef60067 ("perf stat: Error out
unsupported group leader immediately") to be an approach for avoiding
later assertion failures in the code base.
This change fixes those issues and removes the notion of a fatal error
on an event. If all events fail to open then a fatal error occurs with
the previous fatal error message. This seems to best match the notion of
supported events and allowing some errors not to stop 'perf stat', while
allowing the truly fatal no event case to terminate the tool early.
The evsel->errored flag is only used in the stat code but always just
meaning !evsel->supported although there is a comment about it being
sticky. Force all evsels to be supported in evsel__init and then clear
this when evsel__open fails. When an event is tried the supported is
set to true again. This simplifies the notion of whether an evsel is
broken.
In the get_group_fd code, fail to get a group fd when the evsel isn't
supported. If the leader isn't supported then it is also expected that
there is no group_fd as the leader will have been skipped. Therefore
change the BUG_ON test to be on supported rather than skippable. This
corrects the assertion errors that were the reason for the previous
fatal error handling.
Fixes: 9eac5612da ("perf stat: Don't skip failing group events")
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Cc: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251002220727.1889799-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The function parse_events__sort_events_and_fix_groups is needed to fix
uncore events like:
```
$ perf stat -e '{data_read,data_write}' ...
```
so that the multiple uncore PMUs have a group each of data_read and
data_write events.
The same function will perform architecture sorting and group fixing,
in particular for Intel topdown/perf-metric events. Grouping multiple
perf metric events together causes perf_event_open to fail as the
group can only support one. This means command lines like:
```
$ perf stat -e 'slots,slots' ...
```
fail as the slots events are forced into a group together to try to
satisfy the perf-metric event constraints.
As the user may know better than
parse_events__sort_events_and_fix_groups add a 'X' modifier to skip
its regrouping behavior. This allows the following to succeed rather
than fail on the second slots event being opened:
```
$ perf stat -e 'slots,slots:X' -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
6,834,154,071 cpu_core/slots/ (50.13%)
5,548,629,453 cpu_core/slots/X (49.87%)
1.002634606 seconds time elapsed
```
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250822082233.1850417-1-dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com/
Reported-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Cc: Yoshihiro Furudera <fj5100bi@fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The session holds a perf_env pointer env. In UI code container_of is
used to turn the env to a session, but this assumes the session
header's env is in use. Rather than a dubious container_of, hold the
session in the evlist and derive the env from the session with
evsel__env, perf_session__env, etc.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-11-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Add evsel__open_per_cpu_and_thread that combines the operation of
evsel__open_per_cpu and evsel__open_per_thread so that an event
without the "any" cpumask can be opened with its cpumask and with
threads it specifies. Change the implementation of evsel__open_per_cpu
and evsel__open_per_thread to use evsel__open_per_cpu_and_thread to
make the implementation of those functions clearer.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250719030517.1990983-12-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Factor requested CPU warning out of evlist and into evsel. At the end
of adding an event, perform the warning check. To avoid repeatedly
testing if the cpu_list is empty, add a local variable.
```
$ perf stat -e cpu_atom/cycles,cpu=1/ -a true
WARNING: A requested CPU in '1' is not supported by PMU 'cpu_atom' (CPUs 16-27) for event 'cpu_atom/cycles/'
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
<not supported> cpu_atom/cycles/
0.000781511 seconds time elapsed
```
Reviewed-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250719030517.1990983-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The existing logic would disable uniquification on an evlist or enable
it per evsel, this is unfortunate as uniquification is most needed
when events have the same name and so the whole evlist must be
considered. Change the initial disable uniquify on an evlist
processing to also set a needs_uniquify flag, for cases like the
matching event names. This must be done as an initial pass as
uniquification of an event name will change the behavior of the
check. Keep the per counter uniquification but now only uniquify event
names when the needs_uniquify flag is set.
Before this change a hwmon like temp1 wouldn't be uniquified and
afterwards it will (ie the PMU is added to the temp1 event's name).
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250201074320.746259-6-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The evsel__detect_missing_features() is to check if the attributes of
the evsel is supported or not. But it checks the attribute based on the
given evsel, it might miss something if the attr doesn't have the bit or
give incorrect results if the event is special.
Also it maintains the order of the feature that was added to the kernel
which means it can assume older features should be supported once it
detects the current feature is working. To minimized the confusion and
to accurately check the kernel features, I think it's better to use a
software event and go through all the features at once.
Also make the function static since it's only used in evsel.c.
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Acked-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>
Cc: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016062359.264929-6-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Rather than treat tool events as a special kind of event, create a
tool only PMU where the events/aliases match the existing
duration_time, user_time and system_time events. Remove special
parsing and printing support for the tool events, but add function
calls for when PMU functions are called on a tool_pmu.
Move the tool PMU code in evsel into tool_pmu.c to better encapsulate
the tool event behavior in that file.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241002032016.333748-5-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The "perf record" tool will now default to this new mode if the user
specifies a sampling group when not in system-wide mode, and when
"--no-inherit" is not specified.
This change updates evsel to allow the combination of inherit
and PERF_SAMPLE_READ.
A fallback is implemented for kernel versions where this feature is not
supported.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gainey <ben.gainey@arm.com>
Cc: james.clark@arm.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241001121505.1009685-3-ben.gainey@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The branch counters logging (A.K.A LBR event logging) introduces a
per-counter indication of precise event occurrences in LBRs. The kernel
only dumps the number of occurrences into a record. The perf tool has
to map the number to the corresponding event.
Add evlist__update_br_cntr() to go through the evlist to pick the
events that are configured to be logged. Assign a logical idx to track
them, and add the total number of the events in the leader event.
The total number will be used to allocate the space to save the branch
counters for a block. The logical idx will be used to locate the
corresponding event quickly in the following patches.
It only needs to iterate the evlist once. The
evsel__has_branch_counters() is also optimized.
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240813160208.2493643-4-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When retire_latency value is used in a metric formula, evsel would fork
a 'perf record' process with "-e" and "-W" options. 'perf record' will
collect required retire_latency values in parallel while 'perf stat' is
collecting counting values.
At the point of time that 'perf stat' stops counting, evsel would stop
'perf record' by sending sigterm signal to 'perf record' process.
Sampled data will be processed to get retire latency value. Another
thread is required to synchronize between 'perf stat' and 'perf record'
when we pass data through pipe.
Retire_latency evsel is not opened for 'perf stat' so that there is no
counter wasted on it. This commit includes code suggested by Namhyung to
adjust reading size for groups that include retire_latency evsels.
In current :R parsing implementation, the parser would recognize events
with retire_latency modifier and insert them into the evlist like a
normal event. Ideally, we need to avoid counting these events.
In this commit, at the time when a retire_latency evsel is read, set the
retire latency value processed from the sampled data to count value.
This sampled retire latency value will be used for metric calculation
and final event count print out. No special metric calculation and event
print out code required for retire_latency events.
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Perry Taylor <perry.taylor@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Samantha Alt <samantha.alt@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240720062102.444578-4-weilin.wang@intel.com
[ Squashed the 3rd and 4th commit in the series to keep it building patch by patch ]
[ Constified the 'struct perf_tool' pointer in process_sample_event() ]
[ Use perf_tool__init(&tool, false) to address a segfault I reported and Ian/Weilin diagnosed ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tool events unnecessarily open a dummy perf event which is useless
even with `perf record` which will still open a dummy event. Change
the behavior of tool events so:
- duration_time - call `rdclock` on open and then report the count as
a delta since the start in evsel__read_counter. This moves code out
of builtin-stat making it more general purpose.
- user_time/system_time - open the fd as either `/proc/pid/stat` or
`/proc/stat` for cases like system wide. evsel__read_counter will
read the appropriate field out of the procfs file. These values
were previously supplied by wait4, if the procfs read fails then
the wait4 values are used, assuming the process/thread terminated.
By reading user_time and system_time this way, interval mode, per
PID and per CPU can be supported although there are restrictions
given what the files provide (e.g. per PID can't be combined with
per CPU).
Opening any of the tool events for `perf record` is changed to return
invalid.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Cc: Ze Gao <zegao2021@gmail.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503232849.17752-1-irogers@google.com
Add a new branch filter, "counter", for the branch counter option. It is
used to mark the events which should be logged in the branch. If it is
applied with the -j option, the counters of all the events should be
logged in the branch. If the legacy kernel doesn't support the new
branch sample type, switching off the branch counter filter.
The stored counter values in each branch are displayed right after the
regular branch stack information via perf report -D.
Usage examples:
# perf record -e "{branch-instructions,branch-misses}:S" -j any,counter
Only the first event, branch-instructions, collect the LBR. Both
branch-instructions and branch-misses are marked as logged events. The
occurrences information of them can be found in the branch stack
extension space of each branch.
# perf record -e "{cpu/branch-instructions,branch_type=any/,cpu/branch-misses,branch_type=counter/}"
Only the first event, branch-instructions, collect the LBR. Only the
branch-misses event is marked as a logged event.
Committer notes:
I noticed 'perf test "Sample parsing"' failing, reported to the list and
Kan provided a patch that checks if the evsel has a leader and that
evsel->evlist is set, the comment in the source code further explains
it.
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tinghao Zhang <tinghao.zhang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025201626.3000228-8-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
