CBR (core-to-bus ratio) packets provide an indication of CPU frequency. A
more accurate measure can be made by counting the cycles (given by CYC
packets) in between other timing packets (either MTC or TSC). Using TSC
packets has at least 2 issues: 1) timing might have stopped (e.g. mwait) or
2) TSC packets within PSB+ might slip past CYC packets. For now, simply do
not use TSC packets for calculating CPU cycles to TSC. That leaves the case
where 2 MTC packets are used, otherwise falling back to the CBR value.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495786658-18063-37-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Synthesize new power and ptwrite events.
Power events report changes to C-state but I have also added support
for the existing CBR (core-to-bus ratio) packet and included that
when outputting power events.
The PTWRITE packet is associated with the new "ptwrite" instruction,
which is essentially just a way to stuff a 32 or 64 bit value into the
PT trace.
More details can be found in the patches that add documentation and in
the Intel SDM.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498811805-2335-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
[ Copy the description of such packet from the patchkit cover message ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Instruction trace decoders such as Intel PT may have additional information
recorded in the trace. For example, Intel PT has power information and a
there is a new instruction 'ptwrite' that can write a value into a PTWRITE
trace packet.
Such information may be associated with an IP and so can be treated as a
sample (PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE). Custom data can be incorporated in the
sample as raw_data (PERF_SAMPLE_RAW).
However a means of identifying the raw data format is needed. That will
be done by synthesizing an attribute for it.
So add an attribute type for custom synthesized events. Different
synthesized events will be identified by the attribute 'config'.
Committer notes:
Start those PERF_TYPE_ after the PMU range, i.e. after (INT_MAX + 1U),
i.e. after perf_pmu_register() -> idr_alloc(end=0).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498040239-32418-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add ptwrite to the op code map and the perf tools new instructions test.
To run the test:
$ tools/perf/perf test "x86 ins"
39: Test x86 instruction decoder - new instructions : Ok
Or to see the details:
$ tools/perf/perf test -v "x86 ins" 2>&1 | grep ptwrite
For information about ptwrite, refer the Intel SDM.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495180230-19367-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds platform dependency into the test case 15
(perf_event_attr). It is based on a suggestion from Jiri Olsa.
Add a new optional attribute named 'arch' in the [config] section of the
test case file. It is a comma separated list of architecture names this
test can be executed on. For example:
arch = x86_64,alpha,ppc
If this attribute is missing the test is executed on any platform. This
does not break existing behavior.
The values listed for this attribute should be identical to uname -m
output.
If the list starts with an exclamation mark (!) the comparison is
inverted, for example for
arch = !s390x,ppc
the test is not executed on s390x or ppc platforms. The exclamation
mark must be at the beginnning of the list.
Here is an example debug output:
[root@s35lp76]# fgrep arch tests/attr/test-stat-C2
arch = x86_64,alpha,ppc
[root@s35lp76]# PERF_TEST_ATTR=/tmp /usr/bin/python2 ./tests/attr.py \
-d ./tests/attr/ -p ./perf -vvvvv -t test-stat-C1
provides the following output:
running './tests/attr//test-stat-C1'
test limitation 'x86_64,alpha,ppc' <--- new
loading expected events
Event event:base-stat
fd = 1
group_fd = -1
.....
Here is the output when a test is skipped:
[root@s35lp76]# fgrep arch tests/attr/test-stat-C1
arch = !s390x
[root@s35lp76]# PERF_TEST_ATTR=/tmp /usr/bin/python2 ./tests/attr.py \
-d ./tests/attr/ -p ./perf -vvvvv -t test-stat-C1
provides the following output:
test limitation '!s390x' <--- new
skipped [s390x] './tests/attr//test-stat-C1' <--- new
The test is skipped with return code 0.
Suggested-and-Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170622073625.86762-1-tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
New features:
- Add support to measure SMI cost in 'perf stat' (Kan Liang)
- Add support for unwinding callchains in powerpc with libdw (Paolo Bonzini)
Fixes:
- Fix message: cpu list option is -C not -c (Adrian Hunter)
- Fix 'perf script' message: field list option is -F not -f (Adrian Hunter)
- Intel PT fixes: (Adrian Hunter)
o Fix missing stack clear
o Ensure IP is zero when state is INTEL_PT_STATE_NO_IP
o Fix last_ip usage
o Ensure never to set 'last_ip' when packet 'count' is zero
o Clear FUP flag on error
o Fix transactions_sample_type
Infrastructure changes:
- Intel PT cleanups/refactorings (Adrian Hunter)
o Use FUP always when scanning for an IP
o Add missing __fallthrough
o Remove redundant initial_skip checks
o Allow decoding with branch tracing disabled
o Add default config for pass-through branch enable
o Add documentation for new config terms
o Add decoder support for ptwrite and power event packets
o Add reserved byte to CBR packet payload
o Add decoder support for CBR events
- Move find_process() to the only place that uses it, skimming some
more fat from util.[ch] (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Do parameter validation earlier on fetch_kernel_version() (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Remove unused _ALL_SOURCE define (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Add sysfs__write_int function (Kan Liang)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The kernel now supports the disabling of branch tracing, however the
decoder assumes branch tracing is always enabled. Pass through a parameter
to indicate whether branch tracing is enabled and use it to avoid cases
when the decoder is expecting branch packets. There are 2 such cases.
First, FUP packets which can bind to an IP even when there is no branch
tracing. Secondly, the decoder will try to use branch packets to find an IP
to start decoding or to recover from errors.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495786658-18063-11-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Intel PT uses IP compression based on the last IP. For decoding
purposes, 'last IP' is considered to be reset to zero whenever there is
a synchronization packet (PSB). The decoder wasn't doing that, and was
treating the zero value to mean that there was no last IP, whereas
compression can be done against the zero value. Fix by setting last_ip
to zero when a PSB is received and keep track of have_last_ip.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495786658-18063-6-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
