Some places were including event.h just to get 'struct perf_sample',
move it to a separate place so that we speed up a bit the build.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Switch from the libc-defined __BYTE_ORDER to the compiler-defined
__BYTE_ORDER__ in order to make endianness detection more robust, like
it was done for libbpf.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211104132311.984703-1-iii@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf_evlist__ is for 'struct perf_evlist' methods, in tools/lib/perf/,
go on completing this split.
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>
perf_evlist__ is for 'struct perf_evlist' methods, in tools/lib/perf/,
go on completing this split.
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>
There is an existing option to synthesize branch stacks for synthesized
events. Add a new option to synthesize branch stacks for regular events.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200429150751.12570-5-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently, callchains can be synthesized only for synthesized events. Add
an itrace option to synthesize callchains for regular events.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200401101613.6201-9-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Only a 'struct perf_cmp_map' forward allocation is necessary, fix the
places that need the header but were getting it indirectly, by luck,
from env.h.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3sj3n534zghxhk7ygzeaqlx9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Now that thread.h isn't included by any other header, we can check where
it is really needed, i.e. we can remove it and be sure that it isn't
being obtained indirectly.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kh333ivjbw05wsggckpziu86@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So that we can reduce the header dependency tree further, in the process
noticed that lots of places were getting even things like build-id
routines and 'struct perf_tool' definition indirectly, so fix all those
too.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ti0btma9ow5ndrytyoqdk62j@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Even more, to have a "perf_record_" prefix, so that they match the
PERF_RECORD_ enum they map to.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190828135717.7245-23-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Move the perf_event_attr struct fron 'struct evsel' to 'struct perf_evsel'.
Committer notes:
Fixed up these:
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c
tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c
tools/perf/arch/s390/util/auxtrace.c
tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
Also
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
tests/sample-parsing.c: In function 'do_test':
tests/sample-parsing.c:162: error: missing initializer
tests/sample-parsing.c:162: error: (near initialization for 'evsel.core.cpus')
struct evsel evsel = {
.needs_swap = false,
- .core.attr = {
- .sample_type = sample_type,
- .read_format = read_format,
+ .core = {
+ . attr = {
+ .sample_type = sample_type,
+ .read_format = read_format,
+ },
[perfbuilder@a70e4eeb5549 /]$ gcc --version |& head -1
gcc (GCC) 4.4.7
Also we don't need to include perf_event.h in
tools/perf/lib/include/perf/evsel.h, forward declaring 'struct
perf_event_attr' is enough. And this even fixes the build in some
systems where things are used somewhere down the include path from
perf_event.h without defining __always_inline.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190721112506.12306-43-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Rename struct perf_evsel to struct evsel, so we don't have a name clash
when we add struct perf_evsel in libperf.
Committer notes:
Added fixes for arm64, provided by Jiri.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190721112506.12306-5-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To allow for destructors to check if they're operating on a object still
in a list, and to avoid going from use after free list entries into
still valid, or even also other already removed from list entries.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-deh17ub44atyox3j90e6rksu@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In places where the equivalent was already being done, i.e.:
free(a);
a = NULL;
And in placs where struct members are being freed so that if we have
some erroneous reference to its struct, then accesses to freed members
will result in segfaults, which we can detect faster than use after free
to areas that may still have something seemingly valid.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jatyoofo5boc1bsvoig6bb6i@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Eroding a bit more the tools/perf/util/util.h hodpodge header.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-natazosyn9rwjka25tvcnyi0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Perf report fails to display s390 specific event numbered bd000
on an x86 platform. For example on s390 this works without error:
[root@m35lp76 perf]# uname -m
s390x
[root@m35lp76 perf]# ./perf record -e rbd000 -- find / >/dev/null
[ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.549 MB perf.data ]
[root@m35lp76 perf]# ./perf report -D --stdio > /dev/null
[root@m35lp76 perf]#
Transfering this perf.data file to an x86 platform and executing
the same report command produces:
[root@f29 perf]# uname -m
x86_64
[root@f29 perf]# ./perf report -i ~/perf.data.m35lp76 --stdio
interpreting bpf_prog_info from systems with endianity is not yet supported
interpreting btf from systems with endianity is not yet supported
0x8c890 [0x8]: failed to process type: 68
Error:
failed to process sample
Event bd000 generates auxiliary data which is stored in big endian
format in the perf data file.
This error is caused by missing endianess handling on the x86 platform
when the data is displayed. Fix this by handling s390 auxiliary event
data depending on the local platform endianness.
Output after on x86:
[root@f29 perf]# ./perf report -D -i ~/perf.data.m35lp76 --stdio > /dev/null
interpreting bpf_prog_info from systems with endianity is not yet supported
interpreting btf from systems with endianity is not yet supported
[root@f29 perf]#
Committer notes:
Fix build breakage on older systems, such as CentOS:6 where using
nesting calls to the endian.h macros end up redefining local variables:
util/s390-cpumsf.c: In function 's390_cpumsf_trailer_show':
util/s390-cpumsf.c:333: error: declaration of '__v' shadows a previous local
util/s390-cpumsf.c:333: error: shadowed declaration is here
util/s390-cpumsf.c:333: error: declaration of '__x' shadows a previous local
util/s390-cpumsf.c:333: error: shadowed declaration is here
util/s390-cpumsf.c:334: error: declaration of '__v' shadows a previous local
util/s390-cpumsf.c:334: error: shadowed declaration is here
util/s390-cpumsf.c:334: error: declaration of '__x' shadows a previous local
util/s390-cpumsf.c:334: error: shadowed declaration is here
[perfbuilder@455a63ef60dc perf]$ gcc -v |& tail -1
gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23) (GCC)
[perfbuilder@455a63ef60dc perf]$
Since there are several uses of
be64toh(te->flags)
Introduce a variable to hold that and then use it, avoiding this case
that causes the above problems:
- local.bsdes = be16toh((be64toh(te->flags) >> 16 & 0xffff));
+ local.bsdes = be16toh((flags >> 16 & 0xffff));
Its the same construct used in s390_cpumsf_diag_show() where we have a
'word' variable that is used just once, s390_cpumsf_basic_show() has
lots of uses and also uses a variable to hold the result of be16toh().
Some of those temp variables needed to be converted from 'unsigned long'
to 'unsigned long long' so as to build on 32-bit arches such as
debian:experimental-x-mipsel, the android NDK ones and
fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190522064325.25596-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
On IBM z13 machine types 2964 and 2965 the descriptor
sizes for sampling and diagnostic sampling entries
might be missing in the trailer entry and are set to zero.
This leads to a perf report failure when processing diagnostic
sampling entries.
This patch adds missing descriptor sizes when the trailer entry
contains zero for these fields.
Output before:
[root@s38lp82 perf]# ./perf report --stdio | fgrep Samples
0xabbf0 [0x8]: failed to process type: 68
Error:
failed to process sample
[root@s38lp82 perf]#
Output after:
[root@s38lp82 perf]# ./perf report --stdio | fgrep Samples
# Total Lost Samples: 0
# Samples: 3K of event 'SF_CYCLES_BASIC_DIAG'
# Samples: 162 of event 'CF_DIAG'
[root@s38lp82 perf]#
Fixes: 2b1444f2e2 ("perf report: Add raw report support for s390 auxiliary trace")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190211100627.85714-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The timestamp can use useful to find part of a trace that has an error
without outputting all of the trace e.g. using the itrace 's' option to
skip initial number of events.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190206103947.15750-6-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add support for the new s390 PMU device cpum_cf_diag to extract the
counter set diagnostic data. This data is available as event raw data
and can be created with this command:
[root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf record -R -e '{rbd000,rbc000}' --
~/mytests/facultaet 2500
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.009 MB perf.data ]
[root@s35lp76 perf]#
The new event 0xbc000 generated this counter set diagnostic trace data.
The data can be extracted using command:
[root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf report --stdio --itrace=d
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 21 of events 'anon group { rbd000, rbc000 }'
# Event count (approx.): 21
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ................ ......... ................. ........................
#
80.95% 0.00% facultaet facultaet [.] facultaet
4.76% 0.00% facultaet [kernel.kallsyms] [k] check_chain_key
4.76% 0.00% facultaet [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ftrace_likely_update
4.76% 0.00% facultaet [kernel.kallsyms] [k] lock_release
4.76% 0.00% facultaet libc-2.26.so [.] _dl_addr
[root@s35lp76 perf]# ll aux*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3408 Oct 16 12:40 aux.ctr.02
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Oct 16 12:40 aux.smp.02
[root@s35lp76 perf]#
The files named aux.ctr.## contain the counter set diagnostic data and
the files named aux.smp.## contain the sampling diagnostic data. ##
stand for the CPU number the data was taken from.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190117093003.96287-4-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To avoid this warning:
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/s390-cpumsf.o
util/s390-cpumsf.c: In function 's390_cpumsf_samples':
util/s390-cpumsf.c:508:3: warning: format '%llx' expects argument of type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'off_t' [-Wformat=]
pr_err("[%#08" PRIx64 "] Invalid AUX trailer entry TOD clock base\n",
^
Now the various Android cross toolchains used in the perf tools
container test builds are all clean and we can remove this:
export EXTRA_MAKE_ARGS="WERROR=0"
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5rav4ccyb0sjciysz2i4p3sx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Create auxiliary trace data log files when invoked with option
--itrace=d as in:
[root@s35lp76 perf] perf report -i perf.data.aux1 --stdio --itrace=d
perf report creates several data files in the current directory named
aux.smp.## where ## is a 2 digit hex number with leading zeros
representing the CPU number this trace data was recorded from. The file
contents is binary and contains the CPU-Measurement Sampling Data Blocks
(SDBs).
The directory to save the auxiliary trace buffer can be changed using
the perf config file and command. Specify section 'auxtrace' keyword
'dumpdir' and assign it a valid directory name. If the directory does
not exist or has the wrong file type, the current directory is used.
[root@p23lp27 perf]# perf config auxtrace.dumpdir=/tmp
[root@p23lp27 perf]# perf config --user -l auxtrace.dumpdir=/tmp
[root@p23lp27 perf]# perf report ...
[root@p23lp27 perf]# ll /tmp/aux.smp.00
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204800 Aug 2 13:48 /tmp/aux.smp.00
[root@p23lp27 perf]#
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180809045650.89197-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add support for s390 auxiliary trace support.
Use 'perf record -e rbd000 -- ls' to create the perf.data file.
Use 'perf report' to display the auxiliary trace data.
Output before:
[root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf report --stdio
0x128 [0x10]: failed to process type: 70
Error:
failed to process sample
[root@s35lp76 perf]#
Output after:
[root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf report --stdio
18.21% 18.21% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ftrace_likely_update
9.52% 9.52% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] lock_acquire
9.38% 9.38% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] lock_release
3.45% 3.45% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] lock_acquired
2.88% 2.88% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] link_path_walk
2.63% 2.63% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __d_lookup
2.38% 2.38% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __d_lookup_rcu
2.04% 2.04% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ___might_sleep
1.83% 1.83% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled
1.44% 1.44% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] dput
....
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802074622.13641-4-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
[ Use PRI[xd]64 to fix the build on debian:experimental-x-mips (gcc 8.1.0) and others ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add support for s390 auxiliary trace support.
Use 'perf record -e rbd000' to create the perf.data file. The event
also has the symbolic name SF_CYCLES_BASIC_DIAG, using 'perf record -e
SF_CYCLES_BASIC_DIAG' is equivalent.
Use 'perf report -D' to display the auxiliary trace data.
Output before:
0 0 0x25a66 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE size: 0x40000
offset: 0 ref: 0 idx: 4 tid: -1 cpu: 4
Nothing else
Output after:
0 0 0x25a66 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE size: 0x40000
offset: 0 ref: 0 idx: 4 tid: -1 cpu: 4
.
. ... s390 AUX data: size 262144 bytes
[00000000] Basic Def:0001 Inst:0000 TW AS:3 ASN:0xffff IA:0x0000000000c2f1bc
CL:1 HPP:0x8000000000000000 GPP:000000000000000000
[0x000020] Diag Def:8005
[0x0000bf] Basic Def:0001 Inst:0000 TW AS:3 ASN:0xffff IA:0x0000000000c2f1bc
CL:1 HPP:0x8000000000000000 GPP:000000000000000000
[0x0000df] Diag Def:8005
[0x00017e] Basic Def:0001 Inst:0000 TW AS:3 ASN:0xffff IA:0x0000000000c2f1bc
CL:1 HPP:0x8000000000000000 GPP:000000000000000000
....
[0x000fc0] Trailer F T bsdes:32 dsdes:159 Overflow:0 Time:0xd4ab59a8450fa108
C:1 TOD:0xd4ab4ec98ceb3832 1:0x8000000000000000 2:0xd4ab4ec98ceb3832
This output is shown for every sampled data block. The
output contains the
- basic-sampling data entry
- diagnostic-sampling data entry
- trailer entry
The basic sampling entry and diagnostic sampling entry sizes can be
extracted using the trailer entries in the SDB. On older hardware these
values (bsdes and dsdes in the trailer entry) are reserved and zero.
Older hardware use hard coded values based on the s390 machine type.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802074622.13641-3-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/eda2632e-7919-5ffd-5f68-821e77d216fa@linux.ibm.com
[ Merged a fix for a 'tipe puned' problem reported by Michael Ellerman see last Link tag. ]
[ Removed __packed from two structs, they're already naturally packed and having that. ]
[ attribute breaks the build in gcc 8.1.1 mips, 4.4.7 x86_64, 7.1.1 ARCompact ISA, etc) ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add initial support for s390 auxiliary traces using the CPU-Measurement
Sampling Facility.
Support and ignore PERF_REPORT_AUXTRACE_INFO records in the perf data
file. Later patches will show the contents of the auxiliary traces.
Setup the auxtrace queues and data structures for s390. A raw dump of
the perf.data file now does not show an error when an auxtrace event is
encountered.
Output before:
[root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf report -D -i perf.data.auxtrace
0x128 [0x10]: failed to process type: 70
Error:
failed to process sample
0x128 [0x10]: event: 70
.
. ... raw event: size 16 bytes
. 0000: 00 00 00 46 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...F............
0x128 [0x10]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE_INFO type: 0
[root@s35lp76 perf]#
Output after:
# ./perf report -D -i perf.data.auxtrace |fgrep PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE
0 0 0x128 [0x10]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE_INFO type: 5
0 0 0x25a66 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE size: 0x40000
offset: 0 ref: 0 idx: 4 tid: -1 cpu: 4
....
Additional notes about the underlying hardware and software
implementation, provided by Hendrik Brueckner (see Link: below).
=============================================================================
The CPU-Measurement Facility (CPU-MF) provides a set of functions to obtain
performance information on the mainframe. Basically, it was introduced
with System z10 years ago for the z/Architecture, that means, 64-bit.
For Linux, there are two facilities of interest, counter facility and sampling
facility. The counter facility provides hardware counters for instructions,
cycles, crypto-activities, and many more.
The sampling facility is a hardware sampler that when started will write
samples at a particular interval into a sampling buffer. At some point,
for example, if a sample block is full, it generates an interrupt to collect
samples (while the sampler continues to run).
Few years ago, I started to provide the a perf PMU to use the counter
and sampling facilities. Recently, the device driver was updated to also
"export" the sampling buffer into the AUX area. Thomas now completed the
related perf work to interpret and process these AUX data.
If people are more interested in the sampling facility, they can have a
look into:
- The Load-Program-Parameter and the CPU-Measurement Facilities, SA23-2260-05
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg26fcd1cc32246f4c8852574ce0044734a
and to learn how-to use it for Linux on Z, have look at chapter 54,
"Using the CPU-measurement facilities" in the:
- Device Drivers, Features, and Commands, SC33-8411-34
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/linux390/docu/l416dd34.pdf
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180803100758.GA28475@linux.ibm.com
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802074622.13641-2-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo