Starting on v4.12 event parsing code for dynamic pmu events already
supports prefix-based matching of multiple pmus when creating dynamic
events. E.g., in a system with the following dynamic pmus:
mypmu_0
mypmu_1
mypmu_2
mypmu_4
passing mypmu/<config>/ as an event spec will result in the creation of
the event in all of the pmus. This change expands this matching through
the use of fnmatch so glob-like expressions can be used to create events
in multiple pmus. E.g., in the system described above if a user only
wants to create the event in mypmu_0 and mypmu_1, mypmu_[01]/<config>/
can be passed.
Signed-off-by: Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Change-Id: Icb25653fc5d5239c20f3bffdfdf4ab4c9c9bb20b
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520454947-16977-1-git-send-email-agustinv@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix an incorrect description in the 'perf list' manpage. When a group
does not fit into the hardware it is partially scheduled, but does not
error out.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171010224322.15861-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add code to perf list to print metric groups, and metrics
that don't have an event name. The metricgroup code collects
the eventgroups and events into a rblist, and then prints
them according to the configured filters.
The metricgroups are printed by default, but can be
limited by perf list metric or perf list metricgroup
% perf list metricgroup
..
Metric Groups:
DSB:
DSB_Coverage
[Fraction of Uops delivered by the DSB (aka Decoded Icache; or Uop Cache)]
FLOPS:
GFLOPs
[Giga Floating Point Operations Per Second]
Frontend:
IFetch_Line_Utilization
[Rough Estimation of fraction of fetched lines bytes that were likely consumed by program instructions]
Frontend_Bandwidth:
DSB_Coverage
[Fraction of Uops delivered by the DSB (aka Decoded Icache; or Uop Cache)]
Memory_BW:
MLP
[Memory-Level-Parallelism (average number of L1 miss demand load when there is at least 1 such miss)]
v2: Check return value of asprintf to fix warning on FC26
Fix key in lookup/addition for the groups list
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831194036.30146-8-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Setting up groups can be complicated due to the complicated scheduling
restrictions of different PMUs.
User tools usually don't understand all these restrictions.
Still in many cases it is useful to set up groups and they work most of
the time. However if the group is set up wrong some members will not
report any value because they never get scheduled.
Add a concept of a 'weak group': try to set up a group, but if it's not
schedulable fallback to not using a group. That gives us the best of
both worlds: groups if they work, but still a usable fallback if they
don't.
In theory it would be possible to have more complex fallback strategies
(e.g. try to split the group in half), but the simple fallback of not
using a group seems to work for now.
So far the weak group is only implemented for perf stat, not for record.
Here's an unschedulable group (on IvyBridge with SMT on)
% perf stat -e '{branches,branch-misses,l1d.replacement,l2_lines_in.all,l2_rqsts.all_code_rd}' -a sleep 1
73,806,067 branches
4,848,144 branch-misses # 6.57% of all branches
14,754,458 l1d.replacement
24,905,558 l2_lines_in.all
<not supported> l2_rqsts.all_code_rd <------- will never report anything
With the weak group:
% perf stat -e '{branches,branch-misses,l1d.replacement,l2_lines_in.all,l2_rqsts.all_code_rd}:W' -a sleep 1
125,366,055 branches (80.02%)
9,208,402 branch-misses # 7.35% of all branches (80.01%)
24,560,249 l1d.replacement (80.00%)
43,174,971 l2_lines_in.all (80.05%)
31,891,457 l2_rqsts.all_code_rd (79.92%)
The extra event scheduled with some extra multiplexing
v2: Move fallback code to separate function.
Add comment on for_each_group_member
Adjust to new perf_evsel__close interface
v3: Fix debug print out.
Committer testing:
Before:
# perf stat -e '{branches,branch-misses,l1d.replacement,l2_lines_in.all,l2_rqsts.all_code_rd}' -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
<not counted> branches
<not counted> branch-misses
<not counted> l1d.replacement
<not counted> l2_lines_in.all
<not supported> l2_rqsts.all_code_rd
1.002147212 seconds time elapsed
# perf stat -e '{branches,l1d.replacement,l2_lines_in.all,l2_rqsts.all_code_rd}' -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
83,207,892 branches
11,065,444 l1d.replacement
28,484,024 l2_lines_in.all
12,186,179 l2_rqsts.all_code_rd
1.001739493 seconds time elapsed
After:
# perf stat -e '{branches,branch-misses,l1d.replacement,l2_lines_in.all,l2_rqsts.all_code_rd}':W -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
543,323,909 branches (80.01%)
27,100,512 branch-misses # 4.99% of all branches (80.02%)
50,402,905 l1d.replacement (80.03%)
67,385,892 l2_lines_in.all (80.01%)
21,352,885 l2_rqsts.all_code_rd (79.94%)
1.001086658 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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831194036.30146-2-andi@firstfloor.org
[ Add a "'perf stat' only, for now" comment in the man page, suggested by Jiri ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Commit 40218daea1 ("perf list: Show SDT and pre-cached events") added
sdt support in perf list, but it missed to update documentation.
Show sdt option in man perf-list.
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170327025538.1753-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Move the printing of perf expressions and internal events to a new
clearer --details flag, instead of lumping it together with other debug
options in --debug. This makes it clearer to use.
Before
perf list --debug
...
unc_m_power_critical_throttle_cycles
[Cycles all ranks are in critical thermal throttle. Unit: uncore_imc]
uncore_imc_2/event=0x86/ MetricName: power_critical_throttle_cycles % MetricExpr: (unc_m_power_critical_throttle_cycles / unc_m_clockticks) * 100.
after
perf list --details
...
unc_m_power_critical_throttle_cycles
[Cycles all ranks are in critical thermal throttle. Unit: uncore_imc]
uncore_imc_2/event=0x86/ MetricName: power_critical_throttle_cycles % MetricExpr: (unc_m_power_critical_throttle_cycles / unc_m_clockticks) * 100.
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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170320201711.14142-14-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Previously we were dropping the useful longer descriptions that some
events have in the event list completely. This patch makes them appear with
perf list.
Old perf list:
baclears:
baclears.all
[Counts the number of baclears]
vs new:
perf list -v:
...
baclears:
baclears.all
[The BACLEARS event counts the number of times the front end is
resteered, mainly when the Branch Prediction Unit cannot provide
a correct prediction and this is corrected by the Branch Address
Calculator at the front end. The BACLEARS.ANY event counts the
number of baclears for any type of branch]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-13-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add a --no-desc flag to 'perf list' to not print the event descriptions
that were earlier added for JSON events. This may be useful to get a
less crowded listing.
It's still default to print descriptions as that is the more useful
default for most users.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-9-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Document some features for specifying events in the perf list manpage:
- Event groups
- Leader sampling
- How to specify raw PMU events in the new syntax
- Global versus per process PMUs.
- Access restrictions
- Fix Intel SDM URL
v2: Lots of new content. address review feedback.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459810686-15913-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
[ Add quotes to some keywords, such as "any" ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Correctly document what is implemented for :ppp on Intel CPUs in recent
kernels.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458575793-12091-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The 'P' will cause the event to get maximum possible detected precise
level.
Following record:
$ perf record -e cycles:P ...
will detect maximum precise level for 'cycles' event and use it.
Commiter note:
Testing it:
$ perf record -e cycles:P usleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.013 MB perf.data (9 samples) ]
$ perf evlist
cycles:P
$ perf evlist -v
cycles:P: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type:
IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1,
enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 2, sample_id_all: 1, mmap2: 1,
comm_exec: 1
$
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444068369-20978-6-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Adding 'I' event modifier to have complete set of modifiers for
perf_event_attr:exclude_* bits.
Any event specified with 'I' modifier will have the
perf_event_attr:exclude_idle bit set.
$ perf record -e cycles:I -vv ls 2>&1 | grep exclude_idle
exclude_hv 0 exclude_idle 1
Adding automated tests.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428441919-23099-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Extend 'perf list --raw-dump' to 'perf list --raw-dump [hw|sw|cache
|tracepoint|pmu|event_glob]' in order to show the raw-dump of a certain
kind of events rather than all of the events.
Example:
Before this patch:
$ perf list --raw-dump hw
branch-instructions branch-misses bus-cycles cache-misses
cache-references cpu-cycles instructions stalled-cycles-backend
stalled-cycles-frontend
alignment-faults context-switches cpu-clock cpu-migrations
emulation-faults major-faults minor-faults page-faults task-clock
...
...
writeback:writeback_thread_start writeback:writeback_thread_stop
writeback:writeback_wait_iff_congested
writeback:writeback_wake_background writeback:writeback_wake_thread
As shown above, all of the events are printed.
After this patch:
$ perf list --raw-dump hw
branch-instructions branch-misses bus-cycles cache-misses
cache-references cpu-cycles instructions stalled-cycles-backend
stalled-cycles-frontend
As shown above, only the hw events are printed.
Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425032491-20224-5-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch fix spelling typos found in tool/perf/Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410275930-17207-1-git-send-email-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This commit adds support for a new modifier "D", which requests that the
event, or group of events, be pinned to the PMU.
The "p" modifier is already taken for precise, and "P" may be used in
future to mean "fully precise".
So we use "D", which stands for pinneD - and looks like a padlock, or if
you're using the ":D" syntax perf smiles at you.
This is an oft-requested feature from our HW folks, who want to be able
to run a large number of events, but also want 100% accurate results for
instructions per cycle.
Comparison of results with and without pinning:
$ perf stat -e '{cycles,instructions}:D' -e cycles,instructions,...
79,590,480,683 cycles # 0.000 GHz
166,123,716,524 instructions # 2.09 insns per cycle
# 0.11 stalled cycles per insn
79,352,134,463 cycles # 0.000 GHz [11.11%]
165,178,301,818 instructions # 2.08 insns per cycle
# 0.11 stalled cycles per insn [11.13%]
As you can see although perf does a very good job of scaling the values
in the non-pinned case, there is some small discrepancy.
The patch is fairly straight forward, the one detail is that we need to
make sure we only request pinning for the group leader when we have a
group.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375795686-4226-1-git-send-email-michael@ellerman.id.au
[ Use perf_evsel__is_group_leader instead of open coded equivalent, as
suggested by Jiri Olsa ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Adding 'S' event/group modifier to specify that the event value/s are
read by PERF_SAMPLE_READ sample type processing, instead of the period
value offered by lower layers.
There's additional behaviour change for 'S' modifier being specified on
event group:
Currently all the events within a group makes samples. If user now
specifies 'S' within group modifier, only the leader will trigger
samples. The rest of events in the group will have sampling disabled.
And same as for single events, values of all events within the group
(including leader) are read by PERF_SAMPLE_READ sample type processing.
Following example will create event group with cycles and cache-misses
events, setting the cycles as group leader and the only event to
actually sample. Both cycles and cache-misses event period values are
read by PERF_SAMPLE_READ sample type processing with PERF_FORMAT_GROUP
read format.
Example:
$ perf record -e '{cycles,cache-misses}:S' ls
...
$ perf report --group --show-total-period --stdio
...
# Samples: 36 of event 'anon group { cycles, cache-misses }'
# Event count (approx.): 12585593
#
# Overhead Period Command Shared Object Symbol
# .............. .............. ....... ................. ..........................
#
19.92% 1.20% 2505936 31 ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mark_held_locks
13.74% 0.47% 1729327 12 ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_local
13.64% 23.72% 1716147 612 ls ld-2.14.90.so [.] check_match.10805
13.12% 23.22% 1650778 599 ls libc-2.14.90.so [.] _nl_intern_locale_data
11.24% 29.19% 1414554 753 ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_cpu
8.50% 0.35% 1070150 9 ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] check_chain_key
...
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-iyoinu3axi11mymwnh2b7fxj@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It was missing that only certain bit fields are passed to the config
value which confused users. Updating it.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361396-7237-6-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To restrict a counter to either host or guest mode this patch introduces
two new event modifiers: G and H.
With G the counter is configured in guest-only mode and with H in
host-only mode.
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-or5aj3rghy9ngyg882z6kln9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Existing documentation doesn't discuss event modifiers, so add a description of
what's currently possible to the documentation of perf-list.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287107460-12112-1-git-send-email-sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It was x86 specific and imcomplete at that, improve the situation by
making it clear where the example provided applies and by adding the
URLs for the Intel and AMD manuals where this is discussed in depth.
Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Reported-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Using explanation given by Ingo Molnar in the oprofile mailing list.
Suggested-by: Nick Black <dank@qemfd.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Black <dank@qemfd.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged
tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the
(new) tools/ directory.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Agustin Vega-Frias