Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
"New features:
perf ftrace:
- Add -n/--use-nsec option to the 'latency' subcommand.
Default: usecs:
$ sudo perf ftrace latency -T dput -a sleep 1
# DURATION | COUNT | GRAPH |
0 - 1 us | 2098375 | ############################# |
1 - 2 us | 61 | |
2 - 4 us | 33 | |
4 - 8 us | 13 | |
8 - 16 us | 124 | |
16 - 32 us | 123 | |
32 - 64 us | 1 | |
64 - 128 us | 0 | |
128 - 256 us | 1 | |
256 - 512 us | 0 | |
Better granularity with nsec:
$ sudo perf ftrace latency -T dput -a -n sleep 1
# DURATION | COUNT | GRAPH |
0 - 1 us | 0 | |
1 - 2 ns | 0 | |
2 - 4 ns | 0 | |
4 - 8 ns | 0 | |
8 - 16 ns | 0 | |
16 - 32 ns | 0 | |
32 - 64 ns | 0 | |
64 - 128 ns | 1163434 | ############## |
128 - 256 ns | 914102 | ############# |
256 - 512 ns | 884 | |
512 - 1024 ns | 613 | |
1 - 2 us | 31 | |
2 - 4 us | 17 | |
4 - 8 us | 7 | |
8 - 16 us | 123 | |
16 - 32 us | 83 | |
perf lock:
- Add -c/--combine-locks option to merge lock instances in the same
class into a single entry.
# perf lock report -c
Name acquired contended avg wait(ns) total wait(ns) max wait(ns) min wait(ns)
rcu_read_lock 251225 0 0 0 0 0
hrtimer_bases.lock 39450 0 0 0 0 0
&sb->s_type->i_l... 10301 1 662 662 662 662
ptlock_ptr(page) 10173 2 701 1402 760 642
&(ei->i_block_re... 8732 0 0 0 0 0
&xa->xa_lock 8088 0 0 0 0 0
&base->lock 6705 0 0 0 0 0
&p->pi_lock 5549 0 0 0 0 0
&dentry->d_lockr... 5010 4 1274 5097 1844 789
&ep->lock 3958 0 0 0 0 0
- Add -F/--field option to customize the list of fields to output:
$ perf lock report -F contended,wait_max -k avg_wait
Name contended max wait(ns) avg wait(ns)
slock-AF_INET6 1 23543 23543
&lruvec->lru_lock 5 18317 11254
slock-AF_INET6 1 10379 10379
rcu_node_1 1 2104 2104
&dentry->d_lockr... 1 1844 1844
&dentry->d_lockr... 1 1672 1672
&newf->file_lock 15 2279 1025
&dentry->d_lockr... 1 792 792
- Add --synth=no option for record, as there is no need to symbolize,
lock names comes from the tracepoints.
perf record:
- Threaded recording, opt-in, via the new --threads command line
option.
- Improve AMD IBS (Instruction-Based Sampling) error handling
messages.
perf script:
- Add 'brstackinsnlen' field (use it with -F) for branch stacks.
- Output branch sample type in 'perf script'.
perf report:
- Add "addr_from" and "addr_to" sort dimensions.
- Print branch stack entry type in 'perf report --dump-raw-trace'
- Fix symbolization for chrooted workloads.
Hardware tracing:
Intel PT:
- Add CFE (Control Flow Event) and EVD (Event Data) packets support.
- Add MODE.Exec IFLAG bit support.
Explanation about these features from the "Intel® 64 and IA-32
architectures software developer’s manual combined volumes: 1, 2A,
2B, 2C, 2D, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, and 4" PDF at:
https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/671200
At page 3951:
"32.2.4
Event Trace is a capability that exposes details about the
asynchronous events, when they are generated, and when their
corresponding software event handler completes execution. These
include:
o Interrupts, including NMI and SMI, including the interrupt
vector when defined.
o Faults, exceptions including the fault vector.
- Page faults additionally include the page fault address,
when in context.
o Event handler returns, including IRET and RSM.
o VM exits and VM entries.¹
- VM exits include the values written to the “exit reason”
and “exit qualification” VMCS fields. INIT and SIPI events.
o TSX aborts, including the abort status returned for the RTM
instructions.
o Shutdown.
Additionally, it provides indication of the status of the
Interrupt Flag (IF), to indicate when interrupts are masked"
ARM CoreSight:
- Use advertised caps/min_interval as default sample_period on ARM
spe.
- Update deduction of TRCCONFIGR register for branch broadcast on
ARM's CoreSight ETM.
Vendor Events (JSON):
Intel:
- Update events and metrics for: Alderlake, Broadwell, Broadwell DE,
BroadwellX, CascadelakeX, Elkhartlake, Bonnell, Goldmont,
GoldmontPlus, Westmere EP-DP, Haswell, HaswellX, Icelake, IcelakeX,
Ivybridge, Ivytown, Jaketown, Knights Landing, Nehalem EP,
Sandybridge, Silvermont, Skylake, Skylake Server, SkylakeX,
Tigerlake, TremontX, Westmere EP-SP, and Westmere EX.
ARM:
- Add support for HiSilicon CPA PMU aliasing.
perf stat:
- Fix forked applications enablement of counters.
- The 'slots' should only be printed on a different order than the
one specified on the command line when 'topdown' events are
present, fix it.
Miscellaneous:
- Sync msr-index, cpufeatures header files with the kernel sources.
- Stop using some deprecated libbpf APIs in 'perf trace'.
- Fix some spelling mistakes.
- Refactor the maps pointers usage to pave the way for using refcount
debugging.
- Only offer the --tui option on perf top, report and annotate when
perf was built with libslang.
- Don't mention --to-ctf in 'perf data --help' when not linking with
the required library, libbabeltrace.
- Use ARRAY_SIZE() instead of ad hoc equivalent, spotted by
array_size.cocci.
- Enhance the matching of sub-commands abbreviations:
'perf c2c rec' -> 'perf c2c record'
'perf c2c recport -> error
- Set build-id using build-id header on new mmap records.
- Fix generation of 'perf --version' string.
perf test:
- Add test for the arm_spe event.
- Add test to check unwinding using fame-pointer (fp) mode on arm64.
- Make metric testing more robust in 'perf test'.
- Add error message for unsupported branch stack cases.
libperf:
- Add API for allocating new thread map array.
- Fix typo in perf_evlist__open() failure error messages in libperf
tests.
perf c2c:
- Replace bitmap_weight() with bitmap_empty() where appropriate"
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v5.18-2022-03-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux: (143 commits)
perf evsel: Improve AMD IBS (Instruction-Based Sampling) error handling messages
perf python: Add perf_env stubs that will be needed in evsel__open_strerror()
perf tools: Enhance the matching of sub-commands abbreviations
libperf tests: Fix typo in perf_evlist__open() failure error messages
tools arm64: Import cputype.h
perf lock: Add -F/--field option to control output
perf lock: Extend struct lock_key to have print function
perf lock: Add --synth=no option for record
tools headers cpufeatures: Sync with the kernel sources
tools headers cpufeatures: Sync with the kernel sources
perf stat: Fix forked applications enablement of counters
tools arch x86: Sync the msr-index.h copy with the kernel sources
perf evsel: Make evsel__env() always return a valid env
perf build-id: Fix spelling mistake "Cant" -> "Can't"
perf header: Fix spelling mistake "could't" -> "couldn't"
perf script: Add 'brstackinsnlen' for branch stacks
perf parse-events: Move slots only with topdown
perf ftrace latency: Update documentation
perf ftrace latency: Add -n/--use-nsec option
perf tools: Fix version kernel tag
...
Pull flexible-array transformations from Gustavo Silva:
"Treewide patch that replaces zero-length arrays with flexible-array
members.
This has been baking in linux-next for a whole development cycle"
* tag 'flexible-array-transformations-5.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux:
treewide: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members
The existing API perf_thread_map__new_dummy() allocates new thread map
for one thread. I couldn't find a way to reallocate the map with more
threads, or to allocate a new map for more than one thread.
Having multiple threads in a thread map is essential for some use cases.
That's why a new API is proposed, which allocates a new thread map for
given number of threads: perf_thread_map__new_array()
Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20220221102628.43904-1-tz.stoyanov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare
having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure.
Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these
cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should
no longer be used[2].
This code was transformed with the help of Coccinelle:
(next-20220214$ spatch --jobs $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) --sp-file script.cocci --include-headers --dir . > output.patch)
@@
identifier S, member, array;
type T1, T2;
@@
struct S {
...
T1 member;
T2 array[
- 0
];
};
UAPI and wireless changes were intentionally excluded from this patch
and will be sent out separately.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
