Instead of using zalloc(nr_entries * sizeof_entry) that is what calloc()
does.
In some places where linux/zalloc.h isn't needed, remove it, add when
needed and was getting it indirectly.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Add the evsel from evsel__parse_sample into the struct
perf_sample. Sometimes we want to alter the evsel associated with a
sample, such as with off-cpu bpf-output events. In general the evsel
and perf_sample are passed as a pair, but this makes an altered evsel
something of a chore to keep checking for and setting up. Later
patches will remove passing an evsel with the perf_sample and switch
to just using the perf_sample's value.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
In non-pipe/data mode the header has a 256-bit bitmap representing
whether a feature is enabled or not. In pipe mode features are written
out in perf_event__synthesize_features as PERF_RECORD_HEADER_FEATURE
events with a special zero sized marker for the last feature. If a new
feature is added the last feature marker event appears as that feature
from old pipe mode perf data. As the event is zero sized it will fail
to be processed and generally terminate perf.
Add a last_feat variable to the header that in non-pipe/data mode is
just HEADER_LAST_FEATURE. In pipe mode compute the last_feat by
handling zero sized feature events, assuming they are the marker and
updating last_feat accordingly. Potentially a feature event could be
zero sized and so still process the feature event, just ignore the
error if it fails.
As perf_event__process_feature can properly handle pipe mode data,
migrate users to it except for report that still wants to group events
and stop header printing with the last feature marker. Make
perf_event__process_feature non-fatal in the case of a newer feature
than this version of perf's HEADER_LAST_FEATURE, which was the
behavior all users wanted.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The index into the cpumap array and the number of entries within the
array can never be negative, so let's make them unsigned. This is
prompted by reports that gcc 13 with -O6 is giving a
alloc-size-larger-than errors. The change makes the cpumap changes and
then updates the declaration of index variables throughout perf and
libperf to be unsigned. The two things are hard to separate as
compiler warnings about mixing signed and unsigned types breaks the
build.
Reported-by: Chingbin Li <liqb365@163.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260212025127.841090-1-liqb365@163.com/
Tested-by: Chingbin Li <liqb365@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Add support for parsing an optional layout parameter in the --symfs
command line option. The format is:
--symfs <directory[,layout]>
Where layout can be:
- 'hierarchy': matches full path (default)
- 'flat': only matches base name
When debugging symbol files from a copy of the filesystem (e.g., from a
container or remote machine), the debug files are often stored in a
flat directory structure with only filenames, not the full original
paths. In this case, using 'flat' layout allows perf to find debug
symbols by matching only the filename rather than the full path.
For example, given a binary path like:
/build/output/lib/foo.so
With 'perf report --symfs /debug/files,flat', perf will look for:
/debug/files/foo.so
Instead of:
/debug/files/build/output/lib/foo.so
This is particularly useful when:
- Extracting debug files from containers with different directory layouts
- Working with build systems that flatten directory structures
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
brcntr in perf script brstack insn currently outputs
$ perf record -j any,counter ...
$ perf script -F +brcntr,+brstackinsn
...
BC1s 3450809 5665912.127194: 100127
cpu_core/cycles/: 7f0475d6cc89 handle_intel.constprop.0+0x2b
(/usr/lib64/ld-linux-
x86-64.so.2)
intel_check_word.constprop.0+224:
00007f0475d6ca7e insn: 00 4b db br_cntr: # PRED 21 cycles [21]
...
This has two issues:
- The description says no event is a single dash, but that is not what is printed.
- The b in brcntr is ambigious with the hex numbers in insns, which
breaks with --xed. It parses the b as another instruction byte and
merges the instruction with a missing b and no space:
$ perf script -F +brstackinsn,+brcntr --xed
...
00005618c6d683b5 jnz 0x5618c6d683bdr_cntr: # PRED 5 cycles [1396] 8.60 IPC
This patches fixes these two problems. It moves the brcntr output into
the "#" comment which also looks nicer and also fixes the no event case.
$ perf script -F +brstackinsn,+brcntr --xed
...
00005618c6d6624f jnz 0x5618c6d65fb7 # br_cntr: - MISPRED 1 cycles [1398] 3.00 IPC
Since the old broken format has shipped for a few releases there is a
risk of breaking some existing parser, but since this is a obscure
feature I hope they're not too common and can adapt.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Allow the script generated by "perf script -g <language>" to be a file
path and the language determined by the file extension.
This is useful in testing so that the generated script file can be
written to a test directory.
Committer testing:
$ perf record ls a.a
ls: cannot access 'a.a': No such file or directory
[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.003 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
$ perf script -g python
generated Python script: perf-script.py
$ perf script -g myscript.py
generated Python script: myscript.py
$ diff -u perf-script.py myscript.py
$ tail myscript.py
def trace_unhandled(event_name, context, event_fields_dict, perf_sample_dict):
print(get_dict_as_string(event_fields_dict))
print('Sample: {'+get_dict_as_string(perf_sample_dict['sample'], ', ')+'}')
def print_header(event_name, cpu, secs, nsecs, pid, comm):
print("%-20s %5u %05u.%09u %8u %-20s " % \
(event_name, cpu, secs, nsecs, pid, comm), end="")
def get_dict_as_string(a_dict, delimiter=' '):
return delimiter.join(['%s=%s'%(k,str(v))for k,v in sorted(a_dict.items())])
$
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Save samples with deferred callchains in a separate list and deliver
them after merging the user callchains. If users don't want to merge
they can set tool->merge_deferred_callchains to false to prevent the
behavior.
With previous result, now perf script will show the merged callchains.
$ perf script
...
pwd 2312 121.163435: 249113 cpu/cycles/P:
ffffffff845b78d8 __build_id_parse.isra.0+0x218 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff83bb5bf6 perf_event_mmap+0x2e6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff83c31959 mprotect_fixup+0x1e9 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff83c31dc5 do_mprotect_pkey+0x2b5 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff83c3206f __x64_sys_mprotect+0x1f ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff845e6692 do_syscall_64+0x62 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff8360012f entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76 ([kernel.kallsyms])
7f18fe337fa7 mprotect+0x7 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
7f18fe330e0f _dl_sysdep_start+0x7f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
7f18fe331448 _dl_start_user+0x0 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
...
The old output can be get using --no-merge-callchain option.
Also perf report can get the user callchain entry at the end.
$ perf report --no-children --stdio -q -S __build_id_parse.isra.0
# symbol: __build_id_parse.isra.0
8.40% pwd [kernel.kallsyms]
|
---__build_id_parse.isra.0
perf_event_mmap
mprotect_fixup
do_mprotect_pkey
__x64_sys_mprotect
do_syscall_64
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
mprotect
_dl_sysdep_start
_dl_start_user
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The evsel_script() function is unused since the linked commit. Fix the
build by removing it.
Fixes the following compilation error:
static inline struct evsel_script *evsel_script(struct evsel *evsel)
^
builtin-script.c:347:36: error: unused function 'evsel_script' [-Werror,-Wunused-function]
Fixes: 3622990efa ("perf script: Change metric format to use json metrics")
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The NO_AUXTRACE build option was used when the __get_cpuid feature
test failed or if it was provided on the command line. The option no
longer avoids a dependency on a library and so having the option is
just adding complexity to the code base. Remove the option
CONFIG_AUXTRACE from Build files and HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT by assuming
it is always defined.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Now that the metrics are encoded in common json the hard coded
printing means the metrics are shown twice. Remove the hard coded
version.
This means that when specifying events, and those events correspond to
a hard coded metric, the metric will no longer be displayed. The
metric will be displayed if the metric is requested. Due to the adhoc
printing in the previous approach it was often found frustrating, the
new approach avoids this.
The default perf stat output on an alderlake now looks like:
```
$ perf stat -a -- sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
19,697 context-switches # nan cs/sec cs_per_second
TopdownL1 (cpu_core) # 10.7 % tma_bad_speculation
# 24.9 % tma_frontend_bound
TopdownL1 (cpu_core) # 34.3 % tma_backend_bound
# 30.1 % tma_retiring
6,593 page-faults # nan faults/sec page_faults_per_second
729,065,658 cpu_atom/cpu-cycles/ # nan GHz cycles_frequency (49.79%)
1,605,131,101 cpu_core/cpu-cycles/ # nan GHz cycles_frequency
# 19.7 % tma_bad_speculation
# 14.2 % tma_retiring (50.14%)
# 37.3 % tma_frontend_bound (50.31%)
87,302,268 cpu_atom/branches/ # nan M/sec branch_frequency (60.27%)
512,046,956 cpu_core/branches/ # nan M/sec branch_frequency
1,111 cpu-migrations # nan migrations/sec migrations_per_second
# 28.8 % tma_backend_bound (60.26%)
0.00 msec cpu-clock # 0.0 CPUs CPUs_utilized
392,509,323 cpu_atom/instructions/ # 0.6 instructions insn_per_cycle (60.19%)
2,990,369,310 cpu_core/instructions/ # 1.9 instructions insn_per_cycle
3,493,478 cpu_atom/branch-misses/ # 5.9 % branch_miss_rate (49.69%)
7,297,531 cpu_core/branch-misses/ # 1.4 % branch_miss_rate
1.006621701 seconds time elapsed
```
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The metric format option isn't properly supported. This change
improves that by making the sample events update the counts of an
evsel, where the shadow metric code expects to read the values. To
support printing metrics, metrics need to be found. This is done on
the first attempt to print a metric. Every metric is parsed and then
the evsels in the metric's evlist compared to those in perf script
using the perf_event_attr type and config. If the metric matches then
it is added for printing. As an event in the perf script's evlist may
have >1 metric id, or different leader for aggregation, the first
metric matched will be displayed in those cases.
An example use is:
```
$ perf record -a -e '{instructions,cpu-cycles}:S' -a -- sleep 1
$ perf script -F period,metric
...
867817
metric: 0.30 insn per cycle
125394
metric: 0.04 insn per cycle
313516
metric: 0.11 insn per cycle
metric: 1.00 insn per cycle
```
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Getting context for what a tool is doing, such as the perf_inject
instance, using container_of the tool is a common pattern in the
code. This isn't possible event_op2, event_op3 and event_op4 callbacks
as the tool isn't passed. Add the argument and then fix function
signatures to match. As tools maybe reading a tool from somewhere
else, change that code to use the passed in tool.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
By definition arch sample parsing and synthesis will inhibit certain
kinds of cross-platform record then analysis (report, script,
etc.). Remove arch_perf_parse_sample_weight and
arch_perf_synthesize_sample_weight replacing with a common
implementation. Combine perf_sample p_stage_cyc and retire_lat as
weight3 to capture the differing uses regardless of compiled for
architecture.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-21-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
