kernel/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c, branch linux-4.17.y

perf parse-events: Handle uncore event aliases in small groups properly

2018-05-30T13:40:44Z

Perf stat doesn't count the uncore event aliases from the same uncore block in a group, for example: perf stat -e '{unc_m_cas_count.all,unc_m_clockticks}' -a -I 1000 # time counts unit events 1.000447342 unc_m_cas_count.all 1.000447342 unc_m_clockticks 2.000740654 unc_m_cas_count.all 2.000740654 unc_m_clockticks The output is very misleading. It gives a wrong impression that the uncore event doesn't work. An uncore block could be composed by several PMUs. An uncore event alias is a joint name which means the same event runs on all PMUs of a block. Perf doesn't support mixed events from different PMUs in the same group. It is wrong to put uncore event aliases in a big group. The right way is to split the big group into multiple small groups which only include the events from the same PMU. Only uncore event aliases from the same uncore block should be specially handled here. It doesn't make sense to mix the uncore events with other uncore events from different blocks or even core events in a group. With the patch: # time counts unit events 1.001557653 140,833 unc_m_cas_count.all 1.001557653 1,330,231,332 unc_m_clockticks 2.002709483 85,007 unc_m_cas_count.all 2.002709483 1,429,494,563 unc_m_clockticks Reported-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Kan Liang Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Agustin Vega-Frias Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni Cc: Jin Yao Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Shaokun Zhang Cc: Will Deacon Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525727623-19768-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add missing newline when parsing empty BPF proggie

2018-05-11T15:10:02Z

This is not specific to BPF but was found when parsing a .c BPF proggie that while valid, had no events attached to tracepoints, kprobes, etc: Very minimal file that perf's BPF code can compile: # cat empty.c char _license[] __attribute__((section("license"), used)) = "GPL"; int _version __attribute__((section("version"), used)) = LINUX_VERSION_CODE; # Before this patch: # perf trace -e empty.c WARNING: event parser found nothinginvalid or unsupported event: 'empty.c' Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events Usage: perf trace [] [] or: perf trace [] -- [] or: perf trace record [] [] or: perf trace record [] -- [] -e, --event event/syscall selector. use 'perf list' to list available events # After: # perf trace -e empty.c WARNING: event parser found nothing invalid or unsupported event: 'empty.c' Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events Usage: perf trace [] [] or: perf trace [] -- [] or: perf trace record [] [] or: perf trace record [] -- [] -e, --event event/syscall selector. use 'perf list' to list available events # Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8ysughiz00h6mjpcot04qyjj@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix snprint warnings for gcc 8

2018-03-19T13:00:43Z

With gcc 8 we get new set of snprintf() warnings that breaks the compilation, one example: tests/mem.c: In function ‘check’: tests/mem.c:19:48: error: ‘%s’ directive output may be truncated writing \ up to 99 bytes into a region of size 89 [-Werror=format-truncation=] snprintf(failure, sizeof failure, "unexpected %s", out); The gcc docs says: To avoid the warning either use a bigger buffer or handle the function's return value which indicates whether or not its output has been truncated. Given that all these warnings are harmless, because the code either properly fails due to uncomplete file path or we don't care for truncated output at all, I'm changing all those snprintf() calls to scnprintf(), which actually 'checks' for the snprint return value so the gcc stays silent. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: David Ahern Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180319082902.4518-1-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf pmu: Auto-merge PMU events created by prefix or glob match

2018-03-08T13:05:49Z

Auto-merge for these events was disabled when auto-merging of non-alias events was disabled in commit 63ce844 (perf stat: Only auto-merge events that are PMU aliases). Non-merging of legacy events is preserved: $ perf stat -ag -e cache-misses,cache-misses sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 86,323 cache-misses 86,323 cache-misses 1.002623307 seconds time elapsed But prefix or glob matching auto-merges the events created: $ perf stat -a -e l3cache/read-miss/ sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 328 l3cache/read-miss/ 1.002627008 seconds time elapsed $ perf stat -a -e l3cache_0_[01]/read-miss/ sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 172 l3cache/read-miss/ 1.002627008 seconds time elapsed As with events created with aliases, auto-merging can be suppressed with the --no-merge option: $ perf stat -a -e l3cache/read-miss/ --no-merge sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 67 l3cache/read-miss/ 67 l3cache/read-miss/ 63 l3cache/read-miss/ 60 l3cache/read-miss/ 1.002622192 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Agustin Vega-Frias Acked-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Timur Tabi Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Change-Id: I0a47eed54c05e1982ca964d743b37f50f60c508c Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520345084-42646-4-git-send-email-agustinv@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf pmu: Display pmu name when printing unmerged events in stat

2018-03-08T13:05:49Z

To simplify creation of events accross multiple instances of the same type of PMU stat supports two methods for creating multiple events from a single event specification: 1. A prefix or glob can be used in the PMU name. 2. Aliases, which are listed immediately after the Kernel PMU events by perf list, are used. When the --no-merge option is passed and these events are displayed individually the PMU name is lost and it's not possible to see which count corresponds to which pmu: $ perf stat -a -e l3cache/read-miss/ --no-merge ls > /dev/null Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 67 l3cache/read-miss/ 67 l3cache/read-miss/ 63 l3cache/read-miss/ 60 l3cache/read-miss/ 0.001675706 seconds time elapsed $ perf stat -a -e l3cache_read_miss --no-merge ls > /dev/null Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 12 l3cache_read_miss 17 l3cache_read_miss 10 l3cache_read_miss 8 l3cache_read_miss 0.001661305 seconds time elapsed This change adds the original pmu name to the event. For dynamic pmu events the pmu name is restored in the event name: $ perf stat -a -e l3cache/read-miss/ --no-merge ls > /dev/null Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 63 l3cache_0_3/read-miss/ 74 l3cache_0_1/read-miss/ 64 l3cache_0_2/read-miss/ 74 l3cache_0_0/read-miss/ 0.001675706 seconds time elapsed For alias events the name is added after the event name: $ perf stat -a -e l3cache_read_miss --no-merge ls > /dev/null Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 10 l3cache_read_miss [l3cache_0_3] 12 l3cache_read_miss [l3cache_0_1] 10 l3cache_read_miss [l3cache_0_2] 17 l3cache_read_miss [l3cache_0_0] 0.001661305 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Agustin Vega-Frias Acked-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Timur Tabi Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Change-Id: I8056b9eda74bda33e95065056167ad96e97cb1fb Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520345084-42646-3-git-send-email-agustinv@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Remove fcntl.h from evlist.h

2018-01-25T09:37:30Z

Not needed there, fixup the places where it is needed and was getting only by luck via evlist.h. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yxjpetn64z8vjuguu84gr6x6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Fix -c/-F options for cpu event aliases

2017-11-16T17:49:51Z

The Intel PMU event aliases have a implicit period= specifier to set the default period. Unfortunately this breaks overriding these periods with -c or -F, because the alias terms look like they are user specified to the internal parser, and user specified event qualifiers override the command line options. Track that they are coming from aliases by adding a "weak" state to the term. Any weak terms don't override command line options. I only did it for -c/-F for now, I think that's the only case that's broken currently. Before: $ perf record -c 1000 -vv -e uops_issued.any ... { sample_period, sample_freq } 2000003 After: $ perf record -c 1000 -vv -e uops_issued.any ... { sample_period, sample_freq } 1000 Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171020202755.21410-2-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts

2017-11-07T09:30:18Z

Conflicts: tools/perf/arch/arm/annotate/instructions.c tools/perf/arch/arm64/annotate/instructions.c tools/perf/arch/powerpc/annotate/instructions.c tools/perf/arch/s390/annotate/instructions.c tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/intel-cqm.c tools/perf/ui/tui/progress.c tools/perf/util/zlib.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes

2017-10-20T09:02:05Z

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar