kernel/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h, 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 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 record: Fix -c/-F options for cpu event aliases

2017-11-28T17:19:39Z

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

perf pmu: Improve error messages for missing PMUs

2017-09-18T12:40:20Z

When a PMU is missing print a better error message mentioning the missing PMU. % mkdir empty % mount --bind empty /sys/devices/msr % perf stat -M Summary true event syntax error: '{inst_retired.any,cycles}:W,{cpu_clk_unhalted.thread}:W,{inst_retired.any}:W,{cpu_clk_unhalted.ref_tsc,msr/tsc/}:W,{fp_comp_ops_exe.sse_scalar..' \___ Cannot find PMU `msr'. Missing kernel support? It still cannot find the right column for aliases, but it's already a vast improvement. v2: Check asprintf Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170913215006.32222-1-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf events parse: Rename parse_events_parse arguments

2017-08-17T19:39:15Z

Calling them just "data" is too vague, call it 'perf_state', to make it clearer, for instance, when looking at patch hunks. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rnhk5yb05wem77rjpclrh7so@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf events parse: Use just one parse events state struct

2017-08-17T19:39:15Z

Andi reported problems when parse errors were detected with vendor events (json), because in the yyparse/parse_events_parse function we dereferenced the _data parameter to two different structs, with different layouts, which ended up making parse_events_evlist->error to point to random stack addresses. Fix it by making _data to always be struct parse_events_state, changing the only place where 'struct parse_events_term' was used in parse_events.y. Reported-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bc27lshz823hxl8n9nkelcgh@git.kernel.org Fixes: 90e2b22dee90 ("perf/tool: Add support to reuse event grammar to parse out terms") Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf events parse: Rename parsing state struct to clearer name

2017-08-17T19:39:15Z

Rename it from 'parse_events_evlist' to 'parse_events_state' to better state that this is parsing state that has to be passed around. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dursqtg2h2w98ztaa297u43x@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf list: Move extra details printing to new option

2017-03-23T14:42:31Z

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 Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170320201711.14142-14-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo