Since commit 18e7a45af9 ("perf/x86: Reject non sampling events with
precise_ip") returns -EINVAL for sys_perf_event_open() with an attribute
with (attr.precise_ip > 0 && attr.sample_period == 0), just like is done
in the routine used to probe the max precise level when no events were
passed to 'perf record' or 'perf top', i.e.:
perf_evsel__new_cycles()
perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip()
The x86 code, in x86_pmu_hw_config(), which is called all the way from
sys_perf_event_open() did, starting with the aforementioned commit:
/* There's no sense in having PEBS for non sampling events: */
if (!is_sampling_event(event))
return -EINVAL;
Which makes it fail for cycles:ppp, cycles:pp and cycles:p, always using
just the non precise cycles variant.
To make sure that this is the case, I tested it, before this patch,
with:
# perf probe -L x86_pmu_hw_config
<x86_pmu_hw_config@/home/acme/git/linux/arch/x86/events/core.c:0>
0 int x86_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event *event)
1 {
2 if (event->attr.precise_ip) {
<SNIP>
17 if (event->attr.precise_ip > precise)
18 return -EOPNOTSUPP;
/* There's no sense in having PEBS for non sampling events: */
21 if (!is_sampling_event(event))
22 return -EINVAL;
}
<SNIP>
# perf probe x86_pmu_hw_config:22
Added new events:
probe:x86_pmu_hw_config (on x86_pmu_hw_config:22)
probe:x86_pmu_hw_config_1 (on x86_pmu_hw_config:22)
You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
perf record -e probe:x86_pmu_hw_config_1 -aR sleep 1
# perf trace -e perf_event_open,probe:x86_pmu_hwconfig*/max-stack=16/ perf record usleep 1
0.000 ( 0.015 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffebc8ba110, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1 ) ...
0.015 ( ): probe:x86_pmu_hw_config:(ffffffff9c0065e1))
x86_pmu_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
hsw_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
x86_pmu_event_init ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf_try_init_event ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf_event_alloc ([kernel.kallsyms])
SYSC_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
sys_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
return_from_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip (/home/acme/bin/perf)
perf_evsel__new_cycles (/home/acme/bin/perf)
perf_evlist__add_default (/home/acme/bin/perf)
cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf)
run_builtin (/home/acme/bin/perf)
handle_internal_command (/home/acme/bin/perf)
0.000 ( 0.021 ms): perf/4150 ... [continued]: perf_event_open()) = -1 EINVAL Invalid argument
0.023 ( 0.002 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffebc8ba110, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1 ) ...
0.025 ( ): probe:x86_pmu_hw_config:(ffffffff9c0065e1))
x86_pmu_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
hsw_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
x86_pmu_event_init ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf_try_init_event ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf_event_alloc ([kernel.kallsyms])
SYSC_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
sys_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
return_from_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip (/home/acme/bin/perf)
perf_evsel__new_cycles (/home/acme/bin/perf)
perf_evlist__add_default (/home/acme/bin/perf)
cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf)
run_builtin (/home/acme/bin/perf)
handle_internal_command (/home/acme/bin/perf)
0.023 ( 0.004 ms): perf/4150 ... [continued]: perf_event_open()) = -1 EINVAL Invalid argument
0.028 ( 0.002 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffebc8ba110, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1 ) ...
0.030 ( ): probe:x86_pmu_hw_config:(ffffffff9c0065e1))
x86_pmu_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
hsw_hw_config ([kernel.kallsyms])
x86_pmu_event_init ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf_try_init_event ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf_event_alloc ([kernel.kallsyms])
SYSC_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
sys_perf_event_open ([kernel.kallsyms])
do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
return_from_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip (/home/acme/bin/perf)
perf_evsel__new_cycles (/home/acme/bin/perf)
perf_evlist__add_default (/home/acme/bin/perf)
cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf)
run_builtin (/home/acme/bin/perf)
handle_internal_command (/home/acme/bin/perf)
0.028 ( 0.004 ms): perf/4150 ... [continued]: perf_event_open()) = -1 EINVAL Invalid argument
41.018 ( 0.012 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffebc8b5dd0, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
41.065 ( 0.011 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c7db78, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
41.080 ( 0.006 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c7db78, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
41.103 ( 0.010 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c4e748, pid: 4151 (perf), group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
41.115 ( 0.006 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c4e748, pid: 4151 (perf), cpu: 1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 5
41.122 ( 0.004 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c4e748, pid: 4151 (perf), cpu: 2, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 6
41.128 ( 0.008 ms): perf/4150 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3c4e748, pid: 4151 (perf), cpu: 3, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 8
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.017 MB perf.data (2 samples) ]
#
I.e. that return -EINVAL in x86_pmu_hw_config() is hit three times.
So fix it by just setting attr.sample_period
Now, after this patch:
# perf trace --max-stack=2 -e perf_event_open,probe:x86_pmu_hw_config* perf record usleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
0.000 ( 0.017 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffe36c27d10, pid: -1, cpu: 3, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
perf_event_open_cloexec_flag (/home/acme/bin/perf)
0.050 ( 0.031 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24ebb78, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
perf_evlist__config (/home/acme/bin/perf)
0.092 ( 0.040 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24ebb78, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
perf_evlist__config (/home/acme/bin/perf)
0.143 ( 0.007 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1 ) = 4
syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip (/home/acme/bin/perf)
0.161 ( 0.007 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, pid: 8470 (perf), group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
perf_evsel__open (/home/acme/bin/perf)
0.171 ( 0.005 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, pid: 8470 (perf), cpu: 1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 5
syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
perf_evsel__open (/home/acme/bin/perf)
0.180 ( 0.007 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, pid: 8470 (perf), cpu: 2, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 6
syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
perf_evsel__open (/home/acme/bin/perf)
0.190 ( 0.005 ms): perf/8469 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x24bc748, pid: 8470 (perf), cpu: 3, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 8
syscall (/usr/lib64/libc-2.24.so)
perf_evsel__open (/home/acme/bin/perf)
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.017 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
#
The probe one called from perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip() works
the first time, with attr.precise_ip = 3, wit hthe next ones being the
per cpu ones for the cycles:ppp event.
And here is the text from a report and alternative proposed patch by
Thomas-Mich Richter:
---
On s390 the counter and sampling facility do not support a precise IP
skid level and sometimes returns EOPNOTSUPP when structure member
precise_ip in struct perf_event_attr is not set to zero.
On s390 commnd 'perf record -- true' fails with error EOPNOTSUPP. This
happens only when no events are specified on command line.
The functions called are
...
--> perf_evlist__add_default
--> perf_evsel__new_cycles
--> perf_event_attr__set_max_precise_ip
The last function determines the value of structure member precise_ip by
invoking the perf_event_open() system call and checking the return code.
The first successful open is the value for precise_ip.
However the value is determined without setting member sample_period and
indicates no sampling.
On s390 the counter facility and sampling facility are different. The
above procedure determines a precise_ip value of 3 using the counter
facility. Later it uses the sampling facility with a value of 3 and
fails with EOPNOTSUPP.
---
v2: Older compilers (e.g. gcc 4.4.7) don't support referencing members
of unnamed union members in the container struct initialization, so
move from:
struct perf_event_attr attr = {
...
.sample_period = 1,
};
to right after it as:
struct perf_event_attr attr = {
...
};
attr.sample_period = 1;
v3: We need to reset .sample_period to 0 to let the users of
perf_evsel__new_cycles() to properly setup attr.sample_period or
attr.sample_freq. Reported by Ingo Molnar.
Reported-and-Acked-by: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Fixes: 18e7a45af9 ("perf/x86: Reject non sampling events with precise_ip")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yv6nnkl7tzqocrm0hl3x7vf1@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Removing it from util.h, part of an effort to disentangle the includes
hell, that makes changes to util.h or something included by it to cause
a complete rebuild of the tools.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ztrjy52q1rqcchuy3rubfgt2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The tools so far have been using the strerror_r() GNU variant, that
returns a string, be it the buffer passed or something else.
But that, besides being tricky in cases where we expect that the
function using strerror_r() returns the error formatted in a provided
buffer (we have to check if it returned something else and copy that
instead), breaks the build on systems not using glibc, like Alpine
Linux, where musl libc is used.
So, introduce yet another wrapper, str_error_r(), that has the GNU
interface, but uses the portable XSI variant of strerror_r(), so that
users rest asured that the provided buffer is used and it is what is
returned.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-d4t42fnf48ytlk8rjxs822tf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Some tests have sub-tests we want to run, so allow passing this.
Wang tried to avoid having to touch all tests, but then, having the
test.func in an anonymous union makes the build fail on older compilers,
like the one in RHEL6, where:
test a = {
.func = foo,
};
fails.
To fix it leave the func pointer in the main structure and pass the subtest
index to all tests, end result function is the same, but we have just one
function pointer, not two, with and without the subtest index as an argument.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5genj0ficwdmelpoqlds0u4y@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The test titled "Test number of exit event of a simple workload" was
setting cpu/thread maps directly. Make it use the proper function
perf_evlist__set_maps() especially now that it also propagates the maps.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441699142-18905-14-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Since we have access two evlist members in all these poll calls, provide
a helper.
This will also help to make the patch introducing the pollfd class more
clear, as the evlist specific uses will be hiden away
perf_evlist__poll().
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
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-jr9d4aop4lvy9453qahbcgp0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Removing further boilerplate after making sure perf_evlist__munmap can
be called multiple times for the same evlist.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-o0luenuld4abupm4nmrgzm6f@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Since it is safe to call perf_evlist__close() multiple times, autoclose
it and remove the calls to the close from existing tools, reducing the
tooling boilerplate.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2kq9v7p1rude1tqxa0aue2tk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Instead of requiring tools to do an extra destructor call just before
calling perf_evlist__delete.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0jd2ptzyikxb5wp7inzz2ah2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So that we have the boilerplate in the preparation method, instead of
open coded in tools wanting the reporting when the exec fails.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-purbdzcphdveskh7wwmnm4t7@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Getting unwieldly long, for this app domain should be descriptive enough
and the use of __ to separate the class from the method names should
help with avoiding clashes with other code bases.
Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131112113427.GA4053@ghostprotocols.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The tail position of the event buffer should only be modified after
actually use that event.
If not the event buffer could be invalid before use, and segment fault
occurs when invoking perf top -G.
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382600613-32177-1-git-send-email-zhouzhouyi@gmail.com
[ Simplified the logic using exit gotos and renamed write_tail method to mmap_consume ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Adding new common function to create evlist with default event. It
spares some code lines in automated tests.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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/r/1378031796-17892-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The new test__task_exit() test runs a simple "/usr/bin/true" workload and then
checks whether the number of EXIT event is 1 or not.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87obeljax4.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com
[ committer note: Fixup conflicts with f4c66b4 ( bp overflow tests ) ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>