From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
ak@linux.intel.com, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
peterz@infradead.org, eranian@google.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, dev@codyps.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>,
Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 00/14] Add support for parameterized events from sysfs
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:26:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1408087583-32239-1-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
From: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com>
What this patchset does:
- the first patch (override sysfs in tools/perf via SYSFS_PATH) was sent out
previously, but needed a resend anyhow. Having it is useful for testing the
later changes to tools/perf.
- the second patch is a bugfix to the powerpc hv-24x7 code which was
previously sent out, which is a good idea to have when testing these patches
on POWER8 hardware.
- document perf sysfs and the changes to add parameterized events
- semi-notably: removes the growing list of specific POWER cpu events and
begins documenting them generically, much like the docs for
/sys/modules/MODULENAME do for modules.
- tools/perf changes to support parameterized events
- export some parameterized events from the powerpc pmus hv_24x7 and hv_gpci
Description of "event parameters" from the documentation patch:
Event parameters are a basic way for partial events to be specified in
sysfs with per-event names given to the fields that need to be filled in
when using a particular event.
It is intended for supporting cases where the single 'cpu' parameter is
insufficient. For example, POWER 8 has events for physical
sockets/cores/cpus that are accessible from with virtual machines. To
keep using the single 'cpu' parameter we'd need to perform a mapping
between Linux's cpus and the physical machine's cpus (in this case
Linux is running under a hypervisor). This isn't possible because
bindings between our cpus and physical cpus may not be fixed, and we
probably won't have a "cpu" on each physical cpu.
Description of the sysfs contents when events are parameterized (copied from an
included patch):
Examples:
domain=0x1,offset=0x8,starting_index=phys_cpu
In the case of the last example, a value replacing "phys_cpu"
would need to be provided by the user selecting the particular
event. This is refered to as "event parameterization". All
non-numerical values indicate an event parameter.
Notes on how perf-list displays parameterized events (and how to use them,
again culled from an included patch):
PARAMETERIZED EVENTS
--------------------
Some pmu events listed by 'perf-list' will be displayed with '?' in
them. For example:
hv_gpci/dtbp_ptitc,phys_processor_idx=?/
This means that when provided as an event, a value for
phys_processor_idx must also be supplied. For example:
perf stat -e 'hv_gpci/dtbp_ptitc,phys_processor_idx=0x2/' ...
Changelog[v2]
- [Joe Perches, David Laight] Use beNN_to_cpu() instead of guessing
the size from type.
- Use kmem_cache_free() to free page allocated with kmem_cache_alloc().
- Rebase to recent kernel
Cody P Schafer (14):
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: use kmem_cache instead of aligned stack
allocations
perf Documentation: sysfs events/ interfaces
perf Documentation: remove duplicated docs for powerpc cpu specific
events
perf Documentation: add event parameters
tools/perf: annotate list_head with type info
tools/perf: support parsing parameterized events
tools/perf: extend format_alias() to include event parameters
tools/perf: document parameterized events and note symbolically formed
events
perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Documentaion for new sysfs entries which expose
descriptions
perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper
powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci,hv-common}: generate requests with counters
annotated
powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests
.../testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events | 617 ++--------------
.../testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 | 22 +
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7-catalog.h | 25 +
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7-domains.h | 19 +
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c | 816 ++++++++++++++++++++-
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.h | 12 +-
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-common.c | 10 +-
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci-requests.h | 258 +++++++
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci.c | 8 +
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci.h | 37 +-
arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_begin.h | 13 +
arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_clear.h | 5 +
arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_end.h | 4 +
arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_request-begin.h | 15 +
arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_request-end.h | 8 +
arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/perf.h | 155 ++++
include/linux/perf_event.h | 10 +
kernel/events/core.c | 8 +
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt | 13 +
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 5 +
tools/perf/util/parse-events.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 85 ++-
tools/perf/util/pmu.h | 6 +-
23 files changed, 1515 insertions(+), 637 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7-domains.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci-requests.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_begin.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_clear.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_end.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_request-begin.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_request-end.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/perf.h
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1.8.3.1
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-15 7:26 Sukadev Bhattiprolu [this message]
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: use kmem_cache instead of aligned stack allocations Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] perf Documentation: sysfs events/ interfaces Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] perf Documentation: remove duplicated docs for powerpc cpu specific events Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] perf Documentation: add event parameters Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] tools/perf: annotate list_head with type info Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 13:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] tools/perf: support parsing parameterized events Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] tools/perf: extend format_alias() to include event parameters Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] tools/perf: document parameterized events and note symbolically formed events Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Documentaion for new sysfs entries which expose descriptions Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 7:26 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-08-15 7:44 ` [PATCH v2 00/14] Add support for parameterized events from sysfs Peter Zijlstra
2014-08-20 14:15 ` Jiri Olsa
2014-08-23 0:23 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
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