Re: [PATCH 0/1] KVM: x86: improve the usability of the 'kvm_pio' tracepoint

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> From: "Xiao Guangrong" <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Ulrich Obergfell" <uobergfe@xxxxxxxxxx>, kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 9:10:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] KVM: x86: improve the usability of the 'kvm_pio' tracepoint
>
> On 05/02/2014 11:57 PM, Ulrich Obergfell wrote:
>> The current implementation of the 'kvm_pio' tracepoint in emulator_pio_in_out()
>> only tells us that 'something' has been read from or written to an I/O port. To
>> improve the usability of the tracepoint, I propose to include the value/content
>> that has been read or written in the trace output. The proposed patch aims at
>> the more common case where a single 8-bit or 16-bit or 32-bit value has been
>> read or written -- it does not fully cover the case where 'count' is greater
>> than one.
>> 
>> This is an example of what the patch can do (trace of PCI config space access).
>> 
>>  - on the host
>> 
>>    # trace-cmd record -e kvm:kvm_pio -f "(port >= 0xcf8) && (port <= 0xcff)"
>>    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kvm/kvm_pio/filter
>>    Hit Ctrl^C to stop recording
>> 
>>  - in a Linux guest
>> 
>>    # dd if=/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:06.0/config bs=2 count=4 | hexdump
>>    4+0 records in
>>    4+0 records out
>>    8 bytes (8 B) copied, 0.000114056 s, 70.1 kB/s
>>    0000000 1af4 1001 0507 0010                    
>>    0000008
>> 
>>  - on the host
>> 
>>    # trace-cmd report
>>    ...
>>            qemu-kvm-23216 [001] 15211.994089: kvm_pio:              pio_write
>>    at 0xcf8 size 4 count 1 val 0x80003000 
>>            qemu-kvm-23216 [001] 15211.994108: kvm_pio:              pio_read
>>    at 0xcfc size 2 count 1 val 0x1af4 
>>            qemu-kvm-23216 [001] 15211.994129: kvm_pio:              pio_write
>>    at 0xcf8 size 4 count 1 val 0x80003000 
>>            qemu-kvm-23216 [001] 15211.994136: kvm_pio:              pio_read
>>    at 0xcfe size 2 count 1 val 0x1001 
>>            qemu-kvm-23216 [001] 15211.994143: kvm_pio:              pio_write
>>    at 0xcf8 size 4 count 1 val 0x80003004 
>>            qemu-kvm-23216 [001] 15211.994150: kvm_pio:              pio_read
>>    at 0xcfc size 2 count 1 val 0x507 
>>            qemu-kvm-23216 [001] 15211.994155: kvm_pio:              pio_write
>>    at 0xcf8 size 4 count 1 val 0x80003004 
>>            qemu-kvm-23216 [001] 15211.994161: kvm_pio:              pio_read
>>    at 0xcfe size 2 count 1 val 0x10 
>> 
>
> Nice.
>
> Could please check "perf kvm stat" to see if "--event=ioport"
> can work after your patch?
>
> Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I've run a quick test with a local kernel - built from 3.15.0-rc1 source,
including the proposed patch - in combination with the 'perf' package that
is installed on my test machine. I didn't build a new 'perf' binary from
3.15.0-rc1 source.

The following output of the 'perf kvm stat live --event=ioport -d 10' command
looks reasonable.


17:10:29.036811

Analyze events for all VMs, all VCPUs:

      IO Port Access    Samples  Samples%     Time%   Min Time   Max Time         Avg time 

           0x177:PIN         35    20.00%    15.40%        1us        3us      1.68us ( +-   8.63% )
           0x376:PIN         30    17.14%    16.37%        1us        6us      2.08us ( +-  17.15% )
          0x170:POUT         15     8.57%    18.99%        2us        9us      4.83us ( +-  14.34% )
         0xc0ea:POUT         10     5.71%     6.57%        2us        2us      2.51us ( +-   5.06% )
          0xc0ea:PIN         10     5.71%     6.21%        1us        6us      2.37us ( +-  23.18% )
          0x176:POUT         10     5.71%     6.69%        1us        3us      2.55us ( +-   7.59% )
           0x170:PIN          5     2.86%     3.36%        2us        2us      2.56us ( +-   1.17% )
           0x171:PIN          5     2.86%     1.47%        1us        1us      1.12us ( +-   0.37% )
          0x171:POUT          5     2.86%     3.26%        2us        2us      2.49us ( +-   2.25% )
           0x172:PIN          5     2.86%     1.45%        1us        1us      1.11us ( +-   0.24% )
          0x172:POUT          5     2.86%     2.67%        1us        2us      2.04us ( +-   3.00% )
           0x173:PIN          5     2.86%     1.46%        1us        1us      1.11us ( +-   0.29% )
          0x173:POUT          5     2.86%     2.60%        1us        2us      1.99us ( +-   2.96% )
           0x174:PIN          5     2.86%     1.45%        1us        1us      1.11us ( +-   0.16% )
          0x174:POUT          5     2.86%     2.60%        1us        2us      1.99us ( +-   3.13% )
           0x175:PIN          5     2.86%     1.46%        1us        1us      1.12us ( +-   0.15% )
          0x175:POUT          5     2.86%     2.60%        1us        2us      1.98us ( +-   3.04% )
           0x176:PIN          5     2.86%     1.45%        1us        1us      1.11us ( +-   0.23% )
          0x177:POUT          5     2.86%     3.94%        2us        3us      3.01us ( +-   2.06% )

Total Samples:175, Total events handled time:381.58us.
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