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/' ...
Cody P Schafer (16):
tools/perf: allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var
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
byteorder: provide a linux/byteorder.h with {be,le}_to_cpu() and
cpu_to_{be,le}() macros
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 | 812 ++++++++++++++++++++-
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/byteorder.h | 34 +
include/linux/perf_event.h | 10 +
kernel/events/core.c | 8 +
tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c | 43 +-
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 +-
25 files changed, 1589 insertions(+), 636 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
create mode 100644 include/linux/byteorder.h
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