kernel.git/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c, branch master

perf tool: Add the perf_tool argument to all callbacks

2025-11-07T21:25:05Z

Getting context for what a tool is doing, such as the perf_inject instance, using container_of the tool is a common pattern in the code. This isn't possible event_op2, event_op3 and event_op4 callbacks as the tool isn't passed. Add the argument and then fix function signatures to match. As tools maybe reading a tool from somewhere else, change that code to use the passed in tool. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf auxtrace: Add auxtrace_synth_id_range_start() helper

2025-10-26T00:44:57Z

To avoid hardcoding the offset value for synthetic event IDs in multiple auxtrace modules (arm-spe, cs-etm, intel-pt, etc.), and to improve code reusability, this patch unifies the handling of the ID offset via a dedicated helper function. Signed-off-by: tanze Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Tested-by: Leo Yan Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf powerpc: Process auxtrace events and display in 'perf report -D'

2025-10-01T14:22:04Z

Add VPA DTL PMU auxtrace process function for "perf report -D". The auxtrace event processing functions are defined in file "util/powerpc-vpadtl.c". Data structures used includes "struct powerpc_vpadtl_queue", "struct powerpc_vpadtl" to store the auxtrace buffers in queue. Different PERF_RECORD_XXX are generated during recording. PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE_INFO is processed first since it is of type perf_user_event_type and perf session event delivers perf_session__process_user_event() first. Define function powerpc_vpadtl_process_auxtrace_info() to handle the processing of PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE_INFO records. In this function, initialize the aux buffer queues using auxtrace_queues__init(). Setup the required infrastructure for aux data processing. The data is collected per CPU and auxtrace_queue is created for each CPU. Define powerpc_vpadtl_process_event() function to process PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE records. In this, add the event to queue using auxtrace_queues__add_event() and process the buffer in powerpc_vpadtl_dump_event(). The first entry in the buffer with timebase as zero has boot timebase and frequency. Remaining data is of format for "struct powerpc_vpadtl_entry". Define the translation for dispatch_reasons and preempt_reasons, report this when dump trace is invoked via powerpc_vpadtl_dump() Sample output: ./perf record -a -e sched:*,vpa_dtl/dtl_all/ -c 1000000000 sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.300 MB perf.data ] ./perf report -D 0 0 0x39b10 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE size: 0x690 offset: 0 ref: 0 idx: 0 tid: -1 cpu: 0 . . ... VPA DTL PMU data: size 1680 bytes, entries is 35 . 00000000: boot_tb: 21349649546353231, tb_freq: 512000000 . 00000030: dispatch_reason:decrementer interrupt, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:7064, ready_to_enqueue_time:187, waiting_to_ready_time:6611773 . 00000060: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:146, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:15359437 . 00000090: dispatch_reason:decrementer interrupt, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:4868, ready_to_enqueue_time:232, waiting_to_ready_time:5100709 . 000000c0: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:179, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:30714243 . 000000f0: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:197, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:15350648 . 00000120: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:213, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:15353446 . 00000150: dispatch_reason:priv doorbell, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:212, ready_to_enqueue_time:0, waiting_to_ready_time:15355126 . 00000180: dispatch_reason:decrementer interrupt, preempt_reason:H_CEDE, enqueue_to_dispatch_time:6368, ready_to_enqueue_time:164, waiting_to_ready_time:5104665 Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev Tested-by: Tejas Manhas Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Cc: Aboorva Devarajan Cc: Aditya Bodkhe Cc: Hari Bathini Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Shrikanth Hegde Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf powerpc: Add basic CONFIG_AUXTRACE support for VPA pmu on powerpc

2025-10-01T14:22:04Z

The powerpc PMU collecting Dispatch Trace Log (DTL) entries makes use of AUX support in perf infrastructure. The PMU driver has the functionality to collect trace entries in the aux buffer. On the tools side, this data is made available as PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE records. This record is generated by "perf record" command. To enable the creation of PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE, add functions to initialize auxtrace records ie "auxtrace_record__init()". Fill in fields for other callbacks like info_priv_size, info_fill, free, recording options etc. Define auxtrace_type as PERF_AUXTRACE_VPA_DTL. Add header file to define vpa dtl pmu specific details. Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev Tested-by: Tejas Manhas Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Cc: Aboorva Devarajan Cc: Aditya Bodkhe Cc: Hari Bathini Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Shrikanth Hegde Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf auxtrace: Avoid redundant NULL check in auxtrace_mmap_params__set_idx()

2025-09-19T15:14:29Z

Since commit eead8a011477 ("libperf threadmap: Don't segv for index 0 for the NULL 'struct perf_thread_map' pointer"), perf_thread_map__pid() can check for a NULL map and return -1 if idx is 0. Cleanup auxtrace_mmap_params__set_idx() and remove the redundant NULL check. No functional change intended. Reviewed-by: Aditya Bodkhe Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Reviewed-by: Amit Machhiwal Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf auxtrace: Pass perf_env from session through to mmap read

2025-07-25T17:37:58Z

auxtrace_mmap__read and auxtrace_mmap__read_snapshot end up calling `evsel__env(NULL)` which returns the global perf_env variable for the host. Their only call is in perf record. Rather than use the global variable pass through the perf_env for `perf record`. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-18-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf sample: Make user_regs and intr_regs optional

2025-02-13T04:06:11Z

The struct dump_regs contains 512 bytes of cache_regs, meaning the two values in perf_sample contribute 1088 bytes of its total 1384 bytes size. Initializing this much memory has a cost reported by Tavian Barnes as about 2.5% when running `perf script --itrace=i0`: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d841b97b3ad2ca8bcab07e4293375fb7c32dfce7.1736618095.git.tavianator@tavianator.com/ Adrian Hunter replied that the zero initialization was necessary and couldn't simply be removed. This patch aims to strike a middle ground of still zeroing the perf_sample, but removing 79% of its size by make user_regs and intr_regs optional pointers to zalloc-ed memory. To support the allocation accessors are created for user_regs and intr_regs. To support correct cleanup perf_sample__init and perf_sample__exit functions are created and added throughout the code base. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250113194345.1537821-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf tools: Parse aux-action

2024-12-18T19:24:32Z

Add parsing for aux-action to accept "pause", "resume" or "start-paused" values. "start-paused" is valid only for AUX area events. "pause" and "resume" are valid only for events grouped with an AUX area event as the group leader. However, like with aux-output, the events will be automatically grouped if they are not currently in a group, and the AUX area event precedes the other events. Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216070244.14450-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf auxtrace: Use evsel__is_aux_event() for checking AUX event

2024-08-28T21:14:42Z

Use evsel__is_aux_event() to decide if an event is a AUX event, this is a refactoring to replace comparing the PMU type. Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Leo Yan Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: James Clark Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240806204130.720977-2-leo.yan@arm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tool: Constify tool pointers

2024-08-12T21:05:14Z

The tool pointer (to a struct largely of function pointers) is passed around but is unchanged except at initialization. Change parameter and variable types to be const to lower the possibilities of what could happen with a tool. Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Adrian Hunter Tested-by: Leo Yan Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ilkka Koskinen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Garry Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Nick Terrell Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Song Liu Cc: Sun Haiyong Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yanteng Si Cc: Yicong Yang Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240812204720.631678-4-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo