kernel.git/tools/perf/util/evlist.h, branch linux-rolling-stable

perf tools: Merge deferred user callchains

2025-12-03T05:59:14Z

Save samples with deferred callchains in a separate list and deliver them after merging the user callchains. If users don't want to merge they can set tool->merge_deferred_callchains to false to prevent the behavior. With previous result, now perf script will show the merged callchains. $ perf script ... pwd 2312 121.163435: 249113 cpu/cycles/P: ffffffff845b78d8 __build_id_parse.isra.0+0x218 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff83bb5bf6 perf_event_mmap+0x2e6 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff83c31959 mprotect_fixup+0x1e9 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff83c31dc5 do_mprotect_pkey+0x2b5 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff83c3206f __x64_sys_mprotect+0x1f ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff845e6692 do_syscall_64+0x62 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8360012f entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76 ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7f18fe337fa7 mprotect+0x7 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2) 7f18fe330e0f _dl_sysdep_start+0x7f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2) 7f18fe331448 _dl_start_user+0x0 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2) ... The old output can be get using --no-merge-callchain option. Also perf report can get the user callchain entry at the end. $ perf report --no-children --stdio -q -S __build_id_parse.isra.0 # symbol: __build_id_parse.isra.0 8.40% pwd [kernel.kallsyms] | ---__build_id_parse.isra.0 perf_event_mmap mprotect_fixup do_mprotect_pkey __x64_sys_mprotect do_syscall_64 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe mprotect _dl_sysdep_start _dl_start_user Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf evlist: Change env variable to session

2025-07-25T17:37:56Z

The session holds a perf_env pointer env. In UI code container_of is used to turn the env to a session, but this assumes the session header's env is in use. Rather than a dubious container_of, hold the session in the evlist and derive the env from the session with evsel__env, perf_session__env, etc. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724163302.596743-11-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf parse-events: Fix missing slots for Intel topdown metric events

2025-07-24T20:41:35Z

Topdown metric events require grouping with a slots event. In perf metrics this is currently achieved by metrics adding an unnecessary "0 * tma_info_thread_slots". New TMA metrics trigger optimizations of the metric expression that removes the event and breaks the metric due to the missing but required event. Add a pass immediately before sorting and fixing parsed events, that insert a slots event if one is missing. Update test expectations to match this. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250719030517.1990983-15-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf stat: Move metric list from config to evlist

2025-07-11T19:36:40Z

The rblist of metric_event that then have a list of associated metric_expr is moved out of the stat_config and into the evlist. This is done as part of refactoring things for python, having the state split in two places complicates that implementation. The evlist is doing the harder work of enabling and disabling events, the metrics are needed to compute a value and it doesn't seem unreasonable to hang them from the evlist. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250710235126.1086011-7-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf evlist: Make uniquifying counter names consistent

2025-05-14T12:36:21Z

'perf stat' has different uniquification logic to 'perf record' and perf top. In the case of perf record and 'perf top' all hybrid event names are uniquified. 'perf stat' is more disciplined respecting name config terms, libpfm4 events, etc. 'perf stat' will uniquify hybrid events and the non-core PMU cases shouldn't apply to perf record or 'perf top'. For consistency, remove the uniquification for 'perf record' and 'perf top' and reuse the 'perf stat' uniquification, making the code more globally visible for this. Fix the detection of cross-PMU for disabling uniquify by correctly setting last_pmu. When setting uniquify on an evsel, make sure the PMUs between the 2 considered events differ otherwise the uniquify isn't adding value. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Chun-Tse Shao Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Levi Yun Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Weilin Wang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250513215401.2315949-2-ctshao@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Refactor evlist__scnprintf_evsels()

2025-05-08T15:47:46Z

Switch output to using a strbuf so the storage can be resized. Add a maximum size argument to avoid too much output that may happen for uncore events. Rename as scnprintf is no longer used. Committer testing: With the patch applied: root@number:~# perf probe -x ~/bin/perf evlist__format_evsels Added new event: probe_perf:evlist_format_evsels (on evlist__format_evsels in /home/acme/bin/perf) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe_perf:evlist_format_evsels -aR sleep 1 root@number:~# perf probe -l probe_perf:evlist_format_evsels (on evlist__format_evsels@util/evlist.c in /home/acme/bin/perf) root@number:~# perf trace -e probe_perf:*/max-stack=10/ perf record -e cycles,instructions,cache-misses /tmp/bla Failed to collect 'cycles,instructions,cache-misses' for the '/tmp/bla' workload: Permission denied 0.000 perf/3893011 probe_perf:evlist_format_evsels(__probe_ip: 6183397) evlist__format_evsels (/home/acme/bin/perf) __cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf) cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf) run_builtin (/home/acme/bin/perf) handle_internal_command (/home/acme/bin/perf) run_argv (/home/acme/bin/perf) main (/home/acme/bin/perf) __libc_start_call_main (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6) __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 (/usr/lib64/libc.so.6) _start (/home/acme/bin/perf) root@number:~# Reviewed-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Dominique Martinet Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Levi Yun Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Weilin Wang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402201549.4090305-4-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Skip BPF sideband event for userspace profiling

2025-03-02T17:47:24Z

The BPF sideband information is tracked using a separate thread and evlist. But it's only useful for profiling kernel and we can skip it when users profile their application only. It seems it already fails to open the sideband event in that case. Let's remove the noise in the verbose output anyway. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Acked-by: Song Liu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226203039.1099131-1-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf: event: Remove deadcode

2024-11-07T18:51:56Z

event_format__print() last use was removed by 2017's commit 894f3f1732cb ("perf script: Use event_format__fprintf()") evlist__find_tracepoint_by_id() last use was removed by 2012's commit e60fc847cefa ("perf evlist: Remove some unused methods") evlist__set_tp_filter_pid() last use was removed by 2017's commit dd1a50377c92 ("perf trace: Introduce filter_loop_pids()") Remove them. Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241106144826.91728-1-linux@treblig.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf stat: Remove evlist__add_default_attrs use strings

2024-09-26T20:26:11Z

add_default_atttributes would add evsels by having pre-created perf_event_attr, however, this needed fixing for hybrid as the extended PMU type was necessary for each core PMU. The logic for this was in an arch specific x86 function and wasn't present for ARM, meaning that default events weren't being opened on all PMUs on ARM. Change the creation of the default events to use parse_events and strings as that will open the events on all PMUs. Rather than try to detect events on PMUs before parsing, parse the event but skip its output in stat-display. The previous order of hardware events was: cycles, stalled-cycles-frontend, stalled-cycles-backend, instructions. As instructions is a more fundamental concept the order is changed to: instructions, cycles, stalled-cycles-frontend, stalled-cycles-backend. Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAP-5=fVABSBZnsmtRn1uF-k-G1GWM-L5SgiinhPTfHbQsKXb_g@mail.gmail.com/ Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers [Don't display unsupported default events except 'cycles'] Acked-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: James Clark Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Dominique Martinet Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Howard Chu Cc: Ze Gao Cc: Yicong Yang Cc: Weilin Wang Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Jing Zhang Cc: Yang Li Cc: Leo Yan Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Sun Haiyong Cc: John Garry Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240926144851.245903-4-james.clark@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf stat: Close cork_fd when create_perf_stat_counter() failed

2024-09-25T22:58:42Z

When create_perf_stat_counter() failed, it doesn't close workload.cork_fd open in evlist__prepare_workload(). This could make too many open file error while __run_perf_stat() repeats. Introduce evlist__cancel_workload to close workload.cork_fd and wait workload.child_pid until exit to clear child process when create_perf_stat_counter() is failed. Signed-off-by: Levi Yun Reviewed-by: James Clark Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Cc: nd@arm.com Cc: howardchu95@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240925132022.2650180-2-yeoreum.yun@arm.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim