kernel.git/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c, branch linux-5.17.y

perf intel-pt: Fix parsing of VM time correlation arguments

2021-12-28T20:26:25Z

Parser did not take ':' into account. Example: Before: $ perf record -e intel_pt//u uname Linux [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.026 MB perf.data ] $ perf inject -i perf.data --vm-time-correlation="dry-run 123" $ perf inject -i perf.data --vm-time-correlation="dry-run 123:456" Failed to parse VM Time Correlation options 0x620 [0x98]: failed to process type: 70 [Invalid argument] $ After: $ perf inject -i perf.data --vm-time-correlation="dry-run 123:456" $ Fixes: e3ff42bdebcfeb5f ("perf intel-pt: Parse VM Time Correlation options and set up decoding") Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Riccardo Mancini Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211215080636.149562-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Fix error timestamp setting on the decoder error path

2021-12-11T11:19:47Z

An error timestamp shows the last known timestamp for the queue, but this is not updated on the error path. Fix by setting it. Fixes: f4aa081949e7b6 ("perf tools: Add Intel PT decoder") Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.15+ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211210162303.2288710-8-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Support itrace d+o option to direct debug log to stdout

2021-10-27T19:21:01Z

It can be useful to see debug output in between normal output. Add support for AUXTRACE_LOG_FLG_USE_STDOUT to Intel PT. Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211027080334.365596-7-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Support itrace A option to approximate IPC

2021-10-27T19:20:18Z

Normally, for cycle-acccurate mode, IPC values are an exact number of instructions and cycles. Due to the granularity of timestamps, that happens only when a CYC packet correlates to the event. Support the itrace 'A' option, to use instead, the number of cycles associated with the current timestamp. This provides IPC information for every change of timestamp, but at the expense of accuracy. Due to the granularity of timestamps, the actual number of cycles increases even though the cycles reported does not. The number of instructions is known, but if IPC is reported, cycles can be too low and so IPC is too high. Note that inaccuracy decreases as the period of sampling increases i.e. if the number of cycles is too low by a small amount, that becomes less significant if the number of cycles is large. Furthermore, it can be used in conjunction with dlfilter-show-cycles.so to provide higher granularity cycle information. Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211027080334.365596-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Add support for PERF_RECORD_AUX_OUTPUT_HW_ID

2021-10-25T16:47:05Z

Originally, software only supported redirecting at most one PEBS event to Intel PT (PEBS-via-PT) because it was not able to differentiate one event from another. To overcome that, add support for the PERF_RECORD_AUX_OUTPUT_HW_ID side-band event. Committer notes: Cast the pointer arg to for_each_set_bit() to (unsigned long *), to fix the build on 32-bit systems. Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Leo Yan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: x86@kernel.org Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210907163903.11820-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Add a config for max loops without consuming a packet

2021-07-07T14:40:56Z

The Intel PT decoder limits the number of unconditional branches (e.g. jmps) decoded without consuming any trace packets. Generally, a loop needs a conditional branch which generates a TNT packet, whereas a "ret" instruction will generate a TIP or TNT packet. So exceeding the limit is assumed to be a never-ending loop, which can happen if there has been a decoding error putting the decoder at the wrong place in the code. Up until now, the limit of 10000 has been enough but some analytic purposes have been reported to exceed that. Increase the limit to 100000, and make it configurable via perf config intel-pt.max-loops. Also amend the "Never-ending loop" message to mention the configuration entry. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210701175132.3977-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core

2021-05-25T12:13:52Z

To pick up fixes from perf/urgent. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Remove redundant setting of ptq->insn_len

2021-05-19T13:35:31Z

Remove redundant "ptq->insn_len = 0" statement. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210519074515.9262-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Fix sample instruction bytes

2021-05-19T13:33:43Z

The decoder reports the current instruction if it was decoded. In some cases the current instruction is not decoded, in which case the instruction bytes length must be set to zero. Ensure that is always done. Note perf script can anyway get the instruction bytes for any samples where they are not present. Also note, that there is a redundant "ptq->insn_len = 0" statement which is not removed until a subsequent patch in order to make this patch apply cleanly to stable branches. Example: A machne that supports TSX is required. It will have flag "rtm". Kernel parameter tsx=on may be required. # for w in `cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -m1 flags `;do echo $w | grep rtm ; done rtm Test program: #include #include int main() { int x = 0; if (_xbegin() == _XBEGIN_STARTED) { x = 1; _xabort(1); } else { printf("x = %d\n", x); } return 0; } Compile with -mrtm i.e. gcc -Wall -Wextra -mrtm xabort.c -o xabort Record: perf record -e intel_pt/cyc/u --filter 'filter main @ ./xabort' ./xabort Before: # perf script --itrace=xe -F+flags,+insn,-period --xed --ns xabort 1478 [007] 92161.431348581: transactions: x 400b81 main+0x14 (/root/xabort) mov $0xffffffff, %eax xabort 1478 [007] 92161.431348624: transactions: tx abrt 400b93 main+0x26 (/root/xabort) mov $0xffffffff, %eax After: # perf script --itrace=xe -F+flags,+insn,-period --xed --ns xabort 1478 [007] 92161.431348581: transactions: x 400b81 main+0x14 (/root/xabort) xbegin 0x6 xabort 1478 [007] 92161.431348624: transactions: tx abrt 400b93 main+0x26 (/root/xabort) xabort $0x1 Fixes: faaa87680b25d ("perf intel-pt/bts: Report instruction bytes and length in sample") Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210519074515.9262-3-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Parse VM Time Correlation options and set up decoding

2021-05-12T15:43:11Z

Add parsing and validation of VM Time Correlation options, and pass parameters to the decoder. Also update the Intel PT documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210430070309.17624-13-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo