[PATCH 1/2] perf arm-spe: Add arm_spe_record to synthesized sample

[German Gomez]

Hi Ali,

On 25/01/2022 19:20, Ali Saidi wrote:
> Providing the arm_spe_record as raw data to the synthesized SPE samples
> allows perf scripts to read and separately process the data in ways
> existing perf tools don't support and mirrors functionality available
> for PEBS.
> Signed-off-by: Ali Saidi <alisaidi at amazon.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c b/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
> index d2b64e3f588b..a7499cde6fc0 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
> @@ -336,6 +336,8 @@ static int arm_spe__synth_mem_sample(struct arm_spe_queue *speq,
>  	sample.phys_addr = record->phys_addr;
>  	sample.data_src = data_src;
>  	sample.weight = record->latency;
> +	sample.raw_size = sizeof(*record);
> +	sample.raw_data = record;

Have you tried this with perf-inject? I think it would need the PERF_SAMPLE_RAW bit in the sample_type,

Although I quickly looked over the perf inject code and it looks like it's expecting some type of padding:

  // synthetic-events.c
  if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW) {
    result += sizeof(u32);
    result += sample->raw_size;
  }

I'm seeing some comments in utils/event.h related to this on the intel events.

>  
>  	return arm_spe_deliver_synth_event(spe, speq, event, &sample);
>  }
> @@ -354,6 +356,8 @@ static int arm_spe__synth_branch_sample(struct arm_spe_queue *speq,
>  	sample.stream_id = spe_events_id;
>  	sample.addr = record->to_ip;
>  	sample.weight = record->latency;
> +	sample.raw_size = sizeof(*record);
> +	sample.raw_data = record;
>  
>  	return arm_spe_deliver_synth_event(spe, speq, event, &sample);
>  }
> @@ -383,6 +387,8 @@ static int arm_spe__synth_instruction_sample(struct arm_spe_queue *speq,
>  	sample.data_src = data_src;
>  	sample.period = spe->instructions_sample_period;
>  	sample.weight = record->latency;
> +	sample.raw_size = sizeof(*record);
> +	sample.raw_data = record;
>  
>  	return arm_spe_deliver_synth_event(spe, speq, event, &sample);
>  }