[PATCH v1 00/23] PMU refactoring and improvements

Ian Rogers irogers at google.com
Wed May 17 07:57:40 PDT 2023


Separate the code in pmu.[ch] from the set/list of PMUs case and the
particular PMU case. Move the set/list of PMUs case code into
pmus.[ch]. Clean up hybrid code and remove hybrid PMU list, it is
sufficient to scan PMUs looking for core ones. Add core PMU list and
perf_pmus__scan_core that just reads core PMUs. Switch code that skips
non-core PMUs during a perf_pmus__scan, to use the
perf_pmus__scan_core variant. Don't scan sysfs for PMUs if all such
PMUs have been previously scanned/loaded. Scanning just just core
PMUs, for the cases it is applicable, can improve the sysfs reading
time by more than 4 fold on my laptop, as servers generally have many
more uncore PMUs the improvement there should be larger:

```
$ perf bench internals pmu-scan -i 1000
Computing performance of sysfs PMU event scan for 1000 times
  Average core PMU scanning took: 989.231 usec (+- 1.535 usec)
  Average PMU scanning took: 4309.425 usec (+- 74.322 usec)
```

The patch "perf pmu: Separate pmu and pmus" moves and renames a lot of
functions, and is consequently large. The changes are trivial, but
kept together to keep the overall number of patches more reasonable.

Ian Rogers (23):
  perf tools: Warn if no user requested CPUs match PMU's CPUs
  perf evlist: Remove evlist__warn_hybrid_group
  perf evlist: Remove __evlist__add_default
  perf evlist: Reduce scope of evlist__has_hybrid
  perf pmu: Remove perf_pmu__hybrid_mounted
  perf pmu: Detect ARM and hybrid PMUs with sysfs
  perf pmu: Add is_core to pmu
  perf pmu: Rewrite perf_pmu__has_hybrid to avoid list
  perf x86: Iterate hybrid PMUs as core PMUs
  perf topology: Avoid hybrid list for hybrid topology
  perf evsel: Compute is_hybrid from PMU being core
  perf header: Avoid hybrid PMU list in write_pmu_caps
  perf metrics: Remove perf_pmu__is_hybrid use
  perf stat: Avoid hybrid PMU list
  perf mem: Avoid hybrid PMU list
  perf pmu: Remove perf_pmu__hybrid_pmus list
  perf pmus: Prefer perf_pmu__scan over perf_pmus__for_each_pmu
  perf x86 mem: minor refactor to is_mem_loads_aux_event
  perf pmu: Separate pmu and pmus
  perf pmus: Split pmus list into core and uncore
  perf pmus: Allow just core PMU scanning
  perf pmus: Avoid repeated sysfs scanning
  perf pmus: Ensure all PMUs are read for find_by_type

 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c   |   7 +-
 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c     |   4 +-
 tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c      |   6 +-
 tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/hybrid.c    |   7 +-
 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/auxtrace.c   |   5 +-
 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evlist.c     |  25 +-
 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evsel.c      |  27 +-
 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-bts.c  |   4 +-
 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c   |   4 +-
 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/mem-events.c |  17 +-
 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/perf_regs.c  |  15 +-
 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c    |   5 +-
 tools/perf/bench/pmu-scan.c           |  60 ++--
 tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c              |   9 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-list.c             |   4 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-mem.c              |   9 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-record.c           |  29 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c             |  15 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-top.c              |  10 +-
 tools/perf/tests/attr.c               |   4 +-
 tools/perf/tests/event_groups.c       |   7 +-
 tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c       |  15 +-
 tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c       |   4 +-
 tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c         |   6 +-
 tools/perf/tests/switch-tracking.c    |   4 +-
 tools/perf/tests/topology.c           |   4 +-
 tools/perf/util/Build                 |   2 -
 tools/perf/util/cpumap.h              |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/cputopo.c             |  16 +-
 tools/perf/util/env.c                 |   5 +-
 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.c       | 162 ---------
 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.h       |  15 -
 tools/perf/util/evlist.c              |  67 +++-
 tools/perf/util/evlist.h              |   9 +-
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c               |  57 +--
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h               |   3 -
 tools/perf/util/header.c              |  27 +-
 tools/perf/util/mem-events.c          |  17 +-
 tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c         |   9 +-
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c        |  24 +-
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.y        |   3 +-
 tools/perf/util/pfm.c                 |   6 +-
 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.c          |  52 ---
 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.h          |  32 --
 tools/perf/util/pmu.c                 | 482 ++------------------------
 tools/perf/util/pmu.h                 |  26 +-
 tools/perf/util/pmus.c                | 477 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 tools/perf/util/pmus.h                |  15 +-
 tools/perf/util/print-events.c        |  15 +-
 tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources    |   1 -
 tools/perf/util/stat-display.c        |  21 +-
 51 files changed, 819 insertions(+), 1032 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.h
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.c
 delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.h

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