[PATCH V7 00/12] perf/core: Add ability for an event to "pause" or "resume" AUX area tracing
Adrian Hunter
adrian.hunter at intel.com
Thu May 30 22:57:19 PDT 2024
Hi
Hardware traces, such as instruction traces, can produce a vast amount of
trace data, so being able to reduce tracing to more specific circumstances
can be useful.
The ability to pause or resume tracing when another event happens, can do
that.
These patches add such a facilty and show how it would work for Intel
Processor Trace.
Maintainers of other AUX area tracing implementations are requested to
consider if this is something they might employ and then whether or not
the ABI would work for them. Note, thank you to James Clark (ARM) for
evaluating the API for Coresight. Suzuki K Poulose (ARM) also responded
positively to the RFC.
Changes to perf tools are now (since V4) fleshed out.
Please note, Intel® Architecture Instruction Set Extensions and Future
Features Programming Reference March 2024 319433-052, currently:
https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/671368
introduces hardware pause / resume for Intel PT in a feature named
Intel PT Trigger Tracing.
For that more fields in perf_event_attr will be necessary. The main
differences are:
- it can be applied not just to overflows, but optionally to
every event
- a packet is emitted into the trace, optionally with IP
information
- no PMI
- works with PMC and DR (breakpoint) events only
Here are the proposed additions to perf_event_attr, please comment:
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 0c557f0a17b3..05dcc43f11bb 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -369,6 +369,22 @@ enum perf_event_read_format {
PERF_FORMAT_MAX = 1U << 5, /* non-ABI */
};
+enum {
+ PERF_AUX_ACTION_START_PAUSED = 1U << 0,
+ PERF_AUX_ACTION_PAUSE = 1U << 1,
+ PERF_AUX_ACTION_RESUME = 1U << 2,
+ PERF_AUX_ACTION_EMIT = 1U << 3,
+ PERF_AUX_ACTION_NR = 0x1f << 4,
+ PERF_AUX_ACTION_NO_IP = 1U << 9,
+ PERF_AUX_ACTION_PAUSE_ON_EVT = 1U << 10,
+ PERF_AUX_ACTION_RESUME_ON_EVT = 1U << 11,
+ PERF_AUX_ACTION_EMIT_ON_EVT = 1U << 12,
+ PERF_AUX_ACTION_NR_ON_EVT = 0x1f << 13,
+ PERF_AUX_ACTION_NO_IP_ON_EVT = 1U << 18,
+ PERF_AUX_ACTION_MASK = ~PERF_AUX_ACTION_START_PAUSED,
+ PERF_AUX_PAUSE_RESUME_MASK = PERF_AUX_ACTION_PAUSE | PERF_AUX_ACTION_RESUME,
+};
+
#define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER0 64 /* sizeof first published struct */
#define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER1 72 /* add: config2 */
#define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER2 80 /* add: branch_sample_type */
@@ -515,10 +531,19 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
union {
__u32 aux_action;
struct {
- __u32 aux_start_paused : 1, /* start AUX area tracing paused */
- aux_pause : 1, /* on overflow, pause AUX area tracing */
- aux_resume : 1, /* on overflow, resume AUX area tracing */
- __reserved_3 : 29;
+ __u32 aux_start_paused : 1, /* start AUX area tracing paused */
+ aux_pause : 1, /* on overflow, pause AUX area tracing */
+ aux_resume : 1, /* on overflow, resume AUX area tracing */
+ aux_emit : 1, /* generate AUX records instead of events */
+ aux_nr : 5, /* AUX area tracing reference number */
+ aux_no_ip : 1, /* suppress IP in AUX records */
+ /* Following apply to event occurrence not overflows */
+ aux_pause_on_evt : 1, /* on event, pause AUX area tracing */
+ aux_resume_on_evt : 1, /* on event, resume AUX area tracing */
+ aux_emit_on_evt : 1, /* generate AUX records instead of events */
+ aux_nr_on_evt : 5, /* AUX area tracing reference number */
+ aux_no_ip_on_evt : 1, /* suppress IP in AUX records */
+ __reserved_3 : 13;
};
};
Changes in V7:
Add Andi's Reviewed-by for patches 2-12
Re-base
Changes in V6:
perf/core: Add aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused
Removed READ/WRITE_ONCE from __perf_event_aux_pause()
Expanded comment about guarding against NMI
Changes in V5:
perf/core: Add aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused
Added James' Ack
perf/x86/intel: Do not enable large PEBS for events with aux actions or aux sampling
New patch
perf tools
Added Ian's Ack
Changes in V4:
perf/core: Add aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused
Rename aux_output_cfg -> aux_action
Reorder aux_action bits from:
aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused
to:
aux_start_paused, aux_pause, aux_resume
Fix aux_action bits __u64 -> __u32
coresight: Have a stab at support for pause / resume
Dropped
perf tools
All new patches
Changes in RFC V3:
coresight: Have a stab at support for pause / resume
'mode' -> 'flags' so it at least compiles
Changes in RFC V2:
Use ->stop() / ->start() instead of ->pause_resume()
Move aux_start_paused bit into aux_output_cfg
Tighten up when Intel PT pause / resume is allowed
Add an example of how it might work for CoreSight
Adrian Hunter (12):
perf/core: Add aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused
perf/x86/intel/pt: Add support for pause / resume
perf/x86/intel: Do not enable large PEBS for events with aux actions or aux sampling
perf tools: Enable evsel__is_aux_event() to work for ARM/ARM64
perf tools: Enable evsel__is_aux_event() to work for S390_CPUMSF
perf tools: Add aux_start_paused, aux_pause and aux_resume
perf tools: Add aux-action config term
perf tools: Parse aux-action
perf tools: Add missing_features for aux_start_paused, aux_pause, aux_resume
perf intel-pt: Improve man page format
perf intel-pt: Add documentation for pause / resume
perf intel-pt: Add a test for pause / resume
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 10 +-
arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c | 63 ++-
arch/x86/events/intel/pt.h | 4 +
include/linux/perf_event.h | 15 +
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 11 +-
kernel/events/core.c | 76 +++-
kernel/events/internal.h | 1 +
tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 11 +-
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt | 596 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 4 +
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/pmu.c | 3 +
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 4 +-
tools/perf/tests/shell/test_intel_pt.sh | 28 ++
tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c | 67 +++-
tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 6 +-
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 13 +-
tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/evsel_config.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 10 +
tools/perf/util/parse-events.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/parse-events.l | 1 +
tools/perf/util/perf_event_attr_fprintf.c | 3 +
tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 7 +-
23 files changed, 696 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)
Regards
Adrian
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