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Message-ID: <C2D7FE5348E1B147BCA15975FBA230756659D93F@IN01WEMBXB.internal.synopsys.com>
Date:	Sat, 2 May 2015 07:04:20 +0000
From:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To:	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"ak@...ux.intel.com" <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Michael Ellerman" <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	"Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@...nel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
CC:	"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] perf: Create aliases for PMU events

On Friday 01 May 2015 12:35 PM, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Using the tables of Power7 and Power8 events, create aliases for the
> Power PMU events. This would allow us to specify all Power events by
> name rather than by raw code:
> 
> 	$ /tmp/perf stat -e PM_1PLUS_PPC_CMPL sleep 1
> 
> 	 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
> 
> 		   757,661      PM_1PLUS_PPC_CMPL
> 
> 	       1.001620145 seconds time elapsed
> 
> The perf binary built on Power8 can be copied to Power7 and it will use
> the Power7 events (if arch/powerpc/util/pmu-events.h knows the CPU string).
> 
> Hopefully other architecutres can also implement arch_get_events_table()
> and take advantage of this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build        |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/pmu-events.c |   52 +++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/pmu-events.h |   17 +++++++
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.c                     |   77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.h                     |   10 ++++
>  5 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/pmu-events.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/pmu-events.h
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
> index 0af6e9b..52fbc7f 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -libperf-y += header.o
> +libperf-y += header.o pmu-events.o
>  
>  libperf-$(CONFIG_DWARF) += dwarf-regs.o
>  libperf-$(CONFIG_DWARF) += skip-callchain-idx.o
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/pmu-events.c b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/pmu-events.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..7036f6d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/pmu-events.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
> +#include <stdio.h>
> +#include <unistd.h>
> +#include <sys/types.h>
> +#include "pmu.h"
> +#include "pmu-events.h"
> +#include "../../util/debug.h"			/* verbose */
> +#include "header.h"				/* mfspr */
> +
> +static char *get_cpu_str(void)
> +{
> +	char *bufp;
> +
> +	if (asprintf(&bufp, "%.8lx-core", mfspr(SPRN_PVR)) < 0)
> +		bufp = NULL;
> +
> +	return bufp;
> +}
> +
> +struct perf_pmu_event *arch_get_events_table(char *cpustr)
> +{
> +	int i, nmaps, must_free;
> +	struct  perf_pmu_event *table;
> +
> +	must_free = 0;
> +	if (!cpustr) {
> +		cpustr = get_cpu_str();
> +		if (!cpustr)
> +			return NULL;
> +		must_free = 1;
> +	}
> +
> +	nmaps = sizeof(pvr_events_map) / sizeof(struct pvr_events_map_entry);
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < nmaps; i++) {
> +		if (!strcmp(pvr_events_map[i].pvr, cpustr))
> +			break;
> +	}
> +
> +	table = NULL;
> +	if (i < nmaps) {
> +		/* pvr_events_map is a const; cast to override */
> +		table = (struct perf_pmu_event *)pvr_events_map[i].pmu_events;
> +	} else if (verbose) {
> +		printf("Unknown CPU %s, ignoring aliases\n", cpustr);
> +	}
> +
> +	if (must_free)
> +		free(cpustr);
> +
> +	return table;
> +}
> +
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/pmu-events.h b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/pmu-events.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..1daf8e5
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/pmu-events.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
> +/*
> + * Include all Power processor tables that we care about.
> + */
> +#include "power7-events.h"
> +#include "power8-events.h"
> +
> +/*
> + * Map a processor version (PVR) to its table of events.
> + */
> +struct pvr_events_map_entry {
> +	const char *pvr;
> +	const struct perf_pmu_event *pmu_events;
> +} pvr_events_map[] = {
> +	{ .pvr = "004d0100-core",	.pmu_events = power8_pmu_events },
> +	{ .pvr = "003f0201-core",	.pmu_events = power7_pmu_events }
> +};

Do u really need the header - this could go in the .c file ?

> +
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> index 4841167..f998d91 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> @@ -435,6 +435,80 @@ perf_pmu__get_default_config(struct perf_pmu *pmu __maybe_unused)
>  	return NULL;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Default arch_get_events_table() is empty.
> + *
> + * Actual implementation is in arch/$(ARCH)/util/pmu-events.c. This
> + * allows architectures could choose what set(s) of events to a) include
> + * in perf binary b) consider for _this_ invocation of perf.
> + *
> + * Eg: For Power, we include both Power7 and Power8 event tables in the
> + * 	perf binary. But depending on the processor where perf is executed,
> + * 	either the Power7 or Power8 table is returned.
> + */
> +struct perf_pmu_event * __attribute__ ((weak))
> +arch_get_events_table(char *cpustr __maybe_unused)
> +{
> +	return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +static int pmu_add_cpu_aliases(char *cpustr, void *data)
> +{
> +	struct list_head *head = (struct list_head *)data;
> +	struct perf_pmu_alias *alias;
> +	int i;
> +	struct perf_pmu_event *events_table, *event;
> +	struct parse_events_term *term;
> +
> +	events_table = arch_get_events_table(cpustr);
> +	if (!events_table)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; events_table[i].name != NULL; i++) {
> +		event = &events_table[i];
> +
> +		alias = malloc(sizeof(*alias));
> +		if (!alias)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +		term = malloc(sizeof(*term));
> +		if (!term) {
> +			/*
> +			 * TODO: cleanup aliases allocated so far?
> +			 */
> +			free(alias);
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +		}
> +
> +		/* ->config is not const; cast to override */
> +		term->config = (char *)"event";
> +		term->val.num = event->code;
> +		term->type_val = PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NUM;
> +		term->type_term = PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_USER;
> +		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&term->list);
> +		term->used = 0;
> +
> +		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&alias->terms);
> +		list_add_tail(&alias->terms, &term->list);
> +
> +		alias->scale = 1.0;
> +		alias->unit[0] = '\0';
> +		alias->per_pkg = false;
> +
> +		alias->name = strdup(event->name);
> +#if 0
> +		/*
> +		 * TODO: Need Andi Kleen's patch for ->desc
> +		 */
> +		alias->desc = event->short_desc ?
> +					strdup(event->short_desc) : NULL;
> +#endif
> +		list_add_tail(&alias->list, head);
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static struct perf_pmu *pmu_lookup(const char *name)
>  {
>  	struct perf_pmu *pmu;
> @@ -453,6 +527,9 @@ static struct perf_pmu *pmu_lookup(const char *name)
>  	if (pmu_aliases(name, &aliases))
>  		return NULL;
>  
> +	if (!strcmp(name, "cpu"))
> +		(void)pmu_add_cpu_aliases(NULL, &aliases);
> +
>  	if (pmu_type(name, &type))
>  		return NULL;
>  
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.h b/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
> index 6b1249f..ca3e7a0 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
> @@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ struct perf_pmu_alias {
>  	bool snapshot;
>  };
>  
> +struct perf_pmu_event {
> +	const char *name;
> +	const unsigned long code;
> +	const char *short_desc;
> +	const char *long_desc;
> +	/* add unit, mask etc as needed here */
> +};
> +
>  struct perf_pmu *perf_pmu__find(const char *name);
>  int perf_pmu__config(struct perf_pmu *pmu, struct perf_event_attr *attr,
>  		     struct list_head *head_terms);
> @@ -76,4 +84,6 @@ int perf_pmu__test(void);
>  
>  struct perf_event_attr *perf_pmu__get_default_config(struct perf_pmu *pmu);
>  
> +struct perf_pmu_event *arch_get_events_table(char *cpustr);
> +
>  #endif /* __PMU_H */
> 

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