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Message-ID: <64bc1212-549d-392b-9721-1d43d3b48797@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:21:16 +0300
From: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
Michael Petlan <mpetlan@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/79] perf tools: Initial libperf separation
On 21.07.2019 14:23, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> hi,
> we have long term goal to separate some of the perf functionality
> into library. This patchset is initial effort on separating some
> of the interface.
>
> Currently only the basic counting interface is exported, it allows
> to:
> - create cpu/threads maps
> - create evlist/evsel objects
> - add evsel objects into evlist
> - open/close evlist/evsel objects
> - enable/disable events
> - read evsel counts
>
> The initial effort was to have total separation of the objects
> from perf code, but it showed not to be a good way. The amount
> of changed code was too big with high chance for regressions,
> mainly because of the code embedding one of the above objects
> statically.
>
> We took the other approach of sharing the objects/struct details
> within the perf and libperf code. This way we can keep perf
> functionality without any major changes and the libperf users
> are still separated from the object/struct details. We can move
> to total libperf's objects separation gradually in future.
>
> You can check current interface/functionality in examples under:
> tools/perf/lib/Documentation/tutorial
>
> or check tests in here:
> $ cd tools/perf/lib && make tests
> LINK test-cpumap-a
> LINK test-threadmap-a
> LINK test-evlist-a
> LINK test-evsel-a
> LINK test-cpumap-so
> LINK test-threadmap-so
> LINK test-evlist-so
> LINK test-evsel-so
> running static:
> - running test-cpumap.c...OK
> - running test-threadmap.c...OK
> - running test-evlist.c...OK
> - running test-evsel.c...OK
> running dynamic:
> - running test-cpumap.c...OK
> - running test-threadmap.c...OK
> - running test-evlist.c...OK
> - running test-evsel.c...OK
>
> The upcoming changes in the near future:
> - move parse_events interface in, so we have the event parsing
> interface in the library together with the all events from
> tools/perf/pmu-events/arch
> - add sampling interface with event mmap support and all the
> sampling events objects
> - add user mmap interface to read counters
> - more documentation and tutorial ;-)
> - move under tools/lib after the interface is more stable-ish
>
> Big kudos to BPF guys, because most of the infrastructure is
> 'borrowed' from libbpf library.. ;-)
>
> It's also available in here:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf.git
> perf/lib
>
> I tested so far on x86, I still need to run it through s390/ppc/arm.
>
> throughts? thanks,
> jirka
>
Acked-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com>
Some API for reading Perf record trace could be valuable extensions
for the library. Also at some point public API will, probably, need
some versioning.
~Alexey
>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
> ---
> Jiri Olsa (79):
> perf tools: Move loaded out of struct perf_counts_values
> perf tools: Rename struct cpu_map to struct perf_cpu_map
> perf tools: Rename struct thread_map to struct perf_thread_map
> perf tools: Rename struct perf_evsel to struct evsel
> perf tools: Rename struct perf_evlist to struct evlist
> perf tools: Rename perf_evsel__init to evsel__init
> perf tools: Rename perf_evlist__init to evlist__init
> perf tools: Rename perf_evlist__new to evlist__new
> perf tools: Rename perf_evlist__delete to evlist__delete
> perf tools: Rename perf_evsel__delete to evsel__delete
> perf tools: Rename perf_evsel__new to evsel__new
> perf tools: Rename perf_evlist__add to evlist__add
> perf tools: Rename perf_evlist__remove to evlist__remove
> perf tools: Rename perf_evsel__open to evsel__open
> perf tools: Rename perf_evsel__enable to evsel__enable
> perf tools: Rename perf_evsel__disable to evsel__disable
> perf tools: Rename perf_evsel__apply_filter to evsel__apply_filter
> perf tools: Rename perf_evsel__cpus to evsel__cpus
> perf tools: Rename perf_evlist__open to evlist__open
> perf tools: Rename perf_evlist__close to evlist__close
> perf tools: Rename perf_evlist__enable to evlist__enable
> perf tools: Rename perf_evlist__disable to evlist__disable
> libperf: Make libperf.a part of the build
> libperf: Add build version support
> libperf: Add libperf in python.so compilation
> libperf: Add perf/core.h header
> libperf: Add debug output support
> libperf: Add perf_cpu_map struct
> libperf: Add perf_cpu_map__dummy_new function
> libperf: Add perf_cpu_map__get/perf_cpu_map__put
> libperf: Add perf_thread_map struct
> libperf: Add perf_thread_map__new_dummy function
> libperf: Add perf_thread_map__get/perf_thread_map__put
> libperf: Add perf_evlist and perf_evsel structs
> libperf: Include perf_evsel in evsel object
> libperf: Include perf_evlist in evlist object
> libperf: Add perf_evsel__init function
> libperf: Add perf_evlist__init function
> libperf: Add perf_evlist__add function
> libperf: Add perf_evlist__remove function
> libperf: Add nr_entries to perf_evlist
> libperf: Add attr to perf_evsel
> libperf: Add perf_cpu_map__new/perf_cpu_map__read functions
> libperf: Move zalloc.o into libperf
> libperf: Add perf_evlist__new function
> libperf: Add perf_evsel__new function
> libperf: Add perf_evlist__for_each_evsel macro
> libperf: Add perf_evlist__delete function
> libperf: Add perf_evsel__delete function
> libperf: Add cpus to struct perf_evsel
> libperf: Add own_cpus to struct perf_evsel
> libperf: Add threads to struct perf_evsel
> libperf: Add has_user_cpus to struct perf_evlist
> libperf: Add cpus to struct perf_evlist
> libperf: Add threads to struct perf_evlist
> libperf: Add perf_evlist__set_maps function
> libperf: Add xyarray object
> libperf: Add fd array to struct perf_evsel
> libperf: Add nr_members to struct perf_evsel
> libperf: Add readn/writen function
> libperf: Add perf_evsel__alloc_fd function
> libperf: Add perf_evsel__open function
> libperf: Add perf_evsel__close function
> libperf: Add perf_evsel__read function
> libperf: Add perf_evsel__enable/disable/apply_filter functions
> libperf: Add perf_cpu_map__for_each_cpu macro
> libperf: Add perf_evsel__cpus/threads functions
> libperf: Add perf_evlist__open/close functions
> libperf: Add perf_evlist__enable/disable functions
> libperf: Add perf_evsel__attr functions
> libperf: Add install targets
> libperf: Add tests support
> libperf: Add perf_cpu_map test
> libperf: Add perf_thread_map test
> libperf: Add perf_evlist test
> libperf: Add perf_evsel tests
> libperf: Add perf_evlist__enable/disable test
> libperf: Add perf_evsel__enable/disable test
> libperf: Initial documentation
>
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> tools/perf/tests/openat-syscall-tp-fields.c | 14 +-
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>
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