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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
> 
>  tools/perf/Makefile.config                         |    1 +
>  tools/perf/Makefile.perf                           |   31 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c                |    4 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c                  |   26 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c               |    6 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/kvm-stat.c            |   12 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/s390/util/auxtrace.c               |    8 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/s390/util/kvm-stat.c               |    8 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/intel-cqm.c              |    8 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/perf-time-to-tsc.c       |   30 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/auxtrace.c                |   10 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-bts.c               |   38 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c                |   82 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/kvm-stat.c                |   12 +-
>  tools/perf/bench/epoll-ctl.c                       |    7 +-
>  tools/perf/bench/epoll-wait.c                      |    7 +-
>  tools/perf/bench/futex-hash.c                      |    5 +-
>  tools/perf/bench/futex-lock-pi.c                   |    7 +-
>  tools/perf/bench/futex-requeue.c                   |    7 +-
>  tools/perf/bench/futex-wake-parallel.c             |    6 +-
>  tools/perf/bench/futex-wake.c                      |    7 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c                      |   16 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c                           |   10 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-diff.c                          |   20 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-evlist.c                        |    4 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c                        |   18 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-inject.c                        |   60 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c                          |   24 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c                           |   46 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-lock.c                          |   30 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-mem.c                           |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c                        |   50 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-report.c                        |   32 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-sched.c                         |   96 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-script.c                        |  167 +--
>  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c                          |  135 +--
>  tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c                     |   46 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-top.c                           |   71 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-trace.c                         |  180 +--
>  tools/perf/lib/Build                               |   12 +
>  tools/perf/lib/Documentation/Makefile              |    7 +
>  tools/perf/lib/Documentation/man/libperf.rst       |  102 ++
>  tools/perf/lib/Documentation/tutorial/tutorial.rst |  123 ++
>  tools/perf/lib/Makefile                            |  158 +++
>  tools/perf/lib/core.c                              |   34 +
>  tools/perf/lib/cpumap.c                            |  239 ++++
>  tools/perf/lib/evlist.c                            |  159 +++
>  tools/perf/lib/evsel.c                             |  232 ++++
>  tools/perf/lib/include/internal/cpumap.h           |   17 +
>  tools/perf/lib/include/internal/evlist.h           |   50 +
>  tools/perf/lib/include/internal/evsel.h            |   29 +
>  tools/perf/lib/include/internal/lib.h              |   10 +
>  tools/perf/lib/include/internal/tests.h            |   19 +
>  tools/perf/lib/include/internal/threadmap.h        |   23 +
>  .../perf/{util => lib/include/internal}/xyarray.h  |    6 +-
>  tools/perf/lib/include/perf/core.h                 |   22 +
>  tools/perf/lib/include/perf/cpumap.h               |   23 +
>  tools/perf/lib/include/perf/evlist.h               |   35 +
>  tools/perf/lib/include/perf/evsel.h                |   39 +
>  tools/perf/lib/include/perf/threadmap.h            |   18 +
>  tools/perf/lib/internal.h                          |   18 +
>  tools/perf/lib/lib.c                               |   46 +
>  tools/perf/lib/libperf.map                         |   40 +
>  tools/perf/lib/libperf.pc.template                 |   11 +
>  tools/perf/lib/tests/Makefile                      |   38 +
>  tools/perf/lib/tests/test-cpumap.c                 |   21 +
>  tools/perf/lib/tests/test-evlist.c                 |  186 +++
>  tools/perf/lib/tests/test-evsel.c                  |  125 ++
>  tools/perf/lib/tests/test-threadmap.c              |   21 +
>  tools/perf/lib/threadmap.c                         |   81 ++
>  tools/perf/lib/xyarray.c                           |   33 +
>  tools/perf/tests/backward-ring-buffer.c            |   18 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/bitmap.c                          |    5 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/bpf.c                             |   12 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c                    |   50 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/cpumap.c                          |   21 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/event-times.c                     |   81 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/event_update.c                    |   13 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/evsel-roundtrip-name.c            |   12 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c                  |    8 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/hists_cumulate.c                  |   18 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/hists_filter.c                    |   10 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/hists_link.c                      |   10 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/hists_output.c                    |   20 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/keep-tracking.c                   |   44 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/mem2node.c                        |    5 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/mmap-basic.c                      |   28 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/mmap-thread-lookup.c              |    4 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/openat-syscall-all-cpus.c         |   18 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/openat-syscall-tp-fields.c        |   14 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/openat-syscall.c                  |   10 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c                    | 1220 ++++++++++----------
>  tools/perf/tests/parse-no-sample-id-all.c          |    6 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/perf-record.c                     |   10 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c                  |    8 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/sw-clock.c                        |   33 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/switch-tracking.c                 |   64 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/task-exit.c                       |   35 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/thread-map.c                      |   28 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/time-utils-test.c                 |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/topology.c                        |    9 +-
>  tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c                  |   16 +-
>  tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c                     |   54 +-
>  tools/perf/ui/browsers/res_sample.c                |    4 +-
>  tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.c                   |    6 +-
>  tools/perf/ui/gtk/annotate.c                       |    8 +-
>  tools/perf/ui/gtk/gtk.h                            |    8 +-
>  tools/perf/ui/gtk/hists.c                          |    6 +-
>  tools/perf/ui/hist.c                               |   16 +-
>  tools/perf/util/Build                              |    6 -
>  tools/perf/util/annotate.c                         |   42 +-
>  tools/perf/util/annotate.h                         |   26 +-
>  tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c                         |   28 +-
>  tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h                         |   24 +-
>  tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c                        |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/bpf-event.h                        |    4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c                       |   34 +-
>  tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.h                       |   28 +-
>  tools/perf/util/build-id.c                         |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/build-id.h                         |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/callchain.c                        |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/callchain.h                        |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/cgroup.c                           |   22 +-
>  tools/perf/util/cgroup.h                           |    6 +-
>  tools/perf/util/counts.c                           |   17 +-
>  tools/perf/util/counts.h                           |   34 +-
>  tools/perf/util/cpumap.c                           |  264 +----
>  tools/perf/util/cpumap.h                           |   54 +-
>  tools/perf/util/cputopo.c                          |   13 +-
>  tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c                           |    4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c                  |   38 +-
>  tools/perf/util/db-export.c                        |   10 +-
>  tools/perf/util/db-export.h                        |   10 +-
>  tools/perf/util/env.c                              |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/env.h                              |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/event.c                            |   30 +-
>  tools/perf/util/event.h                            |   14 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.c                           |  607 +++++-----
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.h                           |  215 ++--
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c                            |  496 ++++----
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.h                            |  194 ++--
>  tools/perf/util/evsel_fprintf.c                    |   16 +-
>  tools/perf/util/header.c                           |  225 ++--
>  tools/perf/util/header.h                           |   24 +-
>  tools/perf/util/hist.c                             |   32 +-
>  tools/perf/util/hist.h                             |   38 +-
>  tools/perf/util/intel-bts.c                        |   22 +-
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c                         |   94 +-
>  tools/perf/util/jitdump.c                          |    8 +-
>  tools/perf/util/kvm-stat.h                         |   22 +-
>  tools/perf/util/machine.c                          |   12 +-
>  tools/perf/util/machine.h                          |    8 +-
>  tools/perf/util/map.h                              |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c                      |   26 +-
>  tools/perf/util/metricgroup.h                      |    6 +-
>  tools/perf/util/mmap.c                             |    4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c                     |  143 +--
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.h                     |    8 +-
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.c                              |   15 +-
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.h                              |    2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources                 |    2 -
>  tools/perf/util/python.c                           |   73 +-
>  tools/perf/util/record.c                           |   73 +-
>  tools/perf/util/s390-cpumsf.c                      |    4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/s390-sample-raw.c                  |    6 +-
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>  .../perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c |   14 +-
>  .../util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c    |   40 +-
>  tools/perf/util/session.c                          |   81 +-
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>  tools/perf/util/thread_map.c                       |  131 +--
>  tools/perf/util/thread_map.h                       |   58 +-
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>  tools/perf/util/util.c                             |   40 -
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>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/lib/Documentation/man/libperf.rst
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/lib/Documentation/tutorial/tutorial.rst
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>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/lib/include/internal/tests.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/lib/include/internal/threadmap.h
>  rename tools/perf/{util => lib/include/internal}/xyarray.h (84%)
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>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/lib/include/perf/cpumap.h
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