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Message-ID: <20210115185311.GB457607@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:53:11 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] perf-stat: enable counting events for BPF programs
Em Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 04:35:14PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 6:42 AM Song Liu <songliubraving@...com> wrote:
> >
> > Introduce perf-stat -b option, which counts events for BPF programs, like:
> >
> > [root@...alhost ~]# ~/perf stat -e ref-cycles,cycles -b 254 -I 1000
> > 1.487903822 115,200 ref-cycles
> > 1.487903822 86,012 cycles
> > 2.489147029 80,560 ref-cycles
> > 2.489147029 73,784 cycles
> > 3.490341825 60,720 ref-cycles
> > 3.490341825 37,797 cycles
> > 4.491540887 37,120 ref-cycles
> > 4.491540887 31,963 cycles
> >
> > The example above counts cycles and ref-cycles of BPF program of id 254.
> > This is similar to bpftool-prog-profile command, but more flexible.
> >
> > perf-stat -b creates per-cpu perf_event and loads fentry/fexit BPF
> > programs (monitor-progs) to the target BPF program (target-prog). The
> > monitor-progs read perf_event before and after the target-prog, and
> > aggregate the difference in a BPF map. Then the user space reads data
> > from these maps.
> >
> > A new struct bpf_counter is introduced to provide common interface that
> > uses BPF programs/maps to count perf events.
>
> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Applied locally, testing now.
- Arnaldo
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