perf hist: Shrink struct hist_entry size

Reorder the struct fields by size to reduce paddings and reduce
struct simd_flags size from 8 to 1 byte.

This reduces struct hist_entry size by 8 bytes (592

perf hist: Shrink struct hist_entry size

Reorder the struct fields by size to reduce paddings and reduce
struct simd_flags size from 8 to 1 byte.

This reduces struct hist_entry size by 8 bytes (592->584),
and leaves a single more usable 6 byte padding hole.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7c1cb1c8f9901e945162701ba7269d0f9c70be89.1739437531.git.dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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perf sample: Make user_regs and intr_regs optional

The struct dump_regs contains 512 bytes of cache_regs, meaning the two
values in perf_sample contribute 1088 bytes of its total 1384 bytes
size. In

perf sample: Make user_regs and intr_regs optional

The struct dump_regs contains 512 bytes of cache_regs, meaning the two
values in perf_sample contribute 1088 bytes of its total 1384 bytes
size. Initializing this much memory has a cost reported by Tavian
Barnes <[email protected]> as about 2.5% when running `perf
script --itrace=i0`:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d841b97b3ad2ca8bcab07e4293375fb7c32dfce7.1736618095.git.tavianator@tavianator.com/

Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> replied that the zero
initialization was necessary and couldn't simply be removed.

This patch aims to strike a middle ground of still zeroing the
perf_sample, but removing 79% of its size by make user_regs and
intr_regs optional pointers to zalloc-ed memory. To support the
allocation accessors are created for user_regs and intr_regs. To
support correct cleanup perf_sample__init and perf_sample__exit
functions are created and added throughout the code base.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Add branch counter knob

Add a new branch filter, "counter", for the branch counter option. It is
used to mark the events which should be logged in the branch. If it is
applied with the -

perf tools: Add branch counter knob

Add a new branch filter, "counter", for the branch counter option. It is
used to mark the events which should be logged in the branch. If it is
applied with the -j option, the counters of all the events should be
logged in the branch. If the legacy kernel doesn't support the new
branch sample type, switching off the branch counter filter.

The stored counter values in each branch are displayed right after the
regular branch stack information via perf report -D.

Usage examples:

# perf record -e "{branch-instructions,branch-misses}:S" -j any,counter

Only the first event, branch-instructions, collect the LBR. Both
branch-instructions and branch-misses are marked as logged events. The
occurrences information of them can be found in the branch stack
extension space of each branch.

# perf record -e "{cpu/branch-instructions,branch_type=any/,cpu/branch-misses,branch_type=counter/}"

Only the first event, branch-instructions, collect the LBR. Only the
branch-misses event is marked as a logged event.

Committer notes:

I noticed 'perf test "Sample parsing"' failing, reported to the list and
Kan provided a patch that checks if the evsel has a leader and that
evsel->evlist is set, the comment in the source code further explains
it.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tinghao Zhang <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf event: Add 'simd_flags' field to 'struct perf_sample'

Add new field to 'struct perf_sample' to store flags related to SIMD
ops.

It will be used to store SIMD information from SVE and NEON when

perf event: Add 'simd_flags' field to 'struct perf_sample'

Add new field to 'struct perf_sample' to store flags related to SIMD
ops.

It will be used to store SIMD information from SVE and NEON when
profiling using ARM SPE.

Signed-off-by: German Gomez <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: John Garry <[email protected]>
Cc: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Leach <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: James Clark <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf report: Support Retire Latency

The Retire Latency field is added in the var3_w of the
PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT. The Retire Latency reports pipeline stall of
this instruction compared to the pr

perf report: Support Retire Latency

The Retire Latency field is added in the var3_w of the
PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT. The Retire Latency reports pipeline stall of
this instruction compared to the previous instruction in cycles. That's
quite useful to display the information with perf mem report.

The p_stage_cyc for Power is also from the var3_w. Union the p_stage_cyc
and retire_lat to share the code.

Implement X86 specific codes to display the X86 specific header.

Add a new sort key retire_lat for the Retire Latency.

Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Move 'struct perf_sample' to a separate header file to disentangle headers

Some places were including event.h just to get 'struct perf_sample',
move it to a separate place so that we spe

perf tools: Move 'struct perf_sample' to a separate header file to disentangle headers

Some places were including event.h just to get 'struct perf_sample',
move it to a separate place so that we speed up a bit the build.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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