perf sort: Keep output fields in the same level

This is useful for hierarchy output mode where the first level is
considered as output fields. We want them in the same level so that it
can show onl

perf sort: Keep output fields in the same level

This is useful for hierarchy output mode where the first level is
considered as output fields. We want them in the same level so that it
can show only the remaining groups in the hierarchy.

Before:
$ perf report -s overhead,sample,period,comm,dso -H --stdio
...
# Overhead Samples / Period / Command / Shared Object
# ................. ..........................................
#
100.00% 4035
100.00% 3835883066
100.00% perf
99.37% perf
0.50% ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
0.06% [unknown]
0.04% libc.so.6
0.02% libLLVM-16.so.1

After:
$ perf report -s overhead,sample,period,comm,dso -H --stdio
...
# Overhead Samples Period Command / Shared Object
# ....................................... .......................
#
100.00% 4035 3835883066 perf
99.37% 4005 3811826223 perf
0.50% 19 19210014 ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
0.06% 8 2367089 [unknown]
0.04% 2 1720336 libc.so.6
0.02% 1 759404 libLLVM-16.so.1

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

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perf annotate-data: Add annotated_data_type__get_member_name()

Factor out a function to get the name of member field at the given
offset. This will be used in other places.

Also update the output

perf annotate-data: Add annotated_data_type__get_member_name()

Factor out a function to get the name of member field at the given
offset. This will be used in other places.

Also update the output of typeoff sort key a little bit. As we know
that some special types like (stack operation), (stack canary) and
(unknown) won't have fields, skip printing the offset and field.

For example, the following change is expected.

"(stack operation) +0 (no field)" ==> "(stack operation)"

Reviewed-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 report: Add --latency flag

Add record/report --latency flag that allows to capture and show
latency-centric profiles rather than the default CPU-consumption-centric
profiles. For latency profil

perf report: Add --latency flag

Add record/report --latency flag that allows to capture and show
latency-centric profiles rather than the default CPU-consumption-centric
profiles. For latency profiles record captures context switch events,
and report shows Latency as the first column.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e9640464bcbc47dde2cb557003f421052ebc9eec.1739437531.git.dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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perf report: Add latency output field

Latency output field is similar to overhead, but represents overhead for
latency rather than CPU consumption. It's re-scaled from overhead by dividing
weight by

perf report: Add latency output field

Latency output field is similar to overhead, but represents overhead for
latency rather than CPU consumption. It's re-scaled from overhead by dividing
weight by the current parallelism level at the time of the sample.
It effectively models profiling with 1 sample taken per unit of wall-clock
time rather than unit of CPU time.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b6269518758c2166e6ffdc2f0e24cfdecc8ef9c1.1739437531.git.dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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perf report: Add parallelism filter

Add parallelism filter that can be used to look at specific parallelism
levels only. The format is the same as cpu lists. For example:

Only single-threaded sampl

perf report: Add parallelism filter

Add parallelism filter that can be used to look at specific parallelism
levels only. The format is the same as cpu lists. For example:

Only single-threaded samples: --parallelism=1
Low parallelism only: --parallelism=1-4
High parallelism only: --parallelism=64-128

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e61348985ff0a6a14b07c39e880edbd60a8f8635.1739437531.git.dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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perf report: Add parallelism sort key

Show parallelism level in profiles if requested by user.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Link: h

perf report: Add parallelism sort key

Show parallelism level in profiles if requested by user.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7f7bb87cbaa51bf1fb008a0d68b687423ce4bad4.1739437531.git.dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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perf evsel: Add/use accessor for tp_format

Add an accessor function for tp_format. Rather than search+replace
uses try to use a variable and reuse it. Add additional NULL checks
when accessing/using

perf evsel: Add/use accessor for tp_format

Add an accessor function for tp_format. Rather than search+replace
uses try to use a variable and reuse it. Add additional NULL checks
when accessing/using the value. Make sure the PTR_ERR is nulled out on
error path in evsel__newtp_idx.

Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Ben Gainey <[email protected]>
Cc: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
Cc: Dominique Martinet <[email protected]>
Cc: Ilkka Koskinen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Oliver Upton <[email protected]>
Cc: Paran Lee <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Falcon <[email protected]>
Cc: Weilin Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Jihong <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Li <[email protected]>
Cc: Ze Gao <[email protected]>
Cc: Zixian Cai <[email protected]>
Cc: zhaimingbing <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf build: Include libtraceevent headers directly indicated by pkg-config

Currently the libtraceevent's found by pkg-config, which give the
include path as:

[root@localhost tmp]# pkg-config --cf

perf build: Include libtraceevent headers directly indicated by pkg-config

Currently the libtraceevent's found by pkg-config, which give the
include path as:

[root@localhost tmp]# pkg-config --cflags libtraceevent
-I/usr/local/include/traceevent

So we should include the libtraceevent headers directly without
"traceevent/" prefix. Update all the users.

Fixes: 0f0e1f445690 ("perf build: Use pkg-config for feature check for libtrace{event,fs}")
Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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perf report: Display columns Predicted/Abort/Cycles in --branch-history

The original commit message:

"
Use current sort mechanism but the real .se_cmp() just returns 0 so
that new columns "Predicte

perf report: Display columns Predicted/Abort/Cycles in --branch-history

The original commit message:

"
Use current sort mechanism but the real .se_cmp() just returns 0 so
that new columns "Predicted", "Abort" and "Cycles" are created in display
but actually these keys are not the sort keys.

For example:

Overhead Source:Line Symbol Shared Object Predicted Abort Cycles
........ ............ ........ ............. ......... ..... ......

38.25% div.c:45 [.] main div 97.6% 0 3
"

Update missed commit from series "perf report: Show branch flags/cycles
in --branch-history callgraph view" to apply to current repository so that
new columns described above are visible.

Link to original series:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Jin Yao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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perf annotate-data: Add 'typecln' sort key

Sometimes it's useful to organize member fields in cache-line boundary.

The 'typecln' sort key is short for type-cacheline and to show samples
in each cac

perf annotate-data: Add 'typecln' sort key

Sometimes it's useful to organize member fields in cache-line boundary.

The 'typecln' sort key is short for type-cacheline and to show samples
in each cacheline. The cacheline size is fixed to 64 for now, but it
can read the actual size once it saves the value from sysfs.

For example, you maybe want to which cacheline in a target is hot or
cold. The following shows members in the cfs_rq's first cache line.

$ perf report -s type,typecln,typeoff -H
...
- 2.67% struct cfs_rq
+ 1.23% struct cfs_rq: cache-line 2
+ 0.57% struct cfs_rq: cache-line 4
+ 0.46% struct cfs_rq: cache-line 6
- 0.41% struct cfs_rq: cache-line 0
0.39% struct cfs_rq +0x14 (h_nr_running)
0.02% struct cfs_rq +0x38 (tasks_timeline.rb_leftmost)
...

Committer testing:

# root@number:~# perf report -s type,typecln,typeoff -H --stdio
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 5K of event 'cpu_atom/mem-loads,ldlat=5/P'
# Event count (approx.): 312251
#
# Overhead Data Type / Data Type Cacheline / Data Type Offset
# .............. ..................................................
#
<SNIP>
0.07% struct sigaction
0.05% struct sigaction: cache-line 1
0.02% struct sigaction +0x58 (sa_mask)
0.02% struct sigaction +0x78 (sa_mask)
0.03% struct sigaction: cache-line 0
0.02% struct sigaction +0x38 (sa_mask)
0.01% struct sigaction +0x8 (sa_mask)
<SNIP>

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf annotate-data: Show offset and size in hex

It'd be better to have them in hex to check cacheline alignment.

Percent offset size field
100.00 0 0x1c0 struct cfs_rq

perf annotate-data: Show offset and size in hex

It'd be better to have them in hex to check cacheline alignment.

Percent offset size field
100.00 0 0x1c0 struct cfs_rq {
0.00 0 0x10 struct load_weight load {
0.00 0 0x8 long unsigned int weight;
0.00 0x8 0x4 u32 inv_weight;
};
0.00 0x10 0x4 unsigned int nr_running;
14.56 0x14 0x4 unsigned int h_nr_running;
0.00 0x18 0x4 unsigned int idle_nr_running;
0.00 0x1c 0x4 unsigned int idle_h_nr_running;
...

Committer notes:

Justification from Namhyung when asked about why it would be "better":

Cache line sizes are power of 2 so it'd be natural to use hex and
check whether an offset is in the same boundary. Also 'perf annotate'
shows instruction offsets in hex.

>
> Maybe this should be selectable?

I can add an option and/or a config if you want.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf tools: Add mode argument to sort_help()

Some sort keys are meaningful only in a specific mode - like branch
stack and memory (data-src). Add the mode to skip unnecessary ones.
This will be use

perf tools: Add mode argument to sort_help()

Some sort keys are meaningful only in a specific mode - like branch
stack and memory (data-src). Add the mode to skip unnecessary ones.
This will be used for 'perf mem report' later.

While at it, change the prefix for the -F/--fields option to remove
the duplicate part.

Before:

$ perf report -F
Error: switch `F' requires a value
Usage: perf report [<options>]

-F, --fields <key[,keys...]>
output field(s): overhead period sample overhead overhead_sys
overhead_us overhead_guest_sys overhead_guest_us overhead_children
sample period weight1 weight2 weight3 ins_lat retire_lat
...
After:

$ perf report -F
Error: switch `F' requires a value
Usage: perf report [<options>]

-F, --fields <key[,keys...]>
output field(s): overhead overhead_sys overhead_us
overhead_guest_sys overhead_guest_us overhead_children
sample period weight1 weight2 weight3 ins_lat retire_lat
...

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf report: Fix condition in sort__sym_cmp()

It's expected that both hist entries are in the same hists when
comparing two. But the current code in the function checks one without
dso sort key and

perf report: Fix condition in sort__sym_cmp()

It's expected that both hist entries are in the same hists when
comparing two. But the current code in the function checks one without
dso sort key and other with the key. This would make the condition true
in any case.

I guess the intention of the original commit was to add '!' for the
right side too. But as it should be the same, let's just remove it.

Fixes: 69849fc5d2119 ("perf hists: Move sort__has_dso into struct perf_hpp_list")
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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perf mem-info: Add reference count checking

Add reference count checking and switch 'struct mem_info' usage to use
accessor functions.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunt

perf mem-info: Add reference count checking

Add reference count checking and switch 'struct mem_info' usage to use
accessor functions.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Ben Gainey <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: K Prateek Nayak <[email protected]>
Cc: Kajol Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Li Dong <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Oliver Upton <[email protected]>
Cc: Paran Lee <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Cc: Sun Haiyong <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Yanteng Si <[email protected]>
Cc: Yicong Yang <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf mem-info: Move mem-info out of mem-events and symbol

Move mem-info to its own header rather than having it split between
mem-events and symbol.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
C

perf mem-info: Move mem-info out of mem-events and symbol

Move mem-info to its own header rather than having it split between
mem-events and symbol.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Ben Gainey <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: K Prateek Nayak <[email protected]>
Cc: Kajol Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Li Dong <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Oliver Upton <[email protected]>
Cc: Paran Lee <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Cc: Sun Haiyong <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Yanteng Si <[email protected]>
Cc: Yicong Yang <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf dso: Add reference count checking and accessor functions

Add reference count checking to struct dso, this can help with
implementing correct reference counting discipline. To avoid
RC_CHK_ACCES

perf dso: Add reference count checking and accessor functions

Add reference count checking to struct dso, this can help with
implementing correct reference counting discipline. To avoid
RC_CHK_ACCESS everywhere, add accessor functions for the variables in
struct dso.

The majority of the change is mechanical in nature and not easy to
split up.

Committer testing:

'perf test' up to this patch shows no regressions.

But:

util/symbol.c: In function ‘dso__load_bfd_symbols’:
util/symbol.c:1683:9: error: too few arguments to function ‘dso__set_adjust_symbols’
1683 | dso__set_adjust_symbols(dso);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from util/symbol.c:21:
util/dso.h:268:20: note: declared here
268 | static inline void dso__set_adjust_symbols(struct dso *dso, bool val)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[6]: *** [/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/build/Makefile.build:106: /tmp/tmp.ZWHbQftdN6/util/symbol.o] Error 1
MKDIR /tmp/tmp.ZWHbQftdN6/tests/workloads/
make[6]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

This was updated:

- symbols__fixup_end(&dso->symbols, false);
- symbols__fixup_duplicate(&dso->symbols);
- dso->adjust_symbols = 1;
+ symbols__fixup_end(dso__symbols(dso), false);
+ symbols__fixup_duplicate(dso__symbols(dso));
+ dso__set_adjust_symbols(dso);

But not build tested with BUILD_NONDISTRO and libbfd devel files installed
(binutils-devel on fedora).

Add the missing argument:

symbols__fixup_end(dso__symbols(dso), false);
symbols__fixup_duplicate(dso__symbols(dso));
- dso__set_adjust_symbols(dso);
+ dso__set_adjust_symbols(dso, true);

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Ben Gainey <[email protected]>
Cc: Changbin Du <[email protected]>
Cc: Chengen Du <[email protected]>
Cc: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
Cc: Dima Kogan <[email protected]>
Cc: Ilkka Koskinen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: K Prateek Nayak <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Li Dong <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Paran Lee <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Sun Haiyong <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Richter <[email protected]>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Yanteng Si <[email protected]>
Cc: zhaimingbing <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf report: Add weight[123] output fields

Add weight1, weight2 and weight3 fields to -F/--fields and their aliases
like 'ins_lat', 'p_stage_cyc' and 'retire_lat'. Note that they are in
the sort ke

perf report: Add weight[123] output fields

Add weight1, weight2 and weight3 fields to -F/--fields and their aliases
like 'ins_lat', 'p_stage_cyc' and 'retire_lat'. Note that they are in
the sort keys too but the difference is that output fields will sum up
the weight values and display the average.

In the sort key, users can see the distribution of weight value and I
think it's confusing we have local vs. global weight for the same weight.

For example, I experiment with mem-loads events to get the weights. On
my laptop, it seems only weight1 field is supported.

$ perf mem record -- perf test -w noploop

Let's look at the noploop function only. It has 7 samples.

$ perf script -F event,ip,sym,weight | grep noploop
# event weight ip sym
cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P: 43 55b3c122bffc noploop
cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P: 48 55b3c122bffc noploop
cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P: 38 55b3c122bffc noploop <--- same weight
cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P: 38 55b3c122bffc noploop <--- same weight
cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P: 59 55b3c122bffc noploop
cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P: 33 55b3c122bffc noploop
cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P: 38 55b3c122bffc noploop <--- same weight

When you use the 'weight' sort key, it'd show entries with a separate
weight value separately. Also note that the first entry has 3 samples
with weight value 38, so they are displayed together and the weight
value is the sum of 3 samples (114 = 38 * 3).

$ perf report -n -s +weight | grep -e Weight -e noploop
# Overhead Samples Command Shared Object Symbol Weight
0.53% 3 perf perf [.] noploop 114
0.18% 1 perf perf [.] noploop 59
0.18% 1 perf perf [.] noploop 48
0.18% 1 perf perf [.] noploop 43
0.18% 1 perf perf [.] noploop 33

If you use 'local_weight' sort key, you can see the actual weight.

$ perf report -n -s +local_weight | grep -e Weight -e noploop
# Overhead Samples Command Shared Object Symbol Local Weight
0.53% 3 perf perf [.] noploop 38
0.18% 1 perf perf [.] noploop 59
0.18% 1 perf perf [.] noploop 48
0.18% 1 perf perf [.] noploop 43
0.18% 1 perf perf [.] noploop 33

But when you use the -F/--field option instead, you can see the average
weight for the while noploop function (as it won't group samples by
weight value and use the default 'comm,dso,sym' sort keys).

$ perf report -n -F +weight | grep -e Weight -e noploop
Warning:
--fields weight shows the average value unlike in the --sort key.
# Overhead Samples Weight1 Command Shared Object Symbol
1.23% 7 42.4 perf perf [.] noploop

The weight1 field shows the average value:
(38 * 3 + 59 + 48 + 43 + 33) / 7 = 42.4

Also it'd show the warning that 'weight' field has the average value.
Using 'weight1' can remove the warning.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf report: Prevent segfault with --no-parent

Prevent a perf report segfault with the (non sensical) --no-parent
option

Signed-off-By: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Namhyung <namhyung@

perf report: Prevent segfault with --no-parent

Prevent a perf report segfault with the (non sensical) --no-parent
option

Signed-off-By: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Namhyung <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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perf annotate: Add --data-type option

Support data type annotation with new --data-type option. It internally
uses type sort key to collect sample histogram for the type and display
every members l

perf annotate: Add --data-type option

Support data type annotation with new --data-type option. It internally
uses type sort key to collect sample histogram for the type and display
every members like below.

$ perf annotate --data-type
...
Annotate type: 'struct cfs_rq' in [kernel.kallsyms] (13 samples):
============================================================================
samples offset size field
13 0 640 struct cfs_rq {
2 0 16 struct load_weight load {
2 0 8 unsigned long weight;
0 8 4 u32 inv_weight;
};
0 16 8 unsigned long runnable_weight;
0 24 4 unsigned int nr_running;
1 28 4 unsigned int h_nr_running;
...

For simplicity it prints the number of samples per field for now.
But it should be easy to show the overhead percentage instead.

The number at the outer struct is a sum of the numbers of the inner
members. For example, struct cfs_rq got total 13 samples, and 2 came
from the load (struct load_weight) and 1 from h_nr_running. Similarly,
the struct load_weight got total 2 samples and they all came from the
weight field.

I've added two new flags in the symbol_conf for this. The
annotate_data_member is to get the members of the type. This is also
needed for perf report with typeoff sort key. The annotate_data_sample
is to update sample stats for each offset and used only in annotate.

Currently it only support stdio output mode, TUI support can be added
later.

Committer testing:

With the perf.data from the previous csets, a very simple, short
duration one:

# perf annotate --data-type
Annotate type: 'struct list_head' in [kernel.kallsyms] (1 samples):
============================================================================
samples offset size field
1 0 16 struct list_head {
0 0 8 struct list_head* next;
1 8 8 struct list_head* prev;
};

Annotate type: 'char' in [kernel.kallsyms] (1 samples):
============================================================================
samples offset size field
1 0 1 char ;

#

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf report: Add 'symoff' sort key

The symoff sort key is to print symbol and offset of sample. This is
useful for data type profiling to show exact instruction in the function
which refers the dat

perf report: Add 'symoff' sort key

The symoff sort key is to print symbol and offset of sample. This is
useful for data type profiling to show exact instruction in the function
which refers the data.

$ perf report -s type,sym,typeoff,symoff --hierarchy
...
# Overhead Data Type / Symbol / Data Type Offset / Symbol Offset
# .............. .....................................................
#
1.23% struct cfs_rq
0.84% update_blocked_averages
0.19% struct cfs_rq +336 (leaf_cfs_rq_list.next)
0.19% [k] update_blocked_averages+0x96
0.19% struct cfs_rq +0 (load.weight)
0.14% [k] update_blocked_averages+0x104
0.04% [k] update_blocked_averages+0x31c
0.17% struct cfs_rq +404 (throttle_count)
0.12% [k] update_blocked_averages+0x9d
0.05% [k] update_blocked_averages+0x1f9
0.08% struct cfs_rq +272 (propagate)
0.07% [k] update_blocked_averages+0x3d3
0.02% [k] update_blocked_averages+0x45b
...

Committer testing:

# perf report --stdio -s type,typeoff,symoff
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 4 of event 'cpu_atom/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P'
# Event count (approx.): 7
#
# Overhead Data Type Data Type Offset Symbol Offset
# ........ ......... ................ .............
#
42.86% struct list_head struct list_head +8 (prev) [k] __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x7
28.57% (unknown) (unknown) +0 (no field) [.] _nl_intern_locale_data+0x25
14.29% char char +0 (no field) [k] strncpy_from_user+0xa5
14.29% (unknown) (unknown) +0 (no field) [.] _dl_lookup_symbol_x+0x50

#
# (Tip: To change sampling frequency to 100 Hz: perf record -F 100)
#

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf report: Add 'typeoff' sort key

The typeoff sort key shows the data type name, offset and the name of
the field. This is useful to see which field in the struct is accessed
most frequently.

perf report: Add 'typeoff' sort key

The typeoff sort key shows the data type name, offset and the name of
the field. This is useful to see which field in the struct is accessed
most frequently.

$ perf report -s type,typeoff --hierarchy --stdio
...
# Overhead Data Type / Data Type Offset
# ............ ............................
#
...
1.23% struct cfs_rq
0.19% struct cfs_rq +404 (throttle_count)
0.19% struct cfs_rq +0 (load.weight)
0.19% struct cfs_rq +336 (leaf_cfs_rq_list.next)
0.09% struct cfs_rq +272 (propagate)
0.09% struct cfs_rq +196 (removed.nr)
0.09% struct cfs_rq +80 (curr)
0.09% struct cfs_rq +544 (lt_b_children_throttled)
0.06% struct cfs_rq +320 (rq)

Committer testing:

Again with the perf.data from the previous csets:

# perf report --stdio -s type,typeoff
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 4 of event 'cpu_atom/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P'
# Event count (approx.): 7
#
# Overhead Data Type Data Type Offset
# ........ ......... ................
#
42.86% struct list_head struct list_head +8 (prev)
42.86% (unknown) (unknown) +0 (no field)
14.29% char char +0 (no field)

#
# (Tip: To see callchains in a more compact form: perf report -g folded)
#
# perf report --stdio -s dso,type,typeoff
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 4 of event 'cpu_atom/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P'
# Event count (approx.): 7
#
# Overhead Shared Object Data Type Data Type Offset
# ........ .................... ......... ................
#
42.86% [kernel.kallsyms] struct list_head struct list_head +8 (prev)
28.57% libc.so.6 (unknown) (unknown) +0 (no field)
14.29% [kernel.kallsyms] char char +0 (no field)
14.29% ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (unknown) (unknown) +0 (no field)

#
# (Tip: If you have debuginfo enabled, try: perf report -s sym,srcline)
#
#

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf annotate-data: Add member field in the data type

Add child member field if the current type is a composite type like a
struct or union. The member fields are linked in the children list and
do

perf annotate-data: Add member field in the data type

Add child member field if the current type is a composite type like a
struct or union. The member fields are linked in the children list and
do the same recursively if the child itself is a composite type.

Add 'self' member to the annotated_data_type to handle the members in
the same way.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf report: Add 'type' sort key

The 'type' sort key is to aggregate hist entries by data type they
access. Add mem_type field to hist_entry struct to save the type. If
hist_entry__get_data_type()

perf report: Add 'type' sort key

The 'type' sort key is to aggregate hist entries by data type they
access. Add mem_type field to hist_entry struct to save the type. If
hist_entry__get_data_type() returns NULL, it'd use the 'unknown_type'
instance.

Committer testing:

Before:

# perf mem record sleep 2s
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.037 MB perf.data (4 samples) ]
root@number:/home/acme/Downloads# perf report --stdio -s type
Error:
Unknown --sort key: `type'
Usage: perf report [<options>]

-s, --sort <key[,key2...]>
sort by key(s): overhead overhead_sys overhead_us overhead_guest_sys
overhead_guest_us overhead_children sample period
pid comm dso symbol parent cpu socket srcline srcfile
local_weight weight transaction trace symbol_size
dso_size cgroup cgroup_id ipc_null time code_page_size
local_ins_lat ins_lat local_p_stage_cyc p_stage_cyc
addr local_retire_lat retire_lat simd dso_from dso_to
symbol_from symbol_to mispredict abort in_tx cycles
srcline_from srcline_to ipc_lbr addr_from addr_to
symbol_daddr dso_daddr locked tlb mem snoop dcacheline
symbol_iaddr phys_daddr data_page_size blocked
#

After:

# perf report --stdio -s type
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 4 of event 'cpu_atom/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P'
# Event count (approx.): 7
#
# Overhead Data Type
# ........ .........
#
100.00% (unknown)

#
# (Tip: Print event counts in CSV format with: perf stat -x,)
#
# rpm -q kernel-debuginfo
kernel-debuginfo-6.6.4-200.fc39.x86_64
# uname -r
6.6.4-200.fc39.x86_64
#

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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perf annotate: Split branch stack cycles info from 'struct annotation'

The cycles info is only meaningful when sample has branch stacks. To
save the memory for normal cases, move those fields to a

perf annotate: Split branch stack cycles info from 'struct annotation'

The cycles info is only meaningful when sample has branch stacks. To
save the memory for normal cases, move those fields to a new 'struct
annotated_branch' and dynamically allocate it when needed. Also move
cycles_hist from annotated_source as it's related here.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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libperf rc_check: Add RC_CHK_EQUAL

Comparing pointers with reference count checking is tricky to avoid a
SEGV. Add a convenience macro to simplify and use.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google

libperf rc_check: Add RC_CHK_EQUAL

Comparing pointers with reference count checking is tricky to avoid a
SEGV. Add a convenience macro to simplify and use.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: K Prateek Nayak <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Cc: Sandipan Das <[email protected]>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
Cc: German Gomez <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Terrell <[email protected]>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Cc: Changbin Du <[email protected]>
Cc: liuwenyu <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Jihong <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Kajol Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Yanteng Si <[email protected]>
Cc: Liam Howlett <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

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