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authorGerman Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>2021-11-11 13:36:25 +0000
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2021-11-13 18:11:51 -0300
commit27d113cfe892867885ab1d75abe5f42c228ef8a9 (patch)
treea894da0f29dd940f423c83960a4b0d96e73fbac5
parent169de64f5dc22d9984d45c1f119fb644fa16d64a (diff)
perf arm-spe: Support hardware-based PID tracing
If ARM SPE traces contains CONTEXT packets with TID info, use these values for tracking the TID of samples. Otherwise fall back to using context switch events and display a message warning to the user of possible timing inaccuracies [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f877cfa6-9b25-6445-3806-ca44a4042eaf@arm.com/ Signed-off-by: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111133625.193568-5-german.gomez@arm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c99
1 files changed, 70 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c b/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
index 9e3a6c54801d..4748bcfe61de 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ struct arm_spe {
u64 kernel_start;
unsigned long num_events;
+ u8 use_ctx_pkt_for_pid;
};
struct arm_spe_queue {
@@ -226,6 +227,44 @@ static inline u8 arm_spe_cpumode(struct arm_spe *spe, u64 ip)
PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER;
}
+static void arm_spe_set_pid_tid_cpu(struct arm_spe *spe,
+ struct auxtrace_queue *queue)
+{
+ struct arm_spe_queue *speq = queue->priv;
+ pid_t tid;
+
+ tid = machine__get_current_tid(spe->machine, speq->cpu);
+ if (tid != -1) {
+ speq->tid = tid;
+ thread__zput(speq->thread);
+ } else
+ speq->tid = queue->tid;
+
+ if ((!speq->thread) && (speq->tid != -1)) {
+ speq->thread = machine__find_thread(spe->machine, -1,
+ speq->tid);
+ }
+
+ if (speq->thread) {
+ speq->pid = speq->thread->pid_;
+ if (queue->cpu == -1)
+ speq->cpu = speq->thread->cpu;
+ }
+}
+
+static int arm_spe_set_tid(struct arm_spe_queue *speq, pid_t tid)
+{
+ struct arm_spe *spe = speq->spe;
+ int err = machine__set_current_tid(spe->machine, speq->cpu, -1, tid);
+
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ arm_spe_set_pid_tid_cpu(spe, &spe->queues.queue_array[speq->queue_nr]);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static void arm_spe_prep_sample(struct arm_spe *spe,
struct arm_spe_queue *speq,
union perf_event *event,
@@ -460,6 +499,19 @@ static int arm_spe_run_decoder(struct arm_spe_queue *speq, u64 *timestamp)
* can correlate samples between Arm SPE trace data and other
* perf events with correct time ordering.
*/
+
+ /*
+ * Update pid/tid info.
+ */
+ record = &speq->decoder->record;
+ if (!spe->timeless_decoding && record->context_id != (u64)-1) {
+ ret = arm_spe_set_tid(speq, record->context_id);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ spe->use_ctx_pkt_for_pid = true;
+ }
+
ret = arm_spe_sample(speq);
if (ret)
return ret;
@@ -586,31 +638,6 @@ static bool arm_spe__is_timeless_decoding(struct arm_spe *spe)
return timeless_decoding;
}
-static void arm_spe_set_pid_tid_cpu(struct arm_spe *spe,
- struct auxtrace_queue *queue)
-{
- struct arm_spe_queue *speq = queue->priv;
- pid_t tid;
-
- tid = machine__get_current_tid(spe->machine, speq->cpu);
- if (tid != -1) {
- speq->tid = tid;
- thread__zput(speq->thread);
- } else
- speq->tid = queue->tid;
-
- if ((!speq->thread) && (speq->tid != -1)) {
- speq->thread = machine__find_thread(spe->machine, -1,
- speq->tid);
- }
-
- if (speq->thread) {
- speq->pid = speq->thread->pid_;
- if (queue->cpu == -1)
- speq->cpu = speq->thread->cpu;
- }
-}
-
static int arm_spe_process_queues(struct arm_spe *spe, u64 timestamp)
{
unsigned int queue_nr;
@@ -641,7 +668,12 @@ static int arm_spe_process_queues(struct arm_spe *spe, u64 timestamp)
ts = timestamp;
}
- arm_spe_set_pid_tid_cpu(spe, queue);
+ /*
+ * A previous context-switch event has set pid/tid in the machine's context, so
+ * here we need to update the pid/tid in the thread and SPE queue.
+ */
+ if (!spe->use_ctx_pkt_for_pid)
+ arm_spe_set_pid_tid_cpu(spe, queue);
ret = arm_spe_run_decoder(speq, &ts);
if (ret < 0) {
@@ -740,8 +772,9 @@ static int arm_spe_process_event(struct perf_session *session,
if (err)
return err;
- if (event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE ||
- event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_SWITCH)
+ if (!spe->use_ctx_pkt_for_pid &&
+ (event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE ||
+ event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_SWITCH))
err = arm_spe_context_switch(spe, event, sample);
}
@@ -808,7 +841,15 @@ static int arm_spe_flush(struct perf_session *session __maybe_unused,
return arm_spe_process_timeless_queues(spe, -1,
MAX_TIMESTAMP - 1);
- return arm_spe_process_queues(spe, MAX_TIMESTAMP);
+ ret = arm_spe_process_queues(spe, MAX_TIMESTAMP);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ if (!spe->use_ctx_pkt_for_pid)
+ ui__warning("Arm SPE CONTEXT packets not found in the traces.\n"
+ "Matching of TIDs to SPE events could be inaccurate.\n");
+
+ return 0;
}
static void arm_spe_free_queue(void *priv)