libperf: Add support for user space counter access
authorRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:07:39 +0000 (11:07 -0500)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:10:45 +0000 (08:10 -0300)
commit47d01e7b9999b9591077a59a1ecec11c6ce570de
treeb0a81a4a92cc90ea8806bb54ec9f6f28179bc889
parentd3003d9e686890a1e9f0cc7c08aa02ef2953b1f0
libperf: Add support for user space counter access

x86 and arm64 can both support direct access of event counters in
userspace. The access sequence is less than trivial and currently exists
in perf test code (tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/rdpmc.c) with copies in
projects such as PAPI and libpfm4.

In order to support userspace access, an event must be mmapped first
with perf_evsel__mmap(). Then subsequent calls to perf_evsel__read()
will use the fast path (assuming the arch supports it).

Committer notes:

Added a '__maybe_unused' attribute to the read_perf_counter() argument
to fix the build on arches other than x86_64 and arm.

Committer testing:

  Building and running the libperf tests in verbose mode (V=1) now shows
  those "loop = N, count = N" extra lines, testing user space counter
  access.

  # make V=1 -C tools/lib/perf tests
  make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/perf'
  make -f /home/acme/git/perf/tools/build/Makefile.build dir=. obj=libperf
  make -C /home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/api/ O= libapi.a
  make -f /home/acme/git/perf/tools/build/Makefile.build dir=./fd obj=libapi
  make -f /home/acme/git/perf/tools/build/Makefile.build dir=./fs obj=libapi
  make -C tests
  gcc -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/perf/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib -g -Wall -o test-cpumap-a test-cpumap.c ../libperf.a /home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/api/libapi.a
  gcc -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/perf/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib -g -Wall -o test-threadmap-a test-threadmap.c ../libperf.a /home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/api/libapi.a
  gcc -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/perf/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib -g -Wall -o test-evlist-a test-evlist.c ../libperf.a /home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/api/libapi.a
  gcc -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/perf/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib -g -Wall -o test-evsel-a test-evsel.c ../libperf.a /home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/api/libapi.a
  gcc -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/perf/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib -g -Wall -L.. -o test-cpumap-so test-cpumap.c /home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/api/libapi.a -lperf
  gcc -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/perf/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib -g -Wall -L.. -o test-threadmap-so test-threadmap.c /home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/api/libapi.a -lperf
  gcc -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/perf/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib -g -Wall -L.. -o test-evlist-so test-evlist.c /home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/api/libapi.a -lperf
  gcc -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/perf/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/include -I/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib -g -Wall -L.. -o test-evsel-so test-evsel.c /home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/api/libapi.a -lperf
  make -C tests run
  running static:
  - running test-cpumap.c...OK
  - running test-threadmap.c...OK
  - running test-evlist.c...OK
  - running test-evsel.c...
   loop = 65536, count = 333926
   loop = 131072, count = 655781
   loop = 262144, count = 1311141
   loop = 524288, count = 2630126
   loop = 1048576, count = 5256955
   loop = 65536, count = 524594
   loop = 131072, count = 1058916
   loop = 262144, count = 2097458
   loop = 524288, count = 4205429
   loop = 1048576, count = 8406606
  OK
  running dynamic:
  - running test-cpumap.c...OK
  - running test-threadmap.c...OK
  - running test-evlist.c...OK
  - running test-evsel.c...
   loop = 65536, count = 328102
   loop = 131072, count = 655782
   loop = 262144, count = 1317494
   loop = 524288, count = 2627851
   loop = 1048576, count = 5255187
   loop = 65536, count = 524601
   loop = 131072, count = 1048923
   loop = 262144, count = 2107917
   loop = 524288, count = 4194606
   loop = 1048576, count = 8409322
  OK
  make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/perf'
  #

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210414155412.3697605-4-robh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/lib/perf/evsel.c
tools/lib/perf/include/internal/mmap.h
tools/lib/perf/mmap.c
tools/lib/perf/tests/test-evsel.c