perf tools: Add optional support for libpfm4
authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Tue, 5 May 2020 18:29:43 +0000 (11:29 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 29 May 2020 19:51:38 +0000 (16:51 -0300)
commit70943490784222b3fd26f5604cba71abb4d7ee6d
tree4395c76c8e9eaf574bdc0d65f97bebf422b96771
parent82352ae28fc9118ff539fc4c9cd8d94428b258bf
perf tools: Add optional support for libpfm4

This patch links perf with the libpfm4 library if it is available and
LIBPFM4 is passed to the build. The libpfm4 library contains hardware
event tables for all processors supported by perf_events. It is a helper
library that helps convert from a symbolic event name to the event
encoding required by the underlying kernel interface. This library is
open-source and available from: http://perfmon2.sf.net.

With this patch, it is possible to specify full hardware events by name.
Hardware filters are also supported. Events must be specified via the
--pfm-events and not -e option. Both options are active at the same time
and it is possible to mix and match:

  $ perf stat --pfm-events inst_retired:any_p:c=1:i -e cycles ....

One needs to explicitely ask for its inclusion by using the LIBPFM4 make
command line option, ie its opt-in rather than opt-out of feature
detection and build support.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiwei Sun <jiwei.sun@windriver.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@didichuxing.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200505182943.218248-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
19 files changed:
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
tools/perf/Makefile.config
tools/perf/Makefile.perf
tools/perf/builtin-record.c
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
tools/perf/builtin-top.c
tools/perf/tests/Build
tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c
tools/perf/tests/pfm.c [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/perf/tests/tests.h
tools/perf/util/Build
tools/perf/util/evsel.c
tools/perf/util/evsel.h
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
tools/perf/util/pfm.c [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/perf/util/pfm.h [new file with mode: 0644]