perf parse-events: Remove BPF event support

New features like the BPF --filter support in perf record have made the
BPF event functionality somewhat redundant. As shown by commit
fcb027c1a4f6 ("perf

perf parse-events: Remove BPF event support

New features like the BPF --filter support in perf record have made the
BPF event functionality somewhat redundant. As shown by commit
fcb027c1a4f6 ("perf tools: Revert enable indices setting syntax for BPF
map") and commit 14e4b9f4289a ("perf trace: Raw augmented syscalls fix
libbpf 1.0+ compatibility") the BPF event support hasn't been well
maintained and it adds considerable complexity in areas like event
parsing, not least as '/' is a separator for event modifiers as well as
in paths.

This patch removes support in the event parser for BPF events and then
the associated functions are removed. This leads to the removal of whole
source files like bpf-loader.c. Removing support means that augmented
syscalls in perf trace is broken, this will be fixed in a later commit
adding support using BPF skeletons.

The removal of BPF events causes an unused label warning from flex
generated code, so update build to ignore it:

```
util/parse-events-flex.c:2704:1: error: label ‘find_rule’ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-label]
2704 | find_rule: /* we branch to this label when backing up */
```

Committer notes:

Extracted from a larger patch that was also removing the support for
linking with libllvm and libclang, that were an alternative to using an
external clang execution to compile the .c event source code into BPF
bytecode.

Testing it:

# perf trace -e /home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c
event syntax error: '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c'
\___ Bad event or PMU

Unabled to find PMU or event on a PMU of 'home'

Initial error:
event syntax error: '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c'
\___ Cannot find PMU `home'. Missing kernel support?
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

Usage: perf trace [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf trace [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
or: perf trace record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf trace record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]

-e, --event <event> event/syscall selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
#

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Carsten Haitzler <carsten.haitzler@arm.com>
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Cc: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@huawei.com>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810184853.2860737-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf: Replace deprecated -target with --target= for Clang

-target has been deprecated since Clang 3.4 in 2013. Use the preferred
--target=bpf form instead. This matches how we use --target= in
scrip

perf: Replace deprecated -target with --target= for Clang

-target has been deprecated since Clang 3.4 in 2013. Use the preferred
--target=bpf form instead. This matches how we use --target= in
scripts/Makefile.clang.

Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/274b6f0c87a6a1798de0a68135afc7f95def6277
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230624002708.1907962-1-maskray@google.com
[ resolved a conflict with GEN_VMLINUX_H changes ]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

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perf symbol: Add command line support for addr2line path

Allow addr2line to be set either on the command line or via the
perfconfig file. This doesn't currently work with llvm-addr2line as
the addr2

perf symbol: Add command line support for addr2line path

Allow addr2line to be set either on the command line or via the
perfconfig file. This doesn't currently work with llvm-addr2line as
the addr2line code emits two things:
1) the address to decode,
2) a bogus ',' value.
The expectation is the bogus value will generate:
??
??:0
that terminates the addr2line reading. However, the output from
llvm-addr2line is a single line with just the input ',' locking up the
addr2line reading that is expecting a second line.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230328235543.1082207-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf annotate: Allow objdump to be set in perfconfig

Allow the setting of the objdump command in the perfconfig. Update man
page for this new option.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

perf annotate: Allow objdump to be set in perfconfig

Allow the setting of the objdump command in the perfconfig. Update man
page for this new option.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230328235543.1082207-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf auxtrace: Add itrace option flag d+e to log on error

Add flag +e to the itrace d (decoder debug log) option to get output only
on decoding errors.

The log can be very big so reducing the outpu

perf auxtrace: Add itrace option flag d+e to log on error

Add flag +e to the itrace d (decoder debug log) option to get output only
on decoding errors.

The log can be very big so reducing the output to where there are decoding
errors can be useful for analyzing errors.

By default, the log size in that case is 16384 bytes, but can be altered by
perf config e.g. perf config itrace.debug-log-buffer-size=30000

Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220905073424.3971-3-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Disable debuginfod by default

Fedora 35 sets DEBUGINFOD_URLS by default, which might lead to
unexpected stalls in perf record exit path, when we try to cache
profiled binaries.

# DEB

perf record: Disable debuginfod by default

Fedora 35 sets DEBUGINFOD_URLS by default, which might lead to
unexpected stalls in perf record exit path, when we try to cache
profiled binaries.

# DEBUGINFOD_PROGRESS=1 ./perf record -a
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
Downloading from https://debuginfod.fedoraproject.org/ 447069
Downloading from https://debuginfod.fedoraproject.org/ 1502175
Downloading \^Z

Disabling DEBUGINFOD_URLS by default in perf record and adding
debuginfod option and .perfconfig variable support to enable id.

Default without debuginfo processing:
# perf record -a

Using system debuginfod setup:
# perf record -a --debuginfod

Using custom debuginfd url:
# perf record -a --debuginfod='https://evenbetterdebuginfodserver.krava'

Adding single perf_debuginfod_setup function and using
it also in perf buildid-cache command.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211209200425.303561-1-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf intel-pt: Add a config for max loops without consuming a packet

The Intel PT decoder limits the number of unconditional branches (e.g.
jmps) decoded without consuming any trace packets. General

perf intel-pt: Add a config for max loops without consuming a packet

The Intel PT decoder limits the number of unconditional branches (e.g.
jmps) decoded without consuming any trace packets. Generally, a loop
needs a conditional branch which generates a TNT packet, whereas a "ret"
instruction will generate a TIP or TNT packet. So exceeding the limit is
assumed to be a never-ending loop, which can happen if there has been a
decoding error putting the decoder at the wrong place in the code.

Up until now, the limit of 10000 has been enough but some analytic
purposes have been reported to exceed that.

Increase the limit to 100000, and make it configurable via perf config
intel-pt.max-loops. Also amend the "Never-ending loop" message to
mention the configuration entry.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210701175132.3977-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf report: Make --skip-empty as default

so that the compact output is shown by default. Also add 'report.skip-empty'
config option to override the default. Users can also use --no-skip-empty
com

perf report: Make --skip-empty as default

so that the compact output is shown by default. Also add 'report.skip-empty'
config option to override the default. Users can also use --no-skip-empty
command line option to change the behavior anytime.

Committer testing:

$ perf report --stat

Aggregated stats:
TOTAL events: 19
COMM events: 2
EXIT events: 1
SAMPLE events: 8
MMAP2 events: 4
FINISHED_ROUND events: 1
THREAD_MAP events: 1
CPU_MAP events: 1
TIME_CONV events: 1
cycles:u stats:
SAMPLE events: 8
$ perf config report.skip-empty=false
$ perf report --stat

Aggregated stats:
TOTAL events: 19
MMAP events: 0
LOST events: 0
COMM events: 2
EXIT events: 1
THROTTLE events: 0
UNTHROTTLE events: 0
FORK events: 0
READ events: 0
SAMPLE events: 8
MMAP2 events: 4
AUX events: 0
ITRACE_START events: 0
LOST_SAMPLES events: 0
SWITCH events: 0
SWITCH_CPU_WIDE events: 0
NAMESPACES events: 0
KSYMBOL events: 0
BPF_EVENT events: 0
CGROUP events: 0
TEXT_POKE events: 0
ATTR events: 0
EVENT_TYPE events: 0
TRACING_DATA events: 0
BUILD_ID events: 0
FINISHED_ROUND events: 1
ID_INDEX events: 0
AUXTRACE_INFO events: 0
AUXTRACE events: 0
AUXTRACE_ERROR events: 0
THREAD_MAP events: 1
CPU_MAP events: 1
STAT_CONFIG events: 0
STAT events: 0
STAT_ROUND events: 0
EVENT_UPDATE events: 0
TIME_CONV events: 1
FEATURE events: 0
COMPRESSED events: 0
cycles:u stats:
SAMPLE events: 8
$ perf config report.skip-empty
report.skip-empty=false
$

Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210427013717.1651674-6-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf config: Add annotate.demangle{,_kernel}

Committer notes:

This allows setting this in from the command line:

$ perf config annotate.demangle
$ perf config annotate.demangle=yes
$ perf co

perf config: Add annotate.demangle{,_kernel}

Committer notes:

This allows setting this in from the command line:

$ perf config annotate.demangle
$ perf config annotate.demangle=yes
$ perf config annotate.demangle
annotate.demangle=yes
$ cat ~/.perfconfig
# this file is auto-generated.
[report]
sort-order = srcline
[annotate]
demangle = yes
$
$
$ perf config annotate.demangle_kernel
$ perf config annotate.demangle_kernel=yes
$ perf config annotate.demangle_kernel
annotate.demangle_kernel=yes
$ cat ~/.perfconfig
# this file is auto-generated.
[report]
sort-order = srcline
[annotate]
demangle = yes
demangle_kernel = yes
$

Signed-off-by: Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c96aabe7-791f-9503-295f-3147a9d19b60@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf daemon: Add config file support

Adding support to configure daemon with config file.

Each client or server invocation of perf daemon needs to know the
base directory, where all sessions data i

perf daemon: Add config file support

Adding support to configure daemon with config file.

Each client or server invocation of perf daemon needs to know the
base directory, where all sessions data is stored.

The base is defined with:

daemon.base
Base path for daemon data. All sessions data are stored under
this path.

The daemon allows to create record sessions. Each session is a
record command spawned and monitored by perf daemon.

The session is defined with:

session-<NAME>.run
Defines new record session for daemon. The value is record's
command line without the 'record' keyword.

Example:

# cat ~/.perfconfig
[daemon]
base=/opt/perfdata

[session-cycles]
run = -m 10M -e cycles --overwrite --switch-output -a

[session-sched]
run = -m 20M -e sched:* --overwrite --switch-output -a

The example above defines '/opt/perfdata' as the base directory and 2
record sessions.

# perf daemon start
[2021-01-28 19:47:33.454413] daemon started (pid 16015)
[2021-01-28 19:47:33.455910] reconfig: ruining session [cycles:16016]: -m 10M -e cycles --overwrite --switch-output -a
[2021-01-28 19:47:33.456599] reconfig: ruining session [sched:16017]: -m 20M -e sched:* --overwrite --switch-output -a

# ps -ef | grep perf
... perf daemon start
... /home/jolsa/.../perf record -m 20M -e cycles --overwrite --switch-output -a
... /home/jolsa/.../perf record -m 20M -e sched:* --overwrite --switch-output -a

The base directory is populated with:

# find /opt/perfdata/
/opt/perfdata/
/opt/perfdata/control <- control socket
/opt/perfdata/session-cycles <- data for session 'cycles':
/opt/perfdata/session-cycles/output <- perf record output
/opt/perfdata/session-cycles/perf.data <- perf data
/opt/perfdata/session-sched <- ditto for session 'sched'
/opt/perfdata/session-sched/output
/opt/perfdata/session-sched/perf.data

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Budankov <abudankov@huawei.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210208200908.1019149-7-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf buildid-cache: Add --debuginfod option to specify a server to fetch debug files

Add the --debuginfod option to specify debuginfod URL and support to do
that through config file as well.

Use th

perf buildid-cache: Add --debuginfod option to specify a server to fetch debug files

Add the --debuginfod option to specify debuginfod URL and support to do
that through config file as well.

Use the following in ~/.perfconfig file:

[buildid-cache]
debuginfod=http://192.168.122.174:8002

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Budankov <abudankov@huawei.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201214105457.543111-14-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf record: Add --buildid-mmap option to enable PERF_RECORD_MMAP2's build id

Add --buildid-mmap option to enable build id in PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 events.

It will only work if there's kernel support f

perf record: Add --buildid-mmap option to enable PERF_RECORD_MMAP2's build id

Add --buildid-mmap option to enable build id in PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 events.

It will only work if there's kernel support for that and it disables
build id cache (implies --no-buildid).

It's also possible to enable it permanently via config option in
~/.perfconfig file:

[record]
build-id=mmap

Also added build_id bit in the verbose output for perf_event_attr:

# perf record --buildid-mmap -vv
...
perf_event_attr:
type 1
size 120
...
build_id 1

Adding also missing text_poke bit.

Committer testing:

$ perf record -h build

Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]

-B, --no-buildid do not collect buildids in perf.data
-N, --no-buildid-cache
do not update the buildid cache
--buildid-all Record build-id of all DSOs regardless of hits
--buildid-mmap Record build-id in map events

$

$ perf record --buildid-mmap sleep 1
Failed: no support to record build id in mmap events, update your kernel.
$

After adding the needed kernel bits in a test kernel:

$ perf record -vv --buildid-mmap sleep 1 |& grep -m1 build
Enabling build id in mmap2 events.
$ perf evlist -v
cycles:u: size: 120, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, exclude_kernel: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1, build_id: 1
$

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Budankov <abudankov@huawei.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201214105457.543111-16-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf config: Fix example command in manpage to conform to syntax specified in the SYNOPSIS section.

Committer testing:

With the previously documented example:

$ perf config --user report sort-or

perf config: Fix example command in manpage to conform to syntax specified in the SYNOPSIS section.

Committer testing:

With the previously documented example:

$ perf config --user report sort-order=srcline
The config variable does not contain a section name: report
$

With the fixed example line:

$ perf config --user report.sort-order=srcline
$ perf config --user report.sort-order
report.sort-order=srcline
$

Signed-off-by: Nick Thompson <nathompson7@protonmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20201217142619.GA14524@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf annotate: Allow configuring the 'disassembler_style' knob via 'perf config'

# perf annotate --stdio2 acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_enter > default
# perf config annotate.disassembler_style=inte

perf annotate: Allow configuring the 'disassembler_style' knob via 'perf config'

# perf annotate --stdio2 acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_enter > default
# perf config annotate.disassembler_style=intel
# perf config annotate.disassembler_style
annotate.disassembler_style=intel
# perf annotate --stdio2 acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_enter > intel
# diff -u default intel
--- default 2020-09-04 13:09:26.019205732 -0300
+++ intel 2020-09-04 13:09:52.823795081 -0300
@@ -1,42 +1,42 @@
Samples: 1K of event 'cycles', 4000 Hz, Event count (approx.): 990065316, [percent: local period]
acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_enter() /lib/modules/5.9.0-rc3/build/vmlinux
-Percent → callq __fentry__
- mov cpu_number,%edx
- mov %edx,%edx
- mov cpu_cstate_entry,%rax
- add -0x7dbe9700(,%rdx,8),%rax
- movzbl 0x9(%rdi),%edx
- mov 0x4(%rax,%rdx,8),%edi
- mov (%rax,%rdx,8),%esi
- → jmpq 137ccc6
- 2d: → jmpq 137ccd8
+Percent → call __fentry__
+ mov edx,DWORD PTR gs:[rip+0x7e541d74]
+ mov edx,edx
+ mov rax,QWORD PTR [rip+0x152b8fb]
+ add rax,QWORD PTR [rdx*8-0x7dbe9700]
+ movzx edx,BYTE PTR [rdi+0x9]
+ mov edi,DWORD PTR [rax+rdx*8+0x4]
+ mov esi,DWORD PTR [rax+rdx*8]
+ → jmp 137ccc6
+ 2d: → jmp 137ccd8
mfence
- mov %gs:0x17bc0,%rax
- clflush (%rax)
+ mov rax,QWORD PTR gs:0x17bc0
+ clflush BYTE PTR [rax]
mfence
- xor %edx,%edx
- mov %rdx,%rcx
- mov %gs:0x17bc0,%rax
- 0.00 monitor %rax,%ecx,%edx
- mov (%rax),%rax
- test $0x8,%al
+ xor edx,edx
+ mov rcx,rdx
+ mov rax,QWORD PTR gs:0x17bc0
+ 0.00 monitor
+ mov rax,QWORD PTR [rax]
+ test al,0x8
↓ jne 71
- ↓ jmpq 68
- verw 0x538b08(%rip) # ffffffff82008150 <ds.0>
- 68: mov %rsi,%rax
- mov %rdi,%rcx
-100.00 mwait %eax,%ecx
- 71: mov %gs:0x17bc0,%rax
- lock andb $0xdf,0x2(%rax)
- lock addl $0x0,-0x4(%rsp)
- mov (%rax),%rax
- test $0x8,%al
+ ↓ jmp 68
+ verw WORD PTR [rip+0x538b08] # ffffffff82008150 <ds.0>
+ 68: mov rax,rsi
+ mov rcx,rdi
+100.00 mwait
+ 71: mov rax,QWORD PTR gs:0x17bc0
+ lock and BYTE PTR [rax+0x2],0xdf
+ lock add DWORD PTR [rsp-0x4],0x0
+ mov rax,QWORD PTR [rax]
+ test al,0x8
↓ je 97
- andl $0x7fffffff,__preempt_count
- 97: ← retq
- mov %gs:0x17bc0,%rax
- lock orb $0x20,0x2(%rax)
- mov (%rax),%rax
- test $0x8,%al
+ and DWORD PTR gs:[rip+0x7e548509],0x7fffffff
+ 97: ret
+ mov rax,QWORD PTR gs:0x17bc0
+ lock or BYTE PTR [rax+0x2],0x20
+ mov rax,QWORD PTR [rax]
+ test al,0x8
↑ jne 71
- ↑ jmpq 2d
+ ↑ jmp 2d
#

Requested-by: Matt P. Dziubinski <matdzb@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf ftrace: Select function/function_graph tracer automatically

The '-g/-G' options have already implied function_graph tracer should be
used instead of function tracer. So we don't need extra opti

perf ftrace: Select function/function_graph tracer automatically

The '-g/-G' options have already implied function_graph tracer should be
used instead of function tracer. So we don't need extra option
'--tracer' in this case.

This patch changes the behavior as below:

- If '-g' or '-G' option is on, then function_graph tracer is used.
- If '-T' or '-N' option is on, then function tracer is used.
- The function_graph has priority over function tracer.
- The option '--tracer' only take effect if neither -g/-G nor -T/-N
is specified.

Here are some examples.

This will start tracing all functions using default tracer:

$ sudo perf ftrace

This will trace all functions using function graph tracer:

$ sudo perf ftrace -G '*'

This will trace function vfs_read using function graph tracer:

$ sudo perf ftrace -G vfs_read

This will trace function vfs_read using function tracer:

$ sudo perf ftrace -T vfs_read

Committer notes:

Using '-h -G' will tell what that option is about, so to further clarify
the above examples:

# perf ftrace -h -G

-G, --graph-funcs <func> Set graph filter on given functions

# perf ftrace -h -g

-g, --nograph-funcs <func> Set nograph filter on given functions

# perf ftrace -h -T

-T, --trace-funcs <func> trace given functions only

# perf ftrace -h -N

-N, --notrace-funcs <func> do not trace given functions

#

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200808023141.14227-2-changbin.du@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf config: Add stat.big-num support

Add support for new "stat.big-num" boolean option.

This allows a user to set a default for "--no-big-num" for "perf stat"
commands.

--
$ perf config stat.bi

perf config: Add stat.big-num support

Add support for new "stat.big-num" boolean option.

This allows a user to set a default for "--no-big-num" for "perf stat"
commands.

--
$ perf config stat.big-num
$ perf stat --event cycles /bin/true

Performance counter stats for '/bin/true':

778,849 cycles
[...]
$ perf config stat.big-num=false
$ perf config stat.big-num
stat.big-num=false
$ perf stat --event cycles /bin/true

Performance counter stats for '/bin/true':

769622 cycles
[...]
--

There is an interaction with "--field-separator" that must be
accommodated, such that specifying "--big-num --field-separator={x}"
still reports an invalid combination of options.

Documentation for perf-config and perf-stat updated.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1589991815-17951-1-git-send-email-pc@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf callchain: Update docs regarding kernel/user space unwinding

The method of unwinding for kernel space is defined by the kernel
config, not by the value of --call-graph. Improve the documentat

perf callchain: Update docs regarding kernel/user space unwinding

The method of unwinding for kernel space is defined by the kernel
config, not by the value of --call-graph. Improve the documentation to
reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200325164053.10177-1-tonyj@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf config: Document missing config options

While documenting annotate.show_nr_samples config option, I found many
other config options missing in perf-config documentation. Add them.

Signed-off-b

perf config: Document missing config options

While documenting annotate.show_nr_samples config option, I found many
other config options missing in perf-config documentation. Add them.

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200213064306.160480-9-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf annotate: Fix perf config option description

perf config annotate options says it works only with TUI, which is wrong.
Most of the TUI options are applicable to stdio2 as well. So remove that
g

perf annotate: Fix perf config option description

perf config annotate options says it works only with TUI, which is wrong.
Most of the TUI options are applicable to stdio2 as well. So remove that
generic line and add individual line with each option stating which
browsers supports that option. Also, annotate.show_nr_samples config is
missing in Documentation. Describe it.

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200213064306.160480-8-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf trace: Allow choosing how to augment the tracepoint arguments

So far we used the libtraceevent printing routines when showing
tracepoint arguments, but since 'perf trace' has a lot of beautifie

perf trace: Allow choosing how to augment the tracepoint arguments

So far we used the libtraceevent printing routines when showing
tracepoint arguments, but since 'perf trace' has a lot of beautifiers
for syscall arguments, and since some of those can be used to augment
tracepoint arguments, add a routine to make use of those beautifiers
and allow the user to choose which one to use.

The default now is to use the same beautifiers used for the strace-like
sys_enter+sys_exit lines, but the user can choose the libtraceevent ones
by either using the:

perf trace --libtraceevent_print

command line option, or by setting:

# cat ~/.perfconfig
[trace]
tracepoint_beautifiers = libtraceevent

For instance, here are some examples:

# perf trace -e sched:*switch,*sleep,sched:*wakeup,exit*,sched:*exit sleep 1
0.000 sched:sched_wakeup(comm: "perf", pid: 5273 (perf), prio: 120, success: 1, target_cpu: 6)
0.621 nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffdd06d1140, rmtp: NULL) ...
0.628 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm: "sleep", prev_pid: 5273 (sleep), prev_prio: 120, prev_state: 1, next_comm: "swapper/6", next_pid: 0, next_prio: 120)
1000.879 sched:sched_wakeup(comm: "sleep", pid: 5273 (sleep), prio: 120, success: 1, target_cpu: 6)
0.621 ... [continued]: nanosleep()) = 0
1001.026 exit_group(error_code: 0) = ?
1001.216 sched:sched_process_exit(comm: "sleep", pid: 5273 (sleep), prio: 120)
#

And then using libtraceevent, as before:

# perf trace --libtraceevent_print -e sched:*switch,*sleep,sched:*wakeup,exit*,sched:*exit sleep 1
0.000 sched:sched_wakeup(comm=perf pid=5288 prio=120 target_cpu=001)
0.739 nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffeba6c2f40, rmtp: NULL) ...
0.747 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm=sleep prev_pid=5288 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper/1 next_pid=0 next_prio=120)
1000.902 sched:sched_wakeup(comm=sleep pid=5288 prio=120 target_cpu=001)
0.739 ... [continued]: nanosleep()) = 0
1001.012 exit_group(error_code: 0) = ?
#

The new default allocates an array of 'struct syscall_arg_fmt' for the
tracepoint arguments and, just like with syscall arguments, tries to
find suitable syscall_arg__scnprintf_NAME() routines to augment those
tracepoint arguments based on their type (as in the tracefs "format"
file), or even in their name + type, for instance arguntents with names
ending in "fd" with type "int" get the fd scnprintf beautifier attached,
etc.

Soon this will take advantage of the kernel BTF information to augment
enumerations based on the tracefs "format" type info.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Cláudio Gonçalves <lclaudio@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-o8qdluotkcb3b1x2gjqrejcl@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf config: Document the PERF_CONFIG environment variable

There was a provision for setting this variable, but not the
getenv("PERF_CONFIG") call to set it, as this was fixed in the previous
cset,

perf config: Document the PERF_CONFIG environment variable

There was a provision for setting this variable, but not the
getenv("PERF_CONFIG") call to set it, as this was fixed in the previous
cset, document that it can be used to ask for using an alternative
.perfconfig file or to disable reading whatever file exists in the
system or home directory, i.e. using:

export PERF_CONFIG=/dev/null

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Cláudio Gonçalves <lclaudio@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0u4o967hsk7j0o50zp9ctn89@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf config: Update default value for llvm.clang-bpf-cmd-template

The clang bpf cmdline template has defined default value in the file
tools/perf/util/llvm-utils.c, which has been changed for severa

perf config: Update default value for llvm.clang-bpf-cmd-template

The clang bpf cmdline template has defined default value in the file
tools/perf/util/llvm-utils.c, which has been changed for several times.

This patch updates the documentation to reflect the latest default value
for the configuration llvm.clang-bpf-cmd-template.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Drayton <mbd@fb.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d35b168c3dcd ("perf bpf: Give precedence to bpf header dir")
Fixes: cb76371441d0 ("perf llvm: Allow passing options to llc in addition to clang")
Fixes: 1b16fffa389d ("perf llvm-utils: Add bpf include path to clang command line")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190607143508.18141-1-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf config: Fix an error in the config template documentation

The option 'sort-order' should be 'sort_order'.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kerne

perf config: Fix an error in the config template documentation

The option 'sort-order' should be 'sort_order'.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fixes: 893c5c798be9 ("perf config: Show default report configuration in example and docs")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190316080556.3075-5-changbin.du@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf tools report: Add custom scripts to script menu

Add a way to define custom scripts through ~/.perfconfig, which are then
added to the scripts menu. The scripts get the same arguments as 'perf
s

perf tools report: Add custom scripts to script menu

Add a way to define custom scripts through ~/.perfconfig, which are then
added to the scripts menu. The scripts get the same arguments as 'perf
script', in particular -i, --cpu, --tid.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190311144502.15423-10-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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perf report: Implement browsing of individual samples

Now 'perf report' can show whole time periods with 'perf script', but
the user still has to find individual samples of interest manually.

It wo

perf report: Implement browsing of individual samples

Now 'perf report' can show whole time periods with 'perf script', but
the user still has to find individual samples of interest manually.

It would be expensive and complicated to search for the right samples in
the whole perf file. Typically users only need to look at a small number
of samples for useful analysis.

Also the full scripts tend to show samples of all CPUs and all threads
mixed up, which can be very confusing on larger systems.

Add a new --samples option to save a small random number of samples per
hist entry.

Use a reservoir sample technique to select a representatve number of
samples.

Then allow browsing the samples using 'perf script' as part of the hist
entry context menu. This automatically adds the right filters, so only
the thread or cpu of the sample is displayed. Then we use less' search
functionality to directly jump the to the time stamp of the selected
sample.

It uses different menus for assembler and source display. Assembler
needs xed installed and source needs debuginfo.

Currently it only supports as many samples as fit on the screen due to
some limitations in the slang ui code.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190311174605.GA29294@tassilo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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