[PATCH v5 0/6]: Make 24x7 and GPCI events available in sysfs

From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Date: Tue Dec 02 2014 - 21:04:22 EST


The current support for the 24x7 and GPCI counters in the kernel requires
users to specify the domain and offset of the event numerically, which is
obviously hard to use:

perf stat -C 0 -e \
'hv_24x7/domain=2,offset=0xd58,starting_index=0,lpar=0xffffffff/' \
sleep 1

This patchset exports the 24x7 and GPCI counters info in sysfs so users can
specify the events by name:

$ cd /sys/bus/event_source/devices/hv_24x7/events

$ cat HPM_CS_FROM_L4_LDATA__PHYS_CORE
domain=0x2,offset=0xd58,starting_index=$core,lpar=0x0

$ cat HPM_TLBIE__VCPU_HOME_CHIP
domain=0x4,offset=0x358,starting_index=$vcpu,lpar=$sibling_guest_id

perf stat -C 0 -e \
'hv_24x7/HPM_CS_FROM_L4_LDATA__PHYS_CORE,starting_index=0'
sleep 1

This patchset adds the kernel support to export events in sysfs. A follow-on
patchset will add support to the perf tool to parse the event parameters like
'lpar=$sibling_guest_id' and display them via 'perf list'.

Changelog[v5]
- [Jiri Olsa, Peter Zijlstra] Use '$arg' notation rather than ?
to indicate event parameters.
- [Michael Ellerman] Separate the kernel and tool patches in the
patchset into different patchsets.

Changelog[v4]
- [Jiri Olsa Rebase to perf/core tree to fix small merge conflict.

Changelog[v3]
- [Jiri Olsa] Changed the event parameters are specified. If
event file specifes 'param=val' make the usage 'param=123'
rather than 'val=123'. (patch 1,2/10)
- Shortened event names using "PHYS" and "VCPU" (patch 4/10)
- Print help message if invalid parameter is specified or required
parameter is missing.
- Moved 3 patches that are unrelated to parametrized events into
a separate patchset.
- Reordered patches so code changes come first.

Changelog[v2]
- [Joe Perches, David Laight] Use beNN_to_cpu() instead of guessing
the size from type.
- Use kmem_cache_free() to free page allocated with kmem_cache_alloc().
- Rebase to recent kernel


Cody P Schafer (6):
perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr
perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events
powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters
annotated
powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Document sysfs event description entries

.../testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 | 22 +
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7-catalog.h | 25 +
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7-domains.h | 28 +
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c | 787 ++++++++++++++++++++-
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.h | 12 +-
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-common.c | 10 +-
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci-requests.h | 262 +++++++
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci.c | 8 +
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci.h | 37 +-
arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_begin.h | 13 +
arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_clear.h | 5 +
arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_end.h | 4 +
arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_request-begin.h | 15 +
arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_request-end.h | 8 +
arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/perf.h | 155 ++++
include/linux/perf_event.h | 10 +
kernel/events/core.c | 8 +
17 files changed, 1365 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7-domains.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci-requests.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_begin.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_clear.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_end.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_request-begin.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/_request-end.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/perf/req-gen/perf.h

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