[PATCH V7 0/5] perf: Driver specific configuration for PMU

From: Mathieu Poirier
Date: Tue Aug 30 2016 - 12:19:35 EST


Original blurb:
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This patchset adds the possiblity of specifying PMU driver configuration
directly from the perf command line. Anything that falls within the
event specifiers '/.../' and that is preceded by the '@' symbol is
treated as a configurable. Two formats are supported, @cfg and
@cfg=config.

For example:

perf record -e some_event/@cfg1/ ...

or

perf record -e some_event/@cfg2=config/ ...

or

perf record -e some_event/@cfg1,@cfg2=config/ ...

The above are all valid configuration and will see the strings 'cfg1'
and 'cfg2=config' sent to the PMU driver for parsing and interpretation
using the existing ioctl() mechanism.

The primary customers for this feature are the CoreSight drivers where
the selection of a sink (where trace data is accumulated) needs to be
done in a previous, and separated step, from the launching of the perf
command.

As such something that used to be a two-step process:

# echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20070000.etr/enable_sink
# perf record -e cs_etm//u --per-thread uname

is integrated in a single command:

# perf record -e cs_etm/@20070000.etr/u --per-thread uname

Thanks,
Mathieu

Changes for V7:
- Got rid of a miscellaneous debug message.
- Rebased to v4.8-rc4
- Added Jiri Olsa's Acked-by.

Changes for V6:
- Using sysFS rather than an ioctl() to communicate command line
parameters to the CoreSight PMU.

Changes for V5:
- Made commit log in 5/9 more descriptive.
- Addressed missing return code in builtin-top.c.
- Overhauled the kernel portion to do parsing in the core.

Changes for V4:
- Pushing PMU driver configuration for 'perf top'.
- Rebased to the latest perf/core branch[1].

Changes for V3:
- Added comment for function drv_str() that explains the reason for
keeping the entire token intact.
- Added driver config terms to the existing list of config terms.
- Added documenation for driver specific configuration.
- Pushing PMU driver configuration for 'perf stat' as well.
- Preventing users from selecting a sink from sysFS _and_ perf.

Changes for V2:
- Rebased to [1] as per Jiri's request.


Mathieu Poirier (5):
perf tools: making coresight PMU listable
perf tools: adding coresight etm PMU record capabilities
perf tools: add infrastructure for PMU specific configuration
perf tools: Pushing configuration down to PMU driver
perf tools: adding sink configuration for cs_etm PMU

MAINTAINERS | 5 +
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 12 +
tools/perf/Makefile.config | 11 +-
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/Build | 2 +
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c | 54 +++
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c | 615 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.h | 26 ++
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/pmu.c | 37 ++
tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build | 4 +
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 9 +
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 8 +
tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 12 +
tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c | 1 +
tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/cs-etm.h | 74 ++++
tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 18 +
tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 3 +
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 40 ++
tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 4 +
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 7 +-
tools/perf/util/parse-events.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/parse-events.l | 22 ++
tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 11 +
tools/perf/util/pmu.h | 2 +
24 files changed, 974 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c
create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c
create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.h
create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/pmu.c
create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/cs-etm.h

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