[tip:perf/urgent] perf top: Add overwrite fall back

From: tip-bot for Kan Liang
Date: Fri Feb 16 2018 - 04:50:56 EST


Commit-ID: 204721d7eabe6ee98aafce791ce3efdbc4715834
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/204721d7eabe6ee98aafce791ce3efdbc4715834
Author: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:26:28 -0800
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:56:14 -0300

perf top: Add overwrite fall back

Switch to non-overwrite mode if kernel doesnot support overwrite
ringbuffer.

It's only effect when overwrite mode is supported. No change to current
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516310792-208685-14-git-send-email-kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx
[ Use perf_missing_features.write_backward instead of the non merged is_write_backward_fail() ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 1778379..ee4bba1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -943,6 +943,27 @@ static int perf_top__overwrite_check(struct perf_top *top)
return 0;
}

+static int perf_top_overwrite_fallback(struct perf_top *top,
+ struct perf_evsel *evsel)
+{
+ struct record_opts *opts = &top->record_opts;
+ struct perf_evlist *evlist = top->evlist;
+ struct perf_evsel *counter;
+
+ if (!opts->overwrite)
+ return 0;
+
+ /* only fall back when first event fails */
+ if (evsel != perf_evlist__first(evlist))
+ return 0;
+
+ evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, counter)
+ counter->attr.write_backward = false;
+ opts->overwrite = false;
+ ui__warning("fall back to non-overwrite mode\n");
+ return 1;
+}
+
static int perf_top__start_counters(struct perf_top *top)
{
char msg[BUFSIZ];
@@ -967,6 +988,21 @@ static int perf_top__start_counters(struct perf_top *top)
try_again:
if (perf_evsel__open(counter, top->evlist->cpus,
top->evlist->threads) < 0) {
+
+ /*
+ * Specially handle overwrite fall back.
+ * Because perf top is the only tool which has
+ * overwrite mode by default, support
+ * both overwrite and non-overwrite mode, and
+ * require consistent mode for all events.
+ *
+ * May move it to generic code with more tools
+ * have similar attribute.
+ */
+ if (perf_missing_features.write_backward &&
+ perf_top_overwrite_fallback(top, counter))
+ goto try_again;
+
if (perf_evsel__fallback(counter, errno, msg, sizeof(msg))) {
if (verbose > 0)
ui__warning("%s\n", msg);