[PATCH 3/4] perf auxtrace: Add new itrace options for ARMv8.3-SPE

From: Wei Li
Date: Fri Jul 24 2020 - 05:18:06 EST


This patch is to add two options to synthesize events which are
described as below:

'u': synthesize unaligned address access events
'v': synthesize partial/empty predicated SVE events

This two options will be used by ARM SPE as their first consumer.

Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei391@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt | 2 ++
tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c | 8 ++++++++
tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt
index e817179c5027..25bcf3622709 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
m synthesize last level cache events
t synthesize TLB events
a synthesize remote access events
+ u synthesize unaligned address access events
+ v synthesize partial/empty predicated SVE events
g synthesize a call chain (use with i or x)
G synthesize a call chain on existing event records
l synthesize last branch entries (use with i or x)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
index 25c639ac4ad4..2033eb3708ec 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
@@ -1334,6 +1334,8 @@ void itrace_synth_opts__set_default(struct itrace_synth_opts *synth_opts,
synth_opts->llc = true;
synth_opts->tlb = true;
synth_opts->remote_access = true;
+ synth_opts->alignment = true;
+ synth_opts->sve = true;

if (no_sample) {
synth_opts->period_type = PERF_ITRACE_PERIOD_INSTRUCTIONS;
@@ -1507,6 +1509,12 @@ int itrace_parse_synth_opts(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
case 'a':
synth_opts->remote_access = true;
break;
+ case 'u':
+ synth_opts->alignment = true;
+ break;
+ case 'v':
+ synth_opts->sve = true;
+ break;
case ' ':
case ',':
break;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
index 142ccf7d34df..972df7b06b0d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ struct itrace_synth_opts {
bool llc;
bool tlb;
bool remote_access;
+ bool alignment;
+ bool sve;
unsigned int callchain_sz;
unsigned int last_branch_sz;
unsigned long long period;
@@ -617,6 +619,8 @@ bool auxtrace__evsel_is_auxtrace(struct perf_session *session,
" m: synthesize last level cache events\n" \
" t: synthesize TLB events\n" \
" a: synthesize remote access events\n" \
+" u: synthesize unaligned address access events\n" \
+" v: synthesize partial/empty predicated SVE events\n" \
" g[len]: synthesize a call chain (use with i or x)\n" \
" l[len]: synthesize last branch entries (use with i or x)\n" \
" sNUMBER: skip initial number of events\n" \
--
2.17.1