[PATCH 1/1] perf arm-spe: report all SPE records as "all" events

From: German Gomez
Date: Wed Nov 17 2021 - 09:21:39 EST


From: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>

Currently perf-report and perf-inject are dropping a large number of SPE
records because they don't contain any of the existing events, but the
contextual information of the records is still useful to keep.

The synthesized event "all" is generated for every SPE record that is
processed, regardless of whether the record contains interesting events
or not. The event can be filtered with the flag "--itrace=o".

Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: German Gomez <german.gomez@xxxxxxx>
Change-Id: Ie8169d61df6dc90e5abec7a29c1a5a8510790a1f
---
tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt | 2 +-
tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 2 +-
3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt
index c52755481..57dc12b83 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
w synthesize ptwrite events
p synthesize power events (incl. PSB events for Intel PT)
o synthesize other events recorded due to the use
- of aux-output (refer to perf record)
+ of aux-output (refer to perf record) (all events for Arm SPE)
e synthesize error events
d create a debug log
f synthesize first level cache events
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c b/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
index ce77abf90..6428351db 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ struct arm_spe {
u8 sample_branch;
u8 sample_remote_access;
u8 sample_memory;
+ u8 sample_other;

u64 l1d_miss_id;
u64 l1d_access_id;
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ struct arm_spe {
u64 branch_miss_id;
u64 remote_access_id;
u64 memory_id;
+ u64 all_id;

u64 kernel_start;

@@ -351,6 +353,23 @@ static int arm_spe__synth_branch_sample(struct arm_spe_queue *speq,
return arm_spe_deliver_synth_event(spe, speq, event, &sample);
}

+static int arm_spe__synth_other_sample(struct arm_spe_queue *speq,
+ u64 spe_events_id)
+{
+ struct arm_spe *spe = speq->spe;
+ struct arm_spe_record *record = &speq->decoder->record;
+ union perf_event *event = speq->event_buf;
+ struct perf_sample sample = { .ip = 0, };
+
+ arm_spe_prep_sample(spe, speq, event, &sample);
+
+ sample.id = spe_events_id;
+ sample.stream_id = spe_events_id;
+ sample.addr = record->to_ip;
+
+ return arm_spe_deliver_synth_event(spe, speq, event, &sample);
+}
+
#define SPE_MEM_TYPE (ARM_SPE_L1D_ACCESS | ARM_SPE_L1D_MISS | \
ARM_SPE_LLC_ACCESS | ARM_SPE_LLC_MISS | \
ARM_SPE_REMOTE_ACCESS)
@@ -480,6 +499,12 @@ static int arm_spe_sample(struct arm_spe_queue *speq)
return err;
}

+ if (spe->sample_other) {
+ err = arm_spe__synth_other_sample(speq, spe->all_id);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ }
+
return 0;
}

@@ -1107,6 +1132,17 @@ arm_spe_synth_events(struct arm_spe *spe, struct perf_session *session)
return err;
spe->memory_id = id;
arm_spe_set_event_name(evlist, id, "memory");
+ id += 1;
+ }
+
+ if (spe->synth_opts.other_events) {
+ spe->sample_other = true;
+
+ err = arm_spe_synth_event(session, &attr, id);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ spe->all_id = id;
+ arm_spe_set_event_name(evlist, id, "all");
}

return 0;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
index bbf0d78c6..efe1bdc06 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ enum itrace_period_type {
* @ptwrites: whether to synthesize events for ptwrites
* @pwr_events: whether to synthesize power events
* @other_events: whether to synthesize other events recorded due to the use of
- * aux_output
+ * aux_output (all events for Arm SPE)
* @errors: whether to synthesize decoder error events
* @dont_decode: whether to skip decoding entirely
* @log: write a decoding log
--
2.25.1