Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/7] perf: Fix scaling vs enable_on_exec

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Feb 24 2016 - 11:03:02 EST


On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 03:02:39PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> FWIW, it would be nice to have a similar test for:
>
> attr = {
> .disabled = true;
> }
>
> sys_perf_event_open(&attr, .pid = self);
>
> if (attr.disabled)
> ioctl(ENABLE);
>
> /* generate N events */
>
> ioctl(DISABLE);
>
> read();
>
> /* print event cnt and scale factors */
>
> and one that has .disabled = false.


root@ivb-ep:~/perf# ./main
1000000903 218851613 218851613
root@ivb-ep:~/perf# ./main 1
1000000235 218981231 218981231


Appears to work...

---

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdarg.h>

#include "perf.h"

static struct perf_event_attr perf_attr = {
.type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
.config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS,
.read_format = PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED |
PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING,
.exclude_kernel = 1,
.pinned = 1,
};

void die(const char *err, ...)
{
va_list params;

va_start(params, err);
vfprintf(stderr, err, params);
va_end(params);

exit(-1);
}

int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
u64 val[3];
int i, fd;

perf_attr.disabled = argc > 1;

fd = sys_perf_event_open(&perf_attr, 0, -1, -1, 0);
if (fd < 0)
die("failed to create perf_event");

if (perf_attr.disabled)
ioctl(fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0);

for (i = 0; i < 100000000; i++) {
asm volatile ("nop\n\r"
"nop\n\r"
"nop\n\r"
"nop\n\r"
"nop\n\r"
"nop\n\r"
"nop\n\r");
}

ioctl(fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE, 0);

read(fd, &val, sizeof(val));

printf("%Lu %Lu %Lu\n", val[0], val[1], val[2]);

return 0;
}