Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] perf tools: Add printing perf_event_attr `config` and `id` symbol in perf_event_attr__fprintf()

From: Yang Jihong
Date: Thu May 18 2023 - 21:20:19 EST


Hello,

On 2023/5/16 17:49, Adrian Hunter wrote:
On 16/05/23 09:55, Yang Jihong wrote:
Add printing perf_event_attr `config` and `id` symbol to improve the readability of debugging information.

Before:

# perf --debug verbose=2 record -e cycles,cpu-clock,sched:sched_switch,branch-load-misses,r101,mem:0x0 -C 0 true
<SNIP>
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
size 136
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
freq 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 5
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 1
size 136
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
freq 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 6
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 2
size 136
config 0x143
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 1
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|RAW|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 7
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 3
size 136
config 0x10005
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
freq 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 9
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 4
size 136
config 0x101
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
freq 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 10
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 5
size 136
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 1
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
bp_type 3
{ bp_len, config2 } 0x4
------------------------------------------------------------
<SNIP>

After:

# perf --debug verbose=2 record -e cycles,cpu-clock,sched:sched_switch,branch-load-misses,r101,mem:0x0 -C 0 true
<SNIP>
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)
size 136
config 0 (PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES)
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
freq 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 5
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE)
size 136
config 0 (PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK)
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
freq 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 6
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 2 (PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT)
size 136
config 0x143 (sched:sched_switch)
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 1
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|RAW|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 7
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 3 (PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE)
size 136
config 0x10005 (PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_RESULT_MISS | PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_OP_READ | PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_BPU)
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
freq 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 9
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 4 (PERF_TYPE_RAW)
size 136
config 0x101
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
freq 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 10
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 5 (PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT)
size 136
config 0
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 1
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID
disabled 1
inherit 1
sample_id_all 1
exclude_guest 1
bp_type 3
{ bp_len, config2 } 0x4
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 11
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
type 1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE)
size 136
config 0x9 (PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY)
{ sample_period, sample_freq } 4000
sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER
read_format ID
inherit 1
mmap 1
comm 1
freq 1
task 1
sample_id_all 1
mmap2 1
comm_exec 1
ksymbol 1
bpf_event 1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 12
<SNIP>

Yang Jihong (4):
perf trace-event-info: Add tracepoint_id_to_name() helper
perf tools: Extend PRINT_ATTRf to support printing of members with a
value of 0
perf tools: Add printing perf_event_attr type symbol in
perf_event_attr__fprintf()
perf tools: Add printing perf_event_attr config symbol in
perf_event_attr__fprintf()

tools/perf/util/perf_event_attr_fprintf.c | 186 ++++++++++++++++++++--
tools/perf/util/trace-event-info.c | 11 ++
tools/perf/util/trace-event.h | 6 +
3 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)


Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for review!

Thanks,
Yang
.