Re: [PATCH v8 0/6] perf record: Track sideband events for all CPUs when tracing selected CPUs

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 02:41:56PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria escreveu:
> On 04-Sep-23 8:03 AM, Yang Jihong wrote:
> > User space tasks can migrate between CPUs, track sideband events for all
> > CPUs.
> > 
> > The specific scenarios are as follows:
> > 
> >          CPU0                                 CPU1
> >   perf record -C 0 start
> >                               taskA starts to be created and executed
> >                                 -> PERF_RECORD_COMM and PERF_RECORD_MMAP
> >                                    events only deliver to CPU1
> >                               ......
> >                                 |
> >                           migrate to CPU0
> >                                 |
> >   Running on CPU0    <----------/
> >   ...
> > 
> >   perf record -C 0 stop
> > 
> > Now perf samples the PC of taskA. However, perf does not record the
> > PERF_RECORD_COMM and PERF_RECORD_COMM events of taskA.
> > Therefore, the comm and symbols of taskA cannot be parsed.
> > 
> > The sys_perf_event_open invoked is as follows:
> > 
> >   # perf --debug verbose=3 record -e cpu-clock -C 1 true
> >   <SNIP>
> >   Opening: cpu-clock
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------
> >   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|LOST
> >     disabled                         1
> >     inherit                          1
> >     freq                             1
> >     sample_id_all                    1
> >     exclude_guest                    1
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------
> >   sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 5
> >   Opening: dummy:u
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------
> >   perf_event_attr:
> >     type                             1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE)
> >     size                             136
> >     config                           0x9 (PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY)
> >     { sample_period, sample_freq }   1
> >     sample_type                      IP|TID|TIME|CPU|IDENTIFIER
> >     read_format                      ID|LOST
> >     inherit                          1
> >     exclude_kernel                   1
> >     exclude_hv                       1
> >     mmap                             1
> >     comm                             1
> >     task                             1
> >     sample_id_all                    1
> >     exclude_guest                    1
> >     mmap2                            1
> >     comm_exec                        1
> >     ksymbol                          1
> >     bpf_event                        1
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------
> >   sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 0  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 6
> >   sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 7
> >   sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 2  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 9
> >   sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 3  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 10
> >   sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 4  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 11
> >   sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 5  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 12
> >   sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 6  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 13
> >   sys_perf_event_open: pid -1  cpu 7  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 14
> >   <SNIP>
> > 
> > Changes since_v7:
> >  - The condition for requiring system_wide sideband is changed to
> >    "as long as a non-dummy event exists" (patch4).
> >  - Modify the corresponding test case to record only dummy event (patch6).
> >  - Thanks to tested-by tag from Ravi, but because the solution is modified,
> >    the tested-by tag of Ravi is not added to this version.
> 
> I've re-tested v8 with my simple test.
> 
> Tested-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxx>


Thanks, applied to the csets that were still sitting in an umpublished
perf-tools-next local branch, soon public.

- Arnaldo