[PATCH v3 0/5] Dump off-cpu samples directly

From: Howard Chu
Date: Fri Jul 26 2024 - 06:28:46 EST


As mentioned in: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207323

Currently, off-cpu samples are dumped when perf record is exiting. This
results in off-cpu samples being after the regular samples. This patch
series makes possible dumping off-cpu samples on-the-fly, directly into
perf ring buffer. And it dispatches those samples to the correct format
for perf.data consumers.

Changes in v3:
- Add off-cpu-thresh argument
- Process direct off-cpu samples in post

Changes in v2:
- Remove unnecessary comments.
- Rename function off_cpu_change_type to off_cpu_prepare_parse

Before:
```
migration/0 21 [000] 27981.041319: 2944637851 cycles:P: ffffffff90d2e8aa record_times+0xa ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 770116 [001] 27981.041375: 1 cycles:P: ffffffff90ee4960 event_function+0xf0 ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 770116 [001] 27981.041377: 1 cycles:P: ffffffff90c184b1 intel_bts_enable_local+0x31 ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 770116 [001] 27981.041379: 51611 cycles:P: ffffffff91a160b0 native_sched_clock+0x30 ([kernel.kallsyms])
migration/1 26 [001] 27981.041400: 4227682775 cycles:P: ffffffff90d06a74 wakeup_preempt+0x44 ([kernel.kallsyms])
migration/2 32 [002] 27981.041477: 4159401534 cycles:P: ffffffff90d11993 update_load_avg+0x63 ([kernel.kallsyms])

sshd 708098 [000] 18446744069.414584: 286392 offcpu-time:
79a864f1c8bb ppoll+0x4b (/usr/lib/libc.so.6)
585690935cca [unknown] (/usr/bin/sshd)
```

After:
```
perf 774767 [003] 28178.033444: 497 cycles:P: ffffffff91a160c3 native_sched_clock+0x43 ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 774767 [003] 28178.033445: 399440 cycles:P: ffffffff91c01f8d nmi_restore+0x25 ([kernel.kallsyms])
swapper 0 [001] 28178.036639: 376650973 cycles:P: ffffffff91a1ae99 intel_idle+0x59 ([kernel.kallsyms])
swapper 0 [003] 28178.182921: 348779378 cycles:P: ffffffff91a1ae99 intel_idle+0x59 ([kernel.kallsyms])
blueman-tray 1355 [000] 28178.627906: 100184571 offcpu-time-direct:
7528eef1c39d __poll+0x4d (/usr/lib/libc.so.6)
7528edf7d8fd [unknown] (/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.8000.2)
7528edf1af95 g_main_context_iteration+0x35 (/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.8000.2)
7528eda4ab86 g_application_run+0x1f6 (/usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0.8000.2)
7528ee6aa596 [unknown] (/usr/lib/libffi.so.8.1.4)
7fff24e862d8 [unknown] ([unknown])


blueman-tray 1355 [000] 28178.728137: 100187539 offcpu-time-direct:
7528eef1c39d __poll+0x4d (/usr/lib/libc.so.6)
7528edf7d8fd [unknown] (/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.8000.2)
7528edf1af95 g_main_context_iteration+0x35 (/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.8000.2)
7528eda4ab86 g_application_run+0x1f6 (/usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0.8000.2)
7528ee6aa596 [unknown] (/usr/lib/libffi.so.8.1.4)
7fff24e862d8 [unknown] ([unknown])


swapper 0 [000] 28178.463253: 195945410 cycles:P: ffffffff91a1ae99 intel_idle+0x59 ([kernel.kallsyms])
dbus-broker 412 [002] 28178.464855: 376737008 cycles:P: ffffffff91c000a0 entry_SYSCALL_64+0x20 ([kernel.kallsyms])
```

Howard Chu (5):
perf record off-cpu: Add direct off-cpu event
perf record off-cpu: Dumping samples in BPF
perf record off-cpu: processing of embedded sample
perf record off-cpu: save embedded sample type
perf record off-cpu: Add direct off-cpu test

tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 2 +
tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 2 +-
tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c | 1 +
tools/perf/tests/shell/record_offcpu.sh | 29 +++++
tools/perf/tests/tests.h | 1 +
tools/perf/tests/workloads/Build | 1 +
tools/perf/tests/workloads/offcpu.c | 16 +++
tools/perf/util/bpf_off_cpu.c | 53 ++++++++-
tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/off_cpu.bpf.c | 143 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 16 ++-
tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 13 +++
tools/perf/util/header.c | 12 ++
tools/perf/util/off_cpu.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/record.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/session.c | 23 +++-
15 files changed, 309 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/perf/tests/workloads/offcpu.c

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