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2019-09-25perf vendor events: Minor fixes to the READMEKim Phillips1-11/+11
Some grammatical fixes, and updates to some path references that have since changed. Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Janakarajan Natarajan <janakarajan.natarajan@amd.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Luke Mujica <lukemujica@google.com> Cc: Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190919204306.12598-3-kim.phillips@amd.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-03-16perf vendor events: Add support for arch standard eventsJohn Garry1-0/+6
For some architectures (like arm), there are architecture- defined events. Sometimes these events may be "recommended" according to the architecture standard, in that the implementer is free ignore the "recommendation" and create its custom event. This patch adds support for parsing standard events from arch-defined JSONs, and fixing up vendor events when they have implemented these events as standard. Support is also ensured that the vendor may implement their own custom events. A new step is added to the pmu events parsing to fix up the vendor events with the arch-standard events. The arch-defined JSONs must be placed in the arch root folder for preprocessing prior to tree JSON processing. In the vendor JSON, to specify that the arch event is supported, the keyword "ArchStdEvent" should be used, like this: [ { "ArchStdEvent": "L1D_CACHE_WR", }, ] Matching is based on the "EventName" field in the architecture JSON. No other JSON objects are strictly required. However, for other objects added, these take precedence over architecture defined standard events, thus supporting separate events which have the same event code. Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxarm@huawei.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520506716-197429-8-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-03-16perf vendor events: Add support for pmu events vendor subdirectoryJohn Garry1-0/+4
For some architectures (like arm), it is required to support a vendor subdirectory and not locate all the JSONs for a specific vendor in the same folder. This is because all the events for the same vendor will be placed in the same pmu events table, which may cause conflict. This conflict would be in the instance that a vendor's custom implemented events do have the same meaning on different platforms, so events in the pmu table would conflict. In addition, per list command may show events which are not even supported for a given platform. This patch adds support for a arch/vendor/platform directory hierarchy, while maintaining backwards-compatibility for existing arch/platform structure. In this, each platform would always have its own pmu events table. In generated file pmu_events.c, each platform table name is in the format pme{_vendor}_platform, like this: struct pmu_events_map pmu_events_map[] = { { .cpuid = "0x00000000420f5160", .version = "v1", .type = "core", .table = pme_cavium_thunderx2 }, { .cpuid = 0, .version = 0, .type = 0, .table = 0, }, }; Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxarm@huawei.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520506716-197429-5-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521047452-28565-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com [ Add missing limits.h include, fixing the build on at least all Alpine Linux versions tested (3.4 to 3.7 + edge), ] [ Applied a patch to fix reading ./.. directories in XFS, see second Link tag ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-03-16perf vendor events: Drop incomplete multiple mapfile supportJohn Garry1-3/+2
Currently jevents supports multiple mapfiles, but this is only in the form where mapfile basename starts with 'mapfile.csv' At the moment, no architectures actually use multiple mapfiles, so drop the support for now. This patch also solves a nuisance where, when the mapfile is edited and the text editor may create a backup, jevents may use the backup, as shown: jevents: Many mapfiles? Using pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv~, ignoring pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxarm@huawei.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520506716-197429-2-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-07-25perf jevents: Make build fail on JSON parse errorAndi Kleen1-4/+0
Today, when a JSON file fails parsing the build continues, but there are no json files built in, which is difficult to debug later. Make the build stop on a parse error instead. v2: Add fixes from Sukadev. Now we handle architectures with no JSON events correctly. And fix some stale comments. Committer note: Tested by running the cross build container tests, that were all failing for v1. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725001638.19990-1-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-03perf tools: Add README for info on parsing JSON/map filesSukadev Bhattiprolu1-0/+147
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-16-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>