perf script: Allow computing 'perf stat' style metrics
Add support for computing 'perf stat' style metrics in 'perf script'. When using leader sampling we can get metrics for each sampling period by computing formulas over the values of the different group members. This allows things like fine grained IPC tracking through sampling, much more fine grained than with 'perf stat'. The metric is still averaged over the sampling period, it is not just for the sampling point. This patch adds a new metric output field for 'perf script' that uses the existing 'perf stat' metrics infrastructure to compute any metrics supported by 'perf stat'. For example to sample IPC: $ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles,instructions}:S' -a sleep 1 $ perf script -F metric,ip,sym,time,cpu,comm ... alsa-sink-ALC32 [000] 42815.856074: 7fd65937d6cc [unknown] alsa-sink-ALC32 [000] 42815.856074: 7fd65937d6cc [unknown] alsa-sink-ALC32 [000] 42815.856074: 7fd65937d6cc [unknown] alsa-sink-ALC32 [000] 42815.856074: metric: 0.13 insn per cycle swapper [000] 42815.857961: ffffffff81655df0 __schedule swapper [000] 42815.857961: ffffffff81655df0 __schedule swapper [000] 42815.857961: ffffffff81655df0 __schedule swapper [000] 42815.857961: metric: 0.23 insn per cycle qemu-system-x86 [000] 42815.858130: ffffffff8165ad0e _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore qemu-system-x86 [000] 42815.858130: ffffffff8165ad0e _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore qemu-system-x86 [000] 42815.858130: ffffffff8165ad0e _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore qemu-system-x86 [000] 42815.858130: metric: 0.46 insn per cycle :4972 [000] 42815.858312: ffffffffa080e5f2 vmx_vcpu_run :4972 [000] 42815.858312: ffffffffa080e5f2 vmx_vcpu_run :4972 [000] 42815.858312: ffffffffa080e5f2 vmx_vcpu_run :4972 [000] 42815.858312: metric: 0.45 insn per cycle TopDown: This requires disabling SMT if you have it enabled, because SMT would require sampling per core, which is not supported. $ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,topdown-fetch-bubbles,\ topdown-recovery-bubbles,\ topdown-slots-retired,topdown-total-slots,\ topdown-slots-issued}:S' -a sleep 1 $ perf script --header -I -F cpu,ip,sym,event,metric,period ... [000] 121108 ref-cycles: ffffffff8165222e copy_user_enhanced_fast_string [000] 190350 topdown-fetch-bubbles: ffffffff8165222e copy_user_enhanced_fast_string [000] 2055 topdown-recovery-bubbles: ffffffff8165222e copy_user_enhanced_fast_string [000] 148729 topdown-slots-retired: ffffffff8165222e copy_user_enhanced_fast_string [000] 144324 topdown-total-slots: ffffffff8165222e copy_user_enhanced_fast_string [000] 160852 topdown-slots-issued: ffffffff8165222e copy_user_enhanced_fast_string [000] metric: 33.0% frontend bound [000] metric: 3.5% bad speculation [000] metric: 25.8% retiring [000] metric: 37.7% backend bound [000] 112112 ref-cycles: ffffffff8165aec8 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave [000] 357222 topdown-fetch-bubbles: ffffffff8165aec8 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave [000] 3325 topdown-recovery-bubbles: ffffffff8165aec8 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave [000] 323553 topdown-slots-retired: ffffffff8165aec8 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave [000] 270507 topdown-total-slots: ffffffff8165aec8 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave [000] 341226 topdown-slots-issued: ffffffff8165aec8 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave [000] metric: 33.0% frontend bound [000] metric: 2.9% bad speculation [000] metric: 29.9% retiring [000] metric: 34.2% backend bound ... v2: Use evsel->priv for new fields Port to new base line, support fp output. Handle stats in ->stats, not ->priv Minor cleanups Extra explanation about the use of the term 'averaging', from Andi in the thread in the Link: tag below: <quote Andi> The current samples contains the sum of event counts for a sampling period. EventA-1 EventA-2 EventA-3 EventA-4 EventB-1 EventB-2 EventC-3 gap with no events overflow |-----------------------------------------------------------------| period-start period-end ^ ^ | | previous sample current sample So EventA = 4 and EventB = 3 at the sample point I generate a metric, let's say EventA / EventB. It applies to the whole period. But the metric is over a longer time which does not have the same behavior. For example the gap above doesn't have any events, while they are clustered at the beginning and end of the sample period. But we're summing everything together. The metric doesn't know that the gap is different than the busy period. That's what I'm trying to express with averaging. </quote> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171117214300.32746-4-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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