Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf intel-pt: Fix recording PEBS-via-PT with registers

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 04:39:33PM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
> When recording PEBS-via-PT, the kernel will not accept the intel_pt event
> with register sampling e.g.
> 
>  # perf record --kcore -c 10000 -e '{intel_pt/branch=0/,branch-loads/aux-output/ppp}' -I -- ls -l
>  Error:
>  intel_pt/branch=0/: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat'
> 
> Fix by suppressing register sampling on the intel_pt evsel.

Next time please inform what is the hardware that supports PEBS-via-PT,
I tried this on a:

[    0.245654] smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8650U CPU @ 1.90GHz (family: 0x6, model: 0x8e, stepping: 0xa)
[    0.245791] Performance Events: PEBS fmt3+, Skylake events, 32-deep LBR, full-width counters, Intel PMU driver.

And even after this fix I get:

[root@quaco ~]# perf record --kcore -c 10000 -e '{intel_pt/branch=0/,branch-loads/aux-output/ppp}' -I -- ls -l
Error:
branch-loads: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat'
[root@quaco ~]#

Further details:

[root@quaco ~]# perf record -vv --kcore -c 10000 -e '{intel_pt/branch=0/,branch-loads/aux-output/ppp}' -I -- ls -l
Using CPUID GenuineIntel-6-8E-A
intel_pt default config: tsc,mtc,mtc_period=3,psb_period=3,pt,branch
Attempting to add event pmu 'intel_pt' with 'branch,' that may result in non-fatal errors
After aliases, add event pmu 'intel_pt' with 'branch,' that may result in non-fatal errors
nr_cblocks: 0
affinity: SYS
mmap flush: 1
comp level: 0
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                             8
  size                             120
  config                           0x300c601
  { sample_period, sample_freq }   10000
  sample_type                      IP|TID|TIME|CPU|IDENTIFIER
  read_format                      ID
  disabled                         1
  inherit                          1
  enable_on_exec                   1
  sample_id_all                    1
  exclude_guest                    1
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 11131  cpu 0  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 5
sys_perf_event_open: pid 11131  cpu 1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 6
sys_perf_event_open: pid 11131  cpu 2  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 7
sys_perf_event_open: pid 11131  cpu 3  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 9
sys_perf_event_open: pid 11131  cpu 4  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 10
sys_perf_event_open: pid 11131  cpu 5  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 11
sys_perf_event_open: pid 11131  cpu 6  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 12
sys_perf_event_open: pid 11131  cpu 7  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 13
------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                             3
  size                             120
  config                           0x5
  { sample_period, sample_freq }   10000
  sample_type                      IP|TID|TIME|IDENTIFIER|REGS_INTR
  read_format                      ID
  inherit                          1
  precise_ip                       3
  sample_id_all                    1
  exclude_guest                    1
  aux_output                       1
  sample_regs_intr                 0xff0fff
------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 11131  cpu 0  group_fd 5  flags 0x8
sys_perf_event_open failed, error -95
Error:
branch-loads: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat'
[root@quaco ~]#




 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> Fixes: 9e64cefe4335b ("perf intel-pt: Process options for PEBS event synthesis")
> ---
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c | 1 +
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c             | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
> index 839ef52c1ac2..6ce451293634 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
> @@ -641,6 +641,7 @@ static int intel_pt_recording_options(struct auxtrace_record *itr,
>  			}
>  			evsel->core.attr.freq = 0;
>  			evsel->core.attr.sample_period = 1;
> +			evsel->no_aux_samples = true;
>  			intel_pt_evsel = evsel;
>  			opts->full_auxtrace = true;
>  		}
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> index a68ac3632ae6..ef802f6d40c1 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> @@ -1014,12 +1014,12 @@ void evsel__config(struct evsel *evsel, struct record_opts *opts,
>  	if (callchain && callchain->enabled && !evsel->no_aux_samples)
>  		evsel__config_callchain(evsel, opts, callchain);
>  
> -	if (opts->sample_intr_regs) {
> +	if (opts->sample_intr_regs && !evsel->no_aux_samples) {
>  		attr->sample_regs_intr = opts->sample_intr_regs;
>  		evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, REGS_INTR);
>  	}
>  
> -	if (opts->sample_user_regs) {
> +	if (opts->sample_user_regs && !evsel->no_aux_samples) {
>  		attr->sample_regs_user |= opts->sample_user_regs;
>  		evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, REGS_USER);
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 

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- Arnaldo