[PATCH v3 0/4] Prefer sysfs/JSON events also when no PMU is provided

[PATCH v3 0/4] Prefer sysfs/JSON events also when no PMU is provided

[Ian Rogers]

At the RISC-V summit the topic of avoiding event data being in the
RISC-V PMU kernel driver came up. There is a preference for sysfs/JSON
events being the priority when no PMU is provided so that legacy
events maybe supported via json. Originally Mark Rutland also
expressed at LPC 2023 that doing this would resolve bugs on ARM Apple
M? processors, but James Clark more recently tested this and believes
the driver issues there may not have existed or have been resolved. In
any case, it is inconsistent that with a PMU event names avoid legacy
encodings, but when wildcarding PMUs (ie without a PMU with the event
name) the legacy encodings have priority.

The patch doing this work was reverted in a v6.10 release candidate
as, even though the patch was posted for weeks and had been on
linux-next for weeks without issue, Linus was in the habit of using
explicit legacy events with unsupported precision options on his
Neoverse-N1. This machine has SLC PMU events for bus and CPU cycles
where ARM decided to call the events bus_cycles and cycles, the latter
being also a legacy event name. ARM haven't renamed the cycles event
to a more consistent cpu_cycles and avoided the problem. With these
changes the problematic event will now be skipped, a large warning
produced, and perf record will continue for the other PMU events. This
solution was proposed by Arnaldo.

Two minor changes have been added to help with the error message and
to work around issues occurring with "perf stat metrics (shadow stat)
test".

The patches have only been tested on my x86 non-hybrid laptop.

v3: Make no events opening for perf record a failure as suggested by
    James Clark and Aditya Bodkhe <Aditya.Bodkhe1@ibm.com>. Also,
    rebase.
v2: Rebase and add tested-by tags from James Clark, Leo Yan and Atish
    Patra who have tested on RISC-V and ARM CPUs, including the
    problem case from before.

Ian Rogers (4):
  perf evsel: Add pmu_name helper
  perf stat: Fix find_stat for mixed legacy/non-legacy events
  perf record: Skip don't fail for events that don't open
  perf parse-events: Reapply "Prefer sysfs/JSON hardware events over
    legacy"

 tools/perf/builtin-record.c    | 34 ++++++++++++---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c        | 10 +++++
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h        |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 26 +++++++++---
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.l | 76 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 60 ++++++++++++++++++---------
 tools/perf/util/pmus.c         | 20 +++++++--
 tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c  |  3 +-
 8 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)

-- 
2.47.1.613.gc27f4b7a9f-goog

[PATCH v3 1/4] perf evsel: Add pmu_name helper

[Ian Rogers]

Add helper to get the name of the evsel's PMU. This handles the case
where there's no sysfs PMU via parse_events event_type helper.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Tested-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 10 ++++++++++
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 6ae5d110994a..109c4f188dec 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -237,6 +237,16 @@ int evsel__object_config(size_t object_size, int (*init)(struct evsel *evsel),
 	return 0;
 }
 
+const char *evsel__pmu_name(const struct evsel *evsel)
+{
+	struct perf_pmu *pmu = evsel__find_pmu(evsel);
+
+	if (pmu)
+		return pmu->name;
+
+	return event_type(evsel->core.attr.type);
+}
+
 #define FD(e, x, y) (*(int *)xyarray__entry(e->core.fd, x, y))
 
 int __evsel__sample_size(u64 sample_type)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index 5ad352c94d00..cfa2660a06e8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ int evsel__object_config(size_t object_size,
 			 void (*fini)(struct evsel *evsel));
 
 struct perf_pmu *evsel__find_pmu(const struct evsel *evsel);
+const char *evsel__pmu_name(const struct evsel *evsel);
 bool evsel__is_aux_event(const struct evsel *evsel);
 
 struct evsel *evsel__new_idx(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int idx);
-- 
2.47.1.613.gc27f4b7a9f-goog

[PATCH v3 2/4] perf stat: Fix find_stat for mixed legacy/non-legacy events

[Ian Rogers]

Legacy events typically don't have a PMU when added leading to
mismatched legacy/non-legacy cases in find_stat. Use evsel__find_pmu
to make sure the evsel PMU is looked up. Update the evsel__find_pmu
code to look for the PMU using the extended config type or, for legacy
hardware/hw_cache events on non-hybrid systems, just use the core PMU.

Before:
```
$ perf stat -e cycles,cpu/instructions/ -a sleep 1
 Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

       215,309,764      cycles
        44,326,491      cpu/instructions/

       1.002555314 seconds time elapsed
```
After:
```
$ perf stat -e cycles,cpu/instructions/ -a sleep 1

 Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

       990,676,332      cycles
     1,235,762,487      cpu/instructions/                #    1.25  insn per cycle

       1.002667198 seconds time elapsed
```

Fixes: 3612ca8e2935 ("perf stat: Fix the hard-coded metrics
calculation on the hybrid")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Tested-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/pmus.c        | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
 tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmus.c b/tools/perf/util/pmus.c
index b493da0d22ef..60d81d69503e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmus.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmus.c
@@ -710,11 +710,25 @@ char *perf_pmus__default_pmu_name(void)
 struct perf_pmu *evsel__find_pmu(const struct evsel *evsel)
 {
 	struct perf_pmu *pmu = evsel->pmu;
+	bool legacy_core_type;
 
-	if (!pmu) {
-		pmu = perf_pmus__find_by_type(evsel->core.attr.type);
-		((struct evsel *)evsel)->pmu = pmu;
+	if (pmu)
+		return pmu;
+
+	pmu = perf_pmus__find_by_type(evsel->core.attr.type);
+	legacy_core_type =
+		evsel->core.attr.type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE ||
+		evsel->core.attr.type == PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE;
+	if (!pmu && legacy_core_type) {
+		if (perf_pmus__supports_extended_type()) {
+			u32 type = evsel->core.attr.config >> PERF_PMU_TYPE_SHIFT;
+
+			pmu = perf_pmus__find_by_type(type);
+		} else {
+			pmu = perf_pmus__find_core_pmu();
+		}
 	}
+	((struct evsel *)evsel)->pmu = pmu;
 	return pmu;
 }
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
index 47718610d5d8..109c4a012ce8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ static double find_stat(const struct evsel *evsel, int aggr_idx, enum stat_type
 {
 	struct evsel *cur;
 	int evsel_ctx = evsel_context(evsel);
+	struct perf_pmu *evsel_pmu = evsel__find_pmu(evsel);
 
 	evlist__for_each_entry(evsel->evlist, cur) {
 		struct perf_stat_aggr *aggr;
@@ -177,7 +178,7 @@ static double find_stat(const struct evsel *evsel, int aggr_idx, enum stat_type
 		 * Except the SW CLOCK events,
 		 * ignore if not the PMU we're looking for.
 		 */
-		if ((type != STAT_NSECS) && (evsel->pmu != cur->pmu))
+		if ((type != STAT_NSECS) && (evsel_pmu != evsel__find_pmu(cur)))
 			continue;
 
 		aggr = &cur->stats->aggr[aggr_idx];
-- 
2.47.1.613.gc27f4b7a9f-goog

[PATCH v3 3/4] perf record: Skip don't fail for events that don't open

[Ian Rogers]

Whilst for many tools it is an expected behavior that failure to open
a perf event is a failure, ARM decided to name PMU events the same as
legacy events and then failed to rename such events on a server uncore
SLC PMU. As perf's default behavior when no PMU is specified is to
open the event on all PMUs that advertise/"have" the event, this
yielded failures when trying to make the priority of legacy and
sysfs/json events uniform - something requested by RISC-V and ARM. A
legacy event user on ARM hardware may find their event opened on an
uncore PMU which for perf record will fail. Arnaldo suggested skipping
such events which this patch implements. Rather than have the skipping
conditional on running on ARM, the skipping is done on all
architectures as such a fundamental behavioral difference could lead
to problems with tools built/depending on perf.

An example of perf record failing to open events on x86 is:
```
$ perf record -e data_read,cycles,LLC-prefetch-read -a sleep 0.1
Error:
Failure to open event 'data_read' on PMU 'uncore_imc_free_running_0' which will be removed.
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (data_read).
"dmesg | grep -i perf" may provide additional information.

Error:
Failure to open event 'data_read' on PMU 'uncore_imc_free_running_1' which will be removed.
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (data_read).
"dmesg | grep -i perf" may provide additional information.

Error:
Failure to open event 'LLC-prefetch-read' on PMU 'cpu' which will be removed.
The LLC-prefetch-read event is not supported.
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.188 MB perf.data (87 samples) ]

$ perf report --stats
Aggregated stats:
               TOTAL events:      17255
                MMAP events:        284  ( 1.6%)
                COMM events:       1961  (11.4%)
                EXIT events:          1  ( 0.0%)
                FORK events:       1960  (11.4%)
              SAMPLE events:         87  ( 0.5%)
               MMAP2 events:      12836  (74.4%)
             KSYMBOL events:         83  ( 0.5%)
           BPF_EVENT events:         36  ( 0.2%)
      FINISHED_ROUND events:          2  ( 0.0%)
            ID_INDEX events:          1  ( 0.0%)
          THREAD_MAP events:          1  ( 0.0%)
             CPU_MAP events:          1  ( 0.0%)
           TIME_CONV events:          1  ( 0.0%)
       FINISHED_INIT events:          1  ( 0.0%)
cycles stats:
              SAMPLE events:         87
```

If all events fail to open then the perf record will fail:
```
$ perf record -e LLC-prefetch-read true
Error:
Failure to open event 'LLC-prefetch-read' on PMU 'cpu' which will be removed.
The LLC-prefetch-read event is not supported.
Error:
Failure to open any events for recording
```

This is done by detecting if a dummy event was added by perf and
seeing if the evlist is empty without it. This allows the dummy event
still to be recorded:
```
$ perf record -e dummy true
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.046 MB perf.data ]
```
but fail when inserted:
```
$ perf record -e LLC-prefetch-read -a true
Error:
Failure to open event 'LLC-prefetch-read' on PMU 'cpu' which will be removed.
The LLC-prefetch-read event is not supported.
Error:
Failure to open any events for recording
```

The issue with legacy events is that on RISC-V they want the driver to
not have mappings from legacy to non-legacy config encodings for each
vendor/model due to size, complexity and difficulty to update. It was
reported that on ARM Apple-M? CPUs the legacy mapping in the driver
was broken and the sysfs/json events should always take precedent,
however, it isn't clear this is still the case. It is the case that
without working around this issue a legacy event like cycles without a
PMU can encode differently than when specified with a PMU - the
non-PMU version favoring legacy encodings, the PMU one avoiding legacy
encodings.

The patch removes events and then adjusts the idx value for each
evsel. This is done so that the dense xyarrays used for file
descriptors, etc. don't contain broken entries. As event opening
happens relatively late in the record process, use of the idx value
before the open will have become corrupted, so it is expected there
are latent bugs hidden behind this change - the change is best
effort. As the only vendor that has broken event names is ARM, this
will principally effect ARM users. They will also experience warning
messages like those above because of the uncore PMU advertising legacy
event names.

Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Tested-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 5db1aedf48df..7415036c1724 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ struct record {
 	bool			timestamp_filename;
 	bool			timestamp_boundary;
 	bool			off_cpu;
+	bool			dummy_event_added;
 	const char		*filter_action;
 	struct switch_output	switch_output;
 	unsigned long long	samples;
@@ -961,7 +962,7 @@ static int record__config_tracking_events(struct record *rec)
 	 */
 	if (opts->target.initial_delay || target__has_cpu(&opts->target) ||
 	    perf_pmus__num_core_pmus() > 1) {
-
+		int evlist_entries_before =  evlist->core.nr_entries;
 		/*
 		 * User space tasks can migrate between CPUs, so when tracing
 		 * selected CPUs, sideband for all CPUs is still needed.
@@ -973,6 +974,8 @@ static int record__config_tracking_events(struct record *rec)
 		if (!evsel)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
+		rec->dummy_event_added = evlist->core.nr_entries > evlist_entries_before;
+
 		/*
 		 * Enable the tracking event when the process is forked for
 		 * initial_delay, immediately for system wide.
@@ -1366,6 +1369,7 @@ static int record__open(struct record *rec)
 	struct perf_session *session = rec->session;
 	struct record_opts *opts = &rec->opts;
 	int rc = 0;
+	bool skipped = false;
 
 	evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, pos) {
 try_again:
@@ -1381,15 +1385,33 @@ static int record__open(struct record *rec)
 			        pos = evlist__reset_weak_group(evlist, pos, true);
 				goto try_again;
 			}
-			rc = -errno;
 			evsel__open_strerror(pos, &opts->target, errno, msg, sizeof(msg));
-			ui__error("%s\n", msg);
-			goto out;
+			ui__error("Failure to open event '%s' on PMU '%s' which will be removed.\n%s\n",
+				  evsel__name(pos), evsel__pmu_name(pos), msg);
+			pos->skippable = true;
+			skipped = true;
+		} else {
+			pos->supported = true;
 		}
-
-		pos->supported = true;
 	}
 
+	if (skipped) {
+		struct evsel *tmp;
+		int idx = 0;
+
+		evlist__for_each_entry_safe(evlist, tmp, pos) {
+			if (pos->skippable)
+				evlist__remove(evlist, pos);
+		}
+		evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, pos) {
+			pos->core.idx = idx++;
+		}
+		if (idx == 0 || (idx == 1 && rec->dummy_event_added)) {
+			ui__error("Failure to open any events for recording.\n");
+			rc = -1;
+			goto out;
+		}
+	}
 	if (symbol_conf.kptr_restrict && !evlist__exclude_kernel(evlist)) {
 		pr_warning(
 "WARNING: Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) are restricted,\n"
-- 
2.47.1.613.gc27f4b7a9f-goog

[PATCH v3 4/4] perf parse-events: Reapply "Prefer sysfs/JSON hardware events over legacy"

[Ian Rogers]

Originally posted and merged from:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240416061533.921723-10-irogers@google.com
This reverts commit 4f1b067359ac8364cdb7f9fda41085fa85789d0f although
the patch is now smaller due to related fixes being applied in commit
22a4db3c3603 ("perf evsel: Add alternate_hw_config and use in
evsel__match").
The original commit message was:

It was requested that RISC-V be able to add events to the perf tool so
the PMU driver didn't need to map legacy events to config encodings:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240217005738.3744121-1-atishp@rivosinc.com/

This change makes the priority of events specified without a PMU the
same as those specified with a PMU, namely sysfs and JSON events are
checked first before using the legacy encoding.

The hw_term is made more generic as a hardware_event that encodes a
pair of string and int value, allowing parse_events_multi_pmu_add to
fall back on a known encoding when the sysfs/JSON adding fails for
core events. As this covers PE_VALUE_SYM_HW, that token is removed and
related code simplified.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Beeman Strong <beeman@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 26 +++++++++---
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.l | 76 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 60 ++++++++++++++++++---------
 3 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 1e23faa364b1..3a60fca53cfa 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -1545,8 +1545,8 @@ int parse_events_multi_pmu_add(struct parse_events_state *parse_state,
 	struct list_head *list = NULL;
 	struct perf_pmu *pmu = NULL;
 	YYLTYPE *loc = loc_;
-	int ok = 0;
-	const char *config;
+	int ok = 0, core_ok = 0;
+	const char *tmp;
 	struct parse_events_terms parsed_terms;
 
 	*listp = NULL;
@@ -1559,15 +1559,15 @@ int parse_events_multi_pmu_add(struct parse_events_state *parse_state,
 			return ret;
 	}
 
-	config = strdup(event_name);
-	if (!config)
+	tmp = strdup(event_name);
+	if (!tmp)
 		goto out_err;
 
 	if (parse_events_term__num(&term,
 				   PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_USER,
-				   config, /*num=*/1, /*novalue=*/true,
+				   tmp, /*num=*/1, /*novalue=*/true,
 				   loc, /*loc_val=*/NULL) < 0) {
-		zfree(&config);
+		zfree(&tmp);
 		goto out_err;
 	}
 	list_add_tail(&term->list, &parsed_terms.terms);
@@ -1598,6 +1598,8 @@ int parse_events_multi_pmu_add(struct parse_events_state *parse_state,
 			pr_debug("%s -> %s/%s/\n", event_name, pmu->name, sb.buf);
 			strbuf_release(&sb);
 			ok++;
+			if (pmu->is_core)
+				core_ok++;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -1614,6 +1616,18 @@ int parse_events_multi_pmu_add(struct parse_events_state *parse_state,
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (hw_config != PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX && !core_ok) {
+		/*
+		 * The event wasn't found on core PMUs but it has a hardware
+		 * config version to try.
+		 */
+		if (!parse_events_add_numeric(parse_state, list,
+						PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, hw_config,
+						const_parsed_terms,
+						/*wildcard=*/true))
+			ok++;
+	}
+
 out_err:
 	parse_events_terms__exit(&parsed_terms);
 	if (ok)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
index bf7f73548605..29082a22ccc9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
@@ -113,12 +113,12 @@ do {								\
 	yyless(0);						\
 } while (0)
 
-static int sym(yyscan_t scanner, int type, int config)
+static int sym(yyscan_t scanner, int config)
 {
 	YYSTYPE *yylval = parse_events_get_lval(scanner);
 
-	yylval->num = (type << 16) + config;
-	return type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE ? PE_VALUE_SYM_HW : PE_VALUE_SYM_SW;
+	yylval->num = config;
+	return PE_VALUE_SYM_SW;
 }
 
 static int term(yyscan_t scanner, enum parse_events__term_type type)
@@ -129,13 +129,13 @@ static int term(yyscan_t scanner, enum parse_events__term_type type)
 	return PE_TERM;
 }
 
-static int hw_term(yyscan_t scanner, int config)
+static int hw(yyscan_t scanner, int config)
 {
 	YYSTYPE *yylval = parse_events_get_lval(scanner);
 	char *text = parse_events_get_text(scanner);
 
-	yylval->hardware_term.str = strdup(text);
-	yylval->hardware_term.num = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE + config;
+	yylval->hardware_event.str = strdup(text);
+	yylval->hardware_event.num = config;
 	return PE_TERM_HW;
 }
 
@@ -324,16 +324,16 @@ aux-output		{ return term(yyscanner, PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_AUX_OUTPUT); }
 aux-action		{ return term(yyscanner, PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_AUX_ACTION); }
 aux-sample-size		{ return term(yyscanner, PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_AUX_SAMPLE_SIZE); }
 metric-id		{ return term(yyscanner, PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_METRIC_ID); }
-cpu-cycles|cycles				{ return hw_term(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES); }
-stalled-cycles-frontend|idle-cycles-frontend	{ return hw_term(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND); }
-stalled-cycles-backend|idle-cycles-backend	{ return hw_term(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND); }
-instructions					{ return hw_term(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS); }
-cache-references				{ return hw_term(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES); }
-cache-misses					{ return hw_term(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES); }
-branch-instructions|branches			{ return hw_term(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS); }
-branch-misses					{ return hw_term(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES); }
-bus-cycles					{ return hw_term(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES); }
-ref-cycles					{ return hw_term(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES); }
+cpu-cycles|cycles				{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES); }
+stalled-cycles-frontend|idle-cycles-frontend	{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND); }
+stalled-cycles-backend|idle-cycles-backend	{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND); }
+instructions					{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS); }
+cache-references				{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES); }
+cache-misses					{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES); }
+branch-instructions|branches			{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS); }
+branch-misses					{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES); }
+bus-cycles					{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES); }
+ref-cycles					{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES); }
 r{num_raw_hex}		{ return str(yyscanner, PE_RAW); }
 r0x{num_raw_hex}	{ return str(yyscanner, PE_RAW); }
 ,			{ return ','; }
@@ -377,28 +377,28 @@ r0x{num_raw_hex}	{ return str(yyscanner, PE_RAW); }
 <<EOF>>			{ BEGIN(INITIAL); }
 }
 
-cpu-cycles|cycles				{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES); }
-stalled-cycles-frontend|idle-cycles-frontend	{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND); }
-stalled-cycles-backend|idle-cycles-backend	{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND); }
-instructions					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS); }
-cache-references				{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES); }
-cache-misses					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES); }
-branch-instructions|branches			{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS); }
-branch-misses					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES); }
-bus-cycles					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES); }
-ref-cycles					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES); }
-cpu-clock					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK); }
-task-clock					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK); }
-page-faults|faults				{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS); }
-minor-faults					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MIN); }
-major-faults					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MAJ); }
-context-switches|cs				{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES); }
-cpu-migrations|migrations			{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS); }
-alignment-faults				{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_ALIGNMENT_FAULTS); }
-emulation-faults				{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_EMULATION_FAULTS); }
-dummy						{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY); }
-bpf-output					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUTPUT); }
-cgroup-switches					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_CGROUP_SWITCHES); }
+cpu-cycles|cycles				{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES); }
+stalled-cycles-frontend|idle-cycles-frontend	{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND); }
+stalled-cycles-backend|idle-cycles-backend	{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND); }
+instructions					{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS); }
+cache-references				{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES); }
+cache-misses					{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES); }
+branch-instructions|branches			{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS); }
+branch-misses					{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES); }
+bus-cycles					{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES); }
+ref-cycles					{ return hw(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES); }
+cpu-clock					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK); }
+task-clock					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK); }
+page-faults|faults				{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS); }
+minor-faults					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MIN); }
+major-faults					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MAJ); }
+context-switches|cs				{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES); }
+cpu-migrations|migrations			{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS); }
+alignment-faults				{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_SW_ALIGNMENT_FAULTS); }
+emulation-faults				{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_SW_EMULATION_FAULTS); }
+dummy						{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY); }
+bpf-output					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUTPUT); }
+cgroup-switches					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_COUNT_SW_CGROUP_SWITCHES); }
 
 {lc_type}			{ return str(yyscanner, PE_LEGACY_CACHE); }
 {lc_type}-{lc_op_result}	{ return str(yyscanner, PE_LEGACY_CACHE); }
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
index f888cbb076d6..d2ef1890007e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static void free_list_evsel(struct list_head* list_evsel)
 %}
 
 %token PE_START_EVENTS PE_START_TERMS
-%token PE_VALUE PE_VALUE_SYM_HW PE_VALUE_SYM_SW PE_TERM
+%token PE_VALUE PE_VALUE_SYM_SW PE_TERM
 %token PE_EVENT_NAME
 %token PE_RAW PE_NAME
 %token PE_MODIFIER_EVENT PE_MODIFIER_BP PE_BP_COLON PE_BP_SLASH
@@ -65,11 +65,9 @@ static void free_list_evsel(struct list_head* list_evsel)
 %token PE_DRV_CFG_TERM
 %token PE_TERM_HW
 %type <num> PE_VALUE
-%type <num> PE_VALUE_SYM_HW
 %type <num> PE_VALUE_SYM_SW
 %type <mod> PE_MODIFIER_EVENT
 %type <term_type> PE_TERM
-%type <num> value_sym
 %type <str> PE_RAW
 %type <str> PE_NAME
 %type <str> PE_LEGACY_CACHE
@@ -85,6 +83,7 @@ static void free_list_evsel(struct list_head* list_evsel)
 %type <list_terms> opt_pmu_config
 %destructor { parse_events_terms__delete ($$); } <list_terms>
 %type <list_evsel> event_pmu
+%type <list_evsel> event_legacy_hardware
 %type <list_evsel> event_legacy_symbol
 %type <list_evsel> event_legacy_cache
 %type <list_evsel> event_legacy_mem
@@ -102,8 +101,8 @@ static void free_list_evsel(struct list_head* list_evsel)
 %destructor { free_list_evsel ($$); } <list_evsel>
 %type <tracepoint_name> tracepoint_name
 %destructor { free ($$.sys); free ($$.event); } <tracepoint_name>
-%type <hardware_term> PE_TERM_HW
-%destructor { free ($$.str); } <hardware_term>
+%type <hardware_event> PE_TERM_HW
+%destructor { free ($$.str); } <hardware_event>
 
 %union
 {
@@ -118,10 +117,10 @@ static void free_list_evsel(struct list_head* list_evsel)
 		char *sys;
 		char *event;
 	} tracepoint_name;
-	struct hardware_term {
+	struct hardware_event {
 		char *str;
 		u64 num;
-	} hardware_term;
+	} hardware_event;
 }
 %%
 
@@ -264,6 +263,7 @@ PE_EVENT_NAME event_def
 event_def
 
 event_def: event_pmu |
+	   event_legacy_hardware |
 	   event_legacy_symbol |
 	   event_legacy_cache sep_dc |
 	   event_legacy_mem sep_dc |
@@ -306,24 +306,45 @@ PE_NAME sep_dc
 	$$ = list;
 }
 
-value_sym:
-PE_VALUE_SYM_HW
+event_legacy_hardware:
+PE_TERM_HW opt_pmu_config
+{
+	/* List of created evsels. */
+	struct list_head *list = NULL;
+	int err = parse_events_multi_pmu_add(_parse_state, $1.str, $1.num, $2, &list, &@1);
+
+	free($1.str);
+	parse_events_terms__delete($2);
+	if (err)
+		PE_ABORT(err);
+
+	$$ = list;
+}
 |
-PE_VALUE_SYM_SW
+PE_TERM_HW sep_dc
+{
+	struct list_head *list;
+	int err;
+
+	err = parse_events_multi_pmu_add(_parse_state, $1.str, $1.num, NULL, &list, &@1);
+	free($1.str);
+	if (err)
+		PE_ABORT(err);
+	$$ = list;
+}
 
 event_legacy_symbol:
-value_sym '/' event_config '/'
+PE_VALUE_SYM_SW '/' event_config '/'
 {
 	struct list_head *list;
-	int type = $1 >> 16;
-	int config = $1 & 255;
 	int err;
-	bool wildcard = (type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE || type == PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE);
 
 	list = alloc_list();
 	if (!list)
 		YYNOMEM;
-	err = parse_events_add_numeric(_parse_state, list, type, config, $3, wildcard);
+	err = parse_events_add_numeric(_parse_state, list,
+				/*type=*/PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, /*config=*/$1,
+				$3, /*wildcard=*/false);
 	parse_events_terms__delete($3);
 	if (err) {
 		free_list_evsel(list);
@@ -332,18 +353,17 @@ value_sym '/' event_config '/'
 	$$ = list;
 }
 |
-value_sym sep_slash_slash_dc
+PE_VALUE_SYM_SW sep_slash_slash_dc
 {
 	struct list_head *list;
-	int type = $1 >> 16;
-	int config = $1 & 255;
-	bool wildcard = (type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE || type == PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE);
 	int err;
 
 	list = alloc_list();
 	if (!list)
 		YYNOMEM;
-	err = parse_events_add_numeric(_parse_state, list, type, config, /*head_config=*/NULL, wildcard);
+	err = parse_events_add_numeric(_parse_state, list,
+				/*type=*/PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, /*config=*/$1,
+				/*head_config=*/NULL, /*wildcard=*/false);
 	if (err)
 		PE_ABORT(err);
 	$$ = list;
-- 
2.47.1.613.gc27f4b7a9f-goog

Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Prefer sysfs/JSON events also when no PMU is provided

[James Clark]

On 21/12/2024 7:26 pm, Ian Rogers wrote:
> At the RISC-V summit the topic of avoiding event data being in the
> RISC-V PMU kernel driver came up. There is a preference for sysfs/JSON
> events being the priority when no PMU is provided so that legacy
> events maybe supported via json. Originally Mark Rutland also
> expressed at LPC 2023 that doing this would resolve bugs on ARM Apple
> M? processors, but James Clark more recently tested this and believes
> the driver issues there may not have existed or have been resolved. In
> any case, it is inconsistent that with a PMU event names avoid legacy
> encodings, but when wildcarding PMUs (ie without a PMU with the event
> name) the legacy encodings have priority.
> 
> The patch doing this work was reverted in a v6.10 release candidate
> as, even though the patch was posted for weeks and had been on
> linux-next for weeks without issue, Linus was in the habit of using
> explicit legacy events with unsupported precision options on his
> Neoverse-N1. This machine has SLC PMU events for bus and CPU cycles
> where ARM decided to call the events bus_cycles and cycles, the latter
> being also a legacy event name. ARM haven't renamed the cycles event
> to a more consistent cpu_cycles and avoided the problem. With these
> changes the problematic event will now be skipped, a large warning
> produced, and perf record will continue for the other PMU events. This
> solution was proposed by Arnaldo.
> 
> Two minor changes have been added to help with the error message and
> to work around issues occurring with "perf stat metrics (shadow stat)
> test".
> 
> The patches have only been tested on my x86 non-hybrid laptop.
> 
> v3: Make no events opening for perf record a failure as suggested by
>      James Clark and Aditya Bodkhe <Aditya.Bodkhe1@ibm.com>. Also,
>      rebase.

Looks like this could be interacting with the dummy event for itrace 
events which I must have missed before. Now it "fails" but the exit code 
is 0 which some of the tests rely on. I noticed "Miscellaneous Intel PT 
testing" is failing because its skip mechanism is broken:

$ sudo perf record -e intel_pt/aux-action=start-paused/u
Error:
Failure to open event 'intel_pt/aux-action=start-paused/u' on PMU 
'intel_pt' which will be removed.

$ echo $?
0

So the test thinks it has the aux-action feature but it doesn't.

> v2: Rebase and add tested-by tags from James Clark, Leo Yan and Atish
>      Patra who have tested on RISC-V and ARM CPUs, including the
>      problem case from before.
> 
> Ian Rogers (4):
>    perf evsel: Add pmu_name helper
>    perf stat: Fix find_stat for mixed legacy/non-legacy events
>    perf record: Skip don't fail for events that don't open
>    perf parse-events: Reapply "Prefer sysfs/JSON hardware events over
>      legacy"
> 
>   tools/perf/builtin-record.c    | 34 ++++++++++++---
>   tools/perf/util/evsel.c        | 10 +++++
>   tools/perf/util/evsel.h        |  1 +
>   tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 26 +++++++++---
>   tools/perf/util/parse-events.l | 76 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
>   tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 60 ++++++++++++++++++---------
>   tools/perf/util/pmus.c         | 20 +++++++--
>   tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c  |  3 +-
>   8 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
> 

Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Prefer sysfs/JSON events also when no PMU is provided

[Ian Rogers]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 7:09 AM James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 21/12/2024 7:26 pm, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > At the RISC-V summit the topic of avoiding event data being in the
> > RISC-V PMU kernel driver came up. There is a preference for sysfs/JSON
> > events being the priority when no PMU is provided so that legacy
> > events maybe supported via json. Originally Mark Rutland also
> > expressed at LPC 2023 that doing this would resolve bugs on ARM Apple
> > M? processors, but James Clark more recently tested this and believes
> > the driver issues there may not have existed or have been resolved. In
> > any case, it is inconsistent that with a PMU event names avoid legacy
> > encodings, but when wildcarding PMUs (ie without a PMU with the event
> > name) the legacy encodings have priority.
> >
> > The patch doing this work was reverted in a v6.10 release candidate
> > as, even though the patch was posted for weeks and had been on
> > linux-next for weeks without issue, Linus was in the habit of using
> > explicit legacy events with unsupported precision options on his
> > Neoverse-N1. This machine has SLC PMU events for bus and CPU cycles
> > where ARM decided to call the events bus_cycles and cycles, the latter
> > being also a legacy event name. ARM haven't renamed the cycles event
> > to a more consistent cpu_cycles and avoided the problem. With these
> > changes the problematic event will now be skipped, a large warning
> > produced, and perf record will continue for the other PMU events. This
> > solution was proposed by Arnaldo.
> >
> > Two minor changes have been added to help with the error message and
> > to work around issues occurring with "perf stat metrics (shadow stat)
> > test".
> >
> > The patches have only been tested on my x86 non-hybrid laptop.
> >
> > v3: Make no events opening for perf record a failure as suggested by
> >      James Clark and Aditya Bodkhe <Aditya.Bodkhe1@ibm.com>. Also,
> >      rebase.
>
> Looks like this could be interacting with the dummy event for itrace
> events which I must have missed before. Now it "fails" but the exit code
> is 0 which some of the tests rely on. I noticed "Miscellaneous Intel PT
> testing" is failing because its skip mechanism is broken:
>
> $ sudo perf record -e intel_pt/aux-action=start-paused/u
> Error:
> Failure to open event 'intel_pt/aux-action=start-paused/u' on PMU
> 'intel_pt' which will be removed.
>
> $ echo $?
> 0
>
> So the test thinks it has the aux-action feature but it doesn't.

Thanks James, there is also discussion of this here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAP-5=fX8hWF-PaAE2VKHW3fk1W19xd0hyBVsP3653J9xw-U7VQ@mail.gmail.com/
I think in v3 I need to switch from detecting adding dummy events, to
detecting parsing of dummy events. Then if there is nothing but dummy
events and none were parsed we exit.

Thanks,
Ian

> > v2: Rebase and add tested-by tags from James Clark, Leo Yan and Atish
> >      Patra who have tested on RISC-V and ARM CPUs, including the
> >      problem case from before.
> >
> > Ian Rogers (4):
> >    perf evsel: Add pmu_name helper
> >    perf stat: Fix find_stat for mixed legacy/non-legacy events
> >    perf record: Skip don't fail for events that don't open
> >    perf parse-events: Reapply "Prefer sysfs/JSON hardware events over
> >      legacy"
> >
> >   tools/perf/builtin-record.c    | 34 ++++++++++++---
> >   tools/perf/util/evsel.c        | 10 +++++
> >   tools/perf/util/evsel.h        |  1 +
> >   tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 26 +++++++++---
> >   tools/perf/util/parse-events.l | 76 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
> >   tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 60 ++++++++++++++++++---------
> >   tools/perf/util/pmus.c         | 20 +++++++--
> >   tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c  |  3 +-
> >   8 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
> >
>