From: Shivani Nittor <shivani@linux.ibm.com>
To: acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, adrian.hunter@intel.com,
mpetlan@redhat.com, tmricht@linux.ibm.com, maddy@linux.ibm.com,
irogers@google.com, namhyung@kernel.org, ravi.bangoria@amd.com
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
atrajeev@linux.ibm.com, hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Tejas.Manhas1@ibm.com, Tanushree.Shah@ibm.com,
shivani@linux.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH] perf scripts: Add configurable sorting option to powerpc-hcalls
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2026 11:57:17 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260605062717.24982-1-shivani@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
The powerpc-hcalls.py script currently prints hypercall
statistics in a fixed sort order based on the number of
hcall occurrences, making it difficult to analyze hcalls
from different execution characteristics.
Add support for runtime-configurable sorting so users
can order hypercall statistics by count, minimum
latency, maximum latency, or average latency using
a --sort option.
Parse arguments through sys.argv to support perf script
argument passing semantics.
Example:
perf record -a -e powerpc* sleep 10
perf script -s ./powerpc-hcalls.py -i ./perf.data -- --sort=max
SORT KEY = max
hcall count min(ns) max(ns) avg(ns)
H_SEND_LOGICAL_LAN 47 7380 40148 8739
H_VIO_SIGNAL 706 880 17454 1911
H_RANDOM 1 15176 15176 15176
H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT 4 3032 10444 4956
H_ADD_LOGICAL_LAN_BUFFER 363 1250 8716 1534
H_SEND_CRQ 8 2086 6846 3044
H_PUT_TCE 9 1284 4932 2646
H_STUFF_TCE 13 1620 3962 2358
This makes it easier to identify frequently occurring
or high-latency hypercalls depending on the analysis
being performed.
Signed-off-by: Shivani Nittor <shivani@linux.ibm.com>
---
tools/perf/scripts/python/powerpc-hcalls.py | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/scripts/python/powerpc-hcalls.py b/tools/perf/scripts/python/powerpc-hcalls.py
index 8b78dc790adb..df7b83ab0b6e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/scripts/python/powerpc-hcalls.py
+++ b/tools/perf/scripts/python/powerpc-hcalls.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ from Util import *
# } ...
# }
output = {}
+sort_key = 'count'
# d_enter: {
# cpu: {
@@ -158,10 +159,42 @@ def hcall_table_lookup(opcode):
print_ptrn = '%-28s%10s%10s%10s%10s'
+def sort_output(opcode):
+ stats = output[opcode]
+
+ if sort_key == 'min':
+ return stats['min']
+ if sort_key == 'max':
+ return stats['max']
+ if sort_key == 'avg':
+ return stats['time'] // stats['cnt']
+
+ return stats['cnt']
+
+def trace_begin():
+ global sort_key
+
+ i = 1
+ while i < len(sys.argv):
+ arg = sys.argv[i]
+
+ if arg == '-s' or arg == '--sort':
+ sort_key = sys.argv[i + 1]
+ i += 2
+ continue
+
+ if arg.startswith('--sort='):
+ sort_key = arg.split('=', 1)[1]
+
+ i += 1
+
+ print("SORT KEY =", sort_key)
+
def trace_end():
print(print_ptrn % ('hcall', 'count', 'min(ns)', 'max(ns)', 'avg(ns)'))
print('-' * 68)
- for opcode in output:
+ for opcode in sorted(output, key = sort_output,
+ reverse=True):
h_name = hcall_table_lookup(opcode)
time = output[opcode]['time']
cnt = output[opcode]['cnt']
--
2.53.0
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