[PATCH v3 00/35] PMU refactoring and improvements

Ian Rogers
2023-05-24T22:18:43Z

Separate the code in pmu.[ch] into the set/list of PMUs and the code
for a particular PMU. Move the set/list of PMUs code into
pmus.[ch]. Clean up hybrid code and remove hybrid PMU list, it is
sufficient to scan PMUs looking for core ones. Add core PMU list and
perf_pmus__scan_core that just reads core PMUs. Switch code that skips
non-core PMUs during a perf_pmus__scan, to use the
perf_pmus__scan_core variant. Don't scan sysfs for PMUs if all such
PMUs have been previously scanned/loaded. Scanning just core PMUs, for
the cases it is applicable, can improve the sysfs reading time by more
than 4 fold on my laptop, as servers generally have many more uncore
PMUs the improvement there should be larger:

```
$ perf bench internals pmu-scan -i 1000
Computing performance of sysfs PMU event scan for 1000 times
Average core PMU scanning took: 989.231 usec (+- 1.535 usec)
Average PMU scanning took: 4309.425 usec (+- 74.322 usec)
```

The patch "perf pmu: Separate pmu and pmus" moves and renames a lot of
functions, and is consequently large. The changes are trivial, but
kept together to keep the overall number of patches more reasonable.

v3. Address fixing hybrid user specified CPU maps by doing it in
propagate maps. Remove nearly all references to cpu_core/cpu_atom
in particular by removing is_pmu_hybrid - hybrid is now >1 core
PMU. Addresses comments by Kan and Namhyung.
v2. Address Kan's review comments wrt "cycles" -> "cycles:P" and
"uncore_pmus" -> "other_pmus".

Ian Rogers (35):
perf cpumap: Add intersect function
perf tests: Organize cpu_map tests into a single suite
perf cpumap: Add equal function
libperf cpumap: Add "any CPU"/dummy test function
perf pmu: Detect ARM and hybrid PMUs with sysfs
perf pmu: Add is_core to pmu
perf evsel: Add is_pmu_core inorder to interpret own_cpus
perf pmu: Add CPU map for "cpu" PMUs
perf evlist: Propagate user CPU maps intersecting core PMU maps
perf evlist: Allow has_user_cpus to be set on hybrid
perf target: Remove unused hybrid value
perf tools: Warn if no user requested CPUs match PMU's CPUs
perf evlist: Remove evlist__warn_hybrid_group
perf evlist: Remove __evlist__add_default
perf evlist: Reduce scope of evlist__has_hybrid
perf pmu: Remove perf_pmu__hybrid_mounted
perf pmu: Rewrite perf_pmu__has_hybrid to avoid list
perf x86: Iterate hybrid PMUs as core PMUs
perf topology: Avoid hybrid list for hybrid topology
perf evsel: Compute is_hybrid from PMU being core
perf header: Avoid hybrid PMU list in write_pmu_caps
perf metrics: Remove perf_pmu__is_hybrid use
perf stat: Avoid hybrid PMU list
perf mem: Avoid hybrid PMU list
perf pmu: Remove perf_pmu__hybrid_pmus list
perf pmus: Prefer perf_pmu__scan over perf_pmus__for_each_pmu
perf x86 mem: minor refactor to is_mem_loads_aux_event
perf pmu: Separate pmu and pmus
perf pmus: Split pmus list into core and other
perf pmus: Allow just core PMU scanning
perf pmus: Avoid repeated sysfs scanning
perf pmus: Ensure all PMUs are read for find_by_type
perf pmus: Add function to return count of core PMUs
perf pmus: Remove perf_pmus__has_hybrid
perf pmu: Remove is_pmu_hybrid

tools/lib/perf/cpumap.c | 61 +++
tools/lib/perf/evlist.c | 25 +-
tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evsel.h | 9 +
tools/lib/perf/include/perf/cpumap.h | 14 +
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c | 7 +-
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c | 4 +-
tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c | 6 +-
tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/hybrid.c | 7 +-
tools/perf/arch/x86/util/auxtrace.c | 5 +-
tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evlist.c | 25 +-
tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evsel.c | 27 +-
tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-bts.c | 4 +-
tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c | 4 +-
tools/perf/arch/x86/util/mem-events.c | 17 +-
tools/perf/arch/x86/util/perf_regs.c | 15 +-
tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c | 5 +-
tools/perf/bench/pmu-scan.c | 60 +--
tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c | 9 +-
tools/perf/builtin-list.c | 4 +-
tools/perf/builtin-mem.c | 9 +-
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 29 +-
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 14 +-
tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 10 +-
tools/perf/tests/attr.c | 11 +-
tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c | 4 +-
tools/perf/tests/cpumap.c | 92 ++++-
tools/perf/tests/event_groups.c | 7 +-
tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c | 15 +-
tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c | 9 +-
tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c | 6 +-
tools/perf/tests/switch-tracking.c | 14 +-
tools/perf/tests/tests.h | 4 +-
tools/perf/tests/topology.c | 16 +-
tools/perf/util/Build | 2 -
tools/perf/util/cpumap.c | 4 +-
tools/perf/util/cpumap.h | 4 +-
tools/perf/util/cputopo.c | 12 +-
tools/perf/util/env.c | 5 +-
tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.c | 162 --------
tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.h | 15 -
tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 64 +++-
tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 9 +-
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 60 +--
tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 3 -
tools/perf/util/header.c | 27 +-
tools/perf/util/mem-events.c | 25 +-
tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 9 +-
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 25 +-
tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 3 +-
tools/perf/util/pfm.c | 6 +-
tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.c | 52 ---
tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.h | 32 --
tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 483 ++----------------------
tools/perf/util/pmu.h | 25 +-
tools/perf/util/pmus.c | 465 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
tools/perf/util/pmus.h | 15 +-
tools/perf/util/print-events.c | 15 +-
tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources | 1 -
tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 19 +-
tools/perf/util/target.h | 1 -
60 files changed, 1002 insertions(+), 1089 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.c
delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.h
delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.c
delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.h

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