Re: [PATCH v6 10/12] perf tools: Improve IBS error handling

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

Em Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 01:16:35PM -0800, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> From: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
> 
> improve the error message returned on failed perf_event_open() on AMD when
> using IBS.
> 
> Output of executing 'perf record -e ibs_op// true' BEFORE this patch:
> 
> The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument)for event (ibs_op//u).
> /bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.

Humm, here on a

  $ grep -m1 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo
  model name	: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
  $ ls -la /sys/devices/ibs_op
  total 0
  drwxr-xr-x.  4 root root    0 Feb  9 07:12 .
  drwxr-xr-x. 21 root root    0 Feb  9 07:12 ..
  drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root    0 Feb  9 12:17 format
  -rw-r--r--.  1 root root 4096 Feb  9 12:21 perf_event_mux_interval_ms
  drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root    0 Feb  9 12:21 power
  lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root    0 Feb  9 07:12 subsystem -> ../../bus/event_source
  -r--r--r--.  1 root root 4096 Feb  9 12:17 type
  -rw-r--r--.  1 root root 4096 Feb  9 07:12 uevent
  $ cat /sys/devices/ibs_op/type
  9
  $

Running without this patch:

  $ uname -a
  Linux five 5.15.14-100.fc34.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 11 16:53:51 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  $

  $ cat /etc/redhat-release
  Fedora release 34 (Thirty Four)
  $

  $ perf record -e ibs_op// true
  Error:
  Invalid event (ibs_op//u) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'.
  $

Trying with system wide:

  $ perf record -a -e ibs_op// true
  Error:
  The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (ibs_op//u).
  /bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.
  
  $

So you're missing -a in all examples? Am I missing something?

> Output after:
> 
> AMD IBS cannot exclude kernel events.  Try running at a higher privilege level.
> 
> Output of executing 'sudo perf record -e ibs_op// true' BEFORE this patch:
> 
> Error:
> The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (ibs_op//).
> /bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.

Here, as root:

[root@five ~]# perf record -e ibs_op// true
Error:
Invalid event (ibs_op//) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'.
[root@five ~]# perf record -a -e ibs_op// true
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.482 MB perf.data (175 samples) ]
[root@five ~]#

- Arnaldo
 
> Output after:
> 
> Error:
> AMD IBS may only be available in system-wide/per-cpu mode.  Try using -a, or -C and workload affinity
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
> Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> index 22d3267ce294..d42f63a484df 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> @@ -2847,9 +2847,22 @@ static bool find_process(const char *name)
>  	return ret ? false : true;
>  }
>  
> +static bool is_amd(const char *arch, const char *cpuid)
> +{
> +	return arch && !strcmp("x86", arch) && cpuid && strstarts(cpuid, "AuthenticAMD");
> +}
> +
> +static bool is_amd_ibs(struct evsel *evsel)
> +{
> +	return evsel->core.attr.precise_ip || !strncmp(evsel->pmu_name, "ibs", 3);
> +}
> +
>  int evsel__open_strerror(struct evsel *evsel, struct target *target,
>  			 int err, char *msg, size_t size)
>  {
> +	struct perf_env *env = evsel__env(evsel);
> +	const char *arch = perf_env__arch(env);
> +	const char *cpuid = perf_env__cpuid(env);
>  	char sbuf[STRERR_BUFSIZE];
>  	int printed = 0, enforced = 0;
>  
> @@ -2949,6 +2962,17 @@ int evsel__open_strerror(struct evsel *evsel, struct target *target,
>  			return scnprintf(msg, size,
>  	"Invalid event (%s) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'.",
>  					evsel__name(evsel));
> +		if (is_amd(arch, cpuid)) {
> +			if (is_amd_ibs(evsel)) {
> +				if (evsel->core.attr.exclude_kernel)
> +					return scnprintf(msg, size,
> +	"AMD IBS can't exclude kernel events.  Try running at a higher privilege level.");
> +				if (!evsel->core.system_wide)
> +					return scnprintf(msg, size,
> +	"AMD IBS may only be available in system-wide/per-cpu mode.  Try using -a, or -C and workload affinity");
> +			}
> +		}
> +
>  		break;
>  	case ENODATA:
>  		return scnprintf(msg, size, "Cannot collect data source with the load latency event alone. "
> -- 
> 2.35.0.263.gb82422642f-goog

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- Arnaldo