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diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-sampling.txt b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-sampling.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d6ca24f6e --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf-sampling.txt @@ -0,0 +1,244 @@ +libperf-sampling(7) +=================== + +NAME +---- +libperf-sampling - sampling interface + + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +The sampling interface provides API to measure and get count for specific perf events. + +The following test tries to explain count on `sampling.c` example. + +It is by no means complete guide to sampling, but shows libperf basic API for sampling. + +The `sampling.c` comes with libperf package and can be compiled and run like: + +[source,bash] +-- +$ gcc -o sampling sampling.c -lperf +$ sudo ./sampling +cpu 0, pid 0, tid 0, ip ffffffffad06c4e6, period 1 +cpu 0, pid 4465, tid 4469, ip ffffffffad118748, period 18322959 +cpu 0, pid 0, tid 0, ip ffffffffad115722, period 33544846 +cpu 0, pid 4465, tid 4470, ip 7f84fe0cdad6, period 23687474 +cpu 0, pid 0, tid 0, ip ffffffffad9e0349, period 34255790 +cpu 0, pid 4465, tid 4469, ip ffffffffad136581, period 38664069 +cpu 0, pid 0, tid 0, ip ffffffffad9e55e2, period 21922384 +cpu 0, pid 4465, tid 4470, ip 7f84fe0ebebf, period 17655175 +... +-- + +It requires root access, because it uses hardware cycles event. + +The `sampling.c` example profiles/samples all CPUs with hardware cycles, in a +nutshell it: + +- creates events +- adds them to the event list +- opens and enables events through the event list +- sleeps for 3 seconds +- disables events +- reads and displays recorded samples +- destroys the event list + +The first thing you need to do before using libperf is to call init function: + +[source,c] +-- + 12 static int libperf_print(enum libperf_print_level level, + 13 const char *fmt, va_list ap) + 14 { + 15 return vfprintf(stderr, fmt, ap); + 16 } + + 23 int main(int argc, char **argv) + 24 { + ... + 40 libperf_init(libperf_print); +-- + +It will setup the library and sets function for debug output from library. + +The `libperf_print` callback will receive any message with its debug level, +defined as: + +[source,c] +-- +enum libperf_print_level { + LIBPERF_ERR, + LIBPERF_WARN, + LIBPERF_INFO, + LIBPERF_DEBUG, + LIBPERF_DEBUG2, + LIBPERF_DEBUG3, +}; +-- + +Once the setup is complete we start by defining cycles event using the `struct perf_event_attr`: + +[source,c] +-- + 29 struct perf_event_attr attr = { + 30 .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, + 31 .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES, + 32 .disabled = 1, + 33 .freq = 1, + 34 .sample_freq = 10, + 35 .sample_type = PERF_SAMPLE_IP|PERF_SAMPLE_TID|PERF_SAMPLE_CPU|PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD, + 36 }; +-- + +Next step is to prepare CPUs map. + +In this case we will monitor all the available CPUs: + +[source,c] +-- + 42 cpus = perf_cpu_map__new(NULL); + 43 if (!cpus) { + 44 fprintf(stderr, "failed to create cpus\n"); + 45 return -1; + 46 } +-- + +Now we create libperf's event list, which will serve as holder for the cycles event: + +[source,c] +-- + 48 evlist = perf_evlist__new(); + 49 if (!evlist) { + 50 fprintf(stderr, "failed to create evlist\n"); + 51 goto out_cpus; + 52 } +-- + +We create libperf's event for the cycles attribute we defined earlier and add it to the list: + +[source,c] +-- + 54 evsel = perf_evsel__new(&attr); + 55 if (!evsel) { + 56 fprintf(stderr, "failed to create cycles\n"); + 57 goto out_cpus; + 58 } + 59 + 60 perf_evlist__add(evlist, evsel); +-- + +Configure event list with the cpus map and open event: + +[source,c] +-- + 62 perf_evlist__set_maps(evlist, cpus, NULL); + 63 + 64 err = perf_evlist__open(evlist); + 65 if (err) { + 66 fprintf(stderr, "failed to open evlist\n"); + 67 goto out_evlist; + 68 } +-- + +Once the events list is open, we can create memory maps AKA perf ring buffers: + +[source,c] +-- + 70 err = perf_evlist__mmap(evlist, 4); + 71 if (err) { + 72 fprintf(stderr, "failed to mmap evlist\n"); + 73 goto out_evlist; + 74 } +-- + +The event is created as disabled (note the `disabled = 1` assignment above), +so we need to enable the events list explicitly. + +From this moment the cycles event is sampling. + +We will sleep for 3 seconds while the ring buffers get data from all CPUs, then we disable the events list. + +[source,c] +-- + 76 perf_evlist__enable(evlist); + 77 sleep(3); + 78 perf_evlist__disable(evlist); +-- + +Following code walks through the ring buffers and reads stored events/samples: + +[source,c] +-- + 80 perf_evlist__for_each_mmap(evlist, map, false) { + 81 if (perf_mmap__read_init(map) < 0) + 82 continue; + 83 + 84 while ((event = perf_mmap__read_event(map)) != NULL) { + + /* process event */ + +108 perf_mmap__consume(map); +109 } +110 perf_mmap__read_done(map); +111 } + +-- + +Each sample needs to get parsed: + +[source,c] +-- + 85 int cpu, pid, tid; + 86 __u64 ip, period, *array; + 87 union u64_swap u; + 88 + 89 array = event->sample.array; + 90 + 91 ip = *array; + 92 array++; + 93 + 94 u.val64 = *array; + 95 pid = u.val32[0]; + 96 tid = u.val32[1]; + 97 array++; + 98 + 99 u.val64 = *array; +100 cpu = u.val32[0]; +101 array++; +102 +103 period = *array; +104 +105 fprintf(stdout, "cpu %3d, pid %6d, tid %6d, ip %20llx, period %20llu\n", +106 cpu, pid, tid, ip, period); +-- + +And finally cleanup. + +We close the whole events list (both events) and remove it together with the threads map: + +[source,c] +-- +113 out_evlist: +114 perf_evlist__delete(evlist); +115 out_cpus: +116 perf_cpu_map__put(cpus); +117 return err; +118 } +-- + +REPORTING BUGS +-------------- +Report bugs to <linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org>. + +LICENSE +------- +libperf is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 + +RESOURCES +--------- +https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git + +SEE ALSO +-------- +libperf(3), libperf-counting(7) |