From 5b7c4cabbb65f5c469464da6c5f614cbd7f730f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:24:12 -0800 Subject: Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core: - Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use. - Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs. - Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers. Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers. - Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns. - Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on boot. - Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan. - Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack. - Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers. Protocols: - Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB). - Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range on socket by socket basis. - Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used. - Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path manager. - IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4). - Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986). - ICMP: add per-rate limit counters. - Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154. - Remove static WEP support. - Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate reporting. - WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP). BPF: - Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure" precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type. - Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and timestamp metadata. - Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect metadata. - Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks. - Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and bpf_trace_vprintk helpers. - Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case. - Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by livepatch and BPF. - Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in different time intervals. - Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64. - Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC. - Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs. - Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF memory accounting for container environments. Netfilter: - Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band /proc interface installed by this target. - Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist. Driver API: - Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right IRQ affinity on AMD platforms. - Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly. - Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress. - Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA) Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of shared medium Ethernet. - Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames. - Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET. - Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and factor out common parts of netlink operation handling. - Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers). - Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning messages with notifications for debug. - Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct. - Add support for per action HW stats in TC. - Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from a specific point in the action chain). - Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to using nl80211 interface instead. - Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling, including the definition of a new default value that will benefit CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance. New hardware / drivers: - Ethernet: - nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver) - Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs - Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY - onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA) - Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP) - Amlogic gxl MDIO mux - WiFi: - RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu) - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k) - CAN: - Renesas R-Car V4H Drivers: - Bluetooth: - Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers. - Ethernet NICs: - Intel (1G, igc): - support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model - Intel (100G, ice): - use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY - multi-buffer XDP support - extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices - nVidia/Mellanox: - update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands - implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control - TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload - more efficient crypto key management method - multi-port eswitch support - Netronome/Corigine: - add DCB IEEE support - support IPsec offloading for NFP3800 - Freescale/NXP (enetc): - support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers - improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle - support MAC Merge layer - Other NICs: - sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100 - ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO) - bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA - r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout - cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G - cpts: support pulse-per-second output - ngbe: add an mdio bus driver - usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing - r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support - amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation - virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP - virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff - tsnep: XDP support - Ethernet high-speed switches: - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw): - add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages) - Microchip (sparx5): - separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make the implicit rules always active - add support for egress DSCP rewrite - IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification) - IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS etc.) - ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control) - support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q, 8.6.5.1) - Ethernet embedded switches: - Marvell (mv88e6xxx): - add MAB (port auth) offload support - enable PTP receive for mv88e6390 - NXP (ocelot): - support MAC Merge layer - support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys - Microchip: - lan9303: convert to PHYLINK - lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics - lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x - lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration - ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet - other: - qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations - rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi): - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting - STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the BIOS to the firmware. - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k): - IPQ5018 support - Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support - channel 177 support - MediaTek WiFi (mt76): - per-PHY LED support - mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support - Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support - switch to using page pool allocator - RealTek WiFi (rtw89): - support new version of Bluetooth co-existance - Mobile: - rmnet: support TX aggregation" * tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits) page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp(). ... --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-python.txt | 679 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 679 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-python.txt (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-python.txt') diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-python.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-python.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cf4b7f4b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script-python.txt @@ -0,0 +1,679 @@ +perf-script-python(1) +==================== + +NAME +---- +perf-script-python - Process trace data with a Python script + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'perf script' [-s [Python]:script[.py] ] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- + +This perf script option is used to process perf script data using perf's +built-in Python interpreter. It reads and processes the input file and +displays the results of the trace analysis implemented in the given +Python script, if any. + +A QUICK EXAMPLE +--------------- + +This section shows the process, start to finish, of creating a working +Python script that aggregates and extracts useful information from a +raw perf script stream. You can avoid reading the rest of this +document if an example is enough for you; the rest of the document +provides more details on each step and lists the library functions +available to script writers. + +This example actually details the steps that were used to create the +'syscall-counts' script you see when you list the available perf script +scripts via 'perf script -l'. As such, this script also shows how to +integrate your script into the list of general-purpose 'perf script' +scripts listed by that command. + +The syscall-counts script is a simple script, but demonstrates all the +basic ideas necessary to create a useful script. Here's an example +of its output (syscall names are not yet supported, they will appear +as numbers): + +---- +syscall events: + +event count +---------------------------------------- ----------- +sys_write 455067 +sys_getdents 4072 +sys_close 3037 +sys_swapoff 1769 +sys_read 923 +sys_sched_setparam 826 +sys_open 331 +sys_newfstat 326 +sys_mmap 217 +sys_munmap 216 +sys_futex 141 +sys_select 102 +sys_poll 84 +sys_setitimer 12 +sys_writev 8 +15 8 +sys_lseek 7 +sys_rt_sigprocmask 6 +sys_wait4 3 +sys_ioctl 3 +sys_set_robust_list 1 +sys_exit 1 +56 1 +sys_access 1 +---- + +Basically our task is to keep a per-syscall tally that gets updated +every time a system call occurs in the system. Our script will do +that, but first we need to record the data that will be processed by +that script. Theoretically, there are a couple of ways we could do +that: + +- we could enable every event under the tracing/events/syscalls + directory, but this is over 600 syscalls, well beyond the number + allowable by perf. These individual syscall events will however be + useful if we want to later use the guidance we get from the + general-purpose scripts to drill down and get more detail about + individual syscalls of interest. + +- we can enable the sys_enter and/or sys_exit syscalls found under + tracing/events/raw_syscalls. These are called for all syscalls; the + 'id' field can be used to distinguish between individual syscall + numbers. + +For this script, we only need to know that a syscall was entered; we +don't care how it exited, so we'll use 'perf record' to record only +the sys_enter events: + +---- +# perf record -a -e raw_syscalls:sys_enter + +^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] +[ perf record: Captured and wrote 56.545 MB perf.data (~2470503 samples) ] +---- + +The options basically say to collect data for every syscall event +system-wide and multiplex the per-cpu output into a single stream. +That single stream will be recorded in a file in the current directory +called perf.data. + +Once we have a perf.data file containing our data, we can use the -g +'perf script' option to generate a Python script that will contain a +callback handler for each event type found in the perf.data trace +stream (for more details, see the STARTER SCRIPTS section). + +---- +# perf script -g python +generated Python script: perf-script.py + +The output file created also in the current directory is named +perf-script.py. Here's the file in its entirety: + +# perf script event handlers, generated by perf script -g python +# Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL License version 2 + +# The common_* event handler fields are the most useful fields common to +# all events. They don't necessarily correspond to the 'common_*' fields +# in the format files. Those fields not available as handler params can +# be retrieved using Python functions of the form common_*(context). +# See the perf-script-python Documentation for the list of available functions. + +import os +import sys + +sys.path.append(os.environ['PERF_EXEC_PATH'] + \ + '/scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/lib/Perf/Trace') + +from perf_trace_context import * +from Core import * + +def trace_begin(): + print "in trace_begin" + +def trace_end(): + print "in trace_end" + +def raw_syscalls__sys_enter(event_name, context, common_cpu, + common_secs, common_nsecs, common_pid, common_comm, + id, args): + print_header(event_name, common_cpu, common_secs, common_nsecs, + common_pid, common_comm) + + print "id=%d, args=%s\n" % \ + (id, args), + +def trace_unhandled(event_name, context, event_fields_dict): + print ' '.join(['%s=%s'%(k,str(v))for k,v in sorted(event_fields_dict.items())]) + +def print_header(event_name, cpu, secs, nsecs, pid, comm): + print "%-20s %5u %05u.%09u %8u %-20s " % \ + (event_name, cpu, secs, nsecs, pid, comm), +---- + +At the top is a comment block followed by some import statements and a +path append which every perf script script should include. + +Following that are a couple generated functions, trace_begin() and +trace_end(), which are called at the beginning and the end of the +script respectively (for more details, see the SCRIPT_LAYOUT section +below). + +Following those are the 'event handler' functions generated one for +every event in the 'perf record' output. The handler functions take +the form subsystem\__event_name, and contain named parameters, one for +each field in the event; in this case, there's only one event, +raw_syscalls__sys_enter(). (see the EVENT HANDLERS section below for +more info on event handlers). + +The final couple of functions are, like the begin and end functions, +generated for every script. The first, trace_unhandled(), is called +every time the script finds an event in the perf.data file that +doesn't correspond to any event handler in the script. This could +mean either that the record step recorded event types that it wasn't +really interested in, or the script was run against a trace file that +doesn't correspond to the script. + +The script generated by -g option simply prints a line for each +event found in the trace stream i.e. it basically just dumps the event +and its parameter values to stdout. The print_header() function is +simply a utility function used for that purpose. Let's rename the +script and run it to see the default output: + +---- +# mv perf-script.py syscall-counts.py +# perf script -s syscall-counts.py + +raw_syscalls__sys_enter 1 00840.847582083 7506 perf id=1, args= +raw_syscalls__sys_enter 1 00840.847595764 7506 perf id=1, args= +raw_syscalls__sys_enter 1 00840.847620860 7506 perf id=1, args= +raw_syscalls__sys_enter 1 00840.847710478 6533 npviewer.bin id=78, args= +raw_syscalls__sys_enter 1 00840.847719204 6533 npviewer.bin id=142, args= +raw_syscalls__sys_enter 1 00840.847755445 6533 npviewer.bin id=3, args= +raw_syscalls__sys_enter 1 00840.847775601 6533 npviewer.bin id=3, args= +raw_syscalls__sys_enter 1 00840.847781820 6533 npviewer.bin id=3, args= +. +. +. +---- + +Of course, for this script, we're not interested in printing every +trace event, but rather aggregating it in a useful way. So we'll get +rid of everything to do with printing as well as the trace_begin() and +trace_unhandled() functions, which we won't be using. That leaves us +with this minimalistic skeleton: + +---- +import os +import sys + +sys.path.append(os.environ['PERF_EXEC_PATH'] + \ + '/scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/lib/Perf/Trace') + +from perf_trace_context import * +from Core import * + +def trace_end(): + print "in trace_end" + +def raw_syscalls__sys_enter(event_name, context, common_cpu, + common_secs, common_nsecs, common_pid, common_comm, + id, args): +---- + +In trace_end(), we'll simply print the results, but first we need to +generate some results to print. To do that we need to have our +sys_enter() handler do the necessary tallying until all events have +been counted. A hash table indexed by syscall id is a good way to +store that information; every time the sys_enter() handler is called, +we simply increment a count associated with that hash entry indexed by +that syscall id: + +---- + syscalls = autodict() + + try: + syscalls[id] += 1 + except TypeError: + syscalls[id] = 1 +---- + +The syscalls 'autodict' object is a special kind of Python dictionary +(implemented in Core.py) that implements Perl's 'autovivifying' hashes +in Python i.e. with autovivifying hashes, you can assign nested hash +values without having to go to the trouble of creating intermediate +levels if they don't exist e.g syscalls[comm][pid][id] = 1 will create +the intermediate hash levels and finally assign the value 1 to the +hash entry for 'id' (because the value being assigned isn't a hash +object itself, the initial value is assigned in the TypeError +exception. Well, there may be a better way to do this in Python but +that's what works for now). + +Putting that code into the raw_syscalls__sys_enter() handler, we +effectively end up with a single-level dictionary keyed on syscall id +and having the counts we've tallied as values. + +The print_syscall_totals() function iterates over the entries in the +dictionary and displays a line for each entry containing the syscall +name (the dictionary keys contain the syscall ids, which are passed to +the Util function syscall_name(), which translates the raw syscall +numbers to the corresponding syscall name strings). The output is +displayed after all the events in the trace have been processed, by +calling the print_syscall_totals() function from the trace_end() +handler called at the end of script processing. + +The final script producing the output shown above is shown in its +entirety below (syscall_name() helper is not yet available, you can +only deal with id's for now): + +---- +import os +import sys + +sys.path.append(os.environ['PERF_EXEC_PATH'] + \ + '/scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/lib/Perf/Trace') + +from perf_trace_context import * +from Core import * +from Util import * + +syscalls = autodict() + +def trace_end(): + print_syscall_totals() + +def raw_syscalls__sys_enter(event_name, context, common_cpu, + common_secs, common_nsecs, common_pid, common_comm, + id, args): + try: + syscalls[id] += 1 + except TypeError: + syscalls[id] = 1 + +def print_syscall_totals(): + if for_comm is not None: + print "\nsyscall events for %s:\n\n" % (for_comm), + else: + print "\nsyscall events:\n\n", + + print "%-40s %10s\n" % ("event", "count"), + print "%-40s %10s\n" % ("----------------------------------------", \ + "-----------"), + + for id, val in sorted(syscalls.iteritems(), key = lambda(k, v): (v, k), \ + reverse = True): + print "%-40s %10d\n" % (syscall_name(id), val), +---- + +The script can be run just as before: + + # perf script -s syscall-counts.py + +So those are the essential steps in writing and running a script. The +process can be generalized to any tracepoint or set of tracepoints +you're interested in - basically find the tracepoint(s) you're +interested in by looking at the list of available events shown by +'perf list' and/or look in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/ for +detailed event and field info, record the corresponding trace data +using 'perf record', passing it the list of interesting events, +generate a skeleton script using 'perf script -g python' and modify the +code to aggregate and display it for your particular needs. + +After you've done that you may end up with a general-purpose script +that you want to keep around and have available for future use. By +writing a couple of very simple shell scripts and putting them in the +right place, you can have your script listed alongside the other +scripts listed by the 'perf script -l' command e.g.: + +---- +# perf script -l +List of available trace scripts: + wakeup-latency system-wide min/max/avg wakeup latency + rw-by-file r/w activity for a program, by file + rw-by-pid system-wide r/w activity +---- + +A nice side effect of doing this is that you also then capture the +probably lengthy 'perf record' command needed to record the events for +the script. + +To have the script appear as a 'built-in' script, you write two simple +scripts, one for recording and one for 'reporting'. + +The 'record' script is a shell script with the same base name as your +script, but with -record appended. The shell script should be put +into the perf/scripts/python/bin directory in the kernel source tree. +In that script, you write the 'perf record' command-line needed for +your script: + +---- +# cat kernel-source/tools/perf/scripts/python/bin/syscall-counts-record + +#!/bin/bash +perf record -a -e raw_syscalls:sys_enter +---- + +The 'report' script is also a shell script with the same base name as +your script, but with -report appended. It should also be located in +the perf/scripts/python/bin directory. In that script, you write the +'perf script -s' command-line needed for running your script: + +---- +# cat kernel-source/tools/perf/scripts/python/bin/syscall-counts-report + +#!/bin/bash +# description: system-wide syscall counts +perf script -s ~/libexec/perf-core/scripts/python/syscall-counts.py +---- + +Note that the location of the Python script given in the shell script +is in the libexec/perf-core/scripts/python directory - this is where +the script will be copied by 'make install' when you install perf. +For the installation to install your script there, your script needs +to be located in the perf/scripts/python directory in the kernel +source tree: + +---- +# ls -al kernel-source/tools/perf/scripts/python +total 32 +drwxr-xr-x 4 trz trz 4096 2010-01-26 22:30 . +drwxr-xr-x 4 trz trz 4096 2010-01-26 22:29 .. +drwxr-xr-x 2 trz trz 4096 2010-01-26 22:29 bin +-rw-r--r-- 1 trz trz 2548 2010-01-26 22:29 check-perf-script.py +drwxr-xr-x 3 trz trz 4096 2010-01-26 22:49 Perf-Trace-Util +-rw-r--r-- 1 trz trz 1462 2010-01-26 22:30 syscall-counts.py +---- + +Once you've done that (don't forget to do a new 'make install', +otherwise your script won't show up at run-time), 'perf script -l' +should show a new entry for your script: + +---- +# perf script -l +List of available trace scripts: + wakeup-latency system-wide min/max/avg wakeup latency + rw-by-file r/w activity for a program, by file + rw-by-pid system-wide r/w activity + syscall-counts system-wide syscall counts +---- + +You can now perform the record step via 'perf script record': + + # perf script record syscall-counts + +and display the output using 'perf script report': + + # perf script report syscall-counts + +STARTER SCRIPTS +--------------- + +You can quickly get started writing a script for a particular set of +trace data by generating a skeleton script using 'perf script -g +python' in the same directory as an existing perf.data trace file. +That will generate a starter script containing a handler for each of +the event types in the trace file; it simply prints every available +field for each event in the trace file. + +You can also look at the existing scripts in +~/libexec/perf-core/scripts/python for typical examples showing how to +do basic things like aggregate event data, print results, etc. Also, +the check-perf-script.py script, while not interesting for its results, +attempts to exercise all of the main scripting features. + +EVENT HANDLERS +-------------- + +When perf script is invoked using a trace script, a user-defined +'handler function' is called for each event in the trace. If there's +no handler function defined for a given event type, the event is +ignored (or passed to a 'trace_unhandled' function, see below) and the +next event is processed. + +Most of the event's field values are passed as arguments to the +handler function; some of the less common ones aren't - those are +available as calls back into the perf executable (see below). + +As an example, the following perf record command can be used to record +all sched_wakeup events in the system: + + # perf record -a -e sched:sched_wakeup + +Traces meant to be processed using a script should be recorded with +the above option: -a to enable system-wide collection. + +The format file for the sched_wakeup event defines the following fields +(see /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/format): + +---- + format: + field:unsigned short common_type; + field:unsigned char common_flags; + field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; + field:int common_pid; + + field:char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; + field:pid_t pid; + field:int prio; + field:int success; + field:int target_cpu; +---- + +The handler function for this event would be defined as: + +---- +def sched__sched_wakeup(event_name, context, common_cpu, common_secs, + common_nsecs, common_pid, common_comm, + comm, pid, prio, success, target_cpu): + pass +---- + +The handler function takes the form subsystem__event_name. + +The common_* arguments in the handler's argument list are the set of +arguments passed to all event handlers; some of the fields correspond +to the common_* fields in the format file, but some are synthesized, +and some of the common_* fields aren't common enough to to be passed +to every event as arguments but are available as library functions. + +Here's a brief description of each of the invariant event args: + + event_name the name of the event as text + context an opaque 'cookie' used in calls back into perf + common_cpu the cpu the event occurred on + common_secs the secs portion of the event timestamp + common_nsecs the nsecs portion of the event timestamp + common_pid the pid of the current task + common_comm the name of the current process + +All of the remaining fields in the event's format file have +counterparts as handler function arguments of the same name, as can be +seen in the example above. + +The above provides the basics needed to directly access every field of +every event in a trace, which covers 90% of what you need to know to +write a useful trace script. The sections below cover the rest. + +SCRIPT LAYOUT +------------- + +Every perf script Python script should start by setting up a Python +module search path and 'import'ing a few support modules (see module +descriptions below): + +---- + import os + import sys + + sys.path.append(os.environ['PERF_EXEC_PATH'] + \ + '/scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/lib/Perf/Trace') + + from perf_trace_context import * + from Core import * +---- + +The rest of the script can contain handler functions and support +functions in any order. + +Aside from the event handler functions discussed above, every script +can implement a set of optional functions: + +*trace_begin*, if defined, is called before any event is processed and +gives scripts a chance to do setup tasks: + +---- +def trace_begin(): + pass +---- + +*trace_end*, if defined, is called after all events have been + processed and gives scripts a chance to do end-of-script tasks, such + as display results: + +---- +def trace_end(): + pass +---- + +*trace_unhandled*, if defined, is called after for any event that + doesn't have a handler explicitly defined for it. The standard set + of common arguments are passed into it: + +---- +def trace_unhandled(event_name, context, event_fields_dict): + pass +---- + +*process_event*, if defined, is called for any non-tracepoint event + +---- +def process_event(param_dict): + pass +---- + +*context_switch*, if defined, is called for any context switch + +---- +def context_switch(ts, cpu, pid, tid, np_pid, np_tid, machine_pid, out, out_preempt, *x): + pass +---- + +*auxtrace_error*, if defined, is called for any AUX area tracing error + +---- +def auxtrace_error(typ, code, cpu, pid, tid, ip, ts, msg, cpumode, *x): + pass +---- + +The remaining sections provide descriptions of each of the available +built-in perf script Python modules and their associated functions. + +AVAILABLE MODULES AND FUNCTIONS +------------------------------- + +The following sections describe the functions and variables available +via the various perf script Python modules. To use the functions and +variables from the given module, add the corresponding 'from XXXX +import' line to your perf script script. + +Core.py Module +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +These functions provide some essential functions to user scripts. + +The *flag_str* and *symbol_str* functions provide human-readable +strings for flag and symbolic fields. These correspond to the strings +and values parsed from the 'print fmt' fields of the event format +files: + + flag_str(event_name, field_name, field_value) - returns the string representation corresponding to field_value for the flag field field_name of event event_name + symbol_str(event_name, field_name, field_value) - returns the string representation corresponding to field_value for the symbolic field field_name of event event_name + +The *autodict* function returns a special kind of Python +dictionary that implements Perl's 'autovivifying' hashes in Python +i.e. with autovivifying hashes, you can assign nested hash values +without having to go to the trouble of creating intermediate levels if +they don't exist. + + autodict() - returns an autovivifying dictionary instance + + +perf_trace_context Module +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Some of the 'common' fields in the event format file aren't all that +common, but need to be made accessible to user scripts nonetheless. + +perf_trace_context defines a set of functions that can be used to +access this data in the context of the current event. Each of these +functions expects a context variable, which is the same as the +context variable passed into every tracepoint event handler as the second +argument. For non-tracepoint events, the context variable is also present +as perf_trace_context.perf_script_context . + + common_pc(context) - returns common_preempt count for the current event + common_flags(context) - returns common_flags for the current event + common_lock_depth(context) - returns common_lock_depth for the current event + perf_sample_insn(context) - returns the machine code instruction + perf_set_itrace_options(context, itrace_options) - set --itrace options if they have not been set already + perf_sample_srcline(context) - returns source_file_name, line_number + perf_sample_srccode(context) - returns source_file_name, line_number, source_line + + +Util.py Module +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Various utility functions for use with perf script: + + nsecs(secs, nsecs) - returns total nsecs given secs/nsecs pair + nsecs_secs(nsecs) - returns whole secs portion given nsecs + nsecs_nsecs(nsecs) - returns nsecs remainder given nsecs + nsecs_str(nsecs) - returns printable string in the form secs.nsecs + avg(total, n) - returns average given a sum and a total number of values + +SUPPORTED FIELDS +---------------- + +Currently supported fields: + +ev_name, comm, pid, tid, cpu, ip, time, period, phys_addr, addr, +symbol, symoff, dso, time_enabled, time_running, values, callchain, +brstack, brstacksym, datasrc, datasrc_decode, iregs, uregs, +weight, transaction, raw_buf, attr, cpumode. + +Fields that may also be present: + + flags - sample flags + flags_disp - sample flags display + insn_cnt - instruction count for determining instructions-per-cycle (IPC) + cyc_cnt - cycle count for determining IPC + addr_correlates_sym - addr can correlate to a symbol + addr_dso - addr dso + addr_symbol - addr symbol + addr_symoff - addr symbol offset + +Some fields have sub items: + +brstack: + from, to, from_dsoname, to_dsoname, mispred, + predicted, in_tx, abort, cycles. + +brstacksym: + items: from, to, pred, in_tx, abort (converted string) + +For example, +We can use this code to print brstack "from", "to", "cycles". + +if 'brstack' in dict: + for entry in dict['brstack']: + print "from %s, to %s, cycles %s" % (entry["from"], entry["to"], entry["cycles"]) + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkperf:perf-script[1] -- cgit v1.2.3