linux-stable/tools/perf
Florian Fischer b03b89b350 perf stat: Add user_time and system_time events
It bothered me that during benchmarking using 'perf stat' (to collect
for example CPU cache events) I could not simultaneously retrieve the
times spend in user or kernel mode in a machine readable format.

When running 'perf stat' the output for humans contains the times
reported by rusage and wait4.

  $ perf stat -e cache-misses:u -- true

   Performance counter stats for 'true':

             4,206      cache-misses:u

       0.001113619 seconds time elapsed

       0.001175000 seconds user
       0.000000000 seconds sys

But 'perf stat's machine-readable format does not provide this information.

  $ perf stat -x, -e cache-misses:u -- true
  4282,,cache-misses:u,492859,100.00,,

I found no way to retrieve this information using the available events
while using machine-readable output.

This patch adds two new tool internal events 'user_time' and
'system_time', similarly to the already present 'duration_time' event.

Both events use the already collected rusage information obtained by
wait4 and tracked in the global ru_stats.

Examples presenting cache-misses and rusage information in both human
and machine-readable form:

  $ perf stat -e duration_time,user_time,system_time,cache-misses -- grep -q -r duration_time .

   Performance counter stats for 'grep -q -r duration_time .':

        67,422,542 ns   duration_time:u
        50,517,000 ns   user_time:u
        16,839,000 ns   system_time:u
            30,937      cache-misses:u

       0.067422542 seconds time elapsed

       0.050517000 seconds user
       0.016839000 seconds sys

  $ perf stat -x, -e duration_time,user_time,system_time,cache-misses -- grep -q -r duration_time .
  72134524,ns,duration_time:u,72134524,100.00,,
  65225000,ns,user_time:u,65225000,100.00,,
  6865000,ns,system_time:u,6865000,100.00,,
  38705,,cache-misses:u,71189328,100.00,,

Signed-off-by: Florian Fischer <florian.fischer@muhq.space>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420102354.468173-3-florian.fischer@muhq.space
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2022-04-20 13:44:56 -03:00
..
arch perf jitdump: Add riscv64 support 2022-04-11 16:37:26 -03:00
bench perf bench: Fix epoll bench to correct usage of affinity for machines with #CPUs > 1K 2022-04-09 12:34:29 -03:00
dlfilters
Documentation perf docs: Add man page entry for Arm SPE 2022-04-14 08:54:03 -03:00
examples/bpf
include
jvmti
pmu-events perf vendor events intel: Update goldmont event topics 2022-04-18 12:38:28 -03:00
python perf python: Convert tracepoint.py example to python3 2022-04-01 16:19:35 -03:00
scripts perf scripts python: export-to-postgresql.py: Export all sample flags 2022-02-15 17:15:07 -03:00
tests perf test: Add basic perf record tests 2022-04-14 09:10:12 -03:00
trace perf beauty: Update copy of linux/socket.h with the kernel sources 2022-04-01 16:19:34 -03:00
ui
util perf stat: Add user_time and system_time events 2022-04-20 13:44:56 -03:00
.gitignore
Build
builtin-annotate.c perf annotate: Remove redundant 'ret' variable 2022-02-16 10:38:55 -03:00
builtin-bench.c
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf record: Disable debuginfod by default 2022-01-15 17:41:25 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c
builtin-c2c.c perf tools: Enhance the matching of sub-commands abbreviations 2022-03-26 10:55:57 -03:00
builtin-config.c
builtin-daemon.c
builtin-data.c perf data: Don't mention --to-ctf if it's not supported 2022-02-22 21:23:08 -03:00
builtin-diff.c
builtin-evlist.c
builtin-ftrace.c perf evlist: Rename cpus to user_requested_cpus 2022-04-01 16:19:35 -03:00
builtin-help.c
builtin-inject.c perf namespaces: Add functions to access nsinfo 2022-02-11 14:31:22 -03:00
builtin-kallsyms.c
builtin-kmem.c perf tools: Enhance the matching of sub-commands abbreviations 2022-03-26 10:55:57 -03:00
builtin-kvm.c perf tools: Enhance the matching of sub-commands abbreviations 2022-03-26 10:55:57 -03:00
builtin-list.c
builtin-lock.c perf tools: Enhance the matching of sub-commands abbreviations 2022-03-26 10:55:57 -03:00
builtin-mem.c perf tools: Enhance the matching of sub-commands abbreviations 2022-03-26 10:55:57 -03:00
builtin-probe.c perf namespaces: Add functions to access nsinfo 2022-02-11 14:31:22 -03:00
builtin-record.c perf evlist: Rename cpus to user_requested_cpus 2022-04-01 16:19:35 -03:00
builtin-report.c perf tui: Only support --tui with slang 2022-02-15 17:15:29 -03:00
builtin-sched.c perf tools: Enhance the matching of sub-commands abbreviations 2022-03-26 10:55:57 -03:00
builtin-script.c perf tools: Enhance the matching of sub-commands abbreviations 2022-03-26 10:55:57 -03:00
builtin-stat.c perf stat: Add user_time and system_time events 2022-04-20 13:44:56 -03:00
builtin-timechart.c perf tools: Enhance the matching of sub-commands abbreviations 2022-03-26 10:55:57 -03:00
builtin-top.c perf evlist: Rename cpus to user_requested_cpus 2022-04-01 16:19:35 -03:00
builtin-trace.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core 2022-02-17 18:40:54 -03:00
builtin-version.c perf version: Add HAVE_DEBUGINFOD_SUPPORT to built-in features 2022-04-20 13:32:09 -03:00
builtin.h
check-headers.sh tools arm64: Import cputype.h 2022-03-26 10:53:45 -03:00
command-list.txt
CREDITS
design.txt
Makefile
Makefile.config perf build: Don't use -ffat-lto-objects in the python feature test when building with clang-13 2022-04-09 12:34:29 -03:00
Makefile.perf perf tools: Stop depending on .git files for building PERF-VERSION-FILE 2022-04-01 16:19:35 -03:00
MANIFEST
perf-archive.sh
perf-completion.sh
perf-iostat.sh
perf-read-vdso.c
perf-sys.h
perf-with-kcore.sh
perf.c perf tools: Add external commands to list-cmds 2022-04-09 14:21:00 -03:00
perf.h