Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 May 2022 14:15:19 -0700 | Subject | [PATCH v2 0/7] Rewrite jevents program in python | From | Ian Rogers <> |
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New architectures bring new complexity, such as Intel's hybrid models. jevents provides an alternative to specifying events in the kernel and exposing them through sysfs, however, it is difficult to work with. For example, an error in the json input would yield an error message but no json file or location. It is also a challenge to update jsmn.c given its forked nature.
The changes here switch from jevents.c to a rewrite in python called jevents.py. This means there is a build time dependency on python, but such a dependency already exists for asciidoc (used to generate perf's man pages). If the build detects that python isn't present or is older than version 3.5 (released Sept. 2015) then an empty file is substituted for the generated one.
A challenge with this code is in avoiding regressions. For this reason the jevents.py produces identical output to jevents.c, validated with a test script and build target.
A difference in the python to the C approach is that the python loads an entire json file in to memory, while the C code works from token to token. In some cases the C approach was sensitive to the order of dictionary items in the json file. To ensure matching output there are two changes made to jevents.c to cause it to read all values before creating output.
The changes also found a bug in Ivytown's UNC_M_ACT_COUNT.RD event encoding, as well as unnecessary whitespace introduced in Alderlake's metrics. In these cases the json input is fixed.
v2. Fixes the build for architectures that don't have pmu-events json (Suggested-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>) and fixes the build for python not being present or too old (Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>/John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>).
Ian Rogers (7): perf jevents: Append PMU description later perf vendor events: Fix Alderlake metric groups perf vendor events: Fix Ivytown UNC_M_ACT_COUNT.RD umask perf jevents: Modify match field perf jevents: Add python converter script perf jevents: Switch build to use jevents.py perf jevents: Remove jevents.c
tools/perf/Makefile.config | 19 + tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 16 +- tools/perf/pmu-events/Build | 15 +- .../arch/x86/alderlake/adl-metrics.json | 32 - .../arch/x86/ivytown/uncore-memory.json | 3 +- tools/perf/pmu-events/empty-pmu-events.c | 21 + tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c | 1322 ----------------- tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py | 392 +++++ tools/perf/pmu-events/jsmn.h | 68 - tools/perf/pmu-events/json.c | 162 -- tools/perf/pmu-events/json.h | 39 - tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c | 30 +- 12 files changed, 460 insertions(+), 1659 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/empty-pmu-events.c delete mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c create mode 100755 tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py delete mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/jsmn.h delete mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/json.c delete mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/json.h
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