Re: [PATCH 5/8] perf evlist: Allow reusing the side band thread for more purposes

From: Arnaldo Melo
Date: Fri May 01 2020 - 07:31:49 EST




On May 1, 2020 8:25:52 AM GMT-03:00, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:11:03AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
>wrote:
>> From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I.e. so far we had just one event in that side band thread, a dummy
>one
>> with attr.bpf_event set, so that 'perf record' can go ahead and ask
>the
>> kernel for further information about BPF programs being loaded.
>>
>> Allow for more than one event to be there, so that we can use it as
>> well for the upcoming --switch-output-event feature.
>>
>> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
>> Link:
>http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200427211935.25789-7-acme@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>> tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 1 +
>> 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
>> index 1d0d36da223b..849058766757 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
>> @@ -1777,6 +1777,19 @@ static void *perf_evlist__poll_thread(void
>*arg)
>> return NULL;
>> }
>>
>> +void evlist__set_cb(struct evlist *evlist, perf_evsel__sb_cb_t cb,
>void *data)
>> +{
>> + struct evsel *evsel;
>> +
>> + evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, evsel) {
>> + evsel->core.attr.sample_id_all = 1;
>> + evsel->core.attr.watermark = 1;
>> + evsel->core.attr.wakeup_watermark = 1;
>> + evsel->side_band.cb = cb;
>> + evsel->side_band.data = data;
>> + }
>> +}
>> +
>> int perf_evlist__start_sb_thread(struct evlist *evlist,
>> struct target *target)
>> {
>> @@ -1788,6 +1801,15 @@ int perf_evlist__start_sb_thread(struct evlist
>*evlist,
>> if (perf_evlist__create_maps(evlist, target))
>> goto out_delete_evlist;
>>
>> + if (evlist->core.nr_entries > 1) {
>> + bool can_sample_identifier = perf_can_sample_identifier();
>
>I just found this breaks python, because perf_can_sample_identifier
>is defined in util/record.c

Yeah, I noticed it too, will fix

>
> 19: 'import perf' in python :
> --- start ---
> test child forked, pid 1808205
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: python/perf.so: undefined symbol:
>perf_can_sample_identifier
> test child finished with -1
> ---- end ----
> 'import perf' in python: FAILED!
>
>jirka

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