[PATCH v3 2/3] perf stat: add rusage utime and stime events

[Florian Fischer]

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 'rusage_user_time'
and 'rusage_system_time' as well as their aliases 'ru_utime' and
'ru_stime', 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,ru_utime,ru_stime,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   ru_utime:u
        16,839,000 ns   ru_stime: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,ru_utime,ru_stime,cache-misses -- grep -q -r duration_time .
72134524,ns,duration_time:u,72134524,100.00,,
65225000,ns,ru_utime:u,65225000,100.00,,
6865000,ns,ru_stime:u,6865000,100.00,,
38705,,cache-misses:u,71189328,100.00,,

Signed-off-by: Florian Fischer <florian.fischer@muhq.space>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c      | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h        |  3 +++
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c |  4 +++-
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.l |  2 ++
 4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 61faffb535f5..c73afc8f6da5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -342,15 +342,35 @@ static int evsel__write_stat_event(struct evsel *counter, int cpu_map_idx, u32 t
 static int read_single_counter(struct evsel *counter, int cpu_map_idx,
 			       int thread, struct timespec *rs)
 {
-	if (counter->tool_event == PERF_TOOL_DURATION_TIME) {
-		u64 val = rs->tv_nsec + rs->tv_sec*1000000000ULL;
-		struct perf_counts_values *count =
-			perf_counts(counter->counts, cpu_map_idx, thread);
-		count->ena = count->run = val;
-		count->val = val;
-		return 0;
+	switch(counter->tool_event) {
+		case PERF_TOOL_DURATION_TIME: {
+			u64 val = rs->tv_nsec + rs->tv_sec*1000000000ULL;
+			struct perf_counts_values *count =
+				perf_counts(counter->counts, cpu_map_idx, thread);
+			count->ena = count->run = val;
+			count->val = val;
+			return 0;
+		}
+		case PERF_TOOL_RU_UTIME:
+		case PERF_TOOL_RU_STIME: {
+			u64 val;
+			struct perf_counts_values *count =
+				perf_counts(counter->counts, cpu_map_idx, thread);
+			if (counter->tool_event == PERF_TOOL_RU_UTIME)
+				val = ru_stats.ru_utime_usec_stat.mean;
+			else
+				val = ru_stats.ru_stime_usec_stat.mean;
+			count->ena = count->run = val;
+			count->val = val;
+			return 0;
+		}
+		default:
+		case PERF_TOOL_NONE:
+			return evsel__read_counter(counter, cpu_map_idx, thread);
+		case PERF_TOOL_LAST:
+			/* this case should never be reached */
+			return 0;
 	}
-	return evsel__read_counter(counter, cpu_map_idx, thread);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index 041b42d33bf5..e89b1224ae61 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ typedef int (evsel__sb_cb_t)(union perf_event *event, void *data);
 enum perf_tool_event {
 	PERF_TOOL_NONE		= 0,
 	PERF_TOOL_DURATION_TIME = 1,
+	PERF_TOOL_RU_UTIME = 2,
+	PERF_TOOL_RU_STIME = 3,
+	PERF_TOOL_LAST
 };
 
 /** struct evsel - event selector
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 24997925ae00..e9d3d4404ea6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -402,7 +402,9 @@ static int add_event_tool(struct list_head *list, int *idx,
 	if (!evsel)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	evsel->tool_event = tool_event;
-	if (tool_event == PERF_TOOL_DURATION_TIME) {
+	if (tool_event == PERF_TOOL_DURATION_TIME
+	    || tool_event == PERF_TOOL_RU_UTIME
+	    || tool_event == PERF_TOOL_RU_STIME) {
 		free((char *)evsel->unit);
 		evsel->unit = strdup("ns");
 	}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
index 5b6e4b5249cf..3c7227b8035c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
@@ -353,6 +353,8 @@ alignment-faults				{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_AL
 emulation-faults				{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_EMULATION_FAULTS); }
 dummy						{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY); }
 duration_time					{ return tool(yyscanner, PERF_TOOL_DURATION_TIME); }
+rusage_user_time|ru_utime	{ return tool(yyscanner, PERF_TOOL_RU_UTIME); }
+rusage_system_time|ru_stime	{ return tool(yyscanner, PERF_TOOL_RU_STIME); }
 bpf-output					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUTPUT); }
 cgroup-switches					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_CGROUP_SWITCHES); }
 
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2.35.1