Commit f4f48e9c authored by Jiri Olsa's avatar Jiri Olsa Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

libperf: Initial documentation

Add initial drafts of documentation files, hugely unfinished.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190721112506.12306-80-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 02266a2d
all:
rst2man man/libperf.rst > man/libperf.7
rst2pdf tutorial/tutorial.rst
clean:
rm -f man/libperf.7
rm -f tutorial/tutorial.pdf
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause)
libperf
The libperf library provides an API to access the linux kernel perf
events subsystem. It provides the following high level objects:
- struct perf_cpu_map
- struct perf_thread_map
- struct perf_evlist
- struct perf_evsel
reference
=========
Function reference by header files:
perf/core.h
-----------
.. code-block:: c
typedef int (\*libperf_print_fn_t)(enum libperf_print_level level,
const char \*, va_list ap);
void libperf_set_print(libperf_print_fn_t fn);
perf/cpumap.h
-------------
.. code-block:: c
struct perf_cpu_map \*perf_cpu_map__dummy_new(void);
struct perf_cpu_map \*perf_cpu_map__new(const char \*cpu_list);
struct perf_cpu_map \*perf_cpu_map__read(FILE \*file);
struct perf_cpu_map \*perf_cpu_map__get(struct perf_cpu_map \*map);
void perf_cpu_map__put(struct perf_cpu_map \*map);
int perf_cpu_map__cpu(const struct perf_cpu_map \*cpus, int idx);
int perf_cpu_map__nr(const struct perf_cpu_map \*cpus);
perf_cpu_map__for_each_cpu(cpu, idx, cpus)
perf/threadmap.h
----------------
.. code-block:: c
struct perf_thread_map \*perf_thread_map__new_dummy(void);
void perf_thread_map__set_pid(struct perf_thread_map \*map, int thread, pid_t pid);
char \*perf_thread_map__comm(struct perf_thread_map \*map, int thread);
struct perf_thread_map \*perf_thread_map__get(struct perf_thread_map \*map);
void perf_thread_map__put(struct perf_thread_map \*map);
perf/evlist.h
-------------
.. code-block::
void perf_evlist__init(struct perf_evlist \*evlist);
void perf_evlist__add(struct perf_evlist \*evlist,
struct perf_evsel \*evsel);
void perf_evlist__remove(struct perf_evlist \*evlist,
struct perf_evsel \*evsel);
struct perf_evlist \*perf_evlist__new(void);
void perf_evlist__delete(struct perf_evlist \*evlist);
struct perf_evsel\* perf_evlist__next(struct perf_evlist \*evlist,
struct perf_evsel \*evsel);
int perf_evlist__open(struct perf_evlist \*evlist);
void perf_evlist__close(struct perf_evlist \*evlist);
void perf_evlist__enable(struct perf_evlist \*evlist);
void perf_evlist__disable(struct perf_evlist \*evlist);
perf_evlist__for_each_evsel(evlist, pos)
void perf_evlist__set_maps(struct perf_evlist \*evlist,
struct perf_cpu_map \*cpus,
struct perf_thread_map \*threads);
perf/evsel.h
------------
.. code-block:: c
struct perf_counts_values {
union {
struct {
uint64_t val;
uint64_t ena;
uint64_t run;
};
uint64_t values[3];
};
};
void perf_evsel__init(struct perf_evsel \*evsel,
struct perf_event_attr \*attr);
struct perf_evsel \*perf_evsel__new(struct perf_event_attr \*attr);
void perf_evsel__delete(struct perf_evsel \*evsel);
int perf_evsel__open(struct perf_evsel \*evsel, struct perf_cpu_map \*cpus,
struct perf_thread_map \*threads);
void perf_evsel__close(struct perf_evsel \*evsel);
int perf_evsel__read(struct perf_evsel \*evsel, int cpu, int thread,
struct perf_counts_values \*count);
int perf_evsel__enable(struct perf_evsel \*evsel);
int perf_evsel__disable(struct perf_evsel \*evsel);
int perf_evsel__apply_filter(struct perf_evsel \*evsel, const char \*filter);
struct perf_cpu_map \*perf_evsel__cpus(struct perf_evsel \*evsel);
struct perf_thread_map \*perf_evsel__threads(struct perf_evsel \*evsel);
struct perf_event_attr \*perf_evsel__attr(struct perf_evsel \*evsel);
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause)
libperf tutorial
================
Compile and install libperf from kernel sources
===============================================
.. code-block:: bash
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
cd linux/tools/perf/lib
make
sudo make install prefix=/usr
Libperf object
==============
The libperf library provides several high level objects:
struct perf_cpu_map
Provides a cpu list abstraction.
struct perf_thread_map
Provides a thread list abstraction.
struct perf_evsel
Provides an abstraction for single a perf event.
struct perf_evlist
Gathers several struct perf_evsel object and performs functions on all of them.
The exported API binds these objects together,
for full reference see the libperf.7 man page.
Examples
========
Examples aim to explain libperf functionality on simple use cases.
They are based in on a checked out linux kernel git tree:
.. code-block:: bash
$ cd tools/perf/lib/Documentation/tutorial/
$ ls -d ex-*
ex-1-compile ex-2-evsel-stat ex-3-evlist-stat
ex-1-compile example
====================
This example shows the basic usage of *struct perf_cpu_map*,
how to create it and display its cpus:
.. code-block:: bash
$ cd ex-1-compile/
$ make
gcc -o test test.c -lperf
$ ./test
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
The full code listing is here:
.. code-block:: c
1 #include <perf/cpumap.h>
2
3 int main(int argc, char **Argv)
4 {
5 struct perf_cpu_map *cpus;
6 int cpu, tmp;
7
8 cpus = perf_cpu_map__new(NULL);
9
10 perf_cpu_map__for_each_cpu(cpu, tmp, cpus)
11 fprintf(stdout, "%d ", cpu);
12
13 fprintf(stdout, "\n");
14
15 perf_cpu_map__put(cpus);
16 return 0;
17 }
First you need to include the proper header to have *struct perf_cpumap*
declaration and functions:
.. code-block:: c
1 #include <perf/cpumap.h>
The *struct perf_cpumap* object is created by *perf_cpu_map__new* call.
The *NULL* argument asks it to populate the object with the current online CPUs list:
.. code-block:: c
8 cpus = perf_cpu_map__new(NULL);
This is paired with a *perf_cpu_map__put*, that drops its reference at the end, possibly deleting it.
.. code-block:: c
15 perf_cpu_map__put(cpus);
The iteration through the *struct perf_cpumap* CPUs is done using the *perf_cpu_map__for_each_cpu*
macro which requires 3 arguments:
- cpu - the cpu numer
- tmp - iteration helper variable
- cpus - the *struct perf_cpumap* object
.. code-block:: c
10 perf_cpu_map__for_each_cpu(cpu, tmp, cpus)
11 fprintf(stdout, "%d ", cpu);
ex-2-evsel-stat example
=======================
TBD
ex-3-evlist-stat example
========================
TBD
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