Re: [PATCH V2 00/11] perf intel-pt: Add perf event clocks to better support VM tracing

[Adrian Hunter]

On 14/02/2022 13:09, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> Hi
> 
> These patches add 2 new perf event clocks based on TSC for use with VMs.
> 
> The first patch is a minor fix, the next 2 patches add each of the 2 new
> clocks.  The remaining patches add minimal tools support and are based on
> top of the Intel PT Event Trace tools' patches.
> 
> The future work, to add the ability to use perf inject to inject perf
> events from a VM guest perf.data file into a VM host perf.data file,
> has yet to be implemented.
> 
> 
> Changes in V2:
>       perf/x86: Fix native_perf_sched_clock_from_tsc() with __sched_clock_offset
> 	  Add __sched_clock_offset unconditionally
> 
>       perf/x86: Add support for TSC as a perf event clock
> 	  Use an attribute bit 'ns_clockid' to identify non-standard clockids
> 
>       perf/x86: Add support for TSC in nanoseconds as a perf event clock
> 	  Do not affect use of __sched_clock_offset
> 	  Adjust to use 'ns_clockid'

Any comments on version 2?

> 
>       perf tools: Add new perf clock IDs
>       perf tools: Add API probes for new clock IDs
>       perf tools: Add new clock IDs to "perf time to TSC" test
>       perf tools: Add perf_read_tsc_conv_for_clockid()
>       perf intel-pt: Add support for new clock IDs
>       perf intel-pt: Use CLOCK_PERF_HW_CLOCK_NS by default
>       perf intel-pt: Add config variables for timing parameters
>       perf intel-pt: Add documentation for new clock IDs
> 	  Adjust to use 'ns_clockid'
> 
> 
> Adrian Hunter (11):
>       perf/x86: Fix native_perf_sched_clock_from_tsc() with __sched_clock_offset
>       perf/x86: Add support for TSC as a perf event clock
>       perf/x86: Add support for TSC in nanoseconds as a perf event clock
>       perf tools: Add new perf clock IDs
>       perf tools: Add API probes for new clock IDs
>       perf tools: Add new clock IDs to "perf time to TSC" test
>       perf tools: Add perf_read_tsc_conv_for_clockid()
>       perf intel-pt: Add support for new clock IDs
>       perf intel-pt: Use CLOCK_PERF_HW_CLOCK_NS by default
>       perf intel-pt: Add config variables for timing parameters
>       perf intel-pt: Add documentation for new clock IDs
> 
>  arch/x86/events/core.c                     | 39 ++++++++++--
>  arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h          |  5 ++
>  arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c                      |  2 +-
>  include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h            | 18 +++++-
>  kernel/events/core.c                       | 63 +++++++++++++-------
>  tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h      | 18 +++++-
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt   | 18 ++++++
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt | 47 +++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt   |  9 ++-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c        | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c                |  2 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/perf-time-to-tsc.c        | 42 ++++++++++---
>  tools/perf/util/clockid.c                  | 14 +++++
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c                    |  1 +
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c                 | 27 +++++++--
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt.h                 |  7 ++-
>  tools/perf/util/perf_api_probe.c           | 24 ++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/perf_api_probe.h           |  2 +
>  tools/perf/util/perf_event_attr_fprintf.c  |  1 +
>  tools/perf/util/record.h                   |  2 +
>  tools/perf/util/tsc.c                      | 58 ++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/tsc.h                      |  2 +
>  22 files changed, 444 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> Regards
> Adrian