There is an old problem in perf's filter applying which first posted at
Sep. 2014 at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/9/944 that, if passing
multiple events in a glob matching expression in cmdline then add
'--filter' after them, the filter will be applied on only the last one.
For example:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null &
[1] 464
# perf record -a -e 'syscalls:sys_*_read' --filter 'common_pid != 464' sleep 0.1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.239 MB perf.data (2094 samples) ]
# perf report --stdio | tee
...
# Samples: 2K of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_read'
# Event count (approx.): 2092
...
# Samples: 2 of event 'syscalls:sys_exit_read'
# Event count (approx.): 2
...
In this example, filter only applied on 'syscalls:sys_exit_read', and
there's no way to set filter for ''syscalls:sys_enter_read'.
This patch adds a 'cmdline_group_boundary' for 'struct evsel', and
apply filter on all events between two boundary marks.
After applying this patch:
# perf record -a -e 'syscalls:sys_*_read' --filter 'common_pid != 464' sleep 0.1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.031 MB perf.data (3 samples) ]
# perf report --stdio | tee
...
# Samples: 1 of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_read'
# Event count (approx.): 1
...
# Samples: 2 of event 'syscalls:sys_exit_read'
# Event count (approx.): 2
...
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436513770-8896-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf_evsel__object.init(evsel);
evsel->sample_size = __perf_evsel__sample_size(attr->sample_type);
perf_evsel__calc_id_pos(evsel);
+ evsel->cmdline_group_boundary = false;
}
struct perf_evsel *perf_evsel__new_idx(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int idx)
unsigned long *per_pkg_mask;
struct perf_evsel *leader;
char *group_name;
+ bool cmdline_group_boundary;
};
union u64_swap {
perf_pmu__parse_cleanup();
if (!ret) {
int entries = data.idx - evlist->nr_entries;
+ struct perf_evsel *last;
+
perf_evlist__splice_list_tail(evlist, &data.list, entries);
evlist->nr_groups += data.nr_groups;
+ last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);
+ last->cmdline_group_boundary = true;
+
return 0;
}
if (evlist->nr_entries > 0)
last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);
- if (last == NULL || last->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
- fprintf(stderr,
- "--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
- return -1;
- }
+ do {
+ if (last == NULL || last->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
+ return -1;
+ }
- if (perf_evsel__set_filter(last, str) < 0) {
- fprintf(stderr, "not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
- return -1;
- }
+ if (perf_evsel__set_filter(last, str) < 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ if (last->node.prev == &evlist->entries)
+ return 0;
+ last = list_entry(last->node.prev, struct perf_evsel, node);
+ } while (!last->cmdline_group_boundary);
return 0;
}