/* * syst.c - example of a simple system wide monitoring program * * Copyright (c) 2002-2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. * Contributed by Stephane Eranian * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies * of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, * subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all * copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, * INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A * PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT * HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF * CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE * OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. * * This file is part of libpfm, a performance monitoring support library for * applications on Linux/ia64. */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define NUM_PMCS PFMLIB_MAX_PMCS #define NUM_PMDS PFMLIB_MAX_PMDS #define MAX_EVT_NAME_LEN 128 static void fatal_error(char *fmt,...) __attribute__((noreturn)); static void fatal_error(char *fmt, ...) { va_list ap; va_start(ap, fmt); vfprintf(stderr, fmt, ap); va_end(ap); exit(1); } #ifndef __NR_sched_setaffinity #ifdef __ia64__ #define __NR_sched_setaffinity 1231 #endif #endif /* * Hack to get this to work without libc support */ int my_setaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len, unsigned long *mask) { return syscall(__NR_sched_setaffinity, pid, len, mask); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { char **p; unsigned long my_mask; pfarg_reg_t pc[NUM_PMCS]; pfarg_reg_t pd[NUM_PMDS]; pfarg_context_t ctx[1]; pfarg_load_t load_args; pfmlib_input_param_t inp; pfmlib_output_param_t outp; pfmlib_options_t pfmlib_options; unsigned int which_cpu; int ret, ctx_fd; unsigned int i; unsigned int num_counters; char name[MAX_EVT_NAME_LEN]; /* * Initialize pfm library (required before we can use it) */ if (pfm_initialize() != PFMLIB_SUCCESS) { printf("Can't initialize library\n"); exit(1); } pfm_get_num_counters(&num_counters); /* * pass options to library (optional) */ memset(&pfmlib_options, 0, sizeof(pfmlib_options)); pfmlib_options.pfm_debug = 0; /* set to 1 for debug */ pfm_set_options(&pfmlib_options); memset(pc, 0, sizeof(pc)); memset(pd, 0, sizeof(pd)); memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx)); memset(&inp,0, sizeof(inp)); memset(&outp,0, sizeof(outp)); /* * be nice to user! */ if (argc > 1) { p = argv+1; for (i=0; *p ; i++, p++) { if (pfm_find_event(*p, &inp.pfp_events[i].event) != PFMLIB_SUCCESS) { fatal_error("Cannot find %s event\n", *p); } } } else { if (pfm_get_cycle_event(&inp.pfp_events[0]) != PFMLIB_SUCCESS) { fatal_error("cannot find cycle event\n"); } if (pfm_get_inst_retired_event(&inp.pfp_events[1]) != PFMLIB_SUCCESS) { fatal_error("cannot find inst retired event\n"); } i = 2; } /* * set the privilege mode: * PFM_PLM3 : user level * PFM_PLM0 : kernel level */ inp.pfp_dfl_plm = PFM_PLM3|PFM_PLM0; if (i > num_counters) { i = num_counters; printf("too many events provided (max=%d events), using first %d event(s)\n", num_counters, i); } /* * how many counters we use */ inp.pfp_event_count = i; /* * indicate we are using the monitors for a system-wide session. * This may impact the way the library sets up the PMC values. */ inp.pfp_flags = PFMLIB_PFP_SYSTEMWIDE; /* * let the library figure out the values for the PMCS */ if ((ret=pfm_dispatch_events(&inp, NULL, &outp, NULL)) != PFMLIB_SUCCESS) { fatal_error("cannot configure events: %s\n", pfm_strerror(ret)); } /* * In system wide mode, the perfmon context cannot be inherited. * Also in this mode, we cannot use the blocking form of user level notification. */ ctx[0].ctx_flags = PFM_FL_SYSTEM_WIDE; /* * pick a random CPU. Assumes CPU are numbered with no holes */ srandom(getpid()); which_cpu = random() % sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN); /* * perfmon relies on the application to have the task pinned * on one CPU by the time the PFM_CONTEXT_LOAD command is issued. * The perfmon context will record the active CPU at the time of PFM_CONTEXT_LOAD * and will reject any access coming from another CPU. Therefore it * is advisable to pin the task ASAP before doing any perfmon calls. * * On RHAS and 2.5/2.6, this can be easily achieved using the * sched_setaffinity() system call. */ my_mask = 1UL << which_cpu; ret = my_setaffinity(getpid(), sizeof(unsigned long), &my_mask); if (ret == -1) { fatal_error("cannot set affinity to 0x%lx: %s\n", my_mask, strerror(errno)); } /* * after the call the task is pinned to which_cpu */ /* * now create the context for self monitoring/per-task */ if (perfmonctl(0, PFM_CREATE_CONTEXT, ctx, 1) == -1 ) { if (errno == ENOSYS) { fatal_error("Your kernel does not have performance monitoring support!\n"); } fatal_error("Can't create PFM context %s\n", strerror(errno)); } /* * extact our file descriptor */ ctx_fd = ctx->ctx_fd; /* * Now prepare the argument to initialize the PMDs and PMCS. * We must pfp_pmc_count to determine the number of PMC to intialize. * We must use pfp_event_count to determine the number of PMD to initialize. * Some events causes extra PMCs to be used, so pfp_pmc_count may be >= pfp_event_count. * * This step is new compared to libpfm-2.x. It is necessary because the library no * longer knows about the kernel data structures. */ for (i=0; i < outp.pfp_pmc_count; i++) { pc[i].reg_num = outp.pfp_pmcs[i].reg_num; pc[i].reg_value = outp.pfp_pmcs[i].reg_value; } /* * the PMC controlling the event ALWAYS come first, that's why this loop * is safe even when extra PMC are needed to support a particular event. */ for (i=0; i < inp.pfp_event_count; i++) { pd[i].reg_num = outp.pfp_pmcs[i].reg_num; } /* * Now program the registers * * We don't use the save variable to indicate the number of elements passed to * the kernel because, as we said earlier, pc may contain more elements than * the number of events we specified, i.e., contains more thann coutning monitors. */ if (perfmonctl(ctx_fd, PFM_WRITE_PMCS, pc, outp.pfp_pmc_count) == -1) { fatal_error("perfmonctl error PFM_WRITE_PMCS errno %d\n",errno); } if (perfmonctl(ctx_fd, PFM_WRITE_PMDS, pd, inp.pfp_event_count) == -1) { fatal_error("perfmonctl error PFM_WRITE_PMDS errno %d\n",errno); } /* * for system wide session, we can only attached to ourself */ load_args.load_pid = getpid(); if (perfmonctl(ctx_fd, PFM_LOAD_CONTEXT, &load_args, 1) == -1) { fatal_error("perfmonctl error PFM_LOAD_CONTEXT errno %d\n",errno); } /* * start monitoring. We must go to the kernel because psr.pp cannot be * changed at the user level. */ if (perfmonctl(ctx_fd, PFM_START, 0, 0) == -1) { fatal_error("perfmonctl error PFM_START errno %d\n",errno); } printf("\n", which_cpu); printf("\n"); getchar(); /* * stop monitoring. We must go to the kernel because psr.pp cannot be * changed at the user level. */ if (perfmonctl(ctx_fd, PFM_STOP, 0, 0) == -1) { fatal_error("perfmonctl error PFM_STOP errno %d\n",errno); } printf("\n\n", which_cpu); /* * now read the results */ if (perfmonctl(ctx_fd, PFM_READ_PMDS, pd, inp.pfp_event_count) == -1) { fatal_error( "perfmonctl error READ_PMDS errno %d\n",errno); return -1; } /* * print the results * * It is important to realize, that the first event we specified may not * be in PMD4. Not all events can be measured by any monitor. That's why * we need to use the pc[] array to figure out where event i was allocated. * */ for (i=0; i < inp.pfp_event_count; i++) { pfm_get_full_event_name(&inp.pfp_events[i], name, MAX_EVT_NAME_LEN); printf("CPU%-2d PMD%u %20"PRIu64" %s\n", which_cpu, pd[i].reg_num, pd[i].reg_value, name); } /* * let's stop this now */ close(ctx_fd); return 0; }