perf stat: Enable counting events for BPF programs

Introduce 'perf stat -b' option, which counts events for BPF programs, like:

  [root@localhost ~]# ~/perf stat -e ref-cycles,cycles -b 254 -I 1000
     1.487903822            115,200      ref-cycles
     1.487903822             86,012      cycles
     2.489147029             80,560      ref-cycles
     2.489147029             73,784      cycles
     3.490341825             60,720      ref-cycles
     3.490341825             37,797      cycles
     4.491540887             37,120      ref-cycles
     4.491540887             31,963      cycles

The example above counts 'cycles' and 'ref-cycles' of BPF program of id
254.  This is similar to bpftool-prog-profile command, but more
flexible.

'perf stat -b' creates per-cpu perf_event and loads fentry/fexit BPF
programs (monitor-progs) to the target BPF program (target-prog). The
monitor-progs read perf_event before and after the target-prog, and
aggregate the difference in a BPF map. Then the user space reads data
from these maps.

A new 'struct bpf_counter' is introduced to provide a common interface
that uses BPF programs/maps to count perf events.

Committer notes:

Removed all but bpf_counter.h includes from evsel.h, not needed at all.

Also BPF map lookups for PERCPU_ARRAYs need to have as its value receive
buffer passed to the kernel libbpf_num_possible_cpus() entries, not
evsel__nr_cpus(evsel), as the former uses
/sys/devices/system/cpu/possible while the later uses
/sys/devices/system/cpu/online, which may be less than the 'possible'
number making the bpf map lookup overwrite memory and cause hard to
debug memory corruption.

We need to continue using evsel__nr_cpus(evsel) when accessing the
perf_counts array tho, not to overwrite another are of memory :-)

Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210120163031.GU12699@kernel.org/
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201229214214.3413833-4-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/target.h b/tools/perf/util/target.h
index 6ef01a83b24e..f132c6c2eef8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/target.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/target.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ struct target {
 	const char   *tid;
 	const char   *cpu_list;
 	const char   *uid_str;
+	const char   *bpf_str;
 	uid_t	     uid;
 	bool	     system_wide;
 	bool	     uses_mmap;
@@ -36,6 +37,10 @@ enum target_errno {
 	TARGET_ERRNO__PID_OVERRIDE_SYSTEM,
 	TARGET_ERRNO__UID_OVERRIDE_SYSTEM,
 	TARGET_ERRNO__SYSTEM_OVERRIDE_THREAD,
+	TARGET_ERRNO__BPF_OVERRIDE_CPU,
+	TARGET_ERRNO__BPF_OVERRIDE_PID,
+	TARGET_ERRNO__BPF_OVERRIDE_UID,
+	TARGET_ERRNO__BPF_OVERRIDE_THREAD,
 
 	/* for target__parse_uid() */
 	TARGET_ERRNO__INVALID_UID,
@@ -59,6 +64,11 @@ static inline bool target__has_cpu(struct target *target)
 	return target->system_wide || target->cpu_list;
 }
 
+static inline bool target__has_bpf(struct target *target)
+{
+	return target->bpf_str;
+}
+
 static inline bool target__none(struct target *target)
 {
 	return !target__has_task(target) && !target__has_cpu(target);