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Ping! Any comments? :) Thanks, Namhyung On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 3:01 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > There have been requests for more sophisticated perf event sample > filtering based on the sample data. Recently the kernel added BPF > programs can access perf sample data and this is the userspace part > to enable such a filtering. > > This still has some rough edges and needs more improvements. But > I'd like to share the current work and get some feedback for the > directions and idea for further improvements. > > v3 changes) > * fix build error on old kernels/vmlinux (Arnaldo) > * move the logic to evlist__apply_filters (Jiri) > * improve error message for bad input > > v2 changes) > * fix build error with the misc field (Jiri) > * add a destructor for filter expr (Ian) > * remove 'bpf:' prefix (Arnaldo) > * add '||' operator > > The required kernel changes are now in the mainline tree (for v6.3). > perf record has --filter option to set filters on the last specified > event in the command line. It worked only for tracepoints and Intel > PT events so far. This patchset extends it to use BPF in order to > enable the general sample filters for any events. > > A new filter expression parser was added (using flex/bison) to process > the filter string. Right now, it only accepts very simple expressions > separated by comma. I'd like to keep the filter expression as simple > as possible. > > It requires samples satisfy all the filter expressions otherwise it'd > drop the sample. IOW filter expressions are connected with logical AND > operations unless they used "||" explicitly. So if user has something > like 'A, B || C, D', then BOTH A and D should be true AND either B or C > also needs to be true. > > Essentially the BPF filter expression is: > > <term> <operator> <value> (("," | "||") <term> <operator> <value>)* > > The <term> can be one of: > ip, id, tid, pid, cpu, time, addr, period, txn, weight, phys_addr, > code_pgsz, data_pgsz, weight1, weight2, weight3, ins_lat, retire_lat, > p_stage_cyc, mem_op, mem_lvl, mem_snoop, mem_remote, mem_lock, > mem_dtlb, mem_blk, mem_hops > > The <operator> can be one of: > ==, !=, >, >=, <, <=, & > > The <value> can be one of: > <number> (for any term) > na, load, store, pfetch, exec (for mem_op) > l1, l2, l3, l4, cxl, io, any_cache, lfb, ram, pmem (for mem_lvl) > na, none, hit, miss, hitm, fwd, peer (for mem_snoop) > remote (for mem_remote) > na, locked (for mem_locked) > na, l1_hit, l1_miss, l2_hit, l2_miss, any_hit, any_miss, walk, fault (for mem_dtlb) > na, by_data, by_addr (for mem_blk) > hops0, hops1, hops2, hops3 (for mem_hops) > > I plan to improve it with range expressions like for ip or addr and it > should support symbols like the existing addr-filters. Also cgroup > should understand and convert cgroup names to IDs. > > Let's take a look at some examples. The following is to profile a user > program on the command line. When the frequency mode is used, it starts > with a very small period (i.e. 1) and adjust it on every interrupt (NMI) > to catch up the given frequency. > > $ ./perf record -- ./perf test -w noploop > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.263 MB perf.data (4006 samples) ] > > $ ./perf script -F pid,period,event,ip,sym | head > 36695 1 cycles: ffffffffbab12ddd perf_event_exec > 36695 1 cycles: ffffffffbab12ddd perf_event_exec > 36695 5 cycles: ffffffffbab12ddd perf_event_exec > 36695 46 cycles: ffffffffbab12de5 perf_event_exec > 36695 1163 cycles: ffffffffba80a0eb x86_pmu_disable_all > 36695 1304 cycles: ffffffffbaa19507 __hrtimer_get_next_event > 36695 8143 cycles: ffffffffbaa186f9 __run_timers > 36695 69040 cycles: ffffffffbaa0c393 rcu_segcblist_ready_cbs > 36695 355117 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > 36695 321861 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > > If you want to skip the first few samples that have small periods, you > can do like this (note it requires root due to BPF). > > $ sudo ./perf record -e cycles --filter 'period > 10000' -- ./perf test -w noploop > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.262 MB perf.data (3990 samples) ] > > $ sudo ./perf script -F pid,period,event,ip,sym | head > 39524 58253 cycles: ffffffffba97dac0 update_rq_clock > 39524 232657 cycles: 4b0da2 noploop > 39524 210981 cycles: 4b0da2 noploop > 39524 282882 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > 39524 392180 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > 39524 456058 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > 39524 415196 cycles: 4b0da2 noploop > 39524 462721 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > 39524 526272 cycles: 4b0da2 noploop > 39524 565569 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > > Maybe more useful example is when it deals with precise memory events. > On AMD processors with IBS, you can filter only memory load with L1 > dTLB is missed like below. > > $ sudo ./perf record -ad -e ibs_op//p \ > > --filter 'mem_op == load, mem_dtlb > l1_hit' sleep 1 > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.338 MB perf.data (15 samples) ] > > $ sudo ./perf script -F data_src | head > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 49080142 |OP LOAD|LVL L1 hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 hit|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51088842 |OP LOAD|LVL L3 or Remote Cache (1 hop) hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 49080442 |OP LOAD|LVL L2 hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 hit|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > > You can also check the number of dropped samples in LOST_SAMPLES events > using perf report --stat command. > > $ sudo ./perf report --stat > > Aggregated stats: > TOTAL events: 16066 > MMAP events: 22 ( 0.1%) > COMM events: 4166 (25.9%) > EXIT events: 1 ( 0.0%) > THROTTLE events: 816 ( 5.1%) > UNTHROTTLE events: 613 ( 3.8%) > FORK events: 4165 (25.9%) > SAMPLE events: 15 ( 0.1%) > MMAP2 events: 6133 (38.2%) > LOST_SAMPLES events: 1 ( 0.0%) > KSYMBOL events: 69 ( 0.4%) > BPF_EVENT events: 57 ( 0.4%) > FINISHED_ROUND events: 3 ( 0.0%) > ID_INDEX events: 1 ( 0.0%) > THREAD_MAP events: 1 ( 0.0%) > CPU_MAP events: 1 ( 0.0%) > TIME_CONV events: 1 ( 0.0%) > FINISHED_INIT events: 1 ( 0.0%) > ibs_op//p stats: > SAMPLE events: 15 > LOST_SAMPLES events: 3991 > > Note that the total aggregated stats show 1 LOST_SAMPLES event but > per event stats show 3991 events because it's the actual number of > dropped samples while the aggregated stats has the number of record. > Maybe we need to change the per-event stats to 'LOST_SAMPLES count' > to avoid the confusion. > > The code is available at 'perf/bpf-filter-v3' branch in my tree. > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/namhyung/linux-perf.git > > Any feedback is welcome. > > Thanks, > Namhyung > > Namhyung Kim (8): > perf bpf filter: Introduce basic BPF filter expression > perf bpf filter: Implement event sample filtering > perf record: Add BPF event filter support > perf record: Record dropped sample count > perf bpf filter: Add 'pid' sample data support > perf bpf filter: Add more weight sample data support > perf bpf filter: Add data_src sample data support > perf bpf filter: Add logical OR operator > > tools/lib/perf/include/perf/event.h | 2 + > tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 15 +- > tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 2 +- > tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 38 ++-- > tools/perf/util/Build | 16 ++ > tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.c | 135 +++++++++++++++ > tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.h | 49 ++++++ > tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.l | 159 +++++++++++++++++ > tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.y | 78 +++++++++ > tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.c | 3 +- > tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/sample-filter.h | 27 +++ > tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/sample_filter.bpf.c | 172 +++++++++++++++++++ > tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 25 ++- > tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 + > tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 7 +- > tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 8 +- > tools/perf/util/session.c | 3 +- > 17 files changed, 706 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.c > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.h > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.l > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.y > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/sample-filter.h > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/sample_filter.bpf.c > > > base-commit: f9fa0778ee7349a9aa3d2ea10e9f2ab843a0b44e > -- > 2.39.2.637.g21b0678d19-goog >
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 03:01:33PM -0800, Namhyung Kim wrote: > Hello, > > There have been requests for more sophisticated perf event sample > filtering based on the sample data. Recently the kernel added BPF > programs can access perf sample data and this is the userspace part > to enable such a filtering. > > This still has some rough edges and needs more improvements. But > I'd like to share the current work and get some feedback for the > directions and idea for further improvements. > > v3 changes) > * fix build error on old kernels/vmlinux (Arnaldo) > * move the logic to evlist__apply_filters (Jiri) > * improve error message for bad input had same issue to compile it without BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 as Adrian reported, but with that fixed it looks good Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> thanks, jirka > > v2 changes) > * fix build error with the misc field (Jiri) > * add a destructor for filter expr (Ian) > * remove 'bpf:' prefix (Arnaldo) > * add '||' operator > > The required kernel changes are now in the mainline tree (for v6.3). > perf record has --filter option to set filters on the last specified > event in the command line. It worked only for tracepoints and Intel > PT events so far. This patchset extends it to use BPF in order to > enable the general sample filters for any events. > > A new filter expression parser was added (using flex/bison) to process > the filter string. Right now, it only accepts very simple expressions > separated by comma. I'd like to keep the filter expression as simple > as possible. > > It requires samples satisfy all the filter expressions otherwise it'd > drop the sample. IOW filter expressions are connected with logical AND > operations unless they used "||" explicitly. So if user has something > like 'A, B || C, D', then BOTH A and D should be true AND either B or C > also needs to be true. > > Essentially the BPF filter expression is: > > <term> <operator> <value> (("," | "||") <term> <operator> <value>)* > > The <term> can be one of: > ip, id, tid, pid, cpu, time, addr, period, txn, weight, phys_addr, > code_pgsz, data_pgsz, weight1, weight2, weight3, ins_lat, retire_lat, > p_stage_cyc, mem_op, mem_lvl, mem_snoop, mem_remote, mem_lock, > mem_dtlb, mem_blk, mem_hops > > The <operator> can be one of: > ==, !=, >, >=, <, <=, & > > The <value> can be one of: > <number> (for any term) > na, load, store, pfetch, exec (for mem_op) > l1, l2, l3, l4, cxl, io, any_cache, lfb, ram, pmem (for mem_lvl) > na, none, hit, miss, hitm, fwd, peer (for mem_snoop) > remote (for mem_remote) > na, locked (for mem_locked) > na, l1_hit, l1_miss, l2_hit, l2_miss, any_hit, any_miss, walk, fault (for mem_dtlb) > na, by_data, by_addr (for mem_blk) > hops0, hops1, hops2, hops3 (for mem_hops) > > I plan to improve it with range expressions like for ip or addr and it > should support symbols like the existing addr-filters. Also cgroup > should understand and convert cgroup names to IDs. > > Let's take a look at some examples. The following is to profile a user > program on the command line. When the frequency mode is used, it starts > with a very small period (i.e. 1) and adjust it on every interrupt (NMI) > to catch up the given frequency. > > $ ./perf record -- ./perf test -w noploop > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.263 MB perf.data (4006 samples) ] > > $ ./perf script -F pid,period,event,ip,sym | head > 36695 1 cycles: ffffffffbab12ddd perf_event_exec > 36695 1 cycles: ffffffffbab12ddd perf_event_exec > 36695 5 cycles: ffffffffbab12ddd perf_event_exec > 36695 46 cycles: ffffffffbab12de5 perf_event_exec > 36695 1163 cycles: ffffffffba80a0eb x86_pmu_disable_all > 36695 1304 cycles: ffffffffbaa19507 __hrtimer_get_next_event > 36695 8143 cycles: ffffffffbaa186f9 __run_timers > 36695 69040 cycles: ffffffffbaa0c393 rcu_segcblist_ready_cbs > 36695 355117 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > 36695 321861 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > > If you want to skip the first few samples that have small periods, you > can do like this (note it requires root due to BPF). > > $ sudo ./perf record -e cycles --filter 'period > 10000' -- ./perf test -w noploop > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.262 MB perf.data (3990 samples) ] > > $ sudo ./perf script -F pid,period,event,ip,sym | head > 39524 58253 cycles: ffffffffba97dac0 update_rq_clock > 39524 232657 cycles: 4b0da2 noploop > 39524 210981 cycles: 4b0da2 noploop > 39524 282882 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > 39524 392180 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > 39524 456058 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > 39524 415196 cycles: 4b0da2 noploop > 39524 462721 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > 39524 526272 cycles: 4b0da2 noploop > 39524 565569 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop > > Maybe more useful example is when it deals with precise memory events. > On AMD processors with IBS, you can filter only memory load with L1 > dTLB is missed like below. > > $ sudo ./perf record -ad -e ibs_op//p \ > > --filter 'mem_op == load, mem_dtlb > l1_hit' sleep 1 > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.338 MB perf.data (15 samples) ] > > $ sudo ./perf script -F data_src | head > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 49080142 |OP LOAD|LVL L1 hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 hit|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51088842 |OP LOAD|LVL L3 or Remote Cache (1 hop) hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 49080442 |OP LOAD|LVL L2 hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 hit|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A > > You can also check the number of dropped samples in LOST_SAMPLES events > using perf report --stat command. > > $ sudo ./perf report --stat > > Aggregated stats: > TOTAL events: 16066 > MMAP events: 22 ( 0.1%) > COMM events: 4166 (25.9%) > EXIT events: 1 ( 0.0%) > THROTTLE events: 816 ( 5.1%) > UNTHROTTLE events: 613 ( 3.8%) > FORK events: 4165 (25.9%) > SAMPLE events: 15 ( 0.1%) > MMAP2 events: 6133 (38.2%) > LOST_SAMPLES events: 1 ( 0.0%) > KSYMBOL events: 69 ( 0.4%) > BPF_EVENT events: 57 ( 0.4%) > FINISHED_ROUND events: 3 ( 0.0%) > ID_INDEX events: 1 ( 0.0%) > THREAD_MAP events: 1 ( 0.0%) > CPU_MAP events: 1 ( 0.0%) > TIME_CONV events: 1 ( 0.0%) > FINISHED_INIT events: 1 ( 0.0%) > ibs_op//p stats: > SAMPLE events: 15 > LOST_SAMPLES events: 3991 > > Note that the total aggregated stats show 1 LOST_SAMPLES event but > per event stats show 3991 events because it's the actual number of > dropped samples while the aggregated stats has the number of record. > Maybe we need to change the per-event stats to 'LOST_SAMPLES count' > to avoid the confusion. > > The code is available at 'perf/bpf-filter-v3' branch in my tree. > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/namhyung/linux-perf.git > > Any feedback is welcome. > > Thanks, > Namhyung > > Namhyung Kim (8): > perf bpf filter: Introduce basic BPF filter expression > perf bpf filter: Implement event sample filtering > perf record: Add BPF event filter support > perf record: Record dropped sample count > perf bpf filter: Add 'pid' sample data support > perf bpf filter: Add more weight sample data support > perf bpf filter: Add data_src sample data support > perf bpf filter: Add logical OR operator > > tools/lib/perf/include/perf/event.h | 2 + > tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 15 +- > tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 2 +- > tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 38 ++-- > tools/perf/util/Build | 16 ++ > tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.c | 135 +++++++++++++++ > tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.h | 49 ++++++ > tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.l | 159 +++++++++++++++++ > tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.y | 78 +++++++++ > tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.c | 3 +- > tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/sample-filter.h | 27 +++ > tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/sample_filter.bpf.c | 172 +++++++++++++++++++ > tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 25 ++- > tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 + > tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 7 +- > tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 8 +- > tools/perf/util/session.c | 3 +- > 17 files changed, 706 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.c > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.h > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.l > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.y > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/sample-filter.h > create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/sample_filter.bpf.c > > > base-commit: f9fa0778ee7349a9aa3d2ea10e9f2ab843a0b44e > -- > 2.39.2.637.g21b0678d19-goog >
Hi Jiri, On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 2:34 PM Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 03:01:33PM -0800, Namhyung Kim wrote: > > Hello, > > > > There have been requests for more sophisticated perf event sample > > filtering based on the sample data. Recently the kernel added BPF > > programs can access perf sample data and this is the userspace part > > to enable such a filtering. > > > > This still has some rough edges and needs more improvements. But > > I'd like to share the current work and get some feedback for the > > directions and idea for further improvements. > > > > v3 changes) > > * fix build error on old kernels/vmlinux (Arnaldo) > > * move the logic to evlist__apply_filters (Jiri) > > * improve error message for bad input > > had same issue to compile it without BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 as Adrian > reported, but with that fixed it looks good > > Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Great! Thanks for your review! Namhyung
Hello, There have been requests for more sophisticated perf event sample filtering based on the sample data. Recently the kernel added BPF programs can access perf sample data and this is the userspace part to enable such a filtering. This still has some rough edges and needs more improvements. But I'd like to share the current work and get some feedback for the directions and idea for further improvements. v3 changes) * fix build error on old kernels/vmlinux (Arnaldo) * move the logic to evlist__apply_filters (Jiri) * improve error message for bad input v2 changes) * fix build error with the misc field (Jiri) * add a destructor for filter expr (Ian) * remove 'bpf:' prefix (Arnaldo) * add '||' operator The required kernel changes are now in the mainline tree (for v6.3). perf record has --filter option to set filters on the last specified event in the command line. It worked only for tracepoints and Intel PT events so far. This patchset extends it to use BPF in order to enable the general sample filters for any events. A new filter expression parser was added (using flex/bison) to process the filter string. Right now, it only accepts very simple expressions separated by comma. I'd like to keep the filter expression as simple as possible. It requires samples satisfy all the filter expressions otherwise it'd drop the sample. IOW filter expressions are connected with logical AND operations unless they used "||" explicitly. So if user has something like 'A, B || C, D', then BOTH A and D should be true AND either B or C also needs to be true. Essentially the BPF filter expression is: <term> <operator> <value> (("," | "||") <term> <operator> <value>)* The <term> can be one of: ip, id, tid, pid, cpu, time, addr, period, txn, weight, phys_addr, code_pgsz, data_pgsz, weight1, weight2, weight3, ins_lat, retire_lat, p_stage_cyc, mem_op, mem_lvl, mem_snoop, mem_remote, mem_lock, mem_dtlb, mem_blk, mem_hops The <operator> can be one of: ==, !=, >, >=, <, <=, & The <value> can be one of: <number> (for any term) na, load, store, pfetch, exec (for mem_op) l1, l2, l3, l4, cxl, io, any_cache, lfb, ram, pmem (for mem_lvl) na, none, hit, miss, hitm, fwd, peer (for mem_snoop) remote (for mem_remote) na, locked (for mem_locked) na, l1_hit, l1_miss, l2_hit, l2_miss, any_hit, any_miss, walk, fault (for mem_dtlb) na, by_data, by_addr (for mem_blk) hops0, hops1, hops2, hops3 (for mem_hops) I plan to improve it with range expressions like for ip or addr and it should support symbols like the existing addr-filters. Also cgroup should understand and convert cgroup names to IDs. Let's take a look at some examples. The following is to profile a user program on the command line. When the frequency mode is used, it starts with a very small period (i.e. 1) and adjust it on every interrupt (NMI) to catch up the given frequency. $ ./perf record -- ./perf test -w noploop [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.263 MB perf.data (4006 samples) ] $ ./perf script -F pid,period,event,ip,sym | head 36695 1 cycles: ffffffffbab12ddd perf_event_exec 36695 1 cycles: ffffffffbab12ddd perf_event_exec 36695 5 cycles: ffffffffbab12ddd perf_event_exec 36695 46 cycles: ffffffffbab12de5 perf_event_exec 36695 1163 cycles: ffffffffba80a0eb x86_pmu_disable_all 36695 1304 cycles: ffffffffbaa19507 __hrtimer_get_next_event 36695 8143 cycles: ffffffffbaa186f9 __run_timers 36695 69040 cycles: ffffffffbaa0c393 rcu_segcblist_ready_cbs 36695 355117 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop 36695 321861 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop If you want to skip the first few samples that have small periods, you can do like this (note it requires root due to BPF). $ sudo ./perf record -e cycles --filter 'period > 10000' -- ./perf test -w noploop [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.262 MB perf.data (3990 samples) ] $ sudo ./perf script -F pid,period,event,ip,sym | head 39524 58253 cycles: ffffffffba97dac0 update_rq_clock 39524 232657 cycles: 4b0da2 noploop 39524 210981 cycles: 4b0da2 noploop 39524 282882 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop 39524 392180 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop 39524 456058 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop 39524 415196 cycles: 4b0da2 noploop 39524 462721 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop 39524 526272 cycles: 4b0da2 noploop 39524 565569 cycles: 4b0da4 noploop Maybe more useful example is when it deals with precise memory events. On AMD processors with IBS, you can filter only memory load with L1 dTLB is missed like below. $ sudo ./perf record -ad -e ibs_op//p \ > --filter 'mem_op == load, mem_dtlb > l1_hit' sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.338 MB perf.data (15 samples) ] $ sudo ./perf script -F data_src | head 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A 49080142 |OP LOAD|LVL L1 hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 hit|LCK N/A|BLK N/A 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A 51088842 |OP LOAD|LVL L3 or Remote Cache (1 hop) hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A 49080442 |OP LOAD|LVL L2 hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 hit|LCK N/A|BLK N/A 51080242 |OP LOAD|LVL LFB/MAB hit|SNP N/A|TLB L2 miss|LCK N/A|BLK N/A You can also check the number of dropped samples in LOST_SAMPLES events using perf report --stat command. $ sudo ./perf report --stat Aggregated stats: TOTAL events: 16066 MMAP events: 22 ( 0.1%) COMM events: 4166 (25.9%) EXIT events: 1 ( 0.0%) THROTTLE events: 816 ( 5.1%) UNTHROTTLE events: 613 ( 3.8%) FORK events: 4165 (25.9%) SAMPLE events: 15 ( 0.1%) MMAP2 events: 6133 (38.2%) LOST_SAMPLES events: 1 ( 0.0%) KSYMBOL events: 69 ( 0.4%) BPF_EVENT events: 57 ( 0.4%) FINISHED_ROUND events: 3 ( 0.0%) ID_INDEX events: 1 ( 0.0%) THREAD_MAP events: 1 ( 0.0%) CPU_MAP events: 1 ( 0.0%) TIME_CONV events: 1 ( 0.0%) FINISHED_INIT events: 1 ( 0.0%) ibs_op//p stats: SAMPLE events: 15 LOST_SAMPLES events: 3991 Note that the total aggregated stats show 1 LOST_SAMPLES event but per event stats show 3991 events because it's the actual number of dropped samples while the aggregated stats has the number of record. Maybe we need to change the per-event stats to 'LOST_SAMPLES count' to avoid the confusion. The code is available at 'perf/bpf-filter-v3' branch in my tree. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/namhyung/linux-perf.git Any feedback is welcome. Thanks, Namhyung Namhyung Kim (8): perf bpf filter: Introduce basic BPF filter expression perf bpf filter: Implement event sample filtering perf record: Add BPF event filter support perf record: Record dropped sample count perf bpf filter: Add 'pid' sample data support perf bpf filter: Add more weight sample data support perf bpf filter: Add data_src sample data support perf bpf filter: Add logical OR operator tools/lib/perf/include/perf/event.h | 2 + tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 15 +- tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 2 +- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 38 ++-- tools/perf/util/Build | 16 ++ tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.c | 135 +++++++++++++++ tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.h | 49 ++++++ tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.l | 159 +++++++++++++++++ tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.y | 78 +++++++++ tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.c | 3 +- tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/sample-filter.h | 27 +++ tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/sample_filter.bpf.c | 172 +++++++++++++++++++ tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 25 ++- tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 + tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 7 +- tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 8 +- tools/perf/util/session.c | 3 +- 17 files changed, 706 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.c create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.h create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.l create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf-filter.y create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/sample-filter.h create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/sample_filter.bpf.c base-commit: f9fa0778ee7349a9aa3d2ea10e9f2ab843a0b44e