[PATCH v4] perf trace: BTF-based enum pretty printing

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 09:47:02AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:27:47PM +0800, Howard Chu wrote:
> > changes in v4:

> > - Add enum support to tracepoint arguments
 
> That is cool, but see below the comment as having this as a separate
> patch.
> 
> Also please, on the patch that introduces ! syscall tracepoint enum args
> BTF augmentation include examples of tracepoints being augmented. I'll

You did it as a notes for v4, great, I missed that.

> try here while testing the patch as-is.

The landlock_add_rule continues to work, using the same test program I 
posted when testing your v1 patch: 

root at x1:~# perf trace -e landlock_add_rule
     0.000 ( 0.016 ms): landlock_add_r/475518 landlock_add_rule(ruleset_fd: 1, rule_type: LANDLOCK_RULE_PATH_BENEATH, rule_attr: 0x7ffd790ff690) = -1 EBADFD (File descriptor in bad state)
     0.115 ( 0.003 ms): landlock_add_r/475518 landlock_add_rule(ruleset_fd: 2, rule_type: LANDLOCK_RULE_NET_PORT, rule_attr: 0x7ffd790ff690) = -1 EBADFD (File descriptor in bad state)

Now lets try with some of the !syscalls tracepoints with enum args:

root at x1:~# perf trace -e timer:hrtimer_start --max-events=5
     0.000 :0/0 timer:hrtimer_start(hrtimer: 0xffff8d4eff225050, function: 0xffffffff9e22ddd0, expires: 210588861000000, softexpires: 210588861000000, mode: HRTIMER_MODE_ABS)
18446744073709.551 :0/0 timer:hrtimer_start(hrtimer: 0xffff8d4eff2a5050, function: 0xffffffff9e22ddd0, expires: 210588861000000, softexpires: 210588861000000, mode: HRTIMER_MODE_ABS)
     0.007 :0/0 timer:hrtimer_start(hrtimer: 0xffff8d4eff325050, function: 0xffffffff9e22ddd0, expires: 210588861000000, softexpires: 210588861000000, mode: HRTIMER_MODE_ABS)
     0.007 :0/0 timer:hrtimer_start(hrtimer: 0xffff8d4eff3a5050, function: 0xffffffff9e22ddd0, expires: 210588861000000, softexpires: 210588861000000, mode: HRTIMER_MODE_ABS)
18446744073709.543 :0/0 timer:hrtimer_start(hrtimer: 0xffff8d4eff425050, function: 0xffffffff9e22ddd0, expires: 210588861000000, softexpires: 210588861000000, mode: HRTIMER_MODE_ABS)
root at x1:~# 

Cool, it works!

Now lets try and use it with filters, to get something other than HRTIMER_MODE_ABS:

root at x1:~# perf trace -e timer:hrtimer_start --filter='mode!=HRTIMER_MODE_ABS' --max-events=5
No resolver (strtoul) for "mode" in "timer:hrtimer_start", can't set filter "(mode!=HRTIMER_MODE_ABS) && (common_pid != 475859 && common_pid != 4041)"
root at x1:~#


oops, that is the next step then :-)

If I do:

root at x1:~# pahole --contains_enumerator=HRTIMER_MODE_ABS
enum hrtimer_mode {
	HRTIMER_MODE_ABS             = 0,
	HRTIMER_MODE_REL             = 1,
	HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED          = 2,
	HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT            = 4,
	HRTIMER_MODE_HARD            = 8,
	HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED      = 2,
	HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED      = 3,
	HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_SOFT        = 4,
	HRTIMER_MODE_REL_SOFT        = 5,
	HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_SOFT = 6,
	HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED_SOFT = 7,
	HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_HARD        = 8,
	HRTIMER_MODE_REL_HARD        = 9,
	HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_HARD = 10,
	HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED_HARD = 11,
}
root at x1:~#

And then use the value for HRTIMER_MODE_ABS instead:

root at x1:~# perf trace -e timer:hrtimer_start --filter='mode!=0' --max-events=1
     0.000 :0/0 timer:hrtimer_start(hrtimer: 0xffff8d4eff225050, function: 0xffffffff9e22ddd0, expires: 210759990000000, softexpires: 210759990000000, mode: HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_HARD)
root at x1:~#

Now also filtering HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_HARD:

root at x1:~# perf trace -e timer:hrtimer_start --filter='mode!=0 && mode != 10' --max-events=2
     0.000 podman/178137 timer:hrtimer_start(hrtimer: 0xffffa2024468fda8, function: 0xffffffff9e2170c0, expires: 210886679225214, softexpires: 210886679175214, mode: HRTIMER_MODE_REL)
    32.935 podman/5046 timer:hrtimer_start(hrtimer: 0xffffa20244fabc40, function: 0xffffffff9e2170c0, expires: 210886712159707, softexpires: 210886712109707, mode: HRTIMER_MODE_REL)
root at x1:~#

But this then should be a _third_ patch :-)

We're making progress!

- Arnaldo