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NAME

       perf-record - Run a command and record its profile into perf.data

SYNOPSIS

       perf record [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-a] <command>
       perf record [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-a] -- <command> [<options>]

DESCRIPTION

       This command runs a command and gathers a performance counter profile from it, into
       perf.data - without displaying anything.

       This file can then be inspected later on, using perf report.

OPTIONS

       <command>...
           Any command you can specify in a shell.

       -e, --event=
           Select the PMU event. Selection can be:

           •   a symbolic event name (use perf list to list all events)

           •   a raw PMU event in the form of rN where N is a hexadecimal value that represents
               the raw register encoding with the layout of the event control registers as
               described by entries in /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/*.

           •   a symbolic or raw PMU event followed by an optional colon and a list of event
               modifiers, e.g., cpu-cycles:p. See the perf-list(1) man page for details on event
               modifiers.

           •   a symbolically formed PMU event like pmu/param1=0x3,param2/ where param1, param2,
               etc are defined as formats for the PMU in
               /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/format/*.

           •   a symbolically formed event like pmu/config=M,config1=N,config3=K/

                   where M, N, K are numbers (in decimal, hex, octal format). Acceptable
                   values for each of 'config', 'config1' and 'config2' are defined by
                   corresponding entries in /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/format/*
                   param1 and param2 are defined as formats for the PMU in:
                   /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/format/*

                   There are also some parameters which are not defined in .../<pmu>/format/*.
                   These params can be used to overload default config values per event.
                   Here are some common parameters:
                   - 'period': Set event sampling period
                   - 'freq': Set event sampling frequency
                   - 'time': Disable/enable time stamping. Acceptable values are 1 for
                             enabling time stamping. 0 for disabling time stamping.
                             The default is 1.
                   - 'call-graph': Disable/enable callgraph. Acceptable str are "fp" for
                                  FP mode, "dwarf" for DWARF mode, "lbr" for LBR mode and
                                  "no" for disable callgraph.
                   - 'stack-size': user stack size for dwarf mode
                   - 'name' : User defined event name. Single quotes (') may be used to
                             escape symbols in the name from parsing by shell and tool
                             like this: name=\'CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD:cmask=0x1\'.
                   - 'aux-output': Generate AUX records instead of events. This requires
                                   that an AUX area event is also provided.
                   - 'aux-sample-size': Set sample size for AUX area sampling. If the
                   '--aux-sample' option has been used, set aux-sample-size=0 to disable
                   AUX area sampling for the event.

                   See the linkperf:perf-list[1] man page for more parameters.

                   Note: If user explicitly sets options which conflict with the params,
                   the value set by the parameters will be overridden.

                   Also not defined in .../<pmu>/format/* are PMU driver specific
                   configuration parameters.  Any configuration parameter preceded by
                   the letter '@' is not interpreted in user space and sent down directly
                   to the PMU driver.  For example:

                   perf record -e some_event/@cfg1,@cfg2=config/ ...

                   will see 'cfg1' and 'cfg2=config' pushed to the PMU driver associated
                   with the event for further processing.  There is no restriction on
                   what the configuration parameters are, as long as their semantic is
                   understood and supported by the PMU driver.

           •   a hardware breakpoint event in the form of \mem:addr[/len][:access] where addr is
               the address in memory you want to break in. Access is the memory access type
               (read, write, execute) it can be passed as follows: \mem:addr[:[r][w][x]]. len is
               the range, number of bytes from specified addr, which the breakpoint will cover.
               If you want to profile read-write accesses in 0x1000, just set mem:0x1000:rw. If
               you want to profile write accesses in [0x1000~1008), just set mem:0x1000/8:w.

           •   a BPF source file (ending in .c) or a precompiled object file (ending in .o)
               selects one or more BPF events. The BPF program can attach to various perf events
               based on the ELF section names.

                   When processing a '.c' file, perf searches an installed LLVM to compile it
                   into an object file first. Optional clang options can be passed via the
                   '--clang-opt' command line option, e.g.:

                   perf record --clang-opt "-DLINUX_VERSION_CODE=0x50000" \
                               -e tests/bpf-script-example.c

                   Note: '--clang-opt' must be placed before '--event/-e'.

           •   a group of events surrounded by a pair of brace ("{event1,event2,...}"). Each
               event is separated by commas and the group should be quoted to prevent the shell
               interpretation. You also need to use --group on "perf report" to view group events
               together.

       --filter=<filter>
           Event filter. This option should follow an event selector (-e) which selects either
           tracepoint event(s) or a hardware trace PMU (e.g. Intel PT or CoreSight).

           •   tracepoint filters

                   In the case of tracepoints, multiple '--filter' options are combined
                   using '&&'.

           •   address filters

                   A hardware trace PMU advertises its ability to accept a number of
                   address filters by specifying a non-zero value in
                   /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/nr_addr_filters.

                   Address filters have the format:

                   filter|start|stop|tracestop <start> [/ <size>] [@<file name>]

                   Where:
                   - 'filter': defines a region that will be traced.
                   - 'start': defines an address at which tracing will begin.
                   - 'stop': defines an address at which tracing will stop.
                   - 'tracestop': defines a region in which tracing will stop.

                   <file name> is the name of the object file, <start> is the offset to the
                   code to trace in that file, and <size> is the size of the region to
                   trace. 'start' and 'stop' filters need not specify a <size>.

                   If no object file is specified then the kernel is assumed, in which case
                   the start address must be a current kernel memory address.

                   <start> can also be specified by providing the name of a symbol. If the
                   symbol name is not unique, it can be disambiguated by inserting #n where
                   'n' selects the n'th symbol in address order. Alternately #0, #g or #G
                   select only a global symbol. <size> can also be specified by providing
                   the name of a symbol, in which case the size is calculated to the end
                   of that symbol. For 'filter' and 'tracestop' filters, if <size> is
                   omitted and <start> is a symbol, then the size is calculated to the end
                   of that symbol.

                   If <size> is omitted and <start> is '*', then the start and size will
                   be calculated from the first and last symbols, i.e. to trace the whole
                   file.

                   If symbol names (or '*') are provided, they must be surrounded by white
                   space.

                   The filter passed to the kernel is not necessarily the same as entered.
                   To see the filter that is passed, use the -v option.

                   The kernel may not be able to configure a trace region if it is not
                   within a single mapping.  MMAP events (or /proc/<pid>/maps) can be
                   examined to determine if that is a possibility.

                   Multiple filters can be separated with space or comma.

       --exclude-perf
           Don’t record events issued by perf itself. This option should follow an event selector
           (-e) which selects tracepoint event(s). It adds a filter expression common_pid !=
           $PERFPID to filters. If other --filter exists, the new filter expression will be
           combined with them by &&.

       -a, --all-cpus
           System-wide collection from all CPUs (default if no target is specified).

       -p, --pid=
           Record events on existing process ID (comma separated list).

       -t, --tid=
           Record events on existing thread ID (comma separated list). This option also disables
           inheritance by default. Enable it by adding --inherit.

       -u, --uid=
           Record events in threads owned by uid. Name or number.

       -r, --realtime=
           Collect data with this RT SCHED_FIFO priority.

       --no-buffering
           Collect data without buffering.

       -c, --count=
           Event period to sample.

       -o, --output=
           Output file name.

       -i, --no-inherit
           Child tasks do not inherit counters.

       -F, --freq=
           Profile at this frequency. Use max to use the currently maximum allowed frequency,
           i.e. the value in the kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate sysctl. Will throttle down to
           the currently maximum allowed frequency. See --strict-freq.

       --strict-freq
           Fail if the specified frequency can’t be used.

       -m, --mmap-pages=
           Number of mmap data pages (must be a power of two) or size specification with appended
           unit character - B/K/M/G. The size is rounded up to have nearest pages power of two
           value. Also, by adding a comma, the number of mmap pages for AUX area tracing can be
           specified.

       --group
           Put all events in a single event group. This precedes the --event option and remains
           only for backward compatibility. See --event.

       -g
           Enables call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording for both kernel space and user
           space.

       --call-graph
           Setup and enable call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording, implies -g. Default is
           "fp" (for user space).

               The unwinding method used for kernel space is dependent on the
               unwinder used by the active kernel configuration, i.e
               CONFIG_UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER (fp) or CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC (orc)

               Any option specified here controls the method used for user space.

               Valid options are "fp" (frame pointer), "dwarf" (DWARF's CFI -
               Call Frame Information) or "lbr" (Hardware Last Branch Record
               facility).

               In some systems, where binaries are build with gcc
               --fomit-frame-pointer, using the "fp" method will produce bogus
               call graphs, using "dwarf", if available (perf tools linked to
               the libunwind or libdw library) should be used instead.
               Using the "lbr" method doesn't require any compiler options. It
               will produce call graphs from the hardware LBR registers. The
               main limitation is that it is only available on new Intel
               platforms, such as Haswell. It can only get user call chain. It
               doesn't work with branch stack sampling at the same time.

               When "dwarf" recording is used, perf also records (user) stack dump
               when sampled.  Default size of the stack dump is 8192 (bytes).
               User can change the size by passing the size after comma like
               "--call-graph dwarf,4096".

       -q, --quiet
           Don’t print any message, useful for scripting.

       -v, --verbose
           Be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc).

       -s, --stat
           Record per-thread event counts. Use it with perf report -T to see the values.

       -d, --data
           Record the sample virtual addresses.

       --phys-data
           Record the sample physical addresses.

       --data-page-size
           Record the sampled data address data page size.

       --code-page-size
           Record the sampled code address (ip) page size

       -T, --timestamp
           Record the sample timestamps. Use it with perf report -D to see the timestamps, for
           instance.

       -P, --period
           Record the sample period.

       --sample-cpu
           Record the sample cpu.

       -n, --no-samples
           Don’t sample.

       -R, --raw-samples
           Collect raw sample records from all opened counters (default for tracepoint counters).

       -C, --cpu
           Collect samples only on the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can be provided as a
           comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. In
           per-thread mode with inheritance mode on (default), samples are captured only when the
           thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.

       -B, --no-buildid
           Do not save the build ids of binaries in the perf.data files. This skips post
           processing after recording, which sometimes makes the final step in the recording
           process to take a long time, as it needs to process all events looking for mmap
           records. The downside is that it can misresolve symbols if the workload binaries used
           when recording get locally rebuilt or upgraded, because the only key available in this
           case is the pathname. You can also set the "record.build-id" config variable to 'skip
           to have this behaviour permanently.

       -N, --no-buildid-cache
           Do not update the buildid cache. This saves some overhead in situations where the
           information in the perf.data file (which includes buildids) is sufficient. You can
           also set the "record.build-id" config variable to no-cache to have the same effect.

       -G name,..., --cgroup name,...
           monitor only in the container (cgroup) called "name". This option is available only in
           per-cpu mode. The cgroup filesystem must be mounted. All threads belonging to
           container "name" are monitored when they run on the monitored CPUs. Multiple cgroups
           can be provided. Each cgroup is applied to the corresponding event, i.e., first cgroup
           to first event, second cgroup to second event and so on. It is possible to provide an
           empty cgroup (monitor all the time) using, e.g., -G foo,,bar. Cgroups must have
           corresponding events, i.e., they always refer to events defined earlier on the command
           line. If the user wants to track multiple events for a specific cgroup, the user can
           use -e e1 -e e2 -G foo,foo or just use -e e1 -e e2 -G foo.

       If wanting to monitor, say, cycles for a cgroup and also for system wide, this command
       line can be used: perf stat -e cycles -G cgroup_name -a -e cycles.

       -b, --branch-any
           Enable taken branch stack sampling. Any type of taken branch may be sampled. This is a
           shortcut for --branch-filter any. See --branch-filter for more infos.

       -j, --branch-filter
           Enable taken branch stack sampling. Each sample captures a series of consecutive taken
           branches. The number of branches captured with each sample depends on the underlying
           hardware, the type of branches of interest, and the executed code. It is possible to
           select the types of branches captured by enabling filters. The following filters are
           defined:

           •   any: any type of branches

           •   any_call: any function call or system call

           •   any_ret: any function return or system call return

           •   ind_call: any indirect branch

           •   call: direct calls, including far (to/from kernel) calls

           •   u: only when the branch target is at the user level

           •   k: only when the branch target is in the kernel

           •   hv: only when the target is at the hypervisor level

           •   in_tx: only when the target is in a hardware transaction

           •   no_tx: only when the target is not in a hardware transaction

           •   abort_tx: only when the target is a hardware transaction abort

           •   cond: conditional branches

           •   save_type: save branch type during sampling in case binary is not available later

           The option requires at least one branch type among any, any_call, any_ret, ind_call,
           cond. The privilege levels may be omitted, in which case, the privilege levels of the
           associated event are applied to the branch filter. Both kernel (k) and hypervisor (hv)
           privilege levels are subject to permissions. When sampling on multiple events, branch
           stack sampling is enabled for all the sampling events. The sampled branch type is the
           same for all events. The various filters must be specified as a comma separated list:
           --branch-filter any_ret,u,k Note that this feature may not be available on all
           processors.

       --weight
           Enable weightened sampling. An additional weight is recorded per sample and can be
           displayed with the weight and local_weight sort keys. This currently works for TSX
           abort events and some memory events in precise mode on modern Intel CPUs.

       --namespaces
           Record events of type PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES. This enables cgroup_id sort key.

       --all-cgroups
           Record events of type PERF_RECORD_CGROUP. This enables cgroup sort key.

       --transaction
           Record transaction flags for transaction related events.

       --per-thread
           Use per-thread mmaps. By default per-cpu mmaps are created. This option overrides that
           and uses per-thread mmaps. A side-effect of that is that inheritance is automatically
           disabled. --per-thread is ignored with a warning if combined with -a or -C options.

       -D, --delay=
           After starting the program, wait msecs before measuring (-1: start with events
           disabled). This is useful to filter out the startup phase of the program, which is
           often very different.

       -I, --intr-regs
           Capture machine state (registers) at interrupt, i.e., on counter overflows for each
           sample. List of captured registers depends on the architecture. This option is off by
           default. It is possible to select the registers to sample using their symbolic names,
           e.g. on x86, ax, si. To list the available registers use --intr-regs=\?. To name
           registers, pass a comma separated list such as --intr-regs=ax,bx. The list of register
           is architecture dependent.

       --user-regs
           Similar to -I, but capture user registers at sample time. To list the available user
           registers use --user-regs=\?.

       --running-time
           Record running and enabled time for read events (:S)

       -k, --clockid
           Sets the clock id to use for the various time fields in the perf_event_type records.
           See clock_gettime(). In particular CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW are
           supported, some events might also allow CLOCK_BOOTTIME, CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_TAI.

       -S, --snapshot
           Select AUX area tracing Snapshot Mode. This option is valid only with an AUX area
           tracing event. Optionally, certain snapshot capturing parameters can be specified in a
           string that follows this option: e: take one last snapshot on exit; guarantees that
           there is at least one snapshot in the output file; <size>: if the PMU supports this,
           specify the desired snapshot size.

       In Snapshot Mode trace data is captured only when signal SIGUSR2 is received and on exit
       if the above e option is given.

       --aux-sample[=OPTIONS]
           Select AUX area sampling. At least one of the events selected by the -e option must be
           an AUX area event. Samples on other events will be created containing data from the
           AUX area. Optionally sample size may be specified, otherwise it defaults to 4KiB.

       --proc-map-timeout
           When processing pre-existing threads /proc/XXX/mmap, it may take a long time, because
           the file may be huge. A time out is needed in such cases. This option sets the time
           out limit. The default value is 500 ms.

       --switch-events
           Record context switch events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_SWITCH or
           PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE. In some cases (e.g. Intel PT, CoreSight or Arm SPE)
           switch events will be enabled automatically, which can be suppressed by by the option
           --no-switch-events.

       --clang-path=PATH
           Path to clang binary to use for compiling BPF scriptlets. (enabled when BPF support is
           on)

       --clang-opt=OPTIONS
           Options passed to clang when compiling BPF scriptlets. (enabled when BPF support is
           on)

       --vmlinux=PATH
           Specify vmlinux path which has debuginfo. (enabled when BPF prologue is on)

       --buildid-all
           Record build-id of all DSOs regardless whether it’s actually hit or not.

       --buildid-mmap
           Record build ids in mmap2 events, disables build id cache (implies --no-buildid).

       --aio[=n]
           Use <n> control blocks in asynchronous (Posix AIO) trace writing mode (default: 1,
           max: 4). Asynchronous mode is supported only when linking Perf tool with libc library
           providing implementation for Posix AIO API.

       --affinity=mode
           Set affinity mask of trace reading thread according to the policy defined by mode
           value: node - thread affinity mask is set to NUMA node cpu mask of the processed mmap
           buffer cpu - thread affinity mask is set to cpu of the processed mmap buffer

       --mmap-flush=number
           Specify minimal number of bytes that is extracted from mmap data pages and processed
           for output. One can specify the number using B/K/M/G suffixes.

       The maximal allowed value is a quarter of the size of mmaped data pages.

       The default option value is 1 byte which means that every time that the output writing
       thread finds some new data in the mmaped buffer the data is extracted, possibly compressed
       (-z) and written to the output, perf.data or pipe.

       Larger data chunks are compressed more effectively in comparison to smaller chunks so
       extraction of larger chunks from the mmap data pages is preferable from the perspective of
       output size reduction.

       Also at some cases executing less output write syscalls with bigger data size can take
       less time than executing more output write syscalls with smaller data size thus lowering
       runtime profiling overhead.

       -z, --compression-level[=n]
           Produce compressed trace using specified level n (default: 1 - fastest compression, 22
           - smallest trace)

       --all-kernel
           Configure all used events to run in kernel space.

       --all-user
           Configure all used events to run in user space.

       --kernel-callchains
           Collect callchains only from kernel space. I.e. this option sets
           perf_event_attr.exclude_callchain_user to 1.

       --user-callchains
           Collect callchains only from user space. I.e. this option sets
           perf_event_attr.exclude_callchain_kernel to 1.

       Don’t use both --kernel-callchains and --user-callchains at the same time or no callchains
       will be collected.

       --timestamp-filename Append timestamp to output file name.

       --timestamp-boundary
           Record timestamp boundary (time of first/last samples).

       --switch-output[=mode]
           Generate multiple perf.data files, timestamp prefixed, switching to a new one based on
           mode value: "signal" - when receiving a SIGUSR2 (default value) or <size> - when
           reaching the size threshold, size is expected to be a number with appended unit
           character - B/K/M/G <time> - when reaching the time threshold, size is expected to be
           a number with appended unit character - s/m/h/d

               Note: the precision of  the size  threshold  hugely depends
               on your configuration  - the number and size of  your  ring
               buffers (-m). It is generally more precise for higher sizes
               (like >5M), for lower values expect different sizes.

       A possible use case is to, given an external event, slice the perf.data file that gets
       then processed, possibly via a perf script, to decide if that particular perf.data
       snapshot should be kept or not.

       Implies --timestamp-filename, --no-buildid and --no-buildid-cache. The reason for the
       latter two is to reduce the data file switching overhead. You can still switch them on
       with:

           --switch-output --no-no-buildid  --no-no-buildid-cache

       --switch-output-event
           Events that will cause the switch of the perf.data file, auto-selecting
           --switch-output=signal, the results are similar as internally the side band thread
           will also send a SIGUSR2 to the main one.

       Uses the same syntax as --event, it will just not be recorded, serving only to switch the
       perf.data file as soon as the --switch-output event is processed by a separate sideband
       thread.

       This sideband thread is also used to other purposes, like processing the
       PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT records as they happen, asking the kernel for extra BPF information,
       etc.

       --switch-max-files=N
           When rotating perf.data with --switch-output, only keep N files.

       --dry-run
           Parse options then exit. --dry-run can be used to detect errors in cmdline options.

       perf record --dry-run -e can act as a BPF script compiler if llvm.dump-obj in config file
       is set to true.

       --synth=TYPE
           Collect and synthesize given type of events (comma separated). Note that this option
           controls the synthesis from the /proc filesystem which represent task status for
           pre-existing threads.

       Kernel (and some other) events are recorded regardless of the choice in this option. For
       example, --synth=no would have MMAP events for kernel and modules.

       Available types are: task - synthesize FORK and COMM events for each task mmap -
       synthesize MMAP events for each process (implies task) cgroup - synthesize CGROUP events
       for each cgroup all - synthesize all events (default) no - do not synthesize any of the
       above events

       --tail-synthesize
           Instead of collecting non-sample events (for example, fork, comm, mmap) at the
           beginning of record, collect them during finalizing an output file. The collected
           non-sample events reflects the status of the system when record is finished.

       --overwrite
           Makes all events use an overwritable ring buffer. An overwritable ring buffer works
           like a flight recorder: when it gets full, the kernel will overwrite the oldest
           records, that thus will never make it to the perf.data file.

       When --overwrite and --switch-output are used perf records and drops events until it
       receives a signal, meaning that something unusual was detected that warrants taking a
       snapshot of the most current events, those fitting in the ring buffer at that moment.

       overwrite attribute can also be set or canceled for an event using config terms. For
       example: cycles/overwrite/ and instructions/no-overwrite/.

       Implies --tail-synthesize.

       --kcore
           Make a copy of /proc/kcore and place it into a directory with the perf data file.

       --max-size=<size>
           Limit the sample data max size, <size> is expected to be a number with appended unit
           character - B/K/M/G

       --num-thread-synthesize
           The number of threads to run when synthesizing events for existing processes. By
           default, the number of threads equals 1.

       --control=fifo:ctl-fifo[,ack-fifo], --control=fd:ctl-fd[,ack-fd]
           ctl-fifo / ack-fifo are opened and used as ctl-fd / ack-fd as follows. Listen on
           ctl-fd descriptor for command to control measurement.

       Available commands: enable : enable events disable : disable events enable name : enable
       event name disable name : disable event name snapshot : AUX area tracing snapshot). stop :
       stop perf record ping : ping

           'evlist [-v|-g|-F] : display all events
                                -F  Show just the sample frequency used for each event.
                                -v  Show all fields.
                                -g  Show event group information.

       Measurements can be started with events disabled using --delay=-1 option. Optionally send
       control command completion (ack\n) to ack-fd descriptor to synchronize with the
       controlling process. Example of bash shell script to enable and disable events during
       measurements:

           #!/bin/bash

           ctl_dir=/tmp/

           ctl_fifo=${ctl_dir}perf_ctl.fifo
           test -p ${ctl_fifo} && unlink ${ctl_fifo}
           mkfifo ${ctl_fifo}
           exec {ctl_fd}<>${ctl_fifo}

           ctl_ack_fifo=${ctl_dir}perf_ctl_ack.fifo
           test -p ${ctl_ack_fifo} && unlink ${ctl_ack_fifo}
           mkfifo ${ctl_ack_fifo}
           exec {ctl_fd_ack}<>${ctl_ack_fifo}

           perf record -D -1 -e cpu-cycles -a               \
                       --control fd:${ctl_fd},${ctl_fd_ack} \
                       -- sleep 30 &
           perf_pid=$!

           sleep 5  && echo 'enable' >&${ctl_fd} && read -u ${ctl_fd_ack} e1 && echo "enabled(${e1})"
           sleep 10 && echo 'disable' >&${ctl_fd} && read -u ${ctl_fd_ack} d1 && echo "disabled(${d1})"

           exec {ctl_fd_ack}>&-
           unlink ${ctl_ack_fifo}

           exec {ctl_fd}>&-
           unlink ${ctl_fifo}

           wait -n ${perf_pid}
           exit $?

       --threads=<spec>
           Write collected trace data into several data files using parallel threads. <spec>
           value can be user defined list of masks. Masks separated by colon define CPUs to be
           monitored by a thread and affinity mask of that thread is separated by slash:

               <cpus mask 1>/<affinity mask 1>:<cpus mask 2>/<affinity mask 2>:...

       CPUs or affinity masks must not overlap with other corresponding masks. Invalid CPUs are
       ignored, but masks containing only invalid CPUs are not allowed.

       For example user specification like the following:

           0,2-4/2-4:1,5-7/5-7

       specifies parallel threads layout that consists of two threads, the first thread monitors
       CPUs 0 and 2-4 with the affinity mask 2-4, the second monitors CPUs 1 and 5-7 with the
       affinity mask 5-7.

       <spec> value can also be a string meaning predefined parallel threads layout:

           cpu    - create new data streaming thread for every monitored cpu
           core   - create new thread to monitor CPUs grouped by a core
           package - create new thread to monitor CPUs grouped by a package
           numa   - create new threed to monitor CPUs grouped by a NUMA domain

       Predefined layouts can be used on systems with large number of CPUs in order not to spawn
       multiple per-cpu streaming threads but still avoid LOST events in data directory files.
       Option specified with no or empty value defaults to CPU layout. Masks defined or provided
       by the option value are filtered through the mask provided by -C option.

INTEL HYBRID SUPPORT

       Support for Intel hybrid events within perf tools.

       For some Intel platforms, such as AlderLake, which is hybrid platform and it consists of
       atom cpu and core cpu. Each cpu has dedicated event list. Part of events are available on
       core cpu, part of events are available on atom cpu and even part of events are available
       on both.

       Kernel exports two new cpu pmus via sysfs: /sys/devices/cpu_core /sys/devices/cpu_atom

       The cpus files are created under the directories. For example,

       cat /sys/devices/cpu_core/cpus 0-15

       cat /sys/devices/cpu_atom/cpus 16-23

       It indicates cpu0-cpu15 are core cpus and cpu16-cpu23 are atom cpus.

       Quickstart

LIST HYBRID EVENT

       As before, use perf-list to list the symbolic event.

       perf list

       inst_retired.any [Fixed Counter: Counts the number of instructions retired. Unit:
       cpu_atom] inst_retired.any [Number of instructions retired. Fixed Counter - architectural
       event. Unit: cpu_core]

       The Unit: xxx is added to brief description to indicate which pmu the event is belong to.
       Same event name but with different pmu can be supported.

ENABLE HYBRID EVENT WITH A SPECIFIC PMU

       To enable a core only event or atom only event, following syntax is supported:

                   cpu_core/<event name>/
           or
                   cpu_atom/<event name>/

       For example, count the cycles event on core cpus.

           perf stat -e cpu_core/cycles/

CREATE TWO EVENTS FOR ONE HARDWARE EVENT AUTOMATICALLY

       When creating one event and the event is available on both atom and core, two events are
       created automatically. One is for atom, the other is for core. Most of hardware events and
       cache events are available on both cpu_core and cpu_atom.

       For hardware events, they have pre-defined configs (e.g. 0 for cycles). But on hybrid
       platform, kernel needs to know where the event comes from (from atom or from core). The
       original perf event type PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE can’t carry pmu information. So now this type
       is extended to be PMU aware type. The PMU type ID is stored at attr.config[63:32].

       PMU type ID is retrieved from sysfs. /sys/devices/cpu_atom/type /sys/devices/cpu_core/type

       The new attr.config layout for PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE:

       PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE: 0xEEEEEEEE000000AA AA: hardware event ID EEEEEEEE: PMU type ID

       Cache event is similar. The type PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE is extended to be PMU aware type. The
       PMU type ID is stored at attr.config[63:32].

       The new attr.config layout for PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE:

       PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE: 0xEEEEEEEE00DDCCBB BB: hardware cache ID CC: hardware cache op ID DD:
       hardware cache op result ID EEEEEEEE: PMU type ID

       When enabling a hardware event without specified pmu, such as, perf stat -e cycles -a (use
       system-wide in this example), two events are created automatically.

           ------------------------------------------------------------
           perf_event_attr:
             size                             120
             config                           0x400000000
             sample_type                      IDENTIFIER
             read_format                      TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING
             disabled                         1
             inherit                          1
             exclude_guest                    1
           ------------------------------------------------------------

       and

           ------------------------------------------------------------
           perf_event_attr:
             size                             120
             config                           0x800000000
             sample_type                      IDENTIFIER
             read_format                      TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING
             disabled                         1
             inherit                          1
             exclude_guest                    1
           ------------------------------------------------------------

       type 0 is PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE. 0x4 in 0x400000000 indicates it’s cpu_core pmu. 0x8 in
       0x800000000 indicates it’s cpu_atom pmu (atom pmu type id is random).

       The kernel creates cycles (0x400000000) on cpu0-cpu15 (core cpus), and create cycles
       (0x800000000) on cpu16-cpu23 (atom cpus).

       For perf-stat result, it displays two events:

           Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

           6,744,979      cpu_core/cycles/
           1,965,552      cpu_atom/cycles/

       The first cycles is core event, the second cycles is atom event.

THREAD MODE EXAMPLE:

       perf-stat reports the scaled counts for hybrid event and with a percentage displayed. The
       percentage is the event’s running time/enabling time.

       One example, triad_loop runs on cpu16 (atom core), while we can see the scaled value for
       core cycles is 160,444,092 and the percentage is 0.47%.

       perf stat -e cycles -- taskset -c 16 ./triad_loop

       As previous, two events are created.

           .ft C
           perf_event_attr:
             size                             120
             config                           0x400000000
             sample_type                      IDENTIFIER
             read_format                      TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING
             disabled                         1
             inherit                          1
             enable_on_exec                   1
             exclude_guest                    1
           .ft

       and

           .ft C
           perf_event_attr:
             size                             120
             config                           0x800000000
             sample_type                      IDENTIFIER
             read_format                      TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING
             disabled                         1
             inherit                          1
             enable_on_exec                   1
             exclude_guest                    1
           .ft

           Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 16 ./triad_loop':

           233,066,666      cpu_core/cycles/                                              (0.43%)
           604,097,080      cpu_atom/cycles/                                              (99.57%)

PERF-RECORD:

       If there is no -e specified in perf record, on hybrid platform, it creates two default
       cycles and adds them to event list. One is for core, the other is for atom.

PERF-STAT:

       If there is no -e specified in perf stat, on hybrid platform, besides of software events,
       following events are created and added to event list in order.

       cpu_core/cycles/, cpu_atom/cycles/, cpu_core/instructions/, cpu_atom/instructions/,
       cpu_core/branches/, cpu_atom/branches/, cpu_core/branch-misses/, cpu_atom/branch-misses/

       Of course, both perf-stat and perf-record support to enable hybrid event with a specific
       pmu.

       e.g. perf stat -e cpu_core/cycles/ perf stat -e cpu_atom/cycles/ perf stat -e
       cpu_core/r1a/ perf stat -e cpu_atom/L1-icache-loads/ perf stat -e
       cpu_core/cycles/,cpu_atom/instructions/ perf stat -e
       {cpu_core/cycles/,cpu_core/instructions/}

       But {cpu_core/cycles/,cpu_atom/instructions/} will return warning and disable grouping,
       because the pmus in group are not matched (cpu_core vs. cpu_atom).

       --debuginfod[=URLs]
           Specify debuginfod URL to be used when cacheing perf.data binaries, it follows the
           same syntax as the DEBUGINFOD_URLS variable, like:

               http://192.168.122.174:8002

               If the URLs is not specified, the value of DEBUGINFOD_URLS
               system environment variable is used.

       --off-cpu
           Enable off-cpu profiling with BPF. The BPF program will collect task scheduling
           information with (user) stacktrace and save them as sample data of a software event
           named "offcpu-time". The sample period will have the time the task slept in
           nanoseconds.

               Note that BPF can collect stack traces using frame pointer ("fp")
               only, as of now.  So the applications built without the frame
               pointer might see bogus addresses.

SEE ALSO

       perf-stat(1), perf-list(1), perf-intel-pt(1)