/* * self-basic.c - example of a simple self monitoring task no-helper * * Copyright (c) 2010 Google, Inc * 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. */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define N 30 static unsigned long fib(unsigned long n) { if (n == 0) return 0; if (n == 1) return 2; return fib(n-1)+fib(n-2); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { struct perf_event_attr attr; int fd, ret; uint64_t count = 0, values[3]; setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); /* * Initialize libpfm library (required before we can use it) */ ret = pfm_initialize(); if (ret != PFM_SUCCESS) errx(1, "cannot initialize library: %s", pfm_strerror(ret)); memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(attr)); /* * 1st argument: event string * 2nd argument: default privilege level (used if not specified in the event string) * 3rd argument: the perf_event_attr to initialize */ ret = pfm_get_perf_event_encoding("cycles:u", PFM_PLM0|PFM_PLM3, &attr, NULL, NULL); if (ret != PFM_SUCCESS) errx(1, "cannot find encoding: %s", pfm_strerror(ret)); /* * request timing information because event may be multiplexed * and thus it may not count all the time. The scaling information * will be used to scale the raw count as if the event had run all * along */ attr.read_format = PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING; /* do not start immediately after perf_event_open() */ attr.disabled = 1; /* * create the event and attach to self * Note that it attaches only to the main thread, there is no inheritance * to threads that may be created subsequently. * * if mulithreaded, then getpid() must be replaced by gettid() */ fd = perf_event_open(&attr, getpid(), -1, -1, 0); if (fd < 0) err(1, "cannot create event"); /* * start counting now */ ret = ioctl(fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0); if (ret) err(1, "ioctl(enable) failed"); printf("Fibonacci(%d)=%lu\n", N, fib(N)); /* * stop counting */ ret = ioctl(fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE, 0); if (ret) err(1, "ioctl(disable) failed"); /* * read the count + scaling values * * It is not necessary to stop an event to read its value */ ret = read(fd, values, sizeof(values)); if (ret != sizeof(values)) err(1, "cannot read results: %s", strerror(errno)); /* * scale count * * values[0] = raw count * values[1] = TIME_ENABLED * values[2] = TIME_RUNNING */ if (values[2]) count = (uint64_t)((double)values[0] * values[1]/values[2]); printf("count=%'"PRIu64"\n", count); close(fd); /* free libpfm resources cleanly */ pfm_terminate(); return 0; }