perf script python: Allow reporting the [un]throttle PERF_RECORD_ meta event

perf_events may sometimes throttle an event due to creating too many
samples during a given timer tick.

As of now, the perf tool will not report on throttling, which means this
is a silent error.

Implement a callback for the throttle and unthrottle events within the
Python scripting engine, which can allow scripts to detect and report
when events may have been lost due to throttling.

The simplest script to report throttle events is:

  def throttle(*args):
      print("throttle" + repr(args))

  def unthrottle(*args):
      print("unthrottle" + repr(args))

Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210901210815.133251-1-stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
index 69129e2aa7a1..c0c010350bc2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
@@ -1422,6 +1422,37 @@ static void python_process_event(union perf_event *event,
 	}
 }
 
+static void python_process_throttle(union perf_event *event,
+				    struct perf_sample *sample,
+				    struct machine *machine)
+{
+	const char *handler_name;
+	PyObject *handler, *t;
+
+	if (event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_THROTTLE)
+		handler_name = "throttle";
+	else
+		handler_name = "unthrottle";
+	handler = get_handler(handler_name);
+	if (!handler)
+		return;
+
+	t = tuple_new(6);
+	if (!t)
+		return;
+
+	tuple_set_u64(t, 0, event->throttle.time);
+	tuple_set_u64(t, 1, event->throttle.id);
+	tuple_set_u64(t, 2, event->throttle.stream_id);
+	tuple_set_s32(t, 3, sample->cpu);
+	tuple_set_s32(t, 4, sample->pid);
+	tuple_set_s32(t, 5, sample->tid);
+
+	call_object(handler, t, handler_name);
+
+	Py_DECREF(t);
+}
+
 static void python_do_process_switch(union perf_event *event,
 				     struct perf_sample *sample,
 				     struct machine *machine)
@@ -2079,5 +2110,6 @@ struct scripting_ops python_scripting_ops = {
 	.process_auxtrace_error	= python_process_auxtrace_error,
 	.process_stat		= python_process_stat,
 	.process_stat_interval	= python_process_stat_interval,
+	.process_throttle	= python_process_throttle,
 	.generate_script	= python_generate_script,
 };