[PATCH V3 0/6] perf/tools: Add interface to expose vpa dtl

Athira Rajeev atrajeev at linux.ibm.com
Fri Sep 26 14:53:56 AEST 2025



> On 25 Sep 2025, at 9:57 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On September 25, 2025 6:21:19 PM GMT+02:00, Athira Rajeev <atrajeev at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
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>>> On 17 Sep 2025, at 11:28 AM, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter at intel.com> wrote:
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>>> On 16/09/2025 08:25, Athira Rajeev wrote:
>>>> The pseries Shared Processor Logical Partition(SPLPAR) machines can
>>>> retrieve a log of dispatch and preempt events from the hypervisor
>>>> using data from Disptach Trace Log(DTL) buffer. With this information,
>>>> user can retrieve when and why each dispatch & preempt has occurred.
>>>> The vpa-dtl PMU exposes the Virtual Processor Area(VPA) DTL counters
>>>> via perf.
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>>>> - Patch 1 to 6 is perf tools side code changes to enable perf
>>>> report/script on perf.data file
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>>> For all patches 1 to 6:
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>>> Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter at intel.com>
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>> Hi All,
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>> Looking for further comments if any on this patchset.
>> The kernel side patches for this feature which was sent as separate series is pulled to powerpc tree by Maddy
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>> If the tools side changes looks good, can we have this merged to perf tools tree ?
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> Sure, I'll look at it soon now that the kernel part is merged.
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> - Arnaldo
Sure, thanks Arnaldo 

Athira
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>> Thanks
>> Athira
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> - Arnaldo




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