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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+"""
+Displays system-wide system call totals, broken down by syscall.
+
+If a [comm] arg is specified, only syscalls called by [comm] are displayed.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+from collections import defaultdict
+from typing import DefaultDict
+import perf
+
+syscalls: DefaultDict[int, int] = defaultdict(int)
+for_comm = None
+session = None
+
+
+def print_syscall_totals():
+ """Print aggregated statistics."""
+ if for_comm is not None:
+ print(f"\nsyscall events for {for_comm}:\n")
+ else:
+ print("\nsyscall events:\n")
+
+ print(f"{'event':<40} {'count':>10}")
+ print("---------------------------------------- -----------")
+
+ for sc_id, val in sorted(syscalls.items(),
+ key=lambda kv: (-kv[1], kv[0])):
+ e_machine = getattr(session, "e_machine", 0) or 0
+ # Mask out the x86_64 x32 ABI bit (__X32_SYSCALL_BIT = 0x40000000) before
+ # resolving the syscall number in the architecture's syscall table.
+ raw_sc_id = sc_id & ~0x40000000
+ if e_machine:
+ name = perf.syscall_name(raw_sc_id, e_machine) or str(sc_id)
+ else:
+ name = perf.syscall_name(raw_sc_id) or str(sc_id)
+ print(f"{name:<40} {val:>10}")
+
+
+def process_event(sample):
+ """Process a single sample event."""
+ event_name = str(sample.evsel)
+ # Per-syscall syscalls:sys_enter_* tracepoints expose '__syscall_nr' (or 'nr')
+ # and may have an unrelated syscall argument named 'id' (e.g. sys_enter_clock_gettime),
+ # whereas raw_syscalls:sys_enter (and legacy pre-2.6.35 syscalls:sys_enter) expose 'id'.
+ if event_name.startswith("evsel(syscalls:sys_enter_"):
+ sc_id = getattr(sample, "__syscall_nr", None)
+ if sc_id is not None and not (0 <= (sc_id & ~0x40000000) <= 0xffff):
+ sc_id = None
+ if sc_id is None:
+ sc_id = getattr(sample, "nr", -1)
+ elif event_name.startswith(("evsel(raw_syscalls:sys_enter", "evsel(syscalls:sys_enter")):
+ sc_id = getattr(sample, "id", -1)
+ if not (0 <= (sc_id & ~0x40000000) <= 0xffff):
+ sc_id = getattr(sample, "__syscall_nr", -1)
+ if not (0 <= (sc_id & ~0x40000000) <= 0xffff):
+ sc_id = getattr(sample, "nr", -1)
+ else:
+ return
+
+ # Mask out __X32_SYSCALL_BIT (0x40000000) when validating the syscall ID range.
+ if not (0 <= (sc_id & ~0x40000000) <= 0xffff):
+ return
+
+ comm = "unknown"
+ try:
+ if session:
+ proc = session.find_thread(sample.sample_pid, sample.sample_tid)
+ if proc:
+ comm = proc.comm() or "unknown"
+ except (TypeError, AttributeError):
+ pass
+
+ if for_comm and comm != for_comm:
+ return
+ syscalls[sc_id] += 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+ ap.add_argument("comm", nargs="?", help="Only report syscalls for comm")
+ ap.add_argument("-i", "--input", default="perf.data", help="Input file name")
+ args = ap.parse_args()
+ for_comm = args.comm
+ try:
+ session = perf.session(perf.data(args.input), sample=process_event)
+ session.process_events()
+ print_syscall_totals()
+ finally:
+ # Break the reference cycle between session and process_event (whose module
+ # globals reference session) since perf.session lacks cyclic GC (tp_traverse).
+ session = None