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2013-11-07perf tools: Remove unneeded includeRodrigo Campos
There is no point in sort.h including itself. The include was added when the file was created, in commit "perf tools: Create util/sort.and use it" (dd68ada2d) and added a include to "sort.h" in lot of files (all the files that started using the file). It was probably added by mistake on sort.h too. Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383776454-10595-1-git-send-email-rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-11-05perf tools: Finish the removal of 'self' argumentsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
They convey no information, perhaps I was bitten by some snake at some point, complete the detox by naming the last of those arguments more sensibly. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-u1r0dnjoro08dgztiy2g3t2q@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-11-04perf tools: Get current comm instead of last oneNamhyung Kim
At insert time, a hist entry should reference comm at the time otherwise it'll get the last comm anyway. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-n6pykiiymtgmcjs834go2t8x@git.kernel.org [ Fixed up const pointer issues ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-10-04tools/perf: Add support for record transaction flagsAndi Kleen
Add support for recording and displaying the transaction flags. They are essentially a new sort key. Also display them in a nice way to the user. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379688044-14173-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-04tools/perf: Support sorting by in_tx or abort branch flagsAndi Kleen
Extend the perf branch sorting code to support sorting by in_tx or abort_tx qualifiers. Also print out those qualifiers. This also fixes up some of the existing sort key documentation. We do not support no_tx here, because it's simply not showing the in_tx flag. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379688044-14173-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-22perf tools: Move weight back to common sort keysAndi Kleen
This is a partial revert of Namhyung's patch afab87b91f3f331d55664172dad8e476e6ffca9d perf sort: Separate out memory-specific sort keys He wrote For global/local weights, I'm not entirely sure to place them into the memory dimension. But it's the only user at this time. Well TSX is another (in fact the original) user of the flags, and it needs them to be common. So move local/global weight back to the common sort keys. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1374188333-17899-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-07-12perf hists: Marking dummy hists entriesJiri Olsa
It does not make sense to make some computation (ratio, wdiff), when the hist_entry is 'dummy' - added via hists__link. Adding dummy field to struct hist_entry which indicates that it was added by hists__link and avoiding some of the processing for such entries. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-g8bxml0n0pnqsrpyd98p0ird@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-07-12perf report/top: Add option to collapse undesired parts of call graphGreg Price
For example, in an application with an expensive function implemented with deeply nested recursive calls, the default call-graph presentation is dominated by the different callchains within that function. By ignoring these callees, we can collect the callchains leading into the function and compactly identify what to blame for expensive calls. For example, in this report the callers of garbage_collect() are scattered across the tree: $ perf report -d ruby 2>- | grep -m10 ^[^#]*[a-z] 22.03% ruby [.] gc_mark --- gc_mark |--59.40%-- mark_keyvalue | st_foreach | gc_mark_children | |--99.75%-- rb_gc_mark | | rb_vm_mark | | gc_mark_children | | gc_marks | | |--99.00%-- garbage_collect If we ignore the callees of garbage_collect(), its callers are coalesced: $ perf report --ignore-callees garbage_collect -d ruby 2>- | grep -m10 ^[^#]*[a-z] 72.92% ruby [.] garbage_collect --- garbage_collect vm_xmalloc |--47.08%-- ruby_xmalloc | st_insert2 | rb_hash_aset | |--98.45%-- features_index_add | | rb_provide_feature | | rb_require_safe | | vm_call_method Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu> Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130623031720.GW22203@biohazard-cafe.mit.edu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130708115746.GO22203@biohazard-cafe.mit.edu Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> [ remove spaces at beginning of line, reported by Fengguang Wu ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-28perf hists: Rename hist_entry__add_pair argumentsJiri Olsa
The current logic is to attach pair to the leader hist_entry. Arguments of hist_entry__add_pair function were placed the other way round.. driving me crazy. I.e. list_add_tail expects (new_node, head). Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1355404152-16523-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-28perf sort: Consolidate sort_entry__setup_elide()Namhyung Kim
The same code was duplicate to places, factor them out to common sort__setup_elide(). Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364991979-3008-11-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-28perf sort: Separate out memory-specific sort keysNamhyung Kim
Since they're used only for perf mem, separate out them to a different dimension so that normal user cannot access them by any chance. For global/local weights, I'm not entirely sure to place them into the memory dimension. But it's the only user at this time. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364991979-3008-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-28perf sort: Introduce sort__mode variableNamhyung Kim
It's used for determining current sort mode which can be one of NORMAL, BRANCH and new MEMORY. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364816125-12212-5-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-04-01perf tools: Add mem access sampling core supportStephane Eranian
This patch adds the sorting and histogram support functions to enable profiling of memory accesses. The following sorting orders are added: - symbol_daddr: data address symbol (or raw address) - dso_daddr: data address shared object - locked: access uses locked transaction - tlb : TLB access - mem : memory level of the access (L1, L2, L3, RAM, ...) - snoop: access snoop mode Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-12-git-send-email-eranian@google.com [ committer note: changed to cope with fc5871ed, the move of methods to machine.[ch], and the rename of dsrc to data_src, to match the change made in the PERF_SAMPLE_DSRC in a previous patch. ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-04-01perf tools: Add support for weight v7 (modified)Andi Kleen
perf record has a new option -W that enables weightened sampling. Add sorting support in top/report for the average weight per sample and the total weight sum. This allows to both compare relative cost per event and the total cost over the measurement period. Add the necessary glue to perf report, record and the library. v2: Merge with new hist refactoring. v3: Fix manpage. Remove value check. Rename global_weight to weight and weight to local_weight. v4: Readd sort keys to manpage v5: Move weight to end v6: Move weight to template v7: Rename weight key. Original patch from Andi modified by Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> to include ONLY the weight supporting code and apply to pristine 3.8.0-rc4. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-6-git-send-email-eranian@google.com [ committer note: changed to cope with fc5871ed and the hists_link perf test entry ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-02-06perf sort: Make setup_sorting returns an error codeNamhyung Kim
Currently the setup_sorting() is called for parsing sort keys and exits if it failed to add the sort key. As it's included in libperf it'd be better returning an error code rather than exiting application inside of the library. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360130237-9963-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-01-24perf sort: Separate out branch stack specific sort keysNamhyung Kim
Current perf report gets segmentation fault when a branch stack specific sort key is provided by --sort option to a perf.data file which contains no branch infomation. It's because those sort keys reference branch info of a hist entry unconditionally. Maybe we can change it checks whether such branch info is valid or not. But if the branch stacks are not recorded, it'd be nop. Thus it'd be better to make those keys are unselectable. This patch separates those keys to a different dimension array, so that if user passes such a key to a file which has no branch stack will get following message rather than a segfault. Error: Invalid --sort key: `symbol_from' Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Reported-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356599507-14226-10-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-12-09perf diff: Remove displacement from struct hist_entry_diffJiri Olsa
Removing displacement from struct hist_entry_diff, because it's not used. Displacement is not used for sorting, so there's no reason to pre-calculate it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1354110769-2998-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-12-09perf hists: Fix typo on hist__entry_add_pairNamhyung Kim
Fix a misplaced underscore. In this case, 'hist_entry' is the name of data structure and we usually put double underscores between data structure and actual function name. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8jdq8g6kl6v54hkexrfwsy72@git.kernel.org [ committer note: put it in front of the patch queue where it came from ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-11-08perf diff: Start moving to support matching more than two histsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
We want to match more than two hists, so that we can match more than two perf.data files and moreover, match hist_entries (buckets) in multiple events in a group. So the "baseline"/"leader" will instead of a ->pair pointer, use a list_head, that will link to the pairs and hists__match use it. Following that perf_evlist__link will link the hists in its evsel groups. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2kbmzepoi544ygj9godseqpv@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05perf diff: Add weighted diff computation way to compare hist entriesJiri Olsa
Adding 'wdiff' as new computation way to compare hist entries. If specified the 'Weighted diff' column is displayed with value 'd' computed as: d = B->period * WEIGHT-A - A->period * WEIGHT-B - A/B being matching hist entry from first/second file specified (or perf.data/perf.data.old) respectively. - period being the hist entry period value - WEIGHT-A/WEIGHT-B being user suplied weights in the the '-c' option behind ':' separator like '-c wdiff:1,2'. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05perf diff: Add option to sort entries based on diff computationJiri Olsa
Adding support to sort hist entries based on the outcome of selected computation. It's now possible to specify '+' as a first character of '-c' option value to make such sort. Example: $ perf diff -c ratio -b # Event 'cache-misses' # # Baseline Ratio Shared Object Symbol # ........ .............. ................. ................................ # 19.64% 0.69 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page 0.30% 0.17 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mm_alloc 0.04% 0.20 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc $ perf diff -c +ratio -b # Event 'cache-misses' # # Baseline Ratio Shared Object Symbol # ........ .............. ................. ................................ # 19.64% 0.69 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page 0.04% 0.20 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc 0.30% 0.17 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mm_alloc Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-04perf hists: Introduce struct he_statNamhyung Kim
The struct he_stat is for separating out statistics data of a hist entry. It is required for later changes. It's just a mechanical change and should have no functional differences. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349354994-17853-8-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-04perf diff: Refactor diff displacement possition infoJiri Olsa
Moving the position calculation into the diff command, so the position as prepared inside struct hist_entry data and there's no need to compute in the output display path. Removing 'displacement' from struct perf_hpp as it is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349354994-17853-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-04perf hists: Add struct hists pointer to struct hist_entryJiri Olsa
Adding pointer back to the parent struct hists for struct hists_entry. This will be useful in future for any hist_entry's data computation, that depends on total data of its parent hists. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349354994-17853-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-09-17perf tools: Add sort__has_symNamhyung Kim
The sort__has_sym variable is for checking whether the sort_list includes 'symbol' as a sort key. It will be used for later patch. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347611729-16994-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-09-07perf tools: Replace sort's standalone field_sep with symbol_conf.field_sepJiri Olsa
The repsep_snprintf function was still using standalone field_sep, which not even set anymore. Replacing it with 'symbol_conf.field_sep'. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346946426-13496-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-06-19perf tools: Add sort by src line/numberArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Using addr2line for now, requires debuginfo, needs more work to support detached debuginfo, aka foo-debuginfo packages. Example: [root@sandy ~]# perf record -a sleep 3 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.555 MB perf.data (~24236 samples) ] [root@sandy ~]# perf report -s dso,srcline 2>&1 | grep -v ^# | head -5 22.41% [kernel.kallsyms] /home/git/linux/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c:280 4.79% [kernel.kallsyms] /home/git/linux/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c:148 4.78% [kernel.kallsyms] /home/git/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:121 4.49% [kernel.kallsyms] /home/git/linux/kernel/sched/core.c:1690 4.30% [kernel.kallsyms] /home/git/linux/include/linux/seqlock.h:90 [root@sandy ~]# [root@sandy ~]# perf top -U -s dso,symbol,srcline Samples: 1K of event 'cycles', Event count (approx.): 589617389 18.66% [kernel] [k] copy_user_generic_unrolled /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S:143 7.83% [kernel] [k] clear_page /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S:39 6.59% [kernel] [k] clear_page /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S:38 3.66% [kernel] [k] page_fault /home/git/linux/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1379 3.25% [kernel] [k] clear_page /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S:40 3.12% [kernel] [k] clear_page /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S:37 2.74% [kernel] [k] clear_page /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S:36 2.39% [kernel] [k] clear_page /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S:43 2.12% [kernel] [k] ioread32 /home/git/linux/lib/iomap.c:90 1.51% [kernel] [k] copy_user_generic_unrolled /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S:144 1.19% [kernel] [k] copy_user_generic_unrolled /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S:154 Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pdmqbng9twz06jzkbgtuwbp8@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-03-09perf report: Enable TUI in branch view modeStephane Eranian
This patch updates perf report to support TUI mode when the perf.data file contains samples with branch stacks. For each row in the report, it is possible to annotate either the source or target of each branch. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: asharma@fb.com Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331246868-19905-5-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-09perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling modeStephane Eranian
This patch enhances perf report to auto-detect when the perf.data file contains samples with branch stacks. That way it is not necessary to use the -b option. To force branch view mode to off, simply use --no-branch-stack. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: asharma@fb.com Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331246868-19905-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-09perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACKRoberto Agostino Vitillo
This patch adds: - ability to parse samples with PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK - sort on branches (dso_from, symbol_from, dso_to, symbol_to, mispredict) - build histograms on branches Signed-off-by: Roberto Agostino Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: asharma@fb.com Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-12-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-13perf hists: Don't free decayed entries if in the annotation browserArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Just let it there till the user exits the annotation browser. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nmaxuzreqhm5k10t2co5sk9a@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-07perf hists: Threaded addition and sorting of entriesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
By using a mutex just for inserting and rotating two hist_entry rb trees, so that when sorting we can get the last batch of entries created from the ring buffer, merge it with whatever we have processed so far and show the output while new entries are being added. The 'report' tool continues, for now, to do it without threading, but will use this in the future to allow visualization of results in long perf.data sessions while the entries are being processed. The new 'top' tool will be the first user. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9b05atsn0q6m7fqgrug8fk2i@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-06-30perf tools: Remove sort print helpers declarationsFrederic Weisbecker
These are probably some old leftovers. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Liao <phyomh@gmail.com>
2011-06-30perf tools: Make sort operations staticFrederic Weisbecker
These don't need to be globally visible. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Liao <phyomh@gmail.com>
2010-08-22perf: Keep track of the max depth of a callchainFrederic Weisbecker
In order to implement callchains collapsing, we need to keep track of the maximum depth in a histogram tree of callchains. This way we'll avoid allocating an arbitrary temporary buffer size on callchain merge time. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2010-07-27perf ui: New hists tree widgetArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
The stock newt checkbox tree widget we were using was not really suitable for hist entry + callchain browsing. The problems with it were manifold: - We needed to traverse the whole hist_entry rb_tree to add each entry + callchains beforehand. - No control over the colors used for each row So a new tree widget, based mostly on slang, was written. It extends the ui_browser class already used for annotate to allow the user to fold/unfold branches in the callchains tree, using extra fields in the symbol_map class that is embedded in hist_entry and callchain_node instances to store the folding state and when changing this state calculates the number of rows that are produced when showing a particular hist_entry instance. This greatly speeds up browsing as we don't have to upfront touch all the entries and only calculate callchain related operations when some callchain branch is actually unfolded. The memory footprint is also reduced as the data structure is not duplicated, just some extra fields for controling callchain state and to simplify the process of seeking thru entries (nr_rows, row_offset) were added. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-07-23perf sort: Make column width code per hists instanceArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
They were globals, and since we support multiple hists and sessions at the same time, it doesn't make sense to calculate those values considereing all symbols in all sessions. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-05perf report: Implement --sort cpuArun Sharma
In a shared multi-core environment, users want to analyze why their program was slow. In particular, if the code ran slower only on certain CPUs due to interference from other programs or kernel threads, the user should be able to notice that. Sample usage: perf record -f -a -- sleep 3 perf report --sort cpu,comm Workload: program is running on 16 CPUs Experiencing interference from an antagonist only on 4 CPUs. Samples: 106218177676 cycles Overhead CPU Command ........ ... ............... 6.25% 2 program 6.24% 6 program 6.24% 11 program 6.24% 5 program 6.24% 9 program 6.24% 10 program 6.23% 15 program 6.23% 7 program 6.23% 3 program 6.23% 14 program 6.22% 1 program 6.20% 13 program 3.17% 12 program 3.15% 8 program 3.14% 0 program 3.13% 4 program 3.11% 4 antagonist 3.11% 0 antagonist 3.10% 8 antagonist 3.07% 12 antagonist Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100505181612.GA5091@sharma-home.net> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <aruns@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-17perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variantsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
OPT_SET_INT was renamed to OPT_SET_UINT since the only use in these tools is to set something that has an enum type, that is builtin compatible with unsigned int. Several string constifications were done to make OPT_STRING require a const char * type. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-14perf report: Report number of events, not samplesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Number of samples is meaningless after we switched to auto-freq, so report the number of events, i.e. not the sum of the different periods, but the number PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE emitted by the kernel. While doing this I noticed that naming "count" to the sum of all the event periods can be confusing, so rename it to .period, just like in struct sample.data, so that we become more consistent. This helps with the next step, that was to record in struct hist_entry the number of sample events for each instance, we need that because we use it to generate the number of events when applying filters to the tree of hist entries like it is being done in the TUI report browser. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-11perf report: Librarize the annotation code and use it in the newt browserArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Now we don't anymore use popen to run 'perf annotate' for the selected symbol, instead we collect per address samplings when processing samples in 'perf report' if we're using the newt browser, then we use this data directly to do annotation. Done this way we can actually traverse the objdump_line objects directly, matching the addresses to the collected samples and colouring them appropriately using lower level slang routines. The new ui_browser class will be reused for the main, callchain aware, histogram browser, when it will be made generic and don't assume that the objects are always instances of the objdump_line class maintained using list_heads. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-19perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from hostZhang, Yanmin
Here is the patch of userspace perf tool. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-14perf tools: Fix accidentally preprocessed snprintf callbackFrederic Weisbecker
struct sort_entry has a callback named snprintf that turns an entry into a string result. But there are glibc versions that implement snprintf through a macro. The following expression is then going to get the snprintf call preprocessed: ent->snprintf(...) to finally end up in a build error: util/hist.c: Dans la fonction «hist_entry__snprintf» : util/hist.c:539: erreur: «struct sort_entry» has no member named «__builtin___snprintf_chk» To fix this, prepend struct sort_entry callbacks with an "se_" prefix. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-03perf TUI: Add a "Zoom into COMM(PID) thread" and reverse operationsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Now one can press the right arrow key and in addition to being able to filter by DSO, filter out by thread too, or a combination of both filters. With this one can start collecting events for the whole system, then focus on a subset of the collected data quickly. Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-03perf newt: Add a "Zoom into foo.so DSO" and reverse operationsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Clicking on -> will bring as one of the popup menu options a "Zoom into CURRENT DSO", i.e. CURRENT will be replaced by the name of the DSO in the current line. Choosing this option will filter out all samples that didn't took place in a symbol in this DSO. After that the option reverts to "Zoom out of CURRENT DSO", to allow going back to the more compreensive view, not filtered by DSO. Future similar operations will include zooming into a particular thread, COMM, CPU, "last minute", "last N usecs", etc. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-02perf hist: Only allocate callchain_node if processing callchainsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
The struct callchain_node size is 120 bytes, that are never used when there are no callchains or '-g none' is specified, so conditionally allocate it, reducing sizeof(struct hist_entry) from 210 bytes to only 96, greatly speeding the non-callchain processing. LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-02perf hist: Replace ->print() routines by ->snprintf() equivalentsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Then hist_entry__fprintf will just us the newly introduced hist_entry__snprintf, add the newline and fprintf it to the supplied FILE descriptor. This allows us to remove the use_browser checking in the color_printf routines, that now got color_snprintf variants too. The newt TUI browser (and other GUIs that may come in the future) don't have to worry about stdio specific stuff in the strings they get from the se->snprintf routines and instead use whatever means to do the equivalent. Also the newt TUI browser don't have to use the fmemopen() hack, instead it can use the se->snprintf routines directly. For now tho use the hist_entry__snprintf routine to reduce the patch size. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-03-26perf tools: Introduce struct map_symbolArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
That will be in both struct hist_entry and struct callchain_list, so that the TUI can store a pointer to the pair (map, symbol) in the trees where hist_entries and callchain_lists are present, to allow precise annotation instead of looking for the first symbol with the selected name. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1269459619-982-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-16perf diff: Use perf_session__fprintf_hists just like 'perf record'Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
That means that almost everything you can do with 'perf report' can be done with 'perf diff', for instance: $ perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2699 samples) ] $ perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2687 samples) ] perf diff | head -8 9.02% +1.00% find libc-2.10.1.so [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 2.91% -1.00% find [kernel] [k] __kmalloc 2.85% -1.00% find [kernel] [k] ext4_htree_store_dirent 1.99% -1.00% find [kernel] [k] _atomic_dec_and_lock 2.44% find [kernel] [k] half_md4_transform $ So if you want to zoom into libc: $ perf diff --dsos libc-2.10.1.so | head -8 37.34% find [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 10.34% find [.] __GI_memmove 8.25% +2.00% find [.] _int_malloc 5.07% -1.00% find [.] __GI_mempcpy 7.62% +2.00% find [.] _int_free $ And if there were multiple commands using libc, it is also possible to aggregate them all by using --sort symbol: $ perf diff --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8 37.34% [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 10.34% [.] __GI_memmove 8.25% +2.00% [.] _int_malloc 5.07% -1.00% [.] __GI_mempcpy 7.62% +2.00% [.] _int_free $ The displacement column now is off by default, to use it: perf diff -m --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8 37.34% [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 10.34% [.] __GI_memmove 8.25% +2.00% [.] _int_malloc 5.07% -1.00% +2 [.] __GI_mempcpy 7.62% +2.00% -1 [.] _int_free $ Using -t/--field-separator can be used for scripting: $ perf diff -t, -m --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8 37.34, , ,[.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 10.34, , ,[.] __GI_memmove 8.25,+2.00%, ,[.] _int_malloc 5.07,-1.00%, +2,[.] __GI_mempcpy 7.62,+2.00%, -1,[.] _int_free 6.99,+1.00%, -1,[.] _IO_new_file_xsputn 1.89,-2.00%, +4,[.] __readdir64 $ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1260978567-550-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-15perf diff: Introduce tool to show performance differenceArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
I guess it is enough to show some examples: [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# rm -f perf.data* [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data* ls: cannot access perf.data*: No such file or directory [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2699 samples) ] [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data* -rw------- 1 root root 74440 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf record -f find / > /dev/null [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2692 samples) ] [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data* -rw------- 1 root root 74280 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data -rw------- 1 root root 74440 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data.old [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff | head -5 1 -34994580 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 -15307806 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 +3665941 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 +23508995 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 +38538813 [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -p | head -5 1 +1.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 -1.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -v | head -5 1 361449551 326454971 -34994580 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 151009241 135701435 -15307806 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 101805328 105471269 +3665941 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 78041440 101550435 +23508995 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 59536172 98074985 +38538813 [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -vp | head -5 1 9.00% 8.00% +1.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal 2 3.00% 3.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc 3 +1 2.00% 2.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove 4 +4 2.00% 2.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc 5 +7 1.00% 2.00% -1.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# This should be enough for diffs where the system is non volatile, i.e. when one doesn't updates binaries. For volatile environments, stay tuned for the next perf tool feature: a buildid cache populated by 'perf record', managed by 'perf buildid-cache' a-la ccache, and used by all the report tools. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1260828571-3613-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>