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2012-01-03perf kvm: Fix copy & paste error in descriptionJoerg Roedel
The --host option certainly enables host-data collection. Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317816084-18026-5-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-01-03perf script: Kill script_spec__deleteNamhyung Kim
As script_spec__delete() frees given struct script_spec it should not be called if we failed to allocate the struct. Also it's the only caller of the function, we can get rid of the function itself. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325000151-4463-4-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-01-03perf top: Fix a memory leakNamhyung Kim
The 'buf' should be freed when symbol wasn't found too. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325000151-4463-3-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-01-03perf stat: Introduce get_ratio_color() helperNamhyung Kim
The get_ratio_color() returns appropriate color string based on @ratio. It helps reducing code duplication. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325000151-4463-2-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-01-03perf session: Remove impossible condition checkNamhyung Kim
The 'size' cannot be 0 because it was set to 8 on the above line in case it was 0 and never changed. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325000151-4463-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-29perf tools: Fix feature-bits rework fallout, remove unused variableIngo Molnar
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lfckuwbl8m1ykb7t9ydsxe4r@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-23perf script: Add generic perl handler to process eventsRobert Richter
The current perf scripting facility only supports tracepoints. This patch implements a generic perl handler to support other events than tracepoints too. This patch introduces a function process_event() that is called by perf for each sample. The function is called with byte streams as arguments containing information about the event, its attributes, the sample and raw data. Perl's unpack() function can easily be used for byte decoding. The following is the default implementation for process_event() that can also be generated with perf script: # Packed byte string args of process_event(): # # $event: union perf_event util/event.h # $attr: struct perf_event_attr linux/perf_event.h # $sample: struct perf_sample util/event.h # $raw_data: perf_sample->raw_data util/event.h sub process_event { my ($event, $attr, $sample, $raw_data) = @_; my @event = unpack("LSS", $event); my @attr = unpack("LLQQQQQLLQQ", $attr); my @sample = unpack("QLLQQQQQLL", $sample); my @raw_data = unpack("C*", $raw_data); use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \@event, \@attr, \@sample, \@raw_data; } Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323969824-9711-4-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf tools: Use for_each_set_bit() to iterate over feature flagsRobert Richter
This patch introduces the for_each_set_bit() macro and modifies feature implementation to use it. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-8-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature sectionRobert Richter
The features HEADER_TRACE_INFO and HEADER_BUILD_ID are handled different when writing the feature section. All other features are simply disabled on failure and writing the section goes on without returning an error. There is no reason for these special cases. This patch unifies handling of the features. This should be ok since all features can be parsed independently. Offset and size of a feature's block is stored in struct perf_file_ section right after the data block of perf.data (see perf_session__ write_header()). Thus, if a feature does not exist then other features can be processed anyway. Also moving special code for HEADER_BUILD_ID out to write_build_id(). v2: * perf record throws an error now if buildids may not be generated, which can be disabled with the --no-buildid option. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-6-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf report: Accept fifos as input fileRobert Richter
The default input file for perf report is not handled the same way as perf record does it for its output file. This leads to unexpected behavior of perf report, etc. E.g.: # perf record -a -e cpu-cycles sleep 2 | perf report | cat failed to open perf.data: No such file or directory (try 'perf record' first) While perf record writes to a fifo, perf report expects perf.data to be read. This patch changes this to accept fifos as input file. Applies to the following commands: perf annotate perf buildid-list perf evlist perf kmem perf lock perf report perf sched perf script perf timechart Also fixes char const* -> const char* type declaration for filename strings. v2: * Prevent potential null pointer access to input_name in builtin-report.c. Needed due to removal of patch "perf report: Setup browser if stdout is a pipe" Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf tools: Moving code in some filesRobert Richter
Needed for later changes. No modified functionality. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-4-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf tools: Fix out-of-bound access to struct perf_sessionRobert Richter
If filename is NULL there is an out-of-bound access to struct perf_session if it would be used with perf_session__open(). Shouldn't actually happen in current implementation as filename is always !NULL. Fixing this by always null-terminating filename. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf tools: Continue processing header on unknown featuresRobert Richter
A feature may be unknown if perf.data is created and parsed on different perf tool versions. This should not stop the header to be processed, instead continue processing it. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf tools: Improve macros for struct feature_opsRobert Richter
Reducing duplication and line size by extending function names for print and write from a single name. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-7-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two.Nelson Elhage
Now that we automatically point users at it, let's provide them some guidance so that they hopefully don't just get mysterious EINVAL's from the kernel. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324301972-22740-4-git-send-email-nelhage@nelhage.com Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com> [ committer note: Made it work after 50a682c ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM.Nelson Elhage
This failure is most likely due to running up against the kernel.perf_event_mlock_kb sysctl, so we can tell the user what to do to fix the issue. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324301972-22740-3-git-send-email-nelhage@nelhage.com Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf tools: Fix truncated annotationIngo Molnar
I get such truncated annotation results in 'perf top': : Disassembly of section .text: ▒ : ▒ : ffffffff810966a8 <nr_iowait_cpu>: ▒ 4.94 : ffffffff810966a8: movslq %edi,%rdi ▒ 3.70 : ffffffff810966ab: mov $0x13700,%rax ▒ 0.00 : ffffffff810966b2: add -0x7e32cb00(,%rdi,8),%rax ▒ 8.64 : ffffffff810966ba: mov 0x7e0(%rax),%eax ▒ 82.72 : ffffffff810966c0: cltq ▒ Note the missing 'retq' which is there in the original function: ffffffff810966a8 <nr_iowait_cpu>: ffffffff810966a8: 48 63 ff movslq %edi,%rdi ffffffff810966ab: 48 c7 c0 00 37 01 00 mov $0x13700,%rax ffffffff810966b2: 48 03 04 fd 00 35 cd add -0x7e32cb00(,%rdi,8),%rax ffffffff810966b9: 81 ffffffff810966ba: 8b 80 e0 07 00 00 mov 0x7e0(%rax),%eax ffffffff810966c0: 48 98 cltq ffffffff810966c2: c3 retq ffffffff810966c3 <this_cpu_load>: I'm using a fairly recent binutils: GNU objdump version 2.21.51.0.6-2.fc16 20110118 AFAICS the bug is simply that sym->end points to the last byte of the symbol in question - while objdump's --stop-address expects the last byte plus 1 to disassemble the full range. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111223130804.GA24305@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf script: look up thread using tid instead of pidDavid Ahern
This allows the thread name to be dispalyed when dumping events: myapp 25118 [000] 450385.538815: context-switches ... myapp:worker 25119 [000] 450385.538894: context-switches ... Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324578603-12762-4-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf tools: Look up thread names for system wide profilingDavid Ahern
This handles multithreaded processes with named threads when doing system wide profiling: the comm for each thread is looked up allowing them to be different from the thread group leader. v2: - fixed sizeof arg to perf_event__get_comm_tgid Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324578603-12762-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf tools: Fix comm for processes with named threadsDavid Ahern
perf does not properly handle monitoring of processes with named threads. For example: $ ps -C myapp -L PID LWP TTY TIME CMD 25118 25118 ? 00:00:00 myapp 25118 25119 ? 00:00:00 myapp:worker perf record -e cs -c 1 -fo /tmp/perf.data -p 25118 -- sleep 10 perf report --stdio -i /tmp/perf.data 100.00% myapp:worker [kernel.kallsyms] [k] perf_event_task_sched_out The process name is set to the name of the last thread it finds for the process. The Problem: perf-top and perf-record both create a thread_map of threads to be monitored. That map is used in perf_event__synthesize_thread_map which loops over the entries in thread_map and calls __event__synthesize_thread to generate COMM and MMAP events. __event__synthesize_thread calls perf_event__synthesize_comm which opens /proc/pid/status, reads the name of the task and its thread group id. That's all fine. The problem is that it then reads /proc/pid/task and generates COMM events for each task it finds - but using the name found in /proc/pid/status where pid is the thread of interest. The end result (looping over thread_map + synthesizing comm events for each thread each time) means the name of the last thread processed sets the name for all threads in the process - which is not good for multithreaded processes with named threads. The Fix: perf_event__synthesize_comm has an input argument (full) that decides whether to process task entries for each pid it is passed. It currently never set to 0 (perf_event__synthesize_comm has a single caller and it always passes the value 1). Let's fix that. Add the full input argument to __event__synthesize_thread which passes it to perf_event__synthesize_comm. For thread/process monitoring set full to 0 which means COMM and MMAP events are only generated for the pid passed to it. For system wide monitoring set full to 1 so that COMM events are generated for all threads in a process. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324578603-12762-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-22perf report: Fix usage stringNamhyung Kim
perf report does not take a command from command line. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-8-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-21perf: Add support for PERF_HW_COUNT_REF_CPU_CYCLESStephane Eranian
Add new generic hw event: ref-cycles, which maps to PERF_HW_COUNT_REF_CPUCYCLES: $ perf stat -e ref-cycles ls Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323559734-3488-5-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-20Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://github.com/acmel/linux into perf/coreIngo Molnar
2011-12-20Merge commit 'v3.2-rc6' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Update with the latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-20perf test: Add more automated tests for event parsingJiri Olsa
Adding automated tests for event parsing to include testing for modifier and ',' operator. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323963039-7602-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> [ committer note: Remove some tests that need group_leader & bison patchkits ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-20perf events: Tidy up perf_event__preprocess_sampleNamhyung Kim
Use local variable 'dso' to reduce typing a bit and rearrange the if condition. Also NULL check of al->map in the condition is not necessary. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-7-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-20perf tools: Remove stale git headlines from top commentNamhyung Kim
These files are part of PERF not GIT although they're come from there :) Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323784323-2150-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-20perf tools: Fix a memory leak on perf_read_values_destroyNamhyung Kim
After freeing each elements of the @values->value, we should free itself too. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-5-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-20perf symbols: Fix error path on symbol__init()Namhyung Kim
The order of freeing comm_list and dso_list should be reversed. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-4-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-20perf symbols: Get rid of duplicated snprintf()Namhyung Kim
The 'path' variable is set on a upper line, don't need to do it again. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-3-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-20perf evlist: Fix errno value reporting on failed mmapNelson Elhage
On failure, perf_evlist__mmap_per_{cpu,thread} will try to munmap() every map that doesn't have a NULL base. This will fail with EINVAL if one of them has base == MAP_FAILED, clobbering errno, so that perf_evlist__map will return EINVAL on any failure regardless of the root cause. Fix this by resetting failed maps to a NULL base. Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324301972-22740-2-git-send-email-nelhage@nelhage.com Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-20perf report: Document '--call-graph' for optional print_limit argumentNamhyung Kim
The '--call-graph' command line option can receive undocumented optional print_limit argument. Besides, use strtoul() to parse the option since its type is u32. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-2-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-20perf evsel: Fix uninitialized memory access to struct perf_sampleRobert Richter
Memory in struct perf_sample is not fully initialized during parsing. Depending on sampling data some parts may left unchanged. Zero out struct perf_sample first to avoid access to uninitialized memory. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323966762-8574-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-20perf record: Add ability to record event periodAndrew Vagin
The problem is that when SAMPLE_PERIOD is not set, the kernel generates a number of samples in proportion to an event's period. Number of these samples may be too big and the kernel throttles all samples above a defined limit. E.g.: I want to trace when a process sleeps. I created a process which sleeps for 1ms and for 4ms. perf got 100 events in both cases. swapper 0 [000] 1141.371830: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=1386750 [ns] swapper 0 [000] 1141.369444: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=4499585 [ns] In the first case a kernel want to send 4499585 events and in the second case it wants to send 1386750 events. perf-reports shows that process sleeps in both places equal time. Instead of this we can get only one sample with an attribute period. As result we have less data transferring between kernel and user-space and we avoid throttling of samples. The patch "events: Don't divide events if it has field period" added a kernel part of this functionality. Acked-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: devel@openvz.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324391565-1369947-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-12perf tools: Add ability to synthesize event according to a sampleAndrew Vagin
It's the counterpart of perf_session__parse_sample. v2: fixed mistakes found by David Ahern. v3: s/data/sample/ s/perf_event__change_sample/perf_event__synthesize_sample Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: devel@openvz.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323266161-394927-3-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-12perf script: Implement option for system-wide profilingRobert Richter
The option is documented in man perf-script but was not yet implemented: -a Force system-wide collection. Scripts run without a <command> normally use -a by default, while scripts run with a <command> normally don't - this option allows the latter to be run in system-wide mode. As with perf record you now can profile in system-wide mode for the runtime of a given command, e.g.: # perf script -a syscall-counts sleep 2 Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322229925-10075-1-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-12perf script: Fix mem leaks and NULL pointer checks around strdup()sRobert Richter
Fix mem leaks and missing NULL pointer checks after strdup(). And get_script_path() did not free __script_root in case of continue. Introduce a helper function get_script_root(). Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322217520-3287-1-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-09Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf: Do no try to schedule task events if there are none lockdep, kmemcheck: Annotate ->lock in lockdep_init_map() perf header: Use event_name() to get an event name perf stat: Failure with "Operation not supported"
2011-12-07Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of git://github.com/acmel/linux into perf/urgentIngo Molnar
2011-12-06Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: ftrace: Fix hash record accounting bug perf: Fix parsing of __print_flags() in TP_printk() jump_label: jump_label_inc may return before the code is patched ftrace: Remove force undef config value left for testing tracing: Restore system filter behavior tracing: fix event_subsystem ref counting
2011-12-06perf header: Use event_name() to get an event nameAndrew Vagin
perf_evsel.name may be not initialized Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: devel@openvz.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322471015-107825-2-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-06Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Add these cherry-picked commits so that future changes on perf/core don't conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-event perf, x86: Force IBS LVT offset assignment for family 10h perf, x86: Disable PEBS on SandyBridge chips trace_events_filter: Use rcu_assign_pointer() when setting ftrace_event_call->filter perf session: Fix crash with invalid CPU list perf python: Fix undefined symbol problem perf/x86: Enable raw event access to Intel offcore events perf: Don't use -ENOSPC for out of PMU resources perf: Do not set task_ctx pointer in cpuctx if there are no events in the context perf/x86: Fix PEBS instruction unwind oprofile, x86: Fix crash when unloading module (nmi timer mode) oprofile: Fix crash when unloading module (hr timer mode)
2011-12-05perf: Fix parsing of __print_flags() in TP_printk()Steven Rostedt
A update is made to the sched:sched_switch event that adds some logic to the first parameter of the __print_flags() that shows the state of tasks. This change cause perf to fail parsing the flags. A simple fix is needed to have the parser be able to process ops within the argument. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-12-05perf stat: Failure with "Operation not supported"Anton Blanchard
perf stat is failing on PowerPC: Error: open_counter returned with 95 (Operation not supported). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information. Fatal: Not all events could be opened. commit 370faf1dd046 (perf stat: Fail softly on unsupported events) added a check for failure returning ENOENT, but the POWER backend returns EOPNOTSUPP. It looks like alpha, blackfin and mips do the same. With the patch applied, things work as expected: Performance counter stats for '/bin/true': 0.362176 task-clock # 0.623 CPUs utilized 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 28 page-faults # 0.077 M/sec 1,677,020 cycles # 4.630 GHz <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend 431,220 instructions # 0.26 insns per cycle 101,889 branches # 281.325 M/sec 4,145 branch-misses # 4.07% of all branches 0.000581361 seconds time elapsed Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 3.0+ Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202093833.5fef7226@kryten Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-02perf test: Soft errors shouldn't stop the "Validate PERF_RECORD_" testArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For errors that don't preclude checking for further errors, aka "soft" errors, just continue testing for other errors. Better coverage in verbose mode. Suggested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> 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-jafcokbj26m845dsgm2hx6az@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-02perf test: Validate PERF_RECORD_ events and perf_sample fieldsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
This new test will validate these new routines extracted from 'perf record': - perf_evlist__config_attrs - perf_evlist__prepare_workload - perf_evlist__start_workload In addition to several other perf_evlist methods. It consists of starting a simple workload, setting up just one event to monitor ("cycles") requesting that several PERF_SAMPLE_ fields be present in all events. It then will check that the expected PERF_RECORD_ events are produced and will sanity check all its fields. Some checks performed: . PERF_SAMPLE_TIME monotonically increases. . PERF_SAMPLE_CPU is the one requested with sched_setaffinity . PERF_SAMPLE_TID and PERF_SAMPLE_PID matches the one we forked in perf_evlist__prepare_workload and that is stored in evlist->workload.pid . For the events where these fields are also present in its pre-sample_id_all fields (e.g. event->mmap.pid), that they are what is expected too. . That we get a bunch of mmaps: PATH/libcSUFFIX PATH/ldSUFFIX [vdso] PATH/sleep Example: [root@emilia ~]# taskset -c 3,4 perf test -v1 perf_sample 6: Validate PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields: --- start --- 7159480799825 3 PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE 7159480805584 3 PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE 7159480807814 3 PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE 7159480810430 3 PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE 7159480861511 3 PERF_RECORD_MMAP 8086/8086: [0x7fffffffd000(0x2000) @ 0x7fffffffd000]: //anon 7159481052516 3 PERF_RECORD_COMM: sleep:8086 7159481070188 3 PERF_RECORD_MMAP 8086/8086: [0x400000(0x6000) @ 0]: /bin/sleep 7159481077104 3 PERF_RECORD_MMAP 8086/8086: [0x3d06400000(0x221000) @ 0]: /lib64/ld-2.12.so 7159481092912 3 PERF_RECORD_MMAP 8086/8086: [0x7fff1adff000(0x1000) @ 0x7fff1adff000]: [vdso] 7159481196779 3 PERF_RECORD_MMAP 8086/8086: [0x3d06800000(0x37f000) @ 0]: /lib64/libc-2.12.so 7160481558435 3 PERF_RECORD_EXIT(8086:8086):(8086:8086) ---- end ---- Validate PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields: Ok [root@emilia ~]# 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-svag18v2z4idas0dyz3umjpq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-02perf event: Introduce perf_event__fprintfArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
So that tools like 'perf test' can print the events when in verbose mode, for instance. 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-xnovdqfi25nc48gy6604k7yp@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-29perf test: Allow running just a subset of the available testsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
To obtain a list of available tests: [root@emilia linux]# perf test list 1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms 2: detect open syscall event 3: detect open syscall event on all cpus 4: read samples using the mmap interface 5: parse events tests [root@emilia linux]# To list just a subset: [root@emilia linux]# perf test list syscall 2: detect open syscall event 3: detect open syscall event on all cpus [root@emilia linux]# To run a subset: [root@emilia linux]# perf test detect 2: detect open syscall event: Ok 3: detect open syscall event on all cpus: Ok [root@emilia linux]# Specific tests can be chosen by number: [root@emilia linux]# perf test 1 3 parse 1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok 3: detect open syscall event on all cpus: Ok 5: parse events tests: Ok [root@emilia linux]# Now to write more tests! Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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-nqec2145qfxdgimux28aw7v8@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-29perf evlist: Always do automatic allocation of pollfd and mmap structuresArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
At first tools were required to do that, but while writing the python bindings to simplify the API I made them auto-allocate when needed. This just makes record, stat and top use that auto allocation, simplifying them a bit. 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-iokhcvkzzijr3keioubx8hlq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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