Currently, live mode is invoked by explicitly invoking the
record and report sides and connecting them with a pipe e.g.
$ perf trace record rwtop -o - | perf trace report rwtop 5 -i -
In terms of usability, it's not that bad, but it does require
the user to type and remember more than necessary.
This patch allows the user to accomplish the same thing without
specifying the separate record/report steps or the pipe. So the
same command as above can be accomplished more simply as:
$ perf trace rwtop 5
Notice that the '-i -' and '-o -' aren't required in this case -
they're added internally, and that any extra arguments are
passed along to the report script (but not to the record
script).
The overall effect is that any of the scripts listed in 'perf
trace -l' can now be used directly in live mode, with the
expected arguments, by simply specifying the script and args to
'perf trace'.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-12-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Bypasses the build_id perf header code and replaces it with a
synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the
same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-9-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Bypasses the tracing_data perf header code and replaces it with
a synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes
the same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a
pipe.
The tracing data is pretty large, and this patch doesn't attempt
to break it down into component events. The tracing_data event
itself doesn't actually contain the tracing data, rather it
arranges for the event processing code to skip over it after
it's read, using the skip return value added to the event
processing loop in a previous patch.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-8-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Bypasses the event type perf header code and replaces it with a
synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the
same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-7-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Bypasses the attr perf header code and replaces it with a
synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the
same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe.
Making the attrs into events allows them to be streamed over a
pipe along with the rest of the header data (in later patches).
It also paves the way to allowing events to be added and removed
from perf sessions dynamically.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-6-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Adds special treatment for stdin - if the user specifies '-i -'
to perf trace, the intent is that the event stream be read from
stdin rather than from a disk file.
The actual handling of the '-' filename is done by the session;
this just adds a signal handler to stop reporting, and turns off
interference by the pager.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-5-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Parsing an option from the command line with OPT_BOOLEAN on a
bool data type would not work on a big-endian machine due to the
manner in which the boolean was being cast into an int and
incremented. For example, running 'perf probe --list' on a
PowerPC machine would fail to properly set the list_events bool
and would therefore print out the usage information and
terminate.
This patch makes OPT_BOOLEAN work as expected with a bool
datatype. For cases where the original OPT_BOOLEAN was
intentionally being used to increment an int each time it was
passed in on the command line, this patch introduces OPT_INCR
with the old behaviour of OPT_BOOLEAN (the verbose variable is
currently the only such example of this).
I have reviewed every use of OPT_BOOLEAN to verify that a true
C99 bool was passed. Where integers were used, I verified that
they were only being used for boolean logic and changed them to
bools to ensure that they would not be mistakenly used as ints.
The major exception was the verbose variable which now uses
OPT_INCR instead of OPT_BOOLEAN.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # NOTE: wont apply to .3[34].x cleanly, please backport
Cc: Git development list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1271147857-11604-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It's useful for paging through raw traces, but just gets in the
way when scripting.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1267599873-8193-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf_header__read() is already done in perf_session__open(), so
remove it from the script gen case.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1267599873-8193-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add base support for Python scripting to perf trace.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264580883-15324-6-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
'perf trace -s list' prints a list of the supported scripting
languages. One problem with it is that it falls through and prints
the trace as well. The use of 'list' for this also makes it easy to
confuse with 'perf trace -l', used for listing available scripts. So
change 'perf trace -s list' to 'perf trace -s lang' and fixes the
fall-through problem.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264580883-15324-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Since they can come from another architecture with bigger
pointers, i.e. processing a 64-bit perf.data on a 32-bit arch.
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: <1263478990-8200-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since now all that we have are perf event handlers, leave just
the name of the event.
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: <1261957026-15580-9-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is really something tools need to do before asking for the
events to be processed, leaving perf_session__process_events to
do just that, process events.
Also add a msg parameter to perf_session__has_traces() so that
the right message can be printed, fixing a regression added by
me in the previous cset (right timechart message) and also
fixing 'perf kmem', that was not asking if 'perf kmem record'
was ran.
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: <1261957026-15580-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fixing this:
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf diff --hell
Error: unknown option `hell'
usage: perf diff [<options>] [old_file] [new_file]
Segmentation fault
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$
Also go over the other such arrays to check if they all were OK,
they are, but there were some minor changes to do like making
one static and renaming another to match the command it refers
to.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic 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: <1261161358-23959-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Will be used in perf diff too.
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: <1260914682-29652-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This simplifies a lot of functions, less stuff to be done by
tool writers.
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: <1260914682-29652-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Allow scripts to be recorded/executed by simply specifying the
script root name (the script name minus extension) along with
'record' or 'report' to 'perf trace'.
The script names shown by 'perf trace -l' can be directly used
to run the command-line contained within the corresponding
'-record' and '-report' versions of scripts in the scripts/*/bin
directories.
For example, to record the trace data needed to run the
wakeup-latency.pl script, the user can easily find the name of
the corresponding script from the script list and invoke it
using 'perf trace record', without having to remember the
details of how to do the same thing using the lower-level perf
trace command-line options:
root@tropicana:~# perf trace -l
List of available trace scripts:
workqueue-stats workqueue stats (ins/exe/create/destroy)
wakeup-latency system-wide min/max/avg wakeup latency
rw-by-file <comm> r/w activity for a program, by file
check-perf-trace useless but exhaustive test script
rw-by-pid system-wide r/w activity
root@tropicana:~# perf trace record wakeup-latency
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.296 MB perf.data (~12931
samples) ]
To run the wakeup-latency.pl script using the captured data,
change 'record' to 'report' in the command-line:
root@tropicana:~# perf trace report wakeup-latency
wakeup_latency stats:
total_wakeups: 65
avg_wakeup_latency (ns): 22417
min_wakeup_latency (ns): 3470
max_wakeup_latency (ns): 223311
perf trace Perl script stopped
If the script takes options, thay can be simply added to the end
of the 'report' invocation:
root@tropicana:~# perf trace record rw-by-file
^C[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.782 MB perf.data (~34171
samples) ]
root@tropicana:~# perf trace report rw-by-file perf
file read counts for perf:
fd # reads bytes_requested
------ ---------- -----------
122 1934 1980416
120 1 32
file write counts for perf:
fd # writes bytes_written
------ ---------- -----------
3 4006 280568
perf trace Perl script stopped
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1260867220-15699-6-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Lists the available perf trace scripts, one per line e.g.:
root@tropicana:~# perf trace -l
List of available trace scripts:
workqueue-stats workqueue stats (ins/exe/create/destroy)
wakeup-latency system-wide min/max/avg wakeup latency
rw-by-file <comm> r/w activity for a program, by file
check-perf-trace useless but exhaustive test script
rw-by-pid system-wide r/w activity
To be consistent with the other listing options in perf, the
current latency trace option was changed to '-L', and '-l' is
now used to access the script listing as:
To create the list, it searches each scripts/*/bin directory for
files ending with "-report" and reads information found in
certain comment lines contained in those shell scripts:
- if the comment line starts with "description:", the rest of the
line is used as a 'half-line' description. To keep each line in
the list to a single line, the description should be limited to 40
characters (the rest of the line contains the script name and
args)
- if the comment line starts with "args:", the rest of the line
names the args the script supports. Required args should be
surrounded by <> brackets, optional args by [] brackets.
The current scripts in scripts/perl/bin have also been updated
with description: and args: comments.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1260867220-15699-5-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
One oversight of the original scripting_ops patch was a lack of
support for passing args to handler scripts. This adds
argc/argv to the start_script() scripting_op, and changes the
rw-by-file script to take 'comm' arg rather than the 'perf'
value currently hard-coded. It also takes the opportunity to do
some related minor cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1260867220-15699-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
All tools had copies, and perf diff would have to specify a
sample_type_check method just for copying it.
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: <1260807780-19377-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
As we'll need to sort multiple times for multiple perf sessions,
so that we can then do a diff.
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: <1260803439-16783-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There is still some more work to do to disentangle map creation
from DSO loading, but this happens only for the kernel, and for
the early adopters of perf diff, where this disentanglement
matters most, we'll be testing different kernels, so no problem
here.
Further clarification: right now we create the kernel maps for
the various modules and discontiguous kernel text maps when
loading the DSO, we should do it as a two step process, first
creating the maps, for multiple mappings with the same DSO
store, then doing the dso load just once, for the first hit on
one of the maps sharing this DSO backing store.
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: <1260741029-4430-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
So that we can process two perf.data files.
We still need to add a O_MMAP mode for perf_session so that we
can do all the mmap stuff in it.
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: <1260741029-4430-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
By having the cwd/cwdlen in the perf_session struct and
full_paths in perf_event_ops.
Now its just a matter of passing the ops.
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: <1260741029-4430-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
No need for all tools to register it and then immediately call
perf_session__process_events.
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: <1260741029-4430-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Pass the event_ops to perf_session__process_events instead.
Also move the event_ops definition to session.h, starting to
move things around to their right place, trimming the many
unneeded headers we have.
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: <1260741029-4430-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
They will need it to get the right threads list, etc.
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: <1260741029-4430-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
That does all the initialization boilerplate, opening the file,
reading the header, checking if it is valid, etc.
And that will as well have the threads list, kmap (now) global
variable, etc, so that we can handle two (or more) perf.data files
describing sessions to compare.
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: <1260573842-19720-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently, sample event data is parsed for each commands, and it
is assuming that the data is not including other data. (E.g.
timechart, trace, etc. can't parse the event if it has
PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN)
So, even if we record the superset data for multiple commands at
a time, commands can't parse. etc.
To fix it, this makes common sample event parser, and use it to
parse sample event correctly. (PERF_SAMPLE_READ is unsupported
for now though, it seems to be not using.)
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <87hbs48imv.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Implement trace_scripting_ops to make Perl a supported perf
trace scripting language.
Additionally adds code that allows Perl trace scripts to access
the 'flag' and 'symbolic' (__print_flags(), __print_symbolic())
field information parsed from the trace format files.
Also adds the Perl implementation of the generate_script()
trace_scripting_op, which creates a ready-to-run perf trace Perl
script based on existing trace data. Scripts generated by this
implementation print out all the fields for each event mentioned
in perf.data (and will detect and generate the proper scripting
code for 'flag' and 'symbolic' fields), and will additionally
generate handlers for the special 'trace_unhandled',
'trace_begin' and 'trace_end' handlers. Script authors can
simply remove the printing code to implement their own custom
event handling.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1259133352-23685-4-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Adds an interface, scripting_ops, that when implemented for a
particular scripting language enables built-in support for trace
stream processing using that language.
The interface is designed to enable full-fledged language
interpreters to be embedded inside the perf executable and
thereby make the full capabilities of the supported languages
available for trace processing.
See below for details on the interface.
This patch also adds a couple command-line options to 'perf
trace':
The -s option option is used to specify the script to be run.
Script names that can be used with -s take the form:
[language spec:]scriptname[.ext]
Scripting languages register a set of 'language specs' that can
be used to specify scripts for the registered languages. The
specs can be used either as prefixes or extensions.
If [language spec:] is used, the script is taken as a script of
the matching language regardless of any extension it might have.
If [language spec:] is not used, [.ext] is used to look up the
language it corresponds to. Language specs are case
insensitive.
e.g. Perl scripts can be specified in the following ways:
Perl:scriptname
pl:scriptname.py # extension ignored
PL:scriptname
scriptname.pl
scriptname.perl
The -g [language spec] option gives users an easy starting point
for writing scripts in the specified language. Scripting
support for a particular language can implement a
generate_script() scripting op that outputs an empty (or
near-empty) set of handlers for all the events contained in a
given perf.data trace file - this option gives users a direct
way to access that.
Adding support for a scripting language
---------------------------------------
The main thing that needs to be done do add support for a new
language is to implement the scripting_ops interface:
It consists of the following four functions:
start_script()
stop_script()
process_event()
generate_script()
start_script() is called before any events are processed, and is
meant to give the scripting language support an opportunity to
set things up to receive events e.g. create and initialize an
instance of a language interpreter.
stop_script() is called after all events are processed, and is
meant to give the scripting language support an opportunity to
clean up e.g. destroy the interpreter instance, etc.
process_event() is called once for each event and takes as its
main parameter a pointer to the binary trace event record to be
processed. The implementation is responsible for picking out the
binary fields from the event record and sending them to the
script handler function associated with that event e.g. a
function derived from the event name it's meant to handle e.g.
'sched::sched_switch()'. The 'format' information for trace
events can be used to parse the binary data and map it into a
form usable by a given scripting language; see the Perl
implemention in subsequent patches for one possible way to
leverage the existing trace format parsing code in perf and map
that info into specific scripting language types.
generate_script() should generate a ready-to-run script for the
current set of events in the trace, preferably with bodies that
print out every field for each event. Again, look at the Perl
implementation for clues as to how that can be done. This is an
optional, but very useful op.
Support for a given language should also add a language-specific
setup function and call it from setup_scripting(). The
language-specific setup function associates the the scripting
ops for that language with one or more 'language specifiers'
(see below) using script_spec_register(). When a script name is
specified on the command line, the scripting ops associated with
the specified language are used to instantiate and use the
appropriate interpreter to process the trace stream.
In general, it should be relatively easy to add support for a
new language, especially if the language implementation supports
an interface allowing an interpreter to be 'embedded' inside
another program (in this case the containing program will be
'perf trace'). If so, it should be relatively straightforward to
translate trace events into invocations of user-defined script
functions where e.g. the function name corresponds to the event
type and the function parameters correspond to the event fields.
The event and field type information exported by the event
tracing infrastructure (via the event 'format' files) should be
enough to parse and send any piece of trace data to the user
script. The easiest way to see how this can be done would be to
look at the Perl implementation contained in
perf/util/trace-event-perl.c/.h.
There are a couple of other things that aren't covered by the
scripting_ops or setup interface and are technically optional,
but should be implemented if possible. One of these is support
for 'flag' and 'symbolic' fields e.g. being able to use more
human-readable values such as 'GFP_KERNEL' or
HI/BLOCK_IOPOLL/TASKLET in place of raw flag values. See the
Perl implementation to see how this can be done. The other thing
is support for 'calling back' into the perf executable to access
e.g. uncommon fields not passed by default into handler
functions, or any metadata the implementation might want to make
available to users via the language interface. Again, see the
Perl implementation for examples.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1259133352-23685-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
While implementing event__preprocess_sample, that will do all of
the symbol lookup in one convenient function, I noticed that
util/process_event.[ch] were not being used at all, then started
looking if there were other functions that could be shared
and...
All those functions really don't need to receive offset + head,
the only thing they did was common to all of them, so do it at
one place instead.
Stats about number of each type of event processed now is done
in a central place.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1259346563-12568-11-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
And also express its configuration toggles via a struct.
Now all one has to do is to call symbol__init(NULL) if the
defaults are OK, or pass a struct symbol_conf pointer with the
desired configuration.
If a tool uses kernel_maps__find_symbol() to look at the kernel
and modules mappings for a symbol but didn't call symbol__init()
first, that will generate a one time warning too, alerting the
subcommand developer that symbol__init() must be called.
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: <1259071517-3242-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now that we can check the buildid to see if it really matches,
this can be done safely:
vmlinux
/boot/vmlinux
/boot/vmlinux-<uts.release>
/lib/modules/<uts.release>/build/vmlinux
/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/%s/vmlinux
More can be added - if you know about distros that put the
vmlinux somewhere else please let us know.
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: <1259001550-8194-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Before we were storing this in the DSO, but in fact this is a
property of the 'symbol' class, not something that will vary
among DSOs, so move it to a global variable and initialize it
using the existing symbol__init routine.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256927305-4628-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We were using eprintf in some places, that looks at a global
'verbose' level, and at other places passing a 'v' parameter to
specify the verbosity level, unify it by introducing
pr_{err,warning,debug,etc}, just like in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256153646-10097-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In each case, if the NULL test on thread is needed, then the
dereference should be after the NULL test.
A simplified version of the semantic match that detects this
problem is as follows (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/):
// <smpl>
@match exists@
expression x, E;
identifier fld;
@@
* x->fld
... when != \(x = E\|&x\)
* x == NULL
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0910170842500.9213@ask.diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add the irqs disabled, preemption count, need resched, and other
info that is shown in the latency format of ftrace.
# perf trace -l
perf-16457 2..s2. 53636.260344: kmem_cache_free: call_site=ffffffff811198f
perf-16457 2..s2. 53636.264330: kmem_cache_free: call_site=ffffffff811198f
perf-16457 2d.s4. 53636.300006: kmem_cache_free: call_site=ffffffff810d889
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091014194400.076588953@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This was just being copy'n'pasted all over.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091013141629.GD21809@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This librarizes the perf.data file mapping and handling in various
perf tools, roughly reducing the amount of code and fixing the
places that mmap from beginning of the file whereas we want to mmap
from the beginning of the data, leading to page fault because the
mmap window is too small since the trace info are written in the
file too.
TODO:
- convert perf timechart too
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091007104729.GD5043@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This drops the trace.info file and move its contents into the
common perf.data file.
This is done by creating a new trace_info section into this file. A
user of perf headers needs to call perf_header__set_trace_info() to
save the trace meta informations into the perf.data file.
A file created by perf after his patch is unsupported by previous
version because the size of the headers have increased.
That said, it's two new fields that have been added in the end of
the headers, and those could be ignored by previous versions if
they just handled the dynamic header size and then ignore the
unknow part. The offsets guarantee the compatibility. We'll do a
-stable fix for that.
But current previous versions handle the header size using its
static size, not dynamic, then it's not backward compatible with
trace records.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091006213643.GA5343@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently, we are mapping perf.data in the beginning of the file
and use the data offset as a buffer offset.
This may exceed the mapping area if the data offset is upper than
page_size * mmap_window and result in a page fault (thing that
happen if we merge trace.info in perf.data).
Instead, let's start the mapping in the page that matches our data
offset.
v2: Drop a junk from another patch (trace_report() removal)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1254856886-10348-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Several variables are not used at all, cut'n'paste leftovers.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090928200818.GF3361@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
