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Tom Zanussi
c3f5fd287a perf/trace/scripting: failed-syscalls script cleanup
A couple small fixes for the failed syscalls script:

- The script description says it can be restricted to a specific comm,
  make it so.

- silence the match output in the shell script

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-10 19:50:54 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
fefb0b94bb perf hist: Calculate max_sym name len and nr_entries
Better done when we are adding entries, be it initially of when we're
re-sorting the histograms.

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>
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Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-10 19:49:08 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
1c02c4d2e9 perf hist: Introduce hists class and move lots of methods to it
In cbbc79a we introduced support for multiple events by introducing a
new "event_stat_id" struct and then made several perf_session methods
receive a point to it instead of a pointer to perf_session, and kept the
event_stats and hists rb_tree in perf_session.

While working on the new newt based browser, I realised that it would be
better to introduce a new class, "hists" (short for "histograms"),
renaming the "event_stat_id" struct and the perf_session methods that
were really "hists" methods, as they manipulate only struct hists
members, not touching anything in the other perf_session members.

Other optimizations, such as calculating the maximum lenght of a symbol
name present in an hists instance will be possible as we add them,
avoiding a re-traversal just for finding that information.

The rationale for the name "hists" to replace "event_stat_id" is that we
may have multiple sets of hists for the same event_stat id, as, for
instance, the 'perf diff' tool has, so event stat id is not what
characterizes what this struct and the functions that manipulate it do.

Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
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>
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Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-10 13:13:49 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d118f8ba6a perf session: create_kernel_maps should use ->host_machine
Using machines__create_kernel_maps(..., HOST_KERNEL_ID) it would create
another machine instance for the host machine, and since 1f626bc we have
it out of the machines rb_tree.

Fix it by using machine__create_kernel_maps(&self->host_machine)
directly.

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>
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Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-10 12:51:05 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
cdd5b75b0c perf callchains: Use zalloc to allocate objects
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>
2010-05-10 10:57:39 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
7f8264539c perf newt: Use newtAddComponent()
Instead of newtAddComponents(just-one-entry, NULL), that is not needed
if, like in this browser, we're adding just one component at a time.

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>
2010-05-10 10:51:25 -03:00
Ingo Molnar
1f0ac7183f Merge branch 'perf/test' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core 2010-05-10 08:20:19 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
232a5c948d perf report: Allow limiting the number of entries to print in callchains
Works by adding a third parameter to the '-g' argument, after the graph
type and minimum percentage, for example:

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report -g fractal,0.5,2

Will show only the first two symbols where at least 0.5% of the samples
took place.

All the other symbols that don't fall outside these constraints will be
put together in the last entry, prefixed with "[...]" and the total
percentage for them.

Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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>
2010-05-09 21:15:35 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
1f626bc368 perf session: Embed the host machine data on perf_session
We have just one host on a given session, and that is the most common
setup right now, so embed a ->host_machine struct machine instance
directly in the perf_session class, check if we're looking for it before
going to the rb_tree.

This also fixes a problem found when we try to process old perf.data
files where we didn't have MMAP events for the kernel and modules and
thus don't create the kernel maps, do it in event__preprocess_sample if
it wasn't already.

Reported-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>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-09 21:14:52 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
4cc4945844 perf symbols: Check if a struct machine instance was found
Which can happen when processing old files that had no fake kernel MMAP,
events.

That shouldn't result in perf_session__create_kernel_maps not being
called, this will be fixed in a followup patch, for now do these checks
to avoid segfaulting.

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>
2010-05-09 21:14:07 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
3ceb0d4438 perf symbols: Consider unresolved DSOs in the dso__col_widt calculation
By using BITS_PER_LONG / 4, that is the number of chars that will be
used in such cases as the DSO "name".

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>
2010-05-09 18:32:32 -03:00
Hitoshi Mitake
76ba7e846f perf lock: Drop "-a" option from cmd_record() default arguments set
This patch drops "-a" from the default arguments passed to
perf record by perf lock.

If a user wants to do a system wide record of lock events,
        perf lock record -a <program> <argument> ...
is enough for this purpose.

This can reduce the size of the perf.data file.

% sudo ./perf lock record whoami
root
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.439 MB perf.data (~19170 samples) ]
% sudo ./perf lock record -a whoami   # with -a option
root
[ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 48.962 MB perf.data (~2139197 samples) ]

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-09 21:52:27 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
28e2a106d1 perf hist: Simplify the insertion of new hist_entry instances
And with that fix at least one bug:

The first hit for an entry, the one that calls malloc to create a new
instance in __perf_session__add_hist_entry, wasn't adding the count to
the per cpumode (PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER, etc) total variable.

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>
2010-05-09 13:10:39 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
39d1e1b1e2 perf report: Fix leak of resolved callchains array on error path
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>
2010-05-09 13:07:39 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
139633c6a4 perf callchain: Move validate_callchain to callchain lib
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>
2010-05-09 13:07:05 -03:00
Tom Zanussi
794e43b56c perf/live-mode: Handle payload-less events
Some events, such as the PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND event consist of
only an event header and no data.  In this case, a 0-length payload
will be read, and the 0 return value will be wrongly interpreted as an
'unexpected end of event stream'.

This patch allows for proper handling of data-less events by skipping
0-length reads.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273038527.6383.51.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-09 13:49:52 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
90c0e5fc7b perf lock: Always check min AND max wait time
When a lock is acquired after beeing contended, we update the
wait time statistics for the given lock.
But if the min wait time is updated, we don't check the max wait
time. This is wrong because the first time we update the wait time,
we want to update both min and max wait time.

Before:
	Name   acquired  contended total wait (ns)   max wait (ns)   min wait (ns)
	key          8          1           21656           0           21656

After:
	Name   acquired  contended total wait (ns)   max wait (ns)   min wait (ns)
	key          8          1           21656           21656           21656

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: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
2010-05-09 13:45:30 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5efe08cf68 perf: Fix perf lock bad rate
Fix the cast made to get the bad rate. It is made in the result
instead of the operands. We need the operands to be cast in double,
otherwise the result will always be zero.

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: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
2010-05-09 13:45:29 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
84c7a21791 perf: Humanize lock flags in perf lock
Use an enum instead of plain constants for lock flags.

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: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
2010-05-09 13:45:27 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
10350ec362 perf: Cleanup perf lock broken states
Use enum to get a human view of bad_hist indexes and
put bad histogram output in its own function.

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: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
2010-05-09 13:45:26 +02:00
Hitoshi Mitake
26242d859c perf lock: Add "info" subcommand for dumping misc information
This adds the "info" subcommand to perf lock which can be used
to dump metadata like threads or addresses of lock instances.
"map" was removed because info should do the work for it.

This will be useful not only for debugging but also for ordinary
analyzing.

v2: adding example of usage
% sudo ./perf lock info -t
 | Thread ID: comm
 | 	 0: swapper
 |         1: init
 |        18: migration/5
 |        29: events/2
 |        32: events/5
 |        33: events/6
...

% sudo ./perf lock info -m
| Address of instance: name of class
|  0xffff8800b95adae0: &(&sighand->siglock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800bbb41ae0: &(&sighand->siglock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800bf165ae0: &(&sighand->siglock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800b9576a98: &p->cred_guard_mutex
|  0xffff8800bb890a08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800b9522a08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800bb8aaa08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800bba72a08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800bf18ea08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800b8a0d8a0: &(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock
|  0xffff88009bf818a0: &(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock
|  0xffff88004c66b8a0: &(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock
|  0xffff8800bb6478a0: &(shost->host_lock)->rlock

v3: fixed some problems Frederic pointed out
 * better rbtree tracking in dump_threads()
 * removed printf() and used pr_info() and pr_debug()

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-09 13:45:24 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d6b17bebd7 perf: Provide a new deterministic events reordering algorithm
The current events reordering algorithm is based on a heuristic that
gets broken once we deal with a very fast flow of events.

Indeed the time period based flushing is not suitable anymore
in the following case, assuming we have a flush period of two
seconds.

    CPU 0           |        CPU 1
                    |
  cnt1 timestamps   |      cnt1 timestamps
                    |
    0               |         0
    1               |         1
    2               |         2
    3               |         3
    [...]           |        [...]
    4 seconds later

If we spend too much time to read the buffers (case of a lot of
events to record in each buffers or when we have a lot of CPU buffers
to read), in the next pass the CPU 0 buffer could contain a slice
of several seconds of events. We'll read them all and notice we've
reached the period to flush. In the above example we flush the first
half of the CPU 0 buffer, then we read the CPU 1 buffer where we
have events that were on the flush slice and then the reordering
fails.

It's simple to reproduce with:

	perf lock record perf bench sched messaging

To solve this, we use a new solution that doesn't rely on an
heuristical time slice period anymore but on a deterministic basis
based on how perf record does its job.

perf record saves the buffers through passes. A pass is a tour
on every buffers from every CPUs. This is made in order: for
each CPU we read the buffers of every counters. So the more
buffers we visit, the later will be the timstamps of their events.

When perf record finishes a pass it records a
PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo event.
We record the max timestamp t found in the pass n. Assuming these
timestamps are monotonic across cpus, we know that if a buffer
still has events with timestamps below t, they will be all available
and then read in the pass n + 1.
Hence when we start to read the pass n + 2, we can safely flush every
events with timestamps below t.

      ============ PASS n =================
         CPU 0         |   CPU 1
                       |
      cnt1 timestamps  |   cnt2 timestamps
            1          |         2
            2          |         3
            -          |         4  <--- max recorded

      ============ PASS n + 1 ==============
         CPU 0         |   CPU 1
                       |
      cnt1 timestamps  |   cnt2 timestamps
            3          |         5
            4          |         6
            5          |         7 <---- max recorded

        Flush every events below timestamp 4

      ============ PASS n + 2 ==============
         CPU 0         |   CPU 1
                       |
      cnt1 timestamps  |   cnt2 timestamps
            6          |         8
            7          |         9
            -          |         10

        Flush every events below timestamp 7
        etc...

It also works on perf.data versions that don't have
PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo events. The difference is that
the events will be only flushed in the end of the perf.data
processing. It will then consume more memory and scale less with
large perf.data files.

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: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
2010-05-09 13:43:42 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
9840280757 perf: Introduce a new "round of buffers read" pseudo event
In order to provide a more rubust and deterministic reordering
algorithm, we need to know when we reach a point where we just
did a pass through over every counter buffers to read every thing
they had.

This patch introduces a new PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo event
that only consist in an event header and doesn't need to contain
anything.

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: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
2010-05-09 13:43:42 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
e157eb8341 perf report: Document '--call-graph' better for usage
This patch improves 'perf report -h' output for the
'--call-graph' command line option by enumerating the
different output types.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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>
LKML-Reference: <1273332783-4268-1-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-08 18:11:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ed82702155 Merge branch 'perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core 2010-05-08 10:02:57 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
1cf4a0632c perf list: Improve the raw hw event descriptor documentation
It was x86 specific and imcomplete at that, improve the situation by
making it clear where the example provided applies and by adding the
URLs for the Intel and AMD manuals where this is discussed in depth.

Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
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>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Reported-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-07 14:07:05 -03:00
Peter Zijlstra
ab608344bc perf, x86: Improve the PEBS ABI
Rename perf_event_attr::precise to perf_event_attr::precise_ip and
widen it to 2 bits. This new field describes the required precision of
the PERF_SAMPLE_IP field:

  0 - SAMPLE_IP can have arbitrary skid
  1 - SAMPLE_IP must have constant skid
  2 - SAMPLE_IP requested to have 0 skid
  3 - SAMPLE_IP must have 0 skid

And modify the Intel PEBS code accordingly. The PEBS implementation
now supports up to precise_ip == 2, where we perform the IP fixup.

Also s/PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT/&_IP/ to clarify its meaning, this bit
should be set for each PERF_SAMPLE_IP field known to match the actual
instruction triggering the event.

This new scheme allows for a PEBS mode that uses the buffer for more
than a single event.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-07 11:31:02 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
4778e0e8c6 perf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issues
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>
2010-05-05 11:23:27 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
9e32a3cb06 perf list: Add explanation about raw hardware event descriptors
Using explanation given by Ingo Molnar in the oprofile mailing list.

Suggested-by: Nick Black <dank@qemfd.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Black <dank@qemfd.net>
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>
2010-05-05 11:20:05 -03:00
Tom Zanussi
db620b1c2f perf/record: simplify TRACE_INFO tracepoint check
Fix a couple of inefficiencies and redundancies related to
have_tracepoints() and its use when checking whether to write
TRACE_INFO.

First, there's no need to use get_tracepoints_path() in
have_tracepoints() - we really just want the part that checks whether
any attributes correspondo to tracepoints.

Second, we really don't care about raw_samples per se - tracepoints
are always raw_samples.  In any case, the have_tracepoints() check
should be sufficient to decide whether or not to write TRACE_INFO.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273030770.6383.6.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-05 11:12:53 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
9890948d85 perf report: Make dso__calc_col_width agree with hist_entry__dso_snprintf
The first was always using the ->long_name, while the later used
->short_name if verbose was not set, resulting in the dso column to be
much wider than needed most of the time.

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>
2010-05-05 09:49:48 -03:00
Ingo Molnar
c4f3b5a2d7 Merge branch 'perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core 2010-05-04 18:31:47 +02:00
Anton Blanchard
02bf60aad7 perf: Fix performance issue with perf report
On a large machine we spend a lot of time in perf_header__find_attr when
running perf report.

If we are parsing a file without PERF_SAMPLE_ID then for each sample we call
perf_header__find_attr and loop through all counter IDs, never finding a match.
As the machine gets larger there are more per cpu counters and we spend an
awful lot of time in there.

The patch below initialises each sample id to -1ULL and checks for this in
perf_header__find_attr. We may need to do something more intelligent eventually
(eg a hash lookup from counter id to attr) but this at least fixes the most
common usage of perf report.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100504111915.GB14636@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
--
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-04 10:54:09 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
11d232ec28 perf inject: Add missing bits
New commands need to have Documentation and be added to command-list.txt
so that they can appear when 'perf' is called withouth any subcommand:

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf

 usage: perf [--version] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]

 The most commonly used perf commands are:
   annotate        Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display annotated code
   archive         Create archive with object files with build-ids found in perf.data file
   bench           General framework for benchmark suites
   buildid-cache   Manage build-id cache.
   buildid-list    List the buildids in a perf.data file
   diff            Read two perf.data files and display the differential profile
   inject          Filter to augment the events stream with additional information
   kmem            Tool to trace/measure kernel memory(slab) properties
   kvm             Tool to trace/measure kvm guest os
   list            List all symbolic event types
   lock            Analyze lock events
   probe           Define new dynamic tracepoints
   record          Run a command and record its profile into perf.data
   report          Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display the profile
   sched           Tool to trace/measure scheduler properties (latencies)
   stat            Run a command and gather performance counter statistics
   test            Runs sanity tests.
   timechart       Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload
   top             System profiling tool.
   trace           Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display trace output

 See 'perf help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command.

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#

The new 'perf inject' command hadn't so it wasn't appearing on that list.

Also fix the long option, that should have no spaces in it, rename the faulty one
to be '--build-ids', instead of '--inject build-ids'.

Reported-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>
2010-05-04 10:48:22 -03:00
Tom Zanussi
63e0c7715a perf: record TRACE_INFO only if using tracepoints and SAMPLE_RAW
The current perf code implicitly assumes SAMPLE_RAW means tracepoints
are being used, but doesn't check for that.  It happily records the
TRACE_INFO even if SAMPLE_RAW is used without tracepoints, but when the
perf data is read it won't go any further when it finds TRACE_INFO but
no tracepoints, and displays misleading errors.

This adds a check for both in perf-record, and won't record TRACE_INFO
unless both are true.  This at least allows perf report -D to dump raw
events, and avoids triggering a misleading error condition in perf
trace.  It doesn't actually enable the non-tracepoint raw events to be
displayed in perf trace, since perf trace currently only deals with
tracepoint events.

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>
LKML-Reference: <1272865861.7932.16.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-03 10:31:48 -03:00
Ingo Molnar
0806ebd974 Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core 2010-05-03 08:29:35 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
090f7204df perf inject: Refactor read_buildid function
Into two functions, one that actually reads the build_id for the dso if
it wasn't already read, and another taht will inject the event if the
build_id is available.

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>
2010-05-02 19:46:36 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2c9faa0600 perf record: Don't exit in live mode when no tracepoints are enabled
With this I was able to actually test Tom Zanussi's two previous patches
in my usual perf testing ways, i.e. without any tracepoints activated.

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>
2010-05-02 13:37:24 -03:00
Tom Zanussi
454c407ec1 perf: add perf-inject builtin
Currently, perf 'live mode' writes build-ids at the end of the
session, which isn't actually useful for processing live mode events.

What would be better would be to have the build-ids sent before any of
the samples that reference them, which can be done by processing the
event stream and retrieving the build-ids on the first hit.  Doing
that in perf-record itself, however, is off-limits.

This patch introduces perf-inject, which does the same job while
leaving perf-record untouched.  Normal mode perf still records the
build-ids at the end of the session as it should, but for live mode,
perf-inject can be injected in between the record and report steps
e.g.:

perf record -o - ./hackbench 10 | perf inject -v -b | perf report -v -i -

perf-inject reads a perf-record event stream and repipes it to stdout.
At any point the processing code can inject other events into the
event stream - in this case build-ids (-b option) are read and
injected as needed into the event stream.

Build-ids are just the first user of perf-inject - potentially
anything that needs userspace processing to augment the trace stream
with additional information could make use of this facility.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1272696080-16435-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
Tom Zanussi
789688faef perf/live: don't synthesize build ids at the end of a live mode trace
It doesn't really make sense to record the build ids at the end of a
live mode session - live mode samples need that information during the
trace rather than at the end.

Leave event__synthesize_build_id() in place, however; we'll still be
using that to synthesize build ids in a more timely fashion in a
future patch.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1272696080-16435-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-02 12:04:05 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
fb72014d98 perf tools: Don't use code surrounded by __KERNEL__
We need to refactor code to be explicitely shared by the kernel and at
least the tools/ userspace programs, so, till we do that, copy the bare
minimum bitmap/bitops code needed by tools/perf.

Reported-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-02 12:00:44 -03:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d00a47cce5 perf: Fix warning while reading ring buffer headers
commit e9e94e3bd8
"perf trace: Ignore "overwrite" field if present in
/events/header_page" makes perf trace launching spurious warnings
about unexpected tokens read:

	Warning: Error: expected type 6 but read 4

This change tries to handle the overcommit field in the header_page
file whenever this field is present or not.

The problem is that if this field is not present, we try to find it
and give up in the middle of the line when we realize we are actually
dealing with another field, which is the "data" one. And this failure
abandons the file pointer in the middle of the "data" description
line:

	field: u64 timestamp;	offset:0;	size:8;	signed:0;
	field: local_t commit;	offset:8;	size:8;	signed:1;
	field: char data;	offset:16;	size:4080;	signed:1;
                      ^^^
                      Here

What happens next is that we want to read this line to parse the data
field, but we fail because the pointer is not in the beginning of the
line.

We could probably fix that by rewinding the pointer. But in fact we
don't care much about these headers that only concern the ftrace
ring-buffer. We don't use them from perf.

Just skip this part of perf.data, but don't remove it from recording
to stay compatible with olders perf.data

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: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-01 04:31:48 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
e5a5f1f015 perf: Remove leftover useless options to record trace events from scripts
-f, -c 1, -R are now useless for trace events recording, moreover
-M is useless and event hurts.

Remove them from the documentation examples and from record scripts.

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: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
2010-04-30 19:55:00 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
1c6a800cde perf test: Initial regression testing command
First an example with the first internal test:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf test
 1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok

So it run just one test, that is "vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms", and it was
successful.

If we run it in verbose mode, we'll see details about errors and extra warnings
for non-fatal problems:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf test -v
 1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms:
--- start ---
Looking at the vmlinux_path (5 entries long)
No build_id in vmlinux, ignoring it
No build_id in /boot/vmlinux, ignoring it
No build_id in /boot/vmlinux-2.6.34-rc4-tip+, ignoring it
Using /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc4-tip+/build/vmlinux for symbols
Maps only in vmlinux:
 ffffffff81cb81b1-ffffffff81e1149b 0 [kernel].init.text
 ffffffff81e1149c-ffffffff9fffffff 0 [kernel].exit.text
 ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff6000ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_0
 ffffffffff600100-ffffffffff6003ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_fn
 ffffffffff600400-ffffffffff6007ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_1
 ffffffffff600800-ffffffffffffffff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_2
Maps in vmlinux with a different name in kallsyms:
 ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff6000ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_0 in kallsyms as [kernel].0
 ffffffffff600100-ffffffffff6003ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_fn in kallsyms as:
*ffffffffff600100-ffffffffff60012f 0 [kernel].2
 ffffffffff600400-ffffffffff6007ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_1 in kallsyms as [kernel].6
 ffffffffff600800-ffffffffffffffff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_2 in kallsyms as [kernel].8
Maps only in kallsyms:
 ffffffffff600130-ffffffffff6003ff 0 [kernel].4
---- end ----
vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

In the above case we only know the name of the non contiguous kernel ranges in
the address space when reading the symbol information from the ELF symtab in
vmlinux.

The /proc/kallsyms file lack this, we only notice they are separate because
there are modules after the kernel and after that more kernel functions, so we
need to have a module rbtree backed by the module .ko path to get symtabs in
the vmlinux case.

The tool uses it to match by address to emit appropriate warning, but don't
considers this fatal.

The .init.text and .exit.text ines, of course, aren't in kallsyms, so I left
these cases just as extra info in verbose mode.

The end of the sections also aren't in kallsyms, so we the symbols layer does
another pass and sets the end addresses as the next map start minus one, which
sometimes pads, causing harmless mismatches.

But at least the symbols match, tested it by copying /proc/kallsyms to
/tmp/kallsyms and doing changes to see if they were detected.

This first test also should serve as a first stab at documenting the
symbol library by providing a self contained example that exercises it
together with comments about what is being done.

More tests to check if actions done on a monitored app, like doing mmaps, etc,
makes the kernel generate the expected events should be added next.

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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-29 18:59:23 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
5c0541d53e perf symbols: Add machine helper routines
Created when writing the first 'perf test' regression testing routine.

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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-29 15:25:23 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
18acde52b8 perf tools: Create $(OUTPUT)arch/$(ARCH)/util/ directory
So that "make -C tools/perf O=/tmp/some/path" works again.

Problem introduced in:

cd932c5 "perf: Move arch specific code into separate arch director"

Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au.ibm.com>
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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-27 22:29:45 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
cbf6968098 perf machines: Make the machines class adopt the dsos__fprintf methods
Now those methods don't operate on a global list of dsos, but on lists
of machines, so make this clear by renaming the functions.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-27 21:22:44 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d28c62232e perf machine: Adopt some map_groups functions
Those functions operated on members now grouped in 'struct machine', so
move those methods to this new class.

The changes made to 'perf probe' shows that using this abstraction
inserting probes on guests almost got supported for free.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-27 21:21:18 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
48ea8f5470 perf machine: Pass buffer size to machine__mmap_name
Don't blindly assume that the size of the buffer is enough, use
snprintf.

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>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-27 21:19:05 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
23346f21b2 perf tools: Rename "kernel_info" to "machine"
struct kernel_info and kerninfo__ are too vague, what they really
describe are machines, virtual ones or hosts.

There are more changes to introduce helpers to shorten function calls
and to make more clear what is really being done, but I left that for
subsequent patches.

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>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-27 21:17:50 -03:00