29 Oct, 2012
2 commits
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As suggested by Arnaldo, many scripts have their own usages and need
capture specific events or tracepoints, so only those scripts whose
target events match the events in current perf data file should be
listed in the script browser menu.This patch will add the event match checking, by opening "xxx-record"
script to cherry pick out all events name and comparing them with
those inside the perf data file.Signed-off-by: Feng Tang
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351569369-26732-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
Currently many perf commands annotate/evlist/report/script/lock etc all
support "-i" option to chose a specific perf data, and all of them
create a local "input_name" to save the file name for that perf data.Since most of these commands need it, we can add a global variable for
it, also it can some other benefits:1. When calling script browser inside hists/annotation browser, it needs
to know the perf data file name to run that script.2. For further feature like runtime switching to another perf data file,
this variable can also help.Signed-off-by: Feng Tang
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351569369-26732-2-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
07 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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When we were processing a PERF_RECORD_EXIT event we first used
machine__findnew_thread for both the thread exiting and for its parent,
only to use just the thread struct associated with the one exiting, and
to just delete it.If it existed, i.e. not created at this very moment in
machine__findnew_thread, it will be moved to the machine->dead_threads
linked list, because we may have hist_entries pointing to it, but if it
was created just do be deleted, it will just sit there with no
references at all.Use the new machine__find_thread() method so that if it is not there, we
don't create it.As a bonus the parent thread will also not be created at this point.
Create process_fork() and process_exit() helpers to use this and make
the builtins use it instead of the generic process_task(), ditched by
this patch.Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z7n2y98ebjyrvmytaope4vdl@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
03 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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Some variables were global but used in just one function, so move it to
where it belongs.Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-eukt8bzp4t2n2z3s8ue5ofwb@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
18 Sep, 2012
2 commits
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So that other perf commands/browser has a way to dig out the available
scripts info in system, this is a preparation for the script browser.Signed-off-by: Feng Tang
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347007349-3102-5-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
Since perf script no longer only handle the trace points, we can add the
symbol filter option so that scripts can handle specified samples.Signed-off-by: Feng Tang
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347007349-3102-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
11 Sep, 2012
1 commit
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perf defines both __used and __unused variables to use for marking
unused variables. The variable __used is defined to
__attribute__((__unused__)), which contradicts the kernel definition to
__attribute__((__used__)) for new gcc versions. On Android, __used is
also defined in system headers and this leads to warnings like: warning:
'__used__' attribute ignored__unused is not defined in the kernel and is not a standard definition.
If __unused is included everywhere instead of __used, this leads to
conflicts with glibc headers, since glibc has a variables with this name
in its headers.The best approach is to use __maybe_unused, the definition used in the
kernel for __attribute__((unused)). In this way there is only one
definition in perf sources (instead of 2 definitions that point to the
same thing: __used and __unused) and it works on both Linux and Android.
This patch simply replaces all instances of __used and __unused with
__maybe_unused.Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347315303-29906-7-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@intel.com
[ committer note: fixed up conflict with a116e05 in builtin-sched.c ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
06 Sep, 2012
1 commit
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Allows perf to clean up properly on exit. Only exits left are exec
failures which are appropriate and usage callbacks that list available
options.Signed-off-by: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346005487-62961-7-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
12 Aug, 2012
1 commit
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This brings the support for DWARF cfi unwinding on perf post
processing. Call frame informations are retrieved and then passed
to libunwind that requests memory and register content from the
applications.Adding unwind object to handle the user stack backtrace based
on the user register values and user stack dump.The unwind object access the libunwind via remote interface
and provides to it all the necessary data to unwind the stack.The unwind interface provides following function:
unwind__get_entriesAnd callback (specified in above function) to retrieve
the backtrace entries:
typedef int (*unwind_entry_cb_t)(struct unwind_entry *entry,
void *arg);Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler"
Cc: Arun Sharma
Cc: Benjamin Redelings
Cc: Corey Ashford
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Robert Richter
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
Cc: Ulrich Drepper
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-12-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
[ Replaced use of perf_session by usage of perf_evsel ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
08 Aug, 2012
3 commits
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…for "process_event()"
Both perl and python script start processing events other than trace
points, and it's useful to pass the resolved symbol and the dso info to
the event handler in script for better analysis and statistics.Struct thread is already a member of struct addr_location, using
addr_location will keep the thread info, while providing additional
symbol and dso info if exist, so that the script itself doesn't need to
bother to do the symbol resolving and dso searching work.Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344419875-21665-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> -
We can get all that is needed using just event_format, that is available
via evsel->tp_format now.Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2hsr1686epa9f0vx4yg7z2zj@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
We already lookup the associated event_format when reading the perf.data
header, so that we can cache the tracepoint name in evsel->name, so do
it a little further and save the event_format itself, so that we can
avoid relookups in tools that need to access it.Change the tools to take the most obvious advantage, when they were
using pevent_find_event directly. More work is needed for further
removing the need of a pointer to pevent, such as when asking for event
field values ("common_pid" and the other common fields and per
event_format fields).This is something that was planned but only got actually done when
Andrey Wagin needed to do this lookup at perf_tool->sample() time, when
we don't have access to pevent (session->pevent) to use with
pevent_find_event().Cc: Andrey Wagin
Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-txkvew2ckko0b594ae8fbnyk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
28 Jun, 2012
1 commit
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The pevent thing is per perf.data file, so I made it stop being static
and become a perf_session member, so tools processing perf.data files
use perf_session and _there_ we read the trace events description into
session->pevent and then change everywhere to stop using that single
global pevent variable and use the per session one.Note that it _doesn't_ fall backs to trace__event_id, as we're not
interested at all in what is present in the
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events in the workstation doing the analysis,
just in what is in the perf.data file.This patch also introduces perf_session__set_tracepoints_handlers that
is the perf perf.data/session way to associate handlers to tracepoint
events by resolving their IDs using the events descriptions stored in a
perf.data file. Make 'perf sched' use it.Reported-by: Dmitry Antipov
Tested-by: Dmitry Antipov
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org
Cc: patches@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120625232016.GA28525@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
20 Jun, 2012
2 commits
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Removing unused evsel parameter from machine__resolve_callchain
function. Plus related header file and callers changes.The evsel parameter is unused since following commit:
perf callchain: Make callchain cursors TLS
commit 472606458f3e1ced5fe3cc5f04e90a6b5a4732cf
Author: Namhyung Kim
Date: Thu May 31 14:43:26 2012 +0900Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Arun Sharma
Cc: Benjamin Redelings
Cc: Corey Ashford
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Robert Richter
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
Cc: Ulrich Drepper
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339420814-7379-9-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
No logic change, just remove one more user of __event_name().
Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e4f0vuy3283hmzfjjvkgm7fo@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
25 Apr, 2012
1 commit
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The event parsing code in perf was originally copied from trace-cmd
but never was kept up-to-date with the changes that was done there.
The trace-cmd libtraceevent.a code is much more mature than what is
currently in perf.This updates the code to use wrappers to handle the calls to the
new event parsing code. The new code requires a handle to be pass
around, which removes the global event variables and allows
more than one event structure to be read from different files
(and different machines).But perf still has the old global events and the code throughout
perf does not yet have a nice way to pass around a handle.
A global 'pevent' has been made for perf and the old calls have
been created as wrappers to the new event parsing code that uses
the global pevent.With this change, perf can later incorporate the pevent handle into
the perf structures and allow more than one file to be read and
compared, that contains different events.Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Arun Sharma
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
31 Jan, 2012
4 commits
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Add the option get the path of [kernel.kallsyms].
Specify '--show-kernel-path' option to use this function.
This patch enables other applications to use this output easily.Without --show-kernel-path option
ffffffff81467612 irq_return ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff81467612 irq_return ([kernel.kallsyms])
7f24fc02a6b3 _start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so)
[snip]With --show-kernel-path option
ffffffff81467612 irq_return (/lib/modules/3.2.0+/build/vmlinux)
ffffffff81467612 irq_return (/lib/modules/3.2.0+/build/vmlinux)
7f24fc02a6b3 _start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so)
[snip]Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120130044320.2384.73322.stgit@linux3
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Nagai
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
Add the offset field specifier 'symoff' to show the offset from
the symbols in the output of perf-script. We can get the more
detailed address information.Output sample:
ffffffff81467612 irq_return+0x0 => 301ec016b0 _start+0x0
ffffffff81467612 irq_return+0x0 => 301ec016b0 _start+0x0
301ec016b3 _start+0x3 => 301ec04b70 _dl_start+0x0
ffffffff81467612 irq_return+0x0 => 301ec04b70 _dl_start+0x0
ffffffff81467612 irq_return+0x0 => 301ec04b96 _dl_start+0x26
ffffffff81467612 irq_return+0x0 => 301ec04b9d _dl_start+0x2d
301ec04beb _dl_start+0x7b => 301ec04c0d _dl_start+0x9d
301ec04c11 _dl_start+0xa1 => 301ec04bf0 _dl_start+0x80
[snip]Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120130044314.2384.67094.stgit@linux3
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Nagai
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
BTS records branch_from_addr and branch_to_addr in IP and ADDR field in perf_sample.
This patch enables to print them in following format,() => ()
Sample:
ffffffff814675d2 irq_return ([kernel.kallsyms]) => 3f03e016b0 _start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so)
ffffffff814675d2 irq_return ([kernel.kallsyms]) => 3f03e016b0 _start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so)
3f03e016b3 _start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so) => 3f03e04b80 _dl_start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so)
ffffffff814675d2 irq_return ([kernel.kallsyms]) => 3f03e04b80 _dl_start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so)
ffffffff814675d2 irq_return ([kernel.kallsyms]) => 3f03e04ba6 _dl_start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so)
ffffffff814675d2 irq_return ([kernel.kallsyms]) => 3f03e04bad _dl_start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so)
3f03e04bfb _dl_start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so) => 3f03e04c1d _dl_start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so)
[snip]Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120130044309.2384.44252.stgit@linux3
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Nagai
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
The perf script command uses various expressions to indicate "unknown".
It is unfriendly for user scripts to parse it. So, this patch unifies
the expressions to "[unknown]".Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120130044257.2384.62905.stgit@linux3
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Nagai
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
08 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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The get_script_path() calls opendir() but misses corresponding
closedir()'s. Add them.Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325957132-10600-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
04 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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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
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325000151-4463-4-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
24 Dec, 2011
2 commits
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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 timechartAlso 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
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
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
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324578603-12762-4-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
12 Dec, 2011
2 commits
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The option is documented in man perf-script but was not yet implemented:
-a
Force system-wide collection. Scripts run without a
normally use -a by default, while scripts run
with a 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
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322229925-10075-1-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
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
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322217520-3287-1-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
28 Nov, 2011
6 commits
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Allows collecting events system wide and then pulling out events for a
specific task name(s). e.g,perf script -c gnome-shell,gnome-terminal
Applies on top of:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/13/74v2->v3
- update Documentationv1->v2
- use comm_list from symbol_confCc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321894972-24246-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
Currently the meaning of -C varies by perf command: for perf-top,
perf-stat, perf-record it means cpu list. For perf-report it means comm
list. Then perf-annotate, perf-report and perf-script use -c for cpu
list.Fix annotate, report and script to use -C for cpu list to be consistent
with top, stat and record. This means report needs to use -c for comm
list which does introduce a backward compatibility change.v1 -> v2
- update perf-script.txt tooCc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321209008-7004-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
To better reflect that it became the base class for all tools, that must
be in each tool struct and where common stuff will be put.Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qgpc4msetqlwr8y2k7537cxe@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
Reducing the exposure of perf_session further, so that we can use the
classes in cases where no perf.data file is created.Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-stua66dcscsezzrcdugvbmvd@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
So that we don't need to have that many globals.
Next steps will remove the 'session' pointer, that in most cases is
not needed.Then we can rename perf_event_ops to 'perf_tool' that better describes
this class hierarchy.Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wp4djox7x6w1i2bab1pt4xxp@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
Since we have it in evsel->hists.callchain_cursor, remove it from
perf_session.One more step in disentangling several places from requiring a
perf_session pointer.Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rxr5dj3di7ckyfmnz0naku1z@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
08 Oct, 2011
1 commit
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The goal of this patch is to include more information about the host
environment into the perf.data so it is more self-descriptive. Overtime,
profiles are captured on various machines and it becomes hard to track
what was recorded, on what machine and when.This patch provides a way to solve this by extending the perf.data file
with basic information about the host machine. To add those extensions,
we leverage the feature bits capabilities of the perf.data format. The
change is backward compatible with existing perf.data files.We define the following useful new extensions:
- HEADER_HOSTNAME: the hostname
- HEADER_OSRELEASE: the kernel release number
- HEADER_ARCH: the hw architecture
- HEADER_CPUDESC: generic CPU description
- HEADER_NRCPUS: number of online/avail cpus
- HEADER_CMDLINE: perf command line
- HEADER_VERSION: perf version
- HEADER_TOPOLOGY: cpu topology
- HEADER_EVENT_DESC: full event description (attrs)
- HEADER_CPUID: easy-to-parse low level CPU identicationThe small granularity for the entries is to make it easier to extend
without breaking backward compatiblity. Many entries are provided as
ASCII strings.Perf report/script have been modified to print the basic information as
easy-to-parse ASCII strings. Extended information about CPU and NUMA
topology may be requested with the -I option.Thanks to David Ahern for reviewing and testing the many versions of
this patch.$ perf report --stdio
# ========
# captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011
# hostname : quad
# os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip
# perf version : 3.1.0-rc4
# arch : x86_64
# nrcpus online : 4
# nrcpus avail : 4
# cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
# cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11
# total memory : 8105360 kB
# cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date
# event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31,
# HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
# HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
# ========
#
...$ perf report --stdio -I
# ========
# captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011
# hostname : quad
# os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip
# perf version : 3.1.0-rc4
# arch : x86_64
# nrcpus online : 4
# nrcpus avail : 4
# cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
# cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11
# total memory : 8105360 kB
# cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date
# event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31,
# sibling cores : 0-3
# sibling threads : 0
# sibling threads : 1
# sibling threads : 2
# sibling threads : 3
# node0 meminfo : total = 8320608 kB, free = 7571024 kB
# node0 cpu list : 0-3
# ========
#
...Reviewed-by: David Ahern
Tested-by: David Ahern
Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Robert Richter
Cc: Andi Kleen
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110930134040.GA5575@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian
[ committer notes: Use --show-info in the tools as was in the docs, rename
perf_header_fprintf_info to perf_file_section__fprintf_info, fixup
conflict with f69b64f7 "perf: Support setting the disassembler style" ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
05 Jul, 2011
1 commit
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Add an option to perf report/annotate/script to specify which
CPUs to operate on. This enables us to take a single system wide
profile and analyse each CPU (or group of CPUs) in isolation.This was useful when profiling a multiprocess workload where the
bottleneck was on one CPU but this was hidden in the overall
profile. Per process and per thread breakdowns didn't help
because multiple processes were running on each CPU and no
single process consumed an entire CPU.The patch converts the list of CPUs returned by cpu_map__new
into a bitmap for fast lookup. I wanted to use -C to be
consistent with perf top/record/stat, but unfortunately perf
report already uses -C .v2: Incorporate suggestions from David Ahern:
- Added -c to perf script
- Check that SAMPLE_CPU is set when -c is used
- Update documentationv3: Create perf_session__cpu_bitmap()
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard
Acked-by: David Ahern
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110704215750.11647eb9@kryten
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
03 Jun, 2011
3 commits
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Resolve to a function or variable if possible and if the sym option is
enabled.Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306782503-22002-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
The 'sym' option displays both the function name and the DSO it comes
from. Split the display of the dso into a separate option. This allows
display of the ip address and symbol without the dso, thus shortening
line lengths - and decluttering the output a bit.Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306528124-25861-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
Currently the "sym" output field is used to dump instruction pointers
and callchain stack. Sample addresses can also be converted to symbols,
so the meaning of "sym" needs to be fixed. This patch adds an "ip"
option and if it is selected the user can also opt to dump symbols for
them. If the user opts to dump IP without syms only the address is
shown.Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306528124-25861-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
26 May, 2011
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl
Cc: Tom Zanussi
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1105261011290.17400@swampdragon.chaosbits.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
20 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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Check for required sample attributes using evsel rather than sample_type
in the session header. If the attribute for a default field is not
present for the event type (e.g., new command operating on file from
older kernel) the field is removed from the output list.Expected event types must exist. For example, if a user specifies
-f trace:time,trace -f sw:time,cpu,sym
the perf.data file must contain both tracepoints and software events
(ie., it is an error if either does not exist in the file).Attribute checking is done once at the beginning of perf-script rather
than for each sample.v1 -> v2:
- addressed comments from acmeCc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302148460-570-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
19 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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Useful for getting stack traces for hardware events not handled by
PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE.Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Tom Zanussi
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qimdcdpekjqxuyqovy4kjusx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
