03 Jun, 2011
1 commit
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perf stat continues running even if the event list contains counters
that are not supported. The resulting output then contains
for those events which gets confusing as to which events are supported,
but not counted and which are not supported.Before:
perf stat -ddd -- sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
0.571283 task-clock # 0.001 CPUs utilized
1 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec
0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec
157 page-faults # 0.275 M/sec
1,037,707 cycles # 1.816 GHz
stalled-cycles-frontend
stalled-cycles-backend
654,499 instructions # 0.63 insns per cycle
136,129 branches # 238.286 M/sec
branch-misses
L1-dcache-loads
L1-dcache-load-misses
LLC-loads
LLC-load-misses
L1-icache-loads
L1-icache-load-misses
dTLB-loads
dTLB-load-misses
iTLB-loads
iTLB-load-misses
L1-dcache-prefetches
L1-dcache-prefetch-misses1.001004836 seconds time elapsed
After:
perf stat -ddd -- sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
1.350326 task-clock # 0.001 CPUs utilized
2 context-switches # 0.001 M/sec
0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec
157 page-faults # 0.116 M/sec
11,986 cycles # 0.009 GHz
stalled-cycles-frontend
stalled-cycles-backend
496,986 instructions # 41.46 insns per cycle
138,065 branches # 102.246 M/sec
7,245 branch-misses # 5.25% of all branches
L1-dcache-loads
L1-dcache-load-misses
LLC-loads
LLC-load-misses
L1-icache-loads
L1-icache-load-misses
dTLB-loads
dTLB-load-misses
iTLB-loads
iTLB-load-misses
L1-dcache-prefetches
L1-dcache-prefetch-misses1.002397333 seconds time elapsed
v1->v2:
changed supported type from int to boolv2->v3
fixed vertical alignment of new struct elementCc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306767359-13221-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
02 Jun, 2011
1 commit
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Fixes two more cases where the python binding would not load:
. Not finding die(), which it shouldn't anyway, not good to just stop the
world because some particular perf.data file is invalid, just propagate
the error to the caller.. Not finding perf_sample_size: fix it by moving it from event.c to evsel,
where it belongs, as most cases are moving to operate on an evsel object.oOne of the fixed problems:
[root@emilia ~]# python
>>> import perf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: perf_sample_size
>>>
[root@emilia ~]#Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1hkj7b2cvgbfnoizsekjb6c9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
15 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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perf stat doesn't mmap and its perfectly fine for it to use task-bound
counters with inheritance.So set the attr.inherit on the caller and leave the syscall itself to
validate it.When the mmap fails perf_evlist__mmap will just emit a warning if this
is the failure reason.Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110414170121.GC3229@ghostprotocols.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
10 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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So that we can reuse things like the id to attr lookup routine
(perf_evlist__id2evsel) that uses a hash table instead of the linear
lookup done in the older perf_header_attr routines, etc.Also to make evsels/evlist more pervasive an API, simplyfing using the
emerging perf lib.cc: Arun Sharma
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
07 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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By creating an perf_evlist out of the attributes in the perf.data file
header, so that we can use evlists and evsels when reading recorded
sessions in addition to when we record sessions.More work is needed to allow tools to allow the user to select which
events are wanted when browsing sessions, be it just one or a subset of
them, aggregated or showed at the same time but with different
indications on the UI to allow seeing workloads thru different views at
the same time.But the overall goal/trend is to more uniformly use evsels and evlists.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
17 Feb, 2011
1 commit
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This patch changes the way perf stat prints event names at the end of a
run. Until now, it was trying to reconstruct the event name from its
encoding. The problem is that it would only print generic events without
their modifiers (u, k, pp).This patch saves the event name as passed by the user in the evsel
struct and uses it to print the final event name.This would also work in case perf is linked with a library (such as
libpfm4) which provides full PMU event tables.$ perf stat -e cycles:u,cycles:k date
Wed Feb 16 14:58:52 CET 2011Performance counter stats for 'date':
568600 cycles:u
2779715 cycles:k0.001908182 seconds time elapsed
Cc: Arun Sharma
Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Robert Richter
Cc: Stephane Eranian
LPU-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian
[ committer note: Fixed a merge problem with 023695d "Add cgroup support" ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
16 Feb, 2011
1 commit
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This patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on container groups
(cgroups) for both perf stat and perf record. It is possible to monitor
multiple cgroup in parallel. There is one cgroup per event. The cgroups to
monitor are passed via a new -G option followed by a comma separated list of
cgroup names.The cgroup filesystem has to be mounted. Given a cgroup name, the perf tool
finds the corresponding directory in the cgroup filesystem and opens it. It
then passes that file descriptor to the kernel.Example:
$ perf stat -B -a -e cycles:u,cycles:u,cycles:u -G test1,,test2 -- sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':2,368,667,414 cycles test1
2,369,661,459 cycles
cycles test21.001856890 seconds time elapsed
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
30 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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They were on evsel.c because they came from refactoring existing evsel
methods, so, to make reviewing the changes easier, I kept it there, now
its a plain move.Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
24 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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Out of the {con,des}structor, as in interpreted language bindings we will
need to go back from the wrapper object to the real thing. In that case
using container_of will save us to have an extra pointer in the perf_evsel
struct.Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
23 Jan, 2011
4 commits
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Adopting the new model used in 'perf record', where we don't have a map
per thread per cpu, instead we have an mmap per cpu, established on the
first fd for that cpu and ask the kernel using the
PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT ioctl to send events for the other fds on that
cpu for the one with the mmap.The methods moved from perf_evsel to perf_evlist, but for easing review
they were modified in place, in evsel.c, the next patch will move the
migrated methods to evlist.c.With this 'perf top' now uses the same mmap model used by 'perf record'
and the next patches will make 'perf record' use these new routines,
establishing a common codebase for both tools.Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
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Out of the code in 'perf top'. Record is next in line.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
As this is a per-cpu attribute, we can't set it up in advance and use it
for all the calls.Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
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The perf_evsel__open now have an extra boolean argument specifying if
event grouping is desired.The first file descriptor created on a CPU becomes the group leader.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
07 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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Since commit 69aad6f1(perf tools: Introduce event selectors), only
perf_event_attr::type and ::config are passed to event selector, which
makes perf tool not work correctly.For example, PEBS does not work because perf_event_attr::precise_ip is
not passed to the syscall.Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
06 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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This patch fixes the usage of the perf_event.h header file
between command modules and the supporting code in util.It is necessary to ensure that ALL files use the SAME
perf_event.h header from the kernel source tree.There were a couple of #include mixed
with #include "../../perf_event.h".This caused issues on some distros because of mismatch
in the layout of struct perf_event_attr. That eventually
led perf stat to segfault.Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Robert Richter
Cc: Stephane Eranian
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
04 Jan, 2011
5 commits
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Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
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Abstracting away the loops needed to create the various event fd handlers.
The users have to pass a confiruged perf->evsel.attr field, which is already
usable after perf_evsel__new (constructor) time, using defaults.Comes out of the ad-hoc routines in builtin-stat, that now uses it.
Fixed a small silly bug where we were die()ing before killing our
children, dysfunctional family this one 8-)Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
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Making them hopefully generic enough to be used in 'perf test',
well see.Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
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Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
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Out of ad-hoc code and global arrays with hard coded sizes.
This is the first step on having a library that will be first
used on regression tests in the 'perf test' tool.[acme@felicio linux]$ size /tmp/perf.before
text data bss dec hex filename
1273776 97384 5104416 6475576 62cf38 /tmp/perf.before
[acme@felicio linux]$ size /tmp/perf.new
text data bss dec hex filename
1275422 97416 1392416 2765254 2a31c6 /tmp/perf.newCc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Tom Zanussi
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo