09 Aug, 2018

1 commit

  • Add --percent-type option to set annotation percent type from following
    choices:

    global-period, local-period, global-hits, local-hits

    Examples:

    $ perf annotate --percent-type period-local --stdio | head -1
    Percent | Source code ... es, percent: local period)
    $ perf annotate --percent-type hits-local --stdio | head -1
    Percent | Source code ... es, percent: local hits)
    $ perf annotate --percent-type hits-global --stdio | head -1
    Percent | Source code ... es, percent: global hits)
    $ perf annotate --percent-type period-global --stdio | head -1
    Percent | Source code ... es, percent: global period)

    The local/global keywords set if the percentage is computed in the scope
    of the function (local) or the whole data (global).

    The period/hits keywords set the base the percentage is computed on -
    the samples period or the number of samples (hits).

    Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
    Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Stephane Eranian
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180804130521.11408-20-jolsa@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Jiri Olsa
     

25 Jun, 2018

1 commit

  • perf_event__process_feature() accesses feat_ops[HEADER_LAST_FEATURE]
    which is not defined and thus perf is crashing. HEADER_LAST_FEATURE is
    used as an end marker for the perf report but it's unused for perf
    script/annotate. Ignore HEADER_LAST_FEATURE for perf script/annotate,
    just like it is done in 'perf report'.

    Before:
    # perf record -o - ls | perf script

    Segmentation fault (core dumped)
    #

    After:
    # perf record -o - ls | perf script

    Segmentation fault (core dumped)
    ls 7031 4392.099856: 250000 cpu-clock:uhH: 7f5e0ce7cd60
    ls 7031 4392.100355: 250000 cpu-clock:uhH: 7f5e0c706ef7
    #

    Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros
    Cc: Jin Yao
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Fixes: 57b5de463925 ("perf report: Support forced leader feature in pipe mode")
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180625124220.6434-4-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Ravi Bangoria
     

04 Jun, 2018

6 commits


22 May, 2018

1 commit

  • With the '--group' option, even for non-explicit group, 'perf annotate'
    will enable the group output.

    For example,

    $ perf record -e cycles,branches ./div
    $ perf annotate main --stdio --group

    : Disassembly of section .text:
    :
    : 00000000004004b0 :
    : main():
    :
    : return i;
    : }
    :
    : int main(void)
    : {
    0.00 0.00 : 4004b0: push %rbx
    : int i;
    : int flag;
    : volatile double x = 1212121212, y = 121212;
    :
    : s_randseed = time(0);
    0.00 0.00 : 4004b1: xor %edi,%edi
    : srand(s_randseed);
    0.00 0.00 : 4004b3: mov $0x77359400,%ebx
    :
    : return i;
    : }
    :

    But if without --group, there is only one event reported.

    $ perf annotate main --stdio

    : Disassembly of section .text:
    :
    : 00000000004004b0 :
    : main():
    :
    : return i;
    : }
    :
    : int main(void)
    : {
    0.00 : 4004b0: push %rbx
    : int i;
    : int flag;
    : volatile double x = 1212121212, y = 121212;
    :
    : s_randseed = time(0);
    0.00 : 4004b1: xor %edi,%edi
    : srand(s_randseed);
    0.00 : 4004b3: mov $0x77359400,%ebx
    :
    : return i;
    : }

    Signed-off-by: Jin Yao
    Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Kan Liang
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1526914666-31839-4-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Jin Yao
     

27 Apr, 2018

1 commit

  • Remove the split of symbol tables for data (MAP__VARIABLE) and for
    functions (MAP__FUNCTION), its unneeded and there were various places
    doing two lookups to find a symbol, so simplify this.

    We still will consider only the symbols that matched the filters in
    place, i.e. see the (elf_(sec,sym)|symbol_type)__filter() routines in
    the patch, just so that we consider only the same symbols as before,
    to reduce the possibility of regressions.

    All the tests on 50-something build environments, in varios versions
    of lots of distros and cross build environments were performed without
    build regressions, as usual with all pull requests the other tests were
    also performed: 'perf test' and 'make -C tools/perf build-test'.

    Also this was done at a great granularity so that regressions can be
    bisected more easily.

    Cc: Adrian Hunter
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-hiq0fy2rsleupnqqwuojo1ne@git.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
     

21 Mar, 2018

3 commits

  • This is already present in 'perf top', albeit undocumented (will fix),
    and is useful to use /proc/kcore instead of vmlinux and then get what is
    really in place, not what the kernel starts with, before alternatives,
    ftrace .text patching, etc, see the differences:

    # perf annotate --stdio2 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
    _raw_spin_lock_irqsave() /lib/modules/4.16.0-rc4/build/vmlinux
    Event: anon group { cycles, instructions }

    0.00 3.17 → callq __fentry__
    0.00 7.94 push %rbx
    7.69 36.51 → callq __page_file_index
    mov %rax,%rbx
    7.69 3.17 → callq *ffffffff82225cd0
    xor %eax,%eax
    mov $0x1,%edx
    80.77 49.21 lock cmpxchg %edx,(%rdi)
    test %eax,%eax
    ↓ jne 2b
    3.85 0.00 mov %rbx,%rax
    pop %rbx
    ← retq
    2b: mov %eax,%esi
    → callq queued_spin_lock_slowpath
    mov %rbx,%rax
    pop %rbx
    ← retq
    [root@jouet ~]# perf annotate --ignore-vmlinux --stdio2 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
    _raw_spin_lock_irqsave() /proc/kcore
    Event: anon group { cycles, instructions }

    0.00 3.17 nop
    0.00 7.94 push %rbx
    0.00 23.81 pushfq
    7.69 12.70 pop %rax
    nop
    mov %rax,%rbx
    7.69 3.17 cli
    nop
    xor %eax,%eax
    mov $0x1,%edx
    80.77 49.21 lock cmpxchg %edx,(%rdi)
    test %eax,%eax
    ↓ jne 2b
    3.85 0.00 mov %rbx,%rax
    pop %rbx
    ← retq
    2b: mov %eax,%esi
    → callq *ffffffff820e96b0
    mov %rbx,%rax
    pop %rbx
    ← retq
    #

    Diff of the output of those commands:

    # perf annotate --stdio2 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave > /tmp/vmlinux
    # perf annotate --ignore-vmlinux --stdio2 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave > /tmp/kcore
    # diff -y /tmp/vmlinux /tmp/kcore
    _raw_spin_lock_irqsave() vmlinux | _raw_spin_lock_irqsave() /proc/kcore
    Event: anon group { cycles, instructions } Event: anon group { cycles, instructions }

    0.00 3.17 → callq __fentry__ | 0.00 3.17 nop
    0.00 7.94 push %rbx 0.00 7.94 push %rbx
    7.69 36.51 → callq __page_file_index | 0.00 23.81 pushfq
    > 7.69 12.70 pop %rax
    > nop
    mov %rax,%rbx mov %rax,%rbx
    7.69 3.17 → callq *ffffffff82225cd0 | 7.69 3.17 cli
    > nop
    xor %eax,%eax xor %eax,%eax
    mov $0x1,%edx mov $0x1,%edx
    80.77 49.21 lock cmpxchg %edx,(%rdi) 80.77 49.21 lock cmpxchg %edx,(%rdi)
    test %eax,%eax test %eax,%eax
    ↓ jne 2b ↓ jne 2b
    3.85 0.00 mov %rbx,%rax 3.85 0.00 mov %rbx,%rax
    pop %rbx pop %rbx
    ← retq ← retq
    2b: mov %eax,%esi 2b: mov %eax,%esi
    → callq queued_spin_lock_slowpath| → callq *ffffffff820e96b0
    mov %rbx,%rax mov %rbx,%rax
    pop %rbx pop %rbx
    ← retq ← retq
    #

    This should be further streamlined by doing both annotations and
    allowing the TUI to toggle initial/current, and show the patched
    instructions in a slightly different color.

    Cc: Adrian Hunter
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Jin Yao
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wz8d269hxkcwaczr0r4rhyjg@git.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
     
  • One more thing that goes from the TUI code to be used more widely,
    for instance it'll affect the default options used by:

    perf annotate --stdio2

    Cc: Adrian Hunter
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Jin Yao
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0nsz0dm0akdbo30vgja2a10e@git.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
     
  • This uses the TUI augmented formatting routines, modulo interactivity.

    # perf annotate --ignore-vmlinux --stdio2 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
    _raw_spin_lock_irqsave() /proc/kcore
    Event: cycles:ppp

    Percent

    Disassembly of section load0:

    ffffffff9a8734b0 :
    nop
    push %rbx
    50.00 pushfq
    pop %rax
    nop
    mov %rax,%rbx
    cli
    nop
    xor %eax,%eax
    mov $0x1,%edx
    50.00 lock cmpxchg %edx,(%rdi)
    test %eax,%eax
    ↓ jne 2b
    mov %rbx,%rax
    pop %rbx
    ← retq
    2b: mov %eax,%esi
    → callq queued_spin_lock_slowpath
    mov %rbx,%rax
    pop %rbx
    ← retq

    Tested-by: Jin Yao
    Cc: Adrian Hunter
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6cte5o8z84mbivbvqlg14uh1@git.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
     

08 Mar, 2018

1 commit

  • Unlike the perf report interactive annotate mode, the perf annotate
    doesn't display the IPC/Cycle even if branch info is recorded in perf
    data file.

    perf record -b ...
    perf annotate function

    It should show IPC/cycle, but it doesn't.

    This patch lets perf annotate support the displaying of IPC/Cycle if
    branch info is in perf data.

    For example,

    perf annotate compute_flag

    Percent│ IPC Cycle


    │ Disassembly of section .text:

    │ 0000000000400640 :
    │ compute_flag():
    │ volatile int count;
    │ static unsigned int s_randseed;

    │ __attribute__((noinline))
    │ int compute_flag()
    │ {
    22.96 │1.18 584 sub $0x8,%rsp
    │ int i;

    │ i = rand() % 2;
    23.02 │1.18 1 → callq rand@plt

    │ return i;
    27.05 │3.37 mov %eax,%edx
    │ }
    │3.37 add $0x8,%rsp
    │ {
    │ int i;

    │ i = rand() % 2;

    │ return i;
    │3.37 shr $0x1f,%edx
    │3.37 add %edx,%eax
    │3.37 and $0x1,%eax
    │3.37 sub %edx,%eax
    │ }
    26.97 │3.37 2 ← retq

    Note that, this patch only supports TUI mode. For stdio, now it just keeps
    original behavior. Will support it in a follow-up patch.

    $ perf annotate compute_flag --stdio

    Percent | Source code & Disassembly of div for cycles:ppp (7993 samples)
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    :
    :
    :
    : Disassembly of section .text:
    :
    : 0000000000400640 :
    : compute_flag():
    : volatile int count;
    : static unsigned int s_randseed;
    :
    : __attribute__((noinline))
    : int compute_flag()
    : {
    0.29 : 400640: sub $0x8,%rsp # +100.00%
    : int i;
    :
    : i = rand() % 2;
    42.93 : 400644: callq 400490 # -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    :
    : return i;
    0.10 : 400649: mov %eax,%edx # +100.00%
    : }
    0.94 : 40064b: add $0x8,%rsp
    : {
    : int i;
    :
    : i = rand() % 2;
    :
    : return i;
    27.02 : 40064f: shr $0x1f,%edx
    0.15 : 400652: add %edx,%eax
    1.24 : 400654: and $0x1,%eax
    2.08 : 400657: sub %edx,%eax
    : }
    25.26 : 400659: retq # -100.00% (p:100.00%)

    Signed-off-by: Jin Yao
    Acked-by: Andi Kleen
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180223170210.GC7045@tassilo.jf.intel.com
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519724327-7773-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Jin Yao
     

07 Nov, 2017

1 commit

  • Conflicts:
    tools/perf/arch/arm/annotate/instructions.c
    tools/perf/arch/arm64/annotate/instructions.c
    tools/perf/arch/powerpc/annotate/instructions.c
    tools/perf/arch/s390/annotate/instructions.c
    tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/intel-cqm.c
    tools/perf/ui/tui/progress.c
    tools/perf/util/zlib.c

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Ingo Molnar
     

02 Nov, 2017

1 commit

  • Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
    makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

    By default all files without license information are under the default
    license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

    Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
    SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
    shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

    This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
    Philippe Ombredanne.

    How this work was done:

    Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
    the use cases:
    - file had no licensing information it it.
    - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
    - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

    Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
    where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
    had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

    The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
    a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
    output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
    tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
    base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

    The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
    assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
    results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
    to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
    immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

    Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
    - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
    - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
    lines of source
    - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if
    Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
    Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Greg Kroah-Hartman
     

31 Oct, 2017

2 commits

  • Add struct perf_data_file to represent a single file within a perf_data
    struct.

    Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Changbin Du
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Jin Yao
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-c3f9p4xzykr845ktqcek6p4t@git.kernel.org
    [ Fixup recent changes in 'perf script --per-event-dump' ]
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Jiri Olsa
     
  • Rename struct perf_data_file to perf_data, because we will add the
    possibility to have multiple files under perf.data, so the 'perf_data'
    name fits better.

    Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Changbin Du
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Jin Yao
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-39wn4d77phel3dgkzo3lyan0@git.kernel.org
    [ Fixup recent changes in 'perf script --per-event-dump' ]
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Jiri Olsa
     

18 Aug, 2017

2 commits

  • Support the --show-nr-samples in the TUI browser.

    Committer notes:

    Lift the restriction about --tui but leave it for --gtk:

    $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/lib64
    $ perf annotate --gtk --show-nr-samples --show-nr-samples is not available in --gtk mode at this time
    $

    Signed-off-by: Taeung Song
    Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503046023-5646-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Taeung Song
     
  • Add --show-nr-samples option to "perf annotate" so that it matches "perf
    report".

    Committer note:

    Note that it can't be used together with --show-total-period, which
    seems like a silly limitation, that can be lifted at some point.

    Made it bail out if not on --stdio.

    Signed-off-by: Taeung Song
    Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Milian Wolff
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503046008-5511-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Taeung Song
     

27 Jul, 2017

1 commit

  • When we parse an event we may get a value from the kernel in response to
    PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT being set in perf_event_attr->sample_type, and if it
    is not set, then perf_sample->weight will be set to zero, which should
    be ok according to a discussion with Andi Kleen [1]:

    1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724174637.GS3044@two.firstfloor.org

    Acked-by: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Adrian Hunter
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Milian Wolff
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Taeung Song
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8ev8ufk3lzmvgz37yg9nv3qz@git.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
     

25 Jul, 2017

1 commit

  • 'perf annotate' was missing the handler for tracing data records.

    Prior to this patch we obtained "unhandled" records when piping trace
    events to perf annotate (using -D option to show the dump_printf
    messages in process_event_synth_tracing_data_stub):

    $ perf record -o - -e block:bio_free sleep 2 | perf annotate -D --stdio
    ...
    0x78 [0xc]: PERF_RECORD_TRACING_DATA: unhandled!
    ...

    Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros
    Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Acked-by: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin
    Cc: Elena Reshetova
    Cc: Kees Kook
    Cc: Paul Turner
    Cc: Stephane Eranian
    Cc: Sudeep Holla
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170719011839.99399-4-davidcc@google.com
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    David Carrillo-Cisneros
     

21 Jul, 2017

2 commits

  • In fixing the --show-total-period option it was noticed that the value
    of sample->period was being overwritten, fix it.

    Signed-off-by: Taeung Song
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Milian Wolff
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Fixes: fd36f3dd7933 ("perf hist: Pass struct sample to __hists__add_entry()")
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500500215-16646-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
    [ split from a larger patch, added the Fixes tag ]
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Taeung Song
     
  • To pave the way to use perf_sample fields in the annotate code, storing
    sample->period in sym_hist->addr->period and its sum in
    sym_hist->period.

    Signed-off-by: Taeung Song
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500500215-16646-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
    [ split and adjusted from a larger patch ]
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Taeung Song
     

19 Jul, 2017

1 commit

  • Add header record types to pipe-mode, reusing the functions
    used in file-mode and leveraging the new struct feat_fd.

    For alignment, check that synthesized events don't exceed
    pagesize.

    Add the perf_event__synthesize_feature event call back to
    process the new header records.

    Before this patch:

    $ perf record -o - -e cycles sleep 1 | perf report --stdio --header
    [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
    [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ]
    ...

    After this patch:
    $ perf record -o - -e cycles sleep 1 | perf report --stdio --header
    # ========
    # captured on: Mon May 22 16:33:43 2017
    # ========
    #
    # hostname : my_hostname
    # os release : 4.11.0-dbx-up_perf
    # perf version : 4.11.rc6.g6277c80
    # arch : x86_64
    # nrcpus online : 72
    # nrcpus avail : 72
    # cpudesc : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2696 v3 @ 2.30GHz
    # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,63,2
    # total memory : 263457192 kB
    # cmdline : /root/perf record -o - -e cycles -c 100000 sleep 1
    # HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
    # HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
    # pmu mappings: intel_bts = 6, uncore_imc_4 = 22, uncore_sbox_1 = 47, uncore_cbox_5 = 33, uncore_ha_0 = 16, uncore_cbox
    [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
    [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ]
    ...

    Support added for the subcommands: report, inject, annotate and script.

    Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros
    Acked-by: David Ahern
    Acked-by: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: He Kuang
    Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Paul Turner
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Simon Que
    Cc: Stephane Eranian
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170718042549.145161-16-davidcc@google.com
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    David Carrillo-Cisneros
     

20 Apr, 2017

1 commit

  • Removing it from util.h, part of an effort to disentangle the includes
    hell, that makes changes to util.h or something included by it to cause
    a complete rebuild of the tools.

    Cc: Adrian Hunter
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ztrjy52q1rqcchuy3rubfgt2@git.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
     

12 Apr, 2017

1 commit

  • perf annotate did not get some love for pipe-mode, and did not have
    .attr and .buil_id setup (while record and inject did. Fix that.

    It can easily be reproduced by:

    perf record -o - noploop | perf annotate

    that in my system shows:
    0xd8 [0x28]: failed to process type: 9

    Committer Testing:

    Before:

    $ perf record -o - stress -t 2 -c 2 | perf annotate --stdio
    stress: info: [11060] dispatching hogs: 2 cpu, 0 io, 0 vm, 0 hdd
    0x4470 [0x28]: failed to process type: 9
    $ stress: info: [11060] successful run completed in 2s

    $

    After:

    $ perf record -o - stress -t 2 -c 2 | perf annotate --stdio
    stress: info: [11871] dispatching hogs: 2 cpu, 0 io, 0 vm, 0 hdd
    stress: info: [11871] successful run completed in 2s
    [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
    [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ]
    no symbols found in /usr/bin/stress, maybe install a debug package?
    Percent | Source code & Disassembly of libc-2.24.so for cycles:uhH (6117 samples)
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    :
    : Disassembly of section .text:
    :
    : 000000000003b050 :
    : __random_r():
    10.56 : 3b050: test %rdi,%rdi
    0.00 : 3b053: je 3b0d0
    0.34 : 3b055: test %rsi,%rsi
    0.00 : 3b058: je 3b0d0
    0.46 : 3b05a: mov 0x18(%rdi),%eax
    12.44 : 3b05d: mov 0x10(%rdi),%r8
    0.18 : 3b061: test %eax,%eax
    0.00 : 3b063: je 3b0b0

    Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros
    Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Acked-by: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: He Kuang
    Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
    Cc: Paul Turner
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Simon Que
    Cc: Stephane Eranian
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410201432.24807-5-davidcc@google.com
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    David Carrillo-Cisneros
     

27 Mar, 2017

1 commit

  • We got it from the git sources but never used it for anything, with the
    place where this would be somehow used remaining:

    static int run_builtin(struct cmd_struct *p, int argc, const char **argv)
    {
    prefix = NULL;
    if (p->option & RUN_SETUP)
    prefix = NULL; /* setup_perf_directory(); */

    Ditch it.

    Cc: Adrian Hunter
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uw5swz05vol0qpr32c5lpvus@git.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
     

14 Mar, 2017

1 commit

  • Introduce a new option to record PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES events emitted
    by the kernel when fork, clone, setns or unshare are invoked. And update
    perf-record documentation with the new option to record namespace
    events.

    Committer notes:

    Combined it with a later patch to allow printing it via 'perf report -D'
    and be able to test the feature introduced in this patch. Had to move
    here also perf_ns__name(), that was introduced in another later patch.

    Also used PRIu64 and PRIx64 to fix the build in some enfironments wrt:

    util/event.c:1129:39: error: format '%lx' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type 'long long unsigned int' [-Werror=format=]
    ret += fprintf(fp, "%u/%s: %lu/0x%lx%s", idx
    ^
    Testing it:

    # perf record --namespaces -a
    ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
    [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.083 MB perf.data (423 samples) ]
    #
    # perf report -D

    3 2028902078892 0x115140 [0xa0]: PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES 14783/14783 - nr_namespaces: 7
    [0/net: 3/0xf0000081, 1/uts: 3/0xeffffffe, 2/ipc: 3/0xefffffff, 3/pid: 3/0xeffffffc,
    4/user: 3/0xeffffffd, 5/mnt: 3/0xf0000000, 6/cgroup: 3/0xeffffffb]

    0x1151e0 [0x30]: event: 9
    .
    . ... raw event: size 48 bytes
    . 0000: 09 00 00 00 02 00 30 00 c4 71 82 68 0c 7f 00 00 ......0..q.h....
    . 0010: a9 39 00 00 a9 39 00 00 94 28 fe 63 d8 01 00 00 .9...9...(.c....
    . 0020: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ce c4 02 00 00 00 00 00 ................

    NAMESPACES events: 1

    #

    Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini
    Acked-by: Jiri Olsa
    Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin
    Cc: Alexei Starovoitov
    Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
    Cc: Aravinda Prasad
    Cc: Brendan Gregg
    Cc: Daniel Borkmann
    Cc: Eric Biederman
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Sargun Dhillon
    Cc: Steven Rostedt
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148891930386.25309.18412039920746995488.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Hari Bathini
     

20 Feb, 2017

1 commit

  • The -q/--quiet option is to suppress any message. Sometimes users just
    want to see the numbers and it can be used for that case.

    Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
    Suggested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217081742.17417-6-namhyung@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Namhyung Kim
     

09 Sep, 2016

1 commit

  • I wanted to know the hottest path through a function and figured the
    branch-stack (LBR) information should be able to help out with that.

    The below uses the branch-stack to create basic blocks and generate
    statistics from them.

    from to branch_i
    * ----> *
    |
    | block
    v
    * ----> *
    from to branch_i+1

    The blocks are broken down into non-overlapping ranges, while tracking
    if the start of each range is an entry point and/or the end of a range
    is a branch.

    Each block iterates all ranges it covers (while splitting where required
    to exactly match the block) and increments the 'coverage' count.

    For the range including the branch we increment the taken counter, as
    well as the pred counter if flags.predicted.

    Using these number we can find if an instruction:

    - had coverage; given by:

    br->coverage / br->sym->max_coverage

    This metric ensures each symbol has a 100% spot, which reflects the
    observation that each symbol must have a most covered/hottest
    block.

    - is a branch target: br->is_target && br->start == add

    - for targets, how much of a branch's coverages comes from it:

    target->entry / branch->coverage

    - is a branch: br->is_branch && br->end == addr

    - for branches, how often it was taken:

    br->taken / br->coverage

    after all, all execution that didn't take the branch would have
    incremented the coverage and continued onward to a later branch.

    - for branches, how often it was predicted:

    br->pred / br->taken

    The coverage percentage is used to color the address and asm sections;
    for low (75%) we color the
    address RED.

    For each branch, we add an asm comment after the instruction with
    information on how often it was taken and predicted.

    Output looks like (sans color, which does loose a lot of the
    information :/)

    $ perf record --branch-filter u,any -e cycles:p ./branches 27
    $ perf annotate branches

    Percent | Source code & Disassembly of branches for cycles:pu (217 samples)
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    : branches():
    0.00 : 40057a: push %rbp
    0.00 : 40057b: mov %rsp,%rbp
    0.00 : 40057e: sub $0x20,%rsp
    0.00 : 400582: mov %rdi,-0x18(%rbp)
    0.00 : 400586: mov %rsi,-0x20(%rbp)
    0.00 : 40058a: mov -0x18(%rbp),%rax
    0.00 : 40058e: mov %rax,-0x10(%rbp)
    0.00 : 400592: movq $0x0,-0x8(%rbp)
    0.00 : 40059a: jmpq 400656
    1.84 : 40059f: mov -0x10(%rbp),%rax # +100.00%
    3.23 : 4005a3: and $0x1,%eax
    1.84 : 4005a6: test %rax,%rax
    0.00 : 4005a9: je 4005bf # -54.50% (p:42.00%)
    0.46 : 4005ab: mov 0x200bbe(%rip),%rax # 601170
    12.90 : 4005b2: add $0x1,%rax
    2.30 : 4005b6: mov %rax,0x200bb3(%rip) # 601170
    0.46 : 4005bd: jmp 4005d1 # -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.92 : 4005bf: mov 0x200baa(%rip),%rax # 601170 # +49.54%
    13.82 : 4005c6: sub $0x1,%rax
    0.46 : 4005ca: mov %rax,0x200b9f(%rip) # 601170
    2.30 : 4005d1: mov -0x10(%rbp),%rax # +50.46%
    0.46 : 4005d5: mov %rax,%rdi
    0.46 : 4005d8: callq 400526 # -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 : 4005dd: mov %rax,-0x10(%rbp) # +100.00%
    0.92 : 4005e1: mov -0x18(%rbp),%rax
    0.00 : 4005e5: and $0x1,%eax
    0.00 : 4005e8: test %rax,%rax
    0.00 : 4005eb: je 4005ff # -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 : 4005ed: mov 0x200b7c(%rip),%rax # 601170
    0.00 : 4005f4: shr $0x2,%rax
    0.00 : 4005f8: mov %rax,0x200b71(%rip) # 601170
    0.00 : 4005ff: mov -0x10(%rbp),%rax # +100.00%
    7.37 : 400603: and $0x1,%eax
    3.69 : 400606: test %rax,%rax
    0.00 : 400609: jne 400612 # -59.25% (p:42.99%)
    1.84 : 40060b: mov $0x1,%eax
    14.29 : 400610: jmp 400617 # -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    1.38 : 400612: mov $0x0,%eax # +57.65%
    10.14 : 400617: test %al,%al # +42.35%
    0.00 : 400619: je 40062f # -57.65% (p:100.00%)
    0.46 : 40061b: mov 0x200b4e(%rip),%rax # 601170
    2.76 : 400622: sub $0x1,%rax
    0.00 : 400626: mov %rax,0x200b43(%rip) # 601170
    0.46 : 40062d: jmp 400641 # -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.92 : 40062f: mov 0x200b3a(%rip),%rax # 601170 # +56.13%
    2.30 : 400636: add $0x1,%rax
    0.92 : 40063a: mov %rax,0x200b2f(%rip) # 601170
    0.92 : 400641: mov -0x10(%rbp),%rax # +43.87%
    2.30 : 400645: mov %rax,%rdi
    0.00 : 400648: callq 400526 # -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 : 40064d: mov %rax,-0x10(%rbp) # +100.00%
    1.84 : 400651: addq $0x1,-0x8(%rbp)
    0.92 : 400656: mov -0x8(%rbp),%rax
    5.07 : 40065a: cmp -0x20(%rbp),%rax
    0.00 : 40065e: jb 40059f # -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 : 400664: nop
    0.00 : 400665: leaveq
    0.00 : 400666: retq

    (Note: the --branch-filter u,any was used to avoid spurious target and
    branch points due to interrupts/faults, they show up as very small -/+
    annotations on 'weird' locations)

    Committer note:

    Please take a look at:

    http://vger.kernel.org/~acme/perf/annotate_basic_blocks.png

    To see the colors.

    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
    Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Anshuman Khandual
    Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Kan Liang
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Stephane Eranian
    [ Moved sym->max_coverage to 'struct annotate', aka symbol__annotate(sym) ]
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Peter Zijlstra
     

30 Aug, 2016

1 commit

  • We need to initializa some fields (right now just a mutex) when we
    allocate the per symbol annotation struct, so do it at the symbol
    constructor instead of (ab)using the filter mechanism for that.

    This way we remove one of the few cases we have for that symbol filter,
    which will eventually led to removing it.

    Cc: Adrian Hunter
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cvz34avlz1lez888lob95390@git.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
     

12 Jul, 2016

1 commit

  • 'perf annotate --stdio' will colorize entries with most hits and
    possibly some other aspects of its output, but those colors gets
    suppressed if we redirect the output to a non-tty, allow keeping the
    colors by adding a new option, --stdio-color, now this use case will
    also output escape sequences for colors:

    $ perf annotate --stdio-color | more

    Based-on-a-patch-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Adrian Hunter
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-sjrnixani5pg6qez640gaxhf@git.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
     

23 Jun, 2016

1 commit


22 Jun, 2016

1 commit


20 May, 2016

1 commit

  • This patch moves the reference of buildid dir to 'symfs/.debug' and
    skips the local buildid dir when '--symfs' is given, so that every
    single file opened by perf is relative to symfs directory now.

    Signed-off-by: He Kuang
    Acked-by: David Ahern
    Acked-by: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Adrian Hunter
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Ekaterina Tumanova
    Cc: Josh Poimboeuf
    Cc: Kan Liang
    Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Pekka Enberg
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Stephane Eranian
    Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463658462-85131-2-git-send-email-hekuang@huawei.com
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    He Kuang
     

23 Mar, 2016

1 commit

  • Since we only deal with fields in the passed struct perf_sample move
    this method to struct machine, that is where the perf_sample fields
    will be resolved to a struct addr_location, i.e. thread, map, symbol,
    etc.

    Cc: Adrian Hunter
    Cc: Hemant Kumar
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Naveen N. Rao
    Cc: Ravi Bangoria
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-a1ww2lbm2vbuqsv4p7ilubu9@git.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
     

03 Feb, 2016

1 commit

  • Adding evsel specific function to sort hists_evsel based hists. The
    hists__output_resort can be now used to sort common hists object.

    Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453109064-1026-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Jiri Olsa
     

07 Jan, 2016

2 commits

  • This is a preparation to support dynamic sort keys for tracepoint
    events. Dynamic sort keys can be created for specific fields in trace
    events so it needs the event information.

    Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
    Acked-by: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Steven Rostedt
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450804030-29193-5-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
    [ Moving the evlist creation earlier in top was split to a previous patch ]
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Namhyung Kim
     
  • This is a preparation to add more info into the hist_entry. Also it
    already passes too many argument, so passing sample directly will reduce
    the overhead of the function call.

    Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
    Acked-by: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Steven Rostedt
    Cc: Wang Nan
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450804030-29193-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Namhyung Kim