24 Dec, 2011
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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 -
Needed for later changes. No modified functionality.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-4-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
30 Sep, 2011
2 commits
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Try first reading the build id, validating that it is an ELF file, etc.
Cheap as libelf will bail out as soon as the magic number check fails.Useful when investigating debuginfo packaging problems like this one:
[root@emilia ~]# perf buildid-list -i /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux
77bb4ea591a602d455ace759a377c9adfff1aba3
[root@emilia ~]# perf buildid-list -k
07b0c016a2b30004e86132d0239945b1e88f5d75
[root@emilia ~]#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-4elot9oxwa0rr0d90dshca3a@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
[root@emilia ~]# perf buildid-list -k
07b0c016a2b30004e86132d0239945b1e88f5d75Useful when diagnosing build id problems in debuginfo packages, etc.
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-po1bl7acn6e1hhne90opmvtl@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
04 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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Merge reason: pick up latest -rc.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
22 Dec, 2010
1 commit
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If we are running the new perf on an old kernel without support for
sample_id_all, we should fall back to the old unordered processing of
events. If we didn't than we would *always* process events without
timestamps out of order, whether or not we hit a reordering race. In
other words, instead of there being a chance of not attributing samples
correctly, we would guarantee that samples would not be attributed.While processing all events without timestamps before events with
timestamps may seem like an intuitive solution, it falls down as
PERF_RECORD_EXIT events would also be processed before any samples.
Even with a workaround for that case, samples before/after an exec would
not be attributed correctly.This patch allows commands to indicate whether they need to fall back to
unordered processing, so that commands that do not care about timestamps
on every event will not be affected. If we do fallback, this will print
out a warning if report -D was invoked.This patch adds the test in perf_session__new so that we only need to
test once per session. Commands that do not use an event_ops (such as
record and top) can simply pass NULL in it's place.Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
16 Dec, 2010
1 commit
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It was always returning -1 (255), confusing test scripts.
Reported-by: Han Pingtian
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Han Pingtian
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
27 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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Tidy-up patch to remove some code and struct perf_session data members
which are no longer needed due to the previous patch: "perf tools: Don't
abbreviate file paths relative to the cwd".LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
02 Jun, 2010
1 commit
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When we use plain 'perf buildid-list' we use only what is in the buildid
table in the perf.data header. And those have absolute pathnames because
at 'perf record' time we used __perf_session__process_events and that
doesn't sets up the path shortening code in map__new() that happens if
symbol_conf.full_paths is false, the default.On the other hand, when we use 'perf buildid-list --with-hits' we
process all the events using perf_session__process_events, adding
entries to the global DSO list _after_ removing the current directory
from the DSO name, for presentation purposes.Because of that we end up having two entries in the DSO list when
recording events for binaries using relative pathnames.Fix it minimally by setting symbol_conf.full_paths to true when marking
the DSOs with hits in 'perf buildid-list --with-hits', as used by 'perf
archive'Right fix longer term is to shorten the path only at presentation time.
Will be done for 2.6.36.Reported-by: Stephane Eranian
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian
Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Frédéric 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
03 May, 2010
1 commit
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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
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
28 Apr, 2010
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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
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin
LKML-Reference:
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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
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
19 Apr, 2010
1 commit
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Here is the patch of userspace perf tool.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
14 Apr, 2010
1 commit
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Parsing an option from the command line with OPT_BOOLEAN on a
bool data type would not work on a big-endian machine due to the
manner in which the boolean was being cast into an int and
incremented. For example, running 'perf probe --list' on a
PowerPC machine would fail to properly set the list_events bool
and would therefore print out the usage information and
terminate.This patch makes OPT_BOOLEAN work as expected with a bool
datatype. For cases where the original OPT_BOOLEAN was
intentionally being used to increment an int each time it was
passed in on the command line, this patch introduces OPT_INCR
with the old behaviour of OPT_BOOLEAN (the verbose variable is
currently the only such example of this).I have reviewed every use of OPT_BOOLEAN to verify that a true
C99 bool was passed. Where integers were used, I verified that
they were only being used for boolean logic and changed them to
bools to ensure that they would not be mistakenly used as ints.
The major exception was the verbose variable which now uses
OPT_INCR instead of OPT_BOOLEAN.Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Cc: # NOTE: wont apply to .3[34].x cleanly, please backport
Cc: Git development list
Cc: Ian Munsie
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Eric B Munson
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: WANG Cong
Cc: Thiago Farina
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
Cc: Xiao Guangrong
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Cc: Arjan van de Ven
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Tom Zanussi
Cc: Anton Blanchard
Cc: John Kacur
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Steven Rostedt
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
04 Feb, 2010
1 commit
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Because 'perf record' will have to find the build-ids in after
we stop recording, so as to reduce even more the impact in the
workload while we do the measurement.Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
16 Jan, 2010
1 commit
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Using this option 'perf buildid-list' will process all samples,
marking the DSOs that had some hits to list just them.This in turn will be used by a new porcelain, 'perf archive',
that will be just a shell script to create a tarball from the
'perf buildid-list --with-hits' output and the files cached by
'perf record' in ~/.debug.Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
13 Jan, 2010
1 commit
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As it is already processed by:
perf_session__new
perf_session__open
perf_session__readThis was harmless, because we use dsos__findnew, that would
already find it, but is unnecessary work and removing it makes
builtin-buildid-list.c even shorter.Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
19 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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Fixing this:
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf diff --hell
Error: unknown option `hell'usage: perf diff [] [old_file] [new_file]
Segmentation fault
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$Also go over the other such arrays to check if they all were OK,
they are, but there were some minor changes to do like making
one static and renaming another to match the command it refers
to.Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
16 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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This simplifies a lot of functions, less stuff to be done by
tool writers.Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
14 Dec, 2009
2 commits
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There is still some more work to do to disentangle map creation
from DSO loading, but this happens only for the kernel, and for
the early adopters of perf diff, where this disentanglement
matters most, we'll be testing different kernels, so no problem
here.Further clarification: right now we create the kernel maps for
the various modules and discontiguous kernel text maps when
loading the DSO, we should do it as a two step process, first
creating the maps, for multiple mappings with the same DSO
store, then doing the dso load just once, for the first hit on
one of the maps sharing this DSO backing store.Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
LKML-Reference:
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Pass the event_ops to perf_session__process_events instead.
Also move the event_ops definition to session.h, starting to
move things around to their right place, trimming the many
unneeded headers we have.Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
12 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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That does all the initialization boilerplate, opening the file,
reading the header, checking if it is valid, etc.And that will as well have the threads list, kmap (now) global
variable, etc, so that we can handle two (or more) perf.data files
describing sessions to compare.Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
07 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Paul Mackerras
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
17 Nov, 2009
2 commits
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Porcelain can ignore it, humans can make more sense of it.
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
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With this we can list the buildids in a perf.data file so that
we can pipe them to other, distro specific tools that from the
buildids can figure out separate packages (foo-debuginfo) where
we can find the matching symtabs so that perf report can do its
job.E.g:
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf buildid-list | head -5
8e08b117e5458ad3f85da16d42d0fc5cd21c5869
520c2387a587cc5acfcf881e27dba1caaeab4b1f
ec8dd400904ddfcac8b1c343263a790f977159dc
7caedbca5a6d8ab39a7fe44bd28c07d3e14a3f3f
379bb828fd08859dbea73279f04abefabc95a6a3
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf buildid-list -v | head -5
8e08b117e5458ad3f85da16d42d0fc5cd21c5869 /sbin/init
520c2387a587cc5acfcf881e27dba1caaeab4b1f /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so
ec8dd400904ddfcac8b1c343263a790f977159dc /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so
7caedbca5a6d8ab39a7fe44bd28c07d3e14a3f3f /sbin/udevd
379bb828fd08859dbea73279f04abefabc95a6a3 /lib64/libdl-2.10.1.so
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar