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Stephane Eranian
13370a9b5b perf stat: Add interval printing
This patch adds a new printing mode for perf stat.  It allows interval
printing. That means perf stat can now print event deltas at regular
time interval.  This is useful to detect phases in programs.

The -I option enables interval printing. It expects an interval duration
in milliseconds. Minimum is 100ms. Once, activated perf stat prints
events deltas since last printout. All modes are supported.

$ perf stat -I 1000 -e cycles noploop 10
noploop for 10 seconds
 #           time             counts events
      1.000109853      2,388,560,546 cycles
      2.000262846      2,393,332,358 cycles
      3.000354131      2,393,176,537 cycles
      4.000439503      2,393,203,790 cycles
      5.000527075      2,393,167,675 cycles
      6.000609052      2,393,203,670 cycles
      7.000691082      2,393,175,678 cycles

The output format makes it easy to feed into a plotting program such as
gnuplot when the -I option is used in combination with the -x option:

$ perf stat -x, -I 1000 -e cycles noploop 10
noploop for 10 seconds
1.000084113,2378775498,cycles
2.000245798,2391056897,cycles
3.000354445,2392089414,cycles
4.000459115,2390936603,cycles
5.000565341,2392108173,cycles

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359460064-3060-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-01-30 10:36:53 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2ae828786c perf test: Allow skipping tests
Sometimes a test is problematic for some reason and one wants to skip it,
for instance:

[root@sandy ~]# perf test
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms                        : Ok
   2: detect open syscall event                              : Ok
   3: detect open syscall event on all cpus                  : Ok
   4: read samples using the mmap interface                  : Ok
   5: parse events tests                                     :  Warning: bad op token {
    Warning: bad op token {
    Warning: bad op token {
    Warning: bad op token {
    Warning: bad op token {
    Warning: function is_writable_pte not defined
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)

So now we can use -s/--skip while the problematic tests are being fixed,
allowing us to test all the other entries:

  [root@sandy ~]# perf test -s 5
   1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms                        : Ok
   2: detect open syscall event                              : Ok
   3: detect open syscall event on all cpus                  : Ok
   4: read samples using the mmap interface                  : Ok
   5: parse events tests                                     : Skip (user override)
   6: x86 rdpmc test                                         : Ok
   7: Validate PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields     : Ok
   8: Test perf pmu format parsing                           : Ok
   9: Test dso data interface                                : Ok
  10: roundtrip evsel->name check                            : Ok
  11: Check parsing of sched tracepoints fields              : Ok
  12: Generate and check syscalls:sys_enter_open event fields: Ok
  13: struct perf_event_attr setup                           : Ok
  14: Test matching and linking mutliple hists               : Ok
  15: Try 'use perf' in python, checking link problems       : Ok
  [root@sandy ~]#

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-klzd8p57jzdryafqkmlppcb1@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-01-24 16:40:53 -03:00
Tom Zanussi
1de7b7e89d perf script: Remove workqueue-stats script
The tracepoints used by the workqueue-stats script no longer exist so
trying to run the script results in:

  # perf script record workqueue-stats
  invalid or unsupported event: 'workqueue:workqueue_creation'
  Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

So remove the script until it can be reworked using the new workqueue
tracepoints.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e7a7637d5df9df86887c3bff7683574665ec5360.1358527965.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-01-24 16:40:53 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
9811360ec8 perf report: Update documentation for sort keys
Add description of sort keys to the perf-report document and also add
missing cpu and srcline keys to the command line help string.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356599507-14226-11-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-01-24 16:40:28 -03:00
Ingo Molnar
203e04c163 perf/core improvements and fixes
. perf build-id cache now can show DSOs present in a perf.data file that are
   not in the cache, to integrate with build-id servers being put in place by
   organizations such as Fedora.
 
 . perf buildid-list -i an-elf-file-instead-of-a-perf.data is back showing its
   build-id.
 
 . No need to do feature checks when doing a 'make tags'
 
 . Fix some 'perf test' errors and make them use the tracepoint evsel constructor.
 
 . perf top now shares more of the evsel config/creation routines with 'record',
   paving the way for further integration like 'top' snapshots, etc.
 
 . perf top now supports DWARF callchains.
 
 . perf evlist decodes sample_type and read_format, helping diagnose problems.
 
 . Fix mmap limitations on 32-bit, fix from David Miller.
 
 . perf diff fixes from Jiri Olsa.
 
 . Ignore ABS symbols when loading data maps, fix from Namhyung Kim
 
 . Hists improvements from Namhyung Kim
 
 . Don't check configuration on make clean, from Namhyung Kim
 
 . Fix dso__fprintf() print statement, from Stephane Eranian.
 
 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

. perf build-id cache now can show DSOs present in a perf.data file that are
  not in the cache, to integrate with build-id servers being put in place by
  organizations such as Fedora.

. perf buildid-list -i an-elf-file-instead-of-a-perf.data is back showing its
  build-id.

. No need to do feature checks when doing a 'make tags'

. Fix some 'perf test' errors and make them use the tracepoint evsel constructor.

. perf top now shares more of the evsel config/creation routines with 'record',
  paving the way for further integration like 'top' snapshots, etc.

. perf top now supports DWARF callchains.

. perf evlist decodes sample_type and read_format, helping diagnose problems.

. Fix mmap limitations on 32-bit, fix from David Miller.

. perf diff fixes from Jiri Olsa.

. Ignore ABS symbols when loading data maps, fix from Namhyung Kim

. Hists improvements from Namhyung Kim

. Don't check configuration on make clean, from Namhyung Kim

. Fix dso__fprintf() print statement, from Stephane Eranian.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-01-24 16:30:45 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
a2013a13e6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
  code elimination."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  HOWTO: fix double words typo
  x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
  propagate name change to comments in kernel source
  doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
  treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
  treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
  wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
  messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
  scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
  Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
  radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
  doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
  various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
  Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
  eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
  various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
  doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
  target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
  treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
  treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
  ...
2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2376c67a7b perf top: Use perf_evlist__config()
Using struct perf_record_opts to specify how to configure the evsel
perf_event_attrs.

This gets top closer to record in the way it sets up evsels, with the
aim of sharing more and more to the point that both will be a single
utility.

In this direction top now uses the same callchain option parsing as
record and that brings DWARF callchains to top, something that was
already available for record.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-u03o0bsrqcjgskciso3pvsjr@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-12-11 17:22:39 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
fbb6976c2f perf buildid-cache: Add option to show build ids that are missing in the cache
This will allow to connect with services being put in place by distros such as
Fedora, where one can retrieve DSOs by their build-id.

Example usage:

	for buildid in $(perf buildid-cache --missing perf.data | cut -d' ' -f1) ; do
		echo "trying to get $buildid"
		wget -q https://darkserver.fedoraproject.org/buildids/$buildid
		cat $buildid ; echo
		rm -f $buildid
	done

Now its just a matter of some porcelain to get the details provided by such a
service, retrieve the file and use 'perf buildid-cache --add $FILE' to insert
it in the cache, then use 'perf report' or 'annotate' that will find the
required files in the cache.

More information about the darkserver service at:

	https://darkserver.fedoraproject.org/

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frank Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kushal Das <kdas@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6fuktuiyjn4jykxmt7c9f7xq@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-12-09 08:46:08 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
db6d0bb861 perf diff: Remove displacement output option
It seems not very useful, because it's possible and event more convenient to
lookup related symbol by name. Also the output value for both 'baseline' and
'new' data is quite apparent from diff output.

And above all it complicates hist code factoring ;)

Ditching out PERF_HPP__DISPL column with related output functions.

Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121206132228.GB1080@krava.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-12-09 08:46:07 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
3b761f9bda perf tools: Don't check configuration on make tags
Doing the same thing done in:

  b059dee: perf tools: Don't check configuration on make clean

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-n2ni4riphpqxw7d6ziv1ndyc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-12-09 08:46:07 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
3cde41b0d6 perf tools: Don't check configuration on make clean
Current perf build process checks various system configuration on
invocation to make.  But this is not needed just for cleaning.

To do that, move some of python related variables out of conditional
since 'clean' target needs them.  Normal path should not be affected by
this.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352867990-658-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-12-09 08:46:04 -03:00
Masanari Iida
9c7682075e treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
Fix typos in printk within various drivers.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-12-03 11:05:04 +01:00
Joonsoo Kim
cd69ef88a7 perf tools: Add info about cross compiling for Android ARM
Without defining ARCH=arm, building perf for Android ARM will fail,
because it needs architecture specific files.

So add related relevant information to the android documentation.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351518066-4791-1-git-send-email-js1304@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-31 12:17:49 -02:00
Peter Zijlstra
1f16c5754d perf stat: Add --pre and --post command
In order to measure kernel builds, one has to do some pre/post cleanup
work in order to do the repeat build.

So provide --pre and --post command hooks to allow doing just that.

  perf stat --repeat 10 --null --sync --pre 'make -s O=defconfig-build/clean' \
	-- make -s -j64 O=defconfig-build/ bzImage

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1350992414.13456.5.camel@twins
[ committer note: Added respective entries in Documentation/perf-stat.txt ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-26 11:22:25 -02:00
Andrew Vagin
26a031e136 perf inject: Merge sched_stat_* and sched_switch events
You may want to know where and how long a task is sleeping. A callchain
may be found in sched_switch and a time slice in stat_iowait, so I add
handler in perf inject for merging this events.

My code saves sched_switch event for each process and when it meets
stat_iowait, it reports the sched_switch event, because this event
contains a correct callchain. By another words it replaces all
stat_iowait events on proper sched_switch events.

I use the next sequence of commands for testing:

  perf record -e sched:sched_stat_sleep -e sched:sched_switch \
	      -e sched:sched_process_exit -g -o ~/perf.data.raw \
	      ~/test-program
  perf inject -v -s -i ~/perf.data.raw -o ~/perf.data
  perf report --stdio -i ~/perf.data
   100.00%	foo  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __schedule
               	|
                --- __schedule
                    schedule
                   |
                   |--79.75%-- schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock
                   |          schedule_hrtimeout_range
                   |          poll_schedule_timeout
                   |          do_select
                   |          core_sys_select
                   |          sys_select
                   |          system_call_fastpath
                   |          __select
                   |          __libc_start_main
                   |
                    --20.25%-- do_nanosleep
                              hrtimer_nanosleep
                              sys_nanosleep
                              system_call_fastpath
                              __GI___libc_nanosleep
                              __libc_start_main

 And here is test-program.c:

 #include<unistd.h>
 #include<time.h>
 #include<sys/select.h>

 int main()
 {
	struct timespec ts1;
	struct timeval tv1;
	int i;
	long s;

	for (i = 0; i <  10; i++) {
		ts1.tv_sec = 0;
		ts1.tv_nsec = 10000000;
		nanosleep(&ts1, NULL);

		tv1.tv_sec = 0;
		tv1.tv_usec = 40000;
		select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL,&tv1);
	}
	return 1;
 }

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344344165-369636-4-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
[ committer note: Made it use evsel->handler ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-26 11:22:25 -02:00
Andrew Vagin
e558a5bd8b perf inject: Work with files
Before this patch "perf inject" can only handle data from pipe.

I want to use "perf inject" for reworking events. Look at my following patch.

v2: add information about new options in tools/perf/Documentation/

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344344165-369636-2-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
[ committer note: fixed it up to cope with 5852a44, 5ded57a, 002439e & f62d3f0 ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-26 11:22:24 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
1302d88e66 perf trace: Use sched:sched_stat_runtime to provide a thread summary
[root@sandy ~]# perf trace --sched --duration 0.100 --pid `pidof firefox`
<SNIP>
 17079.847 ( 0.009 ms): 17643 poll(ufds: 140037623086496, nfds: 11, timeout_msecs: 0) = 0 Timeout
 17079.892 ( 0.010 ms): 17643 read(fd: 4, buf: 140038178943092, count: 4096         ) = -1 EAGAIN Resource temporarily unavailable
 17079.921 ( 0.013 ms): 17643 poll(ufds: 140037623086496, nfds: 11, timeout_msecs: 0) = 0 Timeout
 17079.949 ( 0.009 ms): 17643 read(fd: 4, buf: 140038178943092, count: 4096         ) = -1 EAGAIN Resource temporarily unavailable
^C
 _____________________________________________________________________
 __)    Summary of events    (__

              [ task - pid ]     [ events ] [ ratio ]  [ runtime ]
 _____________________________________________________________________

             firefox - 17643 :      18013   [ 72.2% ]    359.110 ms
             firefox - 17663 :         41   [  0.2% ]     21.439 ms
             firefox - 17664 :       6840   [ 27.4% ]    133.642 ms
             firefox - 17667 :         46   [  0.2% ]      0.682 ms
[root@sandy ~]#

This is equivalent to the 'perf trace summary' subcomand in the tmp.perf/trace2
branch.

Another example, setting a huge duration filter to get just a system
wide summary:

[root@sandy ~]# perf trace --duration 10000.0 --sched
^C
 _____________________________________________________________________
 __)    Summary of events    (__

              [ task - pid ]     [ events ] [ ratio ]  [ runtime ]
 _____________________________________________________________________

           scsi_eh_1 - 258   :         15   [  0.0% ]      0.133 ms
        kworker/0:1H - 322   :         13   [  0.0% ]      0.032 ms
         jbd2/dm-0-8 - 384   :          4   [  0.0% ]      0.115 ms
         flush-253:0 - 470   :          1   [  0.0% ]      0.027 ms
             firefox - 950   :       4783   [  0.1% ]     24.863 ms
             firefox - 992   :       1883   [  0.1% ]      6.808 ms
             firefox - 995   :         35   [  0.0% ]      0.111 ms
         ksoftirqd/6 - 4362  :          2   [  0.0% ]      0.005 ms
         ksoftirqd/7 - 4365  :          1   [  0.0% ]      0.007 ms
                Xorg - 4671  :        148   [  0.0% ]      0.912 ms
     gnome-settings- - 4846  :         14   [  0.0% ]      0.086 ms
     seahorse-daemon - 4847  :         14   [  0.0% ]      0.092 ms
         gnome-panel - 4875  :         46   [  0.0% ]      0.159 ms
     gnome-power-man - 4918  :         16   [  0.0% ]      0.065 ms
     gvfs-afc-volume - 4992  :         77   [  0.0% ]      0.136 ms
     gnome-screensav - 5114  :         24   [  0.0% ]      0.128 ms
               xchat - 8082  :        466   [  0.0% ]      2.019 ms
            synergyc - 8369  :        941   [  0.0% ]      3.291 ms
            synergyc - 8371  :         85   [  0.0% ]      1.817 ms
         jbd2/dm-4-8 - 9352  :          4   [  0.0% ]      0.109 ms
             rpcbind - 9786  :          3   [  0.0% ]      0.017 ms
        rtkit-daemon - 12802 :         10   [  0.0% ]      0.038 ms
        rtkit-daemon - 12803 :          8   [  0.0% ]      0.000 ms
       udisks-daemon - 13020 :         27   [  0.0% ]      0.240 ms
         kworker/7:0 - 14651 :        669   [  0.0% ]      2.616 ms
         kworker/5:1 - 16220 :          2   [  0.0% ]      0.069 ms
         kworker/4:0 - 19776 :         13   [  0.0% ]      0.176 ms
             openvpn - 20131 :        133   [  0.0% ]      0.762 ms
     plugin-containe - 20508 :      60658   [  1.7% ]    131.153 ms
        npviewer.bin - 20520 :      72208   [  2.0% ]    138.945 ms
        npviewer.bin - 20542 :         35   [  0.0% ]      0.074 ms
        npviewer.bin - 20543 :         30   [  0.0% ]      0.074 ms
        npviewer.bin - 20547 :         35   [  0.0% ]      0.092 ms
        npviewer.bin - 20552 :         35   [  0.0% ]      0.093 ms
                sshd - 20645 :         32   [  0.0% ]      0.071 ms
        npviewer.bin - 21053 :         35   [  0.0% ]      0.074 ms
        npviewer.bin - 21054 :         35   [  0.0% ]      0.097 ms
         kworker/0:2 - 21169 :        149   [  0.0% ]      1.143 ms
         kworker/3:0 - 22171 :        113   [  0.0% ]     96.892 ms
         flush-253:4 - 22410 :          1   [  0.0% ]      0.028 ms
         kworker/6:0 - 24581 :         25   [  0.0% ]      0.275 ms
         kworker/1:0 - 25572 :          4   [  0.0% ]      0.103 ms
         kworker/2:1 - 26299 :        138   [  0.0% ]      1.440 ms
         kworker/0:0 - 26325 :          1   [  0.0% ]      0.003 ms
                perf - 26330 :    3506967   [ 96.1% ]   6648.310 ms
[root@sandy ~]#

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mzuli0srnxyi1o029py6537x@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-25 10:57:43 -02:00
Borislav Petkov
af3df2cf17 perf tools: Try to build Documentation when installing
There's a portion in the "perf list" output refering to the exact
specification of raw hardware events.

Since this description is in the perf-list manpage, try to build and
install the man pages, warning the user when that is not possible
due to missing packages (xmlto and asciidoc).

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ij71ysszkdvz3fy3wr331bke@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-24 19:30:48 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
ae9ed03579 perf trace: Add duration filter
Example:

[acme@sandy linux]$ perf trace --duration 0.025 usleep 1
     2.221 ( 0.958 ms): 6724 execve(arg0: 140733557168278, arg1: 140733557178768, arg2: 16134304, arg3: 140733557167840, arg4: 7955998171588342573, arg5: 6723) = -2
     3.690 ( 1.443 ms): 6724 execve(arg0: 140733557168295, arg1: 140733557178768, arg2: 16134304, arg3: 140733557167840, arg4: 7955998171588342573, arg5: 6723) = 0
     3.979 ( 0.048 ms): 6724 open(filename: 208733843841, flags: 0, mode: 1                        ) = 3
     4.071 ( 0.075 ms): 6724 open(filename: 139744419925673, flags: 0, mode: 0                     ) = 3
     4.318 ( 0.056 ms): 6724 nanosleep(rqtp: 140734030404608, rmtp: 0                              ) = 0
[acme@sandy linux]$ perf trace --duration 0.100 usleep 1
     1.143 ( 1.021 ms): 6726 execve(arg0: 140736323962279, arg1: 140736323972752, arg2: 34926752, arg3: 140736323961824, arg4: 7955998171588342573, arg5: 6725) = 0
[acme@sandy linux]$

Cherry picked from tmp.perf/trace2 branch.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-oslw2j2958we9qf0ctra4whd@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-24 18:41:04 -02:00
Irina Tirdea
7747e2f4fb Documentation: add documentation on compiling for Android
Add documentation for cross-compiling on Android including:

() instructions on how to set the Android NDK environment
() how to cross-compile perf for Android
() how to install on an Android device/emulator, set the runtime
environment and run it

Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349678613-7045-4-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-08 17:44:39 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
ed279da2fc perf diff: Add -F option to display formula for computation
Adding -F option to display the formula for specified computation.

This is mainly to facilitate debugging, but can be useful anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05 14:13:36 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
61949b212e perf diff: Add -p option to display period values for hist entries
Adding -p option to show period values for both compared hist entries.
Showing hist column PERF_HPP__PERIOD and newly added hist column
PERF_HPP__PERIOD_BASELINE.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05 14:11:47 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
81d5f95819 perf diff: Add weighted diff computation way to compare hist entries
Adding 'wdiff' as new computation way to compare hist entries.

If specified the 'Weighted diff' column is displayed with value 'd'
computed as:

   d = B->period * WEIGHT-A - A->period * WEIGHT-B

  - A/B being matching hist entry from first/second file specified
    (or perf.data/perf.data.old) respectively.
  - period being the hist entry period value
  - WEIGHT-A/WEIGHT-B being user suplied weights in the the '-c' option
    behind ':' separator like '-c wdiff:1,2'.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05 14:10:42 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
96c47f1984 perf diff: Add option to sort entries based on diff computation
Adding support to sort hist entries based on the outcome of selected
computation. It's now possible to specify '+' as a first character of
'-c' option value to make such sort.

Example:

  $ perf diff -c ratio -b
  # Event 'cache-misses'
  #
  #   Baseline           Ratio      Shared Object                            Symbol
  #   ........  ..............  .................  ................................
  #
        19.64%            0.69  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] clear_page
         0.30%            0.17  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] mm_alloc
         0.04%            0.20  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] kmem_cache_alloc

  $ perf diff -c +ratio -b
  # Event 'cache-misses'
  #
  #   Baseline           Ratio      Shared Object                            Symbol
  #   ........  ..............  .................  ................................
  #
        19.64%            0.69  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] clear_page
         0.04%            0.20  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] kmem_cache_alloc
         0.30%            0.17  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] mm_alloc

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05 14:08:54 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
7aaf6b3551 perf diff: Add ratio computation way to compare hist entries
Adding -c option to select computation method with the current 'Delta'
computation as default. Current possible values are of this option are:
'delta' and 'ratio'.

Adding 'ratio' as new computation way to compare hist entries.  If
specified the 'Ratio' column is displayed with value 'r' computed as:

  r = A->period / B->period

with:
  - A/B being matching hist entry from first/second file specified
    (or perf.data/perf.data.old) respectively.
  - period being the hist entry period value

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05 14:06:54 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
a06d143e7c perf diff: Add -b option for perf diff to display paired entries only
Adding -b option to perf diff command to display only entries with match
in the baseline.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-05 14:05:14 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
514f1c67c2 perf trace: New tool
Initially should look loosely like the venerable 'strace' tool, but
using the infrastructure in the perf tools to allow tracing extra
targets:

  [acme@sandy linux]$ perf trace --hell
  Error: unknown option `hell'

   usage: perf trace <PID>

      -p, --pid <pid>       trace events on existing process id
          --tid <tid>       trace events on existing thread id
          --all-cpus        system-wide collection from all CPUs
          --cpu <cpu>       list of cpus to monitor
          --no-inherit      child tasks do not inherit counters
          --mmap-pages <n>  number of mmap data pages
          --uid <user>      user to profile

  [acme@sandy linux]$

Those should have the same semantics as when using with 'perf record'.

It gets stuck sometimes, but hey, it works sometimes too!

In time it should support perf.data based workloads, i.e. it should have
a:
	-o filename

Command line option that will produce a perf.data file that can then be
used with 'perf trace' or any of the other perf tools (script, report,
etc).

It will also eventually have the set of functionalities described in the
previous 'trace' prototype by Thomas Gleixner:

   "Announcing a new utility: 'trace'"
   http://lwn.net/Articles/415728/

Also planned is to have some of the features suggested in the comments
of that LWN article.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v9x3q9rv4caxtox7wtjpchq5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-09-26 20:42:23 -03:00
Xiao Guangrong
bcf6edcd6f perf kvm: Events analysis tool
Add 'perf kvm stat' support to analyze kvm vmexit/mmio/ioport smartly

Usage:
- kvm stat
  run a command and gather performance counter statistics, it is the alias of
  perf stat

- trace kvm events:
  perf kvm stat record, or, if other tracepoints are interesting as well, we
  can append the events like this:
  perf kvm stat record -e timer:* -a

  If many guests are running, we can track the specified guest by using -p or
  --pid, -a is used to track events generated by all guests.

- show the result:
  perf kvm stat report

The output example is following:
13005
13059

total 2 guests are running on the host

Then, track the guest whose pid is 13059:
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.253 MB perf.data.guest (~11065 samples) ]

See the vmexit events:

Analyze events for all VCPUs:

             VM-EXIT    Samples  Samples%     Time%         Avg time

         APIC_ACCESS        460    70.55%     0.01%     22.44us ( +-   1.75% )
                 HLT         93    14.26%    99.98% 832077.26us ( +-  10.42% )
  EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT         64     9.82%     0.00%     35.35us ( +-  14.21% )
   PENDING_INTERRUPT         24     3.68%     0.00%      9.29us ( +-  31.39% )
           CR_ACCESS          7     1.07%     0.00%      8.12us ( +-   5.76% )
      IO_INSTRUCTION          3     0.46%     0.00%     18.00us ( +-  11.79% )
       EXCEPTION_NMI          1     0.15%     0.00%      5.83us ( +-   -nan% )

Total Samples:652, Total events handled time:77396109.80us.

See the mmio events:

Analyze events for all VCPUs:

         MMIO Access    Samples  Samples%     Time%         Avg time

        0xfee00380:W        387    84.31%    79.28%      8.29us ( +-   3.32% )
        0xfee00300:W         24     5.23%     9.96%     16.79us ( +-   1.97% )
        0xfee00300:R         24     5.23%     7.83%     13.20us ( +-   3.00% )
        0xfee00310:W         24     5.23%     2.93%      4.94us ( +-   3.84% )

Total Samples:459, Total events handled time:4044.59us.

See the ioport event:

Analyze events for all VCPUs:

      IO Port Access    Samples  Samples%     Time%         Avg time

         0xc050:POUT          3   100.00%   100.00%     13.75us ( +-  10.83% )

Total Samples:3, Total events handled time:41.26us.

And, --vcpu is used to track the specified vcpu and --key is used to sort the
result:

Analyze events for VCPU 0:

             VM-EXIT    Samples  Samples%     Time%         Avg time

                 HLT         27    13.85%    99.97% 405790.24us ( +-  12.70% )
  EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT         13     6.67%     0.00%     27.94us ( +-  22.26% )
         APIC_ACCESS        146    74.87%     0.03%     21.69us ( +-   2.91% )
      IO_INSTRUCTION          2     1.03%     0.00%     17.77us ( +-  20.56% )
           CR_ACCESS          2     1.03%     0.00%      8.55us ( +-   6.47% )
   PENDING_INTERRUPT          5     2.56%     0.00%      6.27us ( +-   3.94% )

Total Samples:195, Total events handled time:10959950.90us.

Signed-off-by: Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
  Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
     - rebase it on current acme's tree
     - fix the compiling-error on i386 ]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347870675-31495-4-git-send-email-haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-09-21 12:51:22 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
863e451f69 perf diff: Make diff command work with evsel hists
Putting 'perf diff' command back on track with the 'latest'
evsel hists changes. Each evsel has its own 'hists' object
gathering stats for the particular event.

While currently counts are accumulated for the whole session
regardless of the events diversification within compared
sessions.

The 'perf diff' command now outputs all matching events within
compared sessions (with event name specified). The per event
diff output stays the same.

  $ ./perf diff
  # Event 'cycles'
  #
  # Baseline  Delta          Shared Object                          Symbol
  # ........ ..........  .................  ..............................
  #
       0.00%    +15.14%  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __wake_up
       0.00%    +13.38%  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ext4fs_dirhash

... SNIP

       0.00%     +0.42%  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] local_clock
       0.17%     -0.05%  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_write_msr_safe

  # Event 'faults'
  #
  # Baseline  Delta          Shared Object                          Symbol
  # ........ ..........  .................  ..............................
  #
       0.00%    +79.12%  ld-2.15.so         [.] _dl_relocate_object
       0.00%    +11.62%  ld-2.15.so         [.] openaux

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346946426-13496-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-09-07 21:44:02 -03:00
Maciek Borzecki
7a4ec93885 perf tools: Allow user to indicate path to objdump in command line
When analyzing perf data from hosts of other architecture than one of
the local host it's useful to call objdump that is part of a toolchain
for that architecture. Instead of calling regular objdump, call one that
user specified in command line.

Signed-off-by: Maciek Borzecki <maciek.borzecki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346754750.16299.3.camel@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-09-05 19:41:55 -03:00
David Ahern
e8d0f400ee perf script perl/python: Fix libexec scripts path in Documentation
The libexec path is /libexec/perf-core/scripts/*/Perf-Trace-Util.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345391182-71825-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-20 09:30:36 -03:00
Andi Kleen
0fe7d7e976 perf symbols: Add description of JIT interface
Add a description of the JIT interface in the perf symbol resolution
code. I reverse engineered the format from the source.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344526260-18721-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-13 14:55:02 -03:00
Robert Richter
2055fdaf87 perf list: Document precise event sampling for AMD IBS
Updating man perf-list.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361396-7237-7-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-08 12:42:21 -03:00
Robert Richter
75bc5ca898 perf list: Update documentation about raw event setup
It was missing that only certain bit fields are passed to the config
value which confused users. Updating it.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361396-7237-6-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-08 12:41:53 -03:00
Robert Richter
e6b9783354 perf tools: Fix version file for perf documentation with OUTPUT variable set
Fixes the following:

 + make OUTPUT=/.../.build/perf-user/ DESTDIR=/.../.install/perf-user/ man install-man
 make -C Documentation man
 make[1]: Entering directory `/.../.source/linux.perf/tools/perf/Documentation'
 make[2]: Entering directory `/.../.source/linux.perf/tools/perf'
 make[2]: *** No rule to make target `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.  Stop.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361396-7237-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-08 12:36:49 -03:00
Hitoshi Mitake
17d7a1123f perf bench: Fix confused variable namings and descriptions in mem subsystem
As Namhyung Kim pointed, there are confused namings and descriptions of words
"cycle" and "clock" in mem-memset.c and mem-memcpy.c.

With the option "-c" (or "--clock", now renamed as "--cycle"), mem subsystem
measures cost of memset() and memcpy() with cpu-cycles event.

But current mem subsystem source code contains lots of confused variable
namings and descriptions with "clock" (e.g. the variable use_clock). This is a
very bad style because there is another software event named "cpu-clock". This
patch replaces wrong usage of "clock" to "cycle".

v2: modified Documentation/perf-bench.txt for the descriptions of
--cycle option

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341236777-18457-1-git-send-email-h.mitake@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-07-02 14:35:45 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
08942f6d5d perf bench: Documentation update
The current perf-bench documentation has a couple of typos and even
lacks entire description of mem subsystem. Fix it.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340172486-17805-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-06-27 13:17:48 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
409a8be615 perf tools: Add sort by src line/number
Using addr2line for now, requires debuginfo, needs more work to support
detached debuginfo, aka foo-debuginfo packages.

Example:

	[root@sandy ~]# perf record -a sleep 3
	[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
	[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.555 MB perf.data (~24236 samples) ]
	[root@sandy ~]# perf report -s dso,srcline 2>&1 | grep -v ^# | head -5
	    22.41%  [kernel.kallsyms]  /home/git/linux/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c:280
	     4.79%  [kernel.kallsyms]  /home/git/linux/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c:148
	     4.78%  [kernel.kallsyms]  /home/git/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:121
	     4.49%  [kernel.kallsyms]  /home/git/linux/kernel/sched/core.c:1690
	     4.30%  [kernel.kallsyms]  /home/git/linux/include/linux/seqlock.h:90
	[root@sandy ~]#

[root@sandy ~]# perf top -U -s dso,symbol,srcline
Samples: 1K of event 'cycles', Event count (approx.): 589617389
 18.66%  [kernel]  [k] copy_user_generic_unrolled   /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S:143
  7.83%  [kernel]  [k] clear_page                   /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S:39
  6.59%  [kernel]  [k] clear_page                   /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S:38
  3.66%  [kernel]  [k] page_fault                   /home/git/linux/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1379
  3.25%  [kernel]  [k] clear_page                   /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S:40
  3.12%  [kernel]  [k] clear_page                   /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S:37
  2.74%  [kernel]  [k] clear_page                   /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S:36
  2.39%  [kernel]  [k] clear_page                   /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S:43
  2.12%  [kernel]  [k] ioread32                     /home/git/linux/lib/iomap.c:90
  1.51%  [kernel]  [k] copy_user_generic_unrolled   /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S:144
  1.19%  [kernel]  [k] copy_user_generic_unrolled   /home/git/linux/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S:154

Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pdmqbng9twz06jzkbgtuwbp8@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-06-19 13:06:18 -03:00
Linus Torvalds
65a50c951a Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar.

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  perf ui browser: Stop using 'self'
  perf annotate browser: Read perf config file for settings
  perf config: Allow '_' in config file variable names
  perf annotate browser: Make feature toggles global
  perf annotate browser: The idx_asm field should be used in asm only view
  perf tools: Convert critical messages to ui__error()
  perf ui: Make --stdio default when TUI is not supported
  tools lib traceevent: Silence compiler warning on 32bit build
  perf record: Fix branch_stack type in perf_record_opts
  perf tools: Reconstruct event with modifiers from perf_event_attr
  perf top: Fix counter name fixup when fallbacking to cpu-clock
  perf tools: fix thread_map__new_by_pid_str() memory leak in error path
  perf tools: Do not use _FORTIFY_SOURCE when DEBUG=1 is specified
  tools lib traceevent: Fix signature of create_arg_item()
  tools lib traceevent: Use proper function parameter type
  tools lib traceevent: Fix freeing arg on process_dynamic_array()
  tools lib traceevent: Fix a possibly wrong memory dereference
  tools lib traceevent: Fix a possible memory leak
  tools lib traceevent: Allow expressions in __print_symbolic() fields
  perf evlist: Explicititely initialize input_name
  ...
2012-05-30 11:12:00 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
c323cf0400 perf annotate browser: Read perf config file for settings
The defaults are:

[annotate]

	hide_src_code = false
	use_offset = true
	jump_arrows = true
	show_nr_jumps = false

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-q4egci70rjgxh7bogbbfpcyf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-29 22:06:30 -03:00
Linus Torvalds
654443e20d Merge branch 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull user-space probe instrumentation from Ingo Molnar:
 "The uprobes code originates from SystemTap and has been used for years
  in Fedora and RHEL kernels.  This version is much rewritten, reviews
  from PeterZ, Oleg and myself shaped the end result.

  This tree includes uprobes support in 'perf probe' - but SystemTap
  (and other tools) can take advantage of user probe points as well.

  Sample usage of uprobes via perf, for example to profile malloc()
  calls without modifying user-space binaries.

  First boot a new kernel with CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT=y enabled.

  If you don't know which function you want to probe you can pick one
  from 'perf top' or can get a list all functions that can be probed
  within libc (binaries can be specified as well):

	$ perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6

  To probe libc's malloc():

	$ perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc
	Added new event:
	probe_libc:malloc    (on 0x7eac0)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

	perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 1

  Make use of it to create a call graph (as the flat profile is going to
  look very boring):

	$ perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -gR make
	[ perf record: Woken up 173 times to write data ]
	[ perf record: Captured and wrote 44.190 MB perf.data (~1930712

	$ perf report | less

	  32.03%            git  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                    |
	                    --- malloc

	  29.49%            cc1  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                    |
	                    --- malloc
	                       |
	                       |--0.95%-- 0x208eb1000000000
	                       |
	                       |--0.63%-- htab_traverse_noresize

	  11.04%             as  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                     |
	                     --- malloc
	                        |

	   7.15%             ld  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                     |
	                     --- malloc
	                        |

	   5.07%             sh  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                     |
	                     --- malloc
	                        |
	   4.99%  python-config  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          |
	          --- malloc
	             |
	   4.54%           make  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                   |
	                   --- malloc
	                      |
	                      |--7.34%-- glob
	                      |          |
	                      |          |--93.18%-- 0x41588f
	                      |          |
	                      |           --6.82%-- glob
	                      |                     0x41588f

	   ...

  Or:

	$ perf report -g flat | less

	# Overhead        Command  Shared Object      Symbol
	# ........  .............  .............  ..........
	#
	  32.03%            git  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          27.19%
	              malloc

	  29.49%            cc1  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          24.77%
	              malloc

	  11.04%             as  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          11.02%
	              malloc

	   7.15%             ld  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	           6.57%
	              malloc

	 ...

  The core uprobes design is fairly straightforward: uprobes probe
  points register themselves at (inode:offset) addresses of
  libraries/binaries, after which all existing (or new) vmas that map
  that address will have a software breakpoint injected at that address.
  vmas are COW-ed to preserve original content.  The probe points are
  kept in an rbtree.

  If user-space executes the probed inode:offset instruction address
  then an event is generated which can be recovered from the regular
  perf event channels and mmap-ed ring-buffer.

  Multiple probes at the same address are supported, they create a
  dynamic callback list of event consumers.

  The basic model is further complicated by the XOL speedup: the
  original instruction that is probed is copied (in an architecture
  specific fashion) and executed out of line when the probe triggers.
  The XOL area is a single vma per process, with a fixed number of
  entries (which limits probe execution parallelism).

  The API: uprobes are installed/removed via
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events, the API is integrated to
  align with the kprobes interface as much as possible, but is separate
  to it.

  Injecting a probe point is privileged operation, which can be relaxed
  by setting perf_paranoid to -1.

  You can use multiple probes as well and mix them with kprobes and
  regular PMU events or tracepoints, when instrumenting a task."

Fix up trivial conflicts in mm/memory.c due to previous cleanup of
unmap_single_vma().

* 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absent
  perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes
  tracing: Fix kconfig warning due to a typo
  tracing: Provide trace events interface for uprobes
  tracing: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes trace events
  tracing: Modify is_delete, is_return from int to bool
  uprobes/core: Decrement uprobe count before the pages are unmapped
  uprobes/core: Make background page replacement logic account for rss_stat counters
  uprobes/core: Optimize probe hits with the help of a counter
  uprobes/core: Allocate XOL slots for uprobes use
  uprobes/core: Handle breakpoint and singlestep exceptions
  uprobes/core: Rename bkpt to swbp
  uprobes/core: Make order of function parameters consistent across functions
  uprobes/core: Make macro names consistent
  uprobes: Update copyright notices
  uprobes/core: Move insn to arch specific structure
  uprobes/core: Remove uprobe_opcode_sz
  uprobes/core: Make instruction tables volatile
  uprobes: Move to kernel/events/
  uprobes/core: Clean up, refactor and improve the code
  ...
2012-05-24 11:39:34 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
26252ea675 perf evlist: Show event attribute details
There was no easy way to see the frequency used, and with the change of
default, we better provide one.

[root@sandy linux]# perf evlist -F
cycles: sample_freq=4000
[root@sandy linux]# perf evlist -v
cycles: sample_freq=4000, size: 80, sample_type: 391, read_format: 7, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1
[root@sandy linux]#

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e1p9poez3nwrgycbmwqmhlsu@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-22 14:30:11 -03:00
Anshuman Khandual
2e49a948be perf record: Fix documentation for branch stack sampling
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FB60C7A.2080508@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-22 12:47:45 -03:00
Srikar Dronamraju
73eff9f56e perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absent
Options -m and -x explicitly allow tracing of modules / user space
binaries. In absense of these options, check if the first argument can
be used as a target.

perf probe /bin/zsh zfree is equivalent to perf probe -x /bin/zsh zfree.

Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120416120925.30661.40409.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-11 13:58:53 -03:00
Srikar Dronamraju
225466f1c2 perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes
- Enhances perf to probe user space executables and libraries.
- Enhances -F/--funcs option of "perf probe" to list possible probe points in
  an executable file or library.
- Documents userspace probing support in perf.

[ Probing a function in the executable using function name  ]
perf probe -x /bin/zsh zfree

[ Probing a library function using function name ]
perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc

[ list probe-able functions in an executable ]
perf probe -F -x /bin/zsh

[ list probe-able functions in an library]
perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120416120909.30661.99781.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-11 13:58:17 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
058b4cc9af perf annotate: Allow printing objdump line addr in different color
And by default use "magenta" for it.

Both the --stdio and --tui routines follow the same semantics.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ede5zkaf7oorwvbqjezb4yg4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-04-07 16:09:05 -03:00
Pekka Enberg
c31a945705 perf report: Add a simple GTK2-based 'perf report' browser
This patch adds a simple GTK2-based browser to 'perf report' that's
based on the TTY-based browser in builtin-report.c.

To launch "perf report" using the new GTK interface just type:

  $ perf report --gtk

The interface is somewhat limited in features at the moment:

  - No callgraph support

  - No KVM guest profiling support

  - No color coding for percentages

  - No sorting from the UI

  - ..and many, many more!

That said, I think this patch a reasonable start to build future features on.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1202231952410.6689@tux.localdomain
[ committer note: Added #pragma to make gtk no strict prototype problem go
  away as suggested by Colin Walters modulo avoiding push/pop ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-03-19 15:13:29 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
fde0eeaba7 perf report: Document --symbol-filter option
Add missing description of --symbol-filter in Documentation/perf-report.txt.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332125628-23088-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-03-19 12:13:56 -03:00
Stephane Eranian
993ac88d58 perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode
This patch enhances perf report to auto-detect when the
perf.data file contains samples with branch stacks. That way it
is not necessary to use the -b option.

To force branch view mode to off, simply use --no-branch-stack.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331246868-19905-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-09 08:26:08 +01:00
Stephane Eranian
a5aabdacde perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option
This patch chanegs the logic of the -b, --branch-stack options
of perf record.

Based on users' request, the patch provides a default filter
mode with the -b (or --branch-any) option.  With the option,
any type of taken branches is sampled.

With -j (or --branch-filter), the user can specify any
valid combination of branch types and privilege levels
if supported by the underlying hardware.

The -b (--branch any) is a shortcut for: --branch-filter any.

 $ perf record -b foo

or:

 $ perf record --branch-filter any foo

For more specific filtering:

 $ perf record --branch-filter ind_call,u foo

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331246868-19905-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-09 08:26:07 +01:00