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2011-05-06Merge branch 'perf/stat' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: the perf stat improvements are tested and ready now. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-06perf events, x86: Add SandyBridge stalled-cycles-frontend/backend eventsLin Ming
Extend the Intel SandyBridge PMU driver with definitions for generic front-end and back-end stall events. ( As commit 3011203 "perf events, x86: Add Westmere stalled-cycles-frontend/backend events" says, these are only approximations. ) Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304666042-17577-1-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-04perf events: Clean up definitions and initializers, update copyrightsIngo Molnar
Fix a few inconsistent style bits that were added over the past few months. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yv4hwf9yhnzoada8pcpb3a97@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-03hw breakpoints: Move to kernel/events/Borislav Petkov
As part of the events sybsystem unification, relocate hw_breakpoint.c into its new destination. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2011-05-03perf: Start the restructuringBorislav Petkov
mv kernel/perf_event.c -> kernel/events/core.c. From there, all further sensible splitting can happen. The idea is that due to perf_event.c becoming pretty sizable and with the advent of the marriage with ftrace, splitting functionality into its logical parts should help speeding up the unification and to manage the complexity of the subsystem. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2011-05-01Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
2011-05-01Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
2011-04-29ftrace: Consolidate the function match routines for normal and modsSteven Rostedt
The code used for matching functions is almost identical between normal selecting of functions and using the :mod: feature of set_ftrace_notrace. Consolidate the two users into one function. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-29ftrace: Consolidate updating of ftrace_trace_functionSteven Rostedt
There are three locations that perform almost identical functions in order to update the ftrace_trace_function (the ftrace function variable that gets called by mcount). Consolidate these into a single function called update_ftrace_function(). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-29ftrace: Move record update for normal and modules into a separate functionSteven Rostedt
The updating of a function record is moved to a single function. This will allow us to add specific changes in one location for both modules and kernel functions. Later patches will determine if the function record itself needs to be updated (which enables the mcount caller), or just the ftrace_ops needs the update. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-29ftrace: Remove FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED flagSteven Rostedt
Since we disable all function tracer processing if we detect that a modification of a instruction had failed, we do not need to track that the record has failed. No more ftrace processing is allowed, and the FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED flag is pointless. The FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED flag was used to denote records that were successfully converted from mcount calls into nops. But if a single record fails, all of ftrace is disabled. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-29ftrace: Remove FTRACE_FL_FAILED flagSteven Rostedt
Since we disable all function tracer processing if we detect that a modification of a instruction had failed, we do not need to track that the record has failed. No more ftrace processing is allowed, and the FTRACE_FL_FAILED flag is pointless. Removing this flag simplifies some of the code, but some ftrace_disabled checks needed to be added or move around a little. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-29ftrace: Remove failures fileSteven Rostedt
The failures file in the debugfs tracing directory would list the functions that failed to convert when the old dead ftrace daemon tried to update code but failed. Since this code is now dead along with the daemon the failures file is useless. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-29ftrace: Remove unnecessary disabling of irqsSteven Rostedt
The disabling of interrupts around ftrace_update_code() was used to protect against the evil ftrace daemon from years past. But that daemon has long been killed. It is safe to keep interrupts enabled while updating the initial mcount into nops. The ftrace_mutex is also held which keeps other users at bay. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-29ftrace: Make FTRACE_WARN_ON() work in if conditionSteven Rostedt
Let FTRACE_WARN_ON() be used as a stand alone statement or inside a conditional: if (FTRACE_WARN_ON(x)) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-29ftrace: Only update the function code on write to filter filesSteven Rostedt
If function tracing is enabled, a read of the filter files will cause the call to stop_machine to update the function trace sites. It should only call stop_machine on write. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-30perf stat: Tell user about unsupported events in the listDavid Ahern
Similar to perf-record, tell user about unsupported events that will not be counted if invoked in verbose mode. e.g., $ perf stat -e dTLB-prefetch-misses -v -- sleep 1 dTLB-prefetch-misses event is not supported by the kernel. dTLB-prefetch-misses: 0 0 0 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1': <not counted> dTLB-prefetch-misses 1.001884783 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304114655-10600-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf list: Fix max event string sizeIngo Molnar
Recent stalled-cycles event names were larger than the 40 chars printout used by perf list. Extend that, make it robust for future extensions and also adjust alignments in face of wider event names. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n009io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf events, x86: Add Westmere stalled-cycles-frontend/backend eventsIngo Molnar
Extend the Intel Westmere PMU driver with definitions for generic front-end and back-end stall events. ( These are only approximations. ) Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n008io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf stat: Fail softly on unsupported eventsIngo Molnar
David Ahern reported this perf stat failure: > # /tmp/build-perf/perf stat -- sleep 1 > Error: stalled-cycles-frontend event is not supported. > Fatal: Not all events could be opened. > > This is a Dell R410 with an E5620 processor. Fail in a softer fashion on unknown/unsupported events. Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n006io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf stat: Leave more room for percentagesIngo Molnar
Triple digit percentages do not fit otherwise. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n005io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf stat: Adjust stall cycles warning percentagesIngo Molnar
Adjust to color thresholds to better match the percentages seen in real workloads. Both are now a bit more sensitive. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n004io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf stat: Analyze front-end and back-end stall countsIngo Molnar
Sample output: Performance counter stats for './loop_1b': 873.691065 task-clock # 1.000 CPUs utilized 1 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 1 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 96 page-faults # 0.000 M/sec 2,012,637,222 cycles # 2.304 GHz (66.58%) 1,001,397,911 stalled-cycles-frontend # 49.76% frontend cycles idle (66.58%) 7,523,398 stalled-cycles-backend # 0.37% backend cycles idle (66.76%) 2,004,551,046 instructions # 1.00 insns per cycle # 0.50 stalled cycles per insn (66.80%) 1,001,304,992 branches # 1146.063 M/sec (66.76%) 39,453 branch-misses # 0.00% of all branches (66.64%) 0.874046121 seconds time elapsed Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n003io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf tools: Add front-end and back-end stalled cycles supportIngo Molnar
Update perf tooling to deal with front-end and back-end stalled cycles events. Add both the default 'perf stat' output. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n002io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf, x86: Add new stalled cycles events for Intel and AMD CPUsIngo Molnar
Extend the Intel and AMD event definitions with generic front-end and back-end stall events. ( These are only approximations - suggestions are welcome for better events. ) Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n001io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29perf events: Add generic front-end and back-end stalled cycle event definitionsIngo Molnar
Add two generic hardware events: front-end and back-end stalled cycles. These events measure conditions when the CPU is executing code but its capabilities are not fully utilized. Understanding such situations and analyzing them is an important sub-task of code optimization workflows. Both events limit performance: most front end stalls tend to be caused by branch misprediction or instruction fetch cachemisses, backend stalls can be caused by various resource shortages or inefficient instruction scheduling. Front-end stalls are the more important ones: code cannot run fast if the instruction stream is not being kept up. An over-utilized back-end can cause front-end stalls and thus has to be kept an eye on as well. The exact composition is very program logic and instruction mix dependent. We use the terms 'stall', 'front-end' and 'back-end' loosely and try to use the best available events from specific CPUs that approximate these concepts. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n000io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-28perf stat: Fix compatibility behaviorIngo Molnar
Instead of failing on an unknown event, when new perf stat is run on older kernels: $ ./perf stat true Error: open_counter returned with 22 (Invalid argument). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information. Fatal: Not all events could be opened. Just ignore EINVAL and ENOSYS, we'll print the results as not counted: Performance counter stats for 'true': 0.239483 task-clock # 0.493 CPUs utilized 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 86 page-faults # 0.359 M/sec 704,766 cycles # 2.943 GHz <not counted> stalled-cycles 381,961 instructions # 0.54 insns per cycle 69,626 branches # 290.735 M/sec 4,594 branch-misses # 6.60% of all branches 0.000485883 seconds time elapsed Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio5hjpn3dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-28perf stat: Add --sync/-S optionIngo Molnar
--sync will tell perf stat to run sync() before starting a command. This allows IO-heavy tests to be used with --repeat, without one iteration impacting the other. Elapsed time will stabilize for example: before: 3.971525714 seconds time elapsed ( +- 8.56% ) after: 3.211098537 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.52% ) So measurements will be more accurate. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-28perf event, x86: Use better stalled cycles metricIngo Molnar
Use the UOPS_EXECUTED.*,c=1,i=1 event on Intel CPUs - it is a rather good indicator of CPU execution stalls, more sensitive and more inclusive than the 0xa2 resource stalls event (which does not count nearly as many stall types). Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn2dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-27perf, x86, nmi: Move LVT un-masking into irq handlersDon Zickus
It was noticed that P4 machines were generating double NMIs for each perf event. These extra NMIs lead to 'Dazed and confused' messages on the screen. I tracked this down to a P4 quirk that said the overflow bit had to be cleared before re-enabling the apic LVT mask. My first attempt was to move the un-masking inside the perf nmi handler from before the chipset NMI handler to after. This broke Nehalem boxes that seem to like the unmasking before the counters themselves are re-enabled. In order to keep this change simple for 2.6.39, I decided to just simply move the apic LVT un-masking to the beginning of all the chipset NMI handlers, with the exception of Pentium4's to fix the double NMI issue. Later on we can move the un-masking to later in the handlers to save a number of 'extra' NMIs on those particular chipsets. I tested this change on a P4 machine, an AMD machine, a Nehalem box, and a core2quad box. 'perf top' worked correctly along with various other small 'perf record' runs. Anything high stress breaks all the machines but that is a different problem. Thanks to various people for testing different versions of this patch. Reported-and-tested-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303900353-10242-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
2011-04-27perf stat: Fix printout vertical alignmentIngo Molnar
Before: | | Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 20' (5 runs): | | 71,321,607 instructions:u # 0.42 insns per cycle ( +- 0.00% ) | 168,040,009 cycles:u # 0.000 GHz ( +- 0.81% ) | | 1.468002368 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.33% ) | After: | | Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 20' (5 runs): | | 71,321,607 instructions:u # 0.42 insns per cycle ( +- 0.00% ) | 168,040,009 cycles:u # 0.000 GHz ( +- 0.81% ) | | 1.468002368 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.33% ) | The last column (stddev noise) is properly aligned, vertically. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn0dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-27Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core Conflicts: include/linux/perf_event.h Merge reason: pick up the latest jump-label enhancements, they are cooked ready. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-27Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent
2011-04-26perf stat: Add -d/--detailed flag to run with a lot of eventsIngo Molnar
Add the new -d/--detailed flag, which generates a pretty detailed event list: Performance counter stats for './hackbench 10' (10 runs): 1514.287888 task-clock # 10.897 CPUs utilized ( +- 3.05% ) 39,698 context-switches # 0.026 M/sec ( +- 12.19% ) 8,147 CPU-migrations # 0.005 M/sec ( +- 16.55% ) 17,918 page-faults # 0.012 M/sec ( +- 0.37% ) 2,944,504,050 cycles # 1.944 GHz ( +- 3.89% ) (32.60%) 1,043,971,283 stalled-cycles # 35.45% of all cycles are idle ( +- 5.22% ) (44.48%) 1,655,906,768 instructions # 0.56 insns per cycle # 0.63 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 1.95% ) (55.09%) 338,832,373 branches # 223.757 M/sec ( +- 1.96% ) (64.47%) 3,892,416 branch-misses # 1.15% of all branches ( +- 5.49% ) (73.12%) 606,410,482 L1-dcache-loads # 400.459 M/sec ( +- 1.29% ) (71.21%) 31,204,395 L1-dcache-load-misses # 5.15% of all L1-dcache hits ( +- 3.04% ) (60.43%) 3,922,751 LLC-loads # 2.590 M/sec ( +- 6.80% ) (46.87%) 5,037,288 LLC-load-misses # 3.327 M/sec ( +- 3.56% ) (13.00%) 0.138966828 seconds time elapsed ( +- 4.11% ) This can be used "at a glance" for narrower analysis. -d can also be used in addition to other -e events, to further expand an event list. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cxs98quixs3qyvdqx3goojc4@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Print out miss/hit ratio for L1 data-cache eventsIngo Molnar
Print out this kind of l1-dcache-misses percentage: Performance counter stats for './bw_tcp localhost': 29,956,262,201 cycles # 3.002 GHz (scaled from 85.14%) 8,255,209,558 stalled-cycles # 27.56% of all cycles are idle (scaled from 86.56%) 1,206,130,308 l1-dcache-misses # 40.49% of all L1-dcache hits (scaled from 86.30%) 2,978,756,779 l1-dcache-refs # 298.512 M/sec (scaled from 70.02%) 8,861,956,159 instructions # 0.30 insns per cycle # 0.93 stalled cycles per insn (scaled from 84.27%) 1,644,306,068 branches # 164.782 M/sec (scaled from 86.43%) 74,778,443 branch-misses # 4.55% of all branches (scaled from 70.69%) 9978.695711 task-clock # 0.693 CPUs utilized 14.404347983 seconds time elapsed And color the result depending on the severity of cache-trashing. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-54gmz0zymaid84zcs7joq02p@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Print branch misses warning colorsIngo Molnar
Print the missed-branches percentage with different warning level ASCII colors, as the percentage passes the 5%/10%/20% thresholds. These thresholds are set to relatively low levels, because on most CPUs even a moderate percentage of branch-misses already shows up as a slowdown. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ybqukg7p86leiup7gl03ecgk@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Print stalled cycles warning colorsIngo Molnar
Print the stalled-cycles percentage with different warning level ASCII colors, as the percentage passes the 25%/50%/75% thresholds. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e25zz44rcms7mu9az4fu5zp0@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Fix -nan% output in perf stat noise printoutsIngo Molnar
Before: 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- -nan% ) After: 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 0.00% ) Also factor out the noise printing function. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z89h2v1bk1mikcbsf7e6v34q@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Add stalled cycles to the default outputIngo Molnar
The new default output looks like this: Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions': 236.010686 task-clock # 0.996 CPUs utilized 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 99 page-faults # 0.000 M/sec 756,487,646 cycles # 3.205 GHz 354,938,996 stalled-cycles # 46.92% of all cycles are idle 1,001,403,797 instructions # 1.32 insns per cycle # 0.35 stalled cycles per insn 100,279,773 branches # 424.895 M/sec 12,646 branch-misses # 0.013 % of all branches 0.236902540 seconds time elapsed We dropped cache-refs and cache-misses and added stalled-cycles - this is a more generic "how well utilized is the CPU" metric. If the stalled-cycles ratio is too high then more specific measurements can be taken to figure out the source of the inefficiency. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pbpl2l4mn797s69bclfpwkwn@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Add stalled cycles accounting, prettify the resulting outputIngo Molnar
Add stalled cycles accounting and use it to print the "cycles stalled per instruction" value. Also change the unit of the cycles output from M/sec to GHz - this is more intuitive. Prettify the output to: Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions': 239.775036 task-clock # 0.997 CPUs utilized 761,903,912 cycles # 3.178 GHz 356,620,620 stalled-cycles # 46.81% of all cycles are idle 1,001,578,351 instructions # 1.31 insns per cycle # 0.36 stalled cycles per insn 14,782 cache-references # 0.062 M/sec 5,694 cache-misses # 38.520 % of all cache refs 0.240493656 seconds time elapsed Also adjust the --repeat output to make the percentages align vertically: Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions' (10 runs): 236.096793 task-clock # 0.997 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.011% ) 756,553,086 cycles # 3.204 GHz ( +- 0.002% ) 354,942,692 stalled-cycles # 46.92% of all cycles are idle ( +- 0.008% ) 1,001,389,700 instructions # 1.32 insns per cycle # 0.35 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.000% ) 10,166 cache-references # 0.043 M/sec ( +- 0.742% ) 468 cache-misses # 4.608 % of all cache refs ( +- 13.385% ) 0.236874136 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.01% ) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uapziqny39601apdmmhoz7hk@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Factor our shadow statsIngo Molnar
Create update_shadow_stats() which is then used in both read_counter_aggr() and read_counter(). This not only simplifies the code but also fixes a bug: HW_CACHE_REFERENCES was not updated in read_counter(). Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9uc55z3g88r47exde7zxjm6p@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Make all displayed event names parseable as wellIngo Molnar
Right now we display this by default: 0.202204 task-clock-msecs # 0.282 CPUs 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 85 page-faults # 0.420 M/sec The task-clock-msecs event cannot actually be passed back as an event name, the event name we recognize is 'task-clock'. So change the output of the cpu-clock and task-clock events to be idempotent. ( Units should be printed out in the right-side column, if needed. ) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lexrnbzy09asscgd4f7oac4i@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Fail more clearly when an invalid modifier is specifiedIngo Molnar
Currently we fail without printing any error message on "perf stat -e task-clock-msecs". The reason is that the task-clock event is matched and the "-msecs" postfix is assumed to be an event modifier - but is not recognized. This patch changes the code to be more informative: $ perf stat -e task-clock-msecs true invalid event modifier: '-msecs' Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events and modifiers And restructures the return value of parse_event_modifier() to allow the printing of all variants of invalid event modifiers. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wlaw3dvz1ly6wple8l52cfca@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf tools: Accept case-insensitive symbolic event variantsIngo Molnar
We currently fail on something like '-e CPU-migrations', with: invalid or unsupported event: 'CPU-migrations' While 'CPU-migrations' is how we actually print out the event in the default perf stat output: Performance counter stats for 'true': 0.202204 task-clock-msecs # 0.282 CPUs 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec So change the matching to be case-insensitive. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-omcm3edjjtx83a4kh2e244se@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Print cache misses as percentageIngo Molnar
Before: 113,393,041 cache-references # 83.636 M/sec 7,052,454 cache-misses # 5.202 M/sec After: 112,589,441 cache-references # 87.925 M/sec 6,556,354 cache-misses # 5.823 % misses/hits percentages are more expressive than absolute numbers or rates. (Also prettify the CPUs printout line to not have a trailing whitespace.) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-axm28f43x439bl41zkvfzd63@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf stat: Print stalled cycles percentageIngo Molnar
Print: 611,527 cycles 400,553 instructions # ( 0.71 instructions per cycle ) 77,809 stalled-cycles # ( 12.71% of all cycles ) 0.000610987 seconds time elapsed Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fd6x8r1cpyb6zhlrc4ix8m45@git.kernel.org
2011-04-26perf events, x86: Mark constrant tables read mostlyIngo Molnar
Various constraint tables were not marked read-mostly. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wpqwwvmhxucy5e718wnamjiv@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf events: Add stalled cycles generic event - PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLESIngo Molnar
The new PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES event tries to approximate cycles the CPU does nothing useful, because it is stalled on a cache-miss or some other condition. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fue11vymwqsoo5to72jxxjyl@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/statIngo Molnar
Merge reason: We want to queue up dependent changes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26perf events, x86: Work around the Nehalem AAJ80 erratumIngo Molnar
On Nehalem CPUs the retired branch-misses event can be completely bogus, when there are no branch-misses occuring. When there are a lot of branch misses then the count is pretty accurate. Still, this leaves us with an event that over-counts a lot. Detect this erratum and work it around by using BR_MISP_EXEC.ANY events. These will also count speculated branches but still it's a lot more precise in practice than the architectural event. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yyfg0bxo9jsqxd6a0ovfny27@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>