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2011-12-23perf report: Accept fifos as input fileRobert Richter
The default input file for perf report is not handled the same way as perf record does it for its output file. This leads to unexpected behavior of perf report, etc. E.g.: # perf record -a -e cpu-cycles sleep 2 | perf report | cat failed to open perf.data: No such file or directory (try 'perf record' first) While perf record writes to a fifo, perf report expects perf.data to be read. This patch changes this to accept fifos as input file. Applies to the following commands: perf annotate perf buildid-list perf evlist perf kmem perf lock perf report perf sched perf script perf timechart Also fixes char const* -> const char* type declaration for filename strings. v2: * Prevent potential null pointer access to input_name in builtin-report.c. Needed due to removal of patch "perf report: Setup browser if stdout is a pipe" Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two.Nelson Elhage
Now that we automatically point users at it, let's provide them some guidance so that they hopefully don't just get mysterious EINVAL's from the kernel. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324301972-22740-4-git-send-email-nelhage@nelhage.com Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com> [ committer note: Made it work after 50a682c ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-20perf report: Document '--call-graph' for optional print_limit argumentNamhyung Kim
The '--call-graph' command line option can receive undocumented optional print_limit argument. Besides, use strtoul() to parse the option since its type is u32. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-2-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-29perf test: Allow running just a subset of the available testsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
To obtain a list of available tests: [root@emilia linux]# perf test list 1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms 2: detect open syscall event 3: detect open syscall event on all cpus 4: read samples using the mmap interface 5: parse events tests [root@emilia linux]# To list just a subset: [root@emilia linux]# perf test list syscall 2: detect open syscall event 3: detect open syscall event on all cpus [root@emilia linux]# To run a subset: [root@emilia linux]# perf test detect 2: detect open syscall event: Ok 3: detect open syscall event on all cpus: Ok [root@emilia linux]# Specific tests can be chosen by number: [root@emilia linux]# perf test 1 3 parse 1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok 3: detect open syscall event on all cpus: Ok 5: parse events tests: Ok [root@emilia linux]# Now to write more tests! Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> 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-nqec2145qfxdgimux28aw7v8@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28perf script: Add comm filtering optionDavid Ahern
Allows collecting events system wide and then pulling out events for a specific task name(s). e.g, perf script -c gnome-shell,gnome-terminal Applies on top of: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/13/74 v2->v3 - update Documentation v1->v2 - use comm_list from symbol_conf Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321894972-24246-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28perf tools: make -C consistent across commands (for cpu list arg)David Ahern
Currently the meaning of -C varies by perf command: for perf-top, perf-stat, perf-record it means cpu list. For perf-report it means comm list. Then perf-annotate, perf-report and perf-script use -c for cpu list. Fix annotate, report and script to use -C for cpu list to be consistent with top, stat and record. This means report needs to use -c for comm list which does introduce a backward compatibility change. v1 -> v2 - update perf-script.txt too Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321209008-7004-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-18perf ui browser: Make the colors configurable and change the defaultsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Just use as a starting point the "[colors]" section of tools/perf/Documentation/perfconfig.example. Changed the colors to be the ones in the old perf tool if used in a green on black xterm. The next patches should allow using the colors configured for the xterm. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> 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-3vqmyerkaqltqolmnlehonew@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-07perf tools: Make --no-asm-raw the defaultArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
And add the annotation output knobs to all the tools that have integrated annotation (top, report). Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> 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-gnlob67mke6sji2kf4nstp7m@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-07perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8)Stephane Eranian
The goal of this patch is to include more information about the host environment into the perf.data so it is more self-descriptive. Overtime, profiles are captured on various machines and it becomes hard to track what was recorded, on what machine and when. This patch provides a way to solve this by extending the perf.data file with basic information about the host machine. To add those extensions, we leverage the feature bits capabilities of the perf.data format. The change is backward compatible with existing perf.data files. We define the following useful new extensions: - HEADER_HOSTNAME: the hostname - HEADER_OSRELEASE: the kernel release number - HEADER_ARCH: the hw architecture - HEADER_CPUDESC: generic CPU description - HEADER_NRCPUS: number of online/avail cpus - HEADER_CMDLINE: perf command line - HEADER_VERSION: perf version - HEADER_TOPOLOGY: cpu topology - HEADER_EVENT_DESC: full event description (attrs) - HEADER_CPUID: easy-to-parse low level CPU identication The small granularity for the entries is to make it easier to extend without breaking backward compatiblity. Many entries are provided as ASCII strings. Perf report/script have been modified to print the basic information as easy-to-parse ASCII strings. Extended information about CPU and NUMA topology may be requested with the -I option. Thanks to David Ahern for reviewing and testing the many versions of this patch. $ perf report --stdio # ======== # captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011 # hostname : quad # os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip # perf version : 3.1.0-rc4 # arch : x86_64 # nrcpus online : 4 # nrcpus avail : 4 # cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11 # total memory : 8105360 kB # cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date # event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31, # HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display # HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display # ======== # ... $ perf report --stdio -I # ======== # captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011 # hostname : quad # os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip # perf version : 3.1.0-rc4 # arch : x86_64 # nrcpus online : 4 # nrcpus avail : 4 # cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11 # total memory : 8105360 kB # cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date # event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31, # sibling cores : 0-3 # sibling threads : 0 # sibling threads : 1 # sibling threads : 2 # sibling threads : 3 # node0 meminfo : total = 8320608 kB, free = 7571024 kB # node0 cpu list : 0-3 # ======== # ... Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110930134040.GA5575@quad Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ committer notes: Use --show-info in the tools as was in the docs, rename perf_header_fprintf_info to perf_file_section__fprintf_info, fixup conflict with f69b64f7 "perf: Support setting the disassembler style" ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-07perf top: Add callgraph supportArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Just like in 'perf report', but live. Still needs to decay the callchains, but already somewhat useful as-is. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> 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-cj3rmaf5jpsvi3v0tf7t4uvp@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-07perf top: Reuse the 'report' hist_entry/hists classesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
This actually fixes several problems we had in the old 'perf top': 1. Unresolved symbols not show, limitation that came from the old "KernelTop" codebase, to solve it we would need to do changes that would make sym_entry have most of the hist_entry fields. 2. It was using the number of samples, not the sum of sample->period. And brings the --sort code that allows us to have all the views in 'perf report', for instance: [root@emilia ~]# perf top --sort dso PerfTop: 5903 irqs/sec kernel:77.5% exact: 0.0% [1000Hz cycles], (all, 8 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 31.59% libcrypto.so.1.0.0 21.55% [kernel] 18.57% libpython2.6.so.1.0 7.04% libc-2.12.so 6.99% _backend_agg.so 4.72% sshd 1.48% multiarray.so 1.39% libfreetype.so.6.3.22 1.37% perf 0.71% libgobject-2.0.so.0.2200.5 0.53% [tg3] 0.48% libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.5 0.44% libstdc++.so.6.0.13 0.40% libcairo.so.2.10800.8 0.38% libm-2.12.so 0.34% umath.so 0.30% libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1800.9 0.22% libpthread-2.12.so 0.20% libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1800.9 0.20% librt-2.12.so 0.15% _path.so 0.13% libpango-1.0.so.0.2800.1 0.11% libatlas.so.3.0 0.09% ft2font.so 0.09% libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.2800.1 0.08% libX11.so.6.3.0 0.07% [vdso] 0.06% cyclictest ^C All the filter lists can be used as well: --dsos, --comms, --symbols, etc. The 'perf report' TUI is also reused, being possible to apply all the zoom operations, do annotation, etc. This change will allow multiple simplifications in the symbol system as well, that will be detailed in upcoming changesets. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> 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-xzaaldxq7zhqrrxdxjifk1mh@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-07perf report: Add option to show total periodArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Just like --show-nr-samples, to help in diagnosing problems in the tools. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> 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-1lr7ejdjfvy2uwy2wkmatcpq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-09-29perf sched: Fix script command documentationJiri Olsa
Fixed leftover from trace -> script rename. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317114995-4534-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-09-29perf: Support setting the disassembler styleAndi Kleen
Add -M option to report/annotate to pass directly to objdump. This allows to use -M intel for intel style disassembler syntax, which is useful for people who are very used to the Intel syntax. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1316122302-24306-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org [committer note: Add missing Documentation bits, fixup conflicts with 3e6a2a7] Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-09-29perf stat: Add --log-fd <N> option to redirect stderr elsewhereJim Cromie
This perf stat option emulates valgrind's --log-fd option, allowing the user to send perf results elsewhere, and leaving stderr for use by the program under test. This complements --output file option, and is mutually exclusive with it. 3>results perf stat --log-fd 3 -- $cmd 3>>results perf stat --log-fd 3 --append -- $cmd The perl distro's make test.valgrind target uses valgrind's --log-fd option, I've adapted it to invoke perf also, and tested this patch there. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315437244-3788-2-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-09-29perf buildid-list: Support showing the build id in an ELF fileArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Try first reading the build id, validating that it is an ELF file, etc. Cheap as libelf will bail out as soon as the magic number check fails. Useful when investigating debuginfo packaging problems like this one: [root@emilia ~]# perf buildid-list -i /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux 77bb4ea591a602d455ace759a377c9adfff1aba3 [root@emilia ~]# perf buildid-list -k 07b0c016a2b30004e86132d0239945b1e88f5d75 [root@emilia ~]# Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> 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-4elot9oxwa0rr0d90dshca3a@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-09-29perf buildid-list: Add option to show the running kernel build idArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
[root@emilia ~]# perf buildid-list -k 07b0c016a2b30004e86132d0239945b1e88f5d75 Useful when diagnosing build id problems in debuginfo packages, etc. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> 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-po1bl7acn6e1hhne90opmvtl@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-08-18perf stat: Add -o and --append optionsStephane Eranian
This patch adds an option (-o) to save the output of perf stat into a file. You could do this with perf record but not with perf stat. Instead, you had to fiddle with stderr to save the counts into a separate file. The patch also adds the --append option so that results can be concatenated into a single file across runs. Each run of the tool is clearly separated by a comment line starting with a hash mark. The -A option of perf record is already used by perf stat, so we only add a long option. $ perf stat -o res.txt date $ cat res.txt Performance counter stats for 'date': 0.791306 task-clock # 0.668 CPUs utilized 2 context-switches # 0.003 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 197 page-faults # 0.249 M/sec 1878143 cycles # 2.373 GHz <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend 1083367 instructions # 0.58 insns per cycle 193027 branches # 243.935 M/sec 9014 branch-misses # 4.67% of all branches 0.001184746 seconds time elapsed The option can be combined with -x to make the output file much easier to parse. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110815202233.GA18535@quad Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-08-18perf annotate: Add --symfs optionStephane Eranian
If you have --symfs in perf report, then you also need it for perf annotate. This allows off-box assembly level analysis of perf.data samples. This patch complements: commit ec5761eab318e50e69fcf8e63e9edaef5949c067 Author: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Date: Thu Dec 9 13:27:07 2010 -0700 perf symbols: Add symfs option for off-box analysis using specified tree Acked-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110729232040.GA21838@quad Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-08-18perf annotate: Make output more readableStephane Eranian
This patch adds two new options to perf annotate: - --no-asm-raw : Do not display raw instruction encodings - --no-source : Do not interleave source code with assembly code We believe those options make the output of annotate more readable. Systematically displaying source can make it hard to follow code and especially optimized code. Raw encodings are not useful in most cases. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110517153207.GA9834@quad Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [committer note: Use the 'no-' option inverting logic] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-07-15perf probe: Support adding probes on offline kernel modulesMasami Hiramatsu
Support adding probes on offline kernel modules. This enables perf-probe to trace kernel-module init functions via perf-probe. If user gives the path of module with -m option, perf-probe expects the module is offline. This feature works with --add, --funcs, and --vars. E.g) # perf probe -m /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko \ -a "extent_io_init:5 extent_state_cache" Add new events: probe:extent_io_init (on extent_io_init:5 with extent_state_cache) probe:extent_io_init_1 (on extent_io_init:5 with extent_state_cache) You can now use it on all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:extent_io_init_1 -aR sleep 1 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110627072751.6528.10230.stgit@fedora15 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-05perf report/annotate/script: Add option to specify a CPU rangeAnton Blanchard
Add an option to perf report/annotate/script to specify which CPUs to operate on. This enables us to take a single system wide profile and analyse each CPU (or group of CPUs) in isolation. This was useful when profiling a multiprocess workload where the bottleneck was on one CPU but this was hidden in the overall profile. Per process and per thread breakdowns didn't help because multiple processes were running on each CPU and no single process consumed an entire CPU. The patch converts the list of CPUs returned by cpu_map__new into a bitmap for fast lookup. I wanted to use -C to be consistent with perf top/record/stat, but unfortunately perf report already uses -C <comms>. v2: Incorporate suggestions from David Ahern: - Added -c to perf script - Check that SAMPLE_CPU is set when -c is used - Update documentation v3: Create perf_session__cpu_bitmap() Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110704215750.11647eb9@kryten Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-30perf tools: Add inverted call graph report support.Sam Liao
Add "caller/callee" option to support inverted butterfly report, in the inverted report (with caller option), the call graph start from the callee's ancestor. Users can use such view to catch system's performance bottleneck from a sysprof like view. Using this option with specified sort order like pid gives us high level view of call graph statistics. Also add "-G" alias for inverted call graph. Signed-off-by: Sam Liao <phyomh@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2011-06-02perf script: Add printing of sample addressDavid Ahern
Resolve to a function or variable if possible and if the sym option is enabled. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306782503-22002-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-06-02perf script: Make printing of dso a separate field optionDavid Ahern
The 'sym' option displays both the function name and the DSO it comes from. Split the display of the dso into a separate option. This allows display of the ip address and symbol without the dso, thus shortening line lengths - and decluttering the output a bit. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306528124-25861-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-06-02perf script: "sym" field really means show IP dataDavid Ahern
Currently the "sym" output field is used to dump instruction pointers and callchain stack. Sample addresses can also be converted to symbols, so the meaning of "sym" needs to be fixed. This patch adds an "ip" option and if it is selected the user can also opt to dump symbols for them. If the user opts to dump IP without syms only the address is shown. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306528124-25861-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-19Merge branches 'sched-core-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits) sched: Fix and optimise calculation of the weight-inverse sched: Avoid going ahead if ->cpus_allowed is not changed sched, rt: Update rq clock when unthrottling of an otherwise idle CPU sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task() sched: Shorten the construction of the span cpu mask of sched domain sched: Wrap the 'cfs_rq->nr_spread_over' field with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG sched: Remove unused 'this_best_prio arg' from balance_tasks() sched: Remove noop in alloc_rt_sched_group() sched: Get rid of lock_depth sched: Remove obsolete comment from scheduler_tick() sched: Fix sched_domain iterations vs. RCU sched: Next buddy hint on sleep and preempt path sched: Make set_*_buddy() work on non-task entities sched: Remove need_migrate_task() sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu sched: Restructure ttwu() some more sched: Rename ttwu_post_activation() to ttwu_do_wakeup() sched: Remove rq argument from ttwu_stat() sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu() sched: Drop rq->lock from sched_exec() ... * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix rt_rq runtime leakage bug
2011-04-24sched: Get rid of lock_depthJonathan Corbet
Neil Brown pointed out that lock_depth somehow escaped the BKL removal work. Let's get rid of it now. Note that the perf scripting utilities still have a bunch of code for dealing with common_lock_depth in tracepoints; I have left that in place in case anybody wants to use that code with older kernels. Suggested-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110422111910.456c0e84@bike.lwn.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-30perf script: Add more documentation about the -f/--fields parametersArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Using the commit log for 2c9e45f. Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-15perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data fileArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
[root@emilia ~]# perf record -a -e sched:* -e timer:timer* sleep 5 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.172 MB perf.data (~7530 samples) ] [root@emilia ~]# perf evlist sched:sched_kthread_stop sched:sched_kthread_stop_ret sched:sched_wakeup sched:sched_wakeup_new sched:sched_switch sched:sched_migrate_task sched:sched_process_free sched:sched_process_exit sched:sched_wait_task sched:sched_process_wait sched:sched_process_fork sched:sched_stat_wait sched:sched_stat_sleep sched:sched_stat_iowait sched:sched_stat_runtime sched:sched_pi_setprio timer:timer_init timer:timer_start timer:timer_expire_entry timer:timer_expire_exit timer:timer_cancel [root@emilia ~]# Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-14perf script: Add support for H/W and S/W eventsDavid Ahern
Custom fields set for each type by prepending field argument with type. For file with multiple event types (e.g., trace and S/W) display of an event type suppressed by setting output fields to "". e.g., perf record -ga -e sched:sched_switch -e cpu-clock -c 10000000 -R -- sleep 1 perf script openssl 11496 [000] 9711.807107: cpu-clock-msecs: ffffffff810c22dc arch_local_irq_restore ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff810c518c __alloc_pages_nodemask ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff810297b2 pte_alloc_one ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff810d8b98 __pte_alloc ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff810daf07 handle_mm_fault ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8138763a do_page_fault ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81384a65 page_fault ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7f6130507d70 asn1_check_tlen (/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0c) 0 () openssl 11496 [000] 9711.808042: sched_switch: prev_comm=openssl ... kworker/0:0 4 [000] 9711.808067: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/... swapper 0 [001] 9711.808090: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/... sshd 11451 [001] 9711.808185: sched_switch: prev_comm=sshd pre... swapper 0 [001] 9711.816155: cpu-clock-msecs: ffffffff81023609 native_safe_halt ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8100132a cpu_idle ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8137cf9b start_secondary ([kernel.kallsyms]) openssl 11496 [000] 9711.817104: cpu-clock-msecs: 7f61304ad723 AES_cbc_encrypt (/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0c) 7fff3402f950 () 12f0debc9a785634 () swapper 0 [001] 9711.826155: cpu-clock-msecs: ffffffff81023609 native_safe_halt ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8100132a cpu_idle ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8137cf9b start_secondary ([kernel.kallsyms]) To suppress trace events within the file and use default output for S/W events: perf script -f trace: or to suppress S/W events and do default display for trace events: perf script -f sw: Custom field selections: perf script -f sw:comm,tid,time -f trace:time,trace openssl 11496 9711.797162: swapper 0 9711.807071: openssl 11496 9711.807107: 9711.808042: prev_comm=openssl prev_pid=11496 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ... 9711.808067: prev_comm=kworker/0:0 prev_pid=4 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ... 9711.808090: prev_comm=kworker/0:0 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ... 9711.808185: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=11451 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==>... swapper 0 9711.816155: openssl 11496 9711.817104: swapper 0 9711.826155: Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1299734608-5223-7-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-14perf script: Add support for dumping symbolsDavid Ahern
Add option to dump symbols found in events. e.g., perf script -f comm,pid,tid,time,trace,sym swapper 0/0 537.037184: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120... ffffffff81030350 perf_trace_sched_switch ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81382ac5 schedule ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8100134a cpu_idle ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81370b39 rest_init ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81696c23 start_kernel ([kernel.kallsyms].init.text) ffffffff816962af x86_64_start_reservations ([kernel.kallsyms].init.text) ffffffff816963b9 x86_64_start_kernel ([kernel.kallsyms].init.text) sshd 1675/1675 537.037309: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=1675 prev_prio=120... ffffffff81030350 perf_trace_sched_switch ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81382ac5 schedule ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff813837aa schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81383886 schedule_hrtimeout_range ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8110c4f9 poll_schedule_timeout ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8110cd20 do_select ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8110ced8 core_sys_select ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8110d00d sys_select ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81002bc2 system_call ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7f1647e56e93 __GI_select (/lib64/libc-2.12.90.so) netstat 1692/1692 537.038664: prev_comm=netstat prev_pid=1692 prev_prio=... ffffffff81030350 perf_trace_sched_switch ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81382ac5 schedule ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81002c3a sysret_careful ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7f7a6cd1b210 __GI___libc_read (/lib64/libc-2.12.90.so) Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1299734608-5223-6-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-14perf script: Support custom field selection for outputDavid Ahern
Allow a user to select which fields to print to stdout for event data. Options include comm (command name), tid (thread id), pid (process id), time (perf timestamp), cpu, event (for event name), and trace (for trace data). Default is set to maintain compatibility with current output; this feature does alter output format slightly -- no '-' between command and pid/tid. Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for detailed suggestions on this approach. Examples (output compressed) 1. trace, default format perf record -ga -e sched:sched_switch perf script swapper 0 [000] 537.037184: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0... sshd 1675 [000] 537.037309: sched_switch: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=1675... netstat 1692 [001] 537.038664: sched_switch: prev_comm=netstat prev_pid=1692... 2. trace, custom format perf record -ga -e sched:sched_switch perf script -f comm,pid,time,trace <--- omitting cpu and event name swapper 0 537.037184: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 ... sshd 1675 537.037309: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=1675 prev_prio=120 ... netstat 1692 537.038664: prev_comm=netstat prev_pid=1692 prev_prio=120 ... Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1299734608-5223-5-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-02-23perf lock: Document valid sort keysMarcin Slusarz
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110222205312.GA18474@joi.lan> Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-02-17perf list: Allow filtering list of eventsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
The man page has the details, here are some examples: [root@emilia ~]# perf list *fault* *:*wait* List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e): page-faults OR faults [Software event] minor-faults [Software event] major-faults [Software event] alignment-faults [Software event] emulation-faults [Software event] radeon:radeon_fence_wait_begin [Tracepoint event] radeon:radeon_fence_wait_end [Tracepoint event] writeback:wbc_writeback_wait [Tracepoint event] writeback:wbc_balance_dirty_wait [Tracepoint event] writeback:writeback_congestion_wait [Tracepoint event] writeback:writeback_wait_iff_congested [Tracepoint event] sched:sched_wait_task [Tracepoint event] sched:sched_process_wait [Tracepoint event] sched:sched_stat_wait [Tracepoint event] sched:sched_stat_iowait [Tracepoint event] syscalls:sys_enter_epoll_wait [Tracepoint event] syscalls:sys_exit_epoll_wait [Tracepoint event] syscalls:sys_enter_epoll_pwait [Tracepoint event] syscalls:sys_exit_epoll_pwait [Tracepoint event] syscalls:sys_enter_rt_sigtimedwait [Tracepoint event] syscalls:sys_exit_rt_sigtimedwait [Tracepoint event] syscalls:sys_enter_waitid [Tracepoint event] syscalls:sys_exit_waitid [Tracepoint event] syscalls:sys_enter_wait4 [Tracepoint event] syscalls:sys_exit_wait4 [Tracepoint event] syscalls:sys_enter_waitpid [Tracepoint event] syscalls:sys_exit_waitpid [Tracepoint event] [root@emilia ~]# Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-02-16perf probe: Support function@filename syntax for --lineMasami Hiramatsu
Since "perf probe --add" supports function@filename syntax, --line option should also support it. Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20110210090810.1809.26913.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-02-16perf tools: Update Makefile with some helpJesse Brandeburg
The perf makefile is nicely complete except for a) an uninstall option b) a 'make help' description This patch implements b) it also comments out other non-working makefile targets Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-02-16perf tool: Add cgroup supportStephane Eranian
This patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on container groups (cgroups) for both perf stat and perf record. It is possible to monitor multiple cgroup in parallel. There is one cgroup per event. The cgroups to monitor are passed via a new -G option followed by a comma separated list of cgroup names. The cgroup filesystem has to be mounted. Given a cgroup name, the perf tool finds the corresponding directory in the cgroup filesystem and opens it. It then passes that file descriptor to the kernel. Example: $ perf stat -B -a -e cycles:u,cycles:u,cycles:u -G test1,,test2 -- sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1': 2,368,667,414 cycles test1 2,369,661,459 cycles <not counted> cycles test2 1.001856890 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4d590290.825bdf0a.7d0a.4890@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-28perf probe: Add filters support for available functionsMasami Hiramatsu
Add filters support for available function list. Default filter is "!_*" for filtering out local-purpose symbols. e.g.: # perf probe --filter="add*" -F add_disk add_disk_randomness add_input_randomness add_interrupt_randomness add_memory add_page_to_unevictable_list add_page_wait_queue ... Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20110120141545.25915.85930.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-28perf probe: Add variable filter supportMasami Hiramatsu
Add filters support for available variable list. Default filter is "!__k???tab_*&!__crc_*" for filtering out automatically generated symbols. The format of filter rule is "[!]GLOBPATTERN", so you can use wild cards. If the filter rule starts with '!', matched variables are filter out. e.g.: # perf probe -V schedule --externs --filter=cpu* Available variables at schedule @<schedule+0> cpumask_var_t cpu_callout_mask cpumask_var_t cpu_core_map cpumask_var_t cpu_isolated_map cpumask_var_t cpu_sibling_map int cpu_number long unsigned int* cpu_bit_bitmap ... Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20110120141539.25915.43401.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> [ committer note: Removed the elf.h include as it was fixed up in e80711c] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-24perf probe: Add --funcs to show available functions in symtabMasami Hiramatsu
Add --funcs to show available functions in symtab. Originally this feature came from Srikar's uprobes patches ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/27/244 ) e.g. ... __ablkcipher_walk_complete __absent_pages_in_range __account_scheduler_latency __add_pages __alloc_pages_nodemask __alloc_percpu __alloc_reserved_percpu __alloc_skb __alloc_workqueue_key __any_online_cpu __ata_ehi_push_desc ... This also supports symbols in module, e.g. ... cleanup_module cpuid_maxphyaddr emulate_clts emulate_instruction emulate_int_real emulate_invlpg emulator_get_dr emulator_set_dr emulator_task_switch emulator_write_emulated emulator_write_phys fx_init ... Original-patch-from: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20110113124611.22426.10835.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> [ committer note: Add missing elf.h for STB_GLOBAL that broke a RHEL4 build ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-13perf record: Add "nodelay" mode, disabled by defaultKirill Smelkov
Sometimes there is a need to use perf in "live-log" mode. The problem is, for seldom events, actual info output is largely delayed because perf-record reads sample data in whole pages. So for such scenarious, add flag for perf-record to go in "nodelay" mode. To track e.g. what's going on in icmp_rcv while ping is running Use it with something like this: (1) $ perf probe -L icmp_rcv | grep -U8 '^ *43\>' goto error; } 38 if (!pskb_pull(skb, sizeof(*icmph))) goto error; icmph = icmp_hdr(skb); 43 ICMPMSGIN_INC_STATS_BH(net, icmph->type); /* * 18 is the highest 'known' ICMP type. Anything else is a mystery * * RFC 1122: 3.2.2 Unknown ICMP messages types MUST be silently * discarded. */ 50 if (icmph->type > NR_ICMP_TYPES) goto error; $ perf probe icmp_rcv:43 'type=icmph->type' (2) $ cat trace-icmp.py [...] def trace_begin(): print "in trace_begin" def trace_end(): print "in trace_end" def probe__icmp_rcv(event_name, context, common_cpu, common_secs, common_nsecs, common_pid, common_comm, __probe_ip, type): print_header(event_name, common_cpu, common_secs, common_nsecs, common_pid, common_comm) print "__probe_ip=%u, type=%u\n" % \ (__probe_ip, type), [...] (3) $ perf record -a -D -e probe:icmp_rcv -o - | \ perf script -i - -s trace-icmp.py Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for pointing how to do it. Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20110112140613.GA11698@tugrik.mns.mnsspb.ru> Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-21perf probe: Fix line range description since a single file is allowedFranck Bui-Huu
$ perf-probe -L sched.c is currently allowed but not documented. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> LKML-Reference: <1292854685-8230-5-git-send-email-fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-21perf symbols: Add symfs option for off-box analysis using specified treeDavid Ahern
The symfs argument allows analysis of perf.data file using a locally accessible filesystem tree with debug symbols - e.g., tree created during image builds, sshfs mount, loop mounted KVM disk images, USB keys, initrds, etc. Anything with an OS tree can be analyzed from anywhere without the need to populate a local data store with build-ids. Commiter notes: o Fixed up symfs="/" variants handling. o prefixed DSO__ORIG_GUEST_KMODULE case with symfs too, avoiding use of files outside the symfs directory. LKML-Reference: <1291926427-28846-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-09perf report: Allow user to specify path to kallsyms fileDavid Ahern
This is useful for analyzing a perf data file on a different system than the one data was collected on and still include symbols from loaded kernel modules in the output. Commiter note: Updated the man page accordingly. LKML-Reference: <1291775986-16475-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-04perf tools: Ask for ID PERF_SAMPLE_ info on all PERF_RECORD_ eventsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
So that we can use -T == --timestamp, asking for PERF_SAMPLE_TIME: $ perf record -aT $ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_ <SNIP> 3 5951915425 0x47530 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff8138c1a2 period: 215979 cpu:3 3 5952026879 0x47588 [0x90]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff810cb480 period: 215979 cpu:3 3 5952059959 0x47618 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_FORK(6853:6853):(16811:16811) 3 5952138878 0x47650 [0x78]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff811bac35 period: 431478 cpu:3 3 5952375068 0x476c8 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: find:6853 3 5952395923 0x476f8 [0x50]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x400000(0x25000) @ 0]: /usr/bin/find 3 5952413756 0x47748 [0xa0]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 6853/6853: 0xffffffff810d080f period: 859332 cpu:3 3 5952419837 0x477e8 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44600000(0x21d000) @ 0]: /lib64/ld-2.5.so 3 5952437929 0x47840 [0x48]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x7fff7e1c9000(0x1000) @ 0x7fff7e1c9000]: [vdso] 3 5952570127 0x47888 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f46200000(0x218000) @ 0]: /lib64/libselinux.so.1 3 5952623637 0x478e0 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44a00000(0x356000) @ 0]: /lib64/libc-2.5.so 3 5952675720 0x47938 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44e00000(0x204000) @ 0]: /lib64/libdl-2.5.so 3 5952710080 0x47990 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f45a00000(0x246000) @ 0]: /lib64/libsepol.so.1 3 5952847802 0x479e8 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 6853/6853: 0xffffffff813897f0 period: 1142536 cpu:3 <SNIP> First column is the cpu and the second the timestamp. That way we can investigate problems in the event stream. If the new perf binary is run on an older kernel, it will disable this feature automatically. Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <1291318772-30880-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-02Merge branch 'perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core
2010-12-01perf stat: Add csv-style outputStephane Eranian
This patch adds an option (-x/--field-separator) to print counts using a CSV-style output. The user can pass a custom separator. This makes it very easy to import counts directly into your favorite spreadsheet without having to write scripts. Example: $ perf stat --field-separator=, -a -- sleep 1 4009.961740,task-clock-msecs 13,context-switches 2,CPU-migrations 189,page-faults 9596385684,cycles 3493659441,instructions 872897069,branches 41562,branch-misses 22424,cache-references 1289,cache-misses Works also in non-aggregated mode: $ perf stat -x , -a -A -- sleep 1 CPU0,1002.526168,task-clock-msecs CPU1,1002.528365,task-clock-msecs CPU2,1002.523360,task-clock-msecs CPU3,1002.519878,task-clock-msecs CPU0,1,context-switches CPU1,5,context-switches CPU2,5,context-switches CPU3,6,context-switches CPU0,0,CPU-migrations CPU1,1,CPU-migrations CPU2,0,CPU-migrations CPU3,1,CPU-migrations CPU0,2,page-faults CPU1,6,page-faults CPU2,9,page-faults CPU3,174,page-faults CPU0,2399439771,cycles CPU1,2380369063,cycles CPU2,2399142710,cycles CPU3,2373161192,cycles CPU0,872900618,instructions CPU1,873030960,instructions CPU2,872714525,instructions CPU3,874460580,instructions CPU0,221556839,branches CPU1,218134342,branches CPU2,218161730,branches CPU3,218284093,branches CPU0,18556,branch-misses CPU1,1449,branch-misses CPU2,3447,branch-misses CPU3,12714,branch-misses CPU0,8330,cache-references CPU1,313844,cache-references CPU2,47993728,cache-references CPU3,826481,cache-references CPU0,272,cache-misses CPU1,5360,cache-misses CPU2,1342193,cache-misses CPU3,13992,cache-misses This second version adds the ability to name a separator and uses field-separator as the long option to be consistent with perf report. Commiter note: Since we enabled --big-num by default in 201e0b0 and -x can't be used with it, we need to notice if the user explicitely enabled or disabled -B, add code to disable big_num if the user didn't explicitely set --big_num when -x is used. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frederik Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> LKML-Reference: <4cf68aa7.0fedd80a.5294.1203@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01perf stat: Document missing optionsShawn Bohrer
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-12-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01perf test: Fix spelling mistake in documentationShawn Bohrer
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-13-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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