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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2022-07-25 11:31:22 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2022-07-25 17:55:51 -0300
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parentperf lock: Add lock aggregation enum (diff)
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perf lock: Add 'contention' subcommand
The 'perf lock contention' processes the lock contention events and displays the result like perf lock report. Right now, there's not much difference between the two but the lock contention specific features will come soon. $ perf lock contention contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller 238 1.41 ms 29.20 us 5.94 us spinlock update_blocked_averages+0x4c 1 902.08 us 902.08 us 902.08 us rwsem:R do_user_addr_fault+0x1dd 81 330.30 us 17.24 us 4.08 us spinlock _nohz_idle_balance+0x172 2 89.54 us 61.26 us 44.77 us spinlock do_anonymous_page+0x16d 24 78.36 us 12.27 us 3.27 us mutex pipe_read+0x56 2 71.58 us 59.56 us 35.79 us spinlock __handle_mm_fault+0x6aa 6 25.68 us 6.89 us 4.28 us spinlock do_idle+0x28d 1 18.46 us 18.46 us 18.46 us rtmutex exec_fw_cmd+0x21b 3 15.25 us 6.26 us 5.08 us spinlock tick_do_update_jiffies64+0x2c Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220725183124.368304-4-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ perf-lock - Analyze lock events
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'perf lock' {record|report|script|info}
+'perf lock' {record|report|script|info|contention}
DESCRIPTION
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@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ and statistics with this 'perf lock' command.
'perf lock info' shows metadata like threads or addresses
of lock instances.
+ 'perf lock contention' shows contention statistics.
+
COMMON OPTIONS
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