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2010-07-30perf tools: Release session and symbol resources on exitArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+4
So that we reduce the noise when looking for leaks using tools such as valgrind. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-07-29perf record: Release resources at exitArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-6/+26
So that we can reduce the noise on valgrind when looking for memory leaks. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-28Merge branch 'linus' into perf/coreThomas Gleixner1-1/+1
Reason: Further changes conflict with upstream fixes Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-06-25perf kvm: Get rid of unused guest_kallsymsGui Jianfeng1-9/+0
guest_kallsyms is redundant here, remove it. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <4C241140.9090008@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-17perf record: prevent kill(0, SIGTERM);Ian Munsie1-1/+1
At exit, perf record will kill the process it was profiling by sending a SIGTERM to child_pid (if it had been initialised), but in certain situations child_pid may be 0 and perf would mistakenly kill more processes than intended. child_pid is set to the return of fork() to either 0 or the pid of the child. Ordinarily this would not present an issue as the child calls execvp to spawn the process to be profiled and would therefore never run it's sig_atexit and never attempt to kill pid 0. However, if a nonexistant binary had been passed in to perf record the call to execvp would fail and child_pid would be left set to 0. The child would then exit and it's atexit handler, finding that child_pid was initialised to 0, would call kill(0, SIGTERM), resulting in every process within it's process group being killed. In the case that perf was being run directly from the shell this typically would not be an issue as the shell isolates the process. However, if perf was being called from another program it could kill unexpected processes, which may even include X. This patch changes the logic of the test for whether child_pid was initialised to only consider positive pids as valid, thereby never attempting to kill pid 0. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1276072680-17378-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-17perf record: Add option to avoid updating buildid cacheStephane Eranian1-0/+5
There are situations where there is enough information in the perf.data to process the samples. Updating the buildid cache may add unecessary overhead in terms of disk space and time (copying large elf images). A persistent option to do this already exists via the perfconfig file, simply do: [buildid] dir = /dev/null This patch provides a way to suppress builid cache updates on a per-run basis. It addds a new option, -N, to perf record. Buildids are still generated in the perf.data file. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4c19ef89.93ecd80a.40dc.fffff8e9@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-17perf record: Avoid synthesizing mmap() for all processes in per-thread modeStephane Eranian1-1/+1
A bug was introduced by commit c45c6ea2e5c57960dc67e00294c2b78e9540c007. Perf record was scanning /proc/PID to create synthetic PERF_RECOR_MMAP entries even though it was running in per-thread mode. There was a bogus check to select what mmaps to synthesize. We only need all processes in system-wide mode. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <4c192107.4f1ee30a.4316.fffff98e@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-09perf: Add non-exec mmap() trackingEric B Munson1-1/+3
Add the capacility to track data mmap()s. This can be used together with PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR for data profiling. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> [Updated code for stable perf ABI] Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1274193049-25997-1-git-send-email-ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-05perf report: Implement --sort cpuArun Sharma1-0/+3
In a shared multi-core environment, users want to analyze why their program was slow. In particular, if the code ran slower only on certain CPUs due to interference from other programs or kernel threads, the user should be able to notice that. Sample usage: perf record -f -a -- sleep 3 perf report --sort cpu,comm Workload: program is running on 16 CPUs Experiencing interference from an antagonist only on 4 CPUs. Samples: 106218177676 cycles Overhead CPU Command ........ ... ............... 6.25% 2 program 6.24% 6 program 6.24% 11 program 6.24% 5 program 6.24% 9 program 6.24% 10 program 6.23% 15 program 6.23% 7 program 6.23% 3 program 6.23% 14 program 6.22% 1 program 6.20% 13 program 3.17% 12 program 3.15% 8 program 3.14% 0 program 3.13% 4 program 3.11% 4 antagonist 3.11% 0 antagonist 3.10% 8 antagonist 3.07% 12 antagonist Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100505181612.GA5091@sharma-home.net> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <aruns@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-05perf tools: Add the ability to specify list of cpus to monitorStephane Eranian1-9/+14
This patch adds a -C option to stat, record, top to designate a list of CPUs to monitor. CPUs can be specified as a comma-separated list or ranges, no space allowed. Examples: $ perf record -a -C0-1,4-7 sleep 1 $ perf top -C0-4 $ perf stat -a -C1,2,3,4 sleep 1 With perf record in per-thread mode with inherit mode on, samples are collected only when the thread runs on the designated CPUs. The -C option does not turn on system-wide mode automatically. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frédéric 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: <4bff9496.d345d80a.41fe.7b00@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-01perf-record: Check correct pid when forkingBorislav Petkov1-2/+1
When forking the child to be traced, we should check the correct return value from fork() and not a local variable which is otherwise unused. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100531211818.GA30175@liondog.tnic> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-21perf-record: Share per-cpu buffersPeter Zijlstra1-24/+28
It seems a waste of space to create a buffer per event, share it per-cpu. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.634824884@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-21perf-record: Remove -MPeter Zijlstra1-24/+12
Since it is not allowed to create cross-cpu (or cross-task) buffers, this option is no longer valid. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.582740993@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-20perf record: remove unneeded gettimeofday() callRuss Anderson1-16/+1
Perf record repeatedly calls gettimeofday() which adds noise to the performance measurements. Since gettimeofday() is only used for the error printf, delete it. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100518225240.GC25589@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-18perf tools: Remove some unused functionsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+1
Without the bloated cplus_demangle from binutils, i.e building with: $ make NO_DEMANGLE=1 O=~acme/git/build/perf -j3 -C tools/perf/ install Before: text data bss dec hex filename 471851 29280 4025056 4526187 45106b /home/acme/bin/perf After: [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ size ~/bin/perf text data bss dec hex filename 446886 29232 4008576 4484694 446e56 /home/acme/bin/perf So its a 5.3% size reduction in code, but the interesting part is in the git diff --stat output: 19 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1909 deletions(-) If we ever need some of the things we got from git but weren't using, we just have to go to the git repo and get fresh, uptodate source code bits. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-17perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGERArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-5/+3
To avoid problems like the one fixed by Stephane Eranian in 3de29ca, now we'll got this instead: bench/sched-messaging.c:259: error: negative width in bit-field ‘<anonymous>’ bench/sched-messaging.c:261: error: negative width in bit-field ‘<anonymous>’ Which is rather cryptic, but is how BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO works, so kernel hackers should be already used to this. With it in place found some problems, fixed by changing the affected variables to sensible types or changed some OPT_INTEGER to OPT_UINTEGER. Next csets will go thru converting each of the remaining OPT_ so that review can be made easier by grouping changes per type per patch. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> 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>
2010-05-17perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definitionStephane Eranian1-6/+5
The -c option defines the user requested sampling period. It was implemented using an unsigned int variable but the type of the option was OPT_LONG. Thus, the option parser was overwriting memory belonging to other variables, namely the mmap_pages leading to a zero page sampling buffer. The bug was exposed only when compiling at -O0, probably because the compiler was padding variables at higher optimization levels. This patch fixes this problem by declaring user_interval as u64. This also avoids wrap-around issues for large period on 32-bit systems. Commiter note: Made it use OPT_U64(user_interval) after implementing OPT_U64 in the previous patch. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4bf11ae9.e88cd80a.06b0.ffffa8e3@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-13perf tools: change event inheritance logic in stat and recordStephane Eranian1-6/+6
By default, event inheritance across fork and pthread_create was on but the -i option of stat and record, which enabled inheritance, led to believe it was off by default. This patch fixes this logic by inverting the meaning of the -i option. By default inheritance is on whether you attach to a process (-p), a thread (-t) or start a process. If you pass -i, then you turn off inheritance. Turning off inheritance if you don't need it, helps limit perf resource usage as well. The patch also fixes perf stat -t xxxx and perf record -t xxxx which did not start the counters. Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4bea9d2f.d60ce30a.0b5b.08e1@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-09perf: Introduce a new "round of buffers read" pseudo eventFrederic Weisbecker1-10/+24
In order to provide a more rubust and deterministic reordering algorithm, we need to know when we reach a point where we just did a pass through over every counter buffers to read every thing they had. This patch introduces a new PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo event that only consist in an event header and doesn't need to contain anything. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
2010-05-05perf/record: simplify TRACE_INFO tracepoint checkTom Zanussi1-10/+1
Fix a couple of inefficiencies and redundancies related to have_tracepoints() and its use when checking whether to write TRACE_INFO. First, there's no need to use get_tracepoints_path() in have_tracepoints() - we really just want the part that checks whether any attributes correspondo to tracepoints. Second, we really don't care about raw_samples per se - tracepoints are always raw_samples. In any case, the have_tracepoints() check should be sufficient to decide whether or not to write TRACE_INFO. 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 <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1273030770.6383.6.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-03perf: record TRACE_INFO only if using tracepoints and SAMPLE_RAWTom Zanussi1-14/+21
The current perf code implicitly assumes SAMPLE_RAW means tracepoints are being used, but doesn't check for that. It happily records the TRACE_INFO even if SAMPLE_RAW is used without tracepoints, but when the perf data is read it won't go any further when it finds TRACE_INFO but no tracepoints, and displays misleading errors. This adds a check for both in perf-record, and won't record TRACE_INFO unless both are true. This at least allows perf report -D to dump raw events, and avoids triggering a misleading error condition in perf trace. It doesn't actually enable the non-tracepoint raw events to be displayed in perf trace, since perf trace currently only deals with tracepoint events. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1272865861.7932.16.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-02perf record: Don't exit in live mode when no tracepoints are enabledArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-6/+9
With this I was able to actually test Tom Zanussi's two previous patches in my usual perf testing ways, i.e. without any tracepoints activated. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-02perf: add perf-inject builtinTom Zanussi1-1/+1
Currently, perf 'live mode' writes build-ids at the end of the session, which isn't actually useful for processing live mode events. What would be better would be to have the build-ids sent before any of the samples that reference them, which can be done by processing the event stream and retrieving the build-ids on the first hit. Doing that in perf-record itself, however, is off-limits. This patch introduces perf-inject, which does the same job while leaving perf-record untouched. Normal mode perf still records the build-ids at the end of the session as it should, but for live mode, perf-inject can be injected in between the record and report steps e.g.: perf record -o - ./hackbench 10 | perf inject -v -b | perf report -v -i - perf-inject reads a perf-record event stream and repipes it to stdout. At any point the processing code can inject other events into the event stream - in this case build-ids (-b option) are read and injected as needed into the event stream. Build-ids are just the first user of perf-inject - potentially anything that needs userspace processing to augment the trace stream with additional information could make use of this facility. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1272696080-16435-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-02perf/live: don't synthesize build ids at the end of a live mode traceTom Zanussi1-7/+0
It doesn't really make sense to record the build ids at the end of a live mode session - live mode samples need that information during the trace rather than at the end. Leave event__synthesize_build_id() in place, however; we'll still be using that to synthesize build ids in a more timely fashion in a future patch. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1272696080-16435-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-27perf tools: Rename "kernel_info" to "machine"Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-19/+17
struct kernel_info and kerninfo__ are too vague, what they really describe are machines, virtual ones or hosts. There are more changes to introduce helpers to shorten function calls and to make more clear what is really being done, but I left that for subsequent patches. Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-19perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from hostZhang, Yanmin1-3/+60
Here is the patch of userspace perf tool. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-15Merge branch 'perf/live' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-7/+61
Conflicts: tools/perf/builtin-record.c Merge reason: add the live tracing feature, resolve conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-15perf: Make the trace events sample period default to 1Frederic Weisbecker1-14/+22
Trace events are mostly used for tracing and then require not to be lost when possible. As opposite to hardware events that really require to trigger after a given sample period, trace events mostly need to trigger everytime. It is a frustrating experience to trace with perf and realize we lost a lot of events because we forgot the "-c 1" option. Then default sample_period to 1 for trace events but let the user override it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-15perf: Make -f the default for perf recordFrederic Weisbecker1-15/+25
Force the overwriting mode by default if append mode is not explicit. Adding -f every time one uses perf on a daily basis quickly becomes a burden. Keep the -f among the options though to avoid breaking some random users scripts. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-14perf: Convert perf header build_ids into build_id eventsTom Zanussi1-3/+12
Bypasses the build_id perf header code and replaces it with a synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-9-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14perf: Convert perf tracing data into a tracing_data eventTom Zanussi1-0/+16
Bypasses the tracing_data perf header code and replaces it with a synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe. The tracing data is pretty large, and this patch doesn't attempt to break it down into component events. The tracing_data event itself doesn't actually contain the tracing data, rather it arranges for the event processing code to skip over it after it's read, using the skip return value added to the event processing loop in a previous patch. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-8-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14perf: Convert perf event types into event type eventsTom Zanussi1-0/+7
Bypasses the event type perf header code and replaces it with a synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-7-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14perf: Convert perf header attrs into attr eventsTom Zanussi1-0/+10
Bypasses the attr perf header code and replaces it with a synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe. Making the attrs into events allows them to be streamed over a pipe along with the rest of the header data (in later patches). It also paves the way to allowing events to be added and removed from perf sessions dynamically. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-6-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14perf record: Introduce special handling for pipe outputTom Zanussi1-3/+15
Adds special treatment for stdout - if the user specifies '-o -' to perf record, the intent is that the event stream be written to stdout rather than to a disk file. Also, redirect stdout of forked child to stderr - in pipe mode, stdout of the forked child interferes with the stdout perf stream, so redirect it to stderr where it can still be seen but won't be mixed in with the perf output. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14perf: Add pipe-specific header read/write and event processing codeTom Zanussi1-1/+1
This patch makes several changes to allow the perf event stream to be sent and received over a pipe: - adds pipe-specific versions of the header read/write code - adds pipe-specific version of the event processing code - adds a range of event types to be used for header or other pseudo events, above the range used by the kernel - checks the return value of event handlers, which they can use to skip over large events during event processing rather than actually reading them into event objects. - unifies the multiple do_read() functions and updates its users. Note that none of these changes affect the existing perf data file format or processing - this code only comes into play if perf output is sent to stdout (or is read from stdin). Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14perf: Fix endianness argument compatibility with OPT_BOOLEAN() and introduce OPT_INCR()Ian Munsie1-12/+12
Parsing an option from the command line with OPT_BOOLEAN on a bool data type would not work on a big-endian machine due to the manner in which the boolean was being cast into an int and incremented. For example, running 'perf probe --list' on a PowerPC machine would fail to properly set the list_events bool and would therefore print out the usage information and terminate. This patch makes OPT_BOOLEAN work as expected with a bool datatype. For cases where the original OPT_BOOLEAN was intentionally being used to increment an int each time it was passed in on the command line, this patch introduces OPT_INCR with the old behaviour of OPT_BOOLEAN (the verbose variable is currently the only such example of this). I have reviewed every use of OPT_BOOLEAN to verify that a true C99 bool was passed. Where integers were used, I verified that they were only being used for boolean logic and changed them to bools to ensure that they would not be mistakenly used as ints. The major exception was the verbose variable which now uses OPT_INCR instead of OPT_BOOLEAN. Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au.ibm.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # NOTE: wont apply to .3[34].x cleanly, please backport Cc: Git development list <git@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1271147857-11604-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-03perf tools: Move the prototypes in util/string.h to util.hArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+0
So that we avoid conflict with libc's string.h header. Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Suggested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-02perf record: Add a fallback to the reference relocation symbolArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+3
Usually "_text" is enough, but I received reports that its not always available, so fallback to "_stext" for the symbol we use to check if we need to apply any relocation to all the symbols in the kernel symtab, for when, for instance, kexec is being used. Reported-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-03-26perf record: Zero out mmap_array to fix segfaultZhang, Yanmin1-1/+1
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1269557941-15617-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-18perf events: Change perf parameter --pid to process-wide collection instead of thread-wideZhang, Yanmin1-101/+159
Parameter --pid (or -p) of perf currently means a thread-wide collection. For exmaple, if a process whose id is 8888 has 10 threads, 'perf top -p 8888' just collects the main thread statistics. That's misleading. Users are used to attach a whole process when debugging a process by gdb. To follow normal usage style, the patch change --pid to process-wide collection and add --tid (-t) to mean a thread-wide collection. Usage example is: # perf top -p 8888 # perf record -p 8888 -f sleep 10 # perf stat -p 8888 -f sleep 10 Above commands collect the statistics of all threads of process 8888. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: zhiteng.huang@intel.com Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1268922965-14774-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-18perf record: Enable counters only when kernel is execing subcommandZhang, Yanmin1-18/+15
'perf record' starts counters before subcommand is execed, so the statistics is not precise because it includes data of some preparation steps. I fix it with the patch. In addition, change the condition to fork/exec subcommand. If there is a subcommand parameter, perf always fork/exec it. The usage example is: # perf record -f -a sleep 10 So this command could collect statistics for 10 seconds precisely. User still could stop it by CTRL+C. Without the new capability, user could only input CTRL+C to stop it without precise time clock. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Cc: oerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: <zhiteng.huang@intel.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1268922965-14774-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-15perf record: Enable the enable_on_exec flag if record forks the targetEric B Munson1-5/+8
When forking its target, perf record can capture data from before the target application is started. Perf stat uses the enable_on_exec flag in the event attributes to keep from displaying events from before the target program starts, this patch adds the same functionality to perf record when it is will fork the target process. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1268664418-28328-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-12Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-4/+9
Merge reason: We want to queue up a dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11perf record: Mention paranoid sysctl when failing to create counterArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+2
[acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$ perf record -a -f Fatal: Permission error - are you root? Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid. [acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$ Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1268333592-30872-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11perf record: Don't try to find buildids in a zero sized fileArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+3
Fixing this symptom: [acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$ perf record -a -f Fatal: Permission error - are you root? Bus error [acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$ I.e. if for some reason no data is collected, in this case a non root user trying to do systemwide profiling, no data will be collected, and then we end up trying to mmap a zero sized file and access the file header, b00m. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1268333592-30872-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11perf tools: Fix sparse CPU numbering related bugsPaul Mackerras1-4/+3
At present, the perf subcommands that do system-wide monitoring (perf stat, perf record and perf top) don't work properly unless the online cpus are numbered 0, 1, ..., N-1. These tools ask for the number of online cpus with sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) and then try to create events for cpus 0, 1, ..., N-1. This creates problems for systems where the online cpus are numbered sparsely. For example, a POWER6 system in single-threaded mode (i.e. only running 1 hardware thread per core) will have only even-numbered cpus online. This fixes the problem by reading the /sys/devices/system/cpu/online file to find out which cpus are online. The code that does that is in tools/perf/util/cpumap.[ch], and consists of a read_cpu_map() function that sets up a cpumap[] array and returns the number of online cpus. If /sys/devices/system/cpu/online can't be read or can't be parsed successfully, it falls back to using sysconf to ask how many cpus are online and sets up an identity map in cpumap[]. The perf record, perf stat and perf top code then calls read_cpu_map() in the system-wide monitoring case (instead of sysconf) and uses cpumap[] to get the cpu numbers to pass to perf_event_open. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20100310093609.GA3959@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-10perf record: Add ID and to recorded event data when recording multiple eventsEric B Munson1-0/+3
Currently perf record does not write the ID or the to disk for events. This doesn't allow report to tell if an event stream contains one or more types of events. This patch adds this entry to the list of data that record will write to disk if more than one event was requested. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1267804269-22660-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-08perf record: Fix existing process callgraph symbolaustin_zhang@linux.intel.com1-1/+1
When 'perf record -g' a existing process, even with debuginfo packages, still cannnot get symbol from 'perf report'. try: perf record -g -p `pidof xxx` -f perf report 68.26% :1181 b74870f2 [.] 0x000000b74870f2 | |--32.09%-- 0xb73b5b44 | 0xb7487102 | 0xb748a4e2 | 0xb748633d | 0xb73b41cd | 0xb73b4467 | 0xb747d531 The reason is: for existing process, in __cmd_record(), the pid is 0 rather than the existing process id. Signed-off-by: Austin Zhang <austin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4710.10.255.24.35.1265389362.squirrel@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-04perf tools: Clean up O_LARGEFILE et al usageXiao Guangrong1-2/+1
Setting _FILE_OFFSET_BITS and using O_LARGEFILE, lseek64, etc, is redundant. Thanks H. Peter Anvin for pointing it out. So, this patch removes O_LARGEFILE, lseek64, etc. Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4B6A8972.3070605@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-04perf record: Stop intercepting events, use postprocessing to get build-idsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-19/+18
We want to stream events as fast as possible to perf.data, and also in the future we want to have splice working, when no interception will be possible. Using build_id__mark_dso_hit_ops to create the list of DSOs that back MMAPs we also optimize disk usage in the build-id cache by only caching DSOs that had hits. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>