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2012-03-09perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tagStephane Eranian1-0/+3
This patch adds a new feature bit, namely, HEADER_BRANCH_STACK. When present, it indicates that sample records may contain branch stack. This could be useful to a viewer to switch to branch mode without having to parse all the samples or without a specific cmdline option. This will be used in a subsequent patch to enhance perf report with branch stacks. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: asharma@fb.com Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331246868-19905-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-09perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode optionStephane Eranian1-25/+43
This patch chanegs the logic of the -b, --branch-stack options of perf record. Based on users' request, the patch provides a default filter mode with the -b (or --branch-any) option. With the option, any type of taken branches is sampled. With -j (or --branch-filter), the user can specify any valid combination of branch types and privilege levels if supported by the underlying hardware. The -b (--branch any) is a shortcut for: --branch-filter any. $ perf record -b foo or: $ perf record --branch-filter any foo For more specific filtering: $ perf record --branch-filter ind_call,u foo Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: asharma@fb.com Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331246868-19905-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-09perf record: Add support for sampling taken branchRoberto Agostino Vitillo1-0/+74
This patch adds a new option to enable taken branch stack sampling, i.e., leverage the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK feature of perf_events. There is a new option to active this mode: -b. It is possible to pass a set of filters to select the type of branches to sample. The following filters are available: - any : any type of branches - any_call : any function call or system call - any_ret : any function return or system call return - any_ind : any indirect branch - u: only when the branch target is at the user level - k: only when the branch target is in the kernel - hv: only when the branch target is in the hypervisor Filters can be combined by passing a comma separated list to the option: $ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy Signed-off-by: Roberto Agostino Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: asharma@fb.com Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-13-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-14perf tools: Invert the sample_id_all logicArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-4/+3
Instead of requiring that users of perf_record_opts set .sample_id_all_avail to true, just invert the logic, using .sample_id_all_missing, that doesn't need to be explicitely initialized since gcc will zero members ommitted in a struct initialization. Just like the newly introduced .exclude_{guest,host} feature test. 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-ab772uzk78cwybihf0vt7kxw@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-02-14perf tools: Handle kernels that don't support attr.exclude_{guest,host}Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-9/+20
Just fall back to resetting those fields, if set, warning the user that that feature is not available. If guest samples appear they will just be discarded because no struct machine will be found and thus the event will be accounted as not handled and dropped, see 0c09571. Reported-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Tested-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.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-vuwxig36mzprl5n7nzvnxxsh@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-02-13perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, topDavid Ahern1-6/+4
Allow a user to collect events for multiple threads or processes using a comma separated list. e.g., collect data on a VM and its vhost thread: perf top -p 21483,21485 perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd perf record -p 21483,21485 or monitoring vcpu threads perf top -t 21488,21489 perf stat -t 21488,21489 -ddd perf record -t 21488,21489 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/1328718772-16688-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-02-09perf record: No build id option failsDavid Ahern1-2/+2
A recent refactoring of perf-record introduced the following: perf record -a -B Couldn't generating buildids. Use --no-buildid to profile anyway. sleep: Terminated I believe the triple negative was meant to be only a double negative. :-) While I'm there, fixed the grammar on the error message. 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: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328567272-13190-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-02-02perf record: Make feature initialization genericRobert Richter1-19/+9
Loop over all features to enable it instead of explicitly enabling every single feature. Reducing duplicate code and making it more robust to later changes e.g. when adding more features. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323966762-8574-3-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>
2012-01-24perf tools: Introduce per user viewArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+10
The new --uid command line option will show only the tasks for a given user, using the proc interface to figure out the existing tasks. Kernel work is needed to close races at startup, but this should already be useful in many use cases. 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-bdnspm000gw2l984a2t53o8z@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature sectionRobert Richter1-0/+7
The features HEADER_TRACE_INFO and HEADER_BUILD_ID are handled different when writing the feature section. All other features are simply disabled on failure and writing the section goes on without returning an error. There is no reason for these special cases. This patch unifies handling of the features. This should be ok since all features can be parsed independently. Offset and size of a feature's block is stored in struct perf_file_ section right after the data block of perf.data (see perf_session__ write_header()). Thus, if a feature does not exist then other features can be processed anyway. Also moving special code for HEADER_BUILD_ID out to write_build_id(). v2: * perf record throws an error now if buildids may not be generated, which can be disabled with the --no-buildid option. 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/1323248577-11268-6-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 Elhage1-0/+3
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>
2011-12-23perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM.Nelson Elhage1-1/+8
This failure is most likely due to running up against the kernel.perf_event_mlock_kb sysctl, so we can tell the user what to do to fix the issue. 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/1324301972-22740-3-git-send-email-nelhage@nelhage.com Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-20perf record: Add ability to record event periodAndrew Vagin1-0/+1
The problem is that when SAMPLE_PERIOD is not set, the kernel generates a number of samples in proportion to an event's period. Number of these samples may be too big and the kernel throttles all samples above a defined limit. E.g.: I want to trace when a process sleeps. I created a process which sleeps for 1ms and for 4ms. perf got 100 events in both cases. swapper 0 [000] 1141.371830: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=1386750 [ns] swapper 0 [000] 1141.369444: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=4499585 [ns] In the first case a kernel want to send 4499585 events and in the second case it wants to send 1386750 events. perf-reports shows that process sleeps in both places equal time. Instead of this we can get only one sample with an attribute period. As result we have less data transferring between kernel and user-space and we avoid throttling of samples. The patch "events: Don't divide events if it has field period" added a kernel part of this functionality. Acked-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: devel@openvz.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324391565-1369947-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-29perf evlist: Always do automatic allocation of pollfd and mmap structuresArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-6/+0
At first tools were required to do that, but while writing the python bindings to simplify the API I made them auto-allocate when needed. This just makes record, stat and top use that auto allocation, simplifying them a bit. 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-iokhcvkzzijr3keioubx8hlq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_toolArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-17/+18
To better reflect that it became the base class for all tools, that must be in each tool struct and where common stuff will be put. 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-qgpc4msetqlwr8y2k7537cxe@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28perf tools: Resolve machine earlier and pass it to perf_event_opsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-21/+17
Reducing the exposure of perf_session further, so that we can use the classes in cases where no perf.data file is created. 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-stua66dcscsezzrcdugvbmvd@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28perf tools: Pass tool context in the the perf_event_ops functionsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-168/+215
So that we don't need to have that many globals. Next steps will remove the 'session' pointer, that in most cases is not needed. Then we can rename perf_event_ops to 'perf_tool' that better describes this class hierarchy. 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-wp4djox7x6w1i2bab1pt4xxp@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28perf record: Move 'group' to perf_event_opsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-5/+4
Will be used in other tools to share the command line parsing code. 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-8x0yr77r6lrd2t699s499m8n@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28perf record: Move mmap_pages to perf_record_optsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-4/+5
Tools being developed will need this to allow the user to override this value. 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-zydc1yhxfm0z35fuy95bsn1l@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28perf evlist: Handle default value for 'pages' on mmap methodArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-4/+0
Every tool that calls this and allows the user to override the value needs this logic. 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-lwscxpg57xfzahz5dmdfp9uz@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28perf evlist: Introduce {prepare,start}_workload refactored from 'perf record'Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-68/+13
So that we can easily start a workload in other 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-zdsksd4aphu0nltg2lpwsw3x@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28perf evsel: Introduce config attr methodArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-132/+48
Out of the code in 'perf record', so that we can share option parsing, etc. Eventually will be used by 'perf top', but first 'trace' will use it. 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-hzjqsgnte1esk90ytq0ap98v@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-26perf ui: Rename ui__warning_paranoid to ui__error_paranoidArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+1
As it will exit the tool after the user is notified. 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-vy06m8xzlvkhr8tk7nylhbng@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-26perf evlist: Fix grouping of multiple eventsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+9
The __perf_evsel__open routing was grouping just the threads for that specific events per cpu when we want to group all threads in all events to the first fd opened on that cpu. So pass the xyarray with the first event, where the other events will be able to get that first per cpu fd. At some point top and record will switch to using perf_evlist__open that takes care of this detail and probably will also handle the fallback from hw to soft counters, etc. Reported-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dczhu@mips.com> Tested-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dczhu@mips.com> 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-ebm34rh098i9y9v4cytfdp0x@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 Eranian1-0/+15
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>
2011-10-06Merge commit 'v3.1-rc9' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-0/+3
Merge reason: pick up latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-09-29perf tools: Make stat/record print fatal signals of the target programAndi Kleen1-2/+17
When a program crashes under perf there is no message about it, unlike when running it from bash. This can be confusing and lead to wrong actions during debugging. Print fatal signals in perf stat/record. Thanks to Furat Afram for finding the problem originally Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1316122302-24306-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org 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>
2011-09-23perf record: Create events initially disabled and enable after initDavid Ahern1-0/+3
perf-record currently creates events enabled. When doing a system wide collection (-a arg) this causes data collection for perf's initialization activities -- eg., perf_event__synthesize_threads(). For some events (e.g., context switch S/W event or tracepoints like syscalls) perf's initialization causes a lot of events to be captured frequently generating "Check IO/CPU overload!" warnings on larger systems (e.g., 2 socket, quad core, hyperthreading). perf's initialization phase can be skipped by creating events disabled and then enabling them once the initialization is done. 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/1314289075-14706-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-08-18perf tools: Add group event scheduling option to perf record/statLin Ming1-1/+3
Group event scheduling command line option is missing in perf record/stat. Add it to perf record/stat, which is same as in perf top. Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313577727.2754.5.camel@hp6530s Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-07-25perf evlist: Introduce 'disable' methodArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-17/+2
To remove the last case of access to the FD() macro outside the library. Inspired by a patch by Borislav that moved the FD() macro to util.h, for namespace concerns I rather preferred to constrain it to ev{sel,list}.c. Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.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-qn893qsstcg366tkucu649qj@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-07-21perf tools: De-opt the parse_events functionJiri Olsa1-1/+1
Moving out the option parameter from parse_events function, and adding new parse_events_option function instead. The option parameter is used only to carry "struct perf_evlist" pointer for chaining new events. Putting it away, enable us to call parse_events from other places without using the option parameter. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: paulus@samba.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310635534-4013-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-27perf tools: Make sure kptr_restrict warnings fit 80 col termsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-11/+8
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-i1p8vrhq7xveyui6t1sc914e@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-26perf symbols: Handle /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrictArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+13
Perf uses /proc/modules to figure out where kernel modules are loaded. With the advent of kptr_restrict, non root users get zeroes for all module start addresses. So check if kptr_restrict is non zero and don't generate the syntethic PERF_RECORD_MMAP events for them. Warn the user about it in perf record and in perf report. In perf report the reference relocation symbol being zero means that kptr_restrict was set, thus /proc/kallsyms has only zeroed addresses, so don't use it to fixup symbol addresses when using a valid kallsyms (in the buildid cache) or vmlinux (in the vmlinux path) build-id located automatically or specified by the user. Provide an explanation about it in 'perf report' if kernel samples were taken, checking if a suitable vmlinux or kallsyms was found/specified. Restricted /proc/kallsyms don't go to the buildid cache anymore. Example: [acme@emilia ~]$ perf record -F 100000 sleep 1 WARNING: Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) are restricted, check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict. Samples in kernel functions may not be resolved if a suitable vmlinux file is not found in the buildid cache or in the vmlinux path. Samples in kernel modules won't be resolved at all. If some relocation was applied (e.g. kexec) symbols may be misresolved even with a suitable vmlinux or kallsyms file. [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.005 MB perf.data (~231 samples) ] [acme@emilia ~]$ [acme@emilia ~]$ perf report --stdio Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) were restricted, check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict before running 'perf record'. If some relocation was applied (e.g. kexec) symbols may be misresolved. Samples in kernel modules can't be resolved as well. # Events: 13 cycles # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................. ..................... # 20.24% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] page_fault 20.04% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] filemap_fault 19.78% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __lru_cache_add 19.69% sleep ld-2.12.so [.] memcpy 14.71% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] dput 4.70% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] flush_signal_handlers 0.73% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] perf_event_comm 0.11% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr_safe # # (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso) # [acme@emilia ~]$ This is because it found a suitable vmlinux (build-id checked) in /lib/modules/2.6.39-rc7+/build/vmlinux (use -v in perf report to see the long file name). If we remove that file from the vmlinux path: [root@emilia ~]# mv /lib/modules/2.6.39-rc7+/build/vmlinux \ /lib/modules/2.6.39-rc7+/build/vmlinux.OFF [acme@emilia ~]$ perf report --stdio [kernel.kallsyms] with build id 57298cdbe0131f6871667ec0eaab4804dcf6f562 not found, continuing without symbols Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) were restricted, check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict before running 'perf record'. As no suitable kallsyms nor vmlinux was found, kernel samples can't be resolved. Samples in kernel modules can't be resolved as well. # Events: 13 cycles # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................. ...... # 80.31% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] 0xffffffff8103425a 19.69% sleep ld-2.12.so [.] memcpy # # (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso) # [acme@emilia ~]$ Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mt512joaxxbhhp1odop04yit@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-15perf evlist: Fix per thread mmap setupArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+1
The PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT ioctl was returning -EINVAL when using --pid when monitoring multithreaded apps, as we can only share a ring buffer for events on the same thread if not doing per cpu. Fix it by using per thread ring buffers. Tested with: [root@felicio ~]# tuna -t 26131 -CP | nl 1 thread ctxt_switches 2 pid SCHED_ rtpri affinity voluntary nonvoluntary cmd 3 26131 OTHER 0 0,1 10814276 2397830 chromium-browse 4 642 OTHER 0 0,1 14688 0 chromium-browse 5 26148 OTHER 0 0,1 713602 115479 chromium-browse 6 26149 OTHER 0 0,1 801958 2262 chromium-browse 7 26150 OTHER 0 0,1 1271128 248 chromium-browse 8 26151 OTHER 0 0,1 3 0 chromium-browse 9 27049 OTHER 0 0,1 36796 9 chromium-browse 10 618 OTHER 0 0,1 14711 0 chromium-browse 11 661 OTHER 0 0,1 14593 0 chromium-browse 12 29048 OTHER 0 0,1 28125 0 chromium-browse 13 26143 OTHER 0 0,1 2202789 781 chromium-browse [root@felicio ~]# So 11 threads under pid 26131, then: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 --pid 26131 [root@felicio ~]# grep perf_event /proc/`pidof perf`/maps | nl 1 7fa4a2538000-7fa4a25b9000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 2 7fa4a25b9000-7fa4a263a000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 3 7fa4a263a000-7fa4a26bb000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 4 7fa4a26bb000-7fa4a273c000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 5 7fa4a273c000-7fa4a27bd000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 6 7fa4a27bd000-7fa4a283e000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 7 7fa4a283e000-7fa4a28bf000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 8 7fa4a28bf000-7fa4a2940000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 9 7fa4a2940000-7fa4a29c1000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 10 7fa4a29c1000-7fa4a2a42000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 11 7fa4a2a42000-7fa4a2ac3000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] [root@felicio ~]# 11 mmaps, one per thread since we didn't specify any CPU list, so we need one mmap per thread and: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 --pid 26131 ^M ^C[ perf record: Woken up 79 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 20.614 MB perf.data (~900639 samples) ] [root@felicio ~]# perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE | cut -d/ -f2 | cut -d: -f1 | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr | nl 1 371310 26131 2 96516 26148 3 95694 26149 4 95203 26150 5 7291 26143 6 87 27049 7 76 661 8 60 29048 9 47 618 10 43 642 [root@felicio ~]# Ok, one of the threads, 26151 was quiescent, so no samples there, but all the others are there. Then, if I specify one CPU: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 --pid 26131 --cpu 1 ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.680 MB perf.data (~29730 samples) ] [root@felicio ~]# perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE | cut -d/ -f2 | cut -d: -f1 | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr | nl 1 8444 26131 2 2584 26149 3 2518 26148 4 2324 26150 5 123 26143 6 9 661 7 9 29048 [root@felicio ~]# This machine has two cores, so fewer threads appeared on the radar, and: [root@felicio ~]# grep perf_event /proc/`pidof perf`/maps | nl 1 7f484b922000-7f484b9a3000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] [root@felicio ~]# Just one mmap, as now we can use just one per-cpu buffer instead of the per-thread needed in the previous case. For global profiling: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 -a ^C[ perf record: Woken up 26 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 7.128 MB perf.data (~311412 samples) ] [root@felicio ~]# grep perf_event /proc/`pidof perf`/maps | nl 1 7fb49b435000-7fb49b4b6000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 2 7fb49b4b6000-7fb49b537000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] [root@felicio ~]# It uses per-cpu buffers. For just one thread: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 --tid 26148 ^C[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.330 MB perf.data (~14426 samples) ] [root@felicio ~]# perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE | cut -d/ -f2 | cut -d: -f1 | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr | nl 1 9969 26148 [root@felicio ~]# [root@felicio ~]# grep perf_event /proc/`pidof perf`/maps | nl 1 7f286a51b000-7f286a59c000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] [root@felicio ~]# Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.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> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110426204401.GB1746@ghostprotocols.net Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-04-15perf evsel: Fix use of inheritArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+5
perf stat doesn't mmap and its perfectly fine for it to use task-bound counters with inheritance. So set the attr.inherit on the caller and leave the syscall itself to validate it. When the mmap fails perf_evlist__mmap will just emit a warning if this is the failure reason. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> 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> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110414170121.GC3229@ghostprotocols.net Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-31perf: mmap 512 kiB by defaultFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+5
The default setting of perf record is to mmap 128 pages if the user did not override with -m. However the page size may vary accross different architecture settings, giving different default size between each. Moreover the kernel side still has a default max number of mlocked pages of 512 kiB + 1 page for unprivileged users. 128 + 1 pages with page size > 4096 overlaps this threshold. Thus, better adapt to this limitation and set the default number of pages to fit those 512 kiB + 1 page. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <1301535324-9735-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-29perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT returnDavid Ahern1-1/+9
Resend of patch sent back in January 2011 in light of recent confusion around unsupported events for a given platform. Improve sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return handling in top and record, just like 5a3446b does for stat. Retry of Arnaldo's patch using ui_warning instead of die which allows the fallback from hardware cycles to software clock. 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> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org LKML-Reference: <1301080271-20945-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> [ committer note: Some adjustments to make it apply to newer codebase ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-29perf tools: Fixup exit path when not able to open eventsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-5/+4
We have to deal with the TUI mode in perf top, so that we don't end up with a garbled screen when, say, a non root user on a machine with a paranoid setting (the default) tries to use 'perf top'. Introduce a ui__warning_paranoid() routine shared by top and record that tells the user the valid values for /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid. 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>
2011-03-10perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-66/+35
So that we can reuse things like the id to attr lookup routine (perf_evlist__id2evsel) that uses a hash table instead of the linear lookup done in the older perf_header_attr routines, etc. Also to make evsels/evlist more pervasive an API, simplyfing using the emerging perf lib. cc: Arun Sharma <arun@sharma-home.net> 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>
2011-03-02perf: Set filters before mmaping eventsFrederic Weisbecker1-12/+6
We currently set the filters after we mmap the events, this is a race that let undesired events record themselves in the buffer before we had the time to set the filters. So set the filters before they can be recorded. That also librarizes the filters setting so that filtering can be done more easily from other tools than perf record later. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-17perf record: Delay setting the header writing atexit callArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-5/+5
While testing the --filter option I noticed that we were writing lots of unneeded stuff to the perf.data header when the filter ioctl fails, so move the atexit(atexit_header) call to after we create the counters successfully. 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 tool: Add cgroup supportStephane Eranian1-0/+9
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>
2011-02-11Merge remote branch 'acme/perf/urgent' into perf/coreArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-3/+3
Fixups due to rename of event_t routines from event__ to perf_event__ done in perf/core. Conflicts: tools/perf/builtin-record.c tools/perf/builtin-top.c tools/perf/util/event.c tools/perf/util/event.h Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-02-10perf tools: Fix thread_map event synthesizing in top and recordArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+2
Jeff Moyer reported these messages: Warning: ... trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks couldn't open /proc/-1/status couldn't open /proc/-1/maps [ls output] [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.008 MB perf.data (~363 samples) ] That lead me and David Ahern to see that something was fishy on the thread synthesizing routines, at least for the case where the workload is started from 'perf record', as -1 is the default for target_tid in 'perf record --tid' parameter, so somehow we were trying to synthesize the PERF_RECORD_MMAP and PERF_RECORD_COMM events for the thread -1, a bug. So I investigated this and noticed that when we introduced support for recording a process and its threads using --pid some bugs were introduced and that the way to fix it was to instead of passing the target_tid to the event synthesizing routines we should better pass the thread_map that has the list of threads for a --pid or just the single thread for a --tid. Checked in the following ways: On a 8-way machine run cyclictest: [root@emilia ~]# perf record cyclictest -a -t -n -p99 -i100 -d50 policy: fifo: loadavg: 0.00 0.13 0.31 2/139 28798 T: 0 (28791) P:99 I:100 C: 25072 Min: 4 Act: 5 Avg: 6 Max: 122 T: 1 (28792) P:98 I:150 C: 16715 Min: 4 Act: 6 Avg: 5 Max: 27 T: 2 (28793) P:97 I:200 C: 12534 Min: 4 Act: 5 Avg: 4 Max: 8 T: 3 (28794) P:96 I:250 C: 10028 Min: 4 Act: 5 Avg: 5 Max: 96 T: 4 (28795) P:95 I:300 C: 8357 Min: 5 Act: 6 Avg: 5 Max: 12 T: 5 (28796) P:94 I:350 C: 7163 Min: 5 Act: 6 Avg: 5 Max: 12 T: 6 (28797) P:93 I:400 C: 6267 Min: 4 Act: 5 Avg: 5 Max: 9 T: 7 (28798) P:92 I:450 C: 5571 Min: 4 Act: 5 Avg: 5 Max: 9 ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.108 MB perf.data (~4719 samples) ] [root@emilia ~]# This will create one extra thread per CPU: [root@emilia ~]# tuna -t cyclictest -CP thread ctxt_switches pid SCHED_ rtpri affinity voluntary nonvoluntary cmd 28825 OTHER 0 0xff 2169 671 cyclictest 28832 FIFO 93 6 52338 1 cyclictest 28833 FIFO 92 7 46524 1 cyclictest 28826 FIFO 99 0 209360 1 cyclictest 28827 FIFO 98 1 139577 1 cyclictest 28828 FIFO 97 2 104686 0 cyclictest 28829 FIFO 96 3 83751 1 cyclictest 28830 FIFO 95 4 69794 1 cyclictest 28831 FIFO 94 5 59825 1 cyclictest [root@emilia ~]# So we should expect only samples for the above 9 threads when using the --dump-raw-trace|-D perf report switch to look at the column with the tid: [root@emilia ~]# perf report -D | grep RECORD_SAMPLE | cut -d/ -f2 | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c 629 28825 110 28826 491 28827 308 28828 198 28829 621 28830 225 28831 203 28832 89 28833 [root@emilia ~]# So for workloads started by 'perf record' seems to work, now for existing workloads, just run cyclictest first, without 'perf record': [root@emilia ~]# tuna -t cyclictest -CP thread ctxt_switches pid SCHED_ rtpri affinity voluntary nonvoluntary cmd 28859 OTHER 0 0xff 594 200 cyclictest 28864 FIFO 95 4 16587 1 cyclictest 28865 FIFO 94 5 14219 1 cyclictest 28866 FIFO 93 6 12443 0 cyclictest 28867 FIFO 92 7 11062 1 cyclictest 28860 FIFO 99 0 49779 1 cyclictest 28861 FIFO 98 1 33190 1 cyclictest 28862 FIFO 97 2 24895 1 cyclictest 28863 FIFO 96 3 19918 1 cyclictest [root@emilia ~]# and then later did: [root@emilia ~]# perf record --pid 28859 sleep 3 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.027 MB perf.data (~1195 samples) ] [root@emilia ~]# To collect 3 seconds worth of samples for pid 28859 and its children: [root@emilia ~]# perf report -D | grep RECORD_SAMPLE | cut -d/ -f2 | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c 15 28859 33 28860 19 28861 13 28862 13 28863 10 28864 11 28865 9 28866 255 28867 [root@emilia ~]# Works, last thing is to check if looking at just one of those threads also works: [root@emilia ~]# perf record --tid 28866 sleep 3 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.006 MB perf.data (~242 samples) ] [root@emilia ~]# perf report -D | grep RECORD_SAMPLE | cut -d/ -f2 | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c 3 28866 [root@emilia ~]# Works too. Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.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> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-31perf evlist: Store pointer to the cpu and thread mapsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-28/+16
So that we don't have to pass it around to the several methods that needs it, simplifying usage. There is one case where we don't have the thread/cpu map in advance, which is in the parsing routines used by top, stat, record, that we have to wait till all options are parsed to know if a cpu or thread list was passed to then create those maps. For that case consolidate the cpu and thread map creation via perf_evlist__create_maps() out of the code in top and record, while also providing a perf_evlist__set_maps() for cases where multiple evlists share maps or for when maps that represent CPU sockets, for instance, get crafted out of topology information or subsets of threads in a particular application are to be monitored, providing more granularity in specifying which cpus and threads to monitor. 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>
2011-01-29perf tools: Kill event_t typedef, use 'union perf_event' insteadArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-26/+30
And move the event_t methods to the perf_event__ too. No code changes, just namespace consistency. 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>
2011-01-29perf tools: Rename 'struct sample_data' to 'struct perf_sample'Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+1
Making the namespace more uniform. 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>
2011-01-29perf record: No need to check for overwritesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-19/+3
As we open the mmap with (PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE), signalling the kernel with perf_mmap__write_tail() when consuming data, so the kernel will not overwrite. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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>
2011-01-24perf threads: Move thread_map to separate fileArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+1
To untangle it from struct thread handling, that is tied to symbols, etc. Right now in the python bindings I'm working on I need just a subset of the util/ files, untangling it allows me to do that. 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>
2011-01-24perf record: auto detect when stdout is a pipeFranck Bui-Huu1-12/+20
This patch gives the ability to 'perf record' to detect when its stdout has been redirected to a pipe. There's now no more need to add '-o -' switch in this case. However '-o <path>' option has always precedence, that is if specified and stdout has been connected via a pipe then the output will go into the specified output. LKML-Reference: <m3ipxo966i.fsf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>