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2012-03-09perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tagStephane Eranian1-0/+13
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 tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIsStephane Eranian1-28/+94
This patches provides a way to handle legacy perf.data files. Legacy files are those using the older PERFFILE signature. For those, it is still necessary to detect endianness but without comparing their header->attr_size with the tool's own version as it may be different. Instead, we use a reference table for all known sizes from the legacy era. We try all the combinations for sizes and endianness. If we find a match, we proceed, otherwise we return: "incompatible file format". This is also done for the pipe-mode file format. 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: ravitillo@lbl.gov Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-19-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-09perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc()Stephane Eranian1-10/+9
This patches cleans up local variable types for msz and ret. They need to be size_t and ssize_t respectively. It also fixes a bug whereby perf would not read attr struct with a different size than what it knows about. 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: ravitillo@lbl.gov Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-18-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-09perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI revStephane Eranian1-5/+48
This patch allows perf to process perf.data files generated using an ABI that has a different perf_event_attr struct size, i.e., a different ABI version. The perf_event_attr can be extended, yet perf needs to cope with older perf.data files. Similarly, perf must be able to cope with a perf.data file which is using a newer version of the ABI than what it knows about. This patch adds read_attr(), a routine that reads a perf_event_attr struct from a file incrementally based on its advertised size. If the on-file struct is smaller than what perf knows, then the extra fields are zeroed. If the on-file struct is bigger, then perf only uses what it knows about, the rest is skipped. 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: ravitillo@lbl.gov Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-17-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-13perf tools: Factor out feature op to process header sectionsRobert Richter1-15/+29
There is individual code for each feature to process header sections. Adding a function pointer .process to struct feature_ops for keeping the implementation in separate functions. Code to process header sections is now a generic function. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328884916-5901-2-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>
2012-02-13perf tools: Moving code in header.cRobert Richter1-150/+150
Needed for later changes. No modified functionality. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328884916-5901-1-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>
2012-02-09perf tools: fix endianness detection in perf.dataStephane Eranian1-13/+64
The current version of perf detects whether or not the perf.data file is written in a different endianness using the attr_size field in the header of the file. This field represents sizeof(struct perf_event_attr) as known to perf record. If the sizes do not match, then perf tries the byte-swapped version. If they match, then the tool assumes a different endianness. The issue with the approach is that it assumes the size of perf_event_attr always has to match between perf record and perf report. However, the kernel perf_event ABI is extensible. New fields can be added to struct perf_event_attr. Consequently, it is not possible to use attr_size to detect endianness. This patch takes another approach by using the magic number written at the beginning of the perf.data file to detect endianness. The magic number is an eight-byte signature. It's primary purpose is to identify (signature) a perf.data file. But it could also be used to encode the endianness. The patch introduces a new value for this signature. The key difference is that the signature is written differently in the file depending on the endianness. Thus, by comparing the signature from the file with the tool's own signature it is possible to detect endianness. The new signature is "PERFILE2". Backward compatiblity with existing perf.data file is ensured. Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Roberto Agostino Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328187288-24395-15-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-01-24perf tools: Fix strlen() bug in perf_event__synthesize_event_type()Stephane Eranian1-1/+1
The event_type record has a max length for the event name. It's called MAX_EVENT_NAME. The name may be truncated to fit the max length. But the header.size still reflects the original name length. If that length is > MAX_EVENT_NAME, then the header.size field is bogus. Fix this by using the length of the name after the potential truncation. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120120094912.GA4882@quad Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-29perf tools: Fix feature-bits rework fallout, remove unused variableIngo Molnar1-3/+0
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lfckuwbl8m1ykb7t9ydsxe4r@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-23perf tools: Use for_each_set_bit() to iterate over feature flagsRobert Richter1-90/+28
This patch introduces the for_each_set_bit() macro and modifies feature implementation to use it. 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/1323248577-11268-8-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 tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature sectionRobert Richter1-9/+5
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 tools: Moving code in some filesRobert Richter1-249/+246
Needed for later changes. No modified functionality. 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/1323248577-11268-4-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 tools: Continue processing header on unknown featuresRobert Richter1-1/+1
A feature may be unknown if perf.data is created and parsed on different perf tool versions. This should not stop the header to be processed, instead continue processing it. 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/1323248577-11268-2-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 tools: Improve macros for struct feature_opsRobert Richter1-18/+22
Reducing duplication and line size by extending function names for print and write from a single name. 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/1323248577-11268-7-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>
2011-12-20Merge commit 'v3.2-rc6' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-1/+1
Merge reason: Update with the latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06perf header: Use event_name() to get an event nameAndrew Vagin1-1/+1
perf_evsel.name may be not initialized 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: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: devel@openvz.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322471015-107825-2-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_toolArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-14/+14
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 Melo1-16/+12
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 Melo1-14/+22
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 event: perf_event_ops->attr() manipulates only an evlistArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-11/+8
Removing another case where a perf_session is required when processing events. 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-ug1wtjbnva4bxwknflkkrlrh@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28perf symbols: Add nr_events to symbol_confArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+2
Since symbol__alloc_hists need it, to avoid passing it around in many functions have it in the symbol_conf struct. 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-cwv8ysvpywzjq4v3xtbd4zwv@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-26perf header: Fix build on old systemsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+1
For instance, on Fedora 8: CC /home/acme/git/build/perf/util/header.o cc1: warnings being treated as errors util/header.c: In function ‘write_cpudesc’: util/header.c:281: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getline’ util/header.c:281: warning: nested extern declaration of ‘getline’ make: *** [/home/acme/git/build/perf/util/header.o] Error 1 make: Leaving directory `/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf' [acme@localhost linux]$ This happens due to header ordering, in perf util.h sets _GNU_SOURCE, so it must come first. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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-alfra9wao63euguj7gr8jw7e@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-20perf tools: Fix tracing info recordingJiri Olsa1-4/+23
Fixing the way the tracing information is stored within record command. The current implementation is causing issues for pipe output. Following commands fail currently: perf script syscall-counts ls perf record -e syscalls:sys_exit_read ls | ./perf report -i - The tracing information is part of the perf data file. It contains several files from within the tracing debugfs and procs directories. Beside some static header files, for each tracing event the format file is added. The /proc/kallsyms file is also added. The tracing data are stored with preceeding size. This is causing some dificulties for pipe output, since there's no way to tell debugfs/proc file size before reading it. So, for pipe output, all the debugfs files were read twice. Once to get the overall size and once to store the content itself. This can cause problem in case any of these file changed, within the storage time. To fix this behaviour and ensure the integrity of the tracing data, we: - read debugfs/proc file into the temp file - get temp file size and dump it to the pipe - dump the temp file contents to the pipe Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111020135943.GD2092@jolsa.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-19perf tools: handle endianness of feature bitmapDavid Ahern1-11/+31
Feature bitmap is declared as an array of unsigned longs -- not good since its size can differ between the host that generated the data file and the host analyzing the file. We need to handle endianness, but we don't know the size of the unsigned long where the file was generated. Take a best guess at determining it: try 64-bit swap first (ie., file created on a 64-bit host), and check if the hostname feature bit is set (this feature bit is forced on as of fbe96f2). If the bit is not, undo the 64-bit swap and try a 32-bit swap. If the hostname bit is still not set (e.g., older data file), punt and fallback to the original behavior -- clearing all feature bits and setting buildid. 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: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318980841-12616-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-19perf script: Fix unknown feature commentDavid Ahern1-0/+15
"perf script -v" emits: unknown feature 3, continuing... unknown feature 4, continuing... unknown feature 5, continuing... unknown feature 6, continuing... unknown feature 7, continuing... unknown feature 8, continuing... unknown feature 9, continuing... unknown feature 10, continuing... unknown feature 11, continuing... unknown feature 12, continuing... unknown feature 13, continuing... unknown feature 14, continuing... These are all new features added by fbe96f2. Update perf_file_section__process to know they are valid feature ids. 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: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318984464-20650-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-14perf buildid: Fix possible unterminated readlink() result bufferThomas Jarosch1-1/+1
The readlink function doesn't guarantee that a '\0' will be put at the end of the provided buffer if there is no space left. No need to do "buf[len] = '\0';" since the buffer is allocated with zalloc(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E986ABF.9040706@intra2net.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-07perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8)Stephane Eranian1-31/+1114
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>
2011-08-11perf report: Use properly build_id kernel binariesJiri Olsa1-1/+10
If we bring the recorded perf data together with kernel binary from another machine using: on server A: perf archive on server B: tar xjvf perf.data.tar.bz2 -C ~/.debug the build_id kernel dso is not properly recognized during the "perf report" command on server B. The reason is, that build_id dsos are added during the session initialization, while the kernel maps are created during the sample event processing. The machine__create_kernel_maps functions ends up creating new dso object for kernel, but it does not check if we already have one added by build_id processing. Also the build_id reading ABI quirk added in commit: - commit b25114817a73bbd2b84ce9dba02ee1ef8989a947 perf build-id: Add quirk to deal with perf.data file format breakage populates the "struct build_id_event::pid" with 0, which is later interpreted as DEFAULT_GUEST_KERNEL_ID. This is not always correct, so it's better to guess the pid value based on the "struct build_id_event::header::misc" value. - Tested with data generated on x86 kernel version v2.6.34 and reported back on x86_64 current kernel. - Not tested for guest kernel case. Note the problem stays for PERF_RECORD_MMAP events recorded by perf that does not use proper pid (HOST_KERNEL_ID/DEFAULT_GUEST_KERNEL_ID). They are misinterpreted within the current perf code. Probably there's not much we can do about that. Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110601194346.GB1934@jolsa.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-07-22perf buildid-cache: Zero out buffer of filenames when adding/removing buildidHan Pingtian1-4/+4
The readlink() function doesn't append a null byte to buf. So we should zero out buf with zalloc(). Or we'll see sometimes error like this: [root@intel-s3e36-01]~# /usr/bin/perf buildid-cache -a /lib/modules/2.6.32-130.el6.x86_64/kernel/crypto/twofish_common.ko -v Adding f64ba8efd5f53c7ad332fc17db1d21de309038e1 /lib/modules/2.6.32-130.el6.x86_64/kernel/crypto/twofish_common.ko: Ok [root@intel-s3e36-01]~# /usr/bin/perf buildid-cache -r /lib/modules/2.6.32-130.el6.x86_64/kernel/crypto/twofish_common.ko -v Removing f64ba8efd5f53c7ad332fc17db1d21de309038e1 /lib/modules/2.6.32-130.el6.x86_64/kernel/crypto/twofish_common.ko: FAIL /lib/modules/2.6.32-130.el6.x86_64/kernel/crypto/twofish_common.ko wasn't in the cache The change in build_id_cache__add_s() is a defense. Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110718031314.GA5802@hpt.nay.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Han Pingtian <phan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-07-21perf tools: Fix endian conversion reading event attr from file headerDavid Ahern1-1/+4
The perf_event_attr struct has two __u32's at the top and they need to be swapped individually. With this change I was able to analyze a perf.data collected in a 32-bit PPC VM on an x86 system. I tested both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries for the Intel analysis side; both read the PPC perf.data file correctly. -v2: - changed the existing perf_event__attr_swap() to swap only elements of perf_event_attr and exported it for use in swapping the attributes in the file header - updated swap_ops used for processing events Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310754849-12474-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-26perf symbols: Handle /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrictArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+6
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>
2011-05-22perf tools: Move evlist sample helpers to evlist areaFrederic Weisbecker1-31/+0
These APIs should belong to evlist.c as they may not be exclusively tied to the headers. 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: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com
2011-03-23perf build-id: Add quirk to deal with perf.data file format breakageArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+56
The a1645ce1 changeset: "perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host" Added a field to struct build_id_event that broke the file format. Since the kernel build-id is the first entry, process the table using the old format if the well known '[kernel.kallsyms]' string for the kernel build-id has the first 4 characters chopped off (where the pid_t sits). Reported-by: Han Pingtian <phan@redhat.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.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> Cc: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-15Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-309/+226
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (184 commits) perf probe: Clean up probe_point_lazy_walker() return value tracing: Fix irqoff selftest expanding max buffer tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracer tracing: Export trace_set_clr_event() tracing: Explain about unstable clock on resume with ring buffer warning ftrace/graph: Trace function entry before updating index ftrace: Add .ref.text as one of the safe areas to trace tracing: Adjust conditional expression latency formatting. tracing: Fix event alignment: skb:kfree_skb tracing: Fix event alignment: mce:mce_record tracing: Fix event alignment: kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall tracing: Fix event alignment: module:module_request tracing: Fix event alignment: ftrace:context_switch and ftrace:wakeup tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry perf header: Stop using 'self' perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributes perf top: Don't let events to eat up whole header line perf top: Fix events overflow in top command ring-buffer: Remove unused #include <linux/trace_irq.h> tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option. ...
2011-03-10perf header: Stop using 'self'Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-100/+99
Stop using this python/OOP convention, doesn't really helps. Will do more from time to time till we get it cleaned up in all of tools/perf. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> 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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-10perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-141/+84
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>
2011-03-09perf symbols: Avoid resolving [kernel.kallsyms] to real path for buildid cacheLin Ming1-3/+8
kallsyms has a virtual file name [kernel.kallsyms]. Currently, it can't be added to buildid cache successfully because the code (build_id_cache__add_s) tries to resolve [kernel.kallsyms] to a real absolute pathname and that fails. Fixes it by not resolving it and just use the name [kernel.kallsyms]. So dir ~/.debug/[kernel.kallsyms] is created. Original bug report at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/1/524 Tested-by: Han Pingtian <phan@redhat.com> Cc: Han Pingtian <phan@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1299165837-27817-1-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-06perf tools: Improve support for sessions with multiple eventsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-31/+0
By creating an perf_evlist out of the attributes in the perf.data file header, so that we can use evlists and evsels when reading recorded sessions in addition to when we record sessions. More work is needed to allow tools to allow the user to select which events are wanted when browsing sessions, be it just one or a subset of them, aggregated or showed at the same time but with different indications on the UI to allow seeing workloads thru different views at the same time. But the overall goal/trend is to more uniformly use evsels and evlists. 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>
2011-02-07perf tool: Fix gcc 4.6.0 issuesKyle McMartin1-1/+1
GCC 4.6.0 in Fedora rawhide turned up some compile errors in tools/perf due to the -Werror=unused-but-set-variable flag. I've gone through and annotated some of the assignments that had side effects (ie: return value from a function) with the __used annotation, and in some cases, just removed unused code. In a few cases, we were assigning something useful, but not using it in later parts of the function. kyle@dreadnought:~/src% gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.6.0 20110122 (Red Hat 4.6.0-0.3) Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20110124161304.GK27353@bombadil.infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> [ committer note: Fixed up the annotation fixes, as that code moved recently ] 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 Melo1-40/+43
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>
2011-01-22perf evsel: Introduce perf_evlistArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-7/+10
Killing two more perf wide global variables: nr_counters and evsel_list as a list_head. There are more operations that will need more fields in perf_evlist, like the pollfd for polling all the fds in a list of evsel instances. Use option->value to pass the evsel_list to parse_{events,filters}. LKML-Reference: <new-submission> 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> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-22perf tools: Fix 64 bit integer format stringsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+2
Using %L[uxd] has issues in some architectures, like on ppc64. Fix it by making our 64 bit integers typedefs of stdint.h types and using PRI[ux]64 like, for instance, git does. Reported by Denis Kirjanov that provided a patch for one case, I went and changed all cases. Reported-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org> Tested-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <20110120093246.GA8031@hera.kernel.org> Cc: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.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: Pingtian Han <phan@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-04Merge branch 'perf/test' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-8/+7
2011-01-04Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc8' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-4/+6
Merge reason: pick up latest -rc. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-03perf util: Move do_read from session to utilArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-3/+3
Not really something to be exported from session.c. Rename it to 'readn' as others did in the past. 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>
2011-01-03perf tools: Introduce event selectorsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-5/+4
Out of ad-hoc code and global arrays with hard coded sizes. This is the first step on having a library that will be first used on regression tests in the 'perf test' tool. [acme@felicio linux]$ size /tmp/perf.before text data bss dec hex filename 1273776 97384 5104416 6475576 62cf38 /tmp/perf.before [acme@felicio linux]$ size /tmp/perf.new text data bss dec hex filename 1275422 97416 1392416 2765254 2a31c6 /tmp/perf.new 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>
2010-12-16perf buildid-cache: Fix symbolic link handlingFranck Bui-Huu1-4/+6
This was broken since link(2) doesn't dereference symbolic links. Instead 'filename' becomes a symbolic link to the same file that 'name' refers to. This had the bad effect to create dangling symlinks in the case that even can't be removed with perf-buildid-cache(1). LKML-Reference: <m38vzxxrql.fsf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-16Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-3/+8
Merge reason: We want to apply a dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-06perf tools: Catch a few uncheck calloc/malloc'sChris Samuel1-0/+3
There were a few stray calloc()'s and malloc()'s which were not having their return values checked for success. As the calling code either already coped with failure or didn't actually care we just return -ENOMEM at that point. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> LKML-Reference: <4CDDF95A.1050400@csamuel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-04perf tools: Ask for ID PERF_SAMPLE_ info on all PERF_RECORD_ eventsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+18
So that we can use -T == --timestamp, asking for PERF_SAMPLE_TIME: $ perf record -aT $ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_ <SNIP> 3 5951915425 0x47530 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff8138c1a2 period: 215979 cpu:3 3 5952026879 0x47588 [0x90]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff810cb480 period: 215979 cpu:3 3 5952059959 0x47618 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_FORK(6853:6853):(16811:16811) 3 5952138878 0x47650 [0x78]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff811bac35 period: 431478 cpu:3 3 5952375068 0x476c8 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: find:6853 3 5952395923 0x476f8 [0x50]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x400000(0x25000) @ 0]: /usr/bin/find 3 5952413756 0x47748 [0xa0]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 6853/6853: 0xffffffff810d080f period: 859332 cpu:3 3 5952419837 0x477e8 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44600000(0x21d000) @ 0]: /lib64/ld-2.5.so 3 5952437929 0x47840 [0x48]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x7fff7e1c9000(0x1000) @ 0x7fff7e1c9000]: [vdso] 3 5952570127 0x47888 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f46200000(0x218000) @ 0]: /lib64/libselinux.so.1 3 5952623637 0x478e0 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44a00000(0x356000) @ 0]: /lib64/libc-2.5.so 3 5952675720 0x47938 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44e00000(0x204000) @ 0]: /lib64/libdl-2.5.so 3 5952710080 0x47990 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f45a00000(0x246000) @ 0]: /lib64/libsepol.so.1 3 5952847802 0x479e8 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 6853/6853: 0xffffffff813897f0 period: 1142536 cpu:3 <SNIP> First column is the cpu and the second the timestamp. That way we can investigate problems in the event stream. If the new perf binary is run on an older kernel, it will disable this feature automatically. Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <1291318772-30880-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>