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2014-11-19perf tools: Only override the default :tid comm entryAdrian Hunter1-3/+2
Events may still be ordered even if there are no timestamps e.g. if the data is recorded per-thread. Also synthesized COMM events have a timestamp of zero. Consequently it is better to keep comm entries even if they have a timestamp of zero. However, when a struct thread is created the command string is not known and a comm entry with a string of the form ":<tid>" is used. In that case thread->comm_set is false and the comm entry should be overridden. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415715423-15563-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-11-03perf tools: Add a thread stack for synthesizing call chainsAdrian Hunter1-0/+3
Add a thread stack for synthesizing call chains from call and return events. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1414678188-14946-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-10-29perf tools: A thread's machine can be found via thread->mg->machineArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-3/+1
So stop passing both machine and thread to several thread methods, reducing function signature length. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> 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-ckcy19dcp1jfkmdihdjcqdn1@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-10-29perf tools: Set thread->mg.machine in all placesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+1
We were setting this only in machine__init(), i.e. for the map_groups that holds the kernel module maps, not for the one used for a thread's executable mmaps. Now we are sure that we can obtain the machine where a thread is by going via thread->mg->machine, thus we can, in the following patch, make all codepaths that receive machine _and_ thread, drop the machine one. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> 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-y6zgaqsvhrf04v57u15e4ybm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-10-29perf callchain: Use global caching provided by libunwindNamhyung Kim1-0/+3
The libunwind provides two caching policy which are global and per-thread. As perf unwinds callchains in a single thread, it'd sufficient to use global caching. This speeds up my perf report from 14s to 7s on a ~260MB data file. Although the output sometimes contains a slight difference (~0.01% in terms of number of lines printed) on callchains which were not resolved. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412556363-26229-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-10-15perf callchain: Create an address space per threadNamhyung Kim1-0/+6
The unw_addr_space_t in libunwind represents an address space to be used for stack unwinding. It doesn't need to be create/destory everytime to unwind callchain (as in get_entries) and can have a same lifetime as thread (unless exec called). So move the address space construction/destruction logic to the thread lifetime handling functions. This is a preparation to enable caching in the unwind library. Note that it saves unw_addr_space_t object using thread__set_priv(). It seems currently only used by perf trace and perf kvm stat commands which don't use callchain. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412556363-26229-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org [ Fixup unwind-libunwind.c missing CALLCHAIN_DWARF definition, added missing __maybe_unused on unused parameters in stubs at util/unwind.h ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-08-13perf tools: Identify which comms are from execAdrian Hunter1-5/+19
For grouping together all the data from a single execution, which is needed for pairing calls and returns e.g. any outstanding calls when a process exec's will never return. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406786474-9306-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com [ Remove testing if comm->exec is false before setting it to true ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-07-23perf tools: Add cpu to struct threadAdrian Hunter1-0/+1
Tools may wish to track on which cpu a thread is running. Add 'cpu' to struct thread for that purpose. This will be used to determine the cpu when decoding a per-thread Instruction Trace. E.g: Intel PT decoding uses sched_switch events to determine which task is running on which cpu. The Intel PT data comes straight from the hardware which doesn't know about linux threads. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406035081-14301-16-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-07-17perf tools: Remove verbose from functions prototypesJiri Olsa1-2/+2
And use verbose as an global object in following functions: __map_groups__fprintf_maps __map_groups__fprintf_removed_maps map_groups__fprintf_maps map_groups__fprintf Also making map_groups__fprintf_maps static. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1405374411-29012-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-07-17perf thread: Allow deletion of a thread with no map groupsAdrian Hunter1-2/+4
It needs to be possible to call thread__delete() on a thread with no map groups. This is needed for a subsequent patch which deletes a thread on the error path before map groups have been attached. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1405495184-20441-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-07-16perf machine: Fix the value used for unknown pidsAdrian Hunter1-1/+1
The value used for unknown pids cannot be zero because that is used by the "idle" task. Use -1 instead. Also handle the unknown pid case when creating map groups. Note that, threads with an unknown pid should not occur because fork (or synthesized) events precede the thread's existence. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1405332185-4050-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-04-28perf tools: Share map_groups among threads of the same groupJiri Olsa1-13/+35
Sharing map groups within all process threads. This way there's only one copy of mmap info and it's reachable from any thread within the process. Original-patch-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397490723-1992-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-04-28perf tools: Reference count map_groups objectsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+1
We will share it among threads in the same process. Adding map_groups__get/map_groups__put interface for that. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397490723-1992-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-04-28perf tools: Allocate thread map_groups's dynamicallyArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-6/+12
Moving towards sharing map groups within a process threads. Because of this we need the map groups to be dynamically allocated. No other functional change is intended in here. Based on a patch by Jiri Olsa, but this time _just_ making the conversion from statically allocating thread->mg to turning it into a pointer and instead of initializing it at thread's constructor, introduce a constructor/destructor for the map_groups class and call at thread creation time. Later we will introduce the get/put methods when we move to sharing those map_groups, when the get/put refcounting semantics will be needed. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397490723-1992-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-03-14perf symbols: Introduce thread__find_cpumode_addr_locationArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+21
Its one level up thread__find_addr_location, where it will look in different domains for a sample: user, kernel, hypervisor, etc. Will soon be used by a patchkit by Andi Kleen. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> 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-so6nxkh7xj48bc5kq4jpj991@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-01-16perf tools: Do proper comm override error handlingFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+4
The comm overriding API ignores memory allocation failures by silently keeping the previous and out of date comm. As a result, the user may get buggy events without ever being notified about the problem and its source. Lets start to fix this by propagating the error from the API. Not all callers may be doing proper error handling on comm set yet but this is the first step toward it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389713836-13375-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-12-13perf tools: Fix inverted error verification bug in thread__forkDavid Ahern1-1/+1
Commit 1902efe7f for the new comm infra added the wrong check for return code on thread__set_comm. err == 0 is normal, so don't return at that point unless err != 0. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386736538-23525-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-11-19perf tools: Tag thread comm as overridenFrederic Weisbecker1-6/+5
The problem is that when a thread overrides its default ":%pid" comm, we forget to tag the thread comm as overriden. Hence, this overriden comm is not inherited on future forks. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131116010207.GA18855@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-11-04perf tools: Get current comm instead of last oneNamhyung Kim1-3/+3
At insert time, a hist entry should reference comm at the time otherwise it'll get the last comm anyway. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-n6pykiiymtgmcjs834go2t8x@git.kernel.org [ Fixed up const pointer issues ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-11-04perf tools: Add new COMM infrastructureFrederic Weisbecker1-24/+68
This new COMM infrastructure provides two features: 1) It keeps track of all comms lifecycle for a given thread. This way we can associate a timeframe to any thread COMM, as long as PERF_SAMPLE_TIME samples are joined to COMM and fork events. As a result we should have more precise COMM sorted hists with seperated entries for pre and post exec time after a fork. 2) It also makes sure that a given COMM string is not duplicated but rather shared among the threads that refer to it. This way the threads COMM can be compared against pointer values from the sort infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@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> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-hwjf70b2wve9m2kosxiq8bb3@git.kernel.org [ Rename some accessor functions ] Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> [ Use __ as separator for class__method for private comm_str methods ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-11-04perf tools: Add time argument on COMM settingFrederic Weisbecker1-2/+4
This way we can later delimit a lifecycle for the COMM and map a hist to a precise COMM:timeslice couple. PERF_RECORD_COMM and PERF_RECORD_FORK events that don't have PERF_SAMPLE_TIME samples can only send 0 value as a timestamp and thus should overwrite any previous COMM on a given thread because there is no sensible way to keep track of all the comms lifecycles in a thread without time informations. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6tyow99vgmmtt9qwr2u2lqd7@git.kernel.org [ Made it cope with PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-11-04perf tools: Use an accessor to read thread commFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+6
As the thread comm is going to be implemented by way of a more complicated data structure than just a pointer to a string from the thread struct, convert the readers of comm to use an accessor instead of accessing it directly. The accessor will be later overriden to support an enhanced comm implementation. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@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> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wr683zwy94hmj4ibogmnv9ce@git.kernel.org [ Rename thread__comm_curr() to thread__comm_str() ] Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> [ Fixed up some minor const pointer issues ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-10-23perf tools: Stop using 'self' in some more placesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-36/+36
As suggested by tglx, 'self' should be replaced by something that is more useful. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@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> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fmblhc6tbb99tk1q8vowtsbj@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-08-27perf tools: Add pid to struct threadAdrian Hunter1-1/+2
Record pid on struct thread. The member is named 'pid_' to avoid confusion with the 'tid' member which was previously named 'pid'. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377522030-27870-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-07-12perf tools: struct thread has a tid not a pidAdrian Hunter1-5/+5
As evident from 'machine__process_fork_event()' and 'machine__process_exit_event()' the 'pid' member of struct thread is actually the tid. Rename 'pid' to 'tid' in struct thread accordingly. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372944040-32690-13-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-28perf tools: Save parent pid in thread structDavid Ahern1-0/+4
Information is available, so why not save it in case some command wants to use it. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369543631-5106-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-12-09perf machine: Move more machine methods to machine.cArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-17/+3
Mechanical, no functional changes. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> 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-9ib6qtqge1jmms2luwu4udbx@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-24Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-1/+0
Pick up v3.7-rc2 and fixes before applying more patches. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-22perf tools: do not flush maps on COMM for perf reportLuigi Semenzato1-1/+0
This fixes a long-standing bug caused by the lack of separate COMM and EXEC record types, which makes "perf report" lose track of symbols when a process renames itself. With this fix (suggested by Stephane Eranian), a COMM (rename) no longer flushes the maps, which is the correct behavior. An EXEC also no longer flushes the maps, but this doesn't matter because as new mappings are created (for the executable and the libraries) the old mappings are automatically removed. This is not by accident: the functionality is necessary because DLLs can be explicitly loaded at any time with dlopen(), possibly on top of existing text, so "perf report" handles correctly the clobbering of new mappings on top of old ones. An alternative patch (which I proposed earlier) would be to introduce a separate PERF_RECORD_EXEC type, but it is a much larger change (about 300 lines) and is not necessary. Signed-off-by: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@chromium.org> Tested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345585940-6497-1-git-send-email-semenzato@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-06perf machine: Introduce find_thread methodArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-40/+1
There are cases where we want just to find a thread if it exists already, so provide a method for that. While doing that start moving 'machine' methods to a separate file. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> 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-8wpzqs9kfupng6xq8hx6lnxa@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28perf session: Move threads to struct machineArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-3/+3
The 'machine' abstraction was introduced with 'perf kvm' where we could have samples for the host and multiple guests, but at the time we ended up keeping the list of all machines threads all in session->host_machine. Move the threads rb_tree to struct machine to separate the namespaces. 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-mdg7sm6j3va09vtgj49gbsrp@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-24perf threads: Move thread_map to separate fileArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-55/+0
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>
2011-01-04perf tools: Refactor all_tids to hold nr and the mapArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-14/+29
So that later, we can pass the thread_map instance instead of (thread_num, thread_map) for things like perf_evsel__open and friends, just like was done with cpu_map. 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>
2010-07-30perf tools: Release thread resources on PERF_RECORD_EXITArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+7
For long running sessions with many threads with short lifetimes the amount of memory that the buildid process takes is too much. Since we don't have hist_entries that may be pointing to them, we can just release the resources associated with each thread when the exit (PERF_RECORD_EXIT) event is received. For normal processing we need to annotate maps with hits, and thus hist_entries pointing to it and drop the ones that had none. Will be done in a followup patch. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.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>
2010-07-01perf tools: Fix find tids routine by excluding "." and ".."Gui Jianfeng1-1/+10
Introduce a filter function to skip "." and ".." directories when calculating tid number, otherwise tid 0 will be included in the all_tid result array. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <4C185F68.1020505@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-02perf symbols: Move more map_groups methods to map.cArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-167/+2
While writing a standalone test app that uses the symbol system to find kernel space symbols I noticed these also need to be moved. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-03-26perf symbols: Move map related routines to map.cArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-53/+0
Thru series of refactorings functions were being renamed but not moved to map.c to reduce patch noise, now lets have them in the same place so that use of the symbol system by tools can be constrained to building and linking fewer source files: symbol.c, map.c and rbtree.c. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1269557941-15617-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-18perf events: Change perf parameter --pid to process-wide collection instead of thread-wideZhang, Yanmin1-0/+32
Parameter --pid (or -p) of perf currently means a thread-wide collection. For exmaple, if a process whose id is 8888 has 10 threads, 'perf top -p 8888' just collects the main thread statistics. That's misleading. Users are used to attach a whole process when debugging a process by gdb. To follow normal usage style, the patch change --pid to process-wide collection and add --tid (-t) to mean a thread-wide collection. Usage example is: # perf top -p 8888 # perf record -p 8888 -f sleep 10 # perf stat -p 8888 -f sleep 10 Above commands collect the statistics of all threads of process 8888. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: zhiteng.huang@intel.com Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1268922965-14774-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-10perf report: Print the map table just after samples for which no map was foundArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-3/+3
If -vv is used just the map table will be printed, -vvv will print the symbol table too, with it we can see that we have a bug where some samples are not being resolved to a map when we get them in the perf.data stream, but after we have it all processed, we can find the right map, some reordering probably is happening. Upcoming patches will provide ways to ask for most PERF_SAMPLE_ conditional samples to be taken for !PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE events too, then we'll be able to ask for PERF_SAMPLE_TIME and PERF_SAMPLE_CPU to help diagnose this. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1268161097-17761-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-10perf tools: Don't trow away old map slices not overlapped by new mapsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-3/+32
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1267800842-22324-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-26perf tools: Flush maps on COMM eventsDavid S. Miller1-4/+30
Even though we don't register the counters until the child is right about to exec(), we're still going to get at least a few events while the fork()'d child is still executing 'perf' and in particular we're going to get the MMAP events. We can't distinguish the ones in the newly executed process because the PID will be the same. One way to solve this would be to have a PERF_RECORD_EXEC event, and when this is seen 'perf' can flush it's map cache. We can't use PERF_RECORD_COMM since that's generated by other things, not just exec(). Actually, thinking about it some more, using PERF_RECORD_COMM might be a good enough approximation. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1267196914-16238-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25perf symbols: Improve debugging information about symtab originsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-5/+0
Be more clear about DSO long names and tell from which file kernel symbols were obtained, all in --verbose mode: [root@mica ~]# perf report -v > /dev/null Looking at the vmlinux_path (5 entries long) Using /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-tip-00777-g0918527-dirty/build/vmlinux for symbols [root@mica ~]# mv /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-tip-00777-g0918527-dirty/build/vmlinux /tmp/dd [root@mica ~]# perf report -v > /dev/null Looking at the vmlinux_path (5 entries long) Using /proc/kallsyms for symbols [root@mica ~]# Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1266866139-6361-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-21perf tools: Don't use parent comm if not set at fork timeArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-6/+12
As the parent comm then is worthless, confusing users about the thread where the sample really happened, leading to think that the sample happened in the parent, not where it really happened, in the children of a thread for which a PERF_RECORD_COMM event was not received. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1266627727-19715-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-04perf symbols: Remove perf_session usage in symbols layerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+1
I noticed while writing the first test in 'perf regtest' that to just test the symbol handling routines one needs to create a perf session, that is a layer centered on a perf.data file, events, etc, so I untied these layers. This reduces the complexity for the users as the number of parameters to most of the symbols and session APIs now was reduced while not adding more state to all the map instances by only having data that is needed to split the kernel (kallsyms and ELF symtab sections) maps and do vmlinux relocation on the main kernel map. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14perf session: Move kmaps to perf_sessionArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+2
There is still some more work to do to disentangle map creation from DSO loading, but this happens only for the kernel, and for the early adopters of perf diff, where this disentanglement matters most, we'll be testing different kernels, so no problem here. Further clarification: right now we create the kernel maps for the various modules and discontiguous kernel text maps when loading the DSO, we should do it as a two step process, first creating the maps, for multiple mappings with the same DSO store, then doing the dso load just once, for the first hit on one of the maps sharing this DSO backing store. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1260741029-4430-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14perf session: Move the global threads list to perf_sessionArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-12/+10
So that we can process two perf.data files. We still need to add a O_MMAP mode for perf_session so that we can do all the mmap stuff in it. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1260741029-4430-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14perf session: Register the idle thread in perf_session__process_eventsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-12/+0
No need for all tools to register it and then immediately call perf_session__process_events. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1260741029-4430-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-12perf symbols: Add missing "Variables" entry to map_type__nameArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1260552208-6824-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-12perf symbols: Rename kthreads to kmaps, using another abstraction for itArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-27/+35
Using a struct thread instance just to hold the kernel space maps (vmlinux + modules) is overkill and confuses people trying to understand the perf symbols abstractions. The kernel maps are really present in all threads, i.e. the kernel is a library, not a separate thread. So introduce the 'map_groups' abstraction and use it for the kernel maps, now in the kmaps global variable. It, in turn, will move, together with the threads list to the perf_file abstraction, so that we can support multiple perf_file instances, needed by perf diff. Brainstormed-with: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1260550239-5372-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-27perf tools: Consolidate symbol resolving across all toolsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+12
Now we have a very high level routine for simple tools to process IP sample events: int event__preprocess_sample(const event_t *self, struct addr_location *al, symbol_filter_t filter) It receives the event itself and will insert new threads in the global threads list and resolve the map and symbol, filling all this info into the new addr_location struct, so that tools like annotate and report can further process the event by creating hist_entries in their specific way (with or without callgraphs, etc). It in turn uses the new next layer function: void thread__find_addr_location(struct thread *self, u8 cpumode, enum map_type type, u64 addr, struct addr_location *al, symbol_filter_t filter) This one will, given a thread (userspace or the kernel kthread one), will find the given type (MAP__FUNCTION now, MAP__VARIABLE too in the near future) at the given cpumode, taking vdsos into account (userspace hit, but kernel symbol) and will fill all these details in the addr_location given. Tools that need a more compact API for plain function resolution, like 'kmem', can use this other one: struct symbol *thread__find_function(struct thread *self, u64 addr, symbol_filter_t filter) So, to resolve a kernel symbol, that is all the 'kmem' tool needs, its just a matter of calling: sym = thread__find_function(kthread, addr, NULL); The 'filter' parameter is needed because we do lazy parsing/loading of ELF symtabs or /proc/kallsyms. With this we remove more code duplication all around, which is always good, huh? :-) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1259346563-12568-12-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>