From 005438a8eef063495ac059d128eea71b58de50e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:02:09 -0300 Subject: perf trace: Support 'strace' syscall event groups I.e.: $ cat ~/share/perf-core/strace/groups/file access chmod creat execve faccessat getcwd lstat mkdir open openat quotactl readlink rename rmdir stat statfs symlink unlink $ Then, on a quiet desktop, try running this and then moving your mouse to see the deluge of mouse related activity: # perf probe 'vfs_getname=getname_flags:72 pathname=filename:string' Added new event: probe:vfs_getname (on getname_flags:72 with pathname=filename:string) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:vfs_getname -aR sleep 1 # # trace --ev probe:vfs_getname --filter-pids 2232 -e file 0.042 (0.042 ms): mousetweaks/2235 open(filename: 0x14e3910, mode: 438 ) ... 0.042 ( ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff812230bc) pathname="/home/acme/.icons/Adwaita/cursors/xterm") 0.100 (0.100 ms): mousetweaks/2235 ... [continued]: open()) = -1 ENOENT No such file or directory 0.142 (0.018 ms): mousetweaks/2235 open(filename: 0x14c3c10, mode: 438 ) ... 0.142 ( ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff812230bc) pathname="/home/acme/.icons/Adwaita/index.theme") 0.192 (0.069 ms): mousetweaks/2235 ... [continued]: open()) = -1 ENOENT No such file or directory 0.230 (0.017 ms): mousetweaks/2235 open(filename: 0x14c3c10, mode: 438 ) ... 0.230 ( ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff812230bc) pathname="/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/cursors/xterm") 0.253 (0.041 ms): mousetweaks/2235 ... [continued]: open()) = 14 0.459 (0.008 ms): mousetweaks/2235 open(filename: 0x14e3910, mode: 438 ) ... 0.459 ( ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff812230bc) pathname="/home/acme/.icons/Adwaita/cursors/left_side") 0.468 (0.017 ms): mousetweaks/2235 ... [continued]: open()) = -1 ENOENT No such file or directory Need to combine that raw_syscalls:sys_enter(open) + probe:vfs_getname + raw_syscalls:sys_exit(open) sequence... Now, if you're bored, please write some more syscall groups, like the ones in 'strace' and send it our way :-) Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Milian Wolff Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-a42xklu59lcbxp7bbnic74a8@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Build | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/Build') diff --git a/tools/perf/Build b/tools/perf/Build index b77370ef7005..72237455b400 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Build +++ b/tools/perf/Build @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ paths += -DPERF_MAN_PATH="BUILD_STR($(mandir_SQ))" CFLAGS_builtin-help.o += $(paths) CFLAGS_builtin-timechart.o += $(paths) CFLAGS_perf.o += -DPERF_HTML_PATH="BUILD_STR($(htmldir_SQ))" -include $(OUTPUT)PERF-VERSION-FILE +CFLAGS_builtin-trace.o += -DSTRACE_GROUPS_DIR="BUILD_STR($(STRACE_GROUPS_DIR_SQ))" libperf-y += util/ libperf-y += arch/ -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b