This brings the support for DWARF cfi unwinding on perf post
processing. Call frame informations are retrieved and then passed
to libunwind that requests memory and register content from the
applications.
Adding unwind object to handle the user stack backtrace based
on the user register values and user stack dump.
The unwind object access the libunwind via remote interface
and provides to it all the necessary data to unwind the stack.
The unwind interface provides following function:
unwind__get_entries
And callback (specified in above function) to retrieve
the backtrace entries:
typedef int (*unwind_entry_cb_t)(struct unwind_entry *entry,
void *arg);
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-12-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
[ Replaced use of perf_session by usage of perf_evsel ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Removing perf_session->sample_type, as it can be obtained from the
evsel/evlist.
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-mnt1zwlik7sp7z6ljc9kyefg@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The pipeline:
perf record -a -g -o - sleep 5 |perf inject -v -b | perf report -g -i -
generates the warning:
Selected -g but no callchain data. Did you call 'perf record' without -g?
The problem is that the header data is not written to the pipe, so the
sample_type has not been available when perf_report__setup_sample_type
is called. For pipe mode, record dumps the sample type as part of the
synthesized events stream -- perf_event__synthesize_attrs(). Handle this
be detecting pipe mode and not doing early sanity checks on sample_type.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339444121-26236-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So that we don't use global variables that could make us misreport event
names when having a multi window top, for instance.
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-mccancovi1u0wdkg8ncth509@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf top -G has a race on callchain cursor between main thread and
display thread. Since the callchain cursors are used locally make them
thread-local data would solve the problem.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Reported-by: Sunjin Yang <fan4326@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sunjin Yang <fan4326@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338443007-24857-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In non symbolic views, i.e. --sort without "symbol", as in:
perf report --sort comm
We're segfaulting in the --tui because we're testing the symbol resolved
and then trying to use the symbol on the histogram entry where we're
coalescing all hits for a COMM, and the first hist_entry for a comm may
have a NULL symbol, i.e. the RIP didn't resolve to any symbol.
In this case we're segfaulting, fix it by testing against the symbol in
the histogram entry.
Reported-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.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: 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-8ylwubbcmu27ucc9ffrku3yv@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
There were places where use ui__warning (or even fprintf) to show
critical messages. This patch converts them to ui__error so that the
front-end code can implement appropriate behavior.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338265382-6872-3-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch:
"perf tools: Move parse event automated tests to separated object"
That depends on:
commit e7c72d8
perf tools: Add 'G' and 'H' modifiers to event parsing
Conflicts:
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
Conflicted with the recent 'perf_target' patches when checking the
result of perf_evsel open routines to see if a retry is needed to cope
with older kernels where the exclude guest/host perf_event_attr bits
were not used.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Now setup_browser can handle gtk2 front-end so split the TUI code to
ui/tui/setup.c in order to remove dependency.
To this end, make ui__init/exit global symbols and take an argument.
Also split gtk code to ui/gtk/setup.c.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335761711-31403-5-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We use double underscore characters to distinguish its subsystem and
actual function name.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335761711-31403-4-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
As perf doesn't allow to specify gtk command-line option, drop the
arguments and pass NULL to gtk_init().
This makes the function easier to be called from setup_browser().
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335761711-31403-3-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
While testing https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/10/123 I hit this crash:
(gdb) bt
0 0x000000000042000f in __cmd_report (rep=0x7fff80cec580) at builtin-report.c:380
1 cmd_report (argc=0, argv=<optimized out>, prefix=<optimized out>) at builtin-report.c:759
2 0x0000000000414513 in run_builtin (p=0x7724a8, argc=3, argv=0x7fff80ceca70) at perf.c:273
3 0x0000000000413d41 in handle_internal_command (argv=0x7fff80ceca70, argc=3) at perf.c:345
4 run_argv (argv=0x7fff80cec880, argcp=0x7fff80cec88c) at perf.c:389
5 main (argc=3, argv=0x7fff80ceca70) at perf.c:487
kernel_map can be NULL, so need to handle it while dumping a warning
to user.
v2:
- fixed RB_EMPTY_ROOT check -- desc takes the altnerative output when RB_EMPTY_ROOT is false.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334544855-55021-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch prints the number of samples and the count of performance
events separately.
This allows comparing performance of different applications with each
other.
Previously, the sample count was displayed against an 'Events:' heading.
With this patch, the header now reads (for example):
Samples: 5K of event 'instructions'
Event count (approx.): 2993026545
The patch covers both the stdio and the browser interface.
Signed-off-by: Ashay Rane <ashay.rane@tacc.utexas.edu>
[ committer note: Fixed wrt e7f01d1 ]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-h4nfjm8msedlk8gxkzivfh5y@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds a simple GTK2-based browser to 'perf report' that's
based on the TTY-based browser in builtin-report.c.
To launch "perf report" using the new GTK interface just type:
$ perf report --gtk
The interface is somewhat limited in features at the moment:
- No callgraph support
- No KVM guest profiling support
- No color coding for percentages
- No sorting from the UI
- ..and many, many more!
That said, I think this patch a reasonable start to build future features on.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1202231952410.6689@tux.localdomain
[ committer note: Added #pragma to make gtk no strict prototype problem go
away as suggested by Colin Walters modulo avoiding push/pop ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
As Ingo requested, it'd be better off treating first (and the only)
argument as a symbol filter, so that user doesn't need to input the
symbol on the dialog window on TUI.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331887855-874-5-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add new --symbol-filter command line option to set appropriate filter
string.
Its short version is missing as I couldn't find an ideal one and
--filter option of perf record also has no short version.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331887855-874-4-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds support for taken branch sampling, i.e, the
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK feature to perf report. In other
words, to display histograms based on taken branches rather
than executed instructions addresses.
The new option is called -b and it takes no argument. To
generate meaningful output, the perf.data must have been
obtained using perf record -b xxx ... where xxx is a branch
filter option.
The output shows symbols, modules, sorted by 'who branches
where' the most often. The percentages reported in the first
column refer to the total number of branches captured and
not the usual number of samples.
Here is a quick example.
Here branchy is simple test program which looks as follows:
void f2(void)
{}
void f3(void)
{}
void f1(unsigned long n)
{
if (n & 1UL)
f2();
else
f3();
}
int main(void)
{
unsigned long i;
for (i=0; i < N; i++)
f1(i);
return 0;
}
Here is the output captured on Nehalem, if we are
only interested in user level function calls.
$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy
$ perf report -b --sort=symbol
52.34% [.] main [.] f1
24.04% [.] f1 [.] f3
23.60% [.] f1 [.] f2
0.01% [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn [k] _IO_file_overflow
0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn
0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] strchrnul
0.01% [k] __printf [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal
0.01% [k] main [k] __printf
About half (52%) of the call branches captured are from main()
-> f1(). The second half (24%+23%) is split in two equal shares
between f1() -> f2(), f1() ->f3(). The output is as expected
given the code.
It should be noted, that using -b in perf record does not
eliminate information in the perf.data file. Consequently, a
typical profile can also be obtained by perf report by simply
not using its -b option.
It is possible to sort on branch related columns:
- dso_from, symbol_from
- dso_to, symbol_to
- mispredict
Signed-off-by: Roberto Agostino Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-14-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The default input file for perf report is not handled the same way as
perf record does it for its output file. This leads to unexpected
behavior of perf report, etc. E.g.:
# perf record -a -e cpu-cycles sleep 2 | perf report | cat
failed to open perf.data: No such file or directory (try 'perf record' first)
While perf record writes to a fifo, perf report expects perf.data to be
read. This patch changes this to accept fifos as input file.
Applies to the following commands:
perf annotate
perf buildid-list
perf evlist
perf kmem
perf lock
perf report
perf sched
perf script
perf timechart
Also fixes char const* -> const char* type declaration for filename
strings.
v2:
* Prevent potential null pointer access to input_name in
builtin-report.c. Needed due to removal of patch "perf report: Setup
browser if stdout is a pipe"
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/1323248577-11268-5-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>
perf report does not take a command from command line.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-8-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The '--call-graph' command line option can receive undocumented optional
print_limit argument. Besides, use strtoul() to parse the option since
its type is u32.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-2-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently the meaning of -C varies by perf command: for perf-top,
perf-stat, perf-record it means cpu list. For perf-report it means comm
list. Then perf-annotate, perf-report and perf-script use -c for cpu
list.
Fix annotate, report and script to use -C for cpu list to be consistent
with top, stat and record. This means report needs to use -c for comm
list which does introduce a backward compatibility change.
v1 -> v2
- update perf-script.txt too
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321209008-7004-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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>
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>
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>
Paving the way to remove these globals when we change the perf_event_ops
to receive as a first parameter a pointer to a perf_event_ops that will
then provide access to perf_report via container_of.
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-2eh2vi2nb5z3tg1lvoxv09xu@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Since we have it in evsel->hists.callchain_cursor, remove it from
perf_session.
One more step in disentangling several places from requiring a
perf_session pointer.
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-rxr5dj3di7ckyfmnz0naku1z@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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>
And add the annotation output knobs to all the tools that have
integrated annotation (top, report).
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-gnlob67mke6sji2kf4nstp7m@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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>
This allows passing a timer to be run periodically, which will update
the hists tree that then gers refreshed on the screen, just like the
Live mode (symbol entries, annotation) we already have in 'perf top
--tui'.
Will be used by the new hist_entry/hists based 'top' tool.
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-2r44qd8oe4sagzcgoikl8qzc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Just like --show-nr-samples, to help in diagnosing problems in the
tools.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1lr7ejdjfvy2uwy2wkmatcpq@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So that we can reuse hists__fprintf for in the new perf top tool.
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-huazw48x05h8r9niz5cf63za@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In the past we tried to avoid printing the name of the event when just
one event was found in the perf.data file, after some refactorings it
ended up not printing the event name if just one hist_entry was found in
one of the events.
Fix it by always printing the name of the event, even if just one is
found.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kikr0c7ou55bd9caok8569rf@git.kernel.org
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add -M option to report/annotate to pass directly to objdump. This
allows to use -M intel for intel style disassembler syntax, which is
useful for people who are very used to the Intel syntax.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1316122302-24306-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
[committer note: Add missing Documentation bits, fixup conflicts with 3e6a2a7]
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So that we get a proper warning in the TUI in cases like:
$ perf report --stdio -g fractal,0.5,caller --sort pid
Selected -g but no callchain data. Did you call 'perf record' without -g?
$
The --stdio case is ok because it uses fprintf, ui__warning is needed to
figure out if --stdio or --tui is being used.
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Liao <phyomh@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ag9fz2wd17mbbfjsbznq1wms@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add an option to perf report/annotate/script to specify which
CPUs to operate on. This enables us to take a single system wide
profile and analyse each CPU (or group of CPUs) in isolation.
This was useful when profiling a multiprocess workload where the
bottleneck was on one CPU but this was hidden in the overall
profile. Per process and per thread breakdowns didn't help
because multiple processes were running on each CPU and no
single process consumed an entire CPU.
The patch converts the list of CPUs returned by cpu_map__new
into a bitmap for fast lookup. I wanted to use -C to be
consistent with perf top/record/stat, but unfortunately perf
report already uses -C <comms>.
v2: Incorporate suggestions from David Ahern:
- Added -c to perf script
- Check that SAMPLE_CPU is set when -c is used
- Update documentation
v3: Create perf_session__cpu_bitmap()
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110704215750.11647eb9@kryten
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add "caller/callee" option to support inverted butterfly report,
in the inverted report (with caller option), the call graph start
from the callee's ancestor. Users can use such view to catch system's
performance bottleneck from a sysprof like view. Using this option
with specified sort order like pid gives us high level view of call
graph statistics.
Also add "-G" alias for inverted call graph.
Signed-off-by: Sam Liao <phyomh@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>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
Resolving the sample->id to an evsel since the most advanced tools,
report and annotate, and the others will too when they evolve to
properly support multi-event perf.data files.
Good also because it does an extra validation, checking that the ID is
valid when present. When that is not the case, the overhead is just a
branch + function call (perf_evlist__id2evsel).
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>
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>
When multiple events were used in 'perf record', allow the user to
choose which one is wanted before showing the per event histograms.
Annotations will be performed on the chosen event.
Allow going back and forth from event to event quickly using just the
arrow keys and enter.
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: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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>
[root@emilia ~]# perf report --stdio
The perf.data file has no samples!
[root@emilia ~]#
The TUI shows a popup warning message with the same message.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We only allocate it when in TUI mode. In --stdio mode unconditionally
initializing this area leads to memory corruption.
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>
