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Adrian Hunter
520a2ebc2f perf report: Add Instruction Tracing support
Add support for decoding an AUX area assuming it contains instruction
tracing data.

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: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429903807-20559-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
[ Do not use -Z as an alternative to --itrace ]
[ Fixed initialization of itrace_synth_opts struct fields on older gcc versions ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-04 12:43:50 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
dd3092075c perf tools: Document --children option in more detail
As the --children option changes the output of perf report (and perf
top) it sometimes confuses users.  Add more words and examples to help
understanding of the option's behavior - and how to disable it ;-).

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429684425-14987-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-29 10:38:06 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d303e85a5c perf trace: Clarify that -e is about syscalls, not perf events in general
This comes from the desire of having -e/--expr to have the same meaning
as for 'strace', while other perf tools use it for --event, which
'trace' honours, i.e. all perf tools have --event in common, but trace
uses -e for strace's --expr.

Clarify it in the --help output.

Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5j94bcsdmcbeu2xthnzsj60d@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-29 10:38:04 -03:00
Masami Hiramatsu
b3ac032b7a perf probe: Make --funcs option exclusive
The --funcs option should be given exclusively.  This adds
PARSE_OPT_EXCUSIVE flag on --funcs (-F) option.

Without this, 'perf probe --funcs -l' just shows the list of probes.

With this, it shows error message correctly.

This also fixes the help message and the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150423134612.26128.58189.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-29 10:38:02 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
400ea6d327 perf script: Add field option 'flags' to print sample flags
Instruction tracing will typically have access to information about the
instruction being executed for a particular ip sample.  Some of that
information will be available in the 'flags' member of struct
perf_sample.

With the addition of transactions events synthesis to Instruction
Tracing options, there is a need to be able easily to see the flags
because they show whether the ip is at the start, commit or abort of a
tranasaction.

Consequently add an option to display the flags.

The flags are "bcrosyiABEx" which stand for branch, call, return,
conditional, system, asynchronous, interrupt, transaction abort, trace
begin, trace end, and in transaction, respectively.

Example using Intel PT:

perf script -fip,time,event,sym,addr,flags

...
 1288.721584105: branches:u:   bo              401146 main =>           401152 main
 1288.721584105: transactions:   x                   0           401164 main
 1288.721584105: branches:u:   bx              40117c main =>           40119b main
 1288.721584105: branches:u:   box             4011a4 main =>           40117e main
 1288.721584105: branches:u:   bcx             401187 main =>           401094 g
...
 1288.721591645: branches:u:   bx              4010c4 g =>           4010cb g
 1288.721591645: branches:u:   brx             4010cc g =>           401189 main
 1288.721591645: transactions:                       0           4011a6 main
 1288.721593199: branches:u:   b               4011a9 main =>           4011af main
 1288.721593199: branches:u:   bo              4011bc main =>           40113e main
 1288.721593199: branches:u:   b               401150 main =>           40115a main
 1288.721593199: transactions:   x                   0           401164 main
 1288.721593199: branches:u:   bx              40117c main =>           40119b main
 1288.721593199: branches:u:   box             4011a4 main =>           40117e main
 1288.721593199: branches:u:   bcx             401187 main =>           40105e f
...
 1288.722284747: branches:u:   brx             401093 f =>           401189 main
 1288.722284747: branches:u:   box             4011a4 main =>           40117e main
 1288.722284747: branches:u:   bcx             401187 main =>           40105e f
 1288.722285883: transactions:   bA                  0           401071 f
 1288.722285883: branches:u:   bA              401071 f =>           40116a main
 1288.722285883: branches:u:   bE              40116a main =>                0 [unknown]
 1288.722297174: branches:u:   bB                   0 [unknown] =>           40116a main
...

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: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428594864-29309-26-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-29 10:37:57 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
0f0aa5e069 perf inject: Add Instruction Tracing support
Add support for decoding an AUX area assuming it contains instruction
tracing data.  The AUX area tracing events are stripped and replaced by
synthesized events.

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: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428594864-29309-21-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
[ Do not use -Z as an alternative to --itrace ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-29 10:37:57 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
7a680eb990 perf script: Add Instruction Tracing support
Add support for decoding an AUX area assuming it contains instruction
tracing data.

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: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428594864-29309-17-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
[ Do not use -Z as an alternative to --itrace ]
[ Fixed initialization of itrace_synth_opts struct fields on older gcc versions ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-29 10:37:56 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
e9db1310d9 perf record: Extend -m option for AUX area tracing mmap pages
Extend the -m option so that the number of mmap pages for AUX area
tracing can be specified by adding a comma followed by the number of
pages.

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: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428594864-29309-7-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-29 10:37:52 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
0d68bc92c4 perf kmem: Analyze page allocator events also
The perf kmem command records and analyze kernel memory allocation only
for SLAB objects.  This patch implement a simple page allocator analyzer
using kmem:mm_page_alloc and kmem:mm_page_free events.

It adds two new options of --slab and --page.  The --slab option is for
analyzing SLAB allocator and that's what perf kmem currently does.

The new --page option enables page allocator events and analyze kernel
memory usage in page unit.  Currently, 'stat --alloc' subcommand is
implemented only.

If none of these --slab nor --page is specified, --slab is implied.

First run 'perf kmem record' to generate a suitable perf.data file:

  # perf kmem record --page sleep 5

Then run 'perf kmem stat' to postprocess the perf.data file:

  # perf kmem stat --page --alloc --line 10

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   PFN              | Total alloc (KB) | Hits     | Order | Mig.type | GFP flags
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            4045014 |               16 |        1 |     2 |  RECLAIM |  00285250
            4143980 |               16 |        1 |     2 |  RECLAIM |  00285250
            3938658 |               16 |        1 |     2 |  RECLAIM |  00285250
            4045400 |               16 |        1 |     2 |  RECLAIM |  00285250
            3568708 |               16 |        1 |     2 |  RECLAIM |  00285250
            3729824 |               16 |        1 |     2 |  RECLAIM |  00285250
            3657210 |               16 |        1 |     2 |  RECLAIM |  00285250
            4120750 |               16 |        1 |     2 |  RECLAIM |  00285250
            3678850 |               16 |        1 |     2 |  RECLAIM |  00285250
            3693874 |               16 |        1 |     2 |  RECLAIM |  00285250
   ...              | ...              | ...      | ...   | ...      | ...
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  SUMMARY (page allocator)
  ========================
  Total allocation requests     :           44,260   [          177,256 KB ]
  Total free requests           :              117   [              468 KB ]

  Total alloc+freed requests    :               49   [              196 KB ]
  Total alloc-only requests     :           44,211   [          177,060 KB ]
  Total free-only requests      :               68   [              272 KB ]

  Total allocation failures     :                0   [                0 KB ]

  Order     Unmovable   Reclaimable       Movable      Reserved  CMA/Isolated
  -----  ------------  ------------  ------------  ------------  ------------
      0            32             .        44,210             .             .
      1             .             .             .             .             .
      2             .            18             .             .             .
      3             .             .             .             .             .
      4             .             .             .             .             .
      5             .             .             .             .             .
      6             .             .             .             .             .
      7             .             .             .             .             .
      8             .             .             .             .             .
      9             .             .             .             .             .
     10             .             .             .             .             .

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428298576-9785-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-13 11:44:52 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
a1e12da479 perf tools: Add 'I' event modifier for exclude_idle bit
Adding 'I' event modifier to have complete set of modifiers for
perf_event_attr:exclude_* bits.

Any event specified with 'I' modifier will have the
perf_event_attr:exclude_idle bit set.

  $ perf record -e cycles:I -vv ls 2>&1 | grep exclude_idle
  exclude_hv          0    exclude_idle        1

Adding automated tests.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428441919-23099-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-08 11:00:16 -03:00
Peter Zijlstra
814c8c38e1 perf record: Add clockid parameter
Teach perf-record about the new perf_event_attr::{use_clockid, clockid}
fields. Add a simple parameter to set the clock (if any) to be used for
the events to be recorded into the data file.

Since we store the entire perf_event_attr in the EVENT_DESC section we
also already store the used clockid in the data file.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150407154851.GR23123@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
[ Conditionally define CLOCK_BOOTTIME, at least rhel6 doesn't have it - dsahern
  Ditto for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, sles11sp2 doesn't have it - yunlong.song ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-08 10:04:55 -03:00
David Ahern
e03eaa400c perf tools: Add pid/tid filtering to report and script commands
The 'record' and 'top' tools already allow a user to specify a CSV of
pids and/or tids of tasks to collect data.

Add those options to the 'report' and 'script' analysis commands to only
consider samples related to the given pids/tids.

This is also inline with the existing comm option.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427212361-7066-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-03-24 13:02:46 -03:00
David Ahern
6b1f342354 perf diff: Add kallsyms option
Required for off-box analysis to convert kernel addresses.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427212317-7018-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-03-24 13:01:54 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
bd72a33eba perf kmem: Allow -v option
Current perf kmem fails when -v option is used.  As it's very useful for
debugging, let's allow it.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426145571-3065-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-03-13 07:47:48 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
9a75606ca0 perf record: Document --group option
The 'perf record --group' option lacks documentation and confuses users.
As -e/--event option already supports group spec, it should not be used
anymore.

Also add a short description of event group itself.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425266013-5034-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-03-02 12:04:45 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
08b23f4e63 perf record: Get rid of -l option from Documentation
The perf record does not support -l option anymore, so nuke it.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425272038-10406-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-03-02 12:04:07 -03:00
Masami Hiramatsu
8d8c8e4cb3 perf buildid-cache: Add --purge FILE to remove all caches of FILE
Add --purge FILE to remove all caches of FILE.

Since the current --remove FILE removes a cache which has
same build-id of given FILE. Since the command takes a
FILE path, it can confuse user who tries to remove cache
about FILE path.

  -----
  # ./perf buildid-cache -v --add ./perf
  Adding 133b7b5486d987a5ab5c3ebf4ea14941f45d4d4f ./perf: Ok
  # (update the ./perf binary)
  # ./perf buildid-cache -v --remove ./perf
  Removing 305bbd1be68f66eca7e2d78db294653031edfa79 ./perf: FAIL
  ./perf wasn't in the cache
  -----
Actually, the --remove's FAIL is not shown, it just silently fails.

So, this patch adds --purge FILE action for such usecase.

perf buildid-cache --purge FILE removes all caches which has same FILE
path.

In other words, it removes all caches including old binaries.

  -----
  # ./perf buildid-cache -v --add ./perf
  Adding 133b7b5486d987a5ab5c3ebf4ea14941f45d4d4f ./perf: Ok
  # (update the ./perf binary)
  # ./perf buildid-cache -v --purge ./perf
  Removing 133b7b5486d987a5ab5c3ebf4ea14941f45d4d4f ./perf: Ok
  -----

BTW, if you want to purge all the caches, remove ~/.debug/* .

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@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/20150227045026.1999.64084.stgit@localhost.localdomain
[ s/dirname/dir_name/g to fix build on fedora14, where dirname is a global ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-02-27 15:52:33 -03:00
Yunlong Song
5ef803ee02 perf list: Extend raw-dump to certain kind of events
Extend 'perf list --raw-dump' to 'perf list --raw-dump [hw|sw|cache
|tracepoint|pmu|event_glob]' in order to show the raw-dump of a certain
kind of events rather than all of the events.

Example:

Before this patch:

 $ perf list --raw-dump hw
 branch-instructions branch-misses bus-cycles cache-misses
 cache-references cpu-cycles instructions stalled-cycles-backend
 stalled-cycles-frontend
 alignment-faults context-switches cpu-clock cpu-migrations
 emulation-faults major-faults minor-faults page-faults task-clock
 ...
 ...
 writeback:writeback_thread_start writeback:writeback_thread_stop
 writeback:writeback_wait_iff_congested
 writeback:writeback_wake_background writeback:writeback_wake_thread

As shown above, all of the events are printed.

After this patch:

 $ perf list --raw-dump hw
 branch-instructions branch-misses bus-cycles cache-misses
 cache-references cpu-cycles instructions stalled-cycles-backend
 stalled-cycles-frontend

As shown above, only the hw events are printed.

Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425032491-20224-5-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-02-27 15:52:24 -03:00
Kan Liang
94ba462d69 perf diff: Support for different binaries
Currently, the perf diff only works with same binaries. That's because
it compares the symbol start address. It doesn't work if the perf.data
comes from different binaries. This patch matches the symbol names.

Actually, perf diff once intended to compare the symbol names.  The
commit as below can look for a pair by name.

604c5c9297 (perf diff: Change the default sort order to "dso,symbol")
However, at that time, perf diff used a global list of dsos. That means
the binaries which has same name can only be loaded once. That's a
problem for comparing different binaries.

For example, we have an old binary and an updated binary. They very
likely have same name and most of the functions, so only dsos from old
binary will be loaded. When processing the data from updated binary,
perf still use the symbol information from old binary. That's wrong.

Then the commit as below used IP to replace symbol name.
9c443dfdd3 ("perf diff: Fix support for all --sort combinations")
>From that time, perf diff starts to compare the symbol address.

The global dsos is discarded from a patch in 2010.
a1645ce12a ("perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance
from host")
However, at that time, perf diff already compared by address. So perf
diff cannot work for different binaries as well.

This patch actually rolls back the perf diff to original design. The
document is also changed, so everybody knows the original design is to
compare the symbol names.

Here are some examples:

The only difference between example_v1.c and example_v2.c is the
location of f2 and f3. There is no change in behavior, but the previous
perf diff display the wrong differential profile.

example_v1.c
noinline void f3(void)
{
        volatile int i;
        for (i = 0; i < 10000;) {

                if(i%2)
                        i++;
                else
                        i++;
        }
}

noinline void f2(void)
{
        volatile int a = 100, b, c;
        for (b = 0; b < 10000; b++)
                c = a * b;

}

noinline void f1(void)
{
                f2();
                f3();
}

int main()
{
        int i;
        for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
                f1();
}

example_v2.c
noinline void f2(void)
{
        volatile int a = 100, b, c;
        for (b = 0; b < 10000; b++)
                c = a * b;
}

noinline void f3(void)
{
        volatile int i;
        for (i = 0; i < 10000;) {
                if(i%2)
                        i++;
                else
                        i++;
        }
}

noinline void f1(void)
{
                f2();
                f3();
}

int main()
{
        int i;
        for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
                f1();
}

[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ gcc example_v1.c -o example
[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf record -o example_v1.data ./example
[ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.813 MB example_v1.data (~35522 samples) ]

[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ gcc example_v2.c -o example
[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf record -o example_v2.data ./example
[ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.824 MB example_v2.data (~36015 samples) ]

Old perf diff result:

[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf diff example_v1.data example_v2.data
 Event 'cycles'
 Baseline    Delta  Shared Object     Symbol
 ........  .......  ................  ...............................

                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] __perf_event_task_sched_out
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] apic_timer_interrupt
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] idle_cpu
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] intel_pstate_timer_func
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_read_msr_safe
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_read_tsc
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_write_msr_safe
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] ntp_tick_length
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] rb_erase
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] tick_sched_timer
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] unmap_single_vma
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] update_wall_time
     0.00%           example           [.] f1
    46.24%           example           [.] f2
    53.71%   -7.55%  example           [.] f3
            +53.81%  example           [.] f3
     0.02%           example           [.] main

New perf diff result:

[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf diff example_v1.data example_v2.data
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] __perf_event_task_sched_out
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] apic_timer_interrupt
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] idle_cpu
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] intel_pstate_timer_func
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_read_msr_safe
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_read_tsc
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_write_msr_safe
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] ntp_tick_length
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] rb_erase
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] tick_sched_timer
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] unmap_single_vma
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] update_wall_time
     0.00%           example           [.] f1
    46.24%   -0.08%  example           [.] f2
    53.71%   +0.11%  example           [.] f3
     0.02%           example           [.] main

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1423460384-11645-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-02-27 10:08:38 -03:00
Masami Hiramatsu
a50d11a10c perf buildid-cache: Add new buildid cache if update target is not cached
Add new buildid cache if the update target file is not cached.

This can happen when an old binary is replaced by new one after caching
the old one. In this case, user sees his operation just failed.

But it does not look straight, since user just pass the binary "path",
not "build-id".

  ----
  # ./perf buildid-cache --add ./perf
  (update ./perf to new binary)
  # ./perf buildid-cache --update ./perf
  ./perf wasn't in the cache
  #
  ----

This patch adds given new binary to cache if the new binary is
not cached. So we'll not see the above error.

  ----
  # ./perf buildid-cache --add ./perf
  (update ./perf to new binary)
  # ./perf buildid-cache --update ./perf
  #
  ----

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@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/20150226065440.23912.1494.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-02-27 10:08:37 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
edbe9817ae perf data: Add perf data to CTF conversion support
Adding 'perf data convert' to convert perf data file into different
format. This patch adds support for CTF format conversion.

To convert perf.data into CTF run:
  $ perf data convert --to-ctf=./ctf-data/
  [ perf data convert: Converted 'perf.data' into CTF data './ctf-data/' ]
  [ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 11.268 MB (100230 samples) ]

The command will create CTF metadata out of perf.data file (or one
specified via -i option) and then convert all sample events into single
CTF stream.

Each sample_type bit is translated into separated CTF event field apart
from following exceptions:

  PERF_SAMPLE_RAW          - added in next patch
  PERF_SAMPLE_READ         - TODO
  PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN    - TODO
  PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK - TODO
  PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER    - TODO
  PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER   - TODO

  $ perf --debug=data-convert=2 data convert ...

The converted CTF data could be analyzed by CTF tools, like babletrace
or tracecompass [1].

  $ babeltrace ./ctf-data/
  [03:19:13.962125533] (+?.?????????) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1 }
  [03:19:13.962130001] (+0.000004468) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1 }
  [03:19:13.962131936] (+0.000001935) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 8 }
  [03:19:13.962133732] (+0.000001796) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 114 }
  [03:19:13.962135557] (+0.000001825) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 2087 }
  [03:19:13.962137627] (+0.000002070) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF81361938, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 37582 }
  [03:19:13.962161091] (+0.000023464) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8124218F, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 600246 }
  [03:19:13.962517569] (+0.000356478) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF811A75DB, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1325731 }
  [03:19:13.969518008] (+0.007000439) cycles: { }, { ip = 0x34080917B2, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1144298 }

The following members to the ctf-environment were decided to be added to
distinguish and specify perf CTF data:

  - domain

    It says "kernel" because it contains a kernel trace (not to be
    confused with a user space like lttng-ust does)

  - tracer_name

    It says perf. This can be used to distinguish between lttng and perf
    CTF based trace.

  - version

    The kernel version from stream. In addition to release, this is what
    it looks like on a Debian kernel:

      release = "3.14-1-amd64";
      version = "3.14.0";

[1] http://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.tracecompass

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424470628-5969-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-02-25 16:13:12 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
2245bf1410 perf tools: Add new 'perf data' command
Adding new 'perf data' command to provide operations over data files.

The 'perf data convert' sub command is coming in following patch, but
there's possibility for other useful commands like 'perf data ls' (to
display perf data file in directory in ls style).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424470628-5969-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-02-25 12:42:25 -03:00
Andi Kleen
85c273d2b6 perf record: Support recording running/enabled time
Add an option to perf record to record running/enabled time for read
events, similar to what stat does.

This is useful to understand multiplexing problems.

Right now the report support is not great, but at least report -D
already supports it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424819620-16043-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
[ Fixed the Documentation entry to match the OPT_BOOLEAN one ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-02-25 12:42:23 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
77c92582a5 perf trace: Add man page entry for --event
Forgot to do it when adding the feature.

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: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mx152b6x9cgknhw91vsyjlnd@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-02-22 22:22:07 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
f078c3852c perf trace: Introduce --filter-pids
When tracing in X we get event loops due to the tracing activity, i.e.
updates to a gnome-terminal that generate syscalls for X.org, etc.

To get a more useful view of what is happening, syscall wise, system
wide, we need to filter those, like in:

 # ps ax|egrep '981|2296|1519' | grep -v egrep
   981 tty1 Ss+ 5:40 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -background none ...
  1519 ?    Sl  2:22 /usr/bin/gnome-shell
  2296 ?    Sl  4:16 /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server
 #

 # trace -e write --filter-pids 981,2296,1519
    0.385 ( 0.021 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 136) = 136
    0.922 ( 0.014 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 140) = 140
 5006.525 ( 0.029 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 136) = 136
 5007.235 ( 0.023 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 140) = 140
 5177.646 ( 0.018 ms): rtkit-daemon/782 write(fd: 5<anon_inode:[eventfd]>, buf: 0x7f7eea70be88, count: 8) = 8
 8314.497 ( 0.004 ms): gsd-locate-poi/2084 write(fd: 5<anon_inode:[eventfd]>, buf: 0x7fffe96af7b0, count: 8) = 8
 8314.518 ( 0.002 ms): gsd-locate-poi/2084 write(fd: 5<anon_inode:[eventfd]>, buf: 0x7fffe96af0e0, count: 8) = 8
 ^C#

When this option is used the tracer pid is also filtered.

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: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-f5qmiyy7c0uxdm21ncatpeek@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-02-22 22:21:52 -03:00
Ingo Molnar
8a26ce4e54 perf/core improvements and fixes:
User visible:
 
 - 'perf trace': Allow mixing with tracepoints and suppressing plain syscalls
   (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
 
 Infrastructure:
 
 - Kconfig beachhead (Jiri Olsa)
 
 - Simplify nr_pages validity (Kaixu Xia)
 
 - Fixup header positioning in 'perf list' (Yunlong Song)
 
 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

User visible changes:

  - No need to explicitely enable evsels for workload started from perf, let it
    be enabled via perf_event_attr.enable_on_exec, removing some events that take
    place in the 'perf trace' before a workload is really started by it.
    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  - Fix to handle optimized not-inlined functions in 'perf probe' (Masami Hiramatsu)

  - Update 'perf probe' man page (Masami Hiramatsu)

  - 'perf trace': Allow mixing with tracepoints and suppressing plain syscalls
    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Infrastructure changes:

  - Introduce {trace_seq_do,event_format_}_fprintf functions to allow
    a default tracepoint field list printer to be used in tools that allows
    redirecting output to a file. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  - The man page for pthread_attr_set_affinity_np states that _GNU_SOURCE
    must be defined before pthread.h, do it to fix the build in some
    systems (Josh Boyer)

  - Cleanups in 'perf buildid-cache' (Masami Hiramatsu)

  - Fix dso cache test case (Namhyung Kim)

  - Do Not rely on dso__data_read_offset() to open DSO (Namhyung Kim)

  - Make perf aware of tracefs (Steven Rostedt).

  - Fix build by defining STT_GNU_IFUNC for glibc 2.9 and older (Vinson Lee)

  - AArch64 symbol resolution fixes (Victor Kamensky)

  - Kconfig beachhead (Jiri Olsa)

  - Simplify nr_pages validity (Kaixu Xia)

  - Fixup header positioning in 'perf list' (Yunlong Song)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-18 19:18:18 +01:00
Kan Liang
aad2b21c15 perf tools: Enable LBR call stack support
Currently, there are two call chain recording options, fp and dwarf.

Haswell has a new feature that utilizes the existing LBR facility to
record call chains. Kernel side LBR support code provides this as a
third option to record call chains. This patch enables the lbr call
stack support on the tooling side.

LBR call stack has some limitations:

 - It reuses current LBR facility, so LBR call stack and branch record
   can not be enabled at the same time.

 - It is only available for user-space callchains.

However, it also offers some advantages:

 - LBR call stack can work on user apps which don't have frame-pointers
   or dwarf debug info compiled. It is a good alternative when nothing
   else works.

Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.w.shin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420482185-29830-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-18 17:16:17 +01:00
Jiri Olsa
f819f703a4 perf build: Add build documentation
Adding file describing the basics of perf build process.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Alexis Berlemont <alexis.berlemont@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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-ibgf7vxyduwohlqqfayl11xb@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-02-12 17:53:00 -03:00
Masami Hiramatsu
8b72805fd1 perf probe: Update man page
Update Documentation/perf-probe.txt to add descriptions of some newer
options.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150130093746.30575.8571.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-02-06 11:46:36 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b3890e4704 Merge branch 'perf/hw_breakpoints' into perf/core
The new hw_breakpoint bits are now ready for v3.20, merge them
into the main branch, to avoid conflicts.

Conflicts:
	tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-01-28 15:48:59 +01:00
Cody P Schafer
f9ab9c196d perf tools: Document parameterized and symbolic events
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420679633-28856-5-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-01-21 13:24:33 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
48000a1aed perf tools: Remove EOL whitespaces
Janitorial stuff: boredom moment.

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: 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-u70i7shys3kths4hzru72bha@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-01-21 13:24:31 -03:00
Stephane Eranian
67121f85e4 perf mem: Enable sampling loads and stores simultaneously
This patch modifies perf mem to default to sampling loads and stores
simultaneously. It could only do one or the other before yet there was
no hardware restriction preventing simultaneous collection. With this
patch, one run is sufficient to collect both.

It is still possible to sample only loads or stores by using the
-t option:
 $ perf mem -t load rec
 $ perf mem -t load rep
Or
 $ perf mem -t store rec
 $ perf mem -t store rep

The perf report TUI will show one event at a time. The store output will
contain a Weight column which will be empty.

In V2, we updated the man pages to reflect the change and also simplify
the initialization of the argv vector passed to the cmd_*() functions as
per LKML feedback.

In V3, we fixed typos in the changelog.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Fowles <rfowles@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141217152355.GA10053@thinkpad
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-01-21 13:24:31 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
99ce8e9fce perf tools: Add --buildid-dir option to set cache directory
Adding --buildid-dir to be able to set specific cache directory. It's
going to be handy for buildid tests coming in shortly.

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>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1417460789-13874-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-12-09 09:14:35 -03:00
Jacob Shin
3741eb9f8c perf tools: allow user to specify hardware breakpoint bp_len
Currently bp_len is given a default value of 4. Allow user to override it:

  $ perf stat -e mem:0x1000/8
                            ^
                            bp_len

If no value is given, it will default to 4 as it did before.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.w.shin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: xiakaixu <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2014-12-03 15:14:29 +01:00
Andi Kleen
fa94c36c29 perf report: Add --branch-history option
Add a --branch-history option to perf report that changes all the
settings necessary for using the branches in callstacks.

This is just a short cut to make this nicer to use, it does not enable
any functionality by itself.

v2: Change sort order. Rename option to --branch-history to
    be less confusing.
v3: Updates
v4: Fix conflict with newer perf base
v5: Port to latest tip
v6: Add more comments. Remove CCKEY_ADDRESS setting. Remove
    unnecessary branch_mode setting. Use a boolean.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415844328-4884-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-12-01 20:00:31 -03:00
Andi Kleen
8b7bad58ef perf callchain: Support handling complete branch stacks as histograms
Currently branch stacks can be only shown as edge histograms for
individual branches. I never found this display particularly useful.

This implements an alternative mode that creates histograms over
complete branch traces, instead of individual branches, similar to how
normal callgraphs are handled. This is done by putting it in front of
the normal callgraph and then using the normal callgraph histogram
infrastructure to unify them.

This way in complex functions we can understand the control flow that
lead to a particular sample, and may even see some control flow in the
caller for short functions.

Example (simplified, of course for such simple code this is usually not
needed), please run this after the whole patchkit is in, as at this
point in the patch order there is no --branch-history, that will be
added in a patch after this one:

tcall.c:

volatile a = 10000, b = 100000, c;

__attribute__((noinline)) f2()
{
	c = a / b;
}

__attribute__((noinline)) f1()
{
	f2();
	f2();
}
main()
{
	int i;
	for (i = 0; i < 1000000; i++)
		f1();
}

% perf record -b -g ./tsrc/tcall
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.044 MB perf.data (~1923 samples) ]
% perf report --no-children --branch-history
...
    54.91%  tcall.c:6  [.] f2                      tcall
            |
            |--65.53%-- f2 tcall.c:5
            |          |
            |          |--70.83%-- f1 tcall.c:11
            |          |          f1 tcall.c:10
            |          |          main tcall.c:18
            |          |          main tcall.c:18
            |          |          main tcall.c:17
            |          |          main tcall.c:17
            |          |          f1 tcall.c:13
            |          |          f1 tcall.c:13
            |          |          f2 tcall.c:7
            |          |          f2 tcall.c:5
            |          |          f1 tcall.c:12
            |          |          f1 tcall.c:12
            |          |          f2 tcall.c:7
            |          |          f2 tcall.c:5
            |          |          f1 tcall.c:11
            |          |
            |           --29.17%-- f1 tcall.c:12
            |                     f1 tcall.c:12
            |                     f2 tcall.c:7
            |                     f2 tcall.c:5
            |                     f1 tcall.c:11
            |                     f1 tcall.c:10
            |                     main tcall.c:18
            |                     main tcall.c:18
            |                     main tcall.c:17
            |                     main tcall.c:17
            |                     f1 tcall.c:13
            |                     f1 tcall.c:13
            |                     f2 tcall.c:7
            |                     f2 tcall.c:5
            |                     f1 tcall.c:12

The default output is unchanged.

This is only implemented in perf report, no change to record or anywhere
else.

This adds the basic code to report:

- add a new "branch" option to the -g option parser to enable this mode
- when the flag is set include the LBR into the callstack in machine.c.

The rest of the history code is unchanged and doesn't know the
difference between LBR entry and normal call entry.

- detect overlaps with the callchain
- remove small loop duplicates in the LBR

Current limitations:

- The LBR flags (mispredict etc.) are not shown in the history
and LBR entries have no special marker.
- It would be nice if annotate marked the LBR entries somehow
(e.g. with arrows)

v2: Various fixes.
v3: Merge further patches into this one. Fix white space.
v4: Improve manpage. Address review feedback.
v5: Rename functions. Better error message without -g. Fix crash without
    -b.
v6: Rebase
v7: Rebase. Use NO_ENTRY in memset.
v8: Port to latest tip. Move add_callchain_ip to separate
    patch. Skip initial entries in callchain. Minor cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415844328-4884-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-12-01 20:00:31 -03:00
Stephane Eranian
4b6c51773d perf record: Add new -I option to sample interrupted machine state
Add -I/--intr-regs option to capture machine state registers at
interrupt.

Add the corresponding man page description

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411559322-16548-6-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Cc: cebbert.lkml@gmail.com
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-11-16 11:42:02 +01:00
Jiri Olsa
535aeaae7d perf script: Add period data column
Adding period data column to be displayed in perf script.  It's possible
to get period values using -f option, like:

  $ perf script -f comm,tid,time,period,ip,sym,dso
          :26019 26019 52414.329088:       3707  ffffffff8105443a native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms])
          :26019 26019 52414.329088:         44  ffffffff8105443a native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms])
          :26019 26019 52414.329093:       1987  ffffffff8105443a native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms])
          :26019 26019 52414.329093:          6  ffffffff8105443a native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms])
              ls 26019 52414.329442:     537558        3407c0639c _dl_map_object_from_fd (/usr/lib64/ld-2.17.so)
              ls 26019 52414.329442:       2099        3407c0639c _dl_map_object_from_fd (/usr/lib64/ld-2.17.so)
              ls 26019 52414.330181:    1242100        34080917bb get_next_seq (/usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so)
              ls 26019 52414.330181:       3774        34080917bb get_next_seq (/usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so)
              ls 26019 52414.331427:    1083662  ffffffff810c7dc2 update_curr ([kernel.kallsyms])
              ls 26019 52414.331427:        360  ffffffff810c7dc2 update_curr ([kernel.kallsyms])

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jen-Cheng(Tommy) Huang" <tommy24@gatech.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.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: Jen-Cheng(Tommy) Huang <tommy24@gatech.edu>
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/1408977943-16594-9-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-10-17 15:21:30 -03:00
Masanari Iida
96355f2cfb perf Documentation: Fix typos in perf/Documentation
This patch fix spelling typos found in tool/perf/Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410275930-17207-1-git-send-email-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-10-15 17:39:02 -03:00
Avi Kivity
763122ade7 perf tools: Disable kernel symbol demangling by default
Some Linux symbols (for example __vt_event_wait) are interpreted by the
demangler as C++ mangled names, which of course they aren't.

Disable kernel symbol demangling by default to avoid this, and allow
enabling it with a new option --demangle-kernel for those who wish it.

Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@cloudius-systems.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410581705-26968-1-git-send-email-avi@cloudius-systems.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-09-17 17:08:09 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
cf59002fde perf top: Add -w option for setting column width
Add -w/--column-widths option like perf report does so that users are
able to see symbols even with some very long C++ library/functions.

It can be a list separated by comma for each column.

  $ perf top -w 0,20,30

The value of 0 means there's no limit.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.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/1406785662-5534-6-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-08-12 12:03:06 -03:00
Adrian Hunter
a7a2b8b4ce perf inject: Add --kallsyms parameter
Let perf inject take --kallsyms parameter the same as perf script and
perf report do.

That is needed for decoding Instruction Trace data using a copy of
/proc/kcore for the kernel object because the kallsyms path is used to
locate that copy.

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/1406035081-14301-30-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-07-25 12:08:34 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
bbb2cea7e8 perf tools: Add --debug optionto set debug variable
Adding --debug option as a way to setup debug variables.  Starting with
support for verbose, more will come.

It's possible to use it now with report command:
  $ perf --debug verbose   ...
  $ perf --debug verbose=2 ...

I'll need this support to add separated debug variable for ordered
events change in order to separate debug output out of standard verbose
stream.

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: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
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/20140717105500.GG516@krava.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-07-17 12:58:59 -03:00
Alexander Yarygin
3be8e2a0a5 perf kvm: Add stat support on s390
On s390, the vmexit event has a tree-like structure: between
exit_event_begin and exit_event_end several other events may happen and
with each of them refining the previous ones.

This patch adds a decoder for such events to the generic code and also
the files <asm/kvm_perf.h> and kvm-stat.c for s390.

Commands 'perf kvm stat record', 'report' and 'live' are supported.

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404397747-20939-5-git-send-email-yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-07-16 17:57:33 -03:00
Stanislav Fomichev
d243144af0 perf timechart: Add more options to IO mode
--io-skip-eagain - don't show EAGAIN errors
--io-min-time    - make small io bursts visible
--io-merge-dist  - merge adjacent events

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1404835423-23098-5-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-07-10 00:22:54 +02:00
Stanislav Fomichev
b97b59b93d perf timechart: Implement IO mode
Currently, timechart records only scheduler and CPU events (task switches,
running times, CPU power states, etc); this commit adds IO mode which
makes it possible to record IO (disk, network) activity. In this mode
perf timechart will generate SVG with IO charts (writes, reads, tx, rx, polls).

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1404835423-23098-3-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-07-10 00:22:54 +02:00
Stanislav Fomichev
e281a9606d perf trace: Add possibility to switch off syscall events
Currently, we may either trace syscalls or syscalls+pagefaults.

We'd like to be able to trace *only* pagefaults and this commit
implements this feature.

Example:

  [root@zoo /]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ; trace --no-syscalls -F -p `pidof xchat`
       0.000 ( 0.000 ms): xchat/4574 majfault [g_unichar_get_script+0x11] => /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.3800.2@0xc403b (x.)
       0.202 ( 0.000 ms): xchat/4574 majfault [_cairo_hash_table_lookup+0x53] => 0x2280ff0 (?.)
      20.854 ( 0.000 ms): xchat/4574 majfault [gdk_cairo_set_source_pixbuf+0x110] => /usr/bin/xchat@0x6da1f (x.)
    1022.000 ( 0.000 ms): xchat/4574 majfault [__memcpy_sse2_unaligned+0x29] => 0x7ff5a8ca0400 (?.)
  ^C[root@zoo /]#

Below we can see malloc calls, 'trace' reading symbol tables in libraries to
resolve symbols, etc.

  [root@zoo /]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ; trace --no-syscalls -F all --cpu 1 sleep 10
       0.000 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/26589 minfault [0x1b53129] => /tmp/perf-26589.map@0x33cbcbf7f000 (x.)
      96.477 ( 0.000 ms): libvirtd/947 minfault [copy_user_enhanced_fast_string+0x5] => 0x7f7685bba000 (?k)
     113.164 ( 0.000 ms): Xorg/1063 minfault [0x786da] => 0x7fce52882a3c (?.)
    7162.801 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/3747 minfault [0x8e1a89] => 0xfcaefed0008 (?.)
<SNIP>
    7773.138 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/3886 minfault [0x8e1a89] => 0xfcb0ce28008 (?.)
    7992.022 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/26574 minfault [0x1b5a708] => 0x3de7b5fc5000 (?.)
    8108.949 ( 0.000 ms): qemu-system-x8/4537 majfault [_int_malloc+0xee] => 0x7faffc466d60 (?.)
    8108.975 ( 0.000 ms): qemu-system-x8/4537 minfault [_int_malloc+0x102] => 0x7faffc466d60 (?.)
<SNIP>
    8148.174 ( 0.000 ms): qemu-system-x8/4537 minfault [_int_malloc+0x102] => 0x7faffc4eb500 (?.)
    8270.855 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/26245 minfault [do_bo_emit_reloc+0xdb] => 0x45d092bc004 (?.)
    8270.869 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/26245 minfault [do_bo_emit_reloc+0x108] => 0x45d09150000 (?.)
no symbols found in /usr/lib64/libspice-server.so.1.9.0, maybe install a debug package?
    8273.831 ( 0.000 ms): trace/20198 majfault [__memcmp_sse4_1+0xbc6] => /usr/lib64/libspice-server.so.1.9.0@0xdf000 (d.)
<SNIP>
    8275.121 ( 0.000 ms): trace/20198 minfault [dso__load+0x38] => 0x14fe756 (?.)
no symbols found in /usr/lib64/libelf-0.158.so, maybe install a debug package?
    8275.142 ( 0.000 ms): trace/20198 minfault [__memcmp_sse4_1+0xbc6] => /usr/lib64/libelf-0.158.so@0x0 (d.)
<SNIP>
  [root@zoo /]#

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403799268-1367-6-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-06-26 17:48:07 -03:00
Stanislav Fomichev
598d02c5a0 perf trace: Add support for pagefault tracing
This patch adds optional pagefault tracing support to 'perf trace'.

Using -F/--pf option user can specify whether he wants minor, major or
all pagefault events to be traced. This patch adds only live mode,
record and replace will come in a separate patch.

Example output:

  1756272.905 ( 0.000 ms): curl/5937 majfault [0x7fa7261978b6] => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.26.0.0@0x85288 (d.)
  1862866.036 ( 0.000 ms): wget/8460 majfault [__clear_user+0x3f] => 0x659cb4 (?k)

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403799268-1367-3-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-06-26 16:07:43 -03:00
Davidlohr Bueso
b6f0629a94 perf bench: Add --repeat option
There are a number of benchmarks that do single runs and as a result
does not really help users gain a general idea of how the workload
performs. So the user must either manually do multiple runs or just use
single bogus results.

This option will enable users to specify the amount of runs (arbitrarily
defaulted to 10, to use the existing benchmarks default) through the
'--repeat' option.  Add it to perf-bench instead of implementing it
always in each specific benchmark.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402942467-10671-2-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
[ Kept the existing default of 10, changing it to something else should
  be done on separate patch ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-06-19 16:13:15 -03:00