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>
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>
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>
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>
Currently the perf.data header is always displayed for stdio output,
which is no always useful.
Disabling header information by default and adding following options to
control header output:
--header - display header information
--header-only - display header information only w/o further
processing
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0ehaawv5xc83w6ag03c5hi10@git.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@elte.hu>
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/1386583370-1699-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add field 'srcline' that displays the source file name and line number
associated with the sample ip. The information displayed is the same as
from addr2line.
$ perf script -f comm,tid,pid,time,ip,sym,dso,symoff,srcline
grep 10701/10701 2497321.421013: ffffffff81043ffa native_write_msr_safe+0xa ([kernel.kallsyms])
/usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:95
grep 10701/10701 2497321.421984: ffffffff8165b6b3 _raw_spin_lock+0x13 ([kernel.kallsyms])
/usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h:54
grep 10701/10701 2497321.421990: ffffffff810b64b3 tick_sched_timer+0x53 ([kernel.kallsyms])
/usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/kernel/time/tick-sched.c:840
grep 10701/10701 2497321.421992: ffffffff8106f63f run_timer_softirq+0x2f ([kernel.kallsyms])
/usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/kernel/timer.c:1372
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.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 <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386315778-11633-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add the option get the path of [kernel.kallsyms].
Specify '--show-kernel-path' option to use this function.
This patch enables other applications to use this output easily.
Without --show-kernel-path option
ffffffff81467612 irq_return ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff81467612 irq_return ([kernel.kallsyms])
7f24fc02a6b3 _start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so)
[snip]
With --show-kernel-path option
ffffffff81467612 irq_return (/lib/modules/3.2.0+/build/vmlinux)
ffffffff81467612 irq_return (/lib/modules/3.2.0+/build/vmlinux)
7f24fc02a6b3 _start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so)
[snip]
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.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 <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120130044320.2384.73322.stgit@linux3
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Nagai <akihiro.nagai.hw@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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>
Allows collecting events system wide and then pulling out events for a
specific task name(s). e.g,
perf script -c gnome-shell,gnome-terminal
Applies on top of:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/13/74
v2->v3
- update Documentation
v1->v2
- use comm_list from symbol_conf
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321894972-24246-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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>
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>
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>
Resolve to a function or variable if possible and if the sym option is
enabled.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306782503-22002-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The 'sym' option displays both the function name and the DSO it comes
from. Split the display of the dso into a separate option. This allows
display of the ip address and symbol without the dso, thus shortening
line lengths - and decluttering the output a bit.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306528124-25861-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently the "sym" output field is used to dump instruction pointers
and callchain stack. Sample addresses can also be converted to symbols,
so the meaning of "sym" needs to be fixed. This patch adds an "ip"
option and if it is selected the user can also opt to dump symbols for
them. If the user opts to dump IP without syms only the address is
shown.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306528124-25861-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Allow a user to select which fields to print to stdout for event data.
Options include comm (command name), tid (thread id), pid (process id),
time (perf timestamp), cpu, event (for event name), and trace (for
trace data).
Default is set to maintain compatibility with current output; this
feature does alter output format slightly -- no '-' between command
and pid/tid.
Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for detailed suggestions on this approach.
Examples (output compressed)
1. trace, default format
perf record -ga -e sched:sched_switch
perf script
swapper 0 [000] 537.037184: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0...
sshd 1675 [000] 537.037309: sched_switch: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=1675...
netstat 1692 [001] 537.038664: sched_switch: prev_comm=netstat prev_pid=1692...
2. trace, custom format
perf record -ga -e sched:sched_switch
perf script -f comm,pid,time,trace <--- omitting cpu and event name
swapper 0 537.037184: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 ...
sshd 1675 537.037309: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=1675 prev_prio=120 ...
netstat 1692 537.038664: prev_comm=netstat prev_pid=1692 prev_prio=120 ...
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1299734608-5223-5-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Free the perf trace name space and rename the trace to 'script' which is a
better match for the scripting engine.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
