linux/tools/perf
Jin Yao 6011518db3 perf header: Add infrastructure to record first and last sample time
perf report/script/... have a --time option to limit the time range of
output. That's very useful to slice large traces, e.g. when processing
the output of perf script for some analysis.

But right now --time only supports absolute time. Also there is no fast
way to get the start/end times of a given trace except for looking at
it.  This makes it hard to e.g. only decode the first half of the trace,
which is useful for parallelization of scripts

Another problem is that perf records are variable size and there is no
synchronization mechanism. So the only way to find the last sample
reliably would be to walk all samples. But we want to avoid that in perf
report/...  because it is already quite expensive. That is why storing
the first sample time and last sample time in perf record is better.

This patch creates a new header feature type HEADER_SAMPLE_TIME and
related ops. Save the first sample time and the last sample time to the
feature section in perf file header. That will be done when, for
instance, processing build-ids, where we already have to process all
samples to create the build-id table, take advantage of that to further
amortize that processing by storing HEADER_SAMPLE_TIME to make 'perf
report/script' faster when using --time.

Committer testing:

After this patch is applied the header is written with zeroes, we need
the next patch, for "perf record" to actually write the timestamps:

  # perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE\(
  22501155244406 0x44f0 [0x28]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 25016/25016: 0xffffffffa21be8c5 period: 1 addr: 0
  <SNIP>
  22501155793625 0x4a30 [0x28]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 25016/25016: 0xffffffffa21ffd50 period: 2828043 addr: 0
  # perf report --header | grep "time of "
  # time of first sample : 0.000000
  # time of last sample : 0.000000
  #

Changelog:

v7: 1. Rebase to latest perf/core branch.

    2. Add following clarification in patch description according to
       Arnaldo's suggestion.

       "That will be done when, for instance, processing build-ids,
	where we already have to process all samples to create the
	build-id table, take advantage of that to further amortize
	that processing by storing HEADER_SAMPLE_TIME to make
	'perf report/script' faster when using --time."

v4: Use perf script time style for timestamp printing. Also add with
    the printing of sample duration.

v3: Remove the definitions of first_sample_time/last_sample_time from
    perf_session. Just define them in perf_evlist

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512738826-2628-2-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-01-08 11:20:51 -03:00
..
arch perf tools: Fix compile error with libunwind x86 2018-01-08 11:11:57 -03:00
bench perf perf: Remove duplicate includes 2017-12-27 12:15:49 -03:00
Documentation perf header: Add infrastructure to record first and last sample time 2018-01-08 11:20:51 -03:00
jvmti perf jvmti: Generate correct debug information for inlined code 2017-12-18 11:54:08 -03:00
pmu-events perf vendor events: Use more flexible pattern matching for CPU identification for mapfile.csv 2017-12-05 15:43:55 -03:00
python License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
scripts License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
tests perf test bpf: Hook on epoll_pwait() 2018-01-08 11:11:57 -03:00
trace tools headers: Syncronize mman.h ABI header 2017-11-28 14:31:56 -03:00
ui perf annotate: Get the cpuid from evsel->evlist->env in symbol__annotate() 2017-12-27 12:15:51 -03:00
util perf header: Add infrastructure to record first and last sample time 2018-01-08 11:20:51 -03:00
.gitignore perf tools: Ignore generated files pmu-events/{jevents,pmu-events.c} for git 2017-03-13 10:59:36 -03:00
Build perf trace: Only build tools/perf/trace/beauty/ when building 'perf trace' 2017-07-18 23:13:52 -03:00
builtin-annotate.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-bench.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf buildid-cache: Update help text for purge command 2017-11-16 14:49:54 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-c2c.c perf perf: Remove duplicate includes 2017-12-27 12:15:49 -03:00
builtin-config.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-data.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
builtin-diff.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-evlist.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-ftrace.c tools include: Adopt strstarts() from the kernel 2017-07-20 15:46:10 -03:00
builtin-help.c perf help: Fix a bug during strstart() conversion 2017-11-28 14:21:18 -03:00
builtin-inject.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-kallsyms.c perf tools: Including missing inttypes.h header 2017-04-19 13:01:46 -03:00
builtin-kmem.c mm: remove __GFP_COLD 2017-11-15 18:21:06 -08:00
builtin-kvm.c perf evlist: Remove 'overwrite' parameter from perf_evlist__mmap 2017-12-05 15:43:53 -03:00
builtin-list.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-lock.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-mem.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-probe.c perf buildid-cache: Support binary objects from other namespaces 2017-07-18 23:14:11 -03:00
builtin-record.c perf evsel: Enable ignore_missing_thread for pid option 2017-12-27 12:15:58 -03:00
builtin-report.c perf report: Fix a no annotate browser displayed issue 2018-01-08 11:11:57 -03:00
builtin-sched.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-script.c perf utils: Move is_directory() to path.h 2017-12-27 12:15:48 -03:00
builtin-stat.c perf perf: Remove duplicate includes 2017-12-27 12:15:49 -03:00
builtin-timechart.c perf tools: Add struct perf_data_file 2017-10-30 13:37:37 -03:00
builtin-top.c perf annotate: Get the cpuid from evsel->evlist->env in symbol__annotate() 2017-12-27 12:15:51 -03:00
builtin-trace.c perf evlist: Remove 'overwrite' parameter from perf_evlist__mmap 2017-12-05 15:43:53 -03:00
builtin-version.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
builtin.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
check-headers.sh tools include s390: Grab a copy of arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h 2017-12-27 12:15:49 -03:00
command-list.txt perf tools: Missing c2c command in command-list 2017-03-13 10:59:31 -03:00
CREDITS
design.txt
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Makefile.config perf s390: Always build with -fPIC 2017-12-27 12:15:57 -03:00
Makefile.perf perf trace beauty kcmp: Beautify arguments 2017-10-31 16:17:04 -03:00
MANIFEST perf tools: Get all of tools/{arch,include}/ in the MANIFEST 2017-09-25 10:39:43 -03:00
perf-archive.sh License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
perf-completion.sh perf tools: Auto-complete for events with ':' 2017-12-27 12:16:00 -03:00
perf-read-vdso.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
perf-sys.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
perf-with-kcore.sh perf tools: Fix perf-with-kcore handling of arguments containing spaces 2015-08-06 16:48:27 -03:00
perf.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
perf.h Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00