The 'perf kvm' subcommand has options that it in turn passes to other
perf subcommands such as 'report' and 'record', particularly -i and -o
end up setting the same variable that will then be used for 'record's -o
and report '-i', which ends up being confusing, leading some to think
that both -i and -o can be used with 'report'.
Improve the man page to state that -i is used with the post-processing
subcommands while -o is used just with 'record' and that to save the
output of 'report' one should simply redirect its output to a file.
Noticed while reading the https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Perf_events
page.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tclbttvmgtm525fvmh85f7d9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The time out to limit the individual proc map processing was hard code
to 500ms. This patch introduce a new option --proc-map-timeout to make
the time limit configurable.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434549071-25611-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.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>
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>
As there is no -v option for perf kvm, the all debug message for perf
kvm will nerver be printed out to user.
Example:
# perf kvm --guestmount /tmp/guestmount/ record -a
Not enough memory for reading perf file header
It is confusing message for newbies such as me. With this patch applied,
we can use -v option to get the detail.
Example:
# perf kvm --guestmount /tmp/guestmount/ record -a -v
Can't access file /tmp/guestmount//15069/proc/kallsyms
Not enough memory for reading perf file header
Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386609311-23889-1-git-send-email-yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
As we have changed the default behavior of 'perf kvm' to --guest
enabled, the parts of the man page that covers the 'record' subcommand
are outdated.
This patch updates it to show the correct output with
--host/--guest/neither/both of them.
Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
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/3a3a9c1e05acb5a274d1d8369db5a4c6467d6276.1386197481.git.yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
As option --host and --guest request no input for it, there should not
be a '=' after them in the man page sources.
And --output expects a filename as the input, so there should be a '='
after it.
This patch removes the needless '=' after --guest and --host, and adds a
'=' after --output in perf-kvm.txt.
Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
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/6124d9eb10a3f1f6b399d1db660110bc7a60fd6b.1386197481.git.yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
As the buildid is read from /sys/kernel/notes, then if we use perf kvm
buildid-list with a perf data file captured by perf kvm record with
--guestkallsyms and --guestmodules, there is no result in output.
This patch add a explanation about it and add a limit of using perf kvm
buildid-list.
Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
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/d605a805486340b53bc261aa64d7632ad0a8cf53.1386197481.git.yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Adding possibility to specify mmap size via -m/--mmap-pages
by appending unit size character (B/K/M/G) to the
number, like:
$ perf record -m 8K ls
$ perf record -m 2M ls
The size is rounded up appropriately to follow perf
mmap restrictions.
If no unit is specified the number provides pages as
of now, like:
$ perf record -m 8 ls
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378031796-17892-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add 'perf kvm stat' support to analyze kvm vmexit/mmio/ioport smartly
Usage:
- kvm stat
run a command and gather performance counter statistics, it is the alias of
perf stat
- trace kvm events:
perf kvm stat record, or, if other tracepoints are interesting as well, we
can append the events like this:
perf kvm stat record -e timer:* -a
If many guests are running, we can track the specified guest by using -p or
--pid, -a is used to track events generated by all guests.
- show the result:
perf kvm stat report
The output example is following:
13005
13059
total 2 guests are running on the host
Then, track the guest whose pid is 13059:
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.253 MB perf.data.guest (~11065 samples) ]
See the vmexit events:
Analyze events for all VCPUs:
VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Avg time
APIC_ACCESS 460 70.55% 0.01% 22.44us ( +- 1.75% )
HLT 93 14.26% 99.98% 832077.26us ( +- 10.42% )
EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT 64 9.82% 0.00% 35.35us ( +- 14.21% )
PENDING_INTERRUPT 24 3.68% 0.00% 9.29us ( +- 31.39% )
CR_ACCESS 7 1.07% 0.00% 8.12us ( +- 5.76% )
IO_INSTRUCTION 3 0.46% 0.00% 18.00us ( +- 11.79% )
EXCEPTION_NMI 1 0.15% 0.00% 5.83us ( +- -nan% )
Total Samples:652, Total events handled time:77396109.80us.
See the mmio events:
Analyze events for all VCPUs:
MMIO Access Samples Samples% Time% Avg time
0xfee00380:W 387 84.31% 79.28% 8.29us ( +- 3.32% )
0xfee00300:W 24 5.23% 9.96% 16.79us ( +- 1.97% )
0xfee00300:R 24 5.23% 7.83% 13.20us ( +- 3.00% )
0xfee00310:W 24 5.23% 2.93% 4.94us ( +- 3.84% )
Total Samples:459, Total events handled time:4044.59us.
See the ioport event:
Analyze events for all VCPUs:
IO Port Access Samples Samples% Time% Avg time
0xc050:POUT 3 100.00% 100.00% 13.75us ( +- 10.83% )
Total Samples:3, Total events handled time:41.26us.
And, --vcpu is used to track the specified vcpu and --key is used to sort the
result:
Analyze events for VCPU 0:
VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Avg time
HLT 27 13.85% 99.97% 405790.24us ( +- 12.70% )
EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT 13 6.67% 0.00% 27.94us ( +- 22.26% )
APIC_ACCESS 146 74.87% 0.03% 21.69us ( +- 2.91% )
IO_INSTRUCTION 2 1.03% 0.00% 17.77us ( +- 20.56% )
CR_ACCESS 2 1.03% 0.00% 8.55us ( +- 6.47% )
PENDING_INTERRUPT 5 2.56% 0.00% 6.27us ( +- 3.94% )
Total Samples:195, Total events handled time:10959950.90us.
Signed-off-by: Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
- rebase it on current acme's tree
- fix the compiling-error on i386 ]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347870675-31495-4-git-send-email-haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
asciidoc does not allow the "===" to be longer than the line
above it.
Also fix a couple types and formatting errors.
Signed-off-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <4BD204C5.9000504@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
