Support string type casting to event argument. If perf-probe finds an argument
casted as string, it ensures the target variable is "(unsigned/signed) char
*(or []). perf-probe also adds dereference if the target is a pointer.
So, both of 'char buf[10];' and 'char *buf;' can be accessed by 'buf:string'
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100519195734.2885.1666.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
make version 3.80 doesn't support "else ifdef" on the same line, also it
doesn't support unindented nested constructs.
Build fails with:
Makefile:608: Extraneous text after `else' directive
Makefile:611: *** only one `else' per conditional. Stop.
This patch fixes the build for make 3.80.
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1277990366-1462-1-git-send-email-conny.seidel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Conny Seidel <conny.seidel@.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When compiling perf on latest tip/master I see the following
error:
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
util/newt.c: In function 'hist_entry__tui_annotate':
util/newt.c:764: warning: 'ret' is used uninitialized in
this function make: *** [util/newt.o] Error 1
I think the problem was introduced by commit
13f499f076
Below is a patch that fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100629173226.GC23231@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Account and report lost events in perf trace debugging mode,
useful to check the reliability of the traces.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Errors due to ordering bugs are easily lost in the middle
of traces.
When we are in this mode, don't print the traces so that
we don't miss the debugging messages.
But display a comforting message if we didn't encounter any
ordering problem.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
4 bytes is fine as a default access for data breakpoints. But
instruction breakpoints should take the native pointer length,
otherwise we get a -EINVAL in x86-64.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Another patch eroding the changes I had to move to a tree widget that
doesn't requires adding all entries in an existing list/tree structure
to a generic tree widget, but instead allows traversing just the entries
that should appear on the screen on a given moment.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So that we can use the ui_browser on things like an rb_tree, etc.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Will be used in more places in the new tree widget.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix a typo introduced by recent Makefile changes, in f9af3a4. Without it, Perl
scripting support won't get compiled in.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1276836006.7762.15.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
At exit, perf record will kill the process it was profiling by sending a
SIGTERM to child_pid (if it had been initialised), but in certain situations
child_pid may be 0 and perf would mistakenly kill more processes than intended.
child_pid is set to the return of fork() to either 0 or the pid of the child.
Ordinarily this would not present an issue as the child calls execvp to spawn
the process to be profiled and would therefore never run it's sig_atexit and
never attempt to kill pid 0.
However, if a nonexistant binary had been passed in to perf record the call to
execvp would fail and child_pid would be left set to 0. The child would then
exit and it's atexit handler, finding that child_pid was initialised to 0,
would call kill(0, SIGTERM), resulting in every process within it's process
group being killed.
In the case that perf was being run directly from the shell this typically
would not be an issue as the shell isolates the process. However, if perf was
being called from another program it could kill unexpected processes, which may
even include X.
This patch changes the logic of the test for whether child_pid was initialised
to only consider positive pids as valid, thereby never attempting to kill pid
0.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1276072680-17378-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
If we cannot open our data file, print strerror(errno) for a more
comprehensible error message; and only suggest 'perf record' on ENOENT.
In particular, this fixes the nonsensical advice when:
% sudo perf record sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.009 MB perf.data (~381 samples) ]
% perf trace
failed to open file: perf.data (try 'perf record' first)
%
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LPU-Reference: <20100612033615.GA24731@hexapodia.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The loop counter math in trace_event was much more complicated than
necessary, resulting in incorrectly decoding the human-readable
portion of the partial last line of hexdump in "perf trace -D" output:
. 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2f 73 62 69 6e 2f 69 6e ......../sbin/i
. 0030: 69 74 00 00 00 00 00 00 /sbin/i
With this fixed (and simpler!) code, we get the correct output:
. 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2f 73 62 69 6e 2f 69 6e ......../sbin/in
. 0030: 69 74 00 00 00 00 00 00 it......
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LPU-Reference: <20100612024404.GA24469@hexapodia.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The probe plugin requires access to the source code for some operations. The
source code must be in the exact same location as specified by the DWARF tags,
but sometimes the location is an absolute path that cannot be replicated by a
normal user. This change adds the -s|--source option to allow the user to
specify the root of the kernel source tree.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1276543590-10486-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
These are local-configuration files and should be ignored.
LKML-Reference: <1276516847-25817-1-git-send-email-kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
There are situations where there is enough information in the perf.data
to process the samples. Updating the buildid cache may add unecessary
overhead in terms of disk space and time (copying large elf images).
A persistent option to do this already exists via the perfconfig file,
simply do:
[buildid]
dir = /dev/null
This patch provides a way to suppress builid cache updates on a per-run
basis. It addds a new option, -N, to perf record. Buildids are still
generated in the perf.data file.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4c19ef89.93ecd80a.40dc.fffff8e9@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently symbol resolution does not work for 64-bit programs on architectures
that use function descriptors such as ppc64.
The problem is that a symbol doesn't point to a text address, it points to a
data area that contains (amongst other things) a pointer to the text address.
We look for a section called ".opd" which is the function descriptor area. To
create the full symbol table, when we see a symbol in the function descriptor
section we load the first pointer and use that as the text address.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1276523793-15422-1-git-send-email-ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
A bug was introduced by commit c45c6ea2e5.
Perf record was scanning /proc/PID to create synthetic PERF_RECOR_MMAP
entries even though it was running in per-thread mode. There was a bogus
check to select what mmaps to synthesize. We only need all processes in
system-wide mode.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <4c192107.4f1ee30a.4316.fffff98e@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Move them to a session->dead_threads list just like we do with maps that
are replaced, because we may have hist_entries pointing to them.
This fixes a bug when inserting maps for a new thread that reused the
TID, mixing maps for two different threads, causing an endless loop.
The code for insering maps should be made more robust but for .35 this
is the minimalistic patch.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When processing events we want to give visual feedback to the user when
using the newt browser, so there are ui_progress calls in
__perf_session__process_events, but those should check if newt is being
used.
Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100609123530.GB9471@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Moving the tests to a separate file, feature-tests.mak and using a try-cc
function similar to the try-run in Kbuild.
This also makes the output more quiet as we can stop using the INTERMEDIATE
target to remove the .perf.dev.null file needed for some gcc versions where
/dev/null can't be used as the output file name.
As the tests get shorter by uninlining the source code used to test for
features, we can more properly use identation.
The feature tests itself can be made more clear and reused, like when trying to
see what is needed to have bfd_demangle.
We also get a bit closer to reusing scripts/Kbuild.include, reducing the
distance from the kernel build system.
Tests performed:
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
PERF_VERSION = 0.0.2.PERF
GEN /tmp/perf/common-cmds.h
* new build flags or prefix
GEN perf-archive
CC /tmp/perf/builtin-annotate.o
CC /tmp/perf/bench/sched-messaging.o
CC /tmp/perf/builtin-diff.o
<SNIP>
CC /tmp/perf/scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.o
CC /tmp/perf/perf.o
CC /tmp/perf/builtin-help.o
AR /tmp/perf/libperf.a
LINK /tmp/perf/perf
[root@emilia perf]#
If we uninstall, for instance newt-devel we get:
[root@emilia perf]# rpm -e newt-devel
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
Makefile:564: newt not found, disables TUI support. Please install newt-devel or libnewt-dev
* new build flags or prefix
GEN perf-archive
CC /tmp/perf/perf.o
CC /tmp/perf/builtin-annotate.o
<SNIP>
AR /tmp/perf/libperf.a
LINK /tmp/perf/perf
[root@emilia perf]#
And then binutils-devel:
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
Makefile:564: newt not found, disables TUI support. Please install newt-devel or libnewt-dev
Makefile:632: No bfd.h/libbfd found, install binutils-dev[el]/zlib-static to gain symbol demangling
* new build flags or prefix
GEN perf-archive
CC /tmp/perf/perf.o
<SNIP>
AR /tmp/perf/libperf.a
LINK /tmp/perf/perf
[root@emilia perf]#
And then strictly required devel packages:
[root@emilia perf]# rpm -e elfutils-libelf-devel elfutils-devel
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
Makefile:509: No libdw.h found or old libdw.h found or elfutils is older than 0.138, disables dwarf support. Please install new elfutils-devel/libdw-dev
Makefile:542: *** No libelf.h/libelf found, please install libelf-dev/elfutils-libelf-devel. Stop.
[root@emilia perf]#
After installing everything back on:
[root@emilia perf]# yum install elfutils-devel binutils-devel newt-devel
<SNIP>
Installed:
binutils-devel.x86_64 0:2.20.51.0.2-5.11.el6
elfutils-devel.x86_64 0:0.147-1.el6
elfutils-libelf-devel.x86_64 0:0.147-1.el6
newt-devel.x86_64 0:0.52.11-1.el6
Complete!
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9
PERF_VERSION = 0.0.2.PERF
GEN common-cmds.h
* new build flags or prefix
GEN perf-archive
CC builtin-annotate.o
<SNIP>
AR libperf.a
LINK perf
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9
[root@emilia perf]#
Thanks to Sam for pointing me to try-run.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add the capacility to track data mmap()s. This can be used together
with PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR for data profiling.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
[Updated code for stable perf ABI]
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1274193049-25997-1-git-send-email-ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In a shared multi-core environment, users want to analyze why their
program was slow. In particular, if the code ran slower only on certain
CPUs due to interference from other programs or kernel threads, the user
should be able to notice that.
Sample usage:
perf record -f -a -- sleep 3
perf report --sort cpu,comm
Workload:
program is running on 16 CPUs
Experiencing interference from an antagonist only on 4 CPUs.
Samples: 106218177676 cycles
Overhead CPU Command
........ ... ...............
6.25% 2 program
6.24% 6 program
6.24% 11 program
6.24% 5 program
6.24% 9 program
6.24% 10 program
6.23% 15 program
6.23% 7 program
6.23% 3 program
6.23% 14 program
6.22% 1 program
6.20% 13 program
3.17% 12 program
3.15% 8 program
3.14% 0 program
3.13% 4 program
3.11% 4 antagonist
3.11% 0 antagonist
3.10% 8 antagonist
3.07% 12 antagonist
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100505181612.GA5091@sharma-home.net>
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <aruns@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Simplifying the tools that were using both in sequence and allowing
upcoming simplifications, such as Arun's patch to sort by cpus.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Perf report is demangling symbols but not annotate.
The former uses internal demangling via libbdf or libiberty. The latter
executes objdump which by default does not demangle symbols.
This patch adds the -C option to the objdump cmdline to enable symbol
demangling.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4c07b323.2126e30a.6245.0e1e@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds the ability to specify an alternate directory to store the
buildid cache (buildids, copy of binaries). By default, it is hardcoded to
$HOME/.debug. This directory contains immutable data. The layout of the
directory is such that no conflicts in filenames are possible. A modification
in a file, yields a different buildid and thus a different location in the
subdir hierarchy.
You may want to put the buildid cache elsewhere because of disk space
limitation or simply to share the cache between users. It is also useful for
remote collect vs. local analysis of profiles.
This patch adds a new config option to the perfconfig file. Under the tag
'buildid', there is a dir option. For instance, if you have:
$ cat /etc/perfconfig
[buildid]
dir = /var/cache/perf-buildid
All buildids and binaries are be saved in the directory specified. The perf
record, buildid-list, buildid-cache, report, annotate, and archive commands
will it to pull information out.
The option can be set in the system-wide perfconfig file or in the
$HOME/.perfconfig file.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4c055fb7.df0ce30a.5f0d.ffffae52@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Useful for when people want to try some version of the perf tools and don't
wants to download the kernel tarball.
Here is a session using this new target:
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# make help | grep -i perf
perf-tar-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar source tarball
perf-targz-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.gz source tarball
perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2 source tarball
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# make perf-tarbz2-src-pkg
TAR
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 295731 May 31 11:18 perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# tar xf perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# cd perf-2.6.35-rc1
[root@emilia perf-2.6.35-rc1]# ls
arch HEAD include lib tools
[root@emilia perf-2.6.35-rc1]# cd tools/perf
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 2>&1 | tail
CC arch/x86/util/dwarf-regs.o
CC util/probe-finder.o
CC util/newt.o
CC util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.o
CC scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.o
CC perf.o
CC builtin-help.o
AR libperf.a
LINK perf
rm .perf.dev.null
[root@emilia perf]# ./perf record -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.262 MB perf.data (~11457 samples) ]
[root@emilia perf]# ./perf report | head -12
# Events: 6K cycles
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ............... .................. ......
#
4.73% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] format_decode
4.49% perf libc-2.12.so [.] _IO_file_underflow_internal
4.38% init [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mwait_idle
3.29% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] vsnprintf
2.38% init [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_local
2.35% init [kernel.kallsyms] [k] apic_timer_interrupt
1.86% sirq-timer/5 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_busiest_group
[root@emilia perf]#
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100528185357.GA28009@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds a -C option to stat, record, top to designate a list of CPUs to
monitor. CPUs can be specified as a comma-separated list or ranges, no space
allowed.
Examples:
$ perf record -a -C0-1,4-7 sleep 1
$ perf top -C0-4
$ perf stat -a -C1,2,3,4 sleep 1
With perf record in per-thread mode with inherit mode on, samples are collected
only when the thread runs on the designated CPUs.
The -C option does not turn on system-wide mode automatically.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4bff9496.d345d80a.41fe.7b00@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It is useful to know on which CPU a sample was captured on.
The information is captured with perf record -R but it was
not printed out by perf report -D. This patch adds this.
When -R is not used, cpu is set to -1to indicate that
the CPU is unknown (it is not captured).
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4bff964c.e88cd80a.3106.7d31@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We need to set the long name to the name specified via, for instance,
'perf annotate --vmlinux /path/to/vmlinux', if not it will remain as
'[kernel.kallsyms]' and that will make annotate fail when passing this
as the vmlinux name in the call to objdump.
The way this is setup grew unwieldly and dso__load_vmlinux is the
function that should allocate space for the long name, with callers not
assuming that filenames should be allocated somehow by then (strdup,
dso__build_id_filename, etc).
For now this is the minimalistic patch, a proper fix for .36 will be
made.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100604003900.GD10469@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When we use plain 'perf buildid-list' we use only what is in the buildid
table in the perf.data header. And those have absolute pathnames because
at 'perf record' time we used __perf_session__process_events and that
doesn't sets up the path shortening code in map__new() that happens if
symbol_conf.full_paths is false, the default.
On the other hand, when we use 'perf buildid-list --with-hits' we
process all the events using perf_session__process_events, adding
entries to the global DSO list _after_ removing the current directory
from the DSO name, for presentation purposes.
Because of that we end up having two entries in the DSO list when
recording events for binaries using relative pathnames.
Fix it minimally by setting symbol_conf.full_paths to true when marking
the DSOs with hits in 'perf buildid-list --with-hits', as used by 'perf
archive'
Right fix longer term is to shorten the path only at presentation time.
Will be done for 2.6.36.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100601183837.GC4093@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
trace_unhandled() callback does not allow to access event fields, this patch
resolves the problem.
It can also been used as a more pythonic and flexible way for script writters
to demux event types
This will for example greatly simplify pytimechart event demux.
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1275340329-2397-1-git-send-email-tardyp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Tardy <tardyp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
hist_entry__annotate() runs objdump with -S option so the output may contain
lines of any format. If a line starts with a colon strtoull() returns 0 and
calculated offset will be negative. This causes perf annotate segfaults.
Make sure that strtoull() has parsed at least one digit.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Stepanyuk <konstantin.stepanyuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When forking the child to be traced, we should check the correct
return value from fork() and not a local variable which is otherwise
unused.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100531211818.GA30175@liondog.tnic>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
event__process_task() doesn't propagate the comm copy on clone,
but only on process fork. So we loose all the tid:comm resolution
for tasks that aren't a main process thread.
Progragate the per thread granularity to event__process_task for
pid resolution.
This fixes various unresolved pids in perf sched, especially when
we trace multithread processes. The problem is quickly reproducible
with the messaging benchmark using the multithread mode "-t" :
perf sched record perf bench sched messaging -t
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
perf sched uses event__process_comm(), which means it can resolve
comms from:
- tasks that have exec'ed (kernel comm events)
- tasks that were running when perf record started the actual
recording (synthetized comm events)
But perf sched can't resolve the pids of tasks that were created
after the recording started.
To solve this, we need to inherit the comms on fork events using
event__process_task().
This fixes various unresolved pids in perf sched, easily visible
with:
perf sched record perf bench sched messaging
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
When we synthetize the existing running tasks though procfs,
we walk through every threads of a process, queuing one comm
events per tid.
But then on report time, event__process_comm() only creates and
sets the comm on a per process granularity. This is the right
thing for comm events that came from the kernel, as they are
only created on exec. Sub-threads then inherit their comm
from fork events. But that doesn't work with our synthetized
comm events taken from procfs informations as the per thread
granularity is done on comm events directly there.
Hence we need event__process_comm() to work with the tid rather
than the pid. It won't change anything for comm events coming
from the kernel but this will fix the synthetized ones.
Before:
$ ./perf report -D | grep COMM | grep firefox
0x2c7b8 [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: firefox:5297
0x2c7d0 [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: firefox:5297
0x2c7e8 [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: firefox:5297
0x2c800 [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: firefox:5297
0x2c818 [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: firefox:5297
0x2c830 [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: firefox:5297
After:
$ ./perf report -D | grep COMM | grep firefox
0x2c7b8 [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: firefox:5297
0x2c7d0 [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: firefox:5299
0x2c7e8 [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: firefox:5300
0x2c800 [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: firefox:5308
0x2c818 [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: firefox:5309
0x2c830 [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: firefox:5312
This fixes various unresolved pid on perf sched.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
When we moved to using ~/.perfconfig to set the value of use_browser,
it changed from a boolean to an int so that the convention used for
use_pager was followed.
That convention is:
-1: unspecified, that is what use_{browser,pager} is initialized
0: Don't use the browser (should be TUI), because was explicitely
set to 0/off/false on ~/.perfconfig [tui] cmd =, or because
we're redirecting the stdout to a file or piping it to some
other command (!isatty()).
1: Use the TUI
Some code was not properly audited and continued testing it as a
boolean, this seems to be the last one.
Reported-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So that if the kernel DSO has a build id because record inserted it in
the perf.data build id table in the header, or a BUILD_ID event was
inserted in the stream, we first look at the build id cache
($HOME/.debug/).
If we find it there, try to use it, allowing offline annotation in
addition to 'perf report'.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The newt initialization routines weren't being called because the output
was a file (perf annotate > /tmp/bla) but use_browser was still 1,
because ~/.perfconfig had it as 'on', so, later on newt routines
segfaulted.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The hists__tty_browse_tree function was created with the loop to print
all events, and its equivalent, hists__tui_browse_tree, was created in a
similar fashion, where it is possible to switch among the multiple
events, if present, using TAB to go the next event, and shift+TAB
(UNTAB) to go to the previous.
The report TUI now shows as the window title the name of the event and a
leak was fixed wrt pstacks.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It was assuming that the cache was always available and also wasn't
checking if the file found in the build id cache was just a kallsyms
file, that is not supported by objdump for disassembly.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When annotating multiple entries, for instance, when running simply as:
$ perf annotate
the right and left keys, as well as TAB can be used to cycle thru the
multiple symbols being annotated.
If one doesn't like TUI annotate, disable it by editing ~/.perfconfig
and adding:
[tui]
annotate = off
Just like it is possible for report.
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
One day we'll have support for the "dump raw trace in ASCII" in the TUI
frontend, but till then, use the tty code.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
