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Kan Liang 9d9cad763c perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out
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>
2015-06-19 18:27:13 -03:00
Peter Zijlstra 5610032135 perf record: Amend option summaries
Because there's too many options and I cannot read, I frequently get
confused between -c and -P, and try to do things like:

  perf record -P 50000 -- foo

Which does not work; try and make the option description slightly longer
and hopefully less confusing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150610144850.GP19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
[ Do those changes on the man page as well ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-06-10 12:00:27 -03:00
Namhyung Kim 1f91d5fd03 perf tools: Document relation of per-thread event count feature
The 'perf record -s' and 'perf report -T' should be used together to see
per-thread event counts.  Document the relation of these commands.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431184784-30525-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-12 09:59:48 -03:00
Masami Hiramatsu 6cfd1f6805 perf probe: Add --no-inlines option to avoid searching inline functions
Add --no-inlines(--inlines) option to avoid searching inline functions.

Searching all functions which matches glob pattern can take a long time
and find a lot of inline functions.

With this option perf-probe searches target on the non-inlined
functions.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.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/20150508010333.24812.86568.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-08 16:26:44 -03:00
Davidlohr Bueso d65817b4e7 perf bench futex: Support parallel waker threads
The futex-wake benchmark only measures wakeups done within a single
process. While this has value in its own, it does not really generate
any hb->lock contention.

A new benchmark 'wake-parallel' is added, by extending the futex-wake
code such that we can measure parallel waker threads. The program output
shows the avg per-thread latency in order to complete its share of
wakeups:

Run summary [PID 13474]: blocking on 512 threads (at [private] futex 0xa88668), 8 threads waking up 64 at a time.

[Run 1]: Avg per-thread latency (waking 64/512 threads) in 0.6230 ms (+-15.31%)
[Run 2]: Avg per-thread latency (waking 64/512 threads) in 0.5175 ms (+-29.95%)
[Run 3]: Avg per-thread latency (waking 64/512 threads) in 0.7578 ms (+-18.03%)
[Run 4]: Avg per-thread latency (waking 64/512 threads) in 0.8944 ms (+-12.54%)
[Run 5]: Avg per-thread latency (waking 64/512 threads) in 1.1204 ms (+-23.85%)
Avg per-thread latency (waking 64/512 threads) in 0.7826 ms (+-9.91%)

Naturally, different combinations of numbers of blocking and waker
threads will exhibit different information.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431110280-20231-1-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-08 16:23:50 -03:00
Masami Hiramatsu f8bffbf122 perf probe: Support $params special probe argument
$params is similar to $vars but matches only function parameters not
local variables.

Thus, this is useful for tracing function parameter changing or tracing
function call with parameters.

Testing it:

 # perf probe tcp_sendmsg '$params'
 Added new event:
  probe:tcp_sendmsg    (on tcp_sendmsg with $params)

 You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

	perf record -e probe:tcp_sendmsg -aR sleep 1

 # perf probe -l
  probe:tcp_sendmsg    (on tcp_sendmsg@acme/git/linux/net/ipv4/tcp.c with iocb sk msg size)
 # perf record -a -e probe:*
 press some random letters to generate TCP (sshd) traffic...

 ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.223 MB perf.data (6 samples) ]

 # perf script
   sshd 6385 [2] 3.907529: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24
   sshd 6385 [2] 4.138973: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24
   sshd 6385 [2] 4.378966: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24
   sshd 6385 [2] 4.603681: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24
   sshd 6385 [2] 4.818455: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24
   sshd 6385 [2] 5.043603: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24
 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/probe/tcp_sendmsg/format
 name: tcp_sendmsg
 ID: 1927
 format:
   field:unsigned short common_type;	offset:0;	size:2;	signed:0;
   field:unsigned char common_flags;	offset:2;	size:1;	signed:0;
   field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;	offset:3;	size:1;	signed:0;
   field:int common_pid;	offset:4;	size:4;	signed:1;

   field:unsigned long __probe_ip;	offset:8;	size:8;	signed:0;
   field:u64 iocb;	offset:16;	size:8;	signed:0;
   field:u64 sk;	offset:24;	size:8;	signed:0;
   field:u64 msg;	offset:32;	size:8;	signed:0;
   field:u64 size;	offset:40;	size:8;	signed:0;

 print fmt: "(%lx) iocb=0x%Lx sk=0x%Lx msg=0x%Lx size=0x%Lx", REC->__probe_ip, REC->iocb, REC->sk, REC->msg, REC->size
 #

 Do some system wide tracing of this probe + write syscalls:

 # perf trace -e write --ev probe:* --filter-pids 6385
  462.612 (0.010 ms): bash/19153 write(fd: 1</dev/pts/1>, buf: 0x7f7556c78000, count: 29               ) = 29
  462.701 (0.027 ms): sshd/19152 write(fd: 3<socket:[63117]>, buf: 0x7f78dd12e160, count: 68           ) ...
  462.701 (        ): probe:tcp_sendmsg:(ffffffff8163db30) iocb=0xffff8803ebec7e70 sk=0xffff88042196ab80 msg=0xffff8803ebec7da8 size=0x44)
  462.710 (0.035 ms): sshd/19152  ... [continued]: write()) = 68
  462.787 (0.009 ms): bash/19153 write(fd: 2</dev/pts/1>, buf: 0x7f7556c77000, count: 22               ) = 22
  462.865 (0.002 ms): sshd/19152 write(fd: 3<socket:[63117]>, buf: 0x7f78dd12e160, count: 68           ) ...
  462.865 (        ): probe:tcp_sendmsg:(ffffffff8163db30) iocb=0xffff8803ebec7e70 sk=0xffff88042196ab80 msg=0xffff8803ebec7da8 size=0x44)
  462.873 (0.010 ms): sshd/19152  ... [continued]: write()) = 68

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.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/20150506124653.4961.59806.stgit@localhost.localdomain
[ Add some examples to the changelog message showing how to use it ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-08 16:05:03 -03:00
Masami Hiramatsu 9f7811d08d perf probe: Accept filter argument for --funcs
This allows the user to pass the filter pattern directly to the --funcs
option as below:

  ----
  # ./perf probe -F *kmalloc
  __kmalloc
  devm_kmalloc
  mempool_kmalloc
  sg_kmalloc
  sock_kmalloc
  ----

We previously needed to use the --filter option for that.

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/20150505022950.23399.22435.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-05 18:13:04 -03:00
Adrian Hunter 2dd6d8a10a perf record: Add AUX area tracing Snapshot Mode support
Add a new option and support for Instruction Tracing Snapshot Mode.
When the new option is selected, no AUX area tracing data is captured
until a signal (SIGUSR2) is received.

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/1430404667-10593-10-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-05 18:13:01 -03:00
Adrian Hunter 53c76b0e9e perf auxtrace: Add option to synthesize events for transactions
Add AUX area tracing option 'x' to synthesize events for transactions.
This will be used by Intel PT to synthesize an event record for each TSX
start, commit or abort.

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/1430404667-10593-6-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-05 18:12:55 -03:00
Adrian Hunter 64a7e61f11 perf report: Fix placement of itrace option in documentation
Unwittingly the itrace options for perf report ended up below the
Overhead Calculation section. Move it back with the other options.

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/1430404667-10593-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-04 19:47:11 -03:00
Namhyung Kim 2a7ef02c9c perf kmem: Add --live option for current allocation stat
Currently 'perf kmem stat --page' shows total (page) allocation stat by
default, but sometimes one might want to see live (total alloc-only)
requests/pages only.  The new --live option does this by subtracting freed
allocation from the stat.

E.g.:

 # perf kmem stat --page

 SUMMARY (page allocator)
 ========================
 Total allocation requests     :          988,858   [        4,045,368 KB ]
 Total free requests           :          886,484   [        3,624,996 KB ]

 Total alloc+freed requests    :          885,969   [        3,622,628 KB ]
 Total alloc-only requests     :          102,889   [          422,740 KB ]
 Total free-only requests      :              515   [            2,368 KB ]

 Total allocation failures     :                0   [                0 KB ]

 Order     Unmovable   Reclaimable       Movable      Reserved  CMA/Isolated
 -----  ------------  ------------  ------------  ------------  ------------
     0       172,173         3,083       806,686             .             .
     1           284             .             .             .             .
     2         6,124            58             .             .             .
     3           114           335             .             .             .
     4             .             .             .             .             .
     5             .             .             .             .             .
     6             .             .             .             .             .
     7             .             .             .             .             .
     8             .             .             .             .             .
     9             .             .             1             .             .
    10             .             .             .             .             .
 # perf kmem stat --page --live

 SUMMARY (page allocator)
 ========================
 Total allocation requests     :          988,858   [        4,045,368 KB ]
 Total free requests           :          886,484   [        3,624,996 KB ]

 Total alloc+freed requests    :          885,969   [        3,622,628 KB ]
 Total alloc-only requests     :          102,889   [          422,740 KB ]
 Total free-only requests      :              515   [            2,368 KB ]

 Total allocation failures     :                0   [                0 KB ]

 Order     Unmovable   Reclaimable       Movable      Reserved  CMA/Isolated
 -----  ------------  ------------  ------------  ------------  ------------
     0         2,214         3,025        97,156             .             .
     1            59             .             .             .             .
     2            19            58             .             .             .
     3            23           335             .             .             .
     4             .             .             .             .             .
     5             .             .             .             .             .
     6             .             .             .             .             .
     7             .             .             .             .             .
     8             .             .             .             .             .
     9             .             .             .             .             .
    10             .             .             .             .             .
 #

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@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/1429592107-1807-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Added examples to the changeset log ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-04 13:34:47 -03:00
Namhyung Kim fb4f313d30 perf kmem: Support sort keys on page analysis
Add new sort keys for page: page, order, migtype, gfp - existing
'bytes', 'hit' and 'callsite' sort keys also work for page.  Note that
-s/--sort option should be preceded by either of --slab or --page option
to determine where the sort keys applies.

Now it properly groups and sorts allocation stats - so same
page/caller with different order/migtype/gfp will be printed on a
different line.

 # perf kmem stat --page --caller -l 10 -s order,hit

 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Total alloc (KB) | Hits   | Order | Mig.type | GFP flags | Callsite
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
               64 |      4 |     2 |  RECLAIM |  00285250 | new_slab
           50,144 | 12,536 |     0 |  MOVABLE |  0102005a | __page_cache_alloc
               52 |     13 |     0 | UNMOVABL |  002084d0 | pte_alloc_one
               40 |     10 |     0 |  MOVABLE |  000280da | handle_mm_fault
               28 |      7 |     0 | UNMOVABL |  000000d0 | __pollwait
               20 |      5 |     0 |  MOVABLE |  000200da | do_wp_page
               20 |      5 |     0 |  MOVABLE |  000200da | do_cow_fault
               16 |      4 |     0 | UNMOVABL |  00000200 | __tlb_remove_page
               16 |      4 |     0 | UNMOVABL |  000084d0 | __pmd_alloc
                8 |      2 |     0 | UNMOVABL |  000084d0 | __pud_alloc
 ...              | ...    | ...   | ...      | ...       | ...
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@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/1429592107-1807-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-04 13:34:47 -03:00
Masami Hiramatsu b6a896438b perf probe: Accept filter argument for --list
Currently, perf-probe --list option ignores given event filter.
  ----
  # ./perf probe -l vfs\*
    probe:vfs_read       (on vfs_read@ksrc/linux-3/fs/read_write.c)
    probe_libc:malloc    (on __libc_malloc@malloc/malloc.c in /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so)
  ----

This changes --list option to accept the event filter argument as below.
  ----
  # ./perf probe -l vfs\*
    probe:vfs_read       (on vfs_read@ksrc/linux-3/fs/read_write.c)
  # ./perf probe -l \*libc:\*
    probe_libc:malloc    (on __libc_malloc@malloc/malloc.c in /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so)
  ----

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/20150424094750.23967.53868.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-04 12:43:56 -03:00
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