Extend --threads option in perf record command line interface.
The option can have a value in the form of masks that specify
CPUs to be monitored with data streaming threads and its layout
in system topology. The masks can be filtered using CPU mask
provided via -C option.
The specification value can be user defined list of masks. Masks
separated by colon define CPUs to be monitored by one thread and
affinity mask of that thread is separated by slash. For example:
<cpus mask 1>/<affinity mask 1>:<cpu mask 2>/<affinity mask 2>
specifies parallel threads layout that consists of two threads
with corresponding assigned CPUs to be monitored.
The specification value can be a string e.g. "cpu", "core" or
"package" meaning creation of data streaming thread for every
CPU or core or package to monitor distinct CPUs or CPUs grouped
by core or package.
The option provided with no or empty value defaults to per-cpu
parallel threads layout creating data streaming thread for every
CPU being monitored.
Document --threads option syntax and parallel data streaming modes
in Documentation/perf-record.txt.
Suggested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Antonov <alexander.antonov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Budankov <abudankov@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/079e2619be70c465317cf7c9fdaf5fa069728c32.1642440724.git.alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Start thread in detached state because its management is implemented
via messaging to avoid any scaling issues. Block signals prior thread
start so only main tool thread would be notified on external async
signals during data collection. Thread affinity mask is used to assign
eligible CPUs for the thread to run. Wait and sync on thread start using
thread ack pipe.
Reviewed-by: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Antonov <alexander.antonov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Budankov <abudankov@huawei.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/95784dd9f7c81ee408eab27b50b4c09ad4cf7be6.1642440724.git.alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add an option to control the synthesizing behavior.
--synth <no|all|task|mmap|cgroup>
Fine-tune event synthesis: default=all
This can be useful when we know it doesn't need some synthesis like
in a specific usecase and/or when using pipe:
$ perf record -a --all-cgroups --synth cgroup -o- sleep 1 | \
> perf report -i- -s cgroup
Committer notes:
Added a clarification to the man page entry for --synth that this is
about pre-existing threads.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https //lore.kernel.org/r/20210811044658.1313391-2-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Adds the infrastructure to sample the code address page size.
Introduce a new --code-page-size option for perf record.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Originally-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105195752.43489-4-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add --buildid-mmap option to enable build id in PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 events.
It will only work if there's kernel support for that and it disables
build id cache (implies --no-buildid).
It's also possible to enable it permanently via config option in
~/.perfconfig file:
[record]
build-id=mmap
Also added build_id bit in the verbose output for perf_event_attr:
# perf record --buildid-mmap -vv
...
perf_event_attr:
type 1
size 120
...
build_id 1
Adding also missing text_poke bit.
Committer testing:
$ perf record -h build
Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
-B, --no-buildid do not collect buildids in perf.data
-N, --no-buildid-cache
do not update the buildid cache
--buildid-all Record build-id of all DSOs regardless of hits
--buildid-mmap Record build-id in map events
$
$ perf record --buildid-mmap sleep 1
Failed: no support to record build id in mmap events, update your kernel.
$
After adding the needed kernel bits in a test kernel:
$ perf record -vv --buildid-mmap sleep 1 |& grep -m1 build
Enabling build id in mmap2 events.
$ perf evlist -v
cycles:u: size: 120, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, exclude_kernel: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1, build_id: 1
$
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Budankov <abudankov@huawei.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201214105457.543111-16-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Support new sample type PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_PAGE_SIZE for page size.
Add new option --data-page-size to record sample data page size.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201130172803.2676-3-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Introduce --control fd:ctl-fd[,ack-fd] options to pass open file
descriptors numbers from command line.
Extend perf-record.txt file with --control fd:ctl-fd[,ack-fd] options
description.
Document possible usage model introduced by --control fd:ctl-fd[,ack-fd]
options by providing example bash shell script.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8dc01e1a-3a80-3f67-5385-4bc7112b0dd3@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Extend -D,--delay option with -1 to start collection with events
disabled to be enabled later by 'enable' command provided via control
file descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3e7d362c-7973-ee5d-e81e-c60ea22432c3@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add processing for PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE events. When a text poke event
is processed, then the kernel dso data cache is updated with the poked
bytes.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200512121922.8997-12-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Context switch events are added automatically by Intel PT and Coresight.
Make it possible to suppress them. That is useful for tracing the
scheduler without the disturbance that the switch event processing
creates.
Example:
Prerequisites:
$ which perf
~/bin/perf
$ sudo setcap "cap_sys_rawio,cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_syslog,cap_ipc_lock=ep" ~/bin/perf
$ sudo chmod +r /proc/kcore
Before:
$ perf record --no-switch-events --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -- sleep 0.001
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.938 MB perf.data ]
$ perf script -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SWITCH | wc -l
572
After:
$ perf record --no-switch-events --kcore -a -e intel_pt//k -- sleep 0.001
Warning:
Intel Processor Trace decoding will not be possible except for kernel tracing!
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.838 MB perf.data ]
$ perf script -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SWITCH | wc -l
0
$ sudo chmod go-r /proc/kcore
$ sudo setcap -r ~/bin/perf
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200528120859.21604-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To control degree of parallelism of the synthesize_mmap() code which
is scanning /proc/PID/task/PID/maps and can be time consuming.
Mimic perf top way of handling the option.
If not specified will default to 1 thread, i.e. default behavior before
this option.
On a desktop computer the processing of /proc/PID/task/PID/maps isn't
slow enough to warrant parallel processing and the thread creation has
some cost - hence the default of 1. On a loaded server with
>100 cores it is possible to see synthesis times in the order of
seconds and in this case having the option is desirable.
As the processing is a synchronization point, it is legitimate to worry if
Amdahl's law will apply to this patch. Profiling with this patch in
place:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200415054050.31645-4-irogers@google.com/
shows:
...
- 32.59% __perf_event__synthesize_threads
- 32.54% __event__synthesize_thread
+ 22.13% perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events
+ 6.68% perf_event__get_comm_ids.constprop.0
+ 1.49% process_synthesized_event
+ 1.29% __GI___readdir64
+ 0.60% __opendir
...
That is the processing is 1.49% of execution time and there is plenty to
make parallel. This is shown in the benchmark in this patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200415054050.31645-2-irogers@google.com/
Computing performance of multi threaded perf event synthesis by
synthesizing events on CPU 0:
Number of synthesis threads: 1
Average synthesis took: 127729.000 usec (+- 3372.880 usec)
Average num. events: 21548.600 (+- 0.306)
Average time per event 5.927 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 2
Average synthesis took: 88863.500 usec (+- 385.168 usec)
Average num. events: 21552.800 (+- 0.327)
Average time per event 4.123 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 3
Average synthesis took: 83257.400 usec (+- 348.617 usec)
Average num. events: 21553.200 (+- 0.327)
Average time per event 3.863 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 4
Average synthesis took: 75093.000 usec (+- 422.978 usec)
Average num. events: 21554.200 (+- 0.200)
Average time per event 3.484 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 5
Average synthesis took: 64896.600 usec (+- 353.348 usec)
Average num. events: 21558.000 (+- 0.000)
Average time per event 3.010 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 6
Average synthesis took: 59210.200 usec (+- 342.890 usec)
Average num. events: 21560.000 (+- 0.000)
Average time per event 2.746 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 7
Average synthesis took: 54093.900 usec (+- 306.247 usec)
Average num. events: 21562.000 (+- 0.000)
Average time per event 2.509 usec
Number of synthesis threads: 8
Average synthesis took: 48938.700 usec (+- 341.732 usec)
Average num. events: 21564.000 (+- 0.000)
Average time per event 2.269 usec
Where average time per synthesized event goes from 5.927 usec with 1
thread to 2.269 usec with 8. This isn't a linear speed up as not all of
synthesize code has been made parallel. If the synthesis time was about
10 seconds then using 8 threads may bring this down to less than 4.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@didichuxing.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200422155038.9380-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add support for parsing and validating AUX area sample options. At
present, the only option is the sample size, but it is also necessary to
ensure that events are in a group with an AUX area event as the leader.
Committer note:
Add missing 'static inline' in front of auxtrace_parse_sample_options()
for when we don't HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191115124225.5247-6-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
And into a separate util/record.h, to better isolate things and make
sure that those who use record_opts and the other moved declarations
are explicitly including the necessary header.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-31q8mei1qkh74qvkl9nwidfq@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Alexey Bayduraev