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Jiri Olsa 6a4bb04caa perf tools: Enable grouping logic for parsed events
This patch adds a functionality that allows to create event groups
based on the way they are specified on the command line. Adding
functionality to the '{}' group syntax introduced in earlier patch.

The current '--group/-g' option behaviour remains intact. If you
specify it for record/stat/top command, all the specified events
become members of a single group with the first event as a group
leader.

With the new '{}' group syntax you can create group like:
  # perf record -e '{cycles,faults}' ls

resulting in single event group containing 'cycles' and 'faults'
events, with cycles event as group leader.

All groups are created with regards to threads and cpus. Thus
recording an event group within a 2 threads on server with
4 CPUs will create 8 separate groups.

Examples (first event in brackets is group leader):

  # 1 group (cpu-clock,task-clock)
  perf record --group -e cpu-clock,task-clock ls
  perf record -e '{cpu-clock,task-clock}' ls

  # 2 groups (cpu-clock,task-clock) (minor-faults,major-faults)
  perf record -e '{cpu-clock,task-clock},{minor-faults,major-faults}' ls

  # 1 group (cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults)
  perf record --group -e cpu-clock,task-clock -e minor-faults,major-faults ls
  perf record -e '{cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults}' ls

  # 2 groups (cpu-clock,task-clock) (minor-faults,major-faults)
  perf record -e '{cpu-clock,task-clock} -e '{minor-faults,major-faults}' \
   -e instructions ls

  # 1 group
  # (cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults,instructions)
  perf record --group -e cpu-clock,task-clock \
   -e minor-faults,major-faults -e instructions ls perf record -e
'{cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults,instructions}' ls

It's possible to use standard event modifier for a group, which spans
over all events in the group and updates each event modifier settings,
for example:

  # perf record -r '{faults:k,cache-references}:p'

resulting in ':kp' modifier being used for 'faults' and ':p' modifier
being used for 'cache-references' event.

Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ho42u0wcr8mn1otkalqi13qp@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-14 17:03:49 -03:00
Ingo Molnar 32c46e579b Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
Pull perf improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

 * Replace event_name with perf_evsel__name, that handles the event
   modifiers and doesn't use static variables.

 * GTK browser improvements, from Namhyung Kim

 * Fix possible NULL pointer deref in the TUI annotate browser, from
   Samuel Liao

 * Add sort by source file:line number, using addr2line.

 * Allow printing histogram text snapshots at any point in top/report.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-20 13:41:53 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 7289f83cce perf tools: Move all users of event_name to perf_evsel__name
So that we don't use global variables that could make us misreport event
names when having a multi window top, for instance.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
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-mccancovi1u0wdkg8ncth509@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-06-19 13:06:20 -03:00
Stephane Eranian fc3e4d077d perf stat: Fix default output file
The following commit:

commit 56f3bae706
Author: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 7 17:14:00 2011 -0600

    perf stat: Add --log-fd <N> option to redirect stderr elsewhere

introduced a bug in the way perf stat outputs the results by default,
i.e., without the --log-fd or --output option. It would default to
writing to file descriptor 0, i.e., stdin. Writing to stdin is allowed
and is equivalent to writing to stdout. However, there is a major
difference for any script that was already capturing the output of perf
stat via redirection:

    perf stat >/tmp/log .... or perf stat 2>/tmp/log ....

They would not capture anything anymore. They would have to do:
    perf stat 0>/tmp/log ...

This breaks compatibility with existing scripts and does not look very
natural.

This patch fixes the problem by looking at output_fd only when it was
modified by user (> 0). It also checks that the value if positive.
Passing --log-fd 0 is ignored.

I would also argue that defaulting to stderr for the results is not the
right thing to do, though this patch does not address this specific
issue.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120515111111.GA9870@quad
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-06-11 11:20:21 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 79695e1bb6 perf stat: Initialize default events wrt exclude_{guest,host}
When no event is specified the tools use perf_evlist__add_default(), that will
call event_attr_init to initialize the KVM exclusion bits.

When the change was made to the tools so that by default guest samples would be
excluded, the changes were made just to the parsing routines and to
perf_evlist__add_default(), not to perf_evlist__add_attrs, that is used so far
just by perf stat to add multiple events, according to the level of detail
specified.

Recently the tools were changed to reconstruct the event name from all the
details in perf_event_attr, not just from .type and .config, but taking into
account all the feature bits (.exclude_{guest,host,user,kernel,etc},
.precise_ip, etc).

That is when we noticed that the default for perf stat wasn't the one for the
rest of the tools, i.e. the .exclude_guest bit wasn't being set.

I.e. the default, that doesn't call event_attr_init was showing the :HG
modifier:

  $ perf stat usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

            0.942119 task-clock                #    0.454 CPUs utilized
                   1 context-switches          #    0.001 M/sec
                   0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                 126 page-faults               #    0.134 M/sec
             693,193 cycles:HG                 #    0.736 GHz                     [40.11%]
             407,461 stalled-cycles-frontend:HG #   58.78% frontend cycles idle    [72.29%]
             365,403 stalled-cycles-backend:HG #   52.71% backend  cycles idle
             465,982 instructions:HG           #    0.67  insns per cycle
                                               #    0.87  stalled cycles per insn
              89,760 branches:HG               #   95.275 M/sec
               6,178 branch-misses:HG          #    6.88% of all branches

         0.002077228 seconds time elapsed

While if one explicitely specifies the same events, which will make the parsing code
to be called and thus event_attr_init is called:

  $ perf stat -e task-clock,context-switches,migrations,page-faults,cycles,stalled-cycles-frontend,stalled-cycles-backend,instructions,branches,branch-misses usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

            1.040349 task-clock                #    0.500 CPUs utilized
                   2 context-switches          #    0.002 M/sec
                   0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                 127 page-faults               #    0.122 M/sec
             587,966 cycles                    #    0.565 GHz                     [13.18%]
             459,167 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   78.09% frontend cycles idle
             390,249 stalled-cycles-backend    #   66.37% backend  cycles idle
             504,006 instructions              #    0.86  insns per cycle
                                               #    0.91  stalled cycles per insn
              96,455 branches                  #   92.714 M/sec
               6,522 branch-misses             #    6.76% of all branches         [96.12%]

         0.002078681 seconds time elapsed

Fix it by introducing a perf_evlist__add_default_attrs method that will call
evlist_attr_init in all the perf_event_attr entries before adding the events.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
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-4eysr236r0pgiyum9epwxw7s@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-30 14:02:38 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 16ee6576e2 Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch:

"perf tools: Move parse event automated tests to separated object"

That depends on:

commit e7c72d8
perf tools: Add 'G' and 'H' modifiers to event parsing

Conflicts:
	tools/perf/builtin-stat.c

Conflicted with the recent 'perf_target' patches when checking the
result of perf_evsel open routines to see if a retry is needed to cope
with older kernels where the exclude guest/host perf_event_attr bits
were not used.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-18 13:13:33 -03:00
Namhyung Kim aa22dd4990 perf target: Rename functions to avoid double negation
Rename perf_target__no_{cpu,task} to perf_target__has_{cpu,task} because
it's more intuitive and easy to parse (for human beings) when used with
negation.

The names are came out from David Ahern.  It is intended to be a
mechanical substitution without any functional change.

The perf_target__none remains unchanged since I couldn't find a right
name and it is hardly used with negation.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Suggested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337161549-9870-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-16 12:09:34 -03:00
David Ahern 20d23aaa31 perf stat: handle ENXIO error for perf_event_open
perf stat on PPC currently fails to run:

$ perf stat -- sleep 1
  Error: open_counter returned with 6 (No such device or address). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

The problem is that until 2.6.37 (behavior changed with commit b0a873e)
perf on PPC returns ENXIO when hw_perf_event_init() fails. With this
patch we get the expected behavior:

$ perf stat -v -- sleep 1
cycles event is not supported by the kernel.
stalled-cycles-frontend event is not supported by the kernel.
stalled-cycles-backend event is not supported by the kernel.
instructions event is not supported by the kernel.
branches event is not supported by the kernel.
branch-misses event is not supported by the kernel.

...

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336490956-57145-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-09 14:14:41 -03:00
David Ahern 979987a567 perf stat: handle ENXIO error for perf_event_open
perf stat on PPC currently fails to run:

$ perf stat -- sleep 1
  Error: open_counter returned with 6 (No such device or address). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

The problem is that until 2.6.37 (behavior changed with commit b0a873e)
perf on PPC returns ENXIO when hw_perf_event_init() fails. With this
patch we get the expected behavior:

$ perf stat -v -- sleep 1
cycles event is not supported by the kernel.
stalled-cycles-frontend event is not supported by the kernel.
stalled-cycles-backend event is not supported by the kernel.
instructions event is not supported by the kernel.
branches event is not supported by the kernel.
branch-misses event is not supported by the kernel.

...

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336490956-57145-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-09 11:58:48 -03:00
Namhyung Kim 77a6f014e9 perf stat: Use perf_evlist__create_maps
Use same function with perf record and top to share the code checks
combinations of different switches.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336367344-28071-8-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-07 17:52:22 -03:00
Namhyung Kim d67356e7f8 perf target: Consolidate target task/cpu checking
There are places that check whether target task/cpu is given or not and
some of them didn't check newly introduced uid or cpu list. Add and use
three of helper functions to treat them properly.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336367344-28071-7-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-07 17:52:05 -03:00
Namhyung Kim 4bd0f2d2c0 perf tools: Introduce perf_target__validate() helper
The perf_target__validate function is used to check given PID/TID/UID/CPU
target options and warn if some combination is impossible. Also this can
make some arguments of parse_target_uid() function useless as it is checked
before the call via our new helper.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335417327-11796-5-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-02 15:22:08 -03:00
Namhyung Kim 20f946b4a4 perf stat: Convert to struct perf_target
Use struct perf_target as it is introduced by previous patch.

This is a preparation of further changes.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335417327-11796-3-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-02 15:19:17 -03:00
Stephane Eranian 5622c07b47 perf stat: Fix case where guest/host monitoring is not supported by kernel
By default, perf stat sets exclude_guest = 1. But when you run perf on a
kernel which does not support  host/guest filtering, then you get an
error saying the event in unsupported. This comes from the fact that
when the perf_event_attr struct passed by the user is larger than the
one known to the kernel there is safety check which ensures that all
unknown bits are zero. But here, exclude_guest is 1 (part of the unknown
bits) and thus the perf_event_open() syscall return EINVAL.

To my surprise, running perf record on the same kernel did not exhibit
the problem. The reason is that perf record handles the problem by
catching the error and retrying with guest/host excludes set to zero.
For some reason, this was not done with perf stat. This patch fixes this
problem.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120427124538.GA7230@quad
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-01 14:20:00 -03:00
Robert Richter 666e6d48c5 perf stat: Declare some references static
This references are not exported, use static declaration.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333643188-26895-4-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-04-11 17:37:16 -03:00
Namhyung Kim 4c19ea453d perf stat: Fix event grouping on forked task
When event group is enabled for forked task (i.e. no target task was
specified) all events were disabled and marked ->enable_on_exec.
However they are not counted at all since only group leader will be
enabled on exec actually. So the result looked like below:

 $ ./perf stat --group -- sleep 1

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

          0.554926 task-clock                #    0.001 CPUs utilized
     <not counted> context-switches
     <not counted> CPU-migrations
     <not counted> page-faults
     <not counted> cycles
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
     <not counted> instructions
     <not counted> branches
     <not counted> branch-misses

       1.001228093 seconds time elapsed

Fix it by disabling group leader only.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331887340-32448-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-03-16 16:13:45 -03:00
David Ahern b52956c961 perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top
Allow a user to collect events for multiple threads or processes
using a comma separated list.

e.g., collect data on a VM and its vhost thread:
  perf top -p 21483,21485
  perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
  perf record -p 21483,21485

or monitoring vcpu threads
  perf top -t 21488,21489
  perf stat -t 21488,21489 -ddd
  perf record -t 21488,21489

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328718772-16688-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-02-13 22:54:11 -02:00
Namhyung Kim 9dac6a29e0 perf stat: Align scaled output of cpu-clock
The output of cpu-clock event is controlled in nsec_printout(),
but its alignment was broken:

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

         6,038,774 instructions              #    0.00  insns per cycle
               180 faults                    #    0.007 K/sec                   [99.95%]
         1,282,201 branches                  #    0.053 M/sec                   [99.84%]
      24126.221811 cpu-clock                 [99.62%]
      24121.689540 task-clock                #   24.098 CPUs utilized           [99.52%]

       1.001001017 seconds time elapsed

This patch fixes this:

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

        13,540,843 instructions              #    0.00  insns per cycle
               180 faults                    #    0.007 K/sec                   [99.94%]
         2,875,386 branches                  #    0.119 M/sec                   [99.82%]
      24144.221137 cpu-clock                                                    [99.61%]
      24133.515366 task-clock                #   24.109 CPUs utilized           [99.52%]

       1.001020946 seconds time elapsed

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328514285-26232-2-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-02-06 19:17:39 -02:00
Namhyung Kim 5fde2523bd perf stat: Adjust print unit
The default 'M/sec' unit is not useful if the result is small enough.

Adjust it dynamically according to the value.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328514285-26232-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-02-06 19:17:11 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 0d37aa34f8 perf tools: Introduce per user view
The new --uid command line option will show only the tasks for a given
user, using the proc interface to figure out the existing tasks.

Kernel work is needed to close races at startup, but this should already
be useful in many use cases.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic 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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bdnspm000gw2l984a2t53o8z@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-01-24 19:47:37 -02:00
Namhyung Kim 15e6392fee perf stat: Introduce get_ratio_color() helper
The get_ratio_color() returns appropriate color string based on @ratio.
It helps reducing code duplication.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325000151-4463-2-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-01-03 14:36:32 -02:00
Ingo Molnar d87f69a16e Merge commit 'v3.2-rc6' into perf/core
Merge reason: Update with the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-20 20:32:11 +01:00
Anton Blanchard 38f6ae1e1b perf stat: Failure with "Operation not supported"
perf stat is failing on PowerPC:

  Error: open_counter returned with 95 (Operation not supported). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

commit 370faf1dd0 (perf stat: Fail softly on unsupported events)
added a check for failure returning ENOENT, but the POWER backend
returns EOPNOTSUPP. It looks like alpha, blackfin and mips do the
same.

With the patch applied, things work as expected:

 Performance counter stats for '/bin/true':

          0.362176 task-clock                #    0.623 CPUs utilized
                 0 context-switches          #    0.000 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 M/sec
                28 page-faults               #    0.077 M/sec
         1,677,020 cycles                    #    4.630 GHz
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
           431,220 instructions              #    0.26  insns per cycle
           101,889 branches                  #  281.325 M/sec
             4,145 branch-misses             #    4.07% of all branches

       0.000581361 seconds time elapsed

Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 3.0+
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202093833.5fef7226@kryten
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-05 14:32:40 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 806fb63007 perf evlist: Always do automatic allocation of pollfd and mmap structures
At first tools were required to do that, but while writing the python
bindings to simplify the API I made them auto-allocate when needed.

This just makes record, stat and top use that auto allocation,
simplifying them a bit.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic 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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-iokhcvkzzijr3keioubx8hlq@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-29 08:05:52 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 50d08e47bc perf evlist: Introduce perf_evlist__add_attrs
Replacing the open coded equivalents in 'perf stat'.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic 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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1btwadnf2tds2g07hsccsdse@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-11-28 10:24:43 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 727ab04edb perf evlist: Fix grouping of multiple events
The __perf_evsel__open routing was grouping just the threads for that
specific events per cpu when we want to group all threads in all events
to the first fd opened on that cpu.

So pass the xyarray with the first event, where the other events will be
able to get that first per cpu fd.

At some point top and record will switch to using perf_evlist__open that
takes care of this detail and probably will also handle the fallback
from hw to soft counters, etc.

Reported-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dczhu@mips.com>
Tested-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dczhu@mips.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic 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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ebm34rh098i9y9v4cytfdp0x@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-26 10:25:02 -02:00
Andi Kleen 33e49ea70d perf tools: Make stat/record print fatal signals of the target program
When a program crashes under perf there is no message about it, unlike
when running it from bash. This can be confusing and lead to wrong
actions during debugging.

Print fatal signals in perf stat/record.

Thanks to Furat Afram for finding the problem originally

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1316122302-24306-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-09-29 17:09:46 -03:00
Jim Cromie 61a9f32429 perf stat: Fix spelling in comment
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315437244-3788-6-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-09-29 17:09:36 -03:00
Jim Cromie d4ffd04df1 perf stat: Allow tab as cvs delimiter
If option -x '\t' is given, convert '\t' to "\t".  This makes cvs
printing more flexible.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315437244-3788-5-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-09-29 17:04:30 -03:00
Jim Cromie a1bca6cc87 perf stat: Suppress printing std-dev when its 0
For pretty output only (preserve column for cvs output), dont print
std-deviation when its 0.00.  Do this based upon value, instead of
checking for --no-aggr, since the stats could conceivably be computed
over the runs on each CPU, and theres no reason to preclude that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315437244-3788-4-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-09-29 17:04:00 -03:00
Jim Cromie 19f4740255 perf stat: Fix +- nan% in --no-aggr runs
Without this patch, running:

$ sudo ./perf stat -r20 --no-aggr -a perl -e '$i++ for 1..100000'

I get computations like this:

CPU0             12.488247 task-clock                #    1.224 CPUs utilized            ( +-  -nan% )
CPU1             12.488909 task-clock                #    1.225 CPUs utilized            ( +-  -nan% )
CPU2             12.500221 task-clock                #    1.226 CPUs utilized            ( +-  -nan% )
CPU3             12.481713 task-clock                #    1.224 CPUs utilized            ( +-  -nan% )

but with patch, I get:

CPU0              8.233682 task-clock                #    0.754 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.00% )
CPU1              8.226318 task-clock                #    0.754 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.00% )
CPU2              8.210737 task-clock                #    0.752 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.00% )
CPU3              8.201691 task-clock                #    0.751 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.00% )

Note that without --no-aggr, I get non-0 statistics both before and after patch:

        231.986022 task-clock                #    4.030 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.97% )
               212 context-switches          #    0.001 M/sec                    ( +- 12.07% )
                 9 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 M/sec                    ( +- 25.80% )
               466 page-faults               #    0.002 M/sec                    ( +-  3.23% )
       174,318,593 cycles                    #    0.751 GHz                      ( +-  1.06% )

I couldnt see anything wrong in the caller, so fixed it in
stddev_stats().  ISTM that 0.00 is better than nan, since perf stat was
passed -A (--no-aggr) so no standard deviation should be expected, and
nan is suggestive of a deeper error.

When running with --no-aggr, perhaps we should suppress the statistics
printing entirely, or do so when they are 0.00.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315437244-3788-3-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-09-29 17:03:46 -03:00
Jim Cromie 56f3bae706 perf stat: Add --log-fd <N> option to redirect stderr elsewhere
This perf stat option emulates valgrind's --log-fd option, allowing the
user to send perf results elsewhere, and leaving stderr for use by the
program under test.  This complements --output file option, and is
mutually exclusive with it.

   3>results  perf stat --log-fd 3          -- $cmd
   3>>results perf stat --log-fd 3 --append -- $cmd

The perl distro's make test.valgrind target uses valgrind's --log-fd
option, I've adapted it to invoke perf also, and tested this patch
there.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315437244-3788-2-git-send-email-jim.cromie@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-09-29 17:03:23 -03:00
Ingo Molnar 51887c8230 Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
2011-08-18 21:58:46 +02:00
Stephane Eranian 4aa9015f8b perf stat: Add -o and --append options
This patch adds an option (-o) to save the output of perf stat into a
file. You could do this with perf record but not with perf stat.
Instead, you had to fiddle with stderr to save the counts into a
separate file.

The patch also adds the --append option so that results can be
concatenated into a single file across runs. Each run of the tool is
clearly separated by a comment line starting with a hash mark. The -A
option of perf record is already used by perf stat, so we only add a
long option.

$ perf stat -o res.txt date
$ cat res.txt

 Performance counter stats for 'date':

          0.791306 task-clock                #    0.668 CPUs utilized
                 2 context-switches          #    0.003 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 M/sec
               197 page-faults               #    0.249 M/sec
           1878143 cycles                    #    2.373 GHz
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
           1083367 instructions              #    0.58  insns per cycle
            193027 branches                  #  243.935 M/sec
              9014 branch-misses             #    4.67% of all branches

       0.001184746 seconds time elapsed

The option can be combined with -x to make the output file much easier
to parse.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110815202233.GA18535@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-08-18 07:46:13 -03:00
Lin Ming 43bece7979 perf tools: Add group event scheduling option to perf record/stat
Group event scheduling command line option is missing in perf
record/stat.

Add it to perf record/stat, which is same as in perf top.

Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313577727.2754.5.camel@hp6530s
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-08-18 07:35:46 -03:00
Jiri Olsa f120f9d51b perf tools: De-opt the parse_events function
Moving out the option parameter from parse_events function,
and adding new parse_events_option function instead.

The option parameter is used only to carry "struct perf_evlist"
pointer for chaining new events. Putting it away, enable us
to call parse_events from other places without using the
option parameter.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310635534-4013-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21 10:41:11 +02:00
Zhengyu He 3ae9a34d74 perf stat: Add noise output for csv mode
Previously, when you want perf-stat to output the statistics in
csv mode, no information of the noise will be printed out.

For example right now we output this --repeat information:

 ./perf stat -r3 -x, sleep 1
 1.164789,task-clock
 8,context-switches
 0,CPU-migrations
 219,page-faults
 3337800,cycles

With this patch, the output will be appended with an additional
entry for the noise value:

 ./perf stat -r3 -x, sleep 1
 1.164789,task-clock,3.75%
 8,context-switches,75.00%
 0,CPU-migrations,100.00%
 219,page-faults,0.00%
 3337800,cycles,3.36%

Signed-off-by: Zhengyu He <zhengyuh@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308861942-4945-1-git-send-email-zhengyuh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 12:52:40 +02:00
David Ahern 2cee77c450 perf stat: clarify unsupported events from uncounted events
perf stat continues running even if the event list contains counters
that are not supported. The resulting output then contains <not counted>
for those events which gets confusing as to which events are supported,
but not counted and which are not supported.

Before:

perf stat -ddd -- sleep 1

      Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

          0.571283 task-clock                #    0.001 CPUs utilized
                 1 context-switches          #    0.002 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 M/sec
               157 page-faults               #    0.275 M/sec
         1,037,707 cycles                    #    1.816 GHz
     <not counted> stalled-cycles-frontend
     <not counted> stalled-cycles-backend
           654,499 instructions              #    0.63  insns per cycle
           136,129 branches                  #  238.286 M/sec
     <not counted> branch-misses
     <not counted> L1-dcache-loads
     <not counted> L1-dcache-load-misses
     <not counted> LLC-loads
     <not counted> LLC-load-misses
     <not counted> L1-icache-loads
     <not counted> L1-icache-load-misses
     <not counted> dTLB-loads
     <not counted> dTLB-load-misses
     <not counted> iTLB-loads
     <not counted> iTLB-load-misses
     <not counted> L1-dcache-prefetches
     <not counted> L1-dcache-prefetch-misses

       1.001004836 seconds time elapsed

After:

perf stat -ddd -- sleep 1

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

          1.350326 task-clock                #    0.001 CPUs utilized
                 2 context-switches          #    0.001 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 M/sec
               157 page-faults               #    0.116 M/sec
            11,986 cycles                    #    0.009 GHz
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
           496,986 instructions              #   41.46  insns per cycle
           138,065 branches                  #  102.246 M/sec
             7,245 branch-misses             #    5.25% of all branches
     <not counted> L1-dcache-loads
     <not counted> L1-dcache-load-misses
     <not counted> LLC-loads
     <not counted> LLC-load-misses
     <not counted> L1-icache-loads
     <not counted> L1-icache-load-misses
     <not counted> dTLB-loads
     <not counted> dTLB-load-misses
     <not counted> iTLB-loads
     <not counted> iTLB-load-misses
     <not counted> L1-dcache-prefetches
   <not supported> L1-dcache-prefetch-misses

       1.002397333 seconds time elapsed

v1->v2:
changed supported type from int to bool

v2->v3
fixed vertical alignment of new struct element

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306767359-13221-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-06-02 13:26:15 -03:00
Ingo Molnar c3305257cd perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printouts
Print out the cache-miss percentage as well if the cache refs were
collected, for all the generic cache event types.

Before:

   11,103,723,230 dTLB-loads                #  622.471 M/sec                    ( +-  0.30% )
       87,065,337 dTLB-load-misses          #    4.881 M/sec                    ( +-  0.90% )

After:

   11,353,713,242 dTLB-loads                #  626.020 M/sec                    ( +-  0.35% )
      113,393,472 dTLB-load-misses          #    1.00% of all dTLB cache hits   ( +-  0.49% )

Also ASCII color highlight too high percentages, them when it's executed on the console.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lkhwxsevdbd9a8nymx0vxc3y@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-19 14:30:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 2cba3ffb9a perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events
Print even more detailed statistics if requested via perf stat -d:

       -d:          detailed events, L1 and LLC data cache
    -d -d:     more detailed events, dTLB and iTLB events
 -d -d -d:     very detailed events, adding prefetch events

Full output looks like this now:

 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 10' (5 runs):

       1703.674707 task-clock                #    8.709 CPUs utilized            ( +-  4.19% )
            49,068 context-switches          #    0.029 M/sec                    ( +- 16.66% )
             8,303 CPU-migrations            #    0.005 M/sec                    ( +- 24.90% )
            17,397 page-faults               #    0.010 M/sec                    ( +-  0.46% )
     2,345,389,239 cycles                    #    1.377 GHz                      ( +-  4.61% ) [55.90%]
     1,884,503,527 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   80.35% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  5.67% ) [50.39%]
       743,919,737 stalled-cycles-backend    #   31.72% backend  cycles idle     ( +-  8.75% ) [49.91%]
     1,314,416,379 instructions              #    0.56  insns per cycle
                                             #    1.43  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  2.53% ) [60.87%]
       272,592,567 branches                  #  160.003 M/sec                    ( +-  1.74% ) [56.56%]
         3,794,846 branch-misses             #    1.39% of all branches          ( +-  6.59% ) [58.50%]
       449,982,778 L1-dcache-loads           #  264.125 M/sec                    ( +-  2.47% ) [49.88%]
        22,404,961 L1-dcache-load-misses     #    4.98% of all L1-dcache hits    ( +-  6.08% ) [55.05%]
         6,204,750 LLC-loads                 #    3.642 M/sec                    ( +-  8.91% ) [43.75%]
         1,837,411 LLC-load-misses           #    1.078 M/sec                    ( +-  7.27% ) [12.07%]
       411,440,421 L1-icache-loads           #  241.502 M/sec                    ( +-  5.60% ) [36.52%]
        27,556,832 L1-icache-load-misses     #   16.175 M/sec                    ( +-  7.46% ) [46.72%]
       464,067,627 dTLB-loads                #  272.392 M/sec                    ( +-  4.46% ) [54.17%]
        10,765,648 dTLB-load-misses          #    6.319 M/sec                    ( +-  3.18% ) [48.68%]
     1,273,080,386 iTLB-loads                #  747.256 M/sec                    ( +-  3.38% ) [47.53%]
           117,481 iTLB-load-misses          #    0.069 M/sec                    ( +- 14.99% ) [47.01%]
         4,590,653 L1-dcache-prefetches      #    2.695 M/sec                    ( +-  4.49% ) [46.19%]
         1,712,660 L1-dcache-prefetch-misses #    1.005 M/sec                    ( +-  3.75% ) [44.82%]

        0.195622057  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  6.84% )

Also clean up the attribute construction code to be appending, and factor
it out into add_default_attributes().

Tweak the coverage percentage printout a bit, so that it's easier to view it
alongside the +- sttddev colum.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-to3kgu04449s64062val8b62@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-19 14:29:51 +02:00
David Ahern c63ca0c01d perf stat: Tell user about unsupported events in the list
Similar to perf-record, tell user about unsupported events
that will not be counted if invoked in verbose mode.

e.g.,

 $ perf stat -e dTLB-prefetch-misses -v -- sleep 1
 dTLB-prefetch-misses event is not supported by the kernel.
 dTLB-prefetch-misses: 0 0 0

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

     <not counted> dTLB-prefetch-misses

        1.001884783  seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304114655-10600-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-30 00:18:14 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 370faf1dd0 perf stat: Fail softly on unsupported events
David Ahern reported this perf stat failure:

> # /tmp/build-perf/perf stat -- sleep 1
>   Error: stalled-cycles-frontend event is not supported.
>   Fatal: Not all events could be opened.
>
> This is a Dell R410 with an E5620 processor.

Fail in a softer fashion on unknown/unsupported events.

Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n006io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29 16:22:33 +02:00
Ingo Molnar fce3c786d3 perf stat: Leave more room for percentages
Triple digit percentages do not fit otherwise.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n005io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29 16:06:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 2b427e14b7 perf stat: Adjust stall cycles warning percentages
Adjust to color thresholds to better match the percentages seen in
real workloads. Both are now a bit more sensitive.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n004io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29 14:35:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d3d1e86da0 perf stat: Analyze front-end and back-end stall counts
Sample output:

 Performance counter stats for './loop_1b':

        873.691065 task-clock               #    1.000 CPUs utilized
                 1 context-switches         #    0.000 M/sec
                 1 CPU-migrations           #    0.000 M/sec
                96 page-faults              #    0.000 M/sec
     2,012,637,222 cycles                   #    2.304 GHz                      (66.58%)
     1,001,397,911 stalled-cycles-frontend  #   49.76% frontend cycles idle     (66.58%)
         7,523,398 stalled-cycles-backend   #    0.37%  backend cycles idle     (66.76%)
     2,004,551,046 instructions             #    1.00  insns per cycle
                                            #    0.50  stalled cycles per insn  (66.80%)
     1,001,304,992 branches                 # 1146.063 M/sec                    (66.76%)
            39,453 branch-misses            #    0.00% of all branches          (66.64%)

        0.874046121  seconds time elapsed

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n003io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29 14:35:55 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 129c04cb8c perf tools: Add front-end and back-end stalled cycles support
Update perf tooling to deal with front-end and back-end stalled cycles events.

Add both the default 'perf stat' output.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n002io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29 14:35:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar ede7029004 perf stat: Fix compatibility behavior
Instead of failing on an unknown event, when new perf stat is run on
older kernels:

  $ ./perf stat true
  Error: open_counter returned with 22 (Invalid argument). /bin/dmesg
  may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

Just ignore EINVAL and ENOSYS, we'll print the results as not counted:

 Performance counter stats for 'true':

          0.239483 task-clock               #    0.493 CPUs utilized
                 0 context-switches         #    0.000 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations           #    0.000 M/sec
                86 page-faults              #    0.359 M/sec
           704,766 cycles                   #    2.943 GHz
     <not counted> stalled-cycles
           381,961 instructions             #    0.54  insns per cycle
            69,626 branches                 #  290.735 M/sec
             4,594 branch-misses            #    6.60% of all branches

        0.000485883  seconds time elapsed

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio5hjpn3dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-28 08:48:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f9cef0a90c perf stat: Add --sync/-S option
--sync will tell perf stat to run sync() before starting a command.

This allows IO-heavy tests to be used with --repeat, without one
iteration impacting the other.

Elapsed time will stabilize for example:

  before:        3.971525714  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  8.56% )
  after:         3.211098537  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  1.52% )

So measurements will be more accurate.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-28 08:39:39 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 9ceb1c3d1f perf stat: Fix printout vertical alignment
Before:

 |
 | Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 20' (5 runs):
 |
 |        71,321,607 instructions:u           #    0.42  insns per cycle  ( +-  0.00% )
 |       168,040,009 cycles:u                 #    0.000 GHz                      ( +-  0.81% )
 |
 |        1.468002368  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  1.33% )
 |

After:

 |
 | Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 20' (5 runs):
 |
 |        71,321,607 instructions:u           #    0.42  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.00% )
 |       168,040,009 cycles:u                 #    0.000 GHz                      ( +-  0.81% )
 |
 |        1.468002368  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  1.33% )
 |

The last column (stddev noise) is properly aligned, vertically.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn0dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-27 17:48:55 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c6264deff7 perf stat: Add -d/--detailed flag to run with a lot of events
Add the new -d/--detailed flag, which generates a pretty detailed event list:

 Performance counter stats for './hackbench 10' (10 runs):

       1514.287888 task-clock               #   10.897 CPUs utilized            ( +-  3.05% )
            39,698 context-switches         #    0.026 M/sec                    ( +- 12.19% )
             8,147 CPU-migrations           #    0.005 M/sec                    ( +- 16.55% )
            17,918 page-faults              #    0.012 M/sec                    ( +-  0.37% )
     2,944,504,050 cycles                   #    1.944 GHz                      ( +-  3.89% )  (32.60%)
     1,043,971,283 stalled-cycles           #   35.45% of all cycles are idle   ( +-  5.22% )  (44.48%)
     1,655,906,768 instructions             #    0.56  insns per cycle
                                            #    0.63  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  1.95% )  (55.09%)
       338,832,373 branches                 #  223.757 M/sec                    ( +-  1.96% )  (64.47%)
         3,892,416 branch-misses            #    1.15% of all branches          ( +-  5.49% )  (73.12%)
       606,410,482 L1-dcache-loads          #  400.459 M/sec                    ( +-  1.29% )  (71.21%)
        31,204,395 L1-dcache-load-misses    #    5.15% of all L1-dcache hits    ( +-  3.04% )  (60.43%)
         3,922,751 LLC-loads                #    2.590 M/sec                    ( +-  6.80% )  (46.87%)
         5,037,288 LLC-load-misses          #    3.327 M/sec                    ( +-  3.56% )  (13.00%)

        0.138966828  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  4.11% )

This can be used "at a glance" for narrower analysis.

-d can also be used in addition to other -e events, to further expand an event list.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cxs98quixs3qyvdqx3goojc4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26 21:03:16 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 8bb6c79f24 perf stat: Print out miss/hit ratio for L1 data-cache events
Print out this kind of l1-dcache-misses percentage:

 Performance counter stats for './bw_tcp localhost':

    29,956,262,201 cycles                   #    3.002 GHz                      (scaled from 85.14%)
     8,255,209,558 stalled-cycles           #   27.56% of all cycles are idle   (scaled from 86.56%)
     1,206,130,308 l1-dcache-misses         #   40.49% of all L1-dcache hits    (scaled from 86.30%)
     2,978,756,779 l1-dcache-refs           #  298.512 M/sec                    (scaled from 70.02%)
     8,861,956,159 instructions             #    0.30  insns per cycle
                                            #    0.93  stalled cycles per insn  (scaled from 84.27%)
     1,644,306,068 branches                 #  164.782 M/sec                    (scaled from 86.43%)
        74,778,443 branch-misses            #    4.55% of all branches          (scaled from 70.69%)
       9978.695711 task-clock               #    0.693 CPUs utilized

       14.404347983  seconds time elapsed

And color the result depending on the severity of cache-trashing.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-54gmz0zymaid84zcs7joq02p@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26 20:32:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c78df6c1d4 perf stat: Print branch misses warning colors
Print the missed-branches percentage with different warning level ASCII colors,
as the percentage passes the 5%/10%/20% thresholds.

These thresholds are set to relatively low levels, because on most CPUs even a
moderate percentage of branch-misses already shows up as a slowdown.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ybqukg7p86leiup7gl03ecgk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26 20:04:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar a5d243d04a perf stat: Print stalled cycles warning colors
Print the stalled-cycles percentage with different warning level ASCII colors,
as the percentage passes the 25%/50%/75% thresholds.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e25zz44rcms7mu9az4fu5zp0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26 20:04:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f99844cb76 perf stat: Fix -nan% output in perf stat noise printouts
Before:

                 0 CPU-migrations           #    0.000 M/sec                    ( +-  -nan% )

After:

                 0 CPU-migrations           #    0.000 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )

Also factor out the noise printing function.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z89h2v1bk1mikcbsf7e6v34q@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26 20:04:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1fc570ad89 perf stat: Add stalled cycles to the default output
The new default output looks like this:

 Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions':

        236.010686 task-clock               #    0.996 CPUs utilized
                 0 context-switches         #    0.000 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations           #    0.000 M/sec
                99 page-faults              #    0.000 M/sec
       756,487,646 cycles                   #    3.205 GHz
       354,938,996 stalled-cycles           #   46.92% of all cycles are idle
     1,001,403,797 instructions             #    1.32  insns per cycle
                                            #    0.35  stalled cycles per insn
       100,279,773 branches                 #  424.895 M/sec
            12,646 branch-misses            #    0.013 % of all branches

        0.236902540  seconds time elapsed

We dropped cache-refs and cache-misses and added stalled-cycles - this is a
more generic "how well utilized is the CPU" metric.

If the stalled-cycles ratio is too high then more specific measurements can be
taken to figure out the source of the inefficiency.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pbpl2l4mn797s69bclfpwkwn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26 20:04:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 481f988a01 perf stat: Add stalled cycles accounting, prettify the resulting output
Add stalled cycles accounting and use it to print the "cycles stalled per
instruction" value.

Also change the unit of the cycles output from M/sec to GHz - this is more
intuitive.

Prettify the output to:

 Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions':

        239.775036 task-clock               #    0.997 CPUs utilized
       761,903,912 cycles                   #    3.178 GHz
       356,620,620 stalled-cycles           #   46.81% of all cycles are idle
     1,001,578,351 instructions             #    1.31  insns per cycle
                                            #    0.36  stalled cycles per insn
            14,782 cache-references         #    0.062 M/sec
             5,694 cache-misses             #   38.520 % of all cache refs

        0.240493656  seconds time elapsed

Also adjust the --repeat output to make the percentages align vertically:

 Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions' (10 runs):

        236.096793 task-clock               #    0.997 CPUs utilized             ( +-   0.011% )
       756,553,086 cycles                   #    3.204 GHz                       ( +-   0.002% )
       354,942,692 stalled-cycles           #   46.92% of all cycles are idle    ( +-   0.008% )
     1,001,389,700 instructions             #    1.32  insns per cycle
                                            #    0.35  stalled cycles per insn   ( +-   0.000% )
            10,166 cache-references         #    0.043 M/sec                     ( +-   0.742% )
               468 cache-misses             #    4.608 % of all cache refs       ( +-  13.385% )

        0.236874136  seconds time elapsed   ( +- 0.01% )

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uapziqny39601apdmmhoz7hk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26 20:04:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar dcd9936a5a perf stat: Factor our shadow stats
Create update_shadow_stats() which is then used in both read_counter_aggr()
and read_counter().

This not only simplifies the code but also fixes a bug: HW_CACHE_REFERENCES
was not updated in read_counter().

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9uc55z3g88r47exde7zxjm6p@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26 20:04:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d58f4c82fe perf stat: Print cache misses as percentage
Before:

       113,393,041 cache-references         #     83.636 M/sec
         7,052,454 cache-misses             #      5.202 M/sec

After:

       112,589,441 cache-references         #     87.925 M/sec
         6,556,354 cache-misses             #      5.823 %

misses/hits percentages are more expressive than absolute numbers
or rates.

(Also prettify the CPUs printout line to not have a trailing whitespace.)

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-axm28f43x439bl41zkvfzd63@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26 20:04:54 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 11ba2b85f5 perf stat: Print stalled cycles percentage
Print:

           611,527 cycles
           400,553 instructions             # (  0.71 instructions per cycle )
            77,809 stalled-cycles           # ( 12.71% of all cycles )

        0.000610987  seconds time elapsed

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fd6x8r1cpyb6zhlrc4ix8m45@git.kernel.org
2011-04-26 20:04:54 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 5d2cd90922 perf evsel: Fix use of inherit
perf stat doesn't mmap and its perfectly fine for it to use task-bound
counters with inheritance.

So set the attr.inherit on the caller and leave the syscall itself to
validate it.

When the mmap fails perf_evlist__mmap will just emit a warning if this
is the failure reason.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic 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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110414170121.GC3229@ghostprotocols.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-04-15 12:52:28 -03:00
Frederic Weisbecker cfd748ae06 perf stat: Provide support for filters
Now the --filter option is usable with perf stat too.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1300117230-8404-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-14 13:37:52 -03:00
Stephane Eranian 023695d96e perf tool: Add cgroup support
This patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on container groups
(cgroups) for both perf stat and perf record. It is possible to monitor
multiple cgroup in parallel. There is one cgroup per event. The cgroups to
monitor are passed via a new -G option followed by a comma separated list of
cgroup names.

The cgroup filesystem has to be mounted. Given a cgroup name, the perf tool
finds the corresponding directory in the cgroup filesystem and opens it. It
then passes that file descriptor to the kernel.

Example:

$ perf stat -B -a -e cycles:u,cycles:u,cycles:u -G test1,,test2 -- sleep 1
 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

      2,368,667,414  cycles                   test1
      2,369,661,459  cycles
      <not counted>  cycles                   test2

        1.001856890  seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4d590290.825bdf0a.7d0a.4890@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-16 13:30:48 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 0015e2e101 perf stat: Fix up resource release order
That was causing a SEGV on selected old distros.

Problem introduced in 7e2ed09.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic 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>
2011-02-01 16:18:10 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 7e2ed09753 perf evlist: Store pointer to the cpu and thread maps
So that we don't have to pass it around to the several methods that
needs it, simplifying usage.

There is one case where we don't have the thread/cpu map in advance,
which is in the parsing routines used by top, stat, record, that we have
to wait till all options are parsed to know if a cpu or thread list was
passed to then create those maps.

For that case consolidate the cpu and thread map creation via
perf_evlist__create_maps() out of the code in top and record, while also
providing a perf_evlist__set_maps() for cases where multiple evlists
share maps or for when maps that represent CPU sockets, for instance,
get crafted out of topology information or subsets of threads in a
particular application are to be monitored, providing more granularity
in specifying which cpus and threads to monitor.

Cc: Frederic 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>
2011-01-31 12:40:52 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo fd78260b53 perf threads: Move thread_map to separate file
To untangle it from struct thread handling, that is tied to symbols, etc.

Right now in the python bindings I'm working on I need just a subset of
the util/ files, untangling it allows me to do that.

Cc: Frederic 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>
2011-01-24 10:59:00 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 9d04f17817 perf evsel: Allow specifying if the inherit bit should be set
As this is a per-cpu attribute, we can't set it up in advance and use it
for all the calls.

Cc: Frederic 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>
2011-01-22 19:56:29 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo f08199d314 perf evsel: Support event groups
The perf_evsel__open now have an extra boolean argument specifying if
event grouping is desired.

The first file descriptor created on a CPU becomes the group leader.

Cc: Frederic 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>
2011-01-22 19:56:28 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 361c99a661 perf evsel: Introduce perf_evlist
Killing two more perf wide global variables: nr_counters and evsel_list
as a list_head.

There are more operations that will need more fields in perf_evlist,
like the pollfd for polling all the fds in a list of evsel instances.

Use option->value to pass the evsel_list to parse_{events,filters}.

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: Frederic 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>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-22 19:56:28 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 9486aa3877 perf tools: Fix 64 bit integer format strings
Using %L[uxd] has issues in some architectures, like on ppc64.  Fix it
by making our 64 bit integers typedefs of stdint.h types and using
PRI[ux]64 like, for instance, git does.

Reported by Denis Kirjanov that provided a patch for one case, I went
and changed all cases.

Reported-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110120093246.GA8031@hera.kernel.org>
Cc: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic 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: Pingtian Han <phan@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-22 23:41:57 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo bd3bfe9eda perf evsel: Fix order of event list deletion
We need to defer calling perf_evsel_list__delete() till after atexit
registered routines, because we need to traverse the events being
recorded at that time at least on 'perf record'.

This fixes the problem reported by Thomas Renninger where cmd_record
called by cmd_timechart would not write the tracing data to the perf.data
file header because the evsel_list at atexit (control+C on 'perf timechart
record') time would be empty, being already deleted by run_builtin(),
and thus 'perf timechart' when trying to process such perf.data file would
die with:

"no trace data in the file"

Problem introduced in 70d544d.

Reported-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Frederic 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: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-11 12:51:03 -02:00
David Ahern 5a3446bc64 perf stat: better error message for unsupported events
For unsupported events (e.g., H/W events when running in a VM)
perf stat currently fails with the error message:

      Error: open_counter returned with 2 (No such file or directory).
    /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

      Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

dmesg is of no help and it is not clear as to why it fails to
open the counter. This patch changes the error message to

      Error: cache-misses event is not supported.
      Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
LPU-Reference: <1294597272-17335-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-10 11:34:53 -02:00
Lin Ming 23a2f3ab46 perf tools: Pass whole attr to event selectors
Since commit 69aad6f1(perf tools: Introduce event selectors), only
perf_event_attr::type and ::config are passed to event selector, which
makes perf tool not work correctly.

For example, PEBS does not work because perf_event_attr::precise_ip is
not passed to the syscall.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1294369869.20563.19.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-07 01:44:36 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 86bd5e8603 perf evsel: Use {cpu,thread}_map to shorten list of parameters
Cc: Frederic 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>
2011-01-04 00:24:36 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 5c98d466e4 perf tools: Refactor all_tids to hold nr and the map
So that later, we can pass the thread_map instance instead of
(thread_num, thread_map) for things like perf_evsel__open and friends,
just like was done with cpu_map.

Cc: Frederic 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>
2011-01-04 00:24:16 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 60d567e2d9 perf tools: Refactor cpumap to hold nr and the map
So that later, we can pass the cpu_map instance instead of (nr_cpus, cpu_map)
for things like perf_evsel__open and friends.

Cc: Frederic 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>
2011-01-04 00:23:55 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 48290609c0 perf evsel: Introduce per cpu and per thread open helpers
Abstracting away the loops needed to create the various event fd handlers.

The users have to pass a confiruged perf->evsel.attr field, which is already
usable after perf_evsel__new (constructor) time, using defaults.

Comes out of the ad-hoc routines in builtin-stat, that now uses it.

Fixed a small silly bug where we were die()ing before killing our
children, dysfunctional family this one 8-)

Cc: Frederic 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>
2011-01-04 00:23:27 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo c52b12ed25 perf evsel: Steal the counter reading routines from stat
Making them hopefully generic enough to be used in 'perf test',
well see.

Cc: Frederic 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>
2011-01-04 00:22:55 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 70d544d057 perf evsel: Delete the event selectors at exit
Freeing all the possibly allocated resources, reducing complexity
on each tool exit path.

Cc: Frederic 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>
2011-01-03 16:51:39 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo daec78a09d perf evsel: Adopt MATCH_EVENT macro from 'stat'
Cc: Frederic 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>
2011-01-03 16:49:44 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 69aad6f1ee perf tools: Introduce event selectors
Out of ad-hoc code and global arrays with hard coded sizes.

This is the first step on having a library that will be first
used on regression tests in the 'perf test' tool.

[acme@felicio linux]$ size /tmp/perf.before
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
1273776	  97384	5104416	6475576	 62cf38	/tmp/perf.before
[acme@felicio linux]$ size /tmp/perf.new
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
1275422	  97416	1392416	2765254	 2a31c6	/tmp/perf.new

Cc: Frederic 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>
2011-01-03 16:39:04 -02:00
Stephane Eranian d7470b6afc perf stat: Add csv-style output
This patch adds an option (-x/--field-separator) to print counts using a
CSV-style output. The user can pass a custom separator. This makes it very easy
to import counts directly into your favorite spreadsheet without having to
write scripts.

Example:
$ perf stat --field-separator=,  -a -- sleep 1
4009.961740,task-clock-msecs
13,context-switches
2,CPU-migrations
189,page-faults
9596385684,cycles
3493659441,instructions
872897069,branches
41562,branch-misses
22424,cache-references
1289,cache-misses

Works also in non-aggregated mode:

$ perf stat -x ,  -a -A -- sleep 1
CPU0,1002.526168,task-clock-msecs
CPU1,1002.528365,task-clock-msecs
CPU2,1002.523360,task-clock-msecs
CPU3,1002.519878,task-clock-msecs
CPU0,1,context-switches
CPU1,5,context-switches
CPU2,5,context-switches
CPU3,6,context-switches
CPU0,0,CPU-migrations
CPU1,1,CPU-migrations
CPU2,0,CPU-migrations
CPU3,1,CPU-migrations
CPU0,2,page-faults
CPU1,6,page-faults
CPU2,9,page-faults
CPU3,174,page-faults
CPU0,2399439771,cycles
CPU1,2380369063,cycles
CPU2,2399142710,cycles
CPU3,2373161192,cycles
CPU0,872900618,instructions
CPU1,873030960,instructions
CPU2,872714525,instructions
CPU3,874460580,instructions
CPU0,221556839,branches
CPU1,218134342,branches
CPU2,218161730,branches
CPU3,218284093,branches
CPU0,18556,branch-misses
CPU1,1449,branch-misses
CPU2,3447,branch-misses
CPU3,12714,branch-misses
CPU0,8330,cache-references
CPU1,313844,cache-references
CPU2,47993728,cache-references
CPU3,826481,cache-references
CPU0,272,cache-misses
CPU1,5360,cache-misses
CPU2,1342193,cache-misses
CPU3,13992,cache-misses

This second version adds the ability to name a separator and uses
field-separator as the long option to be consistent with perf report.

Commiter note: Since we enabled --big-num by default in 201e0b0 and -x can't be
used with it, we need to notice if the user explicitely enabled or disabled -B,
add code to disable big_num if the user didn't explicitely set --big_num when
-x is used.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederik Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <4cf68aa7.0fedd80a.5294.1203@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 19:47:41 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 201e0b06ef perf stat: Use --big-num format by default
[acme@mica linux]$ perf stat ls > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

           1.512532  task-clock-msecs         #      0.801 CPUs
                  2  context-switches         #      0.001 M/sec
                  0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
                241  page-faults              #      0.159 M/sec
          2,973,331  cycles                   #   1965.797 M/sec
          1,460,802  instructions             #      0.491 IPC
            314,642  branches                 #    208.023 M/sec
             18,475  branch-misses            #      5.872 %
      <not counted>  cache-references
      <not counted>  cache-misses

        0.001887676  seconds time elapsed

To get the previous behaviour just use --no-big-num:

[acme@mica linux]$ perf stat --no-big-num ls > /dev/null

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

           1.468014  task-clock-msecs         #      0.795 CPUs
                  1  context-switches         #      0.001 M/sec
                  0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
                241  page-faults              #      0.164 M/sec
            2900254  cycles                   #   1975.631 M/sec
            1437991  instructions             #      0.496 IPC
             310905  branches                 #    211.786 M/sec
              17912  branch-misses            #      5.761 %
      <not counted>  cache-references
      <not counted>  cache-misses

        0.001845435  seconds time elapsed

[acme@mica linux]$

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:50 -02:00
Corey Ashford d9cf837ef9 perf stat: Change and clean up sys_perf_event_open error handling
This patch makes several changes to "perf stat":

- "perf stat" will no longer go ahead and run the application when one or
more of the specified events could not be opened.
- Use error() and die() instead of pr_err() so that the output is more
consistent with "perf top" and "perf record".
- Handle permission errors in a more robust way, and in a similar way to
"perf record" and "perf top".

In addition, the sys_perf_event_open() error handling of "perf top" and "perf
record" is made more consistent and adds the following phrase when an event
doesn't open (with something ther than an access or permission error):

"/bin/dmesg may provide additional information."

This is added because kernel code doesn't have a good way of expressing
detailed errors to user space, so its only avenue is to use printk's.  However,
many users may not think of looking at dmesg to find out why an event is being
rejected.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Munsie <ianmunsi@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1290217044-26293-1-git-send-email-cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-11-20 13:04:15 -02:00
Stephane Eranian f5b4a9c3ab perf stat: Add no-aggregation mode to -a
This patch adds a new -A option to perf stat. If specified then perf stat does
not aggregate counts across all monitored CPUs in system-wide mode, i.e., when
using -a. This option is not supported in per-thread mode.

Being able to get a per-cpu breakdown is useful to detect imbalances between
CPUs when running a uniform workload than spans all monitored CPUs.

The second version corrects the missing cpumap[] support, so that it works when
the -C option is used.

The third version fixes a missing cpumap[] in print_counter() and removes a
stray patch in builtin-trace.c.

Examples on a 4-way system:

# perf stat -a   -e cycles,instructions -- sleep 1
 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
         9592808135  cycles
         3490380006  instructions             #      0.364 IPC
        1.001584632  seconds time elapsed

# perf stat -a -A -e cycles,instructions -- sleep 1
 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
CPU0            2398163767  cycles
CPU1            2398180817  cycles
CPU2            2398217115  cycles
CPU3            2398247483  cycles
CPU0             872282046  instructions             #      0.364 IPC
CPU1             873481776  instructions             #      0.364 IPC
CPU2             872638127  instructions             #      0.364 IPC
CPU3             872437789  instructions             #      0.364 IPC
        1.001556052  seconds time elapsed

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <4ce257b5.1e07e30a.7b6b.3aa9@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-11-19 16:16:53 -02:00
Stephane Eranian c45c6ea2e5 perf tools: Add the ability to specify list of cpus to monitor
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>
2010-06-05 09:33:01 -03:00
Stephane Eranian 5af52b51f7 perf stat: add perf stat -B to pretty print large numbers
It is hard to read very large numbers so provide an option to perf stat
to separate thousands using a separator. The patch leverages the locale
support of stdio. You need to set your LC_NUMERIC appropriately, for
instance LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF8. You need to pass -B to activate this
feature. This way existing scripts parsing the output do not need to be
changed. Here is an example.

$ perf stat noploop 2
noploop for 2 seconds

 Performance counter stats for 'noploop 2':

        1998.347031  task-clock-msecs         #      0.998 CPUs
                 61  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
                  0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
                118  page-faults              #      0.000 M/sec
      4,138,410,900  cycles                   #   2070.917 M/sec  (scaled from 70.01%)
      2,062,650,268  instructions             #      0.498 IPC    (scaled from 70.01%)
      2,057,653,466  branches                 #   1029.678 M/sec  (scaled from 70.01%)
             40,267  branch-misses            #      0.002 %      (scaled from 30.04%)
      2,055,961,348  cache-references         #   1028.831 M/sec  (scaled from 30.03%)
             53,725  cache-misses             #      0.027 M/sec  (scaled from 30.02%)

        2.001393933  seconds time elapsed

$ perf stat -B  noploop 2
noploop for 2 seconds

 Performance counter stats for 'noploop 2':

        1998.297883  task-clock-msecs         #      0.998 CPUs
                 59  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
                  0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
                119  page-faults              #      0.000 M/sec
      4,131,380,160  cycles                   #   2067.450 M/sec  (scaled from 70.01%)
      2,059,096,507  instructions             #      0.498 IPC    (scaled from 70.01%)
      2,054,681,303  branches                 #   1028.216 M/sec  (scaled from 70.01%)
             25,650  branch-misses            #      0.001 %      (scaled from 30.05%)
      2,056,283,014  cache-references         #   1029.017 M/sec  (scaled from 30.03%)
             47,097  cache-misses             #      0.024 M/sec  (scaled from 30.02%)

        2.001391016  seconds time elapsed

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: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4bf28fe8.914ed80a.01ca.fffff5f5@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-18 23:03:22 -03:00
Stephane Eranian 2e6cdf996b perf tools: change event inheritance logic in stat and record
By default, event inheritance across fork and pthread_create was on but the -i
option of stat and record, which enabled inheritance, led to believe it was off
by default.

This patch fixes this logic by inverting the meaning of the -i option.  By
default inheritance is on whether you attach to a process (-p), a thread (-t)
or start a process. If you pass -i, then you turn off inheritance. Turning off
inheritance if you don't need it, helps limit perf resource usage as well.

The patch also fixes perf stat -t xxxx and perf record -t xxxx which did not
start the counters.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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: <4bea9d2f.d60ce30a.0b5b.08e1@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-13 16:39:12 -03:00
Ian Munsie c055564217 perf: Fix endianness argument compatibility with OPT_BOOLEAN() and introduce OPT_INCR()
Parsing an option from the command line with OPT_BOOLEAN on a
bool data type would not work on a big-endian machine due to the
manner in which the boolean was being cast into an int and
incremented. For example, running 'perf probe --list' on a
PowerPC machine would fail to properly set the list_events bool
and would therefore print out the usage information and
terminate.

This patch makes OPT_BOOLEAN work as expected with a bool
datatype. For cases where the original OPT_BOOLEAN was
intentionally being used to increment an int each time it was
passed in on the command line, this patch introduces OPT_INCR
with the old behaviour of OPT_BOOLEAN (the verbose variable is
currently the only such example of this).

I have reviewed every use of OPT_BOOLEAN to verify that a true
C99 bool was passed. Where integers were used, I verified that
they were only being used for boolean logic and changed them to
bools to ensure that they would not be mistakenly used as ints.
The major exception was the verbose variable which now uses
OPT_INCR instead of OPT_BOOLEAN.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # NOTE: wont apply to .3[34].x cleanly, please backport
Cc: Git development list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1271147857-11604-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14 11:26:44 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 084ab9f862 perf stat: Better report failure to collect system wide stats
Before:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf stat -a sleep 1s

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1s':

  <not counted>  task-clock-msecs
  <not counted>  context-switches
  <not counted>  CPU-migrations
  <not counted>  page-faults
  <not counted>  cycles
  <not counted>  instructions
  <not counted>  branches
  <not counted>  branch-misses
  <not counted>  cache-references
  <not counted>  cache-misses

    1.016998463  seconds time elapsed

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

Now:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf stat -a sleep 1s
No permission to collect system-wide stats.
Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1269274229-20442-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-22 18:47:35 +01:00
Zhang, Yanmin d6d901c23a perf events: Change perf parameter --pid to process-wide collection instead of thread-wide
Parameter --pid (or -p) of perf currently means a thread-wide
collection. For exmaple, if a process whose id is 8888 has 10
threads, 'perf top -p 8888' just collects the main thread
statistics. That's misleading. Users are used to attach a whole
process when debugging a process by gdb. To follow normal usage
style, the patch change --pid to process-wide collection and add
--tid (-t) to mean a thread-wide collection.

Usage example is:

 # perf top -p 8888
 # perf record -p 8888 -f sleep 10
 # perf stat -p 8888 -f sleep 10

Above commands collect the statistics of all threads of process
8888.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: zhiteng.huang@intel.com
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1268922965-14774-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-18 16:21:12 +01:00
Zhang, Yanmin 6be2850eff perf stat: Enable counters when collecting process-wide or system-wide data
Command 'perf stat' doesn't enable counters when collecting an
existing (by -p) process or system-wide statistics. Fix the
issue.

Change the condition of fork/exec subcommand. If there is a
subcommand parameter, perf always forks/execs it. The usage
example is:

 # perf stat -a sleep 10

So this command could collect statistics for 10 seconds
precisely. User still could stop it by CTRL+C. Without the new
capability, user could only use CTRL+C to stop it without
precise time clock.

Another issue is 'perf stat -a' consumes 100% time of a full
single logical cpu. It has a bad impact on running workload.

Fix it by adding a sleep(1) in the while(!done) loop in function
run_perf_stat.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Cc: <zhiteng.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1268922965-14774-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-18 16:21:11 +01:00
Paul Mackerras a12b51c478 perf tools: Fix sparse CPU numbering related bugs
At present, the perf subcommands that do system-wide monitoring
(perf stat, perf record and perf top) don't work properly unless
the online cpus are numbered 0, 1, ..., N-1.  These tools ask
for the number of online cpus with sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
and then try to create events for cpus 0, 1, ..., N-1.

This creates problems for systems where the online cpus are
numbered sparsely.  For example, a POWER6 system in
single-threaded mode (i.e. only running 1 hardware thread per
core) will have only even-numbered cpus online.

This fixes the problem by reading the /sys/devices/system/cpu/online
file to find out which cpus are online.  The code that does that is in
tools/perf/util/cpumap.[ch], and consists of a read_cpu_map()
function that sets up a cpumap[] array and returns the number of
online cpus.  If /sys/devices/system/cpu/online can't be read or
can't be parsed successfully, it falls back to using sysconf to
ask how many cpus are online and sets up an identity map in cpumap[].

The perf record, perf stat and perf top code then calls
read_cpu_map() in the system-wide monitoring case (instead of
sysconf) and uses cpumap[] to get the cpu numbers to pass to
perf_event_open.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100310093609.GA3959@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11 13:36:53 +01:00
Liming Wang 60666c630b perf tools: Fix --pid option for stat
current pid option doesn't work for perf stat. Change it to what
perf record --pid acts as.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262246750-2191-1-git-send-email-liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 10:09:08 +01:00
Lucas De Marchi 7255fe2a42 perf stat: Do not print ratio when task-clock event is not counted
The ratio between the number of events and the time elapsed makes
sense only if task-clock event is counted. Otherwise it will be
simply a (confusing)

	#      0.000 M/sec

This patch outputs the ratio only if task-clock event is counted.
Some test examples of before and after:

Before:

 [lucas@skywalker linux.trees.git]$ sudo perf stat -e branch-misses -a -- sleep 1

	 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

		1367818  branch-misses            #      0.000 M/sec

	    1.001494325  seconds time elapsed

After (without task-clock):

 [lucas@skywalker perf]$ sudo ./perf stat -e branch-misses -a -- sleep 1

	 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

		1135044  branch-misses

	    1.001370775  seconds time elapsed

After (with task-clock):

 [lucas@skywalker perf]$ sudo ./perf stat -e branch-misses -e task-clock -a -- sleep 1

	 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

		1070111  branch-misses            #      0.534 M/sec
	    2002.730893  task-clock-msecs         #      1.999 CPUs

	    1.001640292  seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091115140507.GB21561@skywalker.lan>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-15 15:25:50 +01:00
Ingo Molnar dd86e72abd perf stat: Count branches first
Count branches first, cache-misses second. The reason is that
on x86 branches are not counted by all counters on all CPUs.

Before:

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

       0.756653  task-clock-msecs         #      0.802 CPUs
              0  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
              0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
            250  page-faults              #      0.330 M/sec
        2375725  cycles                   #   3139.781 M/sec
        1628129  instructions             #      0.685 IPC
          19643  cache-references         #     25.960 M/sec
           4608  cache-misses             #      6.090 M/sec
         342532  branches                 #    452.694 M/sec
  <not counted>  branch-misses

    0.000943356  seconds time elapsed

After:

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

       1.056734  task-clock-msecs         #      0.859 CPUs
              0  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
              0  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
            259  page-faults              #      0.245 M/sec
        3345932  cycles                   #   3166.295 M/sec
        3074090  instructions             #      0.919 IPC
         616928  branches                 #    583.806 M/sec
          39279  branch-misses            #      6.367 %
          21312  cache-references         #     20.168 M/sec
           3661  cache-misses             #      3.464 M/sec

    0.001230551  seconds time elapsed

(also prettify the printout of branch misses, in case it's
 getting scaled.)

Cc: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4ADC3975.8050109@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index c373683..95a55ea 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs[] = {
   { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS	},
   { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES},
   { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES	},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES	},

 };
---
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c |   20 ++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 95a55ea..90e0a26 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -50,17 +50,17 @@

 static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs[] = {

-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK	},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS	},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS	},
-
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES	},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS	},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES	},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS},
-  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES	},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK		},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES	},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS		},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS		},
+
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES		},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS		},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES	},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES		},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS	},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES		},

 };
2009-10-19 13:36:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 56aab464ff perf stat: Re-align the default_attrs[] array
Clean up the array definition to be vertically aligned.

No functional effects.

Cc: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4ADC3975.8050109@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index c373683..95a55ea 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs[] = {
   { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS	},
   { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES},
   { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES	},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS},
+  { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES	},

 };
2009-10-19 13:27:08 +02:00
Tim Blechmann 12133afffc perf stat: Add branch performance events to default output
Adds performance event information about branches
and branch misses to the default output of perf stat.

Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4ADC3975.8050109@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-19 13:26:42 +02:00
Anton Blanchard 11018201b8 perf stat: Add branch performance metric
When we count both branches and branch-misses it is useful to
print out the percentage of branch-misses:

 # perf stat -e branches -e branch-misses /bin/true

 Performance counter stats for '/bin/true':

         401684  branches                 #      0.000 M/sec
          23301  branch-misses            #      5.801 %

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
LKML-Reference: <20091018112923.GQ4808@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-19 09:20:21 +02:00
Chris Wilson 933da83aa1 perf: Propagate term signal to child
If we launch the child on behalf of the user, ensure that it dies
along with ourselves when we are interrupted.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
LKML-Reference: <1254616502-4728-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-04 19:37:39 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c7f7fea30b perf stat: Fix zero total printouts
Before:

           0  sched:sched_switch #        nan M/sec

After:

           0  sched:sched_switch #      0.000 M/sec

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-22 15:01:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 849abde92b perf stat: Clean up statistics calculations a bit more
Remove some, now useless, global storage.
Don't calculate the stddev when not needed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 20:27:26 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 8a02631a47 perf stat: More advanced variance computation
Use the more advanced single pass variance algorithm outlined
on the wikipedia page. This is numerically more stable for
larger sample sets.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 17:38:15 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 63d40deb2e perf stat: Use stddev_mean in stead of stddev
When we're computing the mean by sampling the distribution,
then the std dev of the mean is related to the std dev of the
sample set by:

  stddev_mean = std_dev / sqrt(N)

Which is exactly what we want.

This results in the error on the mean decreasing with
increasing number of samples.

Also fix the scaled == -1, aka not counted case.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 17:38:14 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 9e9772c458 perf stat: Remove the limit on repeat
Since we don't need all the individual samples to calculate the
error remove both the limit and the storage overhead associated
with that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 16:33:08 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 506d4bc8d5 perf stat: Change noise calculation to use stddev
The current noise computation does:

 \Sum abs(n_i - avg(n)) * N^-1.5

Which is (afaik) not a regular noise function, and needs the
complete sample set available to post-process.

Change this to use a regular stddev computation which can be
done by keeping a two sums:

 stddev = sqrt( 1/N (\Sum n_i^2) - avg(n)^2 )

For which we only need to keep \Sum n_i and \Sum n_i^2.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 16:33:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 8f28827a16 perf tools: Librarize trace_event() helper
Librarize trace_event() helper so that perf trace can use it
too. Also clean up the debug.h includes a bit.

It's not good to have it included in perf.h because it doesn't
make it flexible against other headers it may need (headers
that can also depend on perf.h and then create a recursive
header dependency).

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250453149-664-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-16 23:06:45 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker cd84c2ac6d perf tools: Factorize high level dso helpers
Factorize multiple definitions of high level dso helpers into the
symbol source file.

The side effect is a general export of the verbose and eprintf
debugging helpers into a new file dedicated to debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
2009-08-12 12:02:38 +02:00
Brice Goglin b26bc5a7f8 perf stat: Fix tool option consistency: rename -S/--scale to -c/--scale
We want to use a coherent flag for -S/--stat across all tools,
so free up -S in perf stat.

Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:37 +02:00
Anton Blanchard a0541234f8 perf_counter: Improve perf stat and perf record option parsing
perf stat and perf record currently look for all options on the command
line. This can lead to some confusion:

# perf stat ls -l
  Error: unknown switch `l'

While we can work around this by adding '--' before the command, the git
option parsing code can stop at the first non option:

# perf stat ls -l
 Performance counter stats for 'ls -l':
....

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090722130412.GD9029@kryten>
2009-07-22 18:05:56 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker a92bef0f21 perf stat: Handle pipe read failures in perf stat
Building builtin-stat.c reports the following errors:

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
builtin-stat.c: In function ‘run_perf_stat’:
builtin-stat.c:242: erreur: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
builtin-stat.c:255: erreur: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
make: *** [builtin-stat.o] Erreur 1

This patch handles the possible pipe read failures.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246474930-6088-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 22:37:24 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput b9ebdcc0ce perf stat: Define MATCH_EVENT for easy attr checking
MATCH_EVENT is useful:

 1. for multiple attrs checking
 2. avoid repetition of PERF_TYPE_ and PERF_COUNT_ and save space
 3. avoids line breakage

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246440909.3403.5.camel@hpdv5.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 13:28:38 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f37a291c52 perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them
Enable -Wextra. This found a few real bugs plus a number
of signed/unsigned type mismatches/uncleanlinesses. It
also required a few annotations

All things considered it was still worth it so lets try with
this enabled for now.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00
Paul Mackerras 57e7986ed1 perf_counter: Provide a way to enable counters on exec
This provides a way to mark a counter to be enabled on the next
exec. This is useful for measuring the total activity of a
program without including overhead from the process that
launches it.

This also changes the perf stat command to use this new
facility.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <19017.43927.838745.689203@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-30 12:00:16 +02:00
Paul Mackerras 051ae7f734 perf_counter tools: Reduce perf stat measurement overhead/skew
Vince Weaver reported a 'perf stat' measurement overhead in the
count of retired instructions, which can amount to a +6000
instructions inflated count in the reported count.

At present, perf stat creates its counters on the perf process.  Thus
the counters count the fork and various other activity in both the
parent and child, such as the resolver overhead for resolving PLT
entries for any libc functions that haven't been called before, such
as execvp.

This reduces the overhead by creating the counters on the child process
after the fork, using a couple of pipes to synchronize so that the
child process waits until the parent has created the counters before
doing the exec.  To eliminate the PLT resolution overhead on calling
execvp, this does a dummy execvp first which will always fail.

With this, the overhead of executing a program goes down from over
4800 instructions to about 90 instructions on powerpc (32-bit).
This was measured with a statically-linked program written in
assembler which only does the 3 instructions needed to call _exit(0).

Before:

$ perf stat -e 0:1:u ./three

 Performance counter stats for './three':

           4858  instructions

    0.001274523  seconds time elapsed

After:

$ perf stat -e 0:1:u ./three

 Performance counter stats for './three':

             92  instructions

    0.000468153  seconds time elapsed

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <19016.41425.814043.870352@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-29 22:38:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 210ad39fb7 perf stat: Use percentages for scaling output
Peter expressed a strong preference for percentage based
display of scaled values - so revert to that from the
recently introduced multiplication-factor unit.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-29 21:50:54 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput c3043569dc perf stat: Micro-optimize the code: memcpy is only required if no event is selected and !null_run
Set attrs and nr_counters if no event is selected and !null_run.

Setting of attrs should depend on number of counters,
so we need to memcpy only for sizeof(default_attrs)

Also set nr_counters as ARRAY_SIZE(default_attrs) in place of
hardcoded value.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246126749.32198.16.camel@hpdv5.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-28 15:22:47 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput 6e750a8fc0 perf stat: Improve output
Increase size for event name to handle bigger names like
'L1-d$-prefetch-misses'

Changed scaled counters from percentage to a multiplicative
factor because the latter is more expressive.

Also aligned the scaling factor, otherwise sometimes it looks
like:

            384  iTLB-load-misses           (4.74x scaled)
         452029  branch-loads               (8.00x scaled)
           5892  branch-load-misses         (20.39x scaled)
         972315  iTLB-loads                 (3.24x scaled)

Before:
         150708  L1-d$-stores          (scaled from 23.57%)
         428804  L1-d$-prefetches      (scaled from 23.47%)
         314446  L1-d$-prefetch-misses  (scaled from 23.42%)
      252626137  L1-i$-loads           (scaled from 23.24%)
        5297550  dTLB-load-misses      (scaled from 23.96%)
      106992392  branch-loads          (scaled from 23.67%)
        5239561  branch-load-misses    (scaled from 23.43%)

After:
        1731713  L1-d$-loads               (  14.25x scaled)
          44241  L1-d$-prefetches          (   3.88x scaled)
          21076  L1-d$-prefetch-misses     (   3.40x scaled)
        5789421  L1-i$-loads               (   3.78x scaled)
          29645  dTLB-load-misses          (   2.95x scaled)
         461474  branch-loads              (   6.52x scaled)
           7493  branch-load-misses        (  26.57x scaled)

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246051927.2988.10.camel@hpdv5.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-27 18:39:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 566747e629 perf stat: Fix multi-run stats
In multi-run (-r/--repeat) printouts, print out the noise of
the wall-clock average as well.

Also, fix a bug in printing out scaled counters: if it was not
scaled then we should not update the average with -1.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-27 06:34:37 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0cfb7a13b8 perf stat: Add -n/--null option to run without counters
Allow a no-counters run. This can be useful to measure just
elapsed wall-clock time - or to assess the raw overhead of perf
stat itself, without running any counters.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-27 06:11:24 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput 3d63259583 perf stat: Remove dead code
Remove dead code and do some code alignment.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1245847774.2681.2.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 14:55:45 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput cca03c0aeb perf stat: Fix verbose for perf stat
Error message should use stderr for verbose (-v), otherwise
message will be lost for:

 $ ./perf stat -v <cmd>  > /dev/null

For example on AMD bus-cycles event is not available so now
it looks like:

 $ ./perf stat -v -e bus-cycles ls > /dev/null
Error: counter 0, sys_perf_counter_open() syscall returned with -1 (Invalid argument)

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

  <not counted>  bus-cycles

    0.006765877  seconds time elapsed.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1245757369.3776.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-23 21:58:44 +02:00
Paul Mackerras 9cffa8d533 perf_counter tools: Define and use our own u64, s64 etc. definitions
On 64-bit powerpc, __u64 is defined to be unsigned long rather than
unsigned long long.  This causes compiler warnings every time we
print a __u64 value with %Lx.

Rather than changing __u64, we define our own u64 to be unsigned long
long on all architectures, and similarly s64 as signed long long.
For consistency we also define u32, s32, u16, s16, u8 and s8.  These
definitions are put in a new header, types.h, because these definitions
are needed in util/string.h and util/symbol.h.

The main change here is the mechanical change of __[us]{64,32,16,8}
to remove the "__".  The other changes are:

* Create types.h
* Include types.h in perf.h, util/string.h and util/symbol.h
* Add types.h to the LIB_H definition in Makefile
* Added (u64) casts in process_overflow_event() and print_sym_table()
  to kill two remaining warnings.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
LKML-Reference: <19003.33494.495844.956580@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-19 18:25:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar ef281a196d perf stat: Enable raw data to be printed
If -vv (very verbose) is specified, print out raw data
in the following format:

$ perf stat -vv -r 3 ./loop_1b_instructions

[ perf stat: executing run #1 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #2 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #3 ... ]

debug:              runtime[0]: 235871872
debug:             walltime[0]: 236646752
debug:       runtime_cycles[0]: 755150182
debug:            counter/0[0]: 235871872
debug:            counter/1[0]: 235871872
debug:            counter/2[0]: 235871872
debug:               scaled[0]: 0
debug:            counter/0[1]: 2
debug:            counter/1[1]: 235870662
debug:            counter/2[1]: 235870662
debug:               scaled[1]: 0
debug:            counter/0[2]: 1
debug:            counter/1[2]: 235870437
debug:            counter/2[2]: 235870437
debug:               scaled[2]: 0
debug:            counter/0[3]: 140
debug:            counter/1[3]: 235870298
debug:            counter/2[3]: 235870298
debug:               scaled[3]: 0
debug:            counter/0[4]: 755150182
debug:            counter/1[4]: 235870145
debug:            counter/2[4]: 235870145
debug:               scaled[4]: 0
debug:            counter/0[5]: 1001411258
debug:            counter/1[5]: 235868838
debug:            counter/2[5]: 235868838
debug:               scaled[5]: 0
debug:            counter/0[6]: 27897
debug:            counter/1[6]: 235868560
debug:            counter/2[6]: 235868560
debug:               scaled[6]: 0
debug:            counter/0[7]: 2910
debug:            counter/1[7]: 235868151
debug:            counter/2[7]: 235868151
debug:               scaled[7]: 0
debug:              runtime[0]: 235980257
debug:             walltime[0]: 236770942
debug:       runtime_cycles[0]: 755114546
debug:            counter/0[0]: 235980257
debug:            counter/1[0]: 235980257
debug:            counter/2[0]: 235980257
debug:               scaled[0]: 0
debug:            counter/0[1]: 3
debug:            counter/1[1]: 235980049
debug:            counter/2[1]: 235980049
debug:               scaled[1]: 0
debug:            counter/0[2]: 1
debug:            counter/1[2]: 235979907
debug:            counter/2[2]: 235979907
debug:               scaled[2]: 0
debug:            counter/0[3]: 135
debug:            counter/1[3]: 235979780
debug:            counter/2[3]: 235979780
debug:               scaled[3]: 0
debug:            counter/0[4]: 755114546
debug:            counter/1[4]: 235979652
debug:            counter/2[4]: 235979652
debug:               scaled[4]: 0
debug:            counter/0[5]: 1001439771
debug:            counter/1[5]: 235979304
debug:            counter/2[5]: 235979304
debug:               scaled[5]: 0
debug:            counter/0[6]: 23723
debug:            counter/1[6]: 235979050
debug:            counter/2[6]: 235979050
debug:               scaled[6]: 0
debug:            counter/0[7]: 2213
debug:            counter/1[7]: 235978820
debug:            counter/2[7]: 235978820
debug:               scaled[7]: 0
debug:              runtime[0]: 235888002
debug:             walltime[0]: 236700533
debug:       runtime_cycles[0]: 754881504
debug:            counter/0[0]: 235888002
debug:            counter/1[0]: 235888002
debug:            counter/2[0]: 235888002
debug:               scaled[0]: 0
debug:            counter/0[1]: 2
debug:            counter/1[1]: 235887793
debug:            counter/2[1]: 235887793
debug:               scaled[1]: 0
debug:            counter/0[2]: 1
debug:            counter/1[2]: 235887645
debug:            counter/2[2]: 235887645
debug:               scaled[2]: 0
debug:            counter/0[3]: 135
debug:            counter/1[3]: 235887499
debug:            counter/2[3]: 235887499
debug:               scaled[3]: 0
debug:            counter/0[4]: 754881504
debug:            counter/1[4]: 235887368
debug:            counter/2[4]: 235887368
debug:               scaled[4]: 0
debug:            counter/0[5]: 1001401731
debug:            counter/1[5]: 235887024
debug:            counter/2[5]: 235887024
debug:               scaled[5]: 0
debug:            counter/0[6]: 24212
debug:            counter/1[6]: 235886786
debug:            counter/2[6]: 235886786
debug:               scaled[6]: 0
debug:            counter/0[7]: 1824
debug:            counter/1[7]: 235886560
debug:            counter/2[7]: 235886560
debug:               scaled[7]: 0

 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/loop_1b_instructions' (3 runs):

     235.913377  task-clock-msecs     #      0.997 CPUs    ( +-   0.011% )
              2  context-switches     #      0.000 M/sec   ( +-   0.000% )
              1  CPU-migrations       #      0.000 M/sec   ( +-   0.000% )
            136  page-faults          #      0.001 M/sec   ( +-   0.730% )
      755048744  cycles               #   3200.534 M/sec   ( +-   0.009% )
     1001417586  instructions         #      1.326 IPC     ( +-   0.001% )
          25277  cache-references     #      0.107 M/sec   ( +-   3.988% )
           2315  cache-misses         #      0.010 M/sec   ( +-   9.845% )

    0.236706075  seconds time elapsed.

This allows the summary stats to be validated.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-13 15:40:35 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 42202dd56c perf stat: Add feature to run and measure a command multiple times
Add the --repeat <n> feature to perf stat, which repeats a given
command up to a 100 times, collects the stats and calculates an
average and a stddev.

For example, the following oneliner 'perf stat' command runs hackbench
5 times and prints a tabulated result of all metrics, with averages
and noise levels (in percentage) printed:

 aldebaran:~/linux/linux/tools/perf> ./perf stat --repeat 5 ~/hackbench 10
 Time: 0.117
 Time: 0.108
 Time: 0.089
 Time: 0.088
 Time: 0.100

 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 10' (5 runs):

    1243.989586  task-clock-msecs     #     10.460 CPUs    ( +-   4.720% )
          47706  context-switches     #      0.038 M/sec   ( +-  19.706% )
            387  CPU-migrations       #      0.000 M/sec   ( +-   3.608% )
          17793  page-faults          #      0.014 M/sec   ( +-   0.354% )
     3770941606  cycles               #   3031.329 M/sec   ( +-   4.621% )
     1566372416  instructions         #      0.415 IPC     ( +-   2.703% )
       16783421  cache-references     #     13.492 M/sec   ( +-   5.202% )
        7128590  cache-misses         #      5.730 M/sec   ( +-   7.420% )

    0.118924455  seconds time elapsed.

The goal of this feature is to allow the reliance on these accurate
statistics and to know how many times a command has to be repeated
for the noise to go down to an acceptable level.

(The -v option can be used to see a line printed out as each run progresses.)

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-13 15:18:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 44175b6f39 perf stat: Reorganize output
- use IPC for the instruction normalization output
 - CPUs for the CPU utilization factor value.
 - print out time elapsed like the other rows
 - tidy up the task-clocks/cpu-clocks printout

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-13 13:40:03 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f4dbfa8f31 perf_counter: Standardize event names
Pure renames only, to PERF_COUNT_HW_* and PERF_COUNT_SW_*.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 17:54:15 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f7b7c26e01 perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properly
Currently report and stat catch SIGINT (and others) without altering
their exit state. This means that things like:

   while :; do perf stat ./foo ; done

Loops become hard-to-interrupt, because bash never sees perf terminate
due to interruption. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-10 16:55:27 +02:00
Ingo Molnar e779898aa7 perf stat: Print out instructins/cycle metric
Before:

     7549326754  cycles               #    3201.811 M/sec
    10007594937  instructions         #    4244.408 M/sec

After:

     7542051194  cycles               #    3201.996 M/sec
    10007743852  instructions         #    4248.811 M/sec # 1.327 per cycle

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-07 18:14:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 743ee1f804 perf stat: Continue even on counter creation error
Before:

 $ perf stat ~/hackbench 5

 error: syscall returned with -1 (No such device)

After:

 $ perf stat ~/hackbench 5
 Time: 1.640

 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 5':

    6524.570382  task-clock-ticks     #       3.838 CPU utilization factor
          35704  context-switches     #       0.005 M/sec
            191  CPU-migrations       #       0.000 M/sec
           8958  page-faults          #       0.001 M/sec
  <not counted>  cycles
  <not counted>  instructions
  <not counted>  cache-references
  <not counted>  cache-misses

 Wall-clock time elapsed:  1699.999995 msecs

Also add -v (--verbose) option to allow the printing of failed
counter opens.

Plus dont print 'inf' if wall-time is zero (due to jiffies granularity),
instead skip the printing of the CPU utilization factor.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-07 17:08:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 864709302a perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/
Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged
tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the
(new) tools/ directory.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00