Linus reported the following perf build system bug:
'Another annoyance during that make was that "make install" seems to
want to re-make the thing I just built. That's absolutely horrible, [...]'
The thing that got re-built were 'only' the (numerous) feature checks,
not the whole project - but still it was mighty annoying as the feature
checks took 9+ seconds even on reasonably fast boxes.
Even with the autodep patches where feature detection is much faster
it wastes resources, wastes screen real estate and confuses users if
we execute feature detection twice.
There were two sources for these unnecessary re-builds of the feature
checks:
- Unnecessary nested invocations of $(MAKE), apparently to be able
to do conditional compilation dependent on documentation tools
presence. Use straight dependencies instead, with no nesting.
- A direct invocation of $(MAKE) to rebuild the PERF-VERSION-FILE.
This is apparently done to be able to include it into the
Makefile:
-include $(OUTPUT)PERF-VERSION-FILE
but that's entirely pointless for two reasons: 1) the version file
gets regenerated by the initial build pass anyway, 2) including it
is futile, given its contents:
#define PERF_VERSION "3.12.rc3.g8510c7"
'make' will interpret that as a comment line...
So just remove this part of the doc-generation logic.
With these things fixed a 'make install' now rebuilds only what is needed.
A repeated 'make install' on an already built tree is super fast now,
it finishes in under 0.3 seconds:
#
# After the patch:
#
$ time make install
...
real 0m0.280s
user 0m0.162s
sys 0m0.054s
Prior all the autodep changes and prior this fix, a repeat 'make install'
took 24.1 seconds (!) on the same system:
#
# Before the patches:
#
$ time make install
...
real 0m24.109s
user 0m21.171s
sys 0m2.449s
Which almost entirely was caused by fixable build system fat.
We are now literally ~86 times faster.
A fresh rebuild and install now takes just 11.4 seconds:
#
# After the patch:
#
$ make clean
$ time make -j16 install
...
real 0m11.457s
user 1m43.411s
sys 0m7.610s
Without the patches it took 27.8 seconds:
#
# Before the patches:
#
$ make clean
$ time make -j16 install
...
real 0m27.801s
user 1m59.242s
sys 0m9.749s
So even in the complete rebuild case we are now ~2.5 times faster.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x4qjnxjGrgxpribq8sdakfTp@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
libtraceevent.a and liblk.a rules have always-missed dependencies,
which causes python.so to be relinked at every build attempt - even
if none of the affected code changes.
This slows down re-builds unnecessarily, by adding more than a second
to the build time:
comet:~/tip/tools/perf> time make
...
SUBDIR /fast/mingo/tip/tools/lib/lk/
make[1]: `liblk.a' is up to date.
SUBDIR /fast/mingo/tip/tools/lib/traceevent/
LINK perf
GEN python/perf.so
real 0m1.701s
user 0m1.338s
sys 0m0.301s
Add the (trivial) dependencies to not force a re-link.
This speeds up an empty re-build enormously:
comet:~/tip/tools/perf> time make
...
real 0m0.207s
user 0m0.134s
sys 0m0.028s
[ This adds some coupling between the build dependencies of
libtraceevent and liblk - but until those stay relatively
simple this should not be an issue. ]
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wvmlrurufuk6mo1ovtNigguT@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
util/PERF-VERSION-GEN is currently executed on every build attempt,
and this script can take a lot of time on trees that are at a
significant git-distance from Linus's tree:
$ time util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
real 0m4.343s
user 0m4.176s
sys 0m0.140s
It also takes a lot of time if the Git repository is network attached, etc.,
because the commands it uses:
TAG=$(git describe --abbrev=0 --match "v[0-9].[0-9]*" 2>/dev/null )
has to count commits from the nearest tag and thus has to access (and
decompress) every git commit blob on the relevant version path.
Even on Linus's tree it takes 0.28 seconds on a fast box to count all the
commits and get the git version string:
$ time util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
real 0m0.279s
user 0m0.247s
sys 0m0.025s
But the version string only has to be regenerated if the git repository's
head commit changes. So add a dependency of ../../.git/HEAD and touch
the file every time it's regenerated, so that Make's build rules can
pick it up and cache the result:
make: `PERF-VERSION-FILE' is up to date.
real 0m0.184s
user 0m0.117s
sys 0m0.026s
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wvmlrurufuk6mo1ovtNigguT@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Concatenate all feature checks into test-all.c.
This can be built and checked faster than all the individual tests.
If test-all fails then we still check all the individual features, so
this is a pure speedup, it should have no effects on functionality.
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5hlcb2qorzwfwrWTjiygjjih@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The strlcpy() feature check slows every build unnecessarily - so make it
a __weak function so it does not have to be auto-detected.
If the libc (or any other library) has an strlcpy() implementation it will
be used - otherwise our fallback is active.
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zjbrcupapu08ePsyYhhhxiwk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Use the standard CPP style we use in the kernel:
#ifndef foo
# define foo bar
#endif
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-iqyVrrHqpn0eiwenvgwrh8lf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Nest the rules properly. No change in functionality.
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jjlmizjmhockUs04wqnScnkl@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Nest the rules properly. No change in functionality.
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wwktuHl4Ra5lyrrretkxmxqf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Nest the rules properly. No change in functionality.
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dDgivr9xtjrof2vmoyOfwxkj@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Use GCC's -MD feature to generate a dependency file for each feature test .c file,
and include that .d file in the config/feature-checks/Makefile.
This allows us to do two things:
- speed up feature tests
- detect removal or changes in build dependencies - including system libraries/headers
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-Jfma8pmPnnqzpxjbs3hpgmsj@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Start the split-out of the feature check code by adding a list of features to be
tested, and rules to process that list by building its matching feature-check
file in config/feature-checks/test-<feature>.c.
Add 'hello' as the initial feature.
This structure will allow us to build split-out feature checks in parallel and
thus speed up feature detection dramatically.
No change in functionality: no feature check is used by the build rules yet.
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pixkihgscFaohfFigq5yt9gs@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
. The libaudit test was failing in some systems due to a unescaped newline, fix
it so that the 'trace' tool can be built in such systems.
. Fix installation of libexec components.
. Add default handler for mmap2 events so that tools that don't explicitely
define an MMAP2 handler don't crash, fix from David Ahern.
. Fix to find line information for probe list, from Masami Hiramatsu.
. Set child_pid after perf_evlist__prepare_workload(), fix from Namhyung Kim.
. Fix infinite loop on invalid perf.data file, from Namhyung Kim.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent
Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
* The libaudit test was failing in some systems due to a unescaped newline, fix
it so that the 'trace' tool can be built in such systems.
* Fix installation of libexec components.
* Add default handler for mmap2 events so that tools that don't explicitely
define an MMAP2 handler don't crash, fix from David Ahern.
* Fix to find line information for probe list, from Masami Hiramatsu.
* Set child_pid after perf_evlist__prepare_workload(), fix from Namhyung Kim.
* Fix infinite loop on invalid perf.data file, from Namhyung Kim.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
perf-record updates the header in the perf.data file at termination.
Without this update perf-report (and other processing built-ins) it
caused an infinite loop when perf report (or something like) called.
This is because the algorithm in __perf_session__process_events()
depends on the data_size which is read from file header. Use file size
directly instead in this case to do the best-effort processing.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1380529188-27193-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
[ Reworded warning as per Ingo Molnar suggestion, replaces 'perf.data'
with session->filename, to precisely identify the data file involved ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Doing a fresh install on a user home directory needs to first make sure
that the ~/libexec/perf-core/ directory is present so that
'perf-archive' like scripts, 'perf test' attr config files and 'perf
script' scripts can be installed.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: 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-z7ryi3r1b9dn9smbfnab0fdc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix to find the correct (as much as possible) line information for
listing probes. Without this fix, perf probe --list action will show
incorrect line information as below;
probe:getname_flags (on getname_flags@ksrc/linux-3/fs/namei.c)
probe:getname_flags_1 (on getname:-89@x86/include/asm/current.h)
probe:getname_flags_2 (on user_path_at_empty:-2054@x86/include/asm/current.h)
The minus line number is obviously wrong, and current.h is not related
to the probe point. Deeper investigation discovered that there were 2
issues related to this bug, and minor typos too.
The 1st issue is the rack of considering about nested inlined functions,
which causes the wrong (relative) line number.
The 2nd issue is that the dwarf line info is not correct at those
points. It points 14th line of current.h.
Since it seems that the line info includes somewhat unreliable
information, this fixes perf to try to find correct line information
from both of debuginfo and line info as below.
1) Probe address is the entry of a function instance
In this case, the line is set as the function declared line.
2) Probe address is the entry of an expanded inline function block
In this case, the line is set as the function call-site line.
This means that the line number is relative from the entry line
of caller function (which can be an inlined function if nested)
3) Probe address is inside a function instance or an expanded
inline function block
In this case, perf probe queries the line number from lineinfo
and verify the function declared file is same as the file name
queried from lineinfo.
If the file name is different, it is a failure case. The probe
address is shown as symbol+offset.
4) Probe address is not in the any function instance
This is a failure case, the probe address is shown as
symbol+offset.
With this fix, perf probe -l shows correct probe lines as below;
probe:getname_flags (on getname_flags@ksrc/linux-3/fs/namei.c)
probe:getname_flags_1 (on getname:2@ksrc/linux-3/fs/namei.c)
probe:getname_flags_2 (on user_path_at_empty:4@ksrc/linux-3/fs/namei.c)
Changes at v2:
- Fix typos in the function comments. (Thanks to Namhyung Kim)
- Use die_find_top_inlinefunc instead of die_find_inlinefunc_next.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130930092144.1693.11058.stgit@udc4-manage.rcp.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In ubuntu systems the libaudit test was always failing due to the
newline in the printf call not being escaped, which somehow didn't
prevented the test from working as expected on other systems, such
as fedora18.
Fix it by removing the newline, as this is just a test, that program is
just a compile test.
The error messages, obtained using 'make V=1':
CHK libaudit
<stdin>: In function ‘main’:
<stdin>:5:9: error: missing terminating " character [-Werror]
<stdin>:5:2: error: missing terminating " character
<stdin>:6:1: error: missing terminating " character [-Werror]
<stdin>:6:1: error: missing terminating " character
<stdin>:7:2: error: expected expression before ‘return’
<stdin>:8:1: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘}’ token
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
config/Makefile:241: No libaudit.h found, disables 'trace' tool, please install audit-libs-devel or libaudit-dev
After this change the test works as expected in all systems tested and the
'trace' tool is built when the needed devel packages are installed.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: 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-0trw8qs9hafeopc0vj1sicay@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The commit acf2892270 ("perf stat: Use perf_evlist__prepare/
start_workload()") converted to use the function but forgot to update
child_pid. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1380531671-28076-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Commands that do not implement an mmap2 handler should at least not die
with a segfault when processing files with MMAP2 events.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379900700-5186-5-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Haswell always give an extra LBR record after every TSX abort.
Suppress the extra record.
This only works when the abort is visible in the LBR
If the original abort has already left the 16 LBR entries
the extra entry will will stay.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379688044-14173-7-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add support for recording and displaying the transaction flags.
They are essentially a new sort key. Also display them
in a nice way to the user.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379688044-14173-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Make perf record -j aware of the new in_tx,no_tx,abort_tx branch qualifiers.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379688044-14173-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Extend the perf branch sorting code to support sorting by in_tx
or abort_tx qualifiers. Also print out those qualifiers.
This also fixes up some of the existing sort key documentation.
We do not support no_tx here, because it's simply not showing
the in_tx flag.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379688044-14173-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In the PEBS handler report the transaction flags using the new
generic transaction flags facility. Most of them come from
the "tsx_tuning" field in PEBSv2, but the abort code is derived
from the RAX register reported in the PEBS record.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379688044-14173-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add a generic qualifier for transaction events, as a new sample
type that returns a flag word. This is particularly useful
for qualifying aborts: to distinguish aborts which happen
due to asynchronous events (like conflicts caused by another
CPU) versus instructions that lead to an abort.
The tuning strategies are very different for those cases,
so it's important to distinguish them easily and early.
Since it's inconvenient and inflexible to filter for this
in the kernel we report all the events out and allow
some post processing in user space.
The flags are based on the Intel TSX events, but should be fairly
generic and mostly applicable to other HTM architectures too. In addition
to various flag words there's also reserved space to report an
program supplied abort code. For TSX this is used to distinguish specific
classes of aborts, like a lock busy abort when doing lock elision.
Flags:
Elision and generic transactions (ELISION vs TRANSACTION)
(HLE vs RTM on TSX; IBM etc. would likely only use TRANSACTION)
Aborts caused by current thread vs aborts caused by others (SYNC vs ASYNC)
Retryable transaction (RETRY)
Conflicts with other threads (CONFLICT)
Transaction write capacity overflow (CAPACITY WRITE)
Transaction read capacity overflow (CAPACITY READ)
Transactions implicitely aborted can also return an abort code.
This can be used to signal specific events to the profiler. A common
case is abort on lock busy in a RTM eliding library (code 0xff)
To handle this case we include the TSX abort code
Common example aborts in TSX would be:
- Data conflict with another thread on memory read.
Flags: TRANSACTION|ASYNC|CONFLICT
- executing a WRMSR in a transaction. Flags: TRANSACTION|SYNC
- HLE transaction in user space is too large
Flags: ELISION|SYNC|CAPACITY-WRITE
The only flag that is somewhat TSX specific is ELISION.
This adds the perf core glue needed for reporting the new flag word out.
v2: Add MEM/MISC
v3: Move transaction to the end
v4: Separate capacity-read/write and remove misc
v5: Remove _SAMPLE. Move abort flags to 32bit. Rename
transaction to txn
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379688044-14173-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add support to perf stat to print the basic transactional execution statistics:
Total cycles, Cycles in Transaction, Cycles in aborted transsactions
using the in_tx and in_tx_checkpoint qualifiers.
Transaction Starts and Elision Starts, to compute the average transaction
length.
This is a reasonable overview over the success of the transactions.
Also support architectures that have a transaction aborted cycles
counter like POWER8. Since that is awkward to handle in the kernel
abstract handle both cases here.
Enable with a new --transaction / -T option.
This requires measuring these events in a group, since they depend on each
other.
This is implemented by using TM sysfs events exported by the kernel
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377128846-977-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>