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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 43adec955e perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file
[root@emilia ~]# perf record -a -e sched:* -e timer:timer* sleep 5
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.172 MB perf.data (~7530 samples) ]
[root@emilia ~]# perf evlist
sched:sched_kthread_stop
sched:sched_kthread_stop_ret
sched:sched_wakeup
sched:sched_wakeup_new
sched:sched_switch
sched:sched_migrate_task
sched:sched_process_free
sched:sched_process_exit
sched:sched_wait_task
sched:sched_process_wait
sched:sched_process_fork
sched:sched_stat_wait
sched:sched_stat_sleep
sched:sched_stat_iowait
sched:sched_stat_runtime
sched:sched_pi_setprio
timer:timer_init
timer:timer_start
timer:timer_expire_entry
timer:timer_expire_exit
timer:timer_cancel
[root@emilia ~]#

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>
2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
David Ahern 1424dc9680 perf script: Add support for H/W and S/W events
Custom fields set for each type by prepending field argument with type.
For file with multiple event types (e.g., trace and S/W) display of an
event type suppressed by setting output fields to "".

e.g.,
perf record -ga -e sched:sched_switch -e cpu-clock -c 10000000 -R -- sleep 1
perf script

openssl 11496 [000]  9711.807107: cpu-clock-msecs:
        ffffffff810c22dc arch_local_irq_restore ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff810c518c __alloc_pages_nodemask ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff810297b2 pte_alloc_one ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff810d8b98 __pte_alloc ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff810daf07 handle_mm_fault ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff8138763a do_page_fault ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff81384a65 page_fault ([kernel.kallsyms])
            7f6130507d70 asn1_check_tlen (/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0c)
                       0  ()

         openssl 11496 [000]  9711.808042: sched_switch: prev_comm=openssl ...
     kworker/0:0     4 [000]  9711.808067: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/...
         swapper     0 [001]  9711.808090: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/...
            sshd 11451 [001]  9711.808185: sched_switch: prev_comm=sshd pre...
swapper     0 [001]  9711.816155: cpu-clock-msecs:
        ffffffff81023609 native_safe_halt ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff8100132a cpu_idle ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff8137cf9b start_secondary ([kernel.kallsyms])

openssl 11496 [000]  9711.817104: cpu-clock-msecs:
            7f61304ad723 AES_cbc_encrypt (/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0c)
            7fff3402f950  ()
        12f0debc9a785634  ()

swapper     0 [001]  9711.826155: cpu-clock-msecs:
        ffffffff81023609 native_safe_halt ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff8100132a cpu_idle ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff8137cf9b start_secondary ([kernel.kallsyms])

To suppress trace events within the file and use default output for S/W events:
perf script -f trace:

or to suppress S/W events and do default display for trace events:
perf script -f sw:

Custom field selections:
perf script -f sw:comm,tid,time -f trace:time,trace

         openssl 11496  9711.797162:
         swapper     0  9711.807071:
         openssl 11496  9711.807107:
 9711.808042: prev_comm=openssl prev_pid=11496 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ...
 9711.808067: prev_comm=kworker/0:0 prev_pid=4 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ...
 9711.808090: prev_comm=kworker/0:0 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ...
 9711.808185: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=11451 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==>...
         swapper     0  9711.816155:
         openssl 11496  9711.817104:
         swapper     0  9711.826155:

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
LKML-Reference: <1299734608-5223-7-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-14 17:07:20 -03:00
David Ahern c0230b2bfb perf script: Add support for dumping symbols
Add option to dump symbols found in events.

e.g., perf script -f comm,pid,tid,time,trace,sym

swapper     0/0       537.037184: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120...
        ffffffff81030350 perf_trace_sched_switch ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff81382ac5 schedule ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff8100134a cpu_idle ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff81370b39 rest_init ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff81696c23 start_kernel ([kernel.kallsyms].init.text)
        ffffffff816962af x86_64_start_reservations ([kernel.kallsyms].init.text)
        ffffffff816963b9 x86_64_start_kernel ([kernel.kallsyms].init.text)

sshd  1675/1675    537.037309: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=1675 prev_prio=120...
        ffffffff81030350 perf_trace_sched_switch ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff81382ac5 schedule ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff813837aa schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff81383886 schedule_hrtimeout_range ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff8110c4f9 poll_schedule_timeout ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff8110cd20 do_select ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff8110ced8 core_sys_select ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff8110d00d sys_select ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff81002bc2 system_call ([kernel.kallsyms])
            7f1647e56e93 __GI_select (/lib64/libc-2.12.90.so)

netstat  1692/1692    537.038664: prev_comm=netstat prev_pid=1692 prev_prio=...
        ffffffff81030350 perf_trace_sched_switch ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff81382ac5 schedule ([kernel.kallsyms])
        ffffffff81002c3a sysret_careful ([kernel.kallsyms])
            7f7a6cd1b210 __GI___libc_read (/lib64/libc-2.12.90.so)

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
LKML-Reference: <1299734608-5223-6-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-14 17:06:50 -03:00
David Ahern 745f43e343 perf script: Support custom field selection for output
Allow a user to select which fields to print to stdout for event data.
Options include comm (command name), tid (thread id), pid (process id),
time (perf timestamp), cpu, event (for event name), and trace (for
trace data).

Default is set to maintain compatibility with current output; this
feature does alter output format slightly -- no '-' between command
and pid/tid.

Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for detailed suggestions on this approach.

Examples (output compressed)

1. trace, default format

perf record -ga -e sched:sched_switch
perf script

swapper    0 [000] 537.037184: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0...
   sshd 1675 [000] 537.037309: sched_switch: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=1675...
netstat 1692 [001] 537.038664: sched_switch: prev_comm=netstat prev_pid=1692...

2. trace, custom format

perf record -ga -e sched:sched_switch
perf script -f comm,pid,time,trace     <--- omitting cpu and event name

swapper    0 537.037184: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 ...
   sshd 1675 537.037309: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=1675 prev_prio=120 ...
netstat 1692 537.038664: prev_comm=netstat prev_pid=1692 prev_prio=120 ...

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
LKML-Reference: <1299734608-5223-5-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-14 17:06:16 -03:00
Marcin Slusarz 9826e8329b perf lock: Document valid sort keys
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110222205312.GA18474@joi.lan>
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-02-23 07:29:33 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 668b8788f4 perf list: Allow filtering list of events
The man page has the details, here are some examples:

[root@emilia ~]# perf list *fault*  *:*wait*

List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
  page-faults OR faults                      [Software event]
  minor-faults                               [Software event]
  major-faults                               [Software event]
  alignment-faults                           [Software event]
  emulation-faults                           [Software event]

  radeon:radeon_fence_wait_begin             [Tracepoint event]
  radeon:radeon_fence_wait_end               [Tracepoint event]
  writeback:wbc_writeback_wait               [Tracepoint event]
  writeback:wbc_balance_dirty_wait           [Tracepoint event]
  writeback:writeback_congestion_wait        [Tracepoint event]
  writeback:writeback_wait_iff_congested     [Tracepoint event]
  sched:sched_wait_task                      [Tracepoint event]
  sched:sched_process_wait                   [Tracepoint event]
  sched:sched_stat_wait                      [Tracepoint event]
  sched:sched_stat_iowait                    [Tracepoint event]
  syscalls:sys_enter_epoll_wait              [Tracepoint event]
  syscalls:sys_exit_epoll_wait               [Tracepoint event]
  syscalls:sys_enter_epoll_pwait             [Tracepoint event]
  syscalls:sys_exit_epoll_pwait              [Tracepoint event]
  syscalls:sys_enter_rt_sigtimedwait         [Tracepoint event]
  syscalls:sys_exit_rt_sigtimedwait          [Tracepoint event]
  syscalls:sys_enter_waitid                  [Tracepoint event]
  syscalls:sys_exit_waitid                   [Tracepoint event]
  syscalls:sys_enter_wait4                   [Tracepoint event]
  syscalls:sys_exit_wait4                    [Tracepoint event]
  syscalls:sys_enter_waitpid                 [Tracepoint event]
  syscalls:sys_exit_waitpid                  [Tracepoint event]
[root@emilia ~]#

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
2011-02-17 15:38:58 -02:00
Masami Hiramatsu e116dfa1c3 perf probe: Support function@filename syntax for --line
Since "perf probe --add" supports function@filename syntax, --line
option should also support it.

Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <20110210090810.1809.26913.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-02-16 17:03:23 -02:00
Jesse Brandeburg 4187e262bc perf tools: Update Makefile with some help
The perf makefile is nicely complete except for

a) an uninstall option
b) a 'make help' description

This patch implements b)
it also comments out other non-working makefile targets

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-02-16 14:47:56 -02:00
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
Masami Hiramatsu 3c42258c9a perf probe: Add filters support for available functions
Add filters support for available function list.

Default filter is "!_*" for filtering out local-purpose symbols.

e.g.:
 # perf probe --filter="add*" -F
add_disk
add_disk_randomness
add_input_randomness
add_interrupt_randomness
add_memory
add_page_to_unevictable_list
add_page_wait_queue
...

Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110120141545.25915.85930.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-28 09:20:25 -02:00
Masami Hiramatsu bd09d7b5ef perf probe: Add variable filter support
Add filters support for available variable list.

Default filter is "!__k???tab_*&!__crc_*" for filtering out
automatically generated symbols.

The format of filter rule is "[!]GLOBPATTERN", so you can use wild
cards. If the filter rule starts with '!', matched variables are filter
out.

e.g.:
 # perf probe -V schedule --externs --filter=cpu*
Available variables at schedule
        @<schedule+0>
                cpumask_var_t   cpu_callout_mask
                cpumask_var_t   cpu_core_map
                cpumask_var_t   cpu_isolated_map
                cpumask_var_t   cpu_sibling_map
                int     cpu_number
                long unsigned int*      cpu_bit_bitmap
		...

Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110120141539.25915.43401.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ committer note: Removed the elf.h include as it was fixed up in e80711c]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-28 09:20:01 -02:00
Masami Hiramatsu e80711ca85 perf probe: Add --funcs to show available functions in symtab
Add --funcs to show available functions in symtab.

Originally this feature came from Srikar's uprobes patches
( http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/27/244 )

e.g.
...
__ablkcipher_walk_complete
__absent_pages_in_range
__account_scheduler_latency
__add_pages
__alloc_pages_nodemask
__alloc_percpu
__alloc_reserved_percpu
__alloc_skb
__alloc_workqueue_key
__any_online_cpu
__ata_ehi_push_desc
...

This also supports symbols in module, e.g.

...
cleanup_module
cpuid_maxphyaddr
emulate_clts
emulate_instruction
emulate_int_real
emulate_invlpg
emulator_get_dr
emulator_set_dr
emulator_task_switch
emulator_write_emulated
emulator_write_phys
fx_init
...

Original-patch-from: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110113124611.22426.10835.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ committer note: Add missing elf.h for STB_GLOBAL that broke a RHEL4 build ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-24 10:57:55 -02:00
Kirill Smelkov acac03fa15 perf record: Add "nodelay" mode, disabled by default
Sometimes there is a need to use perf in "live-log" mode. The problem
is, for seldom events, actual info output is largely delayed because
perf-record reads sample data in whole pages.

So for such scenarious, add flag for perf-record to go in "nodelay"
mode. To track e.g. what's going on in icmp_rcv while ping is running
Use it with something like this:

(1) $ perf probe -L icmp_rcv | grep -U8 '^ *43\>'
                                    goto error;
                    }
         38         if (!pskb_pull(skb, sizeof(*icmph)))
                            goto error;
                    icmph = icmp_hdr(skb);

         43         ICMPMSGIN_INC_STATS_BH(net, icmph->type);
                    /*
                     *      18 is the highest 'known' ICMP type. Anything else is a mystery
                     *
                     *      RFC 1122: 3.2.2  Unknown ICMP messages types MUST be silently
                     *                discarded.
                     */
         50         if (icmph->type > NR_ICMP_TYPES)
                            goto error;

    $ perf probe icmp_rcv:43 'type=icmph->type'

(2) $ cat trace-icmp.py
    [...]
    def trace_begin():
            print "in trace_begin"

    def trace_end():
            print "in trace_end"

    def probe__icmp_rcv(event_name, context, common_cpu,
            common_secs, common_nsecs, common_pid, common_comm,
            __probe_ip, type):
                    print_header(event_name, common_cpu, common_secs, common_nsecs,
                            common_pid, common_comm)

                    print "__probe_ip=%u, type=%u\n" % \
                    (__probe_ip, type),
    [...]

(3) $ perf record -a -D -e probe:icmp_rcv -o - | \
      perf script -i - -s trace-icmp.py

Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for pointing how to do it.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, 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: <20110112140613.GA11698@tugrik.mns.mnsspb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-13 11:38:44 -02:00
Franck Bui-Huu 9d95b580a8 perf probe: Fix line range description since a single file is allowed
$ perf-probe -L sched.c

is currently allowed but not documented.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
LKML-Reference: <1292854685-8230-5-git-send-email-fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-21 16:20:12 -02:00
David Ahern ec5761eab3 perf symbols: Add symfs option for off-box analysis using specified tree
The symfs argument allows analysis of perf.data file using a locally accessible
filesystem tree with debug symbols - e.g., tree created during image builds,
sshfs mount, loop mounted KVM disk images, USB keys, initrds, etc. Anything
with an OS tree can be analyzed from anywhere without the need to populate a
local data store with build-ids.

Commiter notes:

o Fixed up symfs="/" variants handling.

o prefixed DSO__ORIG_GUEST_KMODULE case with symfs too, avoiding use of files
  outside the symfs directory.

LKML-Reference: <1291926427-28846-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-21 20:17:51 -02:00
David Ahern b226a5a729 perf report: Allow user to specify path to kallsyms file
This is useful for analyzing a perf data file on a different system than
the one data was collected on and still include symbols from loaded
kernel modules in the output.

Commiter note: Updated the man page accordingly.

LKML-Reference: <1291775986-16475-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-09 11:07:07 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 9c90a61c7e perf tools: Ask for ID PERF_SAMPLE_ info on all PERF_RECORD_ events
So that we can use -T == --timestamp, asking for PERF_SAMPLE_TIME:

  $ perf record -aT
  $ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_
  <SNIP>
   3   5951915425 0x47530 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff8138c1a2 period: 215979 cpu:3
   3   5952026879 0x47588 [0x90]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff810cb480 period: 215979 cpu:3
   3   5952059959 0x47618 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_FORK(6853:6853):(16811:16811)
   3   5952138878 0x47650 [0x78]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff811bac35 period: 431478 cpu:3
   3   5952375068 0x476c8 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: find:6853
   3   5952395923 0x476f8 [0x50]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x400000(0x25000) @ 0]: /usr/bin/find
   3   5952413756 0x47748 [0xa0]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 6853/6853: 0xffffffff810d080f period: 859332 cpu:3
   3   5952419837 0x477e8 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44600000(0x21d000) @ 0]: /lib64/ld-2.5.so
   3   5952437929 0x47840 [0x48]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x7fff7e1c9000(0x1000) @ 0x7fff7e1c9000]: [vdso]
   3   5952570127 0x47888 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f46200000(0x218000) @ 0]: /lib64/libselinux.so.1
   3   5952623637 0x478e0 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44a00000(0x356000) @ 0]: /lib64/libc-2.5.so
   3   5952675720 0x47938 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44e00000(0x204000) @ 0]: /lib64/libdl-2.5.so
   3   5952710080 0x47990 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f45a00000(0x246000) @ 0]: /lib64/libsepol.so.1
   3   5952847802 0x479e8 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 6853/6853: 0xffffffff813897f0 period: 1142536 cpu:3
  <SNIP>

First column is the cpu and the second the timestamp.

That way we can investigate problems in the event stream.

If the new perf binary is run on an older kernel, it will disable this feature
automatically.

Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.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: <1291318772-30880-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-04 23:08:40 -02:00
Ingo Molnar e4b546a364 Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core 2010-12-02 11:20:11 +01:00
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
Shawn Bohrer 8c207692fc perf stat: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-12-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:49 -02:00
Shawn Bohrer f68d6bd451 perf test: Fix spelling mistake in documentation
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-13-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:49 -02:00
Shawn Bohrer 646420f1bc perf trace: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-15-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:48 -02:00
Shawn Bohrer 2e7a988198 perf top: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-14-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:48 -02:00
Shawn Bohrer 1eacc94a66 perf sched: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-11-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:48 -02:00
Shawn Bohrer e04fffc321 perf report: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-10-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:47 -02:00
Shawn Bohrer 08dbd7e3fa perf record: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-9-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:47 -02:00
Shawn Bohrer 9d5b7f5b2b perf probe: Fix spelling mistake in documentation
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-8-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:46 -02:00
Shawn Bohrer 4aace25151 perf lock: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-7-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:46 -02:00
Shawn Bohrer 5c0ef0ab07 perf kvm: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-6-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:46 -02:00
Shawn Bohrer 5ea4f85785 perf diff: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-5-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:46 -02:00
Shawn Bohrer b6a535dbf6 perf buildid-list: Document missing options
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-3-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:45 -02:00
Shawn Bohrer 1968ad911d perf annotate: Document missing options.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-2-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-12-01 18:22:45 -02:00
Ingo Molnar b3d006c0e7 Merge branch 'perf/rename' into perf/core
Merge reason: This is an older commit under testing that was not pushed yet - merge it.

Also fix up the merge in command-list.txt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
2010-12-01 09:22:19 +01:00
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
Ingo Molnar 133dc4c39c perf: Rename 'perf trace' to 'perf script'
Free the perf trace name space and rename the trace to 'script' which is a
better match for the scripting engine.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-11-16 19:37:44 +01:00
Tom Zanussi d3c4f798ac perf trace: update Documentation with new perf trace variants
Add documentation describing new 'perf trace' command changes
e.g. <command> handling and live-mode/top variants.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2010-11-10 08:19:35 -06:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo b44308f540 perf scripting: Shut up 'perf record' final status
We want just the script output, not internal details about the record phase.

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>
2010-10-26 15:20:09 -02:00
Sonny Rao ffec516976 perf tools: Document event modifiers
Existing documentation doesn't discuss event modifiers, so add a description of
what's currently possible to the documentation of perf-list.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287107460-12112-1-git-send-email-sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-10-23 15:31:20 -02:00
Masami Hiramatsu 469b9b8848 perf probe: Add basic module support
Add basic module probe support on perf probe. This introduces "--module
<MODNAME>" option to perf probe for putting probes and showing lines and
variables in the given module.

Currently, this supports only probing on running modules.  Supporting off-line
module probing is the next step.

e.g.)
[show lines]
 # ./perf probe --module drm -L drm_vblank_info
<drm_vblank_info:0>
      0  int drm_vblank_info(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
      1  {
                struct drm_info_node *node = (struct drm_info_node *) m->private
      3         struct drm_device *dev = node->minor->dev;
 ...
[show vars]
 # ./perf probe --module drm -V drm_vblank_info:3
Available variables at drm_vblank_info:3
        @<drm_vblank_info+20>
                (unknown_type)  data
                struct drm_info_node*   node
                struct seq_file*        m
[put a probe]
 # ./perf probe --module drm drm_vblank_info:3 node m
Add new event:
  probe:drm_vblank_info (on drm_vblank_info:3 with node m)

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

        perf record -e probe:drm_vblank_info -aR sleep 1
[list probes]
 # ./perf probe -l
probe:drm_vblank_info (on drm_vblank_info:3@drivers/gpu/drm/drm_info.c with ...

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101021101341.3542.71638.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-10-21 16:11:44 -02:00
Masami Hiramatsu fb8c5a56c7 perf probe: Show accessible global variables
Add --externs for allowing --vars to show accessible global (externally
defined) variables from a given probe point too.

This will give you a hint which globals can be accessible from the probe point.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101021101335.3542.31003.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-10-21 16:06:42 -02:00
Masami Hiramatsu cf6eb489e5 perf probe: Show accessible local variables
Add -V (--vars) option for listing accessible local variables at given probe
point. This will help finding which local variables are available for event
arguments.

e.g.)
 # perf probe -V call_timer_fn:23
 Available variables at call_timer_fn:23
         @<run_timer_softirq+345>
                 function_type*  fn
                 int     preempt_count
                 long unsigned int       data
                 struct list_head        work_list
                 struct list_head*       head
                 struct timer_list*      timer
                 struct tvec_base*       base

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101021101323.3542.40282.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-10-21 15:59:06 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 8b9e74eb8a perf tools: Add --tui and --stdio to choose the UI
Relying just on ~/.perfconfig or rebuilding the tool disabling support
for the TUI is too cumbersome, so allow specifying which UI to use and
make the command line switch override whatever is in ~/.perfconfig.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-08-21 10:49:46 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 8c31a1e049 perf man pages: Fix cut'n'paste error
We remove files _from_ the cache.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 11:30:10 -03:00
Masami Hiramatsu b2a3c12b74 perf probe: Support tracing an entry of array
Add array-entry tracing support to perf probe. This enables to trace an entry
of array which is indexed by constant value, e.g. array[0].

For example:

  $ perf probe -a 'bio_split bi->bi_io_vec[0]'

Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100519195742.2885.5344.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-07-05 18:50:27 -03:00
Masami Hiramatsu 73317b9540 perf probe: Support "string" type
Support string type casting to event argument. If perf-probe finds an argument
casted as string, it ensures the target variable is "(unsigned/signed) char
*(or []). perf-probe also adds dereference if the target is a pointer.

So, both of 'char buf[10];' and 'char *buf;' can be accessed by 'buf:string'

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100519195734.2885.1666.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-07-05 18:47:28 -03:00
Chase Douglas 9ed7e1b85c perf probe: Add kernel source path option
The probe plugin requires access to the source code for some operations.  The
source code must be in the exact same location as specified by the DWARF tags,
but sometimes the location is an absolute path that cannot be replicated by a
normal user. This change adds the -s|--source option to allow the user to
specify the root of the kernel source tree.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1276543590-10486-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-17 10:27:57 -03:00
Stephane Eranian a1ac1d3c08 perf record: Add option to avoid updating buildid cache
There are situations where there is enough information in the perf.data
to process the samples. Updating the buildid cache may add unecessary
overhead in terms of disk space and time (copying large elf images).

A persistent option to do this already exists via the perfconfig file,
simply do:

[buildid]
dir = /dev/null

This patch provides a way to suppress builid cache updates on a per-run
basis.  It addds a new option, -N, to perf record. Buildids are still
generated in the perf.data file.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4c19ef89.93ecd80a.40dc.fffff8e9@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-17 10:20:44 -03:00
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
Kirill Smelkov 5d2be7cb19 perf trace scripts: Fix typos in perf-trace-python.txt
option option   -> option
special special -> special

Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273747165-17242-1-git-send-email-kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-05-13 17:10:40 -03:00