linux-sg2042/tools/perf
Linus Torvalds 9c2b957db1 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf events changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar:

 - New "hardware based branch profiling" feature both on the kernel and
   the tooling side, on CPUs that support it.  (modern x86 Intel CPUs
   with the 'LBR' hardware feature currently.)

   This new feature is basically a sophisticated 'magnifying glass' for
   branch execution - something that is pretty difficult to extract from
   regular, function histogram centric profiles.

   The simplest mode is activated via 'perf record -b', and the result
   looks like this in perf report:

	$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy

	$ perf report -b --sort=symbol
	    52.34%  [.] main                   [.] f1
	    24.04%  [.] f1                     [.] f3
	    23.60%  [.] f1                     [.] f2
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn    [k] _IO_file_overflow
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] strchrnul
	     0.01%  [k] __printf               [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal
	     0.01%  [k] main                   [k] __printf

   This output shows from/to branch columns and shows the highest
   percentage (from,to) jump combinations - i.e.  the most likely taken
   branches in the system.  "branches" can also include function calls
   and any other synchronous and asynchronous transitions of the
   instruction pointer that are not 'next instruction' - such as system
   calls, traps, interrupts, etc.

   This feature comes with (hopefully intuitive) flat ascii and TUI
   support in perf report.

 - Various 'perf annotate' visual improvements for us assembly junkies.
   It will now recognize function calls in the TUI and by hitting enter
   you can follow the call (recursively) and back, amongst other
   improvements.

 - Multiple threads/processes recording support in perf record, perf
   stat, perf top - which is activated via a comma-list of PIDs:

	perf top -p 21483,21485
	perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
	perf record -p 21483,21485

 - Support for per UID views, via the --uid paramter to perf top, perf
   report, etc.  For example 'perf top --uid mingo' will only show the
   tasks that I am running, excluding other users, root, etc.

 - Jump label restructurings and improvements - this includes the
   factoring out of the (hopefully much clearer) include/linux/static_key.h
   generic facility:

	struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;

	...

	if (static_key_false(&key))
	        do unlikely code
	else
	        do likely code

	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...

   The static_key_false() branch will be generated into the code with as
   little impact to the likely code path as possible.  the
   static_key_slow_*() APIs flip the branch via live kernel code patching.

   This facility can now be used more widely within the kernel to
   micro-optimize hot branches whose likelihood matches the static-key
   usage and fast/slow cost patterns.

 - SW function tracer improvements: perf support and filtering support.

 - Various hardenings of the perf.data ABI, to make older perf.data's
   smoother on newer tool versions, to make new features integrate more
   smoothly, to support cross-endian recording/analyzing workflows
   better, etc.

 - Restructuring of the kprobes code, the splitting out of 'optprobes',
   and a corner case bugfix.

 - Allow the tracing of kernel console output (printk).

 - Improvements/fixes to user-space RDPMC support, allowing user-space
   self-profiling code to extract PMU counts without performing any
   system calls, while playing nice with the kernel side.

 - 'perf bench' improvements

 - ... and lots of internal restructurings, cleanups and fixes that made
   these features possible.  And, as usual this list is incomplete as
   there were also lots of other improvements

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (120 commits)
  perf report: Fix annotate double quit issue in branch view mode
  perf report: Remove duplicate annotate choice in branch view mode
  perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literals
  perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode
  perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode
  perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag
  perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option
  perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs
  perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc()
  perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev
  perf: Add ABI reference sizes
  perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling
  perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
  perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
  x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.c
  x86/kprobes: Fix a bug which can modify kernel code permanently
  x86/kprobes: Fix instruction recovery on optimized path
  perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
  perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported
  perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs
  ...
2012-03-20 10:29:15 -07:00
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Documentation perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode 2012-03-09 08:26:08 +01:00
arch perf tools: Use scnprintf where applicable 2012-03-14 12:36:19 -03:00
bench perf tool: Fix perf stack to non executable on x86_64 2012-02-06 19:14:17 -02:00
config perf tools: git mv tools/perf/{features-tests.mak,config/} 2011-04-19 08:18:36 -03:00
python perf python: Use attr.watermark in twatch.py 2012-01-30 18:38:23 -02:00
scripts perf script: Add drop monitor script 2011-09-29 16:41:37 -03:00
util Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-20 10:29:15 -07:00
.gitignore perf tools: Makefile: Remove various and sundry cruft 2011-02-18 07:43:06 -02:00
CREDITS perf_counter tools: Add CREDITS file for Git contributors 2009-06-24 19:54:29 +02:00
MANIFEST perf tools: Fix out of tree compiles 2012-02-13 22:46:41 -02:00
Makefile Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-20 10:29:15 -07:00
builtin-annotate.c perf annotate: Get rid of field_sep check 2012-01-08 13:29:34 -02:00
builtin-bench.c perf bench: Also allow measuring memset() 2012-01-24 20:25:32 -02:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir 2010-06-05 09:34:04 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-diff.c perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
builtin-evlist.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-help.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
builtin-inject.c perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
builtin-kmem.c perf kmem: Fix a memory leak 2012-01-08 13:27:54 -02:00
builtin-kvm.c perf kvm: Do guest-only counting by default 2012-01-06 15:47:37 -02:00
builtin-list.c perf list: Allow filtering list of events 2011-02-17 15:38:58 -02:00
builtin-lock.c perf lock: Document lock info subcommand 2012-01-30 18:30:48 -02:00
builtin-probe.c perf probe: Rename target_module to target 2012-02-02 17:39:15 -02:00
builtin-record.c perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag 2012-03-09 08:26:08 +01:00
builtin-report.c perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode 2012-03-09 08:26:08 +01:00
builtin-sched.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-script.c perf script: Add option resolving vmlinux path 2012-01-30 18:13:07 -02:00
builtin-stat.c perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top 2012-02-13 22:54:11 -02:00
builtin-test.c perf tools: Invert the sample_id_all logic 2012-02-14 14:18:57 -02:00
builtin-timechart.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-top.c perf tools: Handle kernels that don't support attr.exclude_{guest,host} 2012-03-03 12:19:56 -03:00
builtin.h perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8) 2011-10-07 17:01:24 -03:00
command-list.txt perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file 2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
design.txt perf: Fix few typos + cosmetics 2010-01-13 17:39:44 +01:00
perf-archive.sh perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir 2010-06-05 09:34:04 -03:00
perf.c perf tools: Simplify debugfs mountpoint handling code 2011-11-28 10:11:28 -02:00
perf.h Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-20 10:29:15 -07:00