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2016-11-29perf script: Add option to stop printing callchainDavid Ahern
Allow user to specify list of symbols which cause the dump of callchains to stop at that symbol. Committer notes: Testing it: # perf record -ag usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.177 MB perf.data (33 samples) ] # # # Without it: # # perf script swapper 0 [000] 9693.370039: 1 cycles:ppp: 2072ad x86_pmu_enable (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a29d7 perf_pmu_enable.part.90 (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a713a ctx_resched (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a76c1 __perf_event_enable (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a0390 event_function (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a1cff remote_function (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 326978 flush_smp_call_function_queue (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 327413 generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 249b37 smp_call_function_single_interrupt (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) a04b2c call_function_single_interrupt (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 889427 cpuidle_enter (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 2e534a call_cpuidle (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 2e5730 cpu_startup_entry (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 9f5167 rest_init (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 137ffeb start_kernel ([kernel.vmlinux].init.text) 137f2ca x86_64_start_reservations ([kernel.vmlinux].init.text) 137f419 x86_64_start_kernel ([kernel.vmlinux].init.text) swapper 0 [000] 9693.370044: 1 cycles:ppp: 20ca1b intel_pmu_handle_irq (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 205b0c perf_event_nmi_handler (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 22a14a nmi_handle (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 22a6b3 default_do_nmi (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 22a83c do_nmi (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) a03fb1 end_repeat_nmi (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a29d7 perf_pmu_enable.part.90 (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a713a ctx_resched (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a76c1 __perf_event_enable (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a0390 event_function (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a1cff remote_function (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 326978 flush_smp_call_function_queue (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 327413 generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 249b37 smp_call_function_single_interrupt (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) a04b2c call_function_single_interrupt (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 889427 cpuidle_enter (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 2e534a call_cpuidle (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 2e5730 cpu_startup_entry (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 9f5167 rest_init (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 137ffeb start_kernel ([kernel.vmlinux].init.text) 137f2ca x86_64_start_reservations ([kernel.vmlinux].init.text) # # # Using it to see just what are the calls from the 'remote_function' function: # # perf script --stop-bt remote_function swapper 0 [000] 9693.370039: 1 cycles:ppp: 2072ad x86_pmu_enable (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a29d7 perf_pmu_enable.part.90 (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a713a ctx_resched (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a76c1 __perf_event_enable (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a0390 event_function (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a1cff remote_function (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) swapper 0 [000] 9693.370044: 1 cycles:ppp: 20ca1b intel_pmu_handle_irq (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 205b0c perf_event_nmi_handler (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 22a14a nmi_handle (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 22a6b3 default_do_nmi (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 22a83c do_nmi (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) a03fb1 end_repeat_nmi (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a29d7 perf_pmu_enable.part.90 (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a713a ctx_resched (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a76c1 __perf_event_enable (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a0390 event_function (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) 3a1cff remote_function (/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/4.8.8-300.fc25.x86_64/vmlinux) Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480104021-36275-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-11-25perf sched timehist: Handle cpu migration eventsDavid Ahern
Add handlers for sched:sched_migrate_task event. Total number of migrations is added to summary display and -M/--migrations can be used to show migration events. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480091321-35591-1-git-send-email-dsa@cumulusnetworks.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-11-23perf sched timehist: Add -V/--cpu-visual optionDavid Ahern
The -V option provides a visual aid for sched switches by cpu: $ perf sched timehist -V time cpu 0123456789abc task name b/n time sch delay run time [tid/pid] (msec) (msec) (msec) --------------- ------ ------------- -------------------- --------- --------- --------- ... 2412598.429696 [0009] i <idle> 0.000 0.000 0.000 2412598.429767 [0002] s perf[7219] 0.000 0.000 0.000 2412598.429783 [0009] s perf[7220] 0.000 0.006 0.087 2412598.429794 [0010] i <idle> 0.000 0.000 0.000 2412598.429795 [0009] s migration/9[53] 0.000 0.003 0.011 2412598.430370 [0010] s sleep[7220] 0.011 0.000 0.576 2412598.432584 [0003] i <idle> 0.000 0.000 0.000 ... Committer notes: 'i' marks idle time, 's' are scheduler events. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161116060634.28477-8-namhyung@kernel.org [ Add documentation based on above commit message ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-11-23perf sched timehist: Add call graph optionsDavid Ahern
If callchains were recorded they are appended to the line with a default stack depth of 5: 1.874569 [0011] gcc[31949] 0.014 0.000 1.148 wait_for_completion_killable <- do_fork <- sys_vfork <- stub_vfork <- __vfork 1.874591 [0010] gcc[31951] 0.000 0.000 0.024 __cond_resched <- _cond_resched <- wait_for_completion <- stop_one_cpu <- sched_exec 1.874603 [0010] migration/10[59] 3.350 0.004 0.011 smpboot_thread_fn <- kthread <- ret_from_fork 1.874604 [0011] <idle> 1.148 0.000 0.035 cpu_startup_entry <- start_secondary 1.874723 [0005] <idle> 0.016 0.000 1.383 cpu_startup_entry <- start_secondary 1.874746 [0005] gcc[31949] 0.153 0.078 0.022 do_wait sys_wait4 <- system_call_fastpath <- __GI___waitpid --no-call-graph can be used to not show the callchains. --max-stack is used to control the number of frames shown (default of 5). -x/--excl options can be used to collapse redundant callchains to get more relevant data on screen. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161116060634.28477-7-namhyung@kernel.org [ Add documentation based on above commit message ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-11-23perf sched timehist: Add -w/--wakeups optionDavid Ahern
The -w option is to show wakeup events with timehist. $ perf sched timehist -w time cpu task name b/n time sch delay run time [tid/pid] (msec) (msec) (msec) --------------- ------ -------------------- --------- --------- --------- 2412598.429689 [0002] perf[7219] awakened: perf[7220] 2412598.429696 [0009] <idle> 0.000 0.000 0.000 2412598.429767 [0002] perf[7219] 0.000 0.000 0.000 2412598.429780 [0009] perf[7220] awakened: migration/9[53] ... Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161116060634.28477-6-namhyung@kernel.org [ Add documentation based on above commit message ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-11-23perf sched timehist: Introduce timehist commandDavid Ahern
'perf sched timehist' provides an analysis of scheduling events. Example usage: perf sched record -- sleep 1 perf sched timehist By default it shows the individual schedule events, including the wait time (time between sched-out and next sched-in events for the task), the task scheduling delay (time between wakeup and actually running) and run time for the task: time cpu task name wait time sch delay run time [tid/pid] (msec) (msec) (msec) -------------- ------ -------------------- --------- --------- --------- 79371.874569 [0011] gcc[31949] 0.014 0.000 1.148 79371.874591 [0010] gcc[31951] 0.000 0.000 0.024 79371.874603 [0010] migration/10[59] 3.350 0.004 0.011 79371.874604 [0011] <idle> 1.148 0.000 0.035 79371.874723 [0005] <idle> 0.016 0.000 1.383 79371.874746 [0005] gcc[31949] 0.153 0.078 0.022 ... Times are in msec.usec. Committer note: Add above explanation as the 'perf sched timehist' entry for 'man perf-sched'. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161116060634.28477-4-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-11-23perf c2c report: Display total HITMs on defaultJiri Olsa
Currently we display the cacheline list sorted on remote HITMs by default. The problem is that they might not be always counted and 'perf c2c report' displays an empty output. Thus it's more convenient to display and sort the cacheline list based on the total of HITMs and have the best change to see data in the default report run. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479764011-10732-6-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-11-23perf c2c report: Add -f/--force optionJiri Olsa
Adding -f/--force option to go through ownership validation: $ sudo perf c2c report File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override) $ $ sudo perf c2c report -f < c2c report output > $ Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479764011-10732-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-11-14perf config: Add support setting variables in a config fileTaeung Song
Add setting feature that can add config variables with their values to a config file (i.e. user or system config file) or modify config key-value pairs in a config file. For the syntax examples: perf config [<file-option>] [section.name[=value] ...] e.g. You can set the ui.show-headers to false with # perf config ui.show-headers=false If you want to add or modify several config items, you can do like # perf config annotate.show_nr_jumps=false kmem.default=slab Committer notes: Testing it: $ perf config -l top.children=true report.children=false $ $ perf config top.children=false $ perf config -l top.children=false report.children=false $ $ perf config kmem.default=slab $ perf config -l top.children=false report.children=false kmem.default=slab $ Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Nambong Ha <over3025@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Wookje Kwon <aweee0@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478241862-31230-5-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com [ Combined patch with docs update with this one ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-11-14perf config: Add support for getting config key-value pairsTaeung Song
Add a functionality getting specific config key-value pairs. For the syntax examples, perf config [<file-option>] [section.name ...] e.g. To query config items 'report.queue-size' and 'report.children', do # perf config report.queue-size report.children Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Nambong Ha <over3025@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Wookje Kwon <aweee0@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478241862-31230-2-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com [ Combined patch with docs update with this one ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-11-11perf intel-pt: Update documentation about context switch eventsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Since the unprivileged sched switch event was added in perf, PT doesn't need need perf_event_paranoid=-1 anymore for per cpu decoding. Add a note stating that that is only needed for kernels < 4.2. Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Report-Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x2ybghpqxxn3zu0m8o7qi42r@git.kernel.org Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Fixes: 45ac1403f564 ("perf: Add PERF_RECORD_SWITCH to indicate context switches") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x2ybghpqxxn3zu0m8o7qi42r@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-24perf trace: Implement --delayAlexis Berlemont
In the perf wiki todo-list[1], there is an entry regarding initial-delay and 'perf trace'; the following small patch tries to fulfill this point. It has been generated against the branch tip/perf/core. It has only been implemented in the "trace__run" case. Ex.: $ sudo strace -- ./perf trace --delay 5 sleep 1 2>&1 ... fcntl(7, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 ioctl(7, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID, 0x7ffc8fd35718) = 0 ioctl(11, PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT, 0x7) = 0 fcntl(11, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 ioctl(11, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID, 0x7ffc8fd35718) = 0 write(6, "\0", 1) = 1 close(6) = 0 nanosleep({0, 5000000}, NULL) = 0 # DELAY OF 5 MS BEFORE ENABLING THE EVENTS ioctl(3, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0) = 0 ioctl(4, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0) = 0 ioctl(5, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0) = 0 ioctl(7, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0) = 0 ... [1]: https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Todo Signed-off-by: Alexis Berlemont <alexis.berlemont@gmail.com> Suggested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161010054328.4028-2-alexis.berlemont@gmail.com [ Add entry to the manpage, cut'n'pasted from stat's and record's ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-24perf jit: Add jitdump format specification documentStephane Eranian
This patch adds a formal specification of the jitdump format. The goal is to help jit runtime developers implement the jitdump support without having to read the jvmti code. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476356383-30100-10-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-24perf record: Improve documentation of event parametersAndi Kleen
- Some editing (params -> parameters) - Point to the now more complete list of parameters in the perf list manpage. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476381433-22959-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-24perf script: Support insn and insnlenAndi Kleen
When looking at Intel PT traces with perf script it is useful to have some indication of the instruction. Dump the instruction bytes and instruction length, which can be used for simple pattern analysis in scripts. % perf record -e intel_pt// foo % perf script --itrace=i0ns -F ip,insn,insnlen ffffffff8101232f ilen: 5 insn: 0f 1f 44 00 00 ffffffff81012334 ilen: 1 insn: 5b ffffffff81012335 ilen: 1 insn: 5d ffffffff81012336 ilen: 1 insn: c3 ffffffff810123e3 ilen: 1 insn: 5b ffffffff810123e4 ilen: 2 insn: 41 5c ffffffff810123e6 ilen: 1 insn: 5d ffffffff810123e7 ilen: 1 insn: c3 ffffffff810124a6 ilen: 2 insn: 31 c0 ffffffff810124a8 ilen: 9 insn: 41 83 bc 24 a8 01 00 00 01 ffffffff810124b1 ilen: 2 insn: 75 87 ... Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475847747-30994-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-21perf c2c report: Add --show-all optionJiri Olsa
Normally we limit the main list to contain only entries with HITM % value > 0.0005, but it might be useful to display all captured entries. Adding --show-all option for that. Requested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nokgjdwikbegec5jzj4mxhqc@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-21perf c2c report: Add --no-source optionJiri Olsa
Add a possibility to disable source line column with new --no-source option. It source line data could take lot of time to retrieve, so it could be a performance burden for big data. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8p6s2727fq8nbsm3it5gix3p@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-21perf c2c: Add man page and creditsJiri Olsa
Add man page for c2c command and credits to builtin-c2c.c file. Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-twbp391v8v9f5idp584hlfov@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-05perf top/report: Add tips about a list optionNambong Ha
Add two tips that describe --list option of config sub-command and explain how to choose particular config file location. Signed-off-by: Nambong Ha <over3025@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Taeung Song <taeung@kosslab.kr> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475191562-3240-1-git-send-email-over3025@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-05perf report/top: Add a tip about system-wide collection from all CPUsDonghyun Kim
Signed-off-by: Donghyun Kim <dongdong9335@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Taeung Song <taeung@kosslab.kr> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475187357-21882-1-git-send-email-dongdong9335@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-05perf report/top: Add a tip about source line numbers with overheadKim SeonYoung
There is a existing tip as below. If you have debuginfo enabled, try: perf report -s sym,srcline However this tip only describe a condition to use --sort sym,scrline options. So there is lack of explanation in the tip. I think that it would be better to add a tip that exactly explains the feature of --sort srcline. Signed-off-by: Seonyoung Kim <adamas0414@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Taeung Song <taeung@kosslab.kr> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475194602-5596-1-git-send-email-adamas0414@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-03perf list: Support long jevents descriptionsSukadev Bhattiprolu
Previously we were dropping the useful longer descriptions that some events have in the event list completely. This patch makes them appear with perf list. Old perf list: baclears: baclears.all [Counts the number of baclears] vs new: perf list -v: ... baclears: baclears.all [The BACLEARS event counts the number of times the front end is resteered, mainly when the Branch Prediction Unit cannot provide a correct prediction and this is corrected by the Branch Address Calculator at the front end. The BACLEARS.ANY event counts the number of baclears for any type of branch] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-13-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-03perf list: Add a --no-desc flagAndi Kleen
Add a --no-desc flag to 'perf list' to not print the event descriptions that were earlier added for JSON events. This may be useful to get a less crowded listing. It's still default to print descriptions as that is the more useful default for most users. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-9-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-09-29perf record: Add support for using symbols in address filtersAdrian Hunter
Symbols come from either the DSO or /proc/kallsyms for the kernel. Details of the functionality can be found in Documentation/perf-record.txt. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474641528-18776-8-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-09-29perf tools: Update documentation info about quipperSimon Que
The existing link is outdated. The most recent quipper code can be found at the new URL. Committer notes: Quipper is a C++ parser that can be used to convert from a perf.data file to and from a protobuf, a Chromium OS facility. Signed-off-by: Simon Que <sque@chromium.org> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Chong Jiang <chongjiang@chromium.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4q1nm7jl3vovp66p5bki20pq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-09-27perf record: Fix documentation 'event_sources' -> 'event_source'Adrian Hunter
Change '/sys/bus/event_sources' to the correct path which is '/sys/bus/event_source'. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474641528-18776-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-09-13perf tools: Add infrastructure for PMU specific configurationMathieu Poirier
This patch adds PMU driver specific configuration to the parser infrastructure by preceding any term with the '@' letter. As such doing something like: perf record -e some_event/@cfg1,@cfg2=config/ ... will see 'cfg1' and 'cfg2=config' being added to the list of evsel config terms. Token 'cfg1' and 'cfg2=config' are not processed in user space and are meant to be interpreted by the PMU driver. First the lexer/parser are supplemented with the required definitions to recognise the driver specific configuration. From there they are simply added to the list of event terms. The bulk of the work is done in function "parse_events_add_pmu()" where driver config event terms are added to a new list of driver config terms, which in turn spliced with the event's new driver configuration list. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473179837-3293-4-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-09-01perf probe: Ignore vmlinux buildid if offline kernel is givenMasami Hiramatsu
Ignore the buildid of running kernel when both of --definition and --vmlinux is given because that kernel should be off-line. This also skips post-processing of kprobe event for relocating symbol and checking blacklist, because it can not be done on off-line kernel. E.g. without this fix perf shows an error as below ---- $ perf probe --vmlinux=./vmlinux-arm --definition do_sys_open ./vmlinux-arm with build id 7a1f76dd56e9c4da707cd3d6333f50748141434b not found, continuing without symbols Failed to find symbol do_sys_open in kernel Error: Failed to add events. ---- with this fix, we can get the definition ---- $ perf probe --vmlinux=./vmlinux-arm --definition do_sys_open p:probe/do_sys_open do_sys_open+0 ---- Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147214228193.23638.12581984840822162131.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-09-01perf probe: Show trace event definitionMasami Hiramatsu
Add --definition/-D option for showing the trace-event definition in stdout. This can be useful in debugging or combined with a shell script. e.g. ---- # perf probe --definition 'do_sys_open $params' p:probe/do_sys_open _text+2261728 dfd=%di:s32 filename=%si:u64 flags=%dx:s32 mode=%cx:u16 ---- Suggested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147214226712.23638.2240534040014013658.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-09-01perf config: Show default report configuration in example and docsMilian Wolff
Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> LPU-Reference: 20160830134106.21240-2-milian.wolff@kdab.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-08-23ftrace: kprobe: uprobe: Show u8/u16/u32/u64 types in decimalMasami Hiramatsu
Change kprobe/uprobe-tracer to show the arguments type-casted with u8/u16/u32/u64 in decimal digits instead of hexadecimal. To minimize compatibility issue, the arguments without type casting are typed by x64 (or x32 for 32bit arch) by default. Note: all arguments set by old perf probe without types are shown in decimal by default. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147151076135.12957.14684546093034343894.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-08-23perf probe: Support hexadecimal castingMasami Hiramatsu
Support hexadecimal unsigned integer casting by 'x'. This allows user to explicitly specify the output format of the probe arguments as hexadecimal. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147151072679.12957.4458656416765710753.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-08-23ftrace: kprobe: uprobe: Add x8/x16/x32/x64 for hexadecimal typesMasami Hiramatsu
Add x8/x16/x32/x64 for hexadecimal type casting to kprobe/uprobe event tracer. These type casts can be used for integer arguments for explicitly showing them in hexadecimal digits in formatted text. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147151067029.12957.11591314629326414783.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-08-23perf report: Allow configuring the default sort order in ~/.perfconfigArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Allows changing the default sort order from "comm,dso,symbol" to some other default, for instance "sym,dso" may be more fitting for kernel developers. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pm1h5puxua8nsxksd68fjm8r@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-08-09perf probe: Support signedness castingNaohiro Aota
The 'perf probe' tool detects a variable's type and use the detected type to add a new probe. Then, kprobes prints its variable in hexadecimal format if the variable is unsigned and prints in decimal if it is signed. We sometimes want to see unsigned variable in decimal format (i.e. sector_t or size_t). In that case, we need to investigate the variable's size manually to specify just signedness. This patch add signedness casting support. By specifying "s" or "u" as a type, perf-probe will investigate variable size as usual and use the specified signedness. E.g. without this: $ perf probe -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector' Added new event: probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1 $ cat trace_pipe|head dbench-9692 [003] d..1 971.096633: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=0x3a3d00 dbench-9692 [003] d..1 971.096685: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=0x1a3d80 dbench-9692 [003] d..1 971.096687: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=0x3a3d80 ... // need to investigate the variable size $ perf probe -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s64' Added new event: probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s64) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1 With this: // just use "s" to cast its signedness $ perf probe -v -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s' Added new event: probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1 $ cat trace_pipe|head dbench-9689 [001] d..1 1212.391237: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=128 dbench-9689 [001] d..1 1212.391252: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=131072 dbench-9697 [006] d..1 1212.398611: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=30208 This commit also update perf-probe.txt to describe "types". Most parts are based on existing documentation: Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt Committer note: Testing using 'perf trace': # perf probe -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector' Added new event: probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1 # trace --no-syscalls --ev probe:submit_bio 0.000 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0xc133c0) 3181.861 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x6cffb8) 3181.881 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x6cffc0) 3184.488 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x6cffc8) <SNIP> 4717.927 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x4dc7a88) 4717.970 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x4dc7880) ^C[root@jouet ~]# Now, using this new feature: [root@jouet ~]# perf probe -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s' Added new event: probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1 [root@jouet ~]# trace --no-syscalls --ev probe:submit_bio 0.000 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=7145704) 0.017 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=7145712) 0.019 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=7145720) 2.567 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=7145728) 5631.919 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0) 5631.941 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=8) 5631.945 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=16) 5631.948 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=24) ^C# With callchains: # trace --no-syscalls --ev probe:submit_bio/max-stack=10/ 0.000 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=50662544) submit_bio+0xa8200001 ([kernel.kallsyms]) submit_bh+0xa8200013 ([kernel.kallsyms]) jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xa8200691 ([kernel.kallsyms]) kjournald2+0xa82000ca ([kernel.kallsyms]) kthread+0xa82000d8 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ret_from_fork+0xa820001f ([kernel.kallsyms]) 0.023 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=50662552) submit_bio+0xa8200001 ([kernel.kallsyms]) submit_bh+0xa8200013 ([kernel.kallsyms]) jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xa8200691 ([kernel.kallsyms]) kjournald2+0xa82000ca ([kernel.kallsyms]) kthread+0xa82000d8 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ret_from_fork+0xa820001f ([kernel.kallsyms]) 0.027 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=50662560) submit_bio+0xa8200001 ([kernel.kallsyms]) submit_bh+0xa8200013 ([kernel.kallsyms]) jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xa8200691 ([kernel.kallsyms]) kjournald2+0xa82000ca ([kernel.kallsyms]) kthread+0xa82000d8 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ret_from_fork+0xa820001f ([kernel.kallsyms]) 2.593 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=50662568) submit_bio+0xa8200001 ([kernel.kallsyms]) submit_bh+0xa8200013 ([kernel.kallsyms]) journal_submit_commit_record+0xa82001ac ([kernel.kallsyms]) jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xa82012e8 ([kernel.kallsyms]) kjournald2+0xa82000ca ([kernel.kallsyms]) kthread+0xa82000d8 ([kernel.kallsyms]) ret_from_fork+0xa820001f ([kernel.kallsyms]) ^C# Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470710408-23515-1-git-send-email-naohiro.aota@hgst.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-08-09perf script: Add 'bpf-output' field to usage messageBrendan Gregg
This adds the 'bpf-output' field to the perf script usage message, and docs. Signed-off-by: Brendan Gregg <bgregg@netflix.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470192469-11910-4-git-send-email-bgregg@netflix.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-08-02perf record: Add --sample-cpu optionJiri Olsa
Adding --sample-cpu option to be able to explicitly enable CPU sample type. Currently it's only enable implicitly in case the target is cpu related. It will be useful for following c2c record tool. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470074555-24889-8-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-15perf record: Add --tail-synthesize optionWang Nan
When working with overwritable ring buffer there's a inconvenience problem: if perf dumps data after a long period after it starts, non-sample events may lost, which makes following 'perf report' unable to identify proc name and mmap layout. For example: # perf record -m 4 -e raw_syscalls:* -g --overwrite --switch-output \ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null send SIGUSR2 after dd runs long enough. The resuling perf.data lost correct comm and mmap events: # perf script -i perf.data.2016061522374354 perf 24478 [004] 2581325.601789: raw_syscalls:sys_exit: NR 0 = 512 ^^^^ Should be 'dd' 27b2e8 syscall_slow_exit_work+0xfe2000e3 (/lib/modules/4.6.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) 203cc7 do_syscall_64+0xfe200117 (/lib/modules/4.6.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) b18d83 return_from_SYSCALL_64+0xfe200000 (/lib/modules/4.6.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) 7f47c417edf0 [unknown] ([unknown]) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Fail to unwind This patch provides a '--tail-synthesize' option, allows perf to collect system status when finalizing output file. In resuling output file, the non-sample events reflect system status when dumping data. After this patch: # perf record -m 4 -e raw_syscalls:* -g --overwrite --switch-output --tail-synthesize \ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null # perf script -i perf.data.2016061600544998 dd 27364 [004] 2583244.994464: raw_syscalls:sys_enter: NR 1 (1, ... ^^ Correct comm 203a18 syscall_trace_enter_phase2+0xfe2001a8 ([kernel.kallsyms]) 203aa5 syscall_trace_enter+0xfe200055 ([kernel.kallsyms]) 203caa do_syscall_64+0xfe2000fa ([kernel.kallsyms]) b18d83 return_from_SYSCALL_64+0xfe200000 ([kernel.kallsyms]) d8e50 __GI___libc_write+0xffff01d9639f4010 (/tmp/oxygen_root-w00229757/lib64/libc-2.18.so) ^^^^^ Correct unwind This option doesn't aim to solve this problem completely. If a process terminates before SIGUSR2, we still lost its COMM and MMAP events. For example, we can't unwind correctly from the final perf.data we get from the previous example, because when perf collects the final output file (when we press C-c), 'dd' has been terminated so its '/proc/<pid>/mmap' becomes empty. However, this is a cheaper choice. To completely solve this problem we need to continously output non-sample events. To satisify the requirement of daemonization, we need to merge them periodically. It is possible but requires much more code and cycles. Automatically select --tail-synthesize when --overwrite is provided. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468485287-33422-16-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-15perf tools: Enable overwrite settingsWang Nan
This patch allows following config terms and option: Globally setting events to overwrite; # perf record --overwrite ... Set specific events to be overwrite or no-overwrite. # perf record --event cycles/overwrite/ ... # perf record --event cycles/no-overwrite/ ... Add missing config terms and update the config term array size because the longest string length has changed. For overwritable events, it automatically selects attr.write_backward since perf requires it to be backward for reading. Test result: # perf record --overwrite -e syscalls:*enter_nanosleep* usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data (1 samples) ] # perf evlist -v syscalls:sys_enter_nanosleep: type: 2, size: 112, config: 0x134, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|RAW, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, write_backward: 1 # Tip: use 'perf evlist --trace-fields' to show fields for tracepoint events Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468485287-33422-14-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-13perf probe: Support a special SDT probe formatMasami Hiramatsu
Support a special SDT probe format which can omit the '%' prefix only if the SDT group name starts with "sdt_". So, for example both of "%sdt_libc:setjump" and "sdt_libc:setjump" are acceptable for perf probe --add. E.g. without this: # perf probe -a sdt_libc:setjmp Semantic error :There is non-digit char in line number. ... With this: # perf probe -a sdt_libc:setjmp Added new event: sdt_libc:setjmp (on %setjmp in /usr/lib64/libc-2.20.so) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e sdt_libc:setjmp -aR sleep 1 Suggested-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146831794674.17065.13359473252168740430.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-13perf probe: Accept %sdt and %cached event nameMasami Hiramatsu
To improve usability, support %[PROVIDER:]SDTEVENT format to add new probes on SDT and cached events. e.g. ---- # perf probe -x /lib/libc-2.17.so %lll_lock_wait_private Added new event: sdt_libc:lll_lock_wait_private (on %lll_lock_wait_private in /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e sdt_libc:lll_lock_wait_private -aR sleep 1 # perf probe -l | more sdt_libc:lll_lock_wait_private (on __lll_lock_wait_private+21 in /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so) ---- Note that this is not only for SDT events, but also normal events with event-name. e.g. define "myevent" on cache (-n doesn't add the real probe) ---- # perf probe -x ./perf --cache -n --add 'myevent=dso__load $params' ---- Reuse the "myevent" from cache as below. ---- # perf probe -x ./perf %myevent ---- Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146831788372.17065.3645054540325909346.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-12perf report: Introduce --stdio-color to setup the color output mode selectionArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
'perf report --stdio' will colorize entries with most hits and possibly some other aspects of its output, but those colors gets suppressed if we redirect the output to a non-tty, allow keeping the colors by adding a new option, --stdio-color, now this use case will also output escape sequences for colors: $ perf annotate --stdio-color | more Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3iuawqjldu4i8gziot7e3d5n@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-12perf annotate: Introduce --stdio-color to setup the color output mode selectionArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
'perf annotate --stdio' will colorize entries with most hits and possibly some other aspects of its output, but those colors gets suppressed if we redirect the output to a non-tty, allow keeping the colors by adding a new option, --stdio-color, now this use case will also output escape sequences for colors: $ perf annotate --stdio-color | more Based-on-a-patch-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-sjrnixani5pg6qez640gaxhf@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-04perf tools: Update android build documentationChris Phlipot
Update the android build documentation according to recent android build fixes. The instructions for step 1a and step 2 were updated to work with NDK version 11(oldest supported version) and NDK version 12(current version). Signed-off-by: Chris Phlipot <cphlipot0@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467349955-1135-5-git-send-email-cphlipot0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-04perf buildid-cache: Scan and import user SDT events to probe cacheMasami Hiramatsu
perf buildid-cache --add <binary> scans given binary and add the SDT events to probe cache. "sdt_" prefix is appended for all SDT providers to avoid event-name clash with other pre-defined events. It is possible to use the cached SDT events as other cached events, via perf probe --add "sdt_<provider>:<event>=<event>". e.g. ---- # perf buildid-cache --add /lib/libc-2.17.so # perf probe --cache --list | head -n 5 /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so (a6fb821bdf53660eb2c29f778757aef294d3d392): sdt_libc:setjmp=setjmp sdt_libc:longjmp=longjmp sdt_libc:longjmp_target=longjmp_target sdt_libc:memory_heap_new=memory_heap_new # perf probe -x /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so \ -a sdt_libc:memory_heap_new=memory_heap_new Added new event: sdt_libc:memory_heap_new (on memory_heap_new in /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e sdt_libc:memory_heap_new -aR sleep 1 # perf probe -l sdt_libc:memory_heap_new (on new_heap+183 in /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so) ---- Note that SDT event entries in probe-cache file is somewhat different from normal cached events. Normal one starts with "#", but SDTs are starting with "%". Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146736025058.27797.13043265488541434502.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-04perf probe: Add group name supportMasami Hiramatsu
Allow user to set group name for adding new event. Note that user must ensure that the group name doesn't conflict with existing group name carefully. E.g. Existing group name can conflict with other events. Especially, using the group name reserved for kernel modules can hide kernel embedded events when loading modules. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146736024091.27797.9471545190066268995.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-01perf probe: Remove caches when --cache is givenMasami Hiramatsu
'perf probe --del' removes caches when '--cache' is given. Note that the delete pattern is not the same as for normal events. If you cached probes with event name, --del "eventname" works as expected. However, if you skipped it, the cached probes doesn't have actual event name. In that case --del "probe-desc" is required (wildcard is acceptable). For example a cache entry has the probe-desc "vfs_read $params", you can remove it with --del 'vfs_read*'. ----- # perf probe --cache --list /[kernel.kallsyms] (1466a0a250b5d0070c6d0f03c5fed30b237970a1): vfs_read $params /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so (c31ffe7942bfd77b2fca8f9bd5709d387a86d3bc): getaddrinfo $params # perf probe --cache --del vfs_read\* Removed cached event: probe:vfs_read # perf probe --cache --list /[kernel.kallsyms] (1466a0a250b5d0070c6d0f03c5fed30b237970a1): /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so (c31ffe7942bfd77b2fca8f9bd5709d387a86d3bc): getaddrinfo $params ----- Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146736021651.27797.10250879847070772920.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-01perf probe: Show all cached probesMasami Hiramatsu
perf probe --list shows all cached probes when --cache is given. Each caches are shown with on which binary that probed. E.g.: ----- # perf probe --cache vfs_read \$params # perf probe --cache -x /lib64/libc-2.17.so getaddrinfo \$params # perf probe --cache --list [kernel.kallsyms] (1466a0a250b5d0070c6d0f03c5fed30b237970a1): vfs_read $params /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so (c31ffe7942bfd77b2fca8f9bd5709d387a86d3bc): getaddrinfo $params ----- Note that $params requires debuginfo. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146736020674.27797.13488316780383460180.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-06-30perf test: Add -F/--dont-fork optionJiri Olsa
Adding -F/--dont-fork option to bypass forking for each test. It's useful for debugging test. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Tested-by: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467113345-12669-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-06-29perf tools: Add documentation for perf.data on disk formatAndi Kleen
Add some documentation for the on disk format of perf.data. This is not documenting the actual perf events -- which are documented in perf_event.h -- but just the additional headers that perf record adds around them when writing the data to disk. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466800885-12974-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>