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Peter Zijlstra
a73c7d84a1 perf_counter tools: Add and use isprint()
Introduce isprint() to print out raw event dumps to ASCII, etc.

(This is an extension to upstream Git's ctype.c.)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
[ removed openssl.h inclusion from util.h - it leaked ctype.h ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-18 09:46:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
7522060c95 perf report: Add validation of call-chain entries
Add boundary checks for call-chain events. In case of corrupted
entries we could crash otherwise.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-18 08:15:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b25bcf2f13 perf report: Tidy up the "--parent <regex>" and "--sort parent" call-chain features
Instead of the ambigious 'call' naming use the much more
specific 'parent' naming:

 - rename --call <regex> to --parent <regex>

 - rename --sort call to --sort parent

 - rename [unmatched] to [other] - to signal that this is not
   an error but the inverse set

Also add pagefaults to the default parent-symbol pattern too,
as it's a 'syscall overhead category' in a sense.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-18 07:21:54 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
5aa75a0fd4 perf_counter tools: Replace isprint() with issane()
The Git utils came with a ctype replacement that doesn't provide
isprint(). Add a replacement.

Solves a build bug on certain distros.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-17 19:23:53 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6e7d6fdcbe perf report: Add --sort <call> --call <$regex>
Implement sorting by callchain symbols, --sort <call>.

It will create a new column which will show a match to
--call $regex or "[unmatched]".

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-17 19:23:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e2eae0f560 perf report: Fix 32-bit printf format
Yong Wang reported the following compiler warning:

 builtin-report.c: In function 'process_overflow_event':
 builtin-report.c:984: error: cast to pointer from integer of different size

Which happens because we try to print ->ips[] out with a limited
format, losing the high 32 bits. Print it out using %016Lx instead.

Reported-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-15 16:18:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3dfabc74c6 perf report: Add per system call overhead histogram
Take advantage of call-graph percounter sampling/recording to
display a non-trivial histogram: the true, collapsed/summarized
cost measurement, on a per system call total overhead basis:

 aldebaran:~/linux/linux/tools/perf> ./perf record -g -a -f ~/hackbench 10
 aldebaran:~/linux/linux/tools/perf> ./perf report -s symbol --syscalls | head -10
 #
 # (3536 samples)
 #
 # Overhead  Symbol
 # ........  ......
 #
     40.75%  [k] sys_write
     40.21%  [k] sys_read
      4.44%  [k] do_nmi
 ...

This is done by accounting each (reliable) call-chain that chains back
to a given system call to that system call function.

[ So in the above example we can see that hackbench spends about 40% of
  its total time somewhere in sys_write() and 40% somewhere in
  sys_read(), the rest of the time is spent in user-space. The time
  is not spent in sys_write() _itself_ but in one of its many child
  functions. ]

Or, a recording of a (source files are already in the page-cache) kernel build:

 $ perf record -g -m 512 -f -- make -j32 kernel
 $ perf report -s s --syscalls | grep '\[k\]' | grep -v nmi

     4.14%  [k] do_page_fault
     1.20%  [k] sys_write
     1.10%  [k] sys_open
     0.63%  [k] sys_exit_group
     0.48%  [k] smp_apic_timer_interrupt
     0.37%  [k] sys_read
     0.37%  [k] sys_execve
     0.20%  [k] sys_mmap
     0.18%  [k] sys_close
     0.14%  [k] sys_munmap
     0.13%  [k] sys_poll
     0.09%  [k] sys_newstat
     0.07%  [k] sys_clone
     0.06%  [k] sys_newfstat
     0.05%  [k] sys_access
     0.05%  [k] schedule

Shows the true total cost of each syscall variant that gets used
during a kernel build. This profile reveals it that pagefaults are
the costliest, followed by read()/write().

An interesting detail: timer interrupts cost 0.5% - or 0.5 seconds
per 100 seconds of kernel build-time. (this was done with HZ=1000)

The summary is done in 'perf report', i.e. in the post-processing
stage - so once we have a good call-graph recording, this type of
non-trivial high-level analysis becomes possible.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-15 15:58:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
613d860229 perf record: Fix fast task-exit race
Recording with -a (or with -p) can race with tasks going away:

   couldn't open /proc/8440/maps

Causing an early exit() and no recording done.

Do not abort the recording session - instead just skip that task.

Also, only print the warnings under -v.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-15 09:08:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3efa1cc99e perf record/report: Add call graph / call chain profiling
Add the first steps of call-graph profiling:

 - add the -c (--call-graph) option to perf record
 - parse the call-graph record and printout out under -D (--dump-trace)

The call-graph data is not put into the histogram yet, but it
can be seen that it's being processed correctly:

0x3ce0 [0x38]: event: 35
.
. ... raw event: size 56 bytes
.  0000:  23 00 00 00 05 00 38 00 d4 df 0e 81 ff ff ff ff  #.....8........
.  0010:  60 0b 00 00 60 0b 00 00 03 00 00 00 01 00 02 00  `...`..........
.  0020:  d4 df 0e 81 ff ff ff ff a0 61 ed 41 36 00 00 00  .........a.A6..
.  0030:  04 92 e6 41 36 00 00 00                          .a.A6..
.
0x3ce0 [0x38]: PERF_EVENT (IP, 5): 2912: 0xffffffff810edfd4 period: 1
... chain: u:2, k:1, nr:3
.....  0: 0xffffffff810edfd4
.....  1: 0x3641ed61a0
.....  2: 0x3641e69204
 ... thread: perf:2912
 ...... dso: [kernel]

This shows a 3-entry call-graph: with 1 kernel-space and two user-space
entries

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-14 20:34:06 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8465b05046 perf report: Print out raw events in hexa
Print out events in hexa dump format, when -D is specified:

0x4868 [0x48]: event: 1
.
. ... raw event: size 72 bytes
.  0000:  01 00 00 00 00 00 48 00 d4 72 00 00 d4 72 00 00  ......H..r...r.
.  0010:  00 00 40 f2 3e 00 00 00 00 30 01 00 00 00 00 00  ..@.>....0.....
.  0020:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2f 75 73 72 2f 6c 69 62  ......../usr/li
.  0030:  36 34 2f 6c 69 62 65 6c 66 2d 30 2e 31 34 31 2e  64/libelf-0.141
.  0040:  73 6f 00 00 00 00 00 00                          f-0.141
.
0x4868 [0x48]: PERF_EVENT_MMAP 29396: [0x3ef2400000(0x13000) @ (nil)]: /usr/lib64/libelf-0.141.so

This helps the debugging of mis-parsing of data files, and helps
the addition of new sample/trace formats.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-14 14:45:12 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
c17c2db1f3 perf annotate: Fixes for filename:line displays
- fix addr2line on userspace binary: don't only check kernel image.
- fix string allocation size for path: missing ending null char room
- fix overflow in symbol extra info

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1244907563-7820-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-13 17:51:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ef281a196d perf stat: Enable raw data to be printed
If -vv (very verbose) is specified, print out raw data
in the following format:

$ perf stat -vv -r 3 ./loop_1b_instructions

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

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

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

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

    0.236706075  seconds time elapsed.

This allows the summary stats to be validated.

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

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

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

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

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

    0.118924455  seconds time elapsed.

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

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

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

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-13 13:40:03 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
971738f366 perf annotate: Print a sorted summary of annotated overhead lines
It's can be very annoying to scroll down perf annotated output
until we find relevant overhead.

Using the -l option, you can now have a small summary sorted per
overhead in the beginning of the output.

Example:

./perf annotate -l -k ../../vmlinux -s __lock_acquire

Sorted summary for file ../../vmlinux
----------------------------------------------

   12.04 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:1653
    4.61 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:1740
    3.77 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:1775
    3.56 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:1653
    2.93 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:15
    2.83 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:2545
    2.30 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:2594
    2.20 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:2388
    2.20 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:730
    2.09 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:730
    2.09 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:138
    1.88 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:2548
    1.47 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:15
    1.36 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:2594
    1.36 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:730
    1.26 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:1654
    1.26 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:1653
    1.15 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:2592
    1.15 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:1740
    1.15 /home/fweisbec/linux/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/lockdep.c:1740

[...]

Only overhead over 0.5% are summarized.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1244844682-12928-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-13 12:58:23 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
301406b9c6 perf annotate: Print the filename:line for annotated colored lines
When we have a colored line in perf annotate, ie a middle/high
overhead one, it's sometimes useful to get the matching line
and filename from the source file, especially this path prepares
to another subsequent one which will print a sorted summary of
midle/high overhead lines in the beginning of the output.

Filename:Lines have the same color than the concerned ip lines.

It can be slow because it relies on addr2line. We could also
use objdump with -l but that implies we would have to bufferize
objdump output and parse it to filter the relevant lines since
we want to print a sorted summary in the beginning.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1244844682-12928-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-13 12:58:23 +02:00
Mike Frysinger
018df72dd0 perf_counter: Start documenting HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS requirements
Help out arch porters who want to support perf counters by listing some
basic requirements.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1244827063-24046-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 19:37:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
974802eaa1 perf_counter: Add forward/backward attribute ABI compatibility
Provide for means of extending the perf_counter_attr in a 'natural' way.

We allow growing the structure by appending fields at the end by specifying
the full structure size inside it.

When a new kernel sees a smaller (old) structure, it will 0 pad the tail.
When an old kernel sees a larger (new) structure, it will verify the tail
consists of 0s, otherwise fail.

If we fail due to a size-mismatch, we return -E2BIG and write the kernel's
native attribe size back into the provided structure.

Furthermore, add some attribute verification, so that we'll fail counter
creation when unknown bits are present (PERF_SAMPLE, PERF_FORMAT, or in
the __reserved fields).

(This ABI detail is introduced while keeping the existing syscall ABI.)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 14:28:52 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
bbd36e5e6a perf record: Explicity program a default counter
Up until now record has worked on the assumption that type=0, config=0
was a suitable configuration - which it is. Lets make this a little more
explicit and more readable via the use of proper symbols.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 14:28:52 +02:00
Yong Wang
faafec1e61 perf_counter tools: Remove one L1-data alias
Otherwise all L1-instruction aliases will be recognized as
L1-data by strcasestr() when calling function parse_aliases.

Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090612031706.GA22126@ywang-moblin2.bj.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 13:45:09 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f4dbfa8f31 perf_counter: Standardize event names
Pure renames only, to PERF_COUNT_HW_* and PERF_COUNT_SW_*.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 17:54:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
729ff5e2aa perf_counter tools: Clean up u64 usage
A build error slipped in:

 builtin-report.c: In function ‘hist_entry__fprintf’:
 builtin-report.c:711: error: format ‘%12d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘uint64_t’

Because we got a bit sloppy with those types. uint64_t really sucks,
because there's no printf format for it. So standardize on __u64
instead - for all types that go to or come from the ABI (which is __u64),
or for values that need to be large enough even on 32-bit.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 16:48:38 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
ea1900e571 perf_counter tools: Normalize data using per sample period data
When we use variable period sampling, add the period to the sample
data and use that to normalize the samples.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 02:39:01 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f7b7c26e01 perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properly
Currently report and stat catch SIGINT (and others) without altering
their exit state. This means that things like:

   while :; do perf stat ./foo ; done

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

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-10 16:55:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4502d77c1d perf_counter tools: Small frequency related fixes
Create the counter in a disabled state and only enable it after we
mmap() the buffer, this allows us to see the first few samples (and
observe the frequency ramp).

Furthermore, print the period in the verbose report.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-10 16:55:26 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
aefcf37b82 perf_counter tools: Standardize color printing
The rule is:

 - high overhead: red
 -  mid overhead: green
 -  low overhead: normal (white/black)

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-08 23:15:28 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
80d496be89 perf report: Add support for profiling JIT generated code
This patch adds support for profiling JIT generated code to 'perf
report'. A JIT compiler is required to generate a "/tmp/perf-$PID.map"
symbols map that is parsed when looking and displaying symbols.

Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for his help with this patch!

Example "perf report" output with the Jato JIT:

 #
 # (40311 samples)
 #
 # Overhead           Command  Shared Object              Symbol
 # ........  ................  .........................  ......
 #
     97.80%              jato  /tmp/perf-11915.map        [.] Fibonacci.fib(I)I
      0.56%              jato  00000000b7fa023b           0x000000b7fa023b
      0.45%              jato  /tmp/perf-11915.map        [.] Fibonacci.main([Ljava/lang/String;)V
      0.38%              jato  [kernel]                   [k] get_page_from_freelist
      0.06%              jato  [kernel]                   [k] kunmap_atomic
      0.05%              jato  ./jato                     [.] utf8Hash
      0.04%              jato  ./jato                     [.] executeJava
      0.04%              jato  ./jato                     [.] defineClass

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: acme@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906082111590.12407@melkki.cs.Helsinki.FI>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-08 23:10:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e779898aa7 perf stat: Print out instructins/cycle metric
Before:

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

After:

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

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-07 18:14:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a14832ff97 perf report: Print more expressive message in case of file open error
Before:

 $ perf report
 failed to open file: No such file or directory

After:

 $ perf report
  failed to open file: perf.data  (try 'perf record' first)

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-07 17:58:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
30c806a094 perf_counter tools: Handle kernels with !CONFIG_PERF_COUNTER
If perf is run on a !CONFIG_PERF_COUNTER kernel right now it
bails out with no messages or with confusing messages.

Standardize this case some more and explain the situation.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-07 17:46:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3da297a60f perf record: Fall back to cpu-clock-ticks if no PMU
On architectures/CPUs without PMU support but with perfcounters
enabled 'perf record' currently fails because it cannot create a
cycle based hw-perfcounter.

Fall back to the cpu-clock-tick sw-perfcounter in this case, which
is hrtimer based and will always work (as long as perfcounters
are enabled).

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-07 17:39:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
716c69feca perf top: Fall back to cpu-clock-tick hrtimer sampling if no cycle counter available
On architectures/CPUs without PMU support but with perfcounters
enabled 'perf top' currently fails because it cannot create a
cycle based hw-perfcounter.

Fall back to the cpu-clock-tick sw-perfcounter in this case, which
is hrtimer based and will always work (as long as perfcounters
is enabled).

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-07 17:31:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
743ee1f804 perf stat: Continue even on counter creation error
Before:

 $ perf stat ~/hackbench 5

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

After:

 $ perf stat ~/hackbench 5
 Time: 1.640

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

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

 Wall-clock time elapsed:  1699.999995 msecs

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

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

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-07 17:08:59 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
2f01190aa6 perf top: Wait for a minimal set of events before reading first snapshot
The first snapshot reading often occur before any events have
been read in the mapped perfcounter files.

Just wait until we have at least one event before starting the
snapshot, or the delay before the first set of entries to be
displayed may be long in case of low refresh rate.

Note: we could also use a semaphore to wait before
"print_entries" number of eveents is reached, but again this
value is tunable and we can't ensure we will even reach it.
Also we could base on a default mimimum set of entries for the
first refresh, say 15, but again, the minimal sample is
tunable, and we could end up displaying nothing until we have a
minimal default set of events, which can take some time in case
of high samples filters.

Hence this simple solution which partially covers the default
case.

[ Impact: fix display artifacts in perf top ]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbeec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1244322643-6447-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-07 09:32:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
23b87116c7 perf annotate: Fix command line help text
Arjan noticed this bug in the perf annotate help output:

    -s, --symbol <file>   symbol to annotate

that should be <symbol> instead.

Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-06 21:25:29 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
e9fbc9dc92 perf_counter tools: Initialize a stack variable before use
the "perf report" utility crashed in some circumstances
because the "sym" stack variable was not initialized before used
(as also proven by valgrind).

With this fix both the crash goes away and valgrind no longer complains.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-06 21:22:33 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
39273ee975 perf annotate: Automatically pick up vmlinux in the local directory
Right now kernel debug info does not get resolved by default, because
we dont know where to look for the vmlinux.

The -k option can be used for that - but if no option is given, pick
up vmlinux files in the current directory - in case a kernel hacker
runs profiling from the source directory that the kernel was built in.

The real solution would be to embedd the location (and perhaps the
date/timestamp) of the vmlinux file in /proc/kallsyms, so that
tools can pick it up automatically.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-06 21:17:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8953645fec perf_counter tools: Fix error condition in parse_aliases()
gcc warned about this bug:

util/parse-events.c: In function ‘parse_generic_hw_symbols’:
util/parse-events.c:175: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
util/parse-events.c:182: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
util/parse-events.c:190: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-06 21:09:08 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
7d37a0cbd6 perf_counter tools: Warning fixes on 32-bit
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-06 20:46:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
864709302a perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/
Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged
tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the
(new) tools/ directory.

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