user/sven/linux.git/tools/perf/perf.h, branch v3.3.4

perf tools, x86: Build perf on older user-space as well

2012-03-14T15:42:34Z

On ancient systems I get this build failure: util/../../../arch/x86/include/asm/unistd.h:67:29: error: asm/unistd_64.h: No such file or directory In file included from util/cache.h:7, from builtin-test.c:8: util/../perf.h: In function ‘sys_perf_event_open’:In file included from util/../perf.h:16 perf.h:170: error: ‘__NR_perf_event_open’ undeclared (first use in this function) The reason is that this old system does not have the split unistd.h headers yet, from which to pick up the syscall definitions. Add the syscall numbers to the already existing i386 and x86_64 blocks in perf.h, and also provide empty include file stubs. With this patch perf builds and works fine on 5 years old user-space as well. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jctwg64le1w47tuaoeyftsg9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Handle kernels that don't support attr.exclude_{guest,host}

2012-03-03T15:19:56Z

Just fall back to resetting those fields, if set, warning the user that that feature is not available. If guest samples appear they will just be discarded because no struct machine will be found and thus the event will be accounted as not handled and dropped, see 0c09571. Reported-by: Namhyung Kim Tested-by: Joerg Roedel Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vuwxig36mzprl5n7nzvnxxsh@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add ability to record event period

2011-12-20T14:50:09Z

The problem is that when SAMPLE_PERIOD is not set, the kernel generates a number of samples in proportion to an event's period. Number of these samples may be too big and the kernel throttles all samples above a defined limit. E.g.: I want to trace when a process sleeps. I created a process which sleeps for 1ms and for 4ms. perf got 100 events in both cases. swapper 0 [000] 1141.371830: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=1386750 [ns] swapper 0 [000] 1141.369444: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=4499585 [ns] In the first case a kernel want to send 4499585 events and in the second case it wants to send 1386750 events. perf-reports shows that process sleeps in both places equal time. Instead of this we can get only one sample with an attribute period. As result we have less data transferring between kernel and user-space and we avoid throttling of samples. The patch "events: Don't divide events if it has field period" added a kernel part of this functionality. Acked-by: Arun Sharma Cc: Arun Sharma Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: devel@openvz.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324391565-1369947-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Move 'group' to perf_event_ops

2011-11-28T12:36:27Z

Will be used in other tools to share the command line parsing code. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8x0yr77r6lrd2t699s499m8n@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Move mmap_pages to perf_record_opts

2011-11-28T12:34:50Z

Tools being developed will need this to allow the user to override this value. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zydc1yhxfm0z35fuy95bsn1l@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Introduce {prepare,start}_workload refactored from 'perf record'

2011-11-28T12:26:14Z

So that we can easily start a workload in other tools. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zdsksd4aphu0nltg2lpwsw3x@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Introduce config attr method

2011-11-28T12:25:31Z

Out of the code in 'perf record', so that we can share option parsing, etc. Eventually will be used by 'perf top', but first 'trace' will use it. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-hzjqsgnte1esk90ytq0ap98v@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf ui browser: Handle SIGWINCH

2011-10-13T11:52:46Z

To do that we needed to stop using newtForm, as we don't want libnewt to catch the xterm resize signal. Remove some more newt calls and instead use the underlying libslang directly. In time tools/perf will use just libslang. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-h1824yjiru5n2ivz4bseizwj@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8)

2011-10-07T20:01:24Z

The goal of this patch is to include more information about the host environment into the perf.data so it is more self-descriptive. Overtime, profiles are captured on various machines and it becomes hard to track what was recorded, on what machine and when. This patch provides a way to solve this by extending the perf.data file with basic information about the host machine. To add those extensions, we leverage the feature bits capabilities of the perf.data format. The change is backward compatible with existing perf.data files. We define the following useful new extensions: - HEADER_HOSTNAME: the hostname - HEADER_OSRELEASE: the kernel release number - HEADER_ARCH: the hw architecture - HEADER_CPUDESC: generic CPU description - HEADER_NRCPUS: number of online/avail cpus - HEADER_CMDLINE: perf command line - HEADER_VERSION: perf version - HEADER_TOPOLOGY: cpu topology - HEADER_EVENT_DESC: full event description (attrs) - HEADER_CPUID: easy-to-parse low level CPU identication The small granularity for the entries is to make it easier to extend without breaking backward compatiblity. Many entries are provided as ASCII strings. Perf report/script have been modified to print the basic information as easy-to-parse ASCII strings. Extended information about CPU and NUMA topology may be requested with the -I option. Thanks to David Ahern for reviewing and testing the many versions of this patch. $ perf report --stdio # ======== # captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011 # hostname : quad # os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip # perf version : 3.1.0-rc4 # arch : x86_64 # nrcpus online : 4 # nrcpus avail : 4 # cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11 # total memory : 8105360 kB # cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date # event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31, # HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display # HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display # ======== # ... $ perf report --stdio -I # ======== # captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011 # hostname : quad # os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip # perf version : 3.1.0-rc4 # arch : x86_64 # nrcpus online : 4 # nrcpus avail : 4 # cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11 # total memory : 8105360 kB # cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date # event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31, # sibling cores : 0-3 # sibling threads : 0 # sibling threads : 1 # sibling threads : 2 # sibling threads : 3 # node0 meminfo : total = 8320608 kB, free = 7571024 kB # node0 cpu list : 0-3 # ======== # ... Reviewed-by: David Ahern Tested-by: David Ahern Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Andi Kleen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110930134040.GA5575@quad Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian [ committer notes: Use --show-info in the tools as was in the docs, rename perf_header_fprintf_info to perf_file_section__fprintf_info, fixup conflict with f69b64f7 "perf: Support setting the disassembler style" ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Move perf_mmap__write_tail to perf.h

2011-01-22T21:56:29Z

Close to perf_mmap__read_head() and the perf_mmap struct definition. This is useful for any recorder, and we will need it in 'perf test'. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo