Adding 'wdiff' as new computation way to compare hist entries.
If specified the 'Weighted diff' column is displayed with value 'd'
computed as:
d = B->period * WEIGHT-A - A->period * WEIGHT-B
- A/B being matching hist entry from first/second file specified
(or perf.data/perf.data.old) respectively.
- period being the hist entry period value
- WEIGHT-A/WEIGHT-B being user suplied weights in the the '-c' option
behind ':' separator like '-c wdiff:1,2'.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Adding -c option to select computation method with the current 'Delta'
computation as default. Current possible values are of this option are:
'delta' and 'ratio'.
Adding 'ratio' as new computation way to compare hist entries. If
specified the 'Ratio' column is displayed with value 'r' computed as:
r = A->period / B->period
with:
- A/B being matching hist entry from first/second file specified
(or perf.data/perf.data.old) respectively.
- period being the hist entry period value
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Adding -b option to perf diff command to display only entries with match
in the baseline.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349448287-18919-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Initially should look loosely like the venerable 'strace' tool, but
using the infrastructure in the perf tools to allow tracing extra
targets:
[acme@sandy linux]$ perf trace --hell
Error: unknown option `hell'
usage: perf trace <PID>
-p, --pid <pid> trace events on existing process id
--tid <tid> trace events on existing thread id
--all-cpus system-wide collection from all CPUs
--cpu <cpu> list of cpus to monitor
--no-inherit child tasks do not inherit counters
--mmap-pages <n> number of mmap data pages
--uid <user> user to profile
[acme@sandy linux]$
Those should have the same semantics as when using with 'perf record'.
It gets stuck sometimes, but hey, it works sometimes too!
In time it should support perf.data based workloads, i.e. it should have
a:
-o filename
Command line option that will produce a perf.data file that can then be
used with 'perf trace' or any of the other perf tools (script, report,
etc).
It will also eventually have the set of functionalities described in the
previous 'trace' prototype by Thomas Gleixner:
"Announcing a new utility: 'trace'"
http://lwn.net/Articles/415728/
Also planned is to have some of the features suggested in the comments
of that LWN article.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v9x3q9rv4caxtox7wtjpchq5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add 'perf kvm stat' support to analyze kvm vmexit/mmio/ioport smartly
Usage:
- kvm stat
run a command and gather performance counter statistics, it is the alias of
perf stat
- trace kvm events:
perf kvm stat record, or, if other tracepoints are interesting as well, we
can append the events like this:
perf kvm stat record -e timer:* -a
If many guests are running, we can track the specified guest by using -p or
--pid, -a is used to track events generated by all guests.
- show the result:
perf kvm stat report
The output example is following:
13005
13059
total 2 guests are running on the host
Then, track the guest whose pid is 13059:
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.253 MB perf.data.guest (~11065 samples) ]
See the vmexit events:
Analyze events for all VCPUs:
VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Avg time
APIC_ACCESS 460 70.55% 0.01% 22.44us ( +- 1.75% )
HLT 93 14.26% 99.98% 832077.26us ( +- 10.42% )
EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT 64 9.82% 0.00% 35.35us ( +- 14.21% )
PENDING_INTERRUPT 24 3.68% 0.00% 9.29us ( +- 31.39% )
CR_ACCESS 7 1.07% 0.00% 8.12us ( +- 5.76% )
IO_INSTRUCTION 3 0.46% 0.00% 18.00us ( +- 11.79% )
EXCEPTION_NMI 1 0.15% 0.00% 5.83us ( +- -nan% )
Total Samples:652, Total events handled time:77396109.80us.
See the mmio events:
Analyze events for all VCPUs:
MMIO Access Samples Samples% Time% Avg time
0xfee00380:W 387 84.31% 79.28% 8.29us ( +- 3.32% )
0xfee00300:W 24 5.23% 9.96% 16.79us ( +- 1.97% )
0xfee00300:R 24 5.23% 7.83% 13.20us ( +- 3.00% )
0xfee00310:W 24 5.23% 2.93% 4.94us ( +- 3.84% )
Total Samples:459, Total events handled time:4044.59us.
See the ioport event:
Analyze events for all VCPUs:
IO Port Access Samples Samples% Time% Avg time
0xc050:POUT 3 100.00% 100.00% 13.75us ( +- 10.83% )
Total Samples:3, Total events handled time:41.26us.
And, --vcpu is used to track the specified vcpu and --key is used to sort the
result:
Analyze events for VCPU 0:
VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Avg time
HLT 27 13.85% 99.97% 405790.24us ( +- 12.70% )
EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT 13 6.67% 0.00% 27.94us ( +- 22.26% )
APIC_ACCESS 146 74.87% 0.03% 21.69us ( +- 2.91% )
IO_INSTRUCTION 2 1.03% 0.00% 17.77us ( +- 20.56% )
CR_ACCESS 2 1.03% 0.00% 8.55us ( +- 6.47% )
PENDING_INTERRUPT 5 2.56% 0.00% 6.27us ( +- 3.94% )
Total Samples:195, Total events handled time:10959950.90us.
Signed-off-by: Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Dong Hao <haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
- rebase it on current acme's tree
- fix the compiling-error on i386 ]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347870675-31495-4-git-send-email-haodong@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When analyzing perf data from hosts of other architecture than one of
the local host it's useful to call objdump that is part of a toolchain
for that architecture. Instead of calling regular objdump, call one that
user specified in command line.
Signed-off-by: Maciek Borzecki <maciek.borzecki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346754750.16299.3.camel@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add a description of the JIT interface in the perf symbol resolution
code. I reverse engineered the format from the source.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344526260-18721-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It was missing that only certain bit fields are passed to the config
value which confused users. Updating it.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361396-7237-6-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fixes the following:
+ make OUTPUT=/.../.build/perf-user/ DESTDIR=/.../.install/perf-user/ man install-man
make -C Documentation man
make[1]: Entering directory `/.../.source/linux.perf/tools/perf/Documentation'
make[2]: Entering directory `/.../.source/linux.perf/tools/perf'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `PERF-VERSION-FILE'. Stop.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361396-7237-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
As Namhyung Kim pointed, there are confused namings and descriptions of words
"cycle" and "clock" in mem-memset.c and mem-memcpy.c.
With the option "-c" (or "--clock", now renamed as "--cycle"), mem subsystem
measures cost of memset() and memcpy() with cpu-cycles event.
But current mem subsystem source code contains lots of confused variable
namings and descriptions with "clock" (e.g. the variable use_clock). This is a
very bad style because there is another software event named "cpu-clock". This
patch replaces wrong usage of "clock" to "cycle".
v2: modified Documentation/perf-bench.txt for the descriptions of
--cycle option
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341236777-18457-1-git-send-email-h.mitake@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The current perf-bench documentation has a couple of typos and even
lacks entire description of mem subsystem. Fix it.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340172486-17805-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar.
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
perf ui browser: Stop using 'self'
perf annotate browser: Read perf config file for settings
perf config: Allow '_' in config file variable names
perf annotate browser: Make feature toggles global
perf annotate browser: The idx_asm field should be used in asm only view
perf tools: Convert critical messages to ui__error()
perf ui: Make --stdio default when TUI is not supported
tools lib traceevent: Silence compiler warning on 32bit build
perf record: Fix branch_stack type in perf_record_opts
perf tools: Reconstruct event with modifiers from perf_event_attr
perf top: Fix counter name fixup when fallbacking to cpu-clock
perf tools: fix thread_map__new_by_pid_str() memory leak in error path
perf tools: Do not use _FORTIFY_SOURCE when DEBUG=1 is specified
tools lib traceevent: Fix signature of create_arg_item()
tools lib traceevent: Use proper function parameter type
tools lib traceevent: Fix freeing arg on process_dynamic_array()
tools lib traceevent: Fix a possibly wrong memory dereference
tools lib traceevent: Fix a possible memory leak
tools lib traceevent: Allow expressions in __print_symbolic() fields
perf evlist: Explicititely initialize input_name
...
Pull user-space probe instrumentation from Ingo Molnar:
"The uprobes code originates from SystemTap and has been used for years
in Fedora and RHEL kernels. This version is much rewritten, reviews
from PeterZ, Oleg and myself shaped the end result.
This tree includes uprobes support in 'perf probe' - but SystemTap
(and other tools) can take advantage of user probe points as well.
Sample usage of uprobes via perf, for example to profile malloc()
calls without modifying user-space binaries.
First boot a new kernel with CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT=y enabled.
If you don't know which function you want to probe you can pick one
from 'perf top' or can get a list all functions that can be probed
within libc (binaries can be specified as well):
$ perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6
To probe libc's malloc():
$ perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc
Added new event:
probe_libc:malloc (on 0x7eac0)
You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 1
Make use of it to create a call graph (as the flat profile is going to
look very boring):
$ perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -gR make
[ perf record: Woken up 173 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 44.190 MB perf.data (~1930712
$ perf report | less
32.03% git libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
29.49% cc1 libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
|
|--0.95%-- 0x208eb1000000000
|
|--0.63%-- htab_traverse_noresize
11.04% as libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
|
7.15% ld libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
|
5.07% sh libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
|
4.99% python-config libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
|
4.54% make libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
|
--- malloc
|
|--7.34%-- glob
| |
| |--93.18%-- 0x41588f
| |
| --6.82%-- glob
| 0x41588f
...
Or:
$ perf report -g flat | less
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ............. ............. ..........
#
32.03% git libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
27.19%
malloc
29.49% cc1 libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
24.77%
malloc
11.04% as libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
11.02%
malloc
7.15% ld libc-2.15.so [.] malloc
6.57%
malloc
...
The core uprobes design is fairly straightforward: uprobes probe
points register themselves at (inode:offset) addresses of
libraries/binaries, after which all existing (or new) vmas that map
that address will have a software breakpoint injected at that address.
vmas are COW-ed to preserve original content. The probe points are
kept in an rbtree.
If user-space executes the probed inode:offset instruction address
then an event is generated which can be recovered from the regular
perf event channels and mmap-ed ring-buffer.
Multiple probes at the same address are supported, they create a
dynamic callback list of event consumers.
The basic model is further complicated by the XOL speedup: the
original instruction that is probed is copied (in an architecture
specific fashion) and executed out of line when the probe triggers.
The XOL area is a single vma per process, with a fixed number of
entries (which limits probe execution parallelism).
The API: uprobes are installed/removed via
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events, the API is integrated to
align with the kprobes interface as much as possible, but is separate
to it.
Injecting a probe point is privileged operation, which can be relaxed
by setting perf_paranoid to -1.
You can use multiple probes as well and mix them with kprobes and
regular PMU events or tracepoints, when instrumenting a task."
Fix up trivial conflicts in mm/memory.c due to previous cleanup of
unmap_single_vma().
* 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absent
perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes
tracing: Fix kconfig warning due to a typo
tracing: Provide trace events interface for uprobes
tracing: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes trace events
tracing: Modify is_delete, is_return from int to bool
uprobes/core: Decrement uprobe count before the pages are unmapped
uprobes/core: Make background page replacement logic account for rss_stat counters
uprobes/core: Optimize probe hits with the help of a counter
uprobes/core: Allocate XOL slots for uprobes use
uprobes/core: Handle breakpoint and singlestep exceptions
uprobes/core: Rename bkpt to swbp
uprobes/core: Make order of function parameters consistent across functions
uprobes/core: Make macro names consistent
uprobes: Update copyright notices
uprobes/core: Move insn to arch specific structure
uprobes/core: Remove uprobe_opcode_sz
uprobes/core: Make instruction tables volatile
uprobes: Move to kernel/events/
uprobes/core: Clean up, refactor and improve the code
...
There was no easy way to see the frequency used, and with the change of
default, we better provide one.
[root@sandy linux]# perf evlist -F
cycles: sample_freq=4000
[root@sandy linux]# perf evlist -v
cycles: sample_freq=4000, size: 80, sample_type: 391, read_format: 7, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1
[root@sandy linux]#
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e1p9poez3nwrgycbmwqmhlsu@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Options -m and -x explicitly allow tracing of modules / user space
binaries. In absense of these options, check if the first argument can
be used as a target.
perf probe /bin/zsh zfree is equivalent to perf probe -x /bin/zsh zfree.
Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120416120925.30661.40409.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
- Enhances perf to probe user space executables and libraries.
- Enhances -F/--funcs option of "perf probe" to list possible probe points in
an executable file or library.
- Documents userspace probing support in perf.
[ Probing a function in the executable using function name ]
perf probe -x /bin/zsh zfree
[ Probing a library function using function name ]
perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc
[ list probe-able functions in an executable ]
perf probe -F -x /bin/zsh
[ list probe-able functions in an library]
perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120416120909.30661.99781.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
And by default use "magenta" for it.
Both the --stdio and --tui routines follow the same semantics.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ede5zkaf7oorwvbqjezb4yg4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds a simple GTK2-based browser to 'perf report' that's
based on the TTY-based browser in builtin-report.c.
To launch "perf report" using the new GTK interface just type:
$ perf report --gtk
The interface is somewhat limited in features at the moment:
- No callgraph support
- No KVM guest profiling support
- No color coding for percentages
- No sorting from the UI
- ..and many, many more!
That said, I think this patch a reasonable start to build future features on.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1202231952410.6689@tux.localdomain
[ committer note: Added #pragma to make gtk no strict prototype problem go
away as suggested by Colin Walters modulo avoiding push/pop ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch chanegs the logic of the -b, --branch-stack options
of perf record.
Based on users' request, the patch provides a default filter
mode with the -b (or --branch-any) option. With the option,
any type of taken branches is sampled.
With -j (or --branch-filter), the user can specify any
valid combination of branch types and privilege levels
if supported by the underlying hardware.
The -b (--branch any) is a shortcut for: --branch-filter any.
$ perf record -b foo
or:
$ perf record --branch-filter any foo
For more specific filtering:
$ perf record --branch-filter ind_call,u foo
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331246868-19905-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds support for taken branch sampling, i.e, the
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK feature to perf report. In other
words, to display histograms based on taken branches rather
than executed instructions addresses.
The new option is called -b and it takes no argument. To
generate meaningful output, the perf.data must have been
obtained using perf record -b xxx ... where xxx is a branch
filter option.
The output shows symbols, modules, sorted by 'who branches
where' the most often. The percentages reported in the first
column refer to the total number of branches captured and
not the usual number of samples.
Here is a quick example.
Here branchy is simple test program which looks as follows:
void f2(void)
{}
void f3(void)
{}
void f1(unsigned long n)
{
if (n & 1UL)
f2();
else
f3();
}
int main(void)
{
unsigned long i;
for (i=0; i < N; i++)
f1(i);
return 0;
}
Here is the output captured on Nehalem, if we are
only interested in user level function calls.
$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy
$ perf report -b --sort=symbol
52.34% [.] main [.] f1
24.04% [.] f1 [.] f3
23.60% [.] f1 [.] f2
0.01% [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn [k] _IO_file_overflow
0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn
0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] strchrnul
0.01% [k] __printf [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal
0.01% [k] main [k] __printf
About half (52%) of the call branches captured are from main()
-> f1(). The second half (24%+23%) is split in two equal shares
between f1() -> f2(), f1() ->f3(). The output is as expected
given the code.
It should be noted, that using -b in perf record does not
eliminate information in the perf.data file. Consequently, a
typical profile can also be obtained by perf report by simply
not using its -b option.
It is possible to sort on branch related columns:
- dso_from, symbol_from
- dso_to, symbol_to
- mispredict
Signed-off-by: Roberto Agostino Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-14-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds a new option to enable taken branch stack
sampling, i.e., leverage the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK feature
of perf_events.
There is a new option to active this mode: -b.
It is possible to pass a set of filters to select the type of
branches to sample.
The following filters are available:
- any : any type of branches
- any_call : any function call or system call
- any_ret : any function return or system call return
- any_ind : any indirect branch
- u: only when the branch target is at the user level
- k: only when the branch target is in the kernel
- hv: only when the branch target is in the hypervisor
Filters can be combined by passing a comma separated list
to the option:
$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy
Signed-off-by: Roberto Agostino Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-13-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Allow a user to collect events for multiple threads or processes
using a comma separated list.
e.g., collect data on a VM and its vhost thread:
perf top -p 21483,21485
perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
perf record -p 21483,21485
or monitoring vcpu threads
perf top -t 21488,21489
perf stat -t 21488,21489 -ddd
perf record -t 21488,21489
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328718772-16688-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently we can put the object files in a different directory by using
'O=' comand line argument.
However the generated documentation files don't honor this directive,
This patch fixes that. It's been tested for man target but the others
seems currently broken so no tests have been done on them so far.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328541443-18003-1-git-send-email-fbuihuu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The commit 26242d859c ("perf lock: Add "info" subcommand for dumping
misc information") added the subcommand but missed documentation. Add
it. Also update stale 'trace' subcommand to 'script'.
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327827356-8786-5-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add the option get the path of [kernel.kallsyms].
Specify '--show-kernel-path' option to use this function.
This patch enables other applications to use this output easily.
Without --show-kernel-path option
ffffffff81467612 irq_return ([kernel.kallsyms])
ffffffff81467612 irq_return ([kernel.kallsyms])
7f24fc02a6b3 _start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so)
[snip]
With --show-kernel-path option
ffffffff81467612 irq_return (/lib/modules/3.2.0+/build/vmlinux)
ffffffff81467612 irq_return (/lib/modules/3.2.0+/build/vmlinux)
7f24fc02a6b3 _start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so)
[snip]
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120130044320.2384.73322.stgit@linux3
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Nagai <akihiro.nagai.hw@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The new --uid command line option will show only the tasks for a given
user, using the proc interface to figure out the existing tasks.
Kernel work is needed to close races at startup, but this should already
be useful in many use cases.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bdnspm000gw2l984a2t53o8z@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
perf tools: Fix compile error on x86_64 Ubuntu
perf report: Fix --stdio output alignment when --showcpuutilization used
perf annotate: Get rid of field_sep check
perf annotate: Fix usage string
perf kmem: Fix a memory leak
perf kmem: Add missing closedir() calls
perf top: Add error message for EMFILE
perf test: Change type of '-v' option to INCR
perf script: Add missing closedir() calls
tracing: Fix compile error when static ftrace is enabled
recordmcount: Fix handling of elf64 big-endian objects.
perf tools: Add const.h to MANIFEST to make perf-tar-src-pkg work again
perf tools: Add support for guest/host-only profiling
perf kvm: Do guest-only counting by default
perf top: Don't update total_period on process_sample
perf hists: Stop using 'self' for struct hist_entry
perf hists: Rename total_session to total_period
x86: Add counter when debug stack is used with interrupts enabled
x86: Allow NMIs to hit breakpoints in i386
x86: Keep current stack in NMI breakpoints
...
To restrict a counter to either host or guest mode this patch introduces
two new event modifiers: G and H.
With G the counter is configured in guest-only mode and with H in
host-only mode.
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-or5aj3rghy9ngyg882z6kln9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The default input file for perf report is not handled the same way as
perf record does it for its output file. This leads to unexpected
behavior of perf report, etc. E.g.:
# perf record -a -e cpu-cycles sleep 2 | perf report | cat
failed to open perf.data: No such file or directory (try 'perf record' first)
While perf record writes to a fifo, perf report expects perf.data to be
read. This patch changes this to accept fifos as input file.
Applies to the following commands:
perf annotate
perf buildid-list
perf evlist
perf kmem
perf lock
perf report
perf sched
perf script
perf timechart
Also fixes char const* -> const char* type declaration for filename
strings.
v2:
* Prevent potential null pointer access to input_name in
builtin-report.c. Needed due to removal of patch "perf report: Setup
browser if stdout is a pipe"
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Now that we automatically point users at it, let's provide them some
guidance so that they hopefully don't just get mysterious EINVAL's
from the kernel.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324301972-22740-4-git-send-email-nelhage@nelhage.com
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com>
[ committer note: Made it work after 50a682c ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The '--call-graph' command line option can receive undocumented optional
print_limit argument. Besides, use strtoul() to parse the option since
its type is u32.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-2-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To obtain a list of available tests:
[root@emilia linux]# perf test list
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms
2: detect open syscall event
3: detect open syscall event on all cpus
4: read samples using the mmap interface
5: parse events tests
[root@emilia linux]#
To list just a subset:
[root@emilia linux]# perf test list syscall
2: detect open syscall event
3: detect open syscall event on all cpus
[root@emilia linux]#
To run a subset:
[root@emilia linux]# perf test detect
2: detect open syscall event: Ok
3: detect open syscall event on all cpus: Ok
[root@emilia linux]#
Specific tests can be chosen by number:
[root@emilia linux]# perf test 1 3 parse
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
3: detect open syscall event on all cpus: Ok
5: parse events tests: Ok
[root@emilia linux]#
Now to write more tests!
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nqec2145qfxdgimux28aw7v8@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Allows collecting events system wide and then pulling out events for a
specific task name(s). e.g,
perf script -c gnome-shell,gnome-terminal
Applies on top of:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/13/74
v2->v3
- update Documentation
v1->v2
- use comm_list from symbol_conf
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321894972-24246-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently the meaning of -C varies by perf command: for perf-top,
perf-stat, perf-record it means cpu list. For perf-report it means comm
list. Then perf-annotate, perf-report and perf-script use -c for cpu
list.
Fix annotate, report and script to use -C for cpu list to be consistent
with top, stat and record. This means report needs to use -c for comm
list which does introduce a backward compatibility change.
v1 -> v2
- update perf-script.txt too
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321209008-7004-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Just use as a starting point the "[colors]" section of
tools/perf/Documentation/perfconfig.example.
Changed the colors to be the ones in the old perf tool if used in a green on
black xterm.
The next patches should allow using the colors configured for the xterm.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3vqmyerkaqltqolmnlehonew@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
And add the annotation output knobs to all the tools that have
integrated annotation (top, report).
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gnlob67mke6sji2kf4nstp7m@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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 <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110930134040.GA5575@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ 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 <acme@redhat.com>
Just like in 'perf report', but live.
Still needs to decay the callchains, but already somewhat useful as-is.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cj3rmaf5jpsvi3v0tf7t4uvp@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Jiri Olsa