Pull perf/core improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
User visible:
* Improve 'perf probe' error messages, moving some diagnostic messages to
only appear in --verbose mode and fixing up some error reporting related
to variables and struct members. (Masami Hiramatsu)
* Reflow 'perf timechart' man page. (Stanislav Fomichev)
Developer stuff:
* Be more precise when reporting missing libraries in a static tool build.
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
* Show error messages from the multiple make invoked from 'make build-test'.
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In perf's 'mem-mode', one can get access to a whole bunch of details specific to a
particular sample instruction. A bunch of those details relate to the data
address.
One interesting thing you can do with data addresses is to convert them into a unique
cacheline they belong too. Organizing these data cachelines into similar groups and sorting
them can reveal cache contention.
This patch creates an alogorithm based on various sample details that can help group
entries together into data cachelines and allows 'perf report' to sort on it.
The algorithm relies on having proper mmap2 support in the kernel to help determine
if the memory map the data address belongs to is private to a pid or globally shared.
The alogortithm is as follows:
o group cpumodes together
o group entries with discovered maps together
o sort on major, minor, inode and inode generation numbers
o if userspace anon, then sort on pid
o sort on cachelines based on data addresses
The 'dcacheline' sort option in 'perf report' only works in 'mem-mode'.
Sample output:
#
# Samples: 206 of event 'cpu/mem-loads/pp'
# Total weight : 2534
# Sort order : dcacheline,pid
#
# Overhead Samples Data Cacheline Command: Pid
# ........ ............ ...................................................................... ..................
#
13.22% 1 [k] 0xffff88042f08ebc0 swapper: 0
9.27% 1 [k] 0xffff88082e8cea80 swapper: 0
3.59% 2 [k] 0xffffffff819ba180 swapper: 0
0.32% 1 [k] arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace_handler_na.23901+0xffffffffffffffe0 swapper: 0
0.32% 1 [k] timekeeper_seq+0xfffffffffffffff8 swapper: 0
Note: Added a '+1' to symlen size in hists__calc_col_len to prevent the next column
from prematurely tabbing over and mis-aligning. Not sure what the problem is.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401208087-181977-8-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
The --fields option is to allow user setup output field in any order.
It can receive any sort keys and following (hpp) fields:
overhead, overhead_sys, overhead_us, sample and period
If guest profiling is enabled, overhead_guest_{sys,us} will be
available too.
More more information, please see previous patch "perf report:
Add -F option to specify output fields"
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400480762-22852-15-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
The -F/--fields option is to allow user setup output field in any
order. It can receive any sort keys and following (hpp) fields:
overhead, overhead_sys, overhead_us, sample and period
If guest profiling is enabled, overhead_guest_{sys,us} will be
available too.
The output fields also affect sort order unless you give -s/--sort
option. And any keys specified on -s option, will also be added to
the output field list automatically.
$ perf report -F sym,sample,overhead
...
# Symbol Samples Overhead
# .......................... ............ ........
#
[.] __cxa_atexit 2 2.50%
[.] __libc_csu_init 4 5.00%
[.] __new_exitfn 3 3.75%
[.] _dl_check_map_versions 1 1.25%
[.] _dl_name_match_p 4 5.00%
[.] _dl_setup_hash 1 1.25%
[.] _dl_sysdep_start 1 1.25%
[.] _init 5 6.25%
[.] _setjmp 6 7.50%
[.] a 8 10.00%
[.] b 8 10.00%
[.] brk 1 1.25%
[.] c 8 10.00%
Note that, the example output above is captured after applying next
patch which fixes sort/comparing behavior.
Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400480762-22852-12-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
The --percentage option is for controlling overhead percentage
displayed. It can only receive either of "relative" or "absolute".
Move the parser callback function into a common location since it's
used by multiple commands now.
For more information, please see previous commit same thing done to
"perf report".
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397145720-8063-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
The --percentage option is for controlling overhead percentage
displayed. It can only receive either of "relative" or "absolute".
"relative" means it's relative to filtered entries only so that the
sum of shown entries will be always 100%. "absolute" means it retains
the original value before and after the filter is applied.
$ perf report -s comm
# Overhead Command
# ........ ............
#
74.19% cc1
7.61% gcc
6.11% as
4.35% sh
4.14% make
1.13% fixdep
...
$ perf report -s comm -c cc1,gcc --percentage absolute
# Overhead Command
# ........ ............
#
74.19% cc1
7.61% gcc
$ perf report -s comm -c cc1,gcc --percentage relative
# Overhead Command
# ........ ............
#
90.69% cc1
9.31% gcc
Note that it has zero effect if no filter was applied.
Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397145720-8063-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
perf stat has a --delay option to delay measuring the workload.
This is useful to skip measuring the startup phase of the program, which
is often very different from the main workload.
The same is useful for perf record when sampling.
--no-delay was already taken, so add a --initial-delay
to perf record too.
-D was already taken for record, so there is only a long option.
v2: Don't disable group members (Namhyung Kim)
v3: port to latest perf/core
rename to --initial-delay to avoid conflict with --no-delay
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389476307-2124-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
As there is no -v option for perf kvm, the all debug message for perf
kvm will nerver be printed out to user.
Example:
# perf kvm --guestmount /tmp/guestmount/ record -a
Not enough memory for reading perf file header
It is confusing message for newbies such as me. With this patch applied,
we can use -v option to get the detail.
Example:
# perf kvm --guestmount /tmp/guestmount/ record -a -v
Can't access file /tmp/guestmount//15069/proc/kallsyms
Not enough memory for reading perf file header
Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386609311-23889-1-git-send-email-yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add field 'srcline' that displays the source file name and line number
associated with the sample ip. The information displayed is the same as
from addr2line.
$ perf script -f comm,tid,pid,time,ip,sym,dso,symoff,srcline
grep 10701/10701 2497321.421013: ffffffff81043ffa native_write_msr_safe+0xa ([kernel.kallsyms])
/usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:95
grep 10701/10701 2497321.421984: ffffffff8165b6b3 _raw_spin_lock+0x13 ([kernel.kallsyms])
/usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h:54
grep 10701/10701 2497321.421990: ffffffff810b64b3 tick_sched_timer+0x53 ([kernel.kallsyms])
/usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/kernel/time/tick-sched.c:840
grep 10701/10701 2497321.421992: ffffffff8106f63f run_timer_softirq+0x2f ([kernel.kallsyms])
/usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/kernel/timer.c:1372
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.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 <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386315778-11633-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When callgraph data was included in the perf data file, it may take a
long time to scan all those data and merge them together especially if
the stored callchains are long and the perf data file itself is large,
like a Gbyte or so.
The callchain stack is currently limited to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH (127).
This is a large value. Usually the callgraph data that developers are
most interested in are the first few levels, the rests are usually not
looked at.
This patch adds a new --max-stack option to perf-report to limit the
depth of callchain stack data to look at to reduce the time it takes for
perf-report to finish its processing. It trades the presence of trailing
stack information with faster speed.
The following table shows the elapsed time of doing perf-report on a
perf.data file of size 985,531,828 bytes.
--max_stack Elapsed Time Output data size
----------- ------------ ----------------
not set 88.0s 124,422,651
64 87.5s 116,303,213
32 87.2s 112,023,804
16 86.6s 94,326,380
8 59.9s 33,697,248
4 40.7s 10,116,637
-g none 27.1s 2,555,810
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382107129-2010-4-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Initially it tries to find a probe:vfs_getname that should be setup
with:
perf probe 'vfs_getname=getname_flags:65 pathname=result->name:string'
or with slight changes to cope with code flux in the getname_flags code.
In the future, if a "vfs:getname" tracepoint becomes available, then it
will be preferred.
This is not strictly required and more expensive method of reading the
/proc/pid/fd/ symlink will be used when the fd->path array entry is not
populated by a previous vfs_getname + open syscall ret sequence.
As with any other 'perf probe' probe the setup must be done just once
and the probe will be left inactive, waiting for users, be it 'perf
trace' of any other tool.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.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-ujg8se8glq5izmu8cdkq15po@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
kcore can be used to view the running kernel object code. However,
kcore changes as modules are loaded and unloaded, and when the kernel
decides to modify its own code. Consequently it is useful to create a
copy of kcore at a particular time. Unlike vmlinux, kcore is not unique
for a given build-id. And in addition, the kallsyms and modules files
are also needed. The tool therefore creates a directory:
~/.debug/[kernel.kcore]/<build-id>/<YYYYmmddHHMMSShh>
which contains: kcore, kallsyms and modules.
Note that the copied kcore contains only code sections. See the
kcore_copy() function for how that is determined.
The tool will not make additional copies of kcore if there is already
one with the same modules at the same addresses.
Currently, perf tools will not look for kcore in the cache. That is
addressed in another patch.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
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 <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/525BF849.5030405@intel.com
[ renamed 'index' to 'idx' to avoid shadowing string.h symbol in f12,
use at least one member initializer when initializing a struct to
zeros, also to fix the build on f12 ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
