perf stat did initialize the stats structure used to compute
stddev etc. incorrectly. It merely zeroes it. But one member
(min) needs to be set to a non zero value. This causes min
to be not computed at all. Call init_stats() correctly.
It doesn't matter for stat currently because it doesn't use
min, but it's still better to do it correctly.
The other users of statistics are already correct.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395768699-16060-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
When starting a workload 'stat' wasn't using prepare_workload evlist
method's signal based exec() error reporting mechanism.
Use it so that the we don't report 'not counted' counters.
Before:
[acme@zoo linux]$ perf stat dfadsfa
dfadsfa: No such file or directory
Performance counter stats for 'dfadsfa':
<not counted> task-clock
<not counted> context-switches
<not counted> cpu-migrations
<not counted> page-faults
<not counted> cycles
<not counted> stalled-cycles-frontend
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
<not counted> instructions
<not counted> branches
<not counted> branch-misses
0.001831462 seconds time elapsed
[acme@zoo linux]$
After:
[acme@zoo linux]$ perf stat dfadsfa
dfadsfa: No such file or directory
[acme@zoo linux]$
Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
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: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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-5yui3bv7e3hitxucnjsn6z8q@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds perf stat support for handling event units and
scales as exported by the kernel.
The kernel can export PMU events actual unit and scaling factor
via sysfs:
$ ls -1 /sys/devices/power/events/energy-*
/sys/devices/power/events/energy-cores
/sys/devices/power/events/energy-cores.scale
/sys/devices/power/events/energy-cores.unit
/sys/devices/power/events/energy-pkg
/sys/devices/power/events/energy-pkg.scale
/sys/devices/power/events/energy-pkg.unit
$ cat /sys/devices/power/events/energy-cores.scale
2.3283064365386962890625e-10
$ cat cat /sys/devices/power/events/energy-cores.unit
Joules
This patch modifies the pmu event alias code to check
for the presence of the .unit and .scale files to load
the corresponding values. They are then used by perf stat
transparently:
# perf stat -a -e power/energy-pkg/,power/energy-cores/,cycles -I 1000 sleep 1000
# time counts unit events
1.000214717 3.07 Joules power/energy-pkg/ [100.00%]
1.000214717 0.53 Joules power/energy-cores/
1.000214717 12965028 cycles [100.00%]
2.000749289 3.01 Joules power/energy-pkg/
2.000749289 0.52 Joules power/energy-cores/
2.000749289 15817043 cycles
When the event does not have an explicit unit exported by
the kernel, nothing is printed. In csv output mode, there
will be an empty field.
Special thanks to Jiri for providing the supporting code
in the parser to trigger reading of the scale and unit files.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384275531-10892-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When only the instructions event is requested:
$ perf stat -e instructions git s
M builtin-stat.c
Performance counter stats for 'git s':
917,453,420 instructions # 0.00 insns per cycle
0.213002926 seconds time elapsed
The 0.00 insns per cycle comment in the output is totally bogus and
misleading. It happens because update_shadow_stats() doesn't touch
runtime_cycles_stats when only the instructions event is requested. So,
omit printing the bogus data altogether.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: 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/1380616604-4077-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When only the cycles event is requested:
$ perf stat -e cycles dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=1000000
1000000+0 records in
1000000+0 records out
512000000 bytes (512 MB) copied, 0.26123 s, 2.0 GB/s
Performance counter stats for 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=1000000':
911,626,453 cycles # 0.000 GHz
0.262113350 seconds time elapsed
The 0.000 GHz comment in the output is totally bogus and misleading. It
happens because update_shadow_stats() doesn't touch runtime_nsecs_stats;
it is only written when a requested counter matches a SW_TASK_CLOCK. In
our case, since we have only requested HW_CPU_CYCLES,
runtime_nsecs_stats is unavailable. So, omit printing the comment
altogether.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: 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/1380539585-23859-3-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add support to perf stat to print the basic transactional execution statistics:
Total cycles, Cycles in Transaction, Cycles in aborted transsactions
using the in_tx and in_tx_checkpoint qualifiers.
Transaction Starts and Elision Starts, to compute the average transaction
length.
This is a reasonable overview over the success of the transactions.
Also support architectures that have a transaction aborted cycles
counter like POWER8. Since that is awkward to handle in the kernel
abstract handle both cases here.
Enable with a new --transaction / -T option.
This requires measuring these events in a group, since they depend on each
other.
This is implemented by using TM sysfs events exported by the kernel
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377128846-977-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When measuring workloads the startup phase -- doing page faults, dynamic
linking, opening files -- is often very different from the rest of the
workload. Especially with smaller kernels and using counter
multiplexing this can give significant measurement errors.
Multiplexing assumes that the workload is mostly the same over longer
periods. But at startup there is typically some spike of activity which
is relatively short. If many groups are multiplexing the one group
seeing the spike, and which is then scaled up over the time to run all
groups, may see a significant error.
Also in general it's often not useful to measure the startup, because it
is so different from the rest.
One way around this is to use interval mode and discard the first
sample, but this can be awkward because interval mode doesn't support
intervals of less than 100ms, and also a useful interval is not
necessarily the same as a useful startup delay.
This patch adds a new --initial-delay / -D option to skip measuring for
the startup phase. The time can be specified in ms
Here's a simple example:
perf stat -e page-faults bash -c 'for i in $(seq 100000) ; do true ; done'
...
3,721 page-faults
...
If we just wait 20 ms the number of page faults is 1/3 less:
perf stat -D 20 -e page-faults bash -c 'for i in $(seq 100000) ; do true ; done'
...
2,823 page-faults
...
So we filtered out most of the startup noise from bash.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375490473-1503-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch fixes a problem with perf stat whereby on termination it may
send a SIGTERM signal to random processes on systems with high PID
recycling. I got some actual bug reports on this.
There is race between the SIGCHLD and sig_atexit() handlers. This patch
addresses this problem by clearing child_pid in the SIGCHLD handler.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130604154426.GA2928@quad
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds the --per-core option to perf stat.
This option is used to aggregate system-wide counts
on a per physical core basis. On processors with
hyperthreading, this means counts of all HT threads
running on a physical core are aggregated.
This mode is useful to find imblance between physical
cores running an uniform workload. Cores are identified
by socket: S0-C1, means physical core 1 on socket 0. Note
that cores are identified using their physical core id,
thus their numbering may not be continuous.
Per core aggregation can be combined with interval printing:
# perf stat -a --per-core -I 1000 -e cycles sleep 1000
# time core cpus counts events
1.000090030 S0-C0 1 4,765,747 cycles
1.000090030 S0-C1 1 5,580,647 cycles
1.000090030 S0-C2 1 221,181 cycles
1.000090030 S0-C3 1 266,092 cycles
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360846649-6411-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
[ committer note: Remove parts already applied on 86ee6e1 to keep bisectability ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds per-processor socket count aggregation for system-wide
mode measurements. This is a useful mode to detect imbalance between
sockets.
To enable this mode, use --aggr-socket in addition
to -a. (system-wide).
The output includes the socket number and the number of online
processors on that socket. This is useful to gauge the amount of
aggregation.
# ./perf stat -I 1000 -a --aggr-socket -e cycles sleep 2
# time socket cpus counts events
1.000097680 S0 4 5,788,785 cycles
2.000379943 S0 4 27,361,546 cycles
2.001167808 S0 4 818,275 cycles
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360161962-9675-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
[ committer note: Added missing man page entry based on above comments ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds a new printing mode for perf stat. It allows interval
printing. That means perf stat can now print event deltas at regular
time interval. This is useful to detect phases in programs.
The -I option enables interval printing. It expects an interval duration
in milliseconds. Minimum is 100ms. Once, activated perf stat prints
events deltas since last printout. All modes are supported.
$ perf stat -I 1000 -e cycles noploop 10
noploop for 10 seconds
# time counts events
1.000109853 2,388,560,546 cycles
2.000262846 2,393,332,358 cycles
3.000354131 2,393,176,537 cycles
4.000439503 2,393,203,790 cycles
5.000527075 2,393,167,675 cycles
6.000609052 2,393,203,670 cycles
7.000691082 2,393,175,678 cycles
The output format makes it easy to feed into a plotting program such as
gnuplot when the -I option is used in combination with the -x option:
$ perf stat -x, -I 1000 -e cycles noploop 10
noploop for 10 seconds
1.000084113,2378775498,cycles
2.000245798,2391056897,cycles
3.000354445,2392089414,cycles
4.000459115,2390936603,cycles
5.000565341,2392108173,cycles
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359460064-3060-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fixing events attributes for groups defined via '{}'.
Currently 'enable_on_exec' attribute in record command and both
'disabled ' and 'enable_on_exec' attributes in stat command are set
based on the 'group' option. This eliminates proper setup for '{}'
defined groups as they don't set 'group' option.
Making above attributes values based on the 'evsel->leader' as this is
common to both group definition.
Moving perf_evlist__set_leader call within builtin-record ahead
perf_evlist__config_attrs call, because the latter needs possible group
leader links in place.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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/1352741644-16809-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In order to measure kernel builds, one has to do some pre/post cleanup
work in order to do the repeat build.
So provide --pre and --post command hooks to allow doing just that.
perf stat --repeat 10 --null --sync --pre 'make -s O=defconfig-build/clean' \
-- make -s -j64 O=defconfig-build/ bzImage
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1350992414.13456.5.camel@twins
[ committer note: Added respective entries in Documentation/perf-stat.txt ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf defines both __used and __unused variables to use for marking
unused variables. The variable __used is defined to
__attribute__((__unused__)), which contradicts the kernel definition to
__attribute__((__used__)) for new gcc versions. On Android, __used is
also defined in system headers and this leads to warnings like: warning:
'__used__' attribute ignored
__unused is not defined in the kernel and is not a standard definition.
If __unused is included everywhere instead of __used, this leads to
conflicts with glibc headers, since glibc has a variables with this name
in its headers.
The best approach is to use __maybe_unused, the definition used in the
kernel for __attribute__((unused)). In this way there is only one
definition in perf sources (instead of 2 definitions that point to the
same thing: __used and __unused) and it works on both Linux and Android.
This patch simply replaces all instances of __used and __unused with
__maybe_unused.
Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347315303-29906-7-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@intel.com
[ committer note: fixed up conflict with a116e05 in builtin-sched.c ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Just like was done for parse_events__set_leader.
Also we need to have the list_entry set_leader method in evlist.c so that we
don't grow another dep in the python binding:
# ~acme/git/linux/tools/perf/python/twatch.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf/python/twatch.py", line 16, in <module>
import perf
ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: parse_events__set_leader
And also remove a pr_debug from evsel.c so that we avoid this one too:
# ~acme/git/linux/tools/perf/python/twatch.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf/python/twatch.py", line 16, in <module>
import perf
ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: eprintf
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.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 <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0hk9dazg9pora9jylkqngovm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch adds a functionality that allows to create event groups
based on the way they are specified on the command line. Adding
functionality to the '{}' group syntax introduced in earlier patch.
The current '--group/-g' option behaviour remains intact. If you
specify it for record/stat/top command, all the specified events
become members of a single group with the first event as a group
leader.
With the new '{}' group syntax you can create group like:
# perf record -e '{cycles,faults}' ls
resulting in single event group containing 'cycles' and 'faults'
events, with cycles event as group leader.
All groups are created with regards to threads and cpus. Thus
recording an event group within a 2 threads on server with
4 CPUs will create 8 separate groups.
Examples (first event in brackets is group leader):
# 1 group (cpu-clock,task-clock)
perf record --group -e cpu-clock,task-clock ls
perf record -e '{cpu-clock,task-clock}' ls
# 2 groups (cpu-clock,task-clock) (minor-faults,major-faults)
perf record -e '{cpu-clock,task-clock},{minor-faults,major-faults}' ls
# 1 group (cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults)
perf record --group -e cpu-clock,task-clock -e minor-faults,major-faults ls
perf record -e '{cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults}' ls
# 2 groups (cpu-clock,task-clock) (minor-faults,major-faults)
perf record -e '{cpu-clock,task-clock} -e '{minor-faults,major-faults}' \
-e instructions ls
# 1 group
# (cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults,instructions)
perf record --group -e cpu-clock,task-clock \
-e minor-faults,major-faults -e instructions ls perf record -e
'{cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults,instructions}' ls
It's possible to use standard event modifier for a group, which spans
over all events in the group and updates each event modifier settings,
for example:
# perf record -r '{faults:k,cache-references}:p'
resulting in ':kp' modifier being used for 'faults' and ':p' modifier
being used for 'cache-references' event.
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
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>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ho42u0wcr8mn1otkalqi13qp@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull perf improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
* Replace event_name with perf_evsel__name, that handles the event
modifiers and doesn't use static variables.
* GTK browser improvements, from Namhyung Kim
* Fix possible NULL pointer deref in the TUI annotate browser, from
Samuel Liao
* Add sort by source file:line number, using addr2line.
* Allow printing histogram text snapshots at any point in top/report.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
