By default 'perf script' for itrace outputs sampled instructions or
branches. In my experience this is confusing to users because it's hard
to correlate with real program behavior. The sampling makes sense for
tools like 'perf report' that actually sample to reduce the run time,
but run time is normally not a problem for 'perf script'. It's better
to give an accurate representation of the program flow.
Default 'perf script' to output all calls for itrace. That's a much saner
default. The old behavior can be still requested with 'perf script'
--itrace=ibxwpe100000
v2: Fix ETM build failure
v3: Really fix ETM build failure (Kim Phillips)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180920180540.14039-3-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Out of thread__find_add_map(..., MAP__FUNCTION, ...), idea here is to
continue removing references to MAP__{FUNCTION,VARIABLE} ahead of
getting both types of symbols in the same rbtree, as various places do
two lookups, looking first at MAP__FUNCTION, then at MAP__VARIABLE.
So thread__find_map() will eventually do just that, and 'struct symbol'
will have the symbol type, for code that cares about that.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-q27xee34l4izpfau49w103s6@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Intel PT code already has some preparation for AUX area sampling mode.
However the implementation has changed from the first proposal and one
of the side-effects is that it will not be impossible to support snapshot
mode and sampling mode at the same time.
Although there are no plans to support it, let validation (not yet
implemented) control whether it is allowed rather than low-level
functions.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520431349-30689-9-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
intel_pt_get_trace() fixes overlaps between the current buffer and the
previous buffer ('old_buffer').
However the previous buffer might not have had usable data (no PSB) so
the comparison must be made against the previous buffer that had usable
data.
Tidy that by keeping a pointer for that purpose in struct intel_pt_queue.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520431349-30689-8-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
sync_switch is a facility to synchronize decoding more closely with the
point in the kernel when the context actually switched.
The flag when sync_switch is enabled was global to the decoding, whereas
it is really specific to the CPU.
The trace data for different CPUs is put on different queues, so add
sync_switch to the intel_pt_queue structure and use that in preference
to the global setting in the intel_pt structure.
That fixes problems decoding one CPU's trace because sync_switch was
disabled on a different CPU's queue.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520431349-30689-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Synthesize new power and ptwrite events.
Power events report changes to C-state but I have also added support
for the existing CBR (core-to-bus ratio) packet and included that
when outputting power events.
The PTWRITE packet is associated with the new "ptwrite" instruction,
which is essentially just a way to stuff a 32 or 64 bit value into the
PT trace.
More details can be found in the patches that add documentation and in
the Intel SDM.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498811805-2335-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
[ Copy the description of such packet from the patchkit cover message ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The kernel now supports the disabling of branch tracing, however the
decoder assumes branch tracing is always enabled. Pass through a parameter
to indicate whether branch tracing is enabled and use it to avoid cases
when the decoder is expecting branch packets. There are 2 such cases.
First, FUP packets which can bind to an IP even when there is no branch
tracing. Secondly, the decoder will try to use branch packets to find an IP
to start decoding or to recover from errors.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495786658-18063-11-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Previously these were being ignored, sometimes silently.
Stop doing that, emitting debug messages and handling the errors.
Testing it:
$ cat ~/.perfconfig
cat: /home/acme/.perfconfig: No such file or directory
$ perf stat -e cycles usleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':
938,996 cycles:u
0.003813731 seconds time elapsed
$ perf top --stdio
Error:
You may not have permission to collect system-wide stats.
Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid,
<SNIP>
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
[acme@jouet linux]$ perf report --stdio
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ................. .........................
71.77% usleep libc-2.24.so [.] _dl_addr
27.07% usleep ld-2.24.so [.] _dl_next_ld_env_entry
1.13% usleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] page_fault
$
$ touch ~/.perfconfig
$ ls -la ~/.perfconfig
-rw-rw-r--. 1 acme acme 0 Jan 27 12:14 /home/acme/.perfconfig
$
$ perf stat -e instructions usleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':
244,610 instructions:u
0.000805383 seconds time elapsed
$
[root@jouet ~]# chown acme.acme ~/.perfconfig
[root@jouet ~]# perf stat -e cycles usleep 1
Warning: File /root/.perfconfig not owned by current user or root, ignoring it.
Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':
937,615 cycles
0.000836931 seconds time elapsed
#
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j2rq96so6xdqlr8p8rd6a3jx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Change Intel PT and BTS to pass up the length and the instruction
bytes of the decoded or sampled instruction in the perf sample.
The decoder already knows this information, we just need to pass it
up. Since it is only a couple of movs it is not very expensive.
Handle instruction cache too. Make sure ilen is always initialized.
Used in the next patch.
[Adrian: re-base on top (and adjust for) instruction buffer size tidy-up]
[Adrian: add BTS support and adjust commit message accordingly]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475847747-30994-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tidy instruction buffer size usage in preparation for copying the
instruction bytes onto samples.
The instruction buffer is presently used for debugging, so rename its
size macro from INTEL_PT_INSN_DBG_BUF_SZ to INTEL_PT_INSN_BUF_SZ, and
use it everywhere.
Note that the maximum instruction size is 15 which is a less efficient size
to copy than 16, which is why a separate buffer size is used.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475847747-30994-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix occasional decoder errors decoding trace data collected in snapshot
mode.
Snapshot mode can take successive snapshots of trace which might overlap.
The decoder checks whether there is an overlap but only looks at the
current and previous buffer. However buffers that do not contain
synchronization (i.e. PSB) packets cannot be decoded or used for overlap
checking. That means the decoder actually needs to check overlaps between
the current buffer and the previous buffer that contained usable data.
Make that change.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474641528-18776-10-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In preparation for using the thread stack to print an indent
representing the stack depth in perf script, add an option to tell
decoders to feed branches to the thread stack. Add support for that
option to Intel PT and Intel BTS.
The advantage of using the decoder to feed the thread stack is that it
happens before branch filtering and so can be used with different itrace
options (e.g. it still works when only showing calls, even though the
thread stack needs to see calls and returns). Also it does not conflict
with using the thread stack to get callchains.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466689258-28493-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tracing a workload that uses transactions gave a seg fault as follows:
perf record -e intel_pt// workload
perf report
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x000000000054b58c in intel_pt_reset_last_branch_rb (ptq=0x1a36110)
at util/intel-pt.c:929
929 ptq->last_branch_rb->nr = 0;
(gdb) p ptq->last_branch_rb
$1 = (struct branch_stack *) 0x0
(gdb) up
1148 intel_pt_reset_last_branch_rb(ptq);
(gdb) l
1143 if (ret)
1144 pr_err("Intel Processor Trace: failed to deliver transaction event
1145 ret);
1146
1147 if (pt->synth_opts.callchain)
1148 intel_pt_reset_last_branch_rb(ptq);
1149
1150 return ret;
1151 }
1152
(gdb) p pt->synth_opts.callchain
$2 = true
(gdb)
(gdb) bt
#0 0x000000000054b58c in intel_pt_reset_last_branch_rb (ptq=0x1a36110)
#1 0x000000000054c1e0 in intel_pt_synth_transaction_sample (ptq=0x1a36110)
#2 0x000000000054c5b2 in intel_pt_sample (ptq=0x1a36110)
Caused by checking the 'callchain' flag when it should have been the
'last_branch' flag. Fix that.
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
Fixes: f14445ee72 ("perf intel-pt: Support generating branch stack")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460977068-11566-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When using 'perf script' to look at PT traces it is often useful to
ignore the initialization code at the beginning.
On larger traces which may have many millions of instructions in
initialization code doing that in a pipeline can be very slow, with perf
script spending a lot of CPU time calling printf and writing data.
This patch adds an extension to the --itrace argument that skips 'n'
events (instructions, branches or transactions) at the beginning. This
is much more efficient.
v2:
Add support for BTS (Adrian Hunter)
Document in itrace.txt
Fix branch check
Check transactions and instructions too
Committer note:
To test intel_pt one needs to make sure VT-x isn't active, i.e.
stopping KVM guests on the test machine, as described by Andi Kleen
at http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160301234953.GD23621@tassilo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459187142-20035-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In 473398a21d ("perf tools: Add cpumode to struct perf_sample"), I
missed some places where perf_sample fields are directly initialized in
addition to what is done in perf_evsel__parse_sample(), namely when
synthesizing PERF_RECORD_{MMAP*,COMM,FORK,EXIT} for pre-existing threads
and also in intel_pt and intel_bts when synthesizing events from
processor trace, the jitdump code also was affected, fix it.
The problem was noticed with running:
# perf record -e intel_pt//u true
# perf script
Where the samples wouldn't get resolved because perf_sample.cpumode
would be left as zero, i.e. PERF_RECORD_MISC_CPUMODE_UNKNOWN, not
resolving as kernel, hypervisor or user cpu modes.
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 473398a21d ("perf tools: Add cpumode to struct perf_sample")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-n5sdauxgk24d5nun8kuuu2mh@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
