Often it is interesting to know how costly a given source line is in
total. Previously, one had to build these sums manually based on all
addresses that pointed to the same source line. This patch introduces
srcline as a sort key, which will do the aggregation for us.
Paired with the recent addition of showing inline frames, this makes
perf report much more useful for many C++ work loads.
The following shows the new feature in action. First, let's show the
status quo output when we sort by address. The result contains many hist
entries that generate the same output:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
$ perf report --stdio --inline -g address
# Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ........ ............ ................... .........................................
#
99.89% 35.34% cpp-inlining cpp-inlining [.] main
|
|--64.55%--main complex:655
| /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/complex:664 (inline)
| |
| |--60.31%--hypot +20
| | |
| | |--8.52%--__hypot_finite +273
| | |
| | |--7.32%--__hypot_finite +411
...
--35.34%--_start +4194346
__libc_start_main +241
|
|--6.65%--main random.tcc:3326
| /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
|
|--2.70%--main random.tcc:3326
| /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
|
|--1.69%--main random.tcc:3326
| /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
With this patch and `-g srcline` we instead get the following output:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
$ perf report --stdio --inline -g srcline
# Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ........ ............ ................... .........................................
#
99.89% 35.34% cpp-inlining cpp-inlining [.] main
|
|--64.55%--main complex:655
| /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/complex:664 (inline)
| |
| |--64.02%--hypot
| | |
| | --59.81%--__hypot_finite
| |
| --0.53%--cabs
|
--35.34%--_start
__libc_start_main
|
|--12.48%--main random.tcc:3326
| /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
| /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170318214928.9047-1-milian.wolff@kdab.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It would be useful for perf to support a mode to query the inline stack
for a given callgraph address. This would simplify finding the right
code in code that does a lot of inlining.
The srcline.c has contained the code which supports to translate the
address to filename:line_nr. This patch just extends the function to let
it support getting the inline stacks.
It introduces the inline_list which will store the inline function
result (filename:line_nr and funcname).
If BFD lib is not supported, the result is only filename:line_nr.
Signed-off-by: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490474069-15823-3-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Code move only; no functional change intended.
Committer notes:
Fix the build on Ubuntu 16.04 x86-64 cross-compiling to S/390, with this
set of auto-detected features:
... dwarf: [ on ]
... dwarf_getlocations: [ on ]
... glibc: [ on ]
... gtk2: [ OFF ]
... libaudit: [ OFF ]
... libbfd: [ OFF ]
... libelf: [ on ]
... libnuma: [ OFF ]
... numa_num_possible_cpus: [ OFF ]
... libperl: [ OFF ]
... libpython: [ OFF ]
... libslang: [ OFF ]
... libcrypto: [ OFF ]
... libunwind: [ OFF ]
... libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on ]
... zlib: [ on ]
... lzma: [ OFF ]
... get_cpuid: [ OFF ]
... bpf: [ on ]
Where it was failing with:
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/time-utils.o
util/time-utils.c: In function 'parse_nsec_time':
util/time-utils.c:17:13: error: implicit declaration of function 'strtoul' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
time_sec = strtoul(str, &end, 10);
^
util/time-utils.c:17:2: error: nested extern declaration of 'strtoul' [-Werror=nested-externs]
time_sec = strtoul(str, &end, 10);
^
util/time-utils.c: In function 'perf_time__parse_str':
util/time-utils.c:93:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'free' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
free(str);
^
util/time-utils.c:93:2: error: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'free' [-Werror]
util/time-utils.c:93:2: note: include '<stdlib.h>' or provide a declaration of 'free'
Do as suggested and add a '#include <stdlib.h>' to get the free() and strtoul()
declarations and fix the build.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480439746-42695-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Joonwoo reported that there's a mismatch between timestamps in script
and sched commands. This was because of difference in printing the
timestamp. Factor out the code and share it so that they can be in
sync. Also I found that sched map has similar problem, fix it too.
Committer notes:
Fixed the max_lat_at bug introduced by Namhyung's original patch, as
pointed out by Joonwoo, and made it a function following the scnprintf()
model, i.e. returning the number of bytes formatted, and receiving as
the first parameter the object from where the data to the formatting is
obtained, renaming it from:
char *timestamp_in_usec(char *bf, size_t size, u64 timestamp)
to
int timestamp__scnprintf_usec(u64 timestamp, char *bf, size_t size)
Reported-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161024020246.14928-3-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Make the 'perf list' glob matching for vendor events case insensitive.
This allows to use the upper case vendor events with perf list too.
Now the following works:
% perf list LONGEST_LAT
...
cache:
longest_lat_cache.miss
[Core-originated cacheable demand requests missed LLC]
longest_lat_cache.reference
[Core-originated cacheable demand requests that refer to LLC]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476899402-31460-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The tools so far have been using the strerror_r() GNU variant, that
returns a string, be it the buffer passed or something else.
But that, besides being tricky in cases where we expect that the
function using strerror_r() returns the error formatted in a provided
buffer (we have to check if it returned something else and copy that
instead), breaks the build on systems not using glibc, like Alpine
Linux, where musl libc is used.
So, introduce yet another wrapper, str_error_r(), that has the GNU
interface, but uses the portable XSI variant of strerror_r(), so that
users rest asured that the provided buffer is used and it is what is
returned.
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-d4t42fnf48ytlk8rjxs822tf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently perf report only shows a help message "For a higher level
overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso" unconditionally (even if
the sort keys were used). Add more help tips and show randomly.
Load tips from ${prefix}/share/doc/perf-tip/tips.txt file.
$ perf report | tail
0.10% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] irq_exit
0.09% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] flush_smp_call_function_queue
0.08% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe
0.03% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] group_sched_in
0.01% perf [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe
#
# (Tip: Search options using a keyword: perf report -h <keyword>)
#
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452166913-27046-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Renamed it to perf_tip() and the parameter dirname to dirpath to fix the build on older distros ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
A series of bpf loader related error codes were introduced to help error
reporting. Functions were improved to return these new error codes.
Functions which return pointers were adjusted to encode error codes into
return value using the ERR_PTR() interface.
bpf_loader_strerror() was improved to convert these error messages to
strings. It checks the error codes and calls libbpf_strerror() and
strerror_r() accordingly, so caller don't need to consider checking the
range of the error code.
In bpf__strerror_load(), print kernel version of running kernel and the
object's 'version' section to notify user how to fix his/her program.
v1 -> v2:
Use macro for error code.
Fetch error message based on array index, eliminate for-loop.
Print version strings.
Before:
# perf record -e ./test_kversion_nomatch_program.o sleep 1
event syntax error: './test_kversion_nomatch_program.o'
\___ Failed to load program: Validate your program and check 'license'/'version' sections in your object
SKIP
After:
# perf record -e ./test_kversion_nomatch_program.o ls
event syntax error: './test_kversion_nomatch_program.o'
\___ 'version' (4.4.0) doesn't match running kernel (4.3.0)
SKIP
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446818289-87444-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
[ Add 'static inline' to bpf__strerror_prepare_load() when LIBBPF is disabled ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently libtraceevent emits warning on unsupported event formats.
However it'd be better to see them only -v option is given. To do that,
it needs to override the warning() function which is used in the
libtracevent. Thus add set_warning_routine() same as set_die_routine()
and check the verbose flag in our warning routine.
Before:
# perf test 5
5: parse events tests :
Warning: [kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_get_page] bad op token {
Warning: [kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_sync_page] bad op token {
Warning: [kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_unsync_page] bad op token {
Warning: [kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page] bad op token {
Warning: [kvmmmu:fast_page_fault] function is_writable_pte not defined
...
Ok
After:
# perf test 5
5: parse events tests : Ok
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445268229-1601-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Renaming all functions touching tracing_path under same namespace. New
interface is:
char tracing_path[];
- tracing mount path
char tracing_events_path[];
- tracing mount/events path
void tracing_path_set(const char *mountpoint);
- setting directly tracing_path(_events), used by --debugfs-dir option
const char *tracing_path_mount(void);
- initial setup of tracing_(events)_path, called from perf.c
mounts debugfs/tracefs if needed and possible
char *get_tracing_file(const char *name);
void put_tracing_file(char *file);
- get/put tracing file path
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Raphael Beamonte <raphael.beamonte@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441180605-24737-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When profiling the kernel with the 'srcfile' sort key it's common to
"get stuck" in include. For example a lot of code uses current or other
inlines, so they get accounted to some random include file. This is not
very useful as a high level categorization.
For example just profiling the idle loop usually shows mostly inlines,
so you never see the actual cpuidle file.
This patch changes the 'srcfile' sort key to always unwind the inline
stack using BFD/DWARF. So we always account to the base function that
called the inline.
In a few cases include is still shown (for example for MSR accesses),
but that is because they get inlining expanded as part of assigning to a
global function pointer. For the majority it works fine though.
v2: Use simpler while loop. Add maximum iteration count.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441133239-31254-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
For perf report/script srcline currently only the base file name of the
source file is printed. This is a good default because it usually fits
on the screen.
But in some cases we want to know the full file name, for example to
aggregate hits per file.
In the later case we need more than the base file name to resolve file
naming collisions: for example the kernel source has ~70 files named
"core.c"
It's also useful as input to post processing tools which want to point
to the right file.
Add a flag to allow full file name output.
Add an option to perf report/script to enable this option.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438986245-15191-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
