TRACE_ON element is used at the beginning of trace, it also can be
appeared in the middle of trace data to indicate discontinuity; for
example, it's possible to see multiple TRACE_ON elements in the trace
stream if the trace is being limited by address range filtering.
Furthermore, except TRACE_ON element is for discontinuity, NO_SYNC and
EO_TRACE also can be used to indicate discontinuity, though they are
used for different scenarios for which the trace is interrupted.
This patch renames sample type CS_ETM_TRACE_ON to CS_ETM_DISCONTINUITY,
firstly the new name describes more closely the purpose of the packet;
secondly this is a preparation for other output elements which also
cause the trace discontinuity thus they can share the same one packet
type.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Walker <robert.walker@arm.com>
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1544513908-16805-6-git-send-email-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
At the end of trace buffer handling, function cs_etm__flush() is invoked
to flush any remaining branch stack entries. As a side effect, it also
generates branch sample, because the 'etmq->packet' doesn't contains any
new coming packet but point to one stale packet after packets swapping,
so it wrongly makes synthesize branch samples with stale packet info.
We could review below detailed flow which causes issue:
Packet1: start_addr=0xffff000008b1fbf0 end_addr=0xffff000008b1fbfc
Packet2: start_addr=0xffff000008b1fb5c end_addr=0xffff000008b1fb6c
step 1: cs_etm__sample():
sample: ip=(0xffff000008b1fbfc-4) addr=0xffff000008b1fb5c
step 2: flush packet in cs_etm__run_decoder():
cs_etm__run_decoder()
`-> err = cs_etm__flush(etmq, false);
sample: ip=(0xffff000008b1fb6c-4) addr=0xffff000008b1fbf0
Packet1 and packet2 are two continuous packets, when packet2 is the new
coming packet, cs_etm__sample() generates branch sample for these two
packets and use [packet1::end_addr - 4 => packet2::start_addr] as branch
jump flow, thus we can see the first generated branch sample in step 1.
At the end of cs_etm__sample() it swaps packets so 'etm->prev_packet'=
packet2 and 'etm->packet'=packet1, so far it's okay for branch sample.
If packet2 is the last one packet in trace buffer, even there have no
any new coming packet, cs_etm__run_decoder() invokes cs_etm__flush() to
flush branch stack entries as expected, but it also generates branch
samples by taking 'etm->packet' as a new coming packet, thus the branch
jump flow is as [packet2::end_addr - 4 => packet1::start_addr]; this
is the second sample which is generated in step 2. So actually the
second sample is a stale sample and we should not generate it.
This patch introduces a new function cs_etm__end_block(), at the end of
trace block this function is invoked to only flush branch stack entries
and thus can avoid to generate branch sample for stale packet.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Walker <robert.walker@arm.com>
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1544513908-16805-3-git-send-email-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The structure cs_etm_queue uses 'prev_packet' to point to previous
packet, this can be used to combine with new coming packet to generate
samples.
In function cs_etm__flush() it swaps packets only when the flag
'etm->synth_opts.last_branch' is true, this means that it will not swap
packets if without option '--itrace=il' to generate last branch entries;
thus for this case the 'prev_packet' doesn't point to the correct
previous packet and the stale packet still will be used to generate
sequential sample. Thus if dump trace with 'perf script' command we can
see the incorrect flow with the stale packet's address info.
This patch corrects packets swapping in cs_etm__flush(); except using
the flag 'etm->synth_opts.last_branch' it also checks the another flag
'etm->sample_branches', if any flag is true then it swaps packets so can
save correct content to 'prev_packet'. Finally this can fix the wrong
program flow dumping issue.
The patch has a minor refactoring to use 'etm->synth_opts.last_branch'
instead of 'etmq->etm->synth_opts.last_branch' for condition checking,
this is consistent with that is done in cs_etm__sample().
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Walker <robert.walker@arm.com>
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1544513908-16805-2-git-send-email-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To avoid this warning:
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/s390-cpumsf.o
util/s390-cpumsf.c: In function 's390_cpumsf_samples':
util/s390-cpumsf.c:508:3: warning: format '%llx' expects argument of type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'off_t' [-Wformat=]
pr_err("[%#08" PRIx64 "] Invalid AUX trailer entry TOD clock base\n",
^
Now the various Android cross toolchains used in the perf tools
container test builds are all clean and we can remove this:
export EXTRA_MAKE_ARGS="WERROR=0"
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5rav4ccyb0sjciysz2i4p3sx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Reducing this noise when cross building to the Android NDK:
util/header.c: In function 'perf_header__fprintf_info':
util/header.c:2710:45: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'ctime' differ in signedness [-Wpointer-sign]
fprintf(fp, "# captured on : %s", ctime(&st.st_ctime));
^
In file included from util/../perf.h:5:0,
from util/evlist.h:11,
from util/header.c:22:
/opt/android-ndk-r15c/platforms/android-26/arch-arm/usr/include/time.h:81:14: note: expected 'const time_t *' but argument is of type 'long unsigned int *'
extern char* ctime(const time_t*) __LIBC_ABI_PUBLIC__;
^
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6bz74zp080yhmtiwb36enso9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
There are systems such as the Android NDK API level 24 has the
sigqueue() function but doesn't provide a prototype, adding noise to the
build:
util/evlist.c: In function 'perf_evlist__prepare_workload':
util/evlist.c:1494:4: warning: implicit declaration of function 'sigqueue' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
if (sigqueue(getppid(), SIGUSR1, val))
^
util/evlist.c:1494:4: warning: nested extern declaration of 'sigqueue' [-Wnested-externs]
Define a LACKS_SIGQUEUE_PROTOTYPE define so that code needing that can
get a prototype.
Checked in the bionic git repo to be available since level 23:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/master/libc/include/signal.h#123
int sigqueue(pid_t __pid, int __signal, const union sigval __value) __INTRODUCED_IN(23);
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lmhpev1uni9kdrv7j29glyov@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The strncpy() function may leave the destination string buffer
unterminated, better use strlcpy() that we have a __weak fallback
implementation for systems without it.
This fixes this warning on an Alpine Linux Edge system with gcc 8.2:
util/parse-events.c: In function 'print_symbol_events':
util/parse-events.c:2465:4: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 100 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
strncpy(name, syms->symbol, MAX_NAME_LEN);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In function 'print_symbol_events.constprop',
inlined from 'print_events' at util/parse-events.c:2508:2:
util/parse-events.c:2465:4: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 100 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
strncpy(name, syms->symbol, MAX_NAME_LEN);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In function 'print_symbol_events.constprop',
inlined from 'print_events' at util/parse-events.c:2511:2:
util/parse-events.c:2465:4: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 100 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
strncpy(name, syms->symbol, MAX_NAME_LEN);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Fixes: 947b4ad1d1 ("perf list: Fix max event string size")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-b663e33bm6x8hrkie4uxh7u2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The strncpy() function may leave the destination string buffer
unterminated, better use strlcpy() that we have a __weak fallback
implementation for systems without it.
In this case the 'target' buffer is coming from a list of build-ids that
are expected to have a len of at most (SBUILD_ID_SIZE - 1) chars, so
probably we're safe, but since we're using strncpy() here, use strlcpy()
instead to provide the intended safety checking without the using the
problematic strncpy() function.
This fixes this warning on an Alpine Linux Edge system with gcc 8.2:
util/probe-file.c: In function 'probe_cache__open.isra.5':
util/probe-file.c:427:3: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 41 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
strncpy(sbuildid, target, SBUILD_ID_SIZE);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Fixes: 1f3736c9c8 ("perf probe: Show all cached probes")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-l7n8ggc9kl38qtdlouke5yp5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The strncpy() function may leave the destination string buffer
unterminated, better use strlcpy() that we have a __weak fallback
implementation for systems without it.
In this specific case this would only happen if fgets() was buggy, as
its man page states that it should read one less byte than the size of
the destination buffer, so that it can put the nul byte at the end of
it, so it would never copy 255 non-nul chars, as fgets reads into the
orig buffer at most 254 non-nul chars and terminates it. But lets just
switch to strlcpy to keep the original intent and silence the gcc 8.2
warning.
This fixes this warning on an Alpine Linux Edge system with gcc 8.2:
In function 'cpu_model',
inlined from 'svg_cpu_box' at util/svghelper.c:378:2:
util/svghelper.c:337:5: error: 'strncpy' output may be truncated copying 255 bytes from a string of length 255 [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
strncpy(cpu_m, &buf[13], 255);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: f48d55ce78 ("perf: Add a SVG helper library file")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xzkoo0gyr56gej39ltivuh9g@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The strncpy() function may leave the destination string buffer
unterminated, better use strlcpy() that we have a __weak fallback
implementation for systems without it.
This fixes this warning on an Alpine Linux Edge system with gcc 8.2:
util/header.c: In function 'perf_event__synthesize_event_update_name':
util/header.c:3625:2: error: 'strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul copying as many bytes from a string as its length [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
strncpy(ev->data, evsel->name, len);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
util/header.c:3618:15: note: length computed here
size_t len = strlen(evsel->name);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Fixes: a6e5281780 ("perf tools: Add event_update event unit type")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wycz66iy8dl2z3yifgqf894p@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The strncpy() function may leave the destination string buffer
unterminated, better use strlcpy() that we have a __weak fallback
implementation for systems without it.
This fixes this warning on an Alpine Linux Edge system with gcc 8.2:
util/header.c: In function 'perf_event__synthesize_event_update_unit':
util/header.c:3586:2: error: 'strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul copying as many bytes from a string as its length [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
strncpy(ev->data, evsel->unit, size);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
util/header.c:3579:16: note: length computed here
size_t size = strlen(evsel->unit);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Fixes: a6e5281780 ("perf tools: Add event_update event unit type")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fiikh5nay70bv4zskw2aa858@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The strncpy() function may leave the destination string buffer
unterminated, better use strlcpy() that we have a __weak fallback
implementation for systems without it.
This fixes this warning on an Alpine Linux Edge system with gcc 8.2:
In function 'decompress_kmodule',
inlined from 'dso__decompress_kmodule_fd' at util/dso.c:305:9:
util/dso.c:298:3: error: 'strncpy' destination unchanged after copying no bytes [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
strncpy(pathname, tmpbuf, len);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/values.o
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/debug.o
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Fixes: c9a8a6131f ("perf tools: Move the temp file processing into decompress_kmodule")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tl2hdxj64tt4k8btbi6a0ugw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Use conditional variable logic to synchronize between the reading and
processing threads. Currently it's done by having mutex around rotation
code.
Using a POSIX cond variable to sync both threads after queues rotation:
Process thread:
- Detects data
- Switches queues
- Sets rotate variable
- Waits in pthread_cond_wait()
Read thread:
- Detects rotate is set
- Kicks the process thread with a pthread_cond_signal()
After this rotation is safely completed and both threads can continue
with the new queue.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3rdeg23rv3brvy1pwt3igvyw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add a new thread that takes care of the hist creating to alleviate the
main reader thread so it can keep perf mmaps served in time so that we
reduce the possibility of losing events.
The 'perf top' command now spawns 2 extra threads, the data processing
is the following:
1) The main thread reads the data from mmaps and queues them to
ordered events object;
2) The processing threads takes the data from the ordered events
object and create initial histogram;
3) The GUI thread periodically sorts the initial histogram and
presents it.
Passing the data between threads 1 and 2 is done by having 2 ordered
events queues. One is always being stored by thread 1 while the other is
flushed out in thread 2.
Passing the data between threads 2 and 3 stays the same as was initially
for threads 1 and 3.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-hhf4hllgkmle9wl1aly1jli0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When looking at PT or brstackinsn traces with 'perf script' it can be
very useful to see the source code. This adds a simple facility to print
them with 'perf script', if the information is available through dwarf
% perf record ...
% perf script -F insn,ip,sym,srccode
...
4004c6 main
5 for (i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
4004cd main
5 for (i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
4004c6 main
5 for (i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
4004cd main
5 for (i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
4004cd main
5 for (i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
4004cd main
5 for (i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
4004cd main
5 for (i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
4004cd main
5 for (i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
4004b3 main
6 v++;
% perf record -b ...
% perf script -F insn,ip,sym,srccode,brstackinsn
...
main+22:
0000000000400543 insn: e8 ca ff ff ff # PRED
|18 f1();
f1:
0000000000400512 insn: 55
|10 {
0000000000400513 insn: 48 89 e5
0000000000400516 insn: b8 00 00 00 00
|11 f2();
000000000040051b insn: e8 d6 ff ff ff # PRED
f2:
00000000004004f6 insn: 55
|5 {
00000000004004f7 insn: 48 89 e5
00000000004004fa insn: 8b 05 2c 0b 20 00
|6 c = a / b;
0000000000400500 insn: 8b 0d 2a 0b 20 00
0000000000400506 insn: 99
0000000000400507 insn: f7 f9
0000000000400509 insn: 89 05 29 0b 20 00
000000000040050f insn: 90
|7 }
0000000000400510 insn: 5d
0000000000400511 insn: c3 # PRED
f1+14:
0000000000400520 insn: b8 00 00 00 00
|12 f2();
0000000000400525 insn: e8 cc ff ff ff # PRED
f2:
00000000004004f6 insn: 55
|5 {
00000000004004f7 insn: 48 89 e5
00000000004004fa insn: 8b 05 2c 0b 20 00
|6 c = a / b;
Not supported for callchains currently, would need some layout changes
there.
Committer notes:
Fixed the build on Alpine Linux (3.4 .. 3.8) by addressing this
warning:
In file included from util/srccode.c:19:0:
/usr/include/sys/fcntl.h:1:2: error: #warning redirecting incorrect #include <sys/fcntl.h> to <fcntl.h> [-Werror=cpp]
#warning redirecting incorrect #include <sys/fcntl.h> to <fcntl.h>
^~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181204001848.24769-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Go over the tools/ files that are maintained in Arnaldo's tree and
fix common typos: half of them were in comments, the other half
in JSON files.
No change in functionality intended.
Committer notes:
This was split from a larger patch as there are code that is,
additionally, maintained outside the kernel tree, so to ease
cherry-picking and/or backporting, split this into multiple patches.
Just typos in comments, no need to backport, reducing the possibility of
possible backporting artifacts.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203102200.GA104797@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Go over the tools/ files that are maintained in Arnaldo's tree and
fix common typos: half of them were in comments, the other half
in JSON files.
No change in functionality intended.
Committer notes:
This was split from a larger patch as there are code that is,
additionally, maintained outside the kernel tree, so to ease cherry
picking and/or backporting, split this into multiple patches.
This one has information that is presented to the user, albeit in debug
mode.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203102200.GA104797@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In order to make libtraceevent into a proper library, variables, data
structures and functions require a unique prefix to prevent name space
conflicts.
This renames 'struct tep_event_format' to 'struct tep_event', which
describes more closely the purpose of the struct.
Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tstoyanov@vmware.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181130154647.436403995@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ Fixup conflict with 6e33c250a88f ("tools lib traceevent: Fix compile warnings in tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c") ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Multi AIO trace writing allows caching more kernel data into userspace
memory postponing trace writing for the sake of overall profiling data
thruput increase. It could be seen as kernel data buffer extension into
userspace memory.
With an --aio option value different from 0 (default value is 1) the
tool has capability to cache more and more data into user space along
with delegating spill to AIO.
That allows avoiding to suspend at record__aio_sync() between calls of
record__mmap_read_evlist() and increases profiling data thruput at the
cost of userspace memory.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/050bb053-e7f3-aa83-fde7-f27ff90be7f6@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
