Adding perf_evsel::ignore_missing_cpu_thread bool.
When set true, it allows perf to ignore error of missing pid of perf
event syscall.
We remove missing thread id from the thread_map, so the rest of the
processing like ioctl and mmap won't get disturbed with -1 fd.
The reason for supporting this is to ease up monitoring group of pids,
that 'disappear' before perf opens their event. This currently leads
perf to report error and exit and makes perf record's -u option unusable
under certain setup.
With this change we will allow this race and ignore such failure with
following warning:
WARNING: Ignored open failure for pid 8605
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161213074622.GA3084@krava
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When working with overwritable ring buffer there's a inconvenience
problem: if perf dumps data after a long period after it starts,
non-sample events may lost, which makes following 'perf report' unable
to identify proc name and mmap layout. For example:
# perf record -m 4 -e raw_syscalls:* -g --overwrite --switch-output \
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
send SIGUSR2 after dd runs long enough. The resuling perf.data lost
correct comm and mmap events:
# perf script -i perf.data.2016061522374354
perf 24478 [004] 2581325.601789: raw_syscalls:sys_exit: NR 0 = 512
^^^^
Should be 'dd'
27b2e8 syscall_slow_exit_work+0xfe2000e3 (/lib/modules/4.6.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
203cc7 do_syscall_64+0xfe200117 (/lib/modules/4.6.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
b18d83 return_from_SYSCALL_64+0xfe200000 (/lib/modules/4.6.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
7f47c417edf0 [unknown] ([unknown])
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Fail to unwind
This patch provides a '--tail-synthesize' option, allows perf to collect
system status when finalizing output file. In resuling output file, the
non-sample events reflect system status when dumping data.
After this patch:
# perf record -m 4 -e raw_syscalls:* -g --overwrite --switch-output --tail-synthesize \
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
# perf script -i perf.data.2016061600544998
dd 27364 [004] 2583244.994464: raw_syscalls:sys_enter: NR 1 (1, ...
^^
Correct comm
203a18 syscall_trace_enter_phase2+0xfe2001a8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
203aa5 syscall_trace_enter+0xfe200055 ([kernel.kallsyms])
203caa do_syscall_64+0xfe2000fa ([kernel.kallsyms])
b18d83 return_from_SYSCALL_64+0xfe200000 ([kernel.kallsyms])
d8e50 __GI___libc_write+0xffff01d9639f4010 (/tmp/oxygen_root-w00229757/lib64/libc-2.18.so)
^^^^^
Correct unwind
This option doesn't aim to solve this problem completely. If a process
terminates before SIGUSR2, we still lost its COMM and MMAP events. For
example, we can't unwind correctly from the final perf.data we get from
the previous example, because when perf collects the final output file
(when we press C-c), 'dd' has been terminated so its '/proc/<pid>/mmap'
becomes empty.
However, this is a cheaper choice. To completely solve this problem we
need to continously output non-sample events. To satisify the
requirement of daemonization, we need to merge them periodically. It is
possible but requires much more code and cycles.
Automatically select --tail-synthesize when --overwrite is provided.
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468485287-33422-16-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch allows following config terms and option:
Globally setting events to overwrite;
# perf record --overwrite ...
Set specific events to be overwrite or no-overwrite.
# perf record --event cycles/overwrite/ ...
# perf record --event cycles/no-overwrite/ ...
Add missing config terms and update the config term array size because
the longest string length has changed.
For overwritable events, it automatically selects attr.write_backward
since perf requires it to be backward for reading.
Test result:
# perf record --overwrite -e syscalls:*enter_nanosleep* usleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data (1 samples) ]
# perf evlist -v
syscalls:sys_enter_nanosleep: type: 2, size: 112, config: 0x134, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|RAW, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, write_backward: 1
# Tip: use 'perf evlist --trace-fields' to show fields for tracepoint events
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468485287-33422-14-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Allow user to easily switch all events to user or kernel space with simple
--all-user or --all-kernel options.
This will be handy within perf mem/c2c wrappers to switch easily monitoring
modes.
Committer note:
Testing it:
# perf record --all-kernel --all-user -a sleep 2
Error: option `all-user' cannot be used with all-kernel
Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
--all-user Configure all used events to run in user space.
--all-kernel Configure all used events to run in kernel space.
# perf record --all-user --all-kernel -a sleep 2
Error: option `all-kernel' cannot be used with all-user
Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
--all-kernel Configure all used events to run in kernel space.
--all-user Configure all used events to run in user space.
# perf record --all-user -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.416 MB perf.data (162 samples) ]
# perf report | grep '\[k\]'
# perf record --all-kernel -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.423 MB perf.data (296 samples) ]
# perf report | grep '\[\.\]'
#
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455525293-8671-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
[ Made those options to be mutually exclusive ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch modifies the -I/--int-regs option to enablepassing the name
of the registers to sample on interrupt. Registers can be specified by
their symbolic names. For instance on x86, --intr-regs=ax,si.
The motivation is to reduce the size of the perf.data file and the
overhead of sampling by only collecting the registers useful to a
specific analysis. For instance, for value profiling, sampling only the
registers used to passed arguements to functions.
With no parameter, the --intr-regs still records all possible registers
based on the architecture.
To name registers, it is necessary to use the long form of the option,
i.e., --intr-regs:
$ perf record --intr-regs=si,di,r8,r9 .....
To record any possible registers:
$ perf record -I .....
$ perf report --intr-regs ...
To display the register, one can use perf report -D
To list the available registers:
$ perf record --intr-regs=\?
available registers: AX BX CX DX SI DI BP SP IP FLAGS CS SS R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R15
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441039273-16260-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add support for reading from the AUX area tracing mmap and synthesizing
AUX area tracing events.
This patch introduces an abstraction for recording AUX area data.
Recording is initialized by auxtrace_record__init() which is a weak
function to be implemented by the architecture to provide recording
callbacks.
Recording is mainly handled by auxtrace_mmap__read() and
perf_event__synthesize_auxtrace() but there are callbacks for
miscellaneous needs including validating and processing user options,
populating private data in auxtrace_info_event, and freeing the
structure when finished.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428594864-29309-5-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull arch/tile updates from Chris Metcalf:
"These fix a few stray build issues seen in linux-next, and also add
the minimal required support for perf to tilegx"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
arch/tile: remove unused variable 'devcap'
tile: Fix vDSO compilation issue with allyesconfig
perf tools: Allow building for tile
tile/perf: Support perf_events on tilegx and tilepro
tile: Enable NMIs on return from handle_nmi() without errors
tile: Add support for handling PMC hardware
tile: don't use __get_cpu_var() with structure-typed arguments
tile: avoid overflow in ns2cycles
Introduce futexes to perf-bench and add a program that stresses and
measures the kernel's implementation of the hash table.
This is a multi-threaded program that simply measures the amount of
failed futex wait calls - we only want to deal with the hashing
overhead, so a negative return of futex_wait_setup() is enough to do the
trick.
An example run:
$ perf bench futex hash -t 32
Run summary [PID 10989]: 32 threads, each operating on 1024 [private] futexes for 10 secs.
[thread 0] futexes: 0x19d9b10 ... 0x19dab0c [ 418713 ops/sec ]
[thread 1] futexes: 0x19daca0 ... 0x19dbc9c [ 469913 ops/sec ]
[thread 2] futexes: 0x19dbe30 ... 0x19dce2c [ 479744 ops/sec ]
...
[thread 31] futexes: 0x19fbb80 ... 0x19fcb7c [ 464179 ops/sec ]
Averaged 454310 operations/sec (+- 0.84%), total secs = 10
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387081917-9102-2-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested by building perf:
- Cross-compiled for tile on x86_64
- Built natively on tile
Signed-off-by: Zhigang Lu <zlu@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Adding call-graph option support into .perfconfig file, so it's now
possible use call-graph option like:
[top]
call-graph = fp
[record]
call-graph = dwarf,8192
Above options ONLY setup the unwind method. To enable perf record/top to
actually use it the command line option -g/-G must be specified.
The --call-graph option overloads .perfconfig setup.
Assuming above configuration:
$ perf record -g ls
- enables dwarf unwind with user stack size dump 8192 bytes
$ perf top -G
- enables frame pointer unwind
$ perf record --call-graph=fp ls
- enables frame pointer unwind
$ perf top --call-graph=dwarf,4096 ls
- enables dwarf unwind with user stack size dump 4096 bytes
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391427883-13443-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@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>
perf record has a new option -W that enables weightened sampling.
Add sorting support in top/report for the average weight per sample and the
total weight sum. This allows to both compare relative cost per event
and the total cost over the measurement period.
Add the necessary glue to perf report, record and the library.
v2: Merge with new hist refactoring.
v3: Fix manpage. Remove value check.
Rename global_weight to weight and weight to local_weight.
v4: Readd sort keys to manpage
v5: Move weight to end
v6: Move weight to template
v7: Rename weight key.
Original patch from Andi modified by Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
to include ONLY the weight supporting code and apply to pristine 3.8.0-rc4.
Signed-off-by: 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/1359040242-8269-6-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
[ committer note: changed to cope with fc5871ed and the hists_link perf test entry ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
