Since the branch ip has been added to call stack for easier browsing,
this patch adds more branch information. For example, add a flag to
indicate if this ip is a branch, and also add with the branch flag.
Then we can know if the cursor node represents a branch and know what
the branch flag it has.
The branch history code has a loop detection pass that removes loops. It
would be nice for knowing how many loops were removed then in next
steps, we can compute out the average number of iterations.
For example:
Before remove_loops(),
entry0: from = 0x100, to = 0x200
entry1: from = 0x300, to = 0x250
entry2: from = 0x300, to = 0x250
entry3: from = 0x300, to = 0x250
entry4: from = 0x700, to = 0x800
After remove_loops()
entry0: from = 0x100, to = 0x200
entry1: from = 0x300, to = 0x250
entry2: from = 0x700, to = 0x800
The original entry2 and entry3 are removed. So the number of iterations
(from = 0x300, to = 0x250) is equal to removed number + 1 (2 + 1).
iterations = removed number + 1;
average iteractions = Sum(iteractions) / number of samples
This formula ignores other cases, for example, iterations cross multiple
buffers and one buffer contains 2+ loops. Because in practice, it's good
enough.
Signed-off-by: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1477876794-30749-2-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
[ Renamed 'iter' to 'nr_loop_iter' for clarity ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To write config items to a particular config file, we should know where
is each config section and item from.
Current setting functionality of perf-config use autogenerating way by
overwriting collected config items to a config file.
For example, when collecting config items from user and system config
files (i.e. ~/.perfconfig and $(sysconf)/perfconfig), perf_config_set
can contain both user and system config items. So we should know where
each value is from to avoid merging user and system config items on user
config file.
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Nambong Ha <over3025@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Wookje Kwon <aweee0@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478241862-31230-7-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add setting feature that can add config variables with their values to a
config file (i.e. user or system config file) or modify config key-value
pairs in a config file. For the syntax examples:
perf config [<file-option>] [section.name[=value] ...]
e.g. You can set the ui.show-headers to false with
# perf config ui.show-headers=false
If you want to add or modify several config items, you can do like
# perf config annotate.show_nr_jumps=false kmem.default=slab
Committer notes:
Testing it:
$ perf config -l
top.children=true
report.children=false
$
$ perf config top.children=false
$ perf config -l
top.children=false
report.children=false
$
$ perf config kmem.default=slab
$ perf config -l
top.children=false
report.children=false
kmem.default=slab
$
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Nambong Ha <over3025@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Wookje Kwon <aweee0@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478241862-31230-5-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
[ Combined patch with docs update with this one ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Markus reported that there's a weird behavior on perf top --hierarchy
regarding the column length.
Looking at the code, I found a dubious code which affects the symptoms.
When --hierarchy option is used, the last column length might be
inaccurate since it skips to update the length on leaf entries.
I cannot remember why it did and looks like a leftover from previous
version during the development.
Anyway, updating the column length often is not harmful. So let's move
the code out.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fixes: 1a3906a7e6 ("perf hists: Resort hist entries with hierarchy")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161108130833.9263-5-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Since 841e3558b2 ("perf callchain: Recording 'dwarf' callchains do not
need DWARF unwinding support"), --call-graph dwarf is allowed in 'perf
record' even without unwind support. A couple of other places don't
reflect this yet though: the help text should list dwarf as a valid
record mode and the dump_size config should be respected too.
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Fixes: 841e3558b2 ("perf callchain: Recording 'dwarf' callchains do not need DWARF unwinding support")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470837148-7642-1-git-send-email-rabin.vincent@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In ac12f6764c ("perf tools: Implement branch_type event parameter") we
started using the parse_branch_str() function from one of the files used
in the python binding, which caused this entry in 'perf test' to fail:
# perf test -v python
16: Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 16667
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /tmp/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol:
parse_branch_str
test child finished with -1
---- end ----
Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems: FAILED!
#
I must've commited some mistake when running 'perf test' to send the
pull request for the perf-core-for-mingo-20161024 tag, to have let this
regression to pass, sigh.
Just add tools/perf/util/parse-branch-options.c and switch from using
ui__warning(), that is not available in the python binding, use
pr_warning() instead, which is good enough for this case.
Now:
# perf test python
16: Try 'import perf' in python, checking link problems : Ok
#
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>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: ac12f6764c ("perf tools: Implement branch_type event parameter")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9kn1ct1cx9ppwqlmzl6z0xhs@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add support in perf list topic to only show events belonging to a
specific vendor events topic. For example the following works now:
% perf list frontend
List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
stalled-cycles-frontend OR idle-cycles-frontend [Hardware event]
stalled-cycles-frontend OR cpu/stalled-cycles-frontend/ [Kernel PMU event]
frontend:
dsb2mite_switches.count
[Decode Stream Buffer (DSB)-to-MITE switches]
dsb2mite_switches.penalty_cycles
[Decode Stream Buffer (DSB)-to-MITE switch true penalty cycles]
dsb_fill.exceed_dsb_lines
[Cycles when Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) fill encounter more than 3 Decode Stream Buffer (DSB)
lines]
icache.hit
[Number of Instruction Cache, Streaming Buffer and Victim Cache Reads. both cacheable and
noncacheable, including UC fetches]
...
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476902724-9586-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
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>
Here is a small patch which tries to fulfill a point in the perf todo
list:
* Make pressing 'V' multiple times to go on cycling thru various
verbosity levels in 'perf top', so that info that is present in
'perf top -v' can be obtained without having to restart the tool
(acme).
After a small grep in the code, the max verbosity level seems 3; so,
we cycle at 4; I did not dare define a MAX_VERBOSE_LEVEL constant.
Signed-off-by: Alexis Berlemont <alexis.berlemont@gmail.com>
Suggested-and-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/r/20161012214823.14324-2-alexis.berlemont@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When the jit_buf_desc contains unwinding information, it is emitted as
eh_frame unwinding sections in the DSOs generated by perf inject.
The unwinding information is required to unwind of JITed code which do
not maintain the frame pointer register during function calls. It can
be emitted by V8 / Chromium when the --perf_prof_unwinding_info is
passed to V8.
The eh_frame and eh_frame_hdr sections are emitted immediately after the
.text.
The .eh_frame is aligned at a 8-byte boundary, and .eh_frame_hdr at a
4-byte one. Since size of the .eh_frame is required to be a multiple of
the word size, which means there will never be additional padding
between it and the .eh_frame_hdr on machines where the word size is 4 or
8 bytes.
However, additional padding might be inserted between .text and
.eh_frame to reach the correct alignment, which will always be 8 bytes,
also on 32bit machines. The reasoning behind this choice is that 4 extra
bytes of padding worst case are not a large cost for the advantage of
removing word-size dependent offset calculations when emitting the
jitdump.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Sanfilippo <ssanfilippo@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ross McIlroy <rmcilroy@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.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/1476356383-30100-8-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This record is intended to provide unwinding information in the
eh_frame format. This is required to unwind JITed code which
does not maintain the frame pointer register during function calls.
The eh_frame unwinding information can be emitted by V8 / Chromium
when the --perf_prof_unwinding_info is passed.
A record of type jr_code_unwinding_info comes before the jr_code_load
it referred to and contains both the .eh_frame and .eh_frame_hdr.
The fields in the header have the following meaning:
* unwinding_size: size of the eh_frame and eh_frame_hdr, necessary
for distinguishing the content from the padding.
* eh_frame_hdr_size: as the name says.
* mapped_size: size of the payload that was in memory at runtime.
typically unwinding_size if the .eh_frame_hdr and .eh_frame were
mapped, or 0 if they weren't. It should always be the former case,
since the .eh_frame is guaranteed to be mapped in memory. However,
certain JITs might want to inject an .eh_frame_hdr with an empty LUT
to trigger fp-based unwinding fallback in libunwind. The only part
of the .eh_frame_hdr that libunwind reads from remote memory is the
LUT, and since there is none, mapping the unwinding info in memory
is not necessary, and 0 in this field signifies that it wasn't.
This practical hack allows to save bytes in code memory for those
JIT compilers that might or might not maintain a valid frame pointer.
The payload that follows is assumed to contain first the .eh_frame and
then the .eh_header_hdr, with no padding between the two.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Sanfilippo <ssanfilippo@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ross McIlroy <rmcilroy@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.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/1476356383-30100-7-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch modifies the build dependencies on the jitdump support in
perf. As it stands jitdump was wrongfully made dependent 100% on using
DWARF. However, the dwarf dependency, only exist if generating the
source line table in genelf_debug.c. The rest of the support does not
need DWARF.
This patch removes the dependency on DWARF for the entire jitdump
support. It keeps it only for the genelf_debug.c support.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Debski <maciejd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.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/1476356383-30100-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Fixes: e12b202f8f ("perf jitdump: Build only on supported archs")
[ Make it build only if NO_LIBELF isn't defined, as jitdump.o will only be built in that case ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When the loop body isn't executed at all, then the 'ret' local variable,
that is uninitialized will be used as the return value.
This triggers this error on Alpine Linux:
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/demangle-java.o
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/demangle-rust.o
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/jitdump.o
CC /tmp/build/perf/util/genelf.o
util/jitdump.c: In function 'jit_process':
util/jitdump.c:622:3: error: 'ret' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
fprintf(stderr, "injected: %s (%d)\n", path, ret);
^
util/jitdump.c:584:6: note: 'ret' was declared here
int ret;
^
FLEX /tmp/build/perf/util/parse-events-flex.c
/ $ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/5.3.0/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-alpine-linux-musl
Configured with: /home/buildozer/aports/main/gcc/src/gcc-5.3.0/configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
+--build=x86_64-alpine-linux-musl --host=x86_64-alpine-linux-musl --target=x86_64-alpine-linux-musl --with-pkgversion='Alpine 5.3.0' --enable-checking=release
+--disable-fixed-point --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-multilib --disable-nls --disable-werror --disable-symvers --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-esp
+--enable-cloog-backend --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,java,fortran,ada --disable-libssp --disable-libmudflap --disable-libsanitizer --enable-shared
+--enable-threads --enable-tls --with-system-zlib
Thread model: posix
gcc version 5.3.0 (Alpine 5.3.0)
But this so far got under the radar, not causing any build problem, till the
"perf jit: enable jitdump support without dwarf" gets applied, when the above
problem takes place, some combination of inlining or whatever, the problem
is real, so fix it by initializing the variable to zero.
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Maciej Debski <maciejd@google.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161013200437.GA12815@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It can be useful to specify branch type state per event, for example if
we want to collect both software trace points and last branch PMU events
in a single collection. Currently this doesn't work because the software
trace point errors out with -b.
There was already a branch-type parameter to configure branch sample
types per event in the parser, but it was stubbed out. This patch
implements the necessary plumbing to actually enable it.
Now:
$ perf record -e sched:sched_switch,cpu/cpu-cycles,branch_type=any/ ...
works.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476306127-19721-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.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>
This patch helps with Sukadev's vendor event tree where such events can happen.
>From Andi Kleen:
Any event including a .c/.o/.bpf currently triggers BPF compilation or loading
and then an error. This can happen for some Intel vendor events, which cannot
be used.
This patch fixes this problem by forbidding BPF file patch containing '{', '}'
and ',', make sure flex consumes the leading '{', instead of matching it using
a BPF file path.
Tested result:
$ perf stat -e '{unc_p_clockticks,unc_p_power_state_occupancy.cores_c0}' -a -I 1000
invalid or unsupported event: '{unc_p_clockticks,unc_p_power_state_occupancy.cores_c0}'
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
(as expected, interperted as event)
$ perf stat -e 'aaa.c' -a -I 1000
ERROR: problems with path aaa.c: No such file or directory
(as expected, interpreted as BPF source)
$ perf stat -e 'aaa.ccc' -a -I 1000
invalid or unsupported event: 'aaa.ccc'
(as expected, interpreted as event)
$ perf stat -e '{aaa.c}' -a -I 1000
ERROR: problems with path aaa.c: No such file or directory
event syntax error: '{aaa.c}'
<SKIP>
(as expected, interpreted as BPF source)
$ perf stat -e '{cycles,aaa.c}' -a -I 1000
ERROR: problems with path aaa.c: No such file or directory
event syntax error: '{cycles,aaa.c}'
(as expected, interpreted as BPF source)
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475900185-37967-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The MTC packet provides a 8-bit slice of CTC which is related to TSC by
the TMA packet, however the TMA packet only provides the lower 16 bits
of CTC. If mtc_shift > 8 then some of the MTC bits are not in the CTC
provided by the TMA packet. Fix-up the last_mtc calculated from the TMA
packet by copying the missing bits from the current MTC assuming the
least difference between the two, and that the current MTC comes after
last_mtc.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475062896-22274-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Make alias matching the events parser case-insensitive. This is useful
with the JSON events. perf uses lower case events, but the CPU manuals
generally use upper case event names. The JSON files use lower case by
default too. But if we search case insensitively then users can
cut-n-paste the upper case event names.
So the following works:
% perf stat -e BR_INST_EXEC.TAKEN_INDIRECT_NEAR_CALL true
Performance counter stats for 'true':
305 BR_INST_EXEC.TAKEN_INDIRECT_NEAR_CALL
0.000492799 seconds time elapsed
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-17-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add support to group the output of perf list by the Topic field in the
JSON file.
Example output:
% perf list
...
Cache:
l1d.replacement
[L1D data line replacements]
l1d_pend_miss.pending
[L1D miss oustandings duration in cycles]
l1d_pend_miss.pending_cycles
[Cycles with L1D load Misses outstanding]
l2_l1d_wb_rqsts.all
[Not rejected writebacks from L1D to L2 cache lines in any state]
l2_l1d_wb_rqsts.hit_e
[Not rejected writebacks from L1D to L2 cache lines in E state]
l2_l1d_wb_rqsts.hit_m
[Not rejected writebacks from L1D to L2 cache lines in M state]
...
Pipeline:
arith.fpu_div
[Divide operations executed]
arith.fpu_div_active
[Cycles when divider is busy executing divide operations]
baclears.any
[Counts the total number when the front end is resteered, mainly
when the BPU cannot provide a correct prediction and this is
corrected by other branch handling mechanisms at the front end]
br_inst_exec.all_branches
[Speculative and retired branches]
br_inst_exec.all_conditional
[Speculative and retired macro-conditional branches]
br_inst_exec.all_direct_jmp
[Speculative and retired macro-unconditional branches excluding
calls and indirects]
br_inst_exec.all_direct_near_call
[Speculative and retired direct near calls]
br_inst_exec.all_indirect_jump_non_call_ret
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-14-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Previously we were dropping the useful longer descriptions that some
events have in the event list completely. This patch makes them appear with
perf list.
Old perf list:
baclears:
baclears.all
[Counts the number of baclears]
vs new:
perf list -v:
...
baclears:
baclears.all
[The BACLEARS event counts the number of times the front end is
resteered, mainly when the Branch Prediction Unit cannot provide
a correct prediction and this is corrected by the Branch Address
Calculator at the front end. The BACLEARS.ANY event counts the
number of baclears for any type of branch]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-13-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add support to print alias descriptions in perf list, which are taken
from the generated event files.
The sorting code is changed to put the events with descriptions at the
end. The descriptions are printed as possibly multiple word wrapped
lines.
Example output:
% perf list
...
arith.fpu_div
[Divide operations executed]
arith.fpu_div_active
[Cycles when divider is busy executing divide operations]
Committer notes:
Further testing on a Broadwell machine (ThinkPad t450s), using these
files:
$ find tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Cache.json
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Other.json
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Frontend.json
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Virtual-Memory.json
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Pipeline.json
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Floating-point.json
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/Broadwell/Memory.json
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/mapfile.csv
$
Taken from:
https://github.com/sukadev/linux/tree/json-code+data-v21/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/
to get this machinery to actually parse JSON files, generate
$(OUTPUT)pmu-events/pmu-events.c, compile it and link it with perf, that
will then use the table it contains, these files will be submitted right
after this patchkit.
[acme@jouet linux]$ perf list page_walker
List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
page_walker_loads.dtlb_l1
[Number of DTLB page walker hits in the L1+FB]
page_walker_loads.dtlb_l2
[Number of DTLB page walker hits in the L2]
page_walker_loads.dtlb_l3
[Number of DTLB page walker hits in the L3 + XSNP]
page_walker_loads.dtlb_memory
[Number of DTLB page walker hits in Memory]
page_walker_loads.itlb_l1
[Number of ITLB page walker hits in the L1+FB]
page_walker_loads.itlb_l2
[Number of ITLB page walker hits in the L2]
page_walker_loads.itlb_l3
[Number of ITLB page walker hits in the L3 + XSNP]
[acme@jouet linux]$
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-7-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
At run time (when 'perf' is starting up), locate the specific table of
PMU events that corresponds to the current CPU. Using that table, create
aliases for the each of the PMU events in the CPU. The use these aliases
to parse the user specified perf event.
In short this would allow the user to specify events using their aliases
rather than raw event codes.
Based on input and some earlier patches from Andi Kleen, Jiri Olsa.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-4-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Make pmu_add_cpu_aliases() return void, since it was returning just '0' and
furthermore, even that was being discarded via an explicit (void) cast ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Experimenting a bit using cppcheck[1], a static checker brought to my
attention by Colin, reducing the scope of some variables, reducing the
line of source code lines in the process:
$ cppcheck --enable=style tools/perf/util/thread.c
Checking tools/perf/util/thread.c...
[tools/perf/util/thread.c:17]: (style) The scope of the variable 'leader' can be reduced.
[tools/perf/util/thread.c:133]: (style) The scope of the variable 'err' can be reduced.
[tools/perf/util/thread.c:273]: (style) The scope of the variable 'err' can be reduced.
Will continue later, but these are already useful, keep them.
1: https://sourceforge.net/p/cppcheck/wiki/Home/
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.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-ixws7lbycihhpmq9cc949ti6@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
