To avoid the funny:
[root@doppio ~]# perf record -a -f sleep 2s
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.334 MB perf.data (~14572 samples) ]
[root@doppio ~]# perf report --no-call-graph
selected -g but no callchain data. Did you call perf record without -g?
And fix the bug reported by peterz when we do indeed record with
callchains and then ask for a report without:
[root@doppio ~]# perf record -a -g -f sleep 2s
[root@doppio ~]# perf report --no-call-graph
Segmentation fault
[root@doppio ~]#
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262699685-27820-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
At least on Debian PARISC64, using:
acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: hppa-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian
4.3.4-6' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr
--enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.3 --program-suffix=-4.3 --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc --enable-mpfr --disable-libssp --enable-checking=release --build=hppa-linux-gnu --host=hppa-linux-gnu --target=hppa-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-6)
there are issues about using 'gcc -o /dev/null':
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: File truncated
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
So we test that and use /dev/null in environments where it
works, while using an .INTERMEDIATE file on those where it can't
be used, so that the .perf.dev.null file can be used instead and
then deleted when make exits.
Researched-with: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Researched-with: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1263293910-8484-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When we finish creating the hist_entries we _already_ have them
sorted "by name", in fact by what is in --sort, that is exactly
how we can find the pairs in perf_session__match_hists as
'comm', 'dso' & 'symbol' all are strings we need to find the
matches in the baseline session.
So only do the sort by hits followed by a resort by --sort if we
need to find the position for shwowing the --displacement of
hist entries.
Now all these modes work correctly:
Example is a simple 'perf record -f find / > /dev/null' ran
twice then followed by the following commands:
$ perf diff -f --sort comm
# Baseline Delta Command
# ........ .......... .......
#
0.00% +100.00% find
$ perf diff -f --sort dso
# Baseline Delta Shared Object
# ........ .......... ..................
#
59.97% -0.44% [kernel]
21.17% +0.28% libc-2.5.so
18.49% +0.16% [ext3]
0.37% find
$ perf diff -f --sort symbol | head -8
# Baseline Delta Symbol
# ........ .......... ......
#
6.21% +0.36% [k] ext3fs_dirhash
3.43% +0.41% [.] __GI_strlen
3.53% +0.16% [k] __kmalloc
3.17% +0.49% [k] system_call
3.06% +0.37% [k] ext3_htree_store_dirent
$ perf diff -f --sort dso,symbol | head -8
# Baseline Delta Shared Object Symbol
# ........ .......... .................. ......
#
6.21% +0.36% [ext3] [k] ext3fs_dirhash
3.43% +0.41% libc-2.5.so [.] __GI_strlen
3.53% +0.16% [kernel] [k] __kmalloc
3.17% +0.49% [kernel] [k] system_call
3.06% +0.37% [ext3] [k] ext3_htree_store_dirent
$
And we don't have to do two expensive resorts in the common, non
--displacement case.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262047716-23171-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now a cache will be created in a ~/.debug debuginfo like
hierarchy, so that at the end of a 'perf record' session all the
binaries (with build-ids) involved get collected and indexed by
their build-ids, so that perf report can find them.
This is interesting when developing software where you want to
do a 'perf diff' with the previous build and opens avenues for
lots more interesting tools, like a 'perf diff --graph' that
takes more than two binaries into account.
Tunables for collecting just the symtabs can be added if one
doesn't want to have the full binary, but having the full binary
allows things like 'perf rerecord' or other tools that can
re-run the tests by having access to the exact binary in some
perf.data file, so it may well be interesting to keep the full
binary there.
Space consumption is minimised by trying to use hard links, a
'perf cache' tool to manage the space used, a la ccache is
required to purge older entries.
With this in place it will be possible also to introduce new
commands, 'perf archive' and 'perf restore' (or some more
suitable and future proof names) to create a cpio/tar file with
the perf data and the files in the cache that _had_ perf hits of
interest.
There are more aspects to polish, like finding the right vmlinux
file to cache, etc, but this is enough for a first step.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261957026-15580-10-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is really something tools need to do before asking for the
events to be processed, leaving perf_session__process_events to
do just that, process events.
Also add a msg parameter to perf_session__has_traces() so that
the right message can be printed, fixing a regression added by
me in the previous cset (right timechart message) and also
fixing 'perf kmem', that was not asking if 'perf kmem record'
was ran.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261957026-15580-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fixing this:
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf diff --hell
Error: unknown option `hell'
usage: perf diff [<options>] [old_file] [new_file]
Segmentation fault
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$
Also go over the other such arrays to check if they all were OK,
they are, but there were some minor changes to do like making
one static and renaming another to match the command it refers
to.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261161358-23959-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix libdwarf include path to fit debian-like systems too.
Borislav Petkov reported:
> even after installing libdwarf-dev on my debian box here,
> make in tools/perf/ still complains that it cannot find libdwarf:
>
> Makefile:491: No libdwarf.h found or old libdwarf.h found, disables dwarf
> support. Please install libdwarf-dev/libdwarf-devel >= 20081231
>
> The problem is that the include path on debian is not
> /usr/include/libdwarf/ but simply /usr/include because the debian
> package libdwarf-dev puts the headers straight into
> /usr/include.
This patch adds -I/usr/include/libdwarf to BASIC_CFLAGS
and fix probe-finder.h to include just libdwarf.h/dwarf.h.
This patch also adds a workaround for the undefined _MIPS_SZLONG
bug in libdwarf.h.
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
LKML-Reference: <20091216221618.13816.83296.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
[ v2: small stylistic fixlets to probe-finder.h ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
That means that almost everything you can do with 'perf report'
can be done with 'perf diff', for instance:
$ perf record -f find / > /dev/null
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2699
samples) ] $ perf record -f find / > /dev/null
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2687
samples) ] perf diff | head -8
9.02% +1.00% find libc-2.10.1.so [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
2.91% -1.00% find [kernel] [k] __kmalloc
2.85% -1.00% find [kernel] [k] ext4_htree_store_dirent
1.99% -1.00% find [kernel] [k] _atomic_dec_and_lock
2.44% find [kernel] [k] half_md4_transform
$
So if you want to zoom into libc:
$ perf diff --dsos libc-2.10.1.so | head -8
37.34% find [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
10.34% find [.] __GI_memmove
8.25% +2.00% find [.] _int_malloc
5.07% -1.00% find [.] __GI_mempcpy
7.62% +2.00% find [.] _int_free
$
And if there were multiple commands using libc, it is also
possible to aggregate them all by using --sort symbol:
$ perf diff --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8
37.34% [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
10.34% [.] __GI_memmove
8.25% +2.00% [.] _int_malloc
5.07% -1.00% [.] __GI_mempcpy
7.62% +2.00% [.] _int_free
$
The displacement column now is off by default, to use it:
perf diff -m --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8
37.34% [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
10.34% [.] __GI_memmove
8.25% +2.00% [.] _int_malloc
5.07% -1.00% +2 [.] __GI_mempcpy
7.62% +2.00% -1 [.] _int_free
$
Using -t/--field-separator can be used for scripting:
$ perf diff -t, -m --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8
37.34, , ,[.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
10.34, , ,[.] __GI_memmove
8.25,+2.00%, ,[.] _int_malloc
5.07,-1.00%, +2,[.] __GI_mempcpy
7.62,+2.00%, -1,[.] _int_free
6.99,+1.00%, -1,[.] _IO_new_file_xsputn
1.89,-2.00%, +4,[.] __readdir64
$
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1260978567-550-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
