'perf record' post-processes the event stream to create a list of
build-ids for object files for which sample events have been recorded.
That results in those object files being recorded in the build-id cache.
In the case of VDSO, perf tools reads it from memory and copies it into
a temporary file, which as decribed above, gets added to the build-id
cache.
Then when the perf.data file is processed by other tools, the build-id
of VDSO is listed in the perf.data file and the VDSO can be read from
the build-id cache. In that case the name of the map, the short name of
the DSO, and the entry in the build-id cache are all "[vdso]".
However, in the 64-bit case, there also can be 32-bit compatibility
VDSOs.
A previous patch added programs "perf-read-vdso32" and "perf
read-vdsox32".
This patch uses those programs to read the correct VDSO for a thread and
create a temporary file just as for the 64-bit VDSO.
The map name and the entry in the build-id cache are still "[vdso]" but
the DSO short name becomes "[vdso32]" and "[vdsox32]" respectively.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1414061124-26830-16-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When 'perf record' write headers, it calls write_xxx in
tools/perf/util/header.c, and check return value. It rolls back all
working only when return value is negative.
This patch ensures write_cpudesc() and write_total_mem() return negative number
when error. Without this patch, headers reported by 'perf report' header is
error in some platform. Following output is caputured on ARM, which doesn't
contain "Processor" field in /proc/cpuinfo. See "cpudesc", "total memory" and
"cmdline" field.
bash-4.2# perf record ls
...
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.001 MB perf.data (~36 samples) ]
bash-4.2# perf report --stdio --header
Error:
The perf.data file has no samples!
# ========
# captured on: Fri Sep 12 10:09:10 2014
# hostname : arma15el
# os release : 3.17.0+
# perf version : 3.10.53
# arch : armv7l
# nrcpus online : 4
# nrcpus avail : 1
# cpudesc : (null)
# total memory : 0 kB
# cmdline :
# event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, excl_host = 0, excl_guest = 1, precise_ip = 0
# pmu mappings: not available
# ========
#
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1413428909-80017-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The perf probe command has some exclusive options. Use new PARSE_OPT_EXCLUSIVE
flag to simplify the code and show more compact usage.
$ perf probe -l -a foo
Error: switch `a' cannot be used with switch `l'
usage: perf probe [<options>] 'PROBEDEF' ['PROBEDEF' ...]
or: perf probe [<options>] --add 'PROBEDEF' [--add 'PROBEDEF' ...]
or: perf probe [<options>] --del '[GROUP:]EVENT' ...
or: perf probe --list
or: perf probe [<options>] --line 'LINEDESC'
or: perf probe [<options>] --vars 'PROBEPOINT'
-a, --add <[EVENT=]FUNC[@SRC][+OFF|%return|:RL|;PT]|SRC:AL|SRC;PT [[NAME=]ARG ...]>
probe point definition, where
GROUP: Group name (optional)
EVENT: Event name
FUNC: Function name
OFF: Offset from function entry (in byte)
%return: Put the probe at function return
SRC: Source code path
RL: Relative line number from function entry.
AL: Absolute line number in file.
PT: Lazy expression of line code.
ARG: Probe argument (local variable name or
kprobe-tracer argument format.)
-l, --list list up current probe events
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1413990949-13953-6-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The 'perf kvm stat record' tool is an alias of 'perf record' with
predefined kvm related options. All options that passed to 'perf kvm
stat record' are processed by the 'perf record' tool. So, 'perf kvm
stat record --help' prints help of usage for the 'perf record'
command. There are a few options useful for 'perf kvm stat record',
the rest either break kvm related output or don't change it.
Let's print safe for 'perf kvm stat record' options in addition to
general 'perf record' --help output.
With this patch, new output looks like below:
$ perf kvm stat record -h
usage: perf kvm stat record [<options>]
-p, --pid <pid> record events on existing process id
-t, --tid <tid> record events on existing thread id
-r, --realtime <n> collect data with this RT SCHED_FIFO priority
--no-buffering collect data without buffering
-a, --all-cpus system-wide collection from all CPUs
-C, --cpu <cpu> list of cpus to monitor
-c, --count <n> event period to sample
-o, --output <file> output file name
-i, --no-inherit child tasks do not inherit counters
-m, --mmap-pages <pages>
number of mmap data pages
-v, --verbose be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc)
-q, --quiet don't print any message
-s, --stat per thread counts
-D, --delay <n> ms to wait before starting measurement after program start
-u, --uid <user> user to profile
--per-thread use per-thread mmaps
$ perf kvm stat record -n sleep 1
Error: switch `n' is not usable
usage: perf kvm stat record [<options>]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1413990949-13953-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cache the DWARF debug info for DSO so we don't have to rebuild it for each
address in the DSO.
Note that dso__new() uses calloc() so don't need to set dso->dwfl to NULL.
$ /tmp/perf.orig --version
perf version 3.18.rc1.gc2661b8
$ /tmp/perf.new --version
perf version 3.18.rc1.g402d62
$ perf stat -e cycles,instructions /tmp/perf.orig report -g > orig
Performance counter stats for '/tmp/perf.orig report -g':
6,428,177,183 cycles # 0.000 GHz
4,176,288,391 instructions # 0.65 insns per cycle
1.840666132 seconds time elapsed
$ perf stat -e cycles,instructions /tmp/perf.new report -g > new
Performance counter stats for '/tmp/perf.new report -g':
305,773,142 cycles # 0.000 GHz
276,048,272 instructions # 0.90 insns per cycle
0.087693543 seconds time elapsed
$ diff orig new
$
Changelog[v2]:
[Arnaldo Carvalho] Cache in existing global objects rather than create
new static/globals in functions.
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141022000958.GB2228@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
After kernel 3.7 (commit b4b8f770eb),
/proc/cpuinfo replaces 'Processor' to 'model name'.
This patch makes CPUINFO_PROC to an array and provides two choices for
ARM, makes it compatible for different kernel version.
v1 -> v2: minor changes as suggested by Namhyung Kim:
- Doesn't pass @h and @evlist to __write_cpudesc;
- Coding style fix.
v2 -> v3:
- Rebase:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git perf/core
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1414115126-7479-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It also uses hists/hist_entries, hists__init() should be called before
creating any evsels.
Otherwise no extra space will be allocated per perf_evsel nor this space
will be initialized when allocating a new perf_evsel instance, resulting
in reads/writes to non allocated space, oops. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1414004561-22096-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When processing events the session code has an ordered samples queue
which is used to time-sort events coming in across multiple mmaps. At a
later point in time samples on the queue are flushed up to some
timestamp at which point the event is actually processed.
When analyzing events live (ie., record/analysis path in the same
command) there is a race that leads to corrupted events and parse errors
which cause perf to terminate. The problem is that when the event is
placed in the ordered samples queue it is only a reference to the event
which is really sitting in the mmap buffer. Even though the event is
queued for later processing the mmap tail pointer is updated which
indicates to the kernel that the event has been processed. The race is
flushing the event from the queue before it gets overwritten by some
other event. For commands trying to process events live (versus just
writing to a file) and processing a high rate of events this leads to
parse failures and perf terminates.
Examples hitting this problem are 'perf kvm stat live', especially with
nested VMs which generate 100,000+ traces per second, and a command
processing scheduling events with a high rate of context switching --
e.g., running 'perf bench sched pipe'.
This patch offers live commands an option to copy the event when it is
placed in the ordered samples queue.
Based on a patch from David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412347212-28237-2-git-send-email-yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The unw_addr_space_t in libunwind represents an address space to be used
for stack unwinding. It doesn't need to be create/destory everytime to
unwind callchain (as in get_entries) and can have a same lifetime as
thread (unless exec called).
So move the address space construction/destruction logic to the thread
lifetime handling functions. This is a preparation to enable caching in
the unwind library.
Note that it saves unw_addr_space_t object using thread__set_priv(). It
seems currently only used by perf trace and perf kvm stat commands which
don't use callchain.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412556363-26229-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Fixup unwind-libunwind.c missing CALLCHAIN_DWARF definition, added
missing __maybe_unused on unused parameters in stubs at util/unwind.h ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add test case in automated tests suite. It checks not only the two types
of pmu event stytle formats "pmu_event_name" and "cpu/pmu_event_name/",
but also the different formats mixtures which are more likely to trigger
parse issue.
The patch set including this one has been tested by the perf automated
test:
./perf test parse -v"
On haswell, ivybridge and Romley platform.
The patch set also has been tested on haswell by the following script.
Note: please make sure that your test system support TSX and
L1-dcache-loads events. Otherwise, you may want to change the events to
other pmu events.
[lk@localhost ~]$ cat perf_style_test.sh
# hardware events + kernel pmu event with different style
perf stat -x, -e cycles,mem-stores,tx-start sleep 2
perf stat -x, -e cpu-cycles,cycles-ct,cycles-t sleep 2
perf stat -x, -e cycles,cpu/cycles-ct/,cpu/cycles-t/ sleep 2
perf stat -x, -e instructions,cpu/tx-start/ sleep 2
perf stat -x, -e '{cycles,tx-start}' sleep 2
perf stat -x, -e '{cycles,cpu/tx-start/}' sleep 2
# HW Cache event + kernel pmu event with different style
perf stat -x, -e L1-dcache-loads,cpu/mem-stores/,tx-start sleep 2
perf stat -x, -e L1-dcache-loads,mem-stores,cpu/tx-start/ sleep 2
perf stat -x, -e '{L1-dcache-loads,mem-stores}' sleep 2
perf stat -x, -e '{L1-dcache-loads,cpu/tx-start/}' sleep 2
# Raw event + kernel pmu event with different style:
perf stat -x, -e cpu/event=0xc0,umask=0x00/,mem-loads,cpu/mem-stores/ sleep 2
perf stat -x, -e cpu/event=0xc0,umask=0x00/,tx-start,cpu/el-start/ sleep 2
perf stat -x, -e '{cpu/event=0xc0,umask=0x00/,tx-start}' sleep 2
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412694532-23391-5-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add new rules for kernel PMU event.
Currently, the patch only want to handle the PMU event name as "a-b" and
"a".
event_pmu:
PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT sep_dc
|
PE_PMU_EVENT_PRE '-' PE_PMU_EVENT_SUF sep_dc
PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT token is for
cycles-ct/cycles-t/mem-loads/mem-stores.
The prefix cycles is mixed up with cpu-cycles. loads and stores are
mixed up with cache event So they have to be hardcode in lex.
PE_PMU_EVENT_PRE and PE_PMU_EVENT_SUF tokens are for other PMU events.
The lex looks generic identifier up in the table and return the matched
token. If there is no match, generic PE_NAME token will be return.
Using the rules, kernel PMU event could use new style format without //
so you can use:
perf record -e mem-loads ...
instead of:
perf record -e cpu/mem-loads/
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412694532-23391-4-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
There are two types of event formats for PMU events. E.g. el-abort OR
cpu/el-abort/. However, the lexer mistakenly recognizes the simple style
format as two events.
The parse_events_pmu_check function uses bsearch to search the name in
known pmu event list. It can tell the lexer that the name is a PE_NAME
or a PMU event name prefix or a PMU event name suffix. All these
information will be used for accurately parsing kernel PMU events.
The pmu events list will be read from sysfs at runtime.
Note: Currently, the patch only want to handle the PMU event name as
"a-b" and "a". The only exception, "stalled-cycles-frontend" and
"stalled-cycles-fronted", are already hardcoded in lexer.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412694532-23391-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 50e200f079 ("perf tools: Default to cpu// for
events v5")
The fixup cannot handle the case that
new style format(which without //) mixed with
other different formats.
For example,
group events with new style format: {mem-stores,mem-loads}
some hardware event + new style event: cycles,mem-loads
Cache event + new style event: LLC-loads,mem-loads
Raw event + new style event:
cpu/event=0xc8,umask=0x08/,mem-loads
old style event and new stytle mixture: mem-stores,cpu/mem-loads/
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412694532-23391-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When 'perf top' is run, one can't easily find a difference
between -z option and normal output.
So I added a visual cue to know whether it is the zeroing or not.
Output is as below.
Before:
$ perf top
Samples: 61K of event 'cycles', Event count (approx.): 3908136933
Overhead Shared Object Symbol
1.42% firefox [.] 0x0000000000011e76
1.32% libpthread-2.17.so [.] pthread_mutex_lock
If you press key 'z' or run with zero option like '$ perf top --zero', it is as below.
After:
Samples: 61K of event 'cycles', Event count (approx.): 3908136933 [z]
Overhead Shared Object Symbol
1.42% firefox [.] 0x0000000000011e76
1.32% libpthread-2.17.so [.] pthread_mutex_lock
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412665995-26359-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
Infrastructure fixes and changes:
* Fix off-by-one bugs in map->end handling (Stephane Eranian)
* Fix off-by-one bug in maps__find(), also related to map->end handling (Namhyung Kim)
* Make struct symbol->end be the first addr after the symbol range, to make it
match the convention used for struct map->end. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
* Fix perf_evlist__add_pollfd() error handling in 'perf kvm stat live' (Jiri Olsa)
* Fix python test build by moving callchain_param to an object linked into the
python binding (Jiri Olsa)
* Do not include a struct hists per perf_evsel, untangling the histogram code
from perf_evsel, to pave the way for exporting a minimalistic
tools/lib/api/perf/ library usable by tools/perf and initially by the rasd
daemon being developed by Borislav Petkov, Robert Richter and Jean Pihet.
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
* Make perf_evlist__open(evlist, NULL, NULL), i.e. without cpu and thread
maps mean syswide monitoring, reducing the boilerplate for tools that
only want system wide mode. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
