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>
As there is no -v option for perf kvm, the all debug message for perf
kvm will nerver be printed out to user.
Example:
# perf kvm --guestmount /tmp/guestmount/ record -a
Not enough memory for reading perf file header
It is confusing message for newbies such as me. With this patch applied,
we can use -v option to get the detail.
Example:
# perf kvm --guestmount /tmp/guestmount/ record -a -v
Can't access file /tmp/guestmount//15069/proc/kallsyms
Not enough memory for reading perf file header
Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386609311-23889-1-git-send-email-yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add field 'srcline' that displays the source file name and line number
associated with the sample ip. The information displayed is the same as
from addr2line.
$ perf script -f comm,tid,pid,time,ip,sym,dso,symoff,srcline
grep 10701/10701 2497321.421013: ffffffff81043ffa native_write_msr_safe+0xa ([kernel.kallsyms])
/usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:95
grep 10701/10701 2497321.421984: ffffffff8165b6b3 _raw_spin_lock+0x13 ([kernel.kallsyms])
/usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h:54
grep 10701/10701 2497321.421990: ffffffff810b64b3 tick_sched_timer+0x53 ([kernel.kallsyms])
/usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/kernel/time/tick-sched.c:840
grep 10701/10701 2497321.421992: ffffffff8106f63f run_timer_softirq+0x2f ([kernel.kallsyms])
/usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/kernel/timer.c:1372
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.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/1386315778-11633-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When callgraph data was included in the perf data file, it may take a
long time to scan all those data and merge them together especially if
the stored callchains are long and the perf data file itself is large,
like a Gbyte or so.
The callchain stack is currently limited to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH (127).
This is a large value. Usually the callgraph data that developers are
most interested in are the first few levels, the rests are usually not
looked at.
This patch adds a new --max-stack option to perf-report to limit the
depth of callchain stack data to look at to reduce the time it takes for
perf-report to finish its processing. It trades the presence of trailing
stack information with faster speed.
The following table shows the elapsed time of doing perf-report on a
perf.data file of size 985,531,828 bytes.
--max_stack Elapsed Time Output data size
----------- ------------ ----------------
not set 88.0s 124,422,651
64 87.5s 116,303,213
32 87.2s 112,023,804
16 86.6s 94,326,380
8 59.9s 33,697,248
4 40.7s 10,116,637
-g none 27.1s 2,555,810
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382107129-2010-4-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Initially it tries to find a probe:vfs_getname that should be setup
with:
perf probe 'vfs_getname=getname_flags:65 pathname=result->name:string'
or with slight changes to cope with code flux in the getname_flags code.
In the future, if a "vfs:getname" tracepoint becomes available, then it
will be preferred.
This is not strictly required and more expensive method of reading the
/proc/pid/fd/ symlink will be used when the fd->path array entry is not
populated by a previous vfs_getname + open syscall ret sequence.
As with any other 'perf probe' probe the setup must be done just once
and the probe will be left inactive, waiting for users, be it 'perf
trace' of any other tool.
Cc: 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: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ujg8se8glq5izmu8cdkq15po@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
kcore can be used to view the running kernel object code. However,
kcore changes as modules are loaded and unloaded, and when the kernel
decides to modify its own code. Consequently it is useful to create a
copy of kcore at a particular time. Unlike vmlinux, kcore is not unique
for a given build-id. And in addition, the kallsyms and modules files
are also needed. The tool therefore creates a directory:
~/.debug/[kernel.kcore]/<build-id>/<YYYYmmddHHMMSShh>
which contains: kcore, kallsyms and modules.
Note that the copied kcore contains only code sections. See the
kcore_copy() function for how that is determined.
The tool will not make additional copies of kcore if there is already
one with the same modules at the same addresses.
Currently, perf tools will not look for kcore in the cache. That is
addressed in another patch.
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: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.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/525BF849.5030405@intel.com
[ renamed 'index' to 'idx' to avoid shadowing string.h symbol in f12,
use at least one member initializer when initializing a struct to
zeros, also to fix the build on f12 ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
'make install' used to show all the install lines, which is way too
verbose to be really informative to the user.
Implement summary output instead:
comet:~/tip/tools/perf> make install
BUILD: Doing 'make -j12' parallel build
SUBDIR Documentation
INSTALL Documentation-man
INSTALL binaries
INSTALL libexec
INSTALL perf-archive
INSTALL perl-scripts
INSTALL python-scripts
INSTALL bash_completion-script
INSTALL tests
'make install V=1' will still show the old, detailed output.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381312169-17354-5-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
[ Fixed conflict with libperf-gtk patches in acme/perf/core, cope with 'trace' alias ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The various build lines from libtraceevent and perf mix up during a
parallel build and produce unaligned output like:
CC builtin-buildid-list.o
CC builtin-buildid-cache.o
CC builtin-list.o
CC FPIC trace-seq.o
CC builtin-record.o
CC FPIC parse-filter.o
CC builtin-report.o
CC builtin-stat.o
CC FPIC parse-utils.o
CC FPIC kbuffer-parse.o
CC builtin-timechart.o
CC builtin-top.o
CC builtin-script.o
BUILD STATIC LIB libtraceevent.a
CC builtin-probe.o
CC builtin-kmem.o
CC builtin-lock.o
To solve this, harmonize all the build message alignments to be similar
to the kernel's kbuild output: prefixed by two spaces and 11-char wide.
After the patch the output looks pretty tidy, even if output lines get
mixed up:
CC builtin-annotate.o
FLAGS: * new build flags or cross compiler
CC builtin-bench.o
AR liblk.a
CC bench/sched-messaging.o
CC FPIC event-parse.o
CC bench/sched-pipe.o
CC FPIC trace-seq.o
CC bench/mem-memcpy.o
CC bench/mem-memset.o
CC FPIC parse-filter.o
CC builtin-diff.o
CC builtin-evlist.o
CC builtin-help.o
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381312169-17354-3-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
While perf-lock currently reports both the total wait time and the
number of contentions, it doesn't explicitly show the average wait time.
Having this value immediately in the report can be quite useful when
looking into performance issues.
Furthermore, allowing report to sort by averages is another handy
feature to have - and thus do not only print the value, but add it to
the lock_stat structure.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378693159-8747-8-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Linus reported the following perf build system bug:
'Another annoyance during that make was that "make install" seems to
want to re-make the thing I just built. That's absolutely horrible, [...]'
The thing that got re-built were 'only' the (numerous) feature checks,
not the whole project - but still it was mighty annoying as the feature
checks took 9+ seconds even on reasonably fast boxes.
Even with the autodep patches where feature detection is much faster
it wastes resources, wastes screen real estate and confuses users if
we execute feature detection twice.
There were two sources for these unnecessary re-builds of the feature
checks:
- Unnecessary nested invocations of $(MAKE), apparently to be able
to do conditional compilation dependent on documentation tools
presence. Use straight dependencies instead, with no nesting.
- A direct invocation of $(MAKE) to rebuild the PERF-VERSION-FILE.
This is apparently done to be able to include it into the
Makefile:
-include $(OUTPUT)PERF-VERSION-FILE
but that's entirely pointless for two reasons: 1) the version file
gets regenerated by the initial build pass anyway, 2) including it
is futile, given its contents:
#define PERF_VERSION "3.12.rc3.g8510c7"
'make' will interpret that as a comment line...
So just remove this part of the doc-generation logic.
With these things fixed a 'make install' now rebuilds only what is needed.
A repeated 'make install' on an already built tree is super fast now,
it finishes in under 0.3 seconds:
#
# After the patch:
#
$ time make install
...
real 0m0.280s
user 0m0.162s
sys 0m0.054s
Prior all the autodep changes and prior this fix, a repeat 'make install'
took 24.1 seconds (!) on the same system:
#
# Before the patches:
#
$ time make install
...
real 0m24.109s
user 0m21.171s
sys 0m2.449s
Which almost entirely was caused by fixable build system fat.
We are now literally ~86 times faster.
A fresh rebuild and install now takes just 11.4 seconds:
#
# After the patch:
#
$ make clean
$ time make -j16 install
...
real 0m11.457s
user 1m43.411s
sys 0m7.610s
Without the patches it took 27.8 seconds:
#
# Before the patches:
#
$ make clean
$ time make -j16 install
...
real 0m27.801s
user 1m59.242s
sys 0m9.749s
So even in the complete rebuild case we are now ~2.5 times faster.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x4qjnxjGrgxpribq8sdakfTp@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
