It is sometimes useful to generate a snapshot when perf record exits;
I've been using a wrapper script around the workload that would do a
killall -USR2 perf when the workload exits.
This patch makes it easier and also works when perf record is attached
to a pre-existing task. A new snapshot option 'e' can be specified in
-S to enable this behavior:
root@elsewhere:~# perf record -e intel_pt// -Se sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.085 MB perf.data ]
Co-developed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806144101.62892-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
[ Fixed up !HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT build in builtin-record.c, adding 2 missing __maybe_unused ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
perf record:
Alexey Budankov:
- Allow mixing --user-regs with --call-graph=dwarf, making sure that
the minimal set of registers for DWARF unwinding is present in the
set of user registers requested to be present in each sample, while
warning the user that this may make callchains unreliable if more
that the minimal set of registers is needed to unwind.
yuzhoujian:
- Add support to collect callchains from kernel or user space only,
IOW allow setting the perf_event_attr.exclude_callchain_{kernel,user}
bits from the command line.
perf trace:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Remove x86_64 specific syscall numbers from the augmented_raw_syscalls
BPF in-kernel collector of augmented raw_syscalls:sys_{enter,exit}
payloads, use instead the syscall numbers obtainer either by the
arch specific syscalltbl generators or from audit-libs.
- Allow 'perf trace' to ask for the number of bytes to collect for
string arguments, for now ask for PATH_MAX, i.e. the whole
pathnames, which ends up being just a way to speficy which syscall
args are pathnames and thus should be read using bpf_probe_read_str().
- Skip unknown syscalls when expanding strace like syscall groups.
This helps using the 'string' group of syscalls to work in arm64,
where some of the syscalls present in x86_64 that deal with
strings, for instance 'access', are deprecated and this should not
be asked for tracing.
Leo Yan:
- Exit when failing to build eBPF program.
perf config:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Bail out when a handler returns failure for a key-value pair. This
helps with cases where processing a key-value pair is not just a
matter of setting some tool specific knob, involving, for instance
building a BPF program to then attach to the list of events 'perf
trace' will use, e.g. augmented_raw_syscalls.c.
perf.data:
Kan Liang:
- Read and store die ID information available in new Intel processors
in CPUID.1F in the CPU topology written in the perf.data header.
perf stat:
Kan Liang:
- Support per-die aggregation.
Documentation:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Update perf.data documentation about the CPU_TOPOLOGY, MEM_TOPOLOGY,
CLOCKID and DIR_FORMAT headers.
Song Liu:
- Add description of headers HEADER_BPF_PROG_INFO and HEADER_BPF_BTF.
Leo Yan:
- Update default value for llvm.clang-bpf-cmd-template in 'man perf-config'.
JVMTI:
Jiri Olsa:
- Address gcc string overflow warning for strncpy()
core:
- Remove superfluous nthreads system_wide setup in perf_evsel__alloc_fd().
Intel PT:
Adrian Hunter:
- Add support for samples to contain IPC ratio, collecting cycles
information from CYC packets, showing the IPC info periodically, because
Intel PT does not update the cycle count on every branch or instruction,
the incremental values will often be zero. When there are values, they
will be the number of instructions and number of cycles since the last
update, and thus represent the average IPC since the last IPC value.
E.g.:
# perf record --cpu 1 -m200000 -a -e intel_pt/cyc/u sleep 0.0001
rounding mmap pages size to 1024M (262144 pages)
[ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.208 MB perf.data ]
# perf script --insn-trace --xed -F+ipc,-dso,-cpu,-tid
#
<SNIP + add line numbering to make sense of IPC counts e.g.: (18/3)>
1 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27bf _int_free+0x3f jnz 0x7f5219ac2af0 IPC: 0.81 (36/44)
2 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27c5 _int_free+0x45 cmp $0x1f, %rbp
3 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27c9 _int_free+0x49 jbe 0x7f5219ac2b00
4 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27cf _int_free+0x4f test $0x8, %al
5 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27d1 _int_free+0x51 jnz 0x7f5219ac2b00
6 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27d7 _int_free+0x57 movq 0x13c58a(%rip), %rcx
7 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27de _int_free+0x5e mov %rdi, %r12
8 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27e1 _int_free+0x61 movq %fs:(%rcx), %rax
9 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27e5 _int_free+0x65 test %rax, %rax
10 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27e8 _int_free+0x68 jz 0x7f5219ac2821
11 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27ea _int_free+0x6a leaq -0x11(%rbp), %rdi
12 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27ee _int_free+0x6e mov %rdi, %rsi
13 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27f1 _int_free+0x71 shr $0x4, %rsi
14 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27f5 _int_free+0x75 cmpq %rsi, 0x13caf4(%rip)
15 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac27fc _int_free+0x7c jbe 0x7f5219ac2821
16 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac2821 _int_free+0xa1 cmpq 0x13f138(%rip), %rbp
17 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac2828 _int_free+0xa8 jnbe 0x7f5219ac28d8
18 cc1 63501.650479626: 7f5219ac28d8 _int_free+0x158 testb $0x2, 0x8(%rbx)
19 cc1 63501.650479628: 7f5219ac28dc _int_free+0x15c jnz 0x7f5219ac2ab0 IPC: 6.00 (18/3)
<SNIP>
- Allow using time ranges with Intel PT, i.e. these features, already
present but not optimially usable with Intel PT, should be now:
Select the second 10% time slice:
$ perf script --time 10%/2
Select from 0% to 10% time slice:
$ perf script --time 0%-10%
Select the first and second 10% time slices:
$ perf script --time 10%/1,10%/2
Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices:
$ perf script --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
cs-etm (ARM):
Mathieu Poirier:
- Add support for CPU-wide trace scenarios.
s390:
Thomas Richter:
- Fix missing kvm module load for s390.
- Fix OOM error in TUI mode on s390
- Support s390 diag event display when doing analysis on !s390
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms and conditions of the gnu general public license
version 2 as published by the free software foundation this program
is distributed in the hope it will be useful but without any
warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
for more details
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-only
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 263 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141901.208660670@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
By default 'perf script' for itrace outputs sampled instructions or
branches. In my experience this is confusing to users because it's hard
to correlate with real program behavior. The sampling makes sense for
tools like 'perf report' that actually sample to reduce the run time,
but run time is normally not a problem for 'perf script'. It's better
to give an accurate representation of the program flow.
Default 'perf script' to output all calls for itrace. That's a much saner
default. The old behavior can be still requested with 'perf script'
--itrace=ibxwpe100000
v2: Fix ETM build failure
v3: Really fix ETM build failure (Kim Phillips)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180920180540.14039-3-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add initial support for s390 auxiliary traces using the CPU-Measurement
Sampling Facility.
Support and ignore PERF_REPORT_AUXTRACE_INFO records in the perf data
file. Later patches will show the contents of the auxiliary traces.
Setup the auxtrace queues and data structures for s390. A raw dump of
the perf.data file now does not show an error when an auxtrace event is
encountered.
Output before:
[root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf report -D -i perf.data.auxtrace
0x128 [0x10]: failed to process type: 70
Error:
failed to process sample
0x128 [0x10]: event: 70
.
. ... raw event: size 16 bytes
. 0000: 00 00 00 46 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...F............
0x128 [0x10]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE_INFO type: 0
[root@s35lp76 perf]#
Output after:
# ./perf report -D -i perf.data.auxtrace |fgrep PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE
0 0 0x128 [0x10]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE_INFO type: 5
0 0 0x25a66 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE size: 0x40000
offset: 0 ref: 0 idx: 4 tid: -1 cpu: 4
....
Additional notes about the underlying hardware and software
implementation, provided by Hendrik Brueckner (see Link: below).
=============================================================================
The CPU-Measurement Facility (CPU-MF) provides a set of functions to obtain
performance information on the mainframe. Basically, it was introduced
with System z10 years ago for the z/Architecture, that means, 64-bit.
For Linux, there are two facilities of interest, counter facility and sampling
facility. The counter facility provides hardware counters for instructions,
cycles, crypto-activities, and many more.
The sampling facility is a hardware sampler that when started will write
samples at a particular interval into a sampling buffer. At some point,
for example, if a sample block is full, it generates an interrupt to collect
samples (while the sampler continues to run).
Few years ago, I started to provide the a perf PMU to use the counter
and sampling facilities. Recently, the device driver was updated to also
"export" the sampling buffer into the AUX area. Thomas now completed the
related perf work to interpret and process these AUX data.
If people are more interested in the sampling facility, they can have a
look into:
- The Load-Program-Parameter and the CPU-Measurement Facilities, SA23-2260-05
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg26fcd1cc32246f4c8852574ce0044734a
and to learn how-to use it for Linux on Z, have look at chapter 54,
"Using the CPU-measurement facilities" in the:
- Device Drivers, Features, and Commands, SC33-8411-34
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/linux390/docu/l416dd34.pdf
=============================================================================
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180803100758.GA28475@linux.ibm.com
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802074622.13641-2-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
'perf record' and 'perf report --dump-raw-trace' supported in this
release.
Example usage:
# perf record -e arm_spe/ts_enable=1,pa_enable=1/ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=10000
# perf report --dump-raw-trace
Note that the perf.data file is portable, so the report can be run on
another architecture host if necessary.
Output will contain raw SPE data and its textual representation, such
as:
0x5c8 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE size: 0x200000 offset: 0 ref: 0x1891ad0e idx: 1 tid: 2227 cpu: 1
.
. ... ARM SPE data: size 2097152 bytes
. 00000000: 49 00 LD
. 00000002: b2 c0 3b 29 0f 00 00 ff ff VA 0xffff00000f293bc0
. 0000000b: b3 c0 eb 24 fb 00 00 00 80 PA 0xfb24ebc0 ns=1
. 00000014: 9a 00 00 LAT 0 XLAT
. 00000017: 42 16 EV RETIRED L1D-ACCESS TLB-ACCESS
. 00000019: b0 00 c4 15 08 00 00 ff ff PC 0xff00000815c400 el3 ns=1
. 00000022: 98 00 00 LAT 0 TOT
. 00000025: 71 36 6c 21 2c 09 00 00 00 TS 39395093558
. 0000002e: 49 00 LD
. 00000030: b2 80 3c 29 0f 00 00 ff ff VA 0xffff00000f293c80
. 00000039: b3 80 ec 24 fb 00 00 00 80 PA 0xfb24ec80 ns=1
. 00000042: 9a 00 00 LAT 0 XLAT
. 00000045: 42 16 EV RETIRED L1D-ACCESS TLB-ACCESS
. 00000047: b0 f4 11 16 08 00 00 ff ff PC 0xff0000081611f4 el3 ns=1
. 00000050: 98 00 00 LAT 0 TOT
. 00000053: 71 36 6c 21 2c 09 00 00 00 TS 39395093558
. 0000005c: 48 00 INSN-OTHER
. 0000005e: 42 02 EV RETIRED
. 00000060: b0 2c ef 7f 08 00 00 ff ff PC 0xff0000087fef2c el3 ns=1
. 00000069: 98 00 00 LAT 0 TOT
. 0000006c: 71 d1 6f 21 2c 09 00 00 00 TS 39395094481
...
Other release notes:
- applies to acme's perf/{core,urgent} branches, likely elsewhere
- Report is self-contained within the tool.
Record requires enabling the kernel SPE driver by
setting CONFIG_ARM_SPE_PMU.
- The intel-bts implementation was used as a starting point; its
min/default/max buffer sizes and power of 2 pages granularity need to be
revisited for ARM SPE
- Recording across multiple SPE clusters/domains not supported
- Snapshot support (record -S), and conversion to native perf events
(e.g., via 'perf inject --itrace'), are also not supported
- Technically both cs-etm and spe can be used simultaneously, however
disabled for simplicity in this release
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180114132850.0b127434b704a26bad13268f@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the
coccinelle script shown below and apply its output.
For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in
preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the
former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of
ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't harmful, and changing them results in
churn.
However, for some features, the read/write distinction is critical to
correct operation. To distinguish these cases, separate read/write
accessors must be used. This patch migrates (most) remaining
ACCESS_ONCE() instances to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), using the following
coccinelle script:
----
// Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() uses to equivalent READ_ONCE() and
// WRITE_ONCE()
// $ make coccicheck COCCI=/home/mark/once.cocci SPFLAGS="--include-headers" MODE=patch
virtual patch
@ depends on patch @
expression E1, E2;
@@
- ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2
+ WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2)
@ depends on patch @
expression E;
@@
- ACCESS_ONCE(E)
+ READ_ONCE(E)
----
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: snitzer@redhat.com
Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In preparation for using the thread stack to print an indent
representing the stack depth in perf script, add an option to tell
decoders to feed branches to the thread stack. Add support for that
option to Intel PT and Intel BTS.
The advantage of using the decoder to feed the thread stack is that it
happens before branch filtering and so can be used with different itrace
options (e.g. it still works when only showing calls, even though the
thread stack needs to see calls and returns). Also it does not conflict
with using the thread stack to get callchains.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466689258-28493-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When using 'perf script' to look at PT traces it is often useful to
ignore the initialization code at the beginning.
On larger traces which may have many millions of instructions in
initialization code doing that in a pipeline can be very slow, with perf
script spending a lot of CPU time calling printf and writing data.
This patch adds an extension to the --itrace argument that skips 'n'
events (instructions, branches or transactions) at the beginning. This
is much more efficient.
v2:
Add support for BTS (Adrian Hunter)
Document in itrace.txt
Fix branch check
Check transactions and instructions too
Committer note:
To test intel_pt one needs to make sure VT-x isn't active, i.e.
stopping KVM guests on the test machine, as described by Andi Kleen
at http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160301234953.GD23621@tassilo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459187142-20035-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add an index of AUX area tracing events within a perf.data file.
perf record uses a special user event PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND to
enable sorting of events in chunks instead of having to sort all events
altogether.
AUX area tracing events contain data that can span back to the very
beginning of the recording period. i.e. they do not obey the rules of
PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND.
By adding an index, AUX area tracing events can be found in advance and
the PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND approach works as usual.
The index is recorded with the auxtrace feature in the perf.data file.
A session reads the index but does not process it. An AUX area decoder
can queue all the AUX area data in advance using
auxtrace_queues__process_index() or otherwise process the index in some
custom manner.
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/1430404667-10593-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
