perf kvm can be used to analyze guest exit reasons. This support already
exists in x86. Hence, porting it to powerpc.
- To trace KVM events :
perf kvm stat record
If many guests are running, we can track for a specific guest by using
--pid as in : perf kvm stat record --pid <pid>
- To see the results :
perf kvm stat report
The result shows the number of exits (from the guest context to
host/hypervisor context) grouped by their respective exit reasons with
their frequency.
Since, different powerpc machines have different KVM tracepoints, this
patch discovers the available tracepoints dynamically and accordingly
looks for them. If any single tracepoint is not present, this support
won't be enabled for reporting. To record, this will fail if any of the
events we are looking to record isn't available. Right now, its only
supported on PowerPC Book3S_HV architectures.
To analyze the different exits, group them and present them (in a slight
descriptive way) to the user, we need a mapping between the "exit code"
(dumped in the kvm_guest_exit tracepoint data) and to its related
Interrupt vector description (exit reason). This patch adds this mapping
in book3s_hv_exits.h.
It records on two available KVM tracepoints for book3s_hv:
"kvm_hv:kvm_guest_exit" and "kvm_hv:kvm_guest_enter".
Here is a sample o/p:
# pgrep qemu
19378
60515
2 Guests are running on the host.
# perf kvm stat record -a
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.153 MB perf.data.guest (39624
samples) ]
# perf kvm stat report -p 60515
Analyze events for pid(s) 60515, all VCPUs:
VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% MinTime MaxTime Avg time
SYSCALL 9141 63.67% 7.49% 1.26us 5782.39us 9.87us (+- 6.46%)
H_DATA_STORAGE 4114 28.66% 5.07% 1.72us 4597.68us 14.84us (+-20.06%)
HV_DECREMENTER 418 2.91% 4.26% 0.70us 30002.22us 122.58us (+-70.29%)
EXTERNAL 392 2.73% 0.06% 0.64us 104.10us 1.94us (+-18.83%)
RETURN_TO_HOST 287 2.00% 83.11% 1.53us 124240.15us 3486.52us (+-16.81%)
H_INST_STORAGE 5 0.03% 0.00% 1.88us 3.73us 2.39us (+-14.20%)
Total Samples:14357, Total events handled time:1203918.42us.
Signed-off-by: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453962787-15376-3-git-send-email-hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Enable perf kvm to use perf.data.guest when it is not owned by current
user or root.
Example:
# perf kvm stat record ls
# chown Yunlong.Song:Yunlong.Song perf.data.guest
# ls -al perf.data.guest
-rw------- 1 Yunlong.Song Yunlong.Song 4128937 Apr 2 11:05 perf.data.guest
# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),64(pkcs11)
Before this patch:
# perf kvm stat report
File perf.data.guest not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
Initializing perf session failed
# perf kvm stat report -f
Error: unknown switch `f'
usage: perf kvm stat report [<options>]
--event <report event>
event for reporting: vmexit, mmio (x86 only),
ioport (x86 only)
--vcpu <n> vcpu id to report
-k, --key <sort-key> key for sorting: sample(sort by samples
number) time (sort by avg time)
-p, --pid <pid> analyze events only for given process id(s)
As shown above, the -f option does not work at all.
After this patch:
# perf kvm stat report
File perf.data.guest not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
Initializing perf session failed
# perf kvm stat report -f
Analyze events for all VMs, all VCPUs:
VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Min Time Max Time Avg time
Total Samples:0, Total events handled time:0.00us.
As shown above, the -f option really works now. Since we have not
launched any KVM related process, the result shows 0 sample here.
Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427982439-27388-5-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
