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2010-05-09perf: Provide a new deterministic events reordering algorithmFrederic Weisbecker2-45/+97
The current events reordering algorithm is based on a heuristic that gets broken once we deal with a very fast flow of events. Indeed the time period based flushing is not suitable anymore in the following case, assuming we have a flush period of two seconds. CPU 0 | CPU 1 | cnt1 timestamps | cnt1 timestamps | 0 | 0 1 | 1 2 | 2 3 | 3 [...] | [...] 4 seconds later If we spend too much time to read the buffers (case of a lot of events to record in each buffers or when we have a lot of CPU buffers to read), in the next pass the CPU 0 buffer could contain a slice of several seconds of events. We'll read them all and notice we've reached the period to flush. In the above example we flush the first half of the CPU 0 buffer, then we read the CPU 1 buffer where we have events that were on the flush slice and then the reordering fails. It's simple to reproduce with: perf lock record perf bench sched messaging To solve this, we use a new solution that doesn't rely on an heuristical time slice period anymore but on a deterministic basis based on how perf record does its job. perf record saves the buffers through passes. A pass is a tour on every buffers from every CPUs. This is made in order: for each CPU we read the buffers of every counters. So the more buffers we visit, the later will be the timstamps of their events. When perf record finishes a pass it records a PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo event. We record the max timestamp t found in the pass n. Assuming these timestamps are monotonic across cpus, we know that if a buffer still has events with timestamps below t, they will be all available and then read in the pass n + 1. Hence when we start to read the pass n + 2, we can safely flush every events with timestamps below t. ============ PASS n ================= CPU 0 | CPU 1 | cnt1 timestamps | cnt2 timestamps 1 | 2 2 | 3 - | 4 <--- max recorded ============ PASS n + 1 ============== CPU 0 | CPU 1 | cnt1 timestamps | cnt2 timestamps 3 | 5 4 | 6 5 | 7 <---- max recorded Flush every events below timestamp 4 ============ PASS n + 2 ============== CPU 0 | CPU 1 | cnt1 timestamps | cnt2 timestamps 6 | 8 7 | 9 - | 10 Flush every events below timestamp 7 etc... It also works on perf.data versions that don't have PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo events. The difference is that the events will be only flushed in the end of the perf.data processing. It will then consume more memory and scale less with large perf.data files. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
2010-05-09perf: Introduce a new "round of buffers read" pseudo eventFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+2
In order to provide a more rubust and deterministic reordering algorithm, we need to know when we reach a point where we just did a pass through over every counter buffers to read every thing they had. This patch introduces a new PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo event that only consist in an event header and doesn't need to contain anything. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
2010-05-08Merge branch 'perf' of ↵Ingo Molnar1-1/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core
2010-05-07perf list: Improve the raw hw event descriptor documentationArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+2
It was x86 specific and imcomplete at that, improve the situation by making it clear where the example provided applies and by adding the URLs for the Intel and AMD manuals where this is discussed in depth. Acked-by: Robert Richter <[email protected]> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Cc: Robert Richter <[email protected]> Reported-by: Robert Richter <[email protected] LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-05-07perf, x86: Improve the PEBS ABIPeter Zijlstra1-9/+16
Rename perf_event_attr::precise to perf_event_attr::precise_ip and widen it to 2 bits. This new field describes the required precision of the PERF_SAMPLE_IP field: 0 - SAMPLE_IP can have arbitrary skid 1 - SAMPLE_IP must have constant skid 2 - SAMPLE_IP requested to have 0 skid 3 - SAMPLE_IP must have 0 skid And modify the Intel PEBS code accordingly. The PEBS implementation now supports up to precise_ip == 2, where we perform the IP fixup. Also s/PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT/&_IP/ to clarify its meaning, this bit should be set for each PERF_SAMPLE_IP field known to match the actual instruction triggering the event. This new scheme allows for a PEBS mode that uses the buffer for more than a single event. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
2010-05-05perf list: Add explanation about raw hardware event descriptorsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+1
Using explanation given by Ingo Molnar in the oprofile mailing list. Suggested-by: Nick Black <[email protected]> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Nick Black <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-05-05perf/record: simplify TRACE_INFO tracepoint checkTom Zanussi1-1/+7
Fix a couple of inefficiencies and redundancies related to have_tracepoints() and its use when checking whether to write TRACE_INFO. First, there's no need to use get_tracepoints_path() in have_tracepoints() - we really just want the part that checks whether any attributes correspondo to tracepoints. Second, we really don't care about raw_samples per se - tracepoints are always raw_samples. In any case, the have_tracepoints() check should be sufficient to decide whether or not to write TRACE_INFO. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>, Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <1273030770.6383.6.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-05-05perf report: Make dso__calc_col_width agree with hist_entry__dso_snprintfArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+4
The first was always using the ->long_name, while the later used ->short_name if verbose was not set, resulting in the dso column to be much wider than needed most of the time. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-05-04Merge branch 'perf' of ↵Ingo Molnar4-1/+15
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core
2010-05-04perf: Fix performance issue with perf reportAnton Blanchard2-0/+9
On a large machine we spend a lot of time in perf_header__find_attr when running perf report. If we are parsing a file without PERF_SAMPLE_ID then for each sample we call perf_header__find_attr and loop through all counter IDs, never finding a match. As the machine gets larger there are more per cpu counters and we spend an awful lot of time in there. The patch below initialises each sample id to -1ULL and checks for this in perf_header__find_attr. We may need to do something more intelligent eventually (eg a hash lookup from counter id to attr) but this at least fixes the most common usage of perf report. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Eric B Munson <[email protected]> Acked-by: Eric B Munson <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <20100504111915.GB14636@kryten> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]> -- Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-05-03perf: record TRACE_INFO only if using tracepoints and SAMPLE_RAWTom Zanussi3-1/+6
The current perf code implicitly assumes SAMPLE_RAW means tracepoints are being used, but doesn't check for that. It happily records the TRACE_INFO even if SAMPLE_RAW is used without tracepoints, but when the perf data is read it won't go any further when it finds TRACE_INFO but no tracepoints, and displays misleading errors. This adds a check for both in perf-record, and won't record TRACE_INFO unless both are true. This at least allows perf report -D to dump raw events, and avoids triggering a misleading error condition in perf trace. It doesn't actually enable the non-tracepoint raw events to be displayed in perf trace, since perf trace currently only deals with tracepoint events. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <1272865861.7932.16.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-05-03Merge branch 'perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar3-95/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core
2010-05-02perf: add perf-inject builtinTom Zanussi5-12/+50
Currently, perf 'live mode' writes build-ids at the end of the session, which isn't actually useful for processing live mode events. What would be better would be to have the build-ids sent before any of the samples that reference them, which can be done by processing the event stream and retrieving the build-ids on the first hit. Doing that in perf-record itself, however, is off-limits. This patch introduces perf-inject, which does the same job while leaving perf-record untouched. Normal mode perf still records the build-ids at the end of the session as it should, but for live mode, perf-inject can be injected in between the record and report steps e.g.: perf record -o - ./hackbench 10 | perf inject -v -b | perf report -v -i - perf-inject reads a perf-record event stream and repipes it to stdout. At any point the processing code can inject other events into the event stream - in this case build-ids (-b option) are read and injected as needed into the event stream. Build-ids are just the first user of perf-inject - potentially anything that needs userspace processing to augment the trace stream with additional information could make use of this facility. Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-05-02perf/live: don't synthesize build ids at the end of a live mode traceTom Zanussi2-63/+0
It doesn't really make sense to record the build ids at the end of a live mode session - live mode samples need that information during the trace rather than at the end. Leave event__synthesize_build_id() in place, however; we'll still be using that to synthesize build ids in a more timely fashion in a future patch. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-05-02perf tools: Don't use code surrounded by __KERNEL__Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo6-32/+104
We need to refactor code to be explicitely shared by the kernel and at least the tools/ userspace programs, so, till we do that, copy the bare minimum bitmap/bitops code needed by tools/perf. Reported-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-05-01perf: Fix warning while reading ring buffer headersFrederic Weisbecker3-95/+7
commit e9e94e3bd862d31777335722e747e97d9821bc1d "perf trace: Ignore "overwrite" field if present in /events/header_page" makes perf trace launching spurious warnings about unexpected tokens read: Warning: Error: expected type 6 but read 4 This change tries to handle the overcommit field in the header_page file whenever this field is present or not. The problem is that if this field is not present, we try to find it and give up in the middle of the line when we realize we are actually dealing with another field, which is the "data" one. And this failure abandons the file pointer in the middle of the "data" description line: field: u64 timestamp; offset:0; size:8; signed:0; field: local_t commit; offset:8; size:8; signed:1; field: char data; offset:16; size:4080; signed:1; ^^^ Here What happens next is that we want to read this line to parse the data field, but we fail because the pointer is not in the beginning of the line. We could probably fix that by rewinding the pointer. But in fact we don't care much about these headers that only concern the ftrace ring-buffer. We don't use them from perf. Just skip this part of perf.data, but don't remove it from recording to stay compatible with olders perf.data Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
2010-04-29perf symbols: Add machine helper routinesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo3-24/+85
Created when writing the first 'perf test' regression testing routine. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-27perf machines: Make the machines class adopt the dsos__fprintf methodsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo3-11/+29
Now those methods don't operate on a global list of dsos, but on lists of machines, so make this clear by renaming the functions. Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-27perf machine: Adopt some map_groups functionsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo7-78/+73
Those functions operated on members now grouped in 'struct machine', so move those methods to this new class. The changes made to 'perf probe' shows that using this abstraction inserting probes on guests almost got supported for free. Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-27perf machine: Pass buffer size to machine__mmap_nameArnaldo Carvalho de Melo4-11/+11
Don't blindly assume that the size of the buffer is enough, use snprintf. Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-27perf tools: Rename "kernel_info" to "machine"Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo10-253/+249
struct kernel_info and kerninfo__ are too vague, what they really describe are machines, virtual ones or hosts. There are more changes to introduce helpers to shorten function calls and to make more clear what is really being done, but I left that for subsequent patches. Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-27Merge branch 'perf' of ↵Ingo Molnar5-24/+36
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core
2010-04-26perf probe: Add --max-probes optionMasami Hiramatsu4-16/+22
Add --max-probes option to change the maximum limit of findable probe points per event, since inlined function can be expanded into thousands of probe points. Default value is 128. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-26perf probe: Fix to exit callback soon after finding too many probe pointsMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+4
Fix to exit callback soon after finding too many probe points. Don't try to continue searching because it already failed. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-26perf probe: Fix to use symtab only if no debuginfoMasami Hiramatsu1-8/+9
Fix perf probe to use symtab only if there is no debuginfo, because debuginfo has more information than symtab. If we can't find a function in debuginfo, we never find it in symtab. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-26perf tools: Initialize dso->node member in dso__newMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+1
If dso->node member is not initialized, it causes a segmentation fault when adding to other lists. It should be initilized in dso__new(). Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: : <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-24perf: Generalize perf lock's sample event reordering to the session layerFrederic Weisbecker2-1/+188
The sample events recorded by perf record are not time ordered because we have one buffer per cpu for each event (even demultiplexed per task/per cpu for task bound events). But when we read trace events we want them to be ordered by time because many state machines are involved. There are currently two ways perf tools deal with that: - use -M to multiplex every buffers (perf sched, perf kmem) But this creates a lot of contention in SMP machines on record time. - use a post-processing time reordering (perf timechart, perf lock) The reordering used by timechart is simple but doesn't scale well with huge flow of events, in terms of performance and memory use (unusable with perf lock for example). Perf lock has its own samples reordering that flushes its memory use in a regular basis and that uses a sorting based on the previous event queued (a new event to be queued is close to the previous one most of the time). This patch proposes to export perf lock's samples reordering facility to the session layer that reads the events. So if a tool wants to get ordered sample events, it needs to set its struct perf_event_ops::ordered_samples to true and that's it. This prepares tracing based perf tools to get rid of the need to use buffers multiplexing (-M) or to implement their own reordering. Also lower the flush period to 2 as it's sufficient already. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
2010-04-24perf: Fix initialization bug in parse_single_tracepoint_event()Stephane Eranian1-6/+7
The parse_single_tracepoint_event() was setting some attributes before it validated the event was indeed a tracepoint event. This caused problems with other initialization routines like in the builtin-top.c module whereby sample_period is not set if not 0. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
2010-04-22perf: Move arch specific code into separate arch directoryIan Munsie2-53/+10
The perf userspace tool included some architecture specific code to map registers from the DWARF register number into the names used by the regs and stack access API. This moves the architecture specific code out into a separate arch/x86 directory along with the infrastructure required to use it. Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <[email protected]> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
2010-04-21perf: Fix perf probe build errorFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+1
When we run into dry run mode, we want to make write_kprobe_trace_event to succeed on writing the event. Let's initialize it to 0. Fixes the following build error: util/probe-event.c:1266: attention : «ret» may be used uninitialized in this function util/probe-event.c:1266: note: «ret» was declared here Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
2010-04-19perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from hostZhang, Yanmin16-292/+1049
Here is the patch of userspace perf tool. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
2010-04-15Merge branch 'perf' of ↵Ingo Molnar7-527/+1240
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core
2010-04-15Merge branch 'perf/live' into perf/coreIngo Molnar8-81/+672
Conflicts: tools/perf/builtin-record.c Merge reason: add the live tracing feature, resolve conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
2010-04-15perf: Make the trace events sample period default to 1Frederic Weisbecker1-0/+2
Trace events are mostly used for tracing and then require not to be lost when possible. As opposite to hardware events that really require to trigger after a given sample period, trace events mostly need to trigger everytime. It is a frustrating experience to trace with perf and realize we lost a lot of events because we forgot the "-c 1" option. Then default sample_period to 1 for trace events but let the user override it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
2010-04-15perf: Always record tracepoints raw samples from perf recordFrederic Weisbecker1-10/+4
Trace events are mostly used for tracing rather than simple counting. Don't bother anymore with adding -R when using them, just record raw samples of trace events every time. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
2010-04-15perf: Fix dynamic field detectionThomas Gleixner1-1/+1
Checking if a tracing field is an array with a dynamic length requires to check the field type and seek the "__data_loc" string that prepends the actual type, as can be found in a trace event format file: field:__data_loc char[] name; offset:16; size:4; signed:1; But we actually use strcmp() to check if the field type fully matches "__data_loc", which may fail as we trip over the rest of the type. To fix this, use strncmp to only check if it starts with "__data_loc". Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Show function entry line as probe-ableMasami Hiramatsu1-11/+63
Function entry line should be shown as probe-able line, because each function has declared line attribute. LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Support DW_OP_plus_uconst in DW_AT_data_member_locationMasami Hiramatsu1-5/+32
DW_OP_plus_uconst can be used for DW_AT_data_member_location. This patch adds DW_OP_plus_uconst support when getting structure member offset. Commiter note: Fixed up the size_t format specifier in one case: cc1: warnings being treated as errors util/probe-finder.c: In function ‘die_get_data_member_location’: util/probe-finder.c:270: error: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 4 has type ‘size_t’ make: *** [/home/acme/git/build/perf/util/probe-finder.o] Error 1 LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Fix line range to show end lineMasami Hiramatsu1-3/+9
Line range should reject the range if the number of lines is 0 (e.g. "sched.c:1024+0"), and it should show the lines include the end of line number (e.g. "sched.c:1024-2048" should show 2048th line). LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Fix a bug that --line range can be overflowMasami Hiramatsu3-24/+24
Since line_finder.lno_s/e are signed int but line_range.start/end are unsigned int, it is possible to be overflow when converting line_range->start/end to line_finder->lno_s/e. This changes line_range.start/end and line_list.line to signed int and adds overflow checks when setting line_finder.lno_s/e. LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Fix mis-estimation for shortening filenameMasami Hiramatsu1-2/+2
Fix mis-estimation size for making a short filename. Since the buffer size is 32 bytes and there are '@' prefix and '\0' termination, maximum shorten filename length should be 30. This means, before searching '/', it should be 31 bytes. LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Fix to use correct debugfs path finderMasami Hiramatsu1-2/+10
Instead of using debugfs_path, use debugfs_find_mountpoint() to find actual debugfs path. LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Remove xstrdup()/xstrndup() from util/probe-{event, finder}.cMasami Hiramatsu2-61/+156
Remove all xstr*dup() calls from util/probe-{event,finder}.c since it may cause 'sudden death' in utility functions and it makes reusing it from other code difficult. Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Remove xzalloc() from util/probe-{event, finder}.cMasami Hiramatsu2-25/+69
Remove all xzalloc() calls from util/probe-{event,finder}.c since it may cause 'sudden death' in utility functions and it makes reusing it from other code difficult. Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Remove die() from probe-event codeMasami Hiramatsu2-207/+432
Remove die() and DIE_IF() code from util/probe-event.c since these 'sudden death' in utility functions make reusing it from other code (especially tui/gui) difficult. Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Remove die() from probe-finder codeMasami Hiramatsu2-199/+322
Remove die() and DIE_IF() code from util/probe-finder.c since these 'sudden death' in utility functions make reusing it from other code (especially tui/gui) difficult. Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Support DW_OP_call_frame_cfa in debuginfoMasami Hiramatsu2-3/+12
When building kernel without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, gcc uses CFA (canonical frame address) for frame base. With this patch, perf probe just gets CFI (call frame information) from debuginfo and search corresponding CFA from the CFI. IOW, this allows perf probe works correctly on the kernel without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER. <Before> ./perf probe -fn sched_slice:12 lw.weight Fatal: DW_OP 156 is not supported. (^^^ DW_OP_call_frame_cfa) <After> ./perf probe -fn sched_slice:12 lw.weight Add new event: probe:sched_slice (on sched_slice:12 with weight=lw.weight) Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Support basic type castingMasami Hiramatsu3-3/+31
Add basic type casting for arguments to perf probe. This allows users to specify the actual type of arguments. Of course, if user sets invalid types, kprobe-tracer rejects that. Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Query basic types from debuginfoMasami Hiramatsu3-8/+80
Query the basic type information (byte-size and signed-flag) from debuginfo and pass that to kprobe-tracer. This is especially useful for tracing the members of data structure, because each member has different byte-size on the memory. Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2010-04-14perf probe: Use the last field name as the argument nameMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+4
Set the last field name to the argument name when the argument is refering a data-structure member. e.g. ./perf probe --add 'vfs_read file->f_mode' Add new event: probe:vfs_read (on vfs_read with f_mode=file->f_mode) This probe records file->f_mode, but the argument name becomes "f_mode". This enables perf-trace command to parse trace event format correctly. Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>