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2015-04-29perf tools: Add symbolic events support for parse_events_errorJiri Olsa3-11/+10
Allowing symbolic events processing to report back error. $ perf record -e 'cycles/period=krava/' ls event syntax error: '../period=krava/' \___ expected numeric value $ perf record -e 'cycles/name=1/' ls event syntax error: '..es/name=1/' \___ expected string value Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add tracepoint support for parse_events_errorJiri Olsa1-1/+7
Allowing tracepoint events processing to report back error. $ perf record -e 'sched:krava' ls event syntax error: 'sched:krava' \___ unknown tracepoint ... Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add static terms support for parse_events_errorJiri Olsa1-9/+28
Allowing static terms like 'name,period,config,config1..' processing to report back error. $ perf record -e 'cpu/event=1,name=1/' ls event syntax error: '..=1,name=1/' \___ expected string value $ perf record -e 'cpu/event=1,period=krava/' ls event syntax error: '..,period=krava/' \___ expected numeric value $ perf record -e 'cpu/config=krava1/' ls event syntax error: '../config=krava1/' \___ expected numeric value Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Renamed 'error' variables to 'err', not to clash with util.h error() ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add term support for parse_events_errorJiri Olsa5-10/+62
Allowing event's term processing to report back error, like: $ perf record -e 'cpu/even=0x1/' ls event syntax error: 'cpu/even=0x1/' \___ unknown term valid terms: pc,any,inv,edge,cmask,event,in_tx,ldlat,umask,in_tx_cp,offcore_rsp,config,config1,config2,name,period,branch_type Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Renamed 'error' variables to 'err', not to clash with util.h error() ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add location to pmu event termsJiri Olsa3-20/+36
Saving the terms location within term struct, so it could be used later for report. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Change parse_events_add_pmu interfaceJiri Olsa3-10/+12
Changing parse_events_add_pmu interface to allow propagating of the parse_events_error info. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Always bail out when config_attr function failsJiri Olsa1-4/+11
Not sure why we allowed the fail state, but it's wrong. Wrong type for 'name' term can cause segfault, and there's probably more fun hidden. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add flex support for parse_events_errorJiri Olsa3-8/+37
Allowing flex parser to report back event parsing error, like: $ perf record -e cycles,cache-mises ls event syntax error: '..es,cache-mises' \___ parser error ... Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add parse_events_error interfaceJiri Olsa14-32/+127
Adding support to return error information from parse_events function. Following struct will be populated by parse_events function on return: struct parse_events_error { int idx; char *str; char *help; }; where 'idx' is the position in the string where the parsing failed, 'str' contains dynamically allocated error string describing the error and 'help' is optional help string. The change contains reporting function, which currently does not display anything. The code changes to supply error data for specific event types are coming in next patches. However this is what the expected output is: $ sudo perf record -e 'sched:krava' ls event syntax error: 'sched:krava' \___ unknown tracepoint ... $ perf record -e 'cpu/even=0x1/' ls event syntax error: 'cpu/even=0x1/' \___ unknown term valid terms: pc,any,inv,edge,cmask,event,in_tx,ldlat,umask,in_tx_cp,offcore_rsp,config,config1,config2,name,period,branch_type ... $ perf record -e cycles,cache-mises ls event syntax error: '..es,cache-mises' \___ parser error ... The output functions cut the beginning of the event string so the error starts up to 10th character and cut the end of the string of it crosses the terminal width. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Renamed 'error' variables to 'err', not to clash with util.h error() ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add aux_watermark member of struct perf_event_attrAdrian Hunter2-0/+2
Add new AUX area member (aux_watermark) of struct perf_event_attr to debug prints and byte swapping. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf script: Add field option 'flags' to print sample flagsAdrian Hunter3-6/+39
Instruction tracing will typically have access to information about the instruction being executed for a particular ip sample. Some of that information will be available in the 'flags' member of struct perf_sample. With the addition of transactions events synthesis to Instruction Tracing options, there is a need to be able easily to see the flags because they show whether the ip is at the start, commit or abort of a tranasaction. Consequently add an option to display the flags. The flags are "bcrosyiABEx" which stand for branch, call, return, conditional, system, asynchronous, interrupt, transaction abort, trace begin, trace end, and in transaction, respectively. Example using Intel PT: perf script -fip,time,event,sym,addr,flags ... 1288.721584105: branches:u: bo 401146 main => 401152 main 1288.721584105: transactions: x 0 401164 main 1288.721584105: branches:u: bx 40117c main => 40119b main 1288.721584105: branches:u: box 4011a4 main => 40117e main 1288.721584105: branches:u: bcx 401187 main => 401094 g ... 1288.721591645: branches:u: bx 4010c4 g => 4010cb g 1288.721591645: branches:u: brx 4010cc g => 401189 main 1288.721591645: transactions: 0 4011a6 main 1288.721593199: branches:u: b 4011a9 main => 4011af main 1288.721593199: branches:u: bo 4011bc main => 40113e main 1288.721593199: branches:u: b 401150 main => 40115a main 1288.721593199: transactions: x 0 401164 main 1288.721593199: branches:u: bx 40117c main => 40119b main 1288.721593199: branches:u: box 4011a4 main => 40117e main 1288.721593199: branches:u: bcx 401187 main => 40105e f ... 1288.722284747: branches:u: brx 401093 f => 401189 main 1288.722284747: branches:u: box 4011a4 main => 40117e main 1288.722284747: branches:u: bcx 401187 main => 40105e f 1288.722285883: transactions: bA 0 401071 f 1288.722285883: branches:u: bA 401071 f => 40116a main 1288.722285883: branches:u: bE 40116a main => 0 [unknown] 1288.722297174: branches:u: bB 0 [unknown] => 40116a main ... Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf inject: Add Instruction Tracing supportAdrian Hunter2-2/+95
Add support for decoding an AUX area assuming it contains instruction tracing data. The AUX area tracing events are stripped and replaced by synthesized events. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Do not use -Z as an alternative to --itrace ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf inject: Re-pipe AUX area tracing eventsAdrian Hunter1-5/+58
New AUX area tracing events must be re-piped by default. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf script: Add Instruction Tracing supportAdrian Hunter2-0/+38
Add support for decoding an AUX area assuming it contains instruction tracing data. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Do not use -Z as an alternative to --itrace ] [ Fixed initialization of itrace_synth_opts struct fields on older gcc versions ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add member to struct dso for an instruction cacheAdrian Hunter2-0/+5
Add a member to struct dso that can be used by Instruction Trace implementations to hold a cache for decoded instructions. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf auxtrace: Add a hashtable for cachingAdrian Hunter2-0/+137
Decoding AUX area data may involve walking object code. Rather than repetitively decoding the same instructions, a cache can be used to cache the results. This patch implements a fairly generic hashtable with a 32-bit key that could be used for other purposes as well. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf auxtrace: Add processing for AUX area tracing eventsAdrian Hunter2-1/+64
Provide hooks so that an AUX area decoder can process AUX area tracing events. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf auxtrace: Add a heap for sorting AUX area tracing queuesAdrian Hunter2-0/+114
In order to process AUX area tracing data in time order, the queue with data with the lowest timestamp must be processed first. Provide a heap to keep track of which queue that is. As with the queues, a decoder does not have to use the heap, but Intel BTS and Intel PT will use it. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf auxtrace: Add helpers for queuing AUX area tracing dataAdrian Hunter2-0/+392
Provide functions to queue AUX area tracing data buffers for processing. A AUX area decoder need not use the queues, however Intel BTS and Intel PT will use them. There is one queue for each of the mmap buffers that were used for recording. Because those mmaps were associated with per-cpu or per-thread contexts, the data is time-ordered with respect to those contexts. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf auxtrace: Add helpers for AUX area tracing errorsAdrian Hunter4-0/+104
Add functions to synthesize, count and print AUX area tracing error events. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf session: Add instruction tracing optionsAdrian Hunter3-0/+181
It is assumed that AUX area decoding will synthesize events for consumption by other tools. At this time, the main use of AUX area tracing will be to capture instruction trace (aka processor trace) data. The nature of instruction tracing suggests the initial inclusion of options for "instructions" and "branches" events, but more could be added as needed. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Added ref to tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt describing what is parsed ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf session: Add hooks to allow transparent decoding of AUX area tracing dataAdrian Hunter3-10/+102
Hook into session processing so that AUX area decoding can synthesize events transparently to the tools. The advantages of transparent decoding are that tools can be used directly with perf.data files containing AUX area tracing data, which is easier for the user and more efficient than having a separate decoding tool. This will work as follows: 1. Tools will feed auxtrace events to the decoder using perf_tool->auxtrace() (support for that still to come). 2. The decoder can process side-band events as needed due to the auxtrace->process_event() hook. 3. The decoder can deliver synthesized events into the event stream using perf_session__deliver_synth_event(). Note the expectation is that decoding will work on data that is time-ordered with respect to the per-cpu or per-thread contexts that were recorded. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add a user event for AUX area tracing errorsAdrian Hunter4-1/+44
Errors encountered when decoding an AUX area trace need to be reported to the user. However the "user" might be a script or another tool, so provide a new user event to capture those errors. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf record: Extend -m option for AUX area tracing mmap pagesAdrian Hunter4-6/+56
Extend the -m option so that the number of mmap pages for AUX area tracing can be specified by adding a comma followed by the number of pages. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf record: Add basic AUX area tracing supportAdrian Hunter1-4/+77
Amend the perf record tool to read the AUX area tracing mmap and synthesize AUX area tracing events. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf auxtrace: Add support for AUX area recordingAdrian Hunter4-2/+243
Add support for reading from the AUX area tracing mmap and synthesizing AUX area tracing events. This patch introduces an abstraction for recording AUX area data. Recording is initialized by auxtrace_record__init() which is a weak function to be implemented by the architecture to provide recording callbacks. Recording is mainly handled by auxtrace_mmap__read() and perf_event__synthesize_auxtrace() but there are callbacks for miscellaneous needs including validating and processing user options, populating private data in auxtrace_info_event, and freeing the structure when finished. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tools: Add user events for AUX area tracingAdrian Hunter4-1/+101
Add two user events for AUX area tracing. PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE_INFO contains metadata, consisting primarily the type of the AUX area tracing data plus some amount of architecture-specific information. There should be only one PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE_INFO event. PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE identifies AUX area tracing data copied from the mmapped AUX area tracing region. The actual data is not part of the event but immediately follows it. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ s/MIN/min/g and use cast to fix up wrt -Werror=sign-compare till we adopt min_t() ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf evlist: Add support for mmapping an AUX area bufferAdrian Hunter5-3/+294
This patch supports the addition to the kernel of AUX area buffers that can be mmapped separately from the perf-events buffer. The AUX buffer can be configured to contain hardware-produced trace information. The first implementation will support Intel BTS and Intel PT. One auxtrace buffer is mmapped per perf-events buffer. If the requested auxtrace buffer size is zero, which it will be until further support is added, then no auxtrace mmapping is attempted. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Fixed conflict in evlist.h ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf header: Add AUX area tracing featureAdrian Hunter2-0/+15
Add a feature to indicate that a perf.data file contains AUX area data. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf data: Fix signedness of valueWang Nan1-12/+52
When converting int values, perf first extractes it to a ulonglong, then feeds it to babeltrace as a signed value. For negative 32 bit values (for example, return values of failed syscalls), the extracted data should be something like 0xfffffffe (-2). It becomes a large int64 value. Babeltrace denies to insert it with bt_ctf_field_signed_integer_set_value() because it is larger than 0x7fffffff, the largest positive value a 32 bit int can be. This patch introduces adjust_signedness(), which fills high bits of ulonglong with 1 if the value is negative. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> [ s/signess/signedness/g ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf data: Fix duplicate field names and avoid reserved keywordsWang Nan1-4/+82
Some parameters of syscall tracepoints named as 'nr', 'event', etc. When dealing with them, perf convert to ctf meets some problem: 1. If a parameter with name 'nr', it will duplicate syscall's common field 'nr'. One such syscall is io_submit(). 2. If a parameter with name 'event', it is denied to be inserted because 'event' is a CTF spec keyword[1]. One such syscall is epoll_ctl. This patch appends '_dupl_X' suffix to avoid problem 1, prepend a '_' prefix to avoid problem 2. [1] http://diamon.org/docs/ctf/v1.8.2/#specC.1.2 Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ changed to use format_file::alias ] Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf data: Add support for setting ordered_events queue sizeJiri Olsa1-0/+22
Adding support to limit the size of ordered_events queue, so we could control allocation size of perf data files without proper finished round events. Reviewed-by: David Ahern <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf data: Enable stream flush within processingJiri Olsa1-2/+24
For big data files the size of data allocated for stream instance could get really high. It's needed to flush the data out of the stream once in a while. Unfortunately there's no size indication in the stream object, so we govern the flush based on the number of stored events. Current flush limit is set ot 100000 events. Reviewed-by: David Ahern <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf data: Switch to multiple cpu stream filesSebastian Andrzej Siewior1-24/+182
Currently we store the data into single data strea/file. The cpu if data is stored within the event sample. The lttng puts the CPU number that belongs to the event into the packet context instead into the event. This patch makes sure that the trace produce by perf does look the same way. We now use one stream per-CPU. Having it all in one stream increased the total size of the resulting file. The test went from 416KiB (with perf_cpu event member) to 24MiB due to the required (and pointless) flush. With the per-cpu streams the total size went up to 588KiB. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf tests: Add build tests for building perf from kernel source root and toolsJiri Olsa1-1/+13
Adding build tests for following make commands: $ make -C <kernelsrc> tools/perf $ make -C <kernelsrc>/tools perf Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Norris <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Marek <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf data: Show error message when conversion failedHe Kuang1-2/+8
Show message when errors occurred during conversion setup and conversion process. Before this patch: $ ./perf data convert --to-ctf=ctf $ echo $? 255 After this patch: $ ./perf data convert --to-ctf=ctf Error during conversion setup. Signed-off-by: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf diff: Make hist_entry_diff fields unionNamhyung Kim1-7/+8
The period_ratio_delta, period_ratio and wdiff are never by used at the same time. Instead, Just one of them is accessed according to a comparison method. So make it union to reduce memory footprint. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf hists: Get rid of position field from struct hist_entryNamhyung Kim1-1/+0
It's not used anywhere, let's get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-29perf kmem: Fix compiles on RHEL6/OL6David Ahern1-27/+27
0d68bc92c48 breaks compiles on RHEL6/OL6: cc1: warnings being treated as errors builtin-kmem.c: In function ‘search_page_alloc_stat’: builtin-kmem.c:322: error: declaration of ‘stat’ shadows a global declaration node = &parent->rb_left; /usr/include/sys/stat.h:455: error: shadowed declaration is here builtin-kmem.c: In function ‘perf_evsel__process_page_alloc_event’: builtin-kmem.c:378: error: declaration of ‘stat’ shadows a global declaration /usr/include/sys/stat.h:455: error: shadowed declaration is here builtin-kmem.c: In function ‘perf_evsel__process_page_free_event’: builtin-kmem.c:431: error: declaration of ‘stat’ shadows a global declaration /usr/include/sys/stat.h:455: error: shadowed declaration is here Rename local variable to pstat to avoid the name conflict. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-27perf bench numa: Fix immediate meeting of convergence conditionPetr Holasek1-0/+8
This patch fixes the race in the beginning of benchmark run when some threads hasn't got assigned curr_cpu yet so they don't occur in nodes-of-process stats and benchmark concludes that all remaining threads are converged already. The race can be reproduced with small amount of threads and some bigger amount of shared process memory, e.g. one process, two threads and 5GB of process memory. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-27perf bench numa: Fixes of --quiet argumentPetr Holasek1-2/+2
Corrected description and fixed function of --quiet argument. Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-27perf bench futex: Fix hung wakeup tasks after requeueingDavidlohr Bueso1-7/+8
The futex-requeue benchmark can hang because of missing wakeups once the benchmark is done, ie: [Run 1]: Requeued 1024 of 1024 threads in 0.3290 ms perf: couldn't wakeup all tasks (135/1024) This bug, while perhaps suggesting missing wakeups in kernel futex code, is merely a consequence of the crappy FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE man page, incorrectly mentioning that the number of requeued tasks is in fact returned, not the wakeups. This patch acknowledges this and updates the corresponding futex_wake code around it. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-27perf probe: Fix bug with global variables handlingHe Kuang1-1/+3
There are missing curly braces which causes find_variable() return wrong value when probing with global variables. This problem can be reproduced as following: $ perf probe -v --add='generic_perform_write global_variable_for_test' ... Try to find probe point from debuginfo. Probe point found: generic_perform_write+0 Searching 'global_variable_for_test' variable in context. An error occurred in debuginfo analysis (-2). Error: Failed to add events. Reason: No such file or directory (Code: -2) After this patch: $ perf probe -v --add='generic_perform_write global_variable_for_test' ... Converting variable global_variable_for_test into trace event. global_variable_for_test type is int. Found 1 probe_trace_events. Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events write=1 Added new event: Writing event: p:probe/generic_perform_write _stext+1237464 global_variable_for_test=@global_variable_for_test+0:s32 probe:generic_perform_write (on generic_perform_write with global_variable_for_test) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:generic_perform_write -aR sleep 1 Signed-off-by: He Kuang <[email protected]> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-27perf top: Fix a segfault when kernel map is restricted.Wang Nan1-1/+1
Perf top raise a warning if a kernel sample is collected but kernel map is restricted. The warning message needs to dereference al.map->dso... However, previous perf_event__preprocess_sample() doesn't always guarantee al.map != NULL, for example, when kernel map is restricted. This patch validates al.map before dereferencing, avoid the segfault. Before this patch: $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict 1 $ perf top -p 120183 perf: Segmentation fault -------- backtrace -------- /path/to/perf[0x509868] /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x3545f)[0x7f9a1540045f] /path/to/perf[0x448820] /path/to/perf(cmd_top+0xe3c)[0x44a5dc] /path/to/perf[0x4766a2] /path/to/perf(main+0x5f5)[0x42e545] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x7f9a153ecbd4] /path/to/perf[0x42e674] And gdb call trace: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. perf_event__process_sample (machine=0xa44030, sample=0x7fffffffa4c0, evsel=0xa43b00, event=0x7ffff41c3000, tool=0x7fffffffa8a0) at builtin-top.c:736 736 !RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&al.map->dso->symbols[MAP__FUNCTION]) ? (gdb) bt #0 perf_event__process_sample (machine=0xa44030, sample=0x7fffffffa4c0, evsel=0xa43b00, event=0x7ffff41c3000, tool=0x7fffffffa8a0) at builtin-top.c:736 #1 perf_top__mmap_read_idx (top=top@entry=0x7fffffffa8a0, idx=idx@entry=0) at builtin-top.c:855 #2 0x000000000044a5dd in perf_top__mmap_read (top=0x7fffffffa8a0) at builtin-top.c:872 #3 __cmd_top (top=0x7fffffffa8a0) at builtin-top.c:997 #4 cmd_top (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, prefix=<optimized out>) at builtin-top.c:1267 #5 0x00000000004766a3 in run_builtin (p=p@entry=0x8a6ce8 <commands+264>, argc=argc@entry=3, argv=argv@entry=0x7fffffffdf70) at perf.c:371 #6 0x000000000042e546 in handle_internal_command (argv=0x7fffffffdf70, argc=3) at perf.c:430 #7 run_argv (argv=0x7fffffffdcf0, argcp=0x7fffffffdcfc) at perf.c:474 #8 main (argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffdf70) at perf.c:589 (gdb) Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-24perf kmem: Fix compiles on RHEL6/OL6David Ahern1-27/+27
0d68bc92c48 breaks compiles on RHEL6/OL6: cc1: warnings being treated as errors builtin-kmem.c: In function ‘search_page_alloc_stat’: builtin-kmem.c:322: error: declaration of ‘stat’ shadows a global declaration node = &parent->rb_left; /usr/include/sys/stat.h:455: error: shadowed declaration is here builtin-kmem.c: In function ‘perf_evsel__process_page_alloc_event’: builtin-kmem.c:378: error: declaration of ‘stat’ shadows a global declaration /usr/include/sys/stat.h:455: error: shadowed declaration is here builtin-kmem.c: In function ‘perf_evsel__process_page_free_event’: builtin-kmem.c:431: error: declaration of ‘stat’ shadows a global declaration /usr/include/sys/stat.h:455: error: shadowed declaration is here Rename local variable to pstat to avoid the name conflict. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-23perf kmem: Consistently use PRIu64 for printing u64 valuesWill Deacon1-2/+2
Building the perf tool for 32-bit ARM results in the following build error due to a combination of an incorrect conversion specifier and compiling with -Werror: builtin-kmem.c: In function ‘print_page_summary’: builtin-kmem.c:644:9: error: format ‘%lu’ expects argument of type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 3 has type ‘u64’ [-Werror=format=] nr_alloc_freed, (total_alloc_freed_bytes) / 1024); ^ builtin-kmem.c:647:9: error: format ‘%lu’ expects argument of type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 3 has type ‘u64’ [-Werror=format=] (total_page_alloc_bytes - total_alloc_freed_bytes) / 1024); ^ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors This patch fixes the problem by consistently using PRIu64 for printing out u64 values. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-23perf trace: Disable events and drain events when forked workload endsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+5
We were not checking in the inner event processing loop if the forked workload had finished, which, on a busy system, may make it take a long time trying to drain events, entering a seemingly neverending loop, waiting for the system to get idle enough to make it drain the buffers. Fix it by disabling the events when 'done' is true, in the inner loop, to start draining what is in the buffers. Now: [root@ssdandy ~]# time trace --filter-pids 14003 -a sleep 1 | tail 996.748 ( 0.002 ms): sh/30296 rt_sigprocmask(how: SETMASK, nset: 0x7ffc83418160, sigsetsize: 8) = 0 996.751 ( 0.002 ms): sh/30296 rt_sigprocmask(how: BLOCK, nset: 0x7ffc834181f0, oset: 0x7ffc83418270, sigsetsize: 8) = 0 996.755 ( 0.002 ms): sh/30296 rt_sigaction(sig: INT, act: 0x7ffc83417f50, oact: 0x7ffc83417ff0, sigsetsize: 8) = 0 1004.543 ( 0.362 ms): tail/30198 ... [continued]: read()) = 4096 1004.548 ( 7.791 ms): sh/30296 wait4(upid: -1, stat_addr: 0x7ffc834181a0) ... 1004.975 ( 0.427 ms): tail/30198 read(buf: 0x7633f0, count: 8192) = 4096 1005.390 ( 0.410 ms): tail/30198 read(buf: 0x765410, count: 8192) = 4096 1005.743 ( 0.348 ms): tail/30198 read(buf: 0x7633f0, count: 8192) = 4096 1006.197 ( 0.449 ms): tail/30198 read(buf: 0x765410, count: 8192) = 4096 1006.492 ( 0.290 ms): tail/30198 read(buf: 0x7633f0, count: 8192) = 4096 real 0m1.219s user 0m0.704s sys 0m0.331s [root@ssdandy ~]# Reported-by: Michael Petlan <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Don Zickus <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-23perf trace: Enable events when doing system wide tracing and starting a workloadArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+3
commit f7aa222ff397 Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Date: Tue Feb 3 13:25:39 2015 -0300 perf trace: No need to enable evsels for workload started from perf The assumption was that whenever a workload is specified, the attr.enable_on_exec evsel flag would be set, but that is not happening when perf_record_opts.system_wide is set, for instance That resulted in both perf_evlist__enable() and attr.enable_on_exec being not called/set, which made the events to remain disabled while the workload runs, producing no output. Fix it, by calling perf_evlist__enable() in the 'trace' tool when forking and not targetting a workload started from trace v2: Test against !target__none(), as suggested by Namhyung Kim, that is what is used in perf_evsel__config() when deciding if the attr.enable_on_exec flag to be set. More work is needed to cover other cases such as opts->initial_delay. Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Don Zickus <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2015-04-18Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds5-78/+567
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "This update has mostly fixes, but also other bits: - perf tooling fixes - PMU driver fixes - Intel Broadwell PMU driver HW-enablement for LBR callstacks - a late coming 'perf kmem' tool update that enables it to also analyze page allocation data. Note, this comes with MM tracepoint changes that we believe to not break anything: because it changes the formerly opaque 'struct page *' field that uniquely identifies pages to 'pfn' which identifies pages uniquely too, but isn't as opaque and can be used for other purposes as well" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf/x86/intel/pt: Fix and clean up error handling in pt_event_add() perf/x86/intel: Add Broadwell support for the LBR callstack perf/x86/intel/rapl: Fix energy counter measurements but supporing per domain energy units perf/x86/intel: Fix Core2,Atom,NHM,WSM cycles:pp events perf/x86: Fix hw_perf_event::flags collision perf probe: Fix segfault when probe with lazy_line to file perf probe: Find compilation directory path for lazy matching perf probe: Set retprobe flag when probe in address-based alternative mode perf kmem: Analyze page allocator events also tracing, mm: Record pfn instead of pointer to struct page
2015-04-14Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds190-2638/+4927
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar: "Core kernel changes: - One of the more interesting features in this cycle is the ability to attach eBPF programs (user-defined, sandboxed bytecode executed by the kernel) to kprobes. This allows user-defined instrumentation on a live kernel image that can never crash, hang or interfere with the kernel negatively. (Right now it's limited to root-only, but in the future we might allow unprivileged use as well.) (Alexei Starovoitov) - Another non-trivial feature is per event clockid support: this allows, amongst other things, the selection of different clock sources for event timestamps traced via perf. This feature is sought by people who'd like to merge perf generated events with external events that were measured with different clocks: - cluster wide profiling - for system wide tracing with user-space events, - JIT profiling events etc. Matching perf tooling support is added as well, available via the -k, --clockid <clockid> parameter to perf record et al. (Peter Zijlstra) Hardware enablement kernel changes: - x86 Intel Processor Trace (PT) support: which is a hardware tracer on steroids, available on Broadwell CPUs. The hardware trace stream is directly output into the user-space ring-buffer, using the 'AUX' data format extension that was added to the perf core to support hardware constraints such as the necessity to have the tracing buffer physically contiguous. This patch-set was developed for two years and this is the result. A simple way to make use of this is to use BTS tracing, the PT driver emulates BTS output - available via the 'intel_bts' PMU. More explicit PT specific tooling support is in the works as well - will probably be ready by 4.2. (Alexander Shishkin, Peter Zijlstra) - x86 Intel Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) support: this is a hardware feature of Intel Xeon CPUs that allows the measurement and allocation/partitioning of caches to individual workloads. These kernel changes expose the measurement side as a new PMU driver, which exposes various QoS related PMU events. (The partitioning change is work in progress and is planned to be merged as a cgroup extension.) (Matt Fleming, Peter Zijlstra; CPU feature detection by Peter P Waskiewicz Jr) - x86 Intel Haswell LBR call stack support: this is a new Haswell feature that allows the hardware recording of call chains, plus tooling support. To activate this feature you have to enable it via the new 'lbr' call-graph recording option: perf record --call-graph lbr perf report or: perf top --call-graph lbr This hardware feature is a lot faster than stack walk or dwarf based unwinding, but has some limitations: - It reuses the current LBR facility, so LBR call stack and branch record can not be enabled at the same time. - It is only available for user-space callchains. (Yan, Zheng) - x86 Intel Broadwell CPU support and various event constraints and event table fixes for earlier models. (Andi Kleen) - x86 Intel HT CPUs event scheduling workarounds. This is a complex CPU bug affecting the SNB,IVB,HSW families that results in counter value corruption. The mitigation code is automatically enabled and is transparent. (Maria Dimakopoulou, Stephane Eranian) The perf tooling side had a ton of changes in this cycle as well, so I'm only able to list the user visible changes here, in addition to the tooling changes outlined above: User visible changes affecting all tools: - Improve support of compressed kernel modules (Jiri Olsa) - Save DSO loading errno to better report errors (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Bash completion for subcommands (Yunlong Song) - Add 'I' event modifier for perf_event_attr.exclude_idle bit (Jiri Olsa) - Support missing -f to override perf.data file ownership. (Yunlong Song) - Show the first event with an invalid filter (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) User visible changes in individual tools: 'perf data': New tool for converting perf.data to other formats, initially for the CTF (Common Trace Format) from LTTng (Jiri Olsa, Sebastian Siewior) 'perf diff': Add --kallsyms option (David Ahern) 'perf list': Allow listing events with 'tracepoint' prefix (Yunlong Song) Sort the output of the command (Yunlong Song) 'perf kmem': Respect -i option (Jiri Olsa) Print big numbers using thousands' group (Namhyung Kim) Allow -v option (Namhyung Kim) Fix alignment of slab result table (Namhyung Kim) 'perf probe': Support multiple probes on different binaries on the same command line (Masami Hiramatsu) Support unnamed union/structure members data collection. (Masami Hiramatsu) Check kprobes blacklist when adding new events. (Masami Hiramatsu) 'perf record': Teach 'perf record' about perf_event_attr.clockid (Peter Zijlstra) Support recording running/enabled time (Andi Kleen) 'perf sched': Improve the performance of 'perf sched replay' on high CPU core count machines (Yunlong Song) 'perf report' and 'perf top': Allow annotating entries in callchains in the hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Indicate which callchain entries are annotated in the TUI hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Add pid/tid filtering to 'report' and 'script' commands (David Ahern) Consider PERF_RECORD_ events with cpumode == 0 in 'perf top', removing one cause of long term memory usage buildup, i.e. not processing PERF_RECORD_EXIT events (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) 'perf stat': Report unsupported events properly (Suzuki K. Poulose) Output running time and run/enabled ratio in CSV mode (Andi Kleen) 'perf trace': Handle legacy syscalls tracepoints (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Only insert blank duration bracket when tracing syscalls (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Filter out the trace pid when no threads are specified (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Dump stack on segfaults (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) No need to explicitely enable evsels for workload started from perf, let it be enabled via perf_event_attr.enable_on_exec, removing some events that take place in the 'perf trace' before a workload is really started by it. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Allow mixing with tracepoints and suppressing plain syscalls. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) There's also been a ton of infrastructure work done, such as the split-out of perf's build system into tools/build/ and other changes - see the shortlog and changelog for details" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (358 commits) perf/x86/intel/pt: Clean up the control flow in pt_pmu_hw_init() perf evlist: Fix type for references to data_head/tail perf probe: Check the orphaned -x option perf probe: Support multiple probes on different binaries perf buildid-list: Fix segfault when show DSOs with hits perf tools: Fix cross-endian analysis perf tools: Fix error path to do closedir() when synthesizing threads perf tools: Fix synthesizing fork_event.ppid for non-main thread perf tools: Add 'I' event modifier for exclude_idle bit perf report: Don't call map__kmap if map is NULL. perf tests: Fix attr tests perf probe: Fix ARM 32 building error perf tools: Merge all perf_event_attr print functions perf record: Add clockid parameter perf sched replay: Use replay_repeat to calculate the runavg of cpu usage instead of the default value 10 perf sched replay: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership perf sched replay: Fix the EMFILE error caused by the limitation of the maximum open files perf sched replay: Handle the dead halt of sem_wait when create_tasks() fails for any task perf sched replay: Fix the segmentation fault problem caused by pr_err in threads perf sched replay: Realloc the memory of pid_to_task stepwise to adapt to the different pid_max configurations ...