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Ingo Molnar
ea57c4f520 perf tools: Implement counter output multiplexing
Finish the -M/--multiplex option implementation:

 - separate it out from group_fd

 - correctly set it via the ioctl and dont mmap counters that
   are multiplexed

 - modify the perf record event loop to deal with buffer-less
   counters.

 - remove the -g option from perf sched record

 - account for unordered events in perf sched latency

 - (add -f to perf sched record to ease measurements)

 - skip idle threads (pid==0) in latency output

The result is better latency output by 'perf sched latency':

 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Task              |  Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ksoftirqd/8       |    0.071 ms |        2 | avg:    0.458 ms | max:    0.913 ms |
  at-spi-registry   |    0.609 ms |       19 | avg:    0.013 ms | max:    0.023 ms |
  perf              |    3.316 ms |       16 | avg:    0.013 ms | max:    0.054 ms |
  Xorg              |    0.392 ms |       19 | avg:    0.011 ms | max:    0.018 ms |
  sleep             |    0.537 ms |        2 | avg:    0.009 ms | max:    0.009 ms |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  TOTAL:            |    4.925 ms |       58 |
 ---------------------------------------------

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-14 15:45:11 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
4653881802 perf sched: Fix bad event alignment
perf sched raises the following error when it meets a sched
switch event:

perf: builtin-sched.c:286: register_pid: Assertion `!(pid >= 65536)' failed.
Abandon

Currently in x86-64, the sched switch events have a hole in the
middle of the structure:

	u16 common_type;
	u8 common_flags;
	u8 common_preempt_count;
	u32 common_pid;
	u32 common_tgid;

	char prev_comm[16];
	u32 prev_pid;
	u32 prev_prio;
			<--- there
	u64 prev_state;
	char next_comm[16];
	u32 next_pid;
	u32 next_prio;

Gcc inserts a 4 bytes hole there for prev_state to be u64
aligned. And the events are exported to userspace with this
hole.

But in userspace, from perf sched, we fetch it using a
structure that has a new field in the beginning: u32 size. This
is because our trace is exported with its size as a field. But
now that we have this new field, the hole in the middle
disappears because it makes prev_state becoming well aligned.

And since we are using a pointer to the raw trace using this
struct, instead of reading prev_state, we are reading the hole.

We could fix it by keeping the size seperate from the struct
but actually there a lot of other potential problems: some
fields may be saved as long in a 64 bits system and later read
as long in a 32 bits system. Also this direct cast doesn't care
about the endianness differences between the host traced
machine and the machine in which we do the post processing.

So instead of using such dangerous direct casts, fetch the
values using the trace parsing API that already takes care of
all these problems.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-13 10:22:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ec156764d4 perf sched: Import schedbench.c
Import the schedbench.c tool that i wrote some time ago to
simulate scheduler behavior but never finished. It's a good
basis for perf sched nevertheless.

Most of its guts are not hooked up to the perf event loop
yet - that will be done in the patches to come.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-13 10:22:37 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
00fc97863c perf trace: Print out in nanoseconds
Print out more accurate timestamps - usecs does not cut it
anymore on fast enough boxes ;-)

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-03 16:22:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
65014ab361 perf tools: Work around strict aliasing related warnings
Older versions of GCC are rather stupid about strict aliasing:

  util/trace-event-parse.c: In function 'parse_cmdlines':
  util/trace-event-parse.c:93: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
  util/trace-event-parse.c: In function 'parse_proc_kallsyms':
  util/trace-event-parse.c:155: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
  util/trace-event-parse.c:157: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
  util/trace-event-parse.c:158: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
  util/trace-event-parse.c: In function 'parse_ftrace_printk':
  util/trace-event-parse.c:294: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
  util/trace-event-parse.c:295: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
  make: *** [util/trace-event-parse.o] Error 1

Make it clear to GCC that we intend with those pointers, by passing
them through via an explicit (void *) cast.

We might want to add -fno-strict-aliasing as well, like the kernel
itself does.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-02 14:56:33 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
561f732c12 perf tools: Complete support for dynamic strings
Complete support for __str_loc type strings of ftrace events
which have dynamic offsets values set for each of them inside
their sammples.

Before:
        geany-5759  [000]     0.000000: lock_release: name
        geany-5759  [000]     0.000000: lock_release: name
        geany-5759  [000]     0.000000: lock_release: name
  kondemand/0-362   [000]     0.000000: lock_release: name
      pdflush-421   [000]     0.000000: lock_release: name

After:
        geany-5759  [000]     0.000000: lock_release: &u->lock
        geany-5759  [000]     0.000000: lock_release: key
        geany-5759  [000]     0.000000: lock_release: &group->notification_mutex
  kondemand/0-362   [000]     0.000000: lock_release: &rq->lock
      pdflush-421   [000]     0.000000: lock_release: &rq->lock

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1251693921-6579-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-31 10:04:49 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d498bc1f62 perf tools: Fix missing string field printing in perf trace
Some string fields are not printed because of a missing printf
in the post-processing.

Before:
	    perf-10070 [000]     0.000000: sched_switch: task :10070 [120] (R) ==> :5720 [120]
           geany-5720  [000]     0.000000: sched_switch: task :5720 [120] (S) ==> :10070 [120]
            perf-10070 [000]     0.000000: sched_switch: task :10070 [120] (R) ==> :5720 [120]
           geany-5720  [000]     0.000000: sched_switch: task :5720 [120] (S) ==> :10070 [120]
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: sched_switch: task :0 [140] (R) ==> :361 [115]

After:
	    perf-10070 [000]     0.000000: sched_switch: task perf:10070 [120] (R) ==> geany:5720 [120]
           geany-5720  [000]     0.000000: sched_switch: task geany:5720 [120] (S) ==> perf:10070 [120]
            perf-10070 [000]     0.000000: sched_switch: task perf:10070 [120] (R) ==> geany:5720 [120]
           geany-5720  [000]     0.000000: sched_switch: task geany:5720 [120] (S) ==> perf:10070 [120]
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] (R) ==> kondemand/1:361 [115]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1251427567-10551-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-28 07:58:11 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1ef2ed1066 perf tools: Only save the event formats we need
While opening a trace event counter, every events are saved in
the trace.info file. But we only want to save the
specifications of the events we are using.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1251421798-9101-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-28 07:58:11 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
3f9edc2382 perf tools: Make trace event format parser aware of cast to pointers
The ftrace event format parser handles the usual casts but not
the cast to pointers. Such casts have been introduced recently
with the module trace events and raise the following parsing
error:

	Fatal: bad op token )

This is because it considers the "*" character as a binary
operator. Make it then aware of casts to pointers.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1250543271-8383-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-18 00:00:19 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
ea4010d136 perf tools: Add trace event information parser
Add util/trace-event-parse.c which provides the handlers to
parse the ftrace events info from the stream and handles the
ftrace perf samples event printing.

This file is a rename of the parse-events.c file from the
trace-cmd tools, written by Steven Rostedt and Josh Triplett,
originated from the git tree:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git

This is a perf tools integration.

[ fweisbec@gmail.com: various changes for perf tools
                      integration. ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1250518688-7207-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-17 16:32:39 +02:00