* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: Move RCU_BOOST #ifdefs to header file
rcu: use softirq instead of kthreads except when RCU_BOOST=y
rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression
rcu: Simplify curing of load woes
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
kbuild: Call depmod.sh via shell
perf: clear out make flags when calling kernel make kernelver
To build a statically linked version of the perf tool all needed
libraries must be added in the correct order to get the symbols
resolved. Currently this is broken when, e.g. python or newt
support is enabled -- libpython needs libpthread which is an
unconditional link dependency of the perf tool; libslang needs
libm, another unconditional dependency. To solve the problem in
the long run without the need to keep track of transitive
library dependencies, simply make the linker look at the EXTLIBS
multiple times until it has all symbols resolved.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308171818-20370-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When generating the perf version from the kernel version using 'make
kernelver' it is necessary to clear out any MAKEFLAGS otherwise they may
trigger additional output which pollute the contents.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
There has been too many times that I put in one too many SKIP
TEST_STARTs and start the test with the default randconfig by accident
that I added this to have ktest ask the user for which test they want to
run if no TEST_START is specified.
Now if I accidently start the test with all TEST_STARTs skipped, ktest
asks what test do I want to run, and I now have a chance to kill it
before it does a make mrproper on my build directory.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Several places had the following code:
get_grub_index;
get_version;
install;
start_monitor;
return monitor;
Creating a function "start_monitor_and_boot()" replaces these mulitple
uses with a single call.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Doing a patchcheck test, there may be warnings that gcc produces which
may be OK, and the test should not fail on that commit. By adding a
IGNORE_WARNINGS option to list a space delimited SHA1s that are ignored
lets the user avoid having the test fail on certain commits.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The tar command to create the module directory is cjf, but the
extraction only had xf. This works on most versions of tar, but some
versions of tar require xjf for extraction as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As multiple tests may be executed by the same server, have the test
machine name add uniqueness to the value of the temp directory.
Otherwise the temp directories may overwrite each other's tests.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There are some cases that a patch may be needed to apply to the kernel
in patchcheck or bisect tests. Adding a PRE_BUILD option to apply the
patch and POST_BUILD to remove it, allows for this to be done easily.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread)
introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded
performance by about 40%.
The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed
high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has
64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second
which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread. A trace showed that most of
the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks,
but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods.
This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite
a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related
processing to be done.
Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock
contention within the scheduler. Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points
out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which
means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling. (Yes,
perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not
going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around
this issue in the meantime. And "the meantime" might well be forever.)
This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only
for core RCU work. RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context,
so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the
common case. This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to
skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When a config is set with CONFIG_MODULES=n, it does not mean that the
kernel does not need an initrd to boot. For systems that depend on LVM
and such, an initrd must run first.
If POST_INSTALL is defined, then run the post install regardless if
modules are needed or not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
After a bug is found, the STOP_AFTER_FAILURE timeout is used to
determine how much output should be printed before breaking out
of the monitor loop. This is to get things like call traces and
enough infromation about the bug to help determine what caused it.
The STOP_AFTER_FAILURE is usually much shorter than the TIMEOUT
that is used to determine when to quit after no more stdio is given.
But since the stdio read uses a wait on I/O, the STOP_AFTER_FAILURE is
only checked after we get something from I/O. But if the I/O does
not return any more data, we wait the TIMEOUT period instead, even
though we already triggered a bug report.
The wait on I/O should honor the STOP_AFTER_FAILURE time if a bug has
been found.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Using the build KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG environment variable to force
the min config may not always work properly. Since ktest is
written in perl, it is trivial to read and replace the current
config with the configs specified by the min config.
Now the min config (and add configs) are read by perl and before
a make is done, these configs in the .config file are replaced
by the version in the min config.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Searching through several tests, it gets confusing which test result
is for which test. By adding the TEST_NAME option, the user can tell
which test result belongs to which test.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the config_bisect compares the min config with the
CONFIG_BISECT config. There may be another config that we know
is good that we want to ignore configs on. By passing in this
config it will ignore the options that are set in the good config.
Note: This only ignores the config, it does not (yet) handle
options that are different between the two configs. If the good
config has "SLAB" set and the bad config has "SLUB" it will not
find the bug if the bug had to do with changing these two options.
This is something that I intend to implement in the future.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When a triple fault happens in a test, no call trace nor panic
is displayed. Instead, the system reboots to the good kernel.
Since the good kernel may display a boot prompt that matches the
success string, ktest may think that the test succeeded, when it
did not.
Detecting triple faults is tricky because it is hard to generalize
what a reboot looks like. The best that we can come up with for now
is to examine the Linux banner. If we detect that the Linux banner
matches the test we want to test, then look to see if we hit another
Linux banner with a different kernel is booted. This can be assumed
to be a triple fault.
We can't just check for two Linux banners because things like
early printk may cause the Linux banner to be displayed twice. Checking
for different kernel versions should be the safe bet.
If this for some reason detects a false triple boot. A new ktest
config option is also created:
DETECT_TRIPLE_FAULT
This can be set to 0 to disable this checking.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Different timeouts can cause the ktest monitor to break out of the
loop. It becomes annoying that one does not know the reason why
it exited the monitor loop. Display the cause of the reason why
the loop was exited.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
perf: Use make kernelversion instead of parsing the Makefile
kbuild: Hack for depmod not handling X.Y versions
kbuild: Move depmod call to a separate script
kbuild: Fix <linux/version.h> for empty SUBLEVEL or PATCHLEVEL
kbuild: Fix KERNELVERSION for empty SUBLEVEL or PATCHLEVEL
kbuild: silence Nothing to be done for 'all' message
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Fix comments in include/linux/perf_event.h
perf: Comment /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to be part of user ABI
perf python: Fix argument name list of read_on_cpu()
perf evlist: Don't die if sample_{id_all|type} is invalid
perf python: Use exception to propagate errors
perf evlist: Remove dependency on debug routines
perf, cgroups: Fix up for new API
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest:
ktest: Ignore unset values of the minconfig in config_bisect
ktest: Fix result of rebooting the kernel
ktest: Fix off-by-one in config bisect result
Mandatory arguments need to be present in the argument name list, as
well as optional arguments, otherwise python barfs:
# ./python/twatch.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./python/twatch.py", line 41, in <module>
main()
File "./python/twatch.py", line 32, in main
event = evlist.read_on_cpu(cpu)
RuntimeError: more argument specifiers than keyword list entries
Hence, add cpu to the name list.
Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1301588863-20210-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fixes two more cases where the python binding would not load:
. Not finding die(), which it shouldn't anyway, not good to just stop the
world because some particular perf.data file is invalid, just propagate
the error to the caller.
. Not finding perf_sample_size: fix it by moving it from event.c to evsel,
where it belongs, as most cases are moving to operate on an evsel object.o
One of the fixed problems:
[root@emilia ~]# python
>>> import perf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: perf_sample_size
>>>
[root@emilia ~]#
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1hkj7b2cvgbfnoizsekjb6c9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We were using pr_debug to tell the user about not being able to parse a sample
where we should really use the python way of reporting errors: exceptions.
Fixes this problem:
[root@emilia ~]# python
>>> import perf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: eprintf
>>>
[root@emilia ~]
As we want to keep the objects linked in the python binding (and in the future
in a shared library) minimal.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-m9dba9kaluas0kq8r58z191c@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So far we avoided having to link debug.o in the python binding, keep it
that way by not using ui__warning() in evlist.c.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4wtew8hd3g7ejnlehtspys2t@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Resolve to a function or variable if possible and if the sym option is
enabled.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306782503-22002-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The 'sym' option displays both the function name and the DSO it comes
from. Split the display of the dso into a separate option. This allows
display of the ip address and symbol without the dso, thus shortening
line lengths - and decluttering the output a bit.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306528124-25861-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently the "sym" output field is used to dump instruction pointers
and callchain stack. Sample addresses can also be converted to symbols,
so the meaning of "sym" needs to be fixed. This patch adds an "ip"
option and if it is selected the user can also opt to dump symbols for
them. If the user opts to dump IP without syms only the address is
shown.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306528124-25861-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The list of methods argument names only needs to be NULL terminated
once. Remove the second ones.
Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1301588863-20210-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mandatory arguments need to be present in the argument name list, as
well as optional arguments, otherwise python barfs:
# ./python/twatch.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./python/twatch.py", line 41, in <module>
main()
File "./python/twatch.py", line 32, in main
event = evlist.read_on_cpu(cpu)
RuntimeError: more argument specifiers than keyword list entries
Hence, add cpu to the name list.
Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1301588863-20210-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
By ignoring the unset values of the minconfig in deciding
what to test in the config_bisect can cause the problem
config from being tested too.
Just do not test the configs that are set in the minconfig.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The command that is called that reboots the kernel may fail
but the return code is not passed back to the ktest.pl script.
This is because a ';' is used between the two commands and
if the second command fails, only the first command's return
code is returned. Using a '&&' between the two commands fixes
this.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Because in perl the array size returned by $#arr, is the last
index and not the actually size of the array, we end the config
bisect early, thinking there is only one config left when there
are in fact two. Thus the result has a 50% chance of picking
the correct config that caused the problem.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fixes two more cases where the python binding would not load:
. Not finding die(), which it shouldn't anyway, not good to just stop the
world because some particular perf.data file is invalid, just propagate
the error to the caller.
. Not finding perf_sample_size: fix it by moving it from event.c to evsel,
where it belongs, as most cases are moving to operate on an evsel object.o
One of the fixed problems:
[root@emilia ~]# python
>>> import perf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: perf_sample_size
>>>
[root@emilia ~]#
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1hkj7b2cvgbfnoizsekjb6c9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We were using pr_debug to tell the user about not being able to parse a sample
where we should really use the python way of reporting errors: exceptions.
Fixes this problem:
[root@emilia ~]# python
>>> import perf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: eprintf
>>>
[root@emilia ~]
As we want to keep the objects linked in the python binding (and in the future
in a shared library) minimal.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-m9dba9kaluas0kq8r58z191c@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So far we avoided having to link debug.o in the python binding, keep it
that way by not using ui__warning() in evlist.c.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4wtew8hd3g7ejnlehtspys2t@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We now just warn the user about the fact and go on providing just
userspace samples.
This fixes a problem when no vmlinux is explicetely passed by the user,
thus symbol_conf.vmlinux_name is NULL, no suitable vmlinux is found, and
then we get:
aldebaran:~> perf top -p 7557
[kernel.kallsyms] with build id 44d9a989eabbd79e486bc079d6b743d397c204e0
not found, continuing without symbols
The (null) file can't be used
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cj2g81hn64wv2bipmqk4fy2m@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf_evsel__alloc_fd allocates an array of file descriptors with the
memory initialized to 0. The array has dimensions for cpus and threads.
Later, __perf_evsel__open calls sys_perf_event_open for each cpu and thread
dimensions. If the open fails for any of the cpus or threads then the fd's
for this event are closed and the fd entry in the array is set to -1. Now,
if the first attempt fails for the event (e.g., the event is not supported)
the remaining dimensions (cpu > 0 and thread > 0) are not touched and left
at the initialized value of 0.
builtin-stat catches ENOENT and ENOSYS failures and allows the command to
continue. The end result is that stat attempts to read from an fd of 0 which
of course is stdin and so the command hangs until you type ctrl-D.
Resolve by initializing the array to -1 since an fd < 0 is already
handled.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306511914-8016-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Perf uses /proc/modules to figure out where kernel modules are loaded.
With the advent of kptr_restrict, non root users get zeroes for all module
start addresses.
So check if kptr_restrict is non zero and don't generate the syntethic
PERF_RECORD_MMAP events for them.
Warn the user about it in perf record and in perf report.
In perf report the reference relocation symbol being zero means that
kptr_restrict was set, thus /proc/kallsyms has only zeroed addresses, so don't
use it to fixup symbol addresses when using a valid kallsyms (in the buildid
cache) or vmlinux (in the vmlinux path) build-id located automatically or
specified by the user.
Provide an explanation about it in 'perf report' if kernel samples were taken,
checking if a suitable vmlinux or kallsyms was found/specified.
Restricted /proc/kallsyms don't go to the buildid cache anymore.
Example:
[acme@emilia ~]$ perf record -F 100000 sleep 1
WARNING: Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) are restricted, check
/proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict.
Samples in kernel functions may not be resolved if a suitable vmlinux file is
not found in the buildid cache or in the vmlinux path.
Samples in kernel modules won't be resolved at all.
If some relocation was applied (e.g. kexec) symbols may be misresolved even
with a suitable vmlinux or kallsyms file.
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.005 MB perf.data (~231 samples) ]
[acme@emilia ~]$
[acme@emilia ~]$ perf report --stdio
Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) were restricted,
check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict before running 'perf record'.
If some relocation was applied (e.g. kexec) symbols may be misresolved.
Samples in kernel modules can't be resolved as well.
# Events: 13 cycles
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ................. .....................
#
20.24% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] page_fault
20.04% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] filemap_fault
19.78% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __lru_cache_add
19.69% sleep ld-2.12.so [.] memcpy
14.71% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] dput
4.70% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] flush_signal_handlers
0.73% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] perf_event_comm
0.11% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr_safe
#
# (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso)
#
[acme@emilia ~]$
This is because it found a suitable vmlinux (build-id checked) in
/lib/modules/2.6.39-rc7+/build/vmlinux (use -v in perf report to see the long
file name).
If we remove that file from the vmlinux path:
[root@emilia ~]# mv /lib/modules/2.6.39-rc7+/build/vmlinux \
/lib/modules/2.6.39-rc7+/build/vmlinux.OFF
[acme@emilia ~]$ perf report --stdio
[kernel.kallsyms] with build id 57298cdbe0131f6871667ec0eaab4804dcf6f562
not found, continuing without symbols
Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) were restricted, check
/proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict before running 'perf record'.
As no suitable kallsyms nor vmlinux was found, kernel samples can't be
resolved.
Samples in kernel modules can't be resolved as well.
# Events: 13 cycles
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ................. ......
#
80.31% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] 0xffffffff8103425a
19.69% sleep ld-2.12.so [.] memcpy
#
# (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso)
#
[acme@emilia ~]$
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mt512joaxxbhhp1odop04yit@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf tools: Fix sample type size calculation in 32 bits archs
profile: Use vzalloc() rather than vmalloc() & memset()
The shift used here to count the number of bits set in
the mask doesn't work above the low part for archs that
are not 64 bits.
Fix the constant used for the shift.
This fixes a 32-bit perf top failure reported by Eric Dumazet:
Can't parse sample, err = -14
Can't parse sample, err = -14
...
Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306200686-17317-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf tools: Fix sample size bit operations
perf tools: Fix ommitted mmap data update on remap
watchdog: Change the default timeout and configure nmi watchdog period based on watchdog_thresh
watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zero
watchdog: Only disable/enable watchdog if neccessary
watchdog: Fix rounding bug in get_sample_period()
perf tools: Propagate event parse error handling
perf tools: Robustify dynamic sample content fetch
perf tools: Pre-check sample size before parsing
perf tools: Move evlist sample helpers to evlist area
perf tools: Remove junk code in mmap size handling
perf tools: Check we are able to read the event size on mmap
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request
Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel
cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile
Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver
doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined")
perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c
md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course').
treewide: fix a few typos in comments
regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest
Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations"
audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace
ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code
tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate
xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig
m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured'
arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option.
treewide: remove extra semicolons
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest:
ktest: Allow options to be used by other options
ktest: Create variables for the ktest config files
ktest: Reboot after each patchcheck run
ktest: Reboot to good kernel after every bisect run
ktest: If test failed due to timeout, print that
ktest: Fix post install command
What we want is to count the number of bits in the mask,
not some other random operation written in the middle
of the night.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306148788-6179-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
[ Fixed perf_event__names[] alignment which was nearby and hurting my eyes ... ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Commit eac9eacee1 "perf tools: Check we are able to read the event
size on mmap" brought a check to ensure we can read the size of the
event before dereferencing it, and do a remap otherwise to move the
buffer forward.
However that remap was ommitting all the necessary work to
update the new page offset, head, and to unmap previous pages,
etc...
To fix this, gather all the code that fetches the event in a
seperate helper which does all the necessary checks about the
header/event size and tells us anytime a remap is needed.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306148788-6179-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Better handle event parsing error by propagating the details
in upper layers or by dumping some failure message. So that
the user knows he has some crazy events in the batch.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Ensure the size of the dynamic fields such as callchains
or raw events don't overlap the whole event boundaries.
This prevents from dereferencing junk if the given size of
the callchain goes too eager.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Check that the total size of the sample fields having a fixed
size do not exceed the one of the whole event. This robustifies
the sample parsing.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
These APIs should belong to evlist.c as they may not be
exclusively tied to the headers.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com
size is overriden later and used only then. Those
lines are only junk, probably a leftover.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Check we have enough mmaped space to read the current event
size from its headers, otherwise we may dereference some
hell there.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Commit e66eed651f ("list: remove prefetching from regular list
iterators") removed the include of prefetch.h from list.h, which
uncovered several cases that had apparently relied on that rather
obscure header file dependency.
So this fixes things up a bit, using
grep -L linux/prefetch.h $(git grep -l '[^a-z_]prefetchw*(' -- '*.[ch]')
grep -L 'prefetchw*(' $(git grep -l 'linux/prefetch.h' -- '*.[ch]')
to guide us in finding files that either need <linux/prefetch.h>
inclusion, or have it despite not needing it.
There are more of them around (mostly network drivers), but this gets
many core ones.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are cases where one ktest option may be used within another
ktest option. Allow them to be reused just like config variables
but there are evaluated at time of test not config processing time.
Thus having something like:
MAKE_CMD = make ARCH=${ARCH}
TEST_START
ARCH = powerpc
TEST_START
ARCH = arm
Will have the arch defined for each test iteration.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
I found that I constantly reuse information for each test case.
It would be nice to just define a variable to reuse.
For example I may have:
TEST_START
[...]
TEST = ssh root@mybox /path/to/my/script
TEST_START
[...]
TEST = ssh root@mybox /path/to/my/script
[etc]
The issue is, I may wont to change that script or one of the other
fields. Then I need to update each line individually.
With the addition of config variables (variables only used during parsing
the config) we can simplify the config files. These variables can
also be defined multiple times and each time the new value will
overwrite the old value.
The convention to use a config variable over a ktest option is to use :=
instead of =.
Now we could do:
USER := root
TARGET := mybox
TEST_SCRIPT := /path/to/my/script
TEST_CASE := ${USER}@${TARGET} ${TEST_SCRIPT}
TEST_START
[...]
TEST = ${TEST_CASE}
TEST_START
[...]
TEST = ${TEST_CASE}
[etc]
Now we just need to update the variables at the top.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The patches being checked may not leave the kernel in a state
that the next run will allow the new kernel to be copied to the
machine. Reboot to a known good kernel before continuing to the
next kernel to test.
Added option PATCHCHECK_SLEEP_TIME for the max time to sleep between
patchcheck reboots.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reboot after each bisect run regardless if the bisect passed
or failed. The test may just be to boot the kernel and that kernel
may not have a way to copy the next kerne to it. Reboot to a known
good kernel after each bisect run.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the test failed due to timeout for boot, print a message saying
so. Otherwise the user will be confused to why their test just failed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The command to run post install (for those that want initrds) was
broken. Instead of doing a substitution for the $KERNEL_VERSION
variable. It was replacing the entire command with nothing.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits)
sched: Fix and optimise calculation of the weight-inverse
sched: Avoid going ahead if ->cpus_allowed is not changed
sched, rt: Update rq clock when unthrottling of an otherwise idle CPU
sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task()
sched: Shorten the construction of the span cpu mask of sched domain
sched: Wrap the 'cfs_rq->nr_spread_over' field with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
sched: Remove unused 'this_best_prio arg' from balance_tasks()
sched: Remove noop in alloc_rt_sched_group()
sched: Get rid of lock_depth
sched: Remove obsolete comment from scheduler_tick()
sched: Fix sched_domain iterations vs. RCU
sched: Next buddy hint on sleep and preempt path
sched: Make set_*_buddy() work on non-task entities
sched: Remove need_migrate_task()
sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu
sched: Restructure ttwu() some more
sched: Rename ttwu_post_activation() to ttwu_do_wakeup()
sched: Remove rq argument from ttwu_stat()
sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()
sched: Drop rq->lock from sched_exec()
...
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Fix rt_rq runtime leakage bug
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (107 commits)
perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printouts
perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events
ftrace/kbuild: Add recordmcount files to force full build
ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users
ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops
ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers
ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering
ftrace: Free hash with call_rcu_sched()
ftrace: Have global_ops store the functions that are to be traced
ftrace: Add ops parameter to ftrace_startup/shutdown functions
ftrace: Add enabled_functions file
ftrace: Use counters to enable functions to trace
ftrace: Separate hash allocation and assignment
ftrace: Create a global_ops to hold the filter and notrace hashes
ftrace: Use hash instead for FTRACE_FL_FILTER
ftrace: Replace FTRACE_FL_NOTRACE flag with a hash of ignored functions
perf bench, x86: Add alternatives-asm.h wrapper
x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address limit
x86, mem: memset_64.S: Optimize memset by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
x86, mem: memmove_64.S: Optimize memmove by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
...
Print out the cache-miss percentage as well if the cache refs were
collected, for all the generic cache event types.
Before:
11,103,723,230 dTLB-loads # 622.471 M/sec ( +- 0.30% )
87,065,337 dTLB-load-misses # 4.881 M/sec ( +- 0.90% )
After:
11,353,713,242 dTLB-loads # 626.020 M/sec ( +- 0.35% )
113,393,472 dTLB-load-misses # 1.00% of all dTLB cache hits ( +- 0.49% )
Also ASCII color highlight too high percentages, them when it's executed on the console.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lkhwxsevdbd9a8nymx0vxc3y@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf bench needs this to build the kernel's memcpy routine:
In file included from bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S:2:0:
bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:7:33: fatal error: asm/alternative-asm.h: No such file or directory
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-c5d41xibgullk8h2280q4gv0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch fixes an issue with event parsing.
The following commit appears to have broken the
ability to specify a comma separated list of events:
commit ceb53fbf6d
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed Apr 27 04:06:33 2011 +0200
perf stat: Fail more clearly when an invalid modifier is specified
This patch fixes this while preserving the desired effect:
$ perf stat -e instructions:u,instructions:k ls /dev/null /dev/null
Performance counter stats for 'ls /dev/null':
365956 instructions:u # 0.00 insns per cycle
731806 instructions:k # 0.00 insns per cycle
0.001108862 seconds time elapsed
$ perf stat -e task-clock-msecs true
invalid event modifier: '-msecs'
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events and modifiers
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110517133619.GA6999@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The perf_evlist__create_maps was discarding the --cpu parameter when a
--pid or --tid was specified, fix that.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110426204401.GB1746@ghostprotocols.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
pubname_callback_param::found should be initialized to 0 in
fastpath lookup, the structure is on the stack and
uninitialized otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304066518-30420-2-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Including "../../annotate.h" once in
tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c is enough. No need to do it twice.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The original Makefile uses "uname -m" to determine ARCH.
This causes problem on x86 when compile perf tool on 32 bit
userspace with a 64 bit kernel.
bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S: Assembler messages:
bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:28: Error: bad register name `%rdi'
This is because "uname -m" returns x86_64 and memcpy_64.S is
included in 32 bit build.
Reported-by: Riccardo Magliocchetti <riccardo.magliocchetti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304743274.3132.17.camel@localhost
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If RCU priority boosting is to be meaningful, callback invocation must
be boosted in addition to preempted RCU readers. Otherwise, in presence
of CPU real-time threads, the grace period ends, but the callbacks don't
get invoked. If the callbacks don't get invoked, the associated memory
doesn't get freed, so the system is still subject to OOM.
But it is not reasonable to priority-boost RCU_SOFTIRQ, so this commit
moves the callback invocations to a kthread, which can be boosted easily.
Also add comments and properly synchronized all accesses to
rcu_cpu_kthread_task, as suggested by Lai Jiangshan.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Similar to perf-record, tell user about unsupported events
that will not be counted if invoked in verbose mode.
e.g.,
$ perf stat -e dTLB-prefetch-misses -v -- sleep 1
dTLB-prefetch-misses event is not supported by the kernel.
dTLB-prefetch-misses: 0 0 0
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
<not counted> dTLB-prefetch-misses
1.001884783 seconds time elapsed
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304114655-10600-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Recent stalled-cycles event names were larger than the 40 chars printout
used by perf list.
Extend that, make it robust for future extensions and also adjust alignments
in face of wider event names.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n009io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
David Ahern reported this perf stat failure:
> # /tmp/build-perf/perf stat -- sleep 1
> Error: stalled-cycles-frontend event is not supported.
> Fatal: Not all events could be opened.
>
> This is a Dell R410 with an E5620 processor.
Fail in a softer fashion on unknown/unsupported events.
Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n006io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Adjust to color thresholds to better match the percentages seen in
real workloads. Both are now a bit more sensitive.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n004io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Instead of failing on an unknown event, when new perf stat is run on
older kernels:
$ ./perf stat true
Error: open_counter returned with 22 (Invalid argument). /bin/dmesg
may provide additional information.
Fatal: Not all events could be opened.
Just ignore EINVAL and ENOSYS, we'll print the results as not counted:
Performance counter stats for 'true':
0.239483 task-clock # 0.493 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec
0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec
86 page-faults # 0.359 M/sec
704,766 cycles # 2.943 GHz
<not counted> stalled-cycles
381,961 instructions # 0.54 insns per cycle
69,626 branches # 290.735 M/sec
4,594 branch-misses # 6.60% of all branches
0.000485883 seconds time elapsed
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio5hjpn3dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
--sync will tell perf stat to run sync() before starting a command.
This allows IO-heavy tests to be used with --repeat, without one
iteration impacting the other.
Elapsed time will stabilize for example:
before: 3.971525714 seconds time elapsed ( +- 8.56% )
after: 3.211098537 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.52% )
So measurements will be more accurate.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Print out this kind of l1-dcache-misses percentage:
Performance counter stats for './bw_tcp localhost':
29,956,262,201 cycles # 3.002 GHz (scaled from 85.14%)
8,255,209,558 stalled-cycles # 27.56% of all cycles are idle (scaled from 86.56%)
1,206,130,308 l1-dcache-misses # 40.49% of all L1-dcache hits (scaled from 86.30%)
2,978,756,779 l1-dcache-refs # 298.512 M/sec (scaled from 70.02%)
8,861,956,159 instructions # 0.30 insns per cycle
# 0.93 stalled cycles per insn (scaled from 84.27%)
1,644,306,068 branches # 164.782 M/sec (scaled from 86.43%)
74,778,443 branch-misses # 4.55% of all branches (scaled from 70.69%)
9978.695711 task-clock # 0.693 CPUs utilized
14.404347983 seconds time elapsed
And color the result depending on the severity of cache-trashing.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-54gmz0zymaid84zcs7joq02p@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Print the missed-branches percentage with different warning level ASCII colors,
as the percentage passes the 5%/10%/20% thresholds.
These thresholds are set to relatively low levels, because on most CPUs even a
moderate percentage of branch-misses already shows up as a slowdown.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ybqukg7p86leiup7gl03ecgk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Print the stalled-cycles percentage with different warning level ASCII colors,
as the percentage passes the 25%/50%/75% thresholds.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e25zz44rcms7mu9az4fu5zp0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The new default output looks like this:
Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions':
236.010686 task-clock # 0.996 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec
0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec
99 page-faults # 0.000 M/sec
756,487,646 cycles # 3.205 GHz
354,938,996 stalled-cycles # 46.92% of all cycles are idle
1,001,403,797 instructions # 1.32 insns per cycle
# 0.35 stalled cycles per insn
100,279,773 branches # 424.895 M/sec
12,646 branch-misses # 0.013 % of all branches
0.236902540 seconds time elapsed
We dropped cache-refs and cache-misses and added stalled-cycles - this is a
more generic "how well utilized is the CPU" metric.
If the stalled-cycles ratio is too high then more specific measurements can be
taken to figure out the source of the inefficiency.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pbpl2l4mn797s69bclfpwkwn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add stalled cycles accounting and use it to print the "cycles stalled per
instruction" value.
Also change the unit of the cycles output from M/sec to GHz - this is more
intuitive.
Prettify the output to:
Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions':
239.775036 task-clock # 0.997 CPUs utilized
761,903,912 cycles # 3.178 GHz
356,620,620 stalled-cycles # 46.81% of all cycles are idle
1,001,578,351 instructions # 1.31 insns per cycle
# 0.36 stalled cycles per insn
14,782 cache-references # 0.062 M/sec
5,694 cache-misses # 38.520 % of all cache refs
0.240493656 seconds time elapsed
Also adjust the --repeat output to make the percentages align vertically:
Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions' (10 runs):
236.096793 task-clock # 0.997 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.011% )
756,553,086 cycles # 3.204 GHz ( +- 0.002% )
354,942,692 stalled-cycles # 46.92% of all cycles are idle ( +- 0.008% )
1,001,389,700 instructions # 1.32 insns per cycle
# 0.35 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.000% )
10,166 cache-references # 0.043 M/sec ( +- 0.742% )
468 cache-misses # 4.608 % of all cache refs ( +- 13.385% )
0.236874136 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.01% )
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uapziqny39601apdmmhoz7hk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Create update_shadow_stats() which is then used in both read_counter_aggr()
and read_counter().
This not only simplifies the code but also fixes a bug: HW_CACHE_REFERENCES
was not updated in read_counter().
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9uc55z3g88r47exde7zxjm6p@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Right now we display this by default:
0.202204 task-clock-msecs # 0.282 CPUs
0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec
0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec
85 page-faults # 0.420 M/sec
The task-clock-msecs event cannot actually be passed back as an
event name, the event name we recognize is 'task-clock'.
So change the output of the cpu-clock and task-clock events
to be idempotent.
( Units should be printed out in the right-side column, if needed. )
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lexrnbzy09asscgd4f7oac4i@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently we fail without printing any error message on "perf stat -e task-clock-msecs".
The reason is that the task-clock event is matched and the "-msecs" postfix is assumed
to be an event modifier - but is not recognized.
This patch changes the code to be more informative:
$ perf stat -e task-clock-msecs true
invalid event modifier: '-msecs'
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events and modifiers
And restructures the return value of parse_event_modifier() to allow
the printing of all variants of invalid event modifiers.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wlaw3dvz1ly6wple8l52cfca@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We currently fail on something like '-e CPU-migrations', with:
invalid or unsupported event: 'CPU-migrations'
While 'CPU-migrations' is how we actually print out the event
in the default perf stat output:
Performance counter stats for 'true':
0.202204 task-clock-msecs # 0.282 CPUs
0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec
0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec
So change the matching to be case-insensitive.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-omcm3edjjtx83a4kh2e244se@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The new PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES event tries to approximate
cycles the CPU does nothing useful, because it is stalled on a
cache-miss or some other condition.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fue11vymwqsoo5to72jxxjyl@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Neil Brown pointed out that lock_depth somehow escaped the BKL
removal work. Let's get rid of it now.
Note that the perf scripting utilities still have a bunch of
code for dealing with common_lock_depth in tracepoints; I have
left that in place in case anybody wants to use that code with
older kernels.
Suggested-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110422111910.456c0e84@bike.lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Check for required sample attributes using evsel rather than sample_type
in the session header. If the attribute for a default field is not
present for the event type (e.g., new command operating on file from
older kernel) the field is removed from the output list.
Expected event types must exist. For example, if a user specifies
-f trace:time,trace -f sw:time,cpu,sym
the perf.data file must contain both tracepoints and software events
(ie., it is an error if either does not exist in the file).
Attribute checking is done once at the beginning of perf-script rather
than for each sample.
v1 -> v2:
- addressed comments from acme
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302148460-570-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The `try-cc' user-defined function was in tools/perf/feature-tests.mak;
this commit moves it to tools/perf/config/utilities.mak.
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bqhwcuxsrve0iodn6q4ejaoi@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently, Python 3 is not supported by perf's code; this
can cause the build to fail for systems that have Python 3
installed as the default python:
python{,-config}
The Correct Solution is to write compatibility code so that
Python 3 works out-of-the-box.
However, users often have an ancillary Python 2 installed:
python2{,-config}
Therefore, a quick fix is to allow the user to specify those
ancillary paths as the python binaries that Makefile should
use, thereby avoiding Python 3 altogether; as an added benefit,
the Python binaries may be installed in non-standard locations
without the need for updating any PATH variable.
This commit adds the ability to set PYTHON and/or PYTHON_CONFIG
either as environment variables or as make variables on the
command line; the paths may be relative, and usually only PYTHON
is necessary in order for PYTHON_CONFIG to be defined implicitly.
Some rudimentary error checking is performed when the user
explicitly specifies a value for any of these variables.
In addition, this commit introduces significantly robust makefile
infrastructure for working with paths and communicating with the
shell; it's currently only used for handling Python, but I hope
it will prove useful in refactoring the makefiles.
Thanks to:
Raghavendra D Prabhu <rprabhu@wnohang.net>
for motivating this patch.
Acked-by: Raghavendra D Prabhu <rprabhu@wnohang.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e987828e-87ec-4973-95e7-47f10f5d9bab-mfwitten@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
One more installment on an area that is mostly dormant.
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf stat doesn't mmap and its perfectly fine for it to use task-bound
counters with inheritance.
So set the attr.inherit on the caller and leave the syscall itself to
validate it.
When the mmap fails perf_evlist__mmap will just emit a warning if this
is the failure reason.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110414170121.GC3229@ghostprotocols.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In hists browser, press hotkey 'a' to annotate current symbol.
Now it causes segment fault if 'a' is pressed on a null symbol.
Here are 2 small bugs:
- In perf_evsel__hists_browse, the condition check after 'a' is pressed
is not correct, we should check ->sym instead of ->map.
- In symbol__tui_annotate we must check whether sym is NULL or not
before getting annotation structure.
This patch fixes above 2 small bugs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302244286.4106.36.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix this:
util/cgroup.c: In function ‘open_cgroup’:
util/cgroup.c:16:16: error: ‘saved_ptr’ may be used uninitialized in this function
util/cgroup.c:16:16: note: ‘saved_ptr’ was declared here
Apparently newer GCC (4.6) can figure out that this variable is properly
initialized - but some versions of GCC (such as 4.5.2) need help.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-32, fpu: Fix FPU exception handling on non-SSE systems
x86, hibernate: Initialize mmu_cr4_features during boot
x86-32, NUMA: Fix ACPI NUMA init broken by recent x86-64 change
x86: visws: Fixup irq overhaul fallout
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Clean up rebalance_domains() load-balance interval calculation
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/mrst/vrtc: Fix boot crash in mrst_rtc_init()
rtc, x86/mrst/vrtc: Fix boot crash in rtc_read_alarm()
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
genirq: Fix cpumask leak in __setup_irq()
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf probe: Fix listing incorrect line number with inline function
perf probe: Fix to find recursively inlined function
perf probe: Fix multiple --vars options behavior
perf probe: Fix to remove redundant close
perf probe: Fix to ensure function declared file
Fix a bug showing incorrect line number when a probe is put on the head of an
inline function. This patch updates find_perf_probe_point() and introduces new
rules to get correct line number.
- If debuginfo doesn't have a correct file name, we shouldn't return line
number too, because, without file name, line number is meaningless.
- If the address is in a function, it stores the function name and the offset
from the function entry.
- If the address is on a line, it tries to get the relative line number from
the function entry line, except for the address is same as the entry
address of the function (in this case, the relative line number should
be 0).
- If the address is in an inline function entry (call-site), it uses the
inline function call line number as the line on which the address is.
- If the address is in an inline function body, it stores the inline
function name and offset from the inline function call site instead of the
(non-inlined) function.
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110330092605.2132.11629.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix die_find_inlinefunc() to return correct innermost inlined function
at given address. Without this fix, it returns the outermost inlined
function.
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110330092559.2132.78634.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix a bug that perf-probe fails to initialize libdwfl and shows incorrect error
when user gives multiple --vars options.
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110330092553.2132.42691.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Since dwfl_end() closes given fd with dwfl, caller doesn't need to close its fd
when finishing process.
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110330092547.2132.93728.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix to ensure function declared file matches given file name. This fixes
a potential bug.
As I've commented on Lin Ming's fastpath enhancement, decl_file should
be checked on each probe point if user gives a probe point as func@file.
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110330092541.2132.3584.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The default setting of perf record is to mmap 128 pages if the user
did not override with -m.
However the page size may vary accross different architecture
settings, giving different default size between each.
Moreover the kernel side still has a default max number of mlocked
pages of 512 kiB + 1 page for unprivileged users. 128 + 1 pages
with page size > 4096 overlaps this threshold.
Thus, better adapt to this limitation and set the default number of
pages to fit those 512 kiB + 1 page.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1301535324-9735-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Allow:
perf script -f <fields>
to be equivalent to:
perf script -f trace:<fields> -f sw:<fields> -f hw:<fields>
i.e., the specified fields apply to all event types if the type string
is not given.
The field (-f) arguments are processed in the order received. A later
usage can reset a prior request. e.g.,
-f trace: -f comm,tid,time,sym
The first -f suppresses trace events (field list is ""), but then the second
invocation sets the fields to comm,tid,time,sym. In this case a warning is
given to the user:
"Overriding previous field request for all events."
Alternativey, consider the order:
-f comm,tid,time,sym -f trace:
The first -f sets the fields for all events and the second -f suppresses trace
events. The user is given a warning message about the override, and the result
of the above is that only S/W and H/W events are displayed with the given
fields.
For the 'wildcard' option if a user selected field is invalid for an event
type, a message is displayed to the user that the option is ignored for that
type. For example:
perf script -f comm,tid,trace 2>&1 | less
'trace' not valid for hardware events. Ignoring.
'trace' not valid for software events. Ignoring.
Alternatively, if the type is given an invalid field is specified it is an
error. For example:
perf script -v -f sw:comm,tid,trace 2>&1 | less
'trace' not valid for software events.
At this point usage is displayed, and perf-script exits.
Finally, a user may not set fields to none for all event types.
i.e., -f "" is not allowed.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
LPU-Reference: <1300377801-27246-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pick up these two commits from Arnaldo's perf/core tree:
ca6a42586f: perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return
c286c419c7: perf tools: Fixup exit path when not able to open events
As they are really fixes we want to have sooner than laer.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix the following build error:
GEN python/perf.so
In file included from util/evsel.h:10,
from util/python.c:6:
util/hist.h:106:18: error: newt.h: No such file or directory
error: command 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
make: *** [python/perf.so] Error 1
by passing BASIC_CFLAGS to setup.py. BASIC_CFLAGS variable contains
the -DNO_NEWT_SUPPORT switch which prevents building python c
extension with newt.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110329180236.GA19366@erda.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
If symbol_conf.priv_size is not a multiple of "sizeof(u64)" we'll bus
error on sparc64 in symbol__new because the "struct symbol *" pointer
is computed by adding symbol_conf.priv_size to the memory allocated.
We cannot isolate the fix to symbol__new and symbol__delete since the
private area is computed by subtracting the priv_size value from a
"struct symbol" pointer, so then the private area can still be
potentially unaligned.
So, simply align the symbol_conf.priv_size value in symbol__init()
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110328.175849.112593455.davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Resend of patch sent back in January 2011 in light of recent confusion around
unsupported events for a given platform.
Improve sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return handling in top and record, just
like 5a3446b does for stat.
Retry of Arnaldo's patch using ui_warning instead of die which allows the
fallback from hardware cycles to software clock.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1301080271-20945-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
[ committer note: Some adjustments to make it apply to newer codebase ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
v3 -> v2:
- Make pubname_search_cb more generic
- Add fastpath to find_probes also
v2 -> v1:
- Don't compare file names with cu_find_realpath(...), instead, compare
them with the name returned by dwarf_decl_file(sp_die)
The vmlinux file may have thousands of CUs.
We can lookup function name from .debug_pubnames section
to avoid the slow loop on CUs.
1. Improvement data for find_line_range
./perf stat -e cycles -r 10 -- ./perf probe -k /home/mlin/vmlinux \
-s /home/mlin/linux-2.6 \
--line csum_partial_copy_to_user > tmp.log
before patch applied
=====================
847,988,276 cycles
0.355075856 seconds time elapsed
after patch applied
=====================
206,102,622 cycles
0.086883555 seconds time elapsed
2. Improvement data for find_probes
./perf stat -e cycles -r 10 -- ./perf probe -k /home/mlin/vmlinux \
-s /home/mlin/linux-2.6 \
--vars csum_partial_copy_to_user > tmp.log
before patch applied
=====================
848,490,844 cycles
0.355307901 seconds time elapsed
after patch applied
=====================
205,684,469 cycles
0.086694010 seconds time elapsed
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1301041668.14111.52.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We have to deal with the TUI mode in perf top, so that we don't end up
with a garbled screen when, say, a non root user on a machine with a
paranoid setting (the default) tries to use 'perf top'.
Introduce a ui__warning_paranoid() routine shared by top and record that
tells the user the valid values for /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.
Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Perf can't currently trace into the vsyscall page. It looks like it was
meant to work.
Tested on 2.6.38 and today's -git.
The bug is easy to reproduce. Compile this:
int main()
{
int i;
struct timespec t;
for(i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &t);
return 0;
}
and run it through perf record; perf report. The top entry shows
"[unknown]" and you can't zoom in.
It looks like there are two issues. The first is a that a test for user
mode executing in kernel space is backwards. (That's the first hunk
below). The second (I think) is that something's wrong with the code
that generates lots of little struct dso objects for different sections
-- when it runs on vmlinux it results in bogus long_name values which
cause objdump to fail.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LPU-Reference: <AANLkTikxSw5+wJZUWNz++nL7mgivCh_Zf=2Kq6=f9Ce_@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf, x86: Complain louder about BIOSen corrupting CPU/PMU state and continue
perf, x86: P4 PMU - Read proper MSR register to catch unflagged overflows
perf symbols: Look at .dynsym again if .symtab not found
perf build-id: Add quirk to deal with perf.data file format breakage
perf session: Pass evsel in event_ops->sample()
perf: Better fit max unprivileged mlock pages for tools needs
perf_events: Fix stale ->cgrp pointer in update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx()
perf top: Fix uninitialized 'counter' variable
tracing: Fix set_ftrace_filter probe function display
perf, x86: Fix Intel fixed counters base initialization
The original intent of the code was to repeat the search with
want_symtab = 0. But as the code stands now, we never hit the "default"
case of the switch statement. Which means we never repeat the search.
Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The a1645ce1 changeset:
"perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host"
Added a field to struct build_id_event that broke the file format.
Since the kernel build-id is the first entry, process the table using
the old format if the well known '[kernel.kallsyms]' string for the
kernel build-id has the first 4 characters chopped off (where the pid_t
sits).
Reported-by: Han Pingtian <phan@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Resolving the sample->id to an evsel since the most advanced tools,
report and annotate, and the others will too when they evolve to
properly support multi-event perf.data files.
Good also because it does an extra validation, checking that the ID is
valid when present. When that is not the case, the overhead is just a
branch + function call (perf_evlist__id2evsel).
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
builtin-top.c has an uninitialized variable.
gcc(version 4.5.1) warns about it and it results in build failure:
builtin-top.c: In function 'display_thread':
builtin-top.c:518:9: error: 'counter' may be used uninitialized
This situation can indeed trigger, if the getline() call in
prompt_integer() fails.
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Nagai <akihiro.nagai.hw@hitachi.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110323072939.11638.50173.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-ktest:
ktest: Add STOP_TEST_AFTER to stop the test after a period of time
ktest: Monitor kernel while running of user tests
ktest: Fix bug where the test would not end after failure
ktest: Add BISECT_FILES to run git bisect on paths
ktest: Add BISECT_SKIP
ktest: Add manual bisect
ktest: Handle kernels before make oldnoconfig
ktest: Start failure timeout on panic too
ktest: Print logfile name on failure
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits)
trace, filters: Initialize the match variable in process_ops() properly
trace, documentation: Fix branch profiling location in debugfs
oprofile, s390: Cleanups
oprofile, s390: Remove hwsampler_files.c and merge it into init.c
perf: Fix tear-down of inherited group events
perf: Reorder & optimize perf_event_context to remove alignment padding on 64 bit builds
perf: Handle stopped state with tracepoints
perf: Fix the software events state check
perf, powerpc: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing
perf, x86: Use INTEL_*_CONSTRAINT() for all PEBS event constraints
perf, x86: Clean up SandyBridge PEBS events
perf lock: Fix sorting by wait_min
perf tools: Version incorrect with some versions of grep
perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file
perf script: Add support for H/W and S/W events
perf script: Add support for dumping symbols
perf script: Support custom field selection for output
perf script: Move printing of 'common' data from print_event and rename
perf tracing: Remove print_graph_cpu and print_graph_proc from trace-event-parse
perf script: Change process_event prototype
...
