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Ingo Molnar
cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5b447a6a13 perf tools: Librarize idle thread registration
Librarize register_idle_thread() used by annotate and report.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1251693921-6579-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-31 10:04:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
19c959627a Merge branch 'perfcounters/tracing' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: this topic is ready now to merge into the main
              development branch for .32, with functional
              perf trace output.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-31 10:03:27 +02:00
Pierre Habouzit
119e7a22bb perf tools: do not complain if root is owning perf.data
This improves patch fa6963b24 so that perf.data stuff that has
been dumped as root can be read (annotate/report) by a user
without the use of the --force.

Rationale is that root has plenty of ways to screw us (usually)
that do not require twisted schemes involving specially
crafting a perf.data.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@intersec.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090827075902.GF19653@laphroaig.corp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-28 13:47:43 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
96d6e48bc6 Merge branch 'perfcounters/urgent' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
	tools/perf/builtin-report.c

Merge reason: resolve these conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-24 09:24:01 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
fa6963b248 perf tools: Check perf.data owner
Add an owner check to opening perf.data files and a switch to
silence it.

Because perf-report/perf-annotate are binary parsers reading
another users' perf.data file could be a security risk if the
file were explicitly engineered to trigger bugs in the parser
(we hope of course there are non such bugs, but you never
know).

Signed-off-by: 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: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090819092023.896648538@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-19 15:25:51 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
4273b00587 perf tools: Fix comm column adjusting
The librarization of the thread helpers between annotate and
report lost some perf report specifics.

This patch fixes the thread comm column adjusting that has
been omitted during this export.

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: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250604226-6852-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-18 16:06:18 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
6ede59c412 perf tools: Fix spelling mistake in callchain error
While running perf report -g in a perf.data file that hasn't
been recorded in callchain mode, the error reported has a
spelling issue:

	./perf report -g
	selected -c but no callchain data. Did you call perf record without -g?

Fix it.

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: <1250543271-8383-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-18 00:00:18 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
8f28827a16 perf tools: Librarize trace_event() helper
Librarize trace_event() helper so that perf trace can use it
too. Also clean up the debug.h includes a bit.

It's not good to have it included in perf.h because it doesn't
make it flexible against other headers it may need (headers
that can also depend on perf.h and then create a recursive
header dependency).

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>
LKML-Reference: <1250453149-664-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-16 23:06:45 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
0d3a5c8859 perf tools: Librarize sample type and attr finding from headers
Librarize the sample type and attr fetching from perf data file
headers so that we can also use it from perf trace.

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>
LKML-Reference: <1250448997-30715-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-16 23:06:44 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
0f25bfc8d8 perf tools: Put the show mode into the event headers files
Annotate and report share the same flags to filter events
considering their context (kernel, user, hypervisor).

Both tools have their own definitions of these flags. Factorize
them out into the event headers file.

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: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250445414-29237-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-16 19:59:13 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
2cec19d9d0 perf tools: Factorize the dprintf definition
We have two users of dprintf: report and annotate. Another one
is coming with perf trace. Then factorize it into the debug
file.

While at it, rename dprintf() to dump_printf() so that it
doesn't conflicts with its libc homograph.

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: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250443461-28130-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-16 19:42:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
83a0944fa9 perf: Enable more compiler warnings
Related to a shadowed variable bug fix Valdis Kletnieks noticed
that perf does not get built with -Wshadow, which could have
helped us avoid the bug.

So enable -Wshadow and also enable the following warnings on
perf builds, in addition to the already enabled -Wall -Wextra
-std=gnu99 warnings:

 -Wcast-align
 -Wformat=2
 -Wshadow
 -Winit-self
 -Wpacked
 -Wredundant-decls
 -Wstack-protector
 -Wstrict-aliasing=3
 -Wswitch-default
 -Wswitch-enum
 -Wno-system-headers
 -Wundef
 -Wvolatile-register-var
 -Wwrite-strings
 -Wbad-function-cast
 -Wmissing-declarations
 -Wmissing-prototypes
 -Wnested-externs
 -Wold-style-definition
 -Wstrict-prototypes
 -Wdeclaration-after-statement

And change/fix the perf code to build cleanly under GCC 4.3.2.

The list of warnings enablement is rather arbitrary: it's based
on my (quick) reading of the GCC manpages and trying them on
perf.

I categorized the warnings based on individually enabling them
and looking whether they trigger something in the perf build.
If i liked those warnings (i.e. if they trigger for something
that arguably could be improved) i enabled the warning.

If the warnings seemed to come from language laywers spamming
the build with tons of nuisance warnings i generally kept them
off. Most of the sign conversion related warnings were in
this category. (A second patch enabling some of the sign
warnings might be welcome - sign bugs can be nasty.)

I also kept warnings that seem to make sense from their manpage
description and which produced no actual warnings on our code
base. These warnings might still be turned off if they end up
being a nuisance.

I also left out a few warnings that are not supported in older
compilers.

[ Note that these changes might break the build on older
  compilers i did not test, or on non-x86 architectures that
  produce different warnings, so more testing would be welcome. ]

Reported-by: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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>
2009-08-16 10:47:47 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
6baa0a5ae0 perf tools: Factorize the thread code in a dedicated file
Factorize the thread management code used by perf-annotate and
perf-report in dedicated source and header files.

v2: pass last_match by address so that it can actually be
modified.

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: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250245313-6995-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-15 16:10:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
be750231ce Merge branch 'perfcounters/urgent' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/perf_counter.c

Merge reason: update to latest upstream (-rc6) and resolve
              the conflict with urgent fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-15 12:06:12 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
8fd101f20b perf report: Don't show unresolved DSOs and symbols when -S/-d is used
We're interested in just those symbols/DSOs, so filter out the
unresolved ones.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090812211957.GE3495@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-13 12:05:52 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
94a24752fe perf report: Show the tid too in -D
This made it easier to find the firefox threading related
bug.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090811192138.GE18061@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-12 14:10:49 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
66e274f3b8 perf tools: Factorize the map helpers
Factorize the dso mapping helpers into a single purpose common file
"util/map.c"

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
2009-08-12 12:37:37 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1fe2c1066c perf tools: Factorize the event structure definitions in a single file
Factorize the multiple definition of the events structures into a
single util/event.h file.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
2009-08-12 12:04:39 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
cd84c2ac6d perf tools: Factorize high level dso helpers
Factorize multiple definitions of high level dso helpers into the
symbol source file.

The side effect is a general export of the verbose and eprintf
debugging helpers into a new file dedicated to debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
2009-08-12 12:02:38 +02:00
Brice Goglin
9f86669711 perf report: Add raw displaying of per-thread counters
If --pretty=raw is given to perf report -T, it now displays one
line per-thread per-counter with the raw event id added.

We get:
 #   PID    TID              Name  Raw    Count
   18608  18609      cache-misses  28e   416744
   18608  18609  cache-references  28f  6456792
   18608  18608      cache-misses  28e   448219
   18608  18608  cache-references  28f  7270244
 instead of:

#   PID    TID  cache-misses  cache-references
   18608  18609        416744           6456792
   18608  18608        448219           7270244

Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A802008.5050409@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-10 15:48:17 +02:00
Brice Goglin
8d51327090 perf report: Fix and improve the displaying of per-thread event counters
Improve and fix the handling of per-thread counter stats
recorded via perf record -s. Previously we only displayed
it in debug printouts (-D) and even that output was hard
to disambiguate.

I moved everything to utils/values.[ch] so that we may reuse
it in perf stat.

We get something like this now:

 #  PID   TID  cache-misses  cache-references
   4658  4659        495581           3238779
   4658  4662        498246           3236823
   4658  4663        499531           3243162

Then it'll be easy to add --pretty=raw to display a single line per thread/event.

By the way, -S was also used for --symbol... So I used -T/--thread here.

perf report: Add -T/--threads to display per-thread counter values

 We get something like this now:
 #  PID   TID  cache-misses  cache-references
   4658  4659        495581           3238779
   4658  4662        498246           3236823
   4658  4663        499531           3243162

Per-thread arrays of counter values are managed in utils/values.[ch]

Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 13:04:20 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
25446036cb perf tools: callchain: Fix sum of percentages to be 100% by displaying amount of ignored chains in fractal mode
When we filter the callchains below a given percentage, we
ignore them and the end result only shows entries that have an
upper percentage than the filter threshold.

It seems to users then that we have an imbalance in the
percentage, as if the sum inside a profiled branch doesn't
reach 100%.

Since in the past there have been real perf report bugs that
showed the same sypmtom, it would be nice to assure the user
that the data is perfect and trustable and it all sums up to
100.00%.

So fix this by displaying the remaining hits that have been
filtered but without more detail than their amount in each
branches. Example while filtering below 50%:

7.73%  [k] delay_tsc
                |
                |--98.22%-- __const_udelay
                |          |
                |          |--86.37%-- ath5k_hw_register_timeout
                |          |          ath5k_hw_noise_floor_calibration
                |          |          ath5k_hw_reset
                |          |          ath5k_reset
                |          |          ath5k_config
                |          |          ieee80211_hw_config
                |          |          |
                |          |          |--88.53%-- ieee80211_scan_work
                |          |          |          worker_thread
                |          |          |          kthread
                |          |          |          child_rip
                |          |           --11.47%-- [...]
                |           --13.63%-- [...]
                 --1.78%-- [...]

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
LKML-Reference: <1249690585-9145-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:43 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
b1a88349c3 perf tools: callchain: Fix 'perf report' display to be callchain by default
If we recorded with -g option to record the callchain, right now
we require a -g option to perf report as well - and people reported
this as unnecessary complication: the user already specified -g
once, no need to require it a second time.

So if the recording includes call-chains, display the callchain by
default from perf report.

( The user can override this default using "-g none" option from
  perf report. )

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
LKML-Reference: <1249690585-9145-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:42 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
94cb9e385d perf report: Add debug help for the finding of symbol bugs - show the symtab origin (DSO, build-id, kernel, etc)
Used with perf report --verbose:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report -v | head -16
     5.17%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so   0x00000000005d8eee f [.] imgContainer::DrawFrameTo(gfxIImageFrame*, gfxIImageFrame*, nsRect&)
     2.56%  firefox  /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so            0x0000000000008e02 d [.] __pthread_mutex_lock_internal
     1.94%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so   0x0000000000d0af8f f [.] SearchTable
     1.75%  firefox  [kernel]                               0xffffffffff60013b k [.] vread_hpet
     1.63%  firefox  /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so            0x000000000000a404 d [.] __pthread_mutex_unlock
     1.47%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x00000000000482ea f [.] js_Interpret
     1.42%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x000000000003eda3 f [.] JS_CallTracer
     1.24%  firefox  [kernel]                               0xffffffff8102ca4a k [k] read_hpet
     1.16%  firefox  [kernel]                               0xffffffff810f3dd4 k [k] fget_light
     1.11%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x00000000000567ff f [.] js_TraceObject
     0.98%  firefox  /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox       0x000000000000dd23 b [.] arena_ralloc
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

The new field is just after the symbol address. To help in
figuring out symbol resolution bugs.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
8f18aec535 perf report: Fix per task mult-counter stat reporting
Brice Goglin reported:

> I can easily sort them by thread id, but I don't know how to match
> my 4 events with each group of 4 lines.

Also report the counter id and the time running/enabled
stats (in case the counter got time-shared).

Reported-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:35 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1953287bfe perf tools: Fix call-chain cumul hit based sub-total (fractal mode)
The callchain fractal mode builds each new total hits in a new
branch of profiling by using the parent's hits of the current
branch plus the hits of the children.

This is wrong, the total hits of a branch should be made of the
sum of every children hits, we must ignore the parent hits in
this scope.

This patch also fixes another mistake with the hit counting.

Now the rates are correct.

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: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:33 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
114cfab222 perf report: Make --sort comm,dso,symbol the default
If you're doing performance testing, you're interested in the
symbols anyway so lets make "--sort comm,dso,symbol" the
default sort option.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1249467921-10450-1-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-05 13:16:04 +02:00
Roel Kluin
7e030655dd perf: Fix read buffer overflow
Check whether index is within bounds before testing the element.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A757BCF.40101@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-04 11:09:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
27d028de64 perf report: Update for the new FORK/EXIT events
Since FORK is now also issued for threads, detect those by
comparing the parent and child PID.

Teach it about EXIT events and ignore them.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-02 13:47:57 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
7f453c24b9 perf_counter: PERF_SAMPLE_ID and inherited counters
Anton noted that for inherited counters the counter-id as provided by
PERF_SAMPLE_ID isn't mappable to the id found through PERF_RECORD_ID
because each inherited counter gets its own id.

His suggestion was to always return the parent counter id, since that
is the primary counter id as exposed. However, these inherited
counters have a unique identifier so that events like
PERF_EVENT_PERIOD and PERF_EVENT_THROTTLE can be specific about which
counter gets modified, which is important when trying to normalize the
sample streams.

This patch removes PERF_EVENT_PERIOD in favour of PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD,
which is more useful anyway, since changing periods became a lot more
common than initially thought -- rendering PERF_EVENT_PERIOD the less
useful solution (also, PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD reports the more accurate
value, since it reports the value used to trigger the overflow,
whereas PERF_EVENT_PERIOD simply reports the requested period changed,
which might only take effect on the next cycle).

This still leaves us PERF_EVENT_THROTTLE to consider, but since that
_should_ be a rare occurrence, and linking it to a primary id is the
most useful bit to diagnose the problem, we introduce a
PERF_SAMPLE_STREAM_ID, for those few cases where the full
reconstruction is important.

[Does change the ABI a little, but I see no other way out]

Suggested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1248095846.15751.8781.camel@twins>
2009-07-22 18:05:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
1d2f37945d Merge commit 'tip/perfcounters/core' into perf-counters-for-linus 2009-07-22 18:05:48 +02:00
Anton Blanchard
1483b19f8f perf_counter: Make call graph option consistent
perf record uses -g for logging call graph data but perf report
uses -c to print call graph data. Be consistent and use -g
everywhere for call graph data.

Also update the help text to reflect the current default -
fractal,0.5

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090716104817.803604373@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-18 11:21:33 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
e3d7e183dc perf report: Introduce -n/--show-nr-samples
[acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report -ns comm,dso,symbol -d /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so -C pahole | head -17
    21.94%      32101  [.] _int_malloc
    20.10%      29402  [.] __GI_strcmp
    16.77%      24533  [.] __tsearch
    12.61%      18450  [.] malloc_consolidate
     6.42%       9394  [.] _int_free
     6.28%       9191  [.] __tfind
     4.56%       6678  [.] __GI___libc_free
     4.46%       6520  [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
     2.59%       3786  [.] __malloc
     1.17%       1716  [.] __GI_memcpy
[acme@doppio pahole]$

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1247325517-12272-5-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-11 19:20:27 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
021191b35c perf report: Make the output more compact
When we filter by column content we may end up with a column
that has the same value for all the lines. So remove that
column and tell its unique value on the top, as a comment.

Example:

  [acme@doppio pahole]$  perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol -d ./build/libdwarves.so.1.0.0 -C pahole | head -15
  # dso: ./build/libdwarves.so.1.0.0
  # comm: pahole
  # Samples: 58409
  #
  # Overhead  Symbol
  # ........  ......
  #
      20.93%  [.] tag__recode_dwarf_type
      14.94%  [.] namespace__recode_dwarf_types
      10.38%  [.] cu__table_add_tag
       6.69%  [.] __die__process_tag
       5.05%  [.] die__process_function
       4.70%  [.] list__for_all_tags
       3.68%  [.] tag__init
       3.48%  [.] die__create_new_parameter
  [acme@doppio pahole]$

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1247325517-12272-3-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-11 19:20:26 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
60c1baf124 perf report: Tidy up reporting of symbols not found
Always printing the level info about if it is in the kernel,
hypervisor or userspace as that is in the hist_entry.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1247325517-12272-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-11 19:20:25 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
52d422de22 perf report: Adjust column width to the values sampled
Auto-adjust column width of perf report output to the
longest occuring string length.

Example:

[acme@doppio pahole]$  perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol | head -13

    12.79%   pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so    [.] __libdw_find_attr
     8.90%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so        [.] _int_malloc
     8.68%   pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so    [.] __libdw_form_val_len
     8.15%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so        [.] __GI_strcmp
     6.80%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so        [.] __tsearch
     5.54%   pahole  ./build/libdwarves.so.1.0.0  [.] tag__recode_dwarf_type
[acme@doppio pahole]$

[acme@doppio pahole]$  perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol -d /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so | head -10

    21.92%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so  [.] _int_malloc
    20.08%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so  [.] __GI_strcmp
    16.75%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so  [.] __tsearch
[acme@doppio pahole]$

Also add these extra options to control the new behaviour:

  -w, --field-width

Force each column width to the provided list, for large terminal
readability.

  -t, --field-separator:

Use a special separator character and don't pad with spaces, replacing
all occurances of this separator in symbol names (and other output) with
a '.' character, that thus it's the only non valid separator.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090711014728.GH3452@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-11 10:24:11 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
805d127d62 perf report: Add "Fractal" mode output - support callchains with relative overhead rate
The current callchain displays the overhead rates as absolute:
relative to the total overhead.

This patch provides relative overhead percentage, in which each
branch of the callchain tree is a independant instrumentated object.

This provides a 'fractal' view of the call-chain profile: each
sub-graph looks like a profile in itself - relative to its parent.

You can produce such output by using the "fractal" mode
that you can abbreviate via f, fr, fra, frac, etc...

./perf report -s sym -c fractal

Example:

     8.46%  [k] copy_user_generic_string
                |
                |--52.01%-- generic_file_aio_read
                |          do_sync_read
                |          vfs_read
                |          |
                |          |--97.20%-- sys_pread64
                |          |          system_call_fastpath
                |          |          pread64
                |          |
                |           --2.81%-- sys_read
                |                     system_call_fastpath
                |                     __read
                |
                |--39.85%-- generic_file_buffered_write
                |          __generic_file_aio_write_nolock
                |          generic_file_aio_write
                |          do_sync_write
                |          reiserfs_file_write
                |          vfs_write
                |          |
                |          |--97.05%-- sys_pwrite64
                |          |          system_call_fastpath
                |          |          __pwrite64
                |          |
                |           --2.95%-- sys_write
                |                     system_call_fastpath
                |                     __write_nocancel
[...]

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: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246772361-9960-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-05 10:30:23 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
94a8eb028a perf report: Change default callchain parameters
The default callchain parameters are set to use the flat mode and never
filter any overhead threshold of backtrace.

But flat mode is boring compared to graph mode.
Also the number of callchains may be very high if none is
filtered.

Let's change this to set the graph view and a minimum overhead of 0.5%
as default parameters.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246772361-9960-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-05 10:30:22 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
be9038859e perf report: Use a modifiable string for default callchain options
If the user doesn't provide options to tune his callchain output
(ie: if he uses -c without arguments) then the default value passed
in the OPT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT() macro is used.

But it's parsed later by strtok() which will replace comma separators
to a zero. This may segfault as we are using a read-only string.

Use a modifiable one instead, and also fix the "100%" default
minimum threshold value by turning it into a 0 (output every callchains)
as it was intended in the origin.

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: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246772361-9960-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-05 10:30:21 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
91b4eaea93 perf report: Warn on callchain output request from non-callchain file
perf report segfaults while trying to handle callchains from a non
callchain data file.

Instead of a segfault, print a useful message to the user.

Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246772361-9960-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-05 10:30:21 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
029e5b1636 perf report: Annotate variable initialization
Certain versions of GCC dont see the initialization that is done here:

  builtin-report.c: In function ‘__cmd_report’:
  builtin-report.c:1038: warning: ‘syms’ may be used uninitialized in this function

So annotate it with a NULL initialization.

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>
2009-07-03 13:17:28 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
24b57c6988 perf_counter tools: Display percents of hits in callchain with overhead colors
This adds the use of colors to signal at a glance the important
overhead thresholds in callchains hit rates.

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: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246558475-10624-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02 21:38:38 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1e11fd82d2 perf_counter tools: Provide helper to print percents color
Among perf annotate, perf report and perf top, we can find the
common colored printing of percents according to the following
rules:

    High overhead =  > 5%, colored in red
    Mid overhead =  > 0.5%, colored in green
    Low overhead =  < 0.5%, default color

Factorize these multiple checks in a single function named
percent_color_fprintf() and also provide a get_percent_color()
for sites which print percentages and other things at the same
time.

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: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246558475-10624-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02 21:38:37 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
c20ab37ef3 perf_counter tools: Set the minimum percent for callchains to be displayed
Callchains output may become a burden on a trace because even
rarely hit site are exposed. This can be too much information.

Let the user set a threshold as a minimum percent of hits using
the new pattern for the -c option:

    -c mode,min_percent

Example:

$ perf report -s sym -c flat,4

     8.25%  [k] copy_user_generic_string
             4.19%
                copy_user_generic_string
                generic_file_aio_read
                do_sync_read
                vfs_read
                sys_pread64
                system_call_fastpath
                pread64

     5.39%  [k] search_by_key
     4.63%  0x00000000009e0a
     2.36%  [k] memcpy_c
[...]

$ perf report -s sym -c graph,2

     8.25%  [k] copy_user_generic_string
                |
                |--4.31%-- generic_file_aio_read
                |          do_sync_read
                |          vfs_read
                |          |
                |           --4.19%-- sys_pread64
                |                     system_call_fastpath
                |                     pread64
                |
                 --3.24%-- generic_file_buffered_write
                           __generic_file_aio_write_nolock
                           generic_file_aio_write
                           do_sync_write
                           reiserfs_file_write
                           vfs_write
                           |
                            --3.14%-- sys_pwrite64
                                      system_call_fastpath
                                      __pwrite64

     5.39%  [k] search_by_key
                |
                 --2.23%-- reiserfs_update_sd_size

     4.63%  0x00000000009e0a

     2.36%  [k] memcpy_c
[...]

You can also omit it and it will default to 0.

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: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246558475-10624-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02 21:38:37 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
4eb3e4788b perf report: Add support for callchain graph output
Currently, the printing of callchains is done in a single
vertical level, this is the "flat" mode:

8.25%  [k] copy_user_generic_string
             4.19%
                copy_user_generic_string
                generic_file_aio_read
                do_sync_read
                vfs_read
                sys_pread64
                system_call_fastpath
                pread64

This patch introduces a new "graph" mode which provides a
hierarchical output of factorized paths recursively sorted:

 8.25%  [k] copy_user_generic_string
                |
                |--4.31%-- generic_file_aio_read
                |          do_sync_read
                |          vfs_read
                |          |
                |          |--4.19%-- sys_pread64
                |          |          system_call_fastpath
                |          |          pread64
                |          |
                |           --0.12%-- sys_read
                |                     system_call_fastpath
                |                     __read
                |
                |--3.24%-- generic_file_buffered_write
                |          __generic_file_aio_write_nolock
                |          generic_file_aio_write
                |          do_sync_write
                |          reiserfs_file_write
                |          vfs_write
                |          |
                |          |--3.14%-- sys_pwrite64
                |          |          system_call_fastpath
                |          |          __pwrite64
                |          |
                |           --0.10%-- sys_write
[...]

The command line has then changed.

By providing the -c option, the callchain will output in the
flat mode by default.

But you can override it:

    perf report -c graph

or

    perf report -c flat

You can also pass the abreviated mode:

    perf report -c g

or

    perf report -c gra

will both make use of the graph mode.

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: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246550301-8954-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02 20:47:15 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
429764873c perf_counter tools: Enable kernel module symbol loading in tools
Add the -m/--modules option to perf report and perf annotate,
which enables live module symbol/image loading. To be used
with -k/--vmlinux.

(Also give perf annotate a -P/--full-paths option.)

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246514986.13293.48.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02 08:42:21 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
6cfcc53ed4 perf_counter tools: Connect module support infrastructure to symbol loading infrastructure
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246514916.13293.46.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02 08:42:21 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
9974f49678 perf_counter tools: Make symbol loading consistently return number of loaded symbols
perf_counter tools: Make symbol loading consistently return number of loaded symbols.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246514758.13293.42.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02 08:42:20 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
5da5025858 perf_counter tools: Share list.h with the kernel
The copy we were using came from another copy I did for the dwarves
(pahole) package, that came from the kernel years ago.

The only function that is used by the perf tools and that isn't in the
kernel is list_del_range, that I'm leaving in the perf tools only for
now.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090701174608.GA5823@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 22:37:23 +02:00