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Linus Torvalds
85be928c41 Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (50 commits)
  perf report: Add "Fractal" mode output - support callchains with relative overhead rate
  perf_counter tools: callchains: Manage the cumul hits on the fly
  perf report: Change default callchain parameters
  perf report: Use a modifiable string for default callchain options
  perf report: Warn on callchain output request from non-callchain file
  x86: atomic64: Inline atomic64_read() again
  x86: atomic64: Clean up atomic64_sub_and_test() and atomic64_add_negative()
  x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_xchg()
  x86: atomic64: Export APIs to modules
  x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_read()
  x86: atomic64: Code atomic(64)_read and atomic(64)_set in C not CPP
  x86: atomic64: Fix unclean type use in atomic64_xchg()
  x86: atomic64: Make atomic_read() type-safe
  x86: atomic64: Reduce size of functions
  x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_add_return()
  x86: atomic64: Improve cmpxchg8b()
  x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_read()
  x86: atomic64: Move the 32-bit atomic64_t implementation to a .c file
  x86: atomic64: The atomic64_t data type should be 8 bytes aligned on 32-bit too
  perf report: Annotate variable initialization
  ...
2009-07-10 14:25:03 -07:00
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
e05b876c22 perf_counter tools: callchains: Manage the cumul hits on the fly
The cumul hits are the number of hits of every childs of a node
plus the hits of the current nodes, required for percentage
computing of a branch.

Theses numbers are calculated during the sorting of the branches of
the callchain tree using a depth first postfix traversal, so that
cumulative hits are propagated in the right order.

But if we plan to implement percentages relative to the parent and not
absolute percentages (relative to the whole overhead), we need to know
the cumulative hits of the parent before computing the children
because the relative minimum acceptable number of entries (ie: minimum
rate against the cumulative hits from the parent) is the basis to
filter the children against a given rate.

Then we need to handle the cumul hits on the fly to prepare the
implementation of relative overhead 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: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246772361-9960-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-05 10:30:22 +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
Linus Torvalds
de481ba925 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (27 commits)
  parisc: use generic atomic64 on 32-bit
  parisc: superio: fix build breakage
  parisc: Fix PCI resource allocation on non-PAT SBA machines
  parisc: perf: wire up sys_perf_counter_open
  parisc: add task_pt_regs macro
  parisc: wire sys_perf_counter_open to sys_ni_syscall
  parisc: inventory.c, fix bloated stack frame
  parisc: processor.c, fix bloated stack frame
  parisc: fix compile warning in mm/init.c
  parisc: remove dead code from sys_parisc32.c
  parisc: wire up rt_tgsigqueueinfo
  parisc: ensure broadcast tlb purge runs single threaded
  parisc: fix "delay!" timer handling
  parisc: fix mismatched parenthesis in memcpy.c
  parisc: Fix gcc 4.4 warning in lba_pci.c
  parisc: add parameter to read_cr16()
  parisc: decode_exc.c should include kernel.h
  parisc: remove obsolete hw_interrupt_type
  parisc: fix irq compile bugs in arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
  parisc: advertise PCI devs after "assign_resources"
  ...

Manually fixed up trivial conflicts in tools/perf/perf.h due to addition
of SH vs HPPA perf-counter support.
2009-07-04 10:35:12 -07:00
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
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
30d7a77dd5 perf_counter tools: Adjust symbols in ET_EXEC files too
Ingo Molnar wrote:

> i just bisected a 'perf report' bug that would cause us to not
> resolve all user-space symbols in a 'git gc' run to:
>
> f5812a7a33 is first bad commit
> commit f5812a7a33
> Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Date:   Tue Jun 30 11:43:17 2009 -0300
>
>     perf_counter tools: Adjust only prelinked symbol's addresses

Rename ->prelinked to ->adjust_symbols and making what was done
only for prelinked libraries also to ET_EXEC binaries, such as
/usr/bin/git:

[acme@doppio pahole]$ readelf -h /usr/bin/git | grep Type
  Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
[acme@doppio pahole]$

And after installing the 'git-debuginfo' package, I get correct results:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol -d /usr/bin/git | head -20

 #
 # (1139614 samples)
 #
 # Overhead           Command  Shared Object              Symbol
 # ........  ................  .........................  ......
 #
    34.98%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] send_sideband
    33.39%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] enter_repo
     6.81%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] diff_opt_parse
     4.95%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] is_repository_shallow
     3.24%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] odb_mkstemp
     1.39%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] output
     1.34%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] xmmap
     1.25%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] receive_pack_config
     1.16%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] git_pathdup
     0.90%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] read_object_with_reference
     0.86%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] show_patch_diff
     0.85%               git  /usr/bin/git               0x00000000095e2e
     0.69%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] display
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

I'll check what are the last cases where we can't resolve symbols, like
this 0x00000000095e2e later.

And I guess this will fix the problems Mike were seeing too:

 [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ readelf -h ../build/perf/vmlinux | grep Type
   Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
 [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-03 08:24:13 +02:00
Kyle McMartin
2d4618dce6 parisc: perf: wire up sys_perf_counter_open
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2009-07-03 03:34:12 +00:00
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
Frederic Weisbecker
5a4b181721 perf_counter tools: Add new OPT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT option
There is no predefined macro to create an option that can have
a custom value or a default one if none is given.

This patch provides a new helper OPT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT() which
defines such kind of option.

For example, considering an option -c, we want to get the
default value in the following cases:

    perf command -c -d
    perf command -d -c

And the foo value when it's given:

    perf command -c foo -d
    perf command -d -c foo

That's also why PARSE_OPT_LASTARG_DEFAULT is extended here to
support default values whatever the position of the option, not
only in the end.

Should it now be renamed to PARSE_OPT_ARG_DEFAULT ?

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>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1246550301-8954-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02 20:47:14 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
14f4654cbd perf_counter tools: Create new chain_for_each_child() iterator
Iterating through children of a node in the callchain tree
shows something that may be quite confusing at a first glance.
The head is the children field of the parent and the list nodes
are in the brothers field of the children.

This is because the childs are linked to the parent as a list
of "brothers" using the "children" list of the parent as a
head:

  ---------------
 | Parent (head) |-------------------------------------
  ---------------                                      |
     |                                                 |
  children                                             |
     |                                                 |
  -----------               -----------                |
 | 1st child |---brother---| 2nd child |---brother-----
  -----------               -----------

This makes the following strange pattern often occuring:

 list_for_each_entry(child, &parent->children, brothers) {
        // do something with children
 }

Abstract it to chain_for_each_child() to factorize and simplify
this pattern.

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: <1246550301-8954-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02 20:47:14 +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
208b4b4a59 perf_counter tools: Add infrastructure to support loading of kernel module symbols
Add infrastructure for module path discovery and section load addresses.

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: <1246514830.13293.44.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02 08:42:20 +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
Frederic Weisbecker
a92bef0f21 perf stat: Handle pipe read failures in perf stat
Building builtin-stat.c reports the following errors:

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
builtin-stat.c: In function ‘run_perf_stat’:
builtin-stat.c:242: erreur: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
builtin-stat.c:255: erreur: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
make: *** [builtin-stat.o] Erreur 1

This patch handles the possible pipe read failures.

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: <1246474930-6088-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 22:37:24 +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
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
43cbcd8acb perf_counter tools: Share rbtree.with the kernel
The tools/perf/util/rbtree.c copy already drifted by three
csets:

 4b324126e0
 4c60117811
 16c047add3

So remove the copy and use the lib/rbtree.c directly, sharing
the source code while still generating a separate object file,
since tools/perf uses a far more agressive -O6 switch.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090701152837.GG15682@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 22:37:22 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
5a475ce469 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  sh: LCDC dcache flush for deferred io
  sh: Fix compiler error and include the definition of IS_ERR_VALUE
  sh: re-add LCDC fbdev support to the Migo-R defconfig
  sh: fix se7724 ceu names
  sh: ms7724se: Enable sh_eth in defconfig.
  arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7206/io.c: Remove unnecessary semicolons
  sh: ms7724se: Add sh_eth support
  nommu: provide follow_pfn().
  sh: Kill off unused DEBUG_BOOTMEM symbol.
  perf_counter tools: add cpu_relax()/rmb() definitions for sh.
  sh64: Hook up page fault events for software perf counters.
  sh: Hook up page fault events for software perf counters.
  sh: make set_perf_counter_pending() static inline.
  clocksource: sh_tmu: Make undefined TCOR behaviour less undefined.
2009-07-01 11:46:30 -07:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
73c24cb86c perf list: Add cache events
After:

$ ./perf list

List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):

  cpu-cycles OR cycles                     [Hardware event]
  instructions                             [Hardware event]
  cache-references                         [Hardware event]
  cache-misses                             [Hardware event]
  branch-instructions OR branches          [Hardware event]
  branch-misses                            [Hardware event]
  bus-cycles                               [Hardware event]

  cpu-clock                                [Software event]
  task-clock                               [Software event]
  page-faults OR faults                    [Software event]
  minor-faults                             [Software event]
  major-faults                             [Software event]
  context-switches OR cs                   [Software event]
  cpu-migrations OR migrations             [Software event]

  L1-d$-loads                              [Hardware cache event]
  L1-d$-load-misses                        [Hardware cache event]
  L1-d$-stores                             [Hardware cache event]
  L1-d$-store-misses                       [Hardware cache event]
  L1-d$-prefetches                         [Hardware cache event]
  L1-d$-prefetch-misses                    [Hardware cache event]
  L1-i$-loads                              [Hardware cache event]
  L1-i$-load-misses                        [Hardware cache event]
  L1-i$-prefetches                         [Hardware cache event]
  L1-i$-prefetch-misses                    [Hardware cache event]
  LLC-loads                                [Hardware cache event]
  LLC-load-misses                          [Hardware cache event]
  LLC-stores                               [Hardware cache event]
  LLC-store-misses                         [Hardware cache event]
  LLC-prefetches                           [Hardware cache event]
  LLC-prefetch-misses                      [Hardware cache event]
  dTLB-loads                               [Hardware cache event]
  dTLB-load-misses                         [Hardware cache event]
  dTLB-stores                              [Hardware cache event]
  dTLB-store-misses                        [Hardware cache event]
  dTLB-prefetches                          [Hardware cache event]
  dTLB-prefetch-misses                     [Hardware cache event]
  iTLB-loads                               [Hardware cache event]
  iTLB-load-misses                         [Hardware cache event]
  branch-loads                             [Hardware cache event]
  branch-load-misses                       [Hardware cache event]

  rNNN                                     [raw hardware event descriptor]

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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: <1246453578.3072.1.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 15:25:03 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
b9ebdcc0ce perf stat: Define MATCH_EVENT for easy attr checking
MATCH_EVENT is useful:

 1. for multiple attrs checking
 2. avoid repetition of PERF_TYPE_ and PERF_COUNT_ and save space
 3. avoids line breakage

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246440909.3403.5.camel@hpdv5.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 13:28:38 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f37a291c52 perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them
Enable -Wextra. This found a few real bugs plus a number
of signed/unsigned type mismatches/uncleanlinesses. It
also required a few annotations

All things considered it was still worth it so lets try with
this enabled for now.

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>
2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
88a69dfbc6 perf report: Fix HV bit mismerge
Fix:

 builtin-report.c: In function ‘hist_entry__add’:
 builtin-report.c:1015: error: case label not within a switch statement
 builtin-report.c:1017: error: break statement not within loop or switch

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>
2009-07-01 11:17:40 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
61c45981dd perf_counter tools: Rework event string parsing/syntax
This reworks the parser for event descriptors to make it more
consistent in what it accepts.  It is now structured as a
recursive descent parser for the following grammar:

events		::= event ( ("," | space) space* event )*
event		::= ( raw_event | numeric_event | symbolic_event |
		      generic_hw_event ) [ event_modifier ]
raw_event	::= "r" hex_number
numeric_event	::= number ":" number
number		::= decimal_number | "0x" hex_number | "0" octal_number
symbolic_event	::= string_from_event_symbols_array
generic_hw_event::= cache_type ( "-" ( cache_op | cache_result ) )*
event_modifier	::= ":" ( "u" | "k" | "h" )+

with the extra restriction that you can have at most one
cache_op and at most one cache_result.

We pass the current string pointer by reference (i.e. as a
const char **) to the various parsing functions so that they
can advance the pointer to indicate how much they consumed.
They return 0 if they didn't recognize the thing at the pointer
or 1 if they did (and advance the pointer past it).

This also fixes parse_aliases to take the longest matching
alias from the table, not the first one.  Otherwise "l1-data"
would match the "l1-d" alias and the "ata" would not be
consumed.

This allows event modifiers indicating what processor modes to
count in to be applied to any event, not just numeric events,
and adds a ":h" modifier to indicate counting in hypervisor
mode.  Specifying ":u" now sets both exclude_kernel and
exclude_hv, and so on.  Multiple modes can be specified, e.g.
":uk" will count in user or hypervisor mode (i.e. only
exclude_kernel will be set).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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: <19018.53826.843815.189847@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 10:23:17 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
deac911cbd perf_counter tools: Various fixes for callchains
The symbol resolving has of course revealed some bugs in the
callchain tree handling. This patch fixes some of them,
including:

- inherit the children from the parents while splitting a node
- fix list range moving
- fix indexes setting in callchains
- create a child on the current node if the path doesn't match in
  the existent children (was only done on the root)
- compare using symbols when possible so that we can match a function
  using any ip inside by referring to its start address.

The practical effects are:

- remove double callchains
- fix upside down or any random order of callchains
- fix wrong paths
- fix bad hits and percentage accounts

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: <1246419315-9968-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 09:58:52 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
4424961ad6 perf_counter tools: Resolve symbols in callchains
This patch resolves the names, when possible, of each ip
present in the callchains while using the -c option with perf
report.

Example:

5.40%  [k] __d_lookup
             5.37%
                perf_callchain
                perf_counter_overflow
                intel_pmu_handle_irq
                perf_counter_nmi_handler
                notifier_call_chain
                atomic_notifier_call_chain
                notify_die
                do_nmi
                nmi
                do_lookup
                __link_path_walk
                path_walk
                do_path_lookup
                user_path_at
                sys_faccessat
                sys_access
                system_call_fastpath
                0x7fb609846f77

             0.01%
                perf_callchain
                perf_counter_overflow
                intel_pmu_handle_irq
                perf_counter_nmi_handler
                notifier_call_chain
                atomic_notifier_call_chain
                notify_die
                do_nmi
                nmi
                do_lookup
                __link_path_walk
                path_walk
                do_path_lookup
                user_path_at
                sys_faccessat

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: <1246419315-9968-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 09:58:26 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
9198aa77b6 perf_counter tools: Fix storage size allocation of callchain list
Fix a confusion while giving the size of a callchain list
during its allocation. We are using the wrong structure size.

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: <1246419315-9968-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 09:58:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
087021ba41 Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/urgent
Merge reason: this branch was on a .30-ish base before, update
              it to an almost-.31-rc2 upstream base to pick up fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 09:56:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
55bcab4695 Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (47 commits)
  perf report: Add --symbols parameter
  perf report: Add --comms parameter
  perf report: Add --dsos parameter
  perf_counter tools: Adjust only prelinked symbol's addresses
  perf_counter: Provide a way to enable counters on exec
  perf_counter tools: Reduce perf stat measurement overhead/skew
  perf stat: Use percentages for scaling output
  perf_counter, x86: Update x86_pmu after WARN()
  perf stat: Micro-optimize the code: memcpy is only required if no event is selected and !null_run
  perf stat: Improve output
  perf stat: Fix multi-run stats
  perf stat: Add -n/--null option to run without counters
  perf_counter tools: Remove dead code
  perf_counter: Complete counter swap
  perf report: Print sorted callchains per histogram entries
  perf_counter tools: Prepare a small callchain framework
  perf record: Fix unhandled io return value
  perf_counter tools: Add alias for 'l1d' and 'l1i'
  perf-report: Add bare minimum PERF_EVENT_READ parsing
  perf-report: Add modes for inherited stats and no-samples
  ...
2009-06-30 19:02:59 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
fb9c818873 perf report: Add hypervisor dso
Add a dso for hypervisor samples. We don't get any symbol
information on the ppc64 hypervisor but this at least gives
us a high level summary of the time spent in there.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090630230141.182536873@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 01:25:20 +02:00
Anton Blanchard
d8db1b57d3 perf report: Fix reporting of hypervisor
PERF_EVENT_MISC_* is not a bitmask, so we have to mask and compare.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090630230141.088394681@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 01:25:20 +02:00
Anton Blanchard
3a3393ef75 perf top: Add ppc64 specific skip symbols and strip ppc64 . prefix
Filter out some ppc64 specific idle loop functions and remove
leading '.' on ppc64 text symbols.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090630230140.995643441@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 01:25:19 +02:00
Anton Blanchard
2ab52083ff perf top: Move skip symbols to an array
Move the list of symbols we skip into an array, making it
easier to add new ones.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090630230140.904782938@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 01:25:19 +02:00
Anton Blanchard
6717534ddc perf_counter tools: Remove zlib dependency
The zlib devel libraries may not be installed and since we aren't
using zlib we may as well remove it.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090630230140.802078956@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 01:25:18 +02:00
Anton Blanchard
1f208ea678 perf report: Fix -z option
Fix a copy and paste error, -z was setting the group option.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090630230140.714204656@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 01:25:18 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
7bec7a9134 perf report: Add --symbols parameter
So that we can filter by symbol name.

The 'pfunct' utility in the 'dwarves' package can be used to
create a file with the functions one wants.

Example:

[acme@doppio pahole]$ pfunct /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so.debug | grep dwarf > /tmp/dwarf.symbols
[acme@doppio pahole]$ wc -l /tmp/dwarf.symbols
93 /tmp/dwarf.symbols
[acme@doppio pahole]$ head -3 /tmp/dwarf.symbols
dwfl_addrdwarf
dwfl_module_getdwarf
dwfl_getdwarf
[acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol --comms pahole --dsos /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so --symbols file:///tmp/dwarf.symbols

    33.99%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] dwarf_tag
    29.07%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] dwarf_decl_file
    27.71%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] dwarf_getsrclines
     4.54%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  0x00000000007400
     3.93%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] dwarf_decl_line
     0.46%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] dwarf_getlocation
     0.18%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] __libdwarf_next_prime
     0.13%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] dwarf_diecu

[acme@doppio pahole]$

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246399282-20934-4-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 00:07:10 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
cc8b88b15a perf report: Add --comms parameter
So that we can filter by comm. Symbols in other comms won't be
accounted for.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246399282-20934-3-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 00:07:10 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
25903407da perf report: Add --dsos parameter
So that we can filter by dso. Symbols in other dsos won't be
accounted for.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246399282-20934-2-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 00:07:09 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
f5812a7a33 perf_counter tools: Adjust only prelinked symbol's addresses
I.e. we can't handle these two kinds of files in the same way:

1) prelinked system library:

[acme@doppio pahole]$ readelf -s /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so | egrep 'FUNC.+GLOBAL.+dwfl_report_elf'
   278: 00000030450105a0   261 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   12 dwfl_report_elf@@ELFUTILS_0.122

2) not prelinked library with debug information from a -debuginfo package:

[acme@doppio pahole]$ readelf -s /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so.debug | egrep 'FUNC.+GLOBAL.+dwfl_report_elf'
   629: 00000000000105a0   261 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   12 dwfl_report_elf
[acme@doppio pahole]$

Now the numbers I got for a pahole perf run are in line with
the numbers I get from oprofile.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090630144317.GB12663@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-30 17:09:30 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
57e7986ed1 perf_counter: Provide a way to enable counters on exec
This provides a way to mark a counter to be enabled on the next
exec. This is useful for measuring the total activity of a
program without including overhead from the process that
launches it.

This also changes the perf stat command to use this new
facility.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <19017.43927.838745.689203@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-30 12:00:16 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
051ae7f734 perf_counter tools: Reduce perf stat measurement overhead/skew
Vince Weaver reported a 'perf stat' measurement overhead in the
count of retired instructions, which can amount to a +6000
instructions inflated count in the reported count.

At present, perf stat creates its counters on the perf process.  Thus
the counters count the fork and various other activity in both the
parent and child, such as the resolver overhead for resolving PLT
entries for any libc functions that haven't been called before, such
as execvp.

This reduces the overhead by creating the counters on the child process
after the fork, using a couple of pipes to synchronize so that the
child process waits until the parent has created the counters before
doing the exec.  To eliminate the PLT resolution overhead on calling
execvp, this does a dummy execvp first which will always fail.

With this, the overhead of executing a program goes down from over
4800 instructions to about 90 instructions on powerpc (32-bit).
This was measured with a statically-linked program written in
assembler which only does the 3 instructions needed to call _exit(0).

Before:

$ perf stat -e 0:1:u ./three

 Performance counter stats for './three':

           4858  instructions

    0.001274523  seconds time elapsed

After:

$ perf stat -e 0:1:u ./three

 Performance counter stats for './three':

             92  instructions

    0.000468153  seconds time elapsed

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <19016.41425.814043.870352@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-29 22:38:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
210ad39fb7 perf stat: Use percentages for scaling output
Peter expressed a strong preference for percentage based
display of scaled values - so revert to that from the
recently introduced multiplication-factor unit.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-29 21:50:54 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
c3043569dc perf stat: Micro-optimize the code: memcpy is only required if no event is selected and !null_run
Set attrs and nr_counters if no event is selected and !null_run.

Setting of attrs should depend on number of counters,
so we need to memcpy only for sizeof(default_attrs)

Also set nr_counters as ARRAY_SIZE(default_attrs) in place of
hardcoded value.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246126749.32198.16.camel@hpdv5.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-28 15:22:47 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
6e750a8fc0 perf stat: Improve output
Increase size for event name to handle bigger names like
'L1-d$-prefetch-misses'

Changed scaled counters from percentage to a multiplicative
factor because the latter is more expressive.

Also aligned the scaling factor, otherwise sometimes it looks
like:

            384  iTLB-load-misses           (4.74x scaled)
         452029  branch-loads               (8.00x scaled)
           5892  branch-load-misses         (20.39x scaled)
         972315  iTLB-loads                 (3.24x scaled)

Before:
         150708  L1-d$-stores          (scaled from 23.57%)
         428804  L1-d$-prefetches      (scaled from 23.47%)
         314446  L1-d$-prefetch-misses  (scaled from 23.42%)
      252626137  L1-i$-loads           (scaled from 23.24%)
        5297550  dTLB-load-misses      (scaled from 23.96%)
      106992392  branch-loads          (scaled from 23.67%)
        5239561  branch-load-misses    (scaled from 23.43%)

After:
        1731713  L1-d$-loads               (  14.25x scaled)
          44241  L1-d$-prefetches          (   3.88x scaled)
          21076  L1-d$-prefetch-misses     (   3.40x scaled)
        5789421  L1-i$-loads               (   3.78x scaled)
          29645  dTLB-load-misses          (   2.95x scaled)
         461474  branch-loads              (   6.52x scaled)
           7493  branch-load-misses        (  26.57x scaled)

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246051927.2988.10.camel@hpdv5.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-27 18:39:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
566747e629 perf stat: Fix multi-run stats
In multi-run (-r/--repeat) printouts, print out the noise of
the wall-clock average as well.

Also, fix a bug in printing out scaled counters: if it was not
scaled then we should not update the average with -1.

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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-27 06:34:37 +02:00