1. 24 1月, 2011 1 次提交
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      perf tools: Move event__parse_sample to evsel.c · d0dd74e8
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      To avoid linking more stuff in the python binding I'm working on, future
      csets will make the sample type be taken from the evsel itself, but for
      that we need to first have one file per cpu and per sample_type, not a
      single perf.data file.
      
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      d0dd74e8
  2. 23 1月, 2011 1 次提交
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      perf callchain: Feed callchains into a cursor · 1b3a0e95
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      The callchains are fed with an array of a fixed size.
      As a result we iterate over each callchains three times:
      
      - 1st to resolve symbols
      - 2nd to filter out context boundaries
      - 3rd for the insertion into the tree
      
      This also involves some pairs of memory allocation/deallocation
      everytime we insert a callchain, for the filtered out array of
      addresses and for the array of symbols that comes along.
      
      Instead, feed the callchains through a linked list with persistent
      allocations. It brings several pros like:
      
      - Merge the 1st and 2nd iterations in one. That was possible before
      but in a way that would involve allocating an array slightly taller
      than necessary because we don't know in advance the number of context
      boundaries to filter out.
      
      - Much lesser allocations/deallocations. The linked list keeps
      persistent empty entries for the next usages and is extendable at
      will.
      
      - Makes it easier for multiple sources of callchains to feed a
      stacktrace together. This is deemed to pave the way for cfi based
      callchains wherein traditional frame pointer based kernel
      stacktraces will precede cfi based user ones, producing an overall
      callchain which size is hardly predictable. This requirement
      makes the static array obsolete and makes a linked list based
      iterator a much more flexible fit.
      
      Basic testing on a big perf file containing callchains (~ 176 MB)
      has shown a throughput gain of about 11% with perf report.
      
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <1294977121-5700-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      1b3a0e95
  3. 04 1月, 2011 1 次提交
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      perf util: Move do_read from session to util · 1e7972cc
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Not really something to be exported from session.c. Rename it to
      'readn' as others did in the past.
      
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      1e7972cc
  4. 22 12月, 2010 1 次提交
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      perf session: Fallback to unordered processing if no sample_id_all · 21ef97f0
      Ian Munsie 提交于
      If we are running the new perf on an old kernel without support for
      sample_id_all, we should fall back to the old unordered processing of
      events. If we didn't than we would *always* process events without
      timestamps out of order, whether or not we hit a reordering race. In
      other words, instead of there being a chance of not attributing samples
      correctly, we would guarantee that samples would not be attributed.
      
      While processing all events without timestamps before events with
      timestamps may seem like an intuitive solution, it falls down as
      PERF_RECORD_EXIT events would also be processed before any samples.
      Even with a workaround for that case, samples before/after an exec would
      not be attributed correctly.
      
      This patch allows commands to indicate whether they need to fall back to
      unordered processing, so that commands that do not care about timestamps
      on every event will not be affected. If we do fallback, this will print
      out a warning if report -D was invoked.
      
      This patch adds the test in perf_session__new so that we only need to
      test once per session. Commands that do not use an event_ops (such as
      record and top) can simply pass NULL in it's place.
      Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      LKML-Reference: <1291951882-sup-6069@au1.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIan Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      21ef97f0
  5. 05 12月, 2010 2 次提交
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      perf tools: Ask for ID PERF_SAMPLE_ info on all PERF_RECORD_ events · 9c90a61c
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      So that we can use -T == --timestamp, asking for PERF_SAMPLE_TIME:
      
        $ perf record -aT
        $ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_
        <SNIP>
         3   5951915425 0x47530 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff8138c1a2 period: 215979 cpu:3
         3   5952026879 0x47588 [0x90]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff810cb480 period: 215979 cpu:3
         3   5952059959 0x47618 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_FORK(6853:6853):(16811:16811)
         3   5952138878 0x47650 [0x78]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff811bac35 period: 431478 cpu:3
         3   5952375068 0x476c8 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: find:6853
         3   5952395923 0x476f8 [0x50]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x400000(0x25000) @ 0]: /usr/bin/find
         3   5952413756 0x47748 [0xa0]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 6853/6853: 0xffffffff810d080f period: 859332 cpu:3
         3   5952419837 0x477e8 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44600000(0x21d000) @ 0]: /lib64/ld-2.5.so
         3   5952437929 0x47840 [0x48]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x7fff7e1c9000(0x1000) @ 0x7fff7e1c9000]: [vdso]
         3   5952570127 0x47888 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f46200000(0x218000) @ 0]: /lib64/libselinux.so.1
         3   5952623637 0x478e0 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44a00000(0x356000) @ 0]: /lib64/libc-2.5.so
         3   5952675720 0x47938 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44e00000(0x204000) @ 0]: /lib64/libdl-2.5.so
         3   5952710080 0x47990 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f45a00000(0x246000) @ 0]: /lib64/libsepol.so.1
         3   5952847802 0x479e8 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 6853/6853: 0xffffffff813897f0 period: 1142536 cpu:3
        <SNIP>
      
      First column is the cpu and the second the timestamp.
      
      That way we can investigate problems in the event stream.
      
      If the new perf binary is run on an older kernel, it will disable this feature
      automatically.
      Tested-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Acked-by: NIan Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1291318772-30880-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      9c90a61c
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      perf session: Parse sample earlier · 640c03ce
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      At perf_session__process_event, so that we reduce the number of lines in eache
      tool sample processing routine that now receives a sample_data pointer already
      parsed.
      
      This will also be useful in the next patch, where we'll allow sample the
      identity fields in MMAP, FORK, EXIT, etc, when it will be possible to see (cpu,
      timestamp) just after before every event.
      
      Also validate callchains in perf_session__process_event, i.e. as early as
      possible, and keep a counter of the number of events discarded due to invalid
      callchains, warning the user about it if it happens.
      
      There is an assumption that was kept that all events have the same sample_type,
      that will be dealt with in the future, when this preexisting limitation will be
      removed.
      Tested-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Acked-by: NIan Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1291318772-30880-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      640c03ce
  6. 01 12月, 2010 3 次提交
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      perf session: Allocate chunks of sample objects · 5c891f38
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      The ordered sample code allocates singular reference objects struct
      sample_queue which have 48byte size on 64bit and 20 bytes on 32bit. That's
      silly. Allocate ~64k sized chunks and hand them out.
      
      Performance gain: ~ 15%
      
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20101130163820.398713983@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      5c891f38
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      perf session: Cache sample objects · 020bb75a
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      When the sample queue is flushed we free the sample reference objects. Though
      we need to malloc new objects when we process further. Stop the malloc/free
      orgy and cache the already allocated object for resuage. Only allocate when
      the cache is empty.
      
      Performance gain: ~ 10%
      
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20101130163820.338488630@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      020bb75a
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      perf session: Fix list sort algorithm · a1225dec
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      The homebrewn sort algorithm fails to sort in time order. One of the problem
      spots is that it fails to deal with equal timestamps correctly.
      
      My first gut reaction was to replace the fancy list with an rbtree, but the
      performance is 3 times worse.
      
      Rewrite it so it works.
      
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20101130163819.908482530@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      a1225dec
  7. 17 6月, 2010 1 次提交
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      perf session: Remove threads from tree on PERF_RECORD_EXIT · 720a3aeb
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Move them to a session->dead_threads list just like we do with maps that
      are replaced, because we may have hist_entries pointing to them.
      
      This fixes a bug when inserting maps for a new thread that reused the
      TID, mixing maps for two different threads, causing an endless loop.
      
      The code for insering maps should be made more robust but for .35 this
      is the minimalistic patch.
      Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      720a3aeb
  8. 20 5月, 2010 1 次提交
  9. 14 5月, 2010 1 次提交
  10. 11 5月, 2010 2 次提交
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      perf hist: Adopt filter by dso and by thread methods from the newt browser · b09e0190
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Those are really not specific to the newt code, can be used by other UI
      frontends.
      
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      b09e0190
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      perf hist: Introduce hists class and move lots of methods to it · 1c02c4d2
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      In cbbc79a5 we introduced support for multiple events by introducing a
      new "event_stat_id" struct and then made several perf_session methods
      receive a point to it instead of a pointer to perf_session, and kept the
      event_stats and hists rb_tree in perf_session.
      
      While working on the new newt based browser, I realised that it would be
      better to introduce a new class, "hists" (short for "histograms"),
      renaming the "event_stat_id" struct and the perf_session methods that
      were really "hists" methods, as they manipulate only struct hists
      members, not touching anything in the other perf_session members.
      
      Other optimizations, such as calculating the maximum lenght of a symbol
      name present in an hists instance will be possible as we add them,
      avoiding a re-traversal just for finding that information.
      
      The rationale for the name "hists" to replace "event_stat_id" is that we
      may have multiple sets of hists for the same event_stat id, as, for
      instance, the 'perf diff' tool has, so event stat id is not what
      characterizes what this struct and the functions that manipulate it do.
      
      Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      1c02c4d2
  11. 10 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      perf session: Embed the host machine data on perf_session · 1f626bc3
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      We have just one host on a given session, and that is the most common
      setup right now, so embed a ->host_machine struct machine instance
      directly in the perf_session class, check if we're looking for it before
      going to the rb_tree.
      
      This also fixes a problem found when we try to process old perf.data
      files where we didn't have MMAP events for the kernel and modules and
      thus don't create the kernel maps, do it in event__preprocess_sample if
      it wasn't already.
      Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      1f626bc3
  12. 09 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      perf: Provide a new deterministic events reordering algorithm · d6b17beb
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      The current events reordering algorithm is based on a heuristic that
      gets broken once we deal with a very fast flow of events.
      
      Indeed the time period based flushing is not suitable anymore
      in the following case, assuming we have a flush period of two
      seconds.
      
          CPU 0           |        CPU 1
                          |
        cnt1 timestamps   |      cnt1 timestamps
                          |
          0               |         0
          1               |         1
          2               |         2
          3               |         3
          [...]           |        [...]
          4 seconds later
      
      If we spend too much time to read the buffers (case of a lot of
      events to record in each buffers or when we have a lot of CPU buffers
      to read), in the next pass the CPU 0 buffer could contain a slice
      of several seconds of events. We'll read them all and notice we've
      reached the period to flush. In the above example we flush the first
      half of the CPU 0 buffer, then we read the CPU 1 buffer where we
      have events that were on the flush slice and then the reordering
      fails.
      
      It's simple to reproduce with:
      
      	perf lock record perf bench sched messaging
      
      To solve this, we use a new solution that doesn't rely on an
      heuristical time slice period anymore but on a deterministic basis
      based on how perf record does its job.
      
      perf record saves the buffers through passes. A pass is a tour
      on every buffers from every CPUs. This is made in order: for
      each CPU we read the buffers of every counters. So the more
      buffers we visit, the later will be the timstamps of their events.
      
      When perf record finishes a pass it records a
      PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo event.
      We record the max timestamp t found in the pass n. Assuming these
      timestamps are monotonic across cpus, we know that if a buffer
      still has events with timestamps below t, they will be all available
      and then read in the pass n + 1.
      Hence when we start to read the pass n + 2, we can safely flush every
      events with timestamps below t.
      
            ============ PASS n =================
               CPU 0         |   CPU 1
                             |
            cnt1 timestamps  |   cnt2 timestamps
                  1          |         2
                  2          |         3
                  -          |         4  <--- max recorded
      
            ============ PASS n + 1 ==============
               CPU 0         |   CPU 1
                             |
            cnt1 timestamps  |   cnt2 timestamps
                  3          |         5
                  4          |         6
                  5          |         7 <---- max recorded
      
              Flush every events below timestamp 4
      
            ============ PASS n + 2 ==============
               CPU 0         |   CPU 1
                             |
            cnt1 timestamps  |   cnt2 timestamps
                  6          |         8
                  7          |         9
                  -          |         10
      
              Flush every events below timestamp 7
              etc...
      
      It also works on perf.data versions that don't have
      PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo events. The difference is that
      the events will be only flushed in the end of the perf.data
      processing. It will then consume more memory and scale less with
      large perf.data files.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
      d6b17beb
  13. 03 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      perf: add perf-inject builtin · 454c407e
      Tom Zanussi 提交于
      Currently, perf 'live mode' writes build-ids at the end of the
      session, which isn't actually useful for processing live mode events.
      
      What would be better would be to have the build-ids sent before any of
      the samples that reference them, which can be done by processing the
      event stream and retrieving the build-ids on the first hit.  Doing
      that in perf-record itself, however, is off-limits.
      
      This patch introduces perf-inject, which does the same job while
      leaving perf-record untouched.  Normal mode perf still records the
      build-ids at the end of the session as it should, but for live mode,
      perf-inject can be injected in between the record and report steps
      e.g.:
      
      perf record -o - ./hackbench 10 | perf inject -v -b | perf report -v -i -
      
      perf-inject reads a perf-record event stream and repipes it to stdout.
      At any point the processing code can inject other events into the
      event stream - in this case build-ids (-b option) are read and
      injected as needed into the event stream.
      
      Build-ids are just the first user of perf-inject - potentially
      anything that needs userspace processing to augment the trace stream
      with additional information could make use of this facility.
      
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1272696080-16435-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      454c407e
  14. 28 4月, 2010 2 次提交
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      perf machines: Make the machines class adopt the dsos__fprintf methods · cbf69680
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Now those methods don't operate on a global list of dsos, but on lists
      of machines, so make this clear by renaming the functions.
      
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      cbf69680
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      perf tools: Rename "kernel_info" to "machine" · 23346f21
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      struct kernel_info and kerninfo__ are too vague, what they really
      describe are machines, virtual ones or hosts.
      
      There are more changes to introduce helpers to shorten function calls
      and to make more clear what is really being done, but I left that for
      subsequent patches.
      
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      23346f21
  15. 24 4月, 2010 1 次提交
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      perf: Generalize perf lock's sample event reordering to the session layer · c61e52ee
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      The sample events recorded by perf record are not time ordered
      because we have one buffer per cpu for each event (even demultiplexed
      per task/per cpu for task bound events). But when we read trace events
      we want them to be ordered by time because many state machines are
      involved.
      
      There are currently two ways perf tools deal with that:
      
      - use -M to multiplex every buffers (perf sched, perf kmem)
        But this creates a lot of contention in SMP machines on
        record time.
      
      - use a post-processing time reordering (perf timechart, perf lock)
        The reordering used by timechart is simple but doesn't scale well
        with huge flow of events, in terms of performance and memory use
        (unusable with perf lock for example).
        Perf lock has its own samples reordering that flushes its memory
        use in a regular basis and that uses a sorting based on the
        previous event queued (a new event to be queued is close to the
        previous one most of the time).
      
      This patch proposes to export perf lock's samples reordering facility
      to the session layer that reads the events. So if a tool wants to
      get ordered sample events, it needs to set its
      struct perf_event_ops::ordered_samples to true and that's it.
      
      This prepares tracing based perf tools to get rid of the need to
      use buffers multiplexing (-M) or to implement their own
      reordering.
      
      Also lower the flush period to 2 as it's sufficient already.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      c61e52ee
  16. 19 4月, 2010 1 次提交
  17. 14 4月, 2010 5 次提交
    • T
      perf: Convert perf header build_ids into build_id events · c7929e47
      Tom Zanussi 提交于
      Bypasses the build_id perf header code and replaces it with a
      synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the
      same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe.
      Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
      Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
      Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
      Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
      LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-9-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      c7929e47
    • T
      perf: Convert perf tracing data into a tracing_data event · 9215545e
      Tom Zanussi 提交于
      Bypasses the tracing_data perf header code and replaces it with
      a synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes
      the same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a
      pipe.
      
      The tracing data is pretty large, and this patch doesn't attempt
      to break it down into component events.  The tracing_data event
      itself doesn't actually contain the tracing data, rather it
      arranges for the event processing code to skip over it after
      it's read, using the skip return value added to the event
      processing loop in a previous patch.
      Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
      Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
      Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
      Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
      LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-8-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      9215545e
    • T
      perf: Convert perf event types into event type events · cd19a035
      Tom Zanussi 提交于
      Bypasses the event type perf header code and replaces it with a
      synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the
      same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe.
      Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
      Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
      Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
      Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
      LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-7-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cd19a035
    • T
      perf: Convert perf header attrs into attr events · 2c46dbb5
      Tom Zanussi 提交于
      Bypasses the attr perf header code and replaces it with a
      synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the
      same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe.
      
      Making the attrs into events allows them to be streamed over a
      pipe along with the rest of the header data (in later patches).
      It also paves the way to allowing events to be added and removed
      from perf sessions dynamically.
      Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
      Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
      Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
      Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
      LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-6-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      2c46dbb5
    • T
      perf: Add pipe-specific header read/write and event processing code · 8dc58101
      Tom Zanussi 提交于
      This patch makes several changes to allow the perf event stream
      to be sent and received over a pipe:
      
      - adds pipe-specific versions of the header read/write code
      
      - adds pipe-specific version of the event processing code
      
      - adds a range of event types to be used for header or other
        pseudo events, above the range used by the kernel
      
      - checks the return value of event handlers, which they can use
        to skip over large events during event processing rather than actually
        reading them into event objects.
      
      - unifies the multiple do_read() functions and updates its
        users.
      
      Note that none of these changes affect the existing perf data
      file format or processing - this code only comes into play if
      perf output is sent to stdout (or is read from stdin).
      Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
      Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
      Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
      Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
      LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8dc58101
  18. 03 4月, 2010 3 次提交
    • A
      perf newt: Pass the input_name to perf_session__browse_hists · 533c46c3
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      So that it can use it in the 'perf annotate' command line, otherwise
      it'll use the default and not the specified -i filename passed to 'perf
      report'.
      
      Cc: Frédéric 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: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      533c46c3
    • A
      perf kmem: Resolve kernel symbols again · e727ca73
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Due to the assumption in perf_session__new that the kernel maps would be
      created using the fake PERF_RECORD_MMAP event in a perf.data file 'perf
      kmem --stat caller', that doesn't have such event, ends up not being
      able to resolve the kernel addresses.
      
      Fix it by calling perf_session__create_kernel_maps() in __cmd_kmem().
      
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      e727ca73
    • A
      perf report: Add progress bars · 5f4d3f88
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      For when we are processing the events and inserting the entries in the
      browser.
      
      Experimentation here: naming "ui_something" we may be treading into
      creating a TUI/GUI set of routines that can then be implemented in terms
      of multiple backends.
      
      Also the time it takes for adding things to the "browser" takes, visually
      (I guess I should do some profiling here ;-) ), more time than for
      processing the events...
      
      That means we probably need to create a custom hist_entry browser, so
      that we reuse the structures we have in place instead of duplicating
      them in newt.
      
      But progress was made and at least we can see something while long files
      are being loaded, that must be one of UI 101 bullet points :-)
      
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      5f4d3f88
  19. 26 3月, 2010 1 次提交
  20. 12 3月, 2010 1 次提交
    • A
      perf report: Implement initial UI using newt · f9224c5c
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Newt has widespread availability and provides a rather simple
      API as can be seen by the size of this patch.
      
      The work needed to support it will benefit other frontends too.
      
      In this initial patch it just checks if the output is a tty, if
      not it falls back to the previous behaviour, also if
      newt-devel/libnewt-dev is not installed the previous behaviour
      is maintaned.
      
      Pressing enter on a symbol will annotate it, ESC in the
      annotation window will return to the report symbol list.
      
      More work will be done to remove the special casing in
      color_fprintf, stop using fmemopen/FILE in the printing of
      hist_entries, etc.
      
      Also the annotation doesn't need to be done via spawning "perf
      annotate" and then browsing its output, we can do better by
      calling directly the builtin-annotate.c functions, that would
      then be moved to tools/perf/util/annotate.c and shared with perf
      top, etc
      
      But lets go by baby steps, this patch already improves perf
      usability by allowing to quickly do annotations on symbols from
      the report screen and provides a first experimentation with
      libnewt/TUI integration of tools.
      
      Tested on RHEL5 and Fedora12 X86_64 and on Debian PARISC64 to
      browse a perf.data file collected on a Fedora12 x86_64 box.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric 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: <1268349164-5822-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      f9224c5c
  21. 10 3月, 2010 1 次提交
  22. 04 2月, 2010 2 次提交
    • A
      perf record: Stop intercepting events, use postprocessing to get build-ids · 6122e4e4
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      We want to stream events as fast as possible to perf.data, and
      also in the future we want to have splice working, when no
      interception will be possible.
      
      Using build_id__mark_dso_hit_ops to create the list of DSOs that
      back MMAPs we also optimize disk usage in the build-id cache by
      only caching DSOs that had hits.
      Suggested-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6122e4e4
    • A
      perf symbols: Remove perf_session usage in symbols layer · 9de89fe7
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      I noticed while writing the first test in 'perf regtest' that to
      just test the symbol handling routines one needs to create a
      perf session, that is a layer centered on a perf.data file,
      events, etc, so I untied these layers.
      
      This reduces the complexity for the users as the number of
      parameters to most of the symbols and session APIs now was
      reduced while not adding more state to all the map instances by
      only having data that is needed to split the kernel (kallsyms
      and ELF symtab sections) maps and do vmlinux relocation on the
      main kernel map.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric 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: <1265223128-11786-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      9de89fe7
  23. 16 1月, 2010 1 次提交
    • A
      perf tools: Cross platform perf.data analysis support · ba21594c
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      There are still some problems related to loading vmlinux files,
      but those are unrelated to the feature implemented in this
      patch, so will get fixed in the next patches, but here are some
      results:
      
      1. collect perf.data file on a Fedora 12 machine, x86_64, 64-bit
      userland
      
      2. transfer it to a Debian Testing machine, PARISC64, 32-bit
      userland
      
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf buildid-list | head -5
        74f9930ee94475b6b3238caf3725a50d59cb994b [kernel.kallsyms]
        55fdd56670453ea66c011158c4b9d30179c1d049 /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_MASQUERADE.ko
        41adff63c730890480980d5d8ba513f1c216a858 /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.ko
        90a33def1077bb8e97b8a78546dc96c2de62df46 /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat.ko
        984c7bea90ce1376d5c8e7ef43a781801286e62d /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/tun.ko
      
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf buildid-list | tail -5
        22492f3753c6a67de5c7ccbd6b863390c92c0723 /usr/lib64/libXt.so.6.0.0
        353802bb7e1b895ba43507cc678f951e778e4c6f /usr/lib64/libMagickCore.so.2.0.0
        d10c2897558595efe7be8b0584cf7e6398bc776c /usr/lib64/libfprint.so.0.0.0
        a83ecfb519a788774a84d5ddde633c9ba56c03ab /home/acme/bin/perf
        d3ca765a8ecf257d263801d7ad8c49c189082317 /usr/lib64/libdwarf.so.0.0
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$
      
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --sort comm
        The file [kernel.kallsyms] cannot be used, trying to use /proc/kallsyms...
      
        ^^^^ The problem related to vmlinux handling, it shouldn't be trying this
        ^^^^ rather alien /proc/kallsyms at all...
      
        /lib64/libpthread-2.10.2.so with build id 5c68f7afeb33309c78037e374b0deee84dd441f6 not found, continuing without symbols
        /lib64/libc-2.10.2.so with build id eb4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1 not found, continuing without symbols
        /home/acme/bin/perf with build id a83ecfb519a788774a84d5ddde633c9ba56c03ab not found, continuing without symbols
        /usr/sbin/openvpn with build id f2037a091ef36b591187a858d75e203690ea9409 not found, continuing without symbols
        Failed to open /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko, continuing without symbols
        Failed to open /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlcore.ko, continuing without symbols
      
        <SNIP more complaints about not finding the right build-ids,
              those will have to wait for 'perf archive' or plain
              copying what was collected by 'perf record' on the x86_64,
              source machine, see further below for an example of this >
      
        # Samples: 293085637
        #
        # Overhead          Command
        # ........  ...............
        #
            61.70%             find
            23.50%             perf
             5.86%          swapper
             3.12%             sshd
             2.39%             init
             0.87%             bash
             0.86%            sleep
             0.59%      dbus-daemon
             0.25%             hald
             0.24%   NetworkManager
             0.19%  hald-addon-rfki
             0.15%          openvpn
             0.07%             phy0
             0.07%         events/0
             0.05%          iwl3945
             0.05%         events/1
             0.03%      kondemand/0
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$
      
      Which matches what we get when running the same command for the
      same perf.data file on the F12, x86_64, source machine:
      
        [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report --sort comm
        # Samples: 293085637
        #
        # Overhead          Command
        # ........  ...............
        #
            61.70%             find
            23.50%             perf
             5.86%          swapper
             3.12%             sshd
             2.39%             init
             0.87%             bash
             0.86%            sleep
             0.59%      dbus-daemon
             0.25%             hald
             0.24%   NetworkManager
             0.19%  hald-addon-rfki
             0.15%          openvpn
             0.07%             phy0
             0.07%         events/0
             0.05%          iwl3945
             0.05%         events/1
             0.03%      kondemand/0
        [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
      
      The other modes work as well, modulo the problem with vmlinux:
      
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --sort comm,dso 2> /dev/null | head -15
        # Samples: 293085637
        #
        # Overhead          Command                      Shared Object
        # ........  ...............  .................................
        #
            35.11%             find                   ffffffff81002b5a
            18.25%             perf                   ffffffff8102235f
            16.17%             find  libc-2.10.2.so
             9.07%             find  find
             5.80%          swapper                   ffffffff8102235f
             3.95%             perf  libc-2.10.2.so
             2.33%             init                   ffffffff810091b9
             1.65%             sshd  libcrypto.so.0.9.8k
             1.35%             find  [e1000e]
             0.68%            sleep  libc-2.10.2.so
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$
      
      And the lack of the right buildids:
      
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol 2> /dev/null | head -15
        # Samples: 293085637
        #
        # Overhead          Command                      Shared Object  Symbol
        # ........  ...............  .................................  ......
        #
            35.11%             find                   ffffffff81002b5a  [k] 0xffffffff81002b5a
            18.25%             perf                   ffffffff8102235f  [k] 0xffffffff8102235f
            16.17%             find  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] 0x00000000045782
             9.07%             find  find                               [.] 0x0000000000fb0e
             5.80%          swapper                   ffffffff8102235f  [k] 0xffffffff8102235f
             3.95%             perf  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] 0x0000000007f398
             2.33%             init                   ffffffff810091b9  [k] 0xffffffff810091b9
             1.65%             sshd  libcrypto.so.0.9.8k                [.] 0x00000000105440
             1.35%             find  [e1000e]                           [k] 0x00000000010948
             0.68%            sleep  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] 0x0000000011ad5b
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$
      
      But if we:
      
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ ls ~/.debug
        ls: cannot access /home/acme/.debug: No such file or directory
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ mkdir -p ~/.debug/lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ scp doppio:.debug/lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/* ~/.debug/lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/
        acme@doppio's password:
        eb4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1	             100% 1783KB 714.7KB/s   00:02
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ mkdir -p ~/.debug/.build-id/eb
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ ln -s ../../lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/eb4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1 ~/.debug/.build-id/eb/4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --dsos libc-2.10.2.so 2> /dev/null
        # dso: libc-2.10.2.so
        # Samples: 64281170
        #
        # Overhead          Command  Symbol
        # ........  ...............  ......
        #
            14.98%             perf  [.] __GI_strcmp
            12.30%             find  [.] __GI_memmove
             9.25%             find  [.] _int_malloc
             7.60%             find  [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
             6.10%             find  [.] _IO_new_file_xsputn
             6.02%             find  [.] __GI_close
             3.08%             find  [.] _IO_file_overflow_internal
             3.08%             find  [.] malloc_consolidate
             3.08%             find  [.] _int_free
             3.08%             find  [.] __strchrnul
             3.08%             find  [.] __getdents64
             3.08%             find  [.] __write_nocancel
             3.08%            sleep  [.] __GI__dl_addr
             3.08%             sshd  [.] __libc_select
             3.08%             find  [.] _IO_new_file_write
             3.07%             find  [.] _IO_new_do_write
             3.06%             find  [.] __GI___errno_location
             3.05%             find  [.] __GI___libc_malloc
             3.04%             perf  [.] __GI_memcpy
             1.71%             find  [.] __fprintf_chk
             1.29%             bash  [.] __gconv_transform_utf8_internal
             0.79%      dbus-daemon  [.] __GI_strlen
        #
        # (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso)
        #
        acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$
      
      Which matches what we get on the source, F12, x86_64 machine:
      
        [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report --dsos libc-2.10.2.so
        # dso: libc-2.10.2.so
        # Samples: 64281170
        #
        # Overhead          Command  Symbol
        # ........  ...............  ......
        #
            14.98%             perf  [.] __GI_strcmp
            12.30%             find  [.] __GI_memmove
             9.25%             find  [.] _int_malloc
             7.60%             find  [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
             6.10%             find  [.] _IO_new_file_xsputn
             6.02%             find  [.] __GI_close
             3.08%             find  [.] _IO_file_overflow_internal
             3.08%             find  [.] malloc_consolidate
             3.08%             find  [.] _int_free
             3.08%             find  [.] __strchrnul
             3.08%             find  [.] __getdents64
             3.08%             find  [.] __write_nocancel
             3.08%            sleep  [.] __GI__dl_addr
             3.08%             sshd  [.] __libc_select
             3.08%             find  [.] _IO_new_file_write
             3.07%             find  [.] _IO_new_do_write
             3.06%             find  [.] __GI___errno_location
             3.05%             find  [.] __GI___libc_malloc
             3.04%             perf  [.] __GI_memcpy
             1.71%             find  [.] __fprintf_chk
             1.29%             bash  [.] __gconv_transform_utf8_internal
             0.79%      dbus-daemon  [.] __GI_strlen
        #
        # (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso)
        #
        [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
      
      So I think this is really, really nice in that it demonstrates
      the portability of perf.data files and the use of build-ids
      accross such aliens worlds :-)
      
      There are some things to fix tho, like the bitmap on the header,
      but things are looking good.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric 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: <1263478990-8200-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      ba21594c
  24. 13 1月, 2010 2 次提交
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      perf tools: Handle relocatable kernels · 56b03f3c
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      DSOs don't have this problem because the kernel emits a
      PERF_MMAP for each new executable mapping it performs on
      monitored threads.
      
      To fix the kernel case we simulate the same behaviour, by having
      'perf record' to synthesize a PERF_MMAP for the kernel, encoded
      like this:
      
      [root@doppio ~]# perf record -a -f sleep 1
      [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
      [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.344 MB perf.data (~15038 samples) ]
      [root@doppio ~]# perf report -D | head -10
      
      0xd0 [0x40]: event: 1
      .
      . ... raw event: size 64 bytes
      .  0000:  01 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ......@........
      .  0010:  00 00 00 81 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...............
      .  0020:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5b 6b 65 72 6e 65 6c 2e ........  [kernel
      .  0030:  6b 61 6c 6c 73 79 6d 73 2e 5f 74 65 78 74 5d 00  kallsyms._text]
      .  0xd0
      [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 0/0: [0xffffffff81000000((nil)) @ (nil)]: [kernel.kallsyms._text]
      
      I.e. we identify such event as having:
      
       .pid      = 0
       .filename = [kernel.kallsyms.REFNAME]
       .start    = REFNAME addr in /proc/kallsyms at 'perf record' time
      
      and use now a hardcoded value of '.text' for REFNAME.
      
      Then, later, in 'perf report', if there are any kernel hits and
      thus we need to resolve kernel symbols, we search for REFNAME
      and if its address changed, relocation happened and we thus must
      change the kernel mapping routines to one that uses .pgoff as
      the relocation to apply.
      
      This way we use the same mechanism used for the other DSOs and
      don't have to do a two pass in all the kernel symbols.
      Reported-by: NXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1262717431-1246-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      56b03f3c
    • A
      perf session: Keep pointers to the vmlinux maps · de176489
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      So that tools such as 'perf probe' don't have to lookup
      '[kernel.kallsyms]' but instead access them directly after
      perf_session__create_kernel_maps or
      map_groups__create_kernel_maps.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric 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: <1262629169-22797-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      de176489
  25. 28 12月, 2009 3 次提交