Extend 'perf list --raw-dump' to 'perf list --raw-dump [hw|sw|cache
|tracepoint|pmu|event_glob]' in order to show the raw-dump of a certain
kind of events rather than all of the events.

Example:

Before this patch:

 $ perf list --raw-dump hw
 branch-instructions branch-misses bus-cycles cache-misses
 cache-references cpu-cycles instructions stalled-cycles-backend
 stalled-cycles-frontend
 alignment-faults context-switches cpu-clock cpu-migrations
 emulation-faults major-faults minor-faults page-faults task-clock
 ...
 ...
 writeback:writeback_thread_start writeback:writeback_thread_stop
 writeback:writeback_wait_iff_congested
 writeback:writeback_wake_background writeback:writeback_wake_thread

As shown above, all of the events are printed.

After this patch:

 $ perf list --raw-dump hw
 branch-instructions branch-misses bus-cycles cache-misses
 cache-references cpu-cycles instructions stalled-cycles-backend
 stalled-cycles-frontend

As shown above, only the hw events are printed.
Signed-off-by: NYunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425032491-20224-5-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Do not need print_events_type or __print_events_type for listing hw/sw
events, let print_symbol_events do its job instead. Moreover,
print_symbol_events can also handle event_glob and name_only.
Signed-off-by: NYunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425032491-20224-4-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

If the long_name of a 'struct option' is defined as NULL, --list-opts
will incorrectly print '--(null)' in its output. As a result, '--(null)'
will finally appear in the case of bash completion, e.g. 'perf record
--'.

Example:

Before this patch:

 $ perf record --list-opts

 --event --filter --pid --tid --realtime --no-buffering --raw-samples
 --all-cpus --cpu --count --output --no-inherit --freq --mmap-pages
 --group --(null) --call-graph --verbose --quiet --stat --data
 --timestamp --period --no-samples --no-buildid-cache --no-buildid
 --cgroup --delay --uid --branch-any --branch-filter --weight
 --transaction --per-thread --intr-regs

After this patch:

 $ perf record --list-opts

 --event --filter --pid --tid --realtime --no-buffering --raw-samples
 --all-cpus --cpu --count --output --no-inherit --freq --mmap-pages
 --group --call-graph --verbose --quiet --stat --data --timestamp
 --period --no-samples --no-buildid-cache --no-buildid --cgroup --delay
 --uid --branch-any --branch-filter --weight --transaction --per-thread
 --intr-regs
Signed-off-by: NYunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425032491-20224-7-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Distinguish the output of 'perf list --list-opts' or 'perf --list-cmds'
with the next command prompt, which also happens in other cases (e.g.
record, report ...).

Example:

Before this patch:

 $perf list --list-opts
 --raw-dump $          <-- the output and the next command prompt are at
                           the same line

After this patch:

 $perf list --list-opts
 --raw-dump
 $                     <-- the new line
Signed-off-by: NYunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425032491-20224-6-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

If somebody happens to name an event with the beginning of 'tracepoint'
(e.g. tracepoint_foo), then it will never be showed with perf list
event_glob, thus we parse the argument 'tracepoint' more carefully for
accuracy.

Example:

Before this patch:

 $ perf list tracepoint_foo:*

   jbd2:jbd2_start_commit                             [Tracepoint event]
   jbd2:jbd2_commit_locking                           [Tracepoint event]
   jbd2:jbd2_run_stats                                [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_rq_issue                               [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_bio_complete                           [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_bio_backmerge                          [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_getrq                                  [Tracepoint event]
   ...                                                ...

As shown above, all of the tracepoint events are printed. In fact, the
command's real intention is to print the events of tracepoint_foo.

After this patch:

 $ perf list tracepoint_foo:*

   tracepoint_foo:tp_foo_enter                        [Tracepoint event]
   tracepoint_foo:tp_foo_exit                         [Tracepoint event]

As shown above, only the events of tracepoint_foo are printed.
Signed-off-by: NYunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425032491-20224-3-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Sort the output according to ASCII character list (using strcmp), which
supports both number sequence and alphabet sequence.

Example:

Before this patch:

 $ 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]
   ...                                                ...

   jbd2:jbd2_start_commit                             [Tracepoint event]
   jbd2:jbd2_commit_locking                           [Tracepoint event]
   jbd2:jbd2_run_stats                                [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_rq_issue                               [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_bio_complete                           [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_bio_backmerge                          [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_getrq                                  [Tracepoint event]
   ...                                                ...

After this patch:

 $ perf list

 List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
   branch-instructions OR branches                    [Hardware event]
   branch-misses                                      [Hardware event]
   bus-cycles                                         [Hardware event]
   cache-misses                                       [Hardware event]
   cache-references                                   [Hardware event]
   cpu-cycles OR cycles                               [Hardware event]
   instructions                                       [Hardware event]
   ...                                                ...

   block:block_bio_backmerge                          [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_bio_complete                           [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_getrq                                  [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_rq_issue                               [Tracepoint event]
   jbd2:jbd2_commit_locking                           [Tracepoint event]
   jbd2:jbd2_run_stats                                [Tracepoint event]
   jbd2:jbd2_start_commit                             [Tracepoint event]
   ...                                                ...
Signed-off-by: NYunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425032491-20224-2-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
[ Don't forget closedir({sys,evt}_dir) when handling errors ]
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The recent new patch "perf tools: Add new 'perf data' command" (commit
2245bf14 in acme's git repo perf/core) has caused a building error when
compiling the source code of perf:

 cc1: warnings being treated as errors
 builtin-data.c:89: error: missing initializer
 builtin-data.c:89: error: (near initialization for ‘data_cmds[1].summary’)
 make[2]: *** [builtin-data.o] Error 1
 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
   LD       bench/perf-in.o
   LD       tests/perf-in.o
 make[1]: *** [perf-in.o] Error 2
 make: *** [all] Error 2

This patch fixes the building error above.
Signed-off-by: NYunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425038026-27604-1-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
[ .name == NULL ends the loop, use it instead of seting all fields to NULL ]
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The minus operator has higher precedence than ?: Add parentheses around
?: fix this.

Before this patch:

  $ echo 'p:myprobe do_sys_open' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
  $ perf probe -l -k ../vmlinux
    kprobes:myprobe      (on do_sys_open)

After this patch:

  $ echo 'p:myprobe do_sys_open' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
  $ perf probe -l -k ../vmlinux
    kprobes:myprobe      (on do_sys_open@linux.git/fs/open.c)
Signed-off-by: NHe Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425034373-14511-1-git-send-email-hekuang@huawei.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Currently, the perf diff only works with same binaries. That's because
it compares the symbol start address. It doesn't work if the perf.data
comes from different binaries. This patch matches the symbol names.

Actually, perf diff once intended to compare the symbol names.  The
commit as below can look for a pair by name.

604c5c92 (perf diff: Change the default sort order to "dso,symbol")
However, at that time, perf diff used a global list of dsos. That means
the binaries which has same name can only be loaded once. That's a
problem for comparing different binaries.

For example, we have an old binary and an updated binary. They very
likely have same name and most of the functions, so only dsos from old
binary will be loaded. When processing the data from updated binary,
perf still use the symbol information from old binary. That's wrong.

Then the commit as below used IP to replace symbol name.
9c443dfd ("perf diff: Fix support for all --sort combinations")
>From that time, perf diff starts to compare the symbol address.

The global dsos is discarded from a patch in 2010.
a1645ce1 ("perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance
from host")
However, at that time, perf diff already compared by address. So perf
diff cannot work for different binaries as well.

This patch actually rolls back the perf diff to original design. The
document is also changed, so everybody knows the original design is to
compare the symbol names.

Here are some examples:

The only difference between example_v1.c and example_v2.c is the
location of f2 and f3. There is no change in behavior, but the previous
perf diff display the wrong differential profile.

example_v1.c
noinline void f3(void)
{
        volatile int i;
        for (i = 0; i < 10000;) {

                if(i%2)
                        i++;
                else
                        i++;
        }
}

noinline void f2(void)
{
        volatile int a = 100, b, c;
        for (b = 0; b < 10000; b++)
                c = a * b;

}

noinline void f1(void)
{
                f2();
                f3();
}

int main()
{
        int i;
        for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
                f1();
}

example_v2.c
noinline void f2(void)
{
        volatile int a = 100, b, c;
        for (b = 0; b < 10000; b++)
                c = a * b;
}

noinline void f3(void)
{
        volatile int i;
        for (i = 0; i < 10000;) {
                if(i%2)
                        i++;
                else
                        i++;
        }
}

noinline void f1(void)
{
                f2();
                f3();
}

int main()
{
        int i;
        for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
                f1();
}

[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ gcc example_v1.c -o example
[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf record -o example_v1.data ./example
[ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.813 MB example_v1.data (~35522 samples) ]

[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ gcc example_v2.c -o example
[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf record -o example_v2.data ./example
[ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.824 MB example_v2.data (~36015 samples) ]

Old perf diff result:

[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf diff example_v1.data example_v2.data
 Event 'cycles'
 Baseline    Delta  Shared Object     Symbol
 ........  .......  ................  ...............................

                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] __perf_event_task_sched_out
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] apic_timer_interrupt
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] idle_cpu
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] intel_pstate_timer_func
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_read_msr_safe
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_read_tsc
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_write_msr_safe
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] ntp_tick_length
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] rb_erase
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] tick_sched_timer
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] unmap_single_vma
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] update_wall_time
     0.00%           example           [.] f1
    46.24%           example           [.] f2
    53.71%   -7.55%  example           [.] f3
            +53.81%  example           [.] f3
     0.02%           example           [.] main

New perf diff result:

[lk@localhost perf_diff]$ perf diff example_v1.data example_v2.data
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] __perf_event_task_sched_out
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] apic_timer_interrupt
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] idle_cpu
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] intel_pstate_timer_func
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_read_msr_safe
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_read_tsc
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_write_msr_safe
                     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] ntp_tick_length
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] rb_erase
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] tick_sched_timer
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] unmap_single_vma
     0.00%           [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] update_wall_time
     0.00%           example           [.] f1
    46.24%   -0.08%  example           [.] f2
    53.71%   +0.11%  example           [.] f3
     0.02%           example           [.] main
Signed-off-by: NKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1423460384-11645-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Add new buildid cache if the update target file is not cached.

This can happen when an old binary is replaced by new one after caching
the old one. In this case, user sees his operation just failed.

But it does not look straight, since user just pass the binary "path",
not "build-id".

  ----
  # ./perf buildid-cache --add ./perf
  (update ./perf to new binary)
  # ./perf buildid-cache --update ./perf
  ./perf wasn't in the cache
  #
  ----

This patch adds given new binary to cache if the new binary is
not cached. So we'll not see the above error.

  ----
  # ./perf buildid-cache --add ./perf
  (update ./perf to new binary)
  # ./perf buildid-cache --update ./perf
  #
  ----
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150226065440.23912.1494.stgit@localhost.localdomainSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

We could end up returning 0 (Ok) with a NULL raw_path. Fix it.
Acked-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-l0kcbcg5f4nnzqt01cv42vec@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Fix get_real_path to free allocated memory when comp_dir is used for
complementing path and getting an error.
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150226082504.28125.74506.stgit@localhost.localdomainSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Recent linux kernel provides a blacklist of the functions which can not
be probed. perf probe can now check this blacklist before setting new
events and indicate better error message for users.

Without this patch,
  ----
  # perf probe --add vmalloc_fault
  Added new event:
  Failed to write event: Invalid argument
    Error: Failed to add events.
  ----
With this patch
  ----
  # perf probe --add vmalloc_fault
  Added new event:
  Warning: Skipped probing on blacklisted function: vmalloc_fault
  ----
Reported-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150219143113.14434.5387.stgit@localhost.localdomainSigned-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

On Sparc64 perf-trace is failing in many spots due to extended load
instructions being used on misaligned accesses.

(gdb) run trace ls
Starting program: /tmp/perf/perf trace ls
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Detaching after fork from child process 169460.

<ls output removed>

Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
0x000000000014f4dc in tp_field__u64 (field=0x4cc700, sample=0x7feffffa098) at builtin-trace.c:61
warning: Source file is more recent than executable.
61      TP_UINT_FIELD(64);

(gdb) bt
 0  0x000000000014f4dc in tp_field__u64 (field=0x4cc700, sample=0x7feffffa098) at builtin-trace.c:61
 1  0x0000000000156ad4 in trace__sys_exit (trace=0x7feffffc268, evsel=0x4cc580, event=0xfffffc0104912000,
    sample=0x7feffffa098) at builtin-trace.c:1701
 2  0x0000000000158c14 in trace__run (trace=0x7feffffc268, argc=1, argv=0x7fefffff360) at builtin-trace.c:2160
 3  0x000000000015b78c in cmd_trace (argc=1, argv=0x7fefffff360, prefix=0x0) at builtin-trace.c:2609
 4  0x0000000000107d94 in run_builtin (p=0x4549c8, argc=2, argv=0x7fefffff360) at perf.c:341
 5  0x0000000000108140 in handle_internal_command (argc=2, argv=0x7fefffff360) at perf.c:400
 6  0x0000000000108308 in run_argv (argcp=0x7feffffef2c, argv=0x7feffffef20) at perf.c:444
 7  0x0000000000108728 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fefffff360) at perf.c:559

(gdb) p *sample
$1 = {ip = 4391276, pid = 169472, tid = 169472, time = 6303014583281250, addr = 0, id = 72082,
  stream_id = 18446744073709551615, period = 1, weight = 0, transaction = 0, cpu = 73, raw_size = 36,
  data_src = 84410401, flags = 0, insn_len = 0, raw_data = 0xfffffc010491203c, callchain = 0x0,
  branch_stack = 0x0, user_regs = {abi = 0, mask = 0, regs = 0x0, cache_regs = 0x7feffffa098, cache_mask = 0},
  intr_regs = {abi = 0, mask = 0, regs = 0x0, cache_regs = 0x7feffffa098, cache_mask = 0}, user_stack = {
    offset = 0, size = 0, data = 0x0}, read = {time_enabled = 0, time_running = 0, {group = {nr = 0,
        values = 0x0}, one = {value = 0, id = 0}}}}
(gdb) p *field
$2 = {offset = 16, {integer = 0x14f4a8 <tp_field__u64>, pointer = 0x14f4a8 <tp_field__u64>}}

sample->raw_data is guaranteed to not be 8-byte aligned because it is preceded
by the size as a u3. So accessing raw data with an extended load instruction causes
the SIGBUS. Resolve by using memcpy to a temporary variable of appropriate size.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Ahern <david.ahern@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424376022-140608-1-git-send-email-david.ahern@oracle.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

New user selectable features:

  - Support recording running/enabled time in 'perf record' (Andi Kleen)

  - New tool: 'perf data' for converting perf.data to other formats,
    initially for the CTF (Common Trace Format) from LTTng (Jiri Olsa, Sebastian Siewior)

User visible changes:

  - Only insert blank duration bracket when tracing syscalls in 'perf trace' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  - Filter out the trace pid when no threads are specified in 'perf trace' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  - Add 'perf trace' man page entry for --event (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  - Dump stack on segfaults in 'perf trace' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Infrastructure changes:

  - Introduce set_filter_pid and set_filter_pids methods in the evlist class (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  - Some perf_session untanglement patches, removing the need to pass a
    perf_session instance for things that are related to evlists, so that
    tools that don't deal with perf.data files like trace in live mode can
    make use of the ordered_events class (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Some of the tracers bring their own id or pid fields and we can end up
having two of them. This patch adds a "perf_" prefix to the 'generic'
fields so we avoid a clash of the member names.

The change is visible in the babeltrace output:

Before:
  $ babeltrace ./ctf-data/
  [03:19:13.962131936] (+0.000001935) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 8 }
  [03:19:13.962133732] (+0.000001796) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 114 }
  ...

Now:
  $ babeltrace ./ctf-data/
  [03:19:13.962131936] (+0.000001935) cycles: { }, { perf_ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, perf_tid = 20714, perf_pid = 20714, perf_period = 8 }
  [03:19:13.962133732] (+0.000001796) cycles: { }, { perf_ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, perf_tid = 20714, perf_pid = 20714, perf_period = 114 }
  ...
Signed-off-by: NSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@efficios.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424470628-5969-5-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Adding 'perf data convert' to convert perf data file into different
format. This patch adds support for CTF format conversion.

To convert perf.data into CTF run:
  $ perf data convert --to-ctf=./ctf-data/
  [ perf data convert: Converted 'perf.data' into CTF data './ctf-data/' ]
  [ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 11.268 MB (100230 samples) ]

The command will create CTF metadata out of perf.data file (or one
specified via -i option) and then convert all sample events into single
CTF stream.

Each sample_type bit is translated into separated CTF event field apart
from following exceptions:

  PERF_SAMPLE_RAW          - added in next patch
  PERF_SAMPLE_READ         - TODO
  PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN    - TODO
  PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK - TODO
  PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER    - TODO
  PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER   - TODO

  $ perf --debug=data-convert=2 data convert ...

The converted CTF data could be analyzed by CTF tools, like babletrace
or tracecompass [1].

  $ babeltrace ./ctf-data/
  [03:19:13.962125533] (+?.?????????) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1 }
  [03:19:13.962130001] (+0.000004468) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1 }
  [03:19:13.962131936] (+0.000001935) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 8 }
  [03:19:13.962133732] (+0.000001796) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 114 }
  [03:19:13.962135557] (+0.000001825) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 2087 }
  [03:19:13.962137627] (+0.000002070) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF81361938, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 37582 }
  [03:19:13.962161091] (+0.000023464) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8124218F, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 600246 }
  [03:19:13.962517569] (+0.000356478) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF811A75DB, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1325731 }
  [03:19:13.969518008] (+0.007000439) cycles: { }, { ip = 0x34080917B2, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1144298 }

The following members to the ctf-environment were decided to be added to
distinguish and specify perf CTF data:

  - domain

    It says "kernel" because it contains a kernel trace (not to be
    confused with a user space like lttng-ust does)

  - tracer_name

    It says perf. This can be used to distinguish between lttng and perf
    CTF based trace.

  - version

    The kernel version from stream. In addition to release, this is what
    it looks like on a Debian kernel:

      release = "3.14-1-amd64";
      version = "3.14.0";

[1] http://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.tracecompassSigned-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424470628-5969-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Adding new 'perf data' command to provide operations over data files.

The 'perf data convert' sub command is coming in following patch, but
there's possibility for other useful commands like 'perf data ls' (to
display perf data file in directory in ls style).
Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424470628-5969-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Adding feature check for babeltrace library [1], which will be used for
perf data file CTF [2] conversion in following patches.

The babeltrace library is now automatically detected as standard
feature. It's possible to specify LIBBABELTRACE_DIR make variable to
specify location of installed libbabeltrace, like:

  $ make LIBBABELTRACE_DIR=/opt/libbabeltrace/
    BUILD:   Doing 'make -j4' parallel build

  Auto-detecting system features:
  ...                         dwarf: [ on  ]
  ...                         glibc: [ on  ]
  ...                          gtk2: [ on  ]
  ...                      libaudit: [ on  ]
  ...                        libbfd: [ on  ]
  ...                        libelf: [ on  ]
  ...                       libnuma: [ on  ]
  ...                       libperl: [ on  ]
  ...                     libpython: [ on  ]
  ...                      libslang: [ on  ]
  ...                     libunwind: [ on  ]
  ...                 libbabeltrace: [ on  ]
  ...            libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on  ]
  ...                          zlib: [ on  ]
  ...     DWARF post unwind library: libunwind

NOTE The installation of the [1] to to used by above make:
     $ git clone git://git.efficios.com/babeltrace.git
     $ cd babeltrace
     $ vim README
     $ ./bootstrap
     $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/libbabeltrace
     $ make prefix=/opt/libbabeltrace
     $ sudo make install prefix=/opt/libbabeltrace

Please make sure that the /opt/libbabeltrace/lib directory is in your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

 $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/libbabeltrace/lib

[1] babeltrace - http://www.efficios.com/babeltrace
[2] Common Trace Format - http://www.efficios.com/ctfSigned-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424470628-5969-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ Added missing babeltrace build instructions ]
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Add an option to perf record to record running/enabled time for read
events, similar to what stat does.

This is useful to understand multiplexing problems.

Right now the report support is not great, but at least report -D
already supports it.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424819620-16043-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
[ Fixed the Documentation entry to match the OPT_BOOLEAN one ]
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fmto8ft6jrtwz09dxn5d4z8w@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

  [root@ssdandy ~]# perf trace --filter-pids 16348
     0.000 ( 0.000 ms): tuned/1027  ... [continued]: select()) = 0 Timeout
   793.770 ( 0.000 ms): lsmd/895  ... [continued]: select()) = 0 Timeout
   793.775 (793.724 ms): tuned/1027 select(tvp: 0x7f7655556e50) ...
  perf: Segmentation fault
  Obtained 15 stack frames.
  perf(dump_stack+0x2e) [0x4ed330]
  perf(sighandler_dump_stack+0x2e) [0x4ed40f]
  /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x35640) [0x7fa2d5b69640]
  perf() [0x4c2d35]
  perf(machine__findnew_thread+0x39) [0x4c2ed6]
  perf() [0x454a4d]
  perf() [0x455f87]
  perf() [0x456556]
  perf(cmd_trace+0xa7e) [0x4580af]
  perf() [0x4867bd]
  perf() [0x486a1c]
  perf() [0x486b68]
  perf(main+0x23b) [0x486ec9]
  /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7fa2d5b55af5]
  perf() [0x41bd91]
[  root@ssdandy ~]#

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v38cbxcnm2yf5qn9u4y4n9ab@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

To use in stdio based tools, like 'trace'.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-79kjmerlw6d88csyx1afzwvn@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

To figure out if ordered_events are being used when doing a flush
operation, it is enough to check if there were in fact some events
queued, i.e. look at oe->nr_events.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1c5r404vy766kt5nflv88uag@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

.. after extensive statistical analysis of my G+ polling, I've come to
the inescapable conclusion that internet polls are bad.

Big surprise.

But "Hurr durr I'ma sheep" trounced "I like online polls" by a 62-to-38%
margin, in a poll that people weren't even supposed to participate in.
Who can argue with solid numbers like that? 5,796 votes from people who
can't even follow the most basic directions?

In contrast, "v4.0" beat out "v3.20" by a slimmer margin of 56-to-44%,
but with a total of 29,110 votes right now.

Now, arguably, that vote spread is only about 3,200 votes, which is less
than the almost six thousand votes that the "please ignore" poll got, so
it could be considered noise.

But hey, I asked, so I'll honor the votes.

Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "Ext4 bug fixes.

  We also reserved code points for encryption and read-only images (for
  which the implementation is mostly just the reserved code point for a
  read-only feature :-)"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: fix indirect punch hole corruption
  ext4: ignore journal checksum on remount; don't fail
  ext4: remove duplicate remount check for JOURNAL_CHECKSUM change
  ext4: fix mmap data corruption in nodelalloc mode when blocksize < pagesize
  ext4: support read-only images
  ext4: change to use setup_timer() instead of init_timer()
  ext4: reserve codepoints used by the ext4 encryption feature
  jbd2: complain about descriptor block checksum errors

Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff from this cycle.  The big ones here are multilayer
  overlayfs from Miklos and beginning of sorting ->d_inode accesses out
  from David"

* 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (51 commits)
  autofs4 copy_dev_ioctl(): keep the value of ->size we'd used for allocation
  procfs: fix race between symlink removals and traversals
  debugfs: leave freeing a symlink body until inode eviction
  Documentation/filesystems/Locking: ->get_sb() is long gone
  trylock_super(): replacement for grab_super_passive()
  fanotify: Fix up scripted S_ISDIR/S_ISREG/S_ISLNK conversions
  Cachefiles: Fix up scripted S_ISDIR/S_ISREG/S_ISLNK conversions
  VFS: (Scripted) Convert S_ISLNK/DIR/REG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_*(dentry)
  SELinux: Use d_is_positive() rather than testing dentry->d_inode
  Smack: Use d_is_positive() rather than testing dentry->d_inode
  TOMOYO: Use d_is_dir() rather than d_inode and S_ISDIR()
  Apparmor: Use d_is_positive/negative() rather than testing dentry->d_inode
  Apparmor: mediated_filesystem() should use dentry->d_sb not inode->i_sb
  VFS: Split DCACHE_FILE_TYPE into regular and special types
  VFS: Add a fallthrough flag for marking virtual dentries
  VFS: Add a whiteout dentry type
  VFS: Introduce inode-getting helpers for layered/unioned fs environments
  Infiniband: Fix potential NULL d_inode dereference
  posix_acl: fix reference leaks in posix_acl_create
  autofs4: Wrong format for printing dentry
  ...

All it wants is session->evlist.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6w9663gka3jb1j1rfxxd5jcq@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Further untangling perf_session from plain event delivery routines.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cvz8e6pwyogs4w14582iis9w@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pxxm1liohog3d6i826x8sud8@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

For tools that don't deal with perf.data files, thus do not need to
use perf_session.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kglq67gvauq9tak02a4se00r@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Start to untangle session from delivering samples, as there are
tools that want to use ordered_events and don't use perf_session at all.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rn4pk3pjxd78sgzrkn19tktp@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Because we need to use ordered_events in some cases, so we will need to
first have them in a queue, order that queue, and then process the
event.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cmkw9zgoh0z4r218957ftp1a@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Forgot to do it when adding the feature.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mx152b6x9cgknhw91vsyjlnd@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

When tracing in X we get event loops due to the tracing activity, i.e.
updates to a gnome-terminal that generate syscalls for X.org, etc.

To get a more useful view of what is happening, syscall wise, system
wide, we need to filter those, like in:

 # ps ax|egrep '981|2296|1519' | grep -v egrep
   981 tty1 Ss+ 5:40 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -background none ...
  1519 ?    Sl  2:22 /usr/bin/gnome-shell
  2296 ?    Sl  4:16 /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server
 #

 # trace -e write --filter-pids 981,2296,1519
    0.385 ( 0.021 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 136) = 136
    0.922 ( 0.014 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 140) = 140
 5006.525 ( 0.029 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 136) = 136
 5007.235 ( 0.023 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 140) = 140
 5177.646 ( 0.018 ms): rtkit-daemon/782 write(fd: 5<anon_inode:[eventfd]>, buf: 0x7f7eea70be88, count: 8) = 8
 8314.497 ( 0.004 ms): gsd-locate-poi/2084 write(fd: 5<anon_inode:[eventfd]>, buf: 0x7fffe96af7b0, count: 8) = 8
 8314.518 ( 0.002 ms): gsd-locate-poi/2084 write(fd: 5<anon_inode:[eventfd]>, buf: 0x7fffe96af0e0, count: 8) = 8
 ^C#

When this option is used the tracer pid is also filtered.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-f5qmiyy7c0uxdm21ncatpeek@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

We need to filter multiple pids in trace, i.e. trace itself,
gnome-terminal, X.org, etc.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-frtpkg7qapqwf7asa35wf8am@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

To avoid tracing the tracer.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-shmwd1khzpaobr3i0j1ygapg@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

To filter out events for a certain pid, for instance, when tracing
system wide, so that the tracer itself doesn't creates an event loop.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-byoia9dzu4gmkdv87etnd9zf@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

When printing just events, i.e. '--no-sys --ev some:events' it makes no
sense to waste screen space.

Before:

 # trace --no-sys --ev probe:*
 84481.704 (         ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/etc/services")
 84481.892 (         ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/etc/services")
 84482.230 (         ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/etc/resolv.conf")
 84482.481 (         ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/etc/hosts")
 85097.725 (         ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/root"
 #

After:

 # trace --no-sys --ev probe:*
 0.000 probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/root")
 1.711 probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/etc/localtime")
 2.103 probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/etc/localtime")
^C#

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jhryxgnam8zecq0q0wsy6pyb@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>