There are situations where there is enough information in the perf.data
to process the samples. Updating the buildid cache may add unecessary
overhead in terms of disk space and time (copying large elf images).

A persistent option to do this already exists via the perfconfig file,
simply do:

[buildid]
dir = /dev/null

This patch provides a way to suppress builid cache updates on a per-run
basis.  It addds a new option, -N, to perf record. Buildids are still
generated in the perf.data file.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4c19ef89.93ecd80a.40dc.fffff8e9@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Currently symbol resolution does not work for 64-bit programs on architectures
that use function descriptors such as ppc64.

The problem is that a symbol doesn't point to a text address, it points to a
data area that contains (amongst other things) a pointer to the text address.

We look for a section called ".opd" which is the function descriptor area. To
create the full symbol table, when we see a symbol in the function descriptor
section we load the first pointer and use that as the text address.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1276523793-15422-1-git-send-email-ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NEric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

A bug was introduced by commit c45c6ea2.

Perf record was scanning /proc/PID to create synthetic PERF_RECOR_MMAP
entries even though it was running in per-thread mode. There was a bogus
check to select what mmaps to synthesize. We only need all processes in
system-wide mode.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <4c192107.4f1ee30a.4316.fffff98e@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Moving the tests to a separate file, feature-tests.mak and using a try-cc
function similar to the try-run in Kbuild.

This also makes the output more quiet as we can stop using the INTERMEDIATE
target to remove the .perf.dev.null file needed for some gcc versions where
/dev/null can't be used as the output file name.

As the tests get shorter by uninlining the source code used to test for
features, we can more properly use identation.

The feature tests itself can be made more clear and reused, like when trying to
see what is needed to have bfd_demangle.

We also get a bit closer to reusing scripts/Kbuild.include, reducing the
distance from the kernel build system.

Tests performed:

[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
PERF_VERSION = 0.0.2.PERF
    GEN /tmp/perf/common-cmds.h
    * new build flags or prefix
    GEN perf-archive
    CC /tmp/perf/builtin-annotate.o
    CC /tmp/perf/bench/sched-messaging.o
    CC /tmp/perf/builtin-diff.o
<SNIP>
    CC /tmp/perf/scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.o
    CC /tmp/perf/perf.o
    CC /tmp/perf/builtin-help.o
    AR /tmp/perf/libperf.a
    LINK /tmp/perf/perf
[root@emilia perf]#

If we uninstall, for instance newt-devel we get:

[root@emilia perf]# rpm -e newt-devel
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
Makefile:564: newt not found, disables TUI support. Please install newt-devel or libnewt-dev
    * new build flags or prefix
    GEN perf-archive
    CC /tmp/perf/perf.o
    CC /tmp/perf/builtin-annotate.o
<SNIP>
    AR /tmp/perf/libperf.a
    LINK /tmp/perf/perf
[root@emilia perf]#

And then binutils-devel:

[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
Makefile:564: newt not found, disables TUI support. Please install newt-devel or libnewt-dev
Makefile:632: No bfd.h/libbfd found, install binutils-dev[el]/zlib-static to gain symbol demangling
    * new build flags or prefix
    GEN perf-archive
    CC /tmp/perf/perf.o
<SNIP>
    AR /tmp/perf/libperf.a
    LINK /tmp/perf/perf
[root@emilia perf]#

And then strictly required devel packages:

[root@emilia perf]# rpm -e elfutils-libelf-devel elfutils-devel
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 O=/tmp/perf
Makefile:509: No libdw.h found or old libdw.h found or elfutils is older than 0.138, disables dwarf support. Please install new elfutils-devel/libdw-dev
Makefile:542: *** No libelf.h/libelf found, please install libelf-dev/elfutils-libelf-devel.  Stop.
[root@emilia perf]#

After installing everything back on:

[root@emilia perf]# yum install elfutils-devel binutils-devel newt-devel
<SNIP>
Installed:
  binutils-devel.x86_64 0:2.20.51.0.2-5.11.el6
  elfutils-devel.x86_64 0:0.147-1.el6
  elfutils-libelf-devel.x86_64 0:0.147-1.el6
  newt-devel.x86_64 0:0.52.11-1.el6

Complete!
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9
PERF_VERSION = 0.0.2.PERF
    GEN common-cmds.h
    * new build flags or prefix
    GEN perf-archive
    CC builtin-annotate.o
<SNIP>
    AR libperf.a
    LINK perf
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9
[root@emilia perf]#

Thanks to Sam for pointing me to try-run.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.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>

Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core

Cleanup. Factor the common code in save_stack_address() and
save_stack_address_nosched().
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20100603193243.GA31534@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

If CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=n, print_context_stack() shouldn't neglect the
non-reliable addresses on stack, this is all we have if dump_trace(bp)
is called with the wrong or zero bp.

For example, /proc/pid/stack doesn't work if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=n.

This patch obviously has no effect if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y, otherwise
it reverts 1650743c "x86: don't save unreliable stack trace entries".

Also, remove the unnecessary type-cast.
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100603193239.GA31530@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

We have been resisting new ftrace plugins and removing existing
ones, and kmemtrace has been superseded by kmem trace events
and perf-kmem, so we remove it.
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: NEduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ remove kmemtrace from the makefile, handle slob too ]
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

The local64.h include dependency was not dependent on PERF_EVENT=y,
which meant that arch's without atomic64_t support ended up including
it and failed to build.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>

Since now all modification to event->count (and ->prev_count
and ->period_left) are local to a cpu, change then to local64_t so we
avoid the LOCK'ed ops.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Only child counters adding back their values into the parent counter
are responsible for cross-cpu updates to event->count.

So if we pull that out into a new child_count variable, we get an
event->count that is only modified locally.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Create a helper function for those sites that want to read the event count.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

On 64bit, local_t is of size long, and thus we make local64_t an alias.
On 32bit, we fall back to atomic64_t. (architecture can provide optimized
32-bit version)

(This new facility is to be used by perf events optimizations.)
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Currently there are perf_buffer_alloc() + perf_buffer_init() + some
separate bits, fold it all into a single perf_buffer_alloc() and only
leave the attachment to the event separate.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Rename to clarify code.

s/perf_mmap_data/perf_buffer/g and selective s/data/buffer/g
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

On Netburst PMU we need a second write to a performance counter
due to cpu erratum.

A simple flag test instead of alternative instructions was choosen
because wrmsrl is already a macro and if virtualization is turned
on will need an additional wrapper call which is more expencise.

nb: we should propably switch to jump-labels as only this facility
reach the mainline.
Signed-off-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100602212304.GC5264@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Clarify some of the transactional group scheduling API details
and change it so that a successfull ->commit_txn also closes
the transaction.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1274803086.5882.1752.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add the capacility to track data mmap()s. This can be used together
with PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR for data profiling.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
[Updated code for stable perf ABI]
Signed-off-by: NEric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1274193049-25997-1-git-send-email-ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

__DO_TRACE() already calls the callbacks under rcu_read_lock_sched(),
which is sufficient for our needs, avoid doing it again.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Inline perf_swevent_put_recursion_context into perf_tp_event(), this
shrinks the per trace template code footprint and saves a function
call.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The boot tracer is useless. It simply logs the initcalls
but in fact these initcalls are also logged through printk
while using the initcall_debug kernel parameter.

Nobody seem to be using it so far. Then just remove it.
Signed-off-by: NWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100526105753.GA5677@cr0.nay.redhat.com>
[ remove the hooks in main.c, and the headers ]
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

Drop this argument now that we always want to rewind only to the
state of the first caller.
It means frame pointers are not necessary anymore to reliably get
the source of an event. But this also means we need this helper
to be a macro now, as an inline function is not an option since
we need to know when to provide a default implentation.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h and arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h
declare headers of objects that deal with the same topic.
Actually most of the files that include stacktrace.h also include
dumpstack.h

Although dumpstack.h seems more reserved for internals of stack
traces, those are quite often needed to define specialized stack
trace operations. And perf event arch headers are going to need
access to such low level operations anyway. So don't continue to
bother with dumpstack.h as it's not anymore about isolated deep
internals.

v2: fix struct stack_frame definition conflict in sysprof
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>

Fixes to 'cpuid10_edx' to comply with Intel documentation.
According to the Intel Manual, Volume 2A, Table 3-12, the cpuid for
architecture performance monitoring returns, in EDX, two pieces of
information:

  1) Number of fixed-function counters (5 bits, not 4)
  2) Width of fixed-function counters (8 bits)
Signed-off-by: NLivio Soares <livio@eecg.toronto.edu>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core

Merge branch 'tip/perf/core-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core

Merge branch 'for-tip' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile into perf/urgent

Frederic reported that frequency driven swevents didn't work properly
and even caused a division-by-zero error.

It turns out there are two bugs, the division-by-zero comes from a
failure to deal with that in perf_calculate_period().

The other was more interesting and turned out to be a wrong comparison
in perf_adjust_period(). The comparison was between an s64 and u64 and
got implicitly converted to an unsigned comparison. The problem is
that period_left is typically < 0, so it ended up being always true.

Cure this by making the local period variables s64.
Reported-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

So that we don't require that the kernel be configured first, and as we
don't use KERNELRELEASE at all in the -src-pkg targets, we need o add a
new wildcard for targets ending in src-pkg:

On a make mrproper'ed kernel we get this without this patch:

[linux-2.6-tip]$ LANG= make perf-tarbz2-src-pkg
/bin/sh: include/config/kernel.release: No such file or directory
make: *** [include/config/kernel.release] Error 1
[acme@emilia linux-2.6-tip]$
Acked-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100604173552.GA875@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Fix potential initial_lfsr buffer overrun.
Writing past the end of the buffer could happen when index == ENTRIES
Signed-off-by: NDenis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

In a shared multi-core environment, users want to analyze why their
program was slow. In particular, if the code ran slower only on certain
CPUs due to interference from other programs or kernel threads, the user
should be able to notice that.

Sample usage:

perf record -f -a -- sleep 3
perf report --sort cpu,comm

Workload:

program is running on 16 CPUs
Experiencing interference from an antagonist only on 4 CPUs.

  Samples: 106218177676 cycles

  Overhead  CPU          Command
  ........  ...  ...............

     6.25%  2            program
     6.24%  6            program
     6.24%  11           program
     6.24%  5            program
     6.24%  9            program
     6.24%  10           program
     6.23%  15           program
     6.23%  7            program
     6.23%  3            program
     6.23%  14           program
     6.22%  1            program
     6.20%  13           program
     3.17%  12           program
     3.15%  8            program
     3.14%  0            program
     3.13%  4            program
     3.11%  4         antagonist
     3.11%  0         antagonist
     3.10%  8         antagonist
     3.07%  12        antagonist

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100505181612.GA5091@sharma-home.net>
Signed-off-by: NArun Sharma <aruns@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Simplifying the tools that were using both in sequence and allowing
upcoming simplifications, such as Arun's patch to sort by cpus.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric 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>

Perf report is demangling symbols but not annotate.

The former uses internal demangling via libbdf or libiberty. The latter
executes objdump which by default does not demangle symbols.

This patch adds the -C option to the objdump cmdline to enable symbol
demangling.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4c07b323.2126e30a.6245.0e1e@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

This patch adds the ability to specify an alternate directory to store the
buildid cache (buildids, copy of binaries). By default, it is hardcoded to
$HOME/.debug. This directory contains immutable data. The layout of the
directory is such that no conflicts in filenames are possible. A modification
in a file, yields a different buildid and thus a different location in the
subdir hierarchy.

You may want to put the buildid cache elsewhere because of disk space
limitation or simply to share the cache between users. It is also useful for
remote collect vs. local analysis of profiles.

This patch adds a new config option to the perfconfig file.  Under the tag
'buildid', there is a dir option. For instance, if you have:

$ cat /etc/perfconfig
[buildid]
dir = /var/cache/perf-buildid

All buildids and binaries are be saved in the directory specified. The perf
record, buildid-list, buildid-cache, report, annotate, and archive commands
will it to pull information out.

The option can be set in the system-wide perfconfig file or in the
$HOME/.perfconfig file.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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: <4c055fb7.df0ce30a.5f0d.ffffae52@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Useful for when people want to try some version of the perf tools and don't
wants to download the kernel tarball.

Here is a session using this new target:

  [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# make help | grep -i perf
    perf-tar-src-pkg    - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar source tarball
    perf-targz-src-pkg  - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.gz source tarball
    perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2 source tarball
  [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# make perf-tarbz2-src-pkg
    TAR
  [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 295731 May 31 11:18 perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
  [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# tar xf perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
  [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# cd perf-2.6.35-rc1
  [root@emilia perf-2.6.35-rc1]# ls
  arch  HEAD  include  lib  tools
  [root@emilia perf-2.6.35-rc1]# cd tools/perf
  [root@emilia perf]# make -j9 2>&1 | tail
      CC arch/x86/util/dwarf-regs.o
      CC util/probe-finder.o
      CC util/newt.o
      CC util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.o
      CC scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.o
      CC perf.o
      CC builtin-help.o
      AR libperf.a
      LINK perf
  rm .perf.dev.null
  [root@emilia perf]# ./perf record -a sleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.262 MB perf.data (~11457 samples) ]
  [root@emilia perf]# ./perf report | head -12
  # Events: 6K cycles
  #
  # Overhead          Command       Shared Object  Symbol
  # ........  ...............  ..................  ......
  #
       4.73%             perf  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] format_decode
       4.49%             perf  libc-2.12.so        [.] _IO_file_underflow_internal
       4.38%             init  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] mwait_idle
       3.29%             perf  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] vsnprintf
       2.38%             init  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] sched_clock_local
       2.35%             init  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] apic_timer_interrupt
       1.86%     sirq-timer/5  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] find_busiest_group
  [root@emilia perf]#
Acked-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100528185357.GA28009@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

This patch adds a -C option to stat, record, top to designate a list of CPUs to
monitor. CPUs can be specified as a comma-separated list or ranges, no space
allowed.

Examples:
$ perf record -a -C0-1,4-7 sleep 1
$ perf top -C0-4
$ perf stat -a -C1,2,3,4 sleep 1

With perf record in per-thread mode with inherit mode on, samples are collected
only when the thread runs on the designated CPUs.

The -C option does not turn on system-wide mode automatically.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <4bff9496.d345d80a.41fe.7b00@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

It is useful to know on which CPU a sample was captured on.
The information is captured with perf record -R but it was
not printed out by perf report -D. This patch adds this.

When -R is not used, cpu is set to -1to indicate that
the CPU is unknown (it is not captured).

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4bff964c.e88cd80a.3106.7d31@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/urgent

We need to set the long name to the name specified via, for instance,
'perf annotate --vmlinux /path/to/vmlinux', if not it will remain as
'[kernel.kallsyms]' and that will make annotate fail when passing this
as the vmlinux name in the call to objdump.

The way this is setup grew unwieldly and dso__load_vmlinux is the
function that should allocate space for the long name, with callers not
assuming that filenames should be allocated somehow by then (strdup,
dso__build_id_filename, etc).

For now this is the minimalistic patch, a proper fix for .36 will be
made.
Reported-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Tested-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <20100604003900.GD10469@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable functions were to address a
recursive race caused by the function tracer. The function tracer
traces all functions which makes it easily susceptible to recursion.
One area was preempt_enable(). This would call the scheduler and
the schedulre would call the function tracer and loop.
(So was it thought).

The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable was made to protect against recursion
inside the scheduler by storing the NEED_RESCHED flag. If it was
set before the ftrace_preempt_disable() it would not call schedule
on ftrace_preempt_enable(), thinking that if it was set before then
it would have already scheduled unless it was already in the scheduler.

This worked fine except in the case of SMP, where another task would set
the NEED_RESCHED flag for a task on another CPU, and then kick off an
IPI to trigger it. This could cause the NEED_RESCHED to be saved at
ftrace_preempt_disable() but the IPI to arrive in the the preempt
disabled section. The ftrace_preempt_enable() would not call the scheduler
because the flag was already set before entring the section.

This bug would cause a missed preemption check and cause lower latencies.

Investigating further, I found that the recusion caused by the function
tracer was not due to schedule(), but due to preempt_schedule(). Now
that preempt_schedule is completely annotated with notrace, the recusion
no longer is an issue.
Reported-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>