Before this patch this message would very briefly appear on the
screen and then the screen would get updates only on the top,
for number of interrupts received, etc, but no annotation would
be performed:

 [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s n_tty_write > /tmp/bla
 objdump: '[kernel.kallsyms]': No such file

Now this is what the user gets:

 [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s n_tty_write
 Can't annotate n_tty_write: No vmlinux file was found in the
 path: [0] vmlinux
 [1] /boot/vmlinux
 [2] /boot/vmlinux-2.6.33-rc5
 [3] /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc5/build/vmlinux
 [4] /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.33-rc5/vmlinux
 [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#

This bug was introduced when we added automatic search for
vmlinux, before that time the user had to specify a vmlinux
file.
Reported-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1268664418-28328-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

When forking its target, perf record can capture data from
before the target application is started.  Perf stat uses the
enable_on_exec flag in the event attributes to keep from
displaying events from before the target program starts, this
patch adds the same functionality to perf record when it is will
fork the target process.
Signed-off-by: NEric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1268664418-28328-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The use_browser needs to be in a file that is always built and
also we need a browser__show_help stub in that case.
Reported-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
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: <1268438710-32697-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[root@doppio ~]# perf report -i newt.data | head -10
  # Samples: 11999679868
  #
  # Overhead  Command                  Shared Object  Symbol
  # ........  .......  .............................  ......
  #
      63.61%     perf  libslang.so.2.1.4              [.] SLsmg_write_chars
       6.30%     perf  perf                           [.] symbols__find
       2.19%     perf  libnewt.so.0.52.10             [.] newtListboxAppendEntry
       2.08%     perf  libslang.so.2.1.4              [.] SLsmg_write_chars@plt
       1.99%     perf  libc-2.10.2.so                 [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
  [root@doppio ~]#

Not good, the newt form for report works, but slang has to eat
the cost of the additional callgraph lines everytime it prints a
line, and the callgraph doesn't appear on the screen, so move
the callgraph printing to a separate function and don't use it
in newt.c.

Newt tree widgets are being investigated to properly support
callgraphs, but till that gets merged, lets remove this huge
overhead and show at least the symbol overheads for a callgraph
rich perf.data with good performance.
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: <1268408808-13595-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

For consistency, use the newt API more fully.
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: <1268408808-13595-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

These are keys people expect when pressed to exit the current
widget, so have associate all of them to this semantic.
Suggested-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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: <1268401692-9361-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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>

We need those to properly size the browser widht in the newt
TUI.
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: <1268349164-5822-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Just like we do for pr_debug, so that we can have a single point
where to redirect to the currently used output system, be it
stdio or newt.
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: <1268349164-5822-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Will be used by the newt code too.
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: <1268349164-5822-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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: <1268349164-5822-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$ perf record -a -f
   Fatal: Permission error - are you root?
 	 Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.

 [acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$
Suggested-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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: <1268333592-30872-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fixing this symptom:

 [acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$ perf record -a -f
   Fatal: Permission error - are you root?

 Bus error
 [acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$

I.e. if for some reason no data is collected, in this case a non
root user trying to do systemwide profiling, no data will be
collected, and then we end up trying to mmap a zero sized file
and access the file header, b00m.
Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1268333592-30872-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Without this change, the install path is relative to
prefix/DESTDIR where prefix is automatically set to $HOME.

This can produce unexpected results. For example:

  make -C tools/perf DESTDIR=/home/jkacur/tmp install-man

creates the directory:		/home/jkacur/home/jkacur/tmp/share/...
instead of the expected:	/home/jkacur/tmp/share/...
Signed-off-by: NJohn Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1268312220-12880-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

At present, the perf subcommands that do system-wide monitoring
(perf stat, perf record and perf top) don't work properly unless
the online cpus are numbered 0, 1, ..., N-1.  These tools ask
for the number of online cpus with sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
and then try to create events for cpus 0, 1, ..., N-1.

This creates problems for systems where the online cpus are
numbered sparsely.  For example, a POWER6 system in
single-threaded mode (i.e. only running 1 hardware thread per
core) will have only even-numbered cpus online.

This fixes the problem by reading the /sys/devices/system/cpu/online
file to find out which cpus are online.  The code that does that is in
tools/perf/util/cpumap.[ch], and consists of a read_cpu_map()
function that sets up a cpumap[] array and returns the number of
online cpus.  If /sys/devices/system/cpu/online can't be read or
can't be parsed successfully, it falls back to using sysconf to
ask how many cpus are online and sets up an identity map in cpumap[].

The perf record, perf stat and perf top code then calls
read_cpu_map() in the system-wide monitoring case (instead of
sysconf) and uses cpumap[] to get the cpu numbers to pass to
perf_event_open.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100310093609.GA3959@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

If -vv is used just the map table will be printed, -vvv will
print the symbol table too, with it we can see that we have a
bug where some samples are not being resolved to a map when we
get them in the perf.data stream, but after we have it all
processed, we can find the right map, some reordering probably
is happening.

Upcoming patches will provide ways to ask for most PERF_SAMPLE_
conditional samples to be taken for !PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE events
too, then we'll be able to ask for PERF_SAMPLE_TIME and
PERF_SAMPLE_CPU to help diagnose this.
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: <1268161097-17761-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Perf report does not handle multiple events being reported, even
though perf record stores them properly on disk.  This patch
addresses that issue by adding the logic to perf report to use
the event stream id that is saved by record and the new data
structures to seperate the event streams and report them
individually.
Signed-off-by: NEric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1267804269-22660-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Now that report can store historgrams for multiple events we
need to be able to do the post processing work for each
histogram. This patch changes the post processing functions so
that they can be called individually for each event's histogram.
Signed-off-by: NEric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
[ Guarantee bisectabilty by fixing up builtin-report.c ]
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1267804269-22660-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch adds the structures necessary to count each event
type independently in perf report.
Signed-off-by: NEric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1267804269-22660-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

In order to minimize the impact of storing multiple events in a
report this function will now take the root of the histogram
tree so that the logic for selecting the proper tree can be
inserted before the call.
Signed-off-by: NEric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1267804269-22660-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Currently perf record does not write the ID or the to disk for
events. This doesn't allow report to tell if an event stream
contains one or more types of events.  This patch adds this
entry to the list of data that record will write to disk if more
than one event was requested.
Signed-off-by: NEric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1267804269-22660-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
 util/probe-finder.c: In function 'find_line_range':
 util/probe-finder.c:172: warning: 'src' may be used
 uninitialized in this function make: *** [util/probe-finder.o]
 Error 1
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NMasami 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: <1267804269-22660-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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: <1267800842-22324-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Use the PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT information to measure the success rate of
the PEBS fix-up.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.694233760@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Minimal userspace interface to the new 'precise' events flag.

Can be used like "perf top -e r00c0p" which will use PEBS to sample
retired instructions.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.468665803@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

It's useful for paging through raw traces, but just gets in the
way when scripting.
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1267599873-8193-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf_header__read() is already done in perf_session__open(), so
remove it from the script gen case.
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1267599873-8193-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The Thumb-2 instruction set does not provide an encoding
for sub pc, r0, #95 as present in the rmb() definition used
by perf. This results in compilation failure when using a
compiler targetting an instruction set other than ARM.

This patch redefines rmb() for ARM by casting the address
of the kuser helper to a function pointer, therefore getting
the compiler to take care of making the call.

Patch taken against tip/master.
Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267616878-2154-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Move @src right after FUNC in syntax according to syntax change
on command line help.
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100304033843.3819.10087.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

To avoid these error:

   [root@doppio ~]# perf archive
   tar: .build-id/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000: Cannot stat:
   No such file or directory
   tar: .build-id/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000: Cannot stat:
   No such file or directory
   tar: .build-id/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000: Cannot stat:
   No such file or directory
   tar: .build-id/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000: Cannot stat:
   No such file or directory
   tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
   [root@doppio ~]#

More work is needed to support archiving symtabs for binaries
without a build-id, perhaps creating a perf.data UUID + adding
build-ids for the binaries copied into the cache and then have
this perf.data session UUID be a directory with symlinks to the
by now calculated build-id of the files inside it.

Or just do an extra pass and insert the calculated build-ids in
the perf.data header.
Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We need to deal with time ordered events to build a correct
state machine of lock events. This is why we multiplex the lock
events buffers. But the ordering is done from the kernel, on
the tracing fast path, leading to high contention between cpus.

Without multiplexing, the events appears in a weak order.
If we have four events, each split per cpu, perf record will
read the events buffers in the following order:

[ CPU0 ev0, CPU0 ev1, CPU0 ev3, CPU0 ev4, CPU1 ev0, CPU1 ev0....]

To handle a post processing reordering, we could just read and sort
the whole in memory, but it just doesn't scale with high amounts
of events: lock events can fill huge amounts in few times.

Basically we need to sort in memory and find a "grace period"
point when we know that a given slice of previously sorted events
can be committed for post-processing, so that we can unload the
memory usage step by step and keep a scalable sorting list.

There is no strong rules about how to define such "grace period".
What does this patch is:

We define a FLUSH_PERIOD value that defines a grace period in
seconds.
We want to have a slice of events covering 2 * FLUSH_PERIOD in our
sorted list.
If FLUSH_PERIOD is big enough, it ensures every events that occured
in the first half of the timeslice have all been buffered and there
are none remaining and there won't be further to put inside this
first timeslice. Then once we reach the 2 * FLUSH_PERIOD
timeslice, we flush the first half to be gentle with the memory
(the second half can still get new events in the middle, so wait
another period to flush it)

FLUSH_PERIOD is defined to 5 seconds. Say the first event started on
time t0. We can safely assume that at the time we are processing
events of t0 + 10 seconds, ther won't be anymore events to read
from perf.data that occured between t0 and t0 + 5 seconds. Hence
we can safely flush the first half.

To point out funky bugs, we have a guardian that checks a new event
timestamp is not below the last event's timestamp flushed and that
displays a warning in this case.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

I've forgot to add 'perf lock' line to command-list.txt,
so users of perf could not find perf lock when they type 'perf'.

Fixing command-list.txt requires document
(tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt).
But perf lock is too much "under construction" to write a
stable document, so this is something like pseudo document for now.

And I wrote description of perf lock at help section of
CONFIG_LOCK_STAT, this will navigate users of lock trace events.
Signed-off-by: NHitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
LKML-Reference: <1265267295-8388-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

Even though we don't register the counters until the child is right about
to exec(), we're still going to get at least a few events while the
fork()'d child is still executing 'perf' and in particular we're going to
get the MMAP events.

We can't distinguish the ones in the newly executed process because the
PID will be the same.

One way to solve this would be to have a PERF_RECORD_EXEC event, and when
this is seen 'perf' can flush it's map cache.  We can't use
PERF_RECORD_COMM since that's generated by other things, not just exec().

Actually, thinking about it some more, using PERF_RECORD_COMM might be a
good enough approximation.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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: <1267196914-16238-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Without this patch we get this for need_resched:

[root@mica ~]# perf annotate need_resched

------------------------------------------------
 Percent |      Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux
------------------------------------------------
         :
         :
         :      Disassembly of section .text:
         :
         :      ffffffff810095ed <need_resched>:
         :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
         :      }
         :
         :      static inline int need_resched(void)
         :      {
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095ed:       55                      push   %rbp
         :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095ee:       be 03 00 00 00          mov    $0x3,%esi
         :
         :      static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
         :      {
         :              struct thread_info *ti;
         :              ti = (void *)(percpu_read_stable(kernel_stack) +
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095f3:       65 48 8b 3c 25 48 b5    mov    %gs:0xb548,%rdi
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095fa:       00 00
         :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
         :      }
         :
         :      static inline int need_resched(void)
         :      {
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095fc:       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
         :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095ff:       48 81 ef d8 1f 00 00    sub    $0x1fd8,%rdi
    0.00 :      ffffffff81009606:       e8 9d ff ff ff          callq  ffffffff810095a8 <test_ti_thread_flag>
         :      }
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960b:       c9                      leaveq
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960c:       85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960e:       0f 95 c0                setne  %al
    0.00 :      ffffffff81009611:       0f b6 c0                movzbl %al,%eax
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_0:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_fn:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_1:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_2:
         :      Disassembly of section .init.text:
         :      Disassembly of section .altinstr_replacement:
         :      Disassembly of section .exit.text:
[root@mica ~]#

But from the 'perf report' result we know that there are hits
for need_resched on a 4 way machine mostly doing nothing, so
after adding code to show what is in each hist offset and
collapsing IP hits for what happens between objdump lines we
get, for the same perf.data file:

[root@mica ~]# perf annotate -v need_resched

------------------------------------------------
 Percent |      Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux
------------------------------------------------
         :
         :
         :      Disassembly of section .text:
         :
         :      ffffffff810095ed <need_resched>:
         :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
         :      }
         :
         :      static inline int need_resched(void)
         :      {
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095ed:       55                      push   %rbp
         :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
   52.78 :      ffffffff810095ee:       be 03 00 00 00          mov    $0x3,%esi
         :
         :      static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
         :      {
         :              struct thread_info *ti;
         :              ti = (void *)(percpu_read_stable(kernel_stack) +
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095f3:       65 48 8b 3c 25 48 b5    mov    %gs:0xb548,%rdi
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095fa:       00 00
         :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
         :      }
         :
         :      static inline int need_resched(void)
         :      {
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095fc:       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
         :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
    9.72 :      ffffffff810095ff:       48 81 ef d8 1f 00 00    sub    $0x1fd8,%rdi
    0.00 :      ffffffff81009606:       e8 9d ff ff ff          callq  ffffffff810095a8 <test_ti_thread_flag>
         :      }
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960b:       c9                      leaveq
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960c:       85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
   37.50 :      ffffffff8100960e:       0f 95 c0                setne  %al
    0.00 :      ffffffff81009611:       0f b6 c0                movzbl %al,%eax
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_0:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_fn:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_1:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_2:
         :      Disassembly of section .init.text:
         :      Disassembly of section .altinstr_replacement:
         :      Disassembly of section .exit.text:
[root@mica ~]#

And now 'perf annotate -v', verbose mode, will show the hits per
precise IP, so that one can make sense of the attribution to
each objdumop line:

[root@mica ~]# perf annotate -v need_resched
Looking at the vmlinux_path (5 entries long)
Using /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-tip-00784-g3471df5-dirty/build/vmlinux
for symbols annotate_sym: filename=/lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-tip-00784-g3471df5-dirty/build/vmlinux, sym=need_resched, start=0xffffffff810095ed, end=0xffffffff81009614

------------------------------------------------
 Percent |      Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux
------------------------------------------------
                ffffffff810095f1: 152
                ffffffff81009603: 28
                ffffffff8100960f: 55
                ffffffff81009610: 53
                          h->sum: 288
<SNIP same annotation>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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: <1267194194-15670-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add lazy line matching support for specifying new probes.
This also changes the syntax of perf probe a bit. Now
perf probe accepts one of below probe event definitions.

1) Define event based on function name
 [EVENT=]FUNC[@src][:RLN|+OFF|%return|;PTN] [ARG ...]

2) Define event based on source file with line number
 [EVENT=]SRC:ALN [ARG ...]

3) Define event based on source file with lazy pattern
 [EVENT=]SRC;PTN [ARG ...]

- New lazy matching pattern(PTN) follows ';' (semicolon). And it
  must be put the end of the definition.
- So, @src is no longer the part which must be put at the end
  of the definition.

Note that ';' (semicolon) can be interpreted as the end of
a command by the shell. This means that you need to quote it.
(anyway you will need to quote the lazy pattern itself too,
because it may contains other sensitive characters, like
'[',']' etc.).

Lazy matching
-------------
The lazy line matching is similar to glob matching except
ignoring spaces in both of pattern and target.

e.g.
'a=*' can matches 'a=b', 'a = b', 'a == b' and so on.

This provides some sort of flexibility and robustness to
probe point definitions against minor code changes.
(for example, actual 10th line of schedule() can be changed
 easily by modifying schedule(), but the same line matching
 'rq=cpu_rq*' may still exist.)

Changes in v3:
 - Cast Dwarf_Addr to uintmax_t for printf-formats.

Changes in v2:
 - Cast Dwarf_Addr to unsigned long long for printf-formats.
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133611.6725.45078.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Show 2 more lines after the last probe-able line.
This will clearly show the last closed-brace of
inline functions.
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133604.6725.76820.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Check (inlined) function address range strictly for
improving output of probe-able lines of inline functions.

Without this change, perf probe --line <function> sometimes
showed other inline function bodies too, because it didn't
filter out inlined functions.
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133557.6725.20697.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Use libdw callback functions aggressively, and remove
local tree-search API. This change simplifies the code.

Changes in v3:
 - Cast Dwarf_Addr to uintmax_t for printf-formats.

Changes in v2:
 - Cast Dwarf_Addr to unsigned long long for printf-formats.
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133549.6725.81499.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Newer gcc introduces newer & richer debuginfo, and only libdw
in elfutils project can support it. So perf probe moves onto
elfutils-libdw from libdwarf.

Changes in v3:
 - Cast Dwarf_Addr/Dwarf_Word to uintmax_t for printf-formats.
 - Recover a sign-prefix which was removed in v2 by mistake.

Changes in v2:
 - Fix a type-casting bug in Makefile.
 - Cast Dwarf_Addr/Dwarf_Word to unsigned long long for printf-formats.
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133542.6725.34724.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Rename *_probepoint to *_probe_point, for nothing
but a cosmetic reason.
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133534.6725.52615.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>