The cumul hits are the number of hits of every childs of a node
plus the hits of the current nodes, required for percentage
computing of a branch.

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

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

Then we need to handle the cumul hits on the fly to prepare the
implementation of relative overhead rates.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246772361-9960-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The default callchain parameters are set to use the flat mode and never
filter any overhead threshold of backtrace.

But flat mode is boring compared to graph mode.
Also the number of callchains may be very high if none is
filtered.

Let's change this to set the graph view and a minimum overhead of 0.5%
as default parameters.
Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246772361-9960-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

If the user doesn't provide options to tune his callchain output
(ie: if he uses -c without arguments) then the default value passed
in the OPT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT() macro is used.

But it's parsed later by strtok() which will replace comma separators
to a zero. This may segfault as we are using a read-only string.

Use a modifiable one instead, and also fix the "100%" default
minimum threshold value by turning it into a 0 (output every callchains)
as it was intended in the origin.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246772361-9960-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf report segfaults while trying to handle callchains from a non
callchain data file.

Instead of a segfault, print a useful message to the user.
Reported-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reported-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246772361-9960-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Certain versions of GCC dont see the initialization that is done here:

  builtin-report.c: In function ‘__cmd_report’:
  builtin-report.c:1038: warning: ‘syms’ may be used uninitialized in this function

So annotate it with a NULL initialization.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote:

> i just bisected a 'perf report' bug that would cause us to not
> resolve all user-space symbols in a 'git gc' run to:
>
> f5812a7a is first bad commit
> commit f5812a7a
> Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Date:   Tue Jun 30 11:43:17 2009 -0300
>
>     perf_counter tools: Adjust only prelinked symbol's addresses

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This adds the use of colors to signal at a glance the important
overhead thresholds in callchains hit rates.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246558475-10624-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Among perf annotate, perf report and perf top, we can find the
common colored printing of percents according to the following
rules:

    High overhead =  > 5%, colored in red
    Mid overhead =  > 0.5%, colored in green
    Low overhead =  < 0.5%, default color

Factorize these multiple checks in a single function named
percent_color_fprintf() and also provide a get_percent_color()
for sites which print percentages and other things at the same
time.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246558475-10624-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Callchains output may become a burden on a trace because even
rarely hit site are exposed. This can be too much information.

Let the user set a threshold as a minimum percent of hits using
the new pattern for the -c option:

    -c mode,min_percent

Example:

$ perf report -s sym -c flat,4

     8.25%  [k] copy_user_generic_string
             4.19%
                copy_user_generic_string
                generic_file_aio_read
                do_sync_read
                vfs_read
                sys_pread64
                system_call_fastpath
                pread64

     5.39%  [k] search_by_key
     4.63%  0x00000000009e0a
     2.36%  [k] memcpy_c
[...]

$ perf report -s sym -c graph,2

     8.25%  [k] copy_user_generic_string
                |
                |--4.31%-- generic_file_aio_read
                |          do_sync_read
                |          vfs_read
                |          |
                |           --4.19%-- sys_pread64
                |                     system_call_fastpath
                |                     pread64
                |
                 --3.24%-- generic_file_buffered_write
                           __generic_file_aio_write_nolock
                           generic_file_aio_write
                           do_sync_write
                           reiserfs_file_write
                           vfs_write
                           |
                            --3.14%-- sys_pwrite64
                                      system_call_fastpath
                                      __pwrite64

     5.39%  [k] search_by_key
                |
                 --2.23%-- reiserfs_update_sd_size

     4.63%  0x00000000009e0a

     2.36%  [k] memcpy_c
[...]

You can also omit it and it will default to 0.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246558475-10624-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Currently, the printing of callchains is done in a single
vertical level, this is the "flat" mode:

8.25%  [k] copy_user_generic_string
             4.19%
                copy_user_generic_string
                generic_file_aio_read
                do_sync_read
                vfs_read
                sys_pread64
                system_call_fastpath
                pread64

This patch introduces a new "graph" mode which provides a
hierarchical output of factorized paths recursively sorted:

 8.25%  [k] copy_user_generic_string
                |
                |--4.31%-- generic_file_aio_read
                |          do_sync_read
                |          vfs_read
                |          |
                |          |--4.19%-- sys_pread64
                |          |          system_call_fastpath
                |          |          pread64
                |          |
                |           --0.12%-- sys_read
                |                     system_call_fastpath
                |                     __read
                |
                |--3.24%-- generic_file_buffered_write
                |          __generic_file_aio_write_nolock
                |          generic_file_aio_write
                |          do_sync_write
                |          reiserfs_file_write
                |          vfs_write
                |          |
                |          |--3.14%-- sys_pwrite64
                |          |          system_call_fastpath
                |          |          __pwrite64
                |          |
                |           --0.10%-- sys_write
[...]

The command line has then changed.

By providing the -c option, the callchain will output in the
flat mode by default.

But you can override it:

    perf report -c graph

or

    perf report -c flat

You can also pass the abreviated mode:

    perf report -c g

or

    perf report -c gra

will both make use of the graph mode.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246550301-8954-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

There is no predefined macro to create an option that can have
a custom value or a default one if none is given.

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

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

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

And the foo value when it's given:

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

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

Should it now be renamed to PARSE_OPT_ARG_DEFAULT ?
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1246550301-8954-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Iterating through children of a node in the callchain tree
shows something that may be quite confusing at a first glance.
The head is the children field of the parent and the list nodes
are in the brothers field of the children.

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

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

This makes the following strange pattern often occuring:

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

Abstract it to chain_for_each_child() to factorize and simplify
this pattern.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246550301-8954-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add the -m/--modules option to perf report and perf annotate,
which enables live module symbol/image loading. To be used
with -k/--vmlinux.

(Also give perf annotate a -P/--full-paths option.)
Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246514986.13293.48.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246514916.13293.46.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add infrastructure for module path discovery and section load addresses.
Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246514830.13293.44.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf_counter tools: Make symbol loading consistently return number of loaded symbols.
Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246514758.13293.42.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Building builtin-stat.c reports the following errors:

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

This patch handles the possible pipe read failures.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246474930-6088-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The copy we were using came from another copy I did for the dwarves
(pahole) package, that came from the kernel years ago.

The only function that is used by the perf tools and that isn't in the
kernel is list_del_range, that I'm leaving in the perf tools only for
now.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090701174608.GA5823@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The tools/perf/util/rbtree.c copy already drifted by three
csets:

 4b324126
 4c601178
 16c047ad

So remove the copy and use the lib/rbtree.c directly, sharing
the source code while still generating a separate object file,
since tools/perf uses a far more agressive -O6 switch.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090701152837.GG15682@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

After:

$ ./perf list

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

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

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

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

  rNNN                                     [raw hardware event descriptor]
Signed-off-by: NJaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246453578.3072.1.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

MATCH_EVENT is useful:

 1. for multiple attrs checking
 2. avoid repetition of PERF_TYPE_ and PERF_COUNT_ and save space
 3. avoids line breakage
Signed-off-by: NJaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246440909.3403.5.camel@hpdv5.satnam>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Enable -Wextra. This found a few real bugs plus a number
of signed/unsigned type mismatches/uncleanlinesses. It
also required a few annotations

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

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix:

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

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This reworks the parser for event descriptors to make it more
consistent in what it accepts.  It is now structured as a
recursive descent parser for the following grammar:

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

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

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

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

This allows event modifiers indicating what processor modes to
count in to be applied to any event, not just numeric events,
and adds a ":h" modifier to indicate counting in hypervisor
mode.  Specifying ":u" now sets both exclude_kernel and
exclude_hv, and so on.  Multiple modes can be specified, e.g.
":uk" will count in user or hypervisor mode (i.e. only
exclude_kernel will be set).
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <19018.53826.843815.189847@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The symbol resolving has of course revealed some bugs in the
callchain tree handling. This patch fixes some of them,
including:

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

The practical effects are:

- remove double callchains
- fix upside down or any random order of callchains
- fix wrong paths
- fix bad hits and percentage accounts
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246419315-9968-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch resolves the names, when possible, of each ip
present in the callchains while using the -c option with perf
report.

Example:

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

             0.01%
                perf_callchain
                perf_counter_overflow
                intel_pmu_handle_irq
                perf_counter_nmi_handler
                notifier_call_chain
                atomic_notifier_call_chain
                notify_die
                do_nmi
                nmi
                do_lookup
                __link_path_walk
                path_walk
                do_path_lookup
                user_path_at
                sys_faccessat
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246419315-9968-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix a confusion while giving the size of a callchain list
during its allocation. We are using the wrong structure size.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1246419315-9968-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add a dso for hypervisor samples. We don't get any symbol
information on the ppc64 hypervisor but this at least gives
us a high level summary of the time spent in there.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090630230141.182536873@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

PERF_EVENT_MISC_* is not a bitmask, so we have to mask and compare.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090630230141.088394681@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Filter out some ppc64 specific idle loop functions and remove
leading '.' on ppc64 text symbols.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090630230140.995643441@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Move the list of symbols we skip into an array, making it
easier to add new ones.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090630230140.904782938@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The zlib devel libraries may not be installed and since we aren't
using zlib we may as well remove it.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090630230140.802078956@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix a copy and paste error, -z was setting the group option.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <20090630230140.714204656@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

So that we can filter by symbol name.

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

Example:

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

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

[acme@doppio pahole]$
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246399282-20934-4-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

So that we can filter by comm. Symbols in other comms won't be
accounted for.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246399282-20934-3-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

So that we can filter by dso. Symbols in other dsos won't be
accounted for.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246399282-20934-2-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

I.e. we can't handle these two kinds of files in the same way:

1) prelinked system library:

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

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

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

Now the numbers I got for a pahole perf run are in line with
the numbers I get from oprofile.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090630144317.GB12663@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This provides a way to mark a counter to be enabled on the next
exec. This is useful for measuring the total activity of a
program without including overhead from the process that
launches it.

This also changes the perf stat command to use this new
facility.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <19017.43927.838745.689203@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Vince Weaver reported a 'perf stat' measurement overhead in the
count of retired instructions, which can amount to a +6000
instructions inflated count in the reported count.

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

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

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

Before:

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

 Performance counter stats for './three':

           4858  instructions

    0.001274523  seconds time elapsed

After:

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

 Performance counter stats for './three':

             92  instructions

    0.000468153  seconds time elapsed
Reported-by: NVince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <19016.41425.814043.870352@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Peter expressed a strong preference for percentage based
display of scaled values - so revert to that from the
recently introduced multiplication-factor unit.
Reported-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>