No need for all tools to register it and then immediately call
perf_session__process_events.
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: <1260741029-4430-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Pass the event_ops to perf_session__process_events instead.

Also move the event_ops definition to session.h, starting to
move things around to their right place, trimming the many
unneeded headers we have.
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: <1260741029-4430-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

They will need it to get the right threads list, etc.
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: <1260741029-4430-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

That does all the initialization boilerplate, opening the file,
reading the header, checking if it is valid, etc.

And that will as well have the threads list, kmap (now) global
variable, etc, so that we can handle two (or more) perf.data files
describing sessions to compare.
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: <1260573842-19720-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf-annotate doesn't parse perf.data correctly in that it
doesn't read perf header. Fix this by using
mmap_dispatch_perf_file().

Before:

TOTAL events:      17565
      MMAP events:       3221
      LOST events:         10
      COMM events:        235
      EXIT events:          2
  THROTTLE events:          1
UNTHROTTLE events:          2
      FORK events:         10
      READ events:          1
    SAMPLE events:      14083

After:

TOTAL events:      17290
      MMAP events:       3203
      LOST events:          0
      COMM events:        234
      EXIT events:          1
  THROTTLE events:          0
UNTHROTTLE events:          0
      FORK events:          0
      READ events:          0
    SAMPLE events:      13852
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B14B201.9030708@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Now we have a very high level routine for simple tools to
process IP sample events:

	int event__preprocess_sample(const event_t *self,
				     struct addr_location *al,
				     symbol_filter_t filter)

It receives the event itself and will insert new threads in the
global threads list and resolve the map and symbol, filling all
this info into the new addr_location struct, so that tools like
annotate and report can further process the event by creating
hist_entries in their specific way (with or without callgraphs,
etc).

It in turn uses the new next layer function:

	void thread__find_addr_location(struct thread *self, u8 cpumode,
					enum map_type type, u64 addr,
					struct addr_location *al,
					symbol_filter_t filter)

This one will, given a thread (userspace or the kernel kthread
one), will find the given type (MAP__FUNCTION now, MAP__VARIABLE
too in the near future) at the given cpumode, taking vdsos into
account (userspace hit, but kernel symbol) and will fill all
these details in the addr_location given.

Tools that need a more compact API for plain function
resolution, like 'kmem', can use this other one:

	struct symbol *thread__find_function(struct thread *self, u64 addr,
					     symbol_filter_t filter)

So, to resolve a kernel symbol, that is all the 'kmem' tool
needs, its just a matter of calling:

	sym = thread__find_function(kthread, addr, NULL);

The 'filter' parameter is needed because we do lazy
parsing/loading of ELF symtabs or /proc/kallsyms.

With this we remove more code duplication all around, which is
always good, huh? :-)
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1259346563-12568-12-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

While implementing event__preprocess_sample, that will do all of
the symbol lookup in one convenient function, I noticed that
util/process_event.[ch] were not being used at all, then started
looking if there were other functions that could be shared
and...

All those functions really don't need to receive offset + head,
the only thing they did was common to all of them, so do it at
one place instead.

Stats about number of each type of event processed now is done
in a central place.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1259346563-12568-11-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Making the routines that were so far specific to the kernel maps
useful for all threads.

This is done by making the kernel maps be contained in a kernel
"thread".

This gets the kernel specific routines closer to the userspace
counterparts, which will help in reducing the boilerplate for
resolving a symbol, as will be demonstrated in the next patches.
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: <1259346563-12568-9-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

By using an array of rb_roots in struct dso we can, from a
struct map instance to get the right symbol rb_tree more easily.
This way we can have just one symbol lookup method for struct
map instances, map__find_symbol, instead of one per symtab type
(functions, variables).
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: <1259346563-12568-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf annotate was the only user, and it doesn't really need it.
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: <1259346563-12568-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

As we'll have kernel_map[s]__variables 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: <1259346563-12568-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Paving the way for supporting variable in adition to function
symbols.
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: <1259074912-5924-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

And also express its configuration toggles via a struct.

Now all one has to do is to call symbol__init(NULL) if the
defaults are OK, or pass a struct symbol_conf pointer with the
desired configuration.

If a tool uses kernel_maps__find_symbol() to look at the kernel
and modules mappings for a symbol but didn't call symbol__init()
first, that will generate a one time warning too, alerting the
subcommand developer that symbol__init() must be called.
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: <1259071517-3242-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Prevent bit-rot in perf-annotate by using common functions where
possible. Here we create process_events.[ch] to hold the common
functions.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1259073301-11506-3-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Now that we can check the buildid to see if it really matches,
this can be done safely:

  vmlinux
  /boot/vmlinux
  /boot/vmlinux-<uts.release>
  /lib/modules/<uts.release>/build/vmlinux
  /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/%s/vmlinux

More can be added - if you know about distros that put the
vmlinux somewhere else please let us know.
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: <1259001550-8194-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Just like we do with the other DSOs. This also simplifies the
kernel_maps setup process, now all that the tools need to do is
to call kernel_maps__init and the maps for the modules and
kernel will be created, then, later, when
kernel_maps__find_symbol() is used, it will also call
maps__find_symbol that already checks if the symtab was loaded,
loading it if needed.

Now if one does 'perf top --hide_kernel_symbols' we won't pay
the price of loading the (many) symbols in /proc/kallsyms or
vmlinux.
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: <1258757489-5978-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

It should just load kernel symbols, not load the list of
modules. There are more stuff to move to other routines, but
lets do it in several steps.

End goal is to be able to defer symbol table loading till we
find a hit for that map address range. So that the kernel &
modules are handled just like all the other DSOs in the system.
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: <1258757489-5978-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Before we were storing this in the DSO, but in fact this is a
property of the 'symbol' class, not something that will vary
among DSOs, so move it to a global variable and initialize it
using the existing symbol__init routine.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256927305-4628-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

So that we can have a quicker start on perf top and even
speedups in the other tools, as we can have maps with no hits,
so no need to load its symtabs.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256773881-4191-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We were using eprintf in some places, that looks at a global
'verbose' level, and at other places passing a 'v' parameter to
specify the verbosity level, unify it by introducing
pr_{err,warning,debug,etc}, just like in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256153646-10097-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

If the user doesn't pass a symbol name to annotate, it will
annotate all the symbols that have hits, in order, just like
'perf report -s comm,dso,symbol'.

This is a natural followup patch to the one that uses
output_hists to find the symbols with hits.

The common case is to annotate the first few entries at the top
of a perf report, so lets type less characters.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256058509-19678-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We have this sym_priv_size mechanism for attaching private areas
to struct symbol entries but annotate wasn't using it, adding
private areas to struct symbol in addition to a ->priv pointer.

Scrap all that and use the sym_priv_size mechanism.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256055940-19511-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We need this because we get section relative addresses when
reading the symtabs, but when a tool like 'perf annotate' needs
to match these address to what 'objdump -dS' produces we need
the address + section back again.

So in annotate now we look at the 'struct hist_entry' instances
(that weren't really being used) so that we iterate only over
the symbols that had some hit and get the map where that
particular hit happened so that we can get the right address to
match with annotate.

Verified that at least:

 perf annotate mmap_read_counter # Uses the ~/bin/perf binary
 perf annotate --vmlinux /home/acme/git/build/perf/vmlinux intel_pmu_enable_all

on a 'perf record perf top' session seems to work.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1255979877-12533-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

In each case, if the NULL test on thread is needed, then the
dereference should be after the NULL test.

A simplified version of the semantic match that detects this
problem is as follows (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/):

// <smpl>
@match exists@
expression x, E;
identifier fld;
@@

* x->fld
  ... when != \(x = E\|&x\)
* x == NULL
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: NJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0910170842500.9213@ask.diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This was just being copy'n'pasted all over.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091013141629.GD21809@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Like printing every symbol created.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1254923340-4870-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

As it was not being exposed via any command line and with --dsos/--comms
we can do this and even more, like asking for just kernel + some module:

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report --dsos \[kernel\],\[drm\]
--vmlinux /home/acme/git/build/tip-recvmmsg/vmlinux --modules | head -15
 # Samples: 619669
 #
 # Overhead          Command  Shared Object  Symbol
 # ........  ...............  .............  ......
 #
      7.12%          swapper  [kernel]       [k] read_hpet
      6.86%             init  [kernel]       [k] read_hpet
      6.22%             init  [kernel]       [k] mwait_idle_with_hints
      5.34%          swapper  [kernel]       [k] mwait_idle_with_hints
      3.01%          firefox  [kernel]       [.] vread_hpet
      2.14%             Xorg  [drm]          [k] drm_clflush_pages
      2.09%           pidgin  [kernel]       [.] vread_hpet
      1.58%     npviewer.bin  [kernel]       [.] vread_hpet
      1.37%          swapper  [kernel]       [k] hpet_next_event
      1.23%             Xorg  [kernel]       [k] read_hpet
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091003233048.GA30535@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Now perf report and annotate do the callgraph/hit processing in
their specialized hist_entry__add functions.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NFrédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Representing modules as struct map entries, backed by a DSO, etc,
using /proc/modules to find where the module is loaded.

DSOs now can have a short and long name, so that in verbose mode we
can show exactly which .ko or vmlinux image was used.

As kernel modules now are a DSO separate from the kernel, we can
ask for just the hits for a particular set of kernel modules, just
like we can do with shared libraries:

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report -n --vmlinux
/home/acme/git/build/tip-recvmmsg/vmlinux --modules --dsos \[drm\] | head -15
    84.58%      13266             Xorg  [k] drm_clflush_pages
     4.02%        630             Xorg  [k] trace_kmalloc.clone.0
     3.95%        619             Xorg  [k] drm_ioctl
     2.07%        324             Xorg  [k] drm_addbufs
     1.68%        263             Xorg  [k] drm_gem_close_ioctl
     0.77%        120             Xorg  [k] drm_setmaster_ioctl
     0.70%        110             Xorg  [k] drm_lastclose
     0.68%        106             Xorg  [k] drm_open
     0.54%         85             Xorg  [k] drm_mm_search_free
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#

Specifying --dsos /lib/modules/2.6.31-tip/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko
would have the same effect. Allowing specifying just 'drm.ko' is left
for another patch.

Processing kallsyms so that per kernel module struct map are
instantiated was also left for another patch. That will allow
removing the module name from each of its symbols.

struct symbol was reduced by removing the ->module backpointer and
moving it (well now the map) to struct symbol_entry in perf top,
that is its only user right now.

The total linecount went down by ~500 lines.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Move histogram related functions into their own files (hist.c and
hist.h) and make use of them in builtin-annotate.c and
builtin-report.c.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0909281531180.8316@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Create util/sort.[ch] and move common functionality for
builtin-report.c and builtin-annotate.c there, and make use of it.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0909241758390.11383@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This function exists in builtin-report.c but not in
builtin-annotate.c Functions that use cmp_null are shorter and
clearer.

Synchronizing functions between these two files will also make it
easier to potential share code in the future.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0909241754031.11383@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )
Suggested-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Librarize register_idle_thread() used by annotate and report.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1251693921-6579-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This improves patch fa6963b2 so that perf.data stuff that has
been dumped as root can be read (annotate/report) by a user
without the use of the --force.

Rationale is that root has plenty of ways to screw us (usually)
that do not require twisted schemes involving specially
crafting a perf.data.
Signed-off-by: NPierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@intersec.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090827075902.GF19653@laphroaig.corp>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add an owner check to opening perf.data files and a switch to
silence it.

Because perf-report/perf-annotate are binary parsers reading
another users' perf.data file could be a security risk if the
file were explicitly engineered to trigger bugs in the parser
(we hope of course there are non such bugs, but you never
know).
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: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090819092023.896648538@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Linus reported this perf annotate segfault:

        [torvalds@nehalem git]$ perf annotate unmap_vmas
        Segmentation fault

       	#0  map__clone (self=<value optimized out>) at builtin-annotate.c:236
       	#1  thread__fork (self=<value optimized out>) at builtin-annotate.c:372

The bug here was that builtin-annotate.c was a copy of
builtin-report.c and a threading related fix to builtin-report.c
didnt get propagated to builtin-annotate.c ...
Reported-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Librarize trace_event() helper so that perf trace can use it
too. Also clean up the debug.h includes a bit.

It's not good to have it included in perf.h because it doesn't
make it flexible against other headers it may need (headers
that can also depend on perf.h and then create a recursive
header dependency).
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250453149-664-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Annotate and report share the same flags to filter events
considering their context (kernel, user, hypervisor).

Both tools have their own definitions of these flags. Factorize
them out into the event headers file.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250445414-29237-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We have two users of dprintf: report and annotate. Another one
is coming with perf trace. Then factorize it into the debug
file.

While at it, rename dprintf() to dump_printf() so that it
doesn't conflicts with its libc homograph.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250443461-28130-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>