# perf trace usleep 1 | tail -10
     0.453 ( 0.002 ms): mmap(addr: 0, len: 4096, prot: 3, flags: 34, fd: 4294967295, off: 0   ) = -763342848
     0.456 ( 0.001 ms): mmap(addr: 0, len: 4096, prot: 3, flags: 34, fd: 4294967295, off: 0   ) = -763346944
     0.459 ( 0.001 ms): arch_prctl(option: 4098, arg2: 140126839658240, arg3: 140126839652352, arg4: 34, arg5: 4294967295) = 0
     0.473 ( 0.003 ms): mprotect(start: 208741634048, len: 16384, prot: 1                     ) = 0
     0.477 ( 0.003 ms): mprotect(start: 208735956992, len: 4096, prot: 1                      ) = 0
     0.483 ( 0.004 ms): munmap(addr: 140126839664640, len: 91882                              ) = 0
     0.540 ( 0.001 ms): brk(brk: 0                                                            ) = 31928320
     0.542 ( 0.002 ms): brk(brk: 32063488                                                     ) = 32063488
     1.456 ( 0.901 ms): nanosleep(rqtp: 140735472817168, rmtp: 0                              ) = 0
     1.462 ( 0.000 ms): exit_group(error_code: 0
 #

This also comes from the tmp.perf/trace2 branch.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-g9akh5hjw2kvjerpo9xror6f@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Using the same strategies as in the tmp.perf/trace2, i.e. the 'trace'
tool implemented by tglx, just updated to the current codebase.

Example:

[root@sandy linux]# perf trace usleep 1  | tail
     2.003: mmap(addr: 0, len: 4096, prot: 3, flags: 34, fd: 4294967295, off: 0   ) = -2128396288
     2.017: mmap(addr: 0, len: 4096, prot: 3, flags: 34, fd: 4294967295, off: 0   ) = -2128400384
     2.029: arch_prctl(option: 4098, arg2: 140146949441280, arg3: 140146949435392, arg4: 34, arg5: 4294967295) = 0
     2.084: mprotect(start: 208741634048, len: 16384, prot: 1                     ) = 0
     2.098: mprotect(start: 208735956992, len: 4096, prot: 1                      ) = 0
     2.122: munmap(addr: 140146949447680, len: 91882                              ) = 0
     2.359: brk(brk: 0                                                            ) = 28987392
     2.371: brk(brk: 29122560                                                     ) = 29122560
     2.490: nanosleep(rqtp: 140735694241504, rmtp: 0                              ) = 0
     2.507: exit_group(error_code: 0
[root@sandy linux]#

For now the timestamp and duration are always on, will be selectable.

Also if multiple threads are being monitored, its tid will appear.

The ret output continues to be interpreted a la strace.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ly9ulroru4my5isn0xe9gr0m@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Sometimes we're segfaulting because we were expecting that the
perf_sample.raw_data field was set as requested, but in some cases
that needs further investigation, that field can be NULL, leading
to segfaults.

Make the tool more robust by checking that before calling any per event
handlers that may try to use that field.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-g1fmodl6ys4lq8honbj1igoi@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

In some cases the ID for a syscall read thru the raw_syscalls tracepoint
is bogus, still needs to be investigated why, but to make the tool more
robust first try to resolve the ID to a name via libaudit and if it
fails, don't grow the table.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0lsokw3xor7c4ijo45u6bauh@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Now perf trace is able to trace specified workload by forking it like
perf record does.  And also finish the tracing if the workload quits or
gets SIGINT.
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349413336-26936-5-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

When no target cpu/user/task option is given, perf trace will do its job
system wide for all online cpus.  Make it explicit to reduce possible
confusion when reading code.

No functional changes intended.
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349413336-26936-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Those target options are mutually exclusive so check it before setting
up target thread/cpu maps.
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349413336-26936-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

To reduce the boilerplate of creating and adding a new tracepoint to an
evlist.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4z90i79gnmsza2czv2dhdrb7@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

I.e. we don't need to resolve the evsel via the id and then check if it
is this or that event, just stash the right handler at evsel creation
time, then use evsel->handler.func() straight away.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bpz3axzr4f2cjppf4egm28wf@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

What we get from audit_syscall_to_name isn't what we find in the
syscalls: tracepoint events, so add the alias that allows the tool to
find prctl, fstat, fstatat and stat.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3m9su7jhwnxvepnr3ne1du5k@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Initially should look loosely like the venerable 'strace' tool, but
using the infrastructure in the perf tools to allow tracing extra
targets:

  [acme@sandy linux]$ perf trace --hell
  Error: unknown option `hell'

   usage: perf trace <PID>

      -p, --pid <pid>       trace events on existing process id
          --tid <tid>       trace events on existing thread id
          --all-cpus        system-wide collection from all CPUs
          --cpu <cpu>       list of cpus to monitor
          --no-inherit      child tasks do not inherit counters
          --mmap-pages <n>  number of mmap data pages
          --uid <user>      user to profile

  [acme@sandy linux]$

Those should have the same semantics as when using with 'perf record'.

It gets stuck sometimes, but hey, it works sometimes too!

In time it should support perf.data based workloads, i.e. it should have
a:
	-o filename

Command line option that will produce a perf.data file that can then be
used with 'perf trace' or any of the other perf tools (script, report,
etc).

It will also eventually have the set of functionalities described in the
previous 'trace' prototype by Thomas Gleixner:

   "Announcing a new utility: 'trace'"
   http://lwn.net/Articles/415728/

Also planned is to have some of the features suggested in the comments
of that LWN article.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v9x3q9rv4caxtox7wtjpchq5@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Some filesystems like xfs and reiserfs will return DT_UNKNOWN for the
d_type.  Handle this case by calling stat() to determine the type.

Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290355779-3276-1-git-send-email-sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Signed-off-by: NShawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Free the perf trace name space and rename the trace to 'script' which is a
better match for the scripting engine.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Update usage to reflect the different perf trace variants.
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>

This patch attempts to make the perf trace command-line for live-mode
commands more user-friendly and consistent with other perf commands.

The main change it makes is to allow <commands> to be run as part of
perf trace live-mode commands, as other perf commands do, instead of
the system-wide traces they're currently hard-coded to by the shell
scripts.

With this patch, the following live-mode trace now works as expected:

 $ perf trace rw-by-pid ls -al

The previous system-wide behavior for this command would still be
available by explicitly specifying -a:

 $ perf trace rw-by-pid -a ls -al

and if no <command> is specified, the output is also system-wide:

 $ perf trace rw-by-pid

Because live-mode requires both record and report steps to be invoked,
it isn't always possible to know which args to send to the report and
which to send to the record steps - mainly this is the case for report
scripts with optional args - in those cases it would be necessary to
use separate 'perf trace record' and 'perf trace report' steps.

For example:

 $ perf trace syscall-counts ls

Here we can't decide whether ls should be passed as a param to the
syscall-counts script or whether we should invoke ls as a <command>.
In these cases, we just say that we'll ignore optional script params
and always interpret the extra arguments as a <command>.

If the user instead wants the other interpretation, that can be
accomplished by using separate record and report commands explicitly:

 $ perf trace record syscall-counts
 $ perf trace report syscall-counts ls

So the rules that this patch implements, which seem to make the most
intuitive sense for live-mode commands:

- for commands with optional args and commands with no args, no args
  are sent to the report script, all are sent to the record step

- for 'top' commands i.e. that end with 'top', <commands> can't be
  used - all extra args are send to the report script as params

- for commands with required args, the n required args are taken to be
  the first n args after the script name and sent to the report
  script, and the rest are sent to the record step
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>

Because the perf-trace shell scripts hard-coded the use of the
perf-record system-wide param, a perf trace record session was always
system wide, even if it was given a command.

If given a command, perf trace record now only records the events for
the command, as users expect.

If no command is given, or if the '-a' option is used, the recorded
events are system-wide, as before.

root@tropicana:~# perf trace record syscall-counts ls -al
root@tropicana:~# perf trace
              ls-23152 [000] 39984.890387: sys_enter: NR 12 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
              ls-23152 [000] 39984.890404: sys_enter: NR 9 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)

root@tropicana:~# perf trace record syscall-counts -a ls -al
root@tropicana:~# perf trace
    npviewer.bin-22297 [000] 39831.102709: sys_enter: NR 168 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
              ls-23111 [000] 39831.107679: sys_enter: NR 59 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>

Free the other two fields of script_desc which somehow got overlooked,
free malloc'ed args in case exec fails, and add missing checks for
failed mallocs.
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>

We want just the script output, not internal details about the record phase.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The extension starts with the last dot in the name, not the first.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286723462.2955.206.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Set $PERF_EXEC_PATH before starting the record and report scripts, and
make them use it where necessary.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286723403.2955.205.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Removed duplicated #includes util/trace-event.h and
util/exec_cmd.h.
Grouped and sorted all the #includes.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1281016299-23958-14-git-send-email-andrea.gelmini@gelma.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Account and report lost events in perf trace debugging mode,
useful to check the reliability of the traces.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>

Errors due to ordering bugs are easily lost in the middle
of traces.

When we are in this mode, don't print the traces so that
we don't miss the debugging messages.
But display a comforting message if we didn't encounter any
ordering problem.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

The events_stats.total field is too generic, rename it to .total_period,
and also add a comment explaining that it is the sum of all the .period
fields in samples, that is needed because we use auto-freq to avoid
sampling artifacts.

Ditto for events_stats.lost, that is the sum of all lost_event.lost
fields, i.e. the number of events the kernel dropped.

Looking at the users, builtin-sched.c can make use of these fields and
stop doing it again.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Only print the script start/stop messages in verbose mode - users
normally don't care and it just clutters up the output.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-7-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

In cbbc79a5 we introduced support for multiple events by introducing a
new "event_stat_id" struct and then made several perf_session methods
receive a point to it instead of a pointer to perf_session, and kept the
event_stats and hists rb_tree in perf_session.

While working on the new newt based browser, I realised that it would be
better to introduce a new class, "hists" (short for "histograms"),
renaming the "event_stat_id" struct and the perf_session methods that
were really "hists" methods, as they manipulate only struct hists
members, not touching anything in the other perf_session members.

Other optimizations, such as calculating the maximum lenght of a symbol
name present in an hists instance will be possible as we add them,
avoiding a re-traversal just for finding that information.

The rationale for the name "hists" to replace "event_stat_id" is that we
may have multiple sets of hists for the same event_stat id, as, for
instance, the 'perf diff' tool has, so event stat id is not what
characterizes what this struct and the functions that manipulate it do.

Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Currently, perf 'live mode' writes build-ids at the end of the
session, which isn't actually useful for processing live mode events.

What would be better would be to have the build-ids sent before any of
the samples that reference them, which can be done by processing the
event stream and retrieving the build-ids on the first hit.  Doing
that in perf-record itself, however, is off-limits.

This patch introduces perf-inject, which does the same job while
leaving perf-record untouched.  Normal mode perf still records the
build-ids at the end of the session as it should, but for live mode,
perf-inject can be injected in between the record and report steps
e.g.:

perf record -o - ./hackbench 10 | perf inject -v -b | perf report -v -i -

perf-inject reads a perf-record event stream and repipes it to stdout.
At any point the processing code can inject other events into the
event stream - in this case build-ids (-b option) are read and
injected as needed into the event stream.

Build-ids are just the first user of perf-inject - potentially
anything that needs userspace processing to augment the trace stream
with additional information could make use of this facility.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1272696080-16435-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

To ensure sample events time reordering is reliable, add a -d option
to perf trace to check that automatically.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>

Use the new generic sample events reordering from perf trace.
Before that, the displayed traces were ordered as they were
in the input as recorded by perf record (not time ordered).

This makes eventually perf trace displaying the events as beeing
time ordered.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>

Currently, live mode is invoked by explicitly invoking the
record and report sides and connecting them with a pipe e.g.

 $ perf trace record rwtop -o - | perf trace report rwtop 5 -i -

In terms of usability, it's not that bad, but it does require
the user to type and remember more than necessary.

This patch allows the user to accomplish the same thing without
specifying the separate record/report steps or the pipe.  So the
same command as above can be accomplished more simply as:

 $ perf trace rwtop 5

Notice that the '-i -' and '-o -' aren't required in this case -
they're added internally, and that any extra arguments are
passed along to the report script (but not to the record
script).

The overall effect is that any of the scripts listed in 'perf
trace -l' can now be used directly in live mode, with the
expected arguments, by simply specifying the script and args to
'perf trace'.
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
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Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Bypasses the build_id perf header code and replaces it with a
synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the
same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe.
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
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Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Bypasses the tracing_data perf header code and replaces it with
a synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes
the same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a
pipe.

The tracing data is pretty large, and this patch doesn't attempt
to break it down into component events.  The tracing_data event
itself doesn't actually contain the tracing data, rather it
arranges for the event processing code to skip over it after
it's read, using the skip return value added to the event
processing loop in a previous patch.
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
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Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Bypasses the event type perf header code and replaces it with a
synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the
same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe.
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
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Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Bypasses the attr perf header code and replaces it with a
synthesized event and processing function that accomplishes the
same thing, used when reading/writing perf data to/from a pipe.

Making the attrs into events allows them to be streamed over a
pipe along with the rest of the header data (in later patches).
It also paves the way to allowing events to be added and removed
from perf sessions dynamically.
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
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Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Adds special treatment for stdin - if the user specifies '-i -'
to perf trace, the intent is that the event stream be read from
stdin rather than from a disk file.

The actual handling of the '-' filename is done by the session;
this just adds a signal handler to stop reporting, and turns off
interference by the pager.
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
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Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Parsing an option from the command line with OPT_BOOLEAN on a
bool data type would not work on a big-endian machine due to the
manner in which the boolean was being cast into an int and
incremented. For example, running 'perf probe --list' on a
PowerPC machine would fail to properly set the list_events bool
and would therefore print out the usage information and
terminate.

This patch makes OPT_BOOLEAN work as expected with a bool
datatype. For cases where the original OPT_BOOLEAN was
intentionally being used to increment an int each time it was
passed in on the command line, this patch introduces OPT_INCR
with the old behaviour of OPT_BOOLEAN (the verbose variable is
currently the only such example of this).

I have reviewed every use of OPT_BOOLEAN to verify that a true
C99 bool was passed. Where integers were used, I verified that
they were only being used for boolean logic and changed them to
bools to ensure that they would not be mistakenly used as ints.
The major exception was the verbose variable which now uses
OPT_INCR instead of OPT_BOOLEAN.
Signed-off-by: NIan Munsie <imunsie@au.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # NOTE: wont apply to .3[34].x cleanly, please backport
Cc: Git development list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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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
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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
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Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add base support for Python scripting to perf trace.
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

'perf trace -s list' prints a list of the supported scripting
languages.  One problem with it is that it falls through and prints
the trace as well.  The use of 'list' for this also makes it easy to
confuse with 'perf trace -l', used for listing available scripts.  So
change 'perf trace -s list' to 'perf trace -s lang' and fixes the
fall-through problem.
Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>