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>

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>

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>

Use the kernel bitmap library for internal perf tools uses.
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>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1255792354-11304-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.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>

To refresh, trying to sched record only one CPU results in bogus
latencies as below.

I fixed^Wmade it stop doing the bad thing today, by
following task migration events properly.

Before:

  marge:/root/tmp # taskset -c 1 perf sched record -C 0 -- sleep 10
  marge:/root/tmp # perf sched lat
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Task                  |   Runtime ms  | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Xorg:4943             |      1.290 ms |        1 | avg: 1670.132 ms | max: 1670.132 ms |
    hald-addon-stor:3569  |      0.091 ms |        3 | avg:  658.609 ms | max: 1975.797 ms |
    hald-addon-stor:3573  |      0.209 ms |        4 | avg:  499.138 ms | max: 1990.565 ms |
    audispd:4270          |      0.012 ms |        1 | avg:    0.015 ms | max:    0.015 ms |
  ....

  marge:/root/tmp # perf sched trace|grep 'Xorg:4943'
           swapper-0     [000]   401.184013288: sched_stat_runtime: task: Xorg:4943 runtime: 1233188 [ns], vruntime: 19105169779 [ns]
   rt2870TimerQHan-4947  [000]   402.854140127: sched_stat_wait: task: Xorg:4943 wait: 580073 [ns]
   rt2870TimerQHan-4947  [000]   402.854141770: sched_migrate_task: task Xorg:4943 [140] from: 1  to: 0
   rt2870TimerQHan-4947  [000]   402.854143854: sched_stat_wait: task: Xorg:4943 wait: 0 [ns]
   rt2870TimerQHan-4947  [000]   402.854145397: sched_switch: task rt2870TimerQHan:4947 [140] (D) ==> Xorg:4943 [140]
              Xorg-4943  [000]   402.854193133: sched_stat_runtime: task: Xorg:4943 runtime: 56546 [ns], vruntime: 11766332500 [ns]
              Xorg-4943  [000]   402.854196842: sched_switch: task Xorg:4943 [140] (S) ==> swapper:0 [140]

After:

  marge:/root/tmp # taskset -c 1 perf sched record -C 0 -- sleep 10
  marge:/root/tmp # perf sched lat
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Task                  |   Runtime ms  | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    amarokapp:11150       |    271.297 ms |      878 | avg:    0.130 ms | max:    1.057 ms |
    konsole:5965          |      1.370 ms |       12 | avg:    0.092 ms | max:    0.855 ms |
    Xorg:4943             |    179.980 ms |     1109 | avg:    0.087 ms | max:    1.206 ms |
    hald-addon-stor:3574  |      0.212 ms |        9 | avg:    0.040 ms | max:    0.169 ms |
    hald-addon-stor:3570  |      0.223 ms |        9 | avg:    0.037 ms | max:    0.223 ms |
    klauncher:5864        |      0.550 ms |        8 | avg:    0.032 ms | max:    0.048 ms |

The 'Maximum delay ms' results are now sane.
Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The following perf build warnings/errors in function
argument types:

  builtin-sched.c:1894: warning: passing argument 1 of 'sort_dimension__add' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
  util/trace-event-parse.c:685: warning: passing argument 2 of 'read_expected' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
  util/trace-event-parse.c:741: warning: passing argument 4 of 'test_type_token' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
  util/trace-event-parse.c:706: warning: passing argument 2 of 'read_expected_item' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

... trigger because older GCC is not able to prove that
sort_dimension__add() does not change the string.

Some goes for test_type_token().

Fix this by improving type consistency.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091005131729.78444bfb.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
[ Also remove ugly type cast now unnecessary. ]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This reverts commit 9a92b479 ("perf
tools: Improve thread comm resolution in perf sched") and fixes the
real bug.

The bug was elsewhere:

We are failing to resolve thread names in perf sched because the
table of threads we are building, on top of comm events, has a per
process granularity. But perf sched, unlike the other perf tools,
needs a per thread granularity as we are profiling every tasks
individually.

So fix it by building our threads table using the tid instead of
the pid as the thread identifier.

v2: Revert the previous fix - it is not really needed
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>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1255028657-11158-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

When we get sched traces that involve a task that was already
created before opening the event, we won't have the comm event for
it.

So if we can't find the comm event for a given thread, we look at
the traces that may contain these informations.

Before:

 ata/1:371             |      0.000 ms |        1 | avg: 3988.693 ms | max: 3988.693 ms |
 kondemand/1:421       |      0.096 ms |        3 | avg:  345.346 ms | max: 1035.989 ms |
 kondemand/0:420       |      0.025 ms |        3 | avg:  421.332 ms | max:  964.014 ms |
 :5124:5124            |      0.103 ms |        5 | avg:   74.082 ms | max:  277.194 ms |
 :6244:6244            |      0.691 ms |        9 | avg:  125.655 ms | max:  271.306 ms |
 firefox:5080          |      0.924 ms |        5 | avg:   53.833 ms | max:  257.828 ms |
 npviewer.bin:6225     |     21.871 ms |       53 | avg:   22.462 ms | max:  220.835 ms |
 :6245:6245            |      9.631 ms |       21 | avg:   41.864 ms | max:  213.349 ms |

After:

 ata/1:371             |      0.000 ms |        1 | avg: 3988.693 ms | max: 3988.693 ms |
 kondemand/1:421       |      0.096 ms |        3 | avg:  345.346 ms | max: 1035.989 ms |
 kondemand/0:420       |      0.025 ms |        3 | avg:  421.332 ms | max:  964.014 ms |
 firefox:5124          |      0.103 ms |        5 | avg:   74.082 ms | max:  277.194 ms |
 npviewer.bin:6244     |      0.691 ms |        9 | avg:  125.655 ms | max:  271.306 ms |
 firefox:5080          |      0.924 ms |        5 | avg:   53.833 ms | max:  257.828 ms |
 npviewer.bin:6225     |     21.871 ms |       53 | avg:   22.462 ms | max:  220.835 ms |
 npviewer.bin:6245     |      9.631 ms |       21 | avg:   41.864 ms | max:  213.349 ms |
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>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1255012632-7882-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This librarizes the perf.data file mapping and handling in various
perf tools, roughly reducing the amount of code and fixing the
places that mmap from beginning of the file whereas we want to mmap
from the beginning of the data, leading to page fault because the
mmap window is too small since the trace info are written in the
file too.

TODO:

 - convert perf timechart too
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>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091007104729.GD5043@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This drops the trace.info file and move its contents into the
common perf.data file.

This is done by creating a new trace_info section into this file. A
user of perf headers needs to call perf_header__set_trace_info() to
save the trace meta informations into the perf.data file.

A file created by perf after his patch is unsupported by previous
version because the size of the headers have increased.

That said, it's two new fields that have been added in the end of
the headers, and those could be ignored by previous versions if
they just handled the dynamic header size and then ignore the
unknow part. The offsets guarantee the compatibility. We'll do a
-stable fix for that.

But current previous versions handle the header size using its
static size, not dynamic, then it's not backward compatible with
trace records.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091006213643.GA5343@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Several variables are not used at all, cut'n'paste leftovers.

Also check if the sample_type is RAW earlier, to avoid needless
searches.
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>
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>

perf sched record passes unparsed args on to perf record, so
specifying an output file via perf sched record -o FILE (cmd) just
works.  Ergo, provide an option to specify input file as well.

Also add the missing 'map' command to help.
Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1253254944.20589.11.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

For 'perf sched map' output, determine max_cpu automatically,
instead of the static default of 15.

[ v2: use sysconf() pointed out by Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.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>

This prints a textual context-switching outline of workload
captured via perf sched record.

For example, on a 16 CPU box it outputs:

   N1  O1  .   .   .   S1  .   .   .   B0  .  *I0  C1  .   M1  .    23002.773423 secs
   N1  O1  .  *Q0  .   S1  .   .   .   B0  .   I0  C1  .   M1  .    23002.773423 secs
   N1  O1  .   Q0  .   S1  .   .   .   B0  .  *R1  C1  .   M1  .    23002.773485 secs
   N1  O1  .   Q0  .   S1  .  *S0  .   B0  .   R1  C1  .   M1  .    23002.773478 secs
  *L0  O1  .   Q0  .   S1  .   S0  .   B0  .   R1  C1  .   M1  .    23002.773523 secs
   L0  O1  .  *.   .   S1  .   S0  .   B0  .   R1  C1  .   M1  .    23002.773531 secs
   L0  O1  .   .   .   S1  .   S0  .   B0  .   R1  C1 *T1  M1  .    23002.773547 secs T1 => irqbalance:2089
   L0  O1  .   .   .   S1  .   S0  .  *P0  .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773549 secs
  *N1  O1  .   .   .   S1  .   S0  .   P0  .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773566 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .  *J0  .   S0  .   P0  .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773571 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .   J0  .   S0 *B0  P0  .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773592 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .   J0  .  *U0  B0  P0  .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773582 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .  *S1  .   U0  B0  P0  .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773604 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .   S1  .   U0  B0 *.   .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773615 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .   S1  .   U0  B0  .   .  *K0  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773631 secs
   N1  O1  .  *M0  .   S1  .   U0  B0  .   .   K0  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773624 secs
   N1  O1  .   M0  .   S1  .   U0 *.   .   .   K0  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773644 secs
   N1  O1  .   M0  .   S1  .   U0  .   .   .  *R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773662 secs
   N1  O1  .   M0  .   S1  .  *.   .   .   .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773648 secs
   N1  O1  .  *.   .   S1  .   .   .   .   .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773680 secs
   N1  O1  .   .   .  *L0  .   .   .   .   .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773717 secs
  *N0  O1  .   .   .   L0  .   .   .   .   .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773709 secs
  *N1  O1  .   .   .   L0  .   .   .   .   .   R1  C1  T1  M1  .    23002.773747 secs

Columns stand for individual CPUs, from CPU0 to CPU15, and the
two-letter shortcuts stand for tasks that are running on a CPU.

'*' denotes the CPU that had the event.

A dot signals an idle CPU.

New tasks are assigned new two-letter shortcuts - when they occur
first they are printed. In the above example 'T1' stood for irqbalance:

      T1 => irqbalance:2089

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>

Peter noticed that we have 3 ways of referring to the idle thread:

 [idle]:0
 swapper:0
 swapper-0

Standardize on 'swapper:0'.
Reported-by: NPeter 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>

Use 'perf sched latency' to track the current task based on
context-switch events, and flag the cases where there's some
impossible transition: such as a PID being switched out that
was not switched in.

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>

Output such lost event and state machine weirdness stats:

   TOTAL:                |  14974.910 ms |    46384 |
  ---------------------------------------------------
   INFO: 8.865% lost events (19132 out of 215819, in 8 chunks)
   INFO: 0.198% state machine bugs (49 out of 24708) (due to lost events?)

And increase buffering to -m 1024 (4 MB) by default. Since we
use output multiplexing that kind of space is needed.

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 allows more precise 'perf sched latency' output:

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Task                  |  Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ksoftirqd/0-4         |    0.010 ms |        2 | avg:    2.476 ms | max:    2.977 ms |
  perf-12328            |   15.844 ms |       66 | avg:    1.118 ms | max:    9.979 ms |
  bdi-default-235       |    0.009 ms |        1 | avg:    0.998 ms | max:    0.998 ms |
  events/1-8            |    0.020 ms |        2 | avg:    0.998 ms | max:    0.998 ms |
  events/0-7            |    0.018 ms |        2 | avg:    0.992 ms | max:    0.996 ms |
  sleep-12329           |    0.742 ms |        3 | avg:    0.906 ms | max:    2.289 ms |
  sshd-12122            |    0.163 ms |        2 | avg:    0.283 ms | max:    0.562 ms |
  loop-getpid-lon-12322 | 1023.636 ms |       69 | avg:    0.208 ms | max:    5.996 ms |
  loop-getpid-lon-12321 | 1038.638 ms |        5 | avg:    0.073 ms | max:    0.171 ms |
  migration/1-5         |    0.000 ms |        1 | avg:    0.006 ms | max:    0.006 ms |
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  TOTAL:                | 2079.078 ms |      153 |
 -------------------------------------------------

Also, streamline the code a bit more, add asserts for various state
machine failures (they should be debugged if they occur) and fix
a few odd ends.

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>

Often it's useful to know the PID of the task as well - print it
out too.

( While at it, reformat the output to be a bit more
  paste-into-commit-logs friendly. )

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>

Before:

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Task              |  Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   perf              |4853313.251 ms |       10 | avg:    0.046 ms | max:    0.337 ms |
   flush-8:0         |2426659.202 ms |        5 | avg:    0.015 ms | max:    0.016 ms |
   sleep             |485331.966 ms |        1 | avg:    0.012 ms | max:    0.012 ms |
   ksoftirqd/1       |485331.320 ms |        1 | avg:    0.005 ms | max:    0.005 ms |
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   TOTAL:            |8250635.739 ms |       17 |
  ---------------------------------------------

After:

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Task              |  Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   perf              |    0.206 ms |       10 | avg:    0.046 ms | max:    0.337 ms |
   flush-8:0         |    2.680 ms |        5 | avg:    0.015 ms | max:    0.016 ms |
   sleep             |    0.662 ms |        1 | avg:    0.012 ms | max:    0.012 ms |
   ksoftirqd/1       |    0.015 ms |        1 | avg:    0.005 ms | max:    0.005 ms |
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   TOTAL:            |    3.563 ms |       17 |
  ---------------------------------------------

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>

Finish the -M/--multiplex option implementation:

 - separate it out from group_fd

 - correctly set it via the ioctl and dont mmap counters that
   are multiplexed

 - modify the perf record event loop to deal with buffer-less
   counters.

 - remove the -g option from perf sched record

 - account for unordered events in perf sched latency

 - (add -f to perf sched record to ease measurements)

 - skip idle threads (pid==0) in latency output

The result is better latency output by 'perf sched latency':

 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Task              |  Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ksoftirqd/8       |    0.071 ms |        2 | avg:    0.458 ms | max:    0.913 ms |
  at-spi-registry   |    0.609 ms |       19 | avg:    0.013 ms | max:    0.023 ms |
  perf              |    3.316 ms |       16 | avg:    0.013 ms | max:    0.054 ms |
  Xorg              |    0.392 ms |       19 | avg:    0.011 ms | max:    0.018 ms |
  sleep             |    0.537 ms |        2 | avg:    0.009 ms | max:    0.009 ms |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  TOTAL:            |    4.925 ms |       58 |
 ---------------------------------------------

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>

Currently it's possible to meet such too high latency results
with 'perf sched latency'.

 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Task              |  Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 xfce4-panel       |    0.222 ms |        2 | avg: 4718.345 ms | max: 9436.493 ms |
 scsi_eh_3         |    3.962 ms |       36 | avg:   55.957 ms | max: 1977.829 ms |

The origin is on traces that are sometimes badly serialized across cpus.
For example the raw traces that raised such results for xfce4-panel:

(1)          [init]-0     [000]  1494.663899990: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] (R) ==> xfce4-panel:4569 [120]
(2)     xfce4-panel-4569  [000]  1494.663928373: sched_switch: task xfce4-panel:4569 [120] (S) ==> swapper:0 [140]
(3)            Xorg-4276  [001]  1494.663860125: sched_wakeup: task xfce4-panel:4569 [120] success=1 [000]
(4)            Xorg-4276  [001]  1504.098252756: sched_wakeup: task xfce4-panel:4569 [120] success=1 [000]
(5)            perf-5219  [000]  1504.100353302: sched_switch: task perf:5219 [120] (S) ==> xfce4-panel:4569 [120]

The traces are processed in the order they arrive. Then in (2),
xfce4-panel sleeps, it is first waken up in (3) and eventually
scheduled in (5).

The latency reported is then 1504 - 1495 = 9 secs, as reported by perf
sched. But this is wrong, we are confident in the fact the traces are
nicely serialized while we should actually more trust the timestamps.

If we reorder by timestamps we get:

(1)            Xorg-4276  [001]  1494.663860125: sched_wakeup: task xfce4-panel:4569 [120] success=1 [000]
(2)          [init]-0     [000]  1494.663899990: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] (R) ==> xfce4-panel:4569 [120]
(3)     xfce4-panel-4569  [000]  1494.663928373: sched_switch: task xfce4-panel:4569 [120] (S) ==> swapper:0 [140]
(4)            Xorg-4276  [001]  1504.098252756: sched_wakeup: task xfce4-panel:4569 [120] success=1 [000]
(5)            perf-5219  [000]  1504.100353302: sched_switch: task perf:5219 [120] (S) ==> xfce4-panel:4569 [120]

Now the trace make more sense, xfce4-panel is sleeping. Then it is
woken up in (1), scheduled in (2)
It goes to sleep in (3), woken up in (4) and scheduled in (5).

Now, latency captured between (1) and (2) is of 39 us.
And between (4) and (5) it is 2.1 ms.

Such pattern of bad serializing is the origin of the high latencies
reported by perf sched.

Basically, we need to check whether wake up time is higher than
schedule out time. If it's not the case, we need to tag the current
work atom as invalid.

Beside that, we may need to work later on a better ordering of the
traces given by the kernel.

After this patch:

xfce4-session     |    0.221 ms |        1 | avg:    0.538 ms | max:    0.538 ms |
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add an option to multiplex counters output in the channel of
the group leader, ie: the first counter opened:

	-M --multiplex

The effect is better serialized samples. This is especially
useful for tracepoint samples that need to be well serialized
for their post-processing.

Also make use of this option in 'perf sched'.
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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Alias 'perf sched trace' to 'perf trace', for workflow completeness.

Add a bit of documentation for perf sched.

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>

Implement the 'perf sched record' subcommand that adds a
default list of events, turns on raw sampling and system-wide
tracing and passes off the rest of the command to perf record.

This is more convenient than having to specify the events all
the time.

Before:

 $ perf record -a -R -e sched:sched_switch:r -e sched:sched_stat_wait:r -e sched:sched_stat_sleep:r -e sched:sched_stat_iowait:r -e sched:sched_process_exit:r -e sched:sched_process_fork:r -e sched:sched_wakeup:r -e sched:sched_migrate_task:r -c 1 sleep 1

After:

 $ perf sched record -f sleep 1

Also fix an assumption in the event string parser that assumed
that strings passed in can be modified. (In this case they wont
be as they come from a readonly constant section.)
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Use a sort list for thread atoms insertion as well - instead of
hardcoded for PID.

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>

- Rename 'latency' field/variable names to the better 'atom' ones

 - Reduce the number of #include lines and consolidate them

 - Gather file scope variables at the top of the file

 - Remove unused bits

No change in functionality.

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>

Separate the option parsing cleanly and add two variants:

 - 'perf sched latency' (can be abbreviated via 'perf sched lat')
 - 'perf sched replay'  (can be abbreviated via 'perf sched rep')

Also add a repeat count option to replay and add a separation
set of options for replay.

Do the sorting setup only in the latency sub-command.

Display separate help screens for 'perf sched' and
'perf sched replay -h' - i.e. further separation of the
sub-commands.

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>

Implement multidimensional sorting on perf sched so that
you can sort either by number of switches, latency average,
latency maximum, runtime.

perf sched -l -s avg,max  (this is the default)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Task              |  Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 gnome-power-man   |    0.113 ms |        1 | avg: 4998.531 ms | max: 4998.531 ms |
 xfdesktop         |    1.190 ms |        7 | avg:  136.475 ms | max:  940.933 ms |
 xfce-mcs-manage   |    2.194 ms |       22 | avg:   38.534 ms | max:  735.174 ms |
 notification-da   |    2.749 ms |       31 | avg:   27.436 ms | max:  731.791 ms |
 xfce4-session     |    3.343 ms |       28 | avg:   26.796 ms | max:  734.891 ms |
 xfwm4             |    3.159 ms |       22 | avg:   12.406 ms | max:  241.333 ms |
 xchat             |   42.789 ms |      214 | avg:   11.886 ms | max:  100.349 ms |
 xfce4-terminal    |    5.386 ms |       22 | avg:   11.414 ms | max:  241.611 ms |
 firefox           |  151.992 ms |      123 | avg:    9.543 ms | max:  153.717 ms |
 xfce4-panel       |   24.324 ms |       47 | avg:    8.189 ms | max:  242.352 ms |
 :5090             |    6.932 ms |      111 | avg:    8.131 ms | max:  102.665 ms |
 events/0          |    0.758 ms |       12 | avg:    1.964 ms | max:   21.879 ms |
 Xorg              |  280.558 ms |      340 | avg:    1.864 ms | max:   99.526 ms |
 geany             |   63.391 ms |      295 | avg:    1.099 ms | max:    9.334 ms |
 reiserfs/0        |    0.039 ms |        2 | avg:    0.854 ms | max:    1.487 ms |
 kondemand/0       |    8.251 ms |      245 | avg:    0.691 ms | max:   34.372 ms |
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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We are dividing a time in ns by 1e9. This is a nsec to sec
conversion. What we want is msecs. Fix it by dividing by 1e6.
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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add a field in the thread atom list that keeps track of the
total and max latencies and also the total runtime. This makes
a faster output and also prepares for sorting.
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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Currently in perf sched, we are measuring the scheduler wakeup
latencies.

Now we also want measure the time a task wait to be scheduled
after it gets preempted.
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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

To measures the latencies, we capture the sched atoms data into
a specific structure named struct lat_snapshot.

As this structure can be used for other purposes of scheduler
profiling and mirrors what happens in a thread work atom, lets
rename it to struct work_atom and propagate this renaming in
other functions and structures names to keep it coherent.
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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

After:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Task              |  Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 make              |    0.678 ms |       13 | avg:    0.018 ms | max:    0.050 ms |
 gcc               |    0.014 ms |        2 | avg:    0.320 ms | max:    0.627 ms |
 gcc               |    0.000 ms |        2 | avg:    0.185 ms | max:    0.369 ms |
...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 TOTAL:            |   21.316 ms |       63 |
---------------------------------------------

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>

Extend the latency tracking structure with scheduling atom
runtime info - and sum it up during per task display.

(Also clean up a few details.)

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>

After:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Task              |  runtime ms | switches | average delay ms | maximum delay ms |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 migration/0       |    0.000 ms |        1 | avg:    0.047 ms | max:    0.047 ms |
 ksoftirqd/0       |    0.000 ms |        1 | avg:    0.039 ms | max:    0.039 ms |
 migration/1       |    0.000 ms |        3 | avg:    0.013 ms | max:    0.016 ms |
 migration/3       |    0.000 ms |        2 | avg:    0.003 ms | max:    0.004 ms |
 migration/4       |    0.000 ms |        1 | avg:    0.022 ms | max:    0.022 ms |
 distccd           |    0.000 ms |        1 | avg:    0.004 ms | max:    0.004 ms |
 distccd           |    0.000 ms |        1 | avg:    0.014 ms | max:    0.014 ms |
 distccd           |    0.000 ms |        2 | avg:    0.000 ms | max:    0.000 ms |
 distccd           |    0.000 ms |        2 | avg:    0.012 ms | max:    0.019 ms |
 distccd           |    0.000 ms |        1 | avg:    0.002 ms | max:    0.002 ms |
 as                |    0.000 ms |        2 | avg:    0.019 ms | max:    0.019 ms |
 as                |    0.000 ms |        3 | avg:    0.015 ms | max:    0.017 ms |
 as                |    0.000 ms |        1 | avg:    0.009 ms | max:    0.009 ms |
 perf              |    0.000 ms |        1 | avg:    0.001 ms | max:    0.001 ms |
 gcc               |    0.000 ms |        1 | avg:    0.021 ms | max:    0.021 ms |
 run-mozilla.sh    |    0.000 ms |        2 | avg:    0.010 ms | max:    0.017 ms |
 mozilla-plugin-   |    0.000 ms |        1 | avg:    0.006 ms | max:    0.006 ms |
 gcc               |    0.000 ms |        2 | avg:    0.013 ms | max:    0.013 ms |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(The runtime ms column is not filled in yet.)

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>

- Separate the latency and the replay commands more cleanly

 - Use consistent naming

 - Display help page on 'perf sched' outlining comments,
   instead of aborting

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>