In some cases distros have binaries and debuginfo in weird places:

[root@doppio tuna]# ls -la /usr/lib64/{xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub,firefox-3.5.2/firefox}
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 90024 2009-08-03 19:45 /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 90024 2009-08-03 18:23 /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub
[root@doppio tuna]# sha1sum /usr/lib64/{xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub,firefox-3.5.2/firefox}
19a858077d263d5de22c9c5da250d3e4396ae739  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub
19a858077d263d5de22c9c5da250d3e4396ae739  /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox
[root@doppio tuna]# rpm -qf /usr/lib64/{xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub,firefox-3.5.2/firefox}
xulrunner-1.9.1.2-1.fc11.x86_64
firefox-3.5.2-2.fc11.x86_64
[root@doppio tuna]# ls -la /usr/lib/debug/{usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub,usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox}.debug
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox.debug: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 403608 2009-08-03 18:22 /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/xulrunner-stub.debug

Seemingly we don't have a .symtab when we actually can find it
if we use the .note.gnu.build-id ELF section put in place by
some distros. Use it and find the symbols we need.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Since the C++ demangling isn't needed for everybody and
bfd/iberty aren't widely/easily available on all machines, make
it optional.

It also allows you to forcefully disable demangling by using
NO_DEMANGLE=1 and otherwise tries to detect libbfd/libiberty
combinations that result in a compiling demangler.
Reported-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
LKML-Reference: <20090801082048.GX12579@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch fixes a spelling error that has resulted from copy
and pasting. The location of the error was found using a
semantic patch but the semantic patch was not trying to find
these errors. After looking things over it seemed logical that
this change was needed. Please review it and then include the
patch if it is in fact the correct change.
Signed-off-by: NStoyan Gaydarov <sgayda2@uiuc.edu>
Signed-off-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: <1248949529-20891-1-git-send-email-sgayda2@uiuc.edu>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

vmlinux meets the criteria for symbol adjustment, which breaks vmlinux generated symbols.
Fix this by exempting vmlinux.  This is a bit fragile in that someone could change the
kernel dso's name, but currently that name is also hardwired.
Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1248091298.18702.18.camel@marge.simson.net>

[acme@doppio ~]$ perf report -s comm,dso,symbol -C firefox -d /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so | grep :: | head
     2.21%  [.] nsDeque::Push(void*)
     1.78%  [.] GraphWalker::DoWalk(nsDeque&)
     1.30%  [.] GCGraphBuilder::AddNode(void*, nsCycleCollectionParticipant*)
     1.27%  [.] XPCWrappedNative::CallMethod(XPCCallContext&, XPCWrappedNative::CallMode)
     1.18%  [.] imgContainer::DrawFrameTo(gfxIImageFrame*, gfxIImageFrame*, nsRect&)
     1.13%  [.] nsDeque::PopFront()
     1.11%  [.] nsGlobalWindow::RunTimeout(nsTimeout*)
     0.97%  [.] nsXPConnect::Traverse(void*, nsCycleCollectionTraversalCallback&)
     0.95%  [.] nsJSEventListener::cycleCollection::Traverse(void*, nsCycleCollectionTraversalCallback&)
     0.95%  [.] nsCOMPtr_base::~nsCOMPtr_base()
[acme@doppio ~]$

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: NClark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090720171412.GB10410@ghostprotocols.net>

So we need to get the richer .symtab from the debuginfo
packages but the PLT info from the original DSO where we have
just the leaner .dynsym symtab.

Example:

| [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol > before
| [acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol > after
| [acme@doppio pahole]$ diff -U1 before after
| --- before	2009-07-11 11:04:22.688595741 -0300
| +++ after	2009-07-11 11:04:33.380595676 -0300
| @@ -80,3 +80,2 @@
|       0.07%  pahole ./build/pahole              [.] pahole_stealer
| -     0.06%  pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so   [.] 0x00000000007140
|       0.06%  pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so   [.] __libdw_getabbrev
| @@ -91,2 +90,3 @@
|       0.06%  pahole [kernel]                    [k] free_hot_cold_page
| +     0.06%  pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so   [.] tfind@plt
|       0.05%  pahole ./build/libdwarves.so.1.0.0 [.] ftype__add_parameter
| @@ -242,2 +242,3 @@
|       0.01%  pahole [kernel]                    [k] account_group_user_time
| +     0.01%  pahole /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so   [.] strlen@plt
|       0.01%  pahole ./build/pahole              [.] strcmp@plt
| [acme@doppio pahole]$
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1247325517-12272-4-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Auto-adjust column width of perf report output to the
longest occuring string length.

Example:

[acme@doppio pahole]$  perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol | head -13

    12.79%   pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so    [.] __libdw_find_attr
     8.90%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so        [.] _int_malloc
     8.68%   pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so    [.] __libdw_form_val_len
     8.15%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so        [.] __GI_strcmp
     6.80%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so        [.] __tsearch
     5.54%   pahole  ./build/libdwarves.so.1.0.0  [.] tag__recode_dwarf_type
[acme@doppio pahole]$

[acme@doppio pahole]$  perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol -d /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so | head -10

    21.92%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so  [.] _int_malloc
    20.08%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so  [.] __GI_strcmp
    16.75%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so  [.] __tsearch
[acme@doppio pahole]$

Also add these extra options to control the new behaviour:

  -w, --field-width

Force each column width to the provided list, for large terminal
readability.

  -t, --field-separator:

Use a special separator character and don't pad with spaces, replacing
all occurances of this separator in symbol names (and other output) with
a '.' character, that thus it's the only non valid separator.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090711014728.GH3452@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1) prelinked system library:

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

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

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

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

Print more symbol relocation related info under -vv.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Lucas De Marchi reported that perf report and perf annotate
displays mismatching profile if a perf.data is analyzed on
an older kernel - even if the correct vmlinux is specified
via the -k option.

The reason is the fallback path in util/symbol.c:dso__load_kernel():

int dso__load_kernel(struct dso *self, const char *vmlinux,
                     symbol_filter_t filter, int verbose)
{
        int err = -1;

        if (vmlinux)
                err = dso__load_vmlinux(self, vmlinux, filter, verbose);

        if (err)
                err = dso__load_kallsyms(self, filter, verbose);

        return err;
}

dso__load_vmlinux() returns negative on error, but on success it
returns the number of symbols loaded - which confuses the function
to load the kallsyms.

This is normally harmless, as reporting is usually performed on the
same kernel that is analyzed - but if there's a mismatch then we
load the wrong kallsyms and create a non-sensical symbol tree.

The fix is to only fall back to kallsyms on errors.
Reported-by: NLucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

On 64-bit powerpc, __u64 is defined to be unsigned long rather than
unsigned long long.  This causes compiler warnings every time we
print a __u64 value with %Lx.

Rather than changing __u64, we define our own u64 to be unsigned long
long on all architectures, and similarly s64 as signed long long.
For consistency we also define u32, s32, u16, s16, u8 and s8.  These
definitions are put in a new header, types.h, because these definitions
are needed in util/string.h and util/symbol.h.

The main change here is the mechanical change of __[us]{64,32,16,8}
to remove the "__".  The other changes are:

* Create types.h
* Include types.h in perf.h, util/string.h and util/symbol.h
* Add types.h to the LIB_H definition in Makefile
* Added (u64) casts in process_overflow_event() and print_sym_table()
  to kill two remaining warnings.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
LKML-Reference: <19003.33494.495844.956580@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

A build error slipped in:

 builtin-report.c: In function ‘hist_entry__fprintf’:
 builtin-report.c:711: error: format ‘%12d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘uint64_t’

Because we got a bit sloppy with those types. uint64_t really sucks,
because there's no printf format for it. So standardize on __u64
instead - for all types that go to or come from the ABI (which is __u64),
or for values that need to be large enough even on 32-bit.

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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch adds support for profiling JIT generated code to 'perf
report'. A JIT compiler is required to generate a "/tmp/perf-$PID.map"
symbols map that is parsed when looking and displaying symbols.

Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for his help with this patch!

Example "perf report" output with the Jato JIT:

 #
 # (40311 samples)
 #
 # Overhead           Command  Shared Object              Symbol
 # ........  ................  .........................  ......
 #
     97.80%              jato  /tmp/perf-11915.map        [.] Fibonacci.fib(I)I
      0.56%              jato  00000000b7fa023b           0x000000b7fa023b
      0.45%              jato  /tmp/perf-11915.map        [.] Fibonacci.main([Ljava/lang/String;)V
      0.38%              jato  [kernel]                   [k] get_page_from_freelist
      0.06%              jato  [kernel]                   [k] kunmap_atomic
      0.05%              jato  ./jato                     [.] utf8Hash
      0.04%              jato  ./jato                     [.] executeJava
      0.04%              jato  ./jato                     [.] defineClass

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: acme@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906082111590.12407@melkki.cs.Helsinki.FI>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

the "perf report" utility crashed in some circumstances
because the "sym" stack variable was not initialized before used
(as also proven by valgrind).

With this fix both the crash goes away and valgrind no longer complains.
Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged
tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the
(new) tools/ directory.

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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add new perf sub-command to display annotated source code:

 $ perf annotate decode_tree_entry

------------------------------------------------
 Percent |	Source code & Disassembly of /home/mingo/git/git
------------------------------------------------
         :
         :	/home/mingo/git/git:     file format elf64-x86-64
         :
         :
         :	Disassembly of section .text:
         :
         :	00000000004a0da0 <decode_tree_entry>:
         :		*modep = mode;
         :		return str;
         :	}
         :
         :	static void decode_tree_entry(struct tree_desc *desc, const char *buf, unsigned long size)
         :	{
    3.82 :	  4a0da0:	41 54                	push   %r12
         :		const char *path;
         :		unsigned int mode, len;
         :
         :		if (size < 24 || buf[size - 21])
    0.17 :	  4a0da2:	48 83 fa 17          	cmp    $0x17,%rdx
         :		*modep = mode;
         :		return str;
         :	}
         :
         :	static void decode_tree_entry(struct tree_desc *desc, const char *buf, unsigned long size)
         :	{
    0.00 :	  4a0da6:	49 89 fc             	mov    %rdi,%r12
    0.00 :	  4a0da9:	55                   	push   %rbp
    3.37 :	  4a0daa:	53                   	push   %rbx
         :		const char *path;
         :		unsigned int mode, len;
         :
         :		if (size < 24 || buf[size - 21])
    0.08 :	  4a0dab:	76 73                	jbe    4a0e20 <decode_tree_entry+0x80>
    0.00 :	  4a0dad:	80 7c 16 eb 00       	cmpb   $0x0,-0x15(%rsi,%rdx,1)
    3.48 :	  4a0db2:	75 6c                	jne    4a0e20 <decode_tree_entry+0x80>
         :	static const char *get_mode(const char *str, unsigned int *modep)
         :	{
         :		unsigned char c;
         :		unsigned int mode = 0;
         :
         :		if (*str == ' ')
    1.94 :	  4a0db4:	0f b6 06             	movzbl (%rsi),%eax
    0.39 :	  4a0db7:	3c 20                	cmp    $0x20,%al
    0.00 :	  4a0db9:	74 65                	je     4a0e20 <decode_tree_entry+0x80>
         :			return NULL;
         :
         :		while ((c = *str++) != ' ') {
    0.06 :	  4a0dbb:	89 c2                	mov    %eax,%edx
         :			if (c < '0' || c > '7')
    1.99 :	  4a0dbd:	31 ed                	xor    %ebp,%ebp
         :		unsigned int mode = 0;
         :
         :		if (*str == ' ')
         :			return NULL;
         :
         :		while ((c = *str++) != ' ') {
    1.74 :	  4a0dbf:	48 8d 5e 01          	lea    0x1(%rsi),%rbx
         :			if (c < '0' || c > '7')
    0.00 :	  4a0dc3:	8d 42 d0             	lea    -0x30(%rdx),%eax
    0.17 :	  4a0dc6:	3c 07                	cmp    $0x7,%al
    0.00 :	  4a0dc8:	76 0d                	jbe    4a0dd7 <decode_tree_entry+0x37>
    0.00 :	  4a0dca:	eb 54                	jmp    4a0e20 <decode_tree_entry+0x80>
    0.00 :	  4a0dcc:	0f 1f 40 00          	nopl   0x0(%rax)
   16.57 :	  4a0dd0:	8d 42 d0             	lea    -0x30(%rdx),%eax
    0.14 :	  4a0dd3:	3c 07                	cmp    $0x7,%al
    0.00 :	  4a0dd5:	77 49                	ja     4a0e20 <decode_tree_entry+0x80>
         :				return NULL;
         :			mode = (mode << 3) + (c - '0');
    3.12 :	  4a0dd7:	0f b6 c2             	movzbl %dl,%eax
         :		unsigned int mode = 0;
         :
         :		if (*str == ' ')
         :			return NULL;
         :
         :		while ((c = *str++) != ' ') {
    0.00 :	  4a0dda:	0f b6 13             	movzbl (%rbx),%edx
   16.74 :	  4a0ddd:	48 83 c3 01          	add    $0x1,%rbx
         :			if (c < '0' || c > '7')
         :				return NULL;
         :			mode = (mode << 3) + (c - '0');

The first column is the percentage of samples that arrived on that
particular line - relative to the total cost of the function.

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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

In order to deal with [vdso] maps generalize the ip->symbol path
a bit and allow to override some bits with custom functions.
Signed-off-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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Also, add a suggestion to 'perf report', if the default sort order is
used.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The end is really (start + len - 1). Noticed when synthesizing
the PLT symbols, that are small (16 bytes), and hot on the
start RIP.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20090603174921.GG7805@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

PLT, the Program Linking Table, is used with the dynamic linker to
allow PIC code in executables and shared objects to figure out
where functions are in other shared objects.

It is one of the sources of unknown/unresolved symbols - this patch
does what binutils figures out when you ask it to disassembly.
(objdump -S)

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090601205057.GB7805@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This has also a nice side effect, tools built on newer systems such as
fedora 10 again work on systems with older versions of glibc:

My workstation:

[acme@doppio ~]$ rpm -q glibc.x86_64
glibc-2.9-3.x86_64

Test machine:

[acme@emilia ~]$ rpm -q glibc.x86_64
glibc-2.5-24

Before:

[acme@emilia ~]$ perf
perf: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by perf)
[acme@emilia ~]$ nm `which perf` | grep GLIBC_2\.7
                 U __isoc99_sscanf@@GLIBC_2.7
[acme@emilia ~]$

After:
[acme@emilia ~]$ perf
usage: perf [--version] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]

The most commonly used perf commands are:
   record   Run a command and record its profile into perf.data
   report   Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display the
profile
   stat     Run a command and gather performance counter statistics
   top      Run a command and profile it

See 'perf help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command.
[acme@emilia ~]$ nm `which perf` | grep GLIBC_2\.7
[acme@emilia ~]$
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090601205019.GA7805@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Will be used by perf top.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090528175526.GF4747@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Now one has just to use dso__load_kernel() optionally passing a vmlinux
filename.

Will make things easier for perf top that will want to pass a callback
to filter some symbols.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

When creating a dso instance allow asking that all symbols in this dso
have a private area just before the symbol.

perf top will use this for its counters, etc.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090528175513.GD4747@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Will be used by perf top as well.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090528175504.GC4747@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>