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- 27 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
While implementing event__preprocess_sample, that will do all of the symbol lookup in one convenient function, I noticed that util/process_event.[ch] were not being used at all, then started looking if there were other functions that could be shared and... All those functions really don't need to receive offset + head, the only thing they did was common to all of them, so do it at one place instead. Stats about number of each type of event processed now is done in a central place. Signed-off-by:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1259346563-12568-11-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 24 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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John Kacur authored
Prevent bit-rot in perf-annotate by using common functions where possible. Here we create process_events.[ch] to hold the common functions. Signed-off-by:
John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: acme@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1259073301-11506-3-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 23 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
gcc with no flags typically is a sane default for systems to use, and looking at the running kernel is probably broken for cross-builds anyway, so let's not do this. Add EXTRA_CFLAGS so that users can override default gcc mode if they want to. Signed-off-by:
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20091122121335.GA24254@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 22 Nov, 2009 2 commits
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
On error, suggest installing static libraries along with shared libraries. Signed-off-by:
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
Make standard error show up on console when V=2 is set. Signed-off-by:
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- 20 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Li Zefan authored
This tool is mostly a perf version of kmemtrace-user. The following information is provided by this tool: - the total amount of memory allocated and fragmentation per call-site - the total amount of memory allocated and fragmentation per allocation - total memory allocated and fragmentation in the collected dataset - ... Sample output: # ./perf kmem record ^C # ./perf kmem --stat caller --stat alloc -l 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Callsite | Total_alloc/Per | Total_req/Per | Hit | Fragmentation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 0xc052f37a | 790528/4096 | 790528/4096 | 193 | 0.000% 0xc0541d70 | 524288/4096 | 524288/4096 | 128 | 0.000% 0xc051cc68 | 481600/200 | 481600/200 | 2408 | 0.000% 0xc0572623 | 297444/676 | 297440/676 | 440 | 0.001% 0xc05399f1 | 73476/164 | 73472/164 | 448 | 0.005% 0xc05243bf | 51456/256 | 51456/256 | 201 | 0.000% 0xc0730d0e | 31844/497 | 31808/497 | 64 | 0.113% 0xc0734c4e | 17152/256 | 17152/256 | 67 | 0.000% 0xc0541a6d | 16384/128 | 16384/128 | 128 | 0.000% 0xc059c217 | 13120/40 | 13120/40 | 328 | 0.000% 0xc0501ee6 | 11264/88 | 11264/88 | 128 | 0.000% 0xc04daef0 | 7504/682 | 7128/648 | 11 | 5.011% 0xc04e14a3 | 4216/191 | 4216/191 | 22 | 0.000% 0xc05041ca | 3524/44 | 3520/44 | 80 | 0.114% 0xc0734fa3 | 2104/701 | 1620/540 | 3 | 23.004% 0xc05ec9f1 | 2024/289 | 2016/288 | 7 | 0.395% 0xc06a1999 | 1792/256 | 1792/256 | 7 | 0.000% 0xc0463b9a | 1584/144 | 1584/144 | 11 | 0.000% 0xc0541eb0 | 1024/16 | 1024/16 | 64 | 0.000% 0xc06a19ac | 896/128 | 896/128 | 7 | 0.000% 0xc05721c0 | 772/12 | 768/12 | 64 | 0.518% 0xc054d1e6 | 288/57 | 280/56 | 5 | 2.778% 0xc04b562e | 157/31 | 154/30 | 5 | 1.911% 0xc04b536f | 80/16 | 80/16 | 5 | 0.000% 0xc05855a0 | 64/64 | 36/36 | 1 | 43.750% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alloc Ptr | Total_alloc/Per | Total_req/Per | Hit | Fragmentation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 0xda884000 | 1052672/4096 | 1052672/4096 | 257 | 0.000% 0xda886000 | 262144/4096 | 262144/4096 | 64 | 0.000% 0xf60c7c00 | 16512/128 | 16512/128 | 129 | 0.000% 0xf59a4118 | 13120/40 | 13120/40 | 328 | 0.000% 0xdfd4b2c0 | 11264/88 | 11264/88 | 128 | 0.000% 0xf5274600 | 7680/256 | 7680/256 | 30 | 0.000% 0xe8395000 | 5948/594 | 5464/546 | 10 | 8.137% 0xe59c3c00 | 5748/479 | 5712/476 | 12 | 0.626% 0xf4cd1a80 | 3524/44 | 3520/44 | 80 | 0.114% 0xe5bd1600 | 2892/482 | 2856/476 | 6 | 1.245% ... | ... | ... | ... | ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUMMARY ======= Total bytes requested: 2333626 Total bytes allocated: 2353712 Total bytes wasted on internal fragmentation: 20086 Internal fragmentation: 0.853375% TODO: - show sym+offset in 'callsite' column - show cross node allocation stats - collect more useful stats? - ... Signed-off-by:
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org <linux-mm@kvack.org> LKML-Reference: <4B064AF5.9060208@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 19 Nov, 2009 2 commits
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Hitoshi Mitake authored
'perf bench mem memcpy' is a benchmark suite for measuring memcpy() performance. Example on a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz: | % perf bench mem memcpy -l 1GB | # Running mem/memcpy benchmark... | # Copying 1MB Bytes from 0xb7d98008 to 0xb7e99008 ... | | 726.216412 MB/Sec Signed-off-by:
Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1258471212-30281-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> [ v2: updated changelog, clarified history of builtin-bench.c ] Signed-off-by:
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Luck, Tony authored
Compiler on ia64 rejects the "-m64" option. Add arch specific pieces to perf.h Signed-off-by:
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4b02d7f43514327a@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 17 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
This makes it possible to build perf statically, by performing: make LDFLAGS=-static Since static libraries are only searched in the order they are specified, move library list from LDFLAGS to EXTLIBS, so that they are put at the end of linker command line. Signed-off-by:
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- 16 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
With this we can list the buildids in a perf.data file so that we can pipe them to other, distro specific tools that from the buildids can figure out separate packages (foo-debuginfo) where we can find the matching symtabs so that perf report can do its job. E.g: [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf buildid-list | head -5 8e08b117e5458ad3f85da16d42d0fc5cd21c5869 520c2387a587cc5acfcf881e27dba1caaeab4b1f ec8dd400904ddfcac8b1c343263a790f977159dc 7caedbca5a6d8ab39a7fe44bd28c07d3e14a3f3f 379bb828fd08859dbea73279f04abefabc95a6a3 [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf buildid-list -v | head -5 8e08b117e5458ad3f85da16d42d0fc5cd21c5869 /sbin/init 520c2387a587cc5acfcf881e27dba1caaeab4b1f /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so ec8dd400904ddfcac8b1c343263a790f977159dc /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so 7caedbca5a6d8ab39a7fe44bd28c07d3e14a3f3f /sbin/udevd 379bb828fd08859dbea73279f04abefabc95a6a3 /lib64/libdl-2.10.1.so [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ Signed-off-by:
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- 11 Nov, 2009 1 commit
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Michael Cree authored
Some architectures (e.g. Alpha) do not support the -fstack-protector-all compiler option and the use of the option with -Werror causes the compiler to abort and the build fails. Test that the compiler supports -fstack-protector-all before inclusion in CFLAGS. Signed-off-by:
Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20091111074302.GA3728@omega> Signed-off-by:
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- 08 Nov, 2009 2 commits
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Clark Williams authored
Add routines to locate the debugfs mount point and to manage the mounting and unmounting of the debugfs. Signed-off-by:
Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20091101155621.2b3503ee@torg> Signed-off-by:
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Hitoshi Mitake authored
This patch modifies Makefile for new files related to 'bench' subcommand. The new code is active from this point on. Signed-off-by:
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- 27 Oct, 2009 1 commit
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Because we will need it in 'perf top' to support userspace symbols for existing threads. Now we pass a callback that will receive the synthesized event and then write it to the output file in 'perf record' and in the upcoming patch for 'perf top' we will just immediatelly create the in memory representation of threads and maps. Signed-off-by:
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- 26 Oct, 2009 1 commit
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Paul Mundt authored
The present use of -Wcast-align causes the build to blow up on SH due to generating a "cast increases required alignment of target type" error on each invocation of list_for_each_entry(). It seems that this was previously reported and killed off in the ia64 support patch, but nothing seems to have happened with that. Presumably the same problem still remains there, too. Signed-off-by:
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> LKML-Reference: <20091026054000.GA13517@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by:
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- 25 Oct, 2009 1 commit
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Marti Raudsepp authored
The Makefile now automatically defines LIBELF_NO_MMAP when libelf 0.8.x is detected. libelf 0.8 is still maintained and some distributions such as Arch Linux use it instead of elfutils. Signed-off-by:
Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1256400636.3007.16.camel@newn> Signed-off-by:
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- 23 Oct, 2009 1 commit
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Wrapping the kernel headers is dangerous when it comes to arch headers. Once we wrap asm/types.h, it will also replace the glibc asm/types.h, not only the kernel one. This results in build errors on some machines. Drop this wrapper and do its work from linux/types.h wrapper, also the glibc asm/types.h can already handle most of the type definition it was doing (typedef __u64, __u32, etc...). Todo: Check the others asm/*.h wrappers to prevent from other conflicts. Reported-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1256246604-17156-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 21 Oct, 2009 1 commit
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Steven Rostedt authored
When using gdb to debug perf, it is practically impossible to use when perf is compiled with -O6. For developers, this patch adds the DEBUG feature to the make command line so that a developer can easily remove the optimization flag. LKML-Reference: <1255590330.8392.446.camel@twins> Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20091020232033.984323261@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
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- 20 Oct, 2009 2 commits
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Build dependencies were not properly mapped out. Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
To cure a bunch of: In file included from util/include/linux/bitmap.h:1, from util/header.h:8, from builtin-trace.c:7: util/include/../../../../include/linux/bitmap.h:8:26: error: linux/string.h: No such file or directory make: *** [builtin-trace.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Signed-off-by:
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- 19 Oct, 2009 2 commits
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Randy Dunlap authored
Check for libelf headers and glibc headers separately so that the error message correctly identifies which package installation is missing/needed. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: efault@gmx.de Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4ADBCCE8.3060300@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Use the kernel bitmap library for internal perf tools uses. Signed-off-by:
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- 17 Oct, 2009 2 commits
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Add DIE_IF() macro and replace ERR_IF() with it, and use linux/stringify.h. Signed-off-by:
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20091017000818.16556.82452.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Check libdwarf APIs for perf probe in tools/perf/Makefile. Since dwarf_get_ranges() has been added from libdwarf 20081231 (and it's the newest function used in probe-finder.c), this just checks whether the function is defined. Signed-off-by:
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- 12 Oct, 2009 3 commits
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Enables 'perf probe' even if libdwarf is not installed. If libdwarf is not found, 'perf probe' just disables dwarf support. Users can use 'perf probe' to set up new events by using kprobe_events format. Signed-off-by:
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Add perf probe subcommand that implements a kprobe-event setup helper to the perf command. This allows user to define kprobe events using C expressions (C line numbers, C function names, and C local variables). Usage ----- perf probe [<options>] -P 'PROBEDEF' [-P 'PROBEDEF' ...] -k, --vmlinux <file> vmlinux/module pathname -P, --probe <p|r:[GRP/]NAME FUNC[+OFFS][@SRC]|@SRC:LINE [ARG ...]> probe point definition, where p: kprobe probe r: kretprobe probe GRP: Group name (optional) NAME: Event name FUNC: Function name OFFS: Offset from function entry (in byte) SRC: Source code path LINE: Line number ARG: Probe argument (local variable name or kprobe-tracer argument format is supported.) Changes in v4: - Add _GNU_SOURCE macro for strndup(). Changes in v3: - Remove -r option because perf always be used for online kernel. - Check malloc/calloc results. Changes in v2: - Check synthesized string length. - Rename perf kprobe to perf probe. - Use spaces for separator and update usage comment. - Check error paths in parse_probepoint(). - Check optimized-out variables. Signed-off-by: -
Ingo Molnar authored
Randy Dunlap reported that 'make NO_64BIT=1' fails to build a pure 32-b it binary on 64-bit/64-bit x86 systems. The reason is that we dont pass in the -m32 and GCC defaults to -m64. So pass it in - and also extend the warning message about libelf dependencies - glibc-dev[el] is needed as well beyond the libelf library. Reported-by:
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- 08 Oct, 2009 1 commit
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
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:
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- 04 Oct, 2009 1 commit
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
As it was not being exposed via any command line and with --dsos/--comms we can do this and even more, like asking for just kernel + some module: [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report --dsos \[kernel\],\[drm\] --vmlinux /home/acme/git/build/tip-recvmmsg/vmlinux --modules | head -15 # Samples: 619669 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............... ............. ...... # 7.12% swapper [kernel] [k] read_hpet 6.86% init [kernel] [k] read_hpet 6.22% init [kernel] [k] mwait_idle_with_hints 5.34% swapper [kernel] [k] mwait_idle_with_hints 3.01% firefox [kernel] [.] vread_hpet 2.14% Xorg [drm] [k] drm_clflush_pages 2.09% pidgin [kernel] [.] vread_hpet 1.58% npviewer.bin [kernel] [.] vread_hpet 1.37% swapper [kernel] [k] hpet_next_event 1.23% Xorg [kernel] [k] read_hpet [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# Signed-off-by:
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- 02 Oct, 2009 1 commit
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Representing modules as struct map entries, backed by a DSO, etc, using /proc/modules to find where the module is loaded. DSOs now can have a short and long name, so that in verbose mode we can show exactly which .ko or vmlinux image was used. As kernel modules now are a DSO separate from the kernel, we can ask for just the hits for a particular set of kernel modules, just like we can do with shared libraries: [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report -n --vmlinux /home/acme/git/build/tip-recvmmsg/vmlinux --modules --dsos \[drm\] | head -15 84.58% 13266 Xorg [k] drm_clflush_pages 4.02% 630 Xorg [k] trace_kmalloc.clone.0 3.95% 619 Xorg [k] drm_ioctl 2.07% 324 Xorg [k] drm_addbufs 1.68% 263 Xorg [k] drm_gem_close_ioctl 0.77% 120 Xorg [k] drm_setmaster_ioctl 0.70% 110 Xorg [k] drm_lastclose 0.68% 106 Xorg [k] drm_open 0.54% 85 Xorg [k] drm_mm_search_free [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# Specifying --dsos /lib/modules/2.6.31-tip/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko would have the same effect. Allowing specifying just 'drm.ko' is left for another patch. Processing kallsyms so that per kernel module struct map are instantiated was also left for another patch. That will allow removing the module name from each of its symbols. struct symbol was reduced by removing the ->module backpointer and moving it (well now the map) to struct symbol_entry in perf top, that is its only user right now. The total linecount went down by ~500 lines. Signed-off-by:
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- 01 Oct, 2009 1 commit
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Mulyadi Santosa authored
Right now generate-cmdlist.sh is not executable, so we should call it as an argument ".". This fixes cases where due to different umask defaults the generate-cmdlist.sh script is not executable in a kernel tree checkout. Signed-off-by:
Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.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: <f284c33d0909251201w422e9687x8cd3a784e85adf7d@mail.gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 30 Sep, 2009 2 commits
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Threads can have many and kernel modules will be represented as a tree of maps as well. Ah, and for a perf.data with 146607 samples: Before: [root@doppio ~]# perf stat -r 5 perf report > /dev/null Performance counter stats for 'perf report' (5 runs): 699.823680 task-clock-msecs # 0.991 CPUs ( +- 0.454% ) 74 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 1.709% ) 2 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 17.008% ) 23114 page-faults # 0.033 M/sec ( +- 0.000% ) 1381257019 cycles # 1973.721 M/sec ( +- 0.290% ) 1456894438 instructions # 1.055 IPC ( +- 0.007% ) 18779818 cache-references # 26.835 M/sec ( +- 0.380% ) 641799 cache-misses # 0.917 M/sec ( +- 1.200% ) 0.705972729 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.501% ) [root@doppio ~]# After Performance counter stats for 'perf report' (5 runs): 691.261451 task-clock-msecs # 0.993 CPUs ( +- 0.307% ) 72 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 0.829% ) 6 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 18.409% ) 23127 page-faults # 0.033 M/sec ( +- 0.000% ) 1366395876 cycles # 1976.670 M/sec ( +- 0.153% ) 1443136016 instructions # 1.056 IPC ( +- 0.012% ) 17956402 cache-references # 25.976 M/sec ( +- 0.325% ) 661924 cache-misses # 0.958 M/sec ( +- 1.335% ) 0.696127275 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.377% ) I.e. we see some speedup too. Signed-off-by: -
John Kacur authored
Move histogram related functions into their own files (hist.c and hist.h) and make use of them in builtin-annotate.c and builtin-report.c. Signed-off-by:
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- 24 Sep, 2009 1 commit
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John Kacur authored
Create util/sort.[ch] and move common functionality for builtin-report.c and builtin-annotate.c there, and make use of it. Signed-off-by:
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- 21 Sep, 2009 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
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:Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by:
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by:
Arjan 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:
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- 19 Sep, 2009 2 commits
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Arjan van de Ven authored
timechart is a tool to visualize what is going on in the system. The user makes a trace of what is going on with > perf record --timechart /usr/bin/some_command and then can turn the output of this into an svg file > perf timechart which then can be viewed with any SVG view; inkscape works well enough for me. The idea behind timechart is to create a "infinitely zoomable" picture; something that has high level information on a 1:1 zoom level, but which exposes more details every time you zoom into a specific area. Signed-off-by:
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Arjan van de Ven authored
The timechart tool writes out SVG format output; this patch adds a set of helper functions to abstract dealing with SVG from the core timechart code. Signed-off-by:
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- 13 Sep, 2009 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
This turn-key tool allows scheduler measurements to be conducted and the results be displayed numerically. First baby step towards that goal: clone the new command off of perf trace. Fix a few other details along the way: - add (minimal) perf trace documentation - reorder a few places - list perf trace in the mainporcelain list as well as it's a very useful utility. 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:
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- 02 Sep, 2009 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
Make it easier to turn warnings on/off by using a separate line for each warning added. Some of the warnings have too much of a nuisance factor and we might want to turn them off in the future. Cc: 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:
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- 17 Aug, 2009 1 commit
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
This adds perf trace into the set of perf tools. It is written to fetch the tracepoint samples from perf events and display them, according to the events information given by the debugfs files through the util/trace* tools. It is a rough first shot and doesn't yet handle the cpu, timestamps fields and some other things. Example: perf record -f -e workqueue:workqueue_execution:record -F 1 -a perf trace kblockd/0-236 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:236 func=cfq_kick_queue+0x0 kondemand/0-360 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:360 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/0-360 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:360 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/1-361 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/1-361 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/1-361 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/1-361 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/1-361 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/1-361 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/1-361 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/1-361 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/1-361 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/1-361 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/1-361 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/1-361 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 kondemand/1-361 [000] 0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0 Todo: - A lot of things! Signed-off-by:
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