- 28 Nov, 2009 6 commits
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Tom Zanussi authored
Adds perf-trace-perl Documentation and a link to it from the perf-trace page. Signed-off-by:
Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: anton@samba.org Cc: hch@infradead.org LKML-Reference: <1259133352-23685-7-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Tom Zanussi authored
The Perl scripting support for perf trace allows most of a trace event's data to be accessed directly as handler arguments, but not all of it e.g. the less common fields aren't passed in. To give scripts access to the other fields and/or any other data or metadata in the main perf executable that might be useful, a way to access the C data in perf from Perl is needed; this patch uses the Perl XS facility to do it for the common_xxx event fields not passed to handler functions. Context.pm exports three functions to Perl scripts that access fields for the current event by calling back into perf: common_pc(), common_flags() and common_lock_depth(). Support for common_flags() field values was added to Core.pm and a script used to sanity check these and other basic scripting features, check-perf-trace.pl, was also added. Signed-off-by:
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Tom Zanussi authored
Add Perf-Trace-Util Perl module and some scripts that use it. Core.pm contains Perl code to define and access flag and symbolic fields. Util.pm contains general-purpose utility functions. Also adds some makefile bits to install them in libexec/perf-core/scripts/perl (or wherever perfexec_instdir points). Signed-off-by:
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Tom Zanussi authored
Implement trace_scripting_ops to make Perl a supported perf trace scripting language. Additionally adds code that allows Perl trace scripts to access the 'flag' and 'symbolic' (__print_flags(), __print_symbolic()) field information parsed from the trace format files. Also adds the Perl implementation of the generate_script() trace_scripting_op, which creates a ready-to-run perf trace Perl script based on existing trace data. Scripts generated by this implementation print out all the fields for each event mentioned in perf.data (and will detect and generate the proper scripting code for 'flag' and 'symbolic' fields), and will additionally generate handlers for the special 'trace_unhandled', 'trace_begin' and 'trace_end' handlers. Script authors can simply remove the printing code to implement their own custom event handling. Signed-off-by:
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Tom Zanussi authored
It's useful to know whether a field is a flag or symbolic field for e.g. when generating scripts - it allows us to translate those fields specially rather than literally as plain numeric values. Signed-off-by:
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Tom Zanussi authored
Adds an interface, scripting_ops, that when implemented for a particular scripting language enables built-in support for trace stream processing using that language. The interface is designed to enable full-fledged language interpreters to be embedded inside the perf executable and thereby make the full capabilities of the supported languages available for trace processing. See below for details on the interface. This patch also adds a couple command-line options to 'perf trace': The -s option option is used to specify the script to be run. Script names that can be used with -s take the form: [language spec:]scriptname[.ext] Scripting languages register a set of 'language specs' that can be used to specify scripts for the registered languages. The specs can be used either as prefixes or extensions. If [language spec:] is used, the script is taken as a script of the matching language regardless of any extension it might have. If [language spec:] is not used, [.ext] is used to look up the language it corresponds to. Language specs are case insensitive. e.g. Perl scripts can be specified in the following ways: Perl:scriptname pl:scriptname.py # extension ignored PL:scriptname scriptname.pl scriptname.perl The -g [language spec] option gives users an easy starting point for writing scripts in the specified language. Scripting support for a particular language can implement a generate_script() scripting op that outputs an empty (or near-empty) set of handlers for all the events contained in a given perf.data trace file - this option gives users a direct way to access that. Adding support for a scripting language --------------------------------------- The main thing that needs to be done do add support for a new language is to implement the scripting_ops interface: It consists of the following four functions: start_script() stop_script() process_event() generate_script() start_script() is called before any events are processed, and is meant to give the scripting language support an opportunity to set things up to receive events e.g. create and initialize an instance of a language interpreter. stop_script() is called after all events are processed, and is meant to give the scripting language support an opportunity to clean up e.g. destroy the interpreter instance, etc. process_event() is called once for each event and takes as its main parameter a pointer to the binary trace event record to be processed. The implementation is responsible for picking out the binary fields from the event record and sending them to the script handler function associated with that event e.g. a function derived from the event name it's meant to handle e.g. 'sched::sched_switch()'. The 'format' information for trace events can be used to parse the binary data and map it into a form usable by a given scripting language; see the Perl implemention in subsequent patches for one possible way to leverage the existing trace format parsing code in perf and map that info into specific scripting language types. generate_script() should generate a ready-to-run script for the current set of events in the trace, preferably with bodies that print out every field for each event. Again, look at the Perl implementation for clues as to how that can be done. This is an optional, but very useful op. Support for a given language should also add a language-specific setup function and call it from setup_scripting(). The language-specific setup function associates the the scripting ops for that language with one or more 'language specifiers' (see below) using script_spec_register(). When a script name is specified on the command line, the scripting ops associated with the specified language are used to instantiate and use the appropriate interpreter to process the trace stream. In general, it should be relatively easy to add support for a new language, especially if the language implementation supports an interface allowing an interpreter to be 'embedded' inside another program (in this case the containing program will be 'perf trace'). If so, it should be relatively straightforward to translate trace events into invocations of user-defined script functions where e.g. the function name corresponds to the event type and the function parameters correspond to the event fields. The event and field type information exported by the event tracing infrastructure (via the event 'format' files) should be enough to parse and send any piece of trace data to the user script. The easiest way to see how this can be done would be to look at the Perl implementation contained in perf/util/trace-event-perl.c/.h. There are a couple of other things that aren't covered by the scripting_ops or setup interface and are technically optional, but should be implemented if possible. One of these is support for 'flag' and 'symbolic' fields e.g. being able to use more human-readable values such as 'GFP_KERNEL' or HI/BLOCK_IOPOLL/TASKLET in place of raw flag values. See the Perl implementation to see how this can be done. The other thing is support for 'calling back' into the perf executable to access e.g. uncommon fields not passed by default into handler functions, or any metadata the implementation might want to make available to users via the language interface. Again, see the Perl implementation for examples. Signed-off-by:
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- 27 Nov, 2009 18 commits
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Now we have a very high level routine for simple tools to process IP sample events: int event__preprocess_sample(const event_t *self, struct addr_location *al, symbol_filter_t filter) It receives the event itself and will insert new threads in the global threads list and resolve the map and symbol, filling all this info into the new addr_location struct, so that tools like annotate and report can further process the event by creating hist_entries in their specific way (with or without callgraphs, etc). It in turn uses the new next layer function: void thread__find_addr_location(struct thread *self, u8 cpumode, enum map_type type, u64 addr, struct addr_location *al, symbol_filter_t filter) This one will, given a thread (userspace or the kernel kthread one), will find the given type (MAP__FUNCTION now, MAP__VARIABLE too in the near future) at the given cpumode, taking vdsos into account (userspace hit, but kernel symbol) and will fill all these details in the addr_location given. Tools that need a more compact API for plain function resolution, like 'kmem', can use this other one: struct symbol *thread__find_function(struct thread *self, u64 addr, symbol_filter_t filter) So, to resolve a kernel symbol, that is all the 'kmem' tool needs, its just a matter of calling: sym = thread__find_function(kthread, addr, NULL); The 'filter' parameter is needed because we do lazy parsing/loading of ELF symtabs or /proc/kallsyms. With this we remove more code duplication all around, which is always good, huh? :-) Signed-off-by:
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: <1259346563-12568-12-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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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:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Making the routines that were so far specific to the kernel maps useful for all threads. This is done by making the kernel maps be contained in a kernel "thread". This gets the kernel specific routines closer to the userspace counterparts, which will help in reducing the boilerplate for resolving a symbol, as will be demonstrated in the next patches. Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
So that we can support multiple symbol table types. Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
So that the kallsyms loading routines are the direct counterpart of the vmlinux loading ones, i.e. dso__load_kallsyms is the counterpart of dso__load_vmlinux. In the process make them also use the symbols rb tree indexed by map->type, paving the way for supporting other types of symtabs, such as the next one to be supported: variables. This also allowed removal of yet another global variable: kernel_map__functions. Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
By using an array of rb_roots in struct dso we can, from a struct map instance to get the right symbol rb_tree more easily. This way we can have just one symbol lookup method for struct map instances, map__find_symbol, instead of one per symtab type (functions, variables). Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
That way we will be able to check if the right symtab is loaded in the underlying DSO. Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
perf annotate was the only user, and it doesn't really need it. Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
We don't need to look at modules in dsos__findnew because the kernel events come only with user DSOs. Also we need a way to list just the module DSOs so that we can create multiple sets of maps, now that we will support maps for the variables in a symtab. Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
As we'll have kernel_map[s]__variables too. Signed-off-by:
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
This should be properly fixed when we remove the XXX comment in 'perf report', function resolve_symbol. Signed-off-by:
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Lai Jiangshan authored
"symbol_name+0" is not so friendly. It makes the output longer. Signed-off-by:
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0CEBCB.7080309@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Sometimes the group name is not "kprobes", It'll be better if we can read it from tracing/kprobe_events. # echo 'r:laijs/vfs_read vfs_read %ax' > kprobe_events # cat kprobe_events r:laijs/vfs_read vfs_read %ax=%ax Signed-off-by:
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Lai Jiangshan authored
tp->nr_args is not set before we "goto error", it causes memory leak for free_trace_probe() use tp->nr_args to free memory of args. Signed-off-by:
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Field syscall number is missed in syscall_enter_define_fields()/ syscall_exit_define_fields(). Syscall number is also needed for event filter or other users. Signed-off-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <4B0E330D.1070206@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Kernel breakpoints are created using functions in which we pass breakpoint parameters as individual variables: address, length and type. Although it fits well for x86, this just does not scale across architectures that may support this api later as these may have more or different needs. Pass in a perf_event_attr structure instead because it is meant to evolve as much as possible into a generic hardware breakpoint parameter structure. Reported-by:
K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
In-kernel user breakpoints are created using functions in which we pass breakpoint parameters as individual variables: address, length and type. Although it fits well for x86, this just does not scale across archictectures that may support this api later as these may have more or different needs. Pass in a perf_event_attr structure instead because it is meant to evolve as much as possible into a generic hardware breakpoint parameter structure. Reported-by:
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- 26 Nov, 2009 16 commits
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Stephane Eranian authored
When a pinned group cannot be scheduled it goes into error state. Normally a group cannot go out of error state without being explicitly re-enabled or disabled. There was a bug in per-thread mode, whereby upon termination of the thread, the group would transition from error to off leading to bogus counts and timing information returned by read(). Fix it by clearing the error state. Signed-off-by:
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net LKML-Reference: <4b0eb9ce.0508d00a.573b.ffffeab6@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Commit 53d0422c ("tracing: Convert some kmem events to DEFINE_EVENT") moved the kmem tracepoint creation from util.c to page_alloc.c, but forgot to move the exports. Move them back. Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> LKML-Reference: <4B0E286A.2000405@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Add signal_overflow_fail and signal_lose_info tracepoints for signal-lost events. Changes in v3: - Add docbook style comments Changes in v2: - Use siginfo string macro Suggested-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Add a tracepoint where a process gets a signal. This tracepoint shows signal-number, sa-handler and sa-flag. Changes in v3: - Add docbook style comments Changes in v2: - Add siginfo argument - Fix comment Signed-off-by:
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Move signal sending event to events/signal.h. This patch also renames sched_signal_send event to signal_generate. Changes in v4: - Fix a typo of task_struct pointer. Changes in v3: - Add docbook style comments Changes in v2: - Add siginfo argument - Add siginfo storing macro Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
bp_perf_event_destroy() is unused in its off-case version, let's remove it to fix the following warning reported by Stephen Rothwell in linux-next: kernel/perf_event.c:4306: warning: 'bp_perf_event_destroy' defined but not used Reported-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
If the new percpu tree is combined with the perf events tree the following new warning triggers: kernel/hw_breakpoint.c: In function 'toggle_bp_task_slot': kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:151: warning: 'task_bp_pinned' is used uninitialized in this function Because it's not valid anymore to define a local variable and a percpu variable (even if it's file scope local) with the same name. Rename the local variable to resolve this. Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <200911260701.nAQ71owx016356@imap1.linux-foundation.org> [ v2: added changelog ] Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
When we schedule out a breakpoint from the cpu, we also incidentally remove the "Global exact breakpoint" flag from the breakpoint control register. It makes us losing the fine grained precision about the origin of the instructions that may trigger breakpoint exceptions for the other breakpoints running in this cpu. Reported-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
This simplifies the error handling when we create a breakpoint. We don't need to check the NULL return value corner case anymore since we have improved perf_event_create_kernel_counter() to always return an error code in the failure case. Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
In fail case, perf_event_create_kernel_counter() returns NULL instead of an error, which doesn't help us to inform the user about the origin of the problem from the outer most callers. Often we can just return -EINVAL, which doesn't help anyone when it's eventually about a memory allocation failure. Then, this patch makes perf_event_create_kernel_counter() always return a detailed error code. Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
The error path of a breakpoint modification is broken in the ksym tracer. A modified breakpoint hlist node is immediately released after its removal. Also we leak a breakpoint in this case. Fix the path. Signed-off-by:
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Li Zefan authored
The original format for sched_stat_iowait and sched_stat_sleep: $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_iowait/format ... print fmt: "comm=%s pid=%d delay=%Lu [ns]", ... $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_sleep/format ... print fmt: "comm=%s pid=%d delay=%Lu [ns]", ... But commit commit 75ec29ab ("tracing: Convert some sched trace events to DEFINE_EVENT and _PRINT") broke the format: $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_iowait/format print fmt: "task: %s:%d iowait: %Lu [ns]", ... $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_sleep/format print fmt: "task: %s:%d sleep: %Lu [ns]", ... No change in functionality. Signed-off-by:
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0E2951.9050800@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Li Zefan authored
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code: text data bss dec hex filename 294695 6104 340 301139 49853 fs/ext4/ext4.o.old 289983 6104 324 296411 485db fs/ext4/ext4.o 5 events are convertd: ext4__write_begin: ext4_write_begin, ext4_da_write_begin ext4__write_end: ext4_{ordered, writeback, journalled}_write_end No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: -
Li Zefan authored
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code: text data bss dec hex filename 34903 1693 448 37044 90b4 fs/jbd2/journal.o.old 31931 1693 416 34040 84f8 fs/jbd2/journal.o Four events are converted: jbd2_commit: jbd2_start_commit, jbd2_commit_{locking, flushing, logging} No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: -
Li Zefan authored
use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code: text data bss dec hex filename 53570 3284 184 57038 dece block/blk-core.o.old 43702 3284 144 47130 b81a block/blk-core.o 12 events are converted: block_rq: block_rq_insert, block_rq_issue block_rq_with_error: block_rq_{abort, requeue, complete} block_bio: block_bio_{backmerge, frontmerge, queue} block_get_rq: block_getrq, block_sleeprq block_unplug: block_unplug_timer, block_unplug_io No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: -
Li Zefan authored
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code: text data bss dec hex filename 4312 524 12 4848 12f0 kernel/trace/power-traces.o.old 3455 524 8 3987 f93 kernel/trace/power-traces.o Two events are converted: power: power_start, power_frequency No change in functionality. Signed-off-by:
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