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  1. 15 Apr, 2010 3 commits
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      perf: Make the trace events sample period default to 1 · f9212819
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      Trace events are mostly used for tracing and then require not to
be lost when possible. As opposite to hardware events that really
require to trigger after a given sample period, trace events mostly
need to trigger everytime.

It is a frustrating experience to trace with perf and realize we
lost a lot of events because we forgot the "-c 1" option.

Then default sample_period to 1 for trace events but let the user
override it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      f9212819
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      perf: Always record tracepoints raw samples from perf record · bdef3b02
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      Trace events are mostly used for tracing rather than simple
counting. Don't bother anymore with adding -R when using them,
just record raw samples of trace events every time.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      bdef3b02
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      perf: Make -f the default for perf record · 7865e817
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      Force the overwriting mode by default if append mode is not explicit.
Adding -f every time one uses perf on a daily basis quickly becomes a
burden.

Keep the -f among the options though to avoid breaking some random
users scripts.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      7865e817
  3. 14 Apr, 2010 5 commits
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      perf: Fix dynamic field detection · a1e2f60e
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      Checking if a tracing field is an array with a dynamic length
requires to check the field type and seek the "__data_loc"
string that prepends the actual type, as can be found in a trace
event format file:

	field:__data_loc char[] name;	offset:16;	size:4;	signed:1;

But we actually use strcmp() to check if the field type fully
matches "__data_loc", which may fail as we trip over the rest of
the type.

To fix this, use strncmp to only check if it starts with
"__data_loc".
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1271282283-23721-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a1e2f60e
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      perf: Fix hlist related build error · 95476b64
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      hlist helpers need to be available for all software events, not
only trace events.

Pull them out outside the ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING section.

Fixes:
	kernel/perf_event.c:4573: error: implicit declaration of function 'swevent_hlist_put'
	kernel/perf_event.c:4614: error: implicit declaration of function 'swevent_hlist_get'
	kernel/perf_event.c:5534: error: implicit declaration of function 'swevent_hlist_release
Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1271281338-23491-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      95476b64
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      perf: Make clock software events consistent with general exclusion rules · df8290bf
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      The cpu/task clock events implement their own version of exclusion
on top of exclude_user and exclude_kernel.

The result is that when the event triggered in the kernel but we
have exclude_kernel set, we try to rewind using task_pt_regs.
There are two side effects of this:

- we call task_pt_regs even on kernel threads, which doesn't give
  us the desired result.
- if the event occured in the kernel, we shouldn't rewind to the
  user context. We want to actually ignore the event.

get_irq_regs() will always give us the right interrupted context, so
use its result and submit it to perf_exclude_context() that knows
when an event must be ignored.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      df8290bf
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      perf: Store active software events in a hashlist · 76e1d904
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      Each time a software event triggers, we need to walk through
the entire list of events from the current cpu and task contexts
to retrieve a running perf event that matches.
We also need to check a matching perf event is actually counting.

This walk is wasteful and makes the event fast path scaling
down with a growing number of events running on the same
contexts.

To solve this, we store the running perf events in a hashlist to
get an immediate access to them against their type:event_id when
they trigger.

v2: - Fix SWEVENT_HLIST_SIZE definition (and re-learn some basic
      maths along the way)
    - Only allocate hlist for online cpus, but keep track of the
      refcount on offline possible cpus too, so that we allocate it
      if needed when it becomes online.
    - Drop the kref use as it's not adapted to our tricks anymore.

v3: - Fix bad refcount check (address instead of value). Thanks to
      Eric Dumazet who spotted this.
    - While exiting cpu, move the hlist release out of the IPI path
      to lock the hlist mutex sanely.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      76e1d904
    • Ian Munsie's avatar
      perf: Fix endianness argument compatibility with OPT_BOOLEAN() and introduce OPT_INCR() · c0555642
      Ian Munsie authored 
      Parsing an option from the command line with OPT_BOOLEAN on a
bool data type would not work on a big-endian machine due to the
manner in which the boolean was being cast into an int and
incremented. For example, running 'perf probe --list' on a
PowerPC machine would fail to properly set the list_events bool
and would therefore print out the usage information and
terminate.

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

I have reviewed every use of OPT_BOOLEAN to verify that a true
C99 bool was passed. Where integers were used, I verified that
they were only being used for boolean logic and changed them to
bools to ensure that they would not be mistakenly used as ints.
The major exception was the verbose variable which now uses
OPT_INCR instead of OPT_BOOLEAN.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Munsie <imunsie@au.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # NOTE: wont apply to .3[34].x cleanly, please backport
Cc: Git development list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1271147857-11604-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      c0555642
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