4 * Builtin stat command: Give a precise performance counters summary
5 * overview about any workload, CPU or specific PID.
9 $ perf stat ~/hackbench 10
12 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench':
14 1255.538611 task clock ticks # 10.143 CPU utilization factor
15 54011 context switches # 0.043 M/sec
16 385 CPU migrations # 0.000 M/sec
17 17755 pagefaults # 0.014 M/sec
18 3808323185 CPU cycles # 3033.219 M/sec
19 1575111190 instructions # 1254.530 M/sec
20 17367895 cache references # 13.833 M/sec
21 7674421 cache misses # 6.112 M/sec
23 Wall-clock time elapsed: 123.786620 msecs
26 * Copyright (C) 2008, Red Hat Inc, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
28 * Improvements and fixes by:
30 * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
31 * Yanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
32 * Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
33 * Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
34 * Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
35 * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
37 * Released under the GPL v2. (and only v2, not any later version)
42 #include "util/util.h"
43 #include "util/parse-options.h"
44 #include "util/parse-events.h"
45 #include "util/event.h"
46 #include "util/evsel.h"
47 #include "util/debug.h"
48 #include "util/header.h"
49 #include "util/cpumap.h"
50 #include "util/thread.h"
52 #include <sys/prctl.h>
56 #define DEFAULT_SEPARATOR " "
58 static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs[] = {
60 { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_TASK_CLOCK },
61 { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CONTEXT_SWITCHES },
62 { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS },
63 { .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS },
65 { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES },
66 { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS },
67 { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS },
68 { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES },
69 { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES },
70 { .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES },
74 static bool system_wide = false;
75 static int nr_cpus = 0;
76 static int run_idx = 0;
78 static int run_count = 1;
79 static bool no_inherit = false;
80 static bool scale = true;
81 static bool no_aggr = false;
82 static pid_t target_pid = -1;
83 static pid_t target_tid = -1;
84 static pid_t *all_tids = NULL;
85 static int thread_num = 0;
86 static pid_t child_pid = -1;
87 static bool null_run = false;
88 static bool big_num = true;
89 static int big_num_opt = -1;
90 static const char *cpu_list;
91 static const char *csv_sep = NULL;
92 static bool csv_output = false;
94 static volatile int done = 0;
102 struct stats res_stats[3];
105 static int perf_evsel__alloc_stat_priv(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
107 evsel->priv = zalloc(sizeof(struct perf_stat));
108 return evsel->priv == NULL ? -ENOMEM : 0;
111 static void perf_evsel__free_stat_priv(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
117 static void update_stats(struct stats *stats, u64 val)
122 delta = val - stats->mean;
123 stats->mean += delta / stats->n;
124 stats->M2 += delta*(val - stats->mean);
127 static double avg_stats(struct stats *stats)
133 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_variance
135 * (\Sum n_i^2) - ((\Sum n_i)^2)/n
136 * s^2 = -------------------------------
139 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stddev
141 * The std dev of the mean is related to the std dev by:
148 static double stddev_stats(struct stats *stats)
150 double variance = stats->M2 / (stats->n - 1);
151 double variance_mean = variance / stats->n;
153 return sqrt(variance_mean);
156 struct stats runtime_nsecs_stats[MAX_NR_CPUS];
157 struct stats runtime_cycles_stats[MAX_NR_CPUS];
158 struct stats runtime_branches_stats[MAX_NR_CPUS];
159 struct stats walltime_nsecs_stats;
161 static int create_perf_stat_counter(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
163 struct perf_event_attr *attr = &evsel->attr;
166 attr->read_format = PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED |
167 PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING;
170 return perf_evsel__open_per_cpu(evsel, nr_cpus, cpumap);
172 attr->inherit = !no_inherit;
173 if (target_pid == -1 && target_tid == -1) {
175 attr->enable_on_exec = 1;
178 return perf_evsel__open_per_thread(evsel, thread_num, all_tids);
182 * Does the counter have nsecs as a unit?
184 static inline int nsec_counter(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
186 if (perf_evsel__match(evsel, SOFTWARE, SW_CPU_CLOCK) ||
187 perf_evsel__match(evsel, SOFTWARE, SW_TASK_CLOCK))
194 * Read out the results of a single counter:
195 * aggregate counts across CPUs in system-wide mode
197 static int read_counter_aggr(struct perf_evsel *counter)
199 struct perf_stat *ps = counter->priv;
200 u64 *count = counter->counts->aggr.values;
203 if (__perf_evsel__read(counter, nr_cpus, thread_num, scale) < 0)
206 for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
207 update_stats(&ps->res_stats[i], count[i]);
210 fprintf(stderr, "%s: %Ld %Ld %Ld\n", event_name(counter),
211 count[0], count[1], count[2]);
215 * Save the full runtime - to allow normalization during printout:
217 if (perf_evsel__match(counter, SOFTWARE, SW_TASK_CLOCK))
218 update_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats[0], count[0]);
219 if (perf_evsel__match(counter, HARDWARE, HW_CPU_CYCLES))
220 update_stats(&runtime_cycles_stats[0], count[0]);
221 if (perf_evsel__match(counter, HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS))
222 update_stats(&runtime_branches_stats[0], count[0]);
228 * Read out the results of a single counter:
229 * do not aggregate counts across CPUs in system-wide mode
231 static int read_counter(struct perf_evsel *counter)
236 for (cpu = 0; cpu < nr_cpus; cpu++) {
237 if (__perf_evsel__read_on_cpu(counter, cpu, 0, scale) < 0)
240 count = counter->counts->cpu[cpu].values;
242 if (perf_evsel__match(counter, SOFTWARE, SW_TASK_CLOCK))
243 update_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats[cpu], count[0]);
244 if (perf_evsel__match(counter, HARDWARE, HW_CPU_CYCLES))
245 update_stats(&runtime_cycles_stats[cpu], count[0]);
246 if (perf_evsel__match(counter, HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS))
247 update_stats(&runtime_branches_stats[cpu], count[0]);
253 static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
255 unsigned long long t0, t1;
256 struct perf_evsel *counter;
258 int child_ready_pipe[2], go_pipe[2];
259 const bool forks = (argc > 0);
265 if (forks && (pipe(child_ready_pipe) < 0 || pipe(go_pipe) < 0)) {
266 perror("failed to create pipes");
271 if ((child_pid = fork()) < 0)
272 perror("failed to fork");
275 close(child_ready_pipe[0]);
277 fcntl(go_pipe[0], F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
280 * Do a dummy execvp to get the PLT entry resolved,
281 * so we avoid the resolver overhead on the real
284 execvp("", (char **)argv);
287 * Tell the parent we're ready to go
289 close(child_ready_pipe[1]);
292 * Wait until the parent tells us to go.
294 if (read(go_pipe[0], &buf, 1) == -1)
295 perror("unable to read pipe");
297 execvp(argv[0], (char **)argv);
303 if (target_tid == -1 && target_pid == -1 && !system_wide)
304 all_tids[0] = child_pid;
307 * Wait for the child to be ready to exec.
309 close(child_ready_pipe[1]);
311 if (read(child_ready_pipe[0], &buf, 1) == -1)
312 perror("unable to read pipe");
313 close(child_ready_pipe[0]);
316 list_for_each_entry(counter, &evsel_list, node) {
317 if (create_perf_stat_counter(counter) < 0) {
318 if (errno == -EPERM || errno == -EACCES) {
319 error("You may not have permission to collect %sstats.\n"
320 "\t Consider tweaking"
321 " /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid or running as root.",
322 system_wide ? "system-wide " : "");
324 error("open_counter returned with %d (%s). "
325 "/bin/dmesg may provide additional information.\n",
326 errno, strerror(errno));
329 kill(child_pid, SIGTERM);
330 die("Not all events could be opened.\n");
336 * Enable counters and exec the command:
344 while(!done) sleep(1);
349 update_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats, t1 - t0);
352 list_for_each_entry(counter, &evsel_list, node) {
353 read_counter(counter);
354 perf_evsel__close_fd(counter, nr_cpus, 1);
357 list_for_each_entry(counter, &evsel_list, node) {
358 read_counter_aggr(counter);
359 perf_evsel__close_fd(counter, nr_cpus, thread_num);
363 return WEXITSTATUS(status);
366 static void print_noise(struct perf_evsel *evsel, double avg)
368 struct perf_stat *ps;
374 fprintf(stderr, " ( +- %7.3f%% )",
375 100 * stddev_stats(&ps->res_stats[0]) / avg);
378 static void nsec_printout(int cpu, struct perf_evsel *evsel, double avg)
380 double msecs = avg / 1e6;
381 char cpustr[16] = { '\0', };
382 const char *fmt = csv_output ? "%s%.6f%s%s" : "%s%18.6f%s%-24s";
385 sprintf(cpustr, "CPU%*d%s",
387 cpumap[cpu], csv_sep);
389 fprintf(stderr, fmt, cpustr, msecs, csv_sep, event_name(evsel));
394 if (perf_evsel__match(evsel, SOFTWARE, SW_TASK_CLOCK))
395 fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f CPUs ",
396 avg / avg_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats));
399 static void abs_printout(int cpu, struct perf_evsel *evsel, double avg)
401 double total, ratio = 0.0;
402 char cpustr[16] = { '\0', };
408 fmt = "%s%'18.0f%s%-24s";
410 fmt = "%s%18.0f%s%-24s";
413 sprintf(cpustr, "CPU%*d%s",
415 cpumap[cpu], csv_sep);
419 fprintf(stderr, fmt, cpustr, avg, csv_sep, event_name(evsel));
424 if (perf_evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_INSTRUCTIONS)) {
425 total = avg_stats(&runtime_cycles_stats[cpu]);
430 fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f IPC ", ratio);
431 } else if (perf_evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_MISSES) &&
432 runtime_branches_stats[cpu].n != 0) {
433 total = avg_stats(&runtime_branches_stats[cpu]);
436 ratio = avg * 100 / total;
438 fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f %% ", ratio);
440 } else if (runtime_nsecs_stats[cpu].n != 0) {
441 total = avg_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats[cpu]);
444 ratio = 1000.0 * avg / total;
446 fprintf(stderr, " # %10.3f M/sec", ratio);
451 * Print out the results of a single counter:
452 * aggregated counts in system-wide mode
454 static void print_counter_aggr(struct perf_evsel *counter)
456 struct perf_stat *ps = counter->priv;
457 double avg = avg_stats(&ps->res_stats[0]);
458 int scaled = counter->counts->scaled;
461 fprintf(stderr, "%*s%s%-24s\n",
463 "<not counted>", csv_sep, event_name(counter));
467 if (nsec_counter(counter))
468 nsec_printout(-1, counter, avg);
470 abs_printout(-1, counter, avg);
477 print_noise(counter, avg);
480 double avg_enabled, avg_running;
482 avg_enabled = avg_stats(&ps->res_stats[1]);
483 avg_running = avg_stats(&ps->res_stats[2]);
485 fprintf(stderr, " (scaled from %.2f%%)",
486 100 * avg_running / avg_enabled);
489 fprintf(stderr, "\n");
493 * Print out the results of a single counter:
494 * does not use aggregated count in system-wide
496 static void print_counter(struct perf_evsel *counter)
501 for (cpu = 0; cpu < nr_cpus; cpu++) {
502 val = counter->counts->cpu[cpu].val;
503 ena = counter->counts->cpu[cpu].ena;
504 run = counter->counts->cpu[cpu].run;
505 if (run == 0 || ena == 0) {
506 fprintf(stderr, "CPU%*d%s%*s%s%-24s",
508 cpumap[cpu], csv_sep,
510 "<not counted>", csv_sep,
511 event_name(counter));
513 fprintf(stderr, "\n");
517 if (nsec_counter(counter))
518 nsec_printout(cpu, counter, val);
520 abs_printout(cpu, counter, val);
523 print_noise(counter, 1.0);
526 fprintf(stderr, " (scaled from %.2f%%)",
530 fprintf(stderr, "\n");
534 static void print_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
536 struct perf_evsel *counter;
542 fprintf(stderr, "\n");
543 fprintf(stderr, " Performance counter stats for ");
544 if(target_pid == -1 && target_tid == -1) {
545 fprintf(stderr, "\'%s", argv[0]);
546 for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
547 fprintf(stderr, " %s", argv[i]);
548 } else if (target_pid != -1)
549 fprintf(stderr, "process id \'%d", target_pid);
551 fprintf(stderr, "thread id \'%d", target_tid);
553 fprintf(stderr, "\'");
555 fprintf(stderr, " (%d runs)", run_count);
556 fprintf(stderr, ":\n\n");
560 list_for_each_entry(counter, &evsel_list, node)
561 print_counter(counter);
563 list_for_each_entry(counter, &evsel_list, node)
564 print_counter_aggr(counter);
568 fprintf(stderr, "\n");
569 fprintf(stderr, " %18.9f seconds time elapsed",
570 avg_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats)/1e9);
572 fprintf(stderr, " ( +- %7.3f%% )",
573 100*stddev_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats) /
574 avg_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats));
576 fprintf(stderr, "\n\n");
580 static volatile int signr = -1;
582 static void skip_signal(int signo)
590 static void sig_atexit(void)
593 kill(child_pid, SIGTERM);
598 signal(signr, SIG_DFL);
599 kill(getpid(), signr);
602 static const char * const stat_usage[] = {
603 "perf stat [<options>] [<command>]",
607 static int stat__set_big_num(const struct option *opt __used,
608 const char *s __used, int unset)
610 big_num_opt = unset ? 0 : 1;
614 static const struct option options[] = {
615 OPT_CALLBACK('e', "event", NULL, "event",
616 "event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events",
618 OPT_BOOLEAN('i', "no-inherit", &no_inherit,
619 "child tasks do not inherit counters"),
620 OPT_INTEGER('p', "pid", &target_pid,
621 "stat events on existing process id"),
622 OPT_INTEGER('t', "tid", &target_tid,
623 "stat events on existing thread id"),
624 OPT_BOOLEAN('a', "all-cpus", &system_wide,
625 "system-wide collection from all CPUs"),
626 OPT_BOOLEAN('c', "scale", &scale,
627 "scale/normalize counters"),
628 OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
629 "be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc)"),
630 OPT_INTEGER('r', "repeat", &run_count,
631 "repeat command and print average + stddev (max: 100)"),
632 OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "null", &null_run,
633 "null run - dont start any counters"),
634 OPT_CALLBACK_NOOPT('B', "big-num", NULL, NULL,
635 "print large numbers with thousands\' separators",
637 OPT_STRING('C', "cpu", &cpu_list, "cpu",
638 "list of cpus to monitor in system-wide"),
639 OPT_BOOLEAN('A', "no-aggr", &no_aggr,
640 "disable CPU count aggregation"),
641 OPT_STRING('x', "field-separator", &csv_sep, "separator",
642 "print counts with custom separator"),
646 int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
648 struct perf_evsel *pos;
649 int status = -ENOMEM;
651 setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
653 argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, stat_usage,
654 PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);
659 csv_sep = DEFAULT_SEPARATOR;
662 * let the spreadsheet do the pretty-printing
665 /* User explicitely passed -B? */
666 if (big_num_opt == 1) {
667 fprintf(stderr, "-B option not supported with -x\n");
668 usage_with_options(stat_usage, options);
669 } else /* Nope, so disable big number formatting */
671 } else if (big_num_opt == 0) /* User passed --no-big-num */
674 if (!argc && target_pid == -1 && target_tid == -1)
675 usage_with_options(stat_usage, options);
677 usage_with_options(stat_usage, options);
679 /* no_aggr is for system-wide only */
680 if (no_aggr && !system_wide)
681 usage_with_options(stat_usage, options);
683 /* Set attrs and nr_counters if no event is selected and !null_run */
684 if (!null_run && !nr_counters) {
687 nr_counters = ARRAY_SIZE(default_attrs);
689 for (c = 0; c < ARRAY_SIZE(default_attrs); ++c) {
690 pos = perf_evsel__new(default_attrs[c].type,
691 default_attrs[c].config,
695 list_add(&pos->node, &evsel_list);
700 nr_cpus = read_cpu_map(cpu_list);
705 usage_with_options(stat_usage, options);
707 if (target_pid != -1) {
708 target_tid = target_pid;
709 thread_num = find_all_tid(target_pid, &all_tids);
710 if (thread_num <= 0) {
711 fprintf(stderr, "Can't find all threads of pid %d\n",
713 usage_with_options(stat_usage, options);
716 all_tids=malloc(sizeof(pid_t));
720 all_tids[0] = target_tid;
724 list_for_each_entry(pos, &evsel_list, node) {
725 if (perf_evsel__alloc_stat_priv(pos) < 0 ||
726 perf_evsel__alloc_counts(pos, nr_cpus) < 0 ||
727 perf_evsel__alloc_fd(pos, nr_cpus, thread_num) < 0)
732 * We dont want to block the signals - that would cause
733 * child tasks to inherit that and Ctrl-C would not work.
734 * What we want is for Ctrl-C to work in the exec()-ed
735 * task, but being ignored by perf stat itself:
738 signal(SIGINT, skip_signal);
739 signal(SIGALRM, skip_signal);
740 signal(SIGABRT, skip_signal);
743 for (run_idx = 0; run_idx < run_count; run_idx++) {
744 if (run_count != 1 && verbose)
745 fprintf(stderr, "[ perf stat: executing run #%d ... ]\n", run_idx + 1);
746 status = run_perf_stat(argc, argv);
750 print_stat(argc, argv);
752 list_for_each_entry(pos, &evsel_list, node)
753 perf_evsel__free_stat_priv(pos);