tracing: Init current_trace to nop_trace and remove NULL checks
On early boot up, when the ftrace ring buffer is initialized, the
static variable current_trace is initialized to &nop_trace.
Before this initialization, current_trace is NULL and will never
become NULL again. It is always reassigned to a ftrace tracer.
Several places check if current_trace is NULL before it uses
it, and this check is frivolous, because at the point in time
when the checks are made the only way current_trace could be
NULL is if ftrace failed its allocations at boot up, and the
paths to these locations would probably not be possible.
By initializing current_trace to &nop_trace where it is declared,
current_trace will never be NULL, and we can remove all these
checks of current_trace being NULL which never needed to be
checked in the first place.
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Ingo Molnar [Fri, 1 Feb 2013 10:17:09 +0000 (11:17 +0100)]
Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
. Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs, equivalent to
what was done on x86, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
. Add event group view, from Namyung Kim:
To use it, 'perf record' should group events when recording. And then perf
report parses the saved group relation from file header and prints them
together if --group option is provided. You can use 'perf evlist' command to
see event group information:
$ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles}' noploop 1
[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.385 MB perf.data (~16807 samples) ]
$ perf evlist --group
{ref-cycles,cycles}
With this example, default perf report will show you each event
separately like this:
As you can see the Overhead column now contains both of ref-cycles and
cycles and header line shows group information also - 'anon group {
ref-cycles, cycles }'. The output is sorted by period of group leader
first.
If perf.data file doesn't contain group information, this --group
option does nothing. So if you want enable event group view by
default you can set it in ~/.perfconfig file:
$ cat ~/.perfconfig
[report]
group = true
It can be overridden with command line if you want:
$ perf report --no-group
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patchset addes two new sets of files to sysfs for POWER architecture.
- perf event config format in /sys/devices/cpu/format/event
- generic and POWER-specific perf events in /sys/devices/cpu/events/
The format of the first file is already documented in:
sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-format
Document the format of the second set of files '/sys/devices/cpu/events/*'
which would also become part of the ABI.
Changelog[v4]:
[Jiri Olsa]: Mention that multiple event= like terms can be specified
in the 'events' file.
[Jiri Olsa]: Remove the documentation for the 'config format' file
as it is already documented in 'Documentation/ABI/testing/'.
[Jiri Olsa]: Move ABI documentation from 'stable/' to 'testing/'
Changelog[v3]:
[Greg KH] Include ABI documentation.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130123062645.GG13720@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch is based on commits that implement this functionality on x86.
Eg:
commit a47473939db20e3961b200eb00acf5fcf084d755
Author: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Oct 10 14:53:11 2012 +0200
perf/x86: Make hardware event translations available in sysfs
Changelog:[v2]
[Jiri Osla] Drop EVENT_ID() macro since it is only used once.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130123062454.GD13720@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Define and use macros to identify perf events codes This would make it
easier and more readable when these event codes need to be used in more
than one place.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130123062353.GB13720@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:09:46 +0000 (18:09 +0900)]
perf report: Add report.group config option
Add report.group config option for setting default value of event
group view. It affects the report output only if perf.data contains
event group info.
A user can write .perfconfig file like below to enable group view by
default:
$ cat ~/.perfconfig
[report]
group = true
And it can be disabled through command line:
$ perf report --no-group
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358845787-1350-19-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:09:43 +0000 (18:09 +0900)]
perf report: Bypass non-leader events when event group is enabled
Since we have all necessary information in the leader events and other
members don't, bypass members. Member events will be shown along with
the leaders if event group is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358845787-1350-16-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:09:42 +0000 (18:09 +0900)]
perf gtk/browser: Trim column header string when event group enabled
When event group feature is enabled, each column header is expanded to
match with the whole group column width. But this is not needed for
GTK+ browser since ti usually use variable-width fonts. So trim it.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358845787-1350-15-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:09:36 +0000 (18:09 +0900)]
perf gtk/browser: Convert hpp helpers to a function
The hpp helpers do same job for each field so it was implemented as
macro in order to access those fields easily. But it gets cumbersome to
maintain a large function in a macro as the function grows. Factor it
out to a function with a little helper macro to access field.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358845787-1350-9-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:09:35 +0000 (18:09 +0900)]
perf hists browser: Convert hpp helpers to a function
The hpp helpers do same job for each field so it was implemented as
macro in order to access those fields easily. But it gets cumbersome
to maintain a large function in a macro as the function grows. Factor
it out to a function with a little helper macro to access field.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358845787-1350-8-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:09:33 +0000 (18:09 +0900)]
perf hists: Resort hist entries using group members for output
When event group is enabled, sorting hist entries on periods for output
should consider groups members' period also. To do that, build period
table using link/pair information and compare the table.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358845787-1350-6-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:09:32 +0000 (18:09 +0900)]
perf report: Make another loop for linking group hists
Now the event grouping viewing requires linking all member hists in a
group to the leader's. Thus hists__output_resort should be called after
linking all events in evlist.
Introduce symbol_conf.event_group flag to determine whether the feature
is enabled or not.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358845787-1350-5-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:09:29 +0000 (18:09 +0900)]
perf tools: Keep group information
Add a few of group-related field in struct perf_{evlist,evsel} so that
the group information in a evlist can be known easily. It only counts
groups which have more than 1 members since leader-only groups are
treated as non-group events.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358845787-1350-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Hiraku Toyooka [Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:53:00 +0000 (11:53 +0900)]
tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace
Ftrace has a snapshot feature available from kernel space and
latency tracers (e.g. irqsoff) are using it. This patch enables
user applictions to take a snapshot via debugfs.
Add "snapshot" debugfs file in "tracing" directory.
snapshot:
This is used to take a snapshot and to read the output of the
snapshot.
# echo 1 > snapshot
This will allocate the spare buffer for snapshot (if it is
not allocated), and take a snapshot.
# cat snapshot
This will show contents of the snapshot.
# echo 0 > snapshot
This will free the snapshot if it is allocated.
Any other positive values will clear the snapshot contents if
the snapshot is allocated, or return EINVAL if it is not allocated.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121226025300.3252.86850.stgit@liselsia Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
[
Fixed irqsoff selftest and also a conflict with a change
that fixes the update_max_tr.
] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Hiraku Toyooka [Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:52:52 +0000 (11:52 +0900)]
tracing: Replace static old_tracer check of tracer name
Currently the trace buffer read functions use a static variable
"old_tracer" for detecting if the current tracer changes. This
was suitable for a single trace file ("trace"), but to add a
snapshot feature that will use the same function for its file,
a check against a static variable is not sufficient.
To use the output functions for two different files, instead of
storing the current tracer in a static variable, as the trace
iterator descriptor contains a pointer to the original current
tracer's name, that pointer can now be used to check if the
current tracer has changed between different reads of the trace
file.
Namhyung Kim [Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:49:45 +0000 (11:49 +0900)]
tracing: Use sched_clock_cpu for trace_clock_global
For systems with an unstable sched_clock, all cpu_clock() does is enable/
disable local irq during the call to sched_clock_cpu(). And for stable
systems they are same.
trace_clock_global() already disables interrupts, so it can call
sched_clock_cpu() directly.
perf tools, powerpc: Fix compile warnings in tests/attr.c
We print several '__u64' quantities using '%llu'. On powerpc, we by
default include '<asm-generic/int-l64.h> which results in __u64 being an
unsigned long. This causes compile warnings which are treated as errors
due to '-Werror'.
By defining __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ we include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
and define __u64 as unsigned long long.
Changelog[v2]:
[Michael Ellerman] Use __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ and avoid PRIu64
format specifier - which as Jiri Olsa pointed out, breaks on x86-64.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <ellerman@au1.ibm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130124054439.GA31588@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Stephane Eranian [Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:47:44 +0000 (12:47 +0100)]
perf stat: Add interval printing
This patch adds a new printing mode for perf stat. It allows interval
printing. That means perf stat can now print event deltas at regular
time interval. This is useful to detect phases in programs.
The -I option enables interval printing. It expects an interval duration
in milliseconds. Minimum is 100ms. Once, activated perf stat prints
events deltas since last printout. All modes are supported.
Ingo Molnar [Thu, 6 Dec 2012 12:51:59 +0000 (13:51 +0100)]
perf: Add 'perf bench numa mem' NUMA performance measurement suite
Add a suite of NUMA performance benchmarks.
The goal was simulate the behavior and access patterns of real NUMA
workloads, via a wide range of parameters, so this tool goes well
beyond simple bzero() measurements that most NUMA micro-benchmarks use:
- It processes the data and creates a chain of data dependencies,
like a real workload would. Neither the compiler, nor the
kernel (via KSM and other optimizations) nor the CPU can
eliminate parts of the workload.
- It randomizes the initial state and also randomizes the target
addresses of the processing - it's not a simple forward scan
of addresses.
- It provides flexible options to set process, thread and memory
relationship information: -G sets "global" memory shared between
all test processes, -P sets "process" memory shared by all
threads of a process and -T sets "thread" private memory.
- There's a NUMA convergence monitoring and convergence latency
measurement option via -c and -m.
- Micro-sleeps and synchronization can be injected to provoke lock
contention and scheduling, via the -u and -S options. This simulates
IO and contention.
- The -x option instructs the workload to 'perturb' itself artificially
every N seconds, by moving to the first and last CPU of the system
periodically. This way the stability of convergence equilibrium and
the number of steps taken for the scheduler to reach equilibrium again
can be measured.
- The amount of work can be specified via the -l loop count, and/or
via a -s seconds-timeout value.
- CPU and node memory binding options, to test hard binding scenarios.
THP can be turned on and off via madvise() calls.
- Live reporting of convergence progress in an 'at glance' output format.
Printing of convergence and deconvergence events.
The 'perf bench numa mem -a' option will start an array of about 30
individual tests that will each output such measurements:
tracing/fgraph: Adjust fgraph depth before calling trace return callback
While debugging the virtual cputime with the function graph tracer
with a max_depth of 1 (most common use of the max_depth so far),
I found that I was missing kernel execution because of a race condition.
The code for the return side of the function has a slight race:
The ftrace_pop_return_trace() initializes the trace structure for
the callback. The ftrace_graph_return() uses the trace structure
for its own use as that structure is on the stack and is local
to this function. Then the curr_ret_stack is decremented which
is what the trace.depth is set to.
If an interrupt comes in after the ftrace_graph_return() but
before the curr_ret_stack, then the called function will get
a depth of 2. If max_depth is set to 1 this function will be
ignored.
The problem is that the trace has already been called, and the
timestamp for that trace will not reflect the time the function
was about to re-enter userspace. Calls to the interrupt will not
be traced because the max_depth has prevented this.
To solve this issue, the ftrace_graph_return() can safely be
moved after the current->curr_ret_stack has been updated.
This way the timestamp for the return callback will reflect
the actual time.
If an interrupt comes in after the curr_ret_stack update and
ftrace_graph_return(), it will be traced. It may look a little
confusing to see it within the other function, but at least
it will not be lost.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Steven Rostedt [Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:46:36 +0000 (09:46 -0500)]
tracing: Remove tracepoint sample code
The tracepoint sample code was used to teach developers how to
create their own tracepoints. But now the trace_events have been
added as a higher level that is used directly by developers today.
Only the trace_event code should use the tracepoint interface
directly and no new tracepoints should be added.
Besides, the example had a race condition with the use of the
->d_name.name dentry field, as pointed out by Al Viro.
Best just to remove the code so it wont be used by other developers.
perf header: Stop using die() calls when processing tracing data
The callers of this function (perf_event__process_tracing_data) already
handles a negative value return as error, so just use pr_err() to log
the problem and return -1 instead of panic'ing.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-eeeljnecpi0zi5s7ux1mzdv9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Jiri Olsa [Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:46:43 +0000 (21:46 +0100)]
tools lib traceevent: Handle dynamic array's element size properly
Fixing the dynamic array format field parsing.
Currently the event_read_fields function could segfault while parsing
dynamic array other than string type. The reason is the event->pevent
does not need to be set and gets dereferenced unconditionaly.
Also adding proper initialization of field->elementsize based on the
parsed dynamic type.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359060403-32422-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
[ committer note: Made a char pointer parameter const, as requested by Steven ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Sometimes a test is problematic for some reason and one wants to skip it,
for instance:
[root@sandy ~]# perf test
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms : Ok
2: detect open syscall event : Ok
3: detect open syscall event on all cpus : Ok
4: read samples using the mmap interface : Ok
5: parse events tests : Warning: bad op token {
Warning: bad op token {
Warning: bad op token {
Warning: bad op token {
Warning: bad op token {
Warning: function is_writable_pte not defined
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
So now we can use -s/--skip while the problematic tests are being fixed,
allowing us to test all the other entries:
[root@sandy ~]# perf test -s 5
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms : Ok
2: detect open syscall event : Ok
3: detect open syscall event on all cpus : Ok
4: read samples using the mmap interface : Ok
5: parse events tests : Skip (user override)
6: x86 rdpmc test : Ok
7: Validate PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : Ok
8: Test perf pmu format parsing : Ok
9: Test dso data interface : Ok
10: roundtrip evsel->name check : Ok
11: Check parsing of sched tracepoints fields : Ok
12: Generate and check syscalls:sys_enter_open event fields: Ok
13: struct perf_event_attr setup : Ok
14: Test matching and linking mutliple hists : Ok
15: Try 'use perf' in python, checking link problems : Ok
[root@sandy ~]#
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-klzd8p57jzdryafqkmlppcb1@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The reason is that the 'pevent' field was added to
perf_scripting_context but it wasn't hooked up with an actual pevent in
either case, so when one of the 'common' fields is accessed (in
util/trace-event-parse.c:get_common_fields()), pevent->events tries to
dereference a NULL pointer.
This sets the pevent field when the scripting context is set up.
Tom Zanussi [Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:51:26 +0000 (13:51 -0600)]
perf script: Don't display trace info when invoking scripts
Only display the trace info if using the default event display. When
invoking scripts we assume they have complete control of what's
displayed so we shouldn't unconditionally display the trace info, and
when generating scripts we don't expect to see trace info obscuring the
output message.
Tom Zanussi [Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:51:25 +0000 (13:51 -0600)]
perf tools: Reinstate 'signed' field flag for tracepoints
For some reason the libtraceevent tracepoint-parsing code is missing
the FIELD_IS_SIGNED flag-setting code, which causes problems for the
Perl trace event binding at least, since it ends up unable to
recognize negative numbers.
Things like checking for negative return values therefore fail, causing
scripts like rwtop to instead interpret the negative return value as a
large positive value, which in turn get added to e.g. read totals with
insanely invalid results.
So set the FIELD_IS_SIGNED flag for tracepoint events that specify
"signed:1".
Before:
# perf script record rw-by-pid
# perf script report rw-by-pid
On POWER, the 'perf format parsing' test always fails.
Looks like it is because memset() is being passed number of longs rather
than number of bytes. It is interesting that the test always passes on
my x86 box.
With this patch, the test passes on POWER and continues to pass on x86.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130117172814.GA18882@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung Kim [Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:59:53 +0000 (20:59 +0900)]
perf tools: Do not include PERF-VERSION-FILE to Makefile
When make runs it tries to update the Makefile rules by reading all of
included Makefiles. During the perf build it checks PERF-VERSION-FILE
to get the current version number. But it triggers Makefile update so
that make runs again with the update Makefile and, in turn, users will
see duplicate CHK message on the second path.
Running make with -d option for debugging tells me this:
GNU Make 3.82
Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Reading makefile `Makefile'...
Reading makefile `../scripts/Makefile.include' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/utilities.mak' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `PERF-VERSION-FILE' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/feature-tests.mak' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
CHK -fstack-protector-all
CHK -Wstack-protector
CHK -Wvolatile-register-var
...
Updating makefiles....
Considering target file `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
Must remake target `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
Invoking recipe from Makefile:52 to update target `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
Putting child 0x14037a0 (PERF-VERSION-FILE) PID 31925 on the chain.
Live child 0x14037a0 (PERF-VERSION-FILE) PID 31925
PERF_VERSION = 3.8.rc3.gf751db6
Reaping winning child 0x14037a0 PID 31925
Removing child 0x14037a0 PID 31925 from chain.
Successfully remade target file `PERF-VERSION-FILE'.
...
Re-executing[1]: make -d <------------ here
GNU Make 3.82
Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Reading makefile `Makefile'...
Reading makefile `../scripts/Makefile.include' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/utilities.mak' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `PERF-VERSION-FILE' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `config/feature-tests.mak' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ expansion)...
CHK -fstack-protector-all
CHK -Wstack-protector
CHK -Wvolatile-register-var
...
Actually PERF-VERSION-FILE is used only for perf.c to #define
PERF_VERSION macro. So make it like a C header file and include it
during compiling the perf.c file will remove the need of being
included into Makefile. Hench no need to update the Makefile and no
CHK lines anymore.
Namhyung Kim [Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:59:54 +0000 (20:59 +0900)]
perf tools: Get rid of unused include of config.mak
These lines are came from GIT Makefile and never used for perf.
I found it from make -d output during working on previous patch.
Updating makefiles....
Considering target file `arch/x86/Makefile'.
No need to remake target `arch/x86/Makefile'.
Considering target file `config.mak'.
File `config.mak' does not exist.
Must remake target `config.mak'.
Failed to remake target file `config.mak'.
Considering target file `config.mak.autogen'.
File `config.mak.autogen' does not exist.
Must remake target `config.mak.autogen'.
Failed to remake target file `config.mak.autogen'.
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:02:19 +0000 (17:02 +0900)]
tools lib traceevent: Fix warning on '>=' operator
Although the '>=' (and '<=') operator is handled properly in
libtraceevent, it emitted following spurious warnings on perf test:
$ perf test
5: parse events tests :
...
Warning: unknown op '>='
Warning: unknown op '>='
Warning: unknown op '>='
Warning: unknown op '>='
Warning: unknown op '>='
Warning: unknown op '>='
...
Add the operator to the checks.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358236939-17393-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Stephane Eranian [Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:02:45 +0000 (15:02 +0100)]
perf tools: Mark branch_info maps as referenced
As noticed by Jiri, the hist_entry->branch_info.to/from maps need to be
marked as referenced to avoid problems later on. So we do this when the
hist_entry is allocated.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130114140245.GA4692@quad Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung Kim [Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:11:46 +0000 (18:11 +0900)]
perf sort: Separate out branch stack specific sort keys
Current perf report gets segmentation fault when a branch stack specific
sort key is provided by --sort option to a perf.data file which contains
no branch infomation. It's because those sort keys reference branch
info of a hist entry unconditionally. Maybe we can change it checks
whether such branch info is valid or not. But if the branch stacks are
not recorded, it'd be nop. Thus it'd be better to make those keys are
unselectable.
This patch separates those keys to a different dimension array, so that
if user passes such a key to a file which has no branch stack will get
following message rather than a segfault.
Error: Invalid --sort key: `symbol_from'
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Reported-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356599507-14226-10-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung Kim [Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:11:42 +0000 (18:11 +0900)]
perf sort: Calculate parent column width too
When hists__calc_col_len() called, most of column length are refreshed
but it missed parent column. So if the parent sort key was used along
with other keys rests will be misalinged since parent has no proper
column width.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356599507-14226-6-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung Kim [Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:11:40 +0000 (18:11 +0900)]
perf sort: Fix --sort pid output
The "pid" sort key prints "Command: Pid" output but it's misaligned.
It's because of the offset of 6 was added to the column length during
the calculation in order to reserve an space for Pid part but it isn't
honored when printed. The output before this patch was like this:
Hyeoncheol Lee [Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:57:28 +0000 (16:57 +0900)]
perf probe: Allow of casting an array of char to string
Before casting a type of a variable to string, convert_variable_type()
confirms that the type is a pointer or an array. then if it is a pointer
to char, it is casted to string. but in case of an array of char, it
isn't
Signed-off-by: H.C. Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CANFS6bb75e8a_UtyAD9yF73hfXDy0N8tSjDz=a+Vna=Y8ORMHg@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Vince Weaver [Tue, 8 Jan 2013 19:44:25 +0000 (14:44 -0500)]
perf: Missing field in PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE documentation
While trying to write a perf_event/mmap test for my perf_event
test-suite I came across a missing field description in the
PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE documentation in perf_event.h
Joshua Zhu [Sat, 5 Jan 2013 05:29:57 +0000 (13:29 +0800)]
perf tools: Add anonymous huge page recognition
Judging anonymous memory's vm_area_struct, perf_mmap_event's filename
will be set to "//anon" indicating this vma belongs to anonymous
memory.
Once hugepage is used, vma's vm_file points to hugetlbfs. In this way,
this vma will not be regarded as anonymous memory by is_anon_memory() in
perf user space utility.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Zhu <zhu.wen-jie@hp.com> Cc: Akihiro Nagai <akihiro.nagai.hw@hitachi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Joshua Zhu <zhu.wen-jie@hp.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1357363797-3550-1-git-send-email-zhu.wen-jie@hp.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 8 Jan 2013 09:39:26 +0000 (18:39 +0900)]
perf bench: Flush stdout before starting bench suite
perf bench prints header message for bench suite before starting the
benchmark. However if the stdout is redirected to a file and bench
suite forks child processes this (and possibly other debugging
messages too) will be repeated multiple times.
$ perf bench sched messaging
# Running sched/messaging benchmark...
# 20 sender and receiver processes per group
# 10 groups == 400 processes run
In this file, there were so many "Running sched/messaging benchmark..."
lines. This was because stdout is converted to fully-buffered due to
the redirection and inherited child processes. Other lines are printed
after reaping all those tasks.
So fix it by flushing stdout before starting bench suites.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1357637966-8216-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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