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* perf_counter: Start documenting HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS requirementsMike Frysinger2009-06-121-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | Help out arch porters who want to support perf counters by listing some basic requirements. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1244827063-24046-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter: Add forward/backward attribute ABI compatibilityPeter Zijlstra2009-06-121-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide for means of extending the perf_counter_attr in a 'natural' way. We allow growing the structure by appending fields at the end by specifying the full structure size inside it. When a new kernel sees a smaller (old) structure, it will 0 pad the tail. When an old kernel sees a larger (new) structure, it will verify the tail consists of 0s, otherwise fail. If we fail due to a size-mismatch, we return -E2BIG and write the kernel's native attribe size back into the provided structure. Furthermore, add some attribute verification, so that we'll fail counter creation when unknown bits are present (PERF_SAMPLE, PERF_FORMAT, or in the __reserved fields). (This ABI detail is introduced while keeping the existing syscall ABI.) Signed-off-by: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf record: Explicity program a default counterPeter Zijlstra2009-06-121-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up until now record has worked on the assumption that type=0, config=0 was a suitable configuration - which it is. Lets make this a little more explicit and more readable via the use of proper symbols. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Remove one L1-data aliasYong Wang2009-06-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Otherwise all L1-instruction aliases will be recognized as L1-data by strcasestr() when calling function parse_aliases. Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20090612031706.GA22126@ywang-moblin2.bj.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter: Standardize event namesPeter Zijlstra2009-06-115-55/+56
| | | | | | | | | | | Pure renames only, to PERF_COUNT_HW_* and PERF_COUNT_SW_*. Signed-off-by: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Clean up u64 usageIngo Molnar2009-06-116-47/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A build error slipped in: builtin-report.c: In function ‘hist_entry__fprintf’: builtin-report.c:711: error: format ‘%12d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘uint64_t’ Because we got a bit sloppy with those types. uint64_t really sucks, because there's no printf format for it. So standardize on __u64 instead - for all types that go to or come from the ABI (which is __u64), or for values that need to be large enough even on 32-bit. 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Normalize data using per sample period dataPeter Zijlstra2009-06-112-8/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When we use variable period sampling, add the period to the sample data and use that to normalize the samples. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properlyPeter Zijlstra2009-06-102-0/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently report and stat catch SIGINT (and others) without altering their exit state. This means that things like: while :; do perf stat ./foo ; done Loops become hard-to-interrupt, because bash never sees perf terminate due to interruption. Fix this. Signed-off-by: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Small frequency related fixesPeter Zijlstra2009-06-102-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Create the counter in a disabled state and only enable it after we mmap() the buffer, this allows us to see the first few samples (and observe the frequency ramp). Furthermore, print the period in the verbose report. Signed-off-by: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Standardize color printingIngo Molnar2009-06-083-12/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The rule is: - high overhead: red - mid overhead: green - low overhead: normal (white/black) 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Add support for profiling JIT generated codePekka Enberg2009-06-082-1/+79
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for profiling JIT generated code to 'perf report'. A JIT compiler is required to generate a "/tmp/perf-$PID.map" symbols map that is parsed when looking and displaying symbols. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for his help with this patch! Example "perf report" output with the Jato JIT: # # (40311 samples) # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ................ ......................... ...... # 97.80% jato /tmp/perf-11915.map [.] Fibonacci.fib(I)I 0.56% jato 00000000b7fa023b 0x000000b7fa023b 0.45% jato /tmp/perf-11915.map [.] Fibonacci.main([Ljava/lang/String;)V 0.38% jato [kernel] [k] get_page_from_freelist 0.06% jato [kernel] [k] kunmap_atomic 0.05% jato ./jato [.] utf8Hash 0.04% jato ./jato [.] executeJava 0.04% jato ./jato [.] defineClass Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: acme@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906082111590.12407@melkki.cs.Helsinki.FI> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Print out instructins/cycle metricIngo Molnar2009-06-071-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before: 7549326754 cycles # 3201.811 M/sec 10007594937 instructions # 4244.408 M/sec After: 7542051194 cycles # 3201.996 M/sec 10007743852 instructions # 4248.811 M/sec # 1.327 per cycle 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf report: Print more expressive message in case of file open errorIngo Molnar2009-06-071-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before: $ perf report failed to open file: No such file or directory After: $ perf report failed to open file: perf.data (try 'perf record' first) 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Handle kernels with !CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERIngo Molnar2009-06-072-7/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If perf is run on a !CONFIG_PERF_COUNTER kernel right now it bails out with no messages or with confusing messages. Standardize this case some more and explain the situation. 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf record: Fall back to cpu-clock-ticks if no PMUIngo Molnar2009-06-072-6/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On architectures/CPUs without PMU support but with perfcounters enabled 'perf record' currently fails because it cannot create a cycle based hw-perfcounter. Fall back to the cpu-clock-tick sw-perfcounter in this case, which is hrtimer based and will always work (as long as perfcounters are enabled). 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf top: Fall back to cpu-clock-tick hrtimer sampling if no cycle counter ↵Ingo Molnar2009-06-072-50/+73
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | available On architectures/CPUs without PMU support but with perfcounters enabled 'perf top' currently fails because it cannot create a cycle based hw-perfcounter. Fall back to the cpu-clock-tick sw-perfcounter in this case, which is hrtimer based and will always work (as long as perfcounters is enabled). 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf stat: Continue even on counter creation errorIngo Molnar2009-06-071-14/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before: $ perf stat ~/hackbench 5 error: syscall returned with -1 (No such device) After: $ perf stat ~/hackbench 5 Time: 1.640 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 5': 6524.570382 task-clock-ticks # 3.838 CPU utilization factor 35704 context-switches # 0.005 M/sec 191 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 8958 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec <not counted> cycles <not counted> instructions <not counted> cache-references <not counted> cache-misses Wall-clock time elapsed: 1699.999995 msecs Also add -v (--verbose) option to allow the printing of failed counter opens. Plus dont print 'inf' if wall-time is zero (due to jiffies granularity), instead skip the printing of the CPU utilization factor. 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf top: Wait for a minimal set of events before reading first snapshotFrederic Weisbecker2009-06-071-5/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The first snapshot reading often occur before any events have been read in the mapped perfcounter files. Just wait until we have at least one event before starting the snapshot, or the delay before the first set of entries to be displayed may be long in case of low refresh rate. Note: we could also use a semaphore to wait before "print_entries" number of eveents is reached, but again this value is tunable and we can't ensure we will even reach it. Also we could base on a default mimimum set of entries for the first refresh, say 15, but again, the minimal sample is tunable, and we could end up displaying nothing until we have a minimal default set of events, which can take some time in case of high samples filters. Hence this simple solution which partially covers the default case. [ Impact: fix display artifacts in perf top ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbeec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1244322643-6447-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf annotate: Fix command line help textIngo Molnar2009-06-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Arjan noticed this bug in the perf annotate help output: -s, --symbol <file> symbol to annotate that should be <symbol> instead. Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Initialize a stack variable before useArjan van de Ven2009-06-061-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the "perf report" utility crashed in some circumstances because the "sym" stack variable was not initialized before used (as also proven by valgrind). With this fix both the crash goes away and valgrind no longer complains. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf annotate: Automatically pick up vmlinux in the local directoryIngo Molnar2009-06-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Right now kernel debug info does not get resolved by default, because we dont know where to look for the vmlinux. The -k option can be used for that - but if no option is given, pick up vmlinux files in the current directory - in case a kernel hacker runs profiling from the source directory that the kernel was built in. The real solution would be to embedd the location (and perhaps the date/timestamp) of the vmlinux file in /proc/kallsyms, so that tools can pick it up automatically. 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Fix error condition in parse_aliases()Ingo Molnar2009-06-061-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | gcc warned about this bug: util/parse-events.c: In function ‘parse_generic_hw_symbols’: util/parse-events.c:175: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type util/parse-events.c:182: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type util/parse-events.c:190: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Warning fixes on 32-bitArjan van de Ven2009-06-062-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/Ingo Molnar2009-06-0669-0/+15209
Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the (new) tools/ directory. 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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