linux-stable.git/tools/perf/Documentation, branch linux-3.17.y

perf inject: Add --kallsyms parameter

2014-07-25T15:08:34+00:00

Let perf inject take --kallsyms parameter the same as perf script and
perf report do.

That is needed for decoding Instruction Trace data using a copy of
/proc/kcore for the kernel object because the kallsyms path is used to
locate that copy.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406035081-14301-30-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add --debug optionto set debug variable

2014-07-17T15:58:59+00:00

Adding --debug option as a way to setup debug variables.  Starting with
support for verbose, more will come.

It's possible to use it now with report command:
  $ perf --debug verbose   ...
  $ perf --debug verbose=2 ...

I'll need this support to add separated debug variable for ordered
events change in order to separate debug output out of standard verbose
stream.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140717105500.GG516@krava.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf kvm: Add stat support on s390

2014-07-16T20:57:33+00:00

On s390, the vmexit event has a tree-like structure: between
exit_event_begin and exit_event_end several other events may happen and
with each of them refining the previous ones.

This patch adds a decoder for such events to the generic code and also
the files  and kvm-stat.c for s390.

Commands 'perf kvm stat record', 'report' and 'live' are supported.

Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: Alexander Yarygin 
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Cornelia Huck 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404397747-20939-5-git-send-email-yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf timechart: Add more options to IO mode

2014-07-09T22:22:54+00:00

--io-skip-eagain - don't show EAGAIN errors
--io-min-time    - make small io bursts visible
--io-merge-dist  - merge adjacent events

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1404835423-23098-5-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf timechart: Implement IO mode

2014-07-09T22:22:54+00:00

Currently, timechart records only scheduler and CPU events (task switches,
running times, CPU power states, etc); this commit adds IO mode which
makes it possible to record IO (disk, network) activity. In this mode
perf timechart will generate SVG with IO charts (writes, reads, tx, rx, polls).

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1404835423-23098-3-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf trace: Add possibility to switch off syscall events

2014-06-26T20:48:07+00:00

Currently, we may either trace syscalls or syscalls+pagefaults.

We'd like to be able to trace *only* pagefaults and this commit
implements this feature.

Example:

  [root@zoo /]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ; trace --no-syscalls -F -p `pidof xchat`
       0.000 ( 0.000 ms): xchat/4574 majfault [g_unichar_get_script+0x11] => /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.3800.2@0xc403b (x.)
       0.202 ( 0.000 ms): xchat/4574 majfault [_cairo_hash_table_lookup+0x53] => 0x2280ff0 (?.)
      20.854 ( 0.000 ms): xchat/4574 majfault [gdk_cairo_set_source_pixbuf+0x110] => /usr/bin/xchat@0x6da1f (x.)
    1022.000 ( 0.000 ms): xchat/4574 majfault [__memcpy_sse2_unaligned+0x29] => 0x7ff5a8ca0400 (?.)
  ^C[root@zoo /]#

Below we can see malloc calls, 'trace' reading symbol tables in libraries to
resolve symbols, etc.

  [root@zoo /]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ; trace --no-syscalls -F all --cpu 1 sleep 10
       0.000 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/26589 minfault [0x1b53129] => /tmp/perf-26589.map@0x33cbcbf7f000 (x.)
      96.477 ( 0.000 ms): libvirtd/947 minfault [copy_user_enhanced_fast_string+0x5] => 0x7f7685bba000 (?k)
     113.164 ( 0.000 ms): Xorg/1063 minfault [0x786da] => 0x7fce52882a3c (?.)
    7162.801 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/3747 minfault [0x8e1a89] => 0xfcaefed0008 (?.)

    7773.138 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/3886 minfault [0x8e1a89] => 0xfcb0ce28008 (?.)
    7992.022 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/26574 minfault [0x1b5a708] => 0x3de7b5fc5000 (?.)
    8108.949 ( 0.000 ms): qemu-system-x8/4537 majfault [_int_malloc+0xee] => 0x7faffc466d60 (?.)
    8108.975 ( 0.000 ms): qemu-system-x8/4537 minfault [_int_malloc+0x102] => 0x7faffc466d60 (?.)

    8148.174 ( 0.000 ms): qemu-system-x8/4537 minfault [_int_malloc+0x102] => 0x7faffc4eb500 (?.)
    8270.855 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/26245 minfault [do_bo_emit_reloc+0xdb] => 0x45d092bc004 (?.)
    8270.869 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/26245 minfault [do_bo_emit_reloc+0x108] => 0x45d09150000 (?.)
no symbols found in /usr/lib64/libspice-server.so.1.9.0, maybe install a debug package?
    8273.831 ( 0.000 ms): trace/20198 majfault [__memcmp_sse4_1+0xbc6] => /usr/lib64/libspice-server.so.1.9.0@0xdf000 (d.)

    8275.121 ( 0.000 ms): trace/20198 minfault [dso__load+0x38] => 0x14fe756 (?.)
no symbols found in /usr/lib64/libelf-0.158.so, maybe install a debug package?
    8275.142 ( 0.000 ms): trace/20198 minfault [__memcmp_sse4_1+0xbc6] => /usr/lib64/libelf-0.158.so@0x0 (d.)

  [root@zoo /]#

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403799268-1367-6-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Add support for pagefault tracing

2014-06-26T19:07:43+00:00

This patch adds optional pagefault tracing support to 'perf trace'.

Using -F/--pf option user can specify whether he wants minor, major or
all pagefault events to be traced. This patch adds only live mode,
record and replace will come in a separate patch.

Example output:

  1756272.905 ( 0.000 ms): curl/5937 majfault [0x7fa7261978b6] => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.26.0.0@0x85288 (d.)
  1862866.036 ( 0.000 ms): wget/8460 majfault [__clear_user+0x3f] => 0x659cb4 (?k)

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403799268-1367-3-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench: Add --repeat option

2014-06-19T19:13:15+00:00

There are a number of benchmarks that do single runs and as a result
does not really help users gain a general idea of how the workload
performs. So the user must either manually do multiple runs or just use
single bogus results.

This option will enable users to specify the amount of runs (arbitrarily
defaulted to 10, to use the existing benchmarks default) through the
'--repeat' option.  Add it to perf-bench instead of implementing it
always in each specific benchmark.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran 
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402942467-10671-2-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
[ Kept the existing default of 10, changing it to something else should
  be done on separate patch ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

2014-06-12T11:54:42+00:00

Pull perf/core improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

User visible:

  * Improve 'perf probe' error messages, moving some diagnostic messages to
    only appear in --verbose mode and fixing up some error reporting related
    to variables and struct members. (Masami Hiramatsu)

  * Reflow 'perf timechart' man page. (Stanislav Fomichev)

Developer stuff:

  * Be more precise when reporting missing libraries in a static tool build.
    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  * Show error messages from the multiple make invoked from 'make build-test'.
    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf timechart: Reflow documentation

2014-06-10T13:03:18+00:00

Move options away from examples.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140610095216.GO26511@stfomichev-desktop.yandex.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo