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

perf tools: Enable close-on-exec flag on perf file descriptor

2014-07-18T07:09:34+00:00

In commit a21b0b354d4a ('perf: Introduce a flag to enable
close-on-exec in perf_event_open()'), flag PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC
was added to perf_event_open(2) syscall to allows userspace
to atomically enable close-on-exec behavor when creating
the file descriptor.

This patch makes perf tools use the new flag if supported
by the kernel, so that the event file descriptors got
automatically closed if perf tool exec a sub-command.

Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1404160127-7475-1-git-send-email-ydroneaud@opteya.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf bench sched-messaging: Drop barf()

2014-06-19T19:13:17+00:00

Instead of reinventing the wheel, we can use err(2) when dealing with
fatal errors. Exit code is now always EXIT_FAILURE (1).

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran 
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402942467-10671-9-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench mem: The -o and -n options are mutually exclusive

2014-06-19T19:13:16+00:00

 -o, --only-prefault   Show only the result with page faults before mem*
 -n, --no-prefault     Show only the result without page faults before mem*

Makes no sense to call together. Applies to both memset and memcpy.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran 
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402942467-10671-8-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench futex: Use global --repeat option

2014-06-19T19:13:16+00:00

This option is available through perf-bench, use it instead and free the
local option.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran 
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402942467-10671-6-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
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

perf bench sched-messaging: Plug memleak

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

Explicitly free the thread array ('pth_tab').

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran 
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402942467-10671-5-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-mingo' into perf/urgent

2014-04-14T14:45:39+00:00

Conflicts:
	tools/perf/bench/numa.c

Pull perf fixes from Jiri Olsa.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf bench: Set more defaults in the 'numa' suite

2014-04-14T10:55:58+00:00

Currently,

  $ perf bench numa mem

errors out with usage information. To make this more user-friendly, let
us provide a minimum set of default values required for a test
run. As an added bonus,

  $ perf bench all

now goes all the way to completion.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395964219-22173-2-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-03-31T18:13:25+00:00

Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes:

  Kernel side changes:

   - Add SNB/IVB/HSW client uncore memory controller support (Stephane
     Eranian)

   - Fix various x86/P4 PMU driver bugs (Don Zickus)

  Tooling, user visible changes:

   - Add several futex 'perf bench' microbenchmarks (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - Speed up thread map generation (Don Zickus)

   - Introduce 'perf kvm --list-cmds' command line option for use by
     scripts (Ramkumar Ramachandra)

   - Print the evsel name in the annotate stdio output, prep to fix
     support outputting annotation for multiple events, not just for the
     first one (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Allow setting preferred callchain method in .perfconfig (Jiri Olsa)

   - Show in what binaries/modules 'perf probe's are set (Masami
     Hiramatsu)

   - Support distro-style debuginfo for uprobe in 'perf probe' (Masami
     Hiramatsu)

  Tooling, internal changes and fixes:

   - Use tid in mmap/mmap2 events to find maps (Don Zickus)

   - Record the reason for filtering an address_location (Namhyung Kim)

   - Apply all filters to an addr_location (Namhyung Kim)

   - Merge al->filtered with hist_entry->filtered in report/hists
     (Namhyung Kim)

   - Fix memory leak when synthesizing thread records (Namhyung Kim)

   - Use ui__has_annotation() in 'report' (Namhyung Kim)

   - hists browser refactorings to reuse code accross UIs (Namhyung Kim)

   - Add support for the new DWARF unwinder library in elfutils (Jiri
     Olsa)

   - Fix build race in the generation of bison files (Jiri Olsa)

   - Further streamline the feature detection display, trimming it a bit
     to show just the libraries detected, using VF=1 gets a more verbose
     output, showing the less interesting feature checks as well (Jiri
     Olsa).

   - Check compatible symtab type before loading dso (Namhyung Kim)

   - Check return value of filename__read_debuglink() (Stephane Eranian)

   - Move some hashing and fs related code from tools/perf/util/ to
     tools/lib/ so that it can be used by more tools/ living utilities
     (Borislav Petkov)

   - Prepare DWARF unwinding code for using an elfutils alternative
     unwinding library (Jiri Olsa)

   - Fix DWARF unwind max_stack processing (Jiri Olsa)

   - Add dwarf unwind 'perf test' entry (Jiri Olsa)

   - 'perf probe' improvements including memory leak fixes, sharing the
     intlist class with other tools, uprobes/kprobes code sharing and
     use of ref_reloc_sym (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - Shorten sample symbol resolving by adding cpumode to struct
     addr_location (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Fix synthesizing mmaps for threads (Don Zickus)

   - Fix invalid output on event group stdio report (Namhyung Kim)

   - Fixup header alignment in 'perf sched latency' output (Ramkumar
     Ramachandra)

   - Fix off-by-one error in 'perf timechart record' argv handling
     (Ramkumar Ramachandra)

  Tooling, cleanups:

   - Remove unused thread__find_map function (Jiri Olsa)

   - Remove unused simple_strtoul() function (Ramkumar Ramachandra)

  Tooling, documentation updates:

   - Update function names in debug messages (Ramkumar Ramachandra)

   - Update some code references in design.txt (Ramkumar Ramachandra)

   - Clarify load-latency information in the 'perf mem' docs (Andi
     Kleen)

   - Clarify x86 register naming in 'perf probe' docs (Andi Kleen)"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (96 commits)
  perf tools: Remove unused simple_strtoul() function
  perf tools: Update some code references in design.txt
  perf evsel: Update function names in debug messages
  perf tools: Remove thread__find_map function
  perf annotate: Print the evsel name in the stdio output
  perf report: Use ui__has_annotation()
  perf tools: Fix memory leak when synthesizing thread records
  perf tools: Use tid in mmap/mmap2 events to find maps
  perf report: Merge al->filtered with hist_entry->filtered
  perf symbols: Apply all filters to an addr_location
  perf symbols: Record the reason for filtering an address_location
  perf sched: Fixup header alignment in 'latency' output
  perf timechart: Fix off-by-one error in 'record' argv handling
  perf machine: Factor machine__find_thread to take tid argument
  perf tools: Speed up thread map generation
  perf kvm: introduce --list-cmds for use by scripts
  perf ui hists: Pass evsel to hpp->header/width functions explicitly
  perf symbols: Introduce thread__find_cpumode_addr_location
  perf session: Change header.misc dump from decimal to hex
  perf ui/tui: Reuse generic __hpp__fmt() code
  ...

perf bench: Add futex-requeue microbenchmark

2014-03-14T14:20:44+00:00

Block a bunch of threads on a futex and requeue them on another, N at a
time.

This program is particularly useful to measure the latency of nthread
requeues without waking up any tasks -- thus mimicking a regular
futex_wait.

An example run:

  $ perf bench futex requeue -r 100 -t 64
  Run summary [PID 151011]: Requeuing 64 threads (from 0x7d15c4 to 0x7d15c8), 1 at a time.

  [Run 1]: Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0400 ms
  [Run 2]: Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0390 ms
  [Run 3]: Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0400 ms
  ...
  [Run 100]: Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0390 ms
  Requeued 64 of 64 threads in 0.0399 ms (+-0.37%)

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Acked-by: Darren Hart 
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran 
Cc: Darren Hart 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jason Low 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Scott J Norton 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387081917-9102-4-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo