linux-stable.git/tools/perf/perf.c, branch linux-4.6.y

perf config: Bring perf_default_config to the very beginning at main()

2016-02-26T22:49:16+00:00

Before this patch each subcommand calls perf_config() by themself,
reading the default configuration together with subcommand specific
options. If a subcommand doesn't have it own options, it needs to call
'perf_config(perf_default_config, NULL)' to ensure .perfconfig is
loaded.

This patch brings perf_config(perf_default_config, NULL) to the very
start of main(), so subcommands don't need to do it.

After this patch, 'llvm.clang-path' works for 'perf trace'.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Suggested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Li Zefan 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1456479154-136027-4-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use asprintf() for simple string formatting/allocation

2016-02-25T13:14:50+00:00

No need to use strbuf there, its just a simple alloc+formatting, which
asprintf does just fine.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6q6cxfhk8c8ypg3tfpo0i2iy@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Initialize libapi debug output

2016-02-16T20:12:59+00:00

Setting libapi debug output functions to use perf functions.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455465826-8426-5-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report: Show random usage tip on the help line

2016-01-08T16:15:46+00:00

Currently perf report only shows a help message "For a higher level
overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso" unconditionally (even if
the sort keys were used).  Add more help tips and show randomly.

Load tips from ${prefix}/share/doc/perf-tip/tips.txt file.

  $ perf report | tail
      0.10%  swapper  [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] irq_exit
      0.09%  swapper  [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] flush_smp_call_function_queue
      0.08%  swapper  [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] native_write_msr_safe
      0.03%  swapper  [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] group_sched_in
      0.01%  perf     [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] native_write_msr_safe

  #
  # (Tip: Search options using a keyword: perf report -h )
  #

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452166913-27046-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Renamed it to perf_tip() and the parameter dirname to dirpath to fix the build on older distros ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf subcmd: Create subcmd library

2015-12-17T17:27:14+00:00

Move the subcommand-related files from perf to a new library named
libsubcmd.a.

Since we're moving files anyway, go ahead and rename 'exec_cmd.*' to
'exec-cmd.*' to be consistent with the naming of all the other files.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c0a838d4c878ab17fee50998811612b2281355c1.1450193761.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove 'perf' from subcmd function and variable names

2015-12-17T00:34:28+00:00

In preparation for moving exec_cmd.c and run-command.c out of perf and
into a library, remove 'perf' from all the symbol names.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bc3ee82b40b8f396b644fa49e0f7260ce442635b.1450193761.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Provide subcmd configuration at runtime

2015-12-16T19:18:16+00:00

Create init functions for exec_cmd.c and pager.c.  This allows their
configuration to be specified at runtime so they can be split out into a
separate library which can be used by other programs.  Their
configuration is stored in a shared subcmd_config struct.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/21f5f6b38da72c985a8dcfa185700d03e7eecd1d.1450193761.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Save cmdline arguments earlier

2015-12-09T16:42:03+00:00

perf_env__set_cmdline() only saves the arguments the first time it's
called.  It doesn't need to be called every time the options and
suboptions are parsed.  Instead it can just be called once.

This also has the advantage of making the option parsing code less
perf-specific so it can be moved out to a library.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/19b76a5aa1b688bd635bd65d80bbc103a978d75e.1449548395.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add 'perf config' command

2015-11-23T21:31:24+00:00

The perf configuration file contains many variables to change various
aspects of each of its tools, including output, disk usage, etc.

But looking at the state of configuration is difficult and there's no
documentation about config variables except for the variables in
perfconfig.example exist.

So this patch adds a 'perf-config' command with a '--list' option.

    perf config [options]

    display current perf config variables.
    # perf config -l | --list

Signed-off-by: Taeung Song 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447768424-17327-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Enable passing bpf object file to --event

2015-10-28T15:48:12+00:00

By introducing new rules in tools/perf/util/parse-events.[ly], this
patch enables 'perf record --event bpf_file.o' to select events by an
eBPF object file. It calls parse_events_load_bpf() to load that file,
which uses bpf__prepare_load() and finally calls bpf_object__open() for
the object files.

After applying this patch, commands like:

 # perf record --event foo.o sleep

become possible.

However, at this point it is unable to link any useful things onto the
evsel list because the creating of probe points and BPF program
attaching have not been implemented.  Before real events are possible to
be extracted, to avoid perf report error because of empty evsel list,
this patch link a dummy evsel. The dummy event related code will be
removed when probing and extracting code is ready.

Commiter notes:

Using it:

  $ ls -la foo.o
  ls: cannot access foo.o: No such file or directory
  $ perf record --event foo.o sleep
  libbpf: failed to open foo.o: No such file or directory
  event syntax error: 'foo.o'
                       \___ BPF object file 'foo.o' is invalid

  (add -v to see detail)
  Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

   Usage: perf record [] []
      or: perf record [] --  []

      -e, --event    event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
  $

  $ file /tmp/build/perf/perf.o
  /tmp/build/perf/perf.o: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
  $ perf record --event /tmp/build/perf/perf.o sleep
  libbpf: /tmp/build/perf/perf.o is not an eBPF object file
  event syntax error: '/tmp/build/perf/perf.o'
                       \___ BPF object file '/tmp/build/perf/perf.o' is invalid

  (add -v to see detail)
  Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

   Usage: perf record [] []
      or: perf record [] --  []

      -e, --event    event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
  $

  $ file /tmp/foo.o
  /tmp/foo.o: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, no machine, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
  $ perf record --event /tmp/foo.o sleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.013 MB perf.data ]
  $ perf evlist
  /tmp/foo.o
  $ perf evlist  -v
  /tmp/foo.o: type: 1, size: 112, config: 0x9, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1
  $

So, type 1 is PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, config 0x9 is PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY, ok.

  $ perf report --stdio
  Error:
  The perf.data file has no samples!
  # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
  #
  $

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kaixu Xia 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444826502-49291-4-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo