linux-stable.git/tools/perf/perf.c, branch linux-4.7.y

perf tools: Separate accounting of contexts and real addresses in a stack trace

2016-05-17T02:11:54+00:00

The perf_sample->ip_callchain->nr value includes all the entries in the
ip_callchain->ip[] array, real addresses and PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc},
while what the user expects is that what is in the kernel.perf_event_max_stack
sysctl or in the upcoming per event perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack knob be
honoured in terms of IP addresses in the stack trace.

So match the kernel support and validate chain->nr taking into account
both kernel.perf_event_max_stack and kernel.perf_event_max_contexts_per_stack.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mgx0jpzfdq4uq4abfa40byu0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Make alias handler to check return value of strbuf

2016-05-10T14:56:52+00:00

Make alias handler and sq_quote_argv to check the return value of strbuf
APIs.

In sq_quote_argv() calls die(), but this fix handles strbuf failure as a
special case and returns to caller, since the caller - handle_alias()
also has to check the return value of other strbuf APIs and those checks
can be merged to one if() statement.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160510054725.6158.84597.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Set the maximum allowed stack from /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack

2016-04-27T13:29:07+00:00

There is an upper limit to what tooling considers a valid callchain,
and it was tied to the hardcoded value in the kernel,
PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH (127), now that this can be tuned via a sysctl,
make it read it and use that as the upper limit, falling back to
PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH for kernels where this sysctl isn't present.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yjqsd30nnkogvj5oyx9ghir9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf config: Remove duplicated set_buildid_dir calls

2016-03-30T14:14:08+00:00

Signed-off-by: Taeung Song 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459099340-16911-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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