linux-stable.git/tools/perf/ui/stdio, branch linux-5.0.y

perf hists: Clarify callchain disabling when available

2018-07-24T17:37:33+00:00

We want to allow having mixed events with/without callchains, not
using a global flag to show callchains, but allowing supressing
callchains when they are present.

So invert the logic of the last parameter to hists__fprint() to
that effect.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ohqyisr6qge79qa95ojslptx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf hists: Check if a hist_entry has callchains before using them

2018-06-06T15:52:03+00:00

So far if we use 'perf record -g' this will make
symbol_conf.use_callchain 'true' and logic will assume that all events
have callchains enabled, but ever since we added the possibility of
setting up callchains for some events (e.g.: -e
cycles/call-graph=dwarf/) while not for others, we limit usage scenarios
by looking at that symbol_conf.use_callchain global boolean, we better
look at each event attributes.

On the road to that we need to look if a hist_entry has callchains, that
is, to go from hist_entry->hists to the evsel that contains it, to then
look at evsel->sample_type for PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN.

The next step is to add a symbol_conf.ignore_callchains global, to use
in the places where what we really want to know is if callchains should
be ignored, even if present.

Then -g will mean just to select a callchain mode to be applied to all
events not explicitely setting some other callchain mode, i.e. a default
callchain mode, and --no-call-graph will set
symbol_conf.ignore_callchains with that clear intention.

That too will at some point become a per evsel thing, that tools can set
for all or just a few of its evsels.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0sas5cm4dsw2obn75g7ruz69@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf ui stdio: Use map_groups__fprintf()

2018-04-26T16:47:13+00:00

Instead of the variant that allows asking for just a specific map_type,
because that map_type split will go away.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-eya0jvmu26qvro0nxxd49xia@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report: Show zero counters as well in 'perf report --stat'

2018-03-16T16:55:36+00:00

When recently using 'perf report --stat' it was not clear to me from the
output whether a particular statistics field (LOST_SAMPLES) was not
present, or just zero:

  fomalhaut:~> perf report --stat

  Aggregated stats:
           TOTAL events:     495984
            MMAP events:         85
            COMM events:       3389
            EXIT events:       1605
        THROTTLE events:          2
      UNTHROTTLE events:          2
            FORK events:       3377
          SAMPLE events:     472629
           MMAP2 events:      14753
  FINISHED_ROUND events:        139
      THREAD_MAP events:          1
         CPU_MAP events:          1
       TIME_CONV events:          1

I had to check the output several times to ascertain that I'm not
misreading the output, that the field didn't change and that I didn't
misremember the name. In fact I had to look into the perf source to make
sure that zero fields are indeed not shown.

With the patch applied:

  fomalhaut:~> perf report --stat

  Aggregated stats:
           TOTAL events:     495984
            MMAP events:         85
            LOST events:          0
            COMM events:       3389
            EXIT events:       1605
        THROTTLE events:          2
      UNTHROTTLE events:          2
            FORK events:       3377
            READ events:          0
          SAMPLE events:     472629
           MMAP2 events:      14753
             AUX events:          0
    ITRACE_START events:          0
    LOST_SAMPLES events:          0
          SWITCH events:          0
 SWITCH_CPU_WIDE events:          0
      NAMESPACES events:          0
            ATTR events:          0
      EVENT_TYPE events:          0
    TRACING_DATA events:          0
        BUILD_ID events:          0
  FINISHED_ROUND events:        139
        ID_INDEX events:          0
   AUXTRACE_INFO events:          0
        AUXTRACE events:          0
  AUXTRACE_ERROR events:          0
      THREAD_MAP events:          1
         CPU_MAP events:          1
     STAT_CONFIG events:          0
            STAT events:          0
      STAT_ROUND events:          0
    EVENT_UPDATE events:          0
       TIME_CONV events:          1
         FEATURE events:          0

It's pretty clear at a glance that LOST_SAMPLES is present but zero.

The original output can still be gotten via:

  fomalhaut:~> perf report --stat | grep -vw 0

  Aggregated stats:
           TOTAL events:     495984
            MMAP events:         85
            COMM events:       3389
            EXIT events:       1605
        THROTTLE events:          2
      UNTHROTTLE events:          2
            FORK events:       3377
          SAMPLE events:     472629
           MMAP2 events:      14753
  FINISHED_ROUND events:        139
      THREAD_MAP events:          1
         CPU_MAP events:          1
       TIME_CONV events:          1

So I don't think there's any real loss in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180307152430.7e5h7e657b7bgd7q@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts

2017-11-07T09:30:18+00:00

Conflicts:
	tools/perf/arch/arm/annotate/instructions.c
	tools/perf/arch/arm64/annotate/instructions.c
	tools/perf/arch/powerpc/annotate/instructions.c
	tools/perf/arch/s390/annotate/instructions.c
	tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/intel-cqm.c
	tools/perf/ui/tui/progress.c
	tools/perf/util/zlib.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf report: Remove code to handle inline frames from browsers

2017-10-24T12:59:55+00:00

The follow-up commits will make inline frames first-class citizens in
the callchain, thereby obsoleting all of this special code.

Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff 
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa 
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Yao Jin 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009203310.17362-2-milian.wolff@kdab.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report: Calculate the average cycles of iterations

2017-08-30T13:03:27+00:00

The branch history code has a loop detection function. With this, we can
get the number of iterations by calculating the removed loops.

While it would be nice for knowing the average cycles of iterations.
This patch adds up the cycles in branch entries of removed loops and
save the result to the next branch entry (e.g. branch entry A).

Finally it will display the iteration number and average cycles at the
"from" of branch entry A.

For example:
perf record -g -j any,save_type ./div
perf report --branch-history --no-children --stdio

--22.63%--main div.c:42 (RET CROSS_2M)
          compute_flag div.c:28 (cycles:2 iter:173115 avg_cycles:2)
          |
           --10.73%--compute_flag div.c:27 (RET CROSS_2M)
                     rand rand.c:28 (cycles:1)
                     rand rand.c:28 (RET CROSS_2M)
                     __random random.c:298 (cycles:1)
                     __random random.c:297 (COND_BWD CROSS_2M)
                     __random random.c:295 (cycles:1)
                     __random random.c:295 (COND_BWD CROSS_2M)
                     __random random.c:295 (cycles:1)
                     __random random.c:295 (RET CROSS_2M)

Signed-off-by: Yao Jin 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502111115-18305-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools include: Adopt strstarts() from the kernel

2017-07-20T18:46:10+00:00

Replacing prefixcmp(), same purpose, inverted result, so standardize on
the kernel variant, to reduce silly differences among tools/ and the
kernel sources, making it easier for people to work in both codebases.

And then doing:

	if (strstarts(option, "no-"))

Looks clearer than doing:

	if (!prefixcmp(option, "no-"))

To figure out if option starts witn "no-".

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kaei42gi7lpa8subwtv7eug8@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report: Enable finding kernel inline functions

2017-07-19T02:14:27+00:00

Currently perf supports a mode to query inline stack. It works well for
finding user space inline functions but it doesn't work for kernel ones,
due to some unnecessary check.

This patch removes these unnecessary checks. Now kernel inline functions
can be reported.

For example:

  perf report --inline -g func --stdio

  |--46.19%--do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
  |          do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page (inline)
  |          __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page (inline)
  |          __SetPageUptodate (inline)
  |          __set_bit (inline)

  The result is compared with the output of addr2line. They match.

Signed-off-by: Yao Jin 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500409892-15904-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo