linux-stable.git/tools/perf/util/Build, branch v4.12.2

perf memswap: Split the byteswap memory range wrappers from util.[ch]

2017-04-25T18:45:35+00:00

Just one more step into splitting util.[ch] to reduce the includes hell.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-navarr9mijkgwgbzu464dwam@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Move units conversion/formatting routines to separate object

2017-04-20T16:22:44+00:00

Out of util.h, to disentangle it a bit more.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vpksyj3w5fk9t8s6mxmkajyr@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Move print_binary definitions to separate files

2017-04-19T16:01:50+00:00

Continuing the split of util.[ch] into more manageable bits.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5eu367rwcwnvvn7fz09l7xpb@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove support for command aliases

2017-03-28T14:19:59+00:00

This came from 'git', but isn't documented anywhere in
tools/perf/Documentation/, looks like baggage we can do without, ditch
it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e7uwkn60t4hmlnwj99ba4t2s@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add a simple expression parser for JSON

2017-03-23T14:39:27+00:00

Add a simple expression parser good enough to parse JSON relation
expressions. The parser is implemented using bison.

This is just intended as an simple parser for internal usage in the
event lists, not the beginning of a "perf scripting language"

v2: Use expr__ prefix instead of expr_
    Support multiple free variables for parser

Committer note:

The v2 patch had:

  %define api.pure full

In expr.y, that is a feature introduced in bison 2.7, to have reentrant
parsers, not using global variables, which would make tools/perf stop
building with the bison version shipped in older distros, so Andi
realised that the other parsers (e.g. parse-events.y) were using:

  %pure-parser

Which is present in older versions of bison and fits the bill.

I added:

  CFLAGS_expr-bison.o += -DYYENABLE_NLS=0 -DYYLTYPE_IS_TRIVIAL=0 -w

To finally make it build, copying what was there for pmu-bison.o,
another parser.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170320201711.14142-8-andi@firstfloor.org
[ stdlib.h is needed in tests/expr.c for free() fixing build in systems such as ubuntu:16.04-x-s390 ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Add 'brstackinsn' for branch stacks

2017-03-16T12:24:35+00:00

Implement printing instruction sequences as hex dump for branch stacks.

This relies on the x86 instruction decoder used by the PT decoder to
find the lengths of instructions to dump them individually.

This is good enough for pattern matching.

This allows to study hot paths for individual samples, together with
branch misprediction and cycle count / IPC information if available (on
Skylake systems).

  % perf record -b ...
  % perf script -F brstackinsn
  ...
    read_hpet+67:
          ffffffff9905b843        insn: 74 ea                     # PRED
          ffffffff9905b82f        insn: 85 c9
          ffffffff9905b831        insn: 74 12
          ffffffff9905b833        insn: f3 90
          ffffffff9905b835        insn: 48 8b 0f
          ffffffff9905b838        insn: 48 89 ca
          ffffffff9905b83b        insn: 48 c1 ea 20
          ffffffff9905b83f        insn: 39 f2
          ffffffff9905b841        insn: 89 d0
          ffffffff9905b843        insn: 74 ea                     # PRED

Only works when no special branch filters are specified.

Occasionally the path does not reach up to the sample IP, as the LBRs
may be frozen before executing a final jump. In this case we print a
special message.

The instruction dumper piggy backs on the existing infrastructure from
the IP PT decoder.

An earlier iteration of this patch relied on a disassembler, but this
version only uses the existing instruction decoder.

Committer note:

Added hint about how to get suitable perf.data files for use with
'-F brstackinsm':

  $ perf record usleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.018 MB perf.data (8 samples) ]
  $
  $ perf script -F brstackinsn
  Display of branch stack assembler requested, but non all-branch filter set
  Hint: run 'perf record -b ...'
  $

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170223234634.583-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info

2017-03-14T14:38:23+00:00

Introduce a new option to record PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES events emitted
by the kernel when fork, clone, setns or unshare are invoked. And update
perf-record documentation with the new option to record namespace
events.

Committer notes:

Combined it with a later patch to allow printing it via 'perf report -D'
and be able to test the feature introduced in this patch. Had to move
here also perf_ns__name(), that was introduced in another later patch.

Also used PRIu64 and PRIx64 to fix the build in some enfironments wrt:

  util/event.c:1129:39: error: format '%lx' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type 'long long unsigned int' [-Werror=format=]
     ret  += fprintf(fp, "%u/%s: %lu/0x%lx%s", idx
                                         ^
Testing it:

  # perf record --namespaces -a
  ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.083 MB perf.data (423 samples) ]
  #
  # perf report -D
  
  3 2028902078892 0x115140 [0xa0]: PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES 14783/14783 - nr_namespaces: 7
                [0/net: 3/0xf0000081, 1/uts: 3/0xeffffffe, 2/ipc: 3/0xefffffff, 3/pid: 3/0xeffffffc,
                 4/user: 3/0xeffffffd, 5/mnt: 3/0xf0000000, 6/cgroup: 3/0xeffffffb]

  0x1151e0 [0x30]: event: 9
  .
  . ... raw event: size 48 bytes
  .  0000:  09 00 00 00 02 00 30 00 c4 71 82 68 0c 7f 00 00  ......0..q.h....
  .  0010:  a9 39 00 00 a9 39 00 00 94 28 fe 63 d8 01 00 00  .9...9...(.c....
  .  0020:  03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ce c4 02 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  
        NAMESPACES events:          1
  
  #

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Aravinda Prasad 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Eric Biederman 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sargun Dhillon 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148891930386.25309.18412039920746995488.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Move two variables usied in libperf from perf.c

2017-01-17T14:36:45+00:00

The use_browser and perf_version_string variables are both declared in
perf.c but they are also referenced by other functions of libperf.a.

Therefore a user linking an own main() with libperf.a must declare those
two variables in their files even if the files never use the browser or
the version information.

This patch fixes this issue by moving use_browser and
perf_version_string out of perf.c to some other files.

Signed-off-by: Soramichi Akiyama 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117002237.c1aec0ce3b4d675dca018deb@m.soramichi.jp
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf clang: Add builtin clang support ant test case

2016-12-05T18:51:43+00:00

Add basic clang support in clang.cpp and test__clang() testcase. The
first testcase checks if builtin clang is able to generate LLVM IR.

tests/clang.c is a proxy. Real testcase resides in
utils/c++/clang-test.cpp in c++ and exports C interface to perf test
subsystem.

Test result:

   $ perf test -v clang
   51: builtin clang support                               :
   51.1: Test builtin clang compile C source to IR              :
   --- start ---
   test child forked, pid 13215
   test child finished with 0
   ---- end ----
   Test builtin clang support subtest 0: Ok

Committer note:

Make sure you've enabled CLANG and LLVM builtin support by setting
the LIBCLANGLLVM variable on the make command line, e.g.:

  make LIBCLANGLLVM=1 O=/tmp/build/perf -C tools/perf install-bin

Otherwise you'll get this when trying to do the 'perf test' call above:

  # perf test clang
  51: builtin clang support                      : Skip (not compiled in)
  #

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Joe Stringer 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161126070354.141764-11-wangnan0@huawei.com
[ Removed "Test" from descriptions, redundant and already removed from all the other entries ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add time-based utility functions

2016-12-01T16:02:32+00:00

Add function to parse a user time string of the form ,
where start and stop are time in sec.nsec format. Both start and stop
times are optional.

Add function to determine if a sample time is within a given time
time window of interest.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480439746-42695-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo