linux-stable.git/tools/perf/util/cache.h, branch linux-3.4.y

perf report: Add a simple GTK2-based 'perf report' browser

2012-03-19T18:13:29+00:00

This patch adds a simple GTK2-based browser to 'perf report' that's
based on the TTY-based browser in builtin-report.c.

To launch "perf report" using the new GTK interface just type:

  $ perf report --gtk

The interface is somewhat limited in features at the moment:

  - No callgraph support

  - No KVM guest profiling support

  - No color coding for percentages

  - No sorting from the UI

  - ..and many, many more!

That said, I think this patch a reasonable start to build future features on.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Colin Walters 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1202231952410.6689@tux.localdomain
[ committer note: Added #pragma to make gtk no strict prototype problem go
  away as suggested by Colin Walters modulo avoiding push/pop ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Don't fallback to setup_pager unconditionally

2011-01-31T20:08:39+00:00

Because in tools like 'top' we don't want the pager.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: add test for strlcpy()

2010-08-21T14:22:47+00:00

Some Linux distributions like ALT Linux provides patched glibc with
contains strlcpy(). It's confilcts with strlcpy() from perf.

Let's add check for strlcpy().

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
LKML-Reference: <1282351101-8879-1-git-send-email-kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir

2010-06-05T12:34:04+00:00

This patch adds the ability to specify an alternate directory to store the
buildid cache (buildids, copy of binaries). By default, it is hardcoded to
$HOME/.debug. This directory contains immutable data. The layout of the
directory is such that no conflicts in filenames are possible. A modification
in a file, yields a different buildid and thus a different location in the
subdir hierarchy.

You may want to put the buildid cache elsewhere because of disk space
limitation or simply to share the cache between users. It is also useful for
remote collect vs. local analysis of profiles.

This patch adds a new config option to the perfconfig file.  Under the tag
'buildid', there is a dir option. For instance, if you have:

$ cat /etc/perfconfig
[buildid]
dir = /var/cache/perf-buildid

All buildids and binaries are be saved in the directory specified. The perf
record, buildid-list, buildid-cache, report, annotate, and archive commands
will it to pull information out.

The option can be set in the system-wide perfconfig file or in the
$HOME/.perfconfig file.

Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: <4c055fb7.df0ce30a.5f0d.ffffae52@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tui: Allow disabling the TUI on a per command basis in ~/.perfconfig

2010-05-21T01:01:10+00:00

Using the same scheme as for git's/perf's pager setup, i.e. if one
doesn't want to, on a newt enabled perf binary, to disable the TUI for
'perf report', its just a matter of doing:

  [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# printf "[tui]\n\nreport = off\n" >
  /root/.perfconfig
  [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# cat /root/.perfconfig
  [tui]

  report = off
  [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#

System wide settings are also possible, by editing /etc/perfconfig, etc,
i.e. the git machinery for config files applies to perf as well, so when
in doubt where to put your settings, consult the git documentation, if
it fails, please let us know.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Discussed-with: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove some unused functions

2010-05-19T02:03:35+00:00

Without the bloated cplus_demangle from binutils, i.e building with:

$ make NO_DEMANGLE=1 O=~acme/git/build/perf -j3 -C tools/perf/ install

Before:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 471851	  29280	4025056	4526187	 45106b	/home/acme/bin/perf

After:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ size ~/bin/perf
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 446886	  29232	4008576	4484694	 446e56	/home/acme/bin/perf

So its a 5.3% size reduction in code, but the interesting part is in the git
diff --stat output:

 19 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1909 deletions(-)

If we ever need some of the things we got from git but weren't using, we just
have to go to the git repo and get fresh, uptodate source code bits.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf newt: Properly restore the screen when error exiting

2010-03-22T17:47:34+00:00

Show an OK message box with the last message sent via pr_err,
etc.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
LKML-Reference: <1269274229-20442-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf report: Implement initial UI using newt

2010-03-12T09:28:46+00:00

Newt has widespread availability and provides a rather simple
API as can be seen by the size of this patch.

The work needed to support it will benefit other frontends too.

In this initial patch it just checks if the output is a tty, if
not it falls back to the previous behaviour, also if
newt-devel/libnewt-dev is not installed the previous behaviour
is maintaned.

Pressing enter on a symbol will annotate it, ESC in the
annotation window will return to the report symbol list.

More work will be done to remove the special casing in
color_fprintf, stop using fmemopen/FILE in the printing of
hist_entries, etc.

Also the annotation doesn't need to be done via spawning "perf
annotate" and then browsing its output, we can do better by
calling directly the builtin-annotate.c functions, that would
then be moved to tools/perf/util/annotate.c and shared with perf
top, etc

But lets go by baby steps, this patch already improves perf
usability by allowing to quickly do annotations on symbols from
the report screen and provides a first experimentation with
libnewt/TUI integration of tools.

Tested on RHEL5 and Fedora12 X86_64 and on Debian PARISC64 to
browse a perf.data file collected on a Fedora12 x86_64 box.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
LKML-Reference: <1268349164-5822-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Do not manually count string lengths

2009-10-13T09:55:31+00:00

Use strlen & macros instead of manually counting string lengths as
this is error prone and may lend to bugs.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Legoll 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
LKML-Reference: <4727185d0910130118m5387058dndb02ac9b384af9f0@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Protect header files with a consistent style

2009-09-24T19:27:51+00:00

There was a colorful mix of header guards - standardize them.

Signed-off-by: John Kacur 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar