linux-stable.git/tools/perf/util/python.c, branch linux-3.10.y

perf python: Fix breakage introduced by the test_attr infrastructure

2013-01-24T19:40:09+00:00

The test_attr infrastructure hooks on the sys_perf_event_open call,
checking if a variable is set and if so calling a function to intercept
calls and do the checking.

But both the variable and the function aren't on objects that are
linked on the python binding, breaking it:

  # perf test -v 15
  15: Try 'use perf' in python, checking link problems       :
  --- start ---
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "", line 1, in 
  ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf//python/perf.so: undefined symbol: test_attr__enabled
  ---- end ----
  Try 'use perf' in python, checking link problems: FAILED!
  #

Fix it by moving the variable to one of the linked object files and
providing a stub for the function in the python.o object, that is only
linked in the python binding.

Now 'perf test' is happy again:

  # perf test 15
  15: Try 'use perf' in python, checking link problems       : Ok
  #

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0rsca2kn44b38rgdpr3tz6n5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf python: Initialize 'page_size' variable

2012-10-29T14:36:46+00:00

The commit 0c1fe6b:

 'perf tools: Have the page size value available for all tools'

Broke the python binding because the global variable 'page_size' is
initialized on the main() routine, that is not called when using
just the python binding, causing evlist.mmap() to fail because it
expects that variable to be initialized to the system's page size.

Fix it by initializing it on the binding init routine.

Reported-by: David Ahern 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vrvp3azmbfzexnpmkhmvtzzc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Know if byte swap is needed

2012-09-26T15:48:18+00:00

Instead of passing it around for parsing as an explicit parameter, will
help with reading tracepoint fields when not using a perf session or
pevent structure, i.e. for non perf.data centered workflows.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qa67ikv2sm49cwa7dyjhhp6g@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use __maybe_used for unused variables

2012-09-11T15:19:15+00:00

perf defines both __used and __unused variables to use for marking
unused variables. The variable __used is defined to
__attribute__((__unused__)), which contradicts the kernel definition to
__attribute__((__used__)) for new gcc versions. On Android, __used is
also defined in system headers and this leads to warnings like: warning:
'__used__' attribute ignored

__unused is not defined in the kernel and is not a standard definition.
If __unused is included everywhere instead of __used, this leads to
conflicts with glibc headers, since glibc has a variables with this name
in its headers.

The best approach is to use __maybe_unused, the definition used in the
kernel for __attribute__((unused)). In this way there is only one
definition in perf sources (instead of 2 definitions that point to the
same thing: __used and __unused) and it works on both Linux and Android.
This patch simply replaces all instances of __used and __unused with
__maybe_unused.

Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347315303-29906-7-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@intel.com
[ committer note: fixed up conflict with a116e05 in builtin-sched.c ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Rename group method to set_leader

2012-08-15T13:13:56+00:00

Just like was done for parse_events__set_leader.

Also we need to have the list_entry set_leader method in evlist.c so that we
don't grow another dep in the python binding:

 # ~acme/git/linux/tools/perf/python/twatch.py
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf/python/twatch.py", line 16, in 
     import perf
 ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: parse_events__set_leader

And also remove a pr_debug from evsel.c so that we avoid this one too:

 # ~acme/git/linux/tools/perf/python/twatch.py
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf/python/twatch.py", line 16, in 
     import perf
 ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: eprintf

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0hk9dazg9pora9jylkqngovm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Enable grouping logic for parsed events

2012-08-14T20:03:49+00:00

This patch adds a functionality that allows to create event groups
based on the way they are specified on the command line. Adding
functionality to the '{}' group syntax introduced in earlier patch.

The current '--group/-g' option behaviour remains intact. If you
specify it for record/stat/top command, all the specified events
become members of a single group with the first event as a group
leader.

With the new '{}' group syntax you can create group like:
  # perf record -e '{cycles,faults}' ls

resulting in single event group containing 'cycles' and 'faults'
events, with cycles event as group leader.

All groups are created with regards to threads and cpus. Thus
recording an event group within a 2 threads on server with
4 CPUs will create 8 separate groups.

Examples (first event in brackets is group leader):

  # 1 group (cpu-clock,task-clock)
  perf record --group -e cpu-clock,task-clock ls
  perf record -e '{cpu-clock,task-clock}' ls

  # 2 groups (cpu-clock,task-clock) (minor-faults,major-faults)
  perf record -e '{cpu-clock,task-clock},{minor-faults,major-faults}' ls

  # 1 group (cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults)
  perf record --group -e cpu-clock,task-clock -e minor-faults,major-faults ls
  perf record -e '{cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults}' ls

  # 2 groups (cpu-clock,task-clock) (minor-faults,major-faults)
  perf record -e '{cpu-clock,task-clock} -e '{minor-faults,major-faults}' \
   -e instructions ls

  # 1 group
  # (cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults,instructions)
  perf record --group -e cpu-clock,task-clock \
   -e minor-faults,major-faults -e instructions ls perf record -e
'{cpu-clock,task-clock,minor-faults,major-faults,instructions}' ls

It's possible to use standard event modifier for a group, which spans
over all events in the group and updates each event modifier settings,
for example:

  # perf record -r '{faults:k,cache-references}:p'

resulting in ':kp' modifier being used for 'faults' and ':p' modifier
being used for 'cache-references' event.

Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ulrich Drepper 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ho42u0wcr8mn1otkalqi13qp@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Introduce perf_evlist__parse_sample

2012-08-02T14:42:57+00:00

That is a more compact form of perf_session__parse_sample and to support
multiple evlists per perf_session is the way to go anyway.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vkxx3j5qktoj11bvcwmfjj13@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Precalculate the sample size

2012-08-01T21:53:11+00:00

So that we don't have to store it in the perf_session instance, because
in the future perf_session instances may have multiple evlists, each
with different sample_type/sizes.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ptod86fxkpgq3h62m9refkv4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Introduce per user view

2012-01-24T21:47:37+00:00

The new --uid command line option will show only the tasks for a given
user, using the proc interface to figure out the existing tasks.

Kernel work is needed to close races at startup, but this should already
be useful in many use cases.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bdnspm000gw2l984a2t53o8z@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Fix grouping of multiple events

2011-10-26T12:25:02+00:00

The __perf_evsel__open routing was grouping just the threads for that
specific events per cpu when we want to group all threads in all events
to the first fd opened on that cpu.

So pass the xyarray with the first event, where the other events will be
able to get that first per cpu fd.

At some point top and record will switch to using perf_evlist__open that
takes care of this detail and probably will also handle the fallback
from hw to soft counters, etc.

Reported-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu 
Tested-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ebm34rh098i9y9v4cytfdp0x@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo