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<title>linux.git/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c, branch v4.12</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>perf tools: Include errno.h where needed</title>
<updated>2017-04-19T16:01:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-18T13:46:11+00:00</published>
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Removing it from util.h, part of an effort to disentangle the includes
hell, that makes changes to util.h or something included by it to cause
a complete rebuild of the tools.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ztrjy52q1rqcchuy3rubfgt2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Removing it from util.h, part of an effort to disentangle the includes
hell, that makes changes to util.h or something included by it to cause
a complete rebuild of the tools.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ztrjy52q1rqcchuy3rubfgt2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf annotate: Process attr and build_id records</title>
<updated>2017-04-11T18:23:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Carrillo-Cisneros</name>
<email>davidcc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-10T20:14:29+00:00</published>
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perf annotate did not get some love for pipe-mode, and did not have
.attr and .buil_id setup (while record and inject did. Fix that.

It can easily be reproduced by:

  perf record -o - noploop | perf annotate

that in my system shows:
    0xd8 [0x28]: failed to process type: 9

Committer Testing:

Before:

  $ perf record -o - stress -t 2 -c 2 | perf annotate --stdio
  stress: info: [11060] dispatching hogs: 2 cpu, 0 io, 0 vm, 0 hdd
  0x4470 [0x28]: failed to process type: 9
  $ stress: info: [11060] successful run completed in 2s

  $

After:

  $ perf record -o - stress -t 2 -c 2 | perf annotate --stdio
  stress: info: [11871] dispatching hogs: 2 cpu, 0 io, 0 vm, 0 hdd
  stress: info: [11871] successful run completed in 2s
  [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ]
  no symbols found in /usr/bin/stress, maybe install a debug package?
   Percent |      Source code &amp; Disassembly of libc-2.24.so for cycles:uhH (6117 samples)
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           :
           :      Disassembly of section .text:
           :
           :      000000000003b050 &lt;random_r&gt;:
           :      __random_r():
     10.56 :        3b050:       test   %rdi,%rdi
      0.00 :        3b053:       je     3b0d0 &lt;random_r+0x80&gt;
      0.34 :        3b055:       test   %rsi,%rsi
      0.00 :        3b058:       je     3b0d0 &lt;random_r+0x80&gt;
      0.46 :        3b05a:       mov    0x18(%rdi),%eax
     12.44 :        3b05d:       mov    0x10(%rdi),%r8
      0.18 :        3b061:       test   %eax,%eax
      0.00 :        3b063:       je     3b0b0 &lt;random_r+0x60&gt;
&lt;SNIP&gt;

Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros &lt;davidcc@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: He Kuang &lt;hekuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Simon Que &lt;sque@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410201432.24807-5-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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perf annotate did not get some love for pipe-mode, and did not have
.attr and .buil_id setup (while record and inject did. Fix that.

It can easily be reproduced by:

  perf record -o - noploop | perf annotate

that in my system shows:
    0xd8 [0x28]: failed to process type: 9

Committer Testing:

Before:

  $ perf record -o - stress -t 2 -c 2 | perf annotate --stdio
  stress: info: [11060] dispatching hogs: 2 cpu, 0 io, 0 vm, 0 hdd
  0x4470 [0x28]: failed to process type: 9
  $ stress: info: [11060] successful run completed in 2s

  $

After:

  $ perf record -o - stress -t 2 -c 2 | perf annotate --stdio
  stress: info: [11871] dispatching hogs: 2 cpu, 0 io, 0 vm, 0 hdd
  stress: info: [11871] successful run completed in 2s
  [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB - ]
  no symbols found in /usr/bin/stress, maybe install a debug package?
   Percent |      Source code &amp; Disassembly of libc-2.24.so for cycles:uhH (6117 samples)
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           :
           :      Disassembly of section .text:
           :
           :      000000000003b050 &lt;random_r&gt;:
           :      __random_r():
     10.56 :        3b050:       test   %rdi,%rdi
      0.00 :        3b053:       je     3b0d0 &lt;random_r+0x80&gt;
      0.34 :        3b055:       test   %rsi,%rsi
      0.00 :        3b058:       je     3b0d0 &lt;random_r+0x80&gt;
      0.46 :        3b05a:       mov    0x18(%rdi),%eax
     12.44 :        3b05d:       mov    0x10(%rdi),%r8
      0.18 :        3b061:       test   %eax,%eax
      0.00 :        3b063:       je     3b0b0 &lt;random_r+0x60&gt;
&lt;SNIP&gt;

Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros &lt;davidcc@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: He Kuang &lt;hekuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Simon Que &lt;sque@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410201432.24807-5-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Remove unused 'prefix' from builtin functions</title>
<updated>2017-03-27T14:58:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-27T14:47:20+00:00</published>
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We got it from the git sources but never used it for anything, with the
place where this would be somehow used remaining:

  static int run_builtin(struct cmd_struct *p, int argc, const char **argv)
  {
	prefix = NULL;
	if (p-&gt;option &amp; RUN_SETUP)
		prefix = NULL; /* setup_perf_directory(); */

Ditch it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uw5swz05vol0qpr32c5lpvus@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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We got it from the git sources but never used it for anything, with the
place where this would be somehow used remaining:

  static int run_builtin(struct cmd_struct *p, int argc, const char **argv)
  {
	prefix = NULL;
	if (p-&gt;option &amp; RUN_SETUP)
		prefix = NULL; /* setup_perf_directory(); */

Ditch it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uw5swz05vol0qpr32c5lpvus@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info</title>
<updated>2017-03-14T14:38:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hari Bathini</name>
<email>hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-07T20:41:43+00:00</published>
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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
  &lt;SNIP&gt;
  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  ................
  &lt;SNIP&gt;
        NAMESPACES events:          1
  &lt;SNIP&gt;
  #

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Aravinda Prasad &lt;aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148891930386.25309.18412039920746995488.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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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
  &lt;SNIP&gt;
  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  ................
  &lt;SNIP&gt;
        NAMESPACES events:          1
  &lt;SNIP&gt;
  #

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Aravinda Prasad &lt;aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148891930386.25309.18412039920746995488.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf annotate: Add -q/--quiet option</title>
<updated>2017-02-20T14:47:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-17T08:17:41+00:00</published>
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The -q/--quiet option is to suppress any message.  Sometimes users just
want to see the numbers and it can be used for that case.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217081742.17417-6-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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The -q/--quiet option is to suppress any message.  Sometimes users just
want to see the numbers and it can be used for that case.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217081742.17417-6-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf annotate: Add branch stack / basic block</title>
<updated>2016-09-08T16:44:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-05T19:08:12+00:00</published>
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I wanted to know the hottest path through a function and figured the
branch-stack (LBR) information should be able to help out with that.

The below uses the branch-stack to create basic blocks and generate
statistics from them.

        from    to              branch_i
        * ----&gt; *
                |
                | block
                v
                * ----&gt; *
                from    to      branch_i+1

The blocks are broken down into non-overlapping ranges, while tracking
if the start of each range is an entry point and/or the end of a range
is a branch.

Each block iterates all ranges it covers (while splitting where required
to exactly match the block) and increments the 'coverage' count.

For the range including the branch we increment the taken counter, as
well as the pred counter if flags.predicted.

Using these number we can find if an instruction:

 - had coverage; given by:

        br-&gt;coverage / br-&gt;sym-&gt;max_coverage

   This metric ensures each symbol has a 100% spot, which reflects the
   observation that each symbol must have a most covered/hottest
   block.

 - is a branch target: br-&gt;is_target &amp;&amp; br-&gt;start == add

 - for targets, how much of a branch's coverages comes from it:

	target-&gt;entry / branch-&gt;coverage

 - is a branch: br-&gt;is_branch &amp;&amp; br-&gt;end == addr

 - for branches, how often it was taken:

        br-&gt;taken / br-&gt;coverage

   after all, all execution that didn't take the branch would have
   incremented the coverage and continued onward to a later branch.

 - for branches, how often it was predicted:

        br-&gt;pred / br-&gt;taken

The coverage percentage is used to color the address and asm sections;
for low (&lt;1%) coverage we use NORMAL (uncolored), indicating that these
instructions are not 'important'. For high coverage (&gt;75%) we color the
address RED.

For each branch, we add an asm comment after the instruction with
information on how often it was taken and predicted.

Output looks like (sans color, which does loose a lot of the
information :/)

$ perf record --branch-filter u,any -e cycles:p ./branches 27
$ perf annotate branches

 Percent |	Source code &amp; Disassembly of branches for cycles:pu (217 samples)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         :	branches():
    0.00 :	  40057a:       push   %rbp
    0.00 :	  40057b:       mov    %rsp,%rbp
    0.00 :	  40057e:       sub    $0x20,%rsp
    0.00 :	  400582:       mov    %rdi,-0x18(%rbp)
    0.00 :	  400586:       mov    %rsi,-0x20(%rbp)
    0.00 :	  40058a:       mov    -0x18(%rbp),%rax
    0.00 :	  40058e:       mov    %rax,-0x10(%rbp)
    0.00 :	  400592:       movq   $0x0,-0x8(%rbp)
    0.00 :	  40059a:       jmpq   400656 &lt;branches+0xdc&gt;
    1.84 :	  40059f:       mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rax	# +100.00%
    3.23 :	  4005a3:       and    $0x1,%eax
    1.84 :	  4005a6:       test   %rax,%rax
    0.00 :	  4005a9:       je     4005bf &lt;branches+0x45&gt;	# -54.50% (p:42.00%)
    0.46 :	  4005ab:       mov    0x200bbe(%rip),%rax        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
   12.90 :	  4005b2:       add    $0x1,%rax
    2.30 :	  4005b6:       mov    %rax,0x200bb3(%rip)        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    0.46 :	  4005bd:       jmp    4005d1 &lt;branches+0x57&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.92 :	  4005bf:       mov    0x200baa(%rip),%rax        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;	# +49.54%
   13.82 :	  4005c6:       sub    $0x1,%rax
    0.46 :	  4005ca:       mov    %rax,0x200b9f(%rip)        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    2.30 :	  4005d1:       mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rax	# +50.46%
    0.46 :	  4005d5:       mov    %rax,%rdi
    0.46 :	  4005d8:       callq  400526 &lt;lfsr&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 :	  4005dd:       mov    %rax,-0x10(%rbp)	# +100.00%
    0.92 :	  4005e1:       mov    -0x18(%rbp),%rax
    0.00 :	  4005e5:       and    $0x1,%eax
    0.00 :	  4005e8:       test   %rax,%rax
    0.00 :	  4005eb:       je     4005ff &lt;branches+0x85&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 :	  4005ed:       mov    0x200b7c(%rip),%rax        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    0.00 :	  4005f4:       shr    $0x2,%rax
    0.00 :	  4005f8:       mov    %rax,0x200b71(%rip)        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    0.00 :	  4005ff:       mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rax	# +100.00%
    7.37 :	  400603:       and    $0x1,%eax
    3.69 :	  400606:       test   %rax,%rax
    0.00 :	  400609:       jne    400612 &lt;branches+0x98&gt;	# -59.25% (p:42.99%)
    1.84 :	  40060b:       mov    $0x1,%eax
   14.29 :	  400610:       jmp    400617 &lt;branches+0x9d&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    1.38 :	  400612:       mov    $0x0,%eax	# +57.65%
   10.14 :	  400617:       test   %al,%al	# +42.35%
    0.00 :	  400619:       je     40062f &lt;branches+0xb5&gt;	# -57.65% (p:100.00%)
    0.46 :	  40061b:       mov    0x200b4e(%rip),%rax        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    2.76 :	  400622:       sub    $0x1,%rax
    0.00 :	  400626:       mov    %rax,0x200b43(%rip)        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    0.46 :	  40062d:       jmp    400641 &lt;branches+0xc7&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.92 :	  40062f:       mov    0x200b3a(%rip),%rax        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;	# +56.13%
    2.30 :	  400636:       add    $0x1,%rax
    0.92 :	  40063a:       mov    %rax,0x200b2f(%rip)        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    0.92 :	  400641:       mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rax	# +43.87%
    2.30 :	  400645:       mov    %rax,%rdi
    0.00 :	  400648:       callq  400526 &lt;lfsr&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 :	  40064d:       mov    %rax,-0x10(%rbp)	# +100.00%
    1.84 :	  400651:       addq   $0x1,-0x8(%rbp)
    0.92 :	  400656:       mov    -0x8(%rbp),%rax
    5.07 :	  40065a:       cmp    -0x20(%rbp),%rax
    0.00 :	  40065e:       jb     40059f &lt;branches+0x25&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 :	  400664:       nop
    0.00 :	  400665:       leaveq
    0.00 :	  400666:       retq

(Note: the --branch-filter u,any was used to avoid spurious target and
branch points due to interrupts/faults, they show up as very small -/+
annotations on 'weird' locations)

Committer note:

Please take a look at:

  http://vger.kernel.org/~acme/perf/annotate_basic_blocks.png

To see the colors.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros &lt;davidcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
[ Moved sym-&gt;max_coverage to 'struct annotate', aka symbol__annotate(sym) ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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I wanted to know the hottest path through a function and figured the
branch-stack (LBR) information should be able to help out with that.

The below uses the branch-stack to create basic blocks and generate
statistics from them.

        from    to              branch_i
        * ----&gt; *
                |
                | block
                v
                * ----&gt; *
                from    to      branch_i+1

The blocks are broken down into non-overlapping ranges, while tracking
if the start of each range is an entry point and/or the end of a range
is a branch.

Each block iterates all ranges it covers (while splitting where required
to exactly match the block) and increments the 'coverage' count.

For the range including the branch we increment the taken counter, as
well as the pred counter if flags.predicted.

Using these number we can find if an instruction:

 - had coverage; given by:

        br-&gt;coverage / br-&gt;sym-&gt;max_coverage

   This metric ensures each symbol has a 100% spot, which reflects the
   observation that each symbol must have a most covered/hottest
   block.

 - is a branch target: br-&gt;is_target &amp;&amp; br-&gt;start == add

 - for targets, how much of a branch's coverages comes from it:

	target-&gt;entry / branch-&gt;coverage

 - is a branch: br-&gt;is_branch &amp;&amp; br-&gt;end == addr

 - for branches, how often it was taken:

        br-&gt;taken / br-&gt;coverage

   after all, all execution that didn't take the branch would have
   incremented the coverage and continued onward to a later branch.

 - for branches, how often it was predicted:

        br-&gt;pred / br-&gt;taken

The coverage percentage is used to color the address and asm sections;
for low (&lt;1%) coverage we use NORMAL (uncolored), indicating that these
instructions are not 'important'. For high coverage (&gt;75%) we color the
address RED.

For each branch, we add an asm comment after the instruction with
information on how often it was taken and predicted.

Output looks like (sans color, which does loose a lot of the
information :/)

$ perf record --branch-filter u,any -e cycles:p ./branches 27
$ perf annotate branches

 Percent |	Source code &amp; Disassembly of branches for cycles:pu (217 samples)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         :	branches():
    0.00 :	  40057a:       push   %rbp
    0.00 :	  40057b:       mov    %rsp,%rbp
    0.00 :	  40057e:       sub    $0x20,%rsp
    0.00 :	  400582:       mov    %rdi,-0x18(%rbp)
    0.00 :	  400586:       mov    %rsi,-0x20(%rbp)
    0.00 :	  40058a:       mov    -0x18(%rbp),%rax
    0.00 :	  40058e:       mov    %rax,-0x10(%rbp)
    0.00 :	  400592:       movq   $0x0,-0x8(%rbp)
    0.00 :	  40059a:       jmpq   400656 &lt;branches+0xdc&gt;
    1.84 :	  40059f:       mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rax	# +100.00%
    3.23 :	  4005a3:       and    $0x1,%eax
    1.84 :	  4005a6:       test   %rax,%rax
    0.00 :	  4005a9:       je     4005bf &lt;branches+0x45&gt;	# -54.50% (p:42.00%)
    0.46 :	  4005ab:       mov    0x200bbe(%rip),%rax        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
   12.90 :	  4005b2:       add    $0x1,%rax
    2.30 :	  4005b6:       mov    %rax,0x200bb3(%rip)        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    0.46 :	  4005bd:       jmp    4005d1 &lt;branches+0x57&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.92 :	  4005bf:       mov    0x200baa(%rip),%rax        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;	# +49.54%
   13.82 :	  4005c6:       sub    $0x1,%rax
    0.46 :	  4005ca:       mov    %rax,0x200b9f(%rip)        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    2.30 :	  4005d1:       mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rax	# +50.46%
    0.46 :	  4005d5:       mov    %rax,%rdi
    0.46 :	  4005d8:       callq  400526 &lt;lfsr&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 :	  4005dd:       mov    %rax,-0x10(%rbp)	# +100.00%
    0.92 :	  4005e1:       mov    -0x18(%rbp),%rax
    0.00 :	  4005e5:       and    $0x1,%eax
    0.00 :	  4005e8:       test   %rax,%rax
    0.00 :	  4005eb:       je     4005ff &lt;branches+0x85&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 :	  4005ed:       mov    0x200b7c(%rip),%rax        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    0.00 :	  4005f4:       shr    $0x2,%rax
    0.00 :	  4005f8:       mov    %rax,0x200b71(%rip)        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    0.00 :	  4005ff:       mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rax	# +100.00%
    7.37 :	  400603:       and    $0x1,%eax
    3.69 :	  400606:       test   %rax,%rax
    0.00 :	  400609:       jne    400612 &lt;branches+0x98&gt;	# -59.25% (p:42.99%)
    1.84 :	  40060b:       mov    $0x1,%eax
   14.29 :	  400610:       jmp    400617 &lt;branches+0x9d&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    1.38 :	  400612:       mov    $0x0,%eax	# +57.65%
   10.14 :	  400617:       test   %al,%al	# +42.35%
    0.00 :	  400619:       je     40062f &lt;branches+0xb5&gt;	# -57.65% (p:100.00%)
    0.46 :	  40061b:       mov    0x200b4e(%rip),%rax        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    2.76 :	  400622:       sub    $0x1,%rax
    0.00 :	  400626:       mov    %rax,0x200b43(%rip)        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    0.46 :	  40062d:       jmp    400641 &lt;branches+0xc7&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.92 :	  40062f:       mov    0x200b3a(%rip),%rax        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;	# +56.13%
    2.30 :	  400636:       add    $0x1,%rax
    0.92 :	  40063a:       mov    %rax,0x200b2f(%rip)        # 601170 &lt;acc&gt;
    0.92 :	  400641:       mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rax	# +43.87%
    2.30 :	  400645:       mov    %rax,%rdi
    0.00 :	  400648:       callq  400526 &lt;lfsr&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 :	  40064d:       mov    %rax,-0x10(%rbp)	# +100.00%
    1.84 :	  400651:       addq   $0x1,-0x8(%rbp)
    0.92 :	  400656:       mov    -0x8(%rbp),%rax
    5.07 :	  40065a:       cmp    -0x20(%rbp),%rax
    0.00 :	  40065e:       jb     40059f &lt;branches+0x25&gt;	# -100.00% (p:100.00%)
    0.00 :	  400664:       nop
    0.00 :	  400665:       leaveq
    0.00 :	  400666:       retq

(Note: the --branch-filter u,any was used to avoid spurious target and
branch points due to interrupts/faults, they show up as very small -/+
annotations on 'weird' locations)

Committer note:

Please take a look at:

  http://vger.kernel.org/~acme/perf/annotate_basic_blocks.png

To see the colors.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros &lt;davidcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
[ Moved sym-&gt;max_coverage to 'struct annotate', aka symbol__annotate(sym) ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf annotate: Initialize the priv are in symbol__new()</title>
<updated>2016-08-30T13:56:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-25T19:09:21+00:00</published>
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We need to initializa some fields (right now just a mutex) when we
allocate the per symbol annotation struct, so do it at the symbol
constructor instead of (ab)using the filter mechanism for that.

This way we remove one of the few cases we have for that symbol filter,
which will eventually led to removing it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cvz34avlz1lez888lob95390@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
We need to initializa some fields (right now just a mutex) when we
allocate the per symbol annotation struct, so do it at the symbol
constructor instead of (ab)using the filter mechanism for that.

This way we remove one of the few cases we have for that symbol filter,
which will eventually led to removing it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cvz34avlz1lez888lob95390@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf annotate: Introduce --stdio-color to setup the color output mode selection</title>
<updated>2016-07-12T03:00:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-05T14:08:17+00:00</published>
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'perf annotate --stdio' will colorize entries with most hits and
possibly some other aspects of its output, but those colors gets
suppressed if we redirect the output to a non-tty, allow keeping the
colors by adding a new option, --stdio-color, now this use case will
also output escape sequences for colors:

  $ perf annotate --stdio-color | more

Based-on-a-patch-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-sjrnixani5pg6qez640gaxhf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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'perf annotate --stdio' will colorize entries with most hits and
possibly some other aspects of its output, but those colors gets
suppressed if we redirect the output to a non-tty, allow keeping the
colors by adding a new option, --stdio-color, now this use case will
also output escape sequences for colors:

  $ perf annotate --stdio-color | more

Based-on-a-patch-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-sjrnixani5pg6qez640gaxhf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf evlist: Rename for_each() macros to for_each_entry()</title>
<updated>2016-06-23T14:26:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-23T14:26:15+00:00</published>
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To match the semantics for list.h in the kernel, that are used to
implement those macros.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Milian Wolff &lt;milian.wolff@kdab.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Taeung Song &lt;treeze.taeung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qbcjlgj0ffxquxscahbpddi3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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To match the semantics for list.h in the kernel, that are used to
implement those macros.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Milian Wolff &lt;milian.wolff@kdab.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Taeung Song &lt;treeze.taeung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qbcjlgj0ffxquxscahbpddi3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf hists: Rename __hists__add_entry to hists__add_entry</title>
<updated>2016-06-21T16:18:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-14T18:19:21+00:00</published>
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There's no reason we should suffer the '__' prefix for the base global
function.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465928361-2442-12-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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There's no reason we should suffer the '__' prefix for the base global
function.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465928361-2442-12-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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