linux.git/tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c, branch v4.5

perf subcmd: Create subcmd library

2015-12-17T17:27:14+00:00

Move the subcommand-related files from perf to a new library named
libsubcmd.a.

Since we're moving files anyway, go ahead and rename 'exec_cmd.*' to
'exec-cmd.*' to be consistent with the naming of all the other files.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c0a838d4c878ab17fee50998811612b2281355c1.1450193761.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Elliminate alignment holes

2015-05-18T13:17:33+00:00

perf_evsel:

Before:

	/* size: 320, cachelines: 5, members: 35 */
	/* sum members: 304, holes: 3, sum holes: 16 */

After:

	/* size: 304, cachelines: 5, members: 35 */
	/* last cacheline: 48 bytes */

perf_evlist:

Before:

	/* size: 2544, cachelines: 40, members: 17 */
	/* sum members: 2533, holes: 2, sum holes: 11 */
	/* last cacheline: 48 bytes */

After:

	/* size: 2536, cachelines: 40, members: 17 */
	/* sum members: 2533, holes: 1, sum holes: 3 */
	/* last cacheline: 40 bytes */

timechart:

Before:

	/* size: 288, cachelines: 5, members: 21 */
	/* sum members: 271, holes: 2, sum holes: 10 */
	/* padding: 7 */
	/* last cacheline: 32 bytes */

After:

	/* size: 272, cachelines: 5, members: 21 */
	/* sum members: 271, holes: 1, sum holes: 1 */
	/* last cacheline: 16 bytes */

thread:

Before:

	/* size: 112, cachelines: 2, members: 15 */
	/* sum members: 101, holes: 2, sum holes: 11 */
	/* last cacheline: 48 bytes */

After:

	/* size: 104, cachelines: 2, members: 15 */
	/* sum members: 101, holes: 1, sum holes: 3 */
	/* last cacheline: 40 bytes */

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-a543w7zjl9yyrg9nkf1teukp@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Protect the machine->threads with a rwlock

2015-05-08T19:19:27+00:00

In addition to using refcounts for the struct thread lifetime
management, we need to protect access to machine->threads from
concurrent access.

That happens in 'perf top', where a thread processes events, inserting
and deleting entries from that rb_tree while another thread decays
hist_entries, that end up dropping references and ultimately deleting
threads from the rb_tree and releasing its resources when no further
hist_entry (or other data structures, like in 'perf sched') references
it.

So the rule is the same for refcounts + protected trees in the kernel,
get the tree lock, find object, bump the refcount, drop the tree lock,
return, use object, drop the refcount if no more use of it is needed,
keep it if storing it in some other data structure, drop when releasing
that data structure.

I.e. pair "t = machine__find(new)_thread()" with a "thread__put(t)", and
"perf_event__preprocess_sample(&al)" with "addr_location__put(&al)".

The addr_location__put() one is because as we return references to
several data structures, we may end up adding more reference counting
for the other data structures and then we'll drop it at
addr_location__put() time.

Acked-by: David Ahern 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bs9rt4n0jw3hi9f3zxyy3xln@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf timechart: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership

2015-04-02T16:18:50+00:00

Enable perf timechart to use perf.data when it is not owned by current
user or root.

Example:

 # perf timechart record ls
 # chown Yunlong.Song:Yunlong.Song perf.data
 # ls -al perf.data
 -rw------- 1 Yunlong.Song Yunlong.Song 5471744 Apr  2 15:15 perf.data
 # id
 uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),64(pkcs11)

Before this patch:

 # perf timechart
 File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
 # perf timechart -f
   Error: unknown switch `f'

  usage: perf timechart [] {record}

     -i, --input     input file name
     -o, --output    output file name
     -w, --width        page width
         --highlight 
                           highlight tasks. Pass duration in ns or process name.
     -P, --power-only      output power data only
     -T, --tasks-only      output processes data only
     -p, --process 
                           process selector. Pass a pid or process name.
         --symfs 
                           Look for files with symbols relative to this directory
     -n, --proc-num     min. number of tasks to print
     -t, --topology        sort CPUs according to topology
         --io-skip-eagain  skip EAGAIN errors
         --io-min-time 
                           all IO faster than min-time will visually appear longer
         --io-merge-dist 
                           merge events that are merge-dist us apart

As shown above, the -f option does not work at all.

After this patch:

 # perf timechart
 File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
 # perf timechart -f
 Written 0.0 seconds of trace to output.svg.
 # cat output.svg