linux.git/tools/perf/perf.c, branch v4.11

perf tools: Propagate perf_config() errors

2017-01-27T15:23:33+00:00

Previously these were being ignored, sometimes silently.

Stop doing that, emitting debug messages and handling the errors.

Testing it:

  $ cat ~/.perfconfig
  cat: /home/acme/.perfconfig: No such file or directory
  $ perf stat -e cycles usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

           938,996      cycles:u

       0.003813731 seconds time elapsed

  $ perf top --stdio
  Error:
  You may not have permission to collect system-wide stats.

  Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid,
  
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
  [acme@jouet linux]$ perf report --stdio
  # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object      Symbol
  # ........  .......  .................  .........................
    71.77%  usleep   libc-2.24.so       [.] _dl_addr
    27.07%  usleep   ld-2.24.so         [.] _dl_next_ld_env_entry
     1.13%  usleep   [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] page_fault
  $
  $ touch ~/.perfconfig
  $ ls -la ~/.perfconfig
  -rw-rw-r--. 1 acme acme 0 Jan 27 12:14 /home/acme/.perfconfig
  $
  $ perf stat -e instructions usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

           244,610      instructions:u

       0.000805383 seconds time elapsed

  $
  [root@jouet ~]# chown acme.acme ~/.perfconfig
  [root@jouet ~]# perf stat -e cycles usleep 1
    Warning: File /root/.perfconfig not owned by current user or root, ignoring it.

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

           937,615      cycles

       0.000836931 seconds time elapsed
  #

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j2rq96so6xdqlr8p8rd6a3jx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf ftrace: Introduce new 'ftrace' tool

2017-01-26T14:43:01+00:00

The 'perf ftrace' command is a simple wrapper of kernel's ftrace
functionality.  It only supports single thread tracing currently and
just reads trace_pipe in text and then write it to stdout.

Committer notes:

Testing it:

  # perf ftrace -f function_graph usleep 123456
  
  2)               |  SyS_nanosleep() {
  2)               |    _copy_from_user() {
  
  2)   0.900 us    |      }
  2)   1.354 us    |    }
  2)               |    hrtimer_nanosleep() {
  2)   0.062 us    |      __hrtimer_init();
  2)               |      do_nanosleep() {
  2)               |        hrtimer_start_range_ns() {
  
  2)   5.025 us    |        }
  2)               |        schedule() {
  2)   0.125 us    |          rcu_note_context_switch();
  2)   0.057 us    |          _raw_spin_lock();
  2)               |          deactivate_task() {
  2)   0.369 us    |            update_rq_clock.part.77();
  2)               |            dequeue_task_fair() {
  
  2) + 22.453 us   |            }
  2) + 23.736 us   |          }
  2)               |          pick_next_task_fair() {
  
  2) + 47.167 us   |          }
  2)               |          pick_next_task_idle() {
  
  2)   4.462 us    |          }
  ------------------------------------------
  2)  usleep-20387  =>    -0
  ------------------------------------------

  2)   0.806 us    |  switch_mm_irqs_off();
  ------------------------------------------
  2)    -0    =>  usleep-20387
  ------------------------------------------

  2)   0.151 us    |          finish_task_switch();
  2) @ 123597.2 us |        }
  2)   0.037 us    |        _cond_resched();
  2)               |        hrtimer_try_to_cancel() {
  2)   0.064 us    |          hrtimer_active();
  2)   0.353 us    |        }
  2) @ 123605.3 us |      }
  2) @ 123606.2 us |    }
  2) @ 123608.3 us |  } /* SyS_nanosleep */
  2)               |  __do_page_fault() {
 

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jeremy Eder 
Cc: Jiri Olsa ,
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-r1hgmsj4dxny8arn3o9mw512@git.kernel.org
[ Various foward port fixes, add man page ]
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 kallsyms: Introduce tool to look for extended symbol information on the running kernel

2017-01-11T19:48:01+00:00

Its similar to doing grep on a /proc/kallsyms, but it also shows extra
information like the path to the kernel module and the unrelocated
addresses in it, to help in diagnosing problems.

It is also helps demonstrate the use of the symbols routines so that
tool writers can use them more effectively.

Using it:

  $ perf kallsyms e1000_xmit_frame netif_rx usb_stor_set_xfer_buf
  e1000_xmit_frame: [e1000e] /lib/modules/4.9.0+/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000e.ko 0xffffffffc046fc10-0xffffffffc0470bb0 (0x19c80-0x1ac20)
  netif_rx: [kernel] [kernel.kallsyms] 0xffffffff916f03a0-0xffffffff916f0410 (0xffffffff916f03a0-0xffffffff916f0410)
  usb_stor_set_xfer_buf: [usb_storage] /lib/modules/4.9.0+/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko 0xffffffffc057aea0-0xffffffffc057af19 (0xf10-0xf89)
  $

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-79bk9pakujn4l4vq0f90klv3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf c2c: Add c2c command

2016-10-19T16:18:31+00:00

Adding c2c command base wirings. Its implementation is going to be added
gradually in following patches.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Joe Mario 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474558645-19956-11-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Just pr_debug() about not being able to read cacheline_size

2016-07-15T13:08:29+00:00

So far the cacheline_size is only useful for the "dcacheline" --sort
order, i.e. if that is not used, which is the norm, then the user
shouldn't care that he is running this, say, on an Android system where
sysconf(_SC_LEVEL1_DCACHE_LINESIZE) and the
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index0/coherency_line_size sysfs file
isn't available.

An upcoming patch will emit an warning only for "--sort ...,dcacheline,...".

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Chris Phlipot 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-580cnkvftunyvt9n7unsholi@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fallback to reading sysfs to get cacheline size

2016-07-12T18:20:37+00:00

On systems where sysconf(_SC_LEVEL1_DCACHE_LINESIZE) is not available,
such as musl LIBC and Android's bionic libc.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Chris Phlipot 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-772obxzby758g7m2wmzcejxz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools: Introduce str_error_r()

2016-07-12T18:19:47+00:00

The tools so far have been using the strerror_r() GNU variant, that
returns a string, be it the buffer passed or something else.

But that, besides being tricky in cases where we expect that the
function using strerror_r() returns the error formatted in a provided
buffer (we have to check if it returned something else and copy that
instead), breaks the build on systems not using glibc, like Alpine
Linux, where musl libc is used.

So, introduce yet another wrapper, str_error_r(), that has the GNU
interface, but uses the portable XSI variant of strerror_r(), so that
users rest asured that the provided buffer is used and it is what is
returned.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-d4t42fnf48ytlk8rjxs822tf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf config: Introduce new init() and exit()

2016-06-23T20:20:04+00:00

Many sub-commands use perf_config() but everytime perf_config() is
called, perf_config() always read config files.  (i.e. user config
'~/.perfconfig' and system config '$(sysconfdir)/perfconfig')

But it is better to use the config set that already contains all config
key-value pairs to avoid this repetitive work reading the config files
in perf_config(). (the config set mean a static variable 'config_set')

In other words, if new perf_config__init() is called, only first time
'config_set' is initialized collecting all configs from the config
files.  And then we could use new perf_config() like old perf_config().
When a sub-command finished, free the config set by perf_config__exit()
at run_builtin().

If we do, 'config_set' can be reused wherever perf_config() is called
and a feature of old perf_config() is the same as new perf_config() work
without the repetitive work that read the config files.

In summary, in order to use features about configuration,
we can call the functions at perf.c and other source files as below.

    # initialize a config set
    perf_config__init()

    # configure actual variables from a config set
    perf_config()

    # eliminate allocated config set
    perf_config__exit()

    # destroy existing config set and initialize a new config set.
    perf_config__refresh()

Signed-off-by: Taeung Song 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466691272-24117-3-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
[ 'init' counterpart is 'exit', not 'finish' ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf config: Move config declarations from util/cache.h to util/config.h

2016-06-23T11:51:41+00:00

Lately util/config.h has been added but util/cache.h has declarations of
functions and a global variable for config features.

To manage codes about configuration at one spot, move them to
util/config.h and let source files that need config features include
config.h And if the source files that included previous cache.h need
only config.h, remove including cache.h.

Signed-off-by: Taeung Song 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466672119-4852-2-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo