linux.git/tools/perf/perf.h, branch v4.9

tools: Introduce tools/include/linux/time64.h for SEC_PER_SEC macros

2016-08-23T18:37:33+00:00

And remove it from tools/perf/{perf,util}.h, making code that needs
these macros to include linux/time64.h instead, to match how this is
used in the kernel sources.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e69fc1pvkgt57yvxqt6eunyg@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add --sample-cpu option

2016-08-02T19:33:29+00:00

Adding --sample-cpu option to be able to explicitly enable CPU sample
type. Currently it's only enable implicitly in case the target is cpu
related.

It will be useful for following c2c record tool.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470074555-24889-8-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add --tail-synthesize option

2016-07-15T20:27:52+00:00

When working with overwritable ring buffer there's a inconvenience
problem: if perf dumps data after a long period after it starts,
non-sample events may lost, which makes following 'perf report' unable
to identify proc name and mmap layout. For example:

 # perf record -m 4 -e raw_syscalls:* -g --overwrite --switch-output \
        dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null

send SIGUSR2 after dd runs long enough. The resuling perf.data lost
correct comm and mmap events:

 # perf script -i perf.data.2016061522374354
 perf 24478 [004] 2581325.601789:  raw_syscalls:sys_exit: NR 0 = 512
 ^^^^
 Should be 'dd'
                   27b2e8 syscall_slow_exit_work+0xfe2000e3 (/lib/modules/4.6.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
                   203cc7 do_syscall_64+0xfe200117 (/lib/modules/4.6.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
                   b18d83 return_from_SYSCALL_64+0xfe200000 (/lib/modules/4.6.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux)
             7f47c417edf0 [unknown] ([unknown])
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^
             Fail to unwind

This patch provides a '--tail-synthesize' option, allows perf to collect
system status when finalizing output file. In resuling output file, the
non-sample events reflect system status when dumping data.

After this patch:
 # perf record -m 4 -e raw_syscalls:* -g --overwrite --switch-output --tail-synthesize \
        dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null

 # perf script -i perf.data.2016061600544998
 dd 27364 [004] 2583244.994464: raw_syscalls:sys_enter: NR 1 (1, ...
 ^^
 Correct comm
                   203a18 syscall_trace_enter_phase2+0xfe2001a8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                   203aa5 syscall_trace_enter+0xfe200055 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                   203caa do_syscall_64+0xfe2000fa ([kernel.kallsyms])
                   b18d83 return_from_SYSCALL_64+0xfe200000 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                    d8e50 __GI___libc_write+0xffff01d9639f4010 (/tmp/oxygen_root-w00229757/lib64/libc-2.18.so)
                    ^^^^^
                    Correct unwind

This option doesn't aim to solve this problem completely. If a process
terminates before SIGUSR2, we still lost its COMM and MMAP events. For
example, we can't unwind correctly from the final perf.data we get from
the previous example, because when perf collects the final output file
(when we press C-c), 'dd' has been terminated so its '/proc//mmap'
becomes empty.

However, this is a cheaper choice. To completely solve this problem we
need to continously output non-sample events. To satisify the
requirement of daemonization, we need to merge them periodically. It is
possible but requires much more code and cycles.

Automatically select --tail-synthesize when --overwrite is provided.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Nilay Vaish 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468485287-33422-16-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Enable overwrite settings

2016-07-15T20:27:51+00:00

This patch allows following config terms and option:

Globally setting events to overwrite;

  # perf record --overwrite ...

Set specific events to be overwrite or no-overwrite.

  # perf record --event cycles/overwrite/ ...
  # perf record --event cycles/no-overwrite/ ...

Add missing config terms and update the config term array size because
the longest string length has changed.

For overwritable events, it automatically selects attr.write_backward
since perf requires it to be backward for reading.

Test result:

  # perf record --overwrite -e syscalls:*enter_nanosleep* usleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data (1 samples) ]
  # perf evlist -v
  syscalls:sys_enter_nanosleep: type: 2, size: 112, config: 0x134, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|RAW, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, write_backward: 1
  # Tip: use 'perf evlist --trace-fields' to show fields for tracepoint events

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Nilay Vaish 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468485287-33422-14-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: He Kuang 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Ditch record_opts.callgraph_set

2016-04-18T15:26:27+00:00

We have callchain_param.enabled for that.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Milian Wolff 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-silwqjc2t25ls42dsvg28pp5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add --all-user/--all-kernel options

2016-02-18T13:48:44+00:00

Allow user to easily switch all events to user or kernel space with simple
--all-user or --all-kernel options.

This will be handy within perf mem/c2c wrappers to switch easily monitoring
modes.

Committer note:

Testing it:

  # perf record --all-kernel --all-user -a sleep 2
   Error: option `all-user' cannot be used with all-kernel
   Usage: perf record [] []
      or: perf record [] --  []

        --all-user        Configure all used events to run in user space.
        --all-kernel      Configure all used events to run in kernel space.
  # perf record --all-user --all-kernel -a sleep 2
   Error: option `all-kernel' cannot be used with all-user
   Usage: perf record [] []
      or: perf record [] --  []

        --all-kernel      Configure all used events to run in kernel space.
        --all-user        Configure all used events to run in user space.
  # perf record --all-user -a sleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.416 MB perf.data (162 samples) ]
  # perf report | grep '\[k\]'
  # perf record --all-kernel -a sleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.423 MB perf.data (296 samples) ]
  # perf report | grep '\[\.\]'
  #

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455525293-8671-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
[ Made those options to be mutually exclusive ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add ability to name registers to record

2015-08-31T21:01:33+00:00

This patch modifies the -I/--int-regs option to enablepassing the name
of the registers to sample on interrupt. Registers can be specified by
their symbolic names. For instance on x86, --intr-regs=ax,si.

The motivation is to reduce the size of the perf.data file and the
overhead of sampling by only collecting the registers useful to a
specific analysis. For instance, for value profiling, sampling only the
registers used to passed arguements to functions.

With no parameter, the --intr-regs still records all possible registers
based on the architecture.

To name registers, it is necessary to use the long form of the option,
i.e., --intr-regs:

  $ perf record --intr-regs=si,di,r8,r9 .....

To record any possible registers:

  $ perf record -I .....
  $ perf report --intr-regs ...

To display the register, one can use perf report -D

To list the available registers:

  $ perf record --intr-regs=\?
  available registers: AX BX CX DX SI DI BP SP IP FLAGS CS SS R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R15

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441039273-16260-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Introduce callgraph_set for callgraph option

2015-07-29T19:18:45+00:00

Introduce callgraph_set to indicate whether the callgraph option was set
by user.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438162936-59698-4-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add option --switch-events to select PERF_RECORD_SWITCH events

2015-07-24T01:51:13+00:00

Add an option to select PERF_RECORD_SWITCH events.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Mathieu Poirier 
Cc: Pawel Moll 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437471846-26995-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Let user have timestamps with per-thread recording

2015-07-06T11:58:36+00:00

If the option -T is used with option --per-thread, then time is still
not sampled.  Fix that by using OPT_BOOLEAN_SET to distinguish when the
user used the -T option as opposed to the default case when timestamps
are enabled but only for per-cpu recording.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436183461-1918-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo