linux.git/tools/perf/ui/browsers, branch v5.8

perf report TUI: Remove needless 'dummy' event from menu

2020-07-06T12:24:02+00:00

Fixing the common case of:

  perf record
  perf report

And getting just the cycles events.

We now have a 'dummy' event to get perf metadata events that take place
while we synthesize metadata records for pre-existing processes by
traversing procfs, so we always have this extra 'dummy' evsel, but we
don't have to offer it as there will be no samples on it, remove this
distraction.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200706115452.GA2772@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report TUI: Fix segmentation fault in perf_evsel__hists_browse()

2020-07-06T12:03:39+00:00

The segmentation fault can be reproduced as following steps:

1) Executing perf report in tui.

2) Typing '/xxxxx' to filter the symbol to get nothing matched.

3) Pressing enter with no entry selected.

Then it will report a segmentation fault.

It is caused by the lack of check of browser->he_selection when
accessing it's member res_samples in perf_evsel__hists_browse().

These processes are meaningful for specified samples, so we can skip
these when nothing is selected.

Fixes: 4968ac8fb7c3 ("perf report: Implement browsing of individual samples")
Signed-off-by: Wei Li 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Hanjun Guo 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200612094322.39565-1-liwei391@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Rename perf_evsel{prev,next}() to evsel{prev,next}()

2020-05-05T19:35:31+00:00

As those are 'struct evsel' methods, not part of tools/lib/perf/, aka
libperf, to whom the perf_ prefix belongs.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Rename perf_evsel__is_() to evsel__is()

2020-05-05T19:35:31+00:00

As those are 'struct evsel' methods, not part of tools/lib/perf/, aka
libperf, to whom the perf_ prefix belongs.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Rename perf_evselname() to evselname()

2020-05-05T19:35:30+00:00

As they are 'struct evsel' methods or related routines, not part of
tools/lib/perf/, aka libperf, to whom the perf_ prefix belongs.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report/top TUI: Fix title line formatting

2020-04-03T12:37:55+00:00

In d10ec006dcd7 ("perf hists browser: Allow passing an initial hotkey")
the hist_entry__title() call was cut'n'pasted to a function where the
'title' variable is a pointer, not an array, so the sizeof(title)
continues syntactically valid but ends up reducing the real size of the
buffer where to format the first line in the screen to 8 bytes, which
makes the formatting at the title at each refresh to produce just the
string "Samples ", duh, fix it by passing the size of the buffer.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Fixes: d10ec006dcd7 ("perf hists browser: Allow passing an initial hotkey")
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200330154314.GB4576@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report/top TUI: Support hotkeys to let user select any event for sorting

2020-03-24T12:37:27+00:00

When performing "perf report --group", it shows the event group information
together. In previous patch, we have supported a new option "--group-sort-idx"
to sort the output by the event at the index n in event group.

It would be nice if we can use a hotkey in browser to select a event
to sort.

For example,

  # perf report --group

 Samples: 12K of events 'cpu/instructions,period=2000003/, cpu/cpu-cycles,period=200003/, ...
                        Overhead  Command    Shared Object            Symbol
  92.19%  98.68%   0.00%  93.30%  mgen       mgen                     [.] LOOP1
   3.12%   0.29%   0.00%   0.16%  gsd-color  libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4  [.] 0x0000000000049515
   1.56%   0.03%   0.00%   0.04%  gsd-color  libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4  [.] 0x00000000000494b7
   1.56%   0.01%   0.00%   0.00%  gsd-color  libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4  [.] 0x00000000000494ce
   1.56%   0.00%   0.00%   0.00%  mgen       [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] task_tick_fair
   0.00%   0.15%   0.00%   0.04%  perf       [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] smp_call_function_single
   0.00%   0.13%   0.00%   6.08%  swapper    [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] intel_idle
   0.00%   0.03%   0.00%   0.00%  gsd-color  libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4  [.] g_main_context_check
   0.00%   0.03%   0.00%   0.00%  swapper    [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] apic_timer_interrupt
   0.00%   0.03%   0.00%   0.00%  swapper    [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] check_preempt_curr

When user press hotkey '3' (event index, starting from 0), it indicates
to sort output by the forth event in group.

  Samples: 12K of events 'cpu/instructions,period=2000003/, cpu/cpu-cycles,period=200003/, ...
                        Overhead  Command    Shared Object            Symbol
  92.19%  98.68%   0.00%  93.30%  mgen       mgen                     [.] LOOP1
   0.00%   0.13%   0.00%   6.08%  swapper    [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] intel_idle
   3.12%   0.29%   0.00%   0.16%  gsd-color  libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4  [.] 0x0000000000049515
   0.00%   0.00%   0.00%   0.06%  swapper    [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] hrtimer_start_range_ns
   1.56%   0.03%   0.00%   0.04%  gsd-color  libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4  [.] 0x00000000000494b7
   0.00%   0.15%   0.00%   0.04%  perf       [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] smp_call_function_single
   0.00%   0.00%   0.00%   0.02%  mgen       [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] update_curr
   0.00%   0.00%   0.00%   0.02%  mgen       [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] apic_timer_interrupt
   0.00%   0.00%   0.00%   0.02%  mgen       [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] native_apic_msr_eoi_write
   0.00%   0.00%   0.00%   0.02%  mgen       [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] __update_load_avg_se

 v6:
 ---
 Jiri provided a good improvement to eliminate unneeded refresh.
 This improvement is added to v6.

 v2:
 ---
 1. Report warning at helpline when index is invalid.
 2. Report warning at helpline when it's not group event.
 3. Use "case '0' ... '9'" to refine the code
 4. Split K_RELOAD implementation to another patch.

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200220013616.19916-4-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report: Support a new key to reload the browser

2020-03-24T12:37:27+00:00

Sometimes we may need to reload the browser to update the output since
some options are changed.

This patch creates a new key K_RELOAD. Once the __cmd_report() returns
K_RELOAD, it would repeat the whole process, such as, read samples from
data file, sort the data and display in the browser.

 v5:
 ---
 1. Fix the 'make NO_SLANG=1' error. Define K_RELOAD in util/hist.h.
 2. Skip setup_sorting() in repeat path if last key is K_RELOAD.

 v4:
 ---
 Need to quit in perf_evsel_menu__run if key is K_RELOAD.

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200220013616.19916-3-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report/top TUI: Support hotkey 'a' for annotation of unresolved addresses

2020-03-24T12:37:27+00:00

In previous patch, we have supported the annotation functionality even
without symbols.

For this patch, it supports the hotkey 'a' on address in report view.
Note that, for branch mode, we only support the annotation for "branch
to" address.

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200227043939.4403-4-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report: Support interactive annotation of code without symbols

2020-03-24T12:36:33+00:00

For perf report on stripped binaries it is currently impossible to do
annotation. The annotation state is all tied to symbols, but there are
either no symbols, or symbols are not covering all the code.

We should support the annotation functionality even without symbols.

This patch fakes a symbol and the symbol name is the string of address.
After that, we just follow current annotation working flow.

For example,

1. perf report

  Overhead  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
    20.67%  div      libc-2.27.so      [.] __random_r
    17.29%  div      libc-2.27.so      [.] __random
    10.59%  div      div               [.] 0x0000000000000628
     9.25%  div      div               [.] 0x0000000000000612
     6.11%  div      div               [.] 0x0000000000000645

2. Select the line of "10.59%  div      div               [.] 0x0000000000000628" and ENTER.

  Annotate 0x0000000000000628
  Zoom into div thread
  Zoom into div DSO (use the 'k' hotkey to zoom directly into the kernel)
  Browse map details
  Run scripts for samples of symbol [0x0000000000000628]
  Run scripts for all samples
  Switch to another data file in PWD
  Exit

3. Select the "Annotate 0x0000000000000628" and ENTER.

Percent│
       │
       │
       │     Disassembly of section .text:
       │
       │     0000000000000628 <.text+0x68>:
       │       divsd %xmm4,%xmm0
       │       divsd %xmm3,%xmm1
       │       movsd (%rsp),%xmm2
       │       addsd %xmm1,%xmm0
       │       addsd %xmm2,%xmm0
       │       movsd %xmm0,(%rsp)

Now we can see the dump of object starting from 0x628.

 v5:
 ---
 Remove the hotkey 'a' implementation from this patch. It
 will be moved to a separate patch.

 v4:
 ---
 1. Support the hotkey 'a'. When we press 'a' on address,
    now it supports the annotation.

 2. Change the patch title from
    "Support interactive annotation of code without symbols" to
    "perf report: Support interactive annotation of code without symbols"

 v3:
 ---
 Keep just the ANNOTATION_DUMMY_LEN, and remove the
 opts->annotate_dummy_len since it's the "maybe in future
 we will provide" feature.

 v2:
 ---
 Fix a crash issue when annotating an address in "unknown" object.

 The steps to reproduce this issue:

 perf record -e cycles:u ls
 perf report

    75.29%  ls       ld-2.27.so        [.] do_lookup_x
    23.64%  ls       ld-2.27.so        [.] __GI___tunables_init
     1.04%  ls       [unknown]         [k] 0xffffffff85c01210
     0.03%  ls       ld-2.27.so        [.] _start

 When annotating 0xffffffff85c01210, the crash happens.

 v2 adds checking for ms->map in add_annotate_opt(). If the object is
 "unknown", ms->map is NULL.

Committer notes:

Renamed new_annotate_sym() to symbol__new_unresolved().

Use PRIx64 to fix this issue in some 32-bit arches:

  ui/browsers/hists.c: In function 'symbol__new_unresolved':
  ui/browsers/hists.c:2474:38: error: format '%lx' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'u64' {aka 'long long unsigned int'} [-Werror=format=]
    snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "%-#.*lx", BITS_PER_LONG / 4, addr);
                                  ~~~~~~^                      ~~~~
                                  %-#.*llx

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Tested-by: Ravi Bangoria 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200227043939.4403-3-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

linux.git/tools/perf/ui/browsers, branch v5.8

perf report TUI: Remove needless 'dummy' event from menu

perf report TUI: Fix segmentation fault in perf_evsel__hists_browse()

perf evsel: Rename perf_evsel__{prev,next}() to evsel__{prev,next}()

perf evsel: Rename perf_evsel__is_*() to evsel__is*()

perf evsel: Rename *perf_evsel__*name() to *evsel__*name()

perf report/top TUI: Fix title line formatting

perf report/top TUI: Support hotkeys to let user select any event for sorting

perf report: Support a new key to reload the browser

perf report/top TUI: Support hotkey 'a' for annotation of unresolved addresses

perf report: Support interactive annotation of code without symbols

perf evsel: Rename perf_evsel{prev,next}() to evsel{prev,next}()

perf evsel: Rename perf_evsel__is_() to evsel__is()

perf evsel: Rename perf_evselname() to evselname()