linux.git/tools/perf/util/header.c, branch v2.6.34 Linux kernel source tree perf tools: Clean up O_LARGEFILE et al usage 2010-02-04T09:03:03+00:00 Xiao Guangrong xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com 2010-02-04T08:46:42+00:00 f887f3019e56389a73617f4e70f512e82cc89adb Setting _FILE_OFFSET_BITS and using O_LARGEFILE, lseek64, etc, is redundant. Thanks H. Peter Anvin for pointing it out. So, this patch removes O_LARGEFILE, lseek64, etc. Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4B6A8972.3070605@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 
Setting _FILE_OFFSET_BITS and using O_LARGEFILE, lseek64, etc,
is redundant. Thanks H. Peter Anvin for pointing it out.

So, this patch removes O_LARGEFILE, lseek64, etc.

Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B6A8972.3070605@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf record: Stop intercepting events, use postprocessing to get build-ids 2010-02-04T08:33:27+00:00 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com 2010-02-03T18:52:05+00:00 6122e4e4f5d0913e319ef8a4dc60a47afe4abc0a We want to stream events as fast as possible to perf.data, and also in the future we want to have splice working, when no interception will be possible. Using build_id__mark_dso_hit_ops to create the list of DSOs that back MMAPs we also optimize disk usage in the build-id cache by only caching DSOs that had hits. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 
We want to stream events as fast as possible to perf.data, and
also in the future we want to have splice working, when no
interception will be possible.

Using build_id__mark_dso_hit_ops to create the list of DSOs that
back MMAPs we also optimize disk usage in the build-id cache by
only caching DSOs that had hits.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf tools: Use O_LARGEFILE to open perf data file 2010-02-03T08:03:59+00:00 Xiao Guangrong xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com 2010-02-03T03:53:14+00:00 b8f46c5a34fa64fd456295388d18f50ae69d9f37 Open perf data file with O_LARGEFILE flag since its size is easily larger that 2G. For example: # rm -rf perf.data # ./perf kmem record sleep 300 [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 3142.147 MB perf.data (~137282513 samples) ] # ll -h perf.data -rw------- 1 root root 3.1G ..... Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4B68F32A.9040203@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 
Open perf data file with O_LARGEFILE flag since its size is
easily larger that 2G.

For example:

 # rm -rf perf.data
 # ./perf kmem record sleep 300

 [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 3142.147 MB perf.data
 (~137282513 samples) ]

 # ll -h perf.data
 -rw------- 1 root root 3.1G .....

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B68F32A.9040203@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf buildid-cache: Add new command to manage build-id cache 2010-01-21T07:31:29+00:00 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com 2010-01-20T17:28:45+00:00 ef12a141306c90336a3a10d40213ecd98624d274 For now it just has operations to examine a given file, find its build-id and add or remove it to/from the cache. Useful, for instance, when adding binaries sent together with a perf.data file, so that we can add them to the cache and have the tools find it when resolving symbols. It'll also manage the size of the cache like 'ccache' does. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1264008525-29025-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 
For now it just has operations to examine a given file, find its
build-id and add or remove it to/from the cache.

Useful, for instance, when adding binaries sent together with a
perf.data file, so that we can add them to the cache and have
the tools find it when resolving symbols.

It'll also manage the size of the cache like 'ccache' does.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264008525-29025-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf symbols: Cache /proc/kallsyms files by build-id 2010-01-16T09:58:47+00:00 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com 2010-01-14T20:30:06+00:00 9e201442de7c954f03710ac76f28c1927d07550c So that when we don't have a vmlinux handy we can store the kallsyms for later use by 'perf report'. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1263501006-14185-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 
So that when we don't have a vmlinux handy we can store the
kallsyms for later use by 'perf report'.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1263501006-14185-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf tools: Cross platform perf.data analysis support 2010-01-16T09:58:45+00:00 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com 2010-01-14T14:23:10+00:00 ba21594cddee0a3af582971656702b1c4509d8f5 There are still some problems related to loading vmlinux files, but those are unrelated to the feature implemented in this patch, so will get fixed in the next patches, but here are some results: 1. collect perf.data file on a Fedora 12 machine, x86_64, 64-bit userland 2. transfer it to a Debian Testing machine, PARISC64, 32-bit userland acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf buildid-list | head -5 74f9930ee94475b6b3238caf3725a50d59cb994b [kernel.kallsyms] 55fdd56670453ea66c011158c4b9d30179c1d049 /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_MASQUERADE.ko 41adff63c730890480980d5d8ba513f1c216a858 /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.ko 90a33def1077bb8e97b8a78546dc96c2de62df46 /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat.ko 984c7bea90ce1376d5c8e7ef43a781801286e62d /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/tun.ko acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf buildid-list | tail -5 22492f3753c6a67de5c7ccbd6b863390c92c0723 /usr/lib64/libXt.so.6.0.0 353802bb7e1b895ba43507cc678f951e778e4c6f /usr/lib64/libMagickCore.so.2.0.0 d10c2897558595efe7be8b0584cf7e6398bc776c /usr/lib64/libfprint.so.0.0.0 a83ecfb519a788774a84d5ddde633c9ba56c03ab /home/acme/bin/perf d3ca765a8ecf257d263801d7ad8c49c189082317 /usr/lib64/libdwarf.so.0.0 acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --sort comm The file [kernel.kallsyms] cannot be used, trying to use /proc/kallsyms... ^^^^ The problem related to vmlinux handling, it shouldn't be trying this ^^^^ rather alien /proc/kallsyms at all... /lib64/libpthread-2.10.2.so with build id 5c68f7afeb33309c78037e374b0deee84dd441f6 not found, continuing without symbols /lib64/libc-2.10.2.so with build id eb4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1 not found, continuing without symbols /home/acme/bin/perf with build id a83ecfb519a788774a84d5ddde633c9ba56c03ab not found, continuing without symbols /usr/sbin/openvpn with build id f2037a091ef36b591187a858d75e203690ea9409 not found, continuing without symbols Failed to open /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko, continuing without symbols Failed to open /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlcore.ko, continuing without symbols <SNIP more complaints about not finding the right build-ids, those will have to wait for 'perf archive' or plain copying what was collected by 'perf record' on the x86_64, source machine, see further below for an example of this > # Samples: 293085637 # # Overhead Command # ........ ............... # 61.70% find 23.50% perf 5.86% swapper 3.12% sshd 2.39% init 0.87% bash 0.86% sleep 0.59% dbus-daemon 0.25% hald 0.24% NetworkManager 0.19% hald-addon-rfki 0.15% openvpn 0.07% phy0 0.07% events/0 0.05% iwl3945 0.05% events/1 0.03% kondemand/0 acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ Which matches what we get when running the same command for the same perf.data file on the F12, x86_64, source machine: [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report --sort comm # Samples: 293085637 # # Overhead Command # ........ ............... # 61.70% find 23.50% perf 5.86% swapper 3.12% sshd 2.39% init 0.87% bash 0.86% sleep 0.59% dbus-daemon 0.25% hald 0.24% NetworkManager 0.19% hald-addon-rfki 0.15% openvpn 0.07% phy0 0.07% events/0 0.05% iwl3945 0.05% events/1 0.03% kondemand/0 [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# The other modes work as well, modulo the problem with vmlinux: acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --sort comm,dso 2> /dev/null | head -15 # Samples: 293085637 # # Overhead Command Shared Object # ........ ............... ................................. # 35.11% find ffffffff81002b5a 18.25% perf ffffffff8102235f 16.17% find libc-2.10.2.so 9.07% find find 5.80% swapper ffffffff8102235f 3.95% perf libc-2.10.2.so 2.33% init ffffffff810091b9 1.65% sshd libcrypto.so.0.9.8k 1.35% find [e1000e] 0.68% sleep libc-2.10.2.so acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ And the lack of the right buildids: acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol 2> /dev/null | head -15 # Samples: 293085637 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............... ................................. ...... # 35.11% find ffffffff81002b5a [k] 0xffffffff81002b5a 18.25% perf ffffffff8102235f [k] 0xffffffff8102235f 16.17% find libc-2.10.2.so [.] 0x00000000045782 9.07% find find [.] 0x0000000000fb0e 5.80% swapper ffffffff8102235f [k] 0xffffffff8102235f 3.95% perf libc-2.10.2.so [.] 0x0000000007f398 2.33% init ffffffff810091b9 [k] 0xffffffff810091b9 1.65% sshd libcrypto.so.0.9.8k [.] 0x00000000105440 1.35% find [e1000e] [k] 0x00000000010948 0.68% sleep libc-2.10.2.so [.] 0x0000000011ad5b acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ But if we: acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ ls ~/.debug ls: cannot access /home/acme/.debug: No such file or directory acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ mkdir -p ~/.debug/lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/ acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ scp doppio:.debug/lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/* ~/.debug/lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/ acme@doppio's password: eb4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1 100% 1783KB 714.7KB/s 00:02 acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ mkdir -p ~/.debug/.build-id/eb acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ ln -s ../../lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/eb4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1 ~/.debug/.build-id/eb/4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1 acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --dsos libc-2.10.2.so 2> /dev/null # dso: libc-2.10.2.so # Samples: 64281170 # # Overhead Command Symbol # ........ ............... ...... # 14.98% perf [.] __GI_strcmp 12.30% find [.] __GI_memmove 9.25% find [.] _int_malloc 7.60% find [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 6.10% find [.] _IO_new_file_xsputn 6.02% find [.] __GI_close 3.08% find [.] _IO_file_overflow_internal 3.08% find [.] malloc_consolidate 3.08% find [.] _int_free 3.08% find [.] __strchrnul 3.08% find [.] __getdents64 3.08% find [.] __write_nocancel 3.08% sleep [.] __GI__dl_addr 3.08% sshd [.] __libc_select 3.08% find [.] _IO_new_file_write 3.07% find [.] _IO_new_do_write 3.06% find [.] __GI___errno_location 3.05% find [.] __GI___libc_malloc 3.04% perf [.] __GI_memcpy 1.71% find [.] __fprintf_chk 1.29% bash [.] __gconv_transform_utf8_internal 0.79% dbus-daemon [.] __GI_strlen # # (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso) # acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ Which matches what we get on the source, F12, x86_64 machine: [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report --dsos libc-2.10.2.so # dso: libc-2.10.2.so # Samples: 64281170 # # Overhead Command Symbol # ........ ............... ...... # 14.98% perf [.] __GI_strcmp 12.30% find [.] __GI_memmove 9.25% find [.] _int_malloc 7.60% find [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal 6.10% find [.] _IO_new_file_xsputn 6.02% find [.] __GI_close 3.08% find [.] _IO_file_overflow_internal 3.08% find [.] malloc_consolidate 3.08% find [.] _int_free 3.08% find [.] __strchrnul 3.08% find [.] __getdents64 3.08% find [.] __write_nocancel 3.08% sleep [.] __GI__dl_addr 3.08% sshd [.] __libc_select 3.08% find [.] _IO_new_file_write 3.07% find [.] _IO_new_do_write 3.06% find [.] __GI___errno_location 3.05% find [.] __GI___libc_malloc 3.04% perf [.] __GI_memcpy 1.71% find [.] __fprintf_chk 1.29% bash [.] __gconv_transform_utf8_internal 0.79% dbus-daemon [.] __GI_strlen # # (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso) # [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# So I think this is really, really nice in that it demonstrates the portability of perf.data files and the use of build-ids accross such aliens worlds :-) There are some things to fix tho, like the bitmap on the header, but things are looking good. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1263478990-8200-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 
There are still some problems related to loading vmlinux files,
but those are unrelated to the feature implemented in this
patch, so will get fixed in the next patches, but here are some
results:

1. collect perf.data file on a Fedora 12 machine, x86_64, 64-bit
userland

2. transfer it to a Debian Testing machine, PARISC64, 32-bit
userland

  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf buildid-list | head -5
  74f9930ee94475b6b3238caf3725a50d59cb994b [kernel.kallsyms]
  55fdd56670453ea66c011158c4b9d30179c1d049 /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_MASQUERADE.ko
  41adff63c730890480980d5d8ba513f1c216a858 /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.ko
  90a33def1077bb8e97b8a78546dc96c2de62df46 /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat.ko
  984c7bea90ce1376d5c8e7ef43a781801286e62d /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/tun.ko

  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf buildid-list | tail -5
  22492f3753c6a67de5c7ccbd6b863390c92c0723 /usr/lib64/libXt.so.6.0.0
  353802bb7e1b895ba43507cc678f951e778e4c6f /usr/lib64/libMagickCore.so.2.0.0
  d10c2897558595efe7be8b0584cf7e6398bc776c /usr/lib64/libfprint.so.0.0.0
  a83ecfb519a788774a84d5ddde633c9ba56c03ab /home/acme/bin/perf
  d3ca765a8ecf257d263801d7ad8c49c189082317 /usr/lib64/libdwarf.so.0.0
  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$

  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --sort comm
  The file [kernel.kallsyms] cannot be used, trying to use /proc/kallsyms...

  ^^^^ The problem related to vmlinux handling, it shouldn't be trying this
  ^^^^ rather alien /proc/kallsyms at all...

  /lib64/libpthread-2.10.2.so with build id 5c68f7afeb33309c78037e374b0deee84dd441f6 not found, continuing without symbols
  /lib64/libc-2.10.2.so with build id eb4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1 not found, continuing without symbols
  /home/acme/bin/perf with build id a83ecfb519a788774a84d5ddde633c9ba56c03ab not found, continuing without symbols
  /usr/sbin/openvpn with build id f2037a091ef36b591187a858d75e203690ea9409 not found, continuing without symbols
  Failed to open /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko, continuing without symbols
  Failed to open /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc4-tip+/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlcore.ko, continuing without symbols

  <SNIP more complaints about not finding the right build-ids,
        those will have to wait for 'perf archive' or plain
        copying what was collected by 'perf record' on the x86_64,
        source machine, see further below for an example of this >

  # Samples: 293085637
  #
  # Overhead          Command
  # ........  ...............
  #
      61.70%             find
      23.50%             perf
       5.86%          swapper
       3.12%             sshd
       2.39%             init
       0.87%             bash
       0.86%            sleep
       0.59%      dbus-daemon
       0.25%             hald
       0.24%   NetworkManager
       0.19%  hald-addon-rfki
       0.15%          openvpn
       0.07%             phy0
       0.07%         events/0
       0.05%          iwl3945
       0.05%         events/1
       0.03%      kondemand/0
  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$

Which matches what we get when running the same command for the
same perf.data file on the F12, x86_64, source machine:

  [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report --sort comm
  # Samples: 293085637
  #
  # Overhead          Command
  # ........  ...............
  #
      61.70%             find
      23.50%             perf
       5.86%          swapper
       3.12%             sshd
       2.39%             init
       0.87%             bash
       0.86%            sleep
       0.59%      dbus-daemon
       0.25%             hald
       0.24%   NetworkManager
       0.19%  hald-addon-rfki
       0.15%          openvpn
       0.07%             phy0
       0.07%         events/0
       0.05%          iwl3945
       0.05%         events/1
       0.03%      kondemand/0
  [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#

The other modes work as well, modulo the problem with vmlinux:

  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --sort comm,dso 2> /dev/null | head -15
  # Samples: 293085637
  #
  # Overhead          Command                      Shared Object
  # ........  ...............  .................................
  #
      35.11%             find                   ffffffff81002b5a
      18.25%             perf                   ffffffff8102235f
      16.17%             find  libc-2.10.2.so
       9.07%             find  find
       5.80%          swapper                   ffffffff8102235f
       3.95%             perf  libc-2.10.2.so
       2.33%             init                   ffffffff810091b9
       1.65%             sshd  libcrypto.so.0.9.8k
       1.35%             find  [e1000e]
       0.68%            sleep  libc-2.10.2.so
  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$

And the lack of the right buildids:

  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol 2> /dev/null | head -15
  # Samples: 293085637
  #
  # Overhead          Command                      Shared Object  Symbol
  # ........  ...............  .................................  ......
  #
      35.11%             find                   ffffffff81002b5a  [k] 0xffffffff81002b5a
      18.25%             perf                   ffffffff8102235f  [k] 0xffffffff8102235f
      16.17%             find  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] 0x00000000045782
       9.07%             find  find                               [.] 0x0000000000fb0e
       5.80%          swapper                   ffffffff8102235f  [k] 0xffffffff8102235f
       3.95%             perf  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] 0x0000000007f398
       2.33%             init                   ffffffff810091b9  [k] 0xffffffff810091b9
       1.65%             sshd  libcrypto.so.0.9.8k                [.] 0x00000000105440
       1.35%             find  [e1000e]                           [k] 0x00000000010948
       0.68%            sleep  libc-2.10.2.so                     [.] 0x0000000011ad5b
  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$

But if we:

  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ ls ~/.debug
  ls: cannot access /home/acme/.debug: No such file or directory
  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ mkdir -p ~/.debug/lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/
  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ scp doppio:.debug/lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/* ~/.debug/lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/
  acme@doppio's password:
  eb4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1	             100% 1783KB 714.7KB/s   00:02
  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ mkdir -p ~/.debug/.build-id/eb
  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ ln -s ../../lib64/libc-2.10.2.so/eb4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1 ~/.debug/.build-id/eb/4ec8fa8b2a5eb18cad173c92f27ed8887ed1c1
  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$ perf report --dsos libc-2.10.2.so 2> /dev/null
  # dso: libc-2.10.2.so
  # Samples: 64281170
  #
  # Overhead          Command  Symbol
  # ........  ...............  ......
  #
      14.98%             perf  [.] __GI_strcmp
      12.30%             find  [.] __GI_memmove
       9.25%             find  [.] _int_malloc
       7.60%             find  [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
       6.10%             find  [.] _IO_new_file_xsputn
       6.02%             find  [.] __GI_close
       3.08%             find  [.] _IO_file_overflow_internal
       3.08%             find  [.] malloc_consolidate
       3.08%             find  [.] _int_free
       3.08%             find  [.] __strchrnul
       3.08%             find  [.] __getdents64
       3.08%             find  [.] __write_nocancel
       3.08%            sleep  [.] __GI__dl_addr
       3.08%             sshd  [.] __libc_select
       3.08%             find  [.] _IO_new_file_write
       3.07%             find  [.] _IO_new_do_write
       3.06%             find  [.] __GI___errno_location
       3.05%             find  [.] __GI___libc_malloc
       3.04%             perf  [.] __GI_memcpy
       1.71%             find  [.] __fprintf_chk
       1.29%             bash  [.] __gconv_transform_utf8_internal
       0.79%      dbus-daemon  [.] __GI_strlen
  #
  # (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso)
  #
  acme@parisc:~/git/linux-2.6-tip$

Which matches what we get on the source, F12, x86_64 machine:

  [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report --dsos libc-2.10.2.so
  # dso: libc-2.10.2.so
  # Samples: 64281170
  #
  # Overhead          Command  Symbol
  # ........  ...............  ......
  #
      14.98%             perf  [.] __GI_strcmp
      12.30%             find  [.] __GI_memmove
       9.25%             find  [.] _int_malloc
       7.60%             find  [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
       6.10%             find  [.] _IO_new_file_xsputn
       6.02%             find  [.] __GI_close
       3.08%             find  [.] _IO_file_overflow_internal
       3.08%             find  [.] malloc_consolidate
       3.08%             find  [.] _int_free
       3.08%             find  [.] __strchrnul
       3.08%             find  [.] __getdents64
       3.08%             find  [.] __write_nocancel
       3.08%            sleep  [.] __GI__dl_addr
       3.08%             sshd  [.] __libc_select
       3.08%             find  [.] _IO_new_file_write
       3.07%             find  [.] _IO_new_do_write
       3.06%             find  [.] __GI___errno_location
       3.05%             find  [.] __GI___libc_malloc
       3.04%             perf  [.] __GI_memcpy
       1.71%             find  [.] __fprintf_chk
       1.29%             bash  [.] __gconv_transform_utf8_internal
       0.79%      dbus-daemon  [.] __GI_strlen
  #
  # (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso)
  #
  [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#

So I think this is really, really nice in that it demonstrates
the portability of perf.data files and the use of build-ids
accross such aliens worlds :-)

There are some things to fix tho, like the bitmap on the header,
but things are looking good.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1263478990-8200-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf symbols: Record the domain of DSOs in HEADER_BUILD_ID header table 2010-01-13T09:09:16+00:00 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com 2010-01-07T21:59:39+00:00 a89e5abe3efcc7facc666d3985769278937f86b0 So that we can restore them to the right DSO list (either dsos__kernel or dsos__user). We do that just like the kernel does for the other events, encoding PERF_RECORD_MISC_{KERNEL,USER} in perf_event_header. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1262901583-8074-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 
So that we can restore them to the right DSO list (either
dsos__kernel or dsos__user).

We do that just like the kernel does for the other events,
encoding PERF_RECORD_MISC_{KERNEL,USER} in perf_event_header.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262901583-8074-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf tools: Create write_padded routine out of __dsos__write_buildid_table 2010-01-13T09:09:09+00:00 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com 2010-01-04T18:19:28+00:00 f92cb24c78a7c853435e46a20d1bd5c894378132 Will be used by other options where padding is needed. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1262629169-22797-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 
Will be used by other options where padding is needed.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262629169-22797-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf header: perf_header__push_event() shouldn't die 2009-12-30T10:59:57+00:00 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com 2009-12-29T00:48:33+00:00 ae99fb2c335ef018520950ddc9692faacab39cf2 Just propagate eventual errors. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1262047716-23171-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 
Just propagate eventual errors.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262047716-23171-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf header: Do_read shouldn't die 2009-12-30T10:59:56+00:00 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com 2009-12-29T00:48:32+00:00 769885f372300a7fcfb9e54e4e2990718d40b529 Propagate the errors instead, its callers already propagate other errors. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1262047716-23171-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 
Propagate the errors instead, its callers already propagate
other errors.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1262047716-23171-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>