linux.git/tools/perf/util/header.c, branch v2.6.39

perf build-id: Add quirk to deal with perf.data file format breakage

2011-03-23T22:29:40+00:00

The a1645ce1 changeset:

"perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host"

Added a field to struct build_id_event that broke the file format.

Since the kernel build-id is the first entry, process the table using
the old format if the well known '[kernel.kallsyms]' string for the
kernel build-id has the first 4 characters chopped off (where the pid_t
sits).

Reported-by: Han Pingtian 
Cc: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: Zhang Yanmin 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2011-03-16T01:31:30+00:00

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (184 commits)
  perf probe: Clean up probe_point_lazy_walker() return value
  tracing: Fix irqoff selftest expanding max buffer
  tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracer
  tracing: Export trace_set_clr_event()
  tracing: Explain about unstable clock on resume with ring buffer warning
  ftrace/graph: Trace function entry before updating index
  ftrace: Add .ref.text as one of the safe areas to trace
  tracing: Adjust conditional expression latency formatting.
  tracing: Fix event alignment: skb:kfree_skb
  tracing: Fix event alignment: mce:mce_record
  tracing: Fix event alignment: kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall
  tracing: Fix event alignment: module:module_request
  tracing: Fix event alignment: ftrace:context_switch and ftrace:wakeup
  tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry
  perf header: Stop using 'self'
  perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributes
  perf top: Don't let events to eat up whole header line
  perf top: Fix events overflow in top command
  ring-buffer: Remove unused #include 
  tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.
  ...

perf header: Stop using 'self'

2011-03-10T14:16:28+00:00

Stop using this python/OOP convention, doesn't really helps. Will do
more from time to time till we get it cleaned up in all of tools/perf.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner 
LKML-Reference: 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributes

2011-03-10T14:15:54+00:00

So that we can reuse things like the id to attr lookup routine
(perf_evlist__id2evsel) that uses a hash table instead of the linear
lookup done in the older perf_header_attr routines, etc.

Also to make evsels/evlist more pervasive an API, simplyfing using the
emerging perf lib.

cc: Arun Sharma 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf symbols: Avoid resolving [kernel.kallsyms] to real path for buildid cache

2011-03-09T16:44:10+00:00

kallsyms has a virtual file name [kernel.kallsyms].  Currently, it can't
be added to buildid cache successfully because the code
(build_id_cache__add_s) tries to resolve [kernel.kallsyms] to a real
absolute pathname and that fails.

Fixes it by not resolving it and just use the name [kernel.kallsyms].
So dir ~/.debug/[kernel.kallsyms] is created.

Original bug report at:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/1/524

Tested-by: Han Pingtian 
Cc: Han Pingtian 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
LKML-Reference: <1299165837-27817-1-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Improve support for sessions with multiple events

2011-03-06T16:13:40+00:00

By creating an perf_evlist out of the attributes in the perf.data file
header, so that we can use evlists and evsels when reading recorded
sessions in addition to when we record sessions.

More work is needed to allow tools to allow the user to select which
events are wanted when browsing sessions, be it just one or a subset of
them, aggregated or showed at the same time but with different
indications on the UI to allow seeing workloads thru different views at
the same time.

But the overall goal/trend is to more uniformly use evsels and evlists.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tool: Fix gcc 4.6.0 issues

2011-02-07T14:41:41+00:00

GCC 4.6.0 in Fedora rawhide turned up some compile errors in tools/perf
due to the -Werror=unused-but-set-variable flag.

I've gone through and annotated some of the assignments that had side
effects (ie: return value from a function) with the __used annotation,
and in some cases, just removed unused code.

In a few cases, we were assigning something useful, but not using it in
later parts of the function.

kyle@dreadnought:~/src% gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.6.0 20110122 (Red Hat 4.6.0-0.3)

Cc: Ingo Molnar 
LKML-Reference: <20110124161304.GK27353@bombadil.infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin 
[ committer note: Fixed up the annotation fixes, as that code moved recently ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Kill event_t typedef, use 'union perf_event' instead

2011-01-29T18:25:37+00:00

And move the event_t methods to the perf_event__ too.

No code changes, just namespace consistency.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Introduce perf_evlist

2011-01-22T21:56:28+00:00

Killing two more perf wide global variables: nr_counters and evsel_list
as a list_head.

There are more operations that will need more fields in perf_evlist,
like the pollfd for polling all the fds in a list of evsel instances.

Use option->value to pass the evsel_list to parse_{events,filters}.

LKML-Reference: 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix 64 bit integer format strings

2011-01-23T01:41:57+00:00

Using %L[uxd] has issues in some architectures, like on ppc64.  Fix it
by making our 64 bit integers typedefs of stdint.h types and using
PRI[ux]64 like, for instance, git does.

Reported by Denis Kirjanov that provided a patch for one case, I went
and changed all cases.

Reported-by: Denis Kirjanov 
Tested-by: Denis Kirjanov 
LKML-Reference: <20110120093246.GA8031@hera.kernel.org>
Cc: Denis Kirjanov 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Pingtian Han 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo