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<title>linux.git/tools/perf/util/sort.c, branch v4.12</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>perf tools: Use just forward declarations for struct thread where possible</title>
<updated>2017-04-24T16:43:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-20T00:34:35+00:00</published>
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Removing various instances of unnecessary includes, reducing the maze of
header dependencies.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-hwu6eyuok9pc57alookyzmsf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Removing various instances of unnecessary includes, reducing the maze of
header dependencies.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-hwu6eyuok9pc57alookyzmsf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Remove regex.h and fnmatch.h from util.h</title>
<updated>2017-04-19T16:01:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-18T15:33:30+00:00</published>
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The users of regex and fnmatch functions should include those headers
instead.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ixzm5kuamsq1ixbkuv6kmwzj@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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The users of regex and fnmatch functions should include those headers
instead.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ixzm5kuamsq1ixbkuv6kmwzj@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf str{filter,list}: Disentangle headers</title>
<updated>2017-04-19T16:01:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-18T13:57:25+00:00</published>
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There are places where we just need a forward declaration, and others
were we need to include strlist.h and/or strfilter.h, reducing the
impact of changes in headers on the build time, do it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zab42gbiki88y9k0csorxekb@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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There are places where we just need a forward declaration, and others
were we need to include strlist.h and/or strfilter.h, reducing the
impact of changes in headers on the build time, do it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zab42gbiki88y9k0csorxekb@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Include errno.h where needed</title>
<updated>2017-04-19T16:01:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-18T13:46:11+00:00</published>
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Removing it from util.h, part of an effort to disentangle the includes
hell, that makes changes to util.h or something included by it to cause
a complete rebuild of the tools.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ztrjy52q1rqcchuy3rubfgt2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Removing it from util.h, part of an effort to disentangle the includes
hell, that makes changes to util.h or something included by it to cause
a complete rebuild of the tools.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ztrjy52q1rqcchuy3rubfgt2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Including missing inttypes.h header</title>
<updated>2017-04-19T16:01:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-17T18:23:08+00:00</published>
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Needed to use the PRI[xu](32,64) formatting macros.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wkbho8kaw24q67dd11q0j39f@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Needed to use the PRI[xu](32,64) formatting macros.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wkbho8kaw24q67dd11q0j39f@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Add include &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt; where ARRAY_SIZE() is used</title>
<updated>2017-04-19T16:01:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-17T14:39:06+00:00</published>
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To pave the way for further cleanups where linux/kernel.h may stop being
included in some header.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qqxan6tfsl6qx3l0v3nwgjvk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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To pave the way for further cleanups where linux/kernel.h may stop being
included in some header.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qqxan6tfsl6qx3l0v3nwgjvk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf report: Enable sorting by srcline as key</title>
<updated>2017-03-27T15:13:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milian Wolff</name>
<email>milian.wolff@kdab.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-18T21:49:28+00:00</published>
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Often it is interesting to know how costly a given source line is in
total. Previously, one had to build these sums manually based on all
addresses that pointed to the same source line. This patch introduces
srcline as a sort key, which will do the aggregation for us.

Paired with the recent addition of showing inline frames, this makes
perf report much more useful for many C++ work loads.

The following shows the new feature in action. First, let's show the
status quo output when we sort by address. The result contains many hist
entries that generate the same output:

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  $ perf report --stdio --inline -g address
  # Children      Self  Command       Shared Object        Symbol
  # ........  ........  ............  ...................  .........................................
  #
      99.89%    35.34%  cpp-inlining  cpp-inlining         [.] main
            |
            |--64.55%--main complex:655
            |          /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
            |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/complex:664 (inline)
            |          |
            |          |--60.31%--hypot +20
            |          |          |
            |          |          |--8.52%--__hypot_finite +273
            |          |          |
            |          |          |--7.32%--__hypot_finite +411
...
             --35.34%--_start +4194346
                       __libc_start_main +241
                       |
                       |--6.65%--main random.tcc:3326
                       |          /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
                       |
                       |--2.70%--main random.tcc:3326
                       |          /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
                       |
                       |--1.69%--main random.tcc:3326
                       |          /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
  ...
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

With this patch and `-g srcline` we instead get the following output:

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  $ perf report --stdio --inline -g srcline
  # Children      Self  Command       Shared Object        Symbol
  # ........  ........  ............  ...................  .........................................
  #
      99.89%    35.34%  cpp-inlining  cpp-inlining         [.] main
            |
            |--64.55%--main complex:655
            |          /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
            |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/complex:664 (inline)
            |          |
            |          |--64.02%--hypot
            |          |          |
            |          |           --59.81%--__hypot_finite
            |          |
            |           --0.53%--cabs
            |
             --35.34%--_start
                       __libc_start_main
                       |
                       |--12.48%--main random.tcc:3326
                       |          /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
  ...
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff &lt;milian.wolff@kdab.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yao Jin &lt;yao.jin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170318214928.9047-1-milian.wolff@kdab.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Often it is interesting to know how costly a given source line is in
total. Previously, one had to build these sums manually based on all
addresses that pointed to the same source line. This patch introduces
srcline as a sort key, which will do the aggregation for us.

Paired with the recent addition of showing inline frames, this makes
perf report much more useful for many C++ work loads.

The following shows the new feature in action. First, let's show the
status quo output when we sort by address. The result contains many hist
entries that generate the same output:

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  $ perf report --stdio --inline -g address
  # Children      Self  Command       Shared Object        Symbol
  # ........  ........  ............  ...................  .........................................
  #
      99.89%    35.34%  cpp-inlining  cpp-inlining         [.] main
            |
            |--64.55%--main complex:655
            |          /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
            |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/complex:664 (inline)
            |          |
            |          |--60.31%--hypot +20
            |          |          |
            |          |          |--8.52%--__hypot_finite +273
            |          |          |
            |          |          |--7.32%--__hypot_finite +411
...
             --35.34%--_start +4194346
                       __libc_start_main +241
                       |
                       |--6.65%--main random.tcc:3326
                       |          /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
                       |
                       |--2.70%--main random.tcc:3326
                       |          /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
                       |
                       |--1.69%--main random.tcc:3326
                       |          /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
  ...
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

With this patch and `-g srcline` we instead get the following output:

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  $ perf report --stdio --inline -g srcline
  # Children      Self  Command       Shared Object        Symbol
  # ........  ........  ............  ...................  .........................................
  #
      99.89%    35.34%  cpp-inlining  cpp-inlining         [.] main
            |
            |--64.55%--main complex:655
            |          /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
            |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/complex:664 (inline)
            |          |
            |          |--64.02%--hypot
            |          |          |
            |          |           --59.81%--__hypot_finite
            |          |
            |           --0.53%--cabs
            |
             --35.34%--_start
                       __libc_start_main
                       |
                       |--12.48%--main random.tcc:3326
                       |          /home/milian/projects/kdab/rnd/hotspot/tests/test-clients/cpp-inlining/main.cpp:39 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1809 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:1818 (inline)
                       |          /usr/include/c++/6.3.1/bits/random.h:185 (inline)
  ...
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff &lt;milian.wolff@kdab.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yao Jin &lt;yao.jin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170318214928.9047-1-milian.wolff@kdab.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Add 'cgroup_id' sort order keyword</title>
<updated>2017-03-14T18:17:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hari Bathini</name>
<email>hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-07T20:42:13+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces a cgroup identifier entry field in perf report to
identify or distinguish data of different cgroups. It uses the device
number and inode number of cgroup namespace, included in perf data with
the new PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES event, as cgroup identifier.

With the assumption that each container is created with it's own cgroup
namespace,  this allows assessment/analysis of multiple containers at
once.

A simple test for this would be to clone a few processes passing
SIGCHILD &amp; CLONE_NEWCROUP flags to each of them, execute shell and run
different workloads  on each of those contexts,  while running perf
record command with --namespaces option.

Shown below is the output of perf report, sorted with cgroup identifier,
on perf.data generated with the above test scenario, clearly indicating
one context's considerable use of kernel memory in comparison with
others:

	$ perf report -s cgroup_id,sample --stdio
	#
	# Total Lost Samples: 0
	#
	# Samples: 5K of event 'kmem:kmalloc'
	# Event count (approx.): 5965
	#
	# Overhead  cgroup id (dev/inode)       Samples
	# ........  .....................  ............
	#
	    81.27%  3/0xeffffffb                   4848
	    16.24%  3/0xf00000d0                    969
	     1.16%  3/0xf00000ce                     69
	     0.82%  3/0xf00000cf                     49
	     0.50%  0/0x0                            30

While this is a start, there is further scope of improving this. For
example, instead of cgroup namespace's device and inode numbers, dev
and inode numbers of some or all namespaces may be used to distinguish
which processes are running in a given container context.

Also, scripts to map device and inode info to containers sounds
plausible for better tracing of containers.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Aravinda Prasad &lt;aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148891933338.25309.756882900782042645.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch introduces a cgroup identifier entry field in perf report to
identify or distinguish data of different cgroups. It uses the device
number and inode number of cgroup namespace, included in perf data with
the new PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES event, as cgroup identifier.

With the assumption that each container is created with it's own cgroup
namespace,  this allows assessment/analysis of multiple containers at
once.

A simple test for this would be to clone a few processes passing
SIGCHILD &amp; CLONE_NEWCROUP flags to each of them, execute shell and run
different workloads  on each of those contexts,  while running perf
record command with --namespaces option.

Shown below is the output of perf report, sorted with cgroup identifier,
on perf.data generated with the above test scenario, clearly indicating
one context's considerable use of kernel memory in comparison with
others:

	$ perf report -s cgroup_id,sample --stdio
	#
	# Total Lost Samples: 0
	#
	# Samples: 5K of event 'kmem:kmalloc'
	# Event count (approx.): 5965
	#
	# Overhead  cgroup id (dev/inode)       Samples
	# ........  .....................  ............
	#
	    81.27%  3/0xeffffffb                   4848
	    16.24%  3/0xf00000d0                    969
	     1.16%  3/0xf00000ce                     69
	     0.82%  3/0xf00000cf                     49
	     0.50%  0/0x0                            30

While this is a start, there is further scope of improving this. For
example, instead of cgroup namespace's device and inode numbers, dev
and inode numbers of some or all namespaces may be used to distinguish
which processes are running in a given container context.

Also, scripts to map device and inode info to containers sounds
plausible for better tracing of containers.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Aravinda Prasad &lt;aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148891933338.25309.756882900782042645.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>perf sort: Fix segfault with basic block 'cycles' sort dimension</title>
<updated>2017-03-13T14:41:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Changbin Du</name>
<email>changbin.du@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-13T08:31:48+00:00</published>
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Skip the sample which doesn't have branch_info to avoid segmentation
fault:

The fault can be reproduced by:

  perf record -a
  perf report -F cycles

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 0e332f033a82 ("perf tools: Add support for cycles, weight branch_info field")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170313083148.23568-1-changbin.du@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Skip the sample which doesn't have branch_info to avoid segmentation
fault:

The fault can be reproduced by:

  perf record -a
  perf report -F cycles

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 0e332f033a82 ("perf tools: Add support for cycles, weight branch_info field")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170313083148.23568-1-changbin.du@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Allow sorting by symbol size</title>
<updated>2017-03-03T22:07:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Charles Baylis</name>
<email>charles.baylis@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-24T13:32:56+00:00</published>
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Add new sort key 'symbol_size' to allow user to sort by symbol size, or
(more usefully) display the symbol size using --fields=...,symbol_size.

Committer note:

Testing it together with the recently added -q, to remove the headers,
and using the '+' sign with -s, to add the symbol_size sort order to
the default, which is '-s/--sort comm,dso,symbol':

  # perf report -q -s +symbol_size | head -10
  10.39%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idle               270
   3.45%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_blocked_averages 1546
   2.61%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_load_avg         1292
   2.36%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_cfs_shares        240
   1.83%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __hrtimer_run_queues     606
   1.74%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_cfs_rq_load_avg. 1187
   1.66%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] apic_timer_interrupt     152
   1.60%  CPU 0/KVM     [kvm]            [k] kvm_set_msr_common      3046
   1.60%  gnome-shell   libglib-2.0.so.0 [.] g_slist_find              37
   1.46%  gnome-termina libglib-2.0.so.0 [.] g_hash_table_lookup      370
  #

Signed-off-by: Charles Baylis &lt;charles.baylis@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Maxim Kuvyrkov &lt;maxim.kuvyrkov@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487943176-13840-1-git-send-email-charles.baylis@linaro.org
[ Use symbol__size(), remove needless %lld + (long long) casting ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Add new sort key 'symbol_size' to allow user to sort by symbol size, or
(more usefully) display the symbol size using --fields=...,symbol_size.

Committer note:

Testing it together with the recently added -q, to remove the headers,
and using the '+' sign with -s, to add the symbol_size sort order to
the default, which is '-s/--sort comm,dso,symbol':

  # perf report -q -s +symbol_size | head -10
  10.39%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idle               270
   3.45%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_blocked_averages 1546
   2.61%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_load_avg         1292
   2.36%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_cfs_shares        240
   1.83%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __hrtimer_run_queues     606
   1.74%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_cfs_rq_load_avg. 1187
   1.66%  swapper       [kernel.vmlinux] [k] apic_timer_interrupt     152
   1.60%  CPU 0/KVM     [kvm]            [k] kvm_set_msr_common      3046
   1.60%  gnome-shell   libglib-2.0.so.0 [.] g_slist_find              37
   1.46%  gnome-termina libglib-2.0.so.0 [.] g_hash_table_lookup      370
  #

Signed-off-by: Charles Baylis &lt;charles.baylis@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Maxim Kuvyrkov &lt;maxim.kuvyrkov@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487943176-13840-1-git-send-email-charles.baylis@linaro.org
[ Use symbol__size(), remove needless %lld + (long long) casting ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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