linux.git/tools/perf/util, branch v3.13-rc2

perf record: Add an option to force per-cpu mmaps

2013-11-14T19:10:27+00:00

By default, when tasks are specified (i.e. -p, -t or -u options)
per-thread mmaps are created.

Add an option to override that and force per-cpu mmaps.

Further comments by peterz:

So this option allows -t/-p/-u to create one buffer per cpu and attach
all the various thread/process/user tasks' their counters to that one
buffer?

As opposed to the current state where each such counter would have its
own buffer.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Tested-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383313899-15987-7-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf symbols: Limit max callchain using max_stack on DWARF unwinding too

2013-11-14T19:00:23+00:00

It was affecting only frame-pointer (fp) based callchain processing.

Usage example:

  perf top --call-graph dwarf,1024 --max-stack 2

Works for any tool that does callchain resolving and provides a
--max-stack option.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-eu45v8s3tq9ruay8tpfyon79@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Introduce perf_evsel__prev() method

2013-11-14T19:00:16+00:00

Just one use so far, on the hists browser, for completeness since there
we use perf_evlist__{first,last} and perf_evsel__next() for handling the
TAB and UNTAB keys.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-d09l4lejp5427enuf3igpckw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Synthesize anon MMAP records again

2013-11-14T19:00:01+00:00

When introducing the PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 in:

5c5e854bc760 perf tools: Add attr->mmap2 support

A check for the number of entries parsed by sscanf was introduced that
assumed all of the 8 fields needed to be correctly parsed so that
particular /proc/pid/maps line would be considered synthesizable.

That broke anon records synthesizing, as it doesn't have the 'execname'
field.

Fix it by keeping the sscanf return check, changing it to not require
that the 'execname' variable be parsed, so that the preexisting logic
can kick in and set it to '//anon'.

This should get things like JIT profiling working again.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus 
Cc: Bill Gray 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Joe Mario 
Cc: Richard Fowles 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bo4akalno7579shpz29u867j@git.kernel.org
[ commit log message is mine, dzickus reported the problem with a patch ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove trivial extra semincolon

2013-11-14T18:59:38+00:00

Accidentally ran into these, get rid of them.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384323864.2527.8.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgent

2013-11-14T07:28:30+00:00

Merge dependencies to apply a fix.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm

2013-11-13T23:51:29+00:00

Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
"Included in this series are:

1. BE8 (modern big endian) changes for ARM from Ben Dooks
2. big.Little support from Nicolas Pitre and Dave Martin
3. support for LPAE systems with all system memory above 4GB
4. Perf updates from Will Deacon
5. Additional prefetching and other performance improvements from Will.
6. Neon-optimised AES implementation fro Ard.
7. A number of smaller fixes scattered around the place.

There is a rather horrid merge conflict in tools/perf - I was never
notified of the conflict because it originally occurred between Will's
tree and other stuff. Consequently I have a resolution which Will
forwarded me, which I'll forward on immediately after sending this
mail.

The other notable thing is I'm expecting some build breakage in the
crypto stuff on ARM only with Ard's AES patches. These were merged
into a stable git branch which others had already pulled, so there's
little I can do about this. The problem is caused because these
patches have a dependency on some code in the crypto git tree - I
tried requesting a branch I can pull to resolve these, and all I got
each time from the crypto people was "we'll revert our patches then"
which would only make things worse since I still don't have the
dependent patches. I've no idea what's going on there or how to
resolve that, and since I can't split these patches from the rest of
this pull request, I'm rather stuck with pushing this as-is or
reverting Ard's patches.

Since it should "come out in the wash" I've left them in - the only
build problems they seem to cause at the moment are with randconfigs,
and since it's a new feature anyway. However, if by -rc1 the
dependencies aren't in, I think it'd be best to revert Ard's patches"

I resolved the perf conflict roughly as per the patch sent by Russell,
but there may be some differences. Any errors are likely mine. Let's
see how the crypto issues work out..

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (110 commits)
ARM: 7868/1: arm/arm64: remove atomic_clear_mask() in "include/asm/atomic.h"
ARM: 7867/1: include: asm: use 'int' instead of 'unsigned long' for 'oldval' in atomic_cmpxchg().
ARM: 7866/1: include: asm: use 'long long' instead of 'u64' within atomic.h
ARM: 7871/1: amba: Extend number of IRQS
ARM: 7887/1: Don't smp_cross_call() on UP devices in arch_irq_work_raise()
ARM: 7872/1: Support arch_irq_work_raise() via self IPIs
ARM: 7880/1: Clear the IT state independent of the Thumb-2 mode
ARM: 7878/1: nommu: Implement dummy early_paging_init()
ARM: 7876/1: clear Thumb-2 IT state on exception handling
ARM: 7874/2: bL_switcher: Remove cpu_hotplug_driver_{lock,unlock}()
ARM: footbridge: fix build warnings for netwinder
ARM: 7873/1: vfp: clear vfp_current_hw_state for dying cpu
ARM: fix misplaced arch_virt_to_idmap()
ARM: 7848/1: mcpm: Implement cpu_kill() to synchronise on powerdown
ARM: 7847/1: mcpm: Factor out logical-to-physical CPU translation
ARM: 7869/1: remove unused XSCALE_PMU Kconfig param
ARM: 7864/1: Handle 64-bit memory in case of 32-bit phys_addr_t
ARM: 7863/1: Let arm_add_memory() always use 64-bit arguments
ARM: 7862/1: pcpu: replace __get_cpu_var_uses
ARM: 7861/1: cacheflush: consolidate single-CPU ARMv7 cache disabling code
...

perf target: Shorten perf_target to target

2013-11-12T19:51:03+00:00

Getting unwieldly long, for this app domain should be descriptive enough
and the use of __ to separate the class from the method names should
help with avoiding clashes with other code bases.

Reported-by: David Ahern 
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131112113427.GA4053@ghostprotocols.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Refactor mmap_pages parsing

2013-11-12T19:33:22+00:00

Logic will be re-used for the out-pages argument for mmap based writes
in perf-record.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384267617-3446-4-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Round mmap pages to power 2 - v2

2013-11-12T19:31:53+00:00

Currently perf requires the -m / --mmap_pages option to be a power of 2.

To be more user friendly perf should automatically round this up to the
next power of 2.

Currently:
  $ perf record -m 3 -a -- sleep 1
  --mmap_pages/-m value must be a power of two.sleep: Terminated

With patch:
  $ perf record -m 3 -a -- sleep 1
  rounding mmap pages size to 16384 (4 pages)
  ...

v2: Add bytes units to rounding message per Ingo's request. Other
    suggestions (e.g., prefixing INFO) should be addressed by wrapping
    pr_info to catch all instances.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384267617-3446-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo