linux.git/tools/perf/util, branch v3.18-rc2

perf evsel: No need to drag util/cgroup.h

2014-10-17T15:17:40+00:00

The only thing we need is a forward declaration for 'struct cgroup_sel',
that is inside 'struct perf_evsel'.

Include cgroup.h instead on the tools that support cgroups.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jean Pihet 
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-b7kuymbgf0zxi5viyjjtu5hk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Add missing 'struct option' forward declaration

2014-10-17T15:16:00+00:00

It was being found, by chance, because evsel.h needlessly includes
util/cgroup.h, which will be sorted out in a following patch.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jean Pihet 
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-xsvxr747wkkpg1ay9dramorr@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Move exit stuff from delete to exit

2014-10-17T14:14:15+00:00

So that when an evsel is embedded into other struct it can free up
resources calling perf_evsel__exit().

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jean Pihet 
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-n1w68pfe9m2vkhm4sqs8y1en@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf session: Add option to copy events when queueing

2014-10-15T20:39:03+00:00

When processing events the session code has an ordered samples queue
which is used to time-sort events coming in across multiple mmaps. At a
later point in time samples on the queue are flushed up to some
timestamp at which point the event is actually processed.

When analyzing events live (ie., record/analysis path in the same
command) there is a race that leads to corrupted events and parse errors
which cause perf to terminate. The problem is that when the event is
placed in the ordered samples queue it is only a reference to the event
which is really sitting in the mmap buffer. Even though the event is
queued for later processing the mmap tail pointer is updated which
indicates to the kernel that the event has been processed. The race is
flushing the event from the queue before it gets overwritten by some
other event. For commands trying to process events live (versus just
writing to a file) and processing a high rate of events this leads to
parse failures and perf terminates.

Examples hitting this problem are 'perf kvm stat live', especially with
nested VMs which generate 100,000+ traces per second, and a command
processing scheduling events with a high rate of context switching --
e.g., running 'perf bench sched pipe'.

This patch offers live commands an option to copy the event when it is
placed in the ordered samples queue.

Based on a patch from David Ahern 

Signed-off-by: Alexander Yarygin 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
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/1412347212-28237-2-git-send-email-yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf callchain: Create an address space per thread

2014-10-15T20:38:23+00:00

The unw_addr_space_t in libunwind represents an address space to be used
for stack unwinding.  It doesn't need to be create/destory everytime to
unwind callchain (as in get_entries) and can have a same lifetime as
thread (unless exec called).

So move the address space construction/destruction logic to the thread
lifetime handling functions.  This is a preparation to enable caching in
the unwind library.

Note that it saves unw_addr_space_t object using thread__set_priv().  It
seems currently only used by perf trace and perf kvm stat commands which
don't use callchain.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Acked-by: Jean Pihet 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Arun Sharma 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jean Pihet 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412556363-26229-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Fixup unwind-libunwind.c missing CALLCHAIN_DWARF definition, added
  missing __maybe_unused on unused parameters in stubs at util/unwind.h ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Fix for double free in tools/perf stat

2014-10-15T19:16:53+00:00

Fix for double free bug in tools/perf due to dangling thread_map pointer
in perf_evlist struct.

Code path excercised when perf stat -C switch is used but not set and is
followed by another switch.

Example:

  perf stat -C -e.

Signed-off-by: Yasser Shalabi 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412437077-13109-1-git-send-email-yassershalabi@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add support to new style format of kernel PMU event

2014-10-15T19:05:45+00:00

Add new rules for kernel PMU event.

Currently, the patch only want to handle the PMU event name as "a-b" and
"a".

event_pmu:
PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT sep_dc
|
PE_PMU_EVENT_PRE '-' PE_PMU_EVENT_SUF sep_dc

PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT token is for
cycles-ct/cycles-t/mem-loads/mem-stores.

The prefix cycles is mixed up with cpu-cycles.  loads and stores are
mixed up with cache event So they have to be hardcode in lex.

PE_PMU_EVENT_PRE and PE_PMU_EVENT_SUF tokens are for other PMU events.

The lex looks generic identifier up in the table and return the matched
token. If there is no match, generic PE_NAME token will be return.

Using the rules, kernel PMU event could use new style format without //

so you can use:

  perf record -e mem-loads ...

instead of:

  perf record -e cpu/mem-loads/

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412694532-23391-4-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Parse the pmu event prefix and suffix

2014-10-15T19:05:01+00:00

There are two types of event formats for PMU events. E.g. el-abort OR
cpu/el-abort/. However, the lexer mistakenly recognizes the simple style
format as two events.

The parse_events_pmu_check function uses bsearch to search the name in
known pmu event list. It can tell the lexer that the name is a PE_NAME
or a PMU event name prefix or a PMU event name suffix. All these
information will be used for accurately parsing kernel PMU events.

The pmu events list will be read from sysfs at runtime.

Note: Currently, the patch only want to handle the PMU event name as
"a-b" and "a". The only exception, "stalled-cycles-frontend" and
"stalled-cycles-fronted", are already hardcoded in lexer.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412694532-23391-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Revert "perf tools: Default to cpu// for events v5"

2014-10-15T19:04:33+00:00

This reverts commit 50e200f07948 ("perf tools: Default to cpu// for
events v5")

The fixup cannot handle the case that
new style format(which without //) mixed with
other different formats.

For example,
group events with new style format: {mem-stores,mem-loads}
some hardware event + new style event: cycles,mem-loads
Cache event + new style event: LLC-loads,mem-loads
Raw event + new style event:
cpu/event=0xc8,umask=0x08/,mem-loads
old style event and new stytle mixture: mem-stores,cpu/mem-loads/

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412694532-23391-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent

2014-10-15T09:54:14+00:00

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

Infrastructure fixes and changes:

  * Fix off-by-one bugs in map->end handling (Stephane Eranian)

  * Fix off-by-one bug in maps__find(), also related to map->end handling (Namhyung Kim)

  * Make struct symbol->end be the first addr after the symbol range, to make it
    match the convention used for struct map->end. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  * Fix perf_evlist__add_pollfd() error handling in 'perf kvm stat live' (Jiri Olsa)

  * Fix python test build by moving callchain_param to an object linked into the
    python binding (Jiri Olsa)

  * Do not include a struct hists per perf_evsel, untangling the histogram code
    from perf_evsel, to pave the way for exporting a minimalistic
    tools/lib/api/perf/ library usable by tools/perf and initially by the rasd
    daemon being developed by Borislav Petkov, Robert Richter and Jean Pihet.
    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  * Make perf_evlist__open(evlist, NULL, NULL), i.e. without cpu and thread
    maps mean syswide monitoring, reducing the boilerplate for tools that
    only want system wide mode. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar