Parameter --pid (or -p) of perf currently means a thread-wide
collection. For exmaple, if a process whose id is 8888 has 10
threads, 'perf top -p 8888' just collects the main thread
statistics. That's misleading. Users are used to attach a whole
process when debugging a process by gdb. To follow normal usage
style, the patch change --pid to process-wide collection and add
--tid (-t) to mean a thread-wide collection.
Usage example is:
# perf top -p 8888
# perf record -p 8888 -f sleep 10
# perf stat -p 8888 -f sleep 10
Above commands collect the statistics of all threads of process
8888.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: zhiteng.huang@intel.com
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1268922965-14774-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Command 'perf stat' doesn't enable counters when collecting an
existing (by -p) process or system-wide statistics. Fix the
issue.
Change the condition of fork/exec subcommand. If there is a
subcommand parameter, perf always forks/execs it. The usage
example is:
# perf stat -a sleep 10
So this command could collect statistics for 10 seconds
precisely. User still could stop it by CTRL+C. Without the new
capability, user could only use CTRL+C to stop it without
precise time clock.
Another issue is 'perf stat -a' consumes 100% time of a full
single logical cpu. It has a bad impact on running workload.
Fix it by adding a sleep(1) in the while(!done) loop in function
run_perf_stat.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Cc: <zhiteng.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1268922965-14774-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix the !drawf build.
This uses the existing NO_DWARF_SUPPORT mechanism we use for that,
but it's really fragile and needs a cleanup. (in a separate patch)
1) Such uses:
#ifndef NO_DWARF_SUPPORT
are double inverted logic a'la 'not not'. Instead the flag should
be called DWARF_SUPPORT.
2) Furthermore, assymetric #ifdef polluted code flow like:
if (need_dwarf)
#ifdef NO_DWARF_SUPPORT
die("Debuginfo-analysis is not supported");
#else /* !NO_DWARF_SUPPORT */
pr_debug("Some probes require debuginfo.\n");
fd = open_vmlinux();
is very fragile and not acceptable. Instead of that helper functions
should be created and the dwarf/no-dwarf logic should be separated more
cleanly.
3) Local variable #ifdefs like this:
#ifndef NO_DWARF_SUPPORT
int fd;
#endif
Are fragile as well and should be eliminated. Helper functions achieve
that too.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100316220612.32050.33806.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() is exported for the overriden x86
version, but not for the generic weak version.
As a general rule, weak functions should not have their symbol
exported in the same file they are defined.
So let's export it on trace_event_perf.c as it is used by trace
events only.
This fixes:
ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [fs/xfs/xfs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko] undefined!
-v2: And also only build it if trace events are enabled.
-v3: Fix changelog mistake
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1268697902-9518-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() is exported for the overriden x86
version, but not for the generic weak version.
As a general rule, weak functions should not have their symbol
exported in the same file they are defined.
So let's export it on trace_event_perf.c as it is used by trace
events only.
This fixes:
ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [fs/xfs/xfs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko] undefined!
-v2: And also only build it if trace events are enabled.
-v3: Fix changelog mistake
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1268697902-9518-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Before this patch we would not find a vmlinux, then try to pass
objdump "[kernel.kallsyms]" as the filename, it would get
confused and produce no output:
[root@doppio ~]# perf annotate n_tty_write
------------------------------------------------
Percent | Source code & Disassembly of [kernel.kallsyms]
------------------------------------------------
Now we check that and emit meaningful warning:
[root@doppio ~]# perf annotate n_tty_write
Can't annotate n_tty_write: No vmlinux file was found in the
path: [0] vmlinux
[1] /boot/vmlinux
[2] /boot/vmlinux-2.6.34-rc1-tip+
[3] /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc1-tip+/build/vmlinux
[4] /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.34-rc1-tip+/vmlinux
[root@doppio ~]#
This bug was introduced when we added automatic search for
vmlinux, before that time the user had to specify a vmlinux
file.
v2: Print the warning just for the first symbol found when no
symbol name is specified, otherwise it will spam the screen
repeating the warning for each symbol.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1268669073-6856-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Before this patch this message would very briefly appear on the
screen and then the screen would get updates only on the top,
for number of interrupts received, etc, but no annotation would
be performed:
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s n_tty_write > /tmp/bla
objdump: '[kernel.kallsyms]': No such file
Now this is what the user gets:
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s n_tty_write
Can't annotate n_tty_write: No vmlinux file was found in the
path: [0] vmlinux
[1] /boot/vmlinux
[2] /boot/vmlinux-2.6.33-rc5
[3] /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc5/build/vmlinux
[4] /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.33-rc5/vmlinux
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
This bug was introduced when we added automatic search for
vmlinux, before that time the user had to specify a vmlinux
file.
Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1268664418-28328-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When forking its target, perf record can capture data from
before the target application is started. Perf stat uses the
enable_on_exec flag in the event attributes to keep from
displaying events from before the target program starts, this
patch adds the same functionality to perf record when it is will
fork the target process.
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1268664418-28328-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This should turn on instruction counting on P4s, which was missing in
the first version of the new PMU driver.
It's inaccurate for now, we still need dependant event to tag mops
before we can count them precisely. The result is that the number of
instruction may be lifted up.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1268629102.3355.11.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo reported:
|
| There's a build failure on -tip with the P4 driver, on UP 32-bit, if
| PERF_EVENTS is enabled but UP_APIC is disabled:
|
| arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `p4_pmu_handle_irq':
| perf_event.c:(.text+0xa756): undefined reference to `apic'
| perf_event.c:(.text+0xa76e): undefined reference to `apic'
|
So we have to unmask LVTPC only if we're configured to have one.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
CC: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100313081116.GA5179@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix probe_point array-size overrun problem. In some cases (e.g.
inline function), one user-specified probe-point can be
translated to many probe address, and it overruns pre-defined
array-size. This also removes redundant MAX_PROBES macro
definition.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100312232217.2017.45017.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
[ Note that only root can create new probes. Eventually we should remove
the MAX_PROBES limit, but that is a larger patch not eligible to
perf/urgent treatment. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[root@doppio ~]# perf report -i newt.data | head -10
# Samples: 11999679868
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ............................. ......
#
63.61% perf libslang.so.2.1.4 [.] SLsmg_write_chars
6.30% perf perf [.] symbols__find
2.19% perf libnewt.so.0.52.10 [.] newtListboxAppendEntry
2.08% perf libslang.so.2.1.4 [.] SLsmg_write_chars@plt
1.99% perf libc-2.10.2.so [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
[root@doppio ~]#
Not good, the newt form for report works, but slang has to eat
the cost of the additional callgraph lines everytime it prints a
line, and the callgraph doesn't appear on the screen, so move
the callgraph printing to a separate function and don't use it
in newt.c.
Newt tree widgets are being investigated to properly support
callgraphs, but till that gets merged, lets remove this huge
overhead and show at least the symbol overheads for a callgraph
rich perf.data with good performance.
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: <1268408808-13595-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Newt has widespread availability and provides a rather simple
API as can be seen by the size of this patch.
The work needed to support it will benefit other frontends too.
In this initial patch it just checks if the output is a tty, if
not it falls back to the previous behaviour, also if
newt-devel/libnewt-dev is not installed the previous behaviour
is maintaned.
Pressing enter on a symbol will annotate it, ESC in the
annotation window will return to the report symbol list.
More work will be done to remove the special casing in
color_fprintf, stop using fmemopen/FILE in the printing of
hist_entries, etc.
Also the annotation doesn't need to be done via spawning "perf
annotate" and then browsing its output, we can do better by
calling directly the builtin-annotate.c functions, that would
then be moved to tools/perf/util/annotate.c and shared with perf
top, etc
But lets go by baby steps, this patch already improves perf
usability by allowing to quickly do annotations on symbols from
the report screen and provides a first experimentation with
libnewt/TUI integration of tools.
Tested on RHEL5 and Fedora12 X86_64 and on Debian PARISC64 to
browse a perf.data file collected on a Fedora12 x86_64 box.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@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: <1268349164-5822-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fixing this symptom:
[acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$ perf record -a -f
Fatal: Permission error - are you root?
Bus error
[acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$
I.e. if for some reason no data is collected, in this case a non
root user trying to do systemwide profiling, no data will be
collected, and then we end up trying to mmap a zero sized file
and access the file header, b00m.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1268333592-30872-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The netburst PMU is way different from the "architectural
perfomance monitoring" specification that current CPUs use.
P4 uses a tuple of ESCR+CCCR+COUNTER MSR registers to handle
perfomance monitoring events.
A few implementational details:
1) We need a separate x86_pmu::hw_config helper in struct
x86_pmu since register bit-fields are quite different from P6,
Core and later cpu series.
2) For the same reason is a x86_pmu::schedule_events helper
introduced.
3) hw_perf_event::config consists of packed ESCR+CCCR values.
It's allowed since in reality both registers only use a half
of their size. Of course before making a real write into a
particular MSR we need to unpack the value and extend it to
a proper size.
4) The tuple of packed ESCR+CCCR in hw_perf_event::config
doesn't describe the memory address of ESCR MSR register
so that we need to keep a mapping between these tuples
used and available ESCR (various P4 events may use same
ESCRs but not simultaneously), for this sake every active
event has a per-cpu map of hw_perf_event::idx <--> ESCR
addresses.
5) Since hw_perf_event::idx is an offset to counter/control register
we need to lift X86_PMC_MAX_GENERIC up, otherwise kernel
strips it down to 8 registers and event armed may never be turned
off (ie the bit in active_mask is set but the loop never reaches
this index to check), thanks to Peter Zijlstra
Restrictions:
- No cascaded counters support (do we ever need them?)
- No dependent events support (so PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS
doesn't work for now)
- There are events with same counters which can't work simultaneously
(need to use intersected ones due to broken counter 1)
- No PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_ events yet
Todo:
- Implement dependent events
- Need proper hashing for event opcodes (no linear search, good for
debugging stage but not in real loads)
- Some events counted during a clock cycle -- need to set threshold
for them and count every clock cycle just to get summary statistics
(ie to behave the same way as other PMUs do)
- Need to swicth to use event_constraints
- To support RAW events we need to encode a global list of P4 events
into p4_templates
- Cache events need to be added
Event support status matrix:
Event status
-----------------------------
cycles works
cache-references works
cache-misses works
branch-misses works
bus-cycles partially (does not work on 64bit cpu with HT enabled)
instruction doesnt work (needs dependent event [mop tagging])
branches doesnt work
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100311165439.GB5129@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
