BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt, branch dev

perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out

2015-06-19T21:27:13+00:00

The time out to limit the individual proc map processing was hard code to 500ms. This patch introduce a new option --proc-map-timeout to make the time limit configurable. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ying Huang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434549071-25611-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Clarify that -e is about syscalls, not perf events in general

2015-04-29T13:38:04+00:00

This comes from the desire of having -e/--expr to have the same meaning as for 'strace', while other perf tools use it for --event, which 'trace' honours, i.e. all perf tools have --event in common, but trace uses -e for strace's --expr. Clarify it in the --help output. Reported-by: David Ahern Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5j94bcsdmcbeu2xthnzsj60d@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Add man page entry for --event

2015-02-23T01:22:07+00:00

Forgot to do it when adding the feature. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: David Ahern Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mx152b6x9cgknhw91vsyjlnd@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Introduce --filter-pids

2015-02-23T01:21:52+00:00

When tracing in X we get event loops due to the tracing activity, i.e. updates to a gnome-terminal that generate syscalls for X.org, etc. To get a more useful view of what is happening, syscall wise, system wide, we need to filter those, like in: # ps ax|egrep '981|2296|1519' | grep -v egrep 981 tty1 Ss+ 5:40 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -background none ... 1519 ? Sl 2:22 /usr/bin/gnome-shell 2296 ? Sl 4:16 /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server # # trace -e write --filter-pids 981,2296,1519 0.385 ( 0.021 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 136) = 136 0.922 ( 0.014 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 140) = 140 5006.525 ( 0.029 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 136) = 136 5007.235 ( 0.023 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 140) = 140 5177.646 ( 0.018 ms): rtkit-daemon/782 write(fd: 5, buf: 0x7f7eea70be88, count: 8) = 8 8314.497 ( 0.004 ms): gsd-locate-poi/2084 write(fd: 5, buf: 0x7fffe96af7b0, count: 8) = 8 8314.518 ( 0.002 ms): gsd-locate-poi/2084 write(fd: 5, buf: 0x7fffe96af0e0, count: 8) = 8 ^C# When this option is used the tracer pid is also filtered. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: David Ahern Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-f5qmiyy7c0uxdm21ncatpeek@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf Documentation: Fix typos in perf/Documentation

2014-10-15T20:39:02+00:00

This patch fix spelling typos found in tool/perf/Documentation. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Randy Dunlap Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410275930-17207-1-git-send-email-standby24x7@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Add possibility to switch off syscall events

2014-06-26T20:48:07+00:00

Currently, we may either trace syscalls or syscalls+pagefaults. We'd like to be able to trace *only* pagefaults and this commit implements this feature. Example: [root@zoo /]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ; trace --no-syscalls -F -p `pidof xchat` 0.000 ( 0.000 ms): xchat/4574 majfault [g_unichar_get_script+0x11] => /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.3800.2@0xc403b (x.) 0.202 ( 0.000 ms): xchat/4574 majfault [_cairo_hash_table_lookup+0x53] => 0x2280ff0 (?.) 20.854 ( 0.000 ms): xchat/4574 majfault [gdk_cairo_set_source_pixbuf+0x110] => /usr/bin/xchat@0x6da1f (x.) 1022.000 ( 0.000 ms): xchat/4574 majfault [__memcpy_sse2_unaligned+0x29] => 0x7ff5a8ca0400 (?.) ^C[root@zoo /]# Below we can see malloc calls, 'trace' reading symbol tables in libraries to resolve symbols, etc. [root@zoo /]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ; trace --no-syscalls -F all --cpu 1 sleep 10 0.000 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/26589 minfault [0x1b53129] => /tmp/perf-26589.map@0x33cbcbf7f000 (x.) 96.477 ( 0.000 ms): libvirtd/947 minfault [copy_user_enhanced_fast_string+0x5] => 0x7f7685bba000 (?k) 113.164 ( 0.000 ms): Xorg/1063 minfault [0x786da] => 0x7fce52882a3c (?.) 7162.801 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/3747 minfault [0x8e1a89] => 0xfcaefed0008 (?.) 7773.138 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/3886 minfault [0x8e1a89] => 0xfcb0ce28008 (?.) 7992.022 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/26574 minfault [0x1b5a708] => 0x3de7b5fc5000 (?.) 8108.949 ( 0.000 ms): qemu-system-x8/4537 majfault [_int_malloc+0xee] => 0x7faffc466d60 (?.) 8108.975 ( 0.000 ms): qemu-system-x8/4537 minfault [_int_malloc+0x102] => 0x7faffc466d60 (?.) 8148.174 ( 0.000 ms): qemu-system-x8/4537 minfault [_int_malloc+0x102] => 0x7faffc4eb500 (?.) 8270.855 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/26245 minfault [do_bo_emit_reloc+0xdb] => 0x45d092bc004 (?.) 8270.869 ( 0.000 ms): chrome/26245 minfault [do_bo_emit_reloc+0x108] => 0x45d09150000 (?.) no symbols found in /usr/lib64/libspice-server.so.1.9.0, maybe install a debug package? 8273.831 ( 0.000 ms): trace/20198 majfault [__memcmp_sse4_1+0xbc6] => /usr/lib64/libspice-server.so.1.9.0@0xdf000 (d.) 8275.121 ( 0.000 ms): trace/20198 minfault [dso__load+0x38] => 0x14fe756 (?.) no symbols found in /usr/lib64/libelf-0.158.so, maybe install a debug package? 8275.142 ( 0.000 ms): trace/20198 minfault [__memcmp_sse4_1+0xbc6] => /usr/lib64/libelf-0.158.so@0x0 (d.) [root@zoo /]# Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403799268-1367-6-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Add support for pagefault tracing

2014-06-26T19:07:43+00:00

This patch adds optional pagefault tracing support to 'perf trace'. Using -F/--pf option user can specify whether he wants minor, major or all pagefault events to be traced. This patch adds only live mode, record and replace will come in a separate patch. Example output: 1756272.905 ( 0.000 ms): curl/5937 majfault [0x7fa7261978b6] => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.26.0.0@0x85288 (d.) 1862866.036 ( 0.000 ms): wget/8460 majfault [__clear_user+0x3f] => 0x659cb4 (?k) Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403799268-1367-3-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Add summary only option

2013-11-12T19:24:38+00:00

Per request from Pekka make --summary a summary only option meaning do not show the individual system calls. Add another option to see all syscalls along with the summary. In addition use 's' and 'S' as shortcuts for the options. Requested-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: David Ahern Tested-by: Pekka Enberg Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Pekka Enberg Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384273875-3751-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Use vfs_getname hook if available

2013-10-16T14:18:24+00:00

Initially it tries to find a probe:vfs_getname that should be setup with: perf probe 'vfs_getname=getname_flags:65 pathname=result->name:string' or with slight changes to cope with code flux in the getname_flags code. In the future, if a "vfs:getname" tracepoint becomes available, then it will be preferred. This is not strictly required and more expensive method of reading the /proc/pid/fd/ symlink will be used when the fd->path array entry is not populated by a previous vfs_getname + open syscall ret sequence. As with any other 'perf probe' probe the setup must be done just once and the probe will be left inactive, waiting for users, be it 'perf trace' of any other tool. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ujg8se8glq5izmu8cdkq15po@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf trace: Add summary option to dump syscall statistics

2013-10-14T13:28:50+00:00

When enabled dumps a summary of all syscalls by task with the usual statistics -- min, max, average and relative stddev. For example, make - 26341 : 3344 [ 17.4% ] 0.000 ms read : 52 0.000 4.802 0.644 30.08 write : 20 0.004 0.036 0.010 21.72 open : 24 0.003 0.046 0.014 23.68 close : 64 0.002 0.055 0.008 22.53 stat : 2714 0.002 0.222 0.004 4.47 fstat : 18 0.001 0.041 0.006 46.26 mmap : 30 0.003 0.009 0.006 5.71 mprotect : 8 0.006 0.039 0.016 32.16 munmap : 12 0.007 0.077 0.020 38.25 brk : 48 0.002 0.014 0.004 10.18 rt_sigaction : 18 0.002 0.002 0.002 2.11 rt_sigprocmask : 60 0.002 0.128 0.010 32.88 access : 2 0.006 0.006 0.006 0.00 pipe : 12 0.004 0.048 0.013 35.98 vfork : 34 0.448 0.980 0.692 3.04 execve : 20 0.000 0.387 0.046 56.66 wait4 : 34 0.017 9923.287 593.221 68.45 fcntl : 8 0.001 0.041 0.013 48.79 getdents : 48 0.002 0.079 0.013 19.62 getcwd : 2 0.005 0.005 0.005 0.00 chdir : 2 0.070 0.070 0.070 0.00 getrlimit : 2 0.045 0.045 0.045 0.00 arch_prctl : 2 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.00 setrlimit : 2 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.00 openat : 94 0.003 0.005 0.003 2.11 Signed-off-by: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381289214-24885-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo