BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/tools/perf/perf.h, branch dev-5.0

perf tools: Allow specifying proc-map-timeout in config file

2018-12-17T17:56:57+00:00

The default timeout of 500ms for parsing /proc//maps files is too short for profiling many of our services. This can be overridden by passing --proc-map-timeout to the relevant command but it'd be nice to globally increase our default value. This patch permits setting a different default with the core.proc-map-timeout config file parameter. Signed-off-by: Mark Drayton Acked-by: Song Liu Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181204203420.1683114-1-mbd@fb.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Enable asynchronous trace writing

2018-12-17T17:55:08+00:00

The trace file offset is read once before mmaps iterating loop and written back after all performance data is enqueued for aio writing. The trace file offset is incremented linearly after every successful aio write operation. record__aio_sync() blocks till completion of the started AIO operation and then proceeds. record__aio_mmap_read_sync() implements a barrier for all incomplete aio write requests. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ce2d45e9-d236-871c-7c8f-1bed2d37e8ac@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Encode -k clockid frequency into Perf trace

2018-10-18T14:16:38+00:00

Store -k clockid frequency into Perf trace to enable timestamps derived metrics conversion into wall clock time on reporting stage. Below is the example of perf report output: tools/perf/perf record -k raw -- ../../matrix/linux/matrix.gcc ... [ perf record: Captured and wrote 31.222 MB perf.data (818054 samples) ] tools/perf/perf report --header # ======== ... # event : name = cycles:ppp, , size = 112, { sample_period, sample_freq } = 4000, sample_type = IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled = 1, inherit = 1, mmap = 1, comm = 1, freq = 1, enable_on_exec = 1, task = 1, precise_ip = 3, sample_id_all = 1, exclude_guest = 1, mmap2 = 1, comm_exec = 1, use_clockid = 1, clockid = 4 ... # clockid frequency: 1000 MHz ... # ======== Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/23a4a1dc-b160-85a0-347d-40a2ed6d007b@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Allow overriding MAX_NR_CPUS at compile time

2018-08-01T15:33:24+00:00

After update of kernel, the perf tool doesn't run anymore on my 32MB RAM powerpc board, but still runs on a 128MB RAM board: ~# strace perf execve("/usr/sbin/perf", ["perf"], [/* 12 vars */]) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SI_KERNEL, si_addr=0} --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ Segmentation fault objdump -x shows that .bss section has a huge size of 24Mbytes: 27 .bss 016baca8 101cebb8 101cebb8 001cd988 2**3 With especially the following objects having quite big size: 10205f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_cycles_stats 10345f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_stalled_cycles_front_stats 10485f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_stalled_cycles_back_stats 105c5f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_branches_stats 10705f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_cacherefs_stats 10845f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_l1_dcache_stats 10985f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_l1_icache_stats 10ac5f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_ll_cache_stats 10c05f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_itlb_cache_stats 10d45f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_dtlb_cache_stats 10e85f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_cycles_in_tx_stats 10fc5f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_transaction_stats 11105f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_elision_stats 11245f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_topdown_total_slots 11385f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_topdown_slots_retired 114c5f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_topdown_slots_issued 11605f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_topdown_fetch_bubbles 11745f80 l O .bss 00140000 runtime_topdown_recovery_bubbles This is due to commit 4d255766d28b1 ("perf: Bump max number of cpus to 1024"), because many tables are sized with MAX_NR_CPUS This patch gives the opportunity to redefine MAX_NR_CPUS via $ make EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DMAX_NR_CPUS=1 Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170922112043.8349468C57@po15668-vm-win7.idsi0.si.c-s.fr Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix the build on the alpine:edge distro

2018-07-30T16:15:03+00:00

The UAPI file byteorder/little_endian.h uses the __always_inline define without including the header where it is defined, linux/stddef.h, this ends up working in all the other distros because that file gets included seemingly by luck from one of the files included from little_endian.h. But not on Alpine:edge, that fails for all files where perf_event.h is included but linux/stddef.h isn't include before that. Adding the missing linux/stddef.h file where it breaks on Alpine:edge to fix that, in all other distros, that is just a very small header anyway. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9r1pifftxvuxms8l7ir73p5l@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add 'perf -vv' as an alias to 'perf version --build-options'

2018-04-02T16:50:35+00:00

We keep having bug reports that when users build perf on their own, but they don't install some needed libraries such as libelf, libbfd/libibery. The perf can build, but it is missing important functionality. This patch provides a new option '-vv' for perf which will print the compiled-in status of libraries. The 'perf -vv' is mapped to 'perf version --build-options'. For example: $ ./perf -vv perf version 4.13.rc5.g6727c5 dwarf: [ on ] # HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT dwarf_getlocations: [ on ] # HAVE_DWARF_GETLOCATIONS_SUPPORT glibc: [ on ] # HAVE_GLIBC_SUPPORT gtk2: [ on ] # HAVE_GTK2_SUPPORT libaudit: [ OFF ] # HAVE_LIBAUDIT_SUPPORT libbfd: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT libelf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT libnuma: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT libperl: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBPERL_SUPPORT libpython: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBPYTHON_SUPPORT libslang: [ on ] # HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT libcrypto: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBCRYPTO_SUPPORT libunwind: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on ] # HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT zlib: [ on ] # HAVE_ZLIB_SUPPORT lzma: [ on ] # HAVE_LZMA_SUPPORT get_cpuid: [ on ] # HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT bpf: [ on ] # HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT v3: One bug is found in v2. It didn't process the option like '-vabc' correctly. Fix this bug. v2: Use a global variable version_verbose to record the number of 'v'. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jin Yao Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522402036-22915-6-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Fix crash in pipe mode

2018-03-05T12:58:45+00:00

Currently we can crash perf record when running in pipe mode, like: $ perf record ls | perf report # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # perf: Segmentation fault Error: The - file has no samples! The callstack of the crash is: 0x0000000000515242 in perf_event__synthesize_event_update_name 3513 ev = event_update_event__new(len + 1, PERF_EVENT_UPDATE__NAME, evsel->id[0]); (gdb) bt #0 0x0000000000515242 in perf_event__synthesize_event_update_name #1 0x00000000005158a4 in perf_event__synthesize_extra_attr #2 0x0000000000443347 in record__synthesize #3 0x00000000004438e3 in __cmd_record #4 0x000000000044514e in cmd_record #5 0x00000000004cbc95 in run_builtin #6 0x00000000004cbf02 in handle_internal_command #7 0x00000000004cc054 in run_argv #8 0x00000000004cc422 in main The reason of the crash is that the evsel does not have ids array allocated and the pipe's synthesize code tries to access it. We don't force evsel ids allocation when we have single event, because it's not needed. However we need it when we are in pipe mode even for single event as a key for evsel update event. Fixing this by forcing evsel ids allocation event for single event, when we are in pipe mode. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180302161354.30192-1-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Throttle user defined frequencies to the maximum allowed

2018-03-05T12:58:44+00:00

# perf record -F 200000 sleep 1 warning: Maximum frequency rate (15,000 Hz) exceeded, throttling from 200,000 Hz to 15,000 Hz. The limit can be raised via /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate. The kernel will lower it when perf's interrupts take too long. Use --strict-freq to disable this throttling, refusing to record. [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (15 samples) ] # perf evlist -v cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 15000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 For those wanting that it fails if the desired frequency can't be used: # perf record --strict-freq -F 200000 sleep 1 error: Maximum frequency rate (15,000 Hz) exceeded. Please use -F freq option with a lower value or consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate. # Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-oyebruc44nlja499nqkr1nzn@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Allow asking for the maximum allowed sample rate

2018-03-05T12:58:43+00:00

Add the handy '-F max' shortcut to reading and using the kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate value as the user supplied sampling frequency: # perf record -F max sleep 1 info: Using a maximum frequency rate of 15,000 Hz [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (14 samples) ] # sysctl kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate = 15000 # perf evlist -v cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 15000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 # perf record -F 10 sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (4 samples) ] # perf evlist -v cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 10, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 # Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4y0tiuws62c64gp4cf0hme0m@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Fix period option handling

2018-02-05T15:18:28+00:00

Stephan reported we don't unset PERIOD sample type when --no-period is specified. Adding the unset check and reset PERIOD if --no-period is specified. Committer notes: Check the sample_type, it shouldn't have PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD there when --no-period is used. Before: # perf record --no-period sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.018 MB perf.data (7 samples) ] # perf evlist -v cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 # After: [root@jouet ~]# perf record --no-period sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (17 samples) ] [root@jouet ~]# perf evlist -v cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 [root@jouet ~]# Reported-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Tested-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180201083812.11359-3-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo