kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/Documentation, branch v3.18.4

perf script: Add period data column

2014-10-17T18:21:30+00:00

Adding period data column to be displayed in perf script. It's possible to get period values using -f option, like: $ perf script -f comm,tid,time,period,ip,sym,dso :26019 26019 52414.329088: 3707 ffffffff8105443a native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms]) :26019 26019 52414.329088: 44 ffffffff8105443a native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms]) :26019 26019 52414.329093: 1987 ffffffff8105443a native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms]) :26019 26019 52414.329093: 6 ffffffff8105443a native_write_msr_safe ([kernel.kallsyms]) ls 26019 52414.329442: 537558 3407c0639c _dl_map_object_from_fd (/usr/lib64/ld-2.17.so) ls 26019 52414.329442: 2099 3407c0639c _dl_map_object_from_fd (/usr/lib64/ld-2.17.so) ls 26019 52414.330181: 1242100 34080917bb get_next_seq (/usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so) ls 26019 52414.330181: 3774 34080917bb get_next_seq (/usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so) ls 26019 52414.331427: 1083662 ffffffff810c7dc2 update_curr ([kernel.kallsyms]) ls 26019 52414.331427: 360 ffffffff810c7dc2 update_curr ([kernel.kallsyms]) Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: David Ahern Cc: "Jen-Cheng(Tommy) Huang" Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jen-Cheng(Tommy) Huang Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1408977943-16594-9-git-send-email-jolsa@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 tools: Disable kernel symbol demangling by default

2014-09-17T20:08:09+00:00

Some Linux symbols (for example __vt_event_wait) are interpreted by the demangler as C++ mangled names, which of course they aren't. Disable kernel symbol demangling by default to avoid this, and allow enabling it with a new option --demangle-kernel for those who wish it. Reported-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410581705-26968-1-git-send-email-avi@cloudius-systems.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf top: Add -w option for setting column width

2014-08-12T15:03:06+00:00

Add -w/--column-widths option like perf report does so that users are able to see symbols even with some very long C++ library/functions. It can be a list separated by comma for each column. $ perf top -w 0,20,30 The value of 0 means there's no limit. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406785662-5534-6-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf inject: Add --kallsyms parameter

2014-07-25T15:08:34+00:00

Let perf inject take --kallsyms parameter the same as perf script and perf report do. That is needed for decoding Instruction Trace data using a copy of /proc/kcore for the kernel object because the kallsyms path is used to locate that copy. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406035081-14301-30-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add --debug optionto set debug variable

2014-07-17T15:58:59+00:00

Adding --debug option as a way to setup debug variables. Starting with support for verbose, more will come. It's possible to use it now with report command: $ perf --debug verbose ... $ perf --debug verbose=2 ... I'll need this support to add separated debug variable for ordered events change in order to separate debug output out of standard verbose stream. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140717105500.GG516@krava.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf kvm: Add stat support on s390

2014-07-16T20:57:33+00:00

On s390, the vmexit event has a tree-like structure: between exit_event_begin and exit_event_end several other events may happen and with each of them refining the previous ones. This patch adds a decoder for such events to the generic code and also the files and kvm-stat.c for s390. Commands 'perf kvm stat record', 'report' and 'live' are supported. Reviewed-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Alexander Yarygin Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Cornelia Huck Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404397747-20939-5-git-send-email-yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf timechart: Add more options to IO mode

2014-07-09T22:22:54+00:00

--io-skip-eagain - don't show EAGAIN errors --io-min-time - make small io bursts visible --io-merge-dist - merge adjacent events Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1404835423-23098-5-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf timechart: Implement IO mode

2014-07-09T22:22:54+00:00

Currently, timechart records only scheduler and CPU events (task switches, running times, CPU power states, etc); this commit adds IO mode which makes it possible to record IO (disk, network) activity. In this mode perf timechart will generate SVG with IO charts (writes, reads, tx, rx, polls). Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1404835423-23098-3-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

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