kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/Documentation, branch v4.0.8

Merge branch 'perf/hw_breakpoints' into perf/core

2015-01-28T14:48:59+00:00

The new hw_breakpoint bits are now ready for v3.20, merge them into the main branch, to avoid conflicts. Conflicts: tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Document parameterized and symbolic events

2015-01-21T16:24:33+00:00

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Cody P Schafer Cc: Haren Myneni Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420679633-28856-5-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove EOL whitespaces

2015-01-21T16:24:31+00:00

Janitorial stuff: boredom moment. 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: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-u70i7shys3kths4hzru72bha@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf mem: Enable sampling loads and stores simultaneously

2015-01-21T16:24:31+00:00

This patch modifies perf mem to default to sampling loads and stores simultaneously. It could only do one or the other before yet there was no hardware restriction preventing simultaneous collection. With this patch, one run is sufficient to collect both. It is still possible to sample only loads or stores by using the -t option: $ perf mem -t load rec $ perf mem -t load rep Or $ perf mem -t store rec $ perf mem -t store rep The perf report TUI will show one event at a time. The store output will contain a Weight column which will be empty. In V2, we updated the man pages to reflect the change and also simplify the initialization of the argv vector passed to the cmd_*() functions as per LKML feedback. In V3, we fixed typos in the changelog. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Joe Mario Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Richard Fowles Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141217152355.GA10053@thinkpad Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add --buildid-dir option to set cache directory

2014-12-09T12:14:35+00:00

Adding --buildid-dir to be able to set specific cache directory. It's going to be handy for buildid tests coming in shortly. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1417460789-13874-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: allow user to specify hardware breakpoint bp_len

2014-12-03T14:14:29+00:00

Currently bp_len is given a default value of 4. Allow user to override it: $ perf stat -e mem:0x1000/8 ^ bp_len If no value is given, it will default to 4 as it did before. Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: xiakaixu Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

perf report: Add --branch-history option

2014-12-01T23:00:31+00:00

Add a --branch-history option to perf report that changes all the settings necessary for using the branches in callstacks. This is just a short cut to make this nicer to use, it does not enable any functionality by itself. v2: Change sort order. Rename option to --branch-history to be less confusing. v3: Updates v4: Fix conflict with newer perf base v5: Port to latest tip v6: Add more comments. Remove CCKEY_ADDRESS setting. Remove unnecessary branch_mode setting. Use a boolean. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415844328-4884-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf callchain: Support handling complete branch stacks as histograms

2014-12-01T23:00:31+00:00

Currently branch stacks can be only shown as edge histograms for individual branches. I never found this display particularly useful. This implements an alternative mode that creates histograms over complete branch traces, instead of individual branches, similar to how normal callgraphs are handled. This is done by putting it in front of the normal callgraph and then using the normal callgraph histogram infrastructure to unify them. This way in complex functions we can understand the control flow that lead to a particular sample, and may even see some control flow in the caller for short functions. Example (simplified, of course for such simple code this is usually not needed), please run this after the whole patchkit is in, as at this point in the patch order there is no --branch-history, that will be added in a patch after this one: tcall.c: volatile a = 10000, b = 100000, c; __attribute__((noinline)) f2() { c = a / b; } __attribute__((noinline)) f1() { f2(); f2(); } main() { int i; for (i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) f1(); } % perf record -b -g ./tsrc/tcall [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.044 MB perf.data (~1923 samples) ] % perf report --no-children --branch-history ... 54.91% tcall.c:6 [.] f2 tcall | |--65.53%-- f2 tcall.c:5 | | | |--70.83%-- f1 tcall.c:11 | | f1 tcall.c:10 | | main tcall.c:18 | | main tcall.c:18 | | main tcall.c:17 | | main tcall.c:17 | | f1 tcall.c:13 | | f1 tcall.c:13 | | f2 tcall.c:7 | | f2 tcall.c:5 | | f1 tcall.c:12 | | f1 tcall.c:12 | | f2 tcall.c:7 | | f2 tcall.c:5 | | f1 tcall.c:11 | | | --29.17%-- f1 tcall.c:12 | f1 tcall.c:12 | f2 tcall.c:7 | f2 tcall.c:5 | f1 tcall.c:11 | f1 tcall.c:10 | main tcall.c:18 | main tcall.c:18 | main tcall.c:17 | main tcall.c:17 | f1 tcall.c:13 | f1 tcall.c:13 | f2 tcall.c:7 | f2 tcall.c:5 | f1 tcall.c:12 The default output is unchanged. This is only implemented in perf report, no change to record or anywhere else. This adds the basic code to report: - add a new "branch" option to the -g option parser to enable this mode - when the flag is set include the LBR into the callstack in machine.c. The rest of the history code is unchanged and doesn't know the difference between LBR entry and normal call entry. - detect overlaps with the callchain - remove small loop duplicates in the LBR Current limitations: - The LBR flags (mispredict etc.) are not shown in the history and LBR entries have no special marker. - It would be nice if annotate marked the LBR entries somehow (e.g. with arrows) v2: Various fixes. v3: Merge further patches into this one. Fix white space. v4: Improve manpage. Address review feedback. v5: Rename functions. Better error message without -g. Fix crash without -b. v6: Rebase v7: Rebase. Use NO_ENTRY in memset. v8: Port to latest tip. Move add_callchain_ip to separate patch. Skip initial entries in callchain. Minor cleanups. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415844328-4884-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add new -I option to sample interrupted machine state

2014-11-16T10:42:02+00:00

Add -I/--intr-regs option to capture machine state registers at interrupt. Add the corresponding man page description Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411559322-16548-6-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Cc: cebbert.lkml@gmail.com Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Masanari Iida Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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