kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/arch, branch v3.8.8

Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core

2012-12-08T14:25:06+00:00

Conflicts: tools/perf/Makefile tools/perf/builtin-test.c tools/perf/perf.h tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c tools/perf/util/evsel.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Make perf build for x86 with UAPI disintegration applied

2012-11-19T22:21:03+00:00

Make perf build for x86 once the UAPI disintegration patches for that arch have been applied by adding the appropriate -I flags - in the right order - and then converting some #includes that use ../.. notation to find main kernel headerfiles to use and instead. Note that -Iarch/foo/include/uapi is present _before_ -Iarch/foo/include. This makes sure we get the userspace version of the pt_regs struct. Ideally, we wouldn't have the latter -I flag at all, but unfortunately we want asm/svm.h and asm/vmx.h in builtin-kvm.c and these aren't part of the UAPI - at least not for x86. I wonder if the bits outside of the __KERNEL__ guards *should* be transferred there. I note also that perf seems to do its dependency handling manually by listing all the header files it might want to use in LIB_H in the Makefile. Can this be changed to use -MD? Note that to do make this work, we need to export and UAPI disintegrate linux/hw_breakpoint.h, which I think should've been exported previously so that perf can access the bits. We have to do this in the same patch to maintain bisectability. Signed-off-by: David Howells

perf tools: Don't try to lookup objdump for live mode

2012-11-08T20:26:52+00:00

Arnaldo reported that annotation during perf top resulted in a segfault. It was because the env->arch was NULL and we don't set it for a live session. In fact, no need to look up objdump in this case since we can use system's default (native) objdump. Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Irina Tirdea Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352251815-12615-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use normalized arch name for searching objdump path

2012-11-05T17:03:58+00:00

David reported that perf report for i686 target data on x86_64 host failed to work because it tried to find out cross-compiled objdump. However objdump for x86_64 is compatible to i686 so that it doesn't need to do it at all. To prevent similar artifacts, normalize arch name when comparing host and file architectures. Reported-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Reviewed-by: David Ahern Tested-by: David Ahern Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Irina Tirdea Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351835406-15208-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Try to find cross-built objdump path

2012-10-24T16:20:11+00:00

As we have architecture information of saved perf.data file, we can try to find cross-built objdump path. The triplets include support for Android (arm, x86 and mips architectures). Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea Originally-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1350344020-8071-5-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Support for DWARF CFI unwinding on post processing

2012-08-11T18:06:56+00:00

This brings the support for DWARF cfi unwinding on perf post processing. Call frame informations are retrieved and then passed to libunwind that requests memory and register content from the applications. Adding unwind object to handle the user stack backtrace based on the user register values and user stack dump. The unwind object access the libunwind via remote interface and provides to it all the necessary data to unwind the stack. The unwind interface provides following function: unwind__get_entries And callback (specified in above function) to retrieve the backtrace entries: typedef int (*unwind_entry_cb_t)(struct unwind_entry *entry, void *arg); Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Arun Sharma Cc: Benjamin Redelings Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Ulrich Drepper Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-12-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com [ Replaced use of perf_session by usage of perf_evsel ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add interface to arch registers sets

2012-08-10T19:32:59+00:00

Adding header files to access unified API for arch registers. util/perf_regs.h - global perf_reg declarations arch/x86/include/perf_regs.h - x86 arch specific Adding perf_reg_name function to obtain register name based on the reg ID value, and PERF_REGS_MASK macro with mask definition of all current arch registers (will be used in unwind patches). Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Arun Sharma Cc: Benjamin Redelings Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Ulrich Drepper Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-9-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use scnprintf where applicable

2012-03-14T15:36:19+00:00

Several places were expecting that the value returned was the number of characters printed, not what would be printed if there was space. Fix it by using the scnprintf and vscnprintf variants we inherited from the kernel sources. Some corner cases where the number of printed characters were not accounted were fixed too. Reported-by: Anton Blanchard Cc: Anton Blanchard Cc: Eric B Munson Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Yanmin Zhang Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kwxo2eh29cxmd8ilixi2005x@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf/powerpc: Fix build for PowerPC with uclibc toolchains

2011-11-25T03:11:27+00:00

libio.h is not provided by uClibc, in order to be able to test the definition of __UCLIBC__ we need to include stdlib.h, which also includes stddef.h, providing the definition of 'NULL'. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8)

2011-10-07T20:01:24+00:00

The goal of this patch is to include more information about the host environment into the perf.data so it is more self-descriptive. Overtime, profiles are captured on various machines and it becomes hard to track what was recorded, on what machine and when. This patch provides a way to solve this by extending the perf.data file with basic information about the host machine. To add those extensions, we leverage the feature bits capabilities of the perf.data format. The change is backward compatible with existing perf.data files. We define the following useful new extensions: - HEADER_HOSTNAME: the hostname - HEADER_OSRELEASE: the kernel release number - HEADER_ARCH: the hw architecture - HEADER_CPUDESC: generic CPU description - HEADER_NRCPUS: number of online/avail cpus - HEADER_CMDLINE: perf command line - HEADER_VERSION: perf version - HEADER_TOPOLOGY: cpu topology - HEADER_EVENT_DESC: full event description (attrs) - HEADER_CPUID: easy-to-parse low level CPU identication The small granularity for the entries is to make it easier to extend without breaking backward compatiblity. Many entries are provided as ASCII strings. Perf report/script have been modified to print the basic information as easy-to-parse ASCII strings. Extended information about CPU and NUMA topology may be requested with the -I option. Thanks to David Ahern for reviewing and testing the many versions of this patch. $ perf report --stdio # ======== # captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011 # hostname : quad # os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip # perf version : 3.1.0-rc4 # arch : x86_64 # nrcpus online : 4 # nrcpus avail : 4 # cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11 # total memory : 8105360 kB # cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date # event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31, # HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display # HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display # ======== # ... $ perf report --stdio -I # ======== # captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011 # hostname : quad # os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip # perf version : 3.1.0-rc4 # arch : x86_64 # nrcpus online : 4 # nrcpus avail : 4 # cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11 # total memory : 8105360 kB # cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date # event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31, # sibling cores : 0-3 # sibling threads : 0 # sibling threads : 1 # sibling threads : 2 # sibling threads : 3 # node0 meminfo : total = 8320608 kB, free = 7571024 kB # node0 cpu list : 0-3 # ======== # ... Reviewed-by: David Ahern Tested-by: David Ahern Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Andi Kleen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110930134040.GA5575@quad Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian [ committer notes: Use --show-info in the tools as was in the docs, rename perf_header_fprintf_info to perf_file_section__fprintf_info, fixup conflict with f69b64f7 "perf: Support setting the disassembler style" ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo