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<title>kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/util/evlist.c, branch v3.6.6</title>
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<updated>2012-08-02T15:23:46+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>perf evsel: Adopt parse_sample method from perf_event</title>
<updated>2012-08-02T15:23:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-02T15:23:46+00:00</published>
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Since we need evsel-&gt;{attr.{sample_{id_all,type}},sample_size},
reducing the number of parameters tools have to pass.

Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wdtmgak0ihgsmw1brb54a8h4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf evlist: Introduce perf_evlist__parse_sample</title>
<updated>2012-08-02T14:42:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-02T14:42:57+00:00</published>
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That is a more compact form of perf_session__parse_sample and to support
multiple evlists per perf_session is the way to go anyway.

Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vkxx3j5qktoj11bvcwmfjj13@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Fix trace events storms due to weight demux</title>
<updated>2012-07-25T14:32:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-18T17:10:54+00:00</published>
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Trace events have a period (weight) of 1 by default. This can be
overriden on events definition by using the __perf_count() macro.

For example, the sched_stat_runtime() is weighted with the runtime of
the task that fired the event.

By default, perf handles such weighted event by dividing it into
individual events carrying a weight of 1. For example if
sched_stat_runtime is fired and the task has run 5000000 nsecs, perf
divides it into 5000000 events in the buffer.

This behaviour makes weighted events unusable because they quickly
fullfill the buffers and we lose most events.

The commit 5d81e5cfb37a174e8ddc0413e2e70cdf05807ace ("events: Don't
divide events if it has field period") solves this problem by sending
only one event when PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD flag is set. The weight is
carried in the sample itself such that we don't need to demultiplex it
anymore.

This patch provides the last missing piece to use this feature by
setting PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD from perf tools when we deal with trace
events.

Before:
	$ ./perf record -e sched:* -a sleep 1
	[ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
	[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.619 MB perf.data (~70749 samples) ]
	Warning:
	Processed 16909 events and lost 1 chunks!

	Check IO/CPU overload!

	$ ./perf script
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898327: sched_migrate_task: comm=perf pid=1898 prio=120 orig_cpu=2 dest_cpu=0
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898335: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898336: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898337: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898338: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898339: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898340: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	perf  1894 [003]   824.898341: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1898 delay=113179500 [ns]
	[...]

After:
	$ ./perf record -e sched:* -a sleep 1
	[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
	[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.074 MB perf.data (~3228 samples) ]

	$ ./perf script

	perf  1461 [000]   554.286957: sched_migrate_task: comm=perf pid=1465 prio=120 orig_cpu=3 dest_cpu=1
	perf  1461 [000]   554.286964: sched_stat_sleep: comm=perf pid=1465 delay=133047190 [ns]
	perf  1461 [000]   554.286967: sched_wakeup: comm=perf pid=1465 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=001
	swapper     0 [001]   554.286976: sched_stat_wait: comm=perf pid=1465 delay=0 [ns]
	swapper     0 [001]   554.286983: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/1 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==&gt; next_comm=perf
	[...]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342631456-7233-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf tools: Stop using a global trace events description list</title>
<updated>2012-06-27T16:08:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-27T16:08:42+00:00</published>
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The pevent thing is per perf.data file, so I made it stop being static
and become a perf_session member, so tools processing perf.data files
use perf_session and _there_ we read the trace events description into
session-&gt;pevent and then change everywhere to stop using that single
global pevent variable and use the per session one.

Note that it _doesn't_ fall backs to trace__event_id, as we're not
interested at all in what is present in the
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events in the workstation doing the analysis,
just in what is in the perf.data file.

This patch also introduces perf_session__set_tracepoints_handlers that
is the perf perf.data/session way to associate handlers to tracepoint
events by resolving their IDs using the events descriptions stored in a
perf.data file. Make 'perf sched' use it.

Reported-by: Dmitry Antipov &lt;dmitry.antipov@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Antipov &lt;dmitry.antipov@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org
Cc: patches@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120625232016.GA28525@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>perf evlist: Pass third argument to ioctl explicitly</title>
<updated>2012-05-31T14:39:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-31T05:51:46+00:00</published>
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The ioctl on perf event fd wants 3 arguments but we only passed 2. As
the only user of the functions is perf record and it calls them for
every event (regardless of group setting), just pass 0 for now.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338443506-25009-3-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf stat: Initialize default events wrt exclude_{guest,host}</title>
<updated>2012-05-30T17:02:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-30T16:53:54+00:00</published>
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When no event is specified the tools use perf_evlist__add_default(), that will
call event_attr_init to initialize the KVM exclusion bits.

When the change was made to the tools so that by default guest samples would be
excluded, the changes were made just to the parsing routines and to
perf_evlist__add_default(), not to perf_evlist__add_attrs, that is used so far
just by perf stat to add multiple events, according to the level of detail
specified.

Recently the tools were changed to reconstruct the event name from all the
details in perf_event_attr, not just from .type and .config, but taking into
account all the feature bits (.exclude_{guest,host,user,kernel,etc},
.precise_ip, etc).

That is when we noticed that the default for perf stat wasn't the one for the
rest of the tools, i.e. the .exclude_guest bit wasn't being set.

I.e. the default, that doesn't call event_attr_init was showing the :HG
modifier:

  $ perf stat usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

            0.942119 task-clock                #    0.454 CPUs utilized
                   1 context-switches          #    0.001 M/sec
                   0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                 126 page-faults               #    0.134 M/sec
             693,193 cycles:HG                 #    0.736 GHz                     [40.11%]
             407,461 stalled-cycles-frontend:HG #   58.78% frontend cycles idle    [72.29%]
             365,403 stalled-cycles-backend:HG #   52.71% backend  cycles idle
             465,982 instructions:HG           #    0.67  insns per cycle
                                               #    0.87  stalled cycles per insn
              89,760 branches:HG               #   95.275 M/sec
               6,178 branch-misses:HG          #    6.88% of all branches

         0.002077228 seconds time elapsed

While if one explicitely specifies the same events, which will make the parsing code
to be called and thus event_attr_init is called:

  $ perf stat -e task-clock,context-switches,migrations,page-faults,cycles,stalled-cycles-frontend,stalled-cycles-backend,instructions,branches,branch-misses usleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':

            1.040349 task-clock                #    0.500 CPUs utilized
                   2 context-switches          #    0.002 M/sec
                   0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                 127 page-faults               #    0.122 M/sec
             587,966 cycles                    #    0.565 GHz                     [13.18%]
             459,167 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   78.09% frontend cycles idle
             390,249 stalled-cycles-backend    #   66.37% backend  cycles idle
             504,006 instructions              #    0.86  insns per cycle
                                               #    0.91  stalled cycles per insn
              96,455 branches                  #   92.714 M/sec
               6,522 branch-misses             #    6.76% of all branches         [96.12%]

         0.002078681 seconds time elapsed

Fix it by introducing a perf_evlist__add_default_attrs method that will call
evlist_attr_init in all the perf_event_attr entries before adding the events.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4eysr236r0pgiyum9epwxw7s@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>perf target: Add uses_mmap field</title>
<updated>2012-05-17T15:32:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-16T09:45:49+00:00</published>
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If perf doesn't mmap on event (like perf stat), it should not create
per-task-per-cpu events. So just use a dummy cpu map to create a
per-task event for this case.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337161549-9870-3-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
[ committer note: renamed .need_mmap to .uses_mmap ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert 'perf evlist: Fix creation of cpu map'</title>
<updated>2012-05-16T15:12:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-16T09:45:48+00:00</published>
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The commit 55261f46702c ("perf evlist: Fix creation of cpu map") changed
to create a per-task event when no cpu target is specified. However it
caused a problem since perf-task do not allow event inheritance due to
scalability issues so that the result will contain samples only from
parent, not from its children.

So we should use perf-task-per-cpu events anyway to get the right
result. Revert it.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Analysed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-and-tested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337161549-9870-2-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>perf target: Rename functions to avoid double negation</title>
<updated>2012-05-16T15:09:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-16T09:45:47+00:00</published>
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Rename perf_target__no_{cpu,task} to perf_target__has_{cpu,task} because
it's more intuitive and easy to parse (for human beings) when used with
negation.

The names are came out from David Ahern.  It is intended to be a
mechanical substitution without any functional change.

The perf_target__none remains unchanged since I couldn't find a right
name and it is hardly used with negation.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337161549-9870-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf target: Consolidate target task/cpu checking</title>
<updated>2012-05-07T20:52:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-07T05:09:03+00:00</published>
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There are places that check whether target task/cpu is given or not and
some of them didn't check newly introduced uid or cpu list. Add and use
three of helper functions to treat them properly.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336367344-28071-7-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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