kernel/linux.git/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c, branch v3.6.6

perf tools: Make the breakpoint events sample period default to 1

2012-07-25T14:37:46+00:00

There have one problem about hw_breakpoint perf event, as watched, the events reported to userspace is not correctly, sometime one trigger bp_event report several events, sometime bp_event cannot go through to user. The root cause is attr->freq is 1 passed to kernel defaultly in bp events, this make kernel calculate event period not as expect, make sample period to 1 will change attr->freq to 0, to fix this problem. This patch is similar with commit f92128 about tracepoint events: perf: Make the trace events sample period default to 1 Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACV3sbLF8taiCq_VYW-sgRJyupeMzg58C7ZXfMe3xZUiH_Mx6w@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix trace events storms due to weight demux

2012-07-25T14:32:06+00:00

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 ==> next_comm=perf [...] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342631456-7233-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Split event symbols arrays to hw and sw parts

2012-07-05T14:31:13+00:00

It'll be convenient in upcoming patch to access hw event symbols strings via enum perf_hw_id indexes. In order not to duplicate the data, creating two separate arrays: event_symbols_hw for enum perf_hw_id events event_symbols_sw for enum perf_sw_ids events Changing the current event list code to follow the change. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341352848-11833-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Handle hw breakpoints event names in perf_evsel__name()

2012-06-29T16:28:13+00:00

Adding hw breakpoint events hook in the perf_evsel__name function, to display event names properly all over the perf tools. Updated hw breakpoints events tests. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Jovi Zhang Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340918329-3012-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix hw breakpoint's type modifier parsing

2012-06-29T16:28:13+00:00

Fixing the hw breakpoint's type modifier parsing to allow all possible combinations of 'rwx' characters. Adding automated tests to the parsing test suite. Reported-by: Jovi Zhang Original-patch-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Jovi Zhang Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120629072254.GA940@krava.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

2012-06-20T11:41:53+00:00

Pull perf improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: * Replace event_name with perf_evsel__name, that handles the event modifiers and doesn't use static variables. * GTK browser improvements, from Namhyung Kim * Fix possible NULL pointer deref in the TUI annotate browser, from Samuel Liao * Add sort by source file:line number, using addr2line. * Allow printing histogram text snapshots at any point in top/report. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Remove __event_name

2012-06-19T16:06:21+00:00

Not needed anymore, the parsing code can just leave evsel->name as NULL and the first call to perf_evsel__name() will do exactly what was being pre-cached using __event_name(). Cc: David Ahern 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-cn2eiijcinnc97buod8cs34m@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Move all users of event_name to perf_evsel__name

2012-06-19T16:06:20+00:00

So that we don't use global variables that could make us misreport event names when having a multi window top, for instance. Cc: David Ahern 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-mccancovi1u0wdkg8ncth509@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Handle all event types in perf_evsel__name

2012-06-19T16:06:20+00:00

Now to convert all event_name users to perf_evsel__name. Cc: David Ahern 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-buuz0j0gynseglxa76r01rdn@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Reconstruct sw event with modifiers from perf_event_attr

2012-06-19T16:06:20+00:00

[root@sandy ~]# perf record -e task-clock:u -a usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.482 MB perf.data (~21073 samples) ] [root@sandy ~]# Before: [root@sandy ~]# perf evlist task-clock [root@sandy ~]# After: [root@sandy ~]# perf evlist task-clock:u [root@sandy ~]# Ditto for other tools. Cc: David Ahern 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-97ltkmj7v23kyhflltf6iz5n@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo