perf trace: Introduce --max-events

Allow stopping tracing after a number of events take place, considering
strace-like syscalls formatting as one event per enter/exit pair or when
in a multi-process tracing session a syscall is interrupted and printed
ending with '...'.

Examples included in the documentation:

Trace the first 4 open, openat or open_by_handle_at syscalls (in the future more syscalls may match here):

  $ perf trace -e open* --max-events 4
  [root@jouet perf]# trace -e open* --max-events 4
  2272.992 ( 0.037 ms): gnome-shell/1370 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /proc/self/stat) = 31
  2277.481 ( 0.139 ms): gnome-shell/3039 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /proc/self/stat) = 65
  3026.398 ( 0.076 ms): gnome-shell/3039 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /proc/self/stat) = 65
  4294.665 ( 0.015 ms): sed/15879 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /etc/ld.so.cache, flags: CLOEXEC) = 3
  $

Trace the first minor page fault when running a workload:

  # perf trace -F min --max-stack=7 --max-events 1 sleep 1
     0.000 ( 0.000 ms): sleep/18006 minfault [__clear_user+0x1a] => 0x5626efa56080 (?k)
                                       __clear_user ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       load_elf_binary ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       search_binary_handler ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       __do_execve_file.isra.33 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       __x64_sys_execve ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       entry_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
  #

Trace the next min page page fault to take place on the first CPU:

  # perf trace -F min --call-graph=dwarf --max-events 1 --cpu 0
     0.000 ( 0.000 ms): Web Content/17136 minfault [js::gc::Chunk::fetchNextDecommittedArena+0x4b] => 0x7fbe6181b000 (?.)
                                       js::gc::FreeSpan::initAsEmpty (inlined)
                                       js::gc::Arena::setAsNotAllocated (inlined)
                                       js::gc::Chunk::fetchNextDecommittedArena (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
                                       js::gc::Chunk::allocateArena (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
                                       js::gc::GCRuntime::allocateArena (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
                                       js::gc::ArenaLists::allocateFromArena (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
                                       js::gc::GCRuntime::tryNewTenuredThing<JSString, (js::AllowGC)1> (inlined)
                                       js::AllocateString<JSString, (js::AllowGC)1> (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
                                       js::Allocate<JSThinInlineString, (js::AllowGC)1> (inlined)
                                       JSThinInlineString::new_<(js::AllowGC)1> (inlined)
                                       AllocateInlineString<(js::AllowGC)1, unsigned char> (inlined)
                                       js::ConcatStrings<(js::AllowGC)1> (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
                                       [0x18b26e6bc2bd] (/tmp/perf-17136.map)

Tracing the next four ext4 operations on a specific CPU:

  # perf trace -e ext4:*/call-graph=fp/ --max-events 4 --cpu 3
     0.000 mutt/3849 ext4:ext4_es_lookup_extent_enter:dev 253,2 ino 57277 lblk 0
                                       ext4_es_lookup_extent ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       read (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
     0.097 mutt/3849 ext4:ext4_es_lookup_extent_exit:dev 253,2 ino 57277 found 0 [0/0) 0
                                       ext4_es_lookup_extent ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       read (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
     0.141 mutt/3849 ext4:ext4_ext_map_blocks_enter:dev 253,2 ino 57277 lblk 0 len 1 flags
                                       ext4_ext_map_blocks ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       read (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
     0.184 mutt/3849 ext4:ext4_ext_load_extent:dev 253,2 ino 57277 lblk 1516511 pblk 18446744071750013657
                                       __read_extent_tree_block ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       __read_extent_tree_block ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       ext4_find_extent ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       ext4_ext_map_blocks ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       ext4_map_blocks ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       ext4_mpage_readpages ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       read_pages ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       __do_page_cache_readahead ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       ondemand_readahead ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       generic_file_read_iter ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       __vfs_read ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       vfs_read ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       ksys_read ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       entry_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
                                       read (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
  #

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Rudá Moura <ruda.moura@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-sweh107bs7ol5bzls0m4tqdz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
index 115db9e06ecd..0d1a1cd4d328 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
@@ -171,6 +171,11 @@ the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.
 --kernel-syscall-graph::
 	 Show the kernel callchains on the syscall exit path.
 
+--max-events=N::
+	Stop after processing N events. Note that strace-like events are considered
+	only at exit time or when a syscall is interrupted, i.e. in those cases this
+	option is equivalent to the number of lines printed.
+
 --max-stack::
         Set the stack depth limit when parsing the callchain, anything
         beyond the specified depth will be ignored. Note that at this point
@@ -238,6 +243,48 @@ Trace syscalls, major and minor pagefaults:
   As you can see, there was major pagefault in python process, from
   CRYPTO_push_info_ routine which faulted somewhere in libcrypto.so.
 
+Trace the first 4 open, openat or open_by_handle_at syscalls (in the future more syscalls may match here):
+
+  $ perf trace -e open* --max-events 4
+  [root@jouet perf]# trace -e open* --max-events 4
+  2272.992 ( 0.037 ms): gnome-shell/1370 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /proc/self/stat) = 31
+  2277.481 ( 0.139 ms): gnome-shell/3039 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /proc/self/stat) = 65
+  3026.398 ( 0.076 ms): gnome-shell/3039 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /proc/self/stat) = 65
+  4294.665 ( 0.015 ms): sed/15879 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /etc/ld.so.cache, flags: CLOEXEC) = 3
+  $
+
+Trace the first minor page fault when running a workload:
+
+  # perf trace -F min --max-stack=7 --max-events 1 sleep 1
+     0.000 ( 0.000 ms): sleep/18006 minfault [__clear_user+0x1a] => 0x5626efa56080 (?k)
+                                       __clear_user ([kernel.kallsyms])
+                                       load_elf_binary ([kernel.kallsyms])
+                                       search_binary_handler ([kernel.kallsyms])
+                                       __do_execve_file.isra.33 ([kernel.kallsyms])
+                                       __x64_sys_execve ([kernel.kallsyms])
+                                       do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
+                                       entry_SYSCALL_64 ([kernel.kallsyms])
+  #
+
+Trace the next min page page fault to take place on the first CPU:
+
+  # perf trace -F min --call-graph=dwarf --max-events 1 --cpu 0
+     0.000 ( 0.000 ms): Web Content/17136 minfault [js::gc::Chunk::fetchNextDecommittedArena+0x4b] => 0x7fbe6181b000 (?.)
+                                       js::gc::FreeSpan::initAsEmpty (inlined)
+                                       js::gc::Arena::setAsNotAllocated (inlined)
+                                       js::gc::Chunk::fetchNextDecommittedArena (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
+                                       js::gc::Chunk::allocateArena (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
+                                       js::gc::GCRuntime::allocateArena (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
+                                       js::gc::ArenaLists::allocateFromArena (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
+                                       js::gc::GCRuntime::tryNewTenuredThing<JSString, (js::AllowGC)1> (inlined)
+                                       js::AllocateString<JSString, (js::AllowGC)1> (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
+                                       js::Allocate<JSThinInlineString, (js::AllowGC)1> (inlined)
+                                       JSThinInlineString::new_<(js::AllowGC)1> (inlined)
+                                       AllocateInlineString<(js::AllowGC)1, unsigned char> (inlined)
+                                       js::ConcatStrings<(js::AllowGC)1> (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
+                                       [0x18b26e6bc2bd] (/tmp/perf-17136.map)
+  #
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-script[1]