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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-01-30 22:15:14 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-01-30 22:15:14 +0300
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Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "Kernel side changes: - Clean up the x86 instruction decoder (Masami Hiramatsu) - Add new uprobes optimization for PUSH instructions on x86 (Yonghong Song) - Add MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS to the MSR events (Stephane Eranian) - Fix misc bugs, update documentation, plus various cleanups (Jiri Olsa) There's a large number of tooling side improvements: - Intel-PT/BTS improvements (Adrian Hunter) - Numerous 'perf trace' improvements (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Introduce an errno code to string facility (Hendrik Brueckner) - Various build system improvements (Jiri Olsa) - Add support for CoreSight trace decoding by making the perf tools use the external openCSD (Mathieu Poirier, Tor Jeremiassen) - Add ARM Statistical Profiling Extensions (SPE) support (Kim Phillips) - libtraceevent updates (Steven Rostedt) - Intel vendor event JSON updates (Andi Kleen) - Introduce 'perf report --mmaps' and 'perf report --tasks' to show info present in 'perf.data' (Jiri Olsa, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Add infrastructure to record first and last sample time to the perf.data file header, so that when processing all samples in a 'perf record' session, such as when doing build-id processing, or when specifically requesting that that info be recorded, use that in 'perf report --time', that also got support for percent slices in addition to absolute ones. I.e. now it is possible to ask for the samples in the 10%-20% time slice of a perf.data file (Jin Yao) - Allow system wide 'perf stat --per-thread', sorting the result (Jin Yao) E.g.: [root@jouet ~]# perf stat --per-thread --metrics IPC ^C Performance counter stats for 'system wide': make-22229 23,012,094,032 inst_retired.any # 0.8 IPC cc1-22419 692,027,497 inst_retired.any # 0.8 IPC gcc-22418 328,231,855 inst_retired.any # 0.9 IPC cc1-22509 220,853,647 inst_retired.any # 0.8 IPC gcc-22486 199,874,810 inst_retired.any # 1.0 IPC as-22466 177,896,365 inst_retired.any # 0.9 IPC cc1-22465 150,732,374 inst_retired.any # 0.8 IPC gcc-22508 112,555,593 inst_retired.any # 0.9 IPC cc1-22487 108,964,079 inst_retired.any # 0.7 IPC qemu-system-x86-2697 21,330,550 inst_retired.any # 0.3 IPC systemd-journal-551 20,642,951 inst_retired.any # 0.4 IPC docker-containe-17651 9,552,892 inst_retired.any # 0.5 IPC dockerd-current-9809 7,528,586 inst_retired.any # 0.5 IPC make-22153 12,504,194,380 inst_retired.any # 0.8 IPC python2-22429 12,081,290,954 inst_retired.any # 0.8 IPC <SNIP> python2-22429 15,026,328,103 cpu_clk_unhalted.thread cc1-22419 826,660,193 cpu_clk_unhalted.thread gcc-22418 365,321,295 cpu_clk_unhalted.thread cc1-22509 279,169,362 cpu_clk_unhalted.thread gcc-22486 210,156,950 cpu_clk_unhalted.thread <SNIP> 5.638075538 seconds time elapsed [root@jouet ~]# - Improve shell auto-completion of perf events (Jin Yao) - 'perf probe' improvements (Masami Hiramatsu) - Improve PMU infrastructure to support amp64's ThunderX2 implementation defined core events (Ganapatrao Kulkarni) - Various annotation related improvements and fixes (Thomas Richter) - Clarify usage of 'overwrite' and 'backward' in the evlist/mmap code, removing the 'overwrite' parameter from several functions as it was always used it as 'false' (Wang Nan) - Fix/improve 'perf record' reverse recording support (Wang Nan) - Improve command line options documentation (Sihyeon Jang) - Optimize sample parsing for ordering events, where we don't need to parse all the PERF_SAMPLE_ bits, just the ones leading to the timestamp needed to reorder events (Jiri Olsa) - Generalize the annotation code to support other source information besides objdump/DWARF obtained ones, starting with python scripts, that will is slated to be merged soon (Jiri Olsa) - ... and a lot more that I failed to list, see the shortlog and changelog for details" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (262 commits) perf trace beauty flock: Move to separate object file perf evlist: Remove fcntl.h from evlist.h perf trace beauty futex: Beautify FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY perf trace: Do not print from time delta for interrupted syscall lines perf trace: Add --print-sample perf bpf: Remove misplaced __maybe_unused attribute MAINTAINERS: Adding entry for CoreSight trace decoding perf tools: Add mechanic to synthesise CoreSight trace packets perf tools: Add full support for CoreSight trace decoding pert tools: Add queue management functionality perf tools: Add functionality to communicate with the openCSD decoder perf tools: Add support for decoding CoreSight trace data perf tools: Add decoder mechanic to support dumping trace data perf tools: Add processing of coresight metadata perf tools: Add initial entry point for decoder CoreSight traces perf tools: Integrating the CoreSight decoding library perf vendor events intel: Update IvyTown files to V20 perf vendor events intel: Update IvyBridge files to V20 perf vendor events intel: Update BroadwellDE events to V7 perf vendor events intel: Update SkylakeX events to V1.06 ...
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
index 2811fcf684cb..7730c1d2b5d3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ OPTIONS
Comma separated list of fields to print. Options are:
comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace, ip, sym, dso, addr, symoff,
srcline, period, iregs, uregs, brstack, brstacksym, flags, bpf-output, brstackinsn,
- brstackoff, callindent, insn, insnlen, synth, phys_addr.
+ brstackoff, callindent, insn, insnlen, synth, phys_addr, metric, misc.
Field list can be prepended with the type, trace, sw or hw,
to indicate to which event type the field list applies.
e.g., -F sw:comm,tid,time,ip,sym and -F trace:time,cpu,trace
@@ -217,6 +217,32 @@ OPTIONS
The brstackoff field will print an offset into a specific dso/binary.
+ With the metric option perf script can compute metrics for
+ sampling periods, similar to perf stat. This requires
+ specifying a group with multiple metrics with the :S option
+ for perf record. perf will sample on the first event, and
+ compute metrics for all the events in the group. Please note
+ that the metric computed is averaged over the whole sampling
+ period, not just for the sample point.
+
+ For sample events it's possible to display misc field with -F +misc option,
+ following letters are displayed for each bit:
+
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL K
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER U
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_HYPERVISOR H
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL G
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_USER g
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA* M
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC E
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT S
+
+ $ perf script -F +misc ...
+ sched-messaging 1414 K 28690.636582: 4590 cycles ...
+ sched-messaging 1407 U 28690.636600: 325620 cycles ...
+ sched-messaging 1414 K 28690.636608: 19473 cycles ...
+ misc field ___________/
+
-k::
--vmlinux=<file>::
vmlinux pathname
@@ -274,6 +300,9 @@ OPTIONS
Display context switch events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_SWITCH or
PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE.
+--show-lost-events
+ Display lost events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_LOST.
+
--demangle::
Demangle symbol names to human readable form. It's enabled by default,
disable with --no-demangle.
@@ -321,6 +350,22 @@ include::itrace.txt[]
stop time is not given (i.e, time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
to end of file.
+ Also support time percent with multipe time range. Time string is
+ 'a%/n,b%/m,...' or 'a%-b%,c%-%d,...'.
+
+ For example:
+ Select the second 10% time slice:
+ perf script --time 10%/2
+
+ Select from 0% to 10% time slice:
+ perf script --time 0%-10%
+
+ Select the first and second 10% time slices:
+ perf script --time 10%/1,10%/2
+
+ Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices:
+ perf script --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
+
--max-blocks::
Set the maximum number of program blocks to print with brstackasm for
each sample.