linux/tools/perf/util/include, branch v3.4.96

perf tools: Switch module.h into export.h

2012-03-26T15:19:57Z

When merged to Linus's latest tree the perf build is broken due to following change in lib/rbtree.c object: lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible commit 8bc3bcc93a2b4e47d5d410146f6546bca6171663 Author: Paul Gortmaker Date: Wed Nov 16 21:29:17 2011 -0500 We need to move module.h header into export.h. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332753425-3299-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

bitops: rename for_each_set_bit_cont() in favor of analogous list.h function

2012-03-23T23:58:33Z

This renames for_each_set_bit_cont() to for_each_set_bit_from() because it is analogous to list_for_each_entry_from() in list.h rather than list_for_each_entry_continue(). This doesn't remove for_each_set_bit_cont() for now. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-03-20T17:29:15Z

Pull perf events changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar: - New "hardware based branch profiling" feature both on the kernel and the tooling side, on CPUs that support it. (modern x86 Intel CPUs with the 'LBR' hardware feature currently.) This new feature is basically a sophisticated 'magnifying glass' for branch execution - something that is pretty difficult to extract from regular, function histogram centric profiles. The simplest mode is activated via 'perf record -b', and the result looks like this in perf report: $ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy $ perf report -b --sort=symbol 52.34% [.] main [.] f1 24.04% [.] f1 [.] f3 23.60% [.] f1 [.] f2 0.01% [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn [k] _IO_file_overflow 0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn 0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] strchrnul 0.01% [k] __printf [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal 0.01% [k] main [k] __printf This output shows from/to branch columns and shows the highest percentage (from,to) jump combinations - i.e. the most likely taken branches in the system. "branches" can also include function calls and any other synchronous and asynchronous transitions of the instruction pointer that are not 'next instruction' - such as system calls, traps, interrupts, etc. This feature comes with (hopefully intuitive) flat ascii and TUI support in perf report. - Various 'perf annotate' visual improvements for us assembly junkies. It will now recognize function calls in the TUI and by hitting enter you can follow the call (recursively) and back, amongst other improvements. - Multiple threads/processes recording support in perf record, perf stat, perf top - which is activated via a comma-list of PIDs: perf top -p 21483,21485 perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd perf record -p 21483,21485 - Support for per UID views, via the --uid paramter to perf top, perf report, etc. For example 'perf top --uid mingo' will only show the tasks that I am running, excluding other users, root, etc. - Jump label restructurings and improvements - this includes the factoring out of the (hopefully much clearer) include/linux/static_key.h generic facility: struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE; ... if (static_key_false(&key)) do unlikely code else do likely code ... static_key_slow_inc(); ... static_key_slow_inc(); ... The static_key_false() branch will be generated into the code with as little impact to the likely code path as possible. the static_key_slow_*() APIs flip the branch via live kernel code patching. This facility can now be used more widely within the kernel to micro-optimize hot branches whose likelihood matches the static-key usage and fast/slow cost patterns. - SW function tracer improvements: perf support and filtering support. - Various hardenings of the perf.data ABI, to make older perf.data's smoother on newer tool versions, to make new features integrate more smoothly, to support cross-endian recording/analyzing workflows better, etc. - Restructuring of the kprobes code, the splitting out of 'optprobes', and a corner case bugfix. - Allow the tracing of kernel console output (printk). - Improvements/fixes to user-space RDPMC support, allowing user-space self-profiling code to extract PMU counts without performing any system calls, while playing nice with the kernel side. - 'perf bench' improvements - ... and lots of internal restructurings, cleanups and fixes that made these features possible. And, as usual this list is incomplete as there were also lots of other improvements * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (120 commits) perf report: Fix annotate double quit issue in branch view mode perf report: Remove duplicate annotate choice in branch view mode perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literals perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc() perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev perf: Add ABI reference sizes perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.c x86/kprobes: Fix a bug which can modify kernel code permanently x86/kprobes: Fix instruction recovery on optimized path perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs ...

perf tools, x86: Build perf on older user-space as well

2012-03-14T15:42:34Z

On ancient systems I get this build failure: util/../../../arch/x86/include/asm/unistd.h:67:29: error: asm/unistd_64.h: No such file or directory In file included from util/cache.h:7, from builtin-test.c:8: util/../perf.h: In function ‘sys_perf_event_open’:In file included from util/../perf.h:16 perf.h:170: error: ‘__NR_perf_event_open’ undeclared (first use in this function) The reason is that this old system does not have the split unistd.h headers yet, from which to pick up the syscall definitions. Add the syscall numbers to the already existing i386 and x86_64 blocks in perf.h, and also provide empty include file stubs. With this patch perf builds and works fine on 5 years old user-space as well. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jctwg64le1w47tuaoeyftsg9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add bitmap_or function into bitmap object

2012-02-14T01:28:10Z

Adding implementation os bitmap_or function to the bitmap object. It is stolen from the kernel lib/bitmap.o object. It is used in upcomming patches. Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327674868-10486-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bench: Also allow measuring memset()

2012-01-24T22:25:32Z

This simply clones the respective memcpy() implementation. Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F16D743020000780006D735@nat28.tlf.novell.com Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Use for_each_set_bit() to iterate over feature flags

2011-12-23T19:03:36Z

This patch introduces the for_each_set_bit() macro and modifies feature implementation to use it. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-8-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix build against newer glibc

2011-08-18T10:24:53Z

Upstream glibc commit 295e904 added a definition for __attribute_const__ to cdefs.h. This causes the following error when building perf: util/include/linux/compiler.h:8:0: error: "__attribute_const__" redefined [-Werror] /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:226:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition Wrap __attribute_const__ in #ifndef as we do for __always_inline. Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110818113720.GL2227@zod.bos.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix build on older systems

2011-05-26T14:16:29Z

Where /usr/include/linux/const.h is not present, e.g. RHEL5. Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ypcw2mu0w7dl1rrc6ncz3pee@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2011-05-23T16:25:52Z

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools: Fix sample size bit operations perf tools: Fix ommitted mmap data update on remap watchdog: Change the default timeout and configure nmi watchdog period based on watchdog_thresh watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zero watchdog: Only disable/enable watchdog if neccessary watchdog: Fix rounding bug in get_sample_period() perf tools: Propagate event parse error handling perf tools: Robustify dynamic sample content fetch perf tools: Pre-check sample size before parsing perf tools: Move evlist sample helpers to evlist area perf tools: Remove junk code in mmap size handling perf tools: Check we are able to read the event size on mmap