linux/tools/perf/util/python.c, branch v3.0.82

perf python: Fix argument name list of read_on_cpu()

2011-06-03T13:09:22Z

Mandatory arguments need to be present in the argument name list, as well as optional arguments, otherwise python barfs: # ./python/twatch.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "./python/twatch.py", line 41, in main() File "./python/twatch.py", line 32, in main event = evlist.read_on_cpu(cpu) RuntimeError: more argument specifiers than keyword list entries Hence, add cpu to the name list. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1301588863-20210-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Don't die if sample_{id_all|type} is invalid

2011-06-03T13:07:52Z

Fixes two more cases where the python binding would not load: . Not finding die(), which it shouldn't anyway, not good to just stop the world because some particular perf.data file is invalid, just propagate the error to the caller. . Not finding perf_sample_size: fix it by moving it from event.c to evsel, where it belongs, as most cases are moving to operate on an evsel object.o One of the fixed problems: [root@emilia ~]# python >>> import perf Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: perf_sample_size >>> [root@emilia ~]# Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1hkj7b2cvgbfnoizsekjb6c9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf python: Use exception to propagate errors

2011-06-03T13:07:01Z

We were using pr_debug to tell the user about not being able to parse a sample where we should really use the python way of reporting errors: exceptions. Fixes this problem: [root@emilia ~]# python >>> import perf Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: eprintf >>> [root@emilia ~] As we want to keep the objects linked in the python binding (and in the future in a shared library) minimal. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-m9dba9kaluas0kq8r58z191c@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent

2011-05-22T08:10:01Z

Conflicts: tools/perf/builtin-top.c Semantic conflict: util/include/linux/list.h # fix prefetch.h removal fallout Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Propagate event parse error handling

2011-05-22T01:38:49Z

Better handle event parsing error by propagating the details in upper layers or by dumping some failure message. So that the user knows he has some crazy events in the batch. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Stephane Eranian

perf tools: Pre-check sample size before parsing

2011-05-22T01:38:36Z

Check that the total size of the sample fields having a fixed size do not exceed the one of the whole event. This robustifies the sample parsing. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Stephane Eranian

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

2011-05-20T00:36:08Z

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (107 commits) perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printouts perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events ftrace/kbuild: Add recordmcount files to force full build ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering ftrace: Free hash with call_rcu_sched() ftrace: Have global_ops store the functions that are to be traced ftrace: Add ops parameter to ftrace_startup/shutdown functions ftrace: Add enabled_functions file ftrace: Use counters to enable functions to trace ftrace: Separate hash allocation and assignment ftrace: Create a global_ops to hold the filter and notrace hashes ftrace: Use hash instead for FTRACE_FL_FILTER ftrace: Replace FTRACE_FL_NOTRACE flag with a hash of ignored functions perf bench, x86: Add alternatives-asm.h wrapper x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address limit x86, mem: memset_64.S: Optimize memset by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB x86, mem: memmove_64.S: Optimize memmove by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB ...

perf evlist: Fix per thread mmap setup

2011-05-15T13:02:14Z

The PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT ioctl was returning -EINVAL when using --pid when monitoring multithreaded apps, as we can only share a ring buffer for events on the same thread if not doing per cpu. Fix it by using per thread ring buffers. Tested with: [root@felicio ~]# tuna -t 26131 -CP | nl 1 thread ctxt_switches 2 pid SCHED_ rtpri affinity voluntary nonvoluntary cmd 3 26131 OTHER 0 0,1 10814276 2397830 chromium-browse 4 642 OTHER 0 0,1 14688 0 chromium-browse 5 26148 OTHER 0 0,1 713602 115479 chromium-browse 6 26149 OTHER 0 0,1 801958 2262 chromium-browse 7 26150 OTHER 0 0,1 1271128 248 chromium-browse 8 26151 OTHER 0 0,1 3 0 chromium-browse 9 27049 OTHER 0 0,1 36796 9 chromium-browse 10 618 OTHER 0 0,1 14711 0 chromium-browse 11 661 OTHER 0 0,1 14593 0 chromium-browse 12 29048 OTHER 0 0,1 28125 0 chromium-browse 13 26143 OTHER 0 0,1 2202789 781 chromium-browse [root@felicio ~]# So 11 threads under pid 26131, then: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 --pid 26131 [root@felicio ~]# grep perf_event /proc/`pidof perf`/maps | nl 1 7fa4a2538000-7fa4a25b9000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 2 7fa4a25b9000-7fa4a263a000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 3 7fa4a263a000-7fa4a26bb000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 4 7fa4a26bb000-7fa4a273c000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 5 7fa4a273c000-7fa4a27bd000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 6 7fa4a27bd000-7fa4a283e000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 7 7fa4a283e000-7fa4a28bf000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 8 7fa4a28bf000-7fa4a2940000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 9 7fa4a2940000-7fa4a29c1000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 10 7fa4a29c1000-7fa4a2a42000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 11 7fa4a2a42000-7fa4a2ac3000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] [root@felicio ~]# 11 mmaps, one per thread since we didn't specify any CPU list, so we need one mmap per thread and: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 --pid 26131 ^M ^C[ perf record: Woken up 79 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 20.614 MB perf.data (~900639 samples) ] [root@felicio ~]# perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE | cut -d/ -f2 | cut -d: -f1 | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr | nl 1 371310 26131 2 96516 26148 3 95694 26149 4 95203 26150 5 7291 26143 6 87 27049 7 76 661 8 60 29048 9 47 618 10 43 642 [root@felicio ~]# Ok, one of the threads, 26151 was quiescent, so no samples there, but all the others are there. Then, if I specify one CPU: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 --pid 26131 --cpu 1 ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.680 MB perf.data (~29730 samples) ] [root@felicio ~]# perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE | cut -d/ -f2 | cut -d: -f1 | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr | nl 1 8444 26131 2 2584 26149 3 2518 26148 4 2324 26150 5 123 26143 6 9 661 7 9 29048 [root@felicio ~]# This machine has two cores, so fewer threads appeared on the radar, and: [root@felicio ~]# grep perf_event /proc/`pidof perf`/maps | nl 1 7f484b922000-7f484b9a3000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] [root@felicio ~]# Just one mmap, as now we can use just one per-cpu buffer instead of the per-thread needed in the previous case. For global profiling: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 -a ^C[ perf record: Woken up 26 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 7.128 MB perf.data (~311412 samples) ] [root@felicio ~]# grep perf_event /proc/`pidof perf`/maps | nl 1 7fb49b435000-7fb49b4b6000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] 2 7fb49b4b6000-7fb49b537000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] [root@felicio ~]# It uses per-cpu buffers. For just one thread: [root@felicio ~]# perf record -F 50000 --tid 26148 ^C[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.330 MB perf.data (~14426 samples) ] [root@felicio ~]# perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE | cut -d/ -f2 | cut -d: -f1 | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr | nl 1 9969 26148 [root@felicio ~]# [root@felicio ~]# grep perf_event /proc/`pidof perf`/maps | nl 1 7f286a51b000-7f286a59c000 rwxs 00000000 00:09 4064 anon_inode:[perf_event] [root@felicio ~]# Tested-by: David Ahern Tested-by: Lin Ming 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/r/20110426204401.GB1746@ghostprotocols.net Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add front-end and back-end stalled cycles support

2011-04-29T12:35:49Z

Update perf tooling to deal with front-end and back-end stalled cycles events. Add both the default 'perf stat' output. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n002io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf events: Add stalled cycles generic event - PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES

2011-04-26T18:04:53Z

The new PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES event tries to approximate cycles the CPU does nothing useful, because it is stalled on a cache-miss or some other condition. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fue11vymwqsoo5to72jxxjyl@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar