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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
4cf40131a5 perf record: Introduce a symtab cache
Now a cache will be created in a ~/.debug debuginfo like
hierarchy, so that at the end of a 'perf record' session all the
binaries (with build-ids) involved get collected and indexed by
their build-ids, so that perf report can find them.

This is interesting when developing software where you want to
do a 'perf diff' with the previous build and opens avenues for
lots more interesting tools, like a 'perf diff --graph' that
takes more than two binaries into account.

Tunables for collecting just the symtabs can be added if one
doesn't want to have the full binary, but having the full binary
allows things like 'perf rerecord' or other tools that can
re-run the tests by having access to the exact binary in some
perf.data file, so it may well be interesting to keep the full
binary there.

Space consumption is minimised by trying to use hard links, a
'perf cache' tool to manage the space used, a la ccache is
required to purge older entries.

With this in place it will be possible also to introduce new
commands, 'perf archive' and 'perf restore' (or some more
suitable and future proof names) to create a cpio/tar file with
the perf data and the files in the cache that _had_ perf hits of
interest.

There are more aspects to polish, like finding the right vmlinux
file to cache, etc, but this is enough for a first step.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261957026-15580-10-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-28 09:03:36 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
727dad10c1 perf tools: Remove unused wrapper routines
And also make xrealloc and xmalloc weak symbols so that we don't
have this problem:

 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.1/../../../../lib64/libiberty.a(xmalloc.o):
 In function `xrealloc':
 (.text+0xc0): multiple definition of `xrealloc'
 libperf.a(wrapper.o):/home/acme_unencrypted/git/linux-2.6-tip/tools/perf/util/wrapper.c:67:
 first defined here
 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1259071517-3242-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-24 16:37:03 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
364794845c perf tools: Introduce zalloc() for the common calloc(1, N) case
This way we type less characters and it looks more like the
kzalloc kernel counterpart.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1259071517-3242-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-24 16:37:02 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2890284bcf perf tools: Move graph_line and graph_dotted_line from top
So that they can be used in other tools.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1259005869-13487-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-23 21:55:20 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a7b63425a4 Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probes
Resolved merge conflict in tools/perf/Makefile

Merge reason: we want to queue up a dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-17 10:17:47 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
9e827dd00a perf tools: Bring linear set of section headers for features
Build a set of section headers for features right after the
datas. Each implemented feature will have one of such section
header that provides the offset and the size of the data
manipulated by the feature.

The trace informations have moved after the data and are
recorded on exit time.

The new layout is as follows:

 -----------------------
                             ___
 [ magic               ]      |
 [ header size         ]      |
 [ attr size           ]      |
 [ attr content offset ]      |
 [ attr content size   ]      |
 [ data offset         ]  File Headers
 [ data size           ]      |
 [ event_types offset  ]      |
 [ event_types size    ]      |
 [ feature bitmap      ]      v

 [ attr section        ]
 [ events section      ]

                             ___
 [         X           ]      |
 [         X           ]      |
 [         X           ]    Datas
 [         X           ]      |
 [         X           ]      v

                             ___
 [ Feature 1 offset    ]      |
 [ Feature 1 size      ] Features headers
 [ Feature 2 offset    ]      |
 [ Feature 2 size      ]      v

 [ Feature 1 content   ]
 [ Feature 2 content   ]
 -----------------------

We have as many feature's section headers as we have features in
use for the current file.

Say Feat 1 and Feat 3 are used by the file, but not Feat 2. Then
the feature headers will be like follows:

[ Feature 1 offset    ]      |
[ Feature 1 size      ] Features headers
[ Feature 3 offset    ]      |
[ Feature 3 size      ]      v

There is no hole to cover Feature 2 that is not in use here. We
only need to cover the needed headers in order, from the lowest
feature bit to the highest.

Currently we have two features: HEADER_TRACE_INFO and
HEADER_BUILD_ID. Both have their contents that follow the
feature headers. Putting the contents right after the feature
headers is not mandatory though. While we keep the feature
headers right after the data and in order, their offsets can
point everywhere. We have just put the two above feature
contents in the end of the file for convenience.

The purpose of this layout change is to have a file format that
scales while keeping it simple: having such linear feature
headers is less error prone wrt forward/backward compatibility
as the content of a feature can be put anywhere, its location
can even change by the time, it's fine because its headers will
tell where it is. And we know how to find these headers,
following the above rules.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
LKML-Reference: <1257911467-28276-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-11 07:30:19 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
9769833b8e perf: Add DIE_IF() macro for error checking
Add DIE_IF() macro and replace ERR_IF() with it, and use
linux/stringify.h.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20091017000818.16556.82452.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-17 09:54:01 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
19c959627a Merge branch 'perfcounters/tracing' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: this topic is ready now to merge into the main
              development branch for .32, with functional
              perf trace output.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-31 10:03:27 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1f18345bdf perf tools: Remove obsolete defines
The _XOPEN_SOURCE* defines are not really needed on Linux and
it's not like we'll port this to AIX ;-)

The define also broke the build with gcc 4.4.1:

 CC util/trace-event-parse.o
 In file included from util/trace-event-parse.c:32:
 util/util.h:43:1: error: "_XOPEN_SOURCE" redefined

So remove them.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-18 11:00:05 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5f9c39dca5 perf tools: Add perf trace
This adds perf trace into the set of perf tools.

It is written to fetch the tracepoint samples from perf events
and display them, according to the events information given by
the debugfs files through the util/trace* tools.

It is a rough first shot and doesn't yet handle the cpu,
timestamps fields and some other things.

Example:

 perf record -f -e workqueue:workqueue_execution:record -F 1 -a
 perf trace

       kblockd/0-236   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:236 func=cfq_kick_queue+0x0
     kondemand/0-360   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:360 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/0-360   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:360 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0
     kondemand/1-361   [000]     0.000000: workqueue_execution: thread=:361 func=do_dbs_timer+0x0

Todo:

- A lot of things!

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1250518688-7207-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-17 16:32:39 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
66e274f3b8 perf tools: Factorize the map helpers
Factorize the dso mapping helpers into a single purpose common file
"util/map.c"

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
2009-08-12 12:37:37 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1fe2c1066c perf tools: Factorize the event structure definitions in a single file
Factorize the multiple definition of the events structures into a
single util/event.h file.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
2009-08-12 12:04:39 +02:00
Jason Baron
f6bdafef2a perf_counter: Add tracepoint support to perf list, perf stat
Add support to 'perf list' and 'perf stat' for kernel tracepoints. The
implementation creates a 'for_each_subsystem' and 'for_each_event' for
easy iteration over the tracepoints.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <426129bf9fcc8ee63bb094cf736e7316a7dcd77a.1248190728.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
2009-07-22 18:05:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
fde953c1c6 perf_counter tools: Remove dead code
Vince Weaver reported that there's a handful of #ifdef __MINGW32__
sections in the code.

Remove them as they are in essence dead code - as unlike upstream
Git, the perf tool is unlikely to be ported to Windows.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-27 06:06:39 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a73c7d84a1 perf_counter tools: Add and use isprint()
Introduce isprint() to print out raw event dumps to ASCII, etc.

(This is an extension to upstream Git's ctype.c.)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
[ removed openssl.h inclusion from util.h - it leaked ctype.h ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-18 09:46:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
5aa75a0fd4 perf_counter tools: Replace isprint() with issane()
The Git utils came with a ctype replacement that doesn't provide
isprint(). Add a replacement.

Solves a build bug on certain distros.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-17 19:23:53 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
864709302a perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/
Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged
tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the
(new) tools/ directory.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
Renamed from Documentation/perf_counter/util/util.h (Browse further)