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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
cb0b29e086 perf evlist: Introduce perf_evlist__parse_sample
That is a more compact form of perf_session__parse_sample and to support
multiple evlists per perf_session is the way to go anyway.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vkxx3j5qktoj11bvcwmfjj13@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-02 11:42:57 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
bde09467b5 perf evsel: Precalculate the sample size
So that we don't have to store it in the perf_session instance, because
in the future perf_session instances may have multiple evlists, each
with different sample_type/sizes.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ptod86fxkpgq3h62m9refkv4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-01 18:53:11 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
0d37aa34f8 perf tools: Introduce per user view
The new --uid command line option will show only the tasks for a given
user, using the proc interface to figure out the existing tasks.

Kernel work is needed to close races at startup, but this should already
be useful in many use cases.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bdnspm000gw2l984a2t53o8z@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-01-24 19:47:37 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
727ab04edb perf evlist: Fix grouping of multiple events
The __perf_evsel__open routing was grouping just the threads for that
specific events per cpu when we want to group all threads in all events
to the first fd opened on that cpu.

So pass the xyarray with the first event, where the other events will be
able to get that first per cpu fd.

At some point top and record will switch to using perf_evlist__open that
takes care of this detail and probably will also handle the fallback
from hw to soft counters, etc.

Reported-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dczhu@mips.com>
Tested-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dczhu@mips.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ebm34rh098i9y9v4cytfdp0x@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-26 10:25:02 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2b022a82a0 perf python: Add missing perf_event__parse_sample 'swapped' parm
Problem introduced in 936be50, that missed one perf_event__parse_sample
user, the python binding.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ja4phms9618ggi657plyuch2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-09-23 15:38:53 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
3e9f45a7a4 perf python: Add PERF_RECORD_{LOST,READ,SAMPLE} routine tables
So those friggin "spurious" PERF_RECORD_MMAP events were actually a
brain fart copy'n'paste error in the python binding, doh. I.e. they
weren't MMAPs, just SAMPLEs.

Fix it by providing routines for these events instead of using the MMAP
ones.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-b0rc8y5jd03f9f11kftodvkm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-07-25 17:13:27 -03:00
Frederic Weisbecker
64348153c6 perf python: Cleanup useless double NULL termination in method arg names
The list of methods argument names only needs to be NULL terminated
once. Remove the second ones.

Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1301588863-20210-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-06-02 13:21:26 -03:00
Frederic Weisbecker
e95cc02880 perf python: Fix argument name list of read_on_cpu()
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 <module>
	    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 <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1301588863-20210-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-06-02 13:21:07 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
c2a70653af perf evlist: Don't die if sample_{id_all|type} is invalid
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 "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: perf_sample_size
>>>
[root@emilia ~]#

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1hkj7b2cvgbfnoizsekjb6c9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-06-02 11:04:54 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
5c6970af2f perf python: Use exception to propagate errors
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 "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
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 <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-m9dba9kaluas0kq8r58z191c@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-06-02 10:55:10 -03:00
Ingo Molnar
3ac1bbcf13 Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/builtin-top.c

Semantic conflict:
	util/include/linux/list.h        # fix prefetch.h removal fallout

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-22 10:10:01 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5538becaec perf tools: Propagate event parse error handling
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 <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
2011-05-22 03:38:49 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
a285412479 perf tools: Pre-check sample size before parsing
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 <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
2011-05-22 03:38:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
df48d8716e Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* '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
  ...
2011-05-19 17:36:08 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
aece948f5d perf evlist: Fix per thread mmap setup
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 <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110426204401.GB1746@ghostprotocols.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-05-15 10:02:14 -03:00
Ingo Molnar
129c04cb8c perf tools: Add front-end and back-end stalled cycles support
Update perf tooling to deal with front-end and back-end stalled cycles events.

Add both the default 'perf stat' output.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n002io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-29 14:35:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
94403f8863 perf events: Add stalled cycles generic event - PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES
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 <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fue11vymwqsoo5to72jxxjyl@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-26 20:04:53 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
5d2cd90922 perf evsel: Fix use of inherit
perf stat doesn't mmap and its perfectly fine for it to use task-bound
counters with inheritance.

So set the attr.inherit on the caller and leave the syscall itself to
validate it.

When the mmap fails perf_evlist__mmap will just emit a warning if this
is the failure reason.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110414170121.GC3229@ghostprotocols.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-04-15 12:52:28 -03:00
Frederic Weisbecker
cfff2d909c perf: Fix undefined PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT in python 2.5
PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT is undefined in python 2.5, resulting
in a build crash:

	util/python.c:81: attention : déclaration implicite de la fonction « «PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT» »
	util/python.c:82: erreur: request for member «tp_name» in something not a structure or union
	util/python.c:117: erreur: request for member «tp_name» in something not a structure or union
	util/python.c:146: erreur: request for member «tp_name» in something not a structure or union
	util/python.c:177: erreur: request for member «tp_name» in something not a structure or union
	util/python.c:290: erreur: request for member «tp_name» in something not a structure or union
	util/python.c:359: erreur: request for member «tp_name» in something not a structure or union
	util/python.c:532: erreur: request for member «tp_name» in something not a structure or union
	util/python.c:761: erreur: request for member «tp_name» in something not a structure or union
	error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
	make: *** [python/perf.so] Erreur 1

We can fix that by defining PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT as a wrapper on
PyObject_HEAD_INIT, thanks to a trick found on biopython:
d4eaf57946

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-03-04 01:17:27 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
f6bbc1daac perf python: Fix build on 32-bit
Where there are lots of errors related to python methods receiving
'char *' for things like file open mode, which break the build, also
disable strict aliasing and fixup some other warnings. Now builds on
both 32-bit and 64-bit fedora systems.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-31 20:56:27 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
7e2ed09753 perf evlist: Store pointer to the cpu and thread maps
So that we don't have to pass it around to the several methods that
needs it, simplifying usage.

There is one case where we don't have the thread/cpu map in advance,
which is in the parsing routines used by top, stat, record, that we have
to wait till all options are parsed to know if a cpu or thread list was
passed to then create those maps.

For that case consolidate the cpu and thread map creation via
perf_evlist__create_maps() out of the code in top and record, while also
providing a perf_evlist__set_maps() for cases where multiple evlists
share maps or for when maps that represent CPU sockets, for instance,
get crafted out of topology information or subsets of threads in a
particular application are to be monitored, providing more granularity
in specifying which cpus and threads to monitor.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-31 12:40:52 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
877108e42b perf tools: Initial python binding
First clarifying that this kind of binding is not a replacement or an
equivalent to the 'perf script' way of using python with perf.

The 'perf script' way is to process events and look at a given script
for some python function that matches the events to pass each event for
processing.

This is a python module, i.e. everything is driven from the python
script, that merely uses "import perf" or "from perf import".

perf script is focused on tracepoints, this binding is focused on profiling as
an initial target. More work is needed to make available tracepoint specific
variables as event variables accessible via this binding.

There is one example of such usage model, in
tools/perf/python/twatch.py, a tool to watch "cycles" events together
with task (fork, exit) and comm perf events.

For now, due to me not being able to grok how python distutils cope with
building C extensions outside the sources dir the install target just
builds it, I'm using it as:

[root@emilia linux]# export PYTHONPATH=~acme/git/build/perf/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/
[root@emilia linux]# tools/perf/python/twatch.py
cpu:  4, pid: 30126, tid: 30126 { type: mmap, pid: 30126, tid: 30126, start: 0x4, length: 0x82e9ca03, offset: 0, filename:  }
cpu:  6, pid:   47, tid:   47 { type: mmap, pid: 47, tid: 47, start: 0x6, length: 0xbef87c36, offset: 0, filename:  }
cpu:  1, pid:    0, tid:    0 { type: mmap, pid: 0, tid: 0, start: 0x1, length: 0x775d1904, offset: 0, filename:  }
cpu:  7, pid:    0, tid:    0 { type: mmap, pid: 0, tid: 0, start: 0x7, length: 0xc750aeb6, offset: 0, filename:  }
cpu:  5, pid: 2255, tid: 2255 { type: mmap, pid: 2255, tid: 2255, start: 0x5, length: 0x76669635, offset: 0, filename:  }
cpu:  0, pid:    0, tid:    0 { type: mmap, pid: 0, tid: 0, start: 0, length: 0x6422ef6b, offset: 0, filename:  }
cpu:  2, pid: 2255, tid: 2255 { type: mmap, pid: 2255, tid: 2255, start: 0x2, length: 0xe078757a, offset: 0, filename:  }
cpu:  1, pid: 5769, tid: 5769 { type: fork, pid: 30127, ppid: 5769, tid: 30127, ptid: 5769, time: 103893991270534}
cpu:  6, pid: 30127, tid: 30127 { type: comm, pid: 30127, tid: 30127, comm: ls }
cpu:  6, pid: 30127, tid: 30127 { type: exit, pid: 30127, ppid: 30127, tid: 30127, ptid: 30127, time: 103893993273024}

The first 8 mmap events in this 8 way machine are a mistery that is still being
investigated.

More of the tools/perf/util/ APIs will be exposed via this python binding as
the need arises. For now the focus is on creating events and processing them,
symbol resolution is an obvious next step, with tracepoint variables as a close
second step.

Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-01-30 11:37:38 -02:00