1. 18 Oct, 2011 2 commits
  2. 17 Oct, 2011 5 commits
  3. 15 Oct, 2011 1 commit
  4. 14 Oct, 2011 7 commits
  5. 13 Oct, 2011 6 commits
  6. 12 Oct, 2011 2 commits
  7. 11 Oct, 2011 3 commits
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf hists browser: Recalculate browser pointers after resort/decay · 900e14a8
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
      In browsers that access dynamic underlying data structures, like in the
      hists browser and its hist_entry rb_tree, we need to revalidate any
      reference to the underlying data structure, because they can have gone
      away, decayed.
      
      This fixes a problem where after a while the top entries get behind the
      top of the screen, i.e. the top_idx stays at 0, which means it is at the
      first entry in the rb_tree when in fact it wasn't because the
      browser->top didn't got revalidated after the timer ran and the
      underlying data structure got updated.
      
      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-mhje66qssdko24q67a2lhlho@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      900e14a8
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: Do not allocate buffer for trace_marker · d696b58c
      Steven Rostedt authored
      When doing intense tracing, the kmalloc inside trace_marker can
      introduce side effects to what is being traced.
      
      As trace_marker() is used by userspace to inject data into the
      kernel ring buffer, it needs to do so with the least amount
      of intrusion to the operations of the kernel or the user space
      application.
      
      As the ring buffer is designed to write directly into the buffer
      without the need to make a temporary buffer, and userspace already
      went through the hassle of knowing how big the write will be,
      we can simply pin the userspace pages and write the data directly
      into the buffer. This improves the impact of tracing via trace_marker
      tremendously!
      
      Thanks to Peter Zijlstra and Thomas Gleixner for pointing out the
      use of get_user_pages_fast() and kmap_atomic().
      Suggested-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Suggested-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      d696b58c
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: Warn on output if the function tracer was found corrupted · e0a413f6
      Steven Rostedt authored
      As the function tracer is very intrusive, lots of self checks are
      performed on the tracer and if something is found to be strange
      it will shut itself down keeping it from corrupting the rest of the
      kernel. This shutdown may still allow functions to be traced, as the
      tracing only stops new modifications from happening. Trying to stop
      the function tracer itself can cause more harm as it requires code
      modification.
      
      Although a WARN_ON() is executed, a user may not notice it. To help
      the user see that something isn't right with the tracing of the system
      a big warning is added to the output of the tracer that lets the user
      know that their data may be incomplete.
      Reported-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      e0a413f6
  8. 10 Oct, 2011 12 commits
  9. 07 Oct, 2011 2 commits
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf tools: Make --no-asm-raw the default · 64c6f0c7
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
      And add the annotation output knobs to all the tools that have
      integrated annotation (top, report).
      
      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-gnlob67mke6sji2kf4nstp7m@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      64c6f0c7
    • Stephane Eranian's avatar
      perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8) · fbe96f29
      Stephane Eranian authored
      The goal of this patch is to include more information about the host
      environment into the perf.data so it is more self-descriptive. Overtime,
      profiles are captured on various machines and it becomes hard to track
      what was recorded, on what machine and when.
      
      This patch provides a way to solve this by extending the perf.data file
      with basic information about the host machine. To add those extensions,
      we leverage the feature bits capabilities of the perf.data format.  The
      change is backward compatible with existing perf.data files.
      
      We define the following useful new extensions:
       - HEADER_HOSTNAME: the hostname
       - HEADER_OSRELEASE: the kernel release number
       - HEADER_ARCH: the hw architecture
       - HEADER_CPUDESC: generic CPU description
       - HEADER_NRCPUS: number of online/avail cpus
       - HEADER_CMDLINE: perf command line
       - HEADER_VERSION: perf version
       - HEADER_TOPOLOGY: cpu topology
       - HEADER_EVENT_DESC: full event description (attrs)
       - HEADER_CPUID: easy-to-parse low level CPU identication
      
      The small granularity for the entries is to make it easier to extend
      without breaking backward compatiblity. Many entries are provided as
      ASCII strings.
      
      Perf report/script have been modified to print the basic information as
      easy-to-parse ASCII strings. Extended information about CPU and NUMA
      topology may be requested with the -I option.
      
      Thanks to David Ahern for reviewing and testing the many versions of
      this patch.
      
       $ perf report --stdio
       # ========
       # captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011
       # hostname : quad
       # os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip
       # perf version : 3.1.0-rc4
       # arch : x86_64
       # nrcpus online : 4
       # nrcpus avail : 4
       # cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
       # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11
       # total memory : 8105360 kB
       # cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date
       # event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31,
       # HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
       # HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
       # ========
       #
       ...
      
       $ perf report --stdio -I
       # ========
       # captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011
       # hostname : quad
       # os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip
       # perf version : 3.1.0-rc4
       # arch : x86_64
       # nrcpus online : 4
       # nrcpus avail : 4
       # cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
       # cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11
       # total memory : 8105360 kB
       # cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date
       # event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31,
       # sibling cores   : 0-3
       # sibling threads : 0
       # sibling threads : 1
       # sibling threads : 2
       # sibling threads : 3
       # node0 meminfo  : total = 8320608 kB, free = 7571024 kB
       # node0 cpu list : 0-3
       # ========
       #
       ...
      Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
      Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110930134040.GA5575@quadSigned-off-by: default avatarStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      [ committer notes: Use --show-info in the tools as was in the docs, rename
        perf_header_fprintf_info to perf_file_section__fprintf_info, fixup
        conflict with f69b64f7 "perf: Support setting the disassembler style" ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      fbe96f29