- 11 May, 2010 4 commits
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Kyle McMartin authored
For Fedora, I want to force perf to link against libiberty.a for cplus_demangle, rather than libbfd.a for bfd_demangle due to licensing insanity on binutils. (libiberty is LGPL2, libbfd is GPL3.) If we just rely on autodetection, we'll end up with libbfd linked against us, since they're both in binutils-static in the buildroot. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20100510204335.GA7565@bombadil.infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Check whether elfutils is older than 0.138 (from which version checking routine has been introduced). And if so, set NO_DWARF because it is hard to check the API dependency without version checking. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Reported-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20100511045953.9913.19485.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Those are really not specific to the newt code, can be used by other UI frontends. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Ingo Molnar authored
This reverts commit 4fd38e45. It causes various crashes and hangs when events are activated. The cause is not fully understood yet but we need to revert it because the effects are severe. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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>
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- 10 May, 2010 18 commits
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Tom Zanussi authored
A small fix for the syscall counts script: - silence the match output in the shell script Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-10-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Tom Zanussi authored
A small fix for the syscall counts by pid script: - silence the match output in the shell script Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-9-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Tom Zanussi authored
A small fixe for the failed syscalls by pid script: - silence the match output in the shell script Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-8-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Tom Zanussi authored
Only print the script start/stop messages in verbose mode - users normally don't care and it just clutters up the output. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-7-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Tom Zanussi authored
Some minor fixes for the workqueue-stats script: - Fix nuisance 'use of uninitialized value' warnings Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-6-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Tom Zanussi authored
Some minor fixes for the wakeup-latency script: - Fix nuisance 'use of uninitialized value' warnings - Avoid divide-by-zero error Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-5-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Tom Zanussi authored
A couple of fixes for the rwtop script: - printing the totals and clearing the hashes in the signal handler eventually leads to various random and serious problems when running the rwtop script continuously. Moving the print_totals() calls to the event handlers solves that problem, and the event handlers are invoked frequently enough that it doesn't affect the timeliness of the output. - Fix nuisance 'use of uninitialized value' warnings Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Message-Id: <1273466820-9330-4-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Tom Zanussi authored
Some minor fixes for the rw-by-pid script: - Fix nuisance 'use of uninitialized value' warnings - Change the failed read/write sections to sort by error counts Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Tom Zanussi authored
A couple small fixes for the failed syscalls script: - The script description says it can be restricted to a specific comm, make it so. - silence the match output in the shell script Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Better done when we are adding entries, be it initially of when we're re-sorting the histograms. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
In cbbc79a we introduced support for multiple events by introducing a new "event_stat_id" struct and then made several perf_session methods receive a point to it instead of a pointer to perf_session, and kept the event_stats and hists rb_tree in perf_session. While working on the new newt based browser, I realised that it would be better to introduce a new class, "hists" (short for "histograms"), renaming the "event_stat_id" struct and the perf_session methods that were really "hists" methods, as they manipulate only struct hists members, not touching anything in the other perf_session members. Other optimizations, such as calculating the maximum lenght of a symbol name present in an hists instance will be possible as we add them, avoiding a re-traversal just for finding that information. The rationale for the name "hists" to replace "event_stat_id" is that we may have multiple sets of hists for the same event_stat id, as, for instance, the 'perf diff' tool has, so event stat id is not what characterizes what this struct and the functions that manipulate it do. Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Using machines__create_kernel_maps(..., HOST_KERNEL_ID) it would create another machine instance for the host machine, and since 1f626bc3 we have it out of the machines rb_tree. Fix it by using machine__create_kernel_maps(&self->host_machine) directly. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Instead of newtAddComponents(just-one-entry, NULL), that is not needed if, like in this browser, we're adding just one component at a time. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'perf/test' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Works by adding a third parameter to the '-g' argument, after the graph type and minimum percentage, for example: [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report -g fractal,0.5,2 Will show only the first two symbols where at least 0.5% of the samples took place. All the other symbols that don't fall outside these constraints will be put together in the last entry, prefixed with "[...]" and the total percentage for them. Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
We have just one host on a given session, and that is the most common setup right now, so embed a ->host_machine struct machine instance directly in the perf_session class, check if we're looking for it before going to the rb_tree. This also fixes a problem found when we try to process old perf.data files where we didn't have MMAP events for the kernel and modules and thus don't create the kernel maps, do it in event__preprocess_sample if it wasn't already. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Which can happen when processing old files that had no fake kernel MMAP, events. That shouldn't result in perf_session__create_kernel_maps not being called, this will be fixed in a followup patch, for now do these checks to avoid segfaulting. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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- 09 May, 2010 16 commits
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
By using BITS_PER_LONG / 4, that is the number of chars that will be used in such cases as the DSO "name". Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Hitoshi Mitake authored
This patch drops "-a" from the default arguments passed to perf record by perf lock. If a user wants to do a system wide record of lock events, perf lock record -a <program> <argument> ... is enough for this purpose. This can reduce the size of the perf.data file. % sudo ./perf lock record whoami root [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.439 MB perf.data (~19170 samples) ] % sudo ./perf lock record -a whoami # with -a option root [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 48.962 MB perf.data (~2139197 samples) ] Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: Message-Id: <1273306229-5216-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
And with that fix at least one bug: The first hit for an entry, the one that calls malloc to create a new instance in __perf_session__add_hist_entry, wasn't adding the count to the per cpumode (PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER, etc) total variable. Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Tom Zanussi authored
Some events, such as the PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND event consist of only an event header and no data. In this case, a 0-length payload will be read, and the 0 return value will be wrongly interpreted as an 'unexpected end of event stream'. This patch allows for proper handling of data-less events by skipping 0-length reads. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1273038527.6383.51.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
lock_acquired, lock_contended and lock_release now share the same prototype and format. Let's factorize them into a lock event class. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Drop the nested field as we don't use it. Every nested state can be computed from a state machine on post processing already. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Drop the waittime field from the lock_acquired event, we can calculate it by substracting the lock_acquired event timestamp with the matching lock_acquire one. It is not needed and takes useless space in the traces. 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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
When a lock is acquired after beeing contended, we update the wait time statistics for the given lock. But if the min wait time is updated, we don't check the max wait time. This is wrong because the first time we update the wait time, we want to update both min and max wait time. Before: Name acquired contended total wait (ns) max wait (ns) min wait (ns) key 8 1 21656 0 21656 After: Name acquired contended total wait (ns) max wait (ns) min wait (ns) key 8 1 21656 21656 21656 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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Fix the cast made to get the bad rate. It is made in the result instead of the operands. We need the operands to be cast in double, otherwise the result will always be zero. 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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Use an enum instead of plain constants for lock flags. 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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Use enum to get a human view of bad_hist indexes and put bad histogram output in its own function. 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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
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Hitoshi Mitake authored
This adds the "info" subcommand to perf lock which can be used to dump metadata like threads or addresses of lock instances. "map" was removed because info should do the work for it. This will be useful not only for debugging but also for ordinary analyzing. v2: adding example of usage % sudo ./perf lock info -t | Thread ID: comm | 0: swapper | 1: init | 18: migration/5 | 29: events/2 | 32: events/5 | 33: events/6 ... % sudo ./perf lock info -m | Address of instance: name of class | 0xffff8800b95adae0: &(&sighand->siglock)->rlock | 0xffff8800bbb41ae0: &(&sighand->siglock)->rlock | 0xffff8800bf165ae0: &(&sighand->siglock)->rlock | 0xffff8800b9576a98: &p->cred_guard_mutex | 0xffff8800bb890a08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock | 0xffff8800b9522a08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock | 0xffff8800bb8aaa08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock | 0xffff8800bba72a08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock | 0xffff8800bf18ea08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock | 0xffff8800b8a0d8a0: &(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock | 0xffff88009bf818a0: &(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock | 0xffff88004c66b8a0: &(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock | 0xffff8800bb6478a0: &(shost->host_lock)->rlock v3: fixed some problems Frederic pointed out * better rbtree tracking in dump_threads() * removed printf() and used pr_info() and pr_debug() Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1272863520-16179-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
The current events reordering algorithm is based on a heuristic that gets broken once we deal with a very fast flow of events. Indeed the time period based flushing is not suitable anymore in the following case, assuming we have a flush period of two seconds. CPU 0 | CPU 1 | cnt1 timestamps | cnt1 timestamps | 0 | 0 1 | 1 2 | 2 3 | 3 [...] | [...] 4 seconds later If we spend too much time to read the buffers (case of a lot of events to record in each buffers or when we have a lot of CPU buffers to read), in the next pass the CPU 0 buffer could contain a slice of several seconds of events. We'll read them all and notice we've reached the period to flush. In the above example we flush the first half of the CPU 0 buffer, then we read the CPU 1 buffer where we have events that were on the flush slice and then the reordering fails. It's simple to reproduce with: perf lock record perf bench sched messaging To solve this, we use a new solution that doesn't rely on an heuristical time slice period anymore but on a deterministic basis based on how perf record does its job. perf record saves the buffers through passes. A pass is a tour on every buffers from every CPUs. This is made in order: for each CPU we read the buffers of every counters. So the more buffers we visit, the later will be the timstamps of their events. When perf record finishes a pass it records a PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo event. We record the max timestamp t found in the pass n. Assuming these timestamps are monotonic across cpus, we know that if a buffer still has events with timestamps below t, they will be all available and then read in the pass n + 1. Hence when we start to read the pass n + 2, we can safely flush every events with timestamps below t. ============ PASS n ================= CPU 0 | CPU 1 | cnt1 timestamps | cnt2 timestamps 1 | 2 2 | 3 - | 4 <--- max recorded ============ PASS n + 1 ============== CPU 0 | CPU 1 | cnt1 timestamps | cnt2 timestamps 3 | 5 4 | 6 5 | 7 <---- max recorded Flush every events below timestamp 4 ============ PASS n + 2 ============== CPU 0 | CPU 1 | cnt1 timestamps | cnt2 timestamps 6 | 8 7 | 9 - | 10 Flush every events below timestamp 7 etc... It also works on perf.data versions that don't have PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo events. The difference is that the events will be only flushed in the end of the perf.data processing. It will then consume more memory and scale less with large perf.data files. 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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
In order to provide a more rubust and deterministic reordering algorithm, we need to know when we reach a point where we just did a pass through over every counter buffers to read every thing they had. This patch introduces a new PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo event that only consist in an event header and doesn't need to contain anything. 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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
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- 08 May, 2010 2 commits
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Pekka Enberg authored
This patch improves 'perf report -h' output for the '--call-graph' command line option by enumerating the different output types. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1273332783-4268-1-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Masami Hiramatsu authored
Move enable/disable_kprobe() API out from debugfs related code, because these interfaces are not related to debugfs interface. This fixes a compiler warning. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> LKML-Reference: <20100427223312.2322.60512.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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