- 07 Jun, 2009 5 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
If perf is run on a !CONFIG_PERF_COUNTER kernel right now it bails out with no messages or with confusing messages. Standardize this case some more and explain the situation. 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>
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Ingo Molnar authored
On architectures/CPUs without PMU support but with perfcounters enabled 'perf record' currently fails because it cannot create a cycle based hw-perfcounter. Fall back to the cpu-clock-tick sw-perfcounter in this case, which is hrtimer based and will always work (as long as perfcounters are enabled). 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>
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Ingo Molnar authored
On architectures/CPUs without PMU support but with perfcounters enabled 'perf top' currently fails because it cannot create a cycle based hw-perfcounter. Fall back to the cpu-clock-tick sw-perfcounter in this case, which is hrtimer based and will always work (as long as perfcounters is enabled). 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>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Before: $ perf stat ~/hackbench 5 error: syscall returned with -1 (No such device) After: $ perf stat ~/hackbench 5 Time: 1.640 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 5': 6524.570382 task-clock-ticks # 3.838 CPU utilization factor 35704 context-switches # 0.005 M/sec 191 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 8958 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec <not counted> cycles <not counted> instructions <not counted> cache-references <not counted> cache-misses Wall-clock time elapsed: 1699.999995 msecs Also add -v (--verbose) option to allow the printing of failed counter opens. Plus dont print 'inf' if wall-time is zero (due to jiffies granularity), instead skip the printing of the CPU utilization factor. 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>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
The first snapshot reading often occur before any events have been read in the mapped perfcounter files. Just wait until we have at least one event before starting the snapshot, or the delay before the first set of entries to be displayed may be long in case of low refresh rate. Note: we could also use a semaphore to wait before "print_entries" number of eveents is reached, but again this value is tunable and we can't ensure we will even reach it. Also we could base on a default mimimum set of entries for the first refresh, say 15, but again, the minimal sample is tunable, and we could end up displaying nothing until we have a minimal default set of events, which can take some time in case of high samples filters. Hence this simple solution which partially covers the default case. [ Impact: fix display artifacts in perf top ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbeec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1244322643-6447-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 06 Jun, 2009 16 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Arjan noticed this bug in the perf annotate help output: -s, --symbol <file> symbol to annotate that should be <symbol> instead. Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> 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>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
the "perf report" utility crashed in some circumstances because the "sym" stack variable was not initialized before used (as also proven by valgrind). With this fix both the crash goes away and valgrind no longer complains. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> 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>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Right now kernel debug info does not get resolved by default, because we dont know where to look for the vmlinux. The -k option can be used for that - but if no option is given, pick up vmlinux files in the current directory - in case a kernel hacker runs profiling from the source directory that the kernel was built in. The real solution would be to embedd the location (and perhaps the date/timestamp) of the vmlinux file in /proc/kallsyms, so that tools can pick it up automatically. 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>
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Ingo Molnar authored
gcc warned about this bug: util/parse-events.c: In function ‘parse_generic_hw_symbols’: util/parse-events.c:175: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type util/parse-events.c:182: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type util/parse-events.c:190: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type 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>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
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>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes before the -v8 perfcounters release. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Add new perf sub-command to display annotated source code: $ perf annotate decode_tree_entry ------------------------------------------------ Percent | Source code & Disassembly of /home/mingo/git/git ------------------------------------------------ : : /home/mingo/git/git: file format elf64-x86-64 : : : Disassembly of section .text: : : 00000000004a0da0 <decode_tree_entry>: : *modep = mode; : return str; : } : : static void decode_tree_entry(struct tree_desc *desc, const char *buf, unsigned long size) : { 3.82 : 4a0da0: 41 54 push %r12 : const char *path; : unsigned int mode, len; : : if (size < 24 || buf[size - 21]) 0.17 : 4a0da2: 48 83 fa 17 cmp $0x17,%rdx : *modep = mode; : return str; : } : : static void decode_tree_entry(struct tree_desc *desc, const char *buf, unsigned long size) : { 0.00 : 4a0da6: 49 89 fc mov %rdi,%r12 0.00 : 4a0da9: 55 push %rbp 3.37 : 4a0daa: 53 push %rbx : const char *path; : unsigned int mode, len; : : if (size < 24 || buf[size - 21]) 0.08 : 4a0dab: 76 73 jbe 4a0e20 <decode_tree_entry+0x80> 0.00 : 4a0dad: 80 7c 16 eb 00 cmpb $0x0,-0x15(%rsi,%rdx,1) 3.48 : 4a0db2: 75 6c jne 4a0e20 <decode_tree_entry+0x80> : static const char *get_mode(const char *str, unsigned int *modep) : { : unsigned char c; : unsigned int mode = 0; : : if (*str == ' ') 1.94 : 4a0db4: 0f b6 06 movzbl (%rsi),%eax 0.39 : 4a0db7: 3c 20 cmp $0x20,%al 0.00 : 4a0db9: 74 65 je 4a0e20 <decode_tree_entry+0x80> : return NULL; : : while ((c = *str++) != ' ') { 0.06 : 4a0dbb: 89 c2 mov %eax,%edx : if (c < '0' || c > '7') 1.99 : 4a0dbd: 31 ed xor %ebp,%ebp : unsigned int mode = 0; : : if (*str == ' ') : return NULL; : : while ((c = *str++) != ' ') { 1.74 : 4a0dbf: 48 8d 5e 01 lea 0x1(%rsi),%rbx : if (c < '0' || c > '7') 0.00 : 4a0dc3: 8d 42 d0 lea -0x30(%rdx),%eax 0.17 : 4a0dc6: 3c 07 cmp $0x7,%al 0.00 : 4a0dc8: 76 0d jbe 4a0dd7 <decode_tree_entry+0x37> 0.00 : 4a0dca: eb 54 jmp 4a0e20 <decode_tree_entry+0x80> 0.00 : 4a0dcc: 0f 1f 40 00 nopl 0x0(%rax) 16.57 : 4a0dd0: 8d 42 d0 lea -0x30(%rdx),%eax 0.14 : 4a0dd3: 3c 07 cmp $0x7,%al 0.00 : 4a0dd5: 77 49 ja 4a0e20 <decode_tree_entry+0x80> : return NULL; : mode = (mode << 3) + (c - '0'); 3.12 : 4a0dd7: 0f b6 c2 movzbl %dl,%eax : unsigned int mode = 0; : : if (*str == ' ') : return NULL; : : while ((c = *str++) != ' ') { 0.00 : 4a0dda: 0f b6 13 movzbl (%rbx),%edx 16.74 : 4a0ddd: 48 83 c3 01 add $0x1,%rbx : if (c < '0' || c > '7') : return NULL; : mode = (mode << 3) + (c - '0'); The first column is the percentage of samples that arrived on that particular line - relative to the total cost of the function. 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>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Prepare for the 'perf annotate' implementation by splitting off builtin-annotate.c from builtin-report.c. ( We keep this commit separate to ease the later librarization of the facilities that perf-report and perf-annotate shares. ) 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>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Also fix a misalignment in usage string printing. 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>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Also add perf list to command-list.txt. 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>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Also update other areas of the help texts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 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>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Also standardize the cache printout (so that it can be pasted back into the command) and sort out the aliases. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
perf list: List all the available event types which can be used in -e (--event) options. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Extend generic event enumeration with the PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE method. This is a 3-dimensional space: { L1-D, L1-I, L2, ITLB, DTLB, BPU } x { load, store, prefetch } x { accesses, misses } User-space passes in the 3 coordinates and the kernel provides a counter. (if the hardware supports that type and if the combination makes sense.) Combinations that make no sense produce a -EINVAL. Combinations that are not supported by the hardware produce -ENOTSUP. Extend the tools to deal with this, and rewrite the event symbol parsing code with various popular aliases for the units and access methods above. So 'l1-cache-miss' and 'l1d-read-ops' are both valid aliases. ( x86 is supported for now, with the Nehalem event table filled in, and with Core2 and Atom having placeholder tables. ) Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Counter type is a frequently used value and we do a lot of bit juggling by encoding and decoding it from attr->config. Clean this up by creating a separate attr->type field. Also clean up the various similarly complex user-space bits all around counter attribute management. The net improvement is significant, and it will be easier to add a new major type (which is what triggered this cleanup). (This changes the ABI, all tools are adapted.) (PowerPC build-tested.) Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 05 Jun, 2009 16 commits
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
If perf top is executed with a zero value for the refresh rate, we get a division by zero exception while computing samples_per_sec. Also a zero refresh rate is not possible, neither do we want to accept negative values. [ Impact: fix division by zero in perf top ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1244223061-5399-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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>
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Ingo Molnar authored
To allow the debugging of frequency-adjusting counters, sample those adjustments and display them in perf report -D. Acked-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> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
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> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
In order to allow easy tracking of the period, also provide means of adding it to the sample data. 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> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
The purpose of PERF_SAMPLE_CONFIG was to identify the counters, since then we've added counter ids, use those instead. 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> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Turns out that neither PowerPC nor older x86 compilers know this switch ... and since it does not make a measurable difference, just omit it. Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
A number of places said 'events' while they should say 'samples'. Acked-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> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Before: 25.96% copy_user_generic_string 15.23% two_op 15.19% one_op 6.92% enough_duration 1.23% alloc_pages_current 1.14% acpi_os_read_port 1.08% _spin_lock After: 25.96% [k] copy_user_generic_string 15.23% [.] two_op 15.19% [.] one_op 6.92% [.] enough_duration 1.23% [k] alloc_pages_current 1.14% [k] acpi_os_read_port 1.08% [k] _spin_lock The '[k]' differentiator is a quick clue that it's a kernel symbol, without having to bring in the full dso column. Acked-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> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
In order to deal with [vdso] maps generalize the ip->symbol path a bit and allow to override some bits with custom functions. 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> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
In order to track the vdso also generate mmap events for install_special_mapping(). 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> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
In order to make arch_vma_name() work from inside install_special_mapping() we need to set the context.vdso before calling it. ( This is needed for performance counters to be able to track this special executable area. ) 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> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Support frequency-based profiling and make it the default. (Also add a Hz printout in perf top.) 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>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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>
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Yong Wang authored
Otherwise the code does not compile on 32-bit boxes. builtin-report.c: In function 'map__fprintf': builtin-report.c:240: error: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'uint64_t' builtin-report.c:240: error: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'uint64_t' builtin-report.c:240: error: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'uint64_t' Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090605033735.GA20451@ywang-moblin2.bj.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Commit 8e3747c1 ("perf_counter: Change data head from u32 to u64") changed the type of 'head' in struct perf_mmap_data from atomic_t to atomic_long_t, but missed converting one use of atomic_read on it to atomic_long_read. The effect of using atomic_read rather than atomic_long_read on powerpc (and other big-endian architectures) is that we get the high half of the 64-bit quantity, resulting in the cmpxchg retry loop in perf_output_begin spinning forever as soon as data->head becomes non-zero. On little-endian architectures such as x86 we would get the low half, resulting in a lockup once data->head becomes greater than 4G. This fixes it by using atomic_long_read rather than atomic_read. [ Impact: fix perfcounter lockup on PowerPC / big-endian systems ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <18984.33964.21541.743096@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 04 Jun, 2009 3 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intelLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel: drm/i915: Remove a bad BUG_ON in the fence management code.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: drm: ignore EDID with really tiny modes. drm: don't associate _DRM_DRIVER maps with a master drm/i915: intel_lvds.c fix section mismatch drm: Hook up DPMS property handling in drm_crtc.c. Add drm_helper_connector_dpms. drm: set permissions on edid file to 0444 drm: add newlines to text sysfs files drm/radeon: fix ring free alignment calculations drm: fix irq naming for kms drivers.
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Salman Qazi authored
While running 20 parallel instances of dd as follows: #!/bin/bash for i in `seq 1 20`; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/export/hda3/dd_$i bs=1073741824 count=1 & done wait on a 16G machine, we noticed that rather than just killing the processes, the entire kernel went down. Stracing dd reveals that it first does an mmap2, which makes 1GB worth of zero page mappings. Then it performs a read on those pages from /dev/zero, and finally it performs a write. The machine died during the reads. Looking at the code, it was noticed that /dev/zero's read operation had been changed by 557ed1fa ("remove ZERO_PAGE") from giving zero page mappings to actually zeroing the page. The zeroing of the pages causes physical pages to be allocated to the process. But, when the process exhausts all the memory that it can, the kernel cannot kill it, as it is still in the kernel mode allocating more memory. Consequently, the kernel eventually crashes. To fix this, I propose that when a fatal signal is pending during /dev/zero read operation, we simply return and let the user process die. Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Modified error return and comment trivially. - Linus] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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