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Carlos R. Mafra
2932cffc89 perf: Rename perf-examples.txt to examples.txt
Rename it to examples.txt to avoid the perf-*.txt pattern in
the Makefile, otherwise 'make doc' fails because
perf-examples.txt is not formatted to be a man page:

 ERROR: perf-examples.txt: line 1: manpage document title is mandatory

Signed-off-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-17 10:43:42 +02:00
Carlos R. Mafra
c24b513337 perf: "Longum est iter per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla"
A few examples of how 'perf' can be used, from an e-mail by
Ingo Molnar http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/4/346.

Signed-off-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra2@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
LKML-Reference: <20090805185334.GA4535@Pilar.aei.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:46 +02:00
Brice Goglin
b26bc5a7f8 perf stat: Fix tool option consistency: rename -S/--scale to -c/--scale
We want to use a coherent flag for -S/--stat across all tools,
so free up -S in perf stat.

Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:37 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
8361798348 perf top: Update man page
perf_counter tools: update perf top manual page to reflect
current implementation.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:32 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
386c0b702b perf report: Add missing command line options to man page
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090805130453.GC10688@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-05 16:09:28 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
e3d7e183dc perf report: Introduce -n/--show-nr-samples
[acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report -ns comm,dso,symbol -d /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so -C pahole | head -17
    21.94%      32101  [.] _int_malloc
    20.10%      29402  [.] __GI_strcmp
    16.77%      24533  [.] __tsearch
    12.61%      18450  [.] malloc_consolidate
     6.42%       9394  [.] _int_free
     6.28%       9191  [.] __tfind
     4.56%       6678  [.] __GI___libc_free
     4.46%       6520  [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
     2.59%       3786  [.] __malloc
     1.17%       1716  [.] __GI_memcpy
[acme@doppio pahole]$

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1247325517-12272-5-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-11 19:20:27 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
52d422de22 perf report: Adjust column width to the values sampled
Auto-adjust column width of perf report output to the
longest occuring string length.

Example:

[acme@doppio pahole]$  perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol | head -13

    12.79%   pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so    [.] __libdw_find_attr
     8.90%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so        [.] _int_malloc
     8.68%   pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so    [.] __libdw_form_val_len
     8.15%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so        [.] __GI_strcmp
     6.80%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so        [.] __tsearch
     5.54%   pahole  ./build/libdwarves.so.1.0.0  [.] tag__recode_dwarf_type
[acme@doppio pahole]$

[acme@doppio pahole]$  perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol -d /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so | head -10

    21.92%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so  [.] _int_malloc
    20.08%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so  [.] __GI_strcmp
    16.75%   pahole  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so  [.] __tsearch
[acme@doppio pahole]$

Also add these extra options to control the new behaviour:

  -w, --field-width

Force each column width to the provided list, for large terminal
readability.

  -t, --field-separator:

Use a special separator character and don't pad with spaces, replacing
all occurances of this separator in symbol names (and other output) with
a '.' character, that thus it's the only non valid separator.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic 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: <20090711014728.GH3452@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-11 10:24:11 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
7bec7a9134 perf report: Add --symbols parameter
So that we can filter by symbol name.

The 'pfunct' utility in the 'dwarves' package can be used to
create a file with the functions one wants.

Example:

[acme@doppio pahole]$ pfunct /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so.debug | grep dwarf > /tmp/dwarf.symbols
[acme@doppio pahole]$ wc -l /tmp/dwarf.symbols
93 /tmp/dwarf.symbols
[acme@doppio pahole]$ head -3 /tmp/dwarf.symbols
dwfl_addrdwarf
dwfl_module_getdwarf
dwfl_getdwarf
[acme@doppio pahole]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol --comms pahole --dsos /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so --symbols file:///tmp/dwarf.symbols

    33.99%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] dwarf_tag
    29.07%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] dwarf_decl_file
    27.71%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] dwarf_getsrclines
     4.54%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  0x00000000007400
     3.93%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] dwarf_decl_line
     0.46%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] dwarf_getlocation
     0.18%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] __libdwarf_next_prime
     0.13%            pahole  /usr/lib64/libdw-0.141.so  [.] dwarf_diecu

[acme@doppio pahole]$

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246399282-20934-4-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 00:07:10 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
cc8b88b15a perf report: Add --comms parameter
So that we can filter by comm. Symbols in other comms won't be
accounted for.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246399282-20934-3-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 00:07:10 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
25903407da perf report: Add --dsos parameter
So that we can filter by dso. Symbols in other dsos won't be
accounted for.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246399282-20934-2-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 00:07:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b0a28589b2 perf report: Fix help text typo
Reported-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
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>
2009-06-23 16:39:53 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
dee412066a perf stat: Fix command option / manpage
-l is not supported, it should be -S for scale.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1245703959.6167.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-23 10:20:02 +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