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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
a328626b61 perf session: Adopt resolve_callchain
This is really a generic library routine, so declutter
builtin-report.c a bit by moving it to the library.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260807780-19377-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 17:34:55 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
4e4f06e4c8 perf session: Move the hist_entries rb tree to perf_session
As we'll need to sort multiple times for multiple perf sessions,
so that we can then do a diff.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260803439-16783-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 16:57:18 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
b9bf089212 perf tools: No need for three rb_trees for sorting hist entries
All hist entries are in only one of them, so use just one and a
temporary rb_root while sorting/collapsing.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260797831-11220-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 16:57:17 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
4aa6563641 perf session: Move kmaps to perf_session
There is still some more work to do to disentangle map creation
from DSO loading, but this happens only for the kernel, and for
the early adopters of perf diff, where this disentanglement
matters most, we'll be testing different kernels, so no problem
here.

Further clarification: right now we create the kernel maps for
the various modules and discontiguous kernel text maps when
loading the DSO, we should do it as a two step process, first
creating the maps, for multiple mappings with the same DSO
store, then doing the dso load just once, for the first hit on
one of the maps sharing this DSO backing store.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260741029-4430-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 16:57:17 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
b3165f4144 perf session: Move the global threads list to perf_session
So that we can process two perf.data files.

We still need to add a O_MMAP mode for perf_session so that we
can do all the mmap stuff in it.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260741029-4430-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 16:57:16 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
ec91336973 perf session: Reduce the number of parms to perf_session__process_events
By having the cwd/cwdlen in the perf_session struct and
full_paths in perf_event_ops.

Now its just a matter of passing the ops.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260741029-4430-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 16:57:16 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
13df45ca1c perf session: Register the idle thread in perf_session__process_events
No need for all tools to register it and then immediately call
perf_session__process_events.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260741029-4430-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 16:57:15 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
301a0b0202 perf session: Ditch register_perf_file_handler
Pass the event_ops to perf_session__process_events instead.

Also move the event_ops definition to session.h, starting to
move things around to their right place, trimming the many
unneeded headers we have.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260741029-4430-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 16:57:15 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d8f66248d6 perf session: Pass the perf_session to the event handling operations
They will need it to get the right threads list, etc.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260741029-4430-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 16:57:13 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
94c744b6c0 perf tools: Introduce perf_session class
That does all the initialization boilerplate, opening the file,
reading the header, checking if it is valid, etc.

And that will as well have the threads list, kmap (now) global
variable, etc, so that we can handle two (or more) perf.data files
describing sessions to compare.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260573842-19720-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-12 07:42:12 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
ea08d8cbd1 perf symbols: Ditch dso->find_symbol
It is always wired to dso__find_symbol.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260564999-13371-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-12 07:42:11 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
79406cd789 perf symbols: Allow lookups by symbol name too
Configurable via symbol_conf.sort_by_name, so that the cost of an
extra rb_node on all 'struct symbol' instances is not paid by tools
that only want to decode addresses.

How to use it:

	symbol_conf.sort_by_name = true;
	symbol_init(&symbol_conf);

	struct map *map = map_groups__find_by_name(kmaps, MAP__VARIABLE, "[kernel.kallsyms]");

	if (map == NULL) {
		pr_err("couldn't find map!\n");
		kernel_maps__fprintf(stdout);
	} else {
		struct symbol *sym = map__find_symbol_by_name(map, sym_filter, NULL);
		if (sym == NULL)
			pr_err("couldn't find symbol %s!\n", sym_filter);
		else
			pr_info("symbol %s: %#Lx-%#Lx \n", sym_filter, sym->start, sym->end);
	}

Looking over the vmlinux/kallsyms is common enough that I'll add a
variable to the upcoming struct perf_session to avoid the need to
use map_groups__find_by_name to get the main vmlinux/kallsyms map.

The above example looks on the 'variable' symtab, but it is just
like that for the functions one.

Also the sort operation is done when we first use
map__find_symbol_by_name, in a lazy way.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1260564622-12392-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-12 07:42:11 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
22ccec57f8 perf symbols: Add missing "Variables" entry to map_type__name
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260552208-6824-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-12 07:42:10 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
f1dfa0b1c1 perf symbols: Add support for 'variable' symtabs
Example:

{
	u64 addr = strtoull(sym_filter, NULL, 16);
	struct map *map = map_groups__find(kmaps, MAP__VARIABLE, addr);

	if (map == NULL)
		pr_err("couldn't find map!\n");
	else {
		struct symbol *sym = map__find_symbol(map, addr, NULL);
		if (sym == NULL)
			pr_err("couldn't find addr!\n");
		else
			pr_info("addr %#Lx is in %s global var\n", addr, sym->name);
	}
	exit(0);
}

Added just after symbol__init() call in 'perf top', then:

{
        u64 addr = strtoull(sym_filter, NULL, 16);
        struct map *map = map_groups__find(kmaps, MAP__VARIABLE, addr);

        if (map == NULL)
                pr_err("couldn't find map!\n");
        else {
                struct symbol *sym = map__find_symbol(map, addr, NULL);
                if (sym == NULL)
                        pr_err("couldn't find addr!\n");
                else
                        pr_info("addr %#Lx is in %s global var\n", addr, sym->name);
        }
        exit(0);
}

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# grep ' [dD] ' /proc/kallsyms | grep ' sched'
ffffffff817827d8 d sched_nr_latency
ffffffff81782ce0 d sched_domains_mutex
ffffffff8178c070 d schedstr.22423
ffffffff817909a0 d sched_register_mutex
ffffffff81823490 d sched_feat_names
ffffffff81823558 d scheduler_running
ffffffff818235b8 d sched_clock_running
ffffffff818235bc D sched_clock_stable
ffffffff81824f00 d sched_switch_trace
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s 0xffffffff817827d9
addr 0xffffffff817827d9 is in sched_nr_latency global var
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s ffffffff81782ce0
addr 0xffffffff81782ce0 is in sched_domains_mutex global var
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s ffffffff81782ce0 --vmlinux OFF
The file OFF cannot be used, trying to use /proc/kallsyms...addr 0xffffffff81782ce0 is in sched_domains_mutex global var
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s ffffffff818235bc --vmlinux OFF
The file OFF cannot be used, trying to use /proc/kallsyms...addr 0xffffffff818235bc is in sched_clock_stable global var
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#

So it works with both /proc/kallsyms and with ELF symtabs, either
the one on the vmlinux explicitely passed via --vmlinux or in one
in the vmlinux_path that matches the buildid for the running kernel
or the one found in the buildid header section in a perf.data file.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260550239-5372-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-12 07:42:10 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d45868d38c perf symbols: Introduce ELF counterparts to symbol_type__is_a
For selecting the right types of symbols in ELF symtabs.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260550239-5372-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-12 07:42:10 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
6893d4ee67 perf symbols: Introduce symbol_type__is_a
For selecting the right types of symbols in /proc/kallsyms, will be
followed by elf_symbol_type__is_a, for the same purpose on ELF
symtabs.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260550239-5372-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-12 07:42:09 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
9958e1f0ae perf symbols: Rename kthreads to kmaps, using another abstraction for it
Using a struct thread instance just to hold the kernel space maps
(vmlinux + modules) is overkill and confuses people trying to
understand the perf symbols abstractions.

The kernel maps are really present in all threads, i.e. the kernel
is a library, not a separate thread.

So introduce the 'map_groups' abstraction and use it for the kernel
maps, now in the kmaps global variable.

It, in turn, will move, together with the threads list to the
perf_file abstraction, so that we can support multiple perf_file
instances, needed by perf diff.

Brainstormed-with: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260550239-5372-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-12 07:42:09 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
716d69e4fd perf symbols: perf_header__read_build_ids() offset'n'size should be u64
As off_t is a long, so breaking things on 32-bit land. Now
buildids work on 32-bit land.

[root@ana ~]# uname -a
Linux ana.ghostprotocols.net 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Fri
Dec 4 01:09:09 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@ana ~]#
perf buildid-list | tail -5
136ee6792ba2ae57870ecd87369f4ae3194d5b27 /lib/libreadline.so.6.0
d202dcb1ad48d140065783657d37ae3f2d9ab83f /usr/bin/gdb
0a56c0c00dcc2e9e581ae9997f31957c9c4671df
/usr/lib/libdwarf.so.0.0
5f9e6ac95241cbb3227608e0ff2a2e0cbbe72439 /home/acme/bin/perf
925d19eccc2ddb1c9d74dd178a011426f1b124a8 /bin/sleep [root@ana ~]#

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260396578-19116-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-10 08:30:29 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
8b4825bf8d perf symbols: dsos__read_build_ids() should read both user and kernel buildids
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric 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: <1260396578-19116-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-10 08:30:28 +01:00
Li Zefan
bc3abfb1b5 perf tools: Align long options which have no short forms
Before:

$ ./perf kmem
...
    -l, --line <num>      show n lines
    --raw-ip              show raw ip instead of symbol

After:

$ ./perf kmem
...
    -l, --line <num>      show n lines
        --raw-ip          show raw ip instead of symbol

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <4B20A1A9.3040104@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-10 08:30:28 +01:00
Julia Lawall
5660ce3424 perf tools: Correct size given to memset
Memset should be given the size of the structure, not the size
of the pointer.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
type T;
T *x;
expression E;
@@

memset(x, E, sizeof(
+ *
 x))
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912092026000.1870@ask.diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-10 08:30:26 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
fa28244d12 perf probe: Support --del option
Support perf probe --del <event> option. Currently,
perf probe can have only one event for each --del option.
If you'd like to delete several probe events, you need
to specify --del for each events.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
LKML-Reference: <20091208220323.10142.62079.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 07:26:53 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
17f88fcd66 perf probe: Remove event suffix number _0
Remove event suffix number _0 if it is the first.
The first event has no suffix, and from the second,
each event has suffix number counted from _1. This
reduces typing cost :-).

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
LKML-Reference: <20091208220301.10142.50031.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 07:26:52 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
a9b495b0d3 perf probe: Change probe-added message more user-friendly
Change probe-added message more user-friendly expression and
show usage of new events.

Before:
Added new event: p:probe/schedule_0 schedule+10 prev=%ax cpu=%bx

After:
Added new event:
  probe:schedule_1                         (on schedule+1 with prev cpu)

You can now use it on all perf tools, such as:

        perf record -e probe:schedule_1 -a sleep 1

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
LKML-Reference: <20091208220247.10142.91642.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 07:26:51 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
278498d438 perf probe: Change event list format
Change event list format for user readability. perf probe --list
shows event list in "[GROUP:EVENT] EVENT-DEFINITION" format, but
this format is different from the output of perf-list, and
EVENT-DEFINITION is a bit blunt. This patch changes the format to
more user friendly one.

Before:
[probe:schedule_0]	schedule+10 prev cpu

After:
  probe:schedule_0                         (on schedule+10 with prev cpu)

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
LKML-Reference: <20091208220240.10142.42916.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 07:26:50 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
849884508e perf probe: Check e_snprintf() format string
Check e_snprintf() format string by gcc, and fix a bug of
e_snprintf() caller.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091207170053.19230.7690.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-07 18:33:21 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
e1d2017b24 perf probe: Fix event namelist to duplicate string
Fix event namelist to duplicate string. Without duplicating, adding
multiple probes causes stack overwrite bug, because it reuses a
buffer on stack while the buffer is already added in the namelist.
String duplication solves this bug because only contents of the
buffer is copied to the namelist.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091207170046.19230.55557.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-07 18:33:21 +01:00
Juha Leppanen
d56728b8d7 perf probe: Fix strtailcmp() to compare s1and s2[0]
Fix strtailcmp() to compare s1[0] and s2[0]. strtailcmp() returns 0
if "a" and "b" or "a" and "ab", it's a wrong behavior. This patch
fixes it.

Signed-off-by: "Juha Leppanen" <juha_motorsportcom@luukku.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Juha Leppanen <juha_motorsportcom@luukku.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091207170040.19230.37464.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-07 18:33:20 +01:00
Ulrich Drepper
180570fdb7 perf tools: Optimize parse_subsystem_tracepoint_event()
Uses of strcat are almost always signs that someone is too lazy
to think about the code a bit more carefully.  One always has to
know about the lengths of the strings involved to avoid buffer
overflows.

This is one case where the size of the object code for me is
reduced by 38 bytes.  The code should also be faster, especially
if flags is non-NULL.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: jaswinderrajput@gmail.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
LKML-Reference: <200912061825.nB6IPUa1023306@hs20-bc2-1.build.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-07 08:09:29 +01:00
Tom Zanussi
67a6259ec9 perf trace/scripting: Don't display 'scripting unsupported' msg unnecessarily
The 'scripting unsupported' message should only be displayed
when the -s or -g options are used, and not when they aren't, as
the current code does.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
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>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260163919-6679-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-07 08:05:07 +01:00
Tom Zanussi
3a9a0beba2 perf trace/scripting: Fix compile error when libperl not installed
When I added the xs callbacks into perf, I forgot to re-check
the no-libperl case. This patch fixes the undefined reference
error for that.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.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: <1260153712.6564.4.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-07 06:31:37 +01:00
Xiao Guangrong
d9541ed324 perf_event: Fix __dsos__write_buildid_table()
The remain buff size is 'len - pos->long_name_len - 1', not
'len - pos->long_name_len + 1'

This bug was introduced by commit 7691b1e ("perf tools: Misc small
fixes").

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B1C7F73.80707@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-07 06:26:24 +01:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
7691b1ec2e perf tools: Misc small fixes
- util/header.c
	"len" is aligned to 64. So, it tries to write the out of
	long_name buffer.

	So, this use "zero_buf" to write aligned area.

- util/trace-event-read.c
	"size" is not including nul byte. So, this allocates it, and set '\0'.

- util/trace-event-parse.c
	It needs parens to calc correct size.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <87d42s8iiu.fsf_-_@devron.myhome.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-06 18:15:02 +01:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
180f95e29a perf: Make common SAMPLE_EVENT parser
Currently, sample event data is parsed for each commands, and it
is assuming that the data is not including other data. (E.g.
timechart, trace, etc. can't parse the event if it has
PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN)

So, even if we record the superset data for multiple commands at
a time, commands can't parse. etc.

To fix it, this makes common sample event parser, and use it to
parse sample event correctly. (PERF_SAMPLE_READ is unsupported
for now though, it seems to be not using.)

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <87hbs48imv.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-06 18:15:01 +01:00
Julia Lawall
59b4caeb79 perf tools: Correct size computation in tracepoint_id_to_path()
The size argument to zalloc should be the size of desired
structure, not the pointer to it.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@expression@
expression *x;
@@

x =
 <+...
-sizeof(x)
+sizeof(*x)
...+>// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
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>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912061016120.20858@ask.diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-06 10:21:59 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
23ba90e328 Merge branch 'perf/scripting' into perf/core
Merge reason: it's ready for v2.6.33.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-03 20:10:42 +01:00
Liming Wang
93aaa45a6a perf tools: Replace %m with %a in sscanf
Not all glibc support %m and it results in a compile error if
%m not supported. Replace it with %a and (float *) casts.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: mhiramat@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1259743374-9950-1-git-send-email-liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-02 10:12:16 +01:00
Liming Wang
c19e33aa84 perf tools: Fix _GNU_SOURCE macro related strndup() build error
strndup is a GNU extension. So dont include string.h without
defining _GNU_SOURCE (it results in a compile error otherwise).

Remove these includes as util.h does it already.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: mhiramat@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1259734306-26323-1-git-send-email-liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-02 09:24:56 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
b498ce1f27 perf probe: Simplify event naming
Simplify event naming as <symbol>_<seqnum>. Each event name is
globally unique (group name is not checked). So, if there is
schedule_0, next probe event on schedule() will be schedule_1.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091201002024.10235.2353.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01 08:20:03 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
4de189fe6e perf probe: Add --list option for listing current probe events
Add --list option for listing currently defined probe events
in the kernel. This shows events in below format;

 [group:event]	<perf-probe probe-definition>

for example:

 [probe:schedule_0]	schedule+30 cpu

Note that source file/line information is not supported yet.
So even if you added a probe by line, it will be shown in
<symbol+offset>.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091201002017.10235.76575.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01 08:20:02 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
e1c01d61a9 perf probe: Add argv_split() from lib/argv_split.c
Add argv_split() ported from lib/argv_split.c to string.c and
use it in util/probe-event.c.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091201002005.10235.55602.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01 08:20:02 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
50656eec82 perf probe: Move probe event utility functions to probe-event.c
Split probe event (kprobe-events and perf probe events) utility
functions from builtin-probe.c to probe-event.c.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091201001958.10235.90243.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01 08:20:01 +01:00
Li Zefan
bab81b624e perf annotate: Fix perf data parsing
perf-annotate doesn't parse perf.data correctly in that it
doesn't read perf header. Fix this by using
mmap_dispatch_perf_file().

Before:

TOTAL events:      17565
      MMAP events:       3221
      LOST events:         10
      COMM events:        235
      EXIT events:          2
  THROTTLE events:          1
UNTHROTTLE events:          2
      FORK events:         10
      READ events:          1
    SAMPLE events:      14083

After:

TOTAL events:      17290
      MMAP events:       3203
      LOST events:          0
      COMM events:        234
      EXIT events:          1
  THROTTLE events:          0
UNTHROTTLE events:          0
      FORK events:          0
      READ events:          0
    SAMPLE events:      13852

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B14B201.9030708@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01 08:14:08 +01:00
Tom Zanussi
8ea339adc0 perf trace/scripting: Add Fedora libperl install note to doc
Fedora needs perl-ExtUtils-Embed for Perl scripting, which also
brings along libperl-devel; note this info for the convenience
of Fedora users.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1259565529-6407-5-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-30 09:04:01 +01:00
Tom Zanussi
61381de050 perf trace/scripting: Fix Perl common_* access functions
The common_* functions (e.g. common_pc(), etc) are exported as
common_* but named get_common_*, resulting in unresolved
subroutine errors when executing scripts.

Make the internal and external names match.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1259565529-6407-4-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-30 09:04:00 +01:00
Tom Zanussi
d1b93772be perf trace: Add interface to access perf data from Perl handlers
The Perl scripting support for perf trace allows most of a trace
event's data to be accessed directly as handler arguments, but
not all of it e.g. the less common fields aren't passed in.  To
give scripts access to the other fields and/or any other data or
metadata in the main perf executable that might be useful, a way
to access the C data in perf from Perl is needed; this patch
uses the Perl XS facility to do it for the common_xxx event
fields not passed to handler functions.

Context.pm exports three functions to Perl scripts that access
fields for the current event by calling back into perf:
common_pc(), common_flags() and common_lock_depth().  Support
for common_flags() field values was added to Core.pm and a
script used to sanity check these and other basic scripting
features, check-perf-trace.pl, was also added.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1259133352-23685-6-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-28 10:04:27 +01:00
Tom Zanussi
16c632de64 perf trace: Add Perl scripting support
Implement trace_scripting_ops to make Perl a supported perf
trace scripting language.

Additionally adds code that allows Perl trace scripts to access
the 'flag' and 'symbolic' (__print_flags(), __print_symbolic())
field information parsed from the trace format files.

Also adds the Perl implementation of the generate_script()
trace_scripting_op, which creates a ready-to-run perf trace Perl
script based on existing trace data.  Scripts generated by this
implementation print out all the fields for each event mentioned
in perf.data (and will detect and generate the proper scripting
code for 'flag' and 'symbolic' fields), and will additionally
generate handlers for the special 'trace_unhandled',
'trace_begin' and 'trace_end' handlers.  Script authors can
simply remove the printing code to implement their own custom
event handling.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1259133352-23685-4-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-28 10:04:26 +01:00
Tom Zanussi
eb9a42caa7 perf trace: Add flag/symbolic format_flags
It's useful to know whether a field is a flag or symbolic field
for e.g. when generating scripts - it allows us to translate
those fields specially rather than literally as plain numeric
values.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1259133352-23685-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-28 10:04:25 +01:00
Tom Zanussi
956ffd027b perf trace: Add scripting ops
Adds an interface, scripting_ops, that when implemented for a
particular scripting language enables built-in support for trace
stream processing using that language.

The interface is designed to enable full-fledged language
interpreters to be embedded inside the perf executable and
thereby make the full capabilities of the supported languages
available for trace processing.

See below for details on the interface.

This patch also adds a couple command-line options to 'perf
trace':

The -s option option is used to specify the script to be run.
Script names that can be used with -s take the form:

[language spec:]scriptname[.ext]

Scripting languages register a set of 'language specs' that can
be used to specify scripts for the registered languages.  The
specs can be used either as prefixes or extensions.

If [language spec:] is used, the script is taken as a script of
the matching language regardless of any extension it might have.
 If [language spec:] is not used, [.ext] is used to look up the
language it corresponds to.  Language specs are case
insensitive.

e.g. Perl scripts can be specified in the following ways:

Perl:scriptname
pl:scriptname.py # extension ignored
PL:scriptname
scriptname.pl
scriptname.perl

The -g [language spec] option gives users an easy starting point
for writing scripts in the specified language.  Scripting
support for a particular language can implement a
generate_script() scripting op that outputs an empty (or
near-empty) set of handlers for all the events contained in a
given perf.data trace file - this option gives users a direct
way to access that.

Adding support for a scripting language
---------------------------------------

The main thing that needs to be done do add support for a new
language is to implement the scripting_ops interface:

It consists of the following four functions:

    start_script()
    stop_script()
    process_event()
    generate_script()

start_script() is called before any events are processed, and is
meant to give the scripting language support an opportunity to
set things up to receive events e.g. create and initialize an
instance of a language interpreter.

stop_script() is called after all events are processed, and is
meant to give the scripting language support an opportunity to
clean up e.g. destroy the interpreter instance, etc.

process_event() is called once for each event and takes as its
main parameter a pointer to the binary trace event record to be
processed. The implementation is responsible for picking out the
binary fields from the event record and sending them to the
script handler function associated with that event e.g. a
function derived from the event name it's meant to handle e.g.
'sched::sched_switch()'.  The 'format' information for trace
events can be used to parse the binary data and map it into a
form usable by a given scripting language; see the Perl
implemention in subsequent patches for one possible way to
leverage the existing trace format parsing code in perf and map
that info into specific scripting language types.

generate_script() should generate a ready-to-run script for the
current set of events in the trace, preferably with bodies that
print out every field for each event.  Again, look at the Perl
implementation for clues as to how that can be done.  This is an
optional, but very useful op.

Support for a given language should also add a language-specific
setup function and call it from setup_scripting().  The
language-specific setup function associates the the scripting
ops for that language with one or more 'language specifiers'
(see below) using script_spec_register().  When a script name is
specified on the command line, the scripting ops associated with
the specified language are used to instantiate and use the
appropriate interpreter to process the trace stream.

In general, it should be relatively easy to add support for a
new language, especially if the language implementation supports
an interface allowing an interpreter to be 'embedded' inside
another program (in this case the containing program will be
'perf trace'). If so, it should be relatively straightforward to
translate trace events into invocations of user-defined script
functions where e.g. the function name corresponds to the event
type and the function parameters correspond to the event fields.
 The event and field type information exported by the event
tracing infrastructure (via the event 'format' files) should be
enough to parse and send any piece of trace data to the user
script.  The easiest way to see how this can be done would be to
look at the Perl implementation contained in
perf/util/trace-event-perl.c/.h.

There are a couple of other things that aren't covered by the
scripting_ops or setup interface and are technically optional,
but should be implemented if possible.  One of these is support
for 'flag' and 'symbolic' fields e.g. being able to use more
human-readable values such as 'GFP_KERNEL' or
HI/BLOCK_IOPOLL/TASKLET in place of raw flag values.  See the
Perl implementation to see how this can be done. The other thing
is support for 'calling back' into the perf executable to access
e.g. uncommon fields not passed by default into handler
functions, or any metadata the implementation might want to make
available to users via the language interface.  Again, see the
Perl implementation for examples.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1259133352-23685-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-28 10:04:24 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
1ed091c45a perf tools: Consolidate symbol resolving across all tools
Now we have a very high level routine for simple tools to
process IP sample events:

	int event__preprocess_sample(const event_t *self,
				     struct addr_location *al,
				     symbol_filter_t filter)

It receives the event itself and will insert new threads in the
global threads list and resolve the map and symbol, filling all
this info into the new addr_location struct, so that tools like
annotate and report can further process the event by creating
hist_entries in their specific way (with or without callgraphs,
etc).

It in turn uses the new next layer function:

	void thread__find_addr_location(struct thread *self, u8 cpumode,
					enum map_type type, u64 addr,
					struct addr_location *al,
					symbol_filter_t filter)

This one will, given a thread (userspace or the kernel kthread
one), will find the given type (MAP__FUNCTION now, MAP__VARIABLE
too in the near future) at the given cpumode, taking vdsos into
account (userspace hit, but kernel symbol) and will fill all
these details in the addr_location given.

Tools that need a more compact API for plain function
resolution, like 'kmem', can use this other one:

	struct symbol *thread__find_function(struct thread *self, u64 addr,
					     symbol_filter_t filter)

So, to resolve a kernel symbol, that is all the 'kmem' tool
needs, its just a matter of calling:

	sym = thread__find_function(kthread, addr, NULL);

The 'filter' parameter is needed because we do lazy
parsing/loading of ELF symtabs or /proc/kallsyms.

With this we remove more code duplication all around, which is
always good, huh? :-)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1259346563-12568-12-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-27 20:22:02 +01:00