Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!
In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.
Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.
All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)
The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.
Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.
User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)
This patch has been generated via the following script:
FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')
sed -i \
-e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
-e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
-e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
-e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
-e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
-e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
$FILES
for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
mv $N $M
done
FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)
sed -i \
-e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
-e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
-e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
-e 's/counter/event/g' \
-e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
$FILES
... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.
Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.
( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )
Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tweak the output SVG to increase performance in SVG viewers by
limiting the different types of font sizes and by smarter
transformations on the text.
At least with Inkscape this gives a notable performance improvement
during zoom and scrolling.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090920181438.3a49cb93@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds a command line option for timechart that allows the
user to specify the width of the SVG file.
This patch also makes sure that each second of recording has at
least 200 units (pixels at 96 DPI) of width. This impacts
recordings longer than 5 seconds; recordings shorter than 5 second
will scale up to have a width of 1000 units for the whole recording
(as before).
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090920181416.69570c5d@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Given that scheduler latencies are the hot thing nowadays, show the
duration of said latencies in the SVG in text form.
In addition, if the latency is more than 10 msec, pick a brighter
yellow color as a way to point these long delays out.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090920181353.796f4509@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Timechart currently shows thin green lines for sending or receiving
wakeups. This patch also prints (in a very small font) the name of
the process that is being woken/wakes up this process.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090920181328.68baa978@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
As per Ingo's review: use a #define rather than an open coded constant
for the maximum length of a trace event for storing in the perf.data file.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090919133630.10533d3e@infradead.org>
[ add a few comments to nearby functions ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Be more consistent in the svghelper about the minimum text size
by having a global #define for this.
There needs to be a minimum text size in order to keep the size
of the SVG file within the reach of what current SVG viewers can
cope with.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090919133507.7374ef8b@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The timechart tool writes out SVG format output; this patch adds a
set of helper functions to abstract dealing with SVG from the core
timechart code.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130613.677f0516@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a sample_event type to the event_union so that raw samples can
be processed easily.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130511.411434b5@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
timechart needs to add a "callback" type command line argument that
does not take arguments.
This patch adds the parse-options.h infrastructure to make this
possible.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130440.548666c1@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The trace event name<->id mapping is dynamic for each kernel
compile. In order for perf.data to be useable outside the actual
system, we thus need to store a table of this mapping for later
use.
This patch adds this table to perf.data, and provides helper
functions for lookup up fields from this table.
To avoid mistakes, lookup-from-table is kept completely seprate
from lookup-from-local-debugfs.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130405.6960d099@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf timechart needs to know when a process forked, in order to be
able to visualize properly when tasks start.
This patch adds a time field to the event structure, and fills it
in appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130341.51ad2de2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The name length of some trace events is longer than 30, like
sys_enter_sched_get_priority_max and
ext4_mb_discard_preallocations.
Passing those events to perf-record will fail, try:
# ./perf record -f -e syscalls:sys_enter_sched_get_priority_max -F 1 -a
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AB1F4AB.7050205@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
get_tracing_file() should be paired with put_tracing_file().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AB1F48F.4070807@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter noticed that we have 3 ways of referring to the idle thread:
[idle]:0
swapper:0
swapper-0
Standardize on 'swapper:0'.
Reported-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>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Output such lost event and state machine weirdness stats:
TOTAL: | 14974.910 ms | 46384 |
---------------------------------------------------
INFO: 8.865% lost events (19132 out of 215819, in 8 chunks)
INFO: 0.198% state machine bugs (49 out of 24708) (due to lost events?)
And increase buffering to -m 1024 (4 MB) by default. Since we
use output multiplexing that kind of space is needed.
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: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Finish the -M/--multiplex option implementation:
- separate it out from group_fd
- correctly set it via the ioctl and dont mmap counters that
are multiplexed
- modify the perf record event loop to deal with buffer-less
counters.
- remove the -g option from perf sched record
- account for unordered events in perf sched latency
- (add -f to perf sched record to ease measurements)
- skip idle threads (pid==0) in latency output
The result is better latency output by 'perf sched latency':
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Task | Runtime ms | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ksoftirqd/8 | 0.071 ms | 2 | avg: 0.458 ms | max: 0.913 ms |
at-spi-registry | 0.609 ms | 19 | avg: 0.013 ms | max: 0.023 ms |
perf | 3.316 ms | 16 | avg: 0.013 ms | max: 0.054 ms |
Xorg | 0.392 ms | 19 | avg: 0.011 ms | max: 0.018 ms |
sleep | 0.537 ms | 2 | avg: 0.009 ms | max: 0.009 ms |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL: | 4.925 ms | 58 |
---------------------------------------------
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: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Implement the 'perf sched record' subcommand that adds a
default list of events, turns on raw sampling and system-wide
tracing and passes off the rest of the command to perf record.
This is more convenient than having to specify the events all
the time.
Before:
$ perf record -a -R -e sched:sched_switch:r -e sched:sched_stat_wait:r -e sched:sched_stat_sleep:r -e sched:sched_stat_iowait:r -e sched:sched_process_exit:r -e sched:sched_process_fork:r -e sched:sched_wakeup:r -e sched:sched_migrate_task:r -c 1 sleep 1
After:
$ perf sched record -f sleep 1
Also fix an assumption in the event string parser that assumed
that strings passed in can be modified. (In this case they wont
be as they come from a readonly constant section.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use a sort list for thread atoms insertion as well - instead of
hardcoded for PID.
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: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
After:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Task | runtime ms | switches | average delay ms | maximum delay ms |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
migration/0 | 0.000 ms | 1 | avg: 0.047 ms | max: 0.047 ms |
ksoftirqd/0 | 0.000 ms | 1 | avg: 0.039 ms | max: 0.039 ms |
migration/1 | 0.000 ms | 3 | avg: 0.013 ms | max: 0.016 ms |
migration/3 | 0.000 ms | 2 | avg: 0.003 ms | max: 0.004 ms |
migration/4 | 0.000 ms | 1 | avg: 0.022 ms | max: 0.022 ms |
distccd | 0.000 ms | 1 | avg: 0.004 ms | max: 0.004 ms |
distccd | 0.000 ms | 1 | avg: 0.014 ms | max: 0.014 ms |
distccd | 0.000 ms | 2 | avg: 0.000 ms | max: 0.000 ms |
distccd | 0.000 ms | 2 | avg: 0.012 ms | max: 0.019 ms |
distccd | 0.000 ms | 1 | avg: 0.002 ms | max: 0.002 ms |
as | 0.000 ms | 2 | avg: 0.019 ms | max: 0.019 ms |
as | 0.000 ms | 3 | avg: 0.015 ms | max: 0.017 ms |
as | 0.000 ms | 1 | avg: 0.009 ms | max: 0.009 ms |
perf | 0.000 ms | 1 | avg: 0.001 ms | max: 0.001 ms |
gcc | 0.000 ms | 1 | avg: 0.021 ms | max: 0.021 ms |
run-mozilla.sh | 0.000 ms | 2 | avg: 0.010 ms | max: 0.017 ms |
mozilla-plugin- | 0.000 ms | 1 | avg: 0.006 ms | max: 0.006 ms |
gcc | 0.000 ms | 2 | avg: 0.013 ms | max: 0.013 ms |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(The runtime ms column is not filled in yet.)
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: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf sched raises the following error when it meets a sched
switch event:
perf: builtin-sched.c:286: register_pid: Assertion `!(pid >= 65536)' failed.
Abandon
Currently in x86-64, the sched switch events have a hole in the
middle of the structure:
u16 common_type;
u8 common_flags;
u8 common_preempt_count;
u32 common_pid;
u32 common_tgid;
char prev_comm[16];
u32 prev_pid;
u32 prev_prio;
<--- there
u64 prev_state;
char next_comm[16];
u32 next_pid;
u32 next_prio;
Gcc inserts a 4 bytes hole there for prev_state to be u64
aligned. And the events are exported to userspace with this
hole.
But in userspace, from perf sched, we fetch it using a
structure that has a new field in the beginning: u32 size. This
is because our trace is exported with its size as a field. But
now that we have this new field, the hole in the middle
disappears because it makes prev_state becoming well aligned.
And since we are using a pointer to the raw trace using this
struct, instead of reading prev_state, we are reading the hole.
We could fix it by keeping the size seperate from the struct
but actually there a lot of other potential problems: some
fields may be saved as long in a 64 bits system and later read
as long in a 32 bits system. Also this direct cast doesn't care
about the endianness differences between the host traced
machine and the machine in which we do the post processing.
So instead of using such dangerous direct casts, fetch the
values using the trace parsing API that already takes care of
all these problems.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently, when one wants to activate every tracepoint
counters of a subsystem from perf record, the current sequence
is needed:
perf record -e subsys:ev1 -e subsys:ev2 -e subsys:ev3
This may annoy the most patient of us.
Now we can just do:
perf record -e subsys:*
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Import the schedbench.c tool that i wrote some time ago to
simulate scheduler behavior but never finished. It's a good
basis for perf sched nevertheless.
Most of its guts are not hooked up to the perf event loop
yet - that will be done in the patches to come.
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: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (105 commits)
ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed
ring-buffer: check for swapped buffers in start of committing
tracing: report error in trace if we fail to swap latency buffer
tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to use
tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer
tracing: make tracing_reset safe for external use
tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces
tracing: Remove mentioning of legacy latency_trace file from documentation
tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation, fix memory leak
tracing: remove users of tracing_reset
tracing: disable buffers and synchronize_sched before resetting
tracing: disable update max tracer while reading trace
tracing: print out start and stop in latency traces
ring-buffer: disable all cpu buffers when one finds a problem
ring-buffer: do not count discarded events
ring-buffer: remove ring_buffer_event_discard
ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read crossing pages
ring-buffer: remove unnecessary cpu_relax
ring-buffer: do not swap buffers during a commit
ring-buffer: do not reset while in a commit
...
This patch improves some (common) inefficiencies in the
handling of directory lookups:
- not using the d_type information returned by the kernel
- constructing (absolute) paths for file operation even though
directory-relative operations using the *at functions is
possible
There are more places to fix but this is a start.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20090904193951.GB6186@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We did not account for the enclosing \0. Depending on what malloc()
gave us this resulted in corrupted version string printouts.
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: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Print out more accurate timestamps - usecs does not cut it
anymore on fast enough boxes ;-)
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: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Leave the input fd at the data area.
It does not matter right now - but seeking at the end of it
certainly did not make sense.
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: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Older versions of GCC are rather stupid about strict aliasing:
util/trace-event-parse.c: In function 'parse_cmdlines':
util/trace-event-parse.c:93: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
util/trace-event-parse.c: In function 'parse_proc_kallsyms':
util/trace-event-parse.c:155: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
util/trace-event-parse.c:157: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
util/trace-event-parse.c:158: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
util/trace-event-parse.c: In function 'parse_ftrace_printk':
util/trace-event-parse.c:294: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
util/trace-event-parse.c:295: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
make: *** [util/trace-event-parse.o] Error 1
Make it clear to GCC that we intend with those pointers, by passing
them through via an explicit (void *) cast.
We might want to add -fno-strict-aliasing as well, like the kernel
itself does.
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: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In perf tools, we hardcode the pid 0 cmdline resolving to
"idle" because the init task is not included in the COMM
events.
But the idle tasks secondary cpus are resolved into their
"init" name through the COMM events.
We have then such strange result in perf report (ditto with
trace):
19.66% init [kernel] [k] acpi_idle_enter_c1
17.32% [idle] [kernel] [k] acpi_idle_enter_c1
It's then better to unify the swapper tasks into a single init
name.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1251693921-6579-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Merge reason: this topic is ready now to merge into the main
development branch for .32, with functional
perf trace output.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
While opening a trace event counter, every events are saved in
the trace.info file. But we only want to save the
specifications of the events we are using.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1251421798-9101-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The librarization of the thread helpers between annotate and
report lost some perf report specifics.
thread__insert_map() had its most uptodate version in perf
report which cared about partial map overlapping. In case of
overlap between two maps, perf annotate's version removes the
whole old map without considering if it partially or
absolutely overlaps the new map.
We exported the odd version, change it by using the perf
report version.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250607843-7395-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The _XOPEN_SOURCE* defines are not really needed on Linux and
it's not like we'll port this to AIX ;-)
The define also broke the build with gcc 4.4.1:
CC util/trace-event-parse.o
In file included from util/trace-event-parse.c:32:
util/util.h:43:1: error: "_XOPEN_SOURCE" redefined
So remove them.
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: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The ftrace event format parser handles the usual casts but not
the cast to pointers. Such casts have been introduced recently
with the module trace events and raise the following parsing
error:
Fatal: bad op token )
This is because it considers the "*" character as a binary
operator. Make it then aware of casts to pointers.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1250543271-8383-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add util/trace-event-parse.c which provides the handlers to
parse the ftrace events info from the stream and handles the
ftrace perf samples event printing.
This file is a rename of the parse-events.c file from the
trace-cmd tools, written by Steven Rostedt and Josh Triplett,
originated from the git tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git
This is a perf tools integration.
[ fweisbec@gmail.com: various changes for perf tools
integration. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1250518688-7207-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add util/trace-event-read.c which handles trace events
informations reading.
This file is a rename of the trace-read.c file from the
trace-cmd tools, written by Steven Rostedt and Josh Triplett,
originated from the git tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git
This is its perf tools integration.
[ fweisbec@gmail.com: various changes for perf tools
integration. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1250518688-7207-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add util/trace-event-info.c which handles ftrace file IO from
debugfs and provides general helpers to fetch/save ftrace
events informations.
This file is a rename of the trace-cmd.c file from the
trace-cmd tools, written by Steven Rostedt and Josh Triplett,
originated from the git tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git
This is a perf tools integration.
For now, ftrace events information is saved in a separate file
than the standard perf.data
[fweisbec@gmail.com: various changes for perf tools integration]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1250518688-7207-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Librarize trace_event() helper so that perf trace can use it
too. Also clean up the debug.h includes a bit.
It's not good to have it included in perf.h because it doesn't
make it flexible against other headers it may need (headers
that can also depend on perf.h and then create a recursive
header dependency).
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250453149-664-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Librarize the sample type and attr fetching from perf data file
headers so that we can also use it from perf trace.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250448997-30715-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Annotate and report share the same flags to filter events
considering their context (kernel, user, hypervisor).
Both tools have their own definitions of these flags. Factorize
them out into the event headers file.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250445414-29237-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We have two users of dprintf: report and annotate. Another one
is coming with perf trace. Then factorize it into the debug
file.
While at it, rename dprintf() to dump_printf() so that it
doesn't conflicts with its libc homograph.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1250443461-28130-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Related to a shadowed variable bug fix Valdis Kletnieks noticed
that perf does not get built with -Wshadow, which could have
helped us avoid the bug.
So enable -Wshadow and also enable the following warnings on
perf builds, in addition to the already enabled -Wall -Wextra
-std=gnu99 warnings:
-Wcast-align
-Wformat=2
-Wshadow
-Winit-self
-Wpacked
-Wredundant-decls
-Wstack-protector
-Wstrict-aliasing=3
-Wswitch-default
-Wswitch-enum
-Wno-system-headers
-Wundef
-Wvolatile-register-var
-Wwrite-strings
-Wbad-function-cast
-Wmissing-declarations
-Wmissing-prototypes
-Wnested-externs
-Wold-style-definition
-Wstrict-prototypes
-Wdeclaration-after-statement
And change/fix the perf code to build cleanly under GCC 4.3.2.
The list of warnings enablement is rather arbitrary: it's based
on my (quick) reading of the GCC manpages and trying them on
perf.
I categorized the warnings based on individually enabling them
and looking whether they trigger something in the perf build.
If i liked those warnings (i.e. if they trigger for something
that arguably could be improved) i enabled the warning.
If the warnings seemed to come from language laywers spamming
the build with tons of nuisance warnings i generally kept them
off. Most of the sign conversion related warnings were in
this category. (A second patch enabling some of the sign
warnings might be welcome - sign bugs can be nasty.)
I also kept warnings that seem to make sense from their manpage
description and which produced no actual warnings on our code
base. These warnings might still be turned off if they end up
being a nuisance.
I also left out a few warnings that are not supported in older
compilers.
[ Note that these changes might break the build on older
compilers i did not test, or on non-x86 architectures that
produce different warnings, so more testing would be welcome. ]
Reported-by: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
