Adding new 'perf data' command to provide operations over data files.

The 'perf data convert' sub command is coming in following patch, but
there's possibility for other useful commands like 'perf data ls' (to
display perf data file in directory in ls style).
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424470628-5969-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Adding feature check for babeltrace library [1], which will be used for
perf data file CTF [2] conversion in following patches.

The babeltrace library is now automatically detected as standard
feature. It's possible to specify LIBBABELTRACE_DIR make variable to
specify location of installed libbabeltrace, like:

  $ make LIBBABELTRACE_DIR=/opt/libbabeltrace/
    BUILD:   Doing 'make -j4' parallel build

  Auto-detecting system features:
  ...                         dwarf: [ on  ]
  ...                         glibc: [ on  ]
  ...                          gtk2: [ on  ]
  ...                      libaudit: [ on  ]
  ...                        libbfd: [ on  ]
  ...                        libelf: [ on  ]
  ...                       libnuma: [ on  ]
  ...                       libperl: [ on  ]
  ...                     libpython: [ on  ]
  ...                      libslang: [ on  ]
  ...                     libunwind: [ on  ]
  ...                 libbabeltrace: [ on  ]
  ...            libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on  ]
  ...                          zlib: [ on  ]
  ...     DWARF post unwind library: libunwind

NOTE The installation of the [1] to to used by above make:
     $ git clone git://git.efficios.com/babeltrace.git
     $ cd babeltrace
     $ vim README
     $ ./bootstrap
     $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/libbabeltrace
     $ make prefix=/opt/libbabeltrace
     $ sudo make install prefix=/opt/libbabeltrace

Please make sure that the /opt/libbabeltrace/lib directory is in your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

 $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/libbabeltrace/lib

[1] babeltrace - http://www.efficios.com/babeltrace
[2] Common Trace Format - http://www.efficios.com/ctfSigned-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424470628-5969-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ Added missing babeltrace build instructions ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Add an option to perf record to record running/enabled time for read
events, similar to what stat does.

This is useful to understand multiplexing problems.

Right now the report support is not great, but at least report -D
already supports it.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424819620-16043-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
[ Fixed the Documentation entry to match the OPT_BOOLEAN one ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fmto8ft6jrtwz09dxn5d4z8w@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

  [root@ssdandy ~]# perf trace --filter-pids 16348
     0.000 ( 0.000 ms): tuned/1027  ... [continued]: select()) = 0 Timeout
   793.770 ( 0.000 ms): lsmd/895  ... [continued]: select()) = 0 Timeout
   793.775 (793.724 ms): tuned/1027 select(tvp: 0x7f7655556e50) ...
  perf: Segmentation fault
  Obtained 15 stack frames.
  perf(dump_stack+0x2e) [0x4ed330]
  perf(sighandler_dump_stack+0x2e) [0x4ed40f]
  /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x35640) [0x7fa2d5b69640]
  perf() [0x4c2d35]
  perf(machine__findnew_thread+0x39) [0x4c2ed6]
  perf() [0x454a4d]
  perf() [0x455f87]
  perf() [0x456556]
  perf(cmd_trace+0xa7e) [0x4580af]
  perf() [0x4867bd]
  perf() [0x486a1c]
  perf() [0x486b68]
  perf(main+0x23b) [0x486ec9]
  /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7fa2d5b55af5]
  perf() [0x41bd91]
[  root@ssdandy ~]#

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v38cbxcnm2yf5qn9u4y4n9ab@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

To use in stdio based tools, like 'trace'.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-79kjmerlw6d88csyx1afzwvn@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

To figure out if ordered_events are being used when doing a flush
operation, it is enough to check if there were in fact some events
queued, i.e. look at oe->nr_events.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1c5r404vy766kt5nflv88uag@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

All it wants is session->evlist.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6w9663gka3jb1j1rfxxd5jcq@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Further untangling perf_session from plain event delivery routines.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cvz8e6pwyogs4w14582iis9w@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pxxm1liohog3d6i826x8sud8@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

For tools that don't deal with perf.data files, thus do not need to
use perf_session.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kglq67gvauq9tak02a4se00r@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Start to untangle session from delivering samples, as there are
tools that want to use ordered_events and don't use perf_session at all.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rn4pk3pjxd78sgzrkn19tktp@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Because we need to use ordered_events in some cases, so we will need to
first have them in a queue, order that queue, and then process the
event.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cmkw9zgoh0z4r218957ftp1a@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Forgot to do it when adding the feature.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mx152b6x9cgknhw91vsyjlnd@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

When tracing in X we get event loops due to the tracing activity, i.e.
updates to a gnome-terminal that generate syscalls for X.org, etc.

To get a more useful view of what is happening, syscall wise, system
wide, we need to filter those, like in:

 # ps ax|egrep '981|2296|1519' | grep -v egrep
   981 tty1 Ss+ 5:40 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -background none ...
  1519 ?    Sl  2:22 /usr/bin/gnome-shell
  2296 ?    Sl  4:16 /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server
 #

 # trace -e write --filter-pids 981,2296,1519
    0.385 ( 0.021 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 136) = 136
    0.922 ( 0.014 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 140) = 140
 5006.525 ( 0.029 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 136) = 136
 5007.235 ( 0.023 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 140) = 140
 5177.646 ( 0.018 ms): rtkit-daemon/782 write(fd: 5<anon_inode:[eventfd]>, buf: 0x7f7eea70be88, count: 8) = 8
 8314.497 ( 0.004 ms): gsd-locate-poi/2084 write(fd: 5<anon_inode:[eventfd]>, buf: 0x7fffe96af7b0, count: 8) = 8
 8314.518 ( 0.002 ms): gsd-locate-poi/2084 write(fd: 5<anon_inode:[eventfd]>, buf: 0x7fffe96af0e0, count: 8) = 8
 ^C#

When this option is used the tracer pid is also filtered.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-f5qmiyy7c0uxdm21ncatpeek@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

We need to filter multiple pids in trace, i.e. trace itself,
gnome-terminal, X.org, etc.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-frtpkg7qapqwf7asa35wf8am@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

To avoid tracing the tracer.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-shmwd1khzpaobr3i0j1ygapg@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

To filter out events for a certain pid, for instance, when tracing
system wide, so that the tracer itself doesn't creates an event loop.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-byoia9dzu4gmkdv87etnd9zf@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

When printing just events, i.e. '--no-sys --ev some:events' it makes no
sense to waste screen space.

Before:

 # trace --no-sys --ev probe:*
 84481.704 (         ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/etc/services")
 84481.892 (         ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/etc/services")
 84482.230 (         ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/etc/resolv.conf")
 84482.481 (         ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/etc/hosts")
 85097.725 (         ): probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/root"
 #

After:

 # trace --no-sys --ev probe:*
 0.000 probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/root")
 1.711 probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/etc/localtime")
 2.103 probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffff811ed023) pathname="/etc/localtime")
^C#

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jhryxgnam8zecq0q0wsy6pyb@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

User visible changes:

  - No need to explicitely enable evsels for workload started from perf, let it
    be enabled via perf_event_attr.enable_on_exec, removing some events that take
    place in the 'perf trace' before a workload is really started by it.
    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  - Fix to handle optimized not-inlined functions in 'perf probe' (Masami Hiramatsu)

  - Update 'perf probe' man page (Masami Hiramatsu)

  - 'perf trace': Allow mixing with tracepoints and suppressing plain syscalls
    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Infrastructure changes:

  - Introduce {trace_seq_do,event_format_}_fprintf functions to allow
    a default tracepoint field list printer to be used in tools that allows
    redirecting output to a file. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  - The man page for pthread_attr_set_affinity_np states that _GNU_SOURCE
    must be defined before pthread.h, do it to fix the build in some
    systems (Josh Boyer)

  - Cleanups in 'perf buildid-cache' (Masami Hiramatsu)

  - Fix dso cache test case (Namhyung Kim)

  - Do Not rely on dso__data_read_offset() to open DSO (Namhyung Kim)

  - Make perf aware of tracefs (Steven Rostedt).

  - Fix build by defining STT_GNU_IFUNC for glibc 2.9 and older (Vinson Lee)

  - AArch64 symbol resolution fixes (Victor Kamensky)

  - Kconfig beachhead (Jiri Olsa)

  - Simplify nr_pages validity (Kaixu Xia)

  - Fixup header positioning in 'perf list' (Yunlong Song)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

The recent LBR rework for x86 left a stray flush_branch_stack() user in
the PowerPC code, fix that up.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

LBR call stack only has user-space callchains. It is output in the
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK data format. For kernel callchains, it's
still in the form of PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN.

The perf tool has to handle both data sources to construct a
complete callstack.

For the "perf report -D" option, both lbr and fp information will be
displayed.

A new call chain recording option "lbr" is introduced into the perf
tool for LBR call stack. The user can use --call-graph lbr to get
the call stack information from hardware.

Here are some examples.

When profiling bc(1) on Fedora 19:

  echo 'scale=2000; 4*a(1)' > cmd; perf record --call-graph lbr bc -l < cmd

If enabling LBR, perf report output looks like:

    50.36%       bc  bc                 [.] bc_divide
                 |
                 --- bc_divide
                     execute
                     run_code
                     yyparse
                     main
                     __libc_start_main
                     _start
    33.66%       bc  bc                 [.] _one_mult
                 |
                 --- _one_mult
                     bc_divide
                     execute
                     run_code
                     yyparse
                     main
                     __libc_start_main
                     _start
     7.62%       bc  bc                 [.] _bc_do_add
                 |
                 --- _bc_do_add
                    |
                    |--99.89%-- 0x2000186a8
                     --0.11%-- [...]
     6.83%       bc  bc                 [.] _bc_do_sub
                 |
                 --- _bc_do_sub
                    |
                    |--99.94%-- bc_add
                    |          execute
                    |          run_code
                    |          yyparse
                    |          main
                    |          __libc_start_main
                    |          _start
                     --0.06%-- [...]
     0.46%       bc  libc-2.17.so       [.] __memset_sse2
                 |
                 --- __memset_sse2
                    |
                    |--54.13%-- bc_new_num
                    |          |
                    |          |--51.00%-- bc_divide
                    |          |          execute
                    |          |          run_code
                    |          |          yyparse
                    |          |          main
                    |          |          __libc_start_main
                    |          |          _start
                    |          |
                    |          |--30.46%-- _bc_do_sub
                    |          |          bc_add
                    |          |          execute
                    |          |          run_code
                    |          |          yyparse
                    |          |          main
                    |          |          __libc_start_main
                    |          |          _start
                    |          |
                    |           --18.55%-- _bc_do_add
                    |                     bc_add
                    |                     execute
                    |                     run_code
                    |                     yyparse
                    |                     main
                    |                     __libc_start_main
                    |                     _start
                    |
                     --45.87%-- bc_divide
                               execute
                               run_code
                               yyparse
                               main
                               __libc_start_main
                               _start

If using FP, perf report output looks like:

  echo 'scale=2000; 4*a(1)' > cmd; perf record --call-graph fp bc -l < cmd

    50.49%       bc  bc                 [.] bc_divide
                 |
                 --- bc_divide
    33.57%       bc  bc                 [.] _one_mult
                 |
                 --- _one_mult
     7.61%       bc  bc                 [.] _bc_do_add
                 |
                 --- _bc_do_add
                     0x2000186a8
     6.88%       bc  bc                 [.] _bc_do_sub
                 |
                 --- _bc_do_sub
     0.42%       bc  libc-2.17.so       [.] __memcpy_ssse3_back
                 |
                 --- __memcpy_ssse3_back

If using LBR, perf report -D output looks like:

3458145275743 0x2fd750 [0xd8]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x2): 9748/9748: 0x408ea8 period: 609644 addr: 0
... LBR call chain: nr:8
.....  0: fffffffffffffe00
.....  1: 0000000000408e50
.....  2: 000000000040a458
.....  3: 000000000040562e
.....  4: 0000000000408590
.....  5: 00000000004022c0
.....  6: 00000000004015dd
.....  7: 0000003d1cc21b43
... FP chain: nr:2
.....  0: fffffffffffffe00
.....  1: 0000000000408ea8
 ... thread: bc:9748
 ...... dso: /usr/bin/bc

The LBR call stack has the following known limitations:

 - Zero length calls are not filtered out by the hardware

 - Exception handing such as setjmp/longjmp will have calls/returns not
   match

 - Pushing different return address onto the stack will have
   calls/returns not match

 - If callstack is deeper than the LBR, only the last entries are
   captured
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Simon Que <sque@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420482185-29830-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Currently, there are two call chain recording options, fp and dwarf.

Haswell has a new feature that utilizes the existing LBR facility to
record call chains. Kernel side LBR support code provides this as a
third option to record call chains. This patch enables the lbr call
stack support on the tooling side.

LBR call stack has some limitations:

 - It reuses current LBR facility, so LBR call stack and branch record
   can not be enabled at the same time.

 - It is only available for user-space callchains.

However, it also offers some advantages:

 - LBR call stack can work on user apps which don't have frame-pointers
   or dwarf debug info compiled. It is a good alternative when nothing
   else works.
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.w.shin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420482185-29830-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

With LBR call stack feature enable, there are three callchain options.
Enable the 3rd callchain option (LBR callstack) to user space tooling.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141105093759.GQ10501@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.netSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

"Zero length call" uses the attribute of the call instruction to push
the immediate instruction pointer on to the stack and then pops off
that address into a register. This is accomplished without any matching
return instruction. It confuses the hardware and make the recorded call
stack incorrect.

We can partially resolve this issue by: decode call instructions and
discard any zero length call entry in the LBR stack.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-16-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

LBR callstack is designed for PEBS, It does not work well with
FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI for non PEBS event. If FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI is set for
non PEBS event, PMIs near call/return instructions may cause superfluous
increase/decrease of LBR_TOS.

This patch modifies __intel_pmu_lbr_enable() to not enable
FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI when LBR operates in callstack mode. We currently
don't use LBR callstack to capture kernel space callchain, so disabling
FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI should not be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-15-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Make later patch more readable, no logic change.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-13-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Use event->attr.branch_sample_type to replace
intel_pmu_needs_lbr_smpl() for avoiding duplicated code that
implicitly enables the LBR.

Currently, branch stack can be enabled by user explicitly requesting
branch sampling or implicit branch sampling to correct PEBS skid.

For user explicitly requested branch sampling, the branch_sample_type
is explicitly set by user. For PEBS case, the branch_sample_type is also
implicitly set to PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY in x86_pmu_hw_config.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-11-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

When the LBR call stack is enabled, it is necessary to save/restore
the LBR stack on context switch. The solution is saving/restoring
the LBR stack to/from task's perf event context.

The LBR stack is saved/restored only when there are events that use
the LBR call stack. If no event uses LBR call stack, the LBR stack
is reset when task is scheduled in.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-10-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

When enabling/disabling an event, check if the event uses the LBR
callstack feature, adjust the LBR callstack usage count accordingly.
Later patch will use the usage count to decide if LBR stack should
be saved/restored.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-9-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

When the LBR call stack is enabled, it is necessary to save/restore
the LBR stack on context switch. We can use pmu specific data to
store LBR stack when task is scheduled out. This patch adds code
that allocates the pmu specific data.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-8-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

If two tasks were both forked from the same parent task, Events in
their perf task contexts can be the same. Perf core may leave out
switching the perf event contexts.

Previous patch inroduces pmu specific data. The data is for saving
the LBR stack, it is task specific. So we need to switch the data
even when context switch is optimized out.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-7-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Introduce a new flag PERF_ATTACH_TASK_DATA for perf event's attach
stata. The flag is set by PMU's event_init() callback, it indicates
that perf event needs PMU specific data.

The PMU specific data are initialized to zeros. Later patches will
use PMU specific data to save LBR stack.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-6-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Haswell has a new feature that utilizes the existing LBR facility to
record call chains. To enable this feature, bits (JCC, NEAR_IND_JMP,
NEAR_REL_JMP, FAR_BRANCH, EN_CALLSTACK) in LBR_SELECT must be set to 1,
bits (NEAR_REL_CALL, NEAR-IND_CALL, NEAR_RET) must be cleared. Due to
a hardware bug of Haswell, this feature doesn't work well with
FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI.

When the call stack feature is enabled, the LBR stack will capture
unfiltered call data normally, but as return instructions are executed,
the last captured branch record is flushed from the on-chip registers
in a last-in first-out (LIFO) manner. Thus, branch information relative
to leaf functions will not be captured, while preserving the call stack
information of the main line execution path.

This patch defines a separate lbr_sel map for Haswell. The map contains
a new entry for the call stack feature.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-5-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Previous commit introduces context switch callback, its function
overlaps with the flush branch stack callback. So we can use the
context switch callback to flush LBR stack.

This patch adds code that uses the flush branch callback to
flush the LBR stack when task is being scheduled in. The callback
is enabled only when there are events use the LBR hardware. This
patch also removes all old flush branch stack code.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-4-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

The callback is invoked when process is scheduled in or out.
It provides mechanism for later patches to save/store the LBR
stack. For the schedule in case, the callback is invoked at
the same place that flush branch stack callback is invoked.
So it also can replace the flush branch stack callback. To
avoid unnecessary overhead, the callback is enabled only when
there are events use the LBR stack.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

The index of lbr_sel_map is bit value of perf branch_sample_type.
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX is 1024 at present, so each lbr_sel_map uses
4096 bytes. By using bit shift as index, we can reduce lbr_sel_map
size to 40 bytes. This patch defines 'bit shift' for branch types,
and use 'bit shift' to define lbr_sel_maps.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

The caller of force_ibs_eilvt_setup() is ibs_eilvt_setup()
which does not care about the return values.

So mark it void and clean up the return statements.
Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422037175-20957-1-git-send-email-aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

For hardware events, the userspace page of the event gets updated in
context switches, so if we read the timestamp in the page, we get
fresh info.

For software events, this is missing currently. This patch makes the
behavior consistent.

With this patch, we can implement clock_gettime(THREAD_CPUTIME) with
PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY in userspace as suggested by Andy and Peter. Code
like this:

  if (pc->cap_user_time) {
	do {
		seq = pc->lock;
		barrier();

		running = pc->time_running;
		cyc = rdtsc();
		time_mult = pc->time_mult;
		time_shift = pc->time_shift;
		time_offset = pc->time_offset;

		barrier();
	} while (pc->lock != seq);

	quot = (cyc >> time_shift);
	rem = cyc & ((1 << time_shift) - 1);
	delta = time_offset + quot * time_mult +
		((rem * time_mult) >> time_shift);

	running += delta;
	return running;
  }

I tried it on a busy system, the userspace page updating doesn't
have noticeable overhead.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/aa2dd2e4f1e9f2225758be5ba00f14d6909a8ce1.1423180257.git.shli@fb.com
[ Improved the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Update the shadow timestamp before start event, because .add might
use the timestamp.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9cd0276d6a047cb7c2885994f25e3a1f7c8c28af.1423180257.git.shli@fb.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>