1. 06 Jan, 2016 21 commits
  2. 18 Dec, 2015 4 commits
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-3' of... · d64fe8e6
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
      
      Pull new perf tool feature from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
      
      " User visible changes:
      
        - Generate perf.data files from 'perf stat', to tap into the scripting
          capabilities perf has instead of defining a 'perf stat' specific scripting
          support to calculate event ratios, etc. Simple example:
      
          $ perf stat record -e cycles usleep 1
      
           Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':
      
                 1,134,996      cycles
      
               0.000670644 seconds time elapsed
      
          $ perf stat report
      
           Performance counter stats for '/home/acme/bin/perf stat record -e cycles usleep 1':
      
                 1,134,996      cycles
      
               0.000670644 seconds time elapsed
      
          $
      
          It generates PERF_RECORD_ userspace records to store the details:
      
          $ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD
          0xf0 [0x28]: PERF_RECORD_THREAD_MAP nr: 1 thread: 27637
          0x118 [0x12]: PERF_RECORD_CPU_MAP nr: 1 cpu: 65535
          0x12a [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_STAT_CONFIG
          0x16a [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_STAT
          -1 -1 0x19a [0x40]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP -1/0: [0xffffffff81000000(0x1f000000) @ 0xffffffff81000000]: x [kernel.kallsyms]_text
          0x1da [0x18]: PERF_RECORD_STAT_ROUND
          [acme@ssdandy linux]$
      
          An effort was made to make perf.data files generated like this to not
          generate cryptic messages when processed by older tools.
      
          The 'perf script' bits need rebasing, will go up later.
      
        Jiri's cover letter for this series:
      
        The initial attempt defined its own formula lang and allowed triggering user's
        script on the end of the stat command:
      
          http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136742146322273&w=2
      
        This patchset abandons the idea of new formula language and rather adds support
        to:
      
          - store stat data into perf.data file
          - add python support to process stat events
      
        Basically it allows to store stat data into perf.data and post process it with
        python scripts in a similar way we do for sampling data.
      
        The stat data are stored in new stat, stat-round, stat-config user events.
          stat        - stored for each read syscall of the counter
          stat round  - stored for each interval or end of the command invocation
          stat config - stores all the config information needed to process data
                        so report tool could restore the same output as record
      
        The python script can now define 'stat__<eventname>_<modifier>' functions
        to get stat events data and 'stat__interval' to get stat-round data.
      
        See CPI script example in scripts/python/stat-cpi.py."
      
      Also a few other changes:
      
      User visible changes:
      
        - Make command line options always available, even when they
          depend on some feature being enabled, warning the user about
          use of such options (Wang Nan)
      
        - Support --vmlinux in perf record, useful, so far, for eBPF,
          where we will set up events that will be used in the record
          session (He Kuang)
      
        - Automatically disable collecting branch flags and cycles with
          --call-graph lbr. This allows avoiding a bunch of extra MSR
          reads in the PMI on Skylake.  (Andi Kleen)
      
      Infrastructure changes:
      
        - Dump the stack when a 'perf test -v ' entry segfaults, so far we
          would have to run it under gdb with 'set follow-fork-mode child'
          set to get a proper backtrace (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
      
        - Initialize the refcnt in 'struct thread' to 1 and fixup its
          users accordingly, so that we try to have the same refcount
          model accross the perf codebase (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
      
        - More prep work for moving the subcmd infrastructure out of
          tools/perf/ and into tools/lib/subcmd/ to be used by other
          tools/ living utilities (Josh Poimboeuf)
      
        - Fix 'perf test' hist testcases when kptr_restrict is on (Namhyung Kim)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      d64fe8e6
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to make sure a cherry-picked commit... · 141a361e
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to make sure a cherry-picked commit does not create conflicts
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      141a361e
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of... · 2d2e7ac1
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent
      
      Pull perf/urgent tooling fix from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
      
        User visible changes:
      
          - Fix 'perf list' segfault due to lack of support for PERF_CONF_SW_BPF_OUTPUT
            in an array used just for printing available events, robustify the code
            involved (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      2d2e7ac1
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-2.1' of... · b21daaed
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-2.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
      
      Pull perf/core improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
      
      User visible changes:
      
        - Add record.build-id config option to 'perf record', to allow configuring
          in the ~/.perfconfig file if and how build-ids should be processed, allowing
          a permanent setting for options such as -B and -N: (Namhyung Kim)
      
          $ perf record -h -B -N
      
           Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
              or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
      
              -B, --no-buildid       do not collect buildids in perf.data
              -N, --no-buildid-cache do not update the buildid cache
      
          $
      
      Infrastructure changes:
      
        - Move code for options parsing and subcommand handling from tools/perf/
          to tools/lib/subcmd/, so that it can be used by other tools/ living
          utilities (Josh Poimboeuf)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      b21daaed
  3. 17 Dec, 2015 15 commits