kernel.git/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt, branch linux-3.16.y

perf script: Fix man page about --dump-raw-trace option

2017-06-05T20:16:54Z

commit 5c64f99b1d030ce52acce53d83141d88f79e6362 upstream. The "--dump-raw-script" is not a valid option, replace it with the valid one, "--dump-raw-trace" Signed-off-by: Michael Petlan Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Fixes: 133dc4c39c57 ("perf: Rename 'perf trace' to 'perf script'") LPU-Reference: 728644547.14560155.1484320012612.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

perf script: Add --header/--header-only options

2013-12-10T19:51:07Z

Currently the perf.data header is always displayed for stdio output, which is no always useful. Disabling header information by default and adding following options to control header output: --header - display header information --header-only - display header information only w/o further processing Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0ehaawv5xc83w6ag03c5hi10@git.kernel.org Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386583370-1699-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Add an option to print the source line number

2013-12-09T17:47:15Z

Add field 'srcline' that displays the source file name and line number associated with the sample ip. The information displayed is the same as from addr2line. $ perf script -f comm,tid,pid,time,ip,sym,dso,symoff,srcline grep 10701/10701 2497321.421013: ffffffff81043ffa native_write_msr_safe+0xa ([kernel.kallsyms]) /usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:95 grep 10701/10701 2497321.421984: ffffffff8165b6b3 _raw_spin_lock+0x13 ([kernel.kallsyms]) /usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h:54 grep 10701/10701 2497321.421990: ffffffff810b64b3 tick_sched_timer+0x53 ([kernel.kallsyms]) /usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/kernel/time/tick-sched.c:840 grep 10701/10701 2497321.421992: ffffffff8106f63f run_timer_softirq+0x2f ([kernel.kallsyms]) /usr/src/debug/kernel-3.9.fc17/linux-3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64/kernel/timer.c:1372 Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386315778-11633-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Print mmap[2] events also

2013-11-27T17:58:38Z

If --show-mmap-events option is given, also print internal MMAP and MMAP2 events. It would be helpful for debugging. $ perf script --show-mmap-events ... sleep 9486 [009] 3350640.335531: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 9486/9486: [0x400000(0x6000) @ 0]: x /usr/bin/sleep sleep 9486 [009] 3350640.335542: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 9486/9486: [0x3153a00000(0x223000) @ 0]: x /usr/lib64/ld-2.17.so sleep 9486 [009] 3350640.335553: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 9486/9486: [0x7fff8b5fe000(0x2000) @ 0x7fff8b5fe000]: x [vdso] sleep 9486 [009] 3350640.335643: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 9486/9486: [0x3153e00000(0x3c0000) @ 0]: x /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker Reviewed-by: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1385456066-26592-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Print comm, fork and exit events also

2013-11-27T17:58:38Z

If --show-task-events option is given, also print internal COMM, FORK and EXIT events. It would be helpful for debugging. $ perf script --show-task-events ... swapper 0 [009] 3350640.335261: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/9 sleep 9486 [009] 3350640.335509: PERF_RECORD_COMM: sleep:9486 sleep 9486 [009] 3350640.335806: sched:sched_stat_runtime: comm=sleep pid=9486 firefox 2635 [003] 3350641.275896: PERF_RECORD_FORK(2635:9487):(2635:2635) firefox 2635 [003] 3350641.275896: sched:sched_process_fork: comm=firefox pid=2635 sleep 9486 [009] 3350641.336009: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(9486:9486):(9486:9486) Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker Reviewed-by: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1385455873-25865-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Add option resolving vmlinux path

2012-01-30T20:13:07Z

Add the option get the path of [kernel.kallsyms]. Specify '--show-kernel-path' option to use this function. This patch enables other applications to use this output easily. Without --show-kernel-path option ffffffff81467612 irq_return ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81467612 irq_return ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7f24fc02a6b3 _start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so) [snip] With --show-kernel-path option ffffffff81467612 irq_return (/lib/modules/3.2.0+/build/vmlinux) ffffffff81467612 irq_return (/lib/modules/3.2.0+/build/vmlinux) 7f24fc02a6b3 _start (/lib64/ld-2.14.so) [snip] Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120130044320.2384.73322.stgit@linux3 Signed-off-by: Akihiro Nagai Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Add the offset field specifier

2012-01-30T20:09:21Z

Add the offset field specifier 'symoff' to show the offset from the symbols in the output of perf-script. We can get the more detailed address information. Output sample: ffffffff81467612 irq_return+0x0 => 301ec016b0 _start+0x0 ffffffff81467612 irq_return+0x0 => 301ec016b0 _start+0x0 301ec016b3 _start+0x3 => 301ec04b70 _dl_start+0x0 ffffffff81467612 irq_return+0x0 => 301ec04b70 _dl_start+0x0 ffffffff81467612 irq_return+0x0 => 301ec04b96 _dl_start+0x26 ffffffff81467612 irq_return+0x0 => 301ec04b9d _dl_start+0x2d 301ec04beb _dl_start+0x7b => 301ec04c0d _dl_start+0x9d 301ec04c11 _dl_start+0xa1 => 301ec04bf0 _dl_start+0x80 [snip] Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120130044314.2384.67094.stgit@linux3 Signed-off-by: Akihiro Nagai Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report: Accept fifos as input file

2011-12-23T19:01:03Z

The default input file for perf report is not handled the same way as perf record does it for its output file. This leads to unexpected behavior of perf report, etc. E.g.: # perf record -a -e cpu-cycles sleep 2 | perf report | cat failed to open perf.data: No such file or directory (try 'perf record' first) While perf record writes to a fifo, perf report expects perf.data to be read. This patch changes this to accept fifos as input file. Applies to the following commands: perf annotate perf buildid-list perf evlist perf kmem perf lock perf report perf sched perf script perf timechart Also fixes char const* -> const char* type declaration for filename strings. v2: * Prevent potential null pointer access to input_name in builtin-report.c. Needed due to removal of patch "perf report: Setup browser if stdout is a pipe" Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Add comm filtering option

2011-11-28T13:48:23Z

Allows collecting events system wide and then pulling out events for a specific task name(s). e.g, perf script -c gnome-shell,gnome-terminal Applies on top of: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/13/74 v2->v3 - update Documentation v1->v2 - use comm_list from symbol_conf Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321894972-24246-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: make -C consistent across commands (for cpu list arg)

2011-11-28T13:45:53Z

Currently the meaning of -C varies by perf command: for perf-top, perf-stat, perf-record it means cpu list. For perf-report it means comm list. Then perf-annotate, perf-report and perf-script use -c for cpu list. Fix annotate, report and script to use -C for cpu list to be consistent with top, stat and record. This means report needs to use -c for comm list which does introduce a backward compatibility change. v1 -> v2 - update perf-script.txt too Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321209008-7004-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo