kernel.git/tools/perf/builtin-record.c, branch linux-3.3.y

perf tools: Handle kernels that don't support attr.exclude_{guest,host}

2012-03-03T15:19:56Z

Just fall back to resetting those fields, if set, warning the user that that feature is not available. If guest samples appear they will just be discarded because no struct machine will be found and thus the event will be accounted as not handled and dropped, see 0c09571. Reported-by: Namhyung Kim Tested-by: Joerg Roedel Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vuwxig36mzprl5n7nzvnxxsh@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: No build id option fails

2012-03-03T14:02:16Z

A recent refactoring of perf-record introduced the following: perf record -a -B Couldn't generating buildids. Use --no-buildid to profile anyway. sleep: Terminated I believe the triple negative was meant to be only a double negative. :-) While I'm there, fixed the grammar on the error message. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328567272-13190-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature section

2011-12-23T19:02:22Z

The features HEADER_TRACE_INFO and HEADER_BUILD_ID are handled different when writing the feature section. All other features are simply disabled on failure and writing the section goes on without returning an error. There is no reason for these special cases. This patch unifies handling of the features. This should be ok since all features can be parsed independently. Offset and size of a feature's block is stored in struct perf_file_ section right after the data block of perf.data (see perf_session__ write_header()). Thus, if a feature does not exist then other features can be processed anyway. Also moving special code for HEADER_BUILD_ID out to write_build_id(). v2: * perf record throws an error now if buildids may not be generated, which can be disabled with the --no-buildid option. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-6-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Robert Richter Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two.

2011-12-23T18:53:58Z

Now that we automatically point users at it, let's provide them some guidance so that they hopefully don't just get mysterious EINVAL's from the kernel. Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324301972-22740-4-git-send-email-nelhage@nelhage.com Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage [ committer note: Made it work after 50a682c ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM.

2011-12-23T18:44:34Z

This failure is most likely due to running up against the kernel.perf_event_mlock_kb sysctl, so we can tell the user what to do to fix the issue. Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324301972-22740-3-git-send-email-nelhage@nelhage.com Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add ability to record event period

2011-12-20T14:50:09Z

The problem is that when SAMPLE_PERIOD is not set, the kernel generates a number of samples in proportion to an event's period. Number of these samples may be too big and the kernel throttles all samples above a defined limit. E.g.: I want to trace when a process sleeps. I created a process which sleeps for 1ms and for 4ms. perf got 100 events in both cases. swapper 0 [000] 1141.371830: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=1386750 [ns] swapper 0 [000] 1141.369444: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=4499585 [ns] In the first case a kernel want to send 4499585 events and in the second case it wants to send 1386750 events. perf-reports shows that process sleeps in both places equal time. Instead of this we can get only one sample with an attribute period. As result we have less data transferring between kernel and user-space and we avoid throttling of samples. The patch "events: Don't divide events if it has field period" added a kernel part of this functionality. Acked-by: Arun Sharma Cc: Arun Sharma Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: devel@openvz.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324391565-1369947-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Always do automatic allocation of pollfd and mmap structures

2011-11-29T10:05:52Z

At first tools were required to do that, but while writing the python bindings to simplify the API I made them auto-allocate when needed. This just makes record, stat and top use that auto allocation, simplifying them a bit. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-iokhcvkzzijr3keioubx8hlq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool

2011-11-28T12:39:28Z

To better reflect that it became the base class for all tools, that must be in each tool struct and where common stuff will be put. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qgpc4msetqlwr8y2k7537cxe@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Resolve machine earlier and pass it to perf_event_ops

2011-11-28T12:39:12Z

Reducing the exposure of perf_session further, so that we can use the classes in cases where no perf.data file is created. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-stua66dcscsezzrcdugvbmvd@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Pass tool context in the the perf_event_ops functions

2011-11-28T12:38:56Z

So that we don't need to have that many globals. Next steps will remove the 'session' pointer, that in most cases is not needed. Then we can rename perf_event_ops to 'perf_tool' that better describes this class hierarchy. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wp4djox7x6w1i2bab1pt4xxp@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo