kernel.git/tools/perf/builtin-record.c, branch linux-4.5.y

perf record: Add --buildid-all option

2016-01-12T15:42:07Z

The --buildid-all option is to record build-id of all DSOs in the file. It might be very costly to postprocess samples to find which DSO hits. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452519429-31779-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Store data mmaps for dwarf unwind

2016-01-08T17:17:45Z

Currently we don't synthesize data mmap by default. It depends on -d option, that enables data address sampling. But we've seen cases (softice) where DWARF unwinder went through non executable mmaps, which we need to lookup in MAP__VARIABLE tree. Making data mmaps to be synthesized for dwarf unwind as well. Reported-by: Noel Grandin Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160107133022.GA32115@krava.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Introduce stat perf.data header feature

2015-12-17T18:15:14Z

Introducing the 'stat' feature to mark a perf.data as created by the 'perf stat record' command. It contains no data. It's needed so that the report tools (report/script) can differentiate sampling data from counting data, because they need to be treated in a different way. In the future it might be used to store the version of the stat storage system used. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Tested-by: Kan Liang Cc: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445784728-21732-28-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf subcmd: Create subcmd library

2015-12-17T17:27:14Z

Move the subcommand-related files from perf to a new library named libsubcmd.a. Since we're moving files anyway, go ahead and rename 'exec_cmd.*' to 'exec-cmd.*' to be consistent with the naming of all the other files. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c0a838d4c878ab17fee50998811612b2281355c1.1450193761.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add record.build-id config option

2015-12-15T14:46:16Z

Post processing at 'perf record' takes a long time on big machines. What it does is to find the build-id of binaries found in the event stream, so that it can make sure, at 'report' time, that the symtabs (be it ELF, kallsyms, etc) being used to resolve symbols are the ones matching the binaries found at 'record' time. Sometimes we just want to skip this processing of events at the end of the session to get quicker results, making sure the binaries haven't changed from 'record' to 'report' time. Add a new config option to control this behavior. The record.build-id config variable can have one of the following values: - cache: post-process data and save/update the binaries into the build-id cache (in ~/.debug). This is the default. - no-cache: post-process the data but not update the build-id cache. Same effect as using the -N option. - skip: skip post-processing and do not update the cache. Same effect as using the -B option. Reported-and-Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: David Ahern Cc: Taeung Song Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450144196-22957-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org [ Added some more text to the documentation ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Support custom vmlinux path

2015-12-14T16:04:12Z

Make perf-record command support --vmlinux option if BPF_PROLOGUE is on. 'perf record' needs vmlinux as the source of DWARF info to generate prologue for BPF programs, so path of vmlinux should be specified. Short name 'k' has been taken by 'clockid'. This patch skips the short option name and uses '--vmlinux' for vmlinux path. Documentation is also updated. Test result: In a production (or broken) environment: (by: # rm -rf ~/.debug/ # mv /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/vmlinux /tmp/ ) # ./perf record -e ./test_bpf_base.c ls Failed to find the path for kernel: No such file or directory event syntax error: './test_bpf_base.c' \___ You need to check probing points in BPF file ... # ./perf record --vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux -e ./test_bpf_base.c ls ... [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data ] Help messages when build with NO_LIBBPF: # ./perf record -h --transaction sample transaction flags (special events only) --vmlinux vmlinux pathname (not built-in because NO_LIBBPF=1) # ./perf record --vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux ls / Warning: option `vmlinux' is being ignored because NO_LIBBPF=1 ... [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data (11 samples) ] Help messages when build with NO_DWARF: # ./perf record -h --transaction sample transaction flags (special events only) --vmlinux vmlinux pathname (not built-in because NO_DWARF=1) Signed-off-by: He Kuang Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450089563-122430-15-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Make options always available, even if required libs not linked

2015-12-14T15:57:32Z

This patch keeps options of perf builtins same in all conditions. If one option is disabled because of compiling options, users should be notified. Masami suggested another implementation in [1] that, by adding a OPTION_NEXT_DEPENDS option before those options in the 'struct option' array, options parser knows an option is disabled. However, in some cases this array is reordered (options__order()). In addition, in parse-option.c that array is const, so we can't simply merge information in decorator option into the affacted option. This patch chooses a simpler implementation that, introducing a set_option_nobuild() function and two option parsing flags. Builtins with such options should call set_option_nobuild() before option parsing. The complexity of this patch is because we want some of options can be skipped safely. In this case their arguments should also be consumed. Options in 'perf record' and 'perf probe' are fixed in this patch. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/50399556C9727B4D88A595C8584AAB3752627CD4@GSjpTKYDCembx32.service.hitachi.net Test result: Normal case: # ./perf probe --vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux sys_write Added new event: probe:sys_write (on sys_write) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:sys_write -aR sleep 1 Build with NO_DWARF=1: # ./perf probe -L sys_write Error: switch `L' is not available because NO_DWARF=1 Usage: perf probe [] 'PROBEDEF' ['PROBEDEF' ...] or: perf probe [] --add 'PROBEDEF' [--add 'PROBEDEF' ...] or: perf probe [] --del '[GROUP:]EVENT' ... or: perf probe --list [GROUP:]EVENT ... or: perf probe [] --funcs -L, --line Show source code lines. (not built-in because NO_DWARF=1) # ./perf probe -k /tmp/vmlinux sys_write Warning: switch `k' is being ignored because NO_DWARF=1 Added new event: probe:sys_write (on sys_write) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:sys_write -aR sleep 1 # ./perf probe --vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux sys_write Warning: option `vmlinux' is being ignored because NO_DWARF=1 Added new event: [SNIP] # ./perf probe -l Usage: perf probe [] 'PROBEDEF' ['PROBEDEF' ...] or: perf probe [] --add 'PROBEDEF' [--add 'PROBEDEF' ...] ... -k, --vmlinux vmlinux pathname (not built-in because NO_DWARF=1) -L, --line Show source code lines. (not built-in because NO_DWARF=1) ... -V, --vars Show accessible variables on PROBEDEF (not built-in because NO_DWARF=1) --externs Show external variables too (with --vars only) (not built-in because NO_DWARF=1) --no-inlines Don't search inlined functions (not built-in because NO_DWARF=1) --range Show variables location range in scope (with --vars only) (not built-in because NO_DWARF=1) Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450089563-122430-14-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add clang options for compiling BPF scripts

2015-10-29T20:16:22Z

Although previous patch allows setting BPF compiler related options in perfconfig, on some ad-hoc situation it still requires passing options through cmdline. This patch introduces 2 options to 'perf record' for this propose: --clang-path and --clang-opt. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Brendan Gregg Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: David Ahern Cc: He Kuang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kaixu Xia Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444826502-49291-9-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com [ Add the new options to the 'record' man page ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Introduce usage_with_options_msg()

2015-10-27T12:28:44Z

Now usage_with_options() setup a pager before printing message so normal printf() or pr_err() will not be shown. The usage_with_options_msg() can be used to print some help message before usage strings. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445701767-12731-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Improve call graph documents and help messages

2015-10-22T19:23:19Z

The --call-graph option is complex so we should provide better guide for users. Also change help message to be consistent with config option names. Now perf top will show help like below: $ perf top --call-graph Error: option `call-graph' requires a value Usage: perf top [] --call-graph setup and enables call-graph (stack chain/backtrace): record_mode: call graph recording mode (fp|dwarf|lbr) record_size: if record_mode is 'dwarf', max size of stack recording () default: 8192 (bytes) print_type: call graph printing style (graph|flat|fractal|none) threshold: minimum call graph inclusion threshold () print_limit: maximum number of call graph entry () order: call graph order (caller|callee) sort_key: call graph sort key (function|address) branch: include last branch info to call graph (branch) Default: fp,graph,0.5,caller,function Requested-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brendan Gregg Cc: Chandler Carruth Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445524112-5201-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo