kernel.git/tools/perf/util/evlist.h, branch linux-3.6.y

perf evsel: Adopt parse_sample method from perf_event

2012-08-02T15:23:46Z

Since we need evsel->{attr.{sample_{id_all,type}},sample_size}, reducing the number of parameters tools have to pass. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wdtmgak0ihgsmw1brb54a8h4@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Introduce perf_evlist__parse_sample

2012-08-02T14:42:57Z

That is a more compact form of perf_session__parse_sample and to support multiple evlists per perf_session is the way to go anyway. Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vkxx3j5qktoj11bvcwmfjj13@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Stop using a global trace events description list

2012-06-27T16:08:42Z

The pevent thing is per perf.data file, so I made it stop being static and become a perf_session member, so tools processing perf.data files use perf_session and _there_ we read the trace events description into session->pevent and then change everywhere to stop using that single global pevent variable and use the per session one. Note that it _doesn't_ fall backs to trace__event_id, as we're not interested at all in what is present in the /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events in the workstation doing the analysis, just in what is in the perf.data file. This patch also introduces perf_session__set_tracepoints_handlers that is the perf perf.data/session way to associate handlers to tracepoint events by resolving their IDs using the events descriptions stored in a perf.data file. Make 'perf sched' use it. Reported-by: Dmitry Antipov Tested-by: Dmitry Antipov Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org Cc: patches@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120625232016.GA28525@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf stat: Initialize default events wrt exclude_{guest,host}

2012-05-30T17:02:38Z

When no event is specified the tools use perf_evlist__add_default(), that will call event_attr_init to initialize the KVM exclusion bits. When the change was made to the tools so that by default guest samples would be excluded, the changes were made just to the parsing routines and to perf_evlist__add_default(), not to perf_evlist__add_attrs, that is used so far just by perf stat to add multiple events, according to the level of detail specified. Recently the tools were changed to reconstruct the event name from all the details in perf_event_attr, not just from .type and .config, but taking into account all the feature bits (.exclude_{guest,host,user,kernel,etc}, .precise_ip, etc). That is when we noticed that the default for perf stat wasn't the one for the rest of the tools, i.e. the .exclude_guest bit wasn't being set. I.e. the default, that doesn't call event_attr_init was showing the :HG modifier: $ perf stat usleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1': 0.942119 task-clock # 0.454 CPUs utilized 1 context-switches # 0.001 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 K/sec 126 page-faults # 0.134 M/sec 693,193 cycles:HG # 0.736 GHz [40.11%] 407,461 stalled-cycles-frontend:HG # 58.78% frontend cycles idle [72.29%] 365,403 stalled-cycles-backend:HG # 52.71% backend cycles idle 465,982 instructions:HG # 0.67 insns per cycle # 0.87 stalled cycles per insn 89,760 branches:HG # 95.275 M/sec 6,178 branch-misses:HG # 6.88% of all branches 0.002077228 seconds time elapsed While if one explicitely specifies the same events, which will make the parsing code to be called and thus event_attr_init is called: $ perf stat -e task-clock,context-switches,migrations,page-faults,cycles,stalled-cycles-frontend,stalled-cycles-backend,instructions,branches,branch-misses usleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1': 1.040349 task-clock # 0.500 CPUs utilized 2 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 K/sec 127 page-faults # 0.122 M/sec 587,966 cycles # 0.565 GHz [13.18%] 459,167 stalled-cycles-frontend # 78.09% frontend cycles idle 390,249 stalled-cycles-backend # 66.37% backend cycles idle 504,006 instructions # 0.86 insns per cycle # 0.91 stalled cycles per insn 96,455 branches # 92.714 M/sec 6,522 branch-misses # 6.76% of all branches [96.12%] 0.002078681 seconds time elapsed Fix it by introducing a perf_evlist__add_default_attrs method that will call evlist_attr_init in all the perf_event_attr entries before adding the events. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4eysr236r0pgiyum9epwxw7s@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Make create_maps() take struct perf_target

2012-05-02T18:23:11Z

Now we have all information that needed to create cpu/thread maps in struct perf_target, it'd be better using it as an argument. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Reviewed-by: David Ahern Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335417327-11796-6-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top

2012-02-14T00:54:11Z

Allow a user to collect events for multiple threads or processes using a comma separated list. e.g., collect data on a VM and its vhost thread: perf top -p 21483,21485 perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd perf record -p 21483,21485 or monitoring vcpu threads perf top -t 21488,21489 perf stat -t 21488,21489 -ddd perf record -t 21488,21489 Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328718772-16688-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Make splice_list_tail method public

2012-02-01T17:29:53Z

Making perf_evlist__splice_list_tail globaly accessible. It is used in the upcomming paches. Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Corey Ashford Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327674868-10486-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Introduce per user view

2012-01-24T21:47:37Z

The new --uid command line option will show only the tasks for a given user, using the proc interface to figure out the existing tasks. Kernel work is needed to close races at startup, but this should already be useful in many use cases. 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-bdnspm000gw2l984a2t53o8z@git.kernel.org 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: Save some loops using perf_evlist__id2evsel

2011-11-28T19:57:40Z

Since we already ask for PERF_SAMPLE_ID and use it to quickly find the associated evsel, add handler func + data to struct perf_evsel to avoid using chains of if(strcmp(event_name)) and also to avoid all the linear list searches via trace_event_find. To demonstrate the technique convert 'perf sched' to it: # perf sched record sleep 5m And then: Performance counter stats for '/tmp/oldperf sched lat': 646.929438 task-clock # 0.999 CPUs utilized 9 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 20,901 page-faults # 0.032 M/sec 1,290,144,450 cycles # 1.994 GHz stalled-cycles-frontend stalled-cycles-backend 1,606,158,439 instructions # 1.24 insns per cycle 339,088,395 branches # 524.151 M/sec 4,550,735 branch-misses # 1.34% of all branches 0.647524759 seconds time elapsed Versus: Performance counter stats for 'perf sched lat': 473.564691 task-clock # 0.999 CPUs utilized 9 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 20,903 page-faults # 0.044 M/sec 944,367,984 cycles # 1.994 GHz stalled-cycles-frontend stalled-cycles-backend 1,442,385,571 instructions # 1.53 insns per cycle 308,383,106 branches # 651.195 M/sec 4,481,784 branch-misses # 1.45% of all branches 0.474215751 seconds time elapsed [root@emilia ~]# 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-1kbzpl74lwi6lavpqke2u2p3@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo