kernel.git/tools/perf/util/evlist.h, branch linux-4.18.y

perf evlist: Introduce force_leader() method

2018-05-21T17:40:54Z

For non-explicit group (e.g. those created with -e '{eventA,eventB}'), 'perf report' supports a option '--group' which can enable group output. We also need to support 'perf annotate' with the same '--group'. Create a new function perf_evlist__force_leader() which contains common code to force setting the group leader. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1526914666-31839-2-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf mmap: Discard legacy interfaces for mmap read forward

2018-03-05T13:51:10Z

Discards legacy interfaces perf_evlist__mmap_read_forward(), perf_evlist__mmap_read() and perf_evlist__mmap_consume(). No tools use them. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519945751-37786-14-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Remove stale mmap read for backward

2018-02-15T12:50:53Z

perf_evlist__mmap_read_catchup() and perf_evlist__mmap_read_backward() are only for overwrite mode. But they read the evlist->mmap buffer which is for non-overwrite mode. It did not bring any serious problem yet, because there is no one use it. Remove the unused interfaces. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Wang Nan Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jin Yao Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516310792-208685-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Remove fcntl.h from evlist.h

2018-01-25T09:37:30Z

Not needed there, fixup the places where it is needed and was getting only by luck via evlist.h. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yxjpetn64z8vjuguu84gr6x6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf header: Add infrastructure to record first and last sample time

2018-01-08T14:20:51Z

perf report/script/... have a --time option to limit the time range of output. That's very useful to slice large traces, e.g. when processing the output of perf script for some analysis. But right now --time only supports absolute time. Also there is no fast way to get the start/end times of a given trace except for looking at it. This makes it hard to e.g. only decode the first half of the trace, which is useful for parallelization of scripts Another problem is that perf records are variable size and there is no synchronization mechanism. So the only way to find the last sample reliably would be to walk all samples. But we want to avoid that in perf report/... because it is already quite expensive. That is why storing the first sample time and last sample time in perf record is better. This patch creates a new header feature type HEADER_SAMPLE_TIME and related ops. Save the first sample time and the last sample time to the feature section in perf file header. That will be done when, for instance, processing build-ids, where we already have to process all samples to create the build-id table, take advantage of that to further amortize that processing by storing HEADER_SAMPLE_TIME to make 'perf report/script' faster when using --time. Committer testing: After this patch is applied the header is written with zeroes, we need the next patch, for "perf record" to actually write the timestamps: # perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE\( 22501155244406 0x44f0 [0x28]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 25016/25016: 0xffffffffa21be8c5 period: 1 addr: 0 22501155793625 0x4a30 [0x28]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 25016/25016: 0xffffffffa21ffd50 period: 2828043 addr: 0 # perf report --header | grep "time of " # time of first sample : 0.000000 # time of last sample : 0.000000 # Changelog: v7: 1. Rebase to latest perf/core branch. 2. Add following clarification in patch description according to Arnaldo's suggestion. "That will be done when, for instance, processing build-ids, where we already have to process all samples to create the build-id table, take advantage of that to further amortize that processing by storing HEADER_SAMPLE_TIME to make 'perf report/script' faster when using --time." v4: Use perf script time style for timestamp printing. Also add with the printing of sample duration. v3: Remove the definitions of first_sample_time/last_sample_time from perf_session. Just define them in perf_evlist Signed-off-by: Jin Yao Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512738826-2628-2-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Rename 'backward' to 'overwrite' in evlist, mmap and record

2017-12-05T19:02:39Z

Remove the backward/forward concept to make it uniform with user interface (the '--overwrite' option). Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mengting Zhang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204165107.95327-4-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Remove evlist->overwrite

2017-12-05T18:43:54Z

evlist->overwrite is set to false in all users. It can be removed. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171203020044.81680-4-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Remove 'overwrite' parameter from perf_evlist__mmap_ex

2017-12-05T18:43:53Z

All users of perf_evlist__mmap_ex set !overwrite. Remove it from its arguments list. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171203020044.81680-3-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Remove 'overwrite' parameter from perf_evlist__mmap

2017-12-05T18:43:53Z

Now all perf_evlist__mmap's users doesn't set 'overwrite'. Remove it from arguments list. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171203020044.81680-2-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Add perf_evlist__parse_sample_timestamp function

2017-11-16T17:50:09Z

Add perf_evlist__parse_sample_timestamp to retrieve the timestamp of the sample. The idea is to use this function instead of the full sample parsing before we queue the sample. At that time only the timestamp is needed and we parse the sample once again later on delivery. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-o7syqo8lipj4or7renpu8e8y@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo