kernel.git/tools/perf/util/evsel.h, branch linux-3.3.y

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

perf evsel: Introduce config attr method

2011-11-28T12:25:31Z

Out of the code in 'perf record', so that we can share option parsing, etc. Eventually will be used by 'perf top', but first 'trace' will use it. 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-hzjqsgnte1esk90ytq0ap98v@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Fix grouping of multiple events

2011-10-26T12:25:02Z

The __perf_evsel__open routing was grouping just the threads for that specific events per cpu when we want to group all threads in all events to the first fd opened on that cpu. So pass the xyarray with the first event, where the other events will be able to get that first per cpu fd. At some point top and record will switch to using perf_evlist__open that takes care of this detail and probably will also handle the fallback from hw to soft counters, etc. Reported-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu Tested-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu 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-ebm34rh098i9y9v4cytfdp0x@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf stat: clarify unsupported events from uncounted events

2011-06-02T16:26:15Z

perf stat continues running even if the event list contains counters that are not supported. The resulting output then contains for those events which gets confusing as to which events are supported, but not counted and which are not supported. Before: perf stat -ddd -- sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1': 0.571283 task-clock # 0.001 CPUs utilized 1 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 157 page-faults # 0.275 M/sec 1,037,707 cycles # 1.816 GHz stalled-cycles-frontend stalled-cycles-backend 654,499 instructions # 0.63 insns per cycle 136,129 branches # 238.286 M/sec branch-misses L1-dcache-loads L1-dcache-load-misses LLC-loads LLC-load-misses L1-icache-loads L1-icache-load-misses dTLB-loads dTLB-load-misses iTLB-loads iTLB-load-misses L1-dcache-prefetches L1-dcache-prefetch-misses 1.001004836 seconds time elapsed After: perf stat -ddd -- sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1': 1.350326 task-clock # 0.001 CPUs utilized 2 context-switches # 0.001 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 157 page-faults # 0.116 M/sec 11,986 cycles # 0.009 GHz stalled-cycles-frontend stalled-cycles-backend 496,986 instructions # 41.46 insns per cycle 138,065 branches # 102.246 M/sec 7,245 branch-misses # 5.25% of all branches L1-dcache-loads L1-dcache-load-misses LLC-loads LLC-load-misses L1-icache-loads L1-icache-load-misses dTLB-loads dTLB-load-misses iTLB-loads iTLB-load-misses L1-dcache-prefetches L1-dcache-prefetch-misses 1.002397333 seconds time elapsed v1->v2: changed supported type from int to bool v2->v3 fixed vertical alignment of new struct element Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306767359-13221-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Don't die if sample_{id_all|type} is invalid

2011-06-02T14:04:54Z

Fixes two more cases where the python binding would not load: . Not finding die(), which it shouldn't anyway, not good to just stop the world because some particular perf.data file is invalid, just propagate the error to the caller. . Not finding perf_sample_size: fix it by moving it from event.c to evsel, where it belongs, as most cases are moving to operate on an evsel object.o One of the fixed problems: [root@emilia ~]# python >>> import perf Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: /home/acme/git/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: perf_sample_size >>> [root@emilia ~]# Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1hkj7b2cvgbfnoizsekjb6c9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Fix use of inherit

2011-04-15T15:52:28Z

perf stat doesn't mmap and its perfectly fine for it to use task-bound counters with inheritance. So set the attr.inherit on the caller and leave the syscall itself to validate it. When the mmap fails perf_evlist__mmap will just emit a warning if this is the failure reason. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110414170121.GC3229@ghostprotocols.net Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributes

2011-03-10T14:15:54Z

So that we can reuse things like the id to attr lookup routine (perf_evlist__id2evsel) that uses a hash table instead of the linear lookup done in the older perf_header_attr routines, etc. Also to make evsels/evlist more pervasive an API, simplyfing using the emerging perf lib. cc: Arun Sharma Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Improve support for sessions with multiple events

2011-03-06T16:13:40Z

By creating an perf_evlist out of the attributes in the perf.data file header, so that we can use evlists and evsels when reading recorded sessions in addition to when we record sessions. More work is needed to allow tools to allow the user to select which events are wanted when browsing sessions, be it just one or a subset of them, aggregated or showed at the same time but with different indications on the UI to allow seeing workloads thru different views at the same time. But the overall goal/trend is to more uniformly use evsels and evlists. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf: make perf stat print user provided full event names

2011-02-17T12:29:19Z

This patch changes the way perf stat prints event names at the end of a run. Until now, it was trying to reconstruct the event name from its encoding. The problem is that it would only print generic events without their modifiers (u, k, pp). This patch saves the event name as passed by the user in the evsel struct and uses it to print the final event name. This would also work in case perf is linked with a library (such as libpfm4) which provides full PMU event tables. $ perf stat -e cycles:u,cycles:k date Wed Feb 16 14:58:52 CET 2011 Performance counter stats for 'date': 568600 cycles:u 2779715 cycles:k 0.001908182 seconds time elapsed Cc: Arun Sharma Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Stephane Eranian LPU-Reference: <4d5bdc64.98a1df0a.7aa3.06c2@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian [ committer note: Fixed a merge problem with 023695d "Add cgroup support" ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tool: Add cgroup support

2011-02-16T12:30:48Z

This patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on container groups (cgroups) for both perf stat and perf record. It is possible to monitor multiple cgroup in parallel. There is one cgroup per event. The cgroups to monitor are passed via a new -G option followed by a comma separated list of cgroup names. The cgroup filesystem has to be mounted. Given a cgroup name, the perf tool finds the corresponding directory in the cgroup filesystem and opens it. It then passes that file descriptor to the kernel. Example: $ perf stat -B -a -e cycles:u,cycles:u,cycles:u -G test1,,test2 -- sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1': 2,368,667,414 cycles test1 2,369,661,459 cycles cycles test2 1.001856890 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <4d590290.825bdf0a.7d0a.4890@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar