kernel.git/tools/perf/util/sort.c, branch linux-6.15.y

perf sort: Keep output fields in the same level

2025-03-20T16:17:56Z

This is useful for hierarchy output mode where the first level is considered as output fields. We want them in the same level so that it can show only the remaining groups in the hierarchy. Before: $ perf report -s overhead,sample,period,comm,dso -H --stdio ... # Overhead Samples / Period / Command / Shared Object # ................. .......................................... # 100.00% 4035 100.00% 3835883066 100.00% perf 99.37% perf 0.50% ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 0.06% [unknown] 0.04% libc.so.6 0.02% libLLVM-16.so.1 After: $ perf report -s overhead,sample,period,comm,dso -H --stdio ... # Overhead Samples Period Command / Shared Object # ....................................... ....................... # 100.00% 4035 3835883066 perf 99.37% 4005 3811826223 perf 0.50% 19 19210014 ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 0.06% 8 2367089 [unknown] 0.04% 2 1720336 libc.so.6 0.02% 1 759404 libLLVM-16.so.1 Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250307080829.354947-1-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf annotate-data: Add annotated_data_type__get_member_name()

2025-03-13T07:19:51Z

Factor out a function to get the name of member field at the given offset. This will be used in other places. Also update the output of typeoff sort key a little bit. As we know that some special types like (stack operation), (stack canary) and (unknown) won't have fields, skip printing the offset and field. For example, the following change is expected. "(stack operation) +0 (no field)" ==> "(stack operation)" Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310224925.799005-2-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf report: Add --latency flag

2025-02-18T22:04:32Z

Add record/report --latency flag that allows to capture and show latency-centric profiles rather than the default CPU-consumption-centric profiles. For latency profiles record captures context switch events, and report shows Latency as the first column. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e9640464bcbc47dde2cb557003f421052ebc9eec.1739437531.git.dvyukov@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf report: Add latency output field

2025-02-18T22:04:32Z

Latency output field is similar to overhead, but represents overhead for latency rather than CPU consumption. It's re-scaled from overhead by dividing weight by the current parallelism level at the time of the sample. It effectively models profiling with 1 sample taken per unit of wall-clock time rather than unit of CPU time. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b6269518758c2166e6ffdc2f0e24cfdecc8ef9c1.1739437531.git.dvyukov@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf report: Add parallelism filter

2025-02-18T22:04:32Z

Add parallelism filter that can be used to look at specific parallelism levels only. The format is the same as cpu lists. For example: Only single-threaded samples: --parallelism=1 Low parallelism only: --parallelism=1-4 High parallelism only: --parallelism=64-128 Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e61348985ff0a6a14b07c39e880edbd60a8f8635.1739437531.git.dvyukov@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf report: Add parallelism sort key

2025-02-18T06:00:50Z

Show parallelism level in profiles if requested by user. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7f7bb87cbaa51bf1fb008a0d68b687423ce4bad4.1739437531.git.dvyukov@google.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf evsel: Add/use accessor for tp_format

2024-12-09T20:52:42Z

Add an accessor function for tp_format. Rather than search+replace uses try to use a variable and reuse it. Add additional NULL checks when accessing/using the value. Make sure the PTR_ERR is nulled out on error path in evsel__newtp_idx. Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Ben Gainey Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Dominique Martinet Cc: Ilkka Koskinen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Paran Lee Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Thomas Falcon Cc: Weilin Wang Cc: Yang Jihong Cc: Yang Li Cc: Ze Gao Cc: Zixian Cai Cc: zhaimingbing Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241118225345.889810-6-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf build: Include libtraceevent headers directly indicated by pkg-config

2024-11-09T06:42:57Z

Currently the libtraceevent's found by pkg-config, which give the include path as: [root@localhost tmp]# pkg-config --cflags libtraceevent -I/usr/local/include/traceevent So we should include the libtraceevent headers directly without "traceevent/" prefix. Update all the users. Fixes: 0f0e1f445690 ("perf build: Use pkg-config for feature check for libtrace{event,fs}") Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/ZyF5_Hf1iL01kldE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang Cc: leo.yan@arm.com Cc: amadio@gentoo.org Cc: linuxarm@huawei.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241105105649.45399-1-yangyicong@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf report: Display columns Predicted/Abort/Cycles in --branch-history

2024-10-11T06:41:23Z

The original commit message: " Use current sort mechanism but the real .se_cmp() just returns 0 so that new columns "Predicted", "Abort" and "Cycles" are created in display but actually these keys are not the sort keys. For example: Overhead Source:Line Symbol Shared Object Predicted Abort Cycles ........ ............ ........ ............. ......... ..... ...... 38.25% div.c:45 [.] main div 97.6% 0 3 " Update missed commit from series "perf report: Show branch flags/cycles in --branch-history callgraph view" to apply to current repository so that new columns described above are visible. Link to original series: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1477876794-30749-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com/ Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Suggested-by: Kan Liang Co-developed-by: Jin Yao Signed-off-by: Jin Yao Tested-by: Thomas Falcon Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241010184046.203822-1-thomas.falcon@intel.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf annotate-data: Add 'typecln' sort key

2024-08-21T14:48:43Z

Sometimes it's useful to organize member fields in cache-line boundary. The 'typecln' sort key is short for type-cacheline and to show samples in each cacheline. The cacheline size is fixed to 64 for now, but it can read the actual size once it saves the value from sysfs. For example, you maybe want to which cacheline in a target is hot or cold. The following shows members in the cfs_rq's first cache line. $ perf report -s type,typecln,typeoff -H ... - 2.67% struct cfs_rq + 1.23% struct cfs_rq: cache-line 2 + 0.57% struct cfs_rq: cache-line 4 + 0.46% struct cfs_rq: cache-line 6 - 0.41% struct cfs_rq: cache-line 0 0.39% struct cfs_rq +0x14 (h_nr_running) 0.02% struct cfs_rq +0x38 (tasks_timeline.rb_leftmost) ... Committer testing: # root@number:~# perf report -s type,typecln,typeoff -H --stdio # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 5K of event 'cpu_atom/mem-loads,ldlat=5/P' # Event count (approx.): 312251 # # Overhead Data Type / Data Type Cacheline / Data Type Offset # .............. .................................................. # 0.07% struct sigaction 0.05% struct sigaction: cache-line 1 0.02% struct sigaction +0x58 (sa_mask) 0.02% struct sigaction +0x78 (sa_mask) 0.03% struct sigaction: cache-line 0 0.02% struct sigaction +0x38 (sa_mask) 0.01% struct sigaction +0x8 (sa_mask) Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Athira Rajeev Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240819233603.54941-2-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo