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    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of... · a897b5f0
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux

 into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

User visible changes:

  - Allow selecting the type of callchains per event, including disabling
    callchains in all but one entry in an event list, to save space, and also
    to ask for the callchains collected in one event to be used in other
    events. (Kan Liang)

  - Beautify more syscall arguments in 'perf trace': (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
    - A bunch more translate file/pathnames from pointers to strings.
    - Convert numbers to strings for the 'keyctl' syscall 'option' arg.
    - Add missing 'clockid' entries.

  - Fix 'perf probe -L sys_*' as it was not showing all the source code for
    syscall functions in the kernel. (Masami Hiramatsu)

  - Make ESC unzoom as well in the hists browser, i.e. in 'report' and 'top',
    as we're considering repurposing the right and left arrow keys to use in
    horizontal scrolling, i.e. leave just ESC to be used for what <- works
    now, and ENTER for what -> does (they are already aliases for ages).
    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Infrastructure fixes:

  - Check for SRCLINE_UNKNOWN case in "srcfile" processing (Andi Kleen)

  - Wrap the slsmg_{printf,write_nstring} slang functions behind ui_browser, so
    that we can make the ui_browser based browsers (annotate, menus, hists, etc) UI
    library agnostic and usable with multiple backends (slang now, GTK+ and others
    in the future, maybe) (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      a897b5f0
    • Kan Liang's avatar
      perf tests: Add tests to callgraph and time parse · 71ef150e
      Kan Liang authored 
      

Add tests in tests/parse-events.c to check call-graph and time option.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439289050-40510-4-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      71ef150e
    • Kan Liang's avatar
      perf report: Show call graph from reference events · 9e207ddf
      Kan Liang authored 
      

Introduce --show-ref-call-graph for perf report to print reference
callgraph for no callgraph event.

Here is an example.

 perf report --show-ref-call-graph --stdio

 # To display the perf.data header info, please use
 --header/--header-only options.
 #
 #
 # Total Lost Samples: 0
 #
 # Samples: 5  of event 'cpu/cpu-cycles,call-graph=fp/'
 # Event count (approx.): 144985
 #
 # Children      Self  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
 # ........  ........  .......  ................  ........................................
 #
    72.30%     0.00%  sleep    [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
              |
              ---entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
                 |
                 |--22.62%-- __GI___libc_nanosleep
                  --77.38%-- [...]

......

 # Samples: 6  of event 'cpu/instructions,call-graph=no/', show reference callgraph
 # Event count (approx.): 172780
 #
 # Children      Self  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
 # ........  ........  .......  ................  ........................................
 #
    73.16%     0.00%  sleep    [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
              |
              ---entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
                 |
                 |--31.44%-- __GI___libc_nanosleep
                  --68.56%-- [...]

Signed-off-by: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439289050-40510-3-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      9e207ddf
    • Kan Liang's avatar
      perf callchain: Allow disabling call graphs per event · f9db0d0f
      Kan Liang authored 
      

This patch introduce "call-graph=no" to disable per-event callgraph.

Here is an example.

  perf record -e 'cpu/cpu-cycles,call-graph=fp/,cpu/instructions,call-graph=no/' sleep 1

  perf report --stdio

  # To display the perf.data header info, please use
  --header/--header-only options.
  #
  #
  # Total Lost Samples: 0
  #
  # Samples: 6  of event 'cpu/cpu-cycles,call-graph=fp/'
  # Event count (approx.): 774218
  #
  # Children      Self  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
  # ........  ........  .......  ................  ........................................
  #
    61.94%     0.00%  sleep    [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
              |
              ---entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
                 |
                 |--97.30%-- __brk
                 |
                  --2.70%-- mmap64
                            _dl_check_map_versions
                            _dl_check_all_versions

    61.94%     0.00%  sleep    [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] perf_event_mmap
              |
              ---perf_event_mmap
                 |
                 |--97.30%-- do_brk
                 |          sys_brk
                 |          entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
                 |          __brk
                 |
                  --2.70%-- mmap_region
                            do_mmap_pgoff
                            vm_mmap_pgoff
                            sys_mmap_pgoff
                            sys_mmap
                            entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
                            mmap64
                            _dl_check_map_versions
                            _dl_check_all_versions
  ......

  # Samples: 6  of event 'cpu/instructions,call-graph=no/'
  # Event count (approx.): 359692
  #
  # Children      Self  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
  # ........  ........  .......  ................  .................................
  #
     89.03%     0.00%  sleep    [unknown]         [.] 0xffff6598ffff6598
     89.03%     0.00%  sleep    ld-2.17.so        [.] _dl_resolve_conflicts
     89.03%     0.00%  sleep    [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] page_fault

Signed-off-by: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439289050-40510-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      f9db0d0f
    • Kan Liang's avatar
      perf callchain: Per-event type selection support · d457c963
      Kan Liang authored 
      

This patchkit adds the ability to set callgraph mode (fp, dwarf, lbr) per
event. This in term can reduce sampling overhead and the size of the
perf.data.

Here is an example.

  perf record -e 'cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000,call-graph=fp,time=1/,cpu/instructions,call-graph=lbr/' sleep 1

 perf evlist -v
 cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000,call-graph=fp,time=1/: type: 4, size: 112,
 config: 0x3c, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1000, sample_type:
 IP|TID|TIME|CALLCHAIN|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER, read_format: ID, disabled: 1,
 inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all:
 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1
 cpu/instructions,call-graph=lbr/: type: 4, size: 112, config: 0xc0, {
 sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type:
 IP|TID|TIME|CALLCHAIN|PERIOD|BRANCH_STACK|IDENTIFIER, read_format: ID,
 disabled: 1, inherit: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, sample_id_all: 1,
 exclude_guest: 1

Signed-off-by: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439289050-40510-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      d457c963
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      perf probe: Fix to show lines of sys_ functions correctly · 75186a9b
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      

"perf probe --lines sys_poll" shows only the first line of sys_poll,
because the SYSCALL_DEFINE macro:

  ----
  SYSCALL_DEFINE*(foo,...)
  {
    body;
  }
  ----

  is expanded as below (on debuginfo)

  ----

  static inline int SYSC_foo(...)
  {
    body;
  }
  int SyS_foo(...) <- is an alias of sys_foo.
  {
    return SYSC_foo(...);
  }
  ----

So, "perf probe --lines sys_foo" decodes SyS_foo function and it also skips
inlined functions(SYSC_foo) inside the target function because those functions
are usually defined somewhere else.

To fix this issue, this fix checks whether the inlined function is defined at
the same point of the target function, and if so, it doesn't skip the inline
function.

Reported-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150812012406.11811.94691.stgit@localhost.localdomain


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      75186a9b
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