History log of /linux-master/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kmem.txt
Revision Date Author Comments
# f792cf8a 22-Sep-2021 Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

perf kmem: Improve man page for record options

Since:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200708183919.4141023-1-irogers@google.com/

The output option works for 'perf kmem', however, it must appear after
'record'. This is different to 'stat' where '-i' for the input must
appear before. Try to capture this complication in the man page.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210922212031.485950-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 577980a0 11-Feb-2018 Sangwon Hong <qpakzk@gmail.com>

perf kmem: Document a missing option & an argument

First, 'perf kmem' has a '--force' option, but didn't document it on the
man page. So add it.

Second, the '--time' option has to get a value, but isn't documented on
the man page. Describe it.

Signed-off-by: Sangwon Hong <qpakzk@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518381517-30766-1-git-send-email-qpakzk@gmail.com
[ Add blank like after --force block, as requested by Namhyung ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 2a865bd8 29-Nov-2016 David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>

perf kmem: Add option to specify time window of interest

Add option to allow user to control analysis window. e.g., collect data
for time window and analyze a segment of interest within that window.

Committer notes:

Testing it:

# perf kmem record usleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.540 MB perf.data (2049 samples) ]
# perf evlist
kmem:kmalloc
kmem:kmalloc_node
kmem:kfree
kmem:kmem_cache_alloc
kmem:kmem_cache_alloc_node
kmem:kmem_cache_free
# Tip: use 'perf evlist --trace-fields' to show fields for tracepoint events
#
# # Use 'perf script' to get a first approach, select a chunk for then using
# # with 'perf kmem stat --time'
#
# perf script | tail -15
usleep 9889 [0] 20119.782088: kmem:kmem_cache_free: (selinux_file_free_security+0x27) call_site=ffffffffb936aa07 ptr=0xffff888a1df49fc0
perf 9888 [3] 20119.782088: kmem:kmem_cache_free: (jbd2_journal_stop+0x1a1) call_site=ffffffffb9334581 ptr=0xffff888bdf1a39c0
perf 9888 [3] 20119.782089: kmem:kmem_cache_alloc: (jbd2__journal_start+0x72) call_site=ffffffffb9333b42 ptr=0xffff888bdf1a39c0 bytes_req=48 bytes_alloc=48 gfp_flags=GFP_NOFS|__GFP_ZERO
perf 9888 [3] 20119.782090: kmem:kmem_cache_free: (jbd2_journal_stop+0x1a1) call_site=ffffffffb9334581 ptr=0xffff888bdf1a39c0
perf 9888 [3] 20119.782090: kmem:kmem_cache_alloc: (jbd2__journal_start+0x72) call_site=ffffffffb9333b42 ptr=0xffff888bdf1a39c0 bytes_req=48 bytes_alloc=48 gfp_flags=GFP_NOFS|__GFP_ZERO
usleep 9889 [0] 20119.782091: kmem:kmem_cache_alloc: (__sigqueue_alloc+0x4a) call_site=ffffffffb90ad33a ptr=0xffff8889f071f6e0 bytes_req=160 bytes_alloc=160 gfp_flags=GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOTRACK
perf 9888 [3] 20119.782091: kmem:kmem_cache_free: (jbd2_journal_stop+0x1a1) call_site=ffffffffb9334581 ptr=0xffff888bdf1a39c0
perf 9888 [3] 20119.782093: kmem:kmem_cache_free: (__sigqueue_free.part.17+0x33) call_site=ffffffffb90ad3f3 ptr=0xffff8889f071f6e0
perf 9888 [3] 20119.782098: kmem:kmem_cache_alloc: (jbd2__journal_start+0x72) call_site=ffffffffb9333b42 ptr=0xffff888bdf1a39c0 bytes_req=48 bytes_alloc=48 gfp_flags=GFP_NOFS|__GFP_ZERO
perf 9888 [3] 20119.782098: kmem:kmem_cache_free: (jbd2_journal_stop+0x1a1) call_site=ffffffffb9334581 ptr=0xffff888bdf1a39c0
perf 9888 [3] 20119.782099: kmem:kmem_cache_alloc: (jbd2__journal_start+0x72) call_site=ffffffffb9333b42 ptr=0xffff888bdf1a39c0 bytes_req=48 bytes_alloc=48 gfp_flags=GFP_NOFS|__GFP_ZERO
perf 9888 [3] 20119.782100: kmem:kmem_cache_alloc: (alloc_buffer_head+0x21) call_site=ffffffffb9287cc1 ptr=0xffff8889b12722d8 bytes_req=104 bytes_alloc=104 gfp_flags=GFP_NOFS|__GFP_ZERO
perf 9888 [3] 20119.782101: kmem:kmem_cache_free: (jbd2_journal_stop+0x1a1) call_site=ffffffffb9334581 ptr=0xffff888bdf1a39c0
perf 9888 [3] 20119.782102: kmem:kmem_cache_alloc: (jbd2__journal_start+0x72) call_site=ffffffffb9333b42 ptr=0xffff888bdf1a39c0 bytes_req=48 bytes_alloc=48 gfp_flags=GFP_NOFS|__GFP_ZERO
perf 9888 [3] 20119.782103: kmem:kmem_cache_free: (jbd2_journal_stop+0x1a1) call_site=ffffffffb9334581 ptr=0xffff888bdf1a39c0
#
# # stats for the whole perf.data file, i.e. no interval specified
#
# perf kmem stat

SUMMARY (SLAB allocator)
========================
Total bytes requested: 172,628
Total bytes allocated: 173,088
Total bytes freed: 161,280
Net total bytes allocated: 11,808
Total bytes wasted on internal fragmentation: 460
Internal fragmentation: 0.265761%
Cross CPU allocations: 0/851
#
# # stats for an end open interval, after a certain time:
#
# perf kmem stat --time 20119.782088,

SUMMARY (SLAB allocator)
========================
Total bytes requested: 552
Total bytes allocated: 552
Total bytes freed: 448
Net total bytes allocated: 104
Total bytes wasted on internal fragmentation: 0
Internal fragmentation: 0.000000%
Cross CPU allocations: 0/8
#

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480439746-42695-6-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 2a7ef02c 20-Apr-2015 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

perf kmem: Add --live option for current allocation stat

Currently 'perf kmem stat --page' shows total (page) allocation stat by
default, but sometimes one might want to see live (total alloc-only)
requests/pages only. The new --live option does this by subtracting freed
allocation from the stat.

E.g.:

# perf kmem stat --page

SUMMARY (page allocator)
========================
Total allocation requests : 988,858 [ 4,045,368 KB ]
Total free requests : 886,484 [ 3,624,996 KB ]

Total alloc+freed requests : 885,969 [ 3,622,628 KB ]
Total alloc-only requests : 102,889 [ 422,740 KB ]
Total free-only requests : 515 [ 2,368 KB ]

Total allocation failures : 0 [ 0 KB ]

Order Unmovable Reclaimable Movable Reserved CMA/Isolated
----- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------
0 172,173 3,083 806,686 . .
1 284 . . . .
2 6,124 58 . . .
3 114 335 . . .
4 . . . . .
5 . . . . .
6 . . . . .
7 . . . . .
8 . . . . .
9 . . 1 . .
10 . . . . .
# perf kmem stat --page --live

SUMMARY (page allocator)
========================
Total allocation requests : 988,858 [ 4,045,368 KB ]
Total free requests : 886,484 [ 3,624,996 KB ]

Total alloc+freed requests : 885,969 [ 3,622,628 KB ]
Total alloc-only requests : 102,889 [ 422,740 KB ]
Total free-only requests : 515 [ 2,368 KB ]

Total allocation failures : 0 [ 0 KB ]

Order Unmovable Reclaimable Movable Reserved CMA/Isolated
----- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------
0 2,214 3,025 97,156 . .
1 59 . . . .
2 19 58 . . .
3 23 335 . . .
4 . . . . .
5 . . . . .
6 . . . . .
7 . . . . .
8 . . . . .
9 . . . . .
10 . . . . .
#

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429592107-1807-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Added examples to the changeset log ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# fb4f313d 20-Apr-2015 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

perf kmem: Support sort keys on page analysis

Add new sort keys for page: page, order, migtype, gfp - existing
'bytes', 'hit' and 'callsite' sort keys also work for page. Note that
-s/--sort option should be preceded by either of --slab or --page option
to determine where the sort keys applies.

Now it properly groups and sorts allocation stats - so same
page/caller with different order/migtype/gfp will be printed on a
different line.

# perf kmem stat --page --caller -l 10 -s order,hit

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total alloc (KB) | Hits | Order | Mig.type | GFP flags | Callsite
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
64 | 4 | 2 | RECLAIM | 00285250 | new_slab
50,144 | 12,536 | 0 | MOVABLE | 0102005a | __page_cache_alloc
52 | 13 | 0 | UNMOVABL | 002084d0 | pte_alloc_one
40 | 10 | 0 | MOVABLE | 000280da | handle_mm_fault
28 | 7 | 0 | UNMOVABL | 000000d0 | __pollwait
20 | 5 | 0 | MOVABLE | 000200da | do_wp_page
20 | 5 | 0 | MOVABLE | 000200da | do_cow_fault
16 | 4 | 0 | UNMOVABL | 00000200 | __tlb_remove_page
16 | 4 | 0 | UNMOVABL | 000084d0 | __pmd_alloc
8 | 2 | 0 | UNMOVABL | 000084d0 | __pud_alloc
... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429592107-1807-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 0d68bc92 05-Apr-2015 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

perf kmem: Analyze page allocator events also

The perf kmem command records and analyze kernel memory allocation only
for SLAB objects. This patch implement a simple page allocator analyzer
using kmem:mm_page_alloc and kmem:mm_page_free events.

It adds two new options of --slab and --page. The --slab option is for
analyzing SLAB allocator and that's what perf kmem currently does.

The new --page option enables page allocator events and analyze kernel
memory usage in page unit. Currently, 'stat --alloc' subcommand is
implemented only.

If none of these --slab nor --page is specified, --slab is implied.

First run 'perf kmem record' to generate a suitable perf.data file:

# perf kmem record --page sleep 5

Then run 'perf kmem stat' to postprocess the perf.data file:

# perf kmem stat --page --alloc --line 10

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PFN | Total alloc (KB) | Hits | Order | Mig.type | GFP flags
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4045014 | 16 | 1 | 2 | RECLAIM | 00285250
4143980 | 16 | 1 | 2 | RECLAIM | 00285250
3938658 | 16 | 1 | 2 | RECLAIM | 00285250
4045400 | 16 | 1 | 2 | RECLAIM | 00285250
3568708 | 16 | 1 | 2 | RECLAIM | 00285250
3729824 | 16 | 1 | 2 | RECLAIM | 00285250
3657210 | 16 | 1 | 2 | RECLAIM | 00285250
4120750 | 16 | 1 | 2 | RECLAIM | 00285250
3678850 | 16 | 1 | 2 | RECLAIM | 00285250
3693874 | 16 | 1 | 2 | RECLAIM | 00285250
... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY (page allocator)
========================
Total allocation requests : 44,260 [ 177,256 KB ]
Total free requests : 117 [ 468 KB ]

Total alloc+freed requests : 49 [ 196 KB ]
Total alloc-only requests : 44,211 [ 177,060 KB ]
Total free-only requests : 68 [ 272 KB ]

Total allocation failures : 0 [ 0 KB ]

Order Unmovable Reclaimable Movable Reserved CMA/Isolated
----- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------
0 32 . 44,210 . .
1 . . . . .
2 . 18 . . .
3 . . . . .
4 . . . . .
5 . . . . .
6 . . . . .
7 . . . . .
8 . . . . .
9 . . . . .
10 . . . . .

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428298576-9785-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# bd72a33e 12-Mar-2015 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

perf kmem: Allow -v option

Current perf kmem fails when -v option is used. As it's very useful for
debugging, let's allow it.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426145571-3065-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# efad1415 07-Dec-2011 Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

perf report: Accept fifos as input file

The default input file for perf report is not handled the same way as
perf record does it for its output file. This leads to unexpected
behavior of perf report, etc. E.g.:

# perf record -a -e cpu-cycles sleep 2 | perf report | cat
failed to open perf.data: No such file or directory (try 'perf record' first)

While perf record writes to a fifo, perf report expects perf.data to be
read. This patch changes this to accept fifos as input file.

Applies to the following commands:

perf annotate
perf buildid-list
perf evlist
perf kmem
perf lock
perf report
perf sched
perf script
perf timechart

Also fixes char const* -> const char* type declaration for filename
strings.

v2:
* Prevent potential null pointer access to input_name in
builtin-report.c. Needed due to removal of patch "perf report: Setup
browser if stdout is a pipe"

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 4778e0e8 05-May-2010 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issues

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 90b86a9f 10-Dec-2009 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

perf kmem: Show usage if no option is specified

As Ingo suggested, make "perf kmem" show help information.
"perf kmem stat [--caller] [--alloc] .." will show memory
statistics.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <4B20A195.8030106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# b23d5767 23-Nov-2009 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

perf kmem: Add help file

Add Documentation/perf-kmem.txt

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org <linux-mm@kvack.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B0B6EAF.80802@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>