History log of /linux-master/tools/perf/builtin.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 0adea51a 10-Apr-2023 Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

perf usage: Move usage strings

The usage function is part of util.h, move the usage strings there
too.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Chengdong Li <chengdongli@tencent.com>
Cc: Denis Nikitin <denik@chromium.org>
Cc: Florian Fischer <florian.fischer@muhq.space>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Raul Silvera <rsilvera@google.com>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230410162511.3055900-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 0f70d8e9 08-Jul-2022 Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>

perf kwork: New tool to trace time properties of kernel work (such as softirq, and workqueue)

The 'perf kwork' tool is used to trace time properties of kernel work
(such as irq, softirq, and workqueue), including runtime, latency, and
timehist, using the infrastructure in the perf tools to allow tracing
extra targets.

This is the first commit to reuse the 'perf record' framework code to
implement a simple record function, kwork is not supported currently.

Test cases:

# perf

usage: perf [--version] [--help] [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]

The most commonly used perf commands are:
<SNIP>
iostat Show I/O performance metrics
kallsyms Searches running kernel for symbols
kmem Tool to trace/measure kernel memory properties
kvm Tool to trace/measure kvm guest os
kwork Tool to trace/measure kernel work properties (latencies)
list List all symbolic event types
lock Analyze lock events
mem Profile memory accesses
record Run a command and record its profile into perf.data
<SNIP>
See 'perf help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command.

# perf kwork

Usage: perf kwork [<options>] {record}

-D, --dump-raw-trace dump raw trace in ASCII
-f, --force don't complain, do it
-k, --kwork <kwork> list of kwork to profile
-v, --verbose be more verbose (show symbol address, etc)

# perf kwork record -- sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.787 MB perf.data ]

Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220709015033.38326-2-yangjihong1@huawei.com
[ Add {} for multiline if blocks ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# d450bc50 08-Feb-2021 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

perf daemon: Add daemon command

Add a daemon skeleton with a minimal base (non) functionality, covering
various setup in start command.

Add an initial perf-daemon.txt with basic info.

This is in response to pople asking for the possibility to be able run
record long running sessions on the background.

The patchset that starts with this adds support to configure and run
record sessions on background via new 'perf daemon' command.

This is useful for being able to use perf as a flight recorder that one
can interact with asking for events to be enabled or disabled, added or
removed, etc.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Budankov <abudankov@huawei.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210208200908.1019149-2-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# efa73d37 27-Aug-2019 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf tools: Remove needless util.h include from builtin.h

And fix up places where util.h is needed but was obtained indirectly via
builtin.h.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-a01ig3c4t76ye5wkqmtgk9qn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 905e4aff 11-Mar-2019 Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

perf script: Add array bound checking to list_scripts

Don't overflow array when the scripts directory is too large, or the
script file name is too long.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190311144502.15423-11-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# a3b70b3b 19-Apr-2017 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf tools: Remove stale prototypes from builtin.h

Some, like prune_packed_objects() are clearly git specific, others
don't have implementations and some are used in just one place, make
them static.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-faj3c5dnttf3hurv4pujut8n@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# b0ad8ea6 27-Mar-2017 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf tools: Remove unused 'prefix' from builtin functions

We got it from the git sources but never used it for anything, with the
place where this would be somehow used remaining:

static int run_builtin(struct cmd_struct *p, int argc, const char **argv)
{
prefix = NULL;
if (p->option & RUN_SETUP)
prefix = NULL; /* setup_perf_directory(); */

Ditch it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uw5swz05vol0qpr32c5lpvus@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# d01f4e8d 07-Mar-2013 Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>

perf ftrace: Introduce new 'ftrace' tool

The 'perf ftrace' command is a simple wrapper of kernel's ftrace
functionality. It only supports single thread tracing currently and
just reads trace_pipe in text and then write it to stdout.

Committer notes:

Testing it:

# perf ftrace -f function_graph usleep 123456
<SNIP>
2) | SyS_nanosleep() {
2) | _copy_from_user() {
<SNIP>
2) 0.900 us | }
2) 1.354 us | }
2) | hrtimer_nanosleep() {
2) 0.062 us | __hrtimer_init();
2) | do_nanosleep() {
2) | hrtimer_start_range_ns() {
<SNIP>
2) 5.025 us | }
2) | schedule() {
2) 0.125 us | rcu_note_context_switch();
2) 0.057 us | _raw_spin_lock();
2) | deactivate_task() {
2) 0.369 us | update_rq_clock.part.77();
2) | dequeue_task_fair() {
<SNIP>
2) + 22.453 us | }
2) + 23.736 us | }
2) | pick_next_task_fair() {
<SNIP>
2) + 47.167 us | }
2) | pick_next_task_idle() {
<SNIP>
2) 4.462 us | }
------------------------------------------
2) usleep-20387 => <idle>-0
------------------------------------------

2) 0.806 us | switch_mm_irqs_off();
------------------------------------------
2) <idle>-0 => usleep-20387
------------------------------------------

2) 0.151 us | finish_task_switch();
2) @ 123597.2 us | }
2) 0.037 us | _cond_resched();
2) | hrtimer_try_to_cancel() {
2) 0.064 us | hrtimer_active();
2) 0.353 us | }
2) @ 123605.3 us | }
2) @ 123606.2 us | }
2) @ 123608.3 us | } /* SyS_nanosleep */
2) | __do_page_fault() {
<SNIP>

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-r1hgmsj4dxny8arn3o9mw512@git.kernel.org
[ Various foward port fixes, add man page ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 35563771 05-Jan-2017 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf kallsyms: Introduce tool to look for extended symbol information on the running kernel

Its similar to doing grep on a /proc/kallsyms, but it also shows extra
information like the path to the kernel module and the unrelocated
addresses in it, to help in diagnosing problems.

It is also helps demonstrate the use of the symbols routines so that
tool writers can use them more effectively.

Using it:

$ perf kallsyms e1000_xmit_frame netif_rx usb_stor_set_xfer_buf
e1000_xmit_frame: [e1000e] /lib/modules/4.9.0+/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000e.ko 0xffffffffc046fc10-0xffffffffc0470bb0 (0x19c80-0x1ac20)
netif_rx: [kernel] [kernel.kallsyms] 0xffffffff916f03a0-0xffffffff916f0410 (0xffffffff916f03a0-0xffffffff916f0410)
usb_stor_set_xfer_buf: [usb_storage] /lib/modules/4.9.0+/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko 0xffffffffc057aea0-0xffffffffc057af19 (0xf10-0xf89)
$

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-79bk9pakujn4l4vq0f90klv3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 7aef3bf3 22-Sep-2016 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

perf c2c: Add c2c command

Adding c2c command base wirings. Its implementation is going to be added
gradually in following patches.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474558645-19956-11-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 3938bad4 23-Mar-2016 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf tools: Remove needless 'extern' from function prototypes

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-w246stf7ponfamclsai6b9zo@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 30862f2c 17-Nov-2015 Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>

perf tools: Add 'perf config' command

The perf configuration file contains many variables to change various
aspects of each of its tools, including output, disk usage, etc.

But looking at the state of configuration is difficult and there's no
documentation about config variables except for the variables in
perfconfig.example exist.

So this patch adds a 'perf-config' command with a '--list' option.

perf config [options]

display current perf config variables.
# perf config -l | --list

Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447768424-17327-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 2245bf14 20-Feb-2015 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

perf tools: Add new 'perf data' command

Adding new 'perf data' command to provide operations over data files.

The 'perf data convert' sub command is coming in following patch, but
there's possibility for other useful commands like 'perf data ls' (to
display perf data file in directory in ls style).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424470628-5969-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 028f12ee 24-Jan-2013 Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>

perf tools: Add new mem command for memory access profiling

This new command is a wrapper on top of perf record and perf report to
make it easier to configure for memory access profiling.

To record loads:
$ perf mem -t load rec .....

To record stores:
$ perf mem -t store rec .....

To get the report:
$ perf mem -t load rep

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-15-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
[ Fixed minor conflict with 66857b5 "Sort command-list.txt alphabetically" ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 514f1c67 26-Sep-2012 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf trace: New tool

Initially should look loosely like the venerable 'strace' tool, but
using the infrastructure in the perf tools to allow tracing extra
targets:

[acme@sandy linux]$ perf trace --hell
Error: unknown option `hell'

usage: perf trace <PID>

-p, --pid <pid> trace events on existing process id
--tid <tid> trace events on existing thread id
--all-cpus system-wide collection from all CPUs
--cpu <cpu> list of cpus to monitor
--no-inherit child tasks do not inherit counters
--mmap-pages <n> number of mmap data pages
--uid <user> user to profile

[acme@sandy linux]$

Those should have the same semantics as when using with 'perf record'.

It gets stuck sometimes, but hey, it works sometimes too!

In time it should support perf.data based workloads, i.e. it should have
a:
-o filename

Command line option that will produce a perf.data file that can then be
used with 'perf trace' or any of the other perf tools (script, report,
etc).

It will also eventually have the set of functionalities described in the
previous 'trace' prototype by Thomas Gleixner:

"Announcing a new utility: 'trace'"
http://lwn.net/Articles/415728/

Also planned is to have some of the features suggested in the comments
of that LWN article.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v9x3q9rv4caxtox7wtjpchq5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# e5f3705e 07-Sep-2012 Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>

perf scripts: Export a find_scripts() function

So that other perf commands/browser has a way to dig out the available
scripts info in system, this is a preparation for the script browser.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347007349-3102-5-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# fbe96f29 30-Sep-2011 Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>

perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8)

The goal of this patch is to include more information about the host
environment into the perf.data so it is more self-descriptive. Overtime,
profiles are captured on various machines and it becomes hard to track
what was recorded, on what machine and when.

This patch provides a way to solve this by extending the perf.data file
with basic information about the host machine. To add those extensions,
we leverage the feature bits capabilities of the perf.data format. The
change is backward compatible with existing perf.data files.

We define the following useful new extensions:
- HEADER_HOSTNAME: the hostname
- HEADER_OSRELEASE: the kernel release number
- HEADER_ARCH: the hw architecture
- HEADER_CPUDESC: generic CPU description
- HEADER_NRCPUS: number of online/avail cpus
- HEADER_CMDLINE: perf command line
- HEADER_VERSION: perf version
- HEADER_TOPOLOGY: cpu topology
- HEADER_EVENT_DESC: full event description (attrs)
- HEADER_CPUID: easy-to-parse low level CPU identication

The small granularity for the entries is to make it easier to extend
without breaking backward compatiblity. Many entries are provided as
ASCII strings.

Perf report/script have been modified to print the basic information as
easy-to-parse ASCII strings. Extended information about CPU and NUMA
topology may be requested with the -I option.

Thanks to David Ahern for reviewing and testing the many versions of
this patch.

$ perf report --stdio
# ========
# captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011
# hostname : quad
# os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip
# perf version : 3.1.0-rc4
# arch : x86_64
# nrcpus online : 4
# nrcpus avail : 4
# cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
# cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11
# total memory : 8105360 kB
# cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date
# event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31,
# HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
# HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY info available, use -I to display
# ========
#
...

$ perf report --stdio -I
# ========
# captured on : Mon Sep 26 15:22:14 2011
# hostname : quad
# os release : 3.1.0-rc4-tip
# perf version : 3.1.0-rc4
# arch : x86_64
# nrcpus online : 4
# nrcpus avail : 4
# cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
# cpuid : GenuineIntel,6,15,11
# total memory : 8105360 kB
# cmdline : /home/eranian/perfmon/official/tip/build/tools/perf/perf record date
# event : name = cycles, type = 0, config = 0x0, config1 = 0x0, config2 = 0x0, excl_usr = 0, excl_kern = 0, id = { 29, 30, 31,
# sibling cores : 0-3
# sibling threads : 0
# sibling threads : 1
# sibling threads : 2
# sibling threads : 3
# node0 meminfo : total = 8320608 kB, free = 7571024 kB
# node0 cpu list : 0-3
# ========
#
...

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110930134040.GA5575@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ committer notes: Use --show-info in the tools as was in the docs, rename
perf_header_fprintf_info to perf_file_section__fprintf_info, fixup
conflict with f69b64f7 "perf: Support setting the disassembler style" ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 43adec95 15-Mar-2011 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file

[root@emilia ~]# perf record -a -e sched:* -e timer:timer* sleep 5
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.172 MB perf.data (~7530 samples) ]
[root@emilia ~]# perf evlist
sched:sched_kthread_stop
sched:sched_kthread_stop_ret
sched:sched_wakeup
sched:sched_wakeup_new
sched:sched_switch
sched:sched_migrate_task
sched:sched_process_free
sched:sched_process_exit
sched:sched_wait_task
sched:sched_process_wait
sched:sched_process_fork
sched:sched_stat_wait
sched:sched_stat_sleep
sched:sched_stat_iowait
sched:sched_stat_runtime
sched:sched_pi_setprio
timer:timer_init
timer:timer_start
timer:timer_expire_entry
timer:timer_expire_exit
timer:timer_cancel
[root@emilia ~]#

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 133dc4c3 16-Nov-2010 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf: Rename 'perf trace' to 'perf script'

Free the perf trace name space and rename the trace to 'script' which is a
better match for the scripting engine.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 454c407e 01-May-2010 Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>

perf: add perf-inject builtin

Currently, perf 'live mode' writes build-ids at the end of the
session, which isn't actually useful for processing live mode events.

What would be better would be to have the build-ids sent before any of
the samples that reference them, which can be done by processing the
event stream and retrieving the build-ids on the first hit. Doing
that in perf-record itself, however, is off-limits.

This patch introduces perf-inject, which does the same job while
leaving perf-record untouched. Normal mode perf still records the
build-ids at the end of the session as it should, but for live mode,
perf-inject can be injected in between the record and report steps
e.g.:

perf record -o - ./hackbench 10 | perf inject -v -b | perf report -v -i -

perf-inject reads a perf-record event stream and repipes it to stdout.
At any point the processing code can inject other events into the
event stream - in this case build-ids (-b option) are read and
injected as needed into the event stream.

Build-ids are just the first user of perf-inject - potentially
anything that needs userspace processing to augment the trace stream
with additional information could make use of this facility.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1272696080-16435-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 1c6a800c 29-Apr-2010 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf test: Initial regression testing command

First an example with the first internal test:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf test
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok

So it run just one test, that is "vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms", and it was
successful.

If we run it in verbose mode, we'll see details about errors and extra warnings
for non-fatal problems:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf test -v
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms:
--- start ---
Looking at the vmlinux_path (5 entries long)
No build_id in vmlinux, ignoring it
No build_id in /boot/vmlinux, ignoring it
No build_id in /boot/vmlinux-2.6.34-rc4-tip+, ignoring it
Using /lib/modules/2.6.34-rc4-tip+/build/vmlinux for symbols
Maps only in vmlinux:
ffffffff81cb81b1-ffffffff81e1149b 0 [kernel].init.text
ffffffff81e1149c-ffffffff9fffffff 0 [kernel].exit.text
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff6000ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_0
ffffffffff600100-ffffffffff6003ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_fn
ffffffffff600400-ffffffffff6007ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_1
ffffffffff600800-ffffffffffffffff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_2
Maps in vmlinux with a different name in kallsyms:
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff6000ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_0 in kallsyms as [kernel].0
ffffffffff600100-ffffffffff6003ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_fn in kallsyms as:
*ffffffffff600100-ffffffffff60012f 0 [kernel].2
ffffffffff600400-ffffffffff6007ff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_1 in kallsyms as [kernel].6
ffffffffff600800-ffffffffffffffff 0 [kernel].vsyscall_2 in kallsyms as [kernel].8
Maps only in kallsyms:
ffffffffff600130-ffffffffff6003ff 0 [kernel].4
---- end ----
vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms: Ok
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

In the above case we only know the name of the non contiguous kernel ranges in
the address space when reading the symbol information from the ELF symtab in
vmlinux.

The /proc/kallsyms file lack this, we only notice they are separate because
there are modules after the kernel and after that more kernel functions, so we
need to have a module rbtree backed by the module .ko path to get symtabs in
the vmlinux case.

The tool uses it to match by address to emit appropriate warning, but don't
considers this fatal.

The .init.text and .exit.text ines, of course, aren't in kallsyms, so I left
these cases just as extra info in verbose mode.

The end of the sections also aren't in kallsyms, so we the symbols layer does
another pass and sets the end addresses as the next map start minus one, which
sometimes pads, causing harmless mismatches.

But at least the symbols match, tested it by copying /proc/kallsyms to
/tmp/kallsyms and doing changes to see if they were detected.

This first test also should serve as a first stab at documenting the
symbol library by providing a self contained example that exercises it
together with comments about what is being done.

More tests to check if actions done on a monitored app, like doing mmaps, etc,
makes the kernel generate the expected events should be added next.

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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# a1645ce1 18-Apr-2010 Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>

perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host

Here is the patch of userspace perf tool.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>


# 9b5e350c 30-Jan-2010 Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>

perf lock: Introduce new tool "perf lock", for analyzing lock statistics

Adding new subcommand "perf lock" to perf.

I have a lot of remaining ToDos, but for now perf lock can
already provide minimal functionality for analyzing lock
statistics.

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-12-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# ef12a141 20-Jan-2010 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf buildid-cache: Add new command to manage build-id cache

For now it just has operations to examine a given file, find its
build-id and add or remove it to/from the cache.

Useful, for instance, when adding binaries sent together with a
perf.data file, so that we can add them to the cache and have
the tools find it when resolving symbols.

It'll also manage the size of the cache like 'ccache' does.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264008525-29025-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 86a9eee0 14-Dec-2009 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf diff: Introduce tool to show performance difference

I guess it is enough to show some examples:

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# rm -f perf.data*
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data*
ls: cannot access perf.data*: No such file or directory
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf record -f find / > /dev/null
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2699 samples) ]
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data*
-rw------- 1 root root 74440 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf record -f find / > /dev/null
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2692 samples) ]
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf.data*
-rw------- 1 root root 74280 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data
-rw------- 1 root root 74440 2009-12-14 20:03 perf.data.old
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff | head -5
1 -34994580 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal
2 -15307806 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc
3 +1 +3665941 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove
4 +4 +23508995 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc
5 +7 +38538813 [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -p | head -5
1 +1.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal
2 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc
3 +1 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove
4 +4 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc
5 +7 -1.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -v | head -5
1 361449551 326454971 -34994580 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal
2 151009241 135701435 -15307806 [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc
3 +1 101805328 105471269 +3665941 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove
4 +4 78041440 101550435 +23508995 /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc
5 +7 59536172 98074985 +38538813 [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf diff -vp | head -5
1 9.00% 8.00% +1.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _IO_vfprintf_internal
2 3.00% 3.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __kmalloc
3 +1 2.00% 2.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so __GI_memmove
4 +4 2.00% 2.00% /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so _int_malloc
5 +7 1.00% 2.00% -1.00% [kernel.kallsyms] __d_lookup
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#

This should be enough for diffs where the system is non
volatile, i.e. when one doesn't updates binaries.

For volatile environments, stay tuned for the next perf tool
feature: a buildid cache populated by 'perf record', managed by
'perf buildid-cache' a-la ccache, and used by all the report
tools.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260828571-3613-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# ba77c9e1 20-Nov-2009 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

perf: Add 'perf kmem' tool

This tool is mostly a perf version of kmemtrace-user.

The following information is provided by this tool:

- the total amount of memory allocated and fragmentation per
call-site

- the total amount of memory allocated and fragmentation per
allocation

- total memory allocated and fragmentation in the collected
dataset - ...

Sample output:

# ./perf kmem record
^C
# ./perf kmem --stat caller --stat alloc -l 10

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Callsite | Total_alloc/Per | Total_req/Per | Hit | Fragmentation
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0xc052f37a | 790528/4096 | 790528/4096 | 193 | 0.000%
0xc0541d70 | 524288/4096 | 524288/4096 | 128 | 0.000%
0xc051cc68 | 481600/200 | 481600/200 | 2408 | 0.000%
0xc0572623 | 297444/676 | 297440/676 | 440 | 0.001%
0xc05399f1 | 73476/164 | 73472/164 | 448 | 0.005%
0xc05243bf | 51456/256 | 51456/256 | 201 | 0.000%
0xc0730d0e | 31844/497 | 31808/497 | 64 | 0.113%
0xc0734c4e | 17152/256 | 17152/256 | 67 | 0.000%
0xc0541a6d | 16384/128 | 16384/128 | 128 | 0.000%
0xc059c217 | 13120/40 | 13120/40 | 328 | 0.000%
0xc0501ee6 | 11264/88 | 11264/88 | 128 | 0.000%
0xc04daef0 | 7504/682 | 7128/648 | 11 | 5.011%
0xc04e14a3 | 4216/191 | 4216/191 | 22 | 0.000%
0xc05041ca | 3524/44 | 3520/44 | 80 | 0.114%
0xc0734fa3 | 2104/701 | 1620/540 | 3 | 23.004%
0xc05ec9f1 | 2024/289 | 2016/288 | 7 | 0.395%
0xc06a1999 | 1792/256 | 1792/256 | 7 | 0.000%
0xc0463b9a | 1584/144 | 1584/144 | 11 | 0.000%
0xc0541eb0 | 1024/16 | 1024/16 | 64 | 0.000%
0xc06a19ac | 896/128 | 896/128 | 7 | 0.000%
0xc05721c0 | 772/12 | 768/12 | 64 | 0.518%
0xc054d1e6 | 288/57 | 280/56 | 5 | 2.778%
0xc04b562e | 157/31 | 154/30 | 5 | 1.911%
0xc04b536f | 80/16 | 80/16 | 5 | 0.000%
0xc05855a0 | 64/64 | 36/36 | 1 | 43.750%
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alloc Ptr | Total_alloc/Per | Total_req/Per | Hit | Fragmentation
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0xda884000 | 1052672/4096 | 1052672/4096 | 257 | 0.000%
0xda886000 | 262144/4096 | 262144/4096 | 64 | 0.000%
0xf60c7c00 | 16512/128 | 16512/128 | 129 | 0.000%
0xf59a4118 | 13120/40 | 13120/40 | 328 | 0.000%
0xdfd4b2c0 | 11264/88 | 11264/88 | 128 | 0.000%
0xf5274600 | 7680/256 | 7680/256 | 30 | 0.000%
0xe8395000 | 5948/594 | 5464/546 | 10 | 8.137%
0xe59c3c00 | 5748/479 | 5712/476 | 12 | 0.626%
0xf4cd1a80 | 3524/44 | 3520/44 | 80 | 0.114%
0xe5bd1600 | 2892/482 | 2856/476 | 6 | 1.245%
... | ... | ... | ... | ...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY
=======
Total bytes requested: 2333626
Total bytes allocated: 2353712
Total bytes wasted on internal fragmentation: 20086
Internal fragmentation: 0.853375%

TODO:
- show sym+offset in 'callsite' column
- show cross node allocation stats
- collect more useful stats?
- ...

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org <linux-mm@kvack.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B064AF5.9060208@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# c34984b2 16-Nov-2009 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf buildid-list: New plumbing command

With this we can list the buildids in a perf.data file so that
we can pipe them to other, distro specific tools that from the
buildids can figure out separate packages (foo-debuginfo) where
we can find the matching symtabs so that perf report can do its
job.

E.g:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf buildid-list | head -5
8e08b117e5458ad3f85da16d42d0fc5cd21c5869
520c2387a587cc5acfcf881e27dba1caaeab4b1f
ec8dd400904ddfcac8b1c343263a790f977159dc
7caedbca5a6d8ab39a7fe44bd28c07d3e14a3f3f
379bb828fd08859dbea73279f04abefabc95a6a3
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf buildid-list -v | head -5
8e08b117e5458ad3f85da16d42d0fc5cd21c5869 /sbin/init
520c2387a587cc5acfcf881e27dba1caaeab4b1f /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so
ec8dd400904ddfcac8b1c343263a790f977159dc /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so
7caedbca5a6d8ab39a7fe44bd28c07d3e14a3f3f /sbin/udevd
379bb828fd08859dbea73279f04abefabc95a6a3 /lib64/libdl-2.10.1.so
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1258396365-29217-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 11bd341c 04-Nov-2009 Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>

perf bench: Modify builtin.h for new prototype

This patch modifies builtin.h to add prototype of cmd_bench().

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1257381097-4743-6-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 4ea42b18 08-Oct-2009 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf: Add perf probe subcommand, a kprobe-event setup helper

Add perf probe subcommand that implements a kprobe-event setup helper
to the perf command.
This allows user to define kprobe events using C expressions (C line
numbers, C function names, and C local variables).

Usage
-----
perf probe [<options>] -P 'PROBEDEF' [-P 'PROBEDEF' ...]

-k, --vmlinux <file> vmlinux/module pathname
-P, --probe <p|r:[GRP/]NAME FUNC[+OFFS][@SRC]|@SRC:LINE [ARG ...]>
probe point definition, where
p: kprobe probe
r: kretprobe probe
GRP: Group name (optional)
NAME: Event name
FUNC: Function name
OFFS: Offset from function entry (in byte)
SRC: Source code path
LINE: Line number
ARG: Probe argument (local variable name or
kprobe-tracer argument format is supported.)

Changes in v4:
- Add _GNU_SOURCE macro for strndup().

Changes in v3:
- Remove -r option because perf always be used for online kernel.
- Check malloc/calloc results.

Changes in v2:
- Check synthesized string length.
- Rename perf kprobe to perf probe.
- Use spaces for separator and update usage comment.
- Check error paths in parse_probepoint().
- Check optimized-out variables.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091008211737.29299.14784.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>


# 10274989 11-Sep-2009 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

perf: Add the timechart tool

timechart is a tool to visualize what is going on in the system.

The user makes a trace of what is going on with

> perf record --timechart /usr/bin/some_command

and then can turn the output of this into an svg file

> perf timechart

which then can be viewed with any SVG view; inkscape works well
enough for me.

The idea behind timechart is to create a "infinitely zoomable"
picture; something that has high level information on a 1:1 zoom
level, but which exposes more details every time you zoom into a
specific area.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130713.6a77bbc0@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 0a02ad93 10-Sep-2009 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf: Add 'perf sched' tool

This turn-key tool allows scheduler measurements to be
conducted and the results be displayed numerically.

First baby step towards that goal: clone the new command off of
perf trace.

Fix a few other details along the way:

- add (minimal) perf trace documentation

- reorder a few places

- list perf trace in the mainporcelain list as well
as it's a very useful utility.

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


# cd84c2ac 12-Aug-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

perf tools: Factorize high level dso helpers

Factorize multiple definitions of high level dso helpers into the
symbol source file.

The side effect is a general export of the verbose and eprintf
debugging helpers into a new file dedicated to debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>


# 86470930 06-Jun-2009 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/

Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged
tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the
(new) tools/ directory.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>