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2017-11-16perf timechart: Document missing --force optionSihyeon Jang1-1/+3
Add --force to the man page. Signed-off-by: Sihyeon Jang <uneedsihyeon@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510842367-11011-3-git-send-email-uneedsihyeon@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-07-10perf timechart: Add more options to IO modeStanislav Fomichev1-0/+13
--io-skip-eagain - don't show EAGAIN errors --io-min-time - make small io bursts visible --io-merge-dist - merge adjacent events Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1404835423-23098-5-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-07-10perf timechart: Implement IO modeStanislav Fomichev1-2/+23
Currently, timechart records only scheduler and CPU events (task switches, running times, CPU power states, etc); this commit adds IO mode which makes it possible to record IO (disk, network) activity. In this mode perf timechart will generate SVG with IO charts (writes, reads, tx, rx, polls). Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1404835423-23098-3-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2014-06-10perf timechart: Reflow documentationStanislav Fomichev1-21/+20
Move options away from examples. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140610095216.GO26511@stfomichev-desktop.yandex.net Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-12-17perf timechart: Add --highlight optionStanislav Fomichev1-0/+13
This option highlights tasks (using different color) that run more than given duration or tasks with given name. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131217155349.GA13021@stfomichev-desktop Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-12-16perf timechart: Add support for topologyStanislav Fomichev1-0/+3
Add -t switch to sort CPUs topologically. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1385995056-20158-5-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-11-27perf timechart: Add backtrace supportStanislav Fomichev1-0/+3
Add -g flag to `perf timechart record` which saves callchain info in the perf.data. When generating SVG, add backtrace information to the figure details, so now it's possible to see which code path woke up the task and why some task went to sleep. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383323151-19810-8-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-11-27perf timechart: Add support for -P and -T in timechart recordingStanislav Fomichev1-4/+12
If we don't want either power or task events we may use -T or -P with the `perf timechart record` command to filter out events while recording to keep perf.data small. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383323151-19810-7-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-11-27perf timechart: Add support for displaying only tasks related dataStanislav Fomichev1-0/+3
In order to make SVG smaller and faster to browse add possibility to switch off power related information with -T switch. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383323151-19810-5-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-11-27perf timechart: Add option to limit number of tasksStanislav Fomichev1-0/+4
Add -n option to specify min. number of tasks to print. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383323151-19810-3-git-send-email-stfomichev@yandex-team.ru Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-10-11perf timechart: Add example in the documentationRamkumar Ramachandra1-1/+14
While at it, update the synopsis to show both forms. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1380791716-10325-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-12-23perf report: Accept fifos as input fileRobert Richter1-1/+1
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>
2010-12-22perf symbols: Add symfs option for off-box analysis using specified treeDavid Ahern1-0/+2
The symfs argument allows analysis of perf.data file using a locally accessible filesystem tree with debug symbols - e.g., tree created during image builds, sshfs mount, loop mounted KVM disk images, USB keys, initrds, etc. Anything with an OS tree can be analyzed from anywhere without the need to populate a local data store with build-ids. Commiter notes: o Fixed up symfs="/" variants handling. o prefixed DSO__ORIG_GUEST_KMODULE case with symfs too, avoiding use of files outside the symfs directory. LKML-Reference: <1291926427-28846-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2009-10-20perf timechart: Add a process filterArjan van de Ven1-1/+4
During the Kernel Summit demo of perf/ftrace/timechart, there was a feature request to have a process filter for timechart so that you can zoom into one or a few processes that you are really interested in. This patch adds basic support for this feature, the -p (--process) option now can select a PID or a process name to be shown. Multiple -p options are allowed, and the combined set will be included in the output. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> 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: <20091020070939.7d0fb8a7@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-01perf timechart: Add a power-only modeArjan van de Ven1-0/+3
For doing work on the Linux power management components, I need to make long (30+ seconds) traces. Currently, this then results in a HUGE svg file, with mostly process data that isn't interesting. This patch adds a --power-only mode to perf timechart that only outputs the CPU power section of the SVG; this significantly reduces the size of the SVG file, making even 30+ second traces viewable with inkscape. As a minor tweak for the same effect, the minimum text size is decreased; current inkscape cannot zoom in deep enough to show text this small, but it reduces inkscape compute time. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org LKML-Reference: <20090924154013.0675ab71@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20perf util: Make the timechart SVG width dynamicArjan van de Ven1-0/+3
This patch adds a command line option for timechart that allows the user to specify the width of the SVG file. This patch also makes sure that each second of recording has at least 200 units (pixels at 96 DPI) of width. This impacts recordings longer than 5 seconds; recordings shorter than 5 second will scale up to have a width of 1000 units for the whole recording (as before). Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090920181416.69570c5d@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"Arjan van de Ven1-0/+35
As suggested by Ingo, add a timechart man page help text, as well as add it to the "perf help" overview. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20090919133604.3767fa35@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>