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2020-04-03perf record: Add --all-cgroups optionNamhyung Kim1-1/+4
The --all-cgroups option is to enable cgroup profiling support. It tells kernel to record CGROUP events in the ring buffer so that perf report can identify task/cgroup association later. [root@seventh ~]# perf record --all-cgroups --namespaces /wb/cgtest [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.042 MB perf.data (558 samples) ] [root@seventh ~]# perf report --stdio -s cgroup_id,cgroup,pid # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 558 of event 'cycles' # Event count (approx.): 458017341 # # Overhead cgroup id (dev/inode) Cgroup Pid:Command # ........ ..................... .......... ............... # 33.15% 4/0xeffffffb /sub 9615:looper0 32.83% 4/0xf00002f5 /sub/cgrp2 9620:looper2 32.79% 4/0xf00002f4 /sub/cgrp1 9619:looper1 0.35% 4/0xf00002f5 /sub/cgrp2 9618:cgtest 0.34% 4/0xf00002f4 /sub/cgrp1 9617:cgtest 0.32% 4/0xeffffffb / 9615:looper0 0.11% 4/0xeffffffb /sub 9617:cgtest 0.10% 4/0xeffffffb /sub 9618:cgtest # # (Tip: Sample related events with: perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}:S') # [root@seventh ~]# Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200325124536.2800725-8-namhyung@kernel.org Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200402015249.3800462-1-namhyung@kernel.org [ Extracted the HAVE_FILE_HANDLE from the followup patch ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2020-03-25perf callchain: Update docs regarding kernel/user space unwindingTony Jones1-6/+12
The method of unwinding for kernel space is defined by the kernel config, not by the value of --call-graph. Improve the documentation to reflect this. Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200325164053.10177-1-tonyj@suse.de Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2020-03-11perf intel-pt: Add Intel PT man page referencesAdrian Hunter1-1/+1
Add references to Intel PT man page in man pages of associated tools. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200311122034.3697-3-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-11-22perf record: Add aux-sample-size config termAdrian Hunter1-0/+3
To allow individual events to be selected for AUX area sampling, add aux-sample-size config term. attr.aux_sample_size is updated by auxtrace_parse_sample_options() so that the existing validation will see the value. Any event that has a non-zero aux_sample_size will cause AUX area sampling to be configured, irrespective of the --aux-sample option. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191115124225.5247-8-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-11-22perf record: Add support for AUX area samplingAdrian Hunter1-0/+6
Add a 'perf record' option '--aux-sample' to request AUX area sampling. AUX area sampling uses an overwriting buffer much like snapshot mode, so adjust the AUX buffer mmapping accordingly. To make it easy to queue samples for decoding, synthesize an ID index. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191115124225.5247-7-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-11-07perf record: Add support for limit perf output file sizeJiwei Sun1-0/+4
The patch adds a new option to limit the output file size, then based on it, we can create a wrapper of the perf command that uses the option to avoid exhausting the disk space by the unconscious user. In order to make the perf.data parsable, we just limit the sample data size, since the perf.data consists of many headers and sample data and other data, the actual size of the recorded file will bigger than the setting value. Testing it: # ./perf record -a -g --max-size=10M Couldn't synthesize bpf events. [ perf record: perf size limit reached (10249 KB), stopping session ] [ perf record: Woken up 32 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 10.133 MB perf.data (71964 samples) ] # ls -lh perf.data -rw------- 1 root root 11M Oct 22 14:32 perf.data # ./perf record -a -g --max-size=10K [ perf record: perf size limit reached (10 KB), stopping session ] Couldn't synthesize bpf events. [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.546 MB perf.data (69 samples) ] # ls -l perf.data -rw------- 1 root root 1626952 Oct 22 14:36 perf.data Committer notes: Fixed the build in multiple distros by using PRIu64 to print u64 struct members, fixing this: builtin-record.c: In function 'record__write': builtin-record.c:150:5: error: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'u64' [-Werror=format=] rec->bytes_written >> 10); ^ CC /tmp/build/pe Signed-off-by: Jiwei Sun <jiwei.sun@windriver.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Danter <richard.danter@windriver.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191022080901.3841-1-jiwei.sun@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-11-06perf record: Put a copy of kcore into the perf.data directoryAdrian Hunter1-0/+3
Add a new 'perf record' option '--kcore' which will put a copy of /proc/kcore, kallsyms and modules into a perf.data directory. Note, that without the --kcore option, output goes to a file as previously. The tools' -o and -i options work with either a file name or directory name. Example: $ sudo perf record --kcore uname $ sudo tree perf.data perf.data ├── kcore_dir │   ├── kallsyms │   ├── kcore │   └── modules └── data $ sudo perf script -v build id event received for vmlinux: 1eaa285996affce2d74d8e66dcea09a80c9941de build id event received for [vdso]: 8bbaf5dc62a9b644b4d4e4539737e104e4a84541 Samples for 'cycles' event do not have CPU attribute set. Skipping 'cpu' field. Using CPUID GenuineIntel-6-8E-A Using perf.data/kcore_dir/kcore for kernel data Using perf.data/kcore_dir/kallsyms for symbols perf 19058 506778.423729: 1 cycles: ffffffffa2caa548 native_write_msr+0x8 (vmlinux) perf 19058 506778.423733: 1 cycles: ffffffffa2caa548 native_write_msr+0x8 (vmlinux) perf 19058 506778.423734: 7 cycles: ffffffffa2caa548 native_write_msr+0x8 (vmlinux) perf 19058 506778.423736: 117 cycles: ffffffffa2caa54a native_write_msr+0xa (vmlinux) perf 19058 506778.423738: 2092 cycles: ffffffffa2c9b7b0 native_apic_msr_write+0x0 (vmlinux) perf 19058 506778.423740: 37380 cycles: ffffffffa2f121d0 perf_event_addr_filters_exec+0x0 (vmlinux) uname 19058 506778.423751: 582673 cycles: ffffffffa303a407 propagate_protected_usage+0x147 (vmlinux) uname 19058 506778.423892: 2241841 cycles: ffffffffa2cae0c9 unwind_next_frame.part.5+0x79 (vmlinux) uname 19058 506778.424430: 2457397 cycles: ffffffffa3019232 check_memory_region+0x52 (vmlinux) Committer testing: # rm -rf perf.data* # perf record sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.024 MB perf.data (7 samples) ] # ls -l perf.data -rw-------. 1 root root 34772 Oct 21 11:08 perf.data # perf record --kcore uname Linux [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.024 MB perf.data (7 samples) ] ls[root@quaco ~]# ls -lad perf.data* drwx------. 3 root root 4096 Oct 21 11:08 perf.data -rw-------. 1 root root 34772 Oct 21 11:08 perf.data.old # perf evlist -v cycles: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1 # perf evlist -v -i perf.data/data cycles: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1 # Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191004083121.12182-6-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-08-14perf tools: Add aux-output config termAdrian Hunter1-0/+2
Expose the aux_output attribute flag to the user to configure, by adding a config term 'aux-output'. For events that support it, selection of 'aux-output' causes the generation of AUX records instead of event records. This requires that an AUX area event is also provided. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806084606.4021-7-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-08-14perf record: Add an option to take an AUX snapshot on exitAlexander Shishkin1-3/+8
It is sometimes useful to generate a snapshot when perf record exits; I've been using a wrapper script around the workload that would do a killall -USR2 perf when the workload exits. This patch makes it easier and also works when perf record is attached to a pre-existing task. A new snapshot option 'e' can be specified in -S to enable this behavior: root@elsewhere:~# perf record -e intel_pt// -Se sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.085 MB perf.data ] Co-developed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806144101.62892-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com [ Fixed up !HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT build in builtin-record.c, adding 2 missing __maybe_unused ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-06-10perf record: Add support to collect callchains from kernel or user space onlyyuzhoujian1-0/+11
One can just record callchains in the kernel or user space with this new options. We can use it together with "--all-kernel" options. This two options is used just like print_stack(sys) or print_ustack(usr) for systemtap. Shown below is the usage of this new option combined with "--all-kernel" options: 1. Configure all used events to run in kernel space and just collect kernel callchains. $ perf record -a -g --all-kernel --kernel-callchains 2. Configure all used events to run in kernel space and just collect user callchains. $ perf record -a -g --all-kernel --user-callchains Committer notes: Improved documentation to state that asking for kernel callchains really is asking for excluding user callchains, and vice versa. Further mentioned that using both won't get both, but nothing, as both will be excluded. Signed-off-by: yuzhoujian <yuzhoujian@didichuxing.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1559222962-22891-1-git-send-email-ufo19890607@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-05-15perf parse-regs: Split parse_regsKan Liang1-1/+2
The available registers for --int-regs and --user-regs may be different, e.g. XMM registers. Split parse_regs into two dedicated functions for --int-regs and --user-regs respectively. Modify the warning message. "--user-regs=?" should be applied to show the available registers for --user-regs. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557865174-56264-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com [ Changed docs as suggested by Ravi and agreed by Kan ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-05-15perf record: Implement -z,--compression_level[=<n>] optionAlexey Budankov1-0/+5
Implemented -z,--compression_level[=<n>] option that enables compression of mmaped kernel data buffers content in runtime during perf record mode collection. Default option value is 1 (fastest compression). Compression overhead has been measured for serial and AIO streaming when profiling matrix multiplication workload: ------------------------------------------------------------- | SERIAL | AIO-1 | ----------------------------------------------------------------| |-z | OVH(x) | ratio(x) size(MiB) | OVH(x) | ratio(x) size(MiB) | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | 0 | 1,00 | 1,000 179,424 | 1,00 | 1,000 187,527 | | 1 | 1,04 | 8,427 181,148 | 1,01 | 8,474 188,562 | | 2 | 1,07 | 8,055 186,953 | 1,03 | 7,912 191,773 | | 3 | 1,04 | 8,283 181,908 | 1,03 | 8,220 191,078 | | 5 | 1,09 | 8,101 187,705 | 1,05 | 7,780 190,065 | | 8 | 1,05 | 9,217 179,191 | 1,12 | 6,111 193,024 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- OVH = (Execution time with -z N) / (Execution time with -z 0) ratio - compression ratio size - number of bytes that was compressed size ~= trace size x ratio Committer notes: Testing it I noticed that it failed to disable build id processing when compression is enabled, and as we'd have to uncompress everything to look for the PERF_RECORD_{MMAP,SAMPLE,etc} to figure out which build ids to read from DSOs, we better disable build id processing when compression is enabled, logging with pr_debug() when doing so: Original patch: # perf record -z2 ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] 0x1746e0 [0x76]: failed to process type: 81 [Invalid argument] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.568 MB perf.data, compressed (original 0.452 MB, ratio is 3.995) ] # After auto-disabling build id processing when compression is enabled: $ perf record -z2 sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.001 MB perf.data, compressed (original 0.001 MB, ratio is 2.292) ] $ perf record -v -z2 sleep 1 Compression enabled, disabling build id collection at the end of the session. <SNIP extra -v pr_debug() messages> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.001 MB perf.data, compressed (original 0.001 MB, ratio is 2.305) ] $ Also, with parts of the patch originally after this one moved to just before this one we get: $ perf record -z2 sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.001 MB perf.data, compressed (original 0.001 MB, ratio is 2.371) ] $ perf report -D | grep COMPRESS 0 0x1b8 [0x155]: PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED: unhandled! 0 0x30d [0x80]: PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED: unhandled! COMPRESSED events: 2 COMPRESSED events: 0 $ I.e. when faced with PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED that we still have no code to process, we just show it as not being handled, skip them and continue, while before we had: $ perf report -D | grep COMPRESS 0x1b8 [0x169]: failed to process type: 81 [Invalid argument] Error: failed to process sample 0 0x1b8 [0x169]: PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED $ Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9ff06518-ae63-a908-e44d-5d9e56dd66d9@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-04-01perf record: Implement --mmap-flush=<number> optionAlexey Budankov1-0/+19
Implement a --mmap-flush option that specifies minimal number of bytes that is extracted from mmaped kernel buffer to store into a trace. The default option value is 1 byte what means every time trace writing thread finds some new data in the mmaped buffer the data is extracted, possibly compressed and written to a trace. $ tools/perf/perf record --mmap-flush 1024 -e cycles -- matrix.gcc $ tools/perf/perf record --aio --mmap-flush 1K -e cycles -- matrix.gcc The option is independent from -z setting, doesn't vary with compression level and can serve two purposes. The first purpose is to increase the compression ratio of a trace data. Larger data chunks are compressed more effectively so the implemented option allows specifying data chunk size to compress. Also at some cases executing more write syscalls with smaller data size can take longer than executing less write syscalls with bigger data size due to syscall overhead so extracting bigger data chunks specified by the option value could additionally decrease runtime overhead. The second purpose is to avoid self monitoring live-lock issue in system wide (-a) profiling mode. Profiling in system wide mode with compression (-a -z) can additionally induce data into the kernel buffers along with the data from monitored processes. If performance data rate and volume from the monitored processes is high then trace streaming and compression activity in the tool is also high. High tool process activity can lead to subtle live-lock effect when compression of single new byte from some of mmaped kernel buffer leads to generation of the next single byte at some mmaped buffer. So perf tool process ends up in endless self monitoring. Implemented synch parameter is the mean to force data move independently from the specified flush threshold value. Despite the provided flush value the tool needs capability to unconditionally drain memory buffers, at least in the end of the collection. Committer testing: Running with the default value, i.e. as soon as there is something to read go on consuming, we first write the synthesized events, small chunks of about 128 bytes: # perf trace -m 2048 --call-graph dwarf -e write -- perf record <SNIP> 101.142 ( 0.004 ms): perf/25821 write(fd: 3</root/perf.data>, buf: 0x210db60, count: 120) = 120 __libc_write (/usr/lib64/libpthread-2.28.so) ion (/home/acme/bin/perf) record__write (inlined) process_synthesized_event (/home/acme/bin/perf) perf_tool__process_synth_event (inlined) perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events (/home/acme/bin/perf) Then we move to reading the mmap buffers consuming the events put there by the kernel perf infrastructure: 107.561 ( 0.005 ms): perf/25821 write(fd: 3</root/perf.data>, buf: 0x7f1befc02000, count: 336) = 336 __libc_write (/usr/lib64/libpthread-2.28.so) ion (/home/acme/bin/perf) record__write (inlined) record__pushfn (/home/acme/bin/perf) perf_mmap__push (/home/acme/bin/perf) record__mmap_read_evlist (inlined) record__mmap_read_all (inlined) __cmd_record (inlined) cmd_record (/home/acme/bin/perf) 12919.953 ( 0.136 ms): perf/25821 write(fd: 3</root/perf.data>, buf: 0x7f1befc83150, count: 184984) = 184984 <SNIP same backtrace as in the 107.561 timestamp> 12920.094 ( 0.155 ms): perf/25821 write(fd: 3</root/perf.data>, buf: 0x7f1befc02150, count: 261816) = 261816 <SNIP same backtrace as in the 107.561 timestamp> 12920.253 ( 0.093 ms): perf/25821 write(fd: 3</root/perf.data>, buf: 0x7f1befb81120, count: 170832) = 170832 <SNIP same backtrace as in the 107.561 timestamp> If we limit it to write only when more than 16MB are available for reading, it throttles that to a quarter of the --mmap-pages set for 'perf record', which by default get to 528384 bytes, found out using 'record -v': mmap flush: 132096 mmap size 528384B With that in place all the writes coming from record__mmap_read_evlist(), i.e. from the mmap buffers setup by the kernel perf infrastructure were at least 132096 bytes long. Trying with a bigger mmap size: perf trace -e write perf record -v -m 2048 --mmap-flush 16M 74982.928 ( 2.471 ms): perf/26500 write(fd: 3</root/perf.data>, buf: 0x7ff94a6cc000, count: 3580888) = 3580888 74985.406 ( 2.353 ms): perf/26500 write(fd: 3</root/perf.data>, buf: 0x7ff949ecb000, count: 3453256) = 3453256 74987.764 ( 2.629 ms): perf/26500 write(fd: 3</root/perf.data>, buf: 0x7ff9496ca000, count: 3859232) = 3859232 74990.399 ( 2.341 ms): perf/26500 write(fd: 3</root/perf.data>, buf: 0x7ff948ec9000, count: 3769032) = 3769032 74992.744 ( 2.064 ms): perf/26500 write(fd: 3</root/perf.data>, buf: 0x7ff9486c8000, count: 3310520) = 3310520 74994.814 ( 2.619 ms): perf/26500 write(fd: 3</root/perf.data>, buf: 0x7ff947ec7000, count: 4194688) = 4194688 74997.439 ( 2.787 ms): perf/26500 write(fd: 3</root/perf.data>, buf: 0x7ff9476c6000, count: 4029760) = 4029760 Was again limited to a quarter of the mmap size: mmap flush: 2098176 mmap size 8392704B A warning about that would be good to have but can be added later, something like: "max flush is a quarter of the mmap size, if wanting to bump the mmap flush further, bump the mmap size as well using -m/--mmap-pages" Also rename the 'sync' parameters to 'synch' to keep tools/perf building with older glibcs: cc1: warnings being treated as errors builtin-record.c: In function 'record__mmap_read_evlist': builtin-record.c:775: warning: declaration of 'sync' shadows a global declaration /usr/include/unistd.h:933: warning: shadowed declaration is here builtin-record.c: In function 'record__mmap_read_all': builtin-record.c:856: warning: declaration of 'sync' shadows a global declaration /usr/include/unistd.h:933: warning: shadowed declaration is here Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f6600d72-ecfa-2eb7-7e51-f6954547d500@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-03-19perf record: Allow to limit number of reported perf.data filesAndi Kleen1-0/+4
When doing long term recording and waiting for some event to snapshot on, we often only care about the last minute or so. The --switch-output command line option supports rotating the perf.data file when the size exceeds a threshold. But the disk would still be filled with unnecessary old files. Add a new option to only keep a number of rotated files, so that the disk space usage can be limited. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> LPU-Reference: 20190314225002.30108-3-andi@firstfloor.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-y5u2lik0ragt4vlktz6qc9ks@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-02-11perf record: Implement --affinity=node|cpu optionAlexey Budankov1-0/+5
Implement --affinity=node|cpu option for the record mode defaulting to system affinity mask bouncing. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/083f5422-ece9-10dd-8305-bf59c860f10f@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-02-06perf tools: Add documentation for BPF event selectionChangbin Du1-0/+14
Add documentation for how to pass a BPF program as a perf event. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190201134651.12373-1-changbin.du@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-12-17perf record: Extend trace writing to multi AIOAlexey Budankov1-2/+2
Multi AIO trace writing allows caching more kernel data into userspace memory postponing trace writing for the sake of overall profiling data thruput increase. It could be seen as kernel data buffer extension into userspace memory. With an --aio option value different from 0 (default value is 1) the tool has capability to cache more and more data into user space along with delegating spill to AIO. That allows avoiding to suspend at record__aio_sync() between calls of record__mmap_read_evlist() and increases profiling data thruput at the cost of userspace memory. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/050bb053-e7f3-aa83-fde7-f27ff90be7f6@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-12-17perf record: Enable asynchronous trace writingAlexey Budankov1-0/+5
The trace file offset is read once before mmaps iterating loop and written back after all performance data is enqueued for aio writing. The trace file offset is incremented linearly after every successful aio write operation. record__aio_sync() blocks till completion of the started AIO operation and then proceeds. record__aio_mmap_read_sync() implements a barrier for all incomplete aio write requests. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ce2d45e9-d236-871c-7c8f-1bed2d37e8ac@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-07-16perf, tools: Use correct articles in commentsTobias Tefke1-2/+2
Some of the comments in the perf events code use articles incorrectly, using 'a' for words beginning with a vowel sound, where 'an' should be used. Signed-off-by: Tobias Tefke <tobias.tefke@tutanota.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: namhyung@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180709105715.22938-1-tobias.tefke@tutanota.com [ Fix a few more perf related 'a event' typo fixes from all around the kernel and tooling tree. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-06-06perf record: Enable arbitrary event names thru name= modifierAlexey Budankov1-0/+3
Enable complex event names containing [.:=,] symbols to be encoded into Perf trace using name= modifier e.g. like this: perf record -e cpu/name=\'OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM\',\ period=0x3567e0,event=0x3c,cmask=0x1/Duk ./futex Below is how it looks like in the report output. Please note explicit escaped quoting at cmdline string in the header so that thestring can be directly reused for another collection in shell: perf report --header # ======== ... # cmdline : /root/abudanko/kernel/tip/tools/perf/perf record -v -e cpu/name=\'OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM\',period=0x3567e0,event=0x3c,cmask=0x1/Duk ./futex # event : name = OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM, , type = 4, size = 112, config = 0x100003c, { sample_period, sample_freq } = 3500000, sample_type = IP|TID|TIME, disabled = 1, inh ... # ======== # # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 24K of event 'OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM' # Event count (approx.): 86492000000 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................ .............................................. # 14.75% futex [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __entry_trampoline_start ... perf stat -e cpu/name=\'CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD:cmask=0x1\',period=0x3567e0,event=0x3c,cmask=0x1/Duk ./futex 10000000 process context switches in 16678890291ns (1667.9ns/ctxsw) Performance counter stats for './futex': 88,095,770,571 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD:cmask=0x1 16.679542407 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c194b060-761d-0d50-3b21-bb4ed680002d@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-03-05perf record: Throttle user defined frequencies to the maximum allowedArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+6
# perf record -F 200000 sleep 1 warning: Maximum frequency rate (15,000 Hz) exceeded, throttling from 200,000 Hz to 15,000 Hz. The limit can be raised via /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate. The kernel will lower it when perf's interrupts take too long. Use --strict-freq to disable this throttling, refusing to record. [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (15 samples) ] # perf evlist -v cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 15000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 For those wanting that it fails if the desired frequency can't be used: # perf record --strict-freq -F 200000 sleep 1 error: Maximum frequency rate (15,000 Hz) exceeded. Please use -F freq option with a lower value or consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate. # Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 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: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-oyebruc44nlja499nqkr1nzn@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-03-05perf record: Allow asking for the maximum allowed sample rateArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+3
Add the handy '-F max' shortcut to reading and using the kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate value as the user supplied sampling frequency: # perf record -F max sleep 1 info: Using a maximum frequency rate of 15,000 Hz [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (14 samples) ] # sysctl kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate = 15000 # perf evlist -v cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 15000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 # perf record -F 10 sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (4 samples) ] # perf evlist -v cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 10, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 # Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 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: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4y0tiuws62c64gp4cf0hme0m@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-02-22perf cgroup: Simplify arguments when tracking multiple eventsweiping zhang1-1/+5
When using -G with one cgroup and -e with multiple events, only the first event gets the correct cgroup setting, all events from the second onwards will track system-wide events. If the user wants to track multiple events for a specific cgroup, the user must give parameters like the following: $ perf stat -e e1 -e e2 -e e3 -G test,test,test This patch simplify this case, just type one cgroup: $ perf stat -e e1 -e e2 -e e3 -G test $ mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event/empty_cgroup $ perf stat -e cycles -e cache-misses -a -I 1000 -G empty_cgroup Before: 1.001007226 <not counted> cycles empty_cgroup 1.001007226 7,506 cache-misses After: 1.000834097 <not counted> cycles empty_cgroup 1.000834097 <not counted> cache-misses empty_cgroup Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180129154805.GA6284@localhost.didichuxing.com [ Improved the doc text a bit, providing an example for cgroup + system wide counting ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-01-08perf record: Record the first and last sample time in the headerJin Yao1-0/+3
In the default 'perf record' configuration, all samples are processed, to create the HEADER_BUILD_ID table. So it's very easy to get the first/last samples and save the time to perf file header via the function write_sample_time(). Later, at post processing time, perf report/script will fetch the time from perf file header. Committer testing: # perf record -a sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.099 MB perf.data (1101 samples) ] [root@jouet home]# perf report --header | grep "time of " # time of first sample : 22947.909226 # time of last sample : 22948.910704 # # perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE\( 0 22947909226101 0x20bb68 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa21b1af3 period: 1 addr: 0 0 22947909229928 0x20bb98 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa200d204 period: 1 addr: 0 <SNIP> 3 22948910397351 0x219360 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 28251/28251: 0xffffffffa22071d8 period: 169518 addr: 0 0 22948910652380 0x20f120 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa2856816 period: 198807 addr: 0 2 22948910704034 0x2172d0 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa2856816 period: 88111 addr: 0 # Changelog: v7: Just update the patch description according to Arnaldo's suggestion. v6: Currently '--buildid-all' is not enabled at default. So the walking on all samples is the default operation. There is no big overhead to calculate the timestamp boundary in process_sample_event handler once we already go through all samples. So the timestamp boundary calculation is enabled by default when '--buildid-all' is not enabled. While if '--buildid-all' is enabled, we creates a new option "--timestamp-boundary" for user to decide if it enables the timestamp boundary calculation. v5: There is an issue that the sample walking can only work when '--buildid-all' is not enabled. So we need to let the walking be able to work even if '--buildid-all' is enabled and let the processing skips the dso hit marking for this case. At first, I want to provide a new option "--record-time-boundaries". While after consideration, I think a new option is not very necessary. v3: Remove the definitions of first_sample_time and last_sample_time from struct record and directly save them in perf_evlist. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512738826-2628-3-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-10-20Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixesIngo Molnar1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-17perf record: Fix documentation for a inexistent option '-l'Taeung Song1-2/+2
'perf record' had a '-l' option that meant "scale counter values" a very long time ago, but it currently belongs to 'perf stat' as '-c'. So remove it. I found this problem in the below case. $ perf record -e cycles -l sleep 3 Error: unknown switch `l Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507907412-19813-1-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-09-13perf record: Support direct --user-regs argumentsAndi Kleen1-0/+2
USER_REGS can currently only collected implicitely with call graph recording. Sometimes it is useful to see them separately, and filter them. Add a new --user-regs option to record that is similar to --intr-regs, but acts on user regs. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170905170029.19722-1-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-09-01perf tools: Support new sample type for physical addressKan Liang1-1/+4
Support new sample type PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR for physical address. Add new option --phys-data to record sample physical address. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504026672-7304-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com [ Added missing printing in evsel.c patch sent by Jiri Olsa ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-07-19perf record: Create a new option save_type in --branch-filterJin Yao1-0/+1
The option indicates the kernel to save branch type during sampling. One example: perf record -g --branch-filter any,save_type <command> Signed-off-by: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500379995-6449-4-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-05-04perf tools: Fix spelling mistakesKim Phillips1-1/+1
Mostly in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131350.cebeecd8bd0f2968417626ab@arm.com [ Fix spelling of "parameter" in one of the spell-checked lines ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-03-14perf tools: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related infoHari Bathini1-0/+3
Introduce a new option to record PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES events emitted by the kernel when fork, clone, setns or unshare are invoked. And update perf-record documentation with the new option to record namespace events. Committer notes: Combined it with a later patch to allow printing it via 'perf report -D' and be able to test the feature introduced in this patch. Had to move here also perf_ns__name(), that was introduced in another later patch. Also used PRIu64 and PRIx64 to fix the build in some enfironments wrt: util/event.c:1129:39: error: format '%lx' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type 'long long unsigned int' [-Werror=format=] ret += fprintf(fp, "%u/%s: %lu/0x%lx%s", idx ^ Testing it: # perf record --namespaces -a ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.083 MB perf.data (423 samples) ] # # perf report -D <SNIP> 3 2028902078892 0x115140 [0xa0]: PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES 14783/14783 - nr_namespaces: 7 [0/net: 3/0xf0000081, 1/uts: 3/0xeffffffe, 2/ipc: 3/0xefffffff, 3/pid: 3/0xeffffffc, 4/user: 3/0xeffffffd, 5/mnt: 3/0xf0000000, 6/cgroup: 3/0xeffffffb] 0x1151e0 [0x30]: event: 9 . . ... raw event: size 48 bytes . 0000: 09 00 00 00 02 00 30 00 c4 71 82 68 0c 7f 00 00 ......0..q.h.... . 0010: a9 39 00 00 a9 39 00 00 94 28 fe 63 d8 01 00 00 .9...9...(.c.... . 0020: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ce c4 02 00 00 00 00 00 ................ <SNIP> NAMESPACES events: 1 <SNIP> # Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148891930386.25309.18412039920746995488.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-02-17perf record: Add -a as default targetJiri Olsa1-1/+1
Running 'perf record' with no target (-a, -p, -t, etc) will now collect system wide data. Commiter notes: Testing it: [root@jouet ~]# perf record ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.351 MB perf.data (366 samples) ] # is equivalent to: # perf record -a ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.411 MB perf.data (978 samples) ] # Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217170018.GA15389@krava Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-01-11perf record: Add switch-output time option argumentJiri Olsa1-0/+2
It's now possible to specify the threshold time for perf.data like: $ perf record --switch-output=30s ... Once it's reached, the current data are dumped in to the perf.data.<timestamp> file and session does on. $ perf record --switch-output=30s ... [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 44 times ] [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2017010213043746 ] ... The time is expected to be a number with appended unit character - s/m/h/d. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483955520-29063-7-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-01-11perf record: Add switch-output size option argumentJiri Olsa1-2/+10
It's now possible to specify the threshold size for perf.data like: $ perf record --switch-output=2G ... Once it's reached, the current data are dumped in to the perf.data.<timestamp> file and session does on. $ perf record --switch-output=2G ... [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 7244 times ] [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2017010214093746 ] ... The size is expected to be a number with appended unit character - B/K/M/G. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483955520-29063-5-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-01-03perf record: Fix --switch-output documentation and commentJiri Olsa1-0/+4
There's no --signal-trigger option, also adding the code comment into record man page. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483431600-19887-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-10-24perf record: Improve documentation of event parametersAndi Kleen1-3/+6
- Some editing (params -> parameters) - Point to the now more complete list of parameters in the perf list manpage. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476381433-22959-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-09-29perf record: Add support for using symbols in address filtersAdrian Hunter1-1/+54
Symbols come from either the DSO or /proc/kallsyms for the kernel. Details of the functionality can be found in Documentation/perf-record.txt. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474641528-18776-8-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-09-27perf record: Fix documentation 'event_sources' -> 'event_source'Adrian Hunter1-3/+3
Change '/sys/bus/event_sources' to the correct path which is '/sys/bus/event_source'. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474641528-18776-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-09-13perf tools: Add infrastructure for PMU specific configurationMathieu Poirier1-0/+12
This patch adds PMU driver specific configuration to the parser infrastructure by preceding any term with the '@' letter. As such doing something like: perf record -e some_event/@cfg1,@cfg2=config/ ... will see 'cfg1' and 'cfg2=config' being added to the list of evsel config terms. Token 'cfg1' and 'cfg2=config' are not processed in user space and are meant to be interpreted by the PMU driver. First the lexer/parser are supplemented with the required definitions to recognise the driver specific configuration. From there they are simply added to the list of event terms. The bulk of the work is done in function "parse_events_add_pmu()" where driver config event terms are added to a new list of driver config terms, which in turn spliced with the event's new driver configuration list. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473179837-3293-4-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-08-02perf record: Add --sample-cpu optionJiri Olsa1-0/+3
Adding --sample-cpu option to be able to explicitly enable CPU sample type. Currently it's only enable implicitly in case the target is cpu related. It will be useful for following c2c record tool. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470074555-24889-8-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-15perf record: Add --tail-synthesize optionWang Nan1-0/+8
When working with overwritable ring buffer there's a inconvenience problem: if perf dumps data after a long period after it starts, non-sample events may lost, which makes following 'perf report' unable to identify proc name and mmap layout. For example: # perf record -m 4 -e raw_syscalls:* -g --overwrite --switch-output \ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null send SIGUSR2 after dd runs long enough. The resuling perf.data lost correct comm and mmap events: # perf script -i perf.data.2016061522374354 perf 24478 [004] 2581325.601789: raw_syscalls:sys_exit: NR 0 = 512 ^^^^ Should be 'dd' 27b2e8 syscall_slow_exit_work+0xfe2000e3 (/lib/modules/4.6.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) 203cc7 do_syscall_64+0xfe200117 (/lib/modules/4.6.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) b18d83 return_from_SYSCALL_64+0xfe200000 (/lib/modules/4.6.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux) 7f47c417edf0 [unknown] ([unknown]) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Fail to unwind This patch provides a '--tail-synthesize' option, allows perf to collect system status when finalizing output file. In resuling output file, the non-sample events reflect system status when dumping data. After this patch: # perf record -m 4 -e raw_syscalls:* -g --overwrite --switch-output --tail-synthesize \ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null # perf script -i perf.data.2016061600544998 dd 27364 [004] 2583244.994464: raw_syscalls:sys_enter: NR 1 (1, ... ^^ Correct comm 203a18 syscall_trace_enter_phase2+0xfe2001a8 ([kernel.kallsyms]) 203aa5 syscall_trace_enter+0xfe200055 ([kernel.kallsyms]) 203caa do_syscall_64+0xfe2000fa ([kernel.kallsyms]) b18d83 return_from_SYSCALL_64+0xfe200000 ([kernel.kallsyms]) d8e50 __GI___libc_write+0xffff01d9639f4010 (/tmp/oxygen_root-w00229757/lib64/libc-2.18.so) ^^^^^ Correct unwind This option doesn't aim to solve this problem completely. If a process terminates before SIGUSR2, we still lost its COMM and MMAP events. For example, we can't unwind correctly from the final perf.data we get from the previous example, because when perf collects the final output file (when we press C-c), 'dd' has been terminated so its '/proc/<pid>/mmap' becomes empty. However, this is a cheaper choice. To completely solve this problem we need to continously output non-sample events. To satisify the requirement of daemonization, we need to merge them periodically. It is possible but requires much more code and cycles. Automatically select --tail-synthesize when --overwrite is provided. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468485287-33422-16-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-07-15perf tools: Enable overwrite settingsWang Nan1-0/+14
This patch allows following config terms and option: Globally setting events to overwrite; # perf record --overwrite ... Set specific events to be overwrite or no-overwrite. # perf record --event cycles/overwrite/ ... # perf record --event cycles/no-overwrite/ ... Add missing config terms and update the config term array size because the longest string length has changed. For overwritable events, it automatically selects attr.write_backward since perf requires it to be backward for reading. Test result: # perf record --overwrite -e syscalls:*enter_nanosleep* usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data (1 samples) ] # perf evlist -v syscalls:sys_enter_nanosleep: type: 2, size: 112, config: 0x134, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|RAW, 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, write_backward: 1 # Tip: use 'perf evlist --trace-fields' to show fields for tracepoint events Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468485287-33422-14-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-06-21perf record: Add --dry-run option to check cmdline optionsWang Nan1-0/+7
With '--dry-run', 'perf record' doesn't do reall recording. Combine with llvm.dump-obj option, --dry-run can be used to help compile BPF objects for embedded platform. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466064161-48553-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-04-28perf record: Disable buildid cache options by default in switch output modeWang Nan1-1/+1
The cost of buildid cache processing is high: reading all events in output perf.data, opening each elf file to read buildids then copying them into ~/.debug directory. In switch output mode, these heavy works block perf from receiving perf events for too long. Enable no-buildid and no-buildid-cache by default if --switch-output is provided. Still allow user use --no-no-buildid to explicitly enable buildid in this case. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461178794-40467-6-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> [ Updated man page ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-04-28perf record: Force enable --timestamp-filename when --switch-output is providedWang Nan1-0/+5
Without this patch, the last output doesn't have timestamp appended if --timestamp-filename is not explicitly provided. For example: # perf record -a --switch-output & [1] 11224 # kill -s SIGUSR2 11224 [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ] # [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2015122622372823 ] # fg perf record -a --switch-output ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.027 MB perf.data (540 samples) ] # ls -l total 836 -rw------- 1 root root 33256 Dec 26 22:37 perf.data <---- *Odd* -rw------- 1 root root 817156 Dec 26 22:37 perf.data.2015122622372823 Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461178794-40467-5-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> [ Updated man page, that also got an entry for --timestamp-filename ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-04-28perf record: Split output into multiple files via '--switch-output'Wang Nan1-0/+8
Allow 'perf record' to split its output into multiple files. For example: # ~/perf record -a --timestamp-filename --switch-output & [1] 10763 # kill -s SIGUSR2 10763 [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ] # [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2015122622314468 ] # kill -s SIGUSR2 10763 [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ] # [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2015122622314762 ] # kill -s SIGUSR2 10763 [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ] #[ perf record: Dump perf.data.2015122622315171 ] # fg perf record -a --timestamp-filename --switch-output ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2015122622315513 ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.014 MB perf.data.<timestamp> (296 samples) ] # ls -l total 920 -rw------- 1 root root 797692 Dec 26 22:31 perf.data.2015122622314468 -rw------- 1 root root 59960 Dec 26 22:31 perf.data.2015122622314762 -rw------- 1 root root 59912 Dec 26 22:31 perf.data.2015122622315171 -rw------- 1 root root 19220 Dec 26 22:31 perf.data.2015122622315513 Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461178794-40467-4-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> [ Added man page entry, used the re-synthesize patch in this series as a fixup ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-18perf record: Add --all-user/--all-kernel optionsJiri Olsa1-0/+6
Allow user to easily switch all events to user or kernel space with simple --all-user or --all-kernel options. This will be handy within perf mem/c2c wrappers to switch easily monitoring modes. Committer note: Testing it: # perf record --all-kernel --all-user -a sleep 2 Error: option `all-user' cannot be used with all-kernel Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] --all-user Configure all used events to run in user space. --all-kernel Configure all used events to run in kernel space. # perf record --all-user --all-kernel -a sleep 2 Error: option `all-kernel' cannot be used with all-user Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>] or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>] --all-kernel Configure all used events to run in kernel space. --all-user Configure all used events to run in user space. # perf record --all-user -a sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.416 MB perf.data (162 samples) ] # perf report | grep '\[k\]' # perf record --all-kernel -a sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.423 MB perf.data (296 samples) ] # perf report | grep '\[\.\]' # Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455525293-8671-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org [ Made those options to be mutually exclusive ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-01-12perf record: Add --buildid-all optionNamhyung Kim1-0/+3
The --buildid-all option is to record build-id of all DSOs in the file. It might be very costly to postprocess samples to find which DSO hits. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452519429-31779-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-12-15perf record: Add record.build-id config optionNamhyung Kim1-1/+13
Post processing at 'perf record' takes a long time on big machines. What it does is to find the build-id of binaries found in the event stream, so that it can make sure, at 'report' time, that the symtabs (be it ELF, kallsyms, etc) being used to resolve symbols are the ones matching the binaries found at 'record' time. Sometimes we just want to skip this processing of events at the end of the session to get quicker results, making sure the binaries haven't changed from 'record' to 'report' time. Add a new config option to control this behavior. The record.build-id config variable can have one of the following values: - cache: post-process data and save/update the binaries into the build-id cache (in ~/.debug). This is the default. - no-cache: post-process the data but not update the build-id cache. Same effect as using the -N option. - skip: skip post-processing and do not update the cache. Same effect as using the -B option. Reported-and-Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450144196-22957-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org [ Added some more text to the documentation ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-12-14perf record: Support custom vmlinux pathHe Kuang1-2/+8
Make perf-record command support --vmlinux option if BPF_PROLOGUE is on. 'perf record' needs vmlinux as the source of DWARF info to generate prologue for BPF programs, so path of vmlinux should be specified. Short name 'k' has been taken by 'clockid'. This patch skips the short option name and uses '--vmlinux' for vmlinux path. Documentation is also updated. Test result: In a production (or broken) environment: (by: # rm -rf ~/.debug/ # mv /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/vmlinux /tmp/ ) # ./perf record -e ./test_bpf_base.c ls Failed to find the path for kernel: No such file or directory event syntax error: './test_bpf_base.c' \___ You need to check probing points in BPF file ... # ./perf record --vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux -e ./test_bpf_base.c ls ... [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data ] Help messages when build with NO_LIBBPF: # ./perf record -h --transaction sample transaction flags (special events only) --vmlinux <file> vmlinux pathname (not built-in because NO_LIBBPF=1) # ./perf record --vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux ls / Warning: option `vmlinux' is being ignored because NO_LIBBPF=1 ... [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data (11 samples) ] Help messages when build with NO_DWARF: # ./perf record -h --transaction sample transaction flags (special events only) --vmlinux <file> vmlinux pathname (not built-in because NO_DWARF=1) Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450089563-122430-15-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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