We want to stream events as fast as possible to perf.data, and
also in the future we want to have splice working, when no
interception will be possible.
Using build_id__mark_dso_hit_ops to create the list of DSOs that
back MMAPs we also optimize disk usage in the build-id cache by
only caching DSOs that had hits.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We can check using strcmp, most DSOs don't start with '[' so the
test is cheap enough and we had to test it there anyway since
when reading perf.data files we weren't calling the routine that
created this global variable and thus weren't setting it as
"loaded", which was causing a bogus:
Failed to open [vdso], continuing without symbols
Message as the first line of 'perf report'.
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: <1265223128-11786-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
While debugging a problem reported by Pekka Enberg by printing
the IP and all the maps for a thread when we don't find a map
for an IP I noticed that dso__load_sym needs to fixup these
extra maps it creates to hold symbols in different ELF sections
than the main kernel one.
Now we're back showing things like:
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report | grep vsyscall
0.02% mutt [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn [.] vread_hpet
0.01% named [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn [.] vread_hpet
0.01% NetworkManager [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn [.] vread_hpet
0.01% gconfd-2 [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_0 [.] vgettimeofday
0.01% hald-addon-rfki [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn [.] vread_hpet
0.00% dbus-daemon [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn [.] vread_hpet
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I noticed while writing the first test in 'perf regtest' that to
just test the symbol handling routines one needs to create a
perf session, that is a layer centered on a perf.data file,
events, etc, so I untied these layers.
This reduces the complexity for the users as the number of
parameters to most of the symbols and session APIs now was
reduced while not adding more state to all the map instances by
only having data that is needed to split the kernel (kallsyms
and ELF symtab sections) maps and do vmlinux relocation on the
main kernel map.
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: <1265223128-11786-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Open perf data file with O_LARGEFILE flag since its size is
easily larger that 2G.
For example:
# rm -rf perf.data
# ./perf kmem record sleep 300
[ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 3142.147 MB perf.data
(~137282513 samples) ]
# ll -h perf.data
-rw------- 1 root root 3.1G .....
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B68F32A.9040203@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This reverts commit f5a2c3dce0.
This patch is required for making "perf lock rec" work.
The commit f5a2c3dce0 changes write_event() of builtin-record.c
. And changed write_event() sometimes doesn't stop with perf
lock rec.
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>
[ that commit also causes perf record to not be Ctrl-C-able,
and it's concetually wrong to parse the data at record time
(unconditionally - even when not needed), as we eventually
want to be able to do zero-copy recording, at least for
non-archive recordings. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Checked with:
./../scripts/checkpatch.pl --terse --file perf.c
perf.c: 51: ERROR: open brace '{' following function declarations go on the next line
perf.c: 73: ERROR: "foo*** bar" should be "foo ***bar"
perf.c:112: ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')'
perf.c:127: ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')'
perf.c:171: ERROR: "foo** bar" should be "foo **bar"
perf.c:213: ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)"
perf.c:216: ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)"
perf.c:217: ERROR: space required before that '*' (ctx:OxV)
perf.c:452: ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
perf.c:453: ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-7-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
One problem with frequency driven counters is that we cannot
predict the rate at which they trigger, therefore we have to
start them at period=1, this causes a ramp up effect. However,
if we fail to propagate the stable state on fork each new child
will have to ramp up again. This can lead to significant
artifacts in sample data.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: eranian@google.com
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: <1264752266.4283.2121.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
At enable time the counter might still have a ->idx pointing to
a previously occupied location that might now be taken by
another event. Resetting the counter at that location with data
from this event will destroy the other counter's count.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.261477183@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The new Intel documentation includes Westmere arch specific
event maps that are significantly different from the Nehalem
ones. Add support for this generation.
Found the CPUID model numbers on wikipedia.
Also ammend some Nehalem constraints, spotted those when looking
for the differences between Nehalem and Westmere.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.151865645@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Share the meat of the x86_pmu_disable() code with hw_perf_enable().
Also remove the barrier() from that code, since I could not convince
myself we actually need it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86_pmu_disable() removes the event from the cpuc->event_list[], however
since an event can only be on that list once, stop looking after we found
it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch improves event scheduling by maximizing the use of PMU
registers regardless of the order in which events are created in a group.
The algorithm takes into account the list of counter constraints for each
event. It assigns events to counters from the most constrained, i.e.,
works on only one counter, to the least constrained, i.e., works on any
counter.
Intel Fixed counter events and the BTS special event are also handled via
this algorithm which is designed to be fairly generic.
The patch also updates the validation of an event to use the scheduling
algorithm. This will cause early failure in perf_event_open().
The 2nd version of this patch follows the model used by PPC, by running
the scheduling algorithm and the actual assignment separately. Actual
assignment takes place in hw_perf_enable() whereas scheduling is
implemented in hw_perf_group_sched_in() and x86_pmu_enable().
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ fixup whitespace and style nits as well as adding is_x86_event() ]
Signed-off-by: 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: <4b5430c6.0f975e0a.1bf9.ffff85fe@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Processing of debug exceptions in do_debug() can stop if it
originated from a hw-breakpoint exception by returning NOTIFY_STOP
in most cases.
But for certain cases such as:
a) user-space breakpoints with pending SIGTRAP signal delivery (as
in the case of ptrace induced breakpoints).
b) exceptions due to other causes than breakpoints
We will continue to process the exception by returning NOTIFY_DONE.
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100128111415.GC13935@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Introduce ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and ftrace_perf_buf_submit() to
gather the common code that operates on raw events sampling buffer.
This cleans up redundant code between regular trace events, syscall
events and kprobe events.
Changelog v1->v2:
- Rename function name as per Masami and Frederic's suggestion
- Add __kprobes for ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and make
ftrace_perf_buf_submit() inline as per Masami's suggestion
- Export ftrace_perf_buf_prepare since modules will use it
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B60E92D.9000808@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
When running perf across all cpus with backtracing (-a -g), sometimes we
get samples without associated backtraces:
23.44% init [kernel] [k] restore
11.46% init eeba0c [k] 0x00000000eeba0c
6.77% swapper [kernel] [k] .perf_ctx_adjust_freq
5.73% init [kernel] [k] .__trace_hcall_entry
4.69% perf libc-2.9.so [.] 0x0000000006bb8c
|
|--11.11%-- 0xfffa941bbbc
It turns out the backtrace code has a check for the idle task and the IP
sampling does not. This creates problems when profiling an interrupt
heavy workload (in my case 10Gbit ethernet) since we get no backtraces
for interrupts received while idle (ie most of the workload).
Right now x86 and sh check that current is not NULL, which should never
happen so remove that too.
Idle task's exclusion must be performed from the core code, on top
of perf_event_attr:exclude_idle.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100118054707.GT12666@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
On a given architecture, when hardware breakpoint registration fails
due to un-supported access type (read/write/execute), we lose the bp
slot since register_perf_hw_breakpoint() does not release the bp slot
on failure.
Hence, any subsequent hardware breakpoint registration starts failing
with 'no space left on device' error.
This patch introduces error handling in register_perf_hw_breakpoint()
function and releases bp slot on error.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100121125516.GA32521@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Probably this wasn't noticed when testing this on my parisc
machine because I must have copied manually to its cache the
vmlinux file used in the x86_64 machine, now that I tried
looking on a x86-32 machine with a fresh cache, kernel symbols
weren't being resolved even with the right kallsyms copy on its
cache, duh.
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: <1264178102-4203-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>