linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/Documentation, branch tegra

perf probe: Support adding probes on offline kernel modules

2011-07-15T20:25:12+00:00

Support adding probes on offline kernel modules. This enables
perf-probe to trace kernel-module init functions via perf-probe.
If user gives the path of module with -m option, perf-probe
expects the module is offline.
This feature works with --add, --funcs, and --vars.

E.g)
 # perf probe -m /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko \
   -a "extent_io_init:5 extent_state_cache"
 Add new events:
   probe:extent_io_init (on extent_io_init:5 with extent_state_cache)
   probe:extent_io_init_1 (on extent_io_init:5 with extent_state_cache)

 You can now use it on all perf tools, such as:

         perf record -e probe:extent_io_init_1 -aR sleep 1

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110627072751.6528.10230.stgit@fedora15
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

perf report/annotate/script: Add option to specify a CPU range

2011-07-05T08:44:44+00:00

Add an option to perf report/annotate/script to specify which
CPUs to operate on. This enables us to take a single system wide
profile and analyse each CPU (or group of CPUs) in isolation.

This was useful when profiling a multiprocess workload where the
bottleneck was on one CPU but this was hidden in the overall
profile. Per process and per thread breakdowns didn't help
because multiple processes were running on each CPU and no
single process consumed an entire CPU.

The patch converts the list of CPUs returned by cpu_map__new
into a bitmap for fast lookup. I wanted to use -C to be
consistent with perf top/record/stat, but unfortunately perf
report already uses -C .

 v2: Incorporate suggestions from David Ahern:
	- Added -c to perf script
	- Check that SAMPLE_CPU is set when -c is used
	- Update documentation

 v3: Create perf_session__cpu_bitmap()

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Acked-by: David Ahern 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110704215750.11647eb9@kryten
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Add inverted call graph report support.

2011-06-29T22:24:30+00:00

Add "caller/callee" option to support inverted butterfly report,
in the inverted report (with caller option), the call graph start
from the callee's ancestor. Users can use such view to catch system's
performance bottleneck from a sysprof like view. Using this option
with specified sort order like pid gives us high level view of call
graph statistics.

Also add "-G" alias for inverted call graph.

Signed-off-by: Sam Liao 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

perf script: Add printing of sample address

2011-06-02T16:31:01+00:00

Resolve to a function or variable if possible and if the sym option is
enabled.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306782503-22002-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: Make printing of dso a separate field option

2011-06-02T16:29:14+00:00

The 'sym' option displays both the function name and the DSO it comes
from. Split the display of the dso into a separate option.  This allows
display of the ip address and symbol without the dso, thus shortening
line lengths - and decluttering the output a bit.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306528124-25861-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script: "sym" field really means show IP data

2011-06-02T16:28:34+00:00

Currently the "sym" output field is used to dump instruction pointers
and callchain stack. Sample addresses can also be converted to symbols,
so the meaning of "sym" needs to be fixed. This patch adds an "ip"
option and if it is selected the user can also opt to dump symbols for
them. If the user opts to dump IP without syms only the address is
shown.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306528124-25861-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge branches 'sched-core-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2011-05-20T00:41:22+00:00

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits)
  sched: Fix and optimise calculation of the weight-inverse
  sched: Avoid going ahead if ->cpus_allowed is not changed
  sched, rt: Update rq clock when unthrottling of an otherwise idle CPU
  sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task()
  sched: Shorten the construction of the span cpu mask of sched domain
  sched: Wrap the 'cfs_rq->nr_spread_over' field with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
  sched: Remove unused 'this_best_prio arg' from balance_tasks()
  sched: Remove noop in alloc_rt_sched_group()
  sched: Get rid of lock_depth
  sched: Remove obsolete comment from scheduler_tick()
  sched: Fix sched_domain iterations vs. RCU
  sched: Next buddy hint on sleep and preempt path
  sched: Make set_*_buddy() work on non-task entities
  sched: Remove need_migrate_task()
  sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu
  sched: Restructure ttwu() some more
  sched: Rename ttwu_post_activation() to ttwu_do_wakeup()
  sched: Remove rq argument from ttwu_stat()
  sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()
  sched: Drop rq->lock from sched_exec()
  ...

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Fix rt_rq runtime leakage bug

sched: Get rid of lock_depth

2011-04-24T11:18:38+00:00

Neil Brown pointed out that lock_depth somehow escaped the BKL
removal work.  Let's get rid of it now.

Note that the perf scripting utilities still have a bunch of
code for dealing with common_lock_depth in tracepoints; I have
left that in place in case anybody wants to use that code with
older kernels.

Suggested-by: Neil Brown 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110422111910.456c0e84@bike.lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf script: Add more documentation about the -f/--fields parameters

2011-03-30T18:30:43+00:00

Using the commit log for 2c9e45f.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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

2011-03-15T14:10:48+00:00

[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 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo