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<title>linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/Documentation, branch v2.6.33.8</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>perf: Make the install relative to DESTDIR if specified</title>
<updated>2010-04-01T23:01:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Kacur</name>
<email>jkacur@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-11T12:57:00+00:00</published>
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commit 7ae5f21361fea11f58c398701da635f778635d13 upstream.

Without this change, the install path is relative to
prefix/DESTDIR where prefix is automatically set to $HOME.

This can produce unexpected results. For example:

  make -C tools/perf DESTDIR=/home/jkacur/tmp install-man

creates the directory:		/home/jkacur/home/jkacur/tmp/share/...
instead of the expected:	/home/jkacur/tmp/share/...

Signed-off-by: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@redhat.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1268312220-12880-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 7ae5f21361fea11f58c398701da635f778635d13 upstream.

Without this change, the install path is relative to
prefix/DESTDIR where prefix is automatically set to $HOME.

This can produce unexpected results. For example:

  make -C tools/perf DESTDIR=/home/jkacur/tmp install-man

creates the directory:		/home/jkacur/home/jkacur/tmp/share/...
instead of the expected:	/home/jkacur/tmp/share/...

Signed-off-by: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@redhat.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1268312220-12880-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf diff: Use perf_session__fprintf_hists just like 'perf record'</title>
<updated>2009-12-16T15:53:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-16T15:49:27+00:00</published>
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That means that almost everything you can do with 'perf report'
can be done with 'perf diff', for instance:

$ perf record -f find / &gt; /dev/null
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2699
samples) ] $ perf record -f find / &gt; /dev/null
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2687
samples) ] perf diff | head -8
     9.02%     +1.00%     find  libc-2.10.1.so               [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
     2.91%     -1.00%     find  [kernel]                     [k] __kmalloc
     2.85%     -1.00%     find  [kernel]                     [k] ext4_htree_store_dirent
     1.99%     -1.00%     find  [kernel]                     [k] _atomic_dec_and_lock
     2.44%                find  [kernel]                     [k] half_md4_transform
$

So if you want to zoom into libc:

$ perf diff --dsos libc-2.10.1.so | head -8
    37.34%                find  [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
    10.34%                find  [.] __GI_memmove
     8.25%     +2.00%     find  [.] _int_malloc
     5.07%     -1.00%     find  [.] __GI_mempcpy
     7.62%     +2.00%     find  [.] _int_free
$

And if there were multiple commands using libc, it is also
possible to aggregate them all by using --sort symbol:

$ perf diff --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8
    37.34%             [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
    10.34%             [.] __GI_memmove
     8.25%     +2.00%  [.] _int_malloc
     5.07%     -1.00%  [.] __GI_mempcpy
     7.62%     +2.00%  [.] _int_free
$

The displacement column now is off by default, to use it:

perf diff -m --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8
    37.34%                   [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
    10.34%                   [.] __GI_memmove
     8.25%     +2.00%        [.] _int_malloc
     5.07%     -1.00%    +2  [.] __GI_mempcpy
     7.62%     +2.00%    -1  [.] _int_free
$

Using -t/--field-separator can be used for scripting:

$ perf diff -t, -m --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8
37.34, , ,[.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
10.34, , ,[.] __GI_memmove
8.25,+2.00%, ,[.] _int_malloc
5.07,-1.00%,  +2,[.] __GI_mempcpy
7.62,+2.00%,  -1,[.] _int_free
6.99,+1.00%,  -1,[.] _IO_new_file_xsputn
1.89,-2.00%,  +4,[.] __readdir64
$

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1260978567-550-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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That means that almost everything you can do with 'perf report'
can be done with 'perf diff', for instance:

$ perf record -f find / &gt; /dev/null
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2699
samples) ] $ perf record -f find / &gt; /dev/null
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.062 MB perf.data (~2687
samples) ] perf diff | head -8
     9.02%     +1.00%     find  libc-2.10.1.so               [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
     2.91%     -1.00%     find  [kernel]                     [k] __kmalloc
     2.85%     -1.00%     find  [kernel]                     [k] ext4_htree_store_dirent
     1.99%     -1.00%     find  [kernel]                     [k] _atomic_dec_and_lock
     2.44%                find  [kernel]                     [k] half_md4_transform
$

So if you want to zoom into libc:

$ perf diff --dsos libc-2.10.1.so | head -8
    37.34%                find  [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
    10.34%                find  [.] __GI_memmove
     8.25%     +2.00%     find  [.] _int_malloc
     5.07%     -1.00%     find  [.] __GI_mempcpy
     7.62%     +2.00%     find  [.] _int_free
$

And if there were multiple commands using libc, it is also
possible to aggregate them all by using --sort symbol:

$ perf diff --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8
    37.34%             [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
    10.34%             [.] __GI_memmove
     8.25%     +2.00%  [.] _int_malloc
     5.07%     -1.00%  [.] __GI_mempcpy
     7.62%     +2.00%  [.] _int_free
$

The displacement column now is off by default, to use it:

perf diff -m --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8
    37.34%                   [.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
    10.34%                   [.] __GI_memmove
     8.25%     +2.00%        [.] _int_malloc
     5.07%     -1.00%    +2  [.] __GI_mempcpy
     7.62%     +2.00%    -1  [.] _int_free
$

Using -t/--field-separator can be used for scripting:

$ perf diff -t, -m --dsos libc-2.10.1.so --sort symbol | head -8
37.34, , ,[.] _IO_vfprintf_internal
10.34, , ,[.] __GI_memmove
8.25,+2.00%, ,[.] _int_malloc
5.07,-1.00%,  +2,[.] __GI_mempcpy
7.62,+2.00%,  -1,[.] _int_free
6.99,+1.00%,  -1,[.] _IO_new_file_xsputn
1.89,-2.00%,  +4,[.] __readdir64
$

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1260978567-550-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf probe: Support event name for --add option</title>
<updated>2009-12-15T19:22:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T15:32:18+00:00</published>
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Support event name syntax for --add option. This allows
users to specify event name for each new event.

The --add syntax is:
 perf probe --add '[EVENT=]SRC:LINE ARGS'
or
 perf probe --add '[EVENT=]FUNC[+OFFS|%return|:RLN][@SRC] ARGS'

e.g.

 ./perf probe --add myprobe1=schedule

Note: currently group name is not supported yet, because it
can cause name-space confliction with other tracepoint/
hw-breakpoint events.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler &lt;fche@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: K.Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: systemtap &lt;systemtap@sources.redhat.com&gt;
Cc: DLE &lt;dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20091215153218.17436.84675.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Support event name syntax for --add option. This allows
users to specify event name for each new event.

The --add syntax is:
 perf probe --add '[EVENT=]SRC:LINE ARGS'
or
 perf probe --add '[EVENT=]FUNC[+OFFS|%return|:RLN][@SRC] ARGS'

e.g.

 ./perf probe --add myprobe1=schedule

Note: currently group name is not supported yet, because it
can cause name-space confliction with other tracepoint/
hw-breakpoint events.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler &lt;fche@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: K.Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: systemtap &lt;systemtap@sources.redhat.com&gt;
Cc: DLE &lt;dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20091215153218.17436.84675.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf diff: Fix documentation</title>
<updated>2009-12-15T14:28:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T13:01:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=cdccc69003388665e1463003f0488cf8ce9cf9e8'/>
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Add a newline do fix this problem:

ERROR: perf-diff.txt: line 31: closing [blockdef-listing]
delimiter expected

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1260882082-10007-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Add a newline do fix this problem:

ERROR: perf-diff.txt: line 31: closing [blockdef-listing]
delimiter expected

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1260882082-10007-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf diff: Improve the help text</title>
<updated>2009-12-15T14:26:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T09:24:08+00:00</published>
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Fix the short line displayed by 'perf' and also fix some other
details in the longer text.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Fix the short line displayed by 'perf' and also fix some other
details in the longer text.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf trace/scripting: Update Documentation</title>
<updated>2009-12-15T09:31:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Zanussi</name>
<email>tzanussi@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T08:53:40+00:00</published>
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Update the perf-trace page with new and missing options and
remove some unused ones.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: &lt;1260867220-15699-7-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Update the perf-trace page with new and missing options and
remove some unused ones.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: &lt;1260867220-15699-7-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf diff: Introduce tool to show performance difference</title>
<updated>2009-12-15T07:50:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-14T22:09:31+00:00</published>
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I guess it is enough to show some examples:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1260828571-3613-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf kmem: Show usage if no option is specified</title>
<updated>2009-12-10T07:30:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizf@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-10T07:21:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=90b86a9f7dc22e7ff8e8c79ed553860454ff8dd9'/>
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As Ingo suggested, make "perf kmem" show help information.
"perf kmem stat [--caller] [--alloc] .." will show memory
statistics.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;4B20A195.8030106@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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As Ingo suggested, make "perf kmem" show help information.
"perf kmem stat [--caller] [--alloc] .." will show memory
statistics.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;4B20A195.8030106@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf probe: Update perf-probe document</title>
<updated>2009-12-09T06:26:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-08T22:03:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=c937fe20cb6d9e24c6ad5f9f0c64d64c78411057'/>
<id>c937fe20cb6d9e24c6ad5f9f0c64d64c78411057</id>
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Add --list and --del option descriptions to perf-probe.txt.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler &lt;fche@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: K.Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: systemtap &lt;systemtap@sources.redhat.com&gt;
Cc: DLE &lt;dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20091208220330.10142.73296.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Add --list and --del option descriptions to perf-probe.txt.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler &lt;fche@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: K.Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: systemtap &lt;systemtap@sources.redhat.com&gt;
Cc: DLE &lt;dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20091208220330.10142.73296.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf trace: Add Documentation for perf trace Perl support</title>
<updated>2009-11-28T09:04:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Zanussi</name>
<email>tzanussi@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-25T07:15:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=89fbf0b8a021cbf60abeacfb6b538e97c83afada'/>
<id>89fbf0b8a021cbf60abeacfb6b538e97c83afada</id>
<content type='text'>
Adds perf-trace-perl Documentation and a link to it from the
perf-trace page.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: &lt;1259133352-23685-7-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Adds perf-trace-perl Documentation and a link to it from the
perf-trace page.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: &lt;1259133352-23685-7-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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