linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c, branch v4.4.60

perf inject: Also re-pipe lost_samples event

2015-11-13T15:23:12+00:00

perf inject must re-pipe all events otherwise they get dropped from the
output file.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447408112-1920-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf inject: Add --strip option to strip out non-synthesized events

2015-09-28T20:19:51+00:00

Add a new option --strip which is used with --itrace to strip out
non-synthesized events.  This results in a perf.data file that is
simpler for external tools to parse.  In particular, this can be used to
prepare a perf.data file for consumption by autofdo.

A subsequent patch makes a change to Intel PT also to enable use with
autofdo and gives an example of that use.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443186956-18718-25-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
[ Made it use perf_evlist__remove() + perf_evsel__delete() ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf inject: Remove more aux-related stuff when processing instruction traces

2015-09-28T20:17:15+00:00

perf inject can process instruction traces (using the --itrace option)
which removes aux-related events and replaces them with the requested
synthesized events.

However there are still some leftovers, namely PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START
events and the original evsel (selected event) e.g. intel_pt//

For the sake of completeness, remove them too.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443186956-18718-24-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
[ Made it use perf_evlist__remove() + perf_evsel__delete() ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf inject: Set branch stack feature flag when synthesizing branch stacks

2015-09-28T19:57:59+00:00

The branch stack feature flag is set by 'perf record' when recording
data that contains branch stacks.  Consequently, when 'perf inject'
synthesizes branch stacks, the feature flag should be set also.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443186956-18718-13-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add new PERF_RECORD_SWITCH event

2015-07-24T01:51:13+00:00

Support processing of PERF_RECORD_SWITCH events and
PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE events. There is a single
tools callback for them both so that the tool must
check the event type before using the extra members
in PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE.

There is still no way to select the events, though.
That is added in a subsequest patch.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Mathieu Poirier 
Cc: Pawel Moll 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437471846-26995-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf inject: Fill in the missing session freeing after an error occurs

2015-07-01T20:53:49+00:00

When an error occur an error value is just returned without freeing the
session. So allocating and freeing session have to be matched as a pair
even if an error occurs.

Signed-off-by: Taeung Song 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435652124-22414-2-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf machine: Protect the machine->threads with a rwlock

2015-05-08T19:19:27+00:00

In addition to using refcounts for the struct thread lifetime
management, we need to protect access to machine->threads from
concurrent access.

That happens in 'perf top', where a thread processes events, inserting
and deleting entries from that rb_tree while another thread decays
hist_entries, that end up dropping references and ultimately deleting
threads from the rb_tree and releasing its resources when no further
hist_entry (or other data structures, like in 'perf sched') references
it.

So the rule is the same for refcounts + protected trees in the kernel,
get the tree lock, find object, bump the refcount, drop the tree lock,
return, use object, drop the refcount if no more use of it is needed,
keep it if storing it in some other data structure, drop when releasing
that data structure.

I.e. pair "t = machine__find(new)_thread()" with a "thread__put(t)", and
"perf_event__preprocess_sample(&al)" with "addr_location__put(&al)".

The addr_location__put() one is because as we return references to
several data structures, we may end up adding more reference counting
for the other data structures and then we'll drop it at
addr_location__put() time.

Acked-by: David Ahern 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bs9rt4n0jw3hi9f3zxyy3xln@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START

2015-05-05T21:12:58+00:00

Add support for the PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START event type.  This event can
be used to determine the pid and tid that are running when Instruction
Tracing starts.  Generally that information would come from a
sched_switch event but, at the start, no sched_switch events may yet
have been recorded.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430404667-10593-8-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_AUX

2015-05-05T21:12:57+00:00

Add support for the PERF_RECORD_AUX event type.

PERF_RECORD_AUX is a new kernel event that records when new data lands
in the AUX buffer. Currently it is assumed that AUX data follows the
same ring buffer conventions used by the perf events buffer, and
consequently the AUX event is not processed during recording.

It is processed during session processing so that the information in the
'flags' member is made available.

The format of PERF_RECORD_AUX is outlined in the linux/perf_events.h
header file. The 'flags' are also enumerated.

Intel PT and Intel BTS use the flag named PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED to
determine if data has been lost because the buffer became full as perf
was not able to empty it fast enough.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430404667-10593-7-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add build option NO_AUXTRACE to exclude AUX area tracing

2015-05-05T21:12:53+00:00

Add build option NO_AUXTRACE to exclude compiling support for AUX area
tracing. Support for both recording and processing is excluded and by
implication any future additions such as Intel PT and Intel BTS will
also not be compiled in with this option.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430404667-10593-5-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo