linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/perf.h, branch v4.4.7

perf record: Add ability to name registers to record

2015-08-31T21:01:33+00:00

This patch modifies the -I/--int-regs option to enablepassing the name
of the registers to sample on interrupt. Registers can be specified by
their symbolic names. For instance on x86, --intr-regs=ax,si.

The motivation is to reduce the size of the perf.data file and the
overhead of sampling by only collecting the registers useful to a
specific analysis. For instance, for value profiling, sampling only the
registers used to passed arguements to functions.

With no parameter, the --intr-regs still records all possible registers
based on the architecture.

To name registers, it is necessary to use the long form of the option,
i.e., --intr-regs:

  $ perf record --intr-regs=si,di,r8,r9 .....

To record any possible registers:

  $ perf record -I .....
  $ perf report --intr-regs ...

To display the register, one can use perf report -D

To list the available registers:

  $ perf record --intr-regs=\?
  available registers: AX BX CX DX SI DI BP SP IP FLAGS CS SS R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R15

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441039273-16260-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Introduce callgraph_set for callgraph option

2015-07-29T19:18:45+00:00

Introduce callgraph_set to indicate whether the callgraph option was set
by user.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438162936-59698-4-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add option --switch-events to select PERF_RECORD_SWITCH events

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

Add an option to select PERF_RECORD_SWITCH events.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Mathieu Poirier 
Cc: Pawel Moll 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437471846-26995-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Let user have timestamps with per-thread recording

2015-07-06T11:58:36+00:00

If the option -T is used with option --per-thread, then time is still
not sampled.  Fix that by using OPT_BOOLEAN_SET to distinguish when the
user used the -T option as opposed to the default case when timestamps
are enabled but only for per-cpu recording.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436183461-1918-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out

2015-06-19T21:27:13+00:00

The time out to limit the individual proc map processing was hard code
to 500ms. This patch introduce a new option --proc-map-timeout to make
the time limit configurable.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ying Huang 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434549071-25611-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Add AUX area tracing Snapshot Mode

2015-05-05T21:13:00+00:00

Add support for making snapshots of AUX area tracing data.

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/1430404667-10593-9-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf auxtrace: Add support for AUX area recording

2015-04-29T13:37:51+00:00

Add support for reading from the AUX area tracing mmap and synthesizing
AUX area tracing events.

This patch introduces an abstraction for recording AUX area data.

Recording is initialized by auxtrace_record__init() which is a weak
function to be implemented by the architecture to provide recording
callbacks.

Recording is mainly handled by auxtrace_mmap__read() and
perf_event__synthesize_auxtrace() but there are callbacks for
miscellaneous needs including validating and processing user options,
populating private data in auxtrace_info_event, and freeing the
structure when finished.

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/1428594864-29309-5-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add clockid parameter

2015-04-08T13:04:55+00:00

Teach perf-record about the new perf_event_attr::{use_clockid, clockid}
fields. Add a simple parameter to set the clock (if any) to be used for
the events to be recorded into the data file.

Since we store the entire perf_event_attr in the EVENT_DESC section we
also already store the used clockid in the data file.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: David Ahern 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Yunlong Song 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150407154851.GR23123@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
[ Conditionally define CLOCK_BOOTTIME, at least rhel6 doesn't have it - dsahern
  Ditto for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, sles11sp2 doesn't have it - yunlong.song ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf: Bump max number of cpus to 1024

2015-03-26T13:52:28+00:00

SPARC based systems currently support up to 1024 cpus (e.g. T5-8).
Allow perf to work on those systems.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427213438-127216-1-git-send-email-david.ahern@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Support recording running/enabled time

2015-02-25T15:42:23+00:00

Add an option to perf record to record running/enabled time for read
events, similar to what stat does.

This is useful to understand multiplexing problems.

Right now the report support is not great, but at least report -D
already supports it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424819620-16043-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
[ Fixed the Documentation entry to match the OPT_BOOLEAN one ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo