linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/util/evsel.c, branch v3.4.41

perf tools: Fix bug in raw sample parsing

2012-03-26T18:36:03+00:00

In perf_event__parse_sample(), the array variable was not incremented
by the amount of data used by the raw_data.

That was okay until we added PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK which depends on
the array variable pointing to the beginning of the branch stack data.

But that was not the case if branch stack was combined with raw mode
sampling. That led to bogus branch stack addresses and count.

The bug would show up with:
$ perf record -R -b foo

This patch fixes the problem by correctly moving the array pointer
forward for RAW samples.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120317222317.GA8803@quad
[ committer note: Fix also later submitted by Jiri Olsa ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf diff: Fix to work with new hists design

2012-03-22T18:12:09+00:00

The perf diff command is broken since:
  perf hists: Threaded addition and sorting of entries
  commit 1980c2ebd7020d82c024b8c4046849b38e78e7da

Several places were broken:
  - hists data need to be collected into opened sessions instead
    of into events
  - session's hists data need to be initialized properly when the
    session is created
  - hist_entry__pcnt_snprintf: the percentage and displacement
    buffer preparation must not use 'ret' because it's used
    as a pointer to the final buffer

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120322133726.GB1601@m.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Do not disable members of group event

2012-03-16T19:29:33+00:00

When event group is enabled for forked task (i.e. no target task/cpu
was specified) all events were disabled and marked ->enable_on_exec.
However they wouldn't be counted at all since only group leader will
be enabled on exec actually.

In contrast to perf stat, perf record doesn't have a real problem
as it enables all the event before proceeding. But it needs to be
fixed anyway IMHO.

Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331887340-32448-2-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch

2012-03-09T07:26:05+00:00

This patch adds a new option to enable taken branch stack
sampling, i.e., leverage the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK feature
of perf_events.

There is a new option to active this mode: -b.
It is possible to pass a set of filters to select the type of
branches to sample.

The following filters are available:

 - any : any type of branches
 - any_call : any function call or system call
 - any_ret : any function return or system call return
 - any_ind : any indirect branch
 - u:  only when the branch target is at the user level
 - k: only when the branch target is in the kernel
 - hv: only when the branch target is in the hypervisor

Filters can be combined by passing a comma separated list
to the option:

$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy

Signed-off-by: Roberto Agostino Vitillo 
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-13-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK

2012-03-09T07:26:04+00:00

This patch adds:

 - ability to parse samples with PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
 - sort on branches (dso_from, symbol_from, dso_to, symbol_to, mispredict)
 - build histograms on branches

Signed-off-by: Roberto Agostino Vitillo 
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-12-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Invert the sample_id_all logic

2012-02-14T16:18:57+00:00

Instead of requiring that users of perf_record_opts set
.sample_id_all_avail to true, just invert the logic, using
.sample_id_all_missing, that doesn't need to be explicitely initialized
since gcc will zero members ommitted in a struct initialization.

Just like the newly introduced .exclude_{guest,host} feature test.

Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ab772uzk78cwybihf0vt7kxw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top

2012-02-14T00:54:11+00:00

Allow a user to collect events for multiple threads or processes
using a comma separated list.

e.g., collect data on a VM and its vhost thread:
  perf top -p 21483,21485
  perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
  perf record -p 21483,21485

or monitoring vcpu threads
  perf top -t 21488,21489
  perf stat -t 21488,21489 -ddd
  perf record -t 21488,21489

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328718772-16688-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core

2012-02-06T21:11:02+00:00

So that we can get the perf bench exec stack fixes and then apply the
remaining fix for the files added after what is in perf/urgent.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Fix an issue where perf report fails to show the proper percentage

2012-02-06T20:59:38+00:00

This patch fixes an issue where perf report shows nan% for certain
perf.data files. The below is from a report for a do_fork probe:

   -nan%           sshd  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   -nan%    packagekitd  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   -nan%    dbus-daemon  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   -nan%           bash  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork

A git bisect shows commit f3bda2c as the cause. However, looking back
through the git history, I saw commit 640c03c which seems to have
removed the required initialization for perf_sample->period. The problem
only started showing after commit f3bda2c. The below patch re-introduces
the initialization and it fixes the problem for me.

With the below patch, for the same perf.data:

  73.08%             bash  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   8.97%      11-dhclient  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   6.41%             sshd  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   3.85%        20-chrony  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   2.56%         sendmail  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork

This patch applies over current linux-tip commit 9949284.

Problem introduced in:

$ git describe 640c03c
v2.6.37-rc3-83-g640c03c

Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120203170113.5190.25558.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evsel: Fix spelling typo

2012-01-30T19:25:30+00:00

Correct spelling "unsuported" to "unsupported" in
tools/peft/util/evsel.c

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: standby24x7@gmail.com
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327500312-9520-1-git-send-email-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo