linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c, branch v2.6.32.26

perf tools: Remove static debugfs path from parse-events

2009-10-12T20:41:05+00:00

Timechart doesn't work if debugfs is not in /sys/kernel/debug/.
Fixed by using global debugfs_path which is filled in by perf.

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule 
Cc: "Arjan van de Ven" 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Dont use openat()

2009-09-24T19:20:08+00:00

openat() is still a young glibc facility, better to not use it in a
non performance critical program (perf list)

Many machines have older glibc (RHEL 4 Update 5 -> glibc-2.3.4-2.36
on my dev machine for example).

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ulrich Drepper 
LKML-Reference: <4ABB767D.6080004@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events

2009-09-21T12:28:04+00:00

Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras 
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Store trace event name/id pairs in perf.data

2009-09-19T09:42:11+00:00

The trace event name<->id mapping is dynamic for each kernel
compile. In order for perf.data to be useable outside the actual
system, we thus need to store a table of this mapping for later
use.

This patch adds this table to perf.data, and provides helper
functions for lookup up fields from this table.

To avoid mistakes, lookup-from-table is kept completely seprate
from lookup-from-local-debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
LKML-Reference: <20090912130405.6960d099@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf trace: Sample timestamp and cpu when using record flag

2009-09-17T22:30:25+00:00

Sample timestamp and cpu just like the -R option.

Before:
            init-0     [-01] 1266874889.17179869184709551615: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0
            init-0     [-01] 1266874889.17179869184709551615: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0
            init-0     [-01] 1266874889.17179869184709551615: irq_handler_entry: irq=1 handler=i8042
            init-0     [-01] 1266874889.17179869184709551615: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0
            init-0     [-01] 1266874889.17179869184709551615: irq_handler_entry: irq=1 handler=i8042

After:
            init-0     [001]  7364.568965353: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0
            init-0     [001]  7365.530226877: irq_handler_entry: irq=1 handler=i8042
            init-0     [001]  7365.542831563: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0
            init-0     [001]  7365.644156299: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0
            init-0     [001]  7365.694556201: irq_handler_entry: irq=18 handler=eth0

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan 
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
LKML-Reference: <4AB1F827.8040905@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Increase MAX_EVENT_LENGTH

2009-09-17T22:30:25+00:00

The name length of some trace events is longer than 30, like
sys_enter_sched_get_priority_max and
ext4_mb_discard_preallocations.

Passing those events to perf-record will fail, try:

  # ./perf record -f -e syscalls:sys_enter_sched_get_priority_max -F 1 -a

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan 
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
LKML-Reference: <4AB1F4AB.7050205@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf sched: Implement the 'perf sched record' subcommand

2009-09-13T08:22:51+00:00

Implement the 'perf sched record' subcommand that adds a
default list of events, turns on raw sampling and system-wide
tracing and passes off the rest of the command to perf record.

This is more convenient than having to specify the events all
the time.

Before:

 $ perf record -a -R -e sched:sched_switch:r -e sched:sched_stat_wait:r -e sched:sched_stat_sleep:r -e sched:sched_stat_iowait:r -e sched:sched_process_exit:r -e sched:sched_process_fork:r -e sched:sched_wakeup:r -e sched:sched_migrate_task:r -c 1 sleep 1

After:

 $ perf sched record -f sleep 1

Also fix an assumption in the event string parser that assumed
that strings passed in can be modified. (In this case they wont
be as they come from a readonly constant section.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Allow the specification of all tracepoints at once

2009-09-13T08:22:40+00:00

Currently, when one wants to activate every tracepoint
counters of a subsystem from perf record, the current sequence
is needed:

  perf record -e subsys:ev1 -e subsys:ev2 -e subsys:ev3

This may annoy the most patient of us.

Now we can just do:

  perf record -e subsys:*

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-09-11T20:24:03+00:00

* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (105 commits)
  ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed
  ring-buffer: check for swapped buffers in start of committing
  tracing: report error in trace if we fail to swap latency buffer
  tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to use
  tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer
  tracing: make tracing_reset safe for external use
  tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces
  tracing: Remove mentioning of legacy latency_trace file from documentation
  tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation, fix memory leak
  tracing: remove users of tracing_reset
  tracing: disable buffers and synchronize_sched before resetting
  tracing: disable update max tracer while reading trace
  tracing: print out start and stop in latency traces
  ring-buffer: disable all cpu buffers when one finds a problem
  ring-buffer: do not count discarded events
  ring-buffer: remove ring_buffer_event_discard
  ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read crossing pages
  ring-buffer: remove unnecessary cpu_relax
  ring-buffer: do not swap buffers during a commit
  ring-buffer: do not reset while in a commit
  ...

Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc9' into tracing/core

2009-09-06T04:11:42+00:00

Merge reason: move from -rc5 to -rc9.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar