linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/util/util.h, branch v3.2.9

perf probe: Move strtailcmp to string.c

2011-07-15T20:00:47+00:00

Since strtailcmp() is enough generic, it should be defined in string.c.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110627072715.6528.10677.stgit@fedora15
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

perf tools: Makefile: Remove platform-specific cruft

2011-02-18T09:42:07+00:00

While it makes sense that this tool could be used on
other platforms at least to parse data, there doesn't
appear to be any real support for such usage.

This commit squashes several commits that remove:

 SNPRINTF_RETURNS_BOGUS
 FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES
 NO_D_{INO,TYPE}_IN_DIRENT
 NO_STRCASESTR
 NO_MEMMEM
 NO_STRTOUMAX and NO_STRTOULL
 NO_SETENV
 NO_UNSETENV
 NO_MKDTEMP
 NEEDS_LIBICONV
 NEEDS_SOCKET
 NO_MMAP
 NO_PTHREADS
 NO_PREAD
 NO_TRUSTABLE_FILEMODE
 NO_IPV6 and NO_SOCKADDR_STORAGE
 NO_ICONV and OLD_ICONV
 NO_NSEC, USE_NSEC, and USE_ST_TIMESPEC
 NO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT
 NO_FINK and NO_DARWIN_PORTS
 NO_SYS_SELECT_H
 NO_HSTRERROR
 DIR_HAS_BSD_GROUP_SEMANTICS and FORCE_DIR_SET_GID
 NEEDS_NSL, NO_UINTMAX_T, NO_INET_{N,P}TON
 COMPAT_{CFLAGS,OBJS}
 Executable extension `X'

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf util: Move do_read from session to util

2011-01-03T18:50:55+00:00

Not really something to be exported from session.c. Rename it to
'readn' as others did in the past.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf ui browser: Return the exit key in all browsers

2010-08-19T22:39:52+00:00

Make all browsers return the exit key uniformly and remove the
newtExitStruct parameter, removing one more newt specific thing from the
ui API.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add option to avoid updating buildid cache

2010-06-17T13:20:44+00:00

There are situations where there is enough information in the perf.data
to process the samples. Updating the buildid cache may add unecessary
overhead in terms of disk space and time (copying large elf images).

A persistent option to do this already exists via the perfconfig file,
simply do:

[buildid]
dir = /dev/null

This patch provides a way to suppress builid cache updates on a per-run
basis.  It addds a new option, -N, to perf record. Buildids are still
generated in the perf.data file.

Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
LKML-Reference: <4c19ef89.93ecd80a.40dc.fffff8e9@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir

2010-06-05T12:34:04+00:00

This patch adds the ability to specify an alternate directory to store the
buildid cache (buildids, copy of binaries). By default, it is hardcoded to
$HOME/.debug. This directory contains immutable data. The layout of the
directory is such that no conflicts in filenames are possible. A modification
in a file, yields a different buildid and thus a different location in the
subdir hierarchy.

You may want to put the buildid cache elsewhere because of disk space
limitation or simply to share the cache between users. It is also useful for
remote collect vs. local analysis of profiles.

This patch adds a new config option to the perfconfig file.  Under the tag
'buildid', there is a dir option. For instance, if you have:

$ cat /etc/perfconfig
[buildid]
dir = /var/cache/perf-buildid

All buildids and binaries are be saved in the directory specified. The perf
record, buildid-list, buildid-cache, report, annotate, and archive commands
will it to pull information out.

The option can be set in the system-wide perfconfig file or in the
$HOME/.perfconfig file.

Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: <4c055fb7.df0ce30a.5f0d.ffffae52@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf annotate: Add TUI interface

2010-05-22T14:25:40+00:00

When annotating multiple entries, for instance, when running simply as:

$ perf annotate

the right and left keys, as well as TAB can be used to cycle thru the
multiple symbols being annotated.

If one doesn't like TUI annotate, disable it by editing ~/.perfconfig
and adding:

[tui]

	annotate = off

Just like it is possible for report.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: remove xstrndup, xmalloc, xzalloc

2010-05-19T02:05:28+00:00

All the functions that call this can handle the equivalent, non
panic'ing wrapped routines.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Remove some unused functions

2010-05-19T02:03:35+00:00

Without the bloated cplus_demangle from binutils, i.e building with:

$ make NO_DEMANGLE=1 O=~acme/git/build/perf -j3 -C tools/perf/ install

Before:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 471851	  29280	4025056	4526187	 45106b	/home/acme/bin/perf

After:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ size ~/bin/perf
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 446886	  29232	4008576	4484694	 446e56	/home/acme/bin/perf

So its a 5.3% size reduction in code, but the interesting part is in the git
diff --stat output:

 19 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1909 deletions(-)

If we ever need some of the things we got from git but weren't using, we just
have to go to the git repo and get fresh, uptodate source code bits.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf report: Report number of events, not samples

2010-05-14T17:19:35+00:00

Number of samples is meaningless after we switched to auto-freq, so
report the number of events, i.e. not the sum of the different periods,
but the number PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE emitted by the kernel.

While doing this I noticed that naming "count" to the sum of all the
event periods can be confusing, so rename it to .period, just like in
struct sample.data, so that we become more consistent.

This helps with the next step, that was to record in struct hist_entry
the number of sample events for each instance, we need that because we
use it to generate the number of events when applying filters to the
tree of hist entries like it is being done in the TUI report browser.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
LKML-Reference: 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo