linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/util, branch v3.16-rc7

perf symbols: Get kernel start address by symbol name

2014-06-20T07:34:22+00:00

The function machine__get_kernel_start_addr() was taking the first symbol
of kallsyms as the start address. This is incorrect in certain cases
where the first symbol is something at 0, while the actual kernel
functions begin at a later point (e.g. 0x80200000).

This patch fixes machine__get_kernel_start_addr() to search for the
symbol "_text" or "_stext", which marks the beginning of kernel mapping.
This was already being done in machine__create_kernel_maps(). Thus, this
patch is just a refactor, to move that code into
machine__get_kernel_start_addr().

Signed-off-by: Simon Que 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402943529-13244-1-git-send-email-sque@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Add dso__data_* interface descriptons

2014-06-12T14:53:22+00:00

Adding descriptions/explanations for dso__data_* interface
functions.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jean Pihet 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-10-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Allow to close dso fd in case of open failure

2014-06-12T14:53:21+00:00

Adding do_open function that tries to close opened
dso objects in case we fail to open the dso due to
to crossing the allowed RLIMIT_NOFILE limit.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jean Pihet 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-9-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Add file size check and factor dso__data_read_offset

2014-06-12T14:53:21+00:00

Adding file size check, because the lseek will succeed for
any offset behind file size and thus succeed when it was
expected to fail.

Factoring the code to check the offset against file size
earlier in the flow.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jean Pihet 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-8-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Cache dso data file descriptor

2014-06-12T14:53:20+00:00

Caching dso data file descriptors to avoid expensive re-opens
especially during DWARF unwind.

We keep dsos data file descriptors open until their count reaches
the half of the current fd open limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE). In this case
we close file descriptor of the first opened dso object.

We've got overall speedup (~27% for my workload) of report:
 'perf report --stdio -i perf-test.data' (3 runs)
  (perf-test.data size was around 12GB)

  current code:
   545,640,944,228      cycles                     ( +-  0.53% )
   785,255,798,320      instructions               ( +-  0.03% )

     366.340910010 seconds time elapsed            ( +-  3.65% )

  after change:
   435,895,036,114      cycles                     ( +-  0.26% )
   636,790,271,176      instructions               ( +-  0.04% )

     266.481463387 seconds time elapsed            ( +-  0.13% )

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jean Pihet 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-7-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Add global count of opened dso objects

2014-06-12T14:53:20+00:00

Adding global count of opened dso objects so we could
properly limit the number of opened dso data file
descriptors.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jean Pihet 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-6-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Add global list of opened dso objects

2014-06-12T14:53:20+00:00

Adding global list of opened dso objects, so we can
track them and use the list for caching dso data file
descriptors.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jean Pihet 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-5-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Add data_fd into dso object

2014-06-12T14:53:19+00:00

Adding data_fd into dso object so we could handle caching
of opened dso file data descriptors coming int next patches.

Adding dso__data_close interface to keep the data_fd updated
when the descriptor is closed.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jean Pihet 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Separate dso data related variables

2014-06-12T14:53:19+00:00

Add separated structure/namespace for data related
variables. We are going to add mode of them, so this
way they will be clearly separated.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jean Pihet 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf tools: Cache register accesses for unwind processing

2014-06-12T14:53:19+00:00

Caching registers value into an array. Got about 4% speed up
of perf_reg_value function for report command processing
dwarf unwind stacks.

Output from report over 1.5 GB data with DWARF unwind stacks:
(TODO fix perf diff)

  current code:
   5.84%     perf  perf                       [.] perf_reg_value
  change:
   1.94%     perf  perf                       [.] perf_reg_value

And little bit of overall speed up:
(perf stat -r 5 -e '{cycles,instructions}:u' ...)

  current code:
   310,298,611,754      cycles                     ( +-  0.33% )
   439,669,689,341      instructions               ( +-  0.03% )

     188.656753166 seconds time elapsed            ( +-  0.82% )

  change:
   291,315,329,878      cycles                     ( +-  0.22% )
   391,763,485,304      instructions               ( +-  0.03%  )

     180.742249687 seconds time elapsed            ( +-  0.64% )

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Corey Ashford 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jean Pihet 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401892622-30848-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa