Now a cache will be created in a ~/.debug debuginfo like
hierarchy, so that at the end of a 'perf record' session all the
binaries (with build-ids) involved get collected and indexed by
their build-ids, so that perf report can find them.
This is interesting when developing software where you want to
do a 'perf diff' with the previous build and opens avenues for
lots more interesting tools, like a 'perf diff --graph' that
takes more than two binaries into account.
Tunables for collecting just the symtabs can be added if one
doesn't want to have the full binary, but having the full binary
allows things like 'perf rerecord' or other tools that can
re-run the tests by having access to the exact binary in some
perf.data file, so it may well be interesting to keep the full
binary there.
Space consumption is minimised by trying to use hard links, a
'perf cache' tool to manage the space used, a la ccache is
required to purge older entries.
With this in place it will be possible also to introduce new
commands, 'perf archive' and 'perf restore' (or some more
suitable and future proof names) to create a cpio/tar file with
the perf data and the files in the cache that _had_ perf hits of
interest.
There are more aspects to polish, like finding the right vmlinux
file to cache, etc, but this is enough for a first step.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261957026-15580-10-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is really something tools need to do before asking for the
events to be processed, leaving perf_session__process_events to
do just that, process events.
Also add a msg parameter to perf_session__has_traces() so that
the right message can be printed, fixing a regression added by
me in the previous cset (right timechart message) and also
fixing 'perf kmem', that was not asking if 'perf kmem record'
was ran.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261957026-15580-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fixing this:
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf diff --hell
Error: unknown option `hell'
usage: perf diff [<options>] [old_file] [new_file]
Segmentation fault
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$
Also go over the other such arrays to check if they all were OK,
they are, but there were some minor changes to do like making
one static and renaming another to match the command it refers
to.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261161358-23959-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The kbuild's select command doesn't propagate through the config
dependencies.
Hence the current rules of hardware breakpoint's config can't
ensure perf can never be disabled under us.
We have:
config X86
selects HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS
config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS
select PERF_EVENTS
config PERF_EVENTS
[...]
x86 will select the breakpoints but that won't propagate to perf
events. The user can still disable the latter, but it is
necessary for the breakpoints.
What we need is:
- x86 selects HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS and PERF_EVENTS
- HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS depends on PERF_EVENTS
so that we ensure PERF_EVENTS is enabled and frozen for x86.
This fixes the following kind of build errors:
In file included from arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:31:
include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h: In function 'hw_breakpoint_addr':
include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:39: error: 'struct perf_event' has no member named 'attr'
v2: Select also ANON_INODES from x86, required for perf
Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Andrew Randrianasulu <randrik_a@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1261010034-7786-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acme noticed that his FORK/MMAP numbers were inflated by about
the same factor as his cpu-count.
This led to the discovery of a few more sites that need to
respect the event->cpu filter.
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091217121830.215333434@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It's just wasteful for stacktrace users like perf to walk
through every entries on the stack whereas these only accept
reliable ones, ie: that the frame pointer validates.
Since perf requires pure reliable stacktraces, it needs a stack
walker based on frame pointers-only to optimize the stacktrace
processing.
This might solve some near-lockup scenarios that can be triggered
by call-graph tracing timer events.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261024834-5336-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
[ v2: fix for modular builds and small detail tidyup ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The current print_context_stack helper that does the stack
walking job is good for usual stacktraces as it walks through
all the stack and reports even addresses that look unreliable,
which is nice when we don't have frame pointers for example.
But we have users like perf that only require reliable
stacktraces, and those may want a more adapted stack walker, so
lets make this function a callback in stacktrace_ops that users
can tune for their needs.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261024834-5336-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since nothing includes the <linux/perf_counter.h> file and it's
also not exported to user space, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912161007430.8198@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix libdwarf include path to fit debian-like systems too.
Borislav Petkov reported:
> even after installing libdwarf-dev on my debian box here,
> make in tools/perf/ still complains that it cannot find libdwarf:
>
> Makefile:491: No libdwarf.h found or old libdwarf.h found, disables dwarf
> support. Please install libdwarf-dev/libdwarf-devel >= 20081231
>
> The problem is that the include path on debian is not
> /usr/include/libdwarf/ but simply /usr/include because the debian
> package libdwarf-dev puts the headers straight into
> /usr/include.
This patch adds -I/usr/include/libdwarf to BASIC_CFLAGS
and fix probe-finder.h to include just libdwarf.h/dwarf.h.
This patch also adds a workaround for the undefined _MIPS_SZLONG
bug in libdwarf.h.
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
LKML-Reference: <20091216221618.13816.83296.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
[ v2: small stylistic fixlets to probe-finder.h ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
XFS: Free buffer pages array unconditionally
xfs: kill xfs_bmbt_rec_32/64 types
xfs: improve metadata I/O merging in the elevator
xfs: check for not fully initialized inodes in xfs_ireclaim
Commit 3d1e4631 ("get rid of init_file()") removed the export of
alloc_file() -- possibly inadvertently, since that commit mainly
consisted of deleting the lines between the end of alloc_file() and
the start of the code in init_file().
There is in fact one modular use of alloc_file() in the tree, in
drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c, so re-add the export to fix:
ERROR: "alloc_file" [drivers/infiniband/core/ib_uverbs.ko] undefined!
when CONFIG_INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS=m.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Amerigo Wang
Frederic Weisbecker
Peter Zijlstra
Robert P. J. Day
Masami Hiramatsu
Al Viro
Linus Torvalds
Roland Dreier